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Mr. Tom Taylor's dramatized version of The Tale of Two Cities, with which Mr. Charles Dickens inaugurated his periodical All the Year Round, was to have been produced at the Lyceum on Wednesday last, but the extensive preparations required to give due effect to the scenes illustrative of the French Revolution, have necessitated its postponement to next Monday.
Mr. W. Cooke is about to retire from the management of Astley's, where he has reigned for seven years. Who will be his successor in a property that once included an equestrian monopoly, but which now ex- poses the manager to an endless competition with French and American Gymnasts ? The conversion of the Alhambra Palace into a circus must have had a serious influence on the geography of London horsemanship.
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