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put on his trial , charged with the wilful murder of his wife , Mary Ann Turner , at Rochester , on Sunday morning , the 18 th of April . Mary Anne King proved-that the prisoner had committed the murder , and that he admitted having done so . She thought he was jealous of his wife ; he had always shoAvn great kindness to her . William Joseph King , husband of the last witness , confirmed her testimony , adding that the prisoner was very much excited at the time . These witnesses
lived in the same cottage with the prisoner and his unfortunate wife . The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter , and he was sentenced to penal servitude for life At the assizes at Ipswich , Ebenezer Cherrington was convicted of the wilful murder of Susanna Studd , in the parish of St . Mary-in-the-Elms , Ipswich , on April 30 th , by striking her with a poker , Avhich was bent with the violence of the blow . Lord Campbell passed sentence of death , holding out no hope of mercy . Francis Worrall Stevens , stock and share broker , charged with fraudulently
appropriating to his own use the sum of £ 4799 , entrusted to him for the purchase of railway and other stock , has been committed for trial by the lord mayor , but admitted to bail in sureties of £ 4000 .- A- laudable step has been taken in the interests of public morality by the issue of warrants at the Thames Police-court , on the application of the East London Society for the Suppression of Vice , for the apprehension of a man and his wife who are stated to be the proprietors of 25 common brothels , containing 150 prostitutes , situated in different east-end
parishes . -The Registrar-General , in his weekly return states that , owing to the fall of temperature , there was an improvement in the public health of London . The deaths last week were less by 35 than the estimated number , though 333 in excess of what is termed the " healthy rate . " The deaths from diarrhoea were 127 , and from cholera 10 , of which only one occurred to an adult . The total deaths were 1132 , and births 1655 . Dr . Letheby reports favourably of the health ofthe City , the deaths being below the average .
PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS
The most noticeable event of the week under this head has been the production at the Royal Italian Opera of " Don Giovanni , " with the music transposed as to enable Mario to appear as the licentious Don—he being a tenor , whilst Mozart composed for a baritone . —The transposition has been anything but successful , and Mario , though he cannot sing badly , will not add to his laurels by assuming the part of Giovanni , for which he is totally unfitted . The other characters were generally well filled , and Grisi ' s . Donna Anna was
as exquisite as ever . We trust that Mr . Gye will not allow of any more of these transpositions in standard operas . Only think of Shakspere , being transposed for Harley or Wright to play Hamlet , Avith the rest of the characters left in their integrity . At Her Majesty ' s theatre , the cheap nights have proved very attractive , the more especially as " Giovanni ' is played Avithout transposition . At the Strand theatre the performances have been varied by the revival of the little comic drama that went the round of the theatres some
sixteen years since , under the title of " Asmodeus ; or , the Little Devil , " Miss Marie Wilton assuming the character , and most successfully , which first brought Emma Stanley into notice . -Mr . and Mrs . Barney Williams , having brought their London engagements to a successful close , have gone to SAvitzerland for repose from their arduous labours . On Tuesday evening , in the large room of St . Martin ' s Hall , a gentleman named Abel Mathews , commenced the remarkable feat of reciting from memory the twelve books of Milton ' s " Paradise Lost . " The
attendance was not very numerous , nor the effect of the recitation very good ; the sound of the voicA echoing through the building , seriously interfering with the tones of the speaker , and the necessarily measured cadences producing a painful feeling of monotony and dreariness on the ear of the listener . About one-fifth of the poem was got " through , but we should think the experim- ;/ would not be renewed . AfterL season of something like 400 nights fa the metropolis , the Christys have gonevto the provinces for a time ; but we sha , ! doubtless see them hack in London before they return to America .
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put on his trial , charged with the wilful murder of his wife , Mary Ann Turner , at Rochester , on Sunday morning , the 18 th of April . Mary Anne King proved-that the prisoner had committed the murder , and that he admitted having done so . She thought he was jealous of his wife ; he had always shoAvn great kindness to her . William Joseph King , husband of the last witness , confirmed her testimony , adding that the prisoner was very much excited at the time . These witnesses
lived in the same cottage with the prisoner and his unfortunate wife . The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter , and he was sentenced to penal servitude for life At the assizes at Ipswich , Ebenezer Cherrington was convicted of the wilful murder of Susanna Studd , in the parish of St . Mary-in-the-Elms , Ipswich , on April 30 th , by striking her with a poker , Avhich was bent with the violence of the blow . Lord Campbell passed sentence of death , holding out no hope of mercy . Francis Worrall Stevens , stock and share broker , charged with fraudulently
appropriating to his own use the sum of £ 4799 , entrusted to him for the purchase of railway and other stock , has been committed for trial by the lord mayor , but admitted to bail in sureties of £ 4000 .- A- laudable step has been taken in the interests of public morality by the issue of warrants at the Thames Police-court , on the application of the East London Society for the Suppression of Vice , for the apprehension of a man and his wife who are stated to be the proprietors of 25 common brothels , containing 150 prostitutes , situated in different east-end
parishes . -The Registrar-General , in his weekly return states that , owing to the fall of temperature , there was an improvement in the public health of London . The deaths last week were less by 35 than the estimated number , though 333 in excess of what is termed the " healthy rate . " The deaths from diarrhoea were 127 , and from cholera 10 , of which only one occurred to an adult . The total deaths were 1132 , and births 1655 . Dr . Letheby reports favourably of the health ofthe City , the deaths being below the average .
PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS
The most noticeable event of the week under this head has been the production at the Royal Italian Opera of " Don Giovanni , " with the music transposed as to enable Mario to appear as the licentious Don—he being a tenor , whilst Mozart composed for a baritone . —The transposition has been anything but successful , and Mario , though he cannot sing badly , will not add to his laurels by assuming the part of Giovanni , for which he is totally unfitted . The other characters were generally well filled , and Grisi ' s . Donna Anna was
as exquisite as ever . We trust that Mr . Gye will not allow of any more of these transpositions in standard operas . Only think of Shakspere , being transposed for Harley or Wright to play Hamlet , Avith the rest of the characters left in their integrity . At Her Majesty ' s theatre , the cheap nights have proved very attractive , the more especially as " Giovanni ' is played Avithout transposition . At the Strand theatre the performances have been varied by the revival of the little comic drama that went the round of the theatres some
sixteen years since , under the title of " Asmodeus ; or , the Little Devil , " Miss Marie Wilton assuming the character , and most successfully , which first brought Emma Stanley into notice . -Mr . and Mrs . Barney Williams , having brought their London engagements to a successful close , have gone to SAvitzerland for repose from their arduous labours . On Tuesday evening , in the large room of St . Martin ' s Hall , a gentleman named Abel Mathews , commenced the remarkable feat of reciting from memory the twelve books of Milton ' s " Paradise Lost . " The
attendance was not very numerous , nor the effect of the recitation very good ; the sound of the voicA echoing through the building , seriously interfering with the tones of the speaker , and the necessarily measured cadences producing a painful feeling of monotony and dreariness on the ear of the listener . About one-fifth of the poem was got " through , but we should think the experim- ;/ would not be renewed . AfterL season of something like 400 nights fa the metropolis , the Christys have gonevto the provinces for a time ; but we sha , ! doubtless see them hack in London before they return to America .