ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 546, 4 October 1872, Page 3

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

What will the nine hours agitators say to the enclosed culling from a Loudon journal. “Covent Gordon Market, Central Avenue —Wanted immediately, four or five strong, active, healthy, hardworking girls, for bouquet making, &c. Early risers indispensable. Usual hours of business, from five o’clock a.m., until eleven o’clock p.m Applications to be made to the florists.” Two undergraduates of Cambridge were lately.fined 40s. each, for an assault upon an old gentleman of sixty-six, at Ealing, who was insensible for nearly eighteen hours in consequence of their attack. It appears that they had only upset the old gentleman “in fuu,” but wo suppose that, had the accused been “roughs”instead of “gentlemen,” the punishment would have been slightly different.— Graphic. In a recent case of knife-throwing, which resulted fatally, tho coroners jury returned a verdict of wilful murder, hut then the thrower was a poor woman.—lt is proverbial that tastes differ, and that they cannot lie accounted for, so perhaps, and we must not wonder at the announcement that there is an old lady at Fulham, who “keeps pigs for amusement.” —London Journal. From a recent return to the House of Commons, it appears that no less than 513 parishes in Norfolk are without a single policeman, 418 in Lioolndiire, 352 in Suffolk, 303 in the East Riding of York, and 200 in each of many other counties are in a similar predicament. Tho Record says that, among the ornaments which adorn the walls of a tavern in London where tho Communist refugees most congregate is a clay pipe well colored, which was formerly the property of M Garabetta, and to which, by the orders of Felix Pyat, was attached the following inscription;— “The pipe of a traitor.” A gentleman named Thomson, was recently driving near Darlington, at night, was caught by the throat on a telegraph wire, which had fallen slack from the posts, he was so severely injured he died scon afterwards.

William Thomas Tournonr, eldest son of Earl Poulett, and now Vicouut Hinton, was for three years, 1808-71, engaged as a pantoraimist at the .Surrey Theatre, and the Metropolitan and other music halls under the name of Cosman.

The following is the copy of a letter found in the pocket of a young girl who lately committed suicide at Swindon.—My dear mother, I have been and drowned myself because I would not stand to be put upon for nothing at all through illness. Please to meet me in Paradise.—Your daughter, Louisa, Give my clothes to anybody. Amen.” The “ Claimant” has paid a visit to Millwall, a locality in the immediate vicinity of Wapping. The meeting was a large one, and his reception was most enthusiastic. One man who wished to speak in opposition was hissed, groaned at, and pelted ; and even the combined entreaties of the “Claimant” and Mr. Whalley failed to secure him a hearing.

A journeyman, summoned to attondanin. qusct the other day at Westminster, caused some amusement in court by inquiring of the coroner why his wife had not been summoned instead of himself, as she kept tho business in her own name and paid the taxes. The coroner replied that his officer had power to summon any man he met in the street, and that the day for ladies to serve on coroner's juries hand not yet come, and he hoped never would. Two constables, charged with a violation of duty in handcuffing a prisoner to a horse while on the way to Acton po ice-station, have been fined by the magistrate, who considered that no deliberate act of cruelty had been committed, but only an error of judgment.

The following curious advertisement appeared lately in a Loudon journal published under the'auspices of the National Society : —A clergyman in Surrey wants a schoolmaster and mistress, and intimates “they must stand in such relationship to each other as to be able to live in one house.” This ought to apply to husbands and wives, but there are some of them, we suspect, unable to fulfil the condition. A footman without calves would bo in a family of fashion, as much out of place as a coachman without arms or a wax candle without a wick, But why should a church verger be necessarily muscular and araan of thews and smews? Upon what is it intended that he should exercise that strength which the churchwardens rank with activity and and habitual partakingof the sacrament? For Church an assistant verge- is advertised for, who need not hope for success unless he is “strong and active, and a communicant!” Australian —Hiloles.