-
Articles/Ads
Article EASTER HOLIDAY ARRANGEMENTS. Page 1 of 1 Article EASTER HOLIDAY ARRANGEMENTS. Page 1 of 1 Article THE THEATRES; &c Page 1 of 1
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Easter Holiday Arrangements.
EASTER HOLIDAY ARRANGEMENTS .
— : o : — LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY . THE London and North Western Railway Company announce that the ticket offices at Euston , Broad Street , Kensington , and Willesden Junction will be open throughout the day , from Monday , 11 th April , to Monday , 18 th April inclusive , that passengers wishinr to obtain tickets for any destination on the London and North Western Railway can do so at any time of the day prior to the starting of the trains . The tickets will be dated to snib the
convenience of passesgers . Tickets for all the principal stations on the London and North Western system and its connections can be obtained at any time ( Sundays and Bank Holidays excepted ) at the town receiving offices of the company . They can also be obtained at Gaze and Sons' Tourist Office , 142 Strand , at the same fares as at Euston Station . On Thursday , 14 th April , a special express
will leave Willesden at 2 * 45 p . m . for Bletchley , Northampton , Rugby , Trent Valley Stations , and Stafford ; a special train will leave Birmingham for Northampton at 4 * 5 p . m ., calling ? at Coventry and Rugby ; a special express train will leave Euston Station at 4 * 20 and 6 * 50 p . m . for Birmingham , calling at Willesden Junction , Rugby , Coventry and Steohford , arriving at Birmingham ( New £ | Jreet )
at 7 * 0 and 9 * 35 p . m . respectively . On Good Friday , 15 th April , the 5 ' 15 a . m . newspaper express train from London ( Euston Station ) will run to Northampton , Rugby , Nuneaton , Tamworth , Lichfield , Rugely , Stafford , Crewe , Birmingham , Shrewsbury , Warrington , Runcorn , Liverpool , Manchester , Wigan , Preston , Lancaster , Carnforth , Orenholme , Kendal , Windermere , Tebay , Penrith , Carlisle , Edinburgh ,
Glasgow , Perth , and Aberdeen . With some exceptions , the trains of the company on Good Friday will run as on Sundays . On Friday night and Saturday morning , 15 th and 16 th April , the 11 * 41 p . m . and 12 ' 6 a . m . trains from Carlisle will ran aa usual ; the 12 * 10 a . m . Holyhead to Crewe , 4 * 30 a . m . Holyhead to Chester , and 2 * 25 a . m . Chester to Liverpool will not be run on Saturday morning , there
being no boats from North Wall or Greenore on the evening of Good Friday . By special arrangement with the Postmaster-General , one passenger carriage will bo attached to the 8 * 30 p . m . postal express from London ( Euston Station ) on Good Friday night , 15 th April , for the conveyance of passengers booked from London to Dumfries , stations on the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Railways , Stranraer ,
Larne , and stations in Ireland on the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway . Passengers for those stations wishing to join the postal train at Rugby , Tamworth , Crewe , Wigan , Preston , or Carnforth , can do so , provided there are vaoanb seats in the passenger carriage . There will be no sleeping accommc lation . On Saturday , 16 th April , and on Easter Monday , 18 th April , passengers from the
12 * 0 noon and 4 * 0 p . m . will leave Euston at 12 * 10 noon and 4 * 10 p . m . respectively . The 4 * 30 p . m . train will not be run ; passengers will be conveyed by the 5 * 0 p . m ., except those from Melton Mowbray , Nottingham , and the Great Northern line , who must ou these dates travel by the 3 * 15 p . m . train from Euston The dining saloons between London and Liverpool and London and
Manchester will not run on these dates . On Bank Holiday , Easter Monday , 18 th April , the express trains to and from the City , St . Albans , Watford , and Kensington will not be run . Numerous residential trains will also be discontinued , the particulars of which will be advertised locally . The company also announce thafc they will run excursions
to and from London and Wolverhampton , Leamington , Coventry , Walsall , Leicester , Macclesfield , Stoke , Stone , Liverpool , Manchester , Chester , North Wales , Shrewsbury , Hereford , Oswestry , Preston , Wigan , Blackpool , Morecambe , Carlisle , the Lake District , Scotland , and other places , on the occasion of the Easter holidays .
