SUSPICIOUS COINCIDENCE.
" Where they do agree, their unanimity is wonderful."
IT is what the newspapers themselves would call a curious coin- cidence, that in their accounts of Easter and Christmas Theatrical performances, a wonderful uniformity of perfection and success is reported. Covent Garden and Drury. Lane have done wonders, of course—such large concerns never miscarry: and the Surrey, the Cobourg, Astley's, the Royal Pavilion, are all excellent, in their respective critiques. Nay, we have seen some high commendation of Richardson's Booth. How happens it that there are these cer- tain periods of theatrical success ?—how happens it that at Easter or Christmas a bad piece is never produced, while during the in- tervals between these festivals good performances are almost as scarce ? Do proprietors of journals, emulating the sublimity of Scripture, say to their critics, "let them be good, and they are good ?" Certain it is, that we never see such pieces as we read of in the holyday weeks. To give our readers an idea of the extent to which perfection is carried at these seasons, when all the eulogistic super- latives are in such demand that some extra tons of them are re- quired from the type-foundess,we should instance the account, in a Morning Paper, of the Royal Pavilion ; where it seems "the processions were pompous, the displays in attire and properties gorgeous, and the scenery splendid and characteristic." Much more could not be said of the matchless Nasaizielto.
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