The Express.
London, England, 1864-01-25 00:00:00

SCENE IN 4 THEATEL

The Birmingham Gazette of to-day has an amoant
ran extraordinary wane which wee witnessed at tire
.‘delphi Theatre in that tows on Saturday night. It seems
tar, during the pantomime, the " supertennaries " struck
wwk, sad the Clown explained to the audience that noes
o! them had bean paid their miss. At Let it came to a
seta in which the Clown has to jump from a springing
bard through • trapdoor. The Clown went to the side
'vim. and appealing to some tee them, with outstretched
hods aid—°l cannot break my neck ; there's so one on
the other aide." Am may be supposed, the Meese, Mesa
whittling, and Walls that snared wee almost deafeoini.
After a time. Mr. Grattan, the manager, (IMO forward in
front of the focalights and entered into • statement to the
effect that the great espouses of the pantomime did not
allow him to pay all his debts. The Clown denied
tuoy of Mr. Grattan's statements and made various charges
agaion that gentleman. At last the performance west oe,
the clown, pantaloon, and sprites doing their tricks as far as
losable without the aid of supwrinmersties. The only
persons belonging to that fraternity who appeared on the
sage was a solitary man deemed up as • policernas, and
are young girl, and they. in the orthodox style were
beaten and kissed by the clown. Still the greatest con-
fusion and noise reigned amongst the "gods," and the re-
spectable people in the stalls and pit had nearly all left the
house. Sundry fights took place in the gallery , and
pieces of the seats were thrown into the shills. The
columbine, clown, pantalooo, and sprites still appeared
on the stage, and the baud played mania. sot a note of
which could be heard. The fights were ultimately quelled
Ly the two policemen stationed in the gallery, and the
" gods" having tired themselves • little order was restored.
(the of the Sprites then came forward, and saying, "This is
for thereat of the company," went through • clever gym-
rastic performance, which called forth hearty
the applause.
Some cue then shouted from the gallery to Sprite,
Got any money, Prod r
Sprite—No.
A Voice—Got any money. Clown!

Clown—Na
Pantaloon—l have Ist.. that's all.
The sprite then held out a shilling, saying, " That's sit"
One of the gentlemen who had remained sr the Malls thee
threw • shilling upon the stage, which the sprite picked
up. The shilling was followed by several others and by
shower of coppers. amongst which were madly farthiep
from the "gods,* some of which fell upon. the
Stage, others in the orchestra, striking
.the musicians.
who had remained at their poets during the whole
disturbance. Several of the supennummmele thee rushed
on the stage, sad a regular err able, to the greet de-
light of the "soda.' took place fee the messy. How-
ever the " gods^ undated upon its Wog headed over to the
Sprite, who, amidst overwhelmisg usislausei bowed ble
ackoowledgMeour. The curtain thee rose upos " The Fairy
Realms," Such • scene—a piece of scenery la one *Mt
few
mother in another, and a regular mom of ooefasiom A
" fairies " stood is the background, some were Ia their
places, others stood laisghisg. Frameworks of igen where
hide* should have stood were empty, end midst a eider.
leg ray or two of blue and red-coloured En the eurtaia foil
upon a me se of confusion snob as we have sever before wit-
neued upon • stage. The lights were dm loweted, sod
the noise and groans is the gallery ammerpt the ' igede "
were greater than ever. The writer was glad to heat •
body retreat, and to Sod himself safe la the streets where
there wee a crowd of peruse, mee, Temas mad home, ear'
rounding the entrance to the stage-doer. MSS Of 0001
swearing that they would sot go antsy they hod got their
money. Their Lepage was loud as to what they would
do if they did not have their gooney. The " porformesiee"
wee not concluded until a little before Seadwr sionieg, sad
when the writer left the spot the easy " erasegiewt •
seemed to be at its height.

A Saxon leaden coffin ban been found at Bishop.
dote, Mote. It 000tobsed the skeleton of a young trams,
ton
elm bottle andtem drioking cope were found in the
coffin.