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The substitution of a statement for a title in the

Adelphi bills is a novelty. These bills, instead of telling the world that a new fin on called so-and-so will be produced, gravely declare that " an unwarrantable in- trusion will be committed by Mr. Wright upon Mr. Paul Bedford." Here the novelty stops; for the annoyances committed against the peace of a portly housekeeper are nearly parallel with those in Passe Minuit, of which we have already had two English versions; and the elder trifle has the ad- vantage in point of ingenuity. However, the breaking of furniture and the eating of other people's comestibles will always raise a laugh more or less hearty ; and the contraposition of Messrs. Wright and Bedford is al- ways a pleasing spectacle in the eyes of an Adelphi audience.