Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1853-07-27 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE PEOPLE'S INSTITUTE.  To the Editt;--oy tie-';-Hte-a;s"etr- illa-tno--ry. an Herald." Sin,—l observed a paragraph in your paper of last week atrotigly recommending the People's Institute to the affections of the good mow of Swansea, adding, as an inducement, that new blood had been infused into its ricketty constitution. I WilS induced to become u subscriber, and on Saturday went into the room to see Puori/i, and the Cambrian. The table was covered with old papers and magazines, scattered in beautiful confusion, and after a fruitless search among this lumber, for the papers I sought, I looked for the Herat.: of the preceding Wednesday, hut your paper, like the sitters, was non eat invent ite. I went into the room to-day igain, but neither of the three papers mentioned were to be found. So much for the new energy and admirable management of the People's Institute.  I inn, sir, yours, Swansea, July 1.6, 18,13.  When Cooke's circus was staying at Gosforth, one of the horse-women, Mrs. Smith, whilst riding, accidentally struck one of her legs against • bar by which it was much injured. She was shortly after sent to the Carlisle Infirmary, and was no far recovered us to admit of her discharge in a few days. On Thursday afternoon, however, she was sitting in bed reading, apparently in perfect health, when the other patients observed her drop her hook and fall back on her pillow. She gave two or three short gasps, and in an instant the vital spark had fled. Disease of the heart is supposed to have been the immediate cause.  A correspondent of the Derizes Gazette says that a matrimonial alliance between a curate in the diocese of Salisbury and a widow whose income exceeds that of the Bishop of Salisbury, and whose equipage excels that of any nobleman in the West of England, is the subject.of much co.n7ersation.  An infant, which had been left asleep on a bed in a house at Cumbernauld, near Falkirk, on Saturday week, rolled off the bed into a wooden vessel containing water, and was drowned.  The lice. B. Baker, the aged rector of Bacton, whose housekeeper was lately murdered, has become insane from excitement produced by that dreadful event. lie is now in all asylutu. Mr. Hadlcy, a surgeon, of Newton Abbot, Devonshire, who was twice remanded by the Teignmouch bench of magistrates on a charge of attempting to procure 11. burtion. has beau committed for trial. .  Luring the week ,arangements have been come to by several emplo3ers at Manchester, either with the whole or part of the NMI'S who had struck work. At the York assizes, two men named Godlier and Stacey were sentenced to four months' imprisonment for throa ing stones at a railway train in motion, by which a stoker Wan severely hurt. Arrangements have just been completed for hohling the ore hundred and thirtieth festival 01 the choirs of Worcester. Heretiird, and Gloucester, at the last-named city. oil the 13th, 14th 15th, and 16th of September. "The first stone of edifice intended for schools for the orphan mei necessitous children u.' commercial travellers was laid at Pinner on %Veil:lmlay. It is expected that the new school* will be opened in about a twelvean  Colonel Bentinek who met the accident at Chubbum iv ;iri,gresving favourably, and Las been pronounced out of dancer.  3he to-tal number of vessels at Liverpool now preparing lor the various ports oi Australia is 26 the total aniount of regaitered tonage 16,300. potato blight has reappeared in the neighbourhood of fiertturil. _  The Exeter Gazette confirms a rumour which has been extensively prevalent of the elop. mem of the young awl beautiful woe of a North Devon baronet with an officer ut the llth Regiment. A man named Abraham Giles had a misunderstith.thl a servant girl to whom lie was paying his addresses. lie visited her on Monday night in Warwicksquare, Kensington ; when he lull tier master's house lilies placed ins hat upon the railings in front of it, put the point of • holster pistol in his mouth, and blew out his braise