... anb THE COM AND NZ. The old '• Cock and Pie, or lc sod Magpie, in Drury Lane, London, is now Is • .4 demolished. It stood on this site ere Drury Lane ts built, and from this house to St. Church mss .i.iitea waik amid green fields. It was known afterworos ...

... in England were in the shape of small bills affixed to the door of St. Paul's Cathedral. The first play-bill issued from Drury Lane Theatre was on April 8, BM, the piece represented being The HumorousLieutenant.' , The first royal letter was written by ...

... very useful to —the Exchequer. OSSIFICATION OF THE DRAMA. The revival of the sporting racing play, The Run of Luck, at Drury Lane. JOKINS LATEST.— Yea; five shillings per dozen on champagne, all superior bottled wines, and Hock genus QUESTION TO RE ...

... . Mr. Augustus Ha-ris has presented the whole of his collection of playbills, pamphlets, and printed matter relating to Drury Lane Tneatre to the British Museum. ...

... resolutely pushed him away. Five children are left motherless by the sad event. FIRST NR/lITS AT DRURY LANE. , Speaking of first nights at Drury Lane Theatre, a writer in the Gentlevolnan, says f The great Augustus is quite a study on these occasions ...

... A COOL AVENGER. A certain English gentleman, who was a regular frequenter of the green-room of Drury . Lane Theatre in the days of Lord Byron's committee, and who always stood quietly on the hearthrug there with his back to the fire, was in his usual ...

... The deceased, who 64 years of age, had a very adventurous life. When about 17 years of age he joined Smith's Circus ton' Drury Lane, which was visiting Chelmsford. and at Namagatii ho got went as bottom densman at Wombwell', No. 111 Menagerie. From this ...

... promenading the Plymouth lice, and casting anxious glances across to the breakwater and Eddystone, are NVith their new autumn Drury Lane drama, which will be on the subject of the Spanish Armada. Mr. Leonard Boyne has been engaged for the hero of this Elizabethan ...

... proclaimed at Edit*. burgh on September 16th, and the first public hearing of what has now become our National Anthem was at Drury Lane twelve days later. The tune of God Save the King was a favourite with several of the great composer.. Weber introduced ...

... And it is on record that a Kentish yoeman, bringing his family to town for the purpose of seeing The Doge of Venice at Drury Lane, and recognising a familar voice and manner in the prominent by a oe s to l uo n dt i a s l h r, d l ryn t i ia.um e xcl ...

... only a mother tongue—rather Bizeotian it seems to us—and a C lald kind of lingo which they call French. In the new ploy at Drury Lane, wita which Mr. Augustus Harris has happily opened the autumn season, A Hun of Luck, a happy hit has been made by endowing ...

... certain extent done her duty towards his numerous victims. I hear that the receipts of the first GO performances of the Drury Lane pantomime amounted to L*28,400. ...