Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1853-06-08 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.  In 1852, the declared value of British woollen manufacture and woollen yarn exported was, of woollen manufactures and woollen yarn, £0,161,074. Mrs. Beecher Stowe, accompanied by the Duchess of Sutherland, was in the House of ...ords on Monday week during the anti-slavery speeches. Ole Bull, the celebrated Norwegian violinist, has purchased a vast tract of land in tie United States for the foundation of a colony The Bishop of Lincoln will be succeeded in the rectory of St. James, Westminstee, by the Rey. J. R. Kempe, incumbent of St. Barnabas, Kensington. Fourteen cases of yellow feter occurred on board of the "La Plata" on her voyage home from the West Indies. Three of them proved fatal. The £lOOO left by Dr. Fratklin to the city of Boston, to be lent at an interest t• young unmarried artisans, in sums not exceeding £6O sterling, now amounts to 15,280 dols. 55c. Franklin estirtated that it would reach 581,640 &Is. in 100 years, but ewng to looses it will probably reach about 400,000 dots. The Glasgow papers recold the death of Collin M'Nab, the steersman of the steamer "Clydesdale, which was burnt some years ago. bUNib, on that occasion, kept his post while his hands and feed were burning, until the vessel was moored, and the passengers carried safely on shore. He has left • family. On Wednesday morning, soon after getting out of bed, Sarah Hellion, a young woman who was to have been married on Sunday loot in -London, committed suicide by cutting her throat from ear to ear. On Tuesday she was in cheerful spirits, and hat been busily employed in making her wedding dress. At a vestry meeting, lately held at Falmouth, Rev. W. J. Coop in the chair, ivery item not compulsory was struck out, and those which were compulsory were reduced to the lowest amount. Candles were disallowed; the organ blower's salary was stopped; the clerk's salary reduced t0..fl ; and instead of a rate of 44. in the pound, one of only lid, in the pound was granted. Miss Prince, an elderly lady of ample fortune, residing at Putson, near Hereferd, bung herself on Wed. nesday in her bedroom. Not the slightest reason em be assigned for this lamentable•ceurrence. The German papers give an account of an Austrian lady who is so charged with electricity that sparks are constantly giving out at her ringer ends. It is seldom that a lady is found sending sparks away from her, though it is a common attribute of the sex to attract sparks, and events twirl them round the Inger with the utmost ease. We suspect that the account in the German papers is, like the electric lady herself, • little overcharged. It is fully expected that the chief portion of the dangerous and obstructive Bwelly rocks, Menai Straits, will be removed during the yresent summer. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has candidly and wisely resolved to adhere to the original plan for a reduced duty on raisins. By this decision the working people of this country will be able to get 'good and .cheep dried grapes—or, in other words, will find themselves in the deserved enjoyment of a few extra "plums in their . pudding." The accident that happened to Mr. Commissioner Phillips on Monday was of a more serious nature then anticipated. The learned gentleman was knocked down and trampled num, waiving eoure-hruises on his right arta. He is unable to discharge his duties as a cow. raiseioner at present. At the tea and strawberry gardens, 'Seedly-lane. Pendleton, a women who is now engaged in walking 1000 milts in a 1000 hours, fora wager of 500. She began to walk this distance on Saturday. May 7th, end at 12 o'clock on Friday she had accomplished 504 miles. She walks in the Bloomer costume—a style of dress which she will no doubt 6nd better suited for the performance of a pedestrian feat such as that in which she is engaged than the costume ordinarily worn by women in this country. A reward of £5 is offered to any person who shall detect rhesleeping when she otght to be walking. On Thursday, a married woman, named Ann liampson, living with her husband at No. !M, Victoria. Street, Rutland-street, Moline, Manchester, committed suicide by cutting her throat with a razor. On Tuesday afternoon, a fire arising from spontaneous combustion in a sofa, occurred in one of the basement apartments used as a dwelling-house by Mr. Fletcher, the keeper of the rooms of the Literary and Philosophical Society, in George-street, Manchester. On entering this room (used ass bedroom) that afternoon, he was astonished to Sad a sofa on fire. He dragged the soia out into a yard, and was present:y successful in extinguishing the combustion which was going on in its interior. It turned out that this piece of furniture had been stuffed with copbottoms and rovings which were greasy; mid in these, it is believed, the fire originated by spontaneous combustion.  On Monday last, when some workmen were making repairs at a gas lamp in the Polygon, Ardwick, they were attracted by a kind of hissing noise which proceeded front the pillar up which the gas tube rises, about six inches below the point where the tube enters the bottom of the lamp. On looking down they perceived a bird sitting in a neat; and there she sat for about 20 minutes whilst the repairs were going on. At last the mate bird, a blue tointit (panic ceruketia), tes,le its sp. pearance on an adjoining tree, and uttered various notes of alarm, when sbe flew off. There were eight eggs in the neat, to which she returned when the workmen left the spot, and where we sincerely hope she wtll rear • happy and enlightened tataily.—Manchester Guardian.