Even those who had little sympathy with his aims and less with his methods will regret to hear of the death of Mr. John Kensit, which occurred in Liverpool Royal Infirmary last Wednesday morning. For the last four years his very name been the terror of the Ritualistic Churchman, as no one knew " whose turn would come next." His death was cat pneumonia, but his presence in the infirm ary was the result of an outrage. He was returning to the city after attending a meeting at Birkenhead, when he received a serious injury to one of his eyes through some one throwing a sharp piece of iron at him, he caught it just as it reached his eye and so mitigated the force of the blow, which otherwise would bably have proved instantly fatal. Hi: son, who ardently sympathises with his father's crusade against Ritualism, was in prison "for causing an abstraction" at the time of the outrage, but by the permission of the Home Secretary was allowed to visit his mother, and see his father's body on Wednesday. It is generally ho} that he may have the remainder of hia three months' sentence remitted. That he should pose as a religious martyr would be doubly unfortunate under the circumstances.
The Theatrical Event of the Autumn.
"The Eternal City," which I suppose we ought to consider the great theatrical event of the Autumn season, was produced Jast week with a great flourish of tram-pets, or to be more accurate, with specially composed music by the great Mascagni.
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