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Brighton, should for their respective talents have been presented each with a 

 silver snuff-box. Whether or not the former has exhibited tragic qualifications 

 that would entitle him to a penny subscription before the scenes, we think ex- 

 ceedingly doubtful : certainly the laughter of the clown has great influence 

 in extricating the half-pence. Mr. Price would perhaps have a better chance 

 than his brother of the doleful countenance on the audience side of the curtain. 

 We understand that the Carlton Club are sadly in the dumps at present. It 

 is scarcely necessary to say that the services of a late member for Oxford city 

 and an eminent conservative might be eminently useful if employed in broad 

 farce, undress a la John Reeve towards restoring the dilapidated fortunes 

 of that unfortunate society, especially if he were allowed to present the hat 

 for the half-pence. 



ARISTOCBATICAL AMUSEMENTS. Before the publication of our last number, 

 we noticed in the daily journals a police account affecting very materially 

 the character of an aristocratical soi-disant Mr. Smith. We would not generally 

 interfere with the pleasures of the aristocracy, any more than we should wish 

 them to interfere with our own ; but when those pleasures disturb the general 

 order of society and outrage public decency, it is not inconsistent with our 

 duty as moral censors to interfere. We are not disposed, besides, to be over- 

 particular on these subjects, so long as persons confine their failings or crimes 

 to their own caste or the defendants of their own castes. A minister of state 

 may have his amatory propensities attracting him toward Brompton, 

 another public functionary may be magnetically drawn towards Story's gate 

 by the " flowers of modern literature," a certain Irish Marquis may be fond of 

 frequenting well-known flash houses, and taking the place of his own jockey 

 on his race-horses, an ex-lord-chancellor may be oblivious of the seventh 

 commandment, the second Law Lord in the kingdom may be addicted to 

 certain melancholic emotions that cause his eyes to leer downwards into the 

 Lady's maid's rooms in Grosvenor Square and Cheltenham : with these and 

 other amusements, we would not in common charity interfere. But when 

 these insolent aristocrats, negligent of the facilities that the grisettes of their 

 female companions furnish to their animal propensities, are so far regardless 

 of common decency as to insult and expose respectable females in the public 

 streets, we say: FOR SHAME. To the magistrates also who allowed these 

 miscreants to escape, we repeat the cry : FOR SHAME. T. P. 



THE NEW THEATRICAL CENSOR. The author of the "Broadgrins ;" the per- 

 petrator of immoralities, and the censor of morals, is now no more. To him 

 has succeeded another censor, no less a person than the redoubtable Charles 

 Kemble, the last of the school of dramatic formalism. With his talents as an 

 actor we would not willingly interfere any further than to say that of all his 

 attempts at tragedy none ever rose above the namby-pamby, while his comedy 

 parts are worthy of the highest admiration on account of their spirit and bril- 

 liancy. His qualifications as a dramatic censor are rather questionable, if at 

 least he be disposed to measure the abilities of the candidates by the very 

 mediocre talents of his own family considered as authors. It is true, how- 

 ever, that he has had some experience as a manager, a bitter experience, we 

 think, that rendered a temporary banishment expedient, if not necessary. 

 How many more deserving actors will envy the younger Kemble his honour- 

 able and pensioned retirement. Oh, for the honour of our degraded English 

 drama! E. K. 



IMPORTANCE OF THE KING'S HOUNDS. The papers of a very late date tell 

 us that a certain ex- page of our gracious Queen, who was amusing himself in 

 the Park, inflicted a severe horsewhipping on a woodsman who threw a stone 

 at one of the hounds in his noble company. It is not possible wholly to ex- 

 culpate the woodsman : but we cannot avoid expressing our strongest indig- 

 nation at the conduct of this court-minion, who considers the feelings of a mere 

 dog as of minor importance to the personal liberties and privileges of a British 

 subject. Will her majesty retain a secretary so publicly disgraced by a verdict 



