... enjoyment is just now the order of the day and night, and London is crowded with country cousins come up to fee the lions. The theatres are blazing away nightly with fairy spectacles, gorgeous effects, wizard tricks, delicious scenery, brilliant dresses, and ...

... grand army of the centre, under General Pociutine.” There can be no doubt that the Russians fully expect that the principal theatre of war will be transferred in the spring from the South to the Baltic, and preparations are making for vigorous defence of ...

... is fact, assure you. He in fact has the entire control of the affair, and although he is not ostensibly the geranl of the theatre, it is his servants who pull the strings, just as their imperial master bids them. If his theatrical campaign is successful ...

... was on Friday evening heard in the Rue aux Juifs at Evereux (Eure), and it was found that one of the comic actors of the theatre there named Pic, had discharged pistol into his heart. The man was of course quite dead, and it appeared that before discharging ...

... —John Price Edwards, proprietor of a theatre at Darlington, has been committed for Brial, for stealing gas. An india-rubber pipe had been attached the defendant’s meter in such manner that the gas passing into the theatre need not have gone through the meter ...

... town, coming to London with a letter of introduction to the great performer from his brother, Peter Garrick, went to the theatre first, to see him in the character of Abel Drugger.” Like Partridge, the honest grocer was completely taken in the actor. ...

... weeks of her confinement, yet that she, accompanied by the Emperor, still continues to be frequent visitorat the different theatres. Ihey went, for instance, on Saturday last, to the Porte St. Martin. It is reported that the Queen of England has strongly ...

... extend to the two sister kingdoms. Suicide of the Harlequin of Newcastle Theatre* —On Friday morning Mr. Charles Shaw, who performed the part of Harlequin in the pantomime at the theatre, Newcastle, threw himself into the river Tyne from the balustrades of ...

... platforms would servo equally well ship troops to England. I have nothing to add to the above, except information of the New Theatre Royal, Fourth Division. A performance took place last night, when John Dobbs,” and “Going to the Derby” were played to an ...

... this technicality was a small part of the pleasure felt that evening by an audience more crowded than ever was known in that theatre of science for practical objects. We remember to have read years ago a magazine article on calculating boys, in which the ...

... parent, and prescribed gentle tonics, change of air, &c. FIRE AT COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. The Bal Masque completing the extraordinary series of performances at this theatre, and, we believe, Professor Anderson's lessee ship, came off on Tuesday night, in ...

... rage for dramatic representations is still as rife as ever. The army seems possessed by theatrical mania, and the number of theatres grows so large that no man could posssibly Dike cognizance of all the “ first representations of screaming farces,” and lively ...