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The Week.
Hughes was found guilty of damaging a picture and some monuments in St . Marylebone Church , and also with ' destroying the statues of her Majesty and the Prince Consort , at the Colosseum . The plea of insanity being admitted , the prisoner was sentenced to be detained during the Queen ' s pleasure . Joseph Adolphus Zalmanovicz , clerk , was found guilty of stealing . £ 1050 in banknotes ; sentence deferred . The trial of the forging and coining gang was also brought to a close , and resulted in a conviction . Wagner and Bateman were
sentenced to transportation tor life , Humphries to twenty , and Bramwoll and Foster to ten years penal servitude . The poor woman , Martha Page , who was stabbed in the street at Howard-road , Hornsey , by her brother-in-law , Samuel Adams , died in tho hospital on Saturday . Adams , who is a morose , drunken savage , when charged before Mr . Tyrwhitt , at Clerkenwell , on the same day , with the crime of murder , seemed to be the least concerned about the matter of any one in court . The magistrate remanded the case till Saturday next . A circular from the AV ' ar
Office has been addressed to the lord lieutenants of counties , sanctioning the formation of volunteer rifle corps , and indicating the rules by which they are to be governed . Sir AVilliam Armstrong , the inventor of the gun which goes by his liaine , was feasted on Tuesday at Newcastle-on-Tyne , and stated that ho had received great encouragement both from tho Palmerston and the Derby governments had in favour ofthe all future of
. He relinquished : country improvement his weapon , jn consideration of a salary of £ 2000 per annum , commencing three years back , and lasting for seven years to come . —"Very few elections remain to be gone through now , and the epiestion of loss or gain is practically settled for both sides of the new house of parliament . The great struggle of the week has been that of the AVest Riding of Yorkshire , and the result has been a victory for the Liberals . On the whole the government have gained about thirty new seats .
PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS , LAST evening every nook and corner of the magnificent Covent Garden Operahouse was crowded to witness the debut of Mnie . Pence in " La , Traviata , " but wc regret to say that tho early hour at which ive go to press prevents our giving any criticism upon her performance till next week . In the ballet of " Eva" another first appearance was made , that of Mile . Zina . Her Majesty and the Prince
Consort wero present on this occasion . At Drury Lane " Rigoletto" is among the latest revivals , with Mile . Brambilla as Gilda and Sgr . Mongini as ' / Buca . In the duet with Rigoletto , in the third act , Mile . Brambilla was heard to most advantage , aud at tho fall of the curtain she was recalled , with Sgr . Fagotti , who sustained the part of tho jester , and sang and acted with great care . Tho Duke ' s air in the third act was rapturously encored , and Sgr . Mongini had also to repeat each verse of the popular " La donna o mobile , " his rendering of which
produced great sensation . The chorus ,-ind orchestra were spirited throughout , and the representation on the wholo w .-. s highly sucsessful . At the Adelphi on Monday another great success was achieved by Mr . Tom Taylor ' s neivtwo act comedj ' , entitled "TheHouso and thc Homo . " Uui-spacodoesnoUllow us to describe tbcplotjitisenoiigh to say that the clever play is very cleverly acted , that Mr . and Mrs . AVigan have been admirably suited with characters to which they do the greatest justice , acting with refinement but rarely found . Mr . Billington has never been seen to such
advantage ; he played with much taste and gentlemanly feeling . Too much praise cannot be given to Mr . Selby for the artistic finish which rendered his character , an old beau of the George the Fourth era , one of the pleasantest in the piece . Miss Simms was hardly so successful as usual . The piece was excellently placed upon the stage , and went off admirably . The addition of M . Clement J list to the company now acting at the St . James ' s Theatre has caused the production of " Le Couri-ier de Lyon , " and " Les Memoires du Diablo . " M . Clement Just is a fair average actor , but he certainly possesses no claim to the prominence ivhich is accorded to him among his colleagues , among whom we would commend for real
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Week.
