Alpine winds, "Hear, oh ye mountains, the
Lord's controversy!" Still, their gulfs of thawless ice, and unretarded
roar of tormented waves, and deathful falls of fruitless waste, and
unredeemed decay, must be the image of the souls of those who have
chosen the darkness, and whose cry shall be to the mountains to fall on
them, and to the hills to cover them; and still, to the end of time, the
clear waters of the unfailing springs, and the white pasture-lilies in
their clothed multitude, and the abiding of the burning peaks in their
nearness to the opened heaven, shall be the types, and the blessings, of
those who have chosen light, and of whom it is written, "The mountains
shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, righteousness."

FOOTNOTES

[101] As I was correcting this sheet for press, the morning paper
containing the account of the burning of Covent Garden theatre
furnished the following financial statements, bearing somewhat on
the matter in hand; namely,

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That the interior fittings of the theatre, in 1846, cost 40,000

That it was opened on the 6th of April, 1847; and }
that in 1848 the loss upon it was } 34,756
in 1849 " " 25,455
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100,211
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And that in one year the vocal department cost 33,349
the ballet " " 8,105
the orchestra " " 10,048
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51,502
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Mr. Albano afterwards corrected this statement, substituting 27,000
for 40,000: and perhaps the other sums may also have been
exaggerated, but I leave the reader to consider what an annual
expenditure of from 30,000_l._ to 50,000_l._ might effect in
practical idealism in general, whether in Swiss valleys or
elsewhere. I am not one of those who regard all theatrical
entertainment as wrong or harmful. I