Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1866-11-03 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

EPITOME OF NEW.  BRITISH AND FORIAGI;.  Advices from Cana"la say that the Fenian priest 11•Mahon has been sentenced to be hanged.  Great efforts have for some time been made to Introduce ti e growing of Sax end the manufacture of linen on an extensive scide into the United States, but as yet they have not succeeded very well. . .  --•It is proposed to build a mammoth hotel in New York opposite the main entrance of the Central Park. There are to be 874 rooms, anti It is to be the largest elf em In the world. " •  —.— The Hon. John Van Buren, of New York, died on the steamer Scotia during her voyage out from Liverpool to New York, aged 56 Her Majesty has been pleased, through Lord Derby, to confer a pension of 751 a year on the widow of the late Mr. Godfrey Sykes, formerly a pupil and teacher of the Sheffield School of Art, and the architectural decorator of the South Ketwington Mustum. - ,•  The original Artemus Ward was a very different character from his modern namesake. He was the first Sl:dor-General in the American revolutiona-y army, and comrrimded the tight wing of the forces at Roxbury in the siege of Boston. its was born in Massachusetts in 1727, and died in 1800. -•- " •  The Corriere /Milano states that it knows from a sure source that France and England are preparing an energetic note to be addressed to Russia respecting the maritime armaments of that power in Nicolateff, which are In entire opposition to the letter anti spirit I tee treaty ot Paris. _ .  • It is tinderetoo 1 that the reports of Lord Clarendon'e tit heidia are very much exaggerated. the Obarrrer sass: The latest ..ceounts report an improvement hi the health of the Earl of Clarendon. His disease is both painful and dangerous.  The daughter of a labourer named Stephenson, living in Liverpool, died on Saturday from swallowing a glass bead At the inquest it was stated that acute push, 11101341, consequent upon the bead lodging in the trachea, was the cause of death. There has been a "Monster Concert" at Vienna for the benefit of the widows and orphans of the soldiers killed during she war. The choruses were executed with wonderful precision. although I,2de singers and two military bands were engaged in tht ir performance. The enthusiasm of the audience was great. A phrenologist, one Doctor Divoli, has discovered that Carbaldi's head shows unmistakable organs proving abnegation, prudence, sangfroid, meditation, eloquence, loyalty, deference towards others, and perception of character ---EPhrenology is alway s ac.mrate otter the character is known .1 The memorial to the late Sir Tattoo Sykes, which has been erected at Garton Hill Top, the highest point of the Yorkshire \Voids, was inaugurated on Friday by Lord liotham. The memorial consists of a tower, in the early decorated style, and is a very handsome structure, which can he seen for a very great distance. It has cost about 1,8001, the funds having been obtained by subscriptions from all parts of the country, hut principally from the East Itioing, where Sir Tattoo was well known and esteemed, not , only as a liberal landlord, but also as an eminent agriculturist and a lover of English sports. At the hod meeting of the Academie des Sciences, In Paris, a chemist. M. Commadie, presented a report giving an analysis of cats' milk, by which it appears that the newly-sagg“ted beverage paisenies immense strength and restorative qualities. If the rising a.neration are to feed on horse stakes (remarks a correspond nt) washed down by cats' milk. I confess I congratulate myself on belonging to spat reyunc." A gloom been cast over the town of Retford and its neighbourhood, hy the death of the Rev John Mickel!, the vicar of South Leverton, who committed suicide by blowing ont his brains with a pistol. The ret gentleman, who was greatly respected by his parishioners and neighbours, was about seventy-five years of age, and had been for some years master of the Leverton Grammar School. -  - At many of the collieries about Manchester, Bury, and Bolton, notice has been given that the colliers wages will be advanced from the jet Instant. It is said that this increase, added to that which took place a few weeks ago. will raise the pay of miners 20 per neut, higher than it has ever been before. One of the Paris papers gives the following crinoline statistics :—A manufactory In Saxony has made during the last twelve years no less than 9,507,000 crinolines For the fabrication of each of these crinoline. the,, were required about 55 metres of springs, which give for the total manufacture 50g,784,000 yard., This length would be sufficient to go round the world thirteen metres and a half, as its circumference measures 71,902 yards.  An inquest hat been held at Langley respecting the death of rrancis Allen, aged Rs y. ars, who precipitated him. self head foremost into a waterbutt, where he was found a few minutes afterwards, but too late to save his life The