Of the Examiner of Plays the Act made no mention: that office continued to be the creation simply of the Lord Chamberlain, and without any sort of legal status.

The old Licensing Act of 1737 was absolutely repealed; yet, unaccountably enough, Mr.Donne's appointment, bearing date 1857, and signed by the Marquis of Breadalbane, then Lord Chamberlain, began: "Whereas in consequence of an Act of Parliament, made in the tenth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Second," &c.

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The intensity of George Colman's regard for "good manners and decorum" has no doubt furnished a precedent to later Examiners.

For some time little effort was made again to apply the stage to the purposes of political satire.

Mr.Buckstone informed the Parliamentary Committee that an attempt made about 1846, to represent the House of Commons upon the stage of the Adelphi--Mr.Buckstone was to have personated the Lord John Russell of that date--had been promptly forbidden; and the late Mr.Shirley Brooks stated that a project of dramatising Mr.
Disraeli's novel of "Coningsby" had also, in regard to its political bearing, been interdicted by the Chamberlain.