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THKATRES.

- ' F.INGLISH OPERA-110t3r.
Last night a new operetta. called Bribs reirc,„,t
Beane I or, The Ladies unions Them:eters, ~.
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T I te produced
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Miss I. sTrirgoooo, Miss Lova. and Mrs. HIGH,
ARDSON. The plot is simply this :—Virginia, 4
dashing lady (Mrs. W. S. CIIATTERLEY), ait:o•
the prude in no admirable degree, and is determin-
ed that in the management of the aifiirs of tier
household, the utmost strctnese of demeanour shalt
he observed by all the ladies of her acquaintame.
This discipline is curried to such an excess, that
Eli:a, h. • near relative (Miss Csritw), is ohlic„eed
to leave the house, for presuming to receive the
visits of a young lover seamed I,nrehice. Virginia's
guilt (Mrs. Gaos'a), who is for obvious ers.u,s I
an admirer of prudential and 1:latooic love. I, .
highly applauds the discretion of her mere. and i
condemns any departure from the good old plan if
making love without mature and very deliberate I
Approaches. The other ladies, not altogether liking
this summary mode of hattishilig all the gentler feel-
ings of their nature, heartily concur in a plan of
Mrs. Dashington's (Miss KELLY'!) of trying haw
far Virginia herself is proof against the tender utter-
lions. The plan is this :—Ales. Dashingion has a
young brother (Mr. Darien) who ticcasional:v
visits Virginia, and Mrs. Dashingion, who is sail
to bear a strong resemblance to lion, assumes l.i.
dress, sold enters the drawing-roam of Virginia, id
night. by the balcony. The latter at first appear.
to manifest great indignaton at this intrttsion, and .t
the mode in which admittance was obtained ; but the
modest and soothing manner of the supposed yout:i,
his earliest oupplications, and offer to depart as I,r
came, overcome her apparent anger, and the con.
lents at length to supplant her indignant frown
by a glance of compassion for the youth, sod
to admit his advances as a lover, after titian.
ins him to caution and secrecy. She ultra Nllll.
pares his general appearance to that of 1.1,,t,ter,
whom however she pronounces to be a corpirite, mot
upon whose age she makes some significant re-
marks. At length the time arrives for the depar.
tare of the youth, but unfortunately the holder by
which he ascended to the boleros), has fallen, sod
through the hall door there is ao egress, as Pcic.
cilia (Mien I. STunnson) is below. The abrupt
eistrauce of Priscilla leads to an awkward reo-
contrr, hut Virginia contrives to shield the supposed
youth from the eye of her maid. After a variety is
contrivances to screen him, Priscilla is at length
informed by Virginia (who guesses at the real lac.. 1
but without meaning it), that the youth is no oi.ier
than Mrs. Dashingion, in the clothes of her hen.
titer for it frolic, and that the only way of notating
the scandal is to substitute for them Priscilla':, J•
the momentary expectation of the arrival or !;rr-
mlt sod sisters might lead to some unfounded sus-
picions were the dress not changed. The suppoind
youth retires into an adjoining chamber to pat act
Priscilla's dress, and considerable laughter is ex-
cited by Priscilla's repeated efforts to go in and
offer assistance, " there being no harm to tos.4 3
lady," which Virginia is obliged to exercise 1411 h.'
suldreas to prevent, snider the firm persuasion that Cie
young Mr. Dune's is in her closet. At length tile ,
aunt and other ladies of the family enter, and are
obliged to he informed of the frolic, on the discovery
of a gentleman's coat and bat mister a chair. They
are afterwards apprised by Nes. Dashingion of the
frolic, and it is determined that it should be pla eI!
off a second time, and that a simultaneous ;shwa
shall be made to bring the ladles into Virginia's
chamber, and discover her bete-a fete with a per,..l)
in male attire. Mrs. Dashington, in Dnrien's fleet,
appears accordingly through the balcony, alit' re-
vokes, to the IlstotiOunentuf Virginia, the plighteil
love already given to her. The supposed Dories
then feigns illness, and Virginia in her turn h--
comes faint. The denouement then arrives, sod the
preconcerted alarm given by Mrs. Dashingi..*
brings in the aunt and the whole of the hood!.
Virginia at length is let into the secret, and after
being happily rallied on the example she has given
of her own susceptibility to receive tender imprete
lions, she receives a lesson to be more indulgent
than she has hitherto been to the rest of her *ex.
Of such materials the plot consists—it is snirtl,
and lively, and makes up a very pleasing iliereti i.
urn.,a-
iNharsitihtmo can be more full of naieeti mill 11
of her gilewsotlKierE";ririts.B
the airs of the young and trotter lover just lit
L.excett,iiisigeo;,. hersi7spoLi3h::i. tr.:.tri,
.
might he expected from a lady whose 1.1... i.
noting and ogres-al& mannershad, perchane, too
and then expeseal her to receive the ntlutiration .
a persevering suitor; she airs. throughout. warmly
applauded. Mrs. CIIIATTIBULET'S Virginia iiin,
also excellently sustained. Her affected indigo*.
pi
titbit in the first instance. its subsiding almost one
mediately into the gentler reception of the sup-
posed lover's addresses, the wholes(' the artifices
she anxiously uses to conceal a discovery, er'f
displayed with consummate skill. The
ladies
ladies had little to du in comparison, hut t!.i
made the most of the parts assigned them. il;
CAREW'S songs, in the first act, were loudly cir

The operetta was announced for repetition
the warmest plaudits.
In the course of the evening the Puast.%
IBASSADOIL made his appearance in one of the .t.it-'
bases, and was loudly greeted. A slumber oil il-
tineutshed fashionables were also in the dress t.OO.
The house was very much crowded.
MUMMY TOCATItr.
Since the preelection of The Ablhe
iJ
dfurinao, this house has been ea-mor than Usui,*
crowded with the drat company. Dring the V'.
sent week it has had to boast of receiving--
Ike Doke sad Deans of Waste, Duke sail Dario!