Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-07-27 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MORALITY.—A writer in the Fortnigldl y Review, discussing recently the state of public morality at the present moment in this country, ' says that few things look darker, with reference to any probable purification of the commercial atmosphere, than the following bits out of The Tinted of the list of ; November, 1866 :  _•• • The acclimatisation of salmon seems now to be an established fact in Tasmania, and fine fish have been captured in awl returned to the Yarn, in Victoria.  The Army and Nary Gazette takeo the Owl to task for asserting that the cost to the nation if the naval review will be 59.000 L, and says that from 10,0001. to 12.0001. will be all that the imam will Inc called upou to pay. - - - ••  -- -- -- • . . In Detroit the holies are raising 25,000 dols. by dime subscriptions for a soldiers morument It is said that some of the New York bouquet girls c!ear live dollars A day in fine weather. - -- . . .... .  -•— • Garibaldi iis at t again. His lasit speech is, "Mark me well: without Borne there is nu Italy." A petition has been prepared in Birmingham, for presentation to the Home Secretary, praying for cnininutation of the sentence of death passed on James Scott on Tuesday last, for the wilful murder of Mr. John Pryse, at Birmingham, on the 6th of April last. The Impaial Commission has made arrangements for the delivery oft series of lectures on subjects cr arnected erlth the display in the Exhibition. the lectures will be delivered it various places within the building and the grounds Among the subjects are—cattutchouc, artificial ice, iron smelting, brass foundiug, and the regulation of gas. The lecturers are all men of some eminence in their various protessi,ors A New York paper says that the body of Artemus Ward was shipped as statuary, to humour the superstition of English sailors, who have a great objection to a dead body being on beard. The strike of colliers, at Oldham, against a reduction of gri. in the ton, still continues. A placard has been issued try the general body of miners, stating their grievances, and soliciting the support uf the piddle in what they term the struggle of "right against might." Tire Emperor of the French has had built forty-eight homes, at a cost of 20,001. BE model houses for the poor, and lion vitro pro,enteri them a free gift to a compenitive society of sent king men for the construction of cheap dwel.  Hugs It is reported at Hanover that the ex-King will shortly settle with his family at Paris. •  The coloured children of Washington have formed an ore:lois:Won lumen as the Vammard of Freedom. The niembera pledge themselves to abstain from intoxicating drinks, and to avoid profane and vulgar Mugu:we.  Mr. llnghes, addressing his constituents at Lambeth, told them he blushed for them when he saw that an enormous number of persons had been convicted of using false weights and measures. But the audience, instead of sympathizing with the speaker's honest indignation, received his remarks with derision. It was in vain to tell them that it was no laughing matter. 1 And in spite of the still larger number of persons who have been convicted of the same crime since Mr. Hughes spoke, and have been subjected to merely nominal fines, the Home Secretary has declined to propose more stringent legislation on the subject ; whilst a benevolent English lady is about to establish, at her own expense, in one of the poorest quarters of London, a market for the express purpose of ensuring to the working classes in that part of the metropolis full weight and honest measure. THE FREAKS OF Fount/in !--A correspondent 881" While passing through the Union dep6t a few days ago, I was accosted by a one-armed man in faded army blue. Fourteen years ago I Pest saw Min working at a windlass tin the gold-diggings of Australia. He and his three partners hoisted by that windlass 000,000 I loltars. A few months later I bade Ithn good-bye, as lie sailed from Melbourre to New York with 200,000 dollars in bills of ex hange in his pocket. 1 next saw him a wounded rebel soldier, lying on the field of Antietam. A little store than a year later 1 saw him a Union soldier Wit gin an hospital in Tennessee. Today he is a helpless wanderer, dependent on public charity for a dinner. AN