the application of a little soap all pretty much of one colour hats coats c g are all fastened to the railing along the whole front of the upper gallery then there are the gods the name by which they have always been called since delivered one of his celebrated in which when that portion of the audience in the immediate neighbourhood of the ceiling he exclaimed and you ye gods to merit never a fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind a very large proportion of the on such of chimney sweep who are by far their limited means the most liberal of the drama a considerable number of their are always to be seen in the front seats where their black oddly contrast with their and the of their eyes which are displayed to great advantage on such occasions there is also a fair of on box night who are sure to be seen sitting cheek by with the youthful knights of the brush a large number of those who people the upper regions of the house appear in their shirt their coats are the heat of the place has become others are swearing and fighting while cries of turn him out turn him out order order p silence there your ears from all quarters it were impossible indeed to witness a more scene than that in exhibited on such occasions the unlimited play which the give their lungs on these nights often in act has the effect of entirely drowning the voices of the actors on the stage the truth is that they claim a right to be as noisy as they please on box night and all efforts to preserve order would be perfectly useless has the reader ever seen a piece on its first production condemned or to use theatrical damned � in any of the larger no one who has not witnessed such a scene can form any idea of it the audience on such occasions are in a perfect mr o even when in his most violent and most forcible moods never produced so much agitation in any assemblage of the finest in the world as is exhibited in lane or garden when a new piece is the process of utter tion the great majority of the audience seem the iti the matter a feel as i� some insult bad been d tb in by tbe of an or the scarcely less unfortunate of the theatre they will in cases rise from their seats and express their indignation not only loud groans c but by the most violent gestures but perhaps a better idea of a scene of this kind will be afforded by the following account of a particular one which was exhibited last season at garden and which i up immediately its occurrence the piece was called the fortune of war a national military drama what the incidents were it would have been impossible under any circumstances from the of the piece to discover but that impossibility if there be not an in the expression was rendered still more impossible from tbe manner in which it was received it is questionable if ever an or any other drama was more damned the first act � it was in two acts � had not proceeded far wh i symptoms of the coming of began to manifest themselves the audience in different parts of the house commenced the scene by faint in a few minutes afterwards the with which the leading the by the way the of the piece were in one of the scenes called forth a burst of fi m all parts of e house a more awkward than the troops was never exhibited either on the stage or on the none of them seemed capable of making a single tolerable movement at one time were all mingled together french and english in glorious at another they all rushed some in one direction and some in another off the stage without any reason which the au could perceive for their sudden exit for the next minute or two the stage was entirely deserted neither frenchman nor englishman nor any other was to be seen or heard the audience � and really it was no wonder � now began to lose all patience and cries of � off off from all parts of the house if these cries were loud and more general in one part than another it w in the second and third of boxes the uproar had by this time become so great and general that not one word of what was said on the stage with one or two occasional exceptions was heard the first act however was eventually brought to a close without the audience an absolute int to the piece but the second had no sooner m the theatres than the yet more stupid and clumsy of the troops � all of the actors on one occasion appeared as soldiers � raised the indignation of the audience to so high a pitch that the cries of this is an insult to us � give us back our money and � return us our tin off off r c became so loud and general that it was found impossible to proceed with the piece in the midst of the uproar and confusion mr the stage manager came forward to address the audience but he was for some time assailed with such a of and that his efforts to make himself heard were altogether ineffectual cries of hear him hear him at last proceeded from several parts of the which had the effect of partially restoring order mr then commenced thus � ladies and gentlemen i most respectfully appeal to the liberal part of the audience � here mr s voice was drowned amidst the storm of which again proceeded from the galleries and the pit � i have every reason to think that � renewed uproar which prevented 