Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1866-09-29 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

SENSITIVE BUROLAIL—A thief, well known to the Paris police by the sobriquet of Porn pette, has just committed suicide from a mistaken sense of amour propre, in having failed in a joli he had long premeditatriL He had broken into a house and forced open an iron safe, but was d:sturbed at the to.anent he was about to make off with the contents. The next day, while in a state of intoxication, he was heard to exclaim, "I have missed an opportunity which would have made my fortune. I shall never get over it." Early on the following morning he was found hanging to a tree at La Varenne.  iNcommorr Inruoitiacz.— The passengers in a firet•claaa railway carriage, on arriving at the terminus, were addrem+ed by the guard with the customary request :—"Gentlemen, show your tickets." Among them there was one man rather showily attired. He produced a tick et-of•leave. —Punch.  THE Lew IN RusaLe.—The following extract from a St. Petersburg letter in the Independance Beige, shows that in Russia the horror of the law and its judges is impartially exercised :  - Count L— one of the Emperor's aide-decamp, was summoned a montli ago before a judge, on the complaint of • tradesmen to whom he neglected to pay a small ammunt. The count at first refused to appear, but at the third summons, being warned that he risked being condemned by default to an imprisonment of two month., be attended before the magistrate and paid the money, suing "He preferred to pay without discustrion rather than have anything to ,do with a tribunal of clodhoppers" In Russian "Kholopskoy 'too In") The judge arrested him and sentenced him to a week's Imprisonment for contempt of court The count applied to the Emperor in order to escape this sentence, hut his Majesty replied that all he could dolor him was to intercede with the judge to change the sentence to six week.' confinement In his own house, whit was done, and the count is now undergoing it. The second affair happened at Moscow. A rich widow, Madame Nlssourine, well known from her °steal, Limn piety, and for the large sums which she spent in building churches and conventa, took it into her head to ref use Payment of a small debt, and the matter going before the tribunal, an order was ultimately issued to seize her furniture. The police arrived to carry out the sentence, when they found the door fast, and In spite of their summons in the name of the law it remained unopened. They then attempted to scale the wall, when the mistress of the house ordered • number of savage dogs to be let loose. Seeing this, the police retired, and Madame Masourine was summoned to appear hefore the magistrate, and has been condemned to two months' imprisonment.  NOT OR PLATFOKm."—WhiIe President Johnson and his party were receiving the cheers of the people at Niles, Michigan, the platform upon which the distinguished visitors were standing broke down, and Seward, Welles, and Postmaster-General Randall, Doolittle, Grant, and Farragut tumbled with it. The President was left standing on the very edge with the representative of the town who was addressing him. The only person seriously hurt was a citizen of the place, who had an artery cut. Farragut's hand was scratched, and he declared that it was the first wound he had had during the war. Seward, as he rose, cried out: "This is not our platform ;" and was answered, "You were standing on it,"  AN ABUSE or