Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1861-11-27 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

FURTHER PARTICULARS. States' steamer • Powhattan' in 1855, and rendered At the inquest held on Monday, before T. Pain, Esq., valuaBle service to the British fleetin the Chinese waters the jury returned a verdict of "Wilful murder against in capturing pirates. Sir John Stirling, in his desThomas Jackson," appending the following remarks:— patches to the Admiralty, makes the following mention "We (the jury) cannot separate without expressing our of him:—" It is impossible to sgeak too highly of the deep conviction that speedy and effectual steps should American cooperating party engaged. Tney were with be taken by the military authorities and the Government the Rattler emulating each yther in the thickest of the to prevent the repetition of these frightful and diabolical attack. But my warmest thanks in particular are due crimes, which have been of late so frequent, and which etoncLieuatenannttroegrteme, the Am*ricalnoesenoionr_offfiacer; hie tend to degrade the ranks and produce terror in the minds fire, arngdenciieeteruftinehd men, and coo ss de :eavy bravery. when surround* by a of the officers, and spread horror through all dames of persevering and revengeful foe, was conspicuous to all." the community. We do not wish to suggest any steps, The . Arago,' a well-armed Federal mail steamer, is but we conceive that the removal of the ready means hourly expected at Southampton. would be the effectual remedy, or that such an example be made as would by its prompt execution on the spot in one case act as a terrible warning to other's" One of the witnesses deposed: Vhen we got to the station-house he (Jackson) said to Sergeant Proffitt in the cell, "It will be your turn next, and it will be done by the 15th of December, or before Christmas, as I have left some one to do it." This induced one of the jury to ask if any prisoner would be released on the 15th December, and he was informed that there was such a prisoner, and that he had been punished on a charge made by Sergeant Proffit, to whom the above threat was made.  M. Fecuran.—ln the controversy that is now so lively respecting the traditionaiy Othello and that of the innovating Charles Fechter, the writers refer to that gentleman sometimes as a "foreigner," at others as a • Frenchman." He is only either by education; he is neither by birth. He was born about as lar east of the Princess's Theatre as Talma was born west of it, if it be true that Telma was born in bites-street. But Telma'. parents were French, and their native country was his. M. Fechter is not French in this sense, his father being, we believe, a native of Germany. By education, indeed, the son became French; and he is likely to displey some proofs of the soundness of that education, by producing at the Great Exhibition of 1862 samples of his craft as a sculptor. The school of sculpture was the first in which ' he underwent training as an artist, and is the one in which he profitably passes his few hours of leisure. As a profession, sculpture was early abandoned for the stage, where M. Feebler did not reach his present eminent position without very severe discipline. He worked rather than "played" in Italy, before he was knnwn in France, and passed modestly but creditably, half student, half actor, thiough the Theatre Francais, of which establishment he was a member,:when he acted with distinction in the French version of the Antigone' produced at the St. James's Theatre. Fifteen years ago he created a sensation at Berlin, as he is now doing in London, and then returned to France, where critics placed their seal • upon his fame—a fame that culminated by his original representation of Duval in La Dame aux Camelia& On the stage he -combines the artist and the actor, as we understand both terms. In the File de la Nuit be paid for the ship whose appearance formed so picturesque a portion of the drama; and in the Belle Gabrielle, at the Port St. Martin, his too great ardour precipitated him from a height, with consequences which endangered him life. Thus, he has played in Italy, France, Germany, I and England, the last being his native land; "foreign" I to it he became, as we have shown; but it is a misnomer, we think, to describe M. Fechter as a "Frenchman." We may add, that after the Christmas holidays, M. Fechter will play logo alternately with Otheile.--. Atheneum,