Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1865-09-23 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

RUMOURED PLOT AGAINST THE EMPEROR'S  LIFE.  The correspondent of the Times, who had been following the movements of the Sovereigns of France and Spain in their interchange of courtesies at San Sebastian and Biarritz, makes the following statement . While at San Sebastian I heard that a telegraphic despatch had been received nearly at the same time from Faris and Madrid, to the effect that the police had ju-t discovered a plot concocted against the Emperor, either on the way to San Sebastian or on the return to Bayonne; that the parties concerned in it were Italians and the name of a brother or cousin of Orsini was mentioned. I paid little attention to it at the time, because such stories are almost always rife on occasions like the present. I have, however, just received a letter from San Sebastian, in which the affair is treated very seriously. When the news reached their Majesties at San Sebastian of the presence of suspected persons, the Queen of Spain, so my informant writes, insisted upon aecompanying the Emperor and Empreas to the railroad station, which she did at half-past ten at night, saying that she was resolved to run the same risk as her guests, so long as they were on her terntury. Orders were sent to inspect very carefully the tunnels between this and Sebastian, as it was supposed that in some of them might be placed shells like 'hose employed in the Rue Lepelletier by Orsini and his acaomplices. For the reality of this plot Ido not of course, vouch, but that information of the kind I allude to was received at San Sebastian I believe there is no doubt.  The WoLvennernerow 31earma.—On Friday last, Charles Christopher Robinson, the murderer of the young woman Seeger, was sufficiently recovered from his self. inflicted injuries to be token from his ward into the Board-room of the South Staffordshire Hospital, where he was examined on the charge of murder. Mr Joaiah Fisher, Rebinson's guardian, added to his former evidence that when he came home after the murder, and asked Robinson why he had done it, Robinson replied, "It is all through you ;" but subsequently, when Robinson was in bed, in reply to the same question, he eaid, "It was the drink, the drink."—The prisoner was committed for trial. CUTTING COAL BY HACHlNERT.—lteretoflre. when getting coal or other minerals by means of picks or cutters actuated by machinery, the cutters have been it-tally carried by trucks running on rails laid on the floor of the mine, along the front of the face of coal upon which the cutters are to be made to operate, and difficulty has been experienced in laying the rails eeturely, to prevent their shifting when the machine is at work. To improve upon this, Mr G. Donisthorpe has patented an invention, according to which he employs poste and pillars, wedged or held between the floor or roof of the mine, to hold the rails in position, and prevent them shifting sideways away from the face of the work. The posts may be constructed in various ways to accomplish this object, but he prefers to make them capable of being shunted by means of a screw, and when using them holes are bored in the floor and roof to receive their upper and lower ends.. In fixing such pone in holes previously bored to receive them, the lower end of the post would first be stepped into the hole in the floor, and the post then elongated, to cause its upper end to enter the hole in the roof; collars are placed on the posts near their upper and lower ends, and the screw is turned until these collars bear firmly against the floor and roof respectively; by these means posts will be firmly held ; the rails are by preference carried by transverse iron sleepers, having the chairs to receive the rails formed in one piece with there, and a put, such as above described, is placed epee-rite each sleeper at the end that is farthest from the work. The end of the sleeper is connected to the post at the requisite height from the floor, to bring the rails to the desired level, the post and sleeper being for this purpose suitably constructed to allow of the sleeper being connected to the post at any desired height. The end of the sleeper nearest to the work is packed or blocked up from the floor of the mine, to bring the inner rail to the correct level. All will receive with satisfaction, the announcement that in consequence of the Reduction in Duty, HORNIMAN'S TEAS are now sold