The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-18 00:00:00

MANNERS AT THE OPERA.

Our neighbours often reproach us for being
brusque and even brutal. We laugh it off, saying
that they do not understand our insular freedom,
either of speech or action,and we pride ourselves upon
understanding in the fullest sense what we term
" good breeding." I need not trouble the Owls with
a specific definition of what this is, the more so as
I purpose to narrate a pointed instance of what it is
not. On Saturday the Viceroy of Egypt made,
according public advertised
visit
His Highness with
his suite were shown into the Royal Box, which is
to Her t o
raae nj nsotu yn, s cement,theatre.
now, I believe, like most Royal boxes, the Prince
of Wales's. They had not, however, enjoyed the
music or undergone the stares of the audience for
long when a movement was made, and the Viceroy
and his suite quitted their places to make their re-
appearance in Lord Dudley's box. It appears
almost incredible, but it is nevertheless strictly true,
that a very natural mistake having been maile by
e bop
recognize. They had the box given to
en
night, and on finding the Viceroy
them
t e
t the er s, a party subsequently arrived, whom
to see o
there, instead of seeking other places, or appropri-
ating Lord Dudley's box, or going home, they actu-
ally turned his Highness out of the Royal box, and,
in violation of all politeness and hospitality, East-
ern or Western, the Viceroy of Egypt had to vacate
toAhipspaplraecnetiy at th
makeeopera wayfor some private persons.
the ordinary Englishman
and Englishwoman no longer feel bound by the
same rules as distinguish his or her conduct in so-
ciety. I have always believed that it was incon-
sistent with good manners to stare persistently and
f
to be in a box at the theatre ; but
still more I hold it to be an invariable rule at all
lengthay happ o
happen
who ora
m time at any illustrious personage
theatres that no inhabitant of a box is allowed to
crane his or her neck round the pillar, and either
look behind or before the intervening curtain at
the neighbouring occupant. Yet I, on this very
occasion, perceived most flagrant infractions of
these rules, and the unhappy object of this rude
inquisitiveness had to take refuge in the back of
the Dudley box. Icertainly will allow considerable
licence to country cousins, or very young ladies, or
gentlemen who have never been at the opera before;
but these savage and untamed people should be
careful always to have a keeper with them, in the
shape of some dowager or resident London acquaint-
ance, who may warn them when they go beyond the
bounds of legitimate curiosity, and deter them from
the habit of eating ices b
so loud that the audience are obliged to hear their
banal conversation instead of the strains of Nilsson
between the acts, or talking
or Titiens. These annoyances, however, of talking
and staring are merely evidences of bad taste and
rudeness; but the insult offered to the guest of the
Queen and the nation calls for public condemnation,
and requires specific apology. The affront offered
to his Highness was so flagrant
could have been surprised had the Viceroy imme-
diately quitted the house. Like a true gentleman,
however, he felt his own dignity to be above petty
insult, and submitted to be treated as his hosts
that no one
chose to treat him.
The occurrence can hardly
have failed to diminish his estimate of English cour-
tesy, and is likely to induce him to forbear from
giving his entertainers a second opportunity of treat-
ing him in like manner.—The Owl.

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