The Drury Lane Pantomine we have not seen ; but
the most favour- able accounts do not say much for it, and it has been described to us as being unusually bad. The introduction is not good ; though the Jack-olanterns and Will-o-tbe-wisps are likely sprites, and very lumi- nously attired: but the stage business seems not to be well managed, and many of the tricks failed even on the second night. The harlequi- nade is very poor ; the only laughable incident being a steeple-chase, where the church-steeple itself sets off, pursued by a posse of parsons: the idea of a Pension-list reaching to the Sun is good, but not well worked out. GRIEVES' Diorama of Queen Elizabeth's visit to the City is in- differently done, and is not a very interesting subject. WIELAND has little scope for displaying his humour in the introduction ; and, like PAYNE at Covent Garden, he does not play in the harlequinade. T. Marrnews seems the best of the Clowns.
The Adelphi pantomime is Harlequin Siker Sir pence and the Giant Pennypiece ; and it opens with a personification of the metallic cur- rency, copper, silver, and gold, whose grotesque masks are the funniest part of the introduction. But of the whole tribe of coins, the Fairy Fourpence—a glittering incarnation of silver—is the most attractive : this sprite was personated by a youth named HARVEY, who has great activity and flexibility of limb, and promises to become chief of the elfin race. The Harlequin and Columbine dance very neatly, and the Clown and Pantaloon perform some extraordinary feats of strength. There is no lack of bustle and thumps and bumps in the harlequinade ; but the tricks are not very remarkable for novelty or ingenuity. Of the pieces without Harlequin, that at the Olympic, Puss in Do( ts, is unique in the getting up ; and is pleasantly written, and cle- verly acted.
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