21 DECEMBER 1839, Page 9

Leaving private theatricals, we have only to report of the

public per- formances for the holyday week, that Pantomime is the order of the night on the 26th, at all the theatres except the Haymarket: the short re- maining terns of its season notjustifying the production of any novelty, 0. Flannigan and the Fairies will renew their gambols under the spiriting of POWER. The Great Bed of Ware, at Covent Garden, is expected to bring forth a comical progeny, the Merrie Devil of Edmonton having got between its expansive sheets ; there will be no sleeping for the au- dience on its pillow. At Drury, Jack Sheppard will take rather a cir- cuitous route to Tyburn; for Mtusn.to. is painting a "diorama of Cir- cassia and the Overland Passage to India" apropos to his career. And at the Adelphi,- YATES has 'unlisted Aloe/ter Red-cop into the service of Harlequin.