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY . THE Great . Western Railway Company issue ordinary as well as excursion tickets at their City and West End Offices , viz .: —192 and 407 Oxford Street , 23 New Oxford Street , Holborn Circus , 2 D Charing Cross , 26 Regent Street , 5 Arthur Street East , London Bridge , 82 Queen Victoria Street , 43 and 4 < t Crutched
Friars , 67 Gresham Street , 4 Cheapside , 269 Strand , and the London , Brighton , and South Coast Company's excursion office ( under Grand Hotel ) Trafalgar Square , afc any of which places tickets can be obtained during the whole week preceding Easter for use on any day np till 16 th April . Tickets can also be obtained afc Victoria ,
Kensington ( Addison Road ) , Aldgate , the stations on tho Hammersmith and City line , and at most of tho stations on tho Metropolitan and District Railways . The booking office at Paddington station will be open for tho issue of tickets the whole day on the Monday , Tuesday , Wednesday , Thursdayand
, Saturday , before Easter . Cheap tickets at special low fares and available from 14 th to 20 fch April , will be issued from London to Bath , Bristol , Exeter , Plymouth , ¦ talmouth , Penzance , Yeovil , Dorchester , Weymouth , and certain other stations in tho South and West of England . On Thursday
, 14 th April , an excursion reaching Exeter in 5 : i hours , and Plymouth in 7- * hours , will leave Paddington afc 7 * 45 a . m . Excursions will also be run on the same day to Oxford , Birmingham , Shrewsbury , Chester , tirencester , Gloucester , Cheltenham , & c . On Good Friday , cheap trams will run to Maidenhead , Reading , Oxford , and other riverside stations
. On Saturday , lGth April , an excursion will run to Bath and isristol , and on Monday excursions will be made to Maidenhead « l !? v ' Batb ' Brist 0 '> Cirencester , Gloucester , Cheltenham , & c . In addition to these excusions cheap trains will also be run to London rom most of the provincial towns , and between the principal centres or population . On Wednesday and Thursday before Easter most of the long distance « wra will be duplicated the first portion aa a general rule will
Easter Holiday Arrangements.
take passengers for the longer distances and the second those for less distant places , but both trains will stop at the usual places . On Good Friday the trains will run as on Sundays , except thafc the 5 * 30 a . m . newspaper train will IUU as far aa Oxford , Exeter ard Swansea , calling at the usual intermediate stations , and connecting at Oxford with trains to the Worcester , Birmingham and Wolver « hampton disti iots .
LONDON AND SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY . THE South Western Railway will run numerous cheap excursions to all parts during the Easter Holidays . Cheap third class return tickets from London to Devonport , Plymouth , Tavistock , Ilfracombe , Barnstaple , Bideford , Exeter , Weymouth , Dorchester , Swanage , Poole , Bath , Wells , Radstock , & c , will be issued by all trains ou the 14 th April and subsequent days , up to and including 18 th April ( not
to S . and Dorset line stations on the 15 th or 17 th April ) , available to return up to and including 20 th April . Special extra fast trains will leave Waterloo on Thursday , 14 th April , aa follows : —At 20 p . m ., for Bournemouth , Dorchester , and Weymouth ! At 4 * 40 p . m ., for Winchester , Christchurch , and Bournemouth ; and at 4 * 45 p . m ., for
Salisbury , Yeovil , Exeter , and the West of England and North Devon lines . The 5 p . m . West of England train from Waterloo will convey passengers to North Devon stations , & o . At 8 ' 45 p . m . on Thursday , 14 fch April , a special late train will be run to Exeter , the West of England , South and North Devon , & c The cheap tickets will be
issued by this train . A return special late train will leave Plymouth 100 p . m ., Exeter 12 * 10 midnight , on Easter Monday , for London , calling at principal stations . For additional train and boat accommodation to Portsmouth , Southsea , and Isle of Wight , and other
facilities , we commend our readers to the excursion programmes , whioh may be obtained at any of the company's stations or London receiving houses , or by post from the office of the Traffic Superintendent , Waterloo Station .
