Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1853-04-13 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

GAROTTE ROBBERY.—MT. T. Winn, a wealthy brewer, of Lincoln' was attacked on Saturday night last by three men, who had evidently watched him, as he had just entered the gates of his house, a short distance from the city. They took tram him five £lO notes, Lii in gold, and a gold Watch.  Two men at Leeds, named Clerk and Whitelay, have been committed, each to one mont li's hard labour, for illegslly collecting the voting papers of the ratepayers, in the election of guardians, they not being authorised to do no. The election of guardians at Leeds assumes a political aspect, and these men, being Tory agents, collected the papers of those known to be Liberal Voters, to destroy them, and so influence the result of the election. It is known that the practice has been successfully carried on at several former elections.  Mrs. Beecher Stowe, The authoress of" Uncle Tom's Cabin," notwithstanding the rumours that she bad abandoned her intention of visiting England owing to illhealth, arrived at Liverpool, on Saturday, by the Royal Mail steam-ship "Canada." Judge lialliborton, the author of "Sant Slick," was a piwienger by the same vessel.  A large meeting of the Protestant Alliance, at which delegates front all parts of the kingdom attended, took place at Birmingham on Friday. Three porters in the employment of the South Western Railway Company, at 6outliampton, have just been committed for trial on charges of various robberies of goods sent by train. It transpired at the examination that the company had paid 4:300 to shopkeepers for articles lost within a few weeks.  Great consternation was created at a meeting of the Protestant Orphan Society, held last week in Dublin. The Rev. John Whitehouse, while addressing the meeting on some controversial topic, suddenly fell on the platforni, where he expired in a few minutes. The audience, consisting principally of ladies, dispersed soon after the melancholy occurrenoe.  ELECTION PETITioNs.—The petitions against the returns for the following places, have been withdrawn': —Leitrim county, Salisbury, Cashel,Carlow county. Col. Bruen, one of the members for the latter place died a few days since.—The committees ou the following have commenced their labours, but not yet made their reports : Athlone, against the return of Keogh, the Irish Solicitor.. General.—Cookermouth petitions against the return of Messrs Agleonby end Wyndham and for Mr. Horsinan.— Dartmouth ; bv Mr. Lindsay against the return of Sir T. Iferbert ; Leicester, against the return of Sir J. Walinsley and Mr. Gardner, Taunton against the return of Mr. Mills.  i:xECUTIONS.—In the case of the men tried at the last assizes for Stafford, for the •der of an old man named John Blackburn—which our rriv.ers slay remember as the Ashton Flats murder—winds was pirpetristeti 111 i.e parish of Castle Much, on the night of :be t2ZoIt October, 185t2---two of the prisoners were acquitted. Charles Moore and Edward Welsh were left under sentence of death. The low was allowed to take its course in the case at the former, who was executed on Saturday, in front of the county gaol. Tire old man Edward II elsls has had iris sentence conseinited to transportation for life, upon proof being established that he was not actually present ant the commission of the murder.— Henry Dobson, who was erovicteil at York, Mr the murder youog girl at Wakefield-11 former sweetheart—suffered the extreme penalty of the law on Saturday, at Yos:. Castle. A correspondent of the Elgin Courier states that a respectalsie mart led woman, in one of the Scotch districts, was delivered the other day of a ee.t:o chltd. The tattier and mother are ss hitc ; and a black man has not been sten in the district for two years. The occur: eisce is accounted for by the fact of the Watson's having heard misoll of the performances of Mr. Lewis, the mesmerist; and, as she states, having had her imagination so much impressed that, to use her own words, "Sire could flirt get Ishii out of her head." 'fire child, whose very hair was woolly, did not survive.  LLANDEaIr..—On Easter Monday the usual vestry was held in this church, the Rev. Louis Morgan, vicar, in the chair, for appointing churchwardens, when the fol• lowing gentlemen were appointed for the present year : Thomas Wright Laaiord, Esq., ii, and Mr. Jolly. Hughes, Maerdig.