22 DECEMBER 1849, Page 8

The various London theatres promise their usual banquet of ll

pantomi 16 and burlesque for the Christmas week; and the opening of Drury Lane and the resuscitated Olympic on the 26th will impart a new zest to the holydays. A few days later, on the 7th of January, Mr. Mitchell takes the field IA the French Theatre of St. Jainee's, with a company temptingly set forth in bis voluminous programe. It will be seen that he first puts out his strength in opera; to be followed up by comedy and vaudeville; and the season will come to a climax in tragedy, with the reappearance of Rachel,—who, in- stead of being translated from the stage, is extending the range of her per- formances into the modern French drama.