Drury Lane Theatre was suddenly closed on Tuesday. The Huguenots
had been announced in the advertisements and bills of the day ; but in the evening the doors were shut, and bills were put up announcing that " in consequence of the intense heat of the weather, there would be no performance till further notice." The intense heat has ceased for several days, yet the house remains closed, and there is no notice of its reopening. This seems the more surprising, as the performances, to all appearance, had- been going on with regularity ; and, only the evening before, there had been a good and successful representation of Maeaniello, when Sims Reeves made his first appearance in the part of the hero. Beichart, too, who had left the theatre for a time, had returned to it ; and the manage- ment, which we had occasion a few weeks since- to describe as "slow," seemed to be quickening again. We should regret the failure of an en- tertainment which, judiciously conducted, might supply a great desidera- tum—good German opera. For the Italian and the English, they had much better been let-alone.
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