... sight is destroyed, and life even is despaired of. * American, has been performing the feat of walking across the ceiling,” Drury-lane. His feet are encased in an apparatus resembling white dishes. The Rot. Mr. Crawley and Her. Mr. Rooke, both of Leeds, and ...

... unopened, and that even some of them in this state had coronets on the seal. He remarked to Mr. Westley, the treasurer of Drury Lane, who was also waiting in the room, that Sheridan apparently treated all alike, —wafer or coronet, pauper or peer, the letters ...

... barrenness of noble feeling. Sheridan is reported to have once fallen into a coal-cellar «a his way home, after a good supper Drury-lane; and his abuse of the vendor, for not keeping a hght at his cellar door, was warmly retorted by the wife. Sheridan, who ...

... V. Brooke in America, end the enthusiasm with which was nightly received during prolonged engagement the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, have stamped him as the most popular Tragedian of the day. He trill appear on Friday in the character OTHELLO, And Satudray ...

... days was a great favourite in Bolton, and who, after a sojourn in (he western world, has been electrifying the audiences of Drury-lane, is now in this town, having been engaged by Mr E. Falconer to perform here twice—last night and to-night. The theatre last ...

... barbers, of whom the old ballad says Did you ever hear the like, Or ever hear the same, Of five women barbers, That lived in Drury lane ? On asking an American why his countrymen generally wore so much hair ? he replied, Why, if we should happen to tell a ...

... till that can be done, temporary pecuniary assistance. The subscriptions are already liberally coming in. The proprietor of Drury-lane theatre gives a free benefit at that establishment under distinguished patronage, in aid of the fund, and has placed the ...

... Howell*croft THE AMERICAN CIRCUS. Hernandez, stone, and newsome s AMERICAN EQUESTRIAN ESTABLISHMENT, (from the Theatre Roval, Drury-lane, London), and Portable Elegant AMPHITHEATRE, with their powerlul and talented AMERICAN TROUPE and Stud of FIFTY HORSES will ...

... every part of England give the most favourable accounts the appearance of the crops. The heat is so intense in London that Drury lane Theatre has, in consequence, been closed till further notice. On Tuesday two bulky parliamentary volumes were published ...

... and General Steam Navigation Company. —Tho following has been received the secretary to the Mathew Fund Committee:—“ 4, Drury-lane, Liverpool, 20th July, 1H54. Sir, —We duly received your note of tho 17th July. We have laid the same before tho directors ...

... second or third. On Sunday morning, between two and three o’clock, fire broke out in the premises of Mr. MiUom, hatter, in Drury-lane, London, which rapidly extended to other shops and dwellings. The lives of about 50 persons who were sleeping on the premises ...

... wanted it.—Mr. Hall: How did you spend all this money then—at penny theatres, I suppose? Witness; Oh, no; at Astley’s and Drury-lane. I laid some of it out in clothes, and forth.—Mr. Burnaby : And didn’t you buy a horse? Witness: I bought a pony Smithfield ...