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THE BAINES CRUSADE AGAINST EDUCATION

... calculating children. Jedediah Buxton counted his steps from York up to London, and the words of a play to which he was taken at Drury-lane, besides reckoning in a minute the moments since the creation, the cubic inches in the globe, and many other equally inter- ...

Published: Saturday 17 April 1847
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1328 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES

... Criminal Court, on Thursday week, John Graham, aged 1G, clerk to a solicitor, was tried for shooting at Thomas. Blewitt, in Drury-lane, and causilng his death. The evidence went to show that the discharge of the pistol was, accidental, The jury, after being ...

Published: Saturday 27 June 1846
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2799 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

DOMESTIC

... a national reproach among the well-informed of other countries. This cause of complaint will not be suffered to exist in Drury-lane theatre. Arrangements will be made and regulations enforced, not only to secure the respectable frequenters of the theatre ...

Published: Saturday 13 November 1841
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1683 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

A FEW OLD FAVOURITES

... Machin is a native of Birmingham, and is about 38 years of age. Ile came before tihe public at the Covent-gar. den and Drury-lane Oratorios in 1828, vslsore his voice and style of singing Handel's music gained him much applause.- He was originally a ...

Published: Saturday 03 October 1840
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1613 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

INTERESTING EXTRACTS FROM NEW WORKS

... laconic reply.- I have heard a bon moet of his grace the Duke of WVellington, says Bimn, very applicable to his visit to Drury-lane. A nobleman ventured, in a moment of conviviality, at his grace's table, to put this question to him ?? Allowv me to ask ...

Published: Saturday 11 July 1840
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3233 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

CELEBRATION OF GUILDS FROM 1662 TO 1782

... this solemnity, there were exhibited (in the old theatre, in Fishergate, under the direction of the said Mr. Yates, from Drury-lane) various performances on the Black wire, by a celebrated equilibrist; ballancing, dancing, musical glasses, singing, pantomime ...

Published: Saturday 09 July 1842
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1800 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

GLEANINGS

... attention blew up all of a sudden, giving him more than he bargained for. The young 'un was astonished. A shopkeeper in Drury-lane informs the public, through the medium of an enormous placard over his door, that lie .has 20,000 pair of shoes for the ...

Published: Saturday 13 June 1846
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2051 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Domestic Miscellany

... last week, to numerous aud respectable congregations. A LosiNG CoNcettN.-On balancing the accounts of the late season at Drury-lane Theatre, the management finds itself loser to the amouant of nearly 4,0001.-Norning Herald. IJS eTRESS IN IRELAND.-Thb Rev ...

Published: Saturday 02 July 1831
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2026 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... V~rfirst appearance. n LAr ADanrY-LXNE TnEATrE.-After a great Of caxing and coercion, Jenny Lind arrived safely ?? s of Drury-lane Theatre, on the evening of °Dterday Reek, to the great delight of the manager, who been under serious apprehensions that ...

Published: Saturday 10 April 1847
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6321 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Table Talk

... Apritl t'o] is the date of the first play-bill that i. t' d frett Drury.lane Theatre. The followingi' celY - By his Mtijesty his compatiy of cr dialtsh at the Newv Theatre, in Drury-lane .itt 'Jay, bttt', Thursday, April 8S, 1663, will b, Kte l a ce;t ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1832
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4181 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... company attached to the Theatre Historique, Paris, 1who have made' public their intended appearance at the Theatre Royal Drury-lane, in a few days. They promise -giving 26 representations, at the rate of three nights per 1week, and the celebrated novelist ...

Published: Saturday 10 June 1848
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2090 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

THE LATE FIRE AT THE HOUSE OF LORDS, &c

... and Shuter left the house about five o'clock. A Mr.lCooper, of the firm of Cooper, Hall, and Co., stove manufacturers, of Drury-lane, London, having de.' posed before the privy council that he heard of the fire' vhen at Dudley, in Worcestershire,; a distance- ...

Published: Saturday 01 November 1834
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2067 | Page: 2 | Tags: News