Royal Coburg Theatre.
I _- ..CLKCe was also openea last night, and with a degree of lend6ur iB its decorations and appointments which really evinces a very enterprsingpirit on the part of the proprietors, and de- mans, we think, a proportionable share of public patronage. We have no room to particularize the alterations and improvemnents that bave been etected " before the curtain" since last season and can only state,that tbey are extremely splendid and tasteful- and that the eneral effect, on entering the theatre,is gratifyingand imposing. The perforinances commcnced with a melo-drama caUled the geirdt Wo- 1t1l af The Islaodi; the plot being founded, as it appeared to us, on AMr. Gadt's L-te nevel called *' The Spze K'ife." As rmelo. dramas are an exempt jurisdiction, it would be irregular to allege against this production any defects on the score of imnprobable Situations, hair-breadth escapes, and stupendous catastrophes: hut it has the merit of exciting strong interest, and of sustaining it- and this may be easily supposed of any piece which turns upon the forune and the fate of James I. of Scotland. The author hsb shouw some judgment in the colour which he has imparted to some of the historical facts, and in his suppression of others. The Spac Wife found a most able and spirited re- presentative in Illrs. Stanley; and the scenery was extremelv well painted. The holyday audience were in entire good humour, but we thought them rather unreasonable in insisting, by a most deaftping encore, upon the repetition of one or two little in. cidene'asuch as the death of the King (who was not killed, bythe'dy, without a good deal of previous hard work), and (still more hard-heartedly) upon the second perfornance of a surpnsing evolution, exhibited by one of the dramnatis persoan, called " a Highland-fling." 'he latter exerdon, and a tremendous one it seemed, was really repeated. The concluding piece was a wlodrame, first exhibited four or five years ago, called the jVorth Pok. It is only necessary to state of this, that the irst scene is a vision, in which Captailn Steadfast, reposing en a couch in the cabin of a King's ship, in the North Seas, Imagines a splendid pageant, all which is represented to the life. Britannia on her ocean-car, surrounded by Neptune, Amphitrite, Sleep, " Dream," sea-horses, the genii of fire aid air, summer and winter; &c., &c., are good enough to invite him to persevere. and to -promise him success. All this is well enough: but we were a little overpovwered at seeing one of these genii, (a very odd genius he was) in a red mantle, a black stock, and a stiffened cellar. To be sure, dreamns are remarkable for their inconsistencies; and so far this !might add to the natural" effect of the scene. The theatre, we should add, was illaminated with extraordinary brilliancy. , ROYAI, COBURG THEATRE.