The Brecon Reporter and South Wales General Advertiser

THE NEWS BUDGET. Lady -Herbert of Lea.—A local contemporary j say»:—"Lady Herbert and the Eari of Pembroke re- journed to Wilton House, from the Continent, on the 4th iust. Since her return, her ladyship has been con- stiftnt in her attendance at earlv^mass at the Roman Catholic Chapel, Salisbury. The birthday of the youthful Earl of Pembroke was celebrated on Thura- day evening. About 150 neighbours and friends sat down to an excellent tea, provided by a committee of iadies. The place was beautifully decorated with banners and wreaths of flowers, and inscriptions with tne words "Long life to Lord Pembroke,' and 'Wel- come home, Lady Herbert. Letter of Garibaldi.-Garibaldi has written the following letter, in answer to the invitation of the Mayor of Raverma to be present at the ceremony of interring the bones of DanteCaprera, July 4.- Esteemed ain deeply grateful for your invita- tion, made to me in the name of the municipal repre- sentation of Ravenna. I heartily thank you, but I cannot now comply with the wish you express; also my own, that I should be among you to offer my tri- bute of respect to the divine poet. You have the sacred trust of guarding the bones of Daiate-an eternal protest against the Papacy which would have them buried. The custodians of the sepulchre of Dante will, therefore, reject any reconciliation with the butchers of Rome—Believe me ever yours. GAKI- BALDI." A Dearth of Women.-The American papers complain of a lack of women in the new mining terri- tories of the Far West'. Nearly the entire population of Nevada and Colorado are of the male sex, and now that they have get houaea and cities, and wealth of silver and gold, they are anxious beyond measure for the society and help of women. Neither wives nor servants can be had, though both have unequalled opportunities. The Sochy JblounioAn News is very plaintive on the subject, and is also practical. It de- clares that women w,ill find in that country the "Utopia of their dreams." If husbands are desired, they can be had at leisure; and if women wish to engage in household, employment, they can quickly acquire fortune. The men out there, moreover, are not-only rich, but, the editor assures -us, are otherwise desirable, and he proceeds to enlarge upon their virtues. Death from Falling Over a Cliff.-A sad event happened at Charlestown a few days ago to a young gentleman from Glasgow, named M'Kenzie, a student at the College of Edinburgh, aged about twenty, who was on a visit to his uncle, Mr. P. Thompson, of St. Austell. On the morning in ques- tion he walked to the fort of Charlestown, and ascended to the battery there, taking a seat in a narrow little grove of trees outside the embrasured 'n walls, and commenced reading a book. In the even- ing he was found on the rocks below, terribly injured and quite dead. The book he had been reading was afterwards found where he had been sitting. It has been thought probable that he was going down the cliff to reach the beach, in order to bathe; but there is no pathway, and the cliff is high and precipitous. It is also supposed that he went to sleep and fell over; but the hypotheses are purely conjectural. The body was removed to St. Austell, and general sorrow has been .caused by the catastrophe. Charge of Assault against a Tradesman. —Miss Mason, twenty-two years of age, brought an action for assault, at the Durham Assizes, against Mr. Moore, the keeper of a large soft goods' store at South Ossert, near Wakefield. The plaintiff, ap- parently a respectable young woman, said that she had engagef;t herself to defendant as forewoman in April last; but, on going to his place from Hartle- pool, he, on the very first night, attempted to take indecent liberties witn her, and renewed his attempts on the following night. She left at once, but had lost her situation at Hartlepool, and was consequently placed in a. very awkward position by the defendant's conduct. The defendant, who volunteered to go into the witness box, swore positively that the whole story was a falsehood, and had no foundation whatever. The jury, under those circumstances, were long in coming to a decision; but at length decided in favour of the testimony of the plaintiff, and gave her t30 damages. Fatal Accident at a Mimic Siege.—An acci- dent of a melancholy and fatal nature occurred on Saturday at the annual sports held in connection with the Royal Hibernian Military School, Dublin, which brought them to an abrupt conclusion as they were commencing. The boys had arranged to represent an imaginary episode in the Aahantee war, in which, a mimic fortress was to be taken and blown up. Un- fortunately, however, owing to some unexplained cir- cumstance, a quantity of fireworks exploded in the fort immediately after the commencement of the pro- ceedings, and an inmate named Thomas Hart, fourteen years of age, was mortally and three other boys slightly wounded by these dangerous combustibles. The boy Hart died in a couple of hours after the acci- dent, the occurrence of which at once put a ston to the sports. The Lord-Lieutenant and Lady Wodehouse were present at the time. The Alleged Libel by a Nobleman.