Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1849-09-26 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

PEOPOSITION.—A young man. .whose sell-esteem appeared more fully develmed than his conscieut iouseesi, offered a very inadequate price for some property 14 was desirous of pussesaing; and having waited  -- -The Earl of Carlisle has handed to the Bishop of London £lOO, and the Bishop of Winchester a like sutn, to be distributed at their respective dioceses, amongst the families left by the cholera-striekm. The Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel is completely himself with She Baptist denominart ~,, 1,. is to succeed the Rev. Barrington Evans, as minister of John street Chapel, Bedford-row. It is said that 300 to 5 r 0 of Mr. Noel's late churchgoing hearers will join the new dissentiwr' congregation, under his pastoral care. Neither Mrs. Noel, nor the rev. gentleman's (laughter, Miss Noel, sympathise, it is undetstood, with the recent change in his sentiments. ' •  Cord Albert Conyngbam has obtained the royal license to use only the surn4m.: of his maternal uncle, Denison, in lieu of Conynglia•n..  A most curious d:scovery of coins of the fourteenth century was made last week at Newport, in the Isle of Wight. They cunsist chiefly of pennies of the reigns of Edward 1., 11., and 111. About 2,500 are in the possession of the tinder. The Commissioners of Woods and Forests are about erecting a suspension bridge across the ornamental water of the enclosure, St. James's Park. _  The foundation of a great (Roman Catholic) Church, according to the Tablet, is to be laid at Edinburgh, in November; Mr. Pugin, architect. The Times emphatically warns the public ag iinst embarking their persons or money in any of the gold mining companies evoked in the city by the recent accounts from San Francisco. Mr. Godfrey Piggot, of Bolton-upon-Dcarne, has died front conewsion of the brain, occasioned by a blow fr in a cricket ball under the right ear. A commercial traveller at Huila few days ago got intoxicated, accompanied a female to a house of finite, was seized with the cholera, and died; as did also three females in the house. The four corpses lay in the house at one time.  _ S9veral tradesmen and billstickers of Nottingham are about to petition the town council to make a bye-law, checking the practice of stripping posting bills f urn walls, in order to sell them as wrtste paper, a practice wh:ch has become very common in Nottingham.  Among the victims of cholera is mentioned Mr. Thomas Inskip, of Shcfford, known as a poet, more particularly in association with the name of Robt. Bloomfield.  Two omnibus conductors were fined last week, at Bow-street, for nearly pulling a lady to pieces in attempts vi et armis to get her into their rival vehicles. The unfortunate lady finally fell down, and the infuriated "cads" fought sevei al rounds over her prostrate form. An association has been formed at Birmingham for the obtaining of the reveal of all talus on knowledge. This example should be followed throughout the kingdom. The entire cost of cleansing and watering the town of Birmingham is £5OOO per annum—considered a very moderate sum. The alteration in the diet of the people of this country occasioned by the recent frec-trade measures, R., according to the .'taudard, the cause of the prevalence or cholera!  A supposed incendiary fire has just taken place near Braintree, Essex, by which £01:1 worth of farming stock has been destroyed. Mr. NV. Walker, a well-known stock-broker of London, died from cholera last week. It transpired at the inquest that be had been twice attacked by the malady within a fortnight. A frightful suicide took place in the public streets of London on Sunday morning week. A man deliberately threw himsel tinder the wheels of an omnibus which was passing along Moorgate-street. The hind wheel passed over his head, literally crushing it to t toms. The subject of an ocean penny postage is attracting some attention at the present time. The Manchester Chatnber of Commerce have taken up th:: question ; and with their stamp it, the scheme. may be ! removed front the category of empirical agitations and regarded as one of those ideas which require tune only to perfect them. Peace and free postage are the pet " lin- , possibilities" of the hour. Steam and lightning conductors have had their (lays of denial—and of victory. The superiority of Macadamised or broken stone roads for the streets of large towns, formed the subject of a paper read at the British Association meeting at Birmingham, last week. No less than seven fires occurred in the metropolis in the course of Wednesday last. The damage donei s estimated at .e RP 0. The editor's room at the office of the Bristol Journal was robbed on Thursday of a nearly new black coat, with velvet c.tllar, a pocket book, and a large silv,r pencil-case, with white co:mil:in seal. 'flte theft is supposed to have been committed by a tramp. It is in contemplation lo erect at Birkenhead an extensive ia •ge of buildings as a collegiate establi It. vent, similar in character to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the marquis of Westminster, and Lord Robert Grosvenor have each contributed £lOOO for this magnificent scheme. A burglar named Morris, confined in the Hereford gaol, last week attacked the governor with a large ;ton bar, but in consequt nce of the smallness of his cell !Us fatal intentions were not accomplished. The villain :owed the most dreadful revenge against a gaoler. eU lashes were teluiLlistered to him as a correction.  4111111111110