Otatrts.
The week just past will not make a great figure in the dramatic re- cords of London. Had not Mrs. Emma Waller achieved her first essay in comedy, by playing Lady Gay Spanker at Drury Lane, there would not be a single event to note down ; and as the lady's performance was marked more by intelligence in conception than by force in execution, it need not largely expand the chronicle. At Sadler's Wells, the revival of The Merry Wives of Windsor has proved so attractive that the pro- duction of Tinton of Athens is deferred to next week. But the great "coming event" is the expected revival of Midsummer Night's Dream at the Princess's Theatre, with all the Princess's magnificence. Mrs. Stowe's new novel Dred is about to show itself in dramatic form at the _Surrey.
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