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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 ...

THE GREAT EXHIBITION

... TEISTING THE BUILDING. Her Majesty and Prince Akbert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and several members of the Royal janily, paid an early visit to the Exhibition on Tuesday morning. They inspected the different parts of the building, and watched withinterest the process of exarsin- ing the different packages by the custem-housa officers. Her Majesty has probably never been so near an eye ...

THE GREAT EXHIBITION

... THEl GREAT EXHIBITION. We have stated, upon previous occasions, that the arrangellielet of the agrioultural implements in the Great Exhibition would be under the management of a committee of gentlemene appointed by the Royal Agricultural Society. It is most important, there- fore, that intending exhibitors of agricultural im- plements should bear in mind that, according to the regulations of ...

THEATRES, &c

... THEATRES, &c, IgAYWA:E-ET T1EATRRE. Last Night of Mr. MSacready. Had the Haymarket Theatre been twice its present size, it could not have held those who applied for ad. rcion on Monday night, when Mr. Macready performed there for the last time. A crowd besieged the doors at an early hour, the whole neighbourhood was alive with people, and every place in the boxes was let long before tle night ...

Published: Sunday 09 February 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3297 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

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 

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 ...

LITERATURE

... LITERATURE ..}m- . --. rt.- 'SI - - -- The Forrster; a Practical Treatise on1 the Planting, Rearing, rnd general Ml anegentent of T1orest Trees, witi an im- proved process for Transplantation of Trees of large size. By JAMES BROWN, Forester, Arnisten. Second Edition, enlarged. WILLIAm BLACKWO OD and SoNs, 1855 . This is a w ork of considerable practical utility, and worthy ot ann important ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... A Yeer on the Punjaub Frontier, fin 1848-9. By Major Herbert B. Edwardes, C.B., H.E.ILO. Two Vole. Bentley. This hook very exactly answers to the public character of its author-and for this, and other reasons, is doubtless a, very genuine composition. With a little dash of display and bravado, but frank, fearless, and unnnisgiving, it re- counts that rapid and brilliant series of successes in ...

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 ...

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 

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 LOW THEATRES OF LONDON

... 'The normal schools of vice and profligacy in London are the low theatres, where abandoned actors dance the most disgusting ballets, vitiate the loveof music by comic songs of the worst tendency, and perform dramas, farces, and tragedies, wlhich convey to the audience infamous lessons in all the crimes that afflict and impoverish society. The persons that attend these penny theatres are, for ...

Published: Sunday 09 February 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1244 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture