The calm of aristocratic indifference that pervades the Indian Theatre
has been rudely disturbed on several occasions this season, by violent storms that have agitated its stagnant atmosphere. One of the most fu- rious broke forth lust Saturday night, and (lightened away the Queen,who
had actually conic to hear Le Nor.% di Figaro—a homage to MOZART that
it is to be lamentedishould have been su boisterously interrupted. The vulgar public, as usual when any opera of Mugs, wr's is performed, flocked in crowds ; and, it being is subscription-night, the contracted dimensions of the pit were utterly inadequate to contain the sub-
seribers, the foreigners on the free list, and the purchasers of tickets. Hundreds n ho had paid could not gain admission, and the pressure and heat of those who did aggravated their discontent, at being obliged to stand ; mid loud, long, and diseordset were the shouts and even yells of disapprobation. LAPORTE was called for ; and on his appearance was s- sailed by epithets any thing but complimentary : the audience—cr the vocal mob, rather—would not listen to him, being too much enraged to lose a moment of the brief opportunity afforded them of venting their in- dignation on the offending manager. Whether any motley was returned, we know not. Some complained that persons were admitted privately before the doors were opened ; but we have been assured that such is not the fact. Be this as it may, I.semere is greatly to blame for issuing inure tickets than the pit will hold. At a theatre like the Italian Opera, with a numerous free.list, the pit, which is a loueging. place for the box occupants, ought to be very es's:miens. Tie en. croachments of successive malingers have abridged the space one- third : had the last invasion of the stalls been steadfastly resisted at the outset, it might have been preveeted. But the audience at her Majesty's Theatre is a house divided, so far as public opinion is con- cerned : the subscribers and occasional visiters have separate interests ; end the former alone. who have little concern in the extent of accom. modation in the pit, a ull.powerful with the manager, who, so long as
he is subservient to their tel may laugh at public opinion. Porte, certainly, is not the man to pay touch respect to it ; and he take:: no pains to disguise his contempt.
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