I hope I have said quite enough, and am your "WELL-WISHER." "R.W.

Elliston, Esq." No doubt some reform followed upon this urgent complaint.
Regulations as to dress are peculiar to our Italian opera-houses, are unknown, as Mr.Sutherland Edwards writes in his "History of the Opera," "even in St.Petersburg and Moscow, where, as the theatres are directed by the Imperial Government, one might expect to find a more despotic code of laws in force than in a country like England.

When an Englishman goes to a morning or evening concert, he does not present himself in the attire of a scavenger, and there is no reason for supposing that he would appear in any unbecoming garb if liberty of dress were permitted to him at the opera....

If the check-takers are empowered to inspect and decide as to the propriety of the cut and colour of clothes, why should they not also be allowed to examine the texture?
On the same principle, too, the cleanliness of opera-goers ought to be inquired into.

No one whose hair is not properly brushed should be permitted to enter the stalls, and visitors to the pit should be compelled to show their nails." There have been, from time to time, protests, unavailing however, against the tyranny of the opera-managers.