THE LENT ORATORIOS.
WE rejoice to say that the barbarous and indecent exhibition vihich we denounced last week is at an end ; and the Scriptures will no longer be permitted to furnish subjects for the stage. The Tunes has fought the battle for profaneness and bad taste with singular pertinacity; and, as usual with the advocates of a bad cause, attempted to justify one violation of propriety by another. Because it has been allowed without check or comment to perform a tasteless jumble of sacred and profane music at former misnamed Oratorios, under the hypocritical pretence of observing the holy days of Lent, the late projected outrage on religion was to be sanctioned. We are not prepared to say that the climax of inde- cency had been reached : we believe not. We have beard that other and more revolting exhibitions of a similar kind were in contemplation; but enough, and too much, had been done. It was high time for those who had the power to interfere, and pro- scribe all such entertainments. We have heard that to the good sense of the King this decision is owing ; and that, in answer to an application urged upon him from a certain high quarter, he re- plied, "I will not suffer the moral and religious feelings of my people to be outraged by these exhibitions, or any others of the kind." A severe and fit rebuke to those individuals under whose sanction they had been permitted.
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