... French origin. Only the other day it formed the groundwork of the operetta The Contrabandist. In r827 it appeared at Drury Lane as the farce of The Illustrious Stranger, in which Liston's Peter Bowbell was once so famous a character. . In the same ...

... Bond-street had a oousin, whom we shall call J. B. This aristocratic personage officiated for some time as bill-poster to Drury-lane Theatre, and afterwards as clerk in a great brewery. He then chanced to make some brilliant- speculations in stocks, and ...

... natives wounded Excess of brake power on train. A NEw LADY MACBnr .I.-Mrs. HOWARD PAUL. Will apper at the Theatre Reyal, Drury-lane, on the 22d of February, as Lady Macbeth, with Mr. Phelps as the Thane. She will also ploy the character of Hecate (singing ...