Closing Nights at Regent Gallery and Rising Star at Sonor Theatre
The Regent Gallery leads with Mr. S. Woodin announcing closing nights after five hundred fifty entertainments. His carpet bag of acts draws crowds, while at Sonor Theatre Miss Clara Grosvenor, a pupil of Mrs. W West, earns praise for a Desdemona-worthy performance and likely a prominent next season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mont Blanc
S. Woodin
Regent Gallery
Mathews
Alexandre
Sonor
Clara Grosvenor
W. West
Desdemona
Iceberg as cosmic lesson in verse and prose reverie
A collage of literary reflections contrasts ice as a sublime, godlike structure with echoes of classical remnants. It blends Kane's journal imagery, a 1639 life poem on self rule, Pitt and Fox oratory, and a summer scene of urban and rural contrasts, ending with the day’s close as trains and fields fade.
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Madeleines
Valhallas
Girard
Chimborazo
Hill of Howth
Kane
Wit and Wisdom in Demerara Humour and Quips
A collage of jokes and witticisms from varied locales. Notes on manners in Demerara where all wear “Esq.” and a man moved by emotion cannot eat. A vine soldier taxonomic joke, a querist quip, a leek in the soup pun, and remarks on a Chinese journal in California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Demerara
America
California
House of Lords
Medley of topical jests and Punch quips on manners and politics
A collection of witty notes and satirical snippets from Punch including jokes about marriage laws, a near drowning memory, life insurance in the Russian army, classroom elephant skin, a hissed sentence in court, and various political sketches about Lord John Russell, Count Paulen, and the Anglo French forces in the East with a Chelsea or Greenwich fate forecast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Coke
John Wesley
Blockhead
Tsay
Muller
Jonathans
Scotch Court of Justiciary
Muir
J. Butt
Butt
Count Pahlen
House of Commons
Count Paulen
Russia
John Russell
Chelsea
Greenwich
France
Lord John Russell
Lord John
Greenwich Park
Journal Des Débats
Diggings From Diogen Herat of Heaan Instantiity
A miscellany of satirical notes and oddities from a late 19th century paper. It mocks bank losses, admiralty excuses, poultry theft at Middlesex Sessions, a wife’s written testimony, and a telegraphic update on the Anglo French Fleet before Croystadt. It also hints at Oxford magnates facing public scrutiny amid illness rumors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Diogen Herat
Middlesex
Sunes
Eags
Sain Anp SeLi
Croystadt
Oxford
House of Commons
Jdusentery
Chesterfield Debt Dispute Over Mortgaged Derbyshire Estates
The Earl of Chesterfield seeks £69,000 from Mr. Duncombe, later reduced by deeds to £34,000, with Mrs. Slingsby as second encumbrancer after £38,000 if paid. Time was essential. failure to meet March deadline triggers full claim. Legal counsel included Solicitor-General Palmer and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rolls Court
Earl of Chesterfield
Duncombe
R. Palmer
Lieyd
Follett
Wickens
Giffard
Southgate
Usperwood Re. Wixg
John Underwood
Bamstead
Essex
Mary Underwood
Mrs. Underwood
Sydney
Beachy Head
Simultaneous deaths thwart legacy and ship collision case
The article recounts a probate dispute over Mrs Underwood's estate and a will by Mr John Tully, concluding no survivorship. It also details a collision where the Princess Royal was struck by the Cosmopolitan, with the Cosmopolitan found liable, plus various court records from bankruptcy and assize courts including insolvency cases, a murder verdict, arson, and other trials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wing
Admiralty Court
London
Hamburg
Glasgow
Princess Royal
Thames
Bugsby's Reach
Ano Lawrence
W. Hill
Thos
Campion Lawrence
Lime Street
Board of Ordnance
Board of Admiralty
Bermuda
Barbadoes
St. Helena
Gibraltar
Malta
Jamaica
Antigua
M.plin Parson
Oxford Castle
James Net.t
Middlesex -Street
Whitechapel
Griffits
Rufus
Reading
Customs
York
Maror
Wuarrsr
William Campion
Ann Campion
Ruswarf
Whitby
Middlesborough
Mr. Hardy
Worcester Assize
James Walters
Bretfurton
Evesham
John Rimell
Bretterton
Orthampton Assize
Damacus—Pell
Sir Charles Morgan
Glamorganshire
Chelmsford
Trapin
Sowerby
Gardner
Channell
Mesare, Sowerby and Co
Regent-street
John Ludford Gardner
Genge
Assize Court
Leicester
Warn—Holdgate
Holdgate
Kirton-in-Linsey
Lincolnshire
Lawrence
Biedermann
Wandsworth
Drury Lane
Short's Gardens
Drury-lane
Henry
Cap Uase
Thomas Harding
Goodbody
Bessborough-street
Belgrave-square
West Strand
Paddington
Mr. Henry
Marlborough-Street
Jullien’s
James Anderson
Messia, Chappell and Co
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Pitt
Mr. Fox
Tam
Mr. Pitt
C.J
WIT and Wisdom
LAW and Police
Haynes
Newlands
Patrick Murphy
Huntingdon
William Pye
Great Northern Railway Company
Justice Cresawell
Mansion House
Drexken Cas
Josa Graham
Salomons
Daniel Jachwn
Cook and Whitley
Frederick W. Chaplin
King William-street
Chaplin
Cook
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