Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1865-10-11 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

CUILIOITS HONS.  There is a sign with the following inscription at Hamgreen, between Aylesbury and Bicester, a public-house, kept by John Huff "John Huff, he sells good beer, and that's enough Stop; there is a mistake here: Ile sells toreign wine and spifita as well as beer." The inscription on Farmer Peek's house on road from Cape Tow n to Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope " Multum in porno, pro bon° publico ; Entertainment for man or beset all of a row, la.kker Lost as much as you please; Excellent beds without any liras. Nos patrians fugimus—now we are here, Vivamus, let us live by selling beer, On donne a boire et a manger ici ; Come in and try it whoever you be. The Gentle Shepherd of Salisbury Plain."  There has been • fresh accession to tho turf in Sir Courtenay Lioneywood. Ceuta F. de Lagrange, it is stated, has settled £4OO a-) ear for life on Grin:whew, Gladiateur's jockey. Mr Freeman, superintendant of the Piymouth police force, has been appointed to a similar post in Nottingham, at a salary of £375. The Plymouth appointment is consequently vacant. At Bovey Tomo), the Earl of Devon, on Friday, laid the foundation stone of a spacious and well designed building to be erected as a Douse of Mercy for the county of Devon. The Times suggests that the Prince of Wales should visit Ireland occasionally ; the Royal Family have passed more of their time on the Continent than in the sister  _ kingdom. A severe gale was experienced on the north-east coast on Thursday morning. A schooner was driven ashore at Roddy, near Hartlepool, and the captain, the mate, and a boy were drowned. Another vessel, the 'Elizabeth,' of Aberdeen, sank at the entrance to Hartlepool harbour, but all on board got safely to shore. GI's,TAVE Doac's great masterpiece—viz., the Illustrated Bible—upon which he has been engaged for the last four years, 5500 W on the eve of completion. Messrs Cassell Putter, and Galpin have purchased the engravings for their sole and exclusive use in the English language, and their edition of this great work, for England and America, will be shortly announced. The illustrations will consist of 230 large page drawings, the cost of their production being upwards of £15,000. Flour WITH A SHARK —The Greenpart (Long Island) Watchman mays —"On: Sunday last tho schooner 'Catherine Willcox,' of Lubec, Maine, was proceeding down the Sound, and while becalmed abreast of that port, about eight miles off shore, the captain and a young man 17 years of age, named Peter Johnson, jumped overboard for a swim. Johnson swam a few rods from the vessel to pink up ama 1 piece of wood, and while returning a shark, judgel to have been 14 or II feet long, darted towards him and seized hina about tire middle, and instantly disappeared with hiss, dragging him down, no he says, about 30 feet deep. He struggled and fought with the monster, fearfully lacerating his right arm in the effort. He finally succeeded in grasping the shark by the head, aril by gouging one of hits eyes, at the same time dealing him powerlul blows about the head, he succeeded in wrestling himself free. Ile then swam to the schooner pursued by the monster, but being a man of remarkable physical strength and pluck, he finally succeeded in driving him off, arid got on board of the schooner, pulling himself up by the foretopsail clue line which bong overboard, but not until the terrible teeth hail left their mark in many a ghastly wound, so that he was one mass of gore. There were some thirty-four distinct wounds on his person. The abdomen and groin of the right side was fearfully mangled, the flesh being torn off and left banging by the skin only, nothing but the thin lining laminass of the abdomen preventing the entrails from gushing out, the femoral vessels were laid bare, and the nerves completely exposed. On the left aide of the abdomen was another wound similar in character but less extensive ; the right thigh was very badly torn and gashed. Johnson is still living, and although in a very precarious situation, there is yet some hope of his ultimate recovery." DOUBLE MURDER Is