ANNUAL FAT PIG SHOW AT DUDLEY

... Yesterday, the annual Fat Pig Show, for prices (established by Mr. J. Beach), was held In the yard, Alhna Place, ?? Street. Theor wore aboutforty pigs exhibited, and for ...

Mr. John Boosey's Ballad Concerts

... The second concert of the present series, given on Wednesday night at St. James's Hall, drew a large audience. Miss Banks, bliss Julia Elton, Mdlle. Liebbart, Aladaine Sainton-Dolby, Mr. Wilbye Cooper, Mr. Lewis Thomas, and Mr. Temple were the vocalists. Madame Arabella Goddard and Mr. Lazarus assisted; and the St. Cecilia choir, founded and conducted by Mr. C. J. Hargitt, gave some glees, ...

Published: Sunday 17 November 1867
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1013 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MORE DRAMATIC POACHING

... XORE DRAXATIC PO.&CIrING. SHERIFFS' COURT, RED L1Ore-sQUARE, Novzsenpf i4r. (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff Burchell and a Special Jury.) DION BOUCICAULT v ?? R. EGAN. This was an action, in the Common Pleas, by Dion Boncicault against Frederick Bailey Egan, under the 3d and 4th William IV c. 15 (an Act to amend the law relating to Dramatic Literary fpro perty), to recover compensation for the ...

Published: Sunday 17 November 1867
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1550 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

AMERICAN THEATRICALS

... AMERICAN THEEATRIALS. NEW YORK, OcTonLin 28. The new features introduced into The Black Crook last week at NiaLo's, drew large audiences, and gave great satisfaction. One of the principal attractions consists of a number of boys, ranging from six to ten years, dressed in uniform, representing La Garde Imperial, forming a regiment of soldiers. The line is led off by twenty youths in basket ...

Published: Sunday 17 November 1867
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1648 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

REMINISCENCES OF A SEPTUAGENARIAN

... REM4INISCENCES OF A SEPTUAGENARIAIV.A* I WIIATEvERv alue may be attached to these reminiscences, the venerable author claims for them no more importance or interest than the title of the work indicates. To please a few friends who might be presumed to know that such a book would be at all events harmless, and probably gratifying to a younger generation, and to afford interesting occupation ...

Barddoniaeth

... 7- - I--- ? I. ? . I . . 0 - 91T ..9 i isdut, Ff? NW? LI. Edrych cr y lili dowel ?? ya troi, Yna ear-for gwawol y gorwel, A; pbrydfaarthwC gai angel Sylia ara;o yn ei thoL o . jarlanxidd'with a chwery Ar ei siglog fynwes ber, W'rth ci bymyllin yn crogi Y mae gemauoo a Oleni, Gwaith y wawrrddydd, wridog gfir ...

Drama

... Iwrama. NEW QUEEN'S. Another popular Olympic piece, Sfill lget'ers Ejn2 Dc(q in which Mr. and Mrs. Alfred WVigan Sustain their original characters, was revived at this house last night in the place of the Doublc .l-arriage, with gratifying and well-deserved success. Whatever may be thought of the French sentiment running through this comedy, and ef the somewhat tricky, superficial character of ...

Literature

... titeratu're. I ,77w Coreel r nt of Enqgland; its Struct re and its Development. Biy WILLIAM EDWARD HEARN, LL.D., Professor of History and Political Economy in the University of Melbourne. London: Longnmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer. Melbourne: George Robertson. It is rather an unusual experience for a reviewer to receive a book from Australia, unless it be a work of purely local interest. Here, ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS, &c

... PUBLI MUSEMENTS, &c. - I, I . . . I I.. -. ?? v 1.. .- WW Al.9adra Theatte-l'Th6O Te, ' Toddlebine.* iange, l d 'Lite I LanUaMbPrc LUse. onx Monthe Ago, and The Bt. jeam4~' R1V QIovanni',f, aud ...

WOOD ON ABERGELDIE

... TO BE SOLD, from Polhollock Wood, on the Abergeldie Estate, and immediately adjoining a Floating Bank on the River Dee, 250 LARCHES, average about 12 Cubic Feet per Tree, and 880 FIRS, average about 11 Feet per Tree. The Conditions of Sale will be shown, and offers received to Saturday the 16th current, by Messrs skinner & Wilsone, Aberdeen ; or Mr John Reid, Forester, on the Estate. 229, ...

Pickings from Punch

... joit'inq froin 1ittli . | FROM THE (Y) EAST.-The Romford ale, we are told, is It zreat request iU India. This is not surprising, for what most could be found for the beer of Ind than India? TIlE GREATEST OF OUR PEERS.-.What an enormous :ze Lord Granville must be ! Speaking of him at the Paris sihtionbanquet, the newspaper says, II His Lordship ledteroom *7 I] r.D TO PLEASE EVEREBODY. - The ...

LITERARY MISCELLANEA

... LITUV&ZY MI5GELLANMRA0.: I - - - - - 1 Tin TlfVsIorN =sA*D HxosMsrmiis-Contemporary with Salvator Rosa,' was the, celesrated ARessandro Stradella, remarkable not less for his romantic and tragical history-bhan foF his musical genius. While, yet a young men, and: haiing~ aerqered great -reputatioul at Venice, be' wase empidyad' by a noblemean of that 'd~ty to give in~structions in musie to a ...