24 OCTOBER 1840, Page 15

MUSIC-LICENCES.

TI1E Middlesex. Justices have this week been enacting the part of their great predecessor Midas; deciding gravely " whether Pol. or Pan shall play to us another year." Their Worships have on the whole been more liberal in their allotment of harmony than usual. Among the holders of renewed licences, Exeter Hall figures between the Strand Theatre and the Standard Theatre in the Mile-end Road. How the last-mentioned got so well through the Midas ordeal, is not quite clear; but the manner in which the Niger Expedition was got up at Exeter Hall rendered the claims of that place of' amusement irresistible. What Middlesex Justice could bid the bellows of that organ "cease to blow" which for once drowned the voice of O'CONNELL ?