Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1849-08-08 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

LAI'EST.  PARIS, SUNDAY.—M. Duchene, fesponlitile editor of Le People, was yesterday meek, entitielnliell by • default to five years imprietniumit, and 6,000 f. fine, tor having petlished articles on the 9th, 10th. and I lth May lost, exciting the citizens to betted of the government, to civil war, disobedience to the laws, &c. M. Duchene to in the prison of Sainte Pelagie, but, as on previous occ, Riot's, refused to attend the court.—There is something in the wind (gays the correspondent of the Daily Neve), and ministers look so bland and andeltle that they must mean mischief. coups etat are tallied of; the old serpent of legitimacy is raking its crested bend, and is en • deavouring to wile away t republican Eve from her garden. Rica Ben, rira le tlernier. The game is not yet over, and ulthotieh the powers that be are lying at present on velvet, yet who shall say what a day may bring forth. United States 4.• California.—:The "Niagara," royal mail steamer arrived at Liverpool on Monday. The political news is unimportant.— Father Matthew was still carrying on his mission of temperance sueressfully. In the different cities he bas visited the ceremony gone through at New York by the suayor and council had been re-enacted, and vast numbers of Irish and other citizens accompanied him. A gnat movement was anticipated to raise lands to insure him independent in his old age.— The cholera returns from the several parts of the Union vary both in extent and numbers. The abatement is particularly observable in such cities as St. Louis, &c., where virulence characterised its appearance, but it rages silently yet in many places, and localities hitherto healthy are now visited severely; these are prineipaltv in the north-western states and the Canada. In New York the reuniter of deaths amount to 1011 daily.—The annexation of Cuba and Canada is a subject much in vogue now in the States, in the absence of anything more important. The democratic section of the press are unanimous in approval of the annexation of both, when it can he done without bringing down the hostility of Great Britain or Spain.--California.—Accounts from San Francisco to the 10th of May state that the market at that place was overstocked with goods, which were selling at low rates. Provisions and clothing were abuudant and cheap, and the city was full of people. Numbers of the inhabitants were speculating extravagantly in land. New towns were being laid out in different spots around the hay, and building lots in wilderness sites were selling at from 1,500 dots. to 2,000 dole. each. CONDEMNED PotsoNEßs. —The culprits, Mary Ball, convicted at the receut Warwickshire Assizes before Mr. Justice Coleridge, for the wilful murder of her husband by administering arsenic in gruel, and Mary AIIII (jeering, found guilty at Lewes of poisoning her husband and her two sons, for the possession of their burial fees, are both ordered for execution. The order for carrying out the law in the case of Mary Ball was received by the governor of the county gaol, at Warwick, on Thursday last. The execution is lived for Thursday next, at 10 o'clock. The wretched woman evinced very little concern when the awful announcement was mnde known to her. She still persists in her innocence, and although the chaplain has been unremitting in his endeavours to bring her to a settee of the position in which she is placed, not the slightest impression has been effected. On Friday her mother, sister, and her child, a little girl two year!, and a half old, took their farewell of her, which seemed not to affect her in the bast. The other convict, Mary Ann Geering, is to be executed at Lewes on Saturday.