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Summaey Of Etews For 10vembee.
At the Haymarket , Mr . Buckstone has brought out a new play by Mr . Tom Taylor , entitled the " Unequal Match . " At the Adelphi , Mr . Webster has produced another novelty , called the " Headless Man . " The comic Italian opera , at St . . James ' s Theatre , still eon tinues to prove attractive , as does the grand spectacle at the Princess ' s . Mr . Robson has returned to the Olympic .
COMMERCIAL . During the past month there has been no Joint-Stock meeting of any importance held , but the Commercial interests of this country never went through a severer trial . The price of money rose to 10 per cent ., and so fearful has been the pressure upon public credit , that some of the largest houses in the city had to
suspend payment ; and were it not for the large advances made by the bank to others , bankruptcy would have become general . ' Several banks throughout the country , as in Liverpool , in Wolverhampton , in Glasgow , & c , had to close their doors ; but the Irish banks and the Metropolitan Joint-Stock banks , one and all , maintained their credit , notwithstanding an unprecedented run for gold .
ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES
On the 26 th October , Captain Kelso was thrown out of his saddle , at Salt Hill , in a collision with a galloping horse ridden by an inexpert horseman , and killed by the collision . On the 1 st ult ., a maniac , in a fit of insanity , murdered his mother-in law , at Much Wootton , near Liverpool . On the 3 rd , the Sussex Music Hall , Brighton , was entirely consumed by fire . On the 7 th , the house of a druggist , at Ince , near Wigan , was blown up by an
explosion of gunpowder . On tbe 12 th , two gentlemen were fined by Mr . Bingham , at the Marlboroughstreet Police Court , for racing their horses in Rotten Row . On tbe 13 th , six men were killed in a quarry , near Carnarvon , by the falling of a solid mass of rock of about thirty tons weight . On the same day , too , Mr . James Simpson , a farmer and local preacher , was shot dead , on Ashover Hill , by some assassin lurking in the brushwood .
On the 14 th , a most painful case of bigamy , desertion , and incest , came to public light at the Lambeth Police Court . John Blair Wills married a young woman , and after her first confinement placed her in Bedlam for puerperal insanity . On her discharge from that institution , he told her she was not his wife , he having been previously married to another woman , and handed the weak-minded woman over to his brother , who , on false representations , married her before the registrar ; and after gratifying his passion deserted her . To add to the villany of the case , it was during her illness that the first husband married the other woman .
On the 15 th , twelve persons were suffocated by the breaking out of a fire in Hollingwood Colliery , Stavely , near Chesterfield . On tbe 16 th , the town of Nottingham was the scene of general riot and confusion , in consequence of the rising of the unemployed artizans . On the 18 th , a disgraceful riot took place at a funeral at Lewes , arising out of sectarian differences : zeal , not charity , influencing the principal actors in the
scene . On the 24 th , a foreigner was charged at tlie Mansion-House , with robbery , at St . Ives , Huntingdonshire ; and with shooting , on the high seas , the officer who was sent in chase of him , arrested him in Hamburgh , and was bringing him back a prisoner .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Summaey Of Etews For 10vembee.
At the Haymarket , Mr . Buckstone has brought out a new play by Mr . Tom Taylor , entitled the " Unequal Match . " At the Adelphi , Mr . Webster has produced another novelty , called the " Headless Man . " The comic Italian opera , at St . . James ' s Theatre , still eon tinues to prove attractive , as does the grand spectacle at the Princess ' s . Mr . Robson has returned to the Olympic .
COMMERCIAL . During the past month there has been no Joint-Stock meeting of any importance held , but the Commercial interests of this country never went through a severer trial . The price of money rose to 10 per cent ., and so fearful has been the pressure upon public credit , that some of the largest houses in the city had to
suspend payment ; and were it not for the large advances made by the bank to others , bankruptcy would have become general . ' Several banks throughout the country , as in Liverpool , in Wolverhampton , in Glasgow , & c , had to close their doors ; but the Irish banks and the Metropolitan Joint-Stock banks , one and all , maintained their credit , notwithstanding an unprecedented run for gold .
ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES
On the 26 th October , Captain Kelso was thrown out of his saddle , at Salt Hill , in a collision with a galloping horse ridden by an inexpert horseman , and killed by the collision . On the 1 st ult ., a maniac , in a fit of insanity , murdered his mother-in law , at Much Wootton , near Liverpool . On the 3 rd , the Sussex Music Hall , Brighton , was entirely consumed by fire . On the 7 th , the house of a druggist , at Ince , near Wigan , was blown up by an
explosion of gunpowder . On tbe 12 th , two gentlemen were fined by Mr . Bingham , at the Marlboroughstreet Police Court , for racing their horses in Rotten Row . On tbe 13 th , six men were killed in a quarry , near Carnarvon , by the falling of a solid mass of rock of about thirty tons weight . On the same day , too , Mr . James Simpson , a farmer and local preacher , was shot dead , on Ashover Hill , by some assassin lurking in the brushwood .
On the 14 th , a most painful case of bigamy , desertion , and incest , came to public light at the Lambeth Police Court . John Blair Wills married a young woman , and after her first confinement placed her in Bedlam for puerperal insanity . On her discharge from that institution , he told her she was not his wife , he having been previously married to another woman , and handed the weak-minded woman over to his brother , who , on false representations , married her before the registrar ; and after gratifying his passion deserted her . To add to the villany of the case , it was during her illness that the first husband married the other woman .
On the 15 th , twelve persons were suffocated by the breaking out of a fire in Hollingwood Colliery , Stavely , near Chesterfield . On tbe 16 th , the town of Nottingham was the scene of general riot and confusion , in consequence of the rising of the unemployed artizans . On the 18 th , a disgraceful riot took place at a funeral at Lewes , arising out of sectarian differences : zeal , not charity , influencing the principal actors in the
scene . On the 24 th , a foreigner was charged at tlie Mansion-House , with robbery , at St . Ives , Huntingdonshire ; and with shooting , on the high seas , the officer who was sent in chase of him , arrested him in Hamburgh , and was bringing him back a prisoner .