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Summary Oe News Eor October
At the Adelphi , T . P . Cook has continued to play all his old parts with a renewed air of juvenility . At the Olympic , anew piece from the pen of Mr . A . C . Troughton has been produced with decided success . It is entitled " Leading Strings , " and is an
adaptation from the French . Mr . Robson is undertaking a provincial tour , leaving the management of his little theatre in the hands of a deputy , and it gives us much pleasure to learn that Mr . Wigan is recovering from the severe indisposition which compelled him to throw up the Olympic reins . But what has become of our worthy Bro . Sam . Emery ?
JUDICIAL . The Sheffield magistrates fined the Manchester , Sheffield , and Lincolnshire Railway Company the sum of £ 5 and costs , for using an engine which did not consume its own smoke . On the 24 th of September , James ^ Booth was , at Aberdeen , found guilty of the murder of his wife , and sentenced to be executed , which sentence was carried into effect on the 21 st ult .
On the 10 th ult ., Mr . Baron Channell , sitting in chambers , refused to issue a habeas corpus to bring before a coroner a prisoner committed by a justice of peace on the charge of murder , although the coroner was then holding his inquest upon the murdered person . On the 13 th , Mr . Jardine , at the Bow-street police-office , condemned as obscene a large number of books and engravings seized by the police in their , razzia upon Holywell-street .
On the 19 th , the captain of a trading vessel was committed from the quarter sessions at Boston , for eighteen months , with hard labour , for cruelty to a pauper apprentice . On the 21 st , two boys were tried at the Middlesex sessions , for firing a loaded gun at one of the Eastern Counties Company ' s trains , but were acquitted of the
charge , the occurrence having been accidental . On the same day , the Judge of the Westminster County Court decided that the manager of a theatre is liable to damages , should he not in proper time restore to the author a dramatic piece submitted for his perusal . A Mr . Eonblanque was the plaintiff , and Mr . Buckstone , of the Haymarket , the defendant in the suit .
On the 22 nd , a young man named Hill > was found guilty of attempted fraud , at the Beading sessions , and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment , with hard labour *
During the last month meetings have been held throughout the country , in aid of the fund for the relief of the sufferers by the Indian mutiny . The Agricultural Associations have been all holding their annual meetings , and have so given the county members an opportunity of expressing their opinions upon public matters . On the 3 rd , the Horse Guards issued a general order , reducing the standard for recruits to 5 feet 5 inches for the cavalry , and to 5 feet 4 inches for the infantry .
MISCELLANEOUS
The 7 th was observed as a day of general humiliation in all parts of the United Kingdom , in deprecation of the Divine wrath for the misgovernment of India . Since Nineveh humbled itself at the preaching of Jonah , a more touching sight has not occurred in the history of any country . On the 9 th , Earl Granville distributed the national medals for drawing among the art-students of the United Kingdom , in the Town Hall , Manchester . On the 12 th , a meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science , took place in the Town Hall , Birmingham , under the presidency of Lord
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Summary Oe News Eor October
At the Adelphi , T . P . Cook has continued to play all his old parts with a renewed air of juvenility . At the Olympic , anew piece from the pen of Mr . A . C . Troughton has been produced with decided success . It is entitled " Leading Strings , " and is an
adaptation from the French . Mr . Robson is undertaking a provincial tour , leaving the management of his little theatre in the hands of a deputy , and it gives us much pleasure to learn that Mr . Wigan is recovering from the severe indisposition which compelled him to throw up the Olympic reins . But what has become of our worthy Bro . Sam . Emery ?
JUDICIAL . The Sheffield magistrates fined the Manchester , Sheffield , and Lincolnshire Railway Company the sum of £ 5 and costs , for using an engine which did not consume its own smoke . On the 24 th of September , James ^ Booth was , at Aberdeen , found guilty of the murder of his wife , and sentenced to be executed , which sentence was carried into effect on the 21 st ult .
On the 10 th ult ., Mr . Baron Channell , sitting in chambers , refused to issue a habeas corpus to bring before a coroner a prisoner committed by a justice of peace on the charge of murder , although the coroner was then holding his inquest upon the murdered person . On the 13 th , Mr . Jardine , at the Bow-street police-office , condemned as obscene a large number of books and engravings seized by the police in their , razzia upon Holywell-street .
On the 19 th , the captain of a trading vessel was committed from the quarter sessions at Boston , for eighteen months , with hard labour , for cruelty to a pauper apprentice . On the 21 st , two boys were tried at the Middlesex sessions , for firing a loaded gun at one of the Eastern Counties Company ' s trains , but were acquitted of the
charge , the occurrence having been accidental . On the same day , the Judge of the Westminster County Court decided that the manager of a theatre is liable to damages , should he not in proper time restore to the author a dramatic piece submitted for his perusal . A Mr . Eonblanque was the plaintiff , and Mr . Buckstone , of the Haymarket , the defendant in the suit .
On the 22 nd , a young man named Hill > was found guilty of attempted fraud , at the Beading sessions , and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment , with hard labour *
During the last month meetings have been held throughout the country , in aid of the fund for the relief of the sufferers by the Indian mutiny . The Agricultural Associations have been all holding their annual meetings , and have so given the county members an opportunity of expressing their opinions upon public matters . On the 3 rd , the Horse Guards issued a general order , reducing the standard for recruits to 5 feet 5 inches for the cavalry , and to 5 feet 4 inches for the infantry .
MISCELLANEOUS
The 7 th was observed as a day of general humiliation in all parts of the United Kingdom , in deprecation of the Divine wrath for the misgovernment of India . Since Nineveh humbled itself at the preaching of Jonah , a more touching sight has not occurred in the history of any country . On the 9 th , Earl Granville distributed the national medals for drawing among the art-students of the United Kingdom , in the Town Hall , Manchester . On the 12 th , a meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science , took place in the Town Hall , Birmingham , under the presidency of Lord