Shows had been excluded from Greenwich Fair this year, and Bartholomew's was looked forward to by the showmen as the more likely on that account to yield an abundant harvest. Hone says that Greenwich Fair was this year suppressed by the magistrates, and the absence of shows may be regarded as evidence of some bungling and wrong-headed interference; but a score of booths for drinking and dancing were there, only two of which, Algar's and the Albion, made any charge for admission to the "assembly room," the charge for tickets at these being a shilling and sixpence respectively. Algar's was three hundred and twenty-three feet long by sixty wide, seventy feet of the length constituting the refreshment department, and the rest of the space being devoted to dancing, to the music of two harps, three violins, bass viol, two clarionets, and flute. According to the account preserved in Hone's 'Everyday Book,' the number of shows assembled in Smithfield this year was twenty-two, of which, one was a theatre for dramatic performances, five theatres for the various entertainments usually given in circuses, four menageries, one an exhibition of glass-blowing, one a peep-show, one a mare with seven feet, and the remaining nine, exhibitions of giants, dwarfs, albinoes, fat children, etc. Of course, the theatre was Richardson's, and the following bill was posted on the exterior, and given to every one who asked for it on entering:-- [Asterism] _Change of Performance each Day._ RICHARDSON'S THEATRE. This day will be performed, an entire new Melo-Drama, called the "WANDERING OUTLAW; or, the Hour of Retribution. "Gustavus, Elector of Saxony, _Mr. Wright_. Orsina, Baron of Holstein, _Mr. Cooper_. Ulric and Albert, Vassals to Orsina, _Messrs. Grove_ and _Moore_. St. Clair, the Wandering Outlaw, _Mr. Smith_. Rinalda, the Accusing Spirit, _Mr. Darling_. Monks, Vassals, Hunters, &c. Rosabella, Wife to the Outlaw, _Mrs. Smith_. Nuns and Ladies. "The Piece concludes with the DEATH OF ORSINA, and the Appearance of the ACCUSING SPIRIT! "_The Entertainments to conclude with a New Comic Harlequinade, with New Scenery, Tricks, Dresses, and Decorations, called_ "HARLEQUIN FAUSTUS OR, THE DEVIL WILL HAVE HIS OWN. "Luciferno, _Mr. Thomas_. Dæmon Amozor, afterwards Pantaloon, _Mr. Wilkinson_. Dæmon Ziokos, afterwards Clown, _Mr. Hayward_. Violencello Player, _Mr. Hartem_. Baker, _Mr. Thompson_. Landlord, _Mr. Wilkins_. Fisherman, _Mr. Rae_. Doctor Faustus, afterwards Harlequin, _Mr. Salter_. Adelada, afterwards Columbine, _Miss Wilmot_. Attendant Dæmons, Sprites, Fairies, Ballad Singers, Flower Girls, &c., &c. _The Pantomime will finish with_ A SPLENDID PANORAMA, _Painted by the First Artists_. Boxes, 2_s._ Pit, 1_s._ Gallery, 6 _d._"