Here is the stage-direction--"_At the end of song_"--which should have been a national song, by Mr. CLEMENT SCOTT, but wasn't--in fact, there was no song at all, as well as I can remember, though I rather think the crowd were always more or less singing a chorus,--"_clock strikes_." If it did, I didn't hear it. If it did, why didn't the characters behave as sich, and on _Cinderella's_ saying what the authors have written, and which I am positive I didn't hear, "What shall I do? the hour has struck at last! I hope to goodness that that clock's too fast!" why didn't they execute a "_Hurried Gallop_," and why wasn't the stage-direction, "_The Ball breaks up_,"--the printer prefers "breakes up,"--"_in wild confusion_" carried out? No one knows better than this present scribe what changes are necessitated at the last moment, and after the book is published. But an alteration which omits the point of the story is scarcely an improvement. It does not affect me that the demon _Scroogins_ was reduced comparatively to a dummy, for poor Mr. SHIEL BARRY was suffering from dreadful hoarseness, and could hardly speak, much less sing. There were originally too many plums in the pudding. The knock-about scene by two ARMSTRONGS, in imitation of our old friends the Two MACS, very ingeniously introduced as _Jeames the First_ and _Jeames the Second_, Royal Footmen, is immensely funny. _Cinderella's_ joedelling lullaby is pretty. All the music is bright and lively, and I fancy that though there are the names of four or five Composers to the bill, Conductor SOLOMON,--who keeps them all going, and sticks to his beat with the tenacity of a policeman,--has done the major part of it, and the minor too. Bravo, Mr. EDWARD SOLOMON! "What's a hat without a head?" and what's a Norchestra without a NED? Mr. ALFRED CELLIER is responsible for a charming minuet. Extraordinary Omission from the Shakspeare Tableaux at Her Majesty's, when they had the materials at hand-- Illustration: "THE TWO MACS." One more question--Where were "the Lyrics by Mr. CLEMENT SCOTT?" Is Mr. LESLIE satisfied with one Lyric in Shaftesbury Avenue? And is he keeping back Mr. SCOTT'S for his next Opera? Perhaps though, as Miss VIOLET CAMERON now appears as the Prince, the lyrics are sweetly sung, which is an inducement to revisit _Cinderella chez elle_. The Transformation Scene is very effective. Will the Public ever regain their taste for the short Pantomime, with one Big Show in it, and an hour's Harlequinade. JACK IN THE PRIVATE BOX. * * * * * A JAPANESE BELLE. "This tiny Japanese lady, whom you left, as you thought, on the lid of the glove-box at home."--_Sir Edwin Arnold, in Daily Telegraph._ EDWIN ARNOLD, Knight and Poet, vividly descriptive man, I'm in love, and you must know it, with your _belle_ in far Japan. Her _kimono_ looks so telling with sleeve swaying in the wind, And the amber _obi_ swelling into satin bows behind.