M. ACHARD is delighting the visiters of the French Plays
with the drollery of his acting and the sweetness of his singing ; and for the short remainder of his stay the St. James's Theatre will be crowded. His assumption of the free and easy manner, the mingled pretension and nonchalance of the Parisian badaud, is very happy : the cleverness and gusto of his imitation in this cast of characters, doubtless, makes hint such a favourite with the frequenters of the Palais Royal, by whom the slang, tricks, and phrases, unintelligible to English people, are duly appreciated. In La Familia du Fumiste, he is a very amusing and characteristic representative of the mechanic ; though we cannot help feeling that he has more of complacent gayety and assurance than genuine bonhommie.
At the Princess's, Mrs. KEELEY is playing BOUFFE'S famous part the Gamin de Paris, in an indifferent version of that clever little piece, called The Young Scamp—Scapegrace had been a better term. Mrs. KEELEY looks the heedless, restless, roguish imp of mischief : she seems animated with the true boyish spirit of fun and fondness,—either alternately predominating with the impulse of the moment ; and her ruddy cheeks, laughing eyes, and frolicsome gayety, win all hearts, and make " the grandmother's pet" a universal favourite. To compare Mrs. KEELEY'S personation with I3onsses inimitable assumption, would be unjust to both : they are as different as an English boy bred in the country from a French boy who has graduated in the streets of Paris ; each is good of its kind.
Miss FORTESCUE is also playing at the Princess's, in a slight piece called Aged Forty; wherein she has little to do but lecture a male coquette of a cousin on his flirtations, which she does in a manner that makes one love her as much as one loathes the culprit.
The travestie of Richard the Third at the New &rand is much better than that at the Adelphi. The medley of costumes is comical enough ; and HAMMOND'S burlesque of CHARLES KEAN is closer to the original than WRIGHT'S, and therefore more ludicrous.
WRIGHT and Miss WOOLGAR are diverting the Adelphi audiences as Anthony and Cleopatra Married and Settled. The reconciliatory galoppe, in their masquerading costumes, which terminates their matri- monial quarrels, is a piquant display of comical agility on the part of the Tailor-Hussar, and of sprightly grace on the part of the Seamstress- Dragoon. Mrs. Snew has resumed her engagement at Drury Lane, in Cin- derella; and is shortly to appear in a new part. Monsieur Drug= IS announced to make his first appearance on an English stage next week, in Guillaume Tell—to be got up with great splendour on the occasion.
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