27 SEPTEMBER 1856, Page 10

A farce produced at the Adelphi, with the title _Lucifer

Matches, dis- plays the well-known talent of Mr. Barney Williams for representing Hibernian footmen, and exhibits -Mrs. Barney Williams in the novel form of a Yankee Mephistopheles. The idea of the farce is somewhat Hoffinanesque ; but it is carried out with so small an expenditure of fancy, and with such en utter absence of point, that any further descrip- tion would be waste of words.