Though the argufiers change sides on account of the change of affairs--_Vincent_ insisting, as _liberals_ so often do, upon his vested rights in _Julie_ as opposed to _Pelham's_ matrimonial ones--though the heroine renders her pathetics affecting by a prostration or two before the rivals--though she rushes upon a parapet to commit suicide--though she is saved, and at length succeeds by force of mere argument to get her new-found master to give her up to her husband; yet this second act was somewhat dull; insomuch that the audience did not seem to regret when the curtain dropped the subject, and announced their own emancipation from the theatre. Besides the parts we have named, Webster the elder played a _Telemachus Hearty_, who, further than skipping about the stage, talking very fast, and making himself not altogether disagreeable, had no more to do with the piece than his namesake, or Fenelon Archbishop of Cambray himself. This attempt to discuss moot points upon the stage--to turn as it were the theatre into a debating society--will certainly not succeed. Audiences--especially Haymarket ones--have a taste for being amused rather than reasoned with; besides, those on that side of the question which the author chooses shall be the weaker, do not like to see the stage-orators get the upper hand, without having a chance of answering them. Even dancing is preferred by them to didactics, though it be [Illustration: A PAS SEUL TO A BARK-AROLE.] * * * * *