THE THEA TRES.
THE events of the week are few and slight. At Covent Garden, Mrs. GORE'S petit comedy, Modern Honour—with a moral pointed by the suicide of a ruined gambler, who retrieves his fortune by cheating at cards—did not outlive its first night. The piece, though cleverly written, wanted life and interest : and the few incidents were spun out, and overlaid with dramatis personae who had nothing to do. At the new Strand Theatre, Mrs. WAYLETT has produced an operatic burletta, called The Young Courier, from the character which she per- sonates. Its pretensions are of the humblest kind, but some of the in- cidents and situations are farcical ; and by the aid of the drollery of MrrcitEm. and WILLIAMS, and the pretty singing of Mrs. Wayssif and the Misses Hoiertna, it was successful. The music, by A. LEE, is of a light and agreeable kind, but with no claims to originality. The house was well filled, and the audience in good humour. A new bur- lesque is announced for Monday. The Adelphi teems with novelties. The last is a broad farce ; the principal incident being the frightening of a shattered old hvau of a nobleman out of a marriage with a young girl. This is effected by his nephew, who employs his tiger and a street nondescript to personate the uncle and aunt of the young lady, and impose on the "Adonis of sixty " with a trumped-up story that makes him glad to relinqiii,11 her hand in favour of his nephew's friend, who is in love with her, bestow- ing on her, a dower of 5000/. as a compensation for his " breach of promise." YATES'S stable-yard style of addressing the peer, with a " My Lord" at every other word, is capital ; but he lessens the effect of his personation of the old aunt, by too broad and unre- strained buffoonery. W. BENNETT gave an admirable portrait of the superannuated dandy. Jotisr REEVE, as the Jack-of-all-trades, on the look-out for a job of work or fun, is quite in his element: he dresses and acts the part to the life. In his disguise as the old uncle, be looks the substantial yeoman completely, and bullies the old peer with great gusto. The theatre, crammed to the doors, resounded with shouts of laughter.
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