Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1864-01-02 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

JAPAN.  PARIS, Dec 30th.—According to news received hero from Alexandria the parties of the Tycoon and Prince Satsuma had agreed upon the expulsion of foreigners from Japan. The yielding of the Tyco in was attributed to the pressure exercised by Prince Satsuma.  Miss Nightingale, though in delicate health, is still able to occupy herself with the work with which her name is so identified—viz., the amelioration of the sanitary condition of the army. James Mackay, an Edinburgh drover perished in the snow, on Middleton Moor, during the late storm.  , The Duke of Argyll asserts that there are more Englishmen in Edinburgh than Scots in London. At a fashionable hotel in New York, the board of pet dogs, poodles, Sce., has been fixed at one dollar per day. The Anglo-Australian rifle match has resulted as follows .—Nottingliam Robin Hoods, 1,155 ; Australians, 1,149.  At Nismes a man was attempting to draw a cork, when the bottle broke, and a fragment of the glass severing the femoral artery he died in a few minutes. Limit-General the Duke of Wellington has been permitted to retire from the army, by the sale of an unattached lieutenant-coloneley. The order received a few days since for the dismissal of a large number of the workmen at Chatham has been (=atm manded by the Admiralty. A BIRD'S NEST WITIL EGGS IN AT CHRIST3fAS.—thIe day last week a sparrow's nest with two eggs in it was found in a corn stack belonging to Mr. Peter Tapley, farmer, at Wrenbury, near NantwiehThe Emperor, the Empress, and the Prince Imperial arrived at the Tuileries on Saturday afternoon last, having finally quitted Compifigne, to take up their residence in Paris for the winter.  The alarming accident which occurred last August on the Lynn and lltinstinton Railway has cost the Great Eastern Company (by whom the line is worked) 210,000 in compensation alone. In the event of President Lincoln's demise the supreme power would rest with Vice-President Hamlin, an abolitionist. Some time since he was accused of having negro blood in his veins. . . . .  Letters from Constantinople state that the Sultan had presented to the Grand Vizier, as a token of his warns appreciation and regard, a superb diamond ring, weighing 34 carats, and valued at about £5OO. _ . . .  French fishing smack recently picked np at sea a life buoy, to which wai clining the dead body of a sailor, who had held to it with his last grasp, which had not relaxed when death put an end to his sufferings. The remains of a gigantic animal of the bear species have boon dug out of a landslip near Talbot, in New South Wales. The animal when alive must have been 10 feet in length, 41 feet high, and most probably weighed over a ton. A subscription is being raised in Kensington for a testimonial to Mr. Wiley, the owner of Camden House, the burning down of which subjected him to much unjust suspicion, and a law suit with the Sun.lnsurance office. _ _ _ .  In 1827 John Lori° was tried at Aberdeen, for the murder by poisun of his servant girl, with whom be had cohabited; but, to the ostonishment of the judges, the jury acquilted him. A few days ago he comitted suicido in the workhouse.  A DECIDED CASE OF Comma Dow.—ln a COM heard in one of the London police-courts, a few days ago, the name of the defendant was Anna Boleyn, and on being asked how she came by that name, she replied " that she believed she came down from Henry the Eight." The Sultan's new yacht was tried in the Thames on Monday. Her average speed was 171 knots, and with the tide she made 191 knots per hour. She ran from the Nero to Blackwell, 45 miles, in two hours and five minutes, the tide being part of the way against her. The engines are by Penn, and she is the swiftest vessel afloat. Saruuda was the builder. In his boo about the South, Colonel Freemantle tells us th it while he was at Shelbyville, he saw Bishop Elliott, of Georgia, baptise General Bragg. "The Bishop took the General's hand in his own (the latter kneeling in front of the font), and said Braxton, if thou haat n 4 already been baptised, I baptise thee, &e.' Immediately afterwards he confirmed General Bragg, who then shook hands with General Polk, the officers of their resew ice staffs, and myself, who were the only sp. le atot 0." Tux