THEATRICAL NOVELTIES.
ANOTHER of those lively and graceful vehicles of pleasantry and satire, the mythological burlesques which VESTRIS naturalized on the stage, has been brought out at the Victoria, by the author of Frolics of the Fairies, under the title of Caught Courting, "or Juno, by Jove." The incidents are neither novel nor striking—it is the old story of gods coming down to earth to woo mortal maids, followed by the goddesses in disguise : but the puns and allusions to the topics of the day, and the point of the rhyming dialogue, together with the introduction of some pretty airs from ADDER, HEROLD, &c., which are charmingly sung by the Misses H ORTON, make up an entertainment of the most agreeable kind. The political hits were eagerly caught. Among others, when Minos, Jove's Chancellor, declares his intention " not to resign," the laughter and applause were immense. MITCHELL, as the mortal at whose cottage Jupiter and his attendant Mercury put up, was very droll.
The Heiress of Bruges has been dramatized at this theatre. We had no great relish for GRATTAN'S novel ; and we cannot say that we prefer the drama.
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