On this page

• Departments (1)
  • 
• Text (3)

  Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

  • 

    Untitled Article

  • 

    NOTES ON THE NEWSPAPERS.

  • 

    Untitled Article

• Transcript

  • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

    Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

    Untitled Article

    you will be persuaded by me , you will drop this discussion , 6 r discuss with somebody else . ' S . * Will anybody else , then , carry on the discussion ?' C . ' Cannot you carry it on by yourself , either speaking continuously , or making answer to yourself / S . ' It seems that there is nothing else to be done . But we are all of us alike concerned in pushing the inquiry , what view of this subject is the true one . I shall therefore state the

    matter according to my own notions : but if any of you should think that I concede to myself what is not correct , he ought to interrupt and refute me . What I say , I do not say from knowledge ; I am only inquiring , in common with yourselveB ; and if my opponent appears to me to say any thing just , I shall be the first to acknowledge it . If then you wish the argument to proceed , I will continue it ; if not , let us leave off , and retire /

    Gonrias assured Socrates , both in his own name and in that of the by-Btanders , that they were all anxious for the discussion to proceed . It did proceed : but the conclusion , the most interesting part of the whole dialogue , we must , though with regret , postpone to the next number .

    Untitled Article

    Notes on the Neuxpaptra . 815

    Notes On The Newspapers.

    NOTES ON THE NEWSPAPERS .

    Untitled Article

    Refusal of Music Licences . —The very moral magistracy of Middlesex and Surrey has been refusing , by wholesale , the annual applications for music licences and for dramatic performances . Among the rest , the pretty little new theatre at Kensington has fallen under their anathema , and so has that in the Strand . It was said , but has been contradicted , that the unfortunate lessee

    was driven thereby to insolvency and insanity . The most opposite excuses , the populousness or the thinness , the respectability or the poverty , of the neighbourhood , have all alike served the common purpose of prohibition . The spirit of Burns was indignant that man should be compelled to ask his brother worm for leave to work . It is a yet lower degradation to be compelled to ask him .

    for leave to play . And the lordship over relaxation is more arbitrary , capricious , and abominable , than the lordship over toil . There is thus much of reciprocity in the latter , that the laixmrer ' s exertions are necessary to the comfort of the lion-labourer ' s idle * - ness . He must be allowed to work , nay , if labour be not ftbtmdacnt in the market , he may have to be solicited , and his toil must

    be purchased at a proportionate advance of price . But there is no such reciprocity in the other case . The poor man ' s amusement does not turn to account Hke the poor man ' s toil . Hence , the selfish check is annihilated upon the insolence to which authority always tends , and the ignorance with which authority

    is often associated . Where can be the harm of allowing music at a public-tiouse ? It is folly to talk of its being a nuisance to the neighbourhood ; that objection wotikl apply to a thousand forms of social enjoyment . Almack ' s is a nuisance in the neighbmriifted . So is the Italian Opera . So is every rout and concert in the season . These are all out of season to quiet people ; but quiet

• Citation
  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1834, page 815, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2639/page/69/