The Herald of Wales. — 1887-07-23 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

OOO. Miss Hermann is the daughter of a gentleman holding a high position in the mercantile world, while Mr. Bottom is the son of a gentleman who is a member of • London firm doing a large trade with the east. The betrothal was formally announced in Hamburg where the young lady lived. The jury gave her £2,000 for the injury to her feelings. The Daily New, New York correspondent, telegraphing on Monday, says :—The Government offer of a United Stated vessel as convoy to the Queen of Hawaii is more than an act of courtesy. The Government will send trusted officers with the ship, and undoubtedly fresh instructions to commanders of naval vessels which should now be at Honolulu. The Government feels in need of more speedy information than it can obtain by regular steamers, and it is thought wise to have a mall feet sailing vessel at the disposition of the representative on the Island. A Berlin telegram, on Friday, says: —ln an article upon the anti-German pamphlet, entitled "Waiting for the War; Diary of a Russian Diplomatist, 1883-87," the Poet this evening aye "We a e not in a position to gauge the power of the Russian Government at home, but vr,,a at we do see from this book is that the EnsRiau Government allows full play to elements which, with an imagination from which the last vestiges of truth have vanished, and all respect for law fled, as in the 'Thousand and One Nights,' would like to plunge the Empire into a catastrophe at the earliest possible moment.' The hearing of a charge of fraud against the; Rev. John McAllister, vicar of St. Nicholas, I Plamstead, has again been deferred, bail in £l,OOO being accepted. Gel. H. G. Deeds, assistant under-secretary of State for War, pro. duoed letters received from the rev, gentleman, since 1878, soliciting assistance from the funds planed at the disposal of the War Office for the making of grants to churches and schools frequented by the families of Government employes. In response to these appeals, and believing them to be true, witness had, with the sanction of Sir Ralph Thompson, permanent secretary, granted, in the names) of the Secretary of State for War, a sum of £lOO to St..Nicholat Church, for rebuilding the ancient chancel, £5O test. Nicholas Mission room, LSO to the new parish of St. Paul, Plumstead, and severs annual sums to St. Nicholas' Voluntary Schools For the prosecution it wan stated that there we no such parish as St. Paul, Plumetead An extraordinary attempt has been made to murder a member of the Russian Imperial family. The Grand Duchess Elizabeth, daughter of a Lutheran prince, and wife of the Grand Duke Nicholas, Constantinople lives with her husband at Pavlovek, the palace of her father-in-law, the Grand Duke Constantine Nicojaievitth, uncle of the Czer. The Grand Duchees, entitled by her marriage settlement to remain in the Lutheran faith, has steadily resisted the pressure which has been brought to bear upon hr to induce her to embrace the Orihodox Greek faith. To this is attributed the fact that on the 11th inst. a band of fanatics attempted to take her life in the Palace. No details of the crime can be obtained, bat it is known that the miscreants were discovered in time and arrested. It is static' that one of them made the insulting remark, in the presence of the Grand Duchess, "We have already had enough of Maria Parlowna and yet we now have you." The lady thus referred to in the wife of the Czar's brother, the Grand Duke ' Vladimir, and daughter of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg. She is also a Lutheran and is suspected of proselytising. It is stated that there have been previous attempts on the life of the Grand Duchies Elisabeth.