General News.

Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5287, 30 December 1885, Page 2

General News.

The following paragraph appeared in the Brisbane Courier:—" News has been received in Brisbane by the last mail, Oct. 28th, that • the Dr Anna M. L. Potts,' whose lectures for ladies were de* livered with such financial success in this city over twelve months ago, has been ar* rested at. a fashionable hotel in London for being a man in disguise. 'Dr Potts/ it appears, was in the habit of leaving the hotel sometimes in male and sometimes in female attire, and it was owing to this circumstance that suspicion was aroused." of justice hare recently been appealed to in sustension of the popular right to hiss an aotor, a public singer, or an unacceptable play. Nevertheless some performers do not hesitate to resent a sibillation. A short time ago, in Dublin, an officer seated in one of the stage boxes hissed one of the company Tery audibly, and the irate actor, advancing to the box, seized the offender by the noie and wrung it violently, the gallery boys cheering him in the act. But the wringer was giren in charge for an assault, was brought up at the police court next morning, and fined 403 for his unrehearsed performance. In the colonies we do not often hear of clergymen dying Tery wealthy, and if s^ch occurrences do take place they are '■< few and far between." It appears, however, a case heard in the Equi'y Court recently disclosed the fact that a Wesleyan clergyman, the .Rev. George Hurst, of Burwood, Sydney, lately died, and, left property in New South Wales worth £37.811, and in Victoria worth £74,672, in all worth £112,383. The property in Victoria included the well-known Templt Court buildings, , The tainted Frenchman who under the mm deplume of Max O'Rell, wrote those clerer skits on English manners and customs, "John Bull and his Island," and "Joan Bull'" Women Kind," has re« cently published another work, railed " NO3 chers voisins," in which he gives the following description of the British schoolboy. He writes •—«lt is a stnrdy. hardy, robust, well-knitted lad, with muscles of steel; and mule like obstinacy, who, sooner than let go the foot-ball which he fiercely cuddles, will perform prodigies of valor; who, merely for the chance of making that ball put between two goals, will bite the dust, will let hit flesh be torn, his jaw dislocated, bis ribs store in ; and would eren be carried off to die upon a bed of anguish, with a smile upon his lips, if he could only hear, as bis youqg eyes closed, that his side had secured the game." Then he goes on : "Multiply such an English youth up to the number of the stars of the firmament, jand you will get an idea of the martial, if not the military itreogth of-KojjUud.,"