Literary and Artistic Gossip and Obituary Notes
The column surveys current literary talk praising the Sabbatarian movement in Hyde Park and fashioning debate around royal Paris events. It notes the death of James Silk Buckingham and sketches his public career, then reports Paris theatre optimism, readings by George Vandenhoff, and forthcoming British poetry and prose editions by Routledge and Longman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Raglan
Hyde Park
Louis Napoleon
Robert Grosvenor
Roebuck
Layard
Crystal
Palace
Sydenham
Society of Arts
Buckingham
Calcutta
John Company
Europe
Sheffield
East India Company
Paris
George Vandenhoff
Shakespeare
Sheridan
Jullien
America
Mons
Madame Gassier
Akenside
Dyer
Routledge
Messrs. Griffin
Lord Brougham
Edinburgh Review
Messrs. Parker
Mr. Rinie
Messrs. Longman
Macaulay
Moore
Blackwood’s Political Pieces and Wartime Verse
A literary survey notes Blackwood’s political articles on Russia Imperial policy and the condemned Cabinet, Civil Service reform drawn from blue-book opinions, plus poems and Edwin Arnold verse. Major Stanley’s Inkermann assault description unfolds with vivid detail of French and Russian actions at the Mamelon and Malakoff, including vivandiere imagery and battlefield portraits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blackwood
Russia
Lord Aberdeen
Lord Palmerston
Modern Light Literaure
Maurice
Edwin Arnold
Vernier
Charles Knight
Stanley
Inkermann
Bosquet
Vivandiere
Redan
Siege night scenes amid shell fire at Redan and Malakoff
The account describes a night bombardment with mortars firing on Redan and Malakoff, flashes lighting the ridge, shells arcing and bursting, and Russians attempting to retake positions before being repulsed. The narrative shifts to a literary review in Bentley's Miscellany noting essays on Sheridan, Napoleon III, and Tennyson, with praise for Massey and Mayhew and comments on the magazine's editor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Redan
Malakoff
Ali
Wordnzoff
Dublin University
Sir Archibald Alison
Dramatic Writers In
Ireland
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Napoleon III
Spain
Alberic Porro
Mortimer Collins
Maurice Tilmay
Glencore
Bentley
Cruikshank
Meech
Charles Dickens
Prout
Lover
Albert Smith
Shirley Brooks
Angus Reach
Dudley Costello
Hogg
Alfred Tennyson
Gerald Massey
Hell
Delcing
Keats
Pan
Carrer, Jinx
Acton Bell
Illustrated Magazine
London
Horace Mayhew
G. A. Sala
Staichcombe Hill
Notable Farcical Mixups in Classic Works Referenced
The passage dismisses Mr. Cuthbert Bede's Olger and a mistaken identity motif used across comedies and plays. It notes the recurring theme in Bourcécaults London Assurance and Ingoldsbys Cousin Nicholas and critiques vapid college slang as a tired element in the humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuthbert Bede
Olger
Bourcecault
London Assurance
Ingoldsby
Nicholas
Grosvenor Square Man of Mayfair Prayer
A verse lament on Sunday hypocrisy praising Hay Hill and Grosvenor Square while condemning Clerkenwell Bermondsey and Goswell Road poets contrast sacred rest with public houses and ragged poor as the speaker vows a righteous Sunday feast at their expense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Pleasant
Goswell-road
Hay-hill
Grosvenor-square
Postage Rates for Newspapers and Periodicals in 1855
Treasury warrant dated June 13 1855 sets postage rates for newspapers and periodicals. Rates cover movements within the United Kingdom to colonies and foreign ports, via packet boats, private ships, or closed mails with varied charges from 1d to 2d per item depending on route and destination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury
United Kingdom
East Indies
Mediterranean
Marseilles
East. Indies
France
Algeria
Belgium
Prussia
New Grenada
Peru
United King
Fatal accident by machinery at Belmont
An inquest in Lancaster heard how Samuel Porter aged 22 died Monday morning in Sharples at Belmont while adjusting a carding engine. A strap wrapped around his left wrist as the shaft turned fast and he became wedged against a beam. witnesses said Porter acted unusually and the jury found the death accidental and his own fault.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
Pelissier
Malakoff
Careening Bay
Redan
Amon
W. S. Rutter
County of Lancaster
Samuel ‘Porter
Cumming
Belmont
Sharples
Porter
Carder
Green
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lord Robert Grosvenor
Punch
Clerkenwell
Tyburnia
Pimlico
Bermondsey
Bunhill-row
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