The appearance at a minor theatre of ALICE LOWE, the
young woman who lately figured at the Old Bailey, is a scandalous indecency, that one is surprised to find tolerated by any portion of the public. The stage must be degraded indeed when the road to it lies through the felon's dock. Yet this is only a more gross and glaring extension of the practice of pandering to depraved curiosity, by engaging actresses whose claims to admiration rest as much on the attraction of self-ex- hibition as on their histrionic talent, and whose demands are regulated by the number of titled libertines they can draw to the theatre. Poor GRACE DARLING was insulted by a similar offer from a minor manager : but the heroic sea-maiden was of a different mould. The public are to blame who suffer these things without encouragement they would not be done.
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