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... pear tree give good promise of plentiful blossom throughout the county. -I1aroford TiMC. - The Queen has appointed Captain Sir John Ross, R. N. to be her Majesty's consul at Stockholm. The Queen has conferred the honour of knighthood upon Captain George Back ...

MANNERS AND AMUSEMENTS

... Lucas (who has selected Artaxresee for a libretto), Rooks, Sterndale Bennett, John Barnett, John Hullab, muddy water Smith, Lord Burghersh, Rossini, Auber, Halwy, Meyerbeer, Grattan Cook, Jolly, and M. Jollv, are all hard at work, fasting, praying, sitting ...

Published: Sunday 15 December 1839
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4445 | Page: 3 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PROVINCIAL THEATRES

... crqf1 v. Calvert.-This case was, decided in the Court of Common Pleas (Dublin). on the 10th, It was an ac- tion brought by'John William Calcraft, Esq., Lessee of the Theatre Royal, Hawkinp-street, against the defendant, formerly lessee of Abbey-street ...

LITERATURE

... October, 1781, and government at first showed some slight disposition to resist this armed body, by rejecting two or three motions brought forward on the subject by Mr. Grattan. But the ministry, under the Marquiss of Rockingham, coming in, messages were sent ...

THE MAIL AND THE THEATRE.—When we last week hinted at the cause of the enmity of the Mail to the

... young cS the man, named Jones, prom some part of Wales-we be- M ited lieve Cardigan, and we understood, whether correctly or a. maet not, that his father is a banker at Cardigan ; however, be o this as it may, it appears that he is uncommonly clever of ...