ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 63, 25 October 1864, Page 3

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

A curious case lias been tried in Ireland. A young girl, with an orange lily pinned to her breast, was passing a Roman Catholic chapel, ■whence a miscellaneous congregation -was issuing. , Observing amongst the congvegation unmistakable { signs of approaching violence, a policeman stepped j up to the young lady and asked her to remove t-he j flower or cover it over. As she refused to do j either, the officer, in order to prevent" a breach of j the peace, removed it himself after a little struggle j in which no one was hurt. Upon that th» parents ' of the obstinate fair one brought their action for ' assault and battery, and a jury of Protestants found a verdict in their favour, ordering the policeman to pay £30 for preventing a breach, of the peace. • A useful invention has just been made. It consists of a new means of stamping fae-shnile s of signatures, names, initials, monograms, and figures, and the great advantage of this invention is that, double, or probably, treble the number of impressions are made with a considerably less amount of labor than by the instruments now in use. Mr. Cooke, the magistrate sitting in the Worship-street police-court, seems determined to emulate the £ame o£ Sir Peter Laurie, and " put down " suicide. He announced recently that cases of attempted suicide were becoming as frequent as cases of petty larcency, and he would send every person brought before him on the charge for trial. That will doubtless diminish the number of "attempts " by increasing that of successful suicides; It is the fear of the charge which induces: those who have made the attempt with half a heart to make it again more earnestly. ! Those wild 'have really made up their minds to face '• the grim king are not very likely to be deterred by\ terror of Mr. .Cooke. ;..,..> . > ■ Ih .^oiisequoTioe of a report in the papers that ■Cardinal Wisoman had been cured of diabetes .by barm, .prescribed for him by a ■;. Unitarian minister,' the cardinal has published a statement, in which 2 he traces his cure to : the waters of Vichy, and the course h there, followed, strictly observed "once, on the . spot, and afterwards repeated, both as to baths and draughts, witih Jobservaricevof the diet proscribed - there; several times at home. To this was, added for a time the use of gluten bread and meal. Her Majesty has selected Mr. Lawdor, a rising. Irish sculptorj tooxecuto aomo of tho 'fignros on the ;_rrmcp ; QoußOvt rneraorial., JHois ,tp have 3d66 giiinoas for! his "commission. My. Foloy, E. A., who was j>rovi6usly selected, receives 5000 guineas for the figures which the Quoen haa ooxnmiesioned hjm to exeoute,