25 JUNE 1842, page 15

Smoke.

" IT will end in smoke" has been often said of a public commo- tion which men foresaw would lead to nothing ; but " it began in smoke " is something new to hear predicated of a......

The German Opera.

MEYERBEER'S opera of The Huguenots was produced at Covent Garden Theatre on Monday night, and has been repeated every acting night of the week. With the active search after......

Wit-passages.

"Clown,. We wits will be flouting." SHARSPERE. THE pitcher that goes too often to the well comes home broken at last. The Reverend SYDNEY SMITH, who has enjoyed a forty-years......

French Plays.

GARRICK between Tragedy and Comedy, as pictured by REYDOLDS, is a type of the present position of John Bull between the two great French performers : on the one hand,......