The General -Steam Navigation Company have made special arrangements for the Easter Holidays . A steamer will leave London for Amsterdam and back on Thursday , 14 th April . The vessel will return from Amsterdam on Monday , 18 th April , at 11 a . m . For Loudon to Antwerp and back a steamer will leave London on
Thursday , 14 th April , and will return from Antwerp on Monday , 18 th April , at 3 p . m . For London to Ostend and back on Saturday , 16 th April , at 2 after ., and to return from Ostend ou Tuesday , 19 th April , at 1 after . London to Hamburg and back , via Harwich ( Parkesten Quay ) , Great Eastern Railway and General Steam
Navigation Companies' Joint Service . Passengers leave Liverpool Street Station on Tuesday , 12 th April , Friday , 15 th April , or Satur . day , 16 th April , afc 8 p . m ., arriving at Hamburg either Thursday , Sunday , or Monday morning ; returning from Hamburg on Sunday , 17 th April , at 10 * 45 p . m . ; or returning Tuesday , 19 th April , or
Wednesday , 20 fch April , afc 10 * 45 p . m . From London Bridge Wharf to Margate and back , on Good Friday , 15 th April , Easter Sunday , 17 th April , and Monday ISfch April , an excursion will ( weather permitting ) be run each day by the " Philomel" to Margate and
back , leaving London Bridge Wharf afc 9 * 30 a . m ., returning from Margate at 5 p . m . to Tilbury , where all passengers will bo landed , For further particulars aoply to Richard Cattaras , General Manager , 55 Great Tower Street , L-. ndon , E . C .
The Theatres; &C
THE THEATRES ; & c
— : o : — Mr . Mark Melford's new drama , " The Maelstrom , " will be pito duced at the Shaftesbury theatre , this Saturday evening . Bro . Edward Terry will re-open on Wednesday with a revival of " The Magistrate . " Morning and evening performances
of" L'Enfant Prodigue" will be given afc the Criterion next week , prior to the production of a new comedy , in which Brother Charles Wyndham will appear , on Saturday , 23 rd instant . Monday next will also see the first performance of " Niobe , " a fantastic inytbo «
logical modern comedy by tho Brothers Paulton , at the Strand theatre ; and on Saturday , 16 th inst ., Mr . Fred L ^ ngley will produce a new and original farcical comedy by Mr . Geo . Manville Fenn , entitled " The Tin Box . "
The Lyceum , Haymarkefc , Adelphi , and Garriok theatres will be olosed next week until Saturday , 18 th inst ., ifc being Holy Week . Mr . Lawrence Irving , second son of Bro . Henry Irving , has mado his first appearance upon the London stage at the theatre of his god '
father , Bro . J . L . Toole , tho piece selected being Mr . A . W . Pinero's pretty play "Daisy ' s Escape . " Mr . H . B . Irving at the conclusion of his engagement with Mr . John . Hare will leave the stage to seek preferment as a barrister-at-law .
Lord Tennyson has presented all those members of the Lyceum company who assisted in the recent performance of his new ploy "The Foresters "—produced for copyright purposes—with a collected edition of his poems signed by the author .
FINE OLT > COGNAC—There was an outcry in certain quarters some little time ago that good brandy was nofc procurable here , nndj indeed , was no longer made in France , the home of that spirit . Tho complaint was much exaggerated , for some first-class firms had
plenty of sound brandy . Messrs . Spiers and Pond , for example , are now offering a magnificent mature brandy , " as soft as silk , " which is twenty-seven years old , and of remarkable delicacy of flavour . Connoisseurs of brandy should make a point of trying it .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Easter Holiday Arrangements.
