“GRAND OPERA HOUSE.--The management has the honor to announce that in deference to public opinion ’The Passion’ will no longer be presented.” CONSTITUENTS OF MORSE’S PLAY. There is nothing in Morse’s play that could exert an immoral influence. There is no irreverence in either its spirit or its incidents. It is merely a goody-goody, tiresome composition, full of moral twaddle, and consisting in about equal degree of platitude and bombast. It purports to be written in blank verse, but it is, in fact, written in nondescript lines of unequal length, halting, irregular, formless, weak, and diffuse. Choruses of rhymed doggerel occur in it, at intervals, sometimes uttered by women, sometimes,--on the contrary,--by angels. Stress is laid on the efforts of _Pontius Pilate_ to save _Jesus_ from the fury of the mob. There is a succession of pictures. In the Temple of Jerusalem many females appear, carrying babes, and a ferocious _Jew_, essaying to kill the infant _Jesus_, falls back astounded and overwhelmed by the aspect of the sacred infant. Later, _Joseph_, _Mary_, and the _Holy Child_ are shown environed and protected by a branching sycamore tree, while, in the mountains all around them, many shrieking women and children are slaughtered by ruffianly soldiers. In a sequent picture _King Herod_, uttering a multiplicity of aphorisms, wrangles with his wife, _Herodias_, and the seductive _Salomé_ dances before them and wins for her mother the head of her enemy, _John the Baptist_, which pleasing trophy, wrapped in a napkin, is brought in on a tray. _Jesus_ and his disciples are then shown at the brook of Kedron. The agony of _Jesus_ in the Garden of Gethsemane is depicted and the betrayal by _Judas_, the latter scene being double, to show, on one side, a lighted room in which is reproduced a semblance of “The Last Supper” according to the admired picture by Leonardo da Vinci, and on the other a gloomy range of plains and hills dimly lighted by the stars. In this scene passages from the New Testament are incorporated into Morse’s play, in the part of _Jesus_. The arraignment of _Jesus_ before _Pilate_ follows, including the wrangle between the furious people and that clement magistrate, and ending with the investiture of _Jesus_ with the Crown of Thorns. The final picture shows Golgotha, under a midnight sky, and the removal of the dead body from the Cross. AS TO PROPRIETY.