The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1883-02-03 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

OOOO. Nearly all the operative spinners who struck at 'Circaldy, have returned to work at the old rate&  Several vessels have been towed. into Yarmouth in a dangerous condition. Fears are entertained for the safety of the fishing fleet.  Hugh Casderbann strangled his wife in bed at Bolton, on Friday morning, and then attempted to commit suicide. SeTeral meals arrived is the Humber on Monday more or less disabled from the effects of last weeks' storm. 'rho " Freeman's Journal" of ig'uesday believes there is no founilation for the statement that Patrick Delany will become aminformor. Two•hundred boys employed at the floorcloth factory at li:inanely have come out for an advance. The " Times " correspondent at Durban tele.  rephingon Saturday says :—The Cape Upper OaMhei has 4:fati in favour af the abandonse BaB*Ialla• • , The Home Secretary writes that he sees no reason for interfering with the sentence of five years' penal servitude passed on Charles Looter, for stealing Lord Crawford's body. The "Times" Cairo correspondent, telegrah. ing on Monday, says :—"The; British were to-day removed from all the Palaces, their places taken by Egyptain soldiers." A Central News telegram dated Vienna, Monday, says :—The Government have granted concession to an English Company for the construction of an elevated railway here. Upton Castle, the seat of Mr. H. Vaughan, brother of the master of the Temple, was much damaged on Sunday by fire, which broke out in the library.  A telegram from Vienna on Sunday night says:—M. Giers left to-night for St. Petersburg. It is stated that Russia proposes constructing a canal throughßessarabia, making her independent of the Danubian Commission. The police patrol near Mallow have succeeded in capturing ;three moonlighters after a long chase. The prisoners endeavoured subse quently to deprive the constablol of their rifle. The heavy rains have caused 501101.19 floods in  the Lake Di,trict. Keswick is partly under  water; the lakes of Derwentwater and Dessauthwaim have joined. A landslip has blocked Cockermouth and tho Keswick Railway. The Erenoh aeronaut Captain Mayet, while making an ascent in a Montgolfier balloon at Madrid, on Sunday afternoon, was thrown out of the car through the shock of a collision with the roof af a house, and, falling into the street, was killed instantaneously. An undertaker, going on Tuesday morniug, to close the coffin of a groom, named Drake, found the widow lying beside the remains, she having taken poison in her house at Ulverston. The widow soon afterwards expired. Shrewsbury presents at this time of dis. ash ous events an appalling spectacle. The Severn be risen to an unusual extent and flooded the streets, so that boats are used to keep up the communication in the town. On Tuesday the w ter was reported as being still rising.  The four farmers who were liberated from Waterford gaol, where they had been im. prisoned for riotinsr and interfering with the Carraghmore hunt, were met at Carrick station, on atturday, by an enthusiastic crowd who marched through the town, accompanied by a band and earrying, a dead fox on a pole. The Homo Office has directed a Metropolitan detective to assist the local police in in. vestigating the murder of Mark Cox, near Bristol. Job and Thomas Wedlake, who are charged with the crime, were on Saturday further remanded.  The "Post" Berlin correspondent at Berlin telegraphing on Sunday says :—lt is stated that both Russia and Italy have given a cold reception to the Note of Lord Granville on the Egyptian Question, and that elaborate and important modifications of its proposals will be suggested. The "Irish Times" on Monday morning stated that the reason which influenced the Post Office in transferring the Irish mail contract to the London and North Western Railway was that by soLdoing the saving of £45,000 yearly is effected. The Plessey, three-masted ship, from Demerara, ran ashore near Hythe on Monday. Crew saved. Quantities of wreckage have been washed ashore at Soilly, believed.to be from the Liverpool ship Arzilla, which left Cardiff on the 10th instant.  Lord Granville and Mr. Gladstone have addressed circulars to the Libetal members of the House of Lords and Commons respectively, requesting their attendance in Parliament of February lath, when important business will be proceeded with. At Messrs. t-tevemton, Jacques and Co's. Mine, Boosbeok,Cloveland, on Tuesday morning, the roof fell in :.on a party of workers, burying them in the ruins. Five of the men were badly injured, one, named Buck, dying soon afterwards.  At tho London Mansion House on Tuesday, Captain Charles Clifton Wood, secretary of Vie Milford Dock Company, was charged with forging debenture stock of the company to the extent of £44,000. Mr Wontner having stated the case for the prosecution, prisoner was romended.  His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales on his present stay at Cannes visited the Comte de Paris on Sunday, and also the Princess Clementine of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and her sons. On Monday the:Prince visited Chateau Scott. Thera are various high personages attracted to Cannes just now, and Mr. Glslhione fuced on Tuesday to give a grand dinner Fa ty in honour of the Prince. Mr. Gladstone is in excellent spirits, and walked out on Monday towards St. Cassien, and. also visited the Lerin Islands A seaman named Hooper, belonging to H.M.S. Valiant, of Tarbert, fell overboard. He was rescued, but died from exhaustion. A boat, with six men, was then lowered to search for the lifebuoys which had been thrown out and it was , feared that the boat was lost, but a later telegram stated that the boat was blown into Clare, and the crew were saved. A Central News:telegram on Monday morning says that the steamer wrecked off Porthcawl is , stated to be the "Black Watch." Two tugs went to the assistance of the unfortunate steamer, but did not succeed in finding hcr. The steamer Black Watch carried a crew of 26 hands. Two bodies have been washed ashore. Endeavours were also made to render assistance from shore with the rocket apparatus, but without effect, and all hands went down. The " Telegraph " correspondent at Rome, telegraphing on Sunday says :—The Stanley Brazza controversy (respecting French claims to the Congo) promises shortly to lead to a substantial political result. Negociations are pending between the English and Portuguese Govcrnmints, with a view to bringing about a definite recognition of Portugal's rights on the Congo, to Zara, and the territories of Cabrada and Mosambo. England obtains, in exchange, the fort of tan Twee de Ajuda.