3 NOVEMBER 1855, Page 8

The present seems to be the age for bad farces.

A little vapid thing produced at Drury Lane, with the title Twenty Minutes with a Tiger, just serves to show how Mr. Charles Mathews can whip up even nothing -the very nil-into sparkling froth, but is intrinsically worthless ; and when we see the old farce The Hundredlsound Note, which has been revived at the Adelphi, we are forced to admit that, notwithstanding it is a mass of absurdities, tacked together in the clumsiest fashion it gives evidence of a degree of animal spirit-a relish for " fun "-that not often to be found in the present day.