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... Catholic ssreligion. The trial resulted in a verdict of acquittal, which on was favourably received. On Saturday night last, at Drury Lane Theatre, the dresa ngof Miss Clara Webster, the celebrated English dancer, caught fire bycoming in contact with the gas ...

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... day, the amount will be 124,228,750fr, per antium, or £4,969,159 British money. Whilst Madame Thilion was on the stage, at Drury-lane Theatre, on Wednesday night week, part of the machinery fell very near her, knocking down two of the scene-shifters, and ...

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... GCrain.-A cargo of English bar- ley was sold at Lynn last week for expportation to Holland. pi A £000 renter's share, in Drury Lane Theatre, was sold last week for 62 guineas. II A self priming gun has been invented, which fixes caps on I tile nipple for ...

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... the water is over this board, the road Is Impassable. On Thursday week, Mr. Robins, the auctioneer, sold four shares in Drury Lane Theatre. They realized respectively 71, 60, and 59 gulneas each. The return on these shares was formerly £25 per annum; ...

THEODORE HOOK'S DESCRIPTION OF THE LIFE OF AN ACTOR

... find it poirring 'with rain,. mixed with snow-having come out with thin' shoes,' abd 'withoait ani umbrella, I paddle up Drury-lane or Boltonw-street to my' lodgings, where my wife has prepared everythingto make me comfortable, and at five o'iclock I sit ...

MR. MACREADY'S FAREWELL BENEFIT

... of itself a marked event. The scene outside the theatre prior to the commence- ment of the performance was most singular. Drury-lane, Vinegar-yard, and the western end of Great Russell- street, were completely occupied by a crowd, which had begun to colleet ...

PICKINGS FROM PUNCH

... PICKINGS FROM PUNCH. A GREAT CHANCE FOR THE BLooKIMS.-Jualien opens Drury Lane with a masqnerade I ADvtcE-Advice ie like a policernan, often to be met with when not wanted; but, when really wanted, never to be found. A NATIONAL PoLum1UrTr.-The largest ...

THE GREAT EXHIBITION

... sums disbursed for their conveyance to and from the Crystal Palace. Mr. James Anderson, late lessee of the Theatre-Royal, Drury-lane, suggests that the royal commissioners should appropriate the surplus arising out of the Great Exhibi- tion to the erection ...

LlTERARY EXTRACTS

... GARaicL-Edmund Kenn was a great favourite with Mrs. Garrick, the widow of his celebrated predecessor. It was usual with the Drury Lane committee, when they wanted a new comer to make a hit to bring the venerable old lady out of her private box and then prompt ...

LITERARY EXTRACTS

... to country bumpkins, barely fnding bread for his wife and child, he was just as great a genius as when he was crowdiu.- Drury-lane. When Brougham presided in the House of Lords, he was not a bit better or greater than when he bad hung about in the Parliament ...

POETRY

... Mr. Falconer, has at last been overcome, for any mother can take her child to the morning performance of the pantomime at Drury Lane, and actually see it now without a Peep o' Day. PROGRESS OF CIViISATION.-The Emperor of Russia has just issued a ukase by ...

LITERARY EXTRACTS

... counters of Exeter-change milliners; 'smart * orange girls picked their wvay between the acts through the well packed pit at Drury-lane, with the invitation to buy apples, oranges, or ginger-beer, or a bill of the play of the right sort ; the shoebacks ...