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Show An Amusing Scene In Court. One of tho most amusing yet unexpected unex-pected sensation scenes ever witnessed in a theatre orrurrcd at the Theatre Iioyal, Manchester. The curtain drew un for Mr, Toole to address the court in re Rirdell vs. Pickwick, when the whole of tiie iurv mysteriously disappeared. their "box"' suddenly giving way,aud ingulfing the "good men and true." At first the vast audience who crowded STery part of the theatre were silent, fearing some dreadful accident had occurred, oc-curred, but as the unlucky jurymen rapidly reappeared, unhurt, though looking look-ing very foolish, they broke out into n perfect hurricane af laughter, which lasted several minutes. I Tbe curtaia bail to le dropped to allow tbe jury to be "boxed" again, and when Mr. Toole began his address he provoked another burst of risibility by alluding to the jury as "that worthy body of stead-fart stead-fart and immovable men." A peculiarly amusing feature of this novel scene was tho fact that, tho minr. ity of the "jury" were stage carpenters, whose duty it was to erect the "court,'' and they suffered in this case for their own carelessness. London Tit-Bits. |