He has an uncle who is engaged in a law-suit with some of _Mrs. Courtnay's_ family. To bring this litigation to an amicable end it has been proposed that _Livingstone_ should marry the widow's sister. Here is a discovery! So, the deep widow has been unwittingly plotting against her own sister! Things must be altered; and so they are, in no time, for she persuades the easy hero that _Nugent_ is in love with _Prudence_ himself; but, finding she adores her new lover, has magnanimously given up his claims in his favour. This has the desired effect, for _Livingstone_ will have no such noble sacrifice made on his account. He seeks _Sir Harry_; who, discovering the double design of the profound widow, talks as immensely magnanimous as they do in classic dramas. In short, both play at Romans till the end of the piece; the hero and heroine being at last fully persuaded that they have each really fallen in "Love Extempore!" This idea of persuading two persons into the bonds of love--of having all the courting done at second-hand, is admirably worked out. _Livingstone_ is a well-drawn character; so well, so naturally painted, that he hardly deserves to be the hero of a farce. Although exceedingly soft, he is a well-bred fool--though somewhat fat (for the actor is Mr. David Rees); he is not altogether inelegant. The gentleman who does the theatrical metaphysics in the _Morning Herald_ has described him as a capital specimen of "physical obesity and moral teunity,"[3]--which we quote to save ourselves trouble, for the force of description can no further go. _Prudence_ is also inimitable--a march-of-intellect young lady without brains, who knows the names of the five large rivers in America, and how many bones there are in the gills of a turbot. In Miss P. Horton's hands her mechanical acquirements were done ample justice to. The cold unmeaning love scene was rendered mainly by her acting [Illustration: A N-ICE SITUATION.] [3] _Sic_, actually, in the dramatic article of that paper, Wednesday, 24th ult. In fine, the farce is altogether a leaven of the best material most cleverly worked up. * * * * * A PERFECT VACUUM PROVED. MR. HALSE, the gentleman who has during the last week been lecturing upon Animal Magnetism, having stated that one of his patients, while under the magnetic influence, could "see her own inside," the Marquis of Londonderry, anxious to test the truth of the assertion, requested the lecturer to operate upon him, and being thrown into the Mesmeric sleep, looked into the inside of his own head, and declared he could see nothing in it. * * * * * A CON BY O'CONNER. Why ought the Children of a Thief to be burnt?--Because _their Pa steals_ (they're pastiles). * * * * *