Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-06-01 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

FEARFUL ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.—On Saturday evening a lad named James Fossey, aged sixteen years, the son of a pawnbroker and salesman, carrying on a large business in Salmon-lane, Limehouse, made a determined attempt to commit suicide on the Blackwall Railway. He went down the line by the half. past seven o'clock train from London, came out at the Lirnehouse station, and remained on the platform. On the arrival of the next train, a quarter of an hour afterwards, he raised his arms and deliberately threw himself on the line in front of the engine. No one expected to see him alive again, but, singularly enough, he escaped the rails, and the wheels and tender never touched him. The ashpan under the engine caught his body and twirled it over and over until the train was brought to a stand. He was lifted, dreadfully injured, from the line and conveyed by Mr. Barry, an inspector of pclice in the service of the Great Eastern Railway Company, to the London Hospital. On examination it was ascertained that both his legs were fractured, and amputation followed soon afterwards. Notwithstanding,nll these fearful injuries, the lad is  said at the hospital to be going on favourably, and that Ire is likely to recover. Young Fossey was in the employ of a silversmith in London, with whom he quarrelled on the day of his attempted suicide. At home he was described as a lad of morose and stubborn temper. A TRUE HERO !--The United Service Gazette, ill answer to a correspondent, thus enumerates the very sufficient services for which the late Sir Win. Peel received the Victoria Cross s-1, for having on Oct. 18, 1854, at the greatest possible risk, taken up a live shell, the fuze still limning, from among several powder eases outside the magazine runt thrown it over the parapet the shell bursting as it left his hands„ thereby saving the magazine and the lives of those immediately around it '2, for having on November 5, 1854, at the battle of Inkertnan, joined the officers of the Grenadier Guards, and assisted them in defending the colours e. that regiment when hard pressed at the Sandbag Battery ; and 3, for havitig S olunteured on the loth of June, 1855. to lead , the ladder party at the assault of the Baden, and :or having carried the first ladder until wounded. ALL THE DIFFERENCE Paris paper having stated that there were two Embassies from Japan now in Paris, one representing the Tycoon and the other the Prince of Satsuma, "one of the most powerful and influential of the Japanese Confederation," La 'encore objects to this description. It is not true that the brether of the Tycoon now in I'aris is an Ambassador. Ile has no title but that of ; is merely a private individual ; and the Minister let has brought with him has no other function but that of settling questions of etiquette during Cm young Prince's stay in the French capital. Neit;mr Is it correct to give the title of Ambassador to the representative of the Prince of Satsuma, for the simple reason that Prince Satsuma is a vassal of the Japanese Crown, and by consequence has no right to be represented by Ambassadors at foreign Courts. The personages sent to l'aris by Prince Saisuma are Commissioners to the Exhibition; and that they are not accredited WI diplomatic agents th this Court is proved by the fact of their not Lavin.; I:een received officially by the Minister of Foreign Affairs. - -  14/1111WER OF A