Hughes was found guilty of damaging a picture and some monuments in St . Marylebone Church , and also with ' destroying the statues of her Majesty and the Prince Consort , at the Colosseum . The plea of insanity being admitted , the prisoner was sentenced to be detained during the Queen ' s pleasure . Joseph Adolphus Zalmanovicz , clerk , was found guilty of stealing . £ 1050 in banknotes ; sentence deferred . The trial of the forging and coining gang was also brought to a close , and resulted in a conviction . Wagner and Bateman were
sentenced to transportation tor life , Humphries to twenty , and Bramwoll and Foster to ten years penal servitude . The poor woman , Martha Page , who was stabbed in the street at Howard-road , Hornsey , by her brother-in-law , Samuel Adams , died in tho hospital on Saturday . Adams , who is a morose , drunken savage , when charged before Mr . Tyrwhitt , at Clerkenwell , on the same day , with the crime of murder , seemed to be the least concerned about the matter of any one in court . The magistrate remanded the case till Saturday next . A circular from the AV ' ar
Office has been addressed to the lord lieutenants of counties , sanctioning the formation of volunteer rifle corps , and indicating the rules by which they are to be governed . Sir AVilliam Armstrong , the inventor of the gun which goes by his liaine , was feasted on Tuesday at Newcastle-on-Tyne , and stated that ho had received great encouragement both from tho Palmerston and the Derby governments had in favour ofthe all future of
. He relinquished : country improvement his weapon , jn consideration of a salary of £ 2000 per annum , commencing three years back , and lasting for seven years to come . —"Very few elections remain to be gone through now , and the epiestion of loss or gain is practically settled for both sides of the new house of parliament . The great struggle of the week has been that of the AVest Riding of Yorkshire , and the result has been a victory for the Liberals . On the whole the government have gained about thirty new seats .
PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS , LAST evening every nook and corner of the magnificent Covent Garden Operahouse was crowded to witness the debut of Mnie . Pence in " La , Traviata , " but wc regret to say that tho early hour at which ive go to press prevents our giving any criticism upon her performance till next week . In the ballet of " Eva" another first appearance was made , that of Mile . Zina . Her Majesty and the Prince
Consort wero present on this occasion . At Drury Lane " Rigoletto" is among the latest revivals , with Mile . Brambilla as Gilda and Sgr . Mongini as ' / Buca . In the duet with Rigoletto , in the third act , Mile . Brambilla was heard to most advantage , aud at tho fall of the curtain she was recalled , with Sgr . Fagotti , who sustained the part of tho jester , and sang and acted with great care . Tho Duke ' s air in the third act was rapturously encored , and Sgr . Mongini had also to repeat each verse of the popular " La donna o mobile , " his rendering of which
produced great sensation . The chorus ,-ind orchestra were spirited throughout , and the representation on the wholo w .-. s highly sucsessful . At the Adelphi on Monday another great success was achieved by Mr . Tom Taylor ' s neivtwo act comedj ' , entitled "TheHouso and thc Homo . " Uui-spacodoesnoUllow us to describe tbcplotjitisenoiigh to say that the clever play is very cleverly acted , that Mr . and Mrs . AVigan have been admirably suited with characters to which they do the greatest justice , acting with refinement but rarely found . Mr . Billington has never been seen to such
advantage ; he played with much taste and gentlemanly feeling . Too much praise cannot be given to Mr . Selby for the artistic finish which rendered his character , an old beau of the George the Fourth era , one of the pleasantest in the piece . Miss Simms was hardly so successful as usual . The piece was excellently placed upon the stage , and went off admirably . The addition of M . Clement J list to the company now acting at the St . James ' s Theatre has caused the production of " Le Couri-ier de Lyon , " and " Les Memoires du Diablo . " M . Clement Just is a fair average actor , but he certainly possesses no claim to the prominence ivhich is accorded to him among his colleagues , among whom we would commend for real