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THE GREAT EXHIBITION

... I I Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and several other members of the Royal family, paid an early visit to the Exhibition on Tuesday morning. They inspected the different parts of the building, and watched with interest the process of examining the different packages by the Custom house officers. Her Majesty has probably never before been so ...

Published: Sunday 23 February 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1768 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

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 ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... Euphrianor, a Dialogue on Youth. Pickering. The author of this little book is a new acquaintance; and a very agreeable and valuable one. His subject is full of modern and practical interest (which is more than would be inferred from the title), and the composition is an excellent specimen of a kind in which English writers have rarely succeeded. How the youth should be treated in order that ...

THE GREAT EXHIBITION

... 'J GREAT EXtfi4N. ]3erwealris now a bulsy one 'withk tlb officials in th Glass Palace. They ha* but litl ib mW thina two i~torits left for *h rmcepfi~on,,.a ite t ofE al th wo41 .to q.4ipl ?? y scent byi their activityto be quite alive .toi .thoe necessty; foxi full eXertioff. More than a6 thetisid' j~ic'kans hiave been re~ediwd'zdurint the last sir dAyS, 'bf-Whic more 1 Thui' I W a fr~ohip, ...

LITERARY MISCELLANEA

... LITERARY MISCELLANEA, FAIRIES.-The best days of the fairies seem to have passed away for ever. They have enjoyed their golden age; an age of muoonlight, revelry, and song, and are now almost for- gotten. We see strange circles in the meadows, like those our simple ancestors caled fairy rings, but in our wisdom attribute them to something very different, indeed, horm blithe, dancing fairies, ...

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 ...

LITERATURE

... LITEIA TUBE. and Cijesisit. By the Rev. GIvcIKTo AcUIsraI, D.D. Halli, Virtue and Co. |c T~here are few subjects of greater interest at any !C time tha Me career of a talented and conscientious 't catholic priest, inl the midst of the religious and poli- tieal corruptions which prevail everyhere in Italy, ' and of which Rome is the enatre and the source. t And of course at the present moment ...

THE THEATRE IN AN UPROAR

... I THE THEATRE IN AN UPROAR. ' .1 - - On Thursday week the handbill of the performances at e theatre, in Chester, announced that the entertain- merits would commence with a most uproqrious affair, entitled The Theatre in an Uproar, and before they finished, tle joke was more than realized, for the per- formances assumed every appearance of a comic beginning having a tragic termination. The ...

Published: Sunday 23 February 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 651 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

DRAMA

... DUwURY-LIE. Se~rbe wa~ ,Auber'p new opera, ?? p:i~ digne~' ?? course at thc (1*41 Opera, as fuirnished th e mateials for the newr ast ?? Aseel the Prodigal, pr6;duiz at Druylane tlaist night. t Mr. Anderson has done -well to call it a spectacle, for. this. desigeatiwzD de~esnot mislead'tb^ puBlic; ae.s-sage .iitles v:ery pften do.: People did not, go: to see ?? pisy,'or'to hearF tlonusi: ...

THE GREAT EXHIBITION

... TEE GREAT EX.t1iBIT iN. The sale of season tiokete i adulissign, which commenced yesterday, at thle Soietyqif Arts, John- street, Adelphi, is now proceeding very rapidly, upwvards of 2,000 tickets having bceu alr-ady dis- posed of. It may be remembered that we stated a few days sincethat no free adinissions wS hatever wrould be granted ; and the fact that among the first pur- chasers of ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA AT Manchester

... ?? AN3XD 13 DRKAMA AT Manchester. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) THE THEATRE RoYAL.-Douglas Jerrold's comedy of The Prisoner of War has been produced with consi- derable eclat. Captain Channel' found a racy representa- tive in Mr. H. Cooke, though wher he was describing the glory .of former days to 'ieut. Firebracie:(Mr. A. Beverly) he hit the Lieutenant'rylheIr too hard in the ribs for a stage ...

Published: Sunday 09 February 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1309 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MUSIC

... MUSIC-- M3- HI:, RSLAY'S; 0RA.TOIIIO ,'.'D4VIDj . We regard this Oratoirio as t he f irbrit of a, geniu dwe~tiled XO do great .thingS. ~rr .Chzaler' Edwardi . gorsley'sathe tsoi of th;e 'reterau Qmo~ whb has ao -leig .h'eld: so 'hikgh aplce famong the suasters of..the English . ho~iol of vocal harmony; and there seemns io' dcmbtthet i i tgze son wriJI support thie honiour of the ?? name r ...