Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1861-07-24 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.  --- °The Phmnix and Sun offices are the principal losers by the great fire in Southwark—the former to the extent of 1.22.-i,OOO, and the latter not much short of that amount. The total loss of all the insurance companies is about i; ,200 ,000 . On Thursday evening, at a Parliament held after many adjournments, Mr. Edwin Jones, Q.C., was disbarred by the Benehers of the Inuer Temple, and that fact was ordered to be communicated to all the Judges of Law and Equity, and the other three Inns of Court. 'rho following appeared in the advertising sheet of Tuesday's Times:—" The Volunteer who fired his ramrod into the ranks of the Inns of Court, as the regiment was leaving the ground after the review at Wimbledon, 011 Saturday, may hear of his property on personal appication at the Regimental Orderly Room, Lincoln's Inn— old pattern long rifle or musket-3,202, 1814 (some of the figures indistinct), B with 30 under, under the or anchor." On Wednesday evening Mr. Bland came to the StrandTheatre in a cab for the purpose of takit.g his part in the afterpiece. On his arriving at the stage door it, was observed that he appeared to hi' in a very weak state, and was assisted into the hall. The unfortunate gentleman never rallied, but'soon after expired. The deceased was 04 year?' of age, and wao much respected in the theatrical profession. The railway traffic returns.of the United Kingdom for the week ending the 6th instant show, for the first time for a long period, a falling off. It amounts, however, only to £2,124, or less than per cent. The Sub-dean of. Chichester Cathedral has instituted proceedings in the Arches Court against the Dean, Dr. Hook, for intruding himself into the sub-dean's parish, St Peter's, in performing the burial servies at the funeral of the lute Duke of ltichmund. Sir William Armstrong has proposed to the Governors of Newcastle Infirmary to give £2,000 towards the establishnient of a convalescent hospital at the seaside, for the treatment of serolulous disorders provided that £4,000 be subserilied by the puhlie witliiu twelve months. The dead body of a child, perfectly naked, has been found under the boarding in the gallery of Whitechapel Church, London. The corpse hail apparently been secreted in the edifice for about two years. 'the Association for the promotion of Social Science will hold its annual congress in Dublin at the time of her Majesty's visit. Four camps' have been erected about a niile from Enniskillen, for holding revival meetings on the American plan. Lord Clarendon, the Earl of Devon, Lord Lyttleton, the lies. Edward Twistleton, Sir Stafford Northcote, and Messrs. William 11. Thompson and Henry H . Vaughan, are the members of the commission appointed by the Government to inquire into the nature and application of the endowments, funds, and revenues belonging to the great public schools at Eton, Rugby, Harrow, Westminster, etc. Mr. Hopkins, a tenant farmer, has just put Mrs. Blankets, the widow of the well. known Dorsetshire landowner, in the Wareham County Court, to recover a sum of g 4.; 10s. for damages done to his farm by hares and rabbits. The Into Mr. Henke', under whom Mr. Hopkins rented, would not allo v the latter to kill the game on the estate, and he claimed from the widow the above-named sum for one year's damages. The judgment of the county court was in favour of Mr. Hopkins for the whole imount of his claim. A had named Pilsona, 17 years of age, is in custody at Cambridge on a charge of murder .ng a companion • named -ItuMtielow, of the eatneagie, by throwing hiau iptp the river Cam. Both the parties were agricultural labourers, and the crime is said to have taken place after one of those dissolute drinking bouts which sown to prevail extensively in the district.