Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1865-03-01 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

OOO. There was, however, some diffimlty about I obtaining the deposit m iney for the purchase, and in getting a sufficient number of shares taken to give the company a chance of appearing successfully before the : public. The plaintiffs said that they agreed to get the shares takeii up and the necessary funds advanced, in consideration of the sum of £lO 000. They succeeded in I inducing the London Bank of Scotland to advance the money and to take the shares at a heavy premium, and they now claimed their commiesion. The Lord Chief Justice, who tried the cuss, wad evidently astonished at the evidence, and repeatedly expressed the greatest surprise at the largeness of the price charged for the smallest services. Ifhe defence was a general denial of any contract having been made with the plait:Laird, and the jury gave • verdict for defendanta.  .atAlLtrr 32110 L 111V*V6"'.  Ticcat  attrs,  Tondos  ----- A little by at Aberdeen has died from injury to um head, caused by r blow from a snowball. It is said that Miss Braddon—Lady Audley's literary parent—can write a three-volume novel in three weeks, and has done so. On the site of Sodom and Gomorrah English enterprise is about to establish a factory for the extracting of bromidee from the waters! It is said that should a new Arctic journey he undertaken, two or three of the daily papers intend to send out special correspondents. Two boatmen, father and son, have been drowned off Scarborough by the capsizing of a cable, which they had incautiously loaded too heavily with iron-stifle gathered on the shore a few miles down the coast. An attempt is being made to get up a great public library for Edingburgh, where books of reference may be consulted by literary men as in the British Museum. A poor girl at Nottingham has almost bat her life through the stupidity of a follow servant, who sprang out upon her in the character of a ghost. She was ineensible for many hours afterwards. The new evening paper, the Glowworm, is shortly to appear at the offices of the Printing and Publishing Company (Limited). On the eve of St Valentine, 530,000 letters were despatched from the General Pest Office, being an excess of 230,000 over the ordinary number. The son of the late Mr John Leech has been nominated by Earl Russell to the foundation of the Charterhouse. The Presidency of the Crystal Palace Art Union, vacant by the death of the Earl of Carlisle, has been offered to and accepted by Mr Giadrone. An official return shows that the extent of oar entire possessions, colonial and military, or commercial, is 4,346,955 square miles ; the population, 1.52,774,672; revenue, £57.945,509 ; expenditure, £58,345,330 ; and public debts, £142,700,500. Andrew MacErlone, a lawyer's clerk, has been committed for trial at Belfast, charged with having, in a drunken spree, cursed the Queen, said he would command 80,000 men who were opposed to the Protestant Government, and that he would like to be the executioner of the Prince of Wales. One of the novelties of life in Moscow is the introduction of ladies into gentlemen's clubs. The ladies are balloted for, and, we presume, are on the same footing precisely in every respect to the gentlemen • Is there room for this innovation ? Iris said that a great emigration of Welshmen to Patagonia is likely to take place in onnsequence of some negotiations of leading Welsh gentlemen with the Argentine Republic. One especial point is that they are to preserve the language in all its purity of consonants. The picture by Eugene Delacrnix, "The murder of the bishop of Liege," founded on the scene so powerfully described in Scot's '• Quentin Durward," was sold on Saturday last, in l'aris, for £1,400. Did I receive a Valentine ? (writes a correspondent). Well, one. A facetious friend sent me the following advertisement cut from a weekly paper To Novelists—Wanted immediately, a writer for a penny publication. Style, ' adventure., and murders. Address, X., &c. On Tuesday evening, during the singing of a hymn at the commencement of the service held at the Baptist Chapel, Marlborough, a man named William Alexander fell suddenly against the back rail of his seat, and with a heavy sigh expired. The poor old man was 73 years  Ostend,  old.