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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 238, 6 April 1866, Page 3

A Ladt Hissed out op a Theatee.— In a notice of the opening of the Strand Theatre, London, on Saturday evening, the "Morning Post" writes :—" In the course of the evening an incident occurred to which we have some delicacy in alluding, but which as being, so far as we know, wholly without precedent in an English theatre,, and also as intimating censorship of manners in a quarter where, according to conventional estimate, refinement is least to be expected, should not, perhaps, be suffered to pass without notice. In the stalls, which were occupied for the most part by ladies and gentlemen, manifestly of good social position, and all dressed in evening costume, there was seated, in company with a friend, a tall and remarkably pretty woman, the extraordinary lowness of whose dress was- a general subject of observation, and obviously gave great scandal to the audience, among the female portion of whom a painful sensation was clearly perceptible. At last public indignation found expression in a brief emphatic form. No sooner had the curtain fallen on the first play, then there was heard from the gallery a voice uttering slow and well-measured' accents for indignation which could be intended but for one person in the vast assembly. Pale with emotion, yet still retaining her gentle placid 100k — for there was no taint of immodesty in her demeanour — she quietly drew her opera cloak over her shoulders, and then tied it tightly round her neck. In a few minutes afterwards, she rose from her seat, and leaving behind her friend, a modestly dressed woman, walked out of the house, amid hisses from the gallery and stem silence, not less eloquent, in the stalls and boxes." During the late gales, a lighthouse in course of erection on the dangerous point known as the Wolf Eoek, on the Cornish coast has been levelled with the crag on .which it stood. This lighthouse has already been five years in course of erection, and it has cost eight or nine thousand pounds. Every stone in it weighed three tons, and the huge slabs were not only ' joggled and dove-tailed together vertically and latterally, and cemented with the most adhesive cement known, but they were further secured by immense iron bolts, let in with molten lead. Not one stone now stands upon another. — . " Shrewsbury Chronicle." "It appears," says the Some News, " that a distressing suicide has occurred owing to the loss of the London. An inquest has been held by the City coroner, at St. Mary Axe. on the body of Miss Sarah Marks, aged 48, who, it was alleged, committed suicide through grief, caused by the loss of a sister, aged 23, who was on board the ship London when that vessel foundered. Prom the evidence it appeared that the deceased had been in good health and spirits until she had heard of the loss of the London, and thence became quite frantic. She said that her young sister was dost on board that vessel, and it was she who had persuaded her to go tc Australia. She said, "I am my sister's murderer." A few days subsequently she was found on the floor of her room quite dead. On the table was found a bottle labelled " Poison, essential oil of almondp.' A paper was also discovered, on whicl deceased had written that " she had des^ troyed her life, for she was the cause 0: her sister's death, by persuading her tc go to Melbourne in the London." Mi Lawrence Levy, Upper East Smithfield said that the deceased and her sister wer< his nieces. The deceased had been drivei out of her mind by grief when she hearc the fate of her sister. "Witness believe* it was Miss Marks who came to the sidi of the sinking ship and ofrered to give i thousand guineas to the crew of the boa to take her in. The coroner havinj remarked upon the melancholy nature c the case, the jury returned a -verdict tha the doceaaed committed guioide by %$m