Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1861-02-20 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

RECHRISTENING A GOVERNOR.—Considering the line Governor Pickens inis taken with regard to the Federal property in South Carolina, we should suggest the pro• priety of an addition to his name. Let him henceforth be known as Governor Pickens and Stealin's. "YOU'RE SPEAKING OF THE EMPEROR? "—Annexed Monaco, eh? What, at this tricks again? Nay, don't say that. The tiny territory belonged to a Prince of the House of Grimaldi. At the worst, the act is only $i pantomime trick.  MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE, Mr. Robert Nord, a Russian broker in London, was on Monday committed for trial on a charge of fraud iii the tallow trade. One day last week the registrar of deaths at Wellington was called upon to recordethe decease of four persons, whose ages amounted to 345 years. A poor man, named Abraham Kingscote, committed suicide one day last week at Gloucester. Deceased was nearly 70 years of age, and has ing been attacked with paralysis, his mind had became weakened. Triough narrowly watched by his friends, he contrived to obtain a knife, with which he cut his throat It is proposed to employ females lathe General Post-office. The Prince of Wales has subscribed £5O to the Coventry relief fund. The number of shipwrecks reported during the month of January was 202. An attempt is being made in Dublin to establish a" Book Union "on the SAM° plan as the Art Union. It is proposed to have the subscription Is shilling, and make the first prize £lOO, consisting of a bookcase well filled with the works of the best authors in the English language. The imports of sugar during the past month have been 1,260 tons less than those of January, 1860, but the demand has fallen off, the deliveries of home Consumption having been only 25,260 against 30,800 tons. A letter carrier obtained the £lOO prize at the Birmingham Art Union. ' It was elicited during the proceedings in a bankruptcy case last Friday, that in respect to loan companies held at some public houses, the company consists only of the landlord. The Council of the Society for the IPropagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, of which the Archbishop of Canterbury is president, have determined upon the establishment of a Christian mission to Pekin. Col. Bathurst (Conservative) was returned without opposition for South Wilts, on Thursday. The cavalry regiments on the British establishments are to be reduced from the lit of April next by 25 men and 28 horses each. The depsts of cavalry regimeats in India have already been ordered to be reduced to  one troop each. The Dutch journals announce that the Pope has sent, through his Nuncio at the Hague, the sum of 10,000 f. to the fund which is being raised for the relief of the sufferer s from the recent inundations in Holland. The famous Doomsday Book of William the Conqueror is now at the Ordnance Map Office, Southampton, for the purpose of being copied by the new process of photozincography. The Rev. W. Emery has offered to give annually, as long as he is chaplain of the Cambridge University Rifle Corps, a silver cup of I:10 10s. to be shot for in the October term by members of the corps; and also a prize of £5 Ss. to be shot for by members of his own college who belong to the corps. The navy estimates have been issued. The sum required for the year 1861-2 is £12,029,475, showing a reduction of £806,625 as compared with the vote for 1960-61. Last year, the total force voted for the fleet and coast guard service was 85,500; this year it will be 78,200. The item, "wages to seamen and marines," shows a de • crease from last year of £334,177; while for " artificers, rte., employed at home," there will be a reduction to the amount of nearly £329,000. The half-yearly meeting of the Great Western Railway Company was held on Thursday. The report, after some discussion, was adopted,and a dividend at the rate of 31 per cent per annum was declared. A sad accident occurred at Hovingham, near Matton, on Wednesday. Sedman,the groom of John Scott, the trainer, was walking by the side of a vehicle, and the horse in descending the hill to llovingham became unmanageable. Sedman was knocked down, the looked wheel passed over him, causing instant death, and nearly severing his body in twain. BRADFORD ELEcrioN.—The election of a burgess to in Parliament for the borough of Bradford, in the place of Mr. Salwresigned, took place on Monday. There being no oppmitiou to the return of Mr. W. E. For,ter (leberal) the proceedings excited less than the usual interrit, but there were from 1,500 to 2,000 persons premiut. M. Foster was proposed by Mr. alderRum Brown and seconded by Mr. Aderman Mitchell.