28 JANUARY 1843, Page 9

At the French Theatre, Madame ALBERT has appeared in one

or two new parts. In L'Ami Grandet, she plays a coquetting Dutchess of the linden regime, who ensnares the heart of a General of the Empire, and is brought to contrition by her admirer's friend Grandet. The alternations of heartless levity and grave concern—of exulting tyranny and sorrowful contrition—were cleverly depicted by Madame ALBERT. Yet again, her arch vivacity as a paysanne, in Le Philtre Champenois, eclipsed her more studied and artful performance, by its natural and irrepressible exuberance. M. CARTIGNY'S personation of the blunt humourist Grandet is admirable, and contributed materially to the effect.