cefulness, and agility: and Miss Brissak, who, for the
first time, appeared as Columbine, acquitted herself with tolerable
credit, and was very well received.

The scenery in general was marked with that characteristic beauty and
highly-finished excellence, which have long distinguished the
productions of this theatre: and the panoramic series of views of the
River Thames, from Greenwich to the Nore, on the passage of the Royal
flotilla for Scotland, and its arrival in Leith Roads, probably surpass
everything of the kind before exhibited. There are several diverting
tricks and ingenious changes. Grimaldi's equipment of a patent safety
coach at Brighton, in particular was highly amusing. The machinery,
which is, in many instances, of a most complicated description, worked
remarkably well for a first night's exhibition; and the whole went off
with a degree of _eclat_, which must have been exceedingly gratifying to
the managers, as auguring the probability of such a lengthened run for
the piece as may amply recompense the pains and expense which have been
so lavishly bestowed in its preparation. The house was filled in every
part, and the announcement of the Pantomime's repetition was received
with the most clamorous approbation, undisturbed by a single dissentient
voice.

The first production of "The House that Jack Built," at Covent Garden,
on December 26, 1824, also reads interestingly:--

The Pantomime is before us, and we should ill-repay the pleasure it
afforded us, if we did not acknowledge and make public its excellence.
The name implies the source from which it is taken, and we had,
therefore, the supreme pleasure of renewing our friendship with those
very old acquaintances, the "Priest all shaven and shorn, the maiden all
forlorn, the cow with the crumpled horn, the dog that worried the cat,
that killed the rat, that eat up the malt, that lay in the House that
Jack built." This, of course, gave us, as it appeared to do many others,
great pleasure, "For should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never
brought to mind." Mr. Farley, however, who supports (like an Atlas) all
the weight of bringing forward these annual pieces of fun and foolery,
and who appears to be as learned in the mystic lore of "hoary
antiquity," as he is in the mysteries of all the wonders of the tricks,
changes, and mechanism of the Pantomimic world, has let us this time
into a secret, which will doubtless cause much erudite argument, and
pros