Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1852-01-14 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

NEW GOVERNOR MR THE ['ATT.—Major-General the Hon. George Catheart is appointed Governor of The Cape of Good naps, in the room of Sir Harry Smith. The Major- General is brother of the Earl of Cathcart, and Was recently deputy lieutenant of the Tower of London, lie served in the campaigns of 1813 and 1014 in Germany, as side-de-camp to his lather, Lord Cathcart. Ile served also in the campaign of 1515, as ail-le-nip to the Duke of Wellington, and was present at the battles of gimtre Bras and Waterloo. Mr. Roebuck, M.P., is, we regret to learn, labouring under lather severe indisposition. The first of the series of royal theatrical entertainments, at Windsor Castle, took place on Friday, under the superintendence of Mr Charles Kean. Shakspire's " Twelfth Night" was the play enacted. Three hundred and fifty double-barrelled rifle carbines have been shipped .in the Birkenhead steam troop-ship for conveyance to the Cape of Good Hope. These rifle combines for the use of the 12th Lancers. . The balls used are the conical description fool so effectual at long ranges by Mr. Lancaster, doing great execution at 000 or 800, and in many imtanees at 1000 yards' range.  Four men were kille'd by the 'bursting of a boiler at the works rifMessrs. Davies and Moonier, on the banks of the Wednesbury and Dudley canals, at Great Bridge, on Wednesday. A desperate highway robbery has been committed at Brighton, by three notorious characters, two men and a girl. Mr. Turner, an elderly gentleman, was suddenly attacked with suck violence that he was robbed of his watch, coat, and other property, before he could give any : alarm, although there were numerous houses close at hand. Serious fears are said to be entertained at Portsmouth and elsewhere along, the coast of an invading force landing on oar shores. During the past week the artillery force stationed in the garrison have all been busily engaged in instructing the troops of the li ie in the great gun exercise, as well as strengthening the batteries. The commander-in-chief of the ferees is reported. to have dent:aided an augmentatioa of 30,900 men. A lurid glare was observed to rise from the centre cif the Bank of England on Saturday evening week, and it was thought the establishment was on tire. It turned nut, however, that the flatrlCS proceeded from the burning of old bank notes, in which work the officers of the bank were occupied for two hours. A shocking accident has happened at St. Bees, Cumberland. A young nian named Brindle was driving his intended wife in a gig, when the horse started off, overturned the gig, and threw the woman through the window of a house, against the wall of which Mr. Brindle was dashed, shattering his skull to pieces. The WOMUII was but little injured. A Russian vessel drifting under n heavy gale, whilst heating clown channel, her anchor caught in what the captain believes to be the submarine telegraith ; after some time the telegraph proving the strongest her allehOr gave way and she INa,tgain free. At present there has been no interruption of the communication. A collision between a passenger train and a cattle train on the York, Newcastle, and Berwiek Railway has caused the death of a clerk in the employ of the electric . tdeoraph company, who was in the guard van of the cattle train when the passenger train ran into it. The cattle train was 2.50 yards bine, and too heavy for the two engines attached • it was consequently overtaken by the passenger train, rin'd h: nee the collision. An extraordinary suicide has been committed in. Newgate, by a man named Flanagan, committed on the charge of having, under pretsnee of being clerk tn Mr. the barrister, obtained from a Mrs. White LI 3s. 6d. for the purpose of defending her son at the Middlesex Sessions, committed suicide by holding his head in a pail of water whieh had been bronght for hint to wash in. Mr. ltamshav has can,-1 a • two to be served on the treasurer of tire county ores.: , siehibiting him, at his peril, from paying to the mo, his quarter's salary, which is now due, and a. oi io r sstico on Mr. Pollock himself, prohibiting him from receiviag it. Ile has also served a notice on the Earl of Caelisle, that he intends, in the ensuing term, to apply to the Court of Queen's Bench for a quo mai-mato to restrain Mr. Pollock from acting. Four young men, who were supposed to be respectable, have been arrested at Plymouth, charged with having committed several burglaries in that taxi n and neighbourhood; three of them are brothers, mimed Pearse, and are apprentices respectively to a blacksmith, is printer, and a cabinet maker, and i one s the son of a tailor named Per, y. The fact of their bring cow erns in several of the robberies committed in Plymouth and Devonport during the last twelve months has been fully proved. One witness was Mr. IV. IL limy, a jeweller, whose Jim mi-