SPORTING LITERATURE

... gPORTZNG ITERA~tU . I nt g5 W vol Fee RumtY.-This agreeable periodleal, ce ti n of the article by Craven. entitled The P4,hio. e~e jhi ?? less than a farrago of affected ,o t, wbich' is 0tii ,rdlY ?? the printer's Ink or compositor's time, a fair quantity of entertaining matter. The New yrox is pleasingly narrated by Colonel Napier, and ay ' ip end Areesureas will be read with interest. in his ...

Published: Sunday 06 February 1853
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 181 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

AMUSEMENTS IN MANCHESTER

... (,rOR ?? oua cOWNasa'OMow0DET.) THEATRE RtOYAL.-MatCs 2'empesta, the new drama, has continued to be the otaple amusement of our play-going public since our last. Our manager strikes when the iron is hot, but the moment the metal gives indication of a falling temperature, or rather, in anticipa- tion of any such declension, hie changes his hand and forges soms other weapon wherewith to attack ...

Published: Sunday 13 November 1853
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 488 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LUMLEY V. GYE

... LUMIEBY V. GYE. QUEEN'S BENCH-JuexE 3. This was an action brought by the former lessee of her Majesty's Theatre, agaiust the proprietor of the Covent-garden Opera, to recover damages for having caused Mademoiselle Wagner to break an agreement which she had entered into with the plaintiff to sing at his theatre. The defendant demurred to the plaintiff's declaration, on the ground that aol ...

Published: Sunday 05 June 1853
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1306 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

GENUINE GOSSIP

... CE N IN E CO S SIP. -BY AN OLD ACTRESS. CHAPTER XXIIL-DISCURSIvE 3My connexion with Stanton's company led to my introduc- tion to poor Charles Baker. He was then a young, fresh-coloured, curly-headed fellow, and greatly admired by the ladies. He was an effective elocutionist, and, indeed, in later years, the cor- rectness of his speaking was the distinguishing characteristic of his ...

Published: Sunday 04 December 1853
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2292 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THEATRES, &c

... THEATRES, Ace DrurY-lane.--Novelty is the order, of the day with r. R. T. Smith, the lessee The latestandmostinterestig leertis else enoagelnent of Herr Heogler, the renowned rop-e lancer, whose inmimitable and most artistic evolutions on the e-ds! de tension nightly excite the admiration and delight of ioowded audiences. At the morning performance on Wednes- lay, the juvenile audience who ...

Published: Sunday 04 December 1853
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1074 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... y Iu/gazncl. D OOrs yoa Rxvntw.Bok.Msc oyEgavin;-, y &C., intended for review. left at thle establishment of Mr. hi C. MITCHELL, Red Lion-court, Fleet-street, London, 10 addressed -to the Editor of thle Derby Mereury, vs ill be forwarded and receive attentl on. 7The Poetical Works of Alexriadel' Pope. Edite by RoaazRTg CA9917THERS. la four volumes. London : IxNGANai, r, COOKE, and Co. ki The ...

CHEAP FARES ON SATURDAYS

... FROM ABERDEEN to STONEHAVEN (and Intermediate Stations), DRUMLITHIE, FORDOUN, LAURENCEKIRK, MONTROSE, AND BRECHIN— By the 12.15, p.m., Train from ABERDEEN to all the abovenamed places; and. By the 3, p.m.. Excursion Train to STONEHAVEN and Intensudiate Stations. FARES FOR THE DOUBLE JOURNEY Third Class. First Class. Aberdeen to Montrose or Brechin, 2s 6d 4s Od ~ to Laurencekirk, Fordoun, or ...

THE GREAT INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION

... I The following is the official return of the visitors admitted yesterday:- Season ticket holders ,. . .. B,355 Number of persons admitted at 2s. 6d. each 850 Total . .. ., 4,205 Their Excellencies the Lord Lieutenant and the Countess of St. Germane, accompanied by some members of their family, and attended by Major Bagot, Captain Cost. and several ladies of the court, visited the Exhibition ...

THE GREAT EXHIBITION

... The number of visitors to the Exhibition yesterday amounted to 11,416. It will be seen by the above return that the attendance yesterday was the greatest, and we may add the most varied, since the opening of the Exbibition. All ranks and classes of our fellow-countrymen were represented there, from the wealthy peer to the honest peasant; and nothing could be more interesting than to witness ...

THE GREAT EXHIBITION—HORTICULTURAL INDUSTRY

... THE GRlEAT EXRiBITiuN-HORTICULTURAL I INDUS iRY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE FRE YUN. DEAe Sin-When the eyes of not only Europe but of he whole civilised world are turned on us in admiration of our rative industry, contrasting so strikingly with what was for a long time and unil lately believed, or at least re- presented to be, our native apathy or indifference-if not idleness and ignorance-and when ...

THEATRE ROYAL

... i - . I During the past week the theatre has been graced by a succession of numerous and fashionable audiences, and the entertainments have been as naual judiciously diversified and cleverly represented. It is at once the result of well directed exertion on the part of the manager, and a teat of true merit in the performers, that the dramatic and musical pieces produced by the stock company ...

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE

... I I Lady Hort, Mr. Creighton and family, Mr. Monkton and family.Mr. Whiteside, MP., Mr. Cogan, M.P. Mr. O'Flahlrty, M.P., Bon. Mr. Trevor, Mr. Wilcox and family, Doctor Hunt and family, Mr. and Meg, Aylmer, &c., &o., sailed from Kingstown for Holyhead, on yesterday, per the railway steamer. Rev, Donald MacPherson and family, Mr. Max- well and family, Colonel Levingston (New York); Captains ...