Harlequin Blue Beard pantomime at Adelphi thrills London crowd
The Adelphi presents Harlequin Blue Beard or The Fairy of the Silver Crescent with Mirza and Paperpate plotlines, a magic mirror, and a cave rescue. Performances feature Miss Bullen, Mr Wieland, Mr T Matthews, and a Queen Victoria tableau with royal impersonation, drawing crowded houses and broad laughter.
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Adelphi
E. Stirling
Harlequin Blue Beard
Silver Crescent
Ibrahim
Fatima
Selim
Bluebeard
Shacabac
Bashaw
Columbine
Miss Bullen
Mr. Wieland
Mr. T. Matthews
Joe Grimaldi
J. B. Johnstone
Britannia
Victoria
Freeborn
Prince Albert
Pantomime and theater season notes from London venues
The OLYMPIC THEATRE and Strand Theatre host loud pantomimes with notable performers like Young Bologna, Miss E Gates, and Hartland, plus a Stratford appearance by Mrs Montgomery. SADLER'S WELLS presents Hop o my Thumb. The Chinese Collection at Hyde Park Corner attracts thousands. The British Museum reports boxing day crowds near 500k year to date with strong public order.
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Olympic Theatre
Jack
St. Michael's Mount
Giant
Useful Knowledge Society
Edelgitha
Beverley
Bologna
Columbine
E. Gates
G.lebatt
Jefferini
Joe Grimaldi
Hartland
Pantomime Explores Language and Virtues with Orthography Theme
A London pantomime lampoons ignorance and grammar with Morning and Orthography guiding a quest to free vowels from the Parts of Speech. Performances feature Miss E Terry as the Fairy Queen Orthography and actors Mr Harvey Mr Hawkins and Mr Fuller delivering lively Harlequinade, pantomime tricks, and verbose satire.
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Lindley Murray
Earth
E. Terry
Lindsey Murray
Zsop
Old Cocker
Society For the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
Mr. Harvey
M. Farebrother
Harvey
Hawkins
Astley's Amphitheatre Pantomime Impresses Despite Mixed Reception
A Christmas pantomime at Astley's Amphitheatre based on Burns Tom O Shanter unfolds with vivid scenery and energetic scenes including the inn carousal and witches in Alloway. Performances aim to amuse though some discontent lingers amid a generally decorous, late midnight close.
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Astley
Burns
Ayr
Auld Alloway Church
Tam
Brig o'Doon
Owen
Royal Adelaide Gallery Attracts Thousands In Day Of Delights
The Royal Adelaide Gallery drew several thousand visitors on Tuesday with a well attended day and a crowded concert in the evening featuring the Adelaide Wizard. The Royal Polytechnic Institution offered an enticing bill and large crowds gathered to enjoy the popular exhibition and its new additions.
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British Museum
England
Neal
Royal Adelaide Gallery
Adelaide
Royal Polytechnic Institution
Dela
Ancient Indian Gallery visitors at Piccadilly noted
Report on Mr Catlin's Indian Gallery exhibition at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly featuring Ojibbeway delegates. Describes the six men and three women, their painted attire, war dances and ritual howls, a drum, and the chief’s nose ring, with observers comparing scenes to ballet and opera.
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Catlin
Piccadilly
Hans
Cooper
Napoleon Museum
Police Report From Marylebone Court Debauchery Case and Church Rates
A man named Henry Wilford faces a charge of indecent conduct toward John Morgan in Marylebone with a gold watch and other items found on him. The Thames court session also covers an extraordinary application from Mouat, a Limehouse parish churchwarden, about unpaid church rates and a conflict with the rector over stipends and defaulters.
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Coxprer
Henry Wilford
Rawlinson
John Morgen
Baker Street
Portman,square
Mouat
St. Anne, Limehouse
Broderip
Rawlins
Radcliff
Dodington
Sitting
London
J. Ravcltffe
Mr. Mouat
Christmas Rovers and a Bedfellows Blunder
Two drunken men, Thompson and Guffage, mistook an unfamiliar Kemp-court bed for their own and slept in it. The old couple Lannay woke to find strangers in their bed and called the police. After sobering up, the magistrate released the pair with no punishment beyond their own folly.
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Marlborough Street
Christmas Rovers
Vine-street
Thompson
Old Bailey
Kemp-court
Lannay
Livery stable owners charged with felonious receiving stolen horses
Horst Stratinc and Richard Herring faced charges of feloniously receiving two horses valued at £100 belonging to Mr Charles Candwell. The horses were stolen from Chad's Inn yard in St Pancras on Friday. Balten, Candwell's steward, traced one horse to Hatswell via handbills and a chance encounter at King's Cross. Hatswell released on his own recognizance. Herring remained imprisoned.
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Horst Stratinc
William Hatsevell
Chad’s Inn
St. Pancras
Richard Herring
Charles Candwell
Longthorpe
Northamptonshire
Lewis
Batton
Candwell
London
Mernir
Pearse
Scotland Yard
King’s Cross
Herring
Liverpool-st
Fe Balton
Balten
Chad’s Row
Hatswell
Liverpool Street
Cruel pony race and pudding theft in London moves to court
Reports detail a brutal pony pulling a wagon for gambling in London with horses swapped to tire the animal and calls for prosecutions by the Animals Friend Society. Also in Grey's Inn Lane, William Major is tried for stealing a plum pudding from Mrs. Eliza Buzzard, released after choosing to pay.
