The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-27 00:00:00

WALES.

CARMARTIIENSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—
The annual cattle show of the above society took place on
Wednesday lest, in a field near the slaughterhouse. The
show of cattle (says the Carmarthen Jourall) was remark-
ably good ; and one feature of it worth recording is that a
larger number of the black or C.ualemartin breed waa
shown than we remember to have seen on any former occa-
sion. Whether this is a subject for congratulation, or
otherwise, is still a disputed point. There were
several very capital bulls. The show of sheep far sur-
p sad that has yet been seen here ; and the same may
be said of the show of pip. In some respects there was a
falling off in the show of horses. The show of agricultural
implements woe not to large as on the last occasion, but it
was by no means an inferior one. Messrs. Featherstone and
Dunn exhibited mine very capital and useful implements,
such as thrashing machines, sear:fiers, winnowing machines,
&c. Messrs. Hodges and Wright, of Brecon, also exhibited
a variety of implements, including cheese presses, improved
churns, threshing machines, &e. A machine for manufac-
turing draining pipes, made by Messrs. Hodges and Wright,
was greatly approved of. It may be observed that the
society offers no premiums for agricultural implements, and
this probably may be one renson why a greater number were
not shown. The proceedings of the day were concluded by
• dinner, which was attendol by a large number of the
principal agriculturists of the neighbourhood.
Two PRISONERS ESC APED FROM HAVERFORD-
WEST GAOL a few days ago. The cell front which the
escape was effected is considered as strong as any in the
prison, and is called the " black hole," and is the one in
which prisoners for solitary confinement are locked up.
It had formerly • window looking out to the castle hill,
but the window is now blocked np by very strong masonry,
and two thick iron gratings, so as totally to exclude the
light, and to all appearances to render it utterly impossible
for any persons to break it open without the aid of power-
ful tools. But, notwithstanding these precautions, the pri-
soners, by means of a small piece of iron about a foot long,
which they broke from the kitchen fire grate, succeeded in
tearing down one of the gratings, and digging a
hole under the other, and their descent was effected by
tho aid of the counterpanes of their beds tied together,
and fastened to the crating' inside. It is the practice
in the prison to let open all the windows and doors
of the cells for about half an hour morning and evening, for
the purpose of airing them, during which time the prisoners
have the range of the whole ward ; on those occasions the
black hole door is also opened for a similar purpose, and it
appears that the prisoners took advantage of the opportunity
thus afforded them of going into this cell, and working away
in darkness and silence at their apparently hopeless task.
One of the prisoners, named Owen, has been recaptured.
He was some time ago committed for trial at the next quar-
ter sessions, for obtaining goods under false pretences. Can-
non is a tramper, and also awaited his trial for breaking end
entering a dwelling-house, and stealing Is. lid.
MURDER OP A CHILD.—For some days past the
magistrates of Cardiff have been engaged in investigating a
diabolical case of murder of a young child. The party
accused is Catherine Evans, its grezidmother. It appeared
that the daughter of the prisoner, a single woman, had given
birth to a child, and, from some cause which is unexplained,
the prisoner took the child from the bed in which it was
sleeping by the side of its mother, and, without making any '
remark, put both her hands mond its neck and endeavoured
to strangle it; but in consequence of its not dying fast enough
she procured a pan of wa•cr, put the unfortunate child into
it, and covered it over, where it remained till it was quite
dead. The bench remanded the prisoner, in order that the
child might be exhumed and examined, and at the same
time ordered the mother to be Reprehended.