27 JANUARY 1849, Page 9

At the Olympic, an attempt has been made to amuse

the audience by dressing all the female supernumeraries of the company in brigand dresses. The expedient of exhibiting a bevy of young ladies in picturesque male at- tire, is adopted somewhere or other about three or four times every year; witness the various troops of feminine soldiers, sailors, Highlanders, &c. &a. The only novelty about Brigands in the Bud, as it is called, lies in the cir- cumstance that it is the very poorest piece of its numerous class. The dulness of the Brigand Captain is sufficient even to damp the vivacity of Mrs. Stirling, whom Fate dooms to represent the insipid outlaw.