The report of the Committee on Dramatic Literature (drawn up,
it is said; by Mr. E. L. Bulwer) recommends—
.1. That thelprisdiction of the Lord Chamberlain. now confined to the city and liber- ties of WestmilleteFi aud the Royal residences, shall be extended over the whole metro- polis, and a district of twenty miles round it. .2. That the Lord Chainherlain shall give his licence to all the existing Minor The- atres, u ith the exception of latch as are now open in defiance of all law. 3. That all new pieces to be performed at any theatre nil bin twenty miles of London
shall first- reci:ive the sanction of the Lord Chamberlain, through the medium of the
Examiner of Plays. 4. That the. fee now taken by law of I wo guineas for a single song, ought to be re- deceit ; but that that sum should be allowed fur any complete dra:matie rode:Ohm,
Whether of one or of live acts. 5. Thm the penalty of 501. upon every actor or persons engaged in performances at
an illegal theatre. should remain, and that it shoal:11w made more easily recoverable. .6. That the Lord Chambnlain shall have summary power to put a stop at once to the representation of plays. fix., in unlicensed theatres.
7:1 hat he have power inslantly to recal his licence, and enforce its rend, in case of disobedience to his orders respeeting the performance of any dramatic entertainment: that has not previously received the proper sanction.
8: That the grant of a licence by the Lord Chamberlain for any new theatre, not now open. shonlitbe made to depend upon the representation of the majority of the respect- able inhabitants of the district that such a place of amasement is wanted. 9. That more interest he given to dramatic writers in their omits, by imposing a penalty upon any manager in London, or in the country, who acts a play without leave of the writer.
• It is with feelings of deep regret that we have to announce the death of Mr. Coulthurst, the African traveller—another victim, added to the long and melancholy catalogue of men of spirit and talent who have fallen a sacrifice to their enthusiasm on the subject of African discovery. Mr. Coulthurst had, it appears, made a fortnight's journey from the old Calabar river into the interior, when, for reasons unknown at present, he returned to that place, and embarked on board the Agnes, a Liver- pool vessel bound for Fernando Po. It was during this voyage that this intelligent and amiable man breathed his last, on the 15th April.— Alhenceum.
THE CANTERBURY Frubr.,-It is much to be regretted, that in a place where there are so large a number of resident clergy as in Can- terbury, so little should have apparently been done to civilize the lower classes ; who in their late attack upon the mild and venerable Arch- bishop, seem to have acted more like savages than men.—Morning He- lady's principles correctly, they are strictly Epicurean. She contends, that man..
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