POETRY

... A T N I G H T. 1DYiNG? ?? do butjest! You smile in the dark, .1 know! Surely I should know best How the quick pulses go. Lay your hand on my cheek: FEEL, though you sup not, the red. Why, in another week, I shall have left my bed! It 'was being so long alone- So sickof the world's vain strife, Uncared for, and unknown, That sapp'd the springs of life! You have given a world of love: Nay, ...

Amateur Performance of the West Middlesex Volunteer Rifle Corps

... The Lyceum Theatre was opened on Monday evening by some members of the above corps and their friends, in aid of the funds of this distinguished body of Volunteers, the pieces selected for the essay of their various capabilities being The Rough Diaosed, The Corsicae Brothers, and Mr. Oxenford's admirable one-act farce of Twice Killed. Amateur acting has become so highly respectable and there is ...

Published: Sunday 29 July 1860
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1455 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Dr. Pech and the English Opera at Drury-lane Theatre

... | Dr. Pech and the E]glish Opera at Drury-lane I~r. Tech and the 9heatre. In the ERA of the Sth loot, we gave a report of Dr Peeb's case before Mr ComninrNihl nt eoluivent Debtors' Court, and on Thurs- day lost the doctor ..as finally examined before the Same learned Comn- missioner. It will be recollecetd tbat the ineolvent wa the nmusical director of the English opera at Drury-lane Theatre ...

Published: Sunday 29 July 1860
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1928 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MUSIC

... XiJTSICI. it, lie nr to, 0- J(C e.s e- er of le *2r 0- le t, ial s8 le 9. 11', ly .11, I.5 J]1 R- e- id .1- Oar Ri, I Volunters. WVords by A. It, 11loeSrTOx, Esqn. ilc/lody by Dr. Aitxe, newly arranged by I.. Atuoews, Manehester: Riclard Andrews. The musical public by this tine are well nigh bored to death with Volunteer strins nndl patriotic Rifle songs. We venture to assett that if ill ...

LITERATURE

... I ?? _ - .I_ 7eNtulr.e1'siflkd British Sea- Wee-is: A History, ¶of accompanied by Figures and Dissections, of the Algve of the British Isles. By W. G. JoHN- Ws sToN.E, ?? and A. CROALL, AB,BS.E pap Naturme-Printed by Henry Bradbury. Bradbury Iedi and Evans. Hi4 This charming work, as valuable a contribution th to J~cience as it is a~u elegant addition to the drawig tist room tablel, is just ...

ALLOCUTION OF THE POPE

... TrE Corriare Mf.lcaetile.publishes a translation of the Pope's allocution, delivered in the Secret Consistory of the 13th. The passage relative to Sardinia is as follows:- In various parts of the regions of Italy unjustly sbjected to the. Subalpine Government, public schools have been instituted, in which, to the great detrinefittof .obis, ll, cinds'of errcieous, false, and depraved doctrines, ...

FASHION

... THE COURT. OSBORNE, TIURSDAY.-The Queen and the Prince Consort drove and walked yesterday. Princess Alice and tha Royal family also drove in the grounds. Lord Clvde arrived from London on n visit to her Majesty, and remains at Osborne. The Countess of. Desart and the Hon. Flora Macdonald have succeeded the Countess of Caledon and the Hon. Eleanor Stan- ley as Lady and Maid of Honor in Waiting. ...

A VISIT TO THE TOMBS

... (FROm1 T]E TEAMES' S1'ECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) MTOlNTREAL, JULY 12.-I have penotrated thus far in my scareh'for tlie first landing-place of the Prince of Wales, crossing in my tour at all points artists and correspondents innumerable from tile American newspapers, all busy, in eager haste to strike upon the first tracks of English Royalty. The Prince's visit what he will do, when he will come, ...

MUSIC, CONCERTS, &c

... HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Oberon and the Graned Ballet Divertissement, with Mdlle. Ferraris and M. Chappuy, have formed the entertainments for Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. If the first object of theatricals, as Moliere opines, is to amuse, nothing could succeed better, as was proved by the vehement applause of the crowded audiences. The vocalists received many encores, and were re-called after ...

Published: Sunday 29 July 1860
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1811 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PRINCESS'S THEATRE

... VAS Last evening the clever Zounve company treated us to a ire complete change of performance, and displayed their his- ng trionic qualifications in a more ambitious line than on their rt lial first appearance, and with increased success. Genteel Ve WE cmedy was attempted in the little vaudeville, Pas de .Faee cc tvas Sas Bencl, in which Zoinive Frederick, as the jealous hus-T lte baud, and ...

LITERATURE

... L ITERATUBX PORTUGAL AND POS.| Baron de Forrester has long been honourably known in England as the advocate of a more liberal oamcner. cial system than Portugal, up to9 tbis time, hu adopted. For years he has incessantly exposed the absurd, narrow minded, and ruinous restrictions on the growth, making, and shipment of port wine.2 It hsu been the ambition of the baron's life to throw the Alto ...

AMERICAN THEATRICALS

... AMERICAN THEla ATRICALS. NEW YORK, JULY 14. Nisto's GA.i Dim.-Fortunstely for Mr. Nixon he had made a two weeks' engagement with Mr. John Brougham, and this gentle. man duly made his appearance on Monday night week, in the old, but still ever frees burlesque of Pocalsorstas. Mr. Broualsm played King Pow-how-tan with his ustal vigour and humour, and introduced a variety of Dew gags; some of ...

Published: Sunday 29 July 1860
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1078 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture