... servitude. i SERIOUS FIRE IN DRURY LANF. t A serious fire broke out at two o'clock this morning on . premises in Carter-street, Drury lane, London, occupied 5 by Mr. Gay, fruit salesman, of Covent Garden. Within 3 ten minutes dense volumes of smoke issued from ...

... Worcester Mr. Cowen's new oratorio, Ruth; Milan Verdi's new opera, Otello. Italian opera, as well as English, was given Drury Lane and Covent Garden, and Madame Patti made her appearance Trovatore. This is the time of the year when instructive look ...

... see, is advertised by Mr. Augustus Harris, in which his lordship expresses his approval of the mimic fight on the stage of Drury Lane, which reminds him of Tel-el-Kebir. It by no means surprises me that the similarity should have struck him. The administration ...

... victims of that notoiious gambling establishment was a Pole. The other was not identified, but was believed to be a German. At Drury Lane Theatre on Tuesday the manager, Mr. Augustus Harris, announced that Miss Kate Vaughan, having sprained the sinews of one ...

... cab-touts at London theatres have long been pest to the public. They have been too long tolerated evil. Mr Harris, manager of Drury Lane Theatre, has started a new idea. He has organised a system whereby his patrons may be rendered independent of the pestering ...

... seamen and marines, and £32,200 for wages at the dockyards. Yesterday, at the Mart, at an interesting auction sale, three Drury Lane Theatre Renters' shares, entitling the owner to Is. 3d. per night and payment of annual dividend, with the right of free ...

... critic the last century, who acquired the reputation of being particularly malicious his writing. In 1709 he produced at Drury Lane play called Appius and Virginia, and it is connection with this play that the famous words are known. The piece itself ...

... Necessity knows law, and that's where necessity resembles a good many lawyers. - * Tom, one occasion, being steward at the Drury Lane Theatrical Fund Dinner, arrived very late on a miserable-looking-nair, whose appearance called forth some remarks and merriment ...

... AMUSING SCENE DRURY-LANE. An amusing scene occurred on Wednesday afternoon Russell-street, the thoroughfare the rear of Drury-lane Theatre, where no fewer than thousand young women congregated before the stage door response to an advertisement which had ...

... BANKRUPTS. To surrender under the Bankruptcy Act 1869. From Friday's June 10:—Augustus Hulls, BlackniO street, Drury-lane, Middlesex, erocer and cheesemonger. From Tuesday s G-zetie, June 14:-John S Cole, CoO»« street, Regent-street, London, tailor and ...

... Bow-street, to-day, John Mullaley was charged with having attempted last night to murder his wife in Great Wild-street, Drury-lane, by cutting her throat. It was stated tbat after quarrelling prisoner cut his wife's throat in two places, and she is now ...

... 1 o'clock, a man named John Crowe brutally murdered George Greene in Drury-lane. It appears that John Crowe, who is a one-legged man, aged 21, residing 8, Shelton-street, Drury-lane, and earns a precarious living by shoeblacking, has for some time past ...