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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2709, 23 October 1871, Page 3

Tiik well established axiom that “circumstances alter cases,” has recently been curiously illustrated in England. While the respectable portion of our British cousins hold up 'their hands in holy horror at the improprieties with which Paris has flooded the Loudon stages, they quietly tolerate a far more indecent exhibition ip broad daylight. We allude to the famous Lady Clodiva procession at Coventry, where, as the yearly anniversary comes around, a young woman rides through the town, in the nearest approach allowable to the nudity of the wife of Earl Leobric. That there is no difficulty in obtaining young women to represent the character is shown by the fact that this year there were rivals for the honor. An English paper says : —-“So equitable are our laws, and so gloriously impartial as to the abstract morality or immorality of any claim which may come before them on its purely technical merit, that the court of common picas has been occupied in deciding the compensation due to the Lady Godiva, for not allowing her to ride through Coventry, " 'A specrdatorhad engaged a person not too careful of appearance to act the Saxon heroine iu

the fresco manner stated. By some misunderstanding or other another woman was subsequently encaged and seat through the business. The first Godiva claimed damages for the broken contract, aud the jury found for her-damages, fifteen pounds eighteen shillings. Who, after this, will complain of the Puritan spirit in England ?”

Princess Theatre.—There was a comfortably filled house on Saturday evening to witness the representation of “Jessie Brown, or the Relief of Lucknow.” This sensational drama, which possesses some good incidents, was well received. The, afterpiece was the “Lady and the Devil,” which caused a good deal of merriment to the house. The pieces for this evening are “ Kind to a Fault” and “ Jessie Brown, and we have no doubt so excellent a programme will draw a crowded bouse.