THE THEATRES. onritY LANE.

Aliss KLI.Ly has hid “dieu tt, the stage a: an actress ; and retires, not to the seclusion of titivate life, Ina to the arduous task ef teaehing the young idea how to shoot" in the :qov.dust soil and latnp.lit at- mosphere of the theatte. As she licrcelf expressed it, :-1:e has quintet the ranks of the profession, to be the e kite drill-sergeant 4,f a uorps of recruits; exchanging the hoards or I hairy, Micro she appcmcd fir tie first time an infant of seven year= or ;lee, and for the last time a veteran of thirt:,•-seven years' service, for a private theatre of ibr cwn in Dean Street.

Miss KELIN is an artiste in the full sense of the r pcr- forniances Were elehorate tied highly-finis:11.A s!age pictures. The:r verisimilitude was votraordinary,—produced by the force of mimicry, aided by attentive entity, and a minute observation of nature. Ifer pe rsonations wanted that spontaneity which results from momentary. impulse. Every thing that she did seemed premeditated, even to the slightest gesture. She took patine at the rebound. ller arcing was the converse of Airs. JORDAN'S ; with which we could not help com- paring her in the character of l'eggy, in the Comdr.,/ Girl, which Miss KELLY chose for her benefit. Airs. Junoos's acting hardly ought to be so called : it was the sportive play of irrepressible enjoyment

and animal spit its, in With spontane0Us ebullitions of mirth or sadness—the sunshine and rain of the heart. Miss Kerry, like all talented performers, made us often lose sight of the actress and the stage; but the very retelling of her art had a tendency to make it evi- dent. Our sympathy with the assumed character was divided with admiration of the cleverness of the assumption.

This characteristic of Miss arting, however, does nor militate against her in the arduous task she has undertaken, but rather the reverse ; since, from having learnt by experience bow to counterfeit natural emotions, she is better able to teach others. And so far as the mere nit of stage-playing is concerned, we know of' no one more competent to instruct, on the score of intelligeece as well as stage tact. Assuredly Miss Kenna's dramatic school will be a far better place for acquning the Mechanism of the art, than the chance-medley experience of the stroller'slife—hithcrto the only" school for actors." The attempt to cultivate systematically the art of acting, is one step towards its refinement as a study, and will tend somewhat to raise it to a level with other intellectual professions; until which time, it will continue to be stigmatiz,d as the vagabond's trade, even by those who derive the highest .ratilication from the vain,: tliat adorns it.

The house, on 31onday, was a bumper, and Miss KELLY'S reception enthusiastic.

coveser GAnDEN.

MA1.1;;RAN has, at length, found a character worthy of her unrivalled powers, in the Leonora of IlteenoveN's opera, after wasting them for almost two successive seasons on the dulness and frivolity of La Sam- namhnla. Buse has contrived, by exhausting every epithet that the pulling vocabulary can supply, to render the public car dull and incre- dulous even when his praises are rightly bestowed ; and hence we se- rf iiiii t for his theatre not being more than half filled on Friday night. The beauties of Edell() are known to the musit'al portion of the Me- tropolis, but they have yet to be rendered familiar to the generality of playgoers. Day are not aware what a mighty eleation is this opera— how it unfolds the power of music to a degree which few would be- lieve it to possess—how it excites every passion and feeling of the heart, and keeps the senses in a state of constantly increasing excite- ment. Let us hope that the production of this opera will do some- thing towards teaching the town what dramatic music really is in its highest and noblest flights: at the Italian Theatre they may learn from I Purilani its most grovelling efforts. MaiaraIAN); performance is one of the most perfeet.exhibitiems of singing g combined with dramatic action that e ever cr tnessted, Let those who have aeoffed at the notion of a singing heroine, veitness her personation cf I.conoru, and own their error. 1\ o sune..ie recitation could have protluced the effeet which the music of 131:1-7. liOVEN and her singing CrC:1Cd. III some points Settiosonn surpris• aeo her ; but the TiCt°1Y, Ott the whole, rested with Map /Mph S1'.e threW her entire soul hit() the part, and seemed as familiar with the style of Beleanevae, and the peculiar features of German dramatic netisae, as if she had spent her life at Mudd' or Dresden.

'With :11.u.initaa: our cOmmemlation of the performance almost Tiaaataa'oN's Poicstat: never attained mediocrity, and fre-

quently sunk far below it. III is. L. SI;GUTN wanted the animation und pint. width aiiss stoNt Welt 1J ,Cd to impart to the diameter of 21faec, flits. 131:14.0nns Pizarro was vulgar and noisy ; and Sh- ouis•s /awe, but feeble.The chorus profited more than nay of the

d prinpal singers from av hing heard the tic:man company in leak!. The Prisuner,' Churns was given with get at1:recision, and suliported by a competent moldier of voices. It wi:1, of course, improve by repetition; for, in genet al, we regard the first night of an opera in this country as little more than a rehearsal.

The version is but a clumsy affair, in which the music is too often made to lit the new words, instead of their being adapted to tile music.

THE l'NGI 1511 ocERA.

We are happy tO say that the Manaeer has returned to the course from which he sliteaad a /E.:jai-46cm to deviate, and has brought out another Englisit opera. '11,- title of the pieee prothit-ed on Monday night is

The ut ef the Bat ; the author, KI.NNY ; the comnser,

Roes ma_ The stery is that of Aladdin—" bell" being sithstituted for

ond the 11:111IC exeitauged for that of the oriei rid hero.

Two characters :ire addod—a tholish cannier, ond his so-eddy ; the former of whom is Azolin's rival in the love of Edith, the latter dike Lori Let !deli in the ( ',die) has little else to do than look solemn and silly.

The chief' defect of this opera is the cvant of a man's charaeter,—

Aze/ie is repre,teatal by Abs. Kataar, the Spirit by Miss Roman, Edith he AlisS P. 1101tTiiN ; and the neeesSary efaiSeIlnellee is a mono- tonous reiteration of the same hind of voice—it is all soprano. This is a he neainst whieh the composer should have remonstrated, as a ncehitaatt drawl; it-1; to probable siweess. There was no part for WII.,(oN',1,fil:v Int' PHILLIPS; fur BLAND, mr for :my man save GIUM1.1.1. The fal:Mer mu.t have very little faith in Pitiames's ptovers of at- trartion. thus to exelude him from two suceessive (teems, and allot the piincipal to II:renal! The part was ilot much, but its deficien- cies might easily have been supplied ; and, little or much, it is latter to have it wt•il than ill done. :1gainst these dieticulties 11r. Roweam. has combated with considerable success, and produced an opera which will do Ito discredit to Emmghih dramatic mu-it. It is taut much dk- tinguished by originality ; but the airs are, generally, pleasing, some of the conceited pieces la-autiful, and the meludramatic music excellent.

The part of efratliti was admirably performed by Mrs. Kaer.t.Y. It is seldom that this holy's musical powers aid acquirements are called forth as they deserve to be ; for she has rendered herself so useful as a mere actress, that to others have been allotted vocal characters which She is equally, often more competent to 1111. There is one essential in a dramatic singer in which she surpasses all her contemporaries—dear and distinct articulation ; and where, as in this idece, the business of the stage is very much carried on by ,inging, this is equally necessary as clear and mlistiutrt speaking. From Miss Itomea and Miss P. MIL- TON we could only now mid then catch a word ; from Mrs. KEELEY we never lost one.

We suppose dila opera, like others, was born in baste and produced in a hurry ; for the performers were often at fault, and sonic of the effects were, evidently, lost. The choruses were limping and feeble. The scenery is beautiful, and the spectacle strikieg; and we have no doubt that the piece will draw.