GENERAL EXTRACTS.

Evening Star, Issue 3144, 18 March 1873, Page 3

GENERAL EXTRACTS.

A Liverpool piper, speaking of the late destructive gales, says, that during the first twelve days of December, no fewer than 449 passengers and sailors are known to have perished at sea. Lord Romilly, the Master of the Rolls, has announced to the leading counsel in his Court, that he intends to retire from the Beach early next year. It is expected that he will be succeeded by Sir George Jessel, the Solicitor-General.

In a recent speech Mr Robert Loavc, Chancellor of the Exchequer, said , “.America came out oGI gigantic civfl"war bleeding at every pore, and avith feelings very much excited and irritated. To her eternal honor be it said that she offered an unique instance in history. In her case “no statues glean the refuse of tho BAvord ;” no executioner was called on to finish the Avork the soldier had left undone. Whatever blood Avas shod Avas shed in the height of violent conflict. No blood, no mockery of judicial proceeding, no semblance of impartiality where the sentence was predetermined on and the executioner was ready, clouded the triumph of that civil Avar, and for that America deserves immortal honor.”

A correspondent of the Field writes thus regarding the Indian game of quoits •—Having recently rejiiifncd to Epglaqcl after a residence of many years in the Punjaub, I write to ask any of ypur Indian correspondents if they have ever seen the introduction of quoit throwing at our athletic meetings as practised by the natives in parts of India. I brought back with me several, and would be glad to supply dimensions and pattern. They are about twice the size of the ordinary English quoit, but as thin as cardboard, very sharp on the outer edge, the side that is uppermost when the quoit is thrown being rounded from the centre to the edges, and the under side flat. I have seen a native throw one 200 yards fairly measured, the quoit till the last fifty yards or so not rising more than six or eight yards from the ground. The usual custom is to practise at

some soft kind of plant with a long stalk, which at eighty yards they will lop pieces oil’, the quoit of course being as sharp as a knife, and it is curious to see it ricochetting along the ground for perhaps a hundred yards or more. ” hough they do not fly so well, it is advisable for an amateur to have these quoits made not too sharp, otherwise mutilation of the fingers may be the result.