The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1885-12-05 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ITO.* !4t9rae are betrif steadily forwarded to the frontier. Mr. John White, the celebrated boatbuibler, of Cowes, has designed a fishing vessel on lifeboat principles which will not sink if overwhelmed and filled with the sea. lie has already built two of these vessels of 30 tons, 'and, should they become generally adopted, the sea will literally swarm with most powe ful lifeboats.  A man named Thomas Rayemft, who attempted to commit suicide at Rochester on Mond y afternoon by thrusting a red hot poker into his throat, forcing it through the roof of I,is month, died at St. Bartholomew's Hospital on Wednesday morning after 34 houra* iatenne pain, which the physicians were unable to I alleviate.  On Wednesday morning a part of the bril.l:o, which runs over the Thames along the Botloyroad, collapsed without a moment's notiee. Several persons were on it at the time, and a man who was precipated into ate stream managed to swim ashore, whi2,e a child was also w, cued. Five people :re supposed to be in the debris or swept :way with the rapid current.  Mr. P. 3.. Kavanagh. the young Irish medieal atm.:gut who eloped recently from Tunbridge Wells with a young lady, a rich wardof Chan. eery, both being subsequent'y arrested in Dublin, wee on Tuesday married to the young lady. It will be remembered that Mr Kavanagh was charged at a London police court and the prosecution withdrew, it then being stated that a speedy marriage was desirable. UMW Irgand, under the Captain Tedetun says that the course of the Generel Election has surgledpassed most sanguine expectatio of the ni4 Leader, three grand remits being achieved: nominal Home Rulers effaced, the Irish Whig Party annihilated, and the Irish vote in England balancing English parties' to it Eking, so as to become the supreme power in the; English legis. lature.  December 1 has been fixed upon by Charles L. Webster and Co for the publication of General Grant's work. Their 8,000 canvassers are stil, touring the country and pouring in oralend which now number nesrly 500,000. The presses have been running for months, and extra hands are employed to take care of the enormous pile of volumes that are being stored away agamst the publication day. Two years ago a sprightly Tulare county (Cal). citizen, aged 82, wedded a widow eight years his junior, but for some reason or other the union was unhappy, and a separation followed, the groom departing for parts unknown. Lately, however, the old gentleman returned, thoroughly reiigned to a reconciliation, and a house has I been newly furnished, and the couple are living happily together. Early on Thursday morning a murder was munitted at St. George-in-the-East, the victim, Ellen Williams, being shot by her brother, Jas. Williams, aged 18. For some limo past eifferFmoes have existed between the two, and on Thursday morning during a quarrel Williams, who is a volunteer, loaded his rifle and shot his inter in the head. The girl died a few holm afterwards. Williams admitted firing at his sister on being arreeted.  Upwards of 400 candidates sat this year for the final B.A. decree of London University, but in the honours list (of the philosophical department, which is just issued, only four names appear— oue in the first-class, two in the secondclass, and one in the third-class. One of the two gentlemen in the second-class is Mr. John Thomas, a scholar of the University College of North Wales, Bangor, who has taken honours in philosophy.  With a view to diminish the loss of life occurring with our fishing fleets—some of the vessels of which not unfrequently go to the bottom with all hands in a very brief imam of time—Mr. , John White, a well-known boatbuilder, of Cowes, has designed a fishing vessel on lifeboat principles, which, he claims, will not sink if overwhelmed by the sea and filled with water. Already two of such vessels, of 30 tons, have been sent to the onset of Ireland.  A barque named the Pedal's, supposed to belong to a Russian port, was picked up in the Channel by one of the Dover tugs late on Tuesday night. Extensive damage was done to her side, showing that she had been in collision recently, and the whole of her masts were swept away with a greater portion of her bulwarks. Nothing was seen of the crew, but the dead body of a seaman was discovered among the wreckage. She was towed Ito Dover.  At the London Mansion House, on Wednesday, Joseph Salmon, -dealer, was charged with obtaining £lOO by fraudulently representing a picture to have been painted by Mr. Leader. The prosecutor said the prisoner had bought the landscape for £2O, paid £5 to have it retouched. and, after substituting Mr. Leader's name for the real artist's, sold the picture to Mr. Panmure for the sum stated. Mr. Leader said the picture waajainted by him. The enquiry was adjo .  Mr. B. Wilson has given evidence before a Committee of the New 'York Senate to the effect that he paid off a mortgage of nine thousand dollars upon the realty of Mr. Alexander Shaler, on the understanding that Shaler, as a member of the new Armoury Commission, should officially advise the purchase of certain sites at extravagant prices, which was done. Shaler has been arrested. This exposure has amazed the community, which was accustomed to respect Shaler as a Major General in the Army, and as President of the Board of Health.  A Hrs. Bradley, residing in Oldhall-street, Oldham, entered her chamber shortly fter midnight on Wednesday, when a mist sprang upon her in the darkness, and began slashing her throat with a razor. Hearing screams the servant girl came in, whereupon the miscreant turned and attacked her, attempting to cut her throat alsa. Fortunately her neck was protected by a thick scarf, and she escaped with slight cuts. An alarm was raised, and the neighbours came in, when the stranger dashed through the window, and let himself into the street by ilssns of a projection under the window. Chase Ir ts given by the police, but after being followed ilirough several throughf aim the would-be murderer was lost in the darkness.  In the Queen's Bench Division, on Wednesday, a motion was made for a new trial in the cIINC of Maskelyne against Bishop, on the ground of excessive damages. The plaintiff, of the Egyptian Hall performances' fame, had obtained against Irvine Bishop, the well-known thought-reader, damages to the amount of £lO,OOO in an action for libel, his allegation being that defendant had published a statement charging plaintiff and Mr. Labouchere in conspiracy to expose his thought reading, and stating that on the odium of public opinion he had crucified the villainous brace of scoundrels. The defence was that. ti libl we provoked by publications on the ploiffo [behalf. The damages were subsequently rt du! t•tl ' to £5OO ; and it was now argued that el en this ' amount was excessive. In the end Justices Matthew and Smith dismissed the application with costs.