Star.
London, England, 1829-09-22 00:00:00

THE 31 us r co.

It is with infinite satisfaction we perceive the great Morning
Newspaper at last advocating the necessity of reforming the !leen-
tiousneu of our Theatres, so long become the public rendezvous
and parade of all that is meretricious and depraved in vice—to the
disgrace of our police; and our degradation as a moral and literary
people.

While it is in contemplation to sweep from our streets the tur-
bulent hordes of infamous prostitutes that infest them. let autho-
rky do more—drive from the House of Genius, the favourite
haunt of the intellectual, that source of cheerful recreation to
the fatigued mind, the temple of Shakspeare and the Muses, the
brutal and impure rabble who have become, through the guilty
encouragement of Managers, the almost exclusive frequenters of
Its walls. Let us compel the Proprietors of our Theatres, who
have so lung conspired against the public manners, to shut up the
horrid Musicos, in order that our wives and daughters may awe
revisit the Theatre of our national drama :—in no other country
is such congregated infamy tolerated : the loungers of the Palais
Royal would shriek in disgust from the picture of an English
Play-house lobby,—that assembly-place of tawdry wanton-
ness and drunken uproar. The existence of these marts of
vice is exposing our national character to the reprobation
and contempt of every foreigner visiting this capital.
Managers have replied. when we have pressed this measure,
personally, that they had no authority to interfere, and that the
exclu.ion of dissolute females from their lobbies would ruin the
finance of their Theatres : to which we now repeat, that we have
as much right to see public decency maintained in the sa-
loons, lobbies, staircase., boxes, and pit of a place, as in the
streets that surround it, where it is imposed on watchmen
and street-keepers to disperse the improper and disorderly when
othering together. In the II open to the public, men
are 'oiled to preserve decorum. No gentleman is there per-
mitted to make up to females ;—the " femme perdue" may visit
them, but while she remains there she must conduct herself with
the strictest propriety, as the smallest misbehaviour would, that
instant, subject her to the humiliation of being turned out.-
-Why could we nut also station proper guardians in the various
passages of the theatre to preserve decorum? and what necessity
have we for a harem attached to every London play-house? As to
the loss of guilty gain, which the exclusion of halt-naked prostitutes
encouraged to decoy the debauched world, entails upon the finance
of Messrs. Pi ice, Keinble,Ellistota, and others,—wh at is that to us ?
and why should they be ye:mitts:a more thsn ethers to keep dis-
orderly houses? Reduce the price of admission, introduce decent
order with the audience ;—and the respectable public of this great
Capital will once more flock to the theatre.

PHILOSOPHY.

0 ! Mistress mine, of the auburn locks,
And thoughtful eye ;
Tell me what you ate thiaking of
So patiently.
Sitting here with your shoulders bare,
And youi elbows out ;
Negligent maiden, tell me true,
What do you dream about ?

What book have you been pondering on—
An old or a youthful saga?
The lore of a past antiquity,
Or the lore of a present age?
Plato or Locke? my pretty dear;
Zeno or Browne ?
That in such a sober reverie,
You lay it down.

0! quit your books, my beautiful maid ;
0! quit your books, I pray;
Far really you've work enough to do
In mending your robe to-day.
It is sadly torn—don't see it Is?
It is hanging about in is ;
So quit your heavenly dreams. my dear.
And attend to earthly matters!

BRIGHTON, Sept. 20.

The Marchioness of Downshire, Baroness Sandvs, Lady
Mary Hill, the Countess of Aldborougb, and Mrs. Fitzberbert,
continue to add to the importance of the Royal York Hotel.
The Prince Jean de Soresina Vidoni, Brigadier de la Garde
Noble, de Chambellan Actuel de S. M. I. IL A. arrived at the
York Hotel on Friday.
Mrs. Fitzberbert, who dined with the 31archioness of Down-
shire to-day, entertains another select dinner and evening party at
the York Hotel to-morrow.
The remains of the Earl of Harrington were removed from the
Marine Parade yesterday, for interment in the family vault in
Derbyshire.
Captain Stanhope is at the Albion Hotel ; the lion. General
Upton and Mr. Brooke Greville are remaining there.
The Hon. Mr. Howard and Mr. Tollemache are with the de-
partures from the Royal York. Lady Louisa Lyon is arrived.
Lady Mary Taylor is arrived. Lord and Lady John Town-
send continue at their King's-road Mansion ; his Lordship's health
k improving.
Count Munster is with us. Mr. Crewe is in the departure list.
The lion. Gen. Upton, and Mr. Brooke Greville, are remaining
at the Albion.
:dies Cuff, and the Hon. Miss Crofton, arrived at the Royal
York yesterday they were landed, after a turbulent passage of 14
hours, from Dieppe, at the Chain Pier.
Earl Dudley is slightly indisposed at the Marine Hotel His
Lordship has engaged the residence No. 21, Marine Parade, for
an indefinite term, commencing front the Ist of October. This
looks as if his Lordship purposed passing the winter with us.
Lady and Miss Blaney, who laud arrived at the Ohl Ship front
Eastbourne. have left us for Southampton.
The" Wandering Troubadour," ur " Mysterious Minstrel," is
again mystifying to " raise the wind" with us. lie gains access to
the Steyne Library, and receives the eleemosynary offerings there
without a blush.