"_The celebrated Dutch dwarf, 26 years of age, weighs 27 pounds, and only 28 inches high; had the honour of being presented to the Prince Regent and the whole of the Royal Family at Carleton House, May 5th, 1815, and was introduced by Mr. Dan. Gyngell to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Sept. 1st, 1815; and was exhibited in the course of 4 days in Smithfield to upwards of 20,000 persons; is universally admitted to be the greatest wonder of the age._" Another portrait, engraved by Cooper, and published by Robins and Co., is better executed; but the third is a poor sketch, taken three years later, and unsigned. Richardson presented this year, on the first day of Bartholomew Fair, _The Maid and the Magpie_, and a pantomime, "expressly written for this theatre," entitled _Harlequin in the Deep_, terminating with a panorama, "taken from the spot, by one of our most eminent artists," representing Longwood, in the island of St. Helena, and the adjacent scenery, interesting to the public at that time as the place of exile selected by the Powers lately in arms against France for Napoleon I. Pocock's drama was, of course, greatly abridged, for drama and pantomime, with a comic song between, were got through in half an hour, and often in twenty minutes, when the influx of visitors rendered it expedient to abbreviate the performance. Shuter's signal, corrupted into _John Orderly_, was used by Richardson on such occasions. A daily change of performances had at this time become necessary, and Richardson presented on the second day "an entire new Chinese romantic melodrama," called _The Children of the Desert_, and a comic pantomime, entitled _Harlequin and the Devil_. On the third day the pantomime was the same, preceded by "an entire new melodrama," called _The Roman Wife_. This year there first appeared in the fair an eccentric character named James Sharp England, known as "the flying pieman." He was always neatly dressed, with a clean white apron before him, but wore no hat, and had his hair powdered and tied behind in a queue. Like the famous Tiddy-dol of a century earlier, he aimed at a profitable notoriety through a fantastic exterior and a droll manner; and he succeeded, his sales of plum-pudding, which he carried before him on a board, and vended in slices, being very great wherever he appeared. The present representative of the perambulating traders of the eccentric order is a man who has for many years strolled about the western districts of the metropolis, wearing clean white sleeves and a black velvet cap placed jauntily on his head, and carrying before him a tray of what, in oily and mellifluous accents, he proclaims to be, "Brandy balls as big as St. Paul's! Oh, _so_ nice! They are all sugar and brandy!"