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    NOTES OF THE MONTH.

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    the law relating ta the marriages of the Royal Family , altered to &uit the prejudices of George the 3 rd , by the only retrospective penal law which has disgraced our Statute-book since the accession of his family to the throne ; but this subject , and the enquiry how far the morality or happiness of the people and of their future princes are likely to be furthered by tne sacrifice of affection to policy ; be it the policy ( so cal led ) of the state or of

    individuals ; deserves more consideration than can now be given to it , and may be referred to at a future opportunity . To return , then , to the restriction of the measure to England . Ireland will probably require a more complex measure , to depend upon the introduction of the machinery of the Poor-law ; at any rate she has honest and able advocates , who will take care ghe is not neglected ; and Scotland is already before us in her

    inarriage-law , and will still be so , even if this measure is passed unnmtilated : but Wales ! why is not Wales to be included ? Are the people there so well content to hear forms of prayer and sermons read to them in a language that few of them can well understand , as not to require any alteration in the law relating to their marriages ? Or is there some difficulty in the way of which we are not aware ? It may be so , but who could forget Wales and Welshmen on the 1 st of March ? S . S .

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    Theatres . —There appears to be a dawning conviction on the port of managers—though one which is ' against their will '—that the public has become exhausted and disgusted with puppet-shows . That the prevalence of so gross a taste should have endured as long as it has , is sufficiently vexatious ; but a great good may result from it ,

    little as this was contemplated . It has familiarized the people with gaudy shows and empty pretensions set forth in tinsel and titles . Henceforth it will be very < up-hill work 1 with coronutions , illuminations , reviews , and lord-muyor ' s shows . The armour , the heralds , the peers and their horses , * with the colours of their riders / the trumpetmajors , the kettle-drums , the grooms of stools , limce-beurers ,

    goldsticks , and ushers of birch rods , wdl be vainly put to their utmost in order to make themselves appear real earnest ' after the gorgeous spectacles of the stage . He who previously shone forth as First Cockt Hat Apparent , would now look like the meanest scrub of the train . If he previously * spared no expense' to seem great , he miibt now ruin himself to look decent . We speak of him in the singular , because the people will in future decline to pay for the rirulry of the Court with the Theatre . For this , then , we should have had to thank Mr . JBunn more than anybody else , did we not know such a purpose wag the laat thing that would ever have entered his mind . For the production of the new tragedy we have scarcely to thank him , because it is pretty evident he only adopted it tie he would have done any other nov « lty % The production of a tragedy at Corent Garden wts

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1836, page 186, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2655/page/58/