CHRONOLOGICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS REMARKS FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING FEBRUARY 1. Feb.l. ** Now shifting gnles, with ..

... Sixteen persons were crushed to death in attempting to obtain admission into the little theatre in the Haymarket, in which the Drury Lane Company then performed. Among the unhappy suffercrs in this melanchaly catas! rophe were the amiable and accomp’lshed Smerset ...

Published: Saturday 01 February 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
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OATHS AND PROMISES

... OATHS AND PROMISES [The following lines are from * Mary Stuart,” a new tragedy now acting with great success at Drury Lane.) Paaxrey.— Will not An vath suffice for your security ? Rurnves.— Look up into the region of the air ! “Tis almost made of broken ...

Published: Saturday 01 February 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
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understood, was merely for the rise on the corn and flour, and not on other provisions. Lord John Russell ..

... l“flmhl\lbefl hi'hl‘;d 'b'hwmi L Jryee.e the price incre ill the latter reaches 665, | ¢ eatres in state during the past weck ; Drury Lane on Tur ltruggle -gmm} the Bmi‘ Tax grows i lndptben she .(l’:‘l' ‘dlm' e inr .nc nsl(r‘i,‘c Wednesday, and Covent Ganden ...

Published: Saturday 07 March 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
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GREAT REFORM FESTIVAL

... ESQ That great popular tribute of deserved respect for | patriotism, —the dinner to the venerable Mr. Byng, was given in Drury Lane Thea're on Wednesday. in honour of his having aclicved the fiflieth year of his | public service in the capacity of a member ...

Published: Saturday 21 March 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
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WEEKLY OLIO

... of all religions might aid each o'her as bLrothers,—Mr Beale, of the musical firm of Cramer, Addison and Beale, has taken Drury Lane Theatre, his term to commence from October mext. It isin conemplation then to produce “ opera” upon a more perfeet anl extensive ...

Published: Saturday 28 March 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
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LADIES' DRESSES,

... Mitchell, o Avorner Svopes liisess or tHE Deke or WELLINGTON.—We understand that as the Duke of Wellington was riding down Drury-lane to-day (Tuesday) about two o'clock, he was suddenly seized with a violent fit, and would have fallen off his horse, but ...

Published: Saturday 18 April 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
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DEATIHS

... flcet (for which he was Kuighted by George IIL), and father to Mr C, Dance, the dramatist. Mr Dance plaged in the band at Drury Lane in the time of Garrick, and he was also one of the principal violins at the commemoration of Handel in Westiinster Abbey ...

Published: Saturday 13 June 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
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ENGLISH NEVWS

... a stone, Feb. 6, 1796 ; an attempt was made by one James Hadfield, a disbanded and insane soldier, to shoot the king at Drury-lane theatre, May 15, 1800, ...

Published: Saturday 04 July 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1574 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ADJOURNED MEETING-—-Tuespay, JuLy 14,

... decided!y insane, and proved so down to the moment of his attempt on the life of Geo, IIL,, shooting at him from the pit of Drury Lane Theatre in 1690, and he was acquitted, Now was this the case with the prisoner? Considering that a young gentlewoman, sitting ...

Published: Saturday 18 July 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
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Het,

... York, Mr. Downe, the manager of the Sheffield theatre, Mr. Alexander Lee, and Mr. Hammond, tho late unfortunate lessee of Drury-lane. Mr. Ternan has also taken the Carlisle theatre; and this, added to those of Newecastle and Doncaster, will form, in the ...

Published: Saturday 25 July 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
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DEATH OF THE EARL OF DURHAM,

... Coventry ; Mrs. Sedgwick, the American authoress, and several members of her family ; Mr. Backstone, of the Thea. tre Royal, Drury-lane, &e. There were about 11,000 letters and 600 newspapers. The Great Western will also be the bearer of the very imaportant ...

Published: Saturday 01 August 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
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THE RERWICK ADVERTISER

... railways last week amounted to £28,658 IGs 9d, namely £13,354 195 7d on the former, and £€10,303 175 2d on the latter line. —Drury-lane Theatre las been let to Mr Eliason, and he is to open it, as soon ai his arrangements can le completed, with opera and farce ...

Published: Saturday 22 August 1840
Newspaper: Berwick Advertiser
County: Northumberland, England
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