Apropos to the transfer of the Belgian company from Covent
Garden to Drury Lane Theatre, the Times makes a strange assertion—" The cause of this removal from their former quarters, it is generally understood, is the fact that the connexion of Covant Garden with the Anti-Corn-law League was a bar to the patronage her Majesty was desirous of extending to the Brussels troupe." When next the Queen visits the City, we suggest that Ministers should advise her Majesty to go by the Holborn route; for the League have an office in Fleet Street. Or, perhaps, Pedlar's Acre would be still better, as there is the Chartist "National Hall" somewhere in Holborn. Though, again, even Pedlar's Acre might be dangerous; for who knows what "headstrong allegories " may lie in wait on the Southern banks of the Thames, seeking whom they may devour? We are loyally convinced that the Queen had better stay at home. By the by, have not League Peers and Members actually been admitted to the Palace? Minis- ters should look to that too, or we may have a Free-trade Bazaar in the very State-apartments.
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