ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 553, 22 November 1872, Page 2

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

The Enfield magistrates have sentenced a policeman to month's hard labour for an unprovoked and brutal assault upon a young lady, who was standing at her own door bidding goodbye to a friend.—At a recent meeting of the Chelsea Guardians, a poor woman applied for a continuance of her relief, stating that some time ago her hushand, while crossing Hyde Park on his way to work, was taken up by two detectives on the ground that he was a burglar. He was so injured by their truncheons that he had to be removed to a lunatic asylum, since which time he and his family have been maintained at the expense of the parish. The guardians resolved to send a statement of the ease to the Home Secretary, and to the Commissioners of Police.— Two men named Hobbs and Trevor have been swindling a number of credulous people in the Black Country by representing that they had been sent down by the Lord Chancellor to find claimants to property in chancery. They are said to h*ve netted over 2,01)0/. by the fraud, obtaining 1,000/. from one person alone, Mrs. Ellismere, of Birmingham, the claimant to the Jenning'a estate. The last 100/. they got, they said was wanted to complete the bribing of the judges who were to decide the case. They arc now in custody at Wolverhampton.— A grocer of Ipswich is exhibiting in his shop window an original painting by Gainsborough, which is said to be worth 1,000/., and foi which the owner paid 3/. 10s.—A younn woman recently engaged as a servant at Camden House, Chiselhurst, has been sent to prison for three months for stealing 140/. in notes belonging to the cx-Emperor of the French. The notes had been stopped and the girl and her sweetheart were both arrested on tendering one at a London tailor's in payment for a coat. The young man was discharged, as it wa3 not proved he knew how his companion had possessed herself of the money.—The Freeman'* Journal has the following piece of logic in favor of Home Kule :- "The riota of Belfast were the offspring of Orange ruffianism, Orange niffianism is the offspring of Protestant ascendancy, Protestant ascendancy is the offspring of English tyranny and misrule."—William Charles .larvis has been committed for 1 belling a civil engineer, by styling him in a letter to a third person, " a Jew robber out of the slums of v\ hi'cchapel." The offence was admitted, but the defendant haggled bo much about apologising, that tho ease bM to go before a jury.—The following daring attempt at roW>ery was made recently in the shop of a million dealer in the City of London. A man entered for the ostensible purpose of buying a piece, of gold, and when a bowl of foreign coins was shown to him, he daslud a bag of flour in the ehopman'a face aid nuke a clutch at tho money, but unsuccessfully, as tho coins fell on tho inside of the 1 cuuulter.