Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1864-12-23 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SIVICNING DEATIL—An old sailor, named b7s,..rth, living in Trafalgar-square, Sunderiii, was burnt to death on Monday, in a very shocking Iwlnrier. The deeised and his wife occupied a room itt ti • square. The latter, on Monday afternoon, kit her huslctud, and was absent about two hours. On her rotor., she saw him lying in the fire-grate dead. Otte of his arms was completely burnt off, and his head and the upper part of his body were dreadfully charred. Ile had suffered from paralysis about five years, and it it boliov,sl th:t! during his wife's absence he had been at tl with anuther fit, fallen forward from the front of the lire where he was sitting, and, unable to help himself, was burnt to death  The A rignst / Chronicle mentions that on one day 158 t motth 200 Irishmen, who have been Federal prisoners kr the hands of the Confederates for twelve months past, reached that city from Florence, South Carolina. and passed through on their way to join Ilood's army. The prisoners were refused an exchange by the Yankee Government, in consequence of their time having run out; and feeling that they had not been treated right by the said Government, and with a view to revenge, took the oath of allegiance to the Cant, lerate States, and were duly sworn into our army by a Catholic priest at Florence.  A Florence letter gives the subjoined as the annual revenue of the eleven principal religious ents in that city :—"The barefooted Carmelite nuns of St. Theresa, : 97.000 f. ; the brotherhood of the lily Annunciation, 618,000 f. ; the barefooted Carmelite nuns of St. Mary Magdalen, 661,000 f.; the mminicatis of the Angiolini, ; the Augustine of the Holy Spirit, 478,0001. ; the Brotherhood of the I lo'y Crss. 402,0001.; the Scolopiaus of St. John the Ires 4, .IUO ; the Long-mantled Sisters of St. Mary, 62.1,11001. ; the Montalviatis of Roponi. 850,000 f. ; the DonlitiieArp, of the new order of St. Mary, 431,0001 ; the Order of Malta, now the Hospitallers of St. John, 1,200,000 f. ; or in all 6,936,000 f."  A Brussels journal states that a woman named Moreau, residing at Roeulx (Belgium), has just died in giving birth to three girls, all of whom seem likely to live. . _  There is a widow living at Toll End, near Tipton, who has entered on her 101st year. Her name is Eleanor Webb. She was born in August of the year 1764, and was consequently 100 years old in August last She has resided in the same house she now occupies since her birth, and has been a widow for 50 years.  About 10,000 pieces of Roman money, principally of the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero, have just been discovered in the bed of the Mayenne,, and St. Leonard. Their presence is explained by the fact of a dangerous ford having formerly existed at this spot, and the custom of travellers to throw in the river a piece of money ex rob). _ _  Mr Justice Mellor, on Saturday, sentenced two more prisoners to death at Liverpool. Their names are Henry Brown and Thomas Linden. The crime of which they were convicted was that of murdering a man named Macarthy, whom they put to a dreadful death. One of their cruel acts was the gouging out of their victim's eyes with a pistol.  The Emperor of the French has forwarded Aid. Allison, the ex-Mayor of Sunderland. a magnificent goli box, surmounted with a portrait of his Imperial Majesty, and brilliantly set with pefirls, accompanied by a letter from M Drouyn D'Lhuys, Foreign Minister, as an acknowledgment of the reception which the town accorded to the officers of the French ship La Dame. on her recent visit to that port. A