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" LAY " AND " LIE " (12 S. ix. 270, 312, 335).—Thanks are due to Mr. Pierpoint and C. C. B. for their contributions. I was well aware that the confusion between these words is not confined to one epoch; that it occurs in old writers and is horribly common at the present day. The question was how Byron came to fall into it, and my suggestion was that it was not merely common but absolutely fashionable in the society which he frequented. I hope that can hardly be said of cultured speakers now.
My further suggestion that Cockney inability to discriminate between "a" and "i" may have played its part in this confusion has not been commented on. It is curious that interchange is found to exist also between the sounds of "English 'a,'" ah and awe, as I pointed out under another heading (12 S. ix. 107). J. R. H. is thanked for his example quoted from Herrick, and in Donne's 'Satires,' i. 57-8, I have just noticed "India" rhymed to "away." T. S. Omond.
rich amateur who produced so many failures at various London theatres, ran a pantomime there. In 1868 an American actress, Agnes Cameron, produced Disraeli's 'Alarces' there—another failure. In November, 1871, George Sanger bought the lease from William Batty's widow, and for 20 years ran it very successfully under the title of "Sanger's Circus." During a portion of this period he also ran a circus at the Agricultural Hall, Islington. The ground landlords, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, subsequently were desirous of acquiring the lease, and the demands of the L.C.C. for additional "safety" exits and other structural alterations would have necessitated so large a capital outlay that Mr. George Sanger decided to sell his interest to the ground landlords, and on March 4, 1893, the famous circus was closed. The building was demolished and the entire block of property rebuilt. R. S. Pengelly.
12, Poynders Road, S.W.
ASTLEY'S AND SANGER'S CIRCUSES (12 S. May j be a ii ow ed to refer to a paper ix. 329, 373). Astley's first Amphitheatre, j entitled ' Two Masters of the Circus ' .an erection of deal boards, was set up in (Philip Astley and Andrew Ducrow), pub- 1774 in the Westminster Bridge Road, in lished in Baily's Magazine (Feb., 1912, -a spot now covered by the triangle of p . 12 9), i n wn ich I tried to fix the exact houses and shops between that thorough- 1 site of the last Circus, or Amphitheatre, fare and Lambeth Palace Road. It was j which bore Astley's name ? covered in in 1780. On Aug. 17, 1794, j A< FORBES SIEVEKING. , was burned down with 19 adjoining i i2 , Seymour Street, W. houses. Rebuilt, it was again burned I ' d< TU n 1 A 8 3 Vv? hil ! P Astley di6 / ? A U| ADMIRAL VERNON (12 S. ix. 321, 350).- -and the Amphitheatre was conducted by j Ag correspondent declines " to dismiss his son, John Astley. On his death, in 1821 i ftl , y rmriours of p the lower decks or the subse . it was conducted by his partner Davis, until I t gi in London p ort perhaps m 1830, on the expiration of the lease, he , ^ he | Portsmouth Port is also ad- was succeeded by the famous equestrian, ; miss f ble / The second Dllke of Richmond, Andrew Ducrow. The latter died in 1842 | ^ from Goodwood on June 21 , 1741 , the Amphitheatre having been burned j t ,, T>nkfl of Wpwna^tlft qav<? - down a third time in June, 1841. William | !? ^ ^ a Batty secured the lease and rebuilt the j amvex'd'to a degree that I can't express premises, re-opening in the winter of 1842. upon our misfortunes in the West Indies. I
- On Batty's death the Amphitheatre was | am extreamly sorry to find at least by the Ports-
leased by William Cooke, the head of a* mouth tittle-tattle that Vernon and Wentworth famous circus family who lost 16,000 i ^SFU^^S^SSAf *""
- in it. E. T. Smith, the famous lessee of! , , .
Drury Lane, the Alhambra, Cremorne, and u I ^ UO ^ G * ro , ^P^^^ many other places of amusement, ran it for bv the Earl of March ^ 1911 )' u - 369 ' 'two years, at a loss. Dion Boucicault J. PAUL DE CASTRO.
- rented it and called it the Theatre Royal,
Westminster. A Mr. Friend was the lessee DB - GEORGE McCALL THEAL (12 S. vm. in 1864 when Adah Isaacs Menken, the : 469). He was born in 1837 at St. John, poetess, appeared there as Mazeppa. l n | New Brunswick, says ' Chambers' s Encyclo - 1 864 'The Beggar's Opera 'was revived there. ; P dia of English Literature.' iln 1867 Mr. W. H. C. Nathan, that curious i ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
