Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-08-31 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE FUTURE OF MADAME FRTOARD. - The Female Penitentiary to which the notorious Madame Frigard, the Fontainebleau murderess, has been taken to undergo her sentence, is at Clermont-sunOise, rind occupies the keep or donjon of the old castle of the Lords of Nointel, built early in the 11th century, in a situation then impregnable. Of the size of the old feudal fortress some idea nifty be formed from the dimensions of this one remaining tower, which is nearly 100 ft. high, by SOft, long and 60ft. wide. More modern buildings have been added to this remnant of the middle ages, and the establishment receives the female convicts of five departments. About 1,000 are IF W there. Madame Friganl, on arriving, hart her hair cut and the prison uniform substituted for In town clothes. In these hard labour establishments there are work' "shops, directed by contractors, where needlework is done, and straw hats, rosaries, chains, and small articles of hardware are manufactured. In one of these shops she has had her daily task assigner] her, to be suspended only by sick certificate from the prison doctor.  NUT PLEASANT VISITORS !Times of Aug. 11 mays :  !—The New York  Our readers who have availed themselves of the streets, highways and car routes of the city during the past six days will understand us when we remark that mosquitoes, as such, have been unpleasantly numerous and tremendously active Car drivers, conductors, stage drivers. apple women and other unhappy people who were compelled by the public character of their or ,cathais to in much out of doors, soug t refuge in handkercld,fs muffled about their necks and little bottles of very strong hatishorn, with which they anointed the itching palm, or other parts, as bites might demand. Men of science were seen to cock their heads knowinely to one sb e, and after a little scratching were heard to remark that the mosqiiitoes evidently came from the sea. Perhaps filer did, end if the cues of science will kindly tell when they'll go hack to the ses, in the name via bitten public we will heartily thank them.  THE HYMNS MT SUM (From th Poll Mall Ca:etlea. The Bishop of Killaloe implies, in his charge just delivered, that it was quite a mi-take to oppose the introduction of hyints into Church services as " methodistical," as was the fashion even within his own memory. Of course, almost everybody now-adays agrees with Dr. Fitzgerald. But if his lordship means that a vast nuinher ..f the compositions which have found their way into Etigli-h churches are not in themselves intensely " n-o4Maliatical," he must he V Ty, much to the ti irk as to the fa,:ts of the day. Here is a specimen from a hyten-hoek in use in a Brighton church, and dedicated to the Bishop of Worcester. The uninitiated should he informed that the figures which precede the words are designed to convey some information as to their metre. Say, dear sister, will you inert us? Say, itear sister, will you meet us f Soy, lie-sr sister, sill you meet us? On Canaan's happy shore. By the grace of God I'll nteet you, By the grace of God I'll meet you, By the grace of 0 sl I'll meet you, Where partings are no m,re. Singing, GL.ry, Glory, Hallelujah, Gkry, .aory, Hallelujah, Glory, Glory, Hallelujah, To Jesus evermore. Here, again, are the opening lines of another hymn in the Caine collection :-What of the night, watchman, what of the night? Cloudy—all quiet—no land yet—sit', right? Can anybody Is-finder that people turn away from churches where "lure Protestantism unit-filed" is set forth in company with such intolerable trash as this, and crowd into ritualist churches where, at any rate, their good taste and feelings of reverence are not outraged ? If they must borrow from some sect or other outside the Established Church, it is not surprising that in the w.thetic contest the conventicle has no chance against Rome.