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FASHIONS FOR FEBRUARY

... FAHiiU2sb 'r un riMlIuavII. S1 (rFeorn Lt F6lcI.) Y. Aniong the mnany pretty toilettes that have appcalred i Iy*(Ilirin-i this weck at the fashionable sobraecs, our attention p1 h as been particularly attracted by a coiffiue equally novel tc IS and dtiojnqee. It was composed of three brow - velvet ai of bands crossing over the head. These were sprinkled with Iv T- small diamond stars, and ...

THE EXHIBITION OF 1851

... THE EXHIBITION OF ISSL VISITING THE BmULDIN.-The Commissioners have de- aided, in order to prepare for the reception of foreign goods in the ensuing week, that the public must be altogether ex- eluded from visiting the building after the 3rd of February. AlDrMnsSOze PRICE To THE Exnmsnon.o-Mr. Paxton, the architect, has written a letter'to Lord John Russell, sug- gesting the propriety of ...

AMUSEMENTS IN BIRMINGHAM

... AMUTSEM1ENTS IN BIZRMINGHAM. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) THEATRE ROYAL.-(Manager, Mr. H. Simpson.)- The chiet attraction at this establishment is the Panto- mime, which has been most creditably put upon the boards, and continues a most successful career in the public estimation. The plays performed during tbe past week have been Richard the Third, on Monday night; Dibdin Pitt's domestic ...

Published: Sunday 02 February 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 807 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... PUameIl ANUSEME.NTS THE&TI'RM ROYAL, DRURY LANE. LaEsEVEAND VMANAGElf, Mat. JAMBO .ANDEmaaott. The original cemedy, entitled The 0old Love and the New, havingf received the inarnmous=apoa of an overflowing and delighted audience, and been pronoueeth most ebonming comeady'of modern timnes. will be repitated every evaidu ., wi.. l-fre be o MoanitOW, Tueesday, nad We neeay.i perfre her M ...

Literary Extracts

... ? A.IterarR 3EXtracto. - Is E ?? the many tests applied L for the discovery of' witoheraft was the: following. it is', I, 10 believe, a sindular instance, and but li-ttle known to. the :11 .public. It was resorted to as recently as 1709, and may be In found' in the Gentlemari's Margazine of that.year:- One~ al Susanualh lHannokes, an elderly Iwoman of Witngrove, near IVY Aylesb bury, was ...

THEATRICALS AT WINDSOR CASTLE

... j THEATRXOAliS AT WINDSOR CASTLE. I. - The Queen gave a dramatic representation on Friday evening at Windsor Castle. About eight o'clock her Ma- jesty the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, with their Royal Highnesses ?? of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and the Princess Helena entered the temporary theatre, in which the per- formance took place, ...

Published: Sunday 02 February 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 319 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... ZUT~EATVI3E. 'ENGLANI AS IT IS: PoliticA.eSocialsald-IIdustrial, in the Middle of the Nineteenth jentury. By W. John. ston, Esq., Barrister-:at.law. MNsrra., Albemarle-street. -Mr. Jishnatoa, in the work before us, tas not.iuc. ceeded in tholding the mirror up to nature; and we 9snnot consent to allow that he reallytbows us a picture bf Sileno as it is. He has imbibed a ?? notion of the ...

AN ORPHAN'S PRAYER

... AN ORPHAN'S PRAYBR. w.wnI AN ORHAN Dr List, ohl, li4t ! to My humble prayer! 'Tis pity alone I crave Oh ' sever the bonds of a sinful suare, And a helpless orphan save. No father or mother, alas h Iave I No earthly friends I own; In a prison's ?? Cell I lie, And all illy ?? are flown. LiIt, oh, list ! to a penitent, Who fainl wvould honest be To earn hiq living he'd be content, If ?? fromu ...

THE GREAT EXHIBITION

... I -.?Ii I M. - ? 11 I A MN! E-0 EA. rl IBITION. TH . ?0, - r .- . ?t ? I ?? being, the l.t day. upon ?? general psl~loc ould obtain admission to the building in Hyde-park I by the paymnent ofa each, it was visited -by several thou- Isand pdraons. ~'he doors of tht'building'will not be finally e'scd until Thursday next, and in the meantime special invtations to visit it will be forwarded by ...

THE GREAT EXHIBITION

... I Large numbers of Packages for the Exposition have my arrived at Southampton from Constantinpe ae The compositors are threatened with annihilation by a to French genius, who proposes to send to the Exhibition a oft machine for composing and distributing type at the rate 01 of ton thousand per hour. The temperance societies Intend to getupiabdyt th Great Exhibition.' so as to have a hundred ...

HAYMARKET THEATRE

... HA YMARAKET THEXTRE. The somewhat curious experiment of reviving DOUGLAS JĀ£ERROLD'S early nautical drama of Blca-cyed Susan before a Haymarket audience was tried last night, and-so har as the most liberal allowance of applause was concerned-with the most complete success. The British sailor vwpor the stage has always been the British sailor of the stage-drawn not from the forecastle or the ...

MR. H. C. COOPER's CONCERT

... MR. H. C. COOPER'S CONCERT. Mr. H. C. Cooper's annual concert took place on Tuesday I evening batnt vorla d attracted a nameirous and feehionable audience;t and we nay say 0of Zitnthe ohutelt ?? I at more chaste and clasipcal musical entert inet has seldom been heard in this city. The main features of the programm conseted ofgen from the instrumental writings ofmMendelssoin, Beethoven, and ...