Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1862-01-08 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

PARIS TRAGEDY.  The first accounts of the circumstances attending the fearful tragedy in the Rue de la Fidelite, were very inaccurate. The following are the real facts of the case —M. C , a man between fitty and sixty years of age, attached to one of the theatres as a musician, after living for some time past separate from his wife and three daughters, last week summoned the former before the juge de pail for the purpose of settling their difference. The magistrate endeavoured to convince C— that his demands were unreasonable, and the husband accordingly left the court greatly dissatisfied with the result, but saying that he should still take advantage of his right to see his children occasionally. Two or three days after this, C— purchased a brace of pistols of a gunsmith, who charged them for him With these arms in his pockets, and a long Spanish knife, be went to the apart- ' ment occupied by his wife and daughters, on a second floor in the Rue de la Fidelite. The mother and youngest daughter were out at the time, but Cecile, his eldest daughter, twenty years of age, and Jenny, aged seventeen, both pupils of the Conservatoire de Musique, were at home. They received him very kindly, and were conversing together without angry feeling on either side, when his brother•in-law M. ll—, called to see his nieces. The two brothers-in-law had long been living on bad terms with each other, and the new corner had scarcely entered when C addressed him in most abusive language, and enraged at receiving no answer, drew out his knife and rushed upon the other. The young woman Cecile threw herself between them, and this so incensed her father that he stabbed her four times in the chest, and she fell dead. The murderer then turned his fury against ll—, but the other daughter interfered, and was also wounded by her father, and fell fainting on the floor. The infuriated man then attacked ll a third time, and inflicted on him two severe wounds in the abdomen and one in the shoulder, so that his victim sank down apparently lifeless. The murderer then discharged one of the pistols into his own heart, and died instantly. The wounds of M. H— are so severe that his life is despaired of. The yonnger daughter, Jenny, is likely to recover; for her wound, though deep, has not affected any organ essential to life.—Galignaui.  GEORGE THE FOURTH'S Wtos.—His obese Majesty, the "dandy of sixty," as Hone called him, was pretty nearly as bald as a cannon ball, and the following was the device he adopted to delude all those around his person save the privileged valet (to whom, of course, no master is a hero) into the belief that his luxuriant wig was the product of his own head. He caused to be manufactured as many wigs as there are days in the month, each wig being provided with a box and a num. ber. Every morning be put on a peruke slightly differing from the others. Thus the hair of number four was a trifle longer than that of number three, and so on to numbers thirty and thirty-one, which looked as though they began to need cutting. Upon reaching the last day of the month, his Majesty would run his fingers through his flowing wig, and exclaim in a careless tone, " My hair is growing much too long; I must make Theophile cut it." The next morning he resumed wig number one. His Majesty could hardly nave deceived others, but it is not improbable that he almost succeeded in deceiving himself, pretty much as he did into a belief a firm persuasion of his latter years—that, under the pseudonym of General Brook, he had led a charge of .cavalry at Waterloo.