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Drury Lane and Covent Garden notes and theatrical views
A column reviews Birmingham benefit efforts for Miss Manset and praise for returning familiar faces after summer. It reports on Drury Lane preparations for a Mad. Parisser introduction, discusses Miss Jones’s trial, and notes Byrne’s American departure with Madame Rossi. Mentions Covent Garden, Exziston, Harris, Wewrtrex, Dopp’s death, Mell on’s progress, Palmer’s underattended benefit, Cumberland and Wezewitzer, Shevai, and the ventriloquist’s earnings and limits.