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Theatres and other places of Amusement, _See also_ Actors 1617 and
Music halls 1665.
Adelaide gallery, entertainment at 561.
Albert saloon, manager 1447.
Alexandra built 1152.
Astley’s, lessee 704,
rebuilt 195,
renamed the Westminster theatre 903.
Avenue lessee 1421.
Bower saloon lessee 1403.
City of London lessee 1522.
Coburg built 1345,
drama at 955.
Comedy lessee 1421.
Court acting manager 1609.
Covent garden burnt 64, 1268, 1482,
converted into an opera house 38,
lessees 1268, 1345, 1356,
manager 473,
musical director 1158,
opera of 1846 organised 1253,
reconstructed 181,
scene painter 1243,
stage manager 1345.
Cremorne gardens, manager 984,
proprietors 15,
Bradley commits suicide in 372.
Criterion, lessee 1421,
managers 507, 1483.
Drury lane burnt down 290,
great city, run of 1294,
Hughes’ circus at 1571,
Jullien at 1268,
lessees 473, 599 _bis._, 1011,
managers 329, 473,
money lost in 599,
Monte Christo row 736,
musical director 1158,
scene painter 1243,
theatrical fund 1340.
English opera house _i.e._ Lyceum 87.
Fitzroy theatre manager 4.
Floral hall opened 181.
Folly, drama at 1023,
lessee 1421.
Garrick burnt 1169,
proprietor 695.
Globe lessee 1421.
Grecian lessee 695.
Haymarket lessee 466,
proprietor 955.
Hengler’s circus built 1428.
Her Majesty’s lessee 1356.
Highbury barn proprietor 1152.
Lyceum burnt and rebuilt 87,
lessees 879, 1016, 1030, 1268, 1356.
Marionette theatre, entertainment at 561.
Marylebone lessees 958, 1323,
manager 991.
Negro minstrels 1489.
New grand, proprietor 1404.
Olympic, decoration of 28,
lessees 991, 1025,
little Emily, run of 1295,
Tom and Jerry at 1231.
Opera comique lessee 1483.
Panopticon, Leicester square 72, 461, 611.
Pantheon, decoration of 28,
turned into wine vaults 1146.
Pavilion manager 1575.
Philharmonic, opera at 1022,
proprietor 1404.
Polytechnic institution founded 1177.
Prince of Wales, manager 507.
Princess’s built 1308,
conductor 1377,
manager 1345.
Punch’s play house or Strand theatre, actor at 1568,
manager 716.
Queen’s, Tottenham st., actor at 1568,
lessee of 22,
musical director 1158.
Royal Alfred manager 1152.
Sadler’s Wells interior rebuilt 191,
lessee 1522,
manager 1575.
San Souci, Douglas troupe at 903,
drama at 938.
St. James’ bazaar, a temple of magic 64.
St. James’ theatre built 378,
acting manager 1609,
lessees 599, 1527.
Standard burnt down 903,
manager 903.
Strand, Kenilworth, run of 1294,
lessee 1025,
managers 716, 1285, 1527,
Punch’s play house 1568.
Surrey burnt down 944,
lessee 958,
manager 1522,
Thurtell’s gig shown in The Gambler 1592.
Surrey zoological gardens, large pictures shown at 812–13,
lessee 516,
originated 770.
Temple of magic, the 64.
Tottenham st. theatre, Tom and Jerry at 427.
Vaudeville, opening piece 1295.
Vauxhall gardens, Great Nassau balloon 1223,
Joel Il Diavolo at 870,
lessee 1268,
musical directors of 290, 312.
Victoria lessee 1447.
Welsh Harp at Hendon 681.
Westminster theatre or Astley’s, lessee 903.

Theatrical managers, _See also_ Actors 1617,
Brading 1447,
Chatterton 599, 1016,
Duckenfield 36,
Greenwood 1231,
Harvey 1366,
Hatch 1375,
Swanborough 1571.

Thermometers accurate 811.

Thistlewood, Arthur _executed_ 1820,
traitor 1226.

Thought, laws of 335.

Thread manufacturer, Coats 657.

Threshing machines, hand power 1010,
patent machines 1126 _bis._

Throws, long 430.

Tichborne, Roger or Thomas Castro or Arthur Orton, Cobbett’s action
against the judges 658,
Cockburn judge in the case 662,
counsel 155–56, 1216,
Tichborne v. Lushington 354,
witness 1279.

Tight rope dancers, Christoff 617,
Hengler 1428.

Tilbury fort, Essex, monstre gun at 641.

Timber,
creosoted 263,
edifices 642,
fluid for preserving 488,
timber merchant 1308.

Tipperary lord lieutenant 897.

Tithes and rent charges 307,
tithe dinners, excursions substituted for 1434.

Toast master, Harker 1338.

Tobacco, _See also_ Pipes and Smoking apparatus 378,
Bibliotheca Nicotiana 378,
manufacturer 715,
pipes sent out to the Crimea 80.

Toll farmer, Bower 357.

Tom and Jerry a drama 1231, 1447.

Tongue, diseases of the 637.

Tortoise shell, workers in 1291.

Totnes, Devon, antiquities of 730.

Tourmalines, artificial discovered 1437.

Traction engines with single cylinder 110.

Trade, Board of, _See_ Board of Trade 1626.

Trade unions reports 337.

Traitors, Allen 51,
Cato st. 1226,
Frost 1110,
Sheares 85.

Tramways, steam cars 1208.

Trapeze performer, Artois 92.

Treadmill invented 779.

Treasury, first lord, _See_ Prime ministers 1683.

Trees, watering with chymical solutions 1611.

Trelawny, Sir Jonathan, bp. of Bristol _d._ 1721, And shall Trelawny
die, a ballad 1385.

Trifling mistake, The, Broughton imprisoned for publishing 427.

Trumpet players, Distin 882,
Harper 1343.

Trustees, lord Cottenham’s act 727.

Tuckett, Capt. Harvey G. P. duellist 542.

Tumuli of Yorkshire, Staffordshire and Derbyshire 191.

Turkey, admiralty board president 1487,
mushir of the empire 1487,
printing improved 619,
siege and storming of Khartoum 1178,
Silistria, siege of 500,
sultan’s visit to England 619,
Varna, surrender of, early news of 140,
_See also_ Pashas 1680.

Turner, Joseph M. W. _d._ 1851 painter, engravings by 482,
liber studiorum prints 1296,
pictures, account of 799,
works 486.

Turnip drill introduced into England 301.

Turnpikes, toll farmer 357.

Tuscany, mission to, abolished 8.

Tyntesfield, Somerset, convalescent home founded 1138.

Tyne improvement commission 736.

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Umbrellas, Fox’s paragon frame 1095.

Underwriter, Euing 1000.

Unstamped publications, person tried for issuing 556.

Urania’s mirror, invention of 627.

Urdú, professor of 954.

Used up, a farce 1584.

Utilitarianism unmasked 683.

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