... last year to the l'arliamentary Committee on the Metropolitan Fire Brigade. First he mentions the two patent theatres, Drury. lane and Covent•garden, ea-h capable of holding 4,000 persons. Then there are 43 theatres, licensed by the Levi Chamberlain, ...

... the English Ministers received notice that an attempt would be made to assassinate the King, and ad% ised him not to go to Drury Lane. George 111. replied that he feared nothing. On arriving he to ik care to enter his box find, and as he did AO a pistol ...

... Apropos of the coming electric light and its struggle with gas, Byron tells us in one of his letters, that for three weeks Drury Lane empty because of their having used gas, which it was said would poison all in the house; and an instance is very well known ...

... theatre in retired fn.m the lenge In 1872. on the oth of July which year Mr. and Mrs. Wigan took their farewell benefit at Drury Lane. An hewed wan held at Hastings on Friday, Nov. 29. Into tie tense of the death of three parsons who were drowned by the ...

... giving a banquet to Lord Dufferin. At the London Bankruptcy Court on Thursday, Feb. 13, the liabilities of Mr. Chatterton. of Drury lane Theatre, were stated atf4o. 000. ' The revolutionists in Venezuela were defeated nn the 4th Feb. by the Government troops ...

... 4:4cutArp . s.—Nfr. Ernest Hart writes to the British Medical Journal: In quitting the neighbourhood of Great Queen•street and Drury Lane for the office in the Strand, I desired to leave behind a legacy which should afford some permanently useful memorial of ...

... of the period gave him a sly poke by the following paragraph :— When Baddeley bequeathed a plumb-cake to the actors of Drury Lane Theatre, he probably foresaw that the stage would one day or other be occupied by chi/dres, who would contend for sweetmeats ...