TICKETS FOR THE PLAY.
PUBLIC discussion is so good a thing for most purposes, that we are inclined to hope some advantage from a discussion which according to most 'rules of decorum should never have been thrust upon it—the relation of the Press to the Theatre in respect to the privilege of free admissions. The privilege has been accompanied by its drawbacks, especially of late years, since it has been abused by an inordinate extension. But the discussion of the corrective, proper enough amongst those immediately concerned, is of too paltry a nature to interest the public at large. It is not to be ex- pected, however, that those who make a livelihood by the exhibi- tion of personal antics or personal eccentricities should understand the rationale of privacy; and we are the less inclined to quarrel with the questionable taste that has converted the subject into a farce, since the public, which is unduly troubled, may learn how to get something by the intrusion. If there is any truth in the intimation that the privilege has been a subject of barter, and that criticism has been
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