The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-02 00:00:00

THI POLICE MAGISTRATE.

On September Ist, never before publisbe.i, price 5i.,
RECOLLECTIONS of an IRISH POLICE
MAGISTRATE. Edited by his 60n in-Lan ADDOIOII
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of
tinted Major yokes, Chief Police flagistrate of flimsier, his
snrprining pursuit of '• Whiteboys," Terry AIL.," and Peep-
ollay Heys." and his marvellous mcapes horn all hiuda of plots
to entrap and saimaduatn him.
Loudon: Ward and L'ek, 158. Pleetutmet.

OPENING OF THE THEATRES IN HOLY *BRIE

a compliance with the resolution of a special
meeting of the council of the English Church Union, the
following letter has been aderewed by the president to her
Majesty's Lord Chamberlain, respecting the restoration, in
his lordship's licences to the Loudon theatres, of the pro-
hibition against their being open in Holy Week :
Ll, Borleighatreet, Strand, W.C., August 27, 1862.
"My Lord,-1 have been requested by the council of the
English Church Union to cell your lordship's attention to
the imestioe of opening the metropolitan theatres in Holy
Week, which from tune immemorial, with the exception of
this year, bad invariably been closed.
" Yoar lordship will, doubtless, recollect that you stated
to the deputation that had the honour of waiting upon your
lordship last spring the impossibility of acceding to the
memorial they presented to you, on account of the fiancee
having been then already granted ; but that you would take
the matter into cousideintion before the annual period
should recur for re-issuing the licences.
"As that period is now approaching your lordship will
pardon the liberty I take in recalling these circumstances to
your recollection.

" That a very strong feeling exists amongst all church-
men with respect to the opening of the theatres in the
Holy Week fur the first time this year is a fact which I
think your lordship will not dispute. The large and emi-
nently respectable deputation above referred to, consisting
as it did of many members of both houses of parliament, as
well as of a large number of the clergy and laity, was un-
questionably a proof of that fact.
.."This feeliog, too, of universal reverence and respect for
that great sod holy week must be evident to your lordship,
from the circumstance that, in moat of the great provincial
towns of this country, the theatres have always been closed
during that sacred season.

"I; the opinion of the council of :this union it would
be a serious blow to religion to do violence to the feeling of
reverence for this time-honoured sad pious custom ; and,
moreover, it would in their opinion be extremely detri-
mental to the religious condition of the people if her Ma-
jesty, by your lordship's mesas, should even appear to
MDCLOO an alteration that could not be otherwise than ex-
preselve of contemptuous indifference to the just authority
of the church, which from the earliest ages Ms set apart
this week, end regarded it as super-eminently holy and se-
parate from all other weeks iu the year, for the purpose of
religiously manneroorating the Passion and Death of our
LOy.d2emus Christ.

council, is °malodor, desire me to express to your
lordship their hope that, in the re-tone of the usual homes
to the managers et the metropolitan theatres, your lordship
will re-insert the ancient clause prohibiting the theatres
under your lordship's jurisdiction from being opened during
the ►loly Week.—l have the honour to be, your lord-
ship's obedient servant, " Court L1141.113AY,
" President of the English Church Claim.
" The Right Hon. the Lord Chamberlain, Re."

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