-The libel case of the Rev. Charles Jones v. Lord Lifford has again been before the Court of Common Pleas, Dublin. Several witnesses were examined in support of the plaintiff's case. The rev. gentleman, on re- examination, read portions of the sermons preached by him, which werGl alleged to have given dissatisfac- tion to some of the parishioners, and explained the doctrines which he enunciated from the pulpit with respect to the commandments and the observance of the Sabbath. At the conclusion of the plaintiff's case Mr. Whiteside, Q.C., addressed:, the jury for the noble defendant, contending that the document in question was not a libel, and that, even if it did come within the technical law of libel, the defendant was protected by the plea of privileged communication. Some wit- nesses were examined for the defence, after which the further hearing of the case was adjourned. The Cholera at Alexandria.—The deaths from cholera on the 28th ot' Juue were 193. on 25th, 188; on the 24th, 95; on the 23rd, 125 • on the 22nd, 145; on the 21st, 159—total for the six days, 900. Fifty-five Europeans tell victims to the epidemic on the 21st and 22nd June. A circular has been ad- dressed to the heads of all the religious communities enjoining upon them strict fulfilment of the following regulations.-—1. AauLs are to be interred at a depth of at least six fe t. 2. Children are to be interred at a depth, ot at le st three feet. The disembarkation of new fruit at Aiexandaia has been strictly prohibited. A. similar P^n has also been issued against the ;rcm tlie interior, and the sale of the same m the public markets of the city. It is believed that the rising of the Nile, which is expected to reach Alexandria during the first fortnight in July, will have considerable effect in purifying the atmo- spnere by covering with its waters the marshes andin- sauDrious plains, mow exhaling miasma under the neat of the sun.—Renter. heat of the sun.-Reuler. Area Sneaks. — The following circular was en- closed in a letter to his worship (Mr. Mansfield) at Marylebone Police-station, and which he observed woald be very beneficial if made public. "Area I Thieves, Caution to Householders.—As numerous robberies take place in consequence of the encourage- ment-given to a class of persons who, under the oil pretence of selling or buying various articles, find their way into kitchens and areas early and late in the day. Employers are earnestly requested to secure their premises: against the intrusion of such hawkers, pig-tub dealers, fat collectors, bottle-buyers, &c.: and in order to effect that object, area gates should be locked at dusk in the evening and not unlocked till nine a.m. The rag-collecting brigade of the London Ragged Schools is respectfully commended to the notice of heads of households as a legitimate medium for the utilisation and disposal of these commodities, which are either wantonly wasted, or made the l means of unauthorised profit. By patronising the rag brigade, moreover, a most important and bene- volent object would be assisted, viz., the employment of a large number of poor deserving boys in lionest industry. Letters addressed to No. 5, Albion-hall, London-wall, will receive immediate attention. Householders should require the co-operation of the police in carrying out the above instructions." A Skeleton Congregation.—Brussels corre- spondence from Naples gives interesting details re- specting the freshly uncovered temple of Juno, among the recent excavations at Pompeii. Three hundred skeletons were found crowded within that sanctuary, a propitiatory sacrifice being evidently held in the hour they were overwhelmed. The statue of the god- dess, with attendant peacock, the tripod in front o £ the altar, the golden censer, the jewels on the person of the prieatesa, the rioh vessels holding a deposit of animal blood, are the main particulars dwelt on. The eyes of Juno are of the most vivid enamel, her arms and her whole person richly decorated with gold trinkets, her gaudy bird resplendent with a cluster of glittering gems. Aromatic ingredients lie calcined within the censer, while gorgeous lamps and bronze ornaments strew the tesselated pavement. Gallant Rescue from. Drowning.—About one o'clock on Thursday afternoon an old man, who was in the act of stepping on board a steamer from the pier at Westminster-bridge. missed his footing, and fell into the stream. The tide was running up with great rapidity, and the man, who was scarcely able to swim a stroke, was speedily swept through the bridge. Just at this moment a young man, Mr. Elisha Hitchine, in the employ of Messrs. Ellis, Howell, and Co., of St. Paul'.s-churchyard, threw off his coat and plunged into the river. He was a strong and skilful swimmer, and reached the drowning man just in time to hold him up. By this time both the rescuer and the rescued were off the terraces of the Houses of Parliament, where it is impossible to land, but the brave fellow bore his burden manfully up amid the cheers of the spectators on Westminster-bridge, till a boat from the pier reached the spot, and took them both out of the water. Criminal Bankruptcy. At the Warwick Assizes on Saturday Morris Levi-whose bankruptcy recently made such a stir in Birmingham—and Louis Rosenberg were indicted for conspiracy to defraud the creditors of Levi. This was only one of the numerous cases which have arisen out of Levi's bankruptcy. He had by some means managed to get credit to the extent of X13,000 in a very short time, and when he announced his bankruptcy—at the beginning of If.,st November-it was found that the sum of X8,500 could not be accounted for. The creditors instituted an investigation, which resulted in the discovery of a large quantity of Levi's stock in the house occupied by Rosenberg. The jury found both the prisoners guilty. Morris Levi and a man named Goldstone were then charged with a similar conspiracy to defeat the creditors of the former, and the evidence being equally strong another verdict of guilty was returned. The prisoners were each sentenced to eight months' imprisonment with hard labour. Shocking Case of Manslaughter.