"SPEAKING BY THE CARD" (OF ADMISSION.)—The Brighton cor- respondent of
the Chronicle says that Mr. RUSSELL, the manager of the theatre at Brighton, announced a masquerade . . . " with a laudable anxiety to cater for the taste and amusement of all ranks and denominations of persons."
What sublime disinterestedness! what purely benevolent manage- ment !—what a beautiful practical example of the Greatest Happiness principle. His anxiety was to cater for amusement, not to pocket admission-money. The same authority says- " The drawing up of the scene also discovered many members of the corps dramatique, who had assumed characters for the masquerade, together with a number of amateurs who had shaken off the yoke of business, the frivolity of loose pleasures, or the retirement of domesticity, to mingle with the gay throng." Oh, Momus ! imagine folks shaking off the frivolities of loose plea sures to attend a masquerade !
Previous page