EASTER HOLIDAY ARRANGEMENTS .
— : o : — LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY . THE London and North Western Railway Company announce that the ticket offices at Euston , Broad Street , Kensington , and Willesden Junction will be open throughout the day , from Monday , 11 th April , to Monday , 18 th April inclusive , that passengers wishinr to obtain tickets for any destination on the London and North Western Railway can do so at any time of the day prior to the starting of the trains . The tickets will be dated to snib the
convenience of passesgers . Tickets for all the principal stations on the London and North Western system and its connections can be obtained at any time ( Sundays and Bank Holidays excepted ) at the town receiving offices of the company . They can also be obtained at Gaze and Sons' Tourist Office , 142 Strand , at the same fares as at Euston Station . On Thursday , 14 th April , a special express
will leave Willesden at 2 * 45 p . m . for Bletchley , Northampton , Rugby , Trent Valley Stations , and Stafford ; a special train will leave Birmingham for Northampton at 4 * 5 p . m ., calling ? at Coventry and Rugby ; a special express train will leave Euston Station at 4 * 20 and 6 * 50 p . m . for Birmingham , calling at Willesden Junction , Rugby , Coventry and Steohford , arriving at Birmingham ( New £ | Jreet )
at 7 * 0 and 9 * 35 p . m . respectively . On Good Friday , 15 th April , the 5 ' 15 a . m . newspaper express train from London ( Euston Station ) will run to Northampton , Rugby , Nuneaton , Tamworth , Lichfield , Rugely , Stafford , Crewe , Birmingham , Shrewsbury , Warrington , Runcorn , Liverpool , Manchester , Wigan , Preston , Lancaster , Carnforth , Orenholme , Kendal , Windermere , Tebay , Penrith , Carlisle , Edinburgh ,
Glasgow , Perth , and Aberdeen . With some exceptions , the trains of the company on Good Friday will run as on Sundays . On Friday night and Saturday morning , 15 th and 16 th April , the 11 * 41 p . m . and 12 ' 6 a . m . trains from Carlisle will ran aa usual ; the 12 * 10 a . m . Holyhead to Crewe , 4 * 30 a . m . Holyhead to Chester , and 2 * 25 a . m . Chester to Liverpool will not be run on Saturday morning , there
being no boats from North Wall or Greenore on the evening of Good Friday . By special arrangement with the Postmaster-General , one passenger carriage will bo attached to the 8 * 30 p . m . postal express from London ( Euston Station ) on Good Friday night , 15 th April , for the conveyance of passengers booked from London to Dumfries , stations on the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Railways , Stranraer ,
Larne , and stations in Ireland on the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway . Passengers for those stations wishing to join the postal train at Rugby , Tamworth , Crewe , Wigan , Preston , or Carnforth , can do so , provided there are vaoanb seats in the passenger carriage . There will be no sleeping accommc lation . On Saturday , 16 th April , and on Easter Monday , 18 th April , passengers from the
12 * 0 noon and 4 * 0 p . m . will leave Euston at 12 * 10 noon and 4 * 10 p . m . respectively . The 4 * 30 p . m . train will not be run ; passengers will be conveyed by the 5 * 0 p . m ., except those from Melton Mowbray , Nottingham , and the Great Northern line , who must ou these dates travel by the 3 * 15 p . m . train from Euston The dining saloons between London and Liverpool and London and
Manchester will not run on these dates . On Bank Holiday , Easter Monday , 18 th April , the express trains to and from the City , St . Albans , Watford , and Kensington will not be run . Numerous residential trains will also be discontinued , the particulars of which will be advertised locally . The company also announce thafc they will run excursions
to and from London and Wolverhampton , Leamington , Coventry , Walsall , Leicester , Macclesfield , Stoke , Stone , Liverpool , Manchester , Chester , North Wales , Shrewsbury , Hereford , Oswestry , Preston , Wigan , Blackpool , Morecambe , Carlisle , the Lake District , Scotland , and other places , on the occasion of the Easter holidays .