—At the Durham Assizes, before Mr. Baron Bramwell, a labourer named Carrigan was charged with the manslaughter of Thomas Richardson at Darlington. Carrigan, the deceased, and others were returning from a christening when a quarrel arose, in the course of which the deceased and Carrigan fell to the ground. On being taken up the deceased walked towards his own house, but before arriving there was met by a brother of the prisoner's, who struck him with a coal rake. Shortly after reaching his home he died from a severe wound in the left side of the neck, which had divided the carotid, and which (according to the medical evidence) could only have been inflicted with such a weapon a a knife. The defence set up was that the fatal wound had not been inflicted by the prisoner, but by the blow from the coal rake, or in some other encounter before the deceased reached his hfome. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. A Sad Story.—Under the above head a case was reported in the, London papers a few days ago, in the course of which it appeared that a little girl named Baker was residing with her mother, who was leading a profligate life. Mr. Knox then told the mother that if she attended on the following day he would en- deavour to get her daughter into some school, with the view of removing her from the scenes she was likely to witness, and thus saving her from destruc- tion. On Saturday the mother of the girl, accom- panied by the little girl, attended, and the latter was taken by Mr. Welsh, the office-beeper, to, and readily received at, the Training Refuge for Girls, at Lissoc; street, Marylebone, an excellent institution, supported by voluntary contributions, where a number of girls> whose ages vary from eleven to sixteen, are being to become domestic servants. In a paper presented to the French Academy of Sciences, M. Boudin gives some curious statistico of accidents by lightning, from which it appears from 1835 to 1863 the number of persons killed on spot by lightning was 2,238. From 1854 to 1863, ol1l.í of 880 sufferers from lightning, there were only 43 females, or 26.7 per cent. In England the proportion was only 21.6 per eent. In many cases, the lightning falling in the midst of persons of both sexes, struck men in preference to women, whom it spared more ot less. In a great number of cases, the electric flu1 killed whole herds upwards of 100 strong, whether horned cattle, pigs, or sheep, and yet sparing shepherds, though they were in the midst of the h0r Of the victims by lightning, at least one-fourth werd struck while standing under trees. Manslaughter by a Police Officer.-A fOo days ago_, at the Leeds Town Hall, an inquest held to inquire into the cause of death of Taylor, a young man employed as a clerk in the of Messrs. Kitson and Co., engineers, Hnnslet, Le0".s' Robert W ray, a, police officer of the borough, was. custody pending the result of the inquiry. The Prl" cipal evidence was that of Police-constable Capsti who stated that on the evening of the 29th May, "5 was on duty in Hunslet, when Wray, who was.' £ plain clothes, came up and entered into converss^a with him. At this time, deceased and two oompani" > 1a.n(^ Taylor made a remark 0 "bobbies which appeared to enrage Wray, for :h0 latter follow the group, knocked Taylor to fh0 grouna, and broke his leg, from which injury t young man had since died. Next morning, InspeC iI1 Wainwright mustered the Hunslet policemen, .c order that the deceased's two companions might P out their friend's assailant. They fixed upon but added' that on the previous night he was weftr. jj0 whiskers, which was afterwards ascertained to b>0 v fact. A stick found near the spot where the occurred was also distinctly shown to have beellthe the possession of the prisoner a few hours be for0 occurrence, though the latter now denied that it jjj, his stick, adding that it belonged to his c°!ia,o- Wray was now committed for trial for the | slaughter of Taylor, but was subsequently %dluit, to bail. > The Sad Catastrophe at Birmingh^ Mrs. Egerton, who was severely burnt in orSi, which ocoured on the stage of Holder's conecr the Birmingham, on the 3rd inst., has died froJØ loca;l effects of the injuries. She had considerable the reputation as an actress. On Saturday afterno ajng u e 2bin Birmingham coroner held an inquest on the rf. ^^3 of the ballet girl Fanny Meek, or Hinton. -1 jjaa stated in the evidence that deceased, ,0nf tbf amplified her skirts in violation of a rule °0^ £ establishment, was passing with a number 0 children m front of the ground row lights, foot slipped, and her skirt got over the board) in flames in a moment. The usual means f°r goo» such accidents were at hand, and the flames extinguished by the use of a wet blanket and ^ai, of water, but the injuries to deceased had bie daYs and she died in the General Hospital in a dreSS from tetanus. It also appeared that when ead t° of deceased caught fire the flames at once SP tes^r" the clothing of Mrs. Egerton with the fsi atioll, abovQ mentioned. The jury, without- any e?1' returned a verdict in accordance with the dence as to the cause of death. don, A prospectus has just been issued i^ paid which meets more than the ordinary attent 9llr3DC new schemes. 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