English Opera-House.
Last evening a.comic operetta, called Militardj Tactics, was pres. duce0 at this trhatrc. There is nothing new in it but the name,and nothing to disting ish itfroms the piece called Match-makiing, which appeared at the Haymarket last =r, excepting a few songs to old tuaes : among otbers " Ca bra, ' and " Le petit Tamnbour." For a merepcie des boulevards, and it is nothing more, Itis sufficiently amusing. WVrench's acting as FiP:esseY the valet, was clever and bustling. Mlr. hartley, the Uncle, Miss Povey, the Niece, Mr. Power, the Colonzel, and Mr. Pearman, the Captaitn, did all that was nlloited to them as wel as was possible. The burletta of Tom Thumb folowed, Now that the political allusions in this glorious burlesque have lost their force, and that the greater part of the wit has been cut out by the gentleman who last mutilated it into a bur- letta, notbing but very good acting can make it endarable. Unhappily there was nobody in it who could act, with the excep- tion oAlss Povey (Funcamunco) and Mfr. Tayleure (Lord Grizzl.) Each of them executed thesongs very well indeed,and the costume asd acting of. the latter were in the true spirit of whimsical absurdity. If Ir. W. Chapman can play wons than he did in Fi- garo oh Saturday, it was in ring Arthur las night. It was realy too bad to waste a word on. The reason for bringing out Tom77 Tumb was, we suppose, to give an opportunity of intr6ducing a child, call- ed 17aster Burke (a phenomenon from Dublin !), who was made to play " Robin Adair," and a piece by Haydn, on the fiddle. The child did this very well for hisage (which is said to be five,and cannot be more than seven), but not well enough to be listened to by people who are supposed to have arrived at years of discretion. The poor littde thing afterwards squeaked through the part of Tomn Thumb. It was a very cruel piece of business altogether. The Gipsies, we knowf, are in the habit of kidnapping children, and stripping off the infants' clothes; they dress them up in such rags, and teach them such tricks as they think are best calculated to excite the compassion and extort thc pence, of the public Now, this poor little child seemns to he the victim of a similar enormity committed by some per- sons unknown to Us. The Gipsies are transnorted for their offence; and in the hope that the attention of the police may be directed to the nersons who hare maltreared the poor l.ttleBurke and that they mas be brought to the punishment they deserve, we irbear fsr the present to say any thing more about it. .&YrGJist OP&4JIOUSPA