Haymarket Theatre.
A new interlude, in one act, callel Bi,-ds ritimiot Feather&, was produced last niglht at the Haynmarket Theatre. It would scarcely be worth while to go into criticism about a piece v.which was decidedly negatived, and has no chance, ve should suppose, of being played agair. ; but it is certainly difficult to conceive upoNn what sort of even ordinary judgmenit such at performance could have been paused urpon-fAr less put irto rehearsal. The point of the piece hes in the very stale tancy of a voung niso being brought up to the age of eighteen without ever seeing a woman ; and, o:ten as this incident has been dealt with, it was perhapR never so ill worked upon as in the present instanec. The boy (IMrs. T. Hill) does at length see a girl; and his father tells Iim that it is a bird-whence thie joke of the title " Birds without feathers." Then an old woman is sent to this lad, instead o1 A\ladanic Vescris, in order that he may be disgusted, and hate the sex tbr cver * and ill rs. Jones is selected to accomnplish this teat, for which, of all the people in the wtrlt, bhe is obviouslv the rttost unfit. This dull story is tolti in dialogue, evidently WiLtten by a person wh;o cannot write at all. Aladatiie Vestris wants to knowv - vwhat a husband is ?" Mirs. T. trill has a strange new sensation and wishes to know " if it is a sin ?" And all this sort of stufl;, which has no lotiger any noveltv or interest about it, rcquires to be managed not only by a delicate. but (for the stage) by an axperiencerl hand. Tthere are sonie songs sung in the course of this little matter * but the miusic is worse, if possi- ble, than the dramatic part ef it. Upon the whole, it is such a ftilure as a nmanager should make a point of hizarrling as seldom as I possible. Thc aullor is a gentltnan of,rcspectability and this is said to be his first atteiitpt: we should be doing himi great iDjustice if weenicouraged him to ul;;ke a srcond. HA YfARZE r THEA TRE.