-
Articles/Ads
Article SUMMARY OF NEWS FOR DECEMBER ← Page 3 of 5 →
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Summary Of News For December
Colonel Greathed has relieved Agra , and his march has been a series of victories Sir Colin Campbell has relieved Lucknow , and all are now in safety .
All the Metropolitan Theatres were well filled during the past month . On the 27 th of November , a new drama , founded on the siege of Delhi , was produced at Astley ' s , with decided success . On the 30 th , " Richard the Second" was reproduced at the Princess ' s , Mr . Kean again personating the unhappy monarch . On the 3 rd December , a new comedy , by Mr . Tom Taylor , w as brought out at the Haymarket , with decided success . On the 7 th , " Boots at the Swan " was revived at the Olympic .
PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS
COMMERCIAL . The state of the money market has been for the last month more reassuring than for a long time past . There have , however , been a great number of very heavy failures . In the way of Joint-Stock Companies' meetings , there has been literally nothing doing . On the 1 st , there was another stormy meeting of the shareholders of the Great Northern Railway Company , when the dividend to the Preferential Shareholders was declared , in accordance with the decision of the Court of Chancery .
On the" 5 th , the Peninsular and Oriental Steam-packet Company declared a dividend of 10 per cent , in all ; 7 to the shareholders , 2 to a particular fund , and 1 to the under-writing account .
JUDICIAL . On the 25 th of November , the Court of Queen ' s Bench decided that the avoidance of a church living by the appointment of the incumbent to a colonial bishopric , does not give the Crown the right of appointing to the vacancy . On the same day , a rnock attorney , named Henry Zachariah Jervis , was sentenced at the Old Bailey to eighteen months' imprisonment and hard labour for obtaining money on the false pretence of his being an attorney of the courts . ¦ On the 25 th , too , John Marks , Samuel Marks , and Abraham Simmons were each sentenced to eight years' penal servitude for fraudulent misappropriation of their effects after they had been adjudged bankrupts .
On the 27 th , a ease was tried in the Court of Exchequer , in which the jury decided that the manufacture of patent parchment from animal fibre was liable to the duty imposed upon the manufacture of paper . On the 28 th , a verdict of forty shillings , subject to a reference , was given in the Court of Queen ' s Bench , in the case of Whitmore v . Ingram , for an alleged nuisance arising from the noise of the steam-press employed in printing the Illustrated London News . The same day , Lord Campbell , in the case of the
Queen v . Spicer , at the prosecution of Day , for the publication of the libel , discharged the jury , contrary to the wish of the counsel , on his own responsibility , because they could not come to a verdict . In the next case , Webb v . the South-Eastern Railway , a verdict of £ 750 damages was awarded the plaintiff for the injuries sustained by his wife by reason of a collision at Lewisham . In the Court of Exchequer , on the same day , in the case of Johnston v . Sumner , it was decided that a party cannot recover from a husband for goods supplied to his wife , if divorced from him a mensd et thoro .
On the 1 st December , Granville v . Pugh was tried in the Common Pleas . The action was for rent of a furnished house in Curzon-street . The defence set up was that the house was uninhabitable on account of the number of bugs which infested the furniture .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Summary Of News For December
Colonel Greathed has relieved Agra , and his march has been a series of victories Sir Colin Campbell has relieved Lucknow , and all are now in safety .
All the Metropolitan Theatres were well filled during the past month . On the 27 th of November , a new drama , founded on the siege of Delhi , was produced at Astley ' s , with decided success . On the 30 th , " Richard the Second" was reproduced at the Princess ' s , Mr . Kean again personating the unhappy monarch . On the 3 rd December , a new comedy , by Mr . Tom Taylor , w as brought out at the Haymarket , with decided success . On the 7 th , " Boots at the Swan " was revived at the Olympic .
PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS
COMMERCIAL . The state of the money market has been for the last month more reassuring than for a long time past . There have , however , been a great number of very heavy failures . In the way of Joint-Stock Companies' meetings , there has been literally nothing doing . On the 1 st , there was another stormy meeting of the shareholders of the Great Northern Railway Company , when the dividend to the Preferential Shareholders was declared , in accordance with the decision of the Court of Chancery .
On the" 5 th , the Peninsular and Oriental Steam-packet Company declared a dividend of 10 per cent , in all ; 7 to the shareholders , 2 to a particular fund , and 1 to the under-writing account .
JUDICIAL . On the 25 th of November , the Court of Queen ' s Bench decided that the avoidance of a church living by the appointment of the incumbent to a colonial bishopric , does not give the Crown the right of appointing to the vacancy . On the same day , a rnock attorney , named Henry Zachariah Jervis , was sentenced at the Old Bailey to eighteen months' imprisonment and hard labour for obtaining money on the false pretence of his being an attorney of the courts . ¦ On the 25 th , too , John Marks , Samuel Marks , and Abraham Simmons were each sentenced to eight years' penal servitude for fraudulent misappropriation of their effects after they had been adjudged bankrupts .
On the 27 th , a ease was tried in the Court of Exchequer , in which the jury decided that the manufacture of patent parchment from animal fibre was liable to the duty imposed upon the manufacture of paper . On the 28 th , a verdict of forty shillings , subject to a reference , was given in the Court of Queen ' s Bench , in the case of Whitmore v . Ingram , for an alleged nuisance arising from the noise of the steam-press employed in printing the Illustrated London News . The same day , Lord Campbell , in the case of the
Queen v . Spicer , at the prosecution of Day , for the publication of the libel , discharged the jury , contrary to the wish of the counsel , on his own responsibility , because they could not come to a verdict . In the next case , Webb v . the South-Eastern Railway , a verdict of £ 750 damages was awarded the plaintiff for the injuries sustained by his wife by reason of a collision at Lewisham . In the Court of Exchequer , on the same day , in the case of Johnston v . Sumner , it was decided that a party cannot recover from a husband for goods supplied to his wife , if divorced from him a mensd et thoro .
On the 1 st December , Granville v . Pugh was tried in the Common Pleas . The action was for rent of a furnished house in Curzon-street . The defence set up was that the house was uninhabitable on account of the number of bugs which infested the furniture .