Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1860-03-21 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.  - -Jullien, the eminent Musician, died in a lunatic asylum at Paris on Thursday. A child six years of age has perished near Rumford, from being blown into a pond by a sudden gust of wind.  The Post says that last week Sir William Armstrong sent a shot through four and-a-half inches of wrought iron.  ACthe Exeter assizes on Tuesday week, Miss Elizabeth Beachey obtained £750 damages against Mr. Brown, for a breach of promise of marriage. Last week 50 of the leading manufacturers iu Nottingham commenced closing their establishments, ou Saturdays, at 1 o'clock. The mail steamer 'Pera,' which arrived at Southampton on Sunday, has brought home a hippopotamus calf, and two rare and curious tchou birds from Upper Egypt. It is rumoured that her Majesty intends, late in the summer, to have a grand inspection of the Volunteers in Hyde park, when all will be "invited" to attend who can come.  It is a curious coincidence that Mr. Baron Watson died on the anniversary of the decease of .Mr. Justice Talfourd, who, like the former, expired while on the bench.  - - - The electric telegraph has now been extended to Bournemouth, in Dorset. This place is becoming very populous on account of its being a favourite resort for  The actual strength of the regiments of Militia in the United Kingdom at present embodied is in England 13,550; Scotland, 2,684; Ireland, 7,471, giving a total of 23,735 effective men _ _  'During the past week "a relic of the true Cross," encased in jewels worth some thousands of pounds, (the property of an English nobleman) has been exhibiting at a neighbouring convent. —Bristol Timer. Ericsson's caloric engine, which, from its trial on board the ' Ericsson' a few years back, was supposed to be an entire failure, is now alleged to be coming rapidly into use, 2.50 of them being in daily operation in various New York establishments.  The Rev. Mr. Campbell, Wesleyan minister, having attempted to address the people while returning from rha.s at Oughterard, county Galway, on Sunday, was set upon by the mob and hunted to his residence.--LeinstelErp ess. Ginglini, the tenor, has written a song of a patriotic character, which he has dedicated and presented to the King of Sardinia. The acknowledgment of his Majesty was a snuff box set with diamonds worth £3OO. It is understood that the application from the shareholders of the Great Ship Company for allotments of the 4'100,000 preference capital authorized to be issued have exceeded that amount.  There was an explosion of an engine boiler at Totnes on Tuesday week. The roof of a shed was partially blown off, and one man in the employ of the South Devon Railway was killed. It was the engine of the dawn goods train, which left Exeter about 7 o'clock on Tuesday. At the Liverpool Coroner's Court, on Tuesday, an inquest was hchl on the body of Sarah Dyke, a woman of intemperate habits, who was strangled by the sash of a window falling on her neck, as she was entering her house in the middle of the night. She had gone -from home without the knowledge or sanction of her husband. The Bury Post states that the Rev. William !much, incumbent of Wangford, and vicar of Roydon, has committed suicide by taking prussic acid while in a state of iirsavity. His lifeless body was found in aby lane. He had laboured under delusions that he was ruined, and had ruined many persons (quite contrary to fact). Messrs. Ralph Heaton and Son, of Birmingham, have been for several weeks engaged in executing an order for copper coinage for Tuscany, bearing the name of His Majesty, Victor Emanuel, with the date 1'859. The new coins', - which are very tastefully designed aid executed, bear insetiptions, on the obverse Vittorio Emanuele Re Eletto," arm on the reverse " Govern° della Tcesana, 1859." •  ---A correspondent of the Daily New.; notices what he calls a curious attempt an the part of Sir R. J. Buxton, the unsuccessful Tory candidate for Bury StEdmunds at the last election, to bribe the aleetors of the borough. "The other day, a wagon, laden with hares and pheasants from the preserves of the unsuccessful Tory candidate of hist election, paraded the town, attended by the secretary of the Conservative Club.' Hares and pheasants were liberally distributed, to the number of three or four hundred, to the Tory voters!' The average annual cost of the rank and file in the army is given as follows, on the authority of the Naval and Military Ca:Me t—Lilo Guards, £llO Os. 3d. ; Horse Guards (Blue), £lO6 2s. id.; Dragoons of the Line, £B9 Os. 6d. . • Foot Guards, £4B lie. 3d.; Infantry of the Line, £45 9s. 3d. This average is struck from the total pay and cost of each corps and all expenses ounct. ted with it, includin,g all ranks. A fire occurred at Bridgetown, Barbadoes, on the night of Monday, the 13th Fabruary. The property destroyed, says the West Indian of the 17th, was variously estimated at from 1,000,000 dollars to £1,000,000, and the • general opinion seemed to fix it at £500,000, a very inconsiderable portion of which was insured, not oxeeeding £3O  From the collected weekly tables published by authority of the Registrar. General, it appears that the natural increase of the population of London—i.e., the exoess of births over deaths—was last year 30,939. The number of immigrants from the country is estimated at 23,000. If this calculation is well founded, the gross increase was 454,000, or more than 1,000 weekly. The United States' squadron in the Gulf of Mexico is being strengthened. When complete it will consist of 12 or 13 vessels, steam And sail, carrying over 200 guns, with crews thoroughly instructed in their management, and who have also been well drilled in the usc of all arms known to the military service, in order that they may be prepared to fight on shore as well as on board, in case of necessity. A day or two ago, a woman 48 years of age, named Mary Ann Stead, wife of Mr. Charles Stead, tailor, Barnsley, died from the effects of a slight - the  cnt on I,_ thumb. Soon after cutting herself she ran an old fork into thewound, but took no further notice of it. On Saturday week she cleaned her house windows with water in which was dissolved a quantity of soda, and subsequently inflammation set in and spread itself through the system, and she expired several days afterwards. Some ingeniously-made gold eagles are in circulation at New York: The eagle is split, and the vacancy filled with a base white metal. It is stated that the white metal is known to the Chinese. It is supposed that they emanate from the Chinese quarters of San Francisco, California, where many counterfeit gold coins are in circulation. all of which are well executed, and taken in the California Branch Mint. This metal, like the gong metal, is still a secret with tne Chinese.