The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-27 00:00:00

PRINCESS'S.

Whether it were eying to the novelcirmunstence that all
the world au free for enjoyment, or to an increasing app.-
tita for pantosainse, nothing could exceed the eagerness ex.
hibited yesterday evening to obtain n commanding position
in this theatre. Long before 6 o'clock, nil the inlets were
choked up with good-hatnoared crowds, the waggish part

of which anticipated the evening's entertainment with an
impromptu, one of their owe ; and whet the doses at length
opened, somewhat earlier then usual, the crash was lose
sad fearful. The performance commenced with the Corsi-
can BrotArro, too established a (gement' not to have
pleased a Christmas auditory ; the Daly drawback is this
iambuses being the occasional isterraptioes incidental to the
0.11114014 Of the pantomimic piece Marketing and the
Miller end Me Mom ; or, Kay piece,
and the
Fairy of the Amore Lobe, an outline having been
given yesterday, it snot be aseessary to ingodses it
again. When the mill had disappeared, as already men-
tioned, through the agency of "The Fairy," the natal
transformation warred, the ',Toni parts being thus
&aligned—Harlequin (Mr. Coruna), Clown (Mr. Haliae).
Patalooa (Mr. Paulo), Columbine (Kiss Dseborongh),
After the ball bad been opened, the Clown went through
some capital pastures on a ladder. First he stood on his
head at the top of ass aide of the ladder, than revolved es
his bead in the same position, then dismay/la glees of wise,
and finally lit a cigar and smoked it is the like antipodean
attitude. A barrel of " Wan] shiny " was next eon-
s 'lifted into a beehive, from which emerged a
number of exaggerated bees; and another barrel, labelled
" Sayer's Elixir of Love " yielded a young cupid. The
Baker-street Poultry Show was made the occasion of intro-
ducing a pair of gigantic carkactures of the Cochin China
fowl, the upper part of the legs being most ladierously
padded in imitation of the real bird. The " diggings,''
though now rather stale, wars not quite forgotten. A box,
marked with that coveted domination, emitted what was
termed a fancy portrait of Marco Spada, being, In fact, a
ghost-like form of spades, which were strung together and
perambulated the stage. After several minor tricks, which
were geaerally well received, came a washing establish-
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seat—indicated by the letters " A. Soapsuds, laundress."
This formed the basis of • series of very boisterous
incidents, in which the whole paraphernalia of
the laundry was turned to good account. Clown having
at last killed • postman and stuffed him in the copper
is visited by a number of apparitions, whose mouths make
• clicking sort of noise, which, in some degree, bears out
the appellation given to them of " spirit tappers." The
Camp at Chobham was very prettily worked up. After •
sentinel had been disposed of in the summary fashion of a
pantomime, and his box had been made to do things which
Cbobhain dreamt of, there was introduced a proces-
sion of British Grenadiers, in the Lilliputian shape of forty
or fifty children, well trained and got up for the occasion,
as was evinced by the
formed square, and went through a field day. The bellige-
rent Russians and Turks, too, were not wanting ; the former
being represented by three capering bears, and the latter
by a number of imitation turkeys' bodies, surmounted by
the Turkish fez; and when the bears wire charged by the
birds there was an unmistakeab!e expression of sympathy
and encouragement. The final scene, described as the Fairy

Temple of Happy Land, scarcely came up to the ge of
each tableatia; find, as if conscious that it would not bear
iaspection, those in charge dropped the curtain with
unusual suddenness. It was midnight when the perform-
ance concluded; the interval between the openia4 piece
and the pantomime having been protracted much too long.