PARISIAN THEATRICALS.
During the past week, the Parisian theatres have been less prolific in novelty than they usually are at this season of the year ; and the great matrimonial spectacle which the Emperor provided for his subjects last Sunday fills the space in French journals generally devoted to matters of less national importance. However, on Tuesday the promised French version of Verdi's Luisa Miller was brought out at the Grand Opera ; and on the following evening, Le Sourd, a new opera by M. Adolphe Adam, founded on an old drama of the same name by Desforges, saw the light at the Opera Comique. If the popularity of M. de Beranger wanted proof-which it does not- we might find one even in the number of dramatic pieces to which his im- mortal songs have furnished the name or the idea. The last instance of the kind is La Ellie de Madame Gregoire, a one-act vaudeville by MM. Michel Delaporte and Gaston de Montheau, brought out on Tuesday at the Varietes. Unfortunately, however, the daughter-a commonplace young lady, who shuts up her tavern, and follows her lover, a dragoon, in the character of a vivandiere-has but little in common with her mother, the great Madame Gregoire, who, we need not say, was one of the most cele- brated heroines of the Parisian Burns. Moreover, the French national mind may possibly be somewhat shocked to find that Madame Gregoire had a daughter at all ; for Beranger himself undoubtedly looks upon the good widow's late husband as a sort of male Mrs. Harris.
" D'un certain epoux Bien qu'elle pleuratt la memoire, Personne de nous N'avait connu defunt Gregoire."
Morality is beginning to show its teeth and to snap at Parisian profli- gacy. La .Dame aux Perles, whom M. Dumas file had created as a sort of successor to La Dame aux Camillus, has been found wanting in propriety, and will not come out.
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