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London
Shelford
Ratcliffe
Herts
Bedford
Animals Friend Society
Bill Buzzard
Glassware hawker tried for desertion linked to wife’s death
James Green, a glassware hawker, stood before Mr Bingham charged with deserting his wife leaving her destitute. A coroner’s inquest ruled death natural but condemned his neglect. He faced a three month sentence under the Vagrant Act after evidence of earnings and hardship.
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Worship Street
Derrorante
James Green
Bingham
Cotton
Bacon-street
Bethnal-green
Bethnal Green
Christie
Hackney-road
Houndsditch
House of Correction
Extraordinary Cast of Crime Conviction at Dublin Magistrates
In Dublin a man described as respectable Samuel Hett, a waterman, faced magistrate G Clive with constables Puddiford T.127 presiding. Charged with stealing a penknife from Samuel Smyth, late proprietor of the King's Arms Fulham, the case involved Smyth's wife’s elopement and internal shop searches revealing silver and a bag with witness names. Witnesses described Smyth’s evidence and the sequence of events, including the discovery of a penknife in the prisoner's possession and the wife’s reported movements between Fulham and Dublin.
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Lewis
Ely Place
Ion
Humphreys
Newgate-street
Jerings
Notting-hill
Tolett
Denmanne
Rosenhe Tian
Charles Osenberg
Jewis
Samuel Smyth
King’s Arms
Jo. Fulham
Omnibus
Teese -#ant
Drummond Street
Euston,square
Witness
Dublin
Ireland
No. 13
Henry-street
Edward Brown
Drummond-street
Euston-square
Seymour-street
Prsoner
Prisoner Remanded on Dublin-Linked House Theft Case
In a London case from 1844 the prisoner is remanded after a witness detailed adding items to a cab and driving to Fulham and Chelsea park gates. The magistrate set a remand date for January 10 1844 and bail was offered at 200 pounds with two sureties of 100 pounds each on forty eight hours' notice.
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Western Circuit
Wincheston
Ansoy
Justice Ersuine
Rachel Elliott
Samuel Platt
Rawlinson
Mr. Platt
Carmarthenshire
Carmarthen
Cresswell
Dynevor Park
George IV
South Wales
John Jones
Shoni Seyborfour
Walter Rees
Messrs. Chilton
Queen's Counsel
John Evans
Queen’s Counsel
E. V. Williams
E. C. Lloyd Hall
Mr. Graves
London and Birmingham
Justices' Justice at Carlisle Smuggling Case
A Carlisle coach with a box labeled Mrs. MGregor London is seized by excisemen revealing five gallons of 38 over proof whiskey. The coach and coachman are detained, with a £200 bond required, then the coachman faces a swift magistrate proceeding at the Lion and Lamb inn. Major Wilde declares a rapid justice, condemning Beaty with a £25 fine or three months, then Beaty is briefly imprisoned and later released, prompting accusations of Jedart-like justice and procedural impropriety by Mr Mounsey and others.
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Carlisle
M‘gregor
London
Parliament
Commissioners of Excise
Phillistines
Excise
Langholm
J. Mounsey
W. Rees
Major Wilde
West Suffolk
Lion and Lamb Inn
Society of Felons
Wes
Ball
Mounsey
Order of Liberation
John Thos. Orridge
Thomas Beaty
Court-house
W. Witps
Jas. Mounsey
Jedburgh
W. Hodgson
Tommy Beaty
Thamas Beaty
Mr. Mounsey
Mr. Hodgson
Beaty
Board of Excise
Caplisie
Destructive Fire at Waterloo Place Workshop
A large blaze at Mr. Merrin's watchmaker and jeweller premises No 4 Waterloo Place Commercial Road East gutted three floors. Firemen battled the flames with Braidwood engines but could not save the building. cause unknown and loss expected to fall on Alliance fire office.
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Dhatkk
Canotgs
MN Division
Axted
Cherry Garden-Street
Bermondsey
Merrin
Waterloo-place
White Horsegate
Cooke
Alliance Fire Office
William Davis
John-steel
Tottenham-court-road
Toleenbetes Court-Road
St. Pancras
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Grattan
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Montgomery
Roy
York
Sadler's Wells
Corps Dramatique
Buckstone
T. L. Greenwood
Hope
Hop-o'my-Thumb
Hop
Mr. C. Montgomery
Grim Gram
Mr. C. J. Smith
Hans Hopper
Gallop
Mr. Grammani
Finetta
Emma Waite
Royal Exchange
Cwhlicly
Surrey
Hyde Park Corner
China
Europe
Thames Tunnel
Wapping and Rotherhithe
Ben Erte
LiveRroor
Dad
Muxprr
Kxowstuy
Justice Wightman
John Roberts
James Hunt
Thomas Jacques
Joseph Rimmer
Henry Fillingham
Richard Kenyon
Kudwaley
Brandt
Townsend
James
Tyrer
Lord Derby
Knowsley
Forest-house
Joseph Butler
Thomas Mellish
William Mellish
Kenyon
John Shaw
Shaw
Naazman Shaw
Eldon-street
Windle
John
William Webster
Thomas Tithero
Henry Robinson
Hunt
Robinson
Fillingham
Eccleston Lane End
John Webster
Tithero
London Road
Prescot
Webster
Black Horse
Old Swan
Knotty Ash
James Seddon
Liverpool
Blue Bell
Tuark’s
Fillingham’s
Harry
George Jacques
Tie
Tom
Windlehall
Jacques
Rimmer
Jack Shaw
Willian
Park Gate
Wm. Webster
Hazels
Huyton Church
Lunatic Hospital
John Williams
Joan Shaw
Corporation
Thomas Seddon
Naaman Shaw
Knottingash
Seddon
Welsley
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Clerkenwell
Hammersmith
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