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY . THE Great . Western Railway Company issue ordinary as well as excursion tickets at their City and West End Offices , viz .: —192 and 407 Oxford Street , 23 New Oxford Street , Holborn Circus , 2 D Charing Cross , 26 Regent Street , 5 Arthur Street East , London Bridge , 82 Queen Victoria Street , 43 and 4 < t Crutched
Friars , 67 Gresham Street , 4 Cheapside , 269 Strand , and the London , Brighton , and South Coast Company's excursion office ( under Grand Hotel ) Trafalgar Square , afc any of which places tickets can be obtained during the whole week preceding Easter for use on any day np till 16 th April . Tickets can also be obtained afc Victoria ,
Kensington ( Addison Road ) , Aldgate , the stations on tho Hammersmith and City line , and at most of tho stations on tho Metropolitan and District Railways . The booking office at Paddington station will be open for tho issue of tickets the whole day on the Monday , Tuesday , Wednesday , Thursdayand
, Saturday , before Easter . Cheap tickets at special low fares and available from 14 th to 20 fch April , will be issued from London to Bath , Bristol , Exeter , Plymouth , ¦ talmouth , Penzance , Yeovil , Dorchester , Weymouth , and certain other stations in tho South and West of England . On Thursday
, 14 th April , an excursion reaching Exeter in 5 : i hours , and Plymouth in 7- * hours , will leave Paddington afc 7 * 45 a . m . Excursions will also be run on the same day to Oxford , Birmingham , Shrewsbury , Chester , tirencester , Gloucester , Cheltenham , & c . On Good Friday , cheap trams will run to Maidenhead , Reading , Oxford , and other riverside stations
. On Saturday , lGth April , an excursion will run to Bath and isristol , and on Monday excursions will be made to Maidenhead « l !? v ' Batb ' Brist 0 '> Cirencester , Gloucester , Cheltenham , & c . In addition to these excusions cheap trains will also be run to London rom most of the provincial towns , and between the principal centres or population . On Wednesday and Thursday before Easter most of the long distance « wra will be duplicated the first portion aa a general rule will
Easter Holiday Arrangements.
take passengers for the longer distances and the second those for less distant places , but both trains will stop at the usual places . On Good Friday the trains will run as on Sundays , except thafc the 5 * 30 a . m . newspaper train will IUU as far aa Oxford , Exeter ard Swansea , calling at the usual intermediate stations , and connecting at Oxford with trains to the Worcester , Birmingham and Wolver « hampton disti iots .
LONDON AND SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY . THE South Western Railway will run numerous cheap excursions to all parts during the Easter Holidays . Cheap third class return tickets from London to Devonport , Plymouth , Tavistock , Ilfracombe , Barnstaple , Bideford , Exeter , Weymouth , Dorchester , Swanage , Poole , Bath , Wells , Radstock , & c , will be issued by all trains ou the 14 th April and subsequent days , up to and including 18 th April ( not
to S . and Dorset line stations on the 15 th or 17 th April ) , available to return up to and including 20 th April . Special extra fast trains will leave Waterloo on Thursday , 14 th April , aa follows : —At 20 p . m ., for Bournemouth , Dorchester , and Weymouth ! At 4 * 40 p . m ., for Winchester , Christchurch , and Bournemouth ; and at 4 * 45 p . m ., for
Salisbury , Yeovil , Exeter , and the West of England and North Devon lines . The 5 p . m . West of England train from Waterloo will convey passengers to North Devon stations , & o . At 8 ' 45 p . m . on Thursday , 14 fch April , a special late train will be run to Exeter , the West of England , South and North Devon , & c The cheap tickets will be
issued by this train . A return special late train will leave Plymouth 100 p . m ., Exeter 12 * 10 midnight , on Easter Monday , for London , calling at principal stations . For additional train and boat accommodation to Portsmouth , Southsea , and Isle of Wight , and other
facilities , we commend our readers to the excursion programmes , whioh may be obtained at any of the company's stations or London receiving houses , or by post from the office of the Traffic Superintendent , Waterloo Station .
