ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 638, 10 July 1874, Page 3

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Fourteen thousand persons visited the Eondoii International Exhibition on the opening .’ay, the fith of April last. Ihe Alexandra Palace is beiu i rapidly rebuilt, and it is to be hope! will bo ready for opening before the eud of the present year. A quicksilver none is said to have been accidentally disc jveied by some boys on the bank of the river at Head Weir near Exeter. A vocal phenomenon has recently appeared in Vienna—a ten »r who from some eccentric formation of the lary nx causing two notes at once. A now bed of oysters, situated about six miles off Shorebam Harbor, lias been discovered, which are double the size of natives, are reported to be of the choicest quality. “ Women and AVork,” an industrial, educational, and household weekly register, is about to be published by Miss E. faithful), as an organ for women seeking employment, and employers seeking workers. The Tichbo'ne case, besides furnishing the subject of a Roman Opera and a Parisian ballet, is now to be produced as a seven act drama— L' Affaire Tichbornc—at the Paris Ambjgu. The mania for old china, so amusingly characterised by Punch, has extended even t" the Sultan of Turkey. His Majesty has begun to form a collection of blue and white ware, and Is sending all over Europe to secure specimens for his museum, which lie ambitiously intends to be the most complete in the world. Tlie Court of Queen’s Bench has decided that chasing rabbits with dogs in a wal'ed in field does not come under the Icml meaning of the word “ baiting,” winch implies that the animal should bo tied or fastened. According to this definition a Spanish bull-fight would still be a perfectly legal exhibition in this country. For some weeks past two or three butchers from Chipping Norton have been selling moat in Reading at from Gd. to Sd. per lb , which is 3d. or 4d. cheaper than the shops, and they have been doing a good trade. On a day named, bavin g sold out by r.dd-day, they paraded the town with a band and banner, stopping in front of the principal butchers’shops. At last an irate tradesman threw a bucket of brine over some of the leaders. He was

immediately attacked and pelted with his own joints of meat, and both he and the police wore severely maltreated. The ib t lasted for Some time, and was only at last put an end to by the descent of a heavy torrent of rain. At the Cambridge police-court the evideuce of a student from the University, who declared himself to be an atheist, was refused by the magistrate, who said that during his long experience he never remembered such a case. In a recent libel action the stud groom in the employ of Major Furnival has obtained a verdict with 101. damages against a corn chandler, who had wrtten to his master accusing him of charging .‘ls. per quarter mo'rejor com than he had paid for it.

There was’a fearful entente in Portland prison recently ; a dozen convicts sprang suddenly upon two warders, ran together into a-cell in which they barricaded themselves. They we re at length induced to surrender, the flovernor promising that the Warders should not thrash them, and they are now confined in separate cells, awaiting tho decision of tho directors, which will not he given until the result of the wounds inflicted on the warders is ascei tamed. Two domestic servants have been committed for trial for stealing their employers’ children. In one case the accused said that she had been tempted to do so by a man who took her and the child to Brighton, and after taking 31. from her had disappeared. Iu the other erase the girl was traced to Liverpool, ami from tho evidence of the stolen child it appeared that she intended going to Australia