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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 .

“The Freemasons' Monthly Magazine: 1857-12-01, Page 178” Masonic Periodicals Online, Library and Museum of Freemasonry, 27 May 2025, django:8000/periodicals/mmr/issues/frm_01121857/page/178/.
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TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. Article 1
HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED RITE. Article 3
MASONIC ANTIQUITIES. Article 7
THE BEST OF FRIENDS MUST PART. Article 10
SYMBOLISM OP THE SHOCK. Article 14
LONDON AND MIDDLESEX ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Article 17
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. Article 20
REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS Article 25
CORRESPONDENCE Article 31
MASONIC ARCHITECTURE. Article 40
THE MASONIC MIRROR. Article 41
METROPOLITAN Article 45
PROVINCIAL. Article 53
ROYAL ARCH. Article 75
MARK MASONRY. Article 79
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. Article 82
SCOTLAND Article 82
IRELAND. Article 86
COLONIAL. Article 87
RUSSIA. Article 90
SUMMERY OF NEWS FOR NOVEMBER. Article 91
NOTICE. Article 95
TO OUR SUBSCRIBRS. Article 97
FREEMASONRY AT SEA. Article 104
TIDINGS FEOM THE CRAFT IN THE UNITED STATES. Article 105
LONDON AND MIDDLESEX ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Article 110
REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS. Article 116
MUSIC. Article 118
THINK NOT OF WRONGS : Article 118
CORRESPONDENCE. Article 119
THE LEVEL AND THE SQUARE. Article 123
THE MASONIC MIRROR Article 124
METROPOLITAN. Article 136
PROVINCIAL. Article 148
ROYAL ARCH Article 165
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR Article 167
MARK MASONRY. Article 168
SCOTLAND, Article 171
IRELAND Article 172
COLONIAL. Article 173
MASONIC FESTIVITIES. Article 176
SUMMARY OF NEWS FOR DECEMBER Article 176
Obituary. Article 180
NOTICE Article 183
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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 .

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