Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1852-08-25 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

COMPOSITION OF PARLIAMENT.—The new the 22nd inst. House of Commons comprises the large number of 101 The United States,—Shavtly before ten o'clock on barristers and 18 attorneys returned. Of merchants, Monday, the Mail steamship "Europa" arrived in the manufacturers, and wholesale dealers there are 99, and to Mersey front New York direct, which port she left on the these classes may also be added '2O bankers and 2 brewers; 11th instant. The "Europa" carries 59 passengers, and while of occupations more sparingly represented may be 726,000 dollars in specie on freight. In the United States mentioned I architect, James Bell; 1 builder, William Senate on the 11th inst., the Speaker laid before the house Cubitt ; 3 engineers, Messrs. Locke, Stephenson, and a message from the President of the United States, in re- Pets; 3 medical men, Messrs. Hume. Brady, ar.d Michel. ply to a resolution asking what haa been done on the sub- An exact estimate can scarcely be formed of the railway ject of the fisheries on the coast of British North America. influence, but 11 magnates of that interest are certainly It gives no new information different from that heretofore present in the persons of Messrs. Glyn, Hudson, Wadcommunicated. The Boston Advertiser, publishes astute. dington, Laing, M'Gregor, Chaplin, H. Brown. Cobbold, ment Collie effect that an Amerisan fishing vessel had been Coffin, Hawkins, Stephenson, and Ricardo. Smaller difired into and sunk by a British cruiser, for refusing to rectors and endless shareholders will be found among all come to when ordered. classes in the house. The army is fully represented by 67 MEXlCo.—Letters and papers have been received of its members, while the navy can only count 13. The via the United States from the city of Mexico to the 10th Irish Peers present in the Lower House are Earl Annesley, and from Vera Cruz to the 13th ult.—The 6th ult. was Viscounts Barrington, Galway, Monck, and Palmerston, fixed by government as the lost day upon which offers and Lord Hotham. Since the Reform Act not a Parliawould be received for the construction of the road across ment met without some popular member being returned the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, mad the government asked for two places, and having to take his choice between them, three days more to decide upon the person with whom But no such occurrence marks the present parliament. they should definitively Jameison, of the Knaresborough, however, has returned a superabundance English house:of Bates and Jameisomhas proposed to the of members, from the accident of equality on the poll; and government to inform it how it is to augment the revenue death has occasioned three vacancies, in the cases of Messrs. from the marine customhouses at least a million of dollars, Duneuft, Watson, and Granger. without altering the existing tariff.—A sailor named On Friday, the united committee on the Holmfrith Juan Perez was shot in Campeachy on the 30th of May, calamity assembled at eleven o'clock, in the Masonic 11811, on board the frigate "Pueblo," for having murdered the Huddersfield, for the purpose of receiving the report of the captain and pilot of the English brig "Cynthia," on the central midi-committee silo the manner in which they had high seas, disposed of the funds contributed by the benevolent for the