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DREADFUL CRIME

... under circumstances of very sudden and dreadful nature. The case was a deliberate act of assassination in Pitt's Place, Drury Lane. The deceased being a master tradesman small way of business, and the supposed assassin a youth named Wix, his apprentice ...

Published: Wednesday 25 February 1846
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 440 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CATALOGUE OF THE ROYAL PAVILION

... correspondence of the Prince Regent with the Jockey Club, which led to his retirement, and several letters to the manager of Drury Lane Theatre, upon several matters in intimate connection with the greenroom and the national drama. Beautiful model of Virginia ...

Published: Wednesday 23 September 1846
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 711 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LETTER FROM LONDON

... pantomimes have sent the recipients of holiday riches half mad. Albert Smith and Crowquill have been doing their best at Drury Lane, where their pantomime expected to draw such crowds, that seats extra have been added to the pit, and vast quantity of extra ...

Published: Wednesday 29 December 1847
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1011 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LETTER FROM LONDON

... drains and purifying dwellings. The possibility contagion has done much. Pity that Parliament didn't second the good deed. Drury Lane glories all the magnificence of English opera, under management. To night, new piece, The Maid of Honour, will brought ...

Published: Wednesday 22 December 1847
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 942 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

JUNIPER HEDGEHOG ON THE OFFERTORY

... of Exeter —I'm cock-sure of it—has a consuming love for pantomime ; but then he wouldn't like to be seen in the boxes of Drury Lane, giving his countenance to the clown, that takes bis tithe all sorts of things that come under his nose. The Bishop of London ...

Published: Wednesday 22 January 1845
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 907 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

JENKINS ON MARRIAGE IN HIGH-LIFE

... Archbishop of York, had kindly undertaken to perform the religious portion of the ceremony. When Mr John Cooper, late of Drury Lane, but now we believe, of the Princess's, enters before the curtain, and with appealing look assures the audience that Mr ...

Published: Wednesday 13 May 1846
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1086 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WEST RIDING ELECTION

... Suicide and Attempted Murder through Destitution —On Tuesday, Mr Wakley held an inquest at the Ben Jonson, Great Wild Street, Drury Lane, upon the body of John Grainger, a blacksmith, aged 27, who committed suicide, and attempted to kill his wife and brother ...

Published: Wednesday 07 January 1846
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1751 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

England

... the extent of between nine and ten thousand pounds. His difficulties are ascribed to his attempt to bring out opera at Drury Lane. Before making himself a bankrupt, he offered his creditors £l5OO per annum out of his future professional earnings, which ...

Published: Wednesday 03 May 1848
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2421 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—THE CHARTIST TRIALS

... balls, bullets, and gunpowder found there. A police sergeant proved that he searched a lodging occupied by Ritchie, Court, Drury Lane after wasi arrested, and found 168 cartridges, four bullet-moulds, four bullets, throe combustible balls, made pitch, with ...

Published: Wednesday 04 October 1848
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2347 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

England

... respectable office of Chief Clerk in that department.— Observer. Fall in the Price of Bt.kad.—On Tuesday, the bakers of Drury Lane. Clare Market, and other places, reduced the price of the lb. loaf to s£d.— a reduction of one penny. There is some bread ...

Published: Wednesday 26 March 1845
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2665 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

England

... Discovery.—On Monday afternoon a person of the name of Neville, who resides with his aunt (having no parents) in Lincoln Court, Drury Lane, was playing with some lads near the mortar, in St. James's Park, and observed a small book, upon opening which it was found ...

Published: Wednesday 07 January 1846
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5034 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

England

... London.—Saturday week, a great reduction took place in the price of bread of the se! cond quality, which was selling in Drury Lane and its vicinity 5.Td. and Od. per four pound loaf. The general price of bread, of the second quality, GAd. per four pound ...

Published: Wednesday 27 March 1844
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4847 | Page: 3 | Tags: none