Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1860-02-22 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

FEARFUL COLLISION IN THE CHANNEL.—On Sunday morning, about 3 o'clock. as the steamer Ondine,' Capt. James Hunt, from Dublin to London, was abreast of Beachey Head, she came in collision with the schooner Heroine' of Bideford. She was struck just abaft the beam, and immediately began to sink. So great was the injury that in less than 20 minutes no traces of her were visible. A portion of the passengers and crew, 21 in number, were saved in the jolly-boat, and landed at Dover, where the Sailors' Home was at once opened for their reception, and every possible comfort afforded that their distressed circumstances required. They were land ed perfectly destitute. About 50 of the passengers and crew are missing. Some of them, including the captain, took to the starboard life -boat, but it almost amounts to a certainty that they were swamped, as they could not reach the 'Heroine.' In the darkness of the night one fearful shriek was heard, and no more was seen or known of them. At least 30 must have gone down in the steamer. The 'Ondine' was a very unfortunate vessel. She is the same steamer that a few months ago, when off the South Foreland, ran down the 'Robert Garden,' a Dover collier, whereby the pilot and several of the crew were drowned. A •Vsny Rogs.Ntic BTc:wt.—A newspaper published at Coloma, Mexico, on the 24th of October, tells the following frightful story, and calls upon the public to punish the criminals :—When General Pueblita entered the town of Ayo, in September last, he exacted a forced loan from the people, and a share of it fell upon the curate of the place. The curate acted as though he would pay, but he did not make his appearance at the point designated for payment, and General Pueblita ordered him to be arrested. A party of men went to his dwelling and knocked at the door. There was no answer, and they broke in. They found no one in the house, and were about to leave it, when they heard a frightful voice proceeding from the ground, saying, "I am hungry !" The officer in command went back to General Pueblita, and told him about the voice. The General appointed a commission to examine the house. This commission went to the curate's dwelling, and, after a careful examination, they found a moveable stone in the floor, and under this was a stairway leading down to a vault which was entirely dark, and had no connection with the air, save the staircase, and a small hole that served as a ventilator. In this vault they found some books, a few articles of furniture, and a woman, who had been shut up there for eighteen years. She was taken to General Pueblita's quarters. When brought into the light, where she saw a number of persons, she fainted. After she had returned to her senses, a thousand questions were asked her, to which she replied only that she had been buried in the vault for eighteen years, without going out for a moment; that she had been married, and had children by her husband, but she knew nothing as to their fate; that, while imprisoned in the vault, she had had children by the curate, but she knew nothing of what had become of these children; and after saying this much she became obstinately silent. While this was passing a sergeant of the Pueblita brigade then present discovered that this woman was his mother, and she recognised him as her son and embraced him. The son then ran for his father, who came and recognised his wife. The husband, fifteen years ago, was imprisoned three years on the charge of having murdered his wife, this woman.—St. Louis Daily .Evaniny News.