ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 587, 18 July 1873, Page 3

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

— o — "Amadous is reported to l>c writing a history of his reign. Mr. James Gordon Bennett, the proprietor of ihe Kern YorJ: Herald, is proposing to start a daily London newspaper, after the model of that world-famed journal. The Easter Vestries appear to have led to some rather exciting scenes in different parts of the country. The Vicar of Landulph (Cornwall) whose congregation has, during the past year, dwindled down to three, hja s been told in public that ho spoke d d nonsense—At Liverpool, the minister of St. Stephen’s Church, has been summoned for spitting in the face of his clerk ; and at the vestry meeting, several hours were spent in “ uproar.” and the rector’s declaration that he took the responsibility of all that had boon done in the Church was ' greeted with cries of “shame”.—At South Molten there was a most excited and turbulent discussion anent the use of “ Hymns Ancient and Modern.” and at Norwich the now Hector of St. John’s was plainly told by one of his churchwardens that ho would oppose his Ritualistic practices “if it cost--1000/.” ■ ■ - At Greenock, a woman has boon fined -10/. for selling some portions of a dog as “ lamb.” A Lancashire publican has obtained verdicts against two local journals for libelling him by suggesting that his inn did more harm than the church and school did good. A nurse in the Fulham Workhouse has invented a new specific for dipsomania, it consists simply in the application of a mustard poultice. A drunken pauper who had been “brought to” by this means, and subsequently charged with refractory conduct, has hecu let off by the magistrate, who considered the poultice had bean sufficient. punishment. An earthquake was felt at Doncastsr lately. Many buildings were shaken to their foundations, and people rushed out into the streets to learn the cause. Persons who were sitting at the time’of the occurrence were jerked forward, or thrown bodily off their scats. Furniture was displaced, and many tradesmen hadthoir’goods m their shops disturbed. A short time since a gentleman named Moore, who was travelling by rail, in company with two young ladies, vr’a violently attacked by the only other occupant of the carriage, and who turned out to be insane. After being secured, the maniac declared that it was his intention to kill the old gentlemen, whom ho knew to be the devil, and afterwards to slay the two women and himself. The various bequests left by charitable persons for the relief of poor debtors, (amounting to about 3,000/. a year) have been rendered nugatory by the abolition of imprisonment for debt. The question of the disposal of this fund came before Vice Chancellor Malins the other day. The Attorney General, supported by the Discharged Prisoners’ Aid Society, and by the Lord Mayor, suggested the foundation of an industrial school for the children of convicts The scheme was opposed by some of the City companies, and by the Governors of Christ’s Hospital, who had plans of their own. The Vice Chancellor expressed no opinions upon these latter schemes, hut dismissed that of Sir J. Coleridge, on the ground that the founders clearly intended to benefit adult persons, not children, and to relievo those imprisoned for debt and not for crime. Sir James Haunen has now before him a curious divorce case—the wife petitions for a dissolution of her marriage on the ground of her husband’s misconduct, he having been repeatedly convicted of felony.