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The programme of the entertainments at Drury Lane is very

pro- mising; varied and excellent. The season opens with As You Like It; which could hardly have a more complete and efficient cast: it exhi- bits the great strength of the company, though not all its resources ; for Madame VErrms and Mr. CHARLES MATHEWS do not appear until Wednesday, in a new aflerpiece, called the Follies of a Night; and the cast of the Rivals, announced for Friday, includes a new Sir Antony Absolute, Mr. LAMBERT, with MIS. NISBETT as Lydia Languish, and KEELEY as Acres.