The General -Steam Navigation Company have made special arrangements for the Easter Holidays . A steamer will leave London for Amsterdam and back on Thursday , 14 th April . The vessel will return from Amsterdam on Monday , 18 th April , at 11 a . m . For Loudon to Antwerp and back a steamer will leave London on
Thursday , 14 th April , and will return from Antwerp on Monday , 18 th April , at 3 p . m . For London to Ostend and back on Saturday , 16 th April , at 2 after ., and to return from Ostend ou Tuesday , 19 th April , at 1 after . London to Hamburg and back , via Harwich ( Parkesten Quay ) , Great Eastern Railway and General Steam
Navigation Companies' Joint Service . Passengers leave Liverpool Street Station on Tuesday , 12 th April , Friday , 15 th April , or Satur . day , 16 th April , afc 8 p . m ., arriving at Hamburg either Thursday , Sunday , or Monday morning ; returning from Hamburg on Sunday , 17 th April , at 10 * 45 p . m . ; or returning Tuesday , 19 th April , or
Wednesday , 20 fch April , afc 10 * 45 p . m . From London Bridge Wharf to Margate and back , on Good Friday , 15 th April , Easter Sunday , 17 th April , and Monday ISfch April , an excursion will ( weather permitting ) be run each day by the " Philomel" to Margate and
back , leaving London Bridge Wharf afc 9 * 30 a . m ., returning from Margate at 5 p . m . to Tilbury , where all passengers will bo landed , For further particulars aoply to Richard Cattaras , General Manager , 55 Great Tower Street , L-. ndon , E . C .
The Theatres; &C
THE THEATRES ; & c
— : o : — Mr . Mark Melford's new drama , " The Maelstrom , " will be pito duced at the Shaftesbury theatre , this Saturday evening . Bro . Edward Terry will re-open on Wednesday with a revival of " The Magistrate . " Morning and evening performances
of" L'Enfant Prodigue" will be given afc the Criterion next week , prior to the production of a new comedy , in which Brother Charles Wyndham will appear , on Saturday , 23 rd instant . Monday next will also see the first performance of " Niobe , " a fantastic inytbo «
logical modern comedy by tho Brothers Paulton , at the Strand theatre ; and on Saturday , 16 th inst ., Mr . Fred L ^ ngley will produce a new and original farcical comedy by Mr . Geo . Manville Fenn , entitled " The Tin Box . "
The Lyceum , Haymarkefc , Adelphi , and Garriok theatres will be olosed next week until Saturday , 18 th inst ., ifc being Holy Week . Mr . Lawrence Irving , second son of Bro . Henry Irving , has mado his first appearance upon the London stage at the theatre of his god '
father , Bro . J . L . Toole , tho piece selected being Mr . A . W . Pinero's pretty play "Daisy ' s Escape . " Mr . H . B . Irving at the conclusion of his engagement with Mr . John . Hare will leave the stage to seek preferment as a barrister-at-law .
Lord Tennyson has presented all those members of the Lyceum company who assisted in the recent performance of his new ploy "The Foresters "—produced for copyright purposes—with a collected edition of his poems signed by the author .
FINE OLT > COGNAC—There was an outcry in certain quarters some little time ago that good brandy was nofc procurable here , nndj indeed , was no longer made in France , the home of that spirit . Tho complaint was much exaggerated , for some first-class firms had
plenty of sound brandy . Messrs . Spiers and Pond , for example , are now offering a magnificent mature brandy , " as soft as silk , " which is twenty-seven years old , and of remarkable delicacy of flavour . Connoisseurs of brandy should make a point of trying it .