ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 602, 31 October 1873, Page 2

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

y |,, f t T#>~' "• | O'}/ Four young dog-fish have been hatched at the Brighton Aquai iiun. n Dr. hi ary Walker, finding the medical profession anything but lucrative, has ac- „ jctqited a clerkship in the Treasury of the iUnited Slates, j j.j j | J Railway accidents in England lately have ! increased ea-h other with most alarming rapidity. < »The weather has been excessively hot. £ several deaths by sunstroke have taken , v place. j It Is Sail triiit gieaii preparariiiiia are j bring made, at St. Petersburg lor the Duke of Edinburgh's arrival, and that the wedding will take place with great splendour nr January or early in February. Two iuen have been convicted at the Croydon Assizes, and sentenced to ten years’ penal servitude, twenty five lashes, f n I five yeais’police supervision, for robcing a gentleman. To s-cure a ling worn iy the prosecutor, they twisted his finger j out of the socke r - , Recently a man named Pearce was taken j in a fit while walking in the Wandsworthroad. He was taken to three hospitals in succession, arid 1 refused admission, on the ’ p’ea tha 1 all he beds were full. Ultimately j ho was carried to Bow-street PoliceStat on, j where he so. nr after died. The Coroner s ( jury appended to their verdict a censure ( upon the authorities of the respective in- ( stitutions. I An extraordinary charge of fraud was lately heard b fore the Marylebone Magis 'j Dates The p o ecutri.x accu-ed her page , of ob aining over3oo/. from her, under the pretence that he was ill, and was being ( a tended by Sir William G«le and Sir , J Paget. At I.oestoft. lately, the crew of a gent’emaii’s yacht got dnnk ail mutinied, an 1 the owner of the vessel had to obtain the assisauce of the Coa-t Guard officers, wh • conveyed *ho men to the lookup. “The np"ctite grows proverbially by what it feeds on.” rcmaiks the Printers’ Register. The Lords of the Treasury, it ; s «aid, arc about to supplement then- recent minute in ve’abon to sunplying official inI formation to 'ho newspapers by an order I yet mure stringent and arbitrary, and by which iatriibeis of the Civil Service will be prohibited from editing or sub-editing public j nrnals. F fieen gi n'lemen concerned in a cock fight at Weaveiham were fined 5/. each. The po'ic- are s’ ill on the watch fur the i Ooi-am-s'rcct murderer. The other day a German gentleman travelling in 1 1 can ! was acres'od and locked up for twentyf ur limps on suspicion, .until someone could be found to read the Genian papers in his possession which cat blished his innocence. At Shrewsbury two policemen have been shot by a gentleman whose house they had been engage Ito protect The shots were tired un ler tha impression ttiat the officers were the ex- ected depredators for whom ' they were on the watch. An itinerant newsvendor, convicted i f selling k jenny jajer for threejeuce on prett nee that it contained news of the “ death of Mr. Gladstone,” with his "last j dying words.” has been sentenced to a i I mo'ith’s hard labor. ■ Th l girls in a Criminal Reformatory near j ’ Bath, broke out in mutiny a few days ago i Lee use of the appointment of a laundry i matron whom they disliked. The emeute ! was so serious that the jxilice had to he scut for from Bath, Bradford, and Trowbridge. and they had some difficulty in overcoming the rioters. The ringleaders were taken away to prison, and there is to be a magisterial inquiry. A poor man, who, for the last twentyeight years, has got his living by selling ]lies - n the Green at Rich non 1, has lie n summoned under the new Parks’ Regula--1 trim Act, an I fined Is., an 1 1 Is. costs, and 1 of course, must sell there no more. . Dr. Kcnealy, the Counsel for the Tich- ’ borne claimant, frequently alludes to hj s client us a “complete and perfect do ikey ” 3 j a man “not in the full possession of his ! facuPie-i,” &c., and suggested that “ tire I good sound Protestant Arthur Orton ” had a more powerful intellect and hat gamed 1 a ' infl ier.ee over him, thus accounting for ihc " extraordinary interest this man feels for the Orton family.” A terrible poaching affray is reported I from Leicester, The gamekeeper, Iris son, r and under-gardener in the employ of Sir s hj. Halford have been brutally beaten, and the gamekeeper has die lof his injuries. ■i After the frte of the Police Orphanage at ■ the Chrystal Palace held a short time since .. a policeman was attacked an I ‘■tabbed iu „ several [dates by a strange man, who got clear off. A mischievous lad, who was caught in i th" act of breaking the iro i rails up n the t Thames Embankment, was, the other day I taken before a magistrate, who said that as if there were no bye-laws, he could not cout viit, but that the remedy lay in the i County Court.