Star.
London, England, 1828-05-05 00:00:00

FASMONABLE INTELLIGENOL.

A Sal VA LS.
Lord and Lady Cliffotd and Family, at their house In Mansfield-
street. from their seat In Devonshire; Lady Sarah Beresford, at
her ►ouse in Mansfield-street, from Herefordshire ; Mr. and Lady
Cecil Delafield, at the Earl of Limerick's, in Mansfield-atreet.
from South Hill Park, In Barks; the Hon. Charles Monckton, at
Kirkham's Hotel, Brook-street, from Corfu ; Lord Forbes. st
Bryant's (late Warne's) Hotel, Conduit-arreer, Bond-street; T.
Smith, Esq. at ditto, from Norwich; Captain Du Pree, of the tat
Life Guards, at Knightsbridge barracks; Mr. Vernon Wentworth,
in Connaught-place. from Derby; Captain C. Graves, in Pall-mall;
Colonel Harris, at the United Service Club. from Maidstone;
Captain Motttgotnerie, In Erfanstone.square, from Scotland ;
Captain Peyton, in Brook-street, from Park; Mr. James Dunlop,
in Russell-square, from Edinburgh ; Mr. Alexander Bigbie, in the
Regent-street, from Boma; Mr. Henry Smith, at Stevens' Hotel,
from Bath ; Captain Felix Carr, in Grosvenor•street, from Maid-
stone ; Mr. J. Horrocks, in Bennet-street, St. James's, front
Rome ; Mr. Watt Ormsby, in Bond-street, from Cheltenham ; Mr.
D. Gillis, in Cleveland-rnw, from Edinburgh; Major Bourchler, in
Pall-mall from Portugal; Mr. James Dewar, in Upper Grosvenor-
street, fgom Scotland; Mr. E. F. Maitland, in Bryanstnne-square,
from Reading; Mr. R. Barnes, in Sussex-place ; Captain Wood,
in Stratford-street, from a tour; Sir John Pecbell, Bart. at the
Albany ; Captain Clements, in Piccadilly ; Lady Menniker and
Friends, at Nerot's Hotels. Clifford and Cork Streets; Captain
Matshaint at ditto; Count Saltier and Ladies, at ditto, from
Paris; Sir Frederick and Lady Watson, at ditto; Lord and Lady
Gambier and family, at ditto ; William Deedes, Eq. Lady, and
the Misses Deedes, at the Berner. Hotel, Berner-street, from tLeir
seat, Sandwell Park, Hythe, Kent.
THEATRES.

DRURY LANE
LUNN'S pleasant Comedy of Hoses and Thorns, which
was produced some time since at the Haymarket Thea•
tre, was performed here with much success on Saturday
evening, Ltsrou sustaining his old character of Sir
Hilary Heartease. and Sir Valentine finding an able
representative in MATitaws. Alter this a petite comedy,
new to the English stage, and attributed to Mr. JONES,
of this Theatre, had its first representation. It is
a translation from a very amusive French Vaudeville,
bet much of its pleasantry is lost in the transfer. The
plot turns upon a lesson of gallantry given by a Colonel
Jones, confined for a breach of military discipline, to a
young Cornet and fellow-prisoner (Mis Love). This
lesson recoils upon the master, as the oSject upon whom
it is put in practice happens to be the Colonel's wife.—
The conclusion of the piece was attended with kmirure
of applause and disapprobation. There is some pretty
music in it by T. Comte.
COVENT GARDEN.
This Theatre has been latterly most successful in its
revivals of SHAgSPEA RE. It certainly is difficult for a
manager to gratify in this respect the public taste. The
people will go to see even one good actor in a play of
SIIAKSPEA RE, yet the pawer of his genius is so uni•
formly diffused through all his characters, his beau ies
are lavished so profusely and indiscriminately--in %host,
he so little understood the art of writing a play for one
antra, that a feeling of annoyance often accompanies
such represen.ations, at the total failure on the stage of
scenes which gave so much pleasure in the closet.
There are are no plays that require a greater combina-
tion of talent than his.
Friday night the Merry Wives of Windsor was very
effectively produced. Mr. BARTLEY played Falstaff—
a character which requires no little personal qoalitica.
lions—criticism is exhausted in uraise of this creation
of SumrsraAnz's genius. Mr. finamrt's representa•
tion evidently inysroved in ease 24 the play advanced.
Madame VESTRIS personified Mrs. Page inimitably.
Tt.is is a well kw.sen character of her s. She is the
)host delightful actress on the stage. Miss SrePHENS,
as Mrs. Ford. is another of the charms of this play.
sang some very beautiful songs. Mr. WOOD, who
plAye,f Fenton, sang with coribiJ...-Able sweetness and
good taste. In this slight notice, Mrs. DAVENP: RT.S
Mrs. goickly must not be omitted ; it was a most bu-
molrons piece of acting. Mr. KEELY, Vhp performed
Vender, to whose very great merits as Boots we are by
no means insensible, seems to mistake the di•tinction be-
tween a country cloven and a tool. Mr. Waitu's rep? e-
entation of Ford is very good, though perhaps a Nile
mo tragical. On t')e whole, the play was lully cue.
serving l.f all the applause which it so wryly received
Gorr a crowded audience.