Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-12-21 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MURDEROUS ASSAULT ON A POLICEMAN. —At the Oxford Assizes on Saturday George Page was indicted for unlawfully wounding and stabbing Edward Remmett, a police-constable, with intent to resist his lawful apprehension. The prisoner was drunk and noise in Cheltenham, and refused to go home. On the arfltarr tat4t-mptlng So remove him he ....e.ulwed him with a knife and severely wounded him. A desperate struggle ensued, which ultimately ended in the con. stable securing the prisoner, although a much bigger man than himself. His lordship summed up, and the jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to penal servitude for eight years. His lordship then expressed his admiration of the courage and gall intry exhibited by the constable, ordered him a reward of 1210, and expressed a hope that he might meet with promotion in the service. BORN TO BE DROWNED !-011 Saturday afternoon a fatal accident befel Mr. Stephen Britt. for many years the harbour-master of the port of Rye. In company with another old "salt," he was returning from the mouth of Rye harbour, distant about two miles from the town, when his boat was capsized . . .  by a sudden puff of wind, and both ancient mariners were in the water, struggling for life. One of them, Captain It. Wright, succeeded with great difficulty in reaching the soft mud, where he stuck until a chance wayfarer came to his aid. Captain Britt was carried down by the strong tide, then ebbing, and his body was found about an hour afterwards, left on the shore by the water, quite dead, yet warm. He was the last survivor of a family of six sons, every cue of whom had died by drowning—three at sea, one in Rotterdam harbour, and one, eight years old, in a well. This strange fatality so powerfully impressed the mind of the last remaining, -Stephen, that he abandoned going to sea, and relinquished even the command of the harbour steam tug, which he latterly had charge of. A NICE PRESENT FOR NAPOLEON !—Lord Shaftesbury, at the head of a deputation from the Bible Society and the Paris Conference and Evangelisation Committee, waited on the Emperor at St. Cloud, on Dec. 13, to present an address of thanks to his Majesty for the facilities which had been afforded during the period of the Exhibition for the distribution of Bibles and tracts and the erection of temporary places of evangelical worship. His lordship took the opportunity of presenting the Emperor with a handsomely bound copyof a protestant Bible. His Majesty graciously accepted the present, and stated that it was a principle of his government to give protection to all religious bodies. "UNEASY LIES TIIE HEAD," &.—Victor Emmanuel continues to lead a very secluded life in the depths of the Pitti Palace. He is becoming daily more austere in his habito and reserved in his conversa bon. It is not at all unlikely that he will retire into private life before long. The saddest of all his griefs has been the breaking of his statue at Turin—the city if his affection. He will "gang no more to yon twin." His homes and hunting traps have been brought away from Turin, and last, not least, his" Countess Rosina," who alone seems able to minister to a mind diseimed, or to pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow. Both of them intend doing the "cosy couple," at the sea-side, in the small village of San. Rossare, a mile from Pisa. It is said if the King would make his sons live with him in Florence, awl give fates to the nobility and townspeople, his popularity might be patched up. NOT SO BAD AFTER ALL !—King George, late of Hanover, has not come off so very badly after all. In addition to the sixteen millions of thalers from Prussia, he has received back four millions which he had sent to London, making twenty millions in all, or £3,000,000. Even in the.w dear times one could manage to scrape along pretty well on the interest of that corn. And now he is soon to have a royal son-in. law, as it is confidently reported that Prince William of Orange, born in 1840, is engaged to be married to Princess Priederica, of Hanover, who will complete her twentieth year next January. The prince is not a wealthy man, having lost much of his property in Paris, and in one of those ways in which young men often do lose cash in that city. This, however, is of no such great consequence now, as the princess is to have a dowry of something more than 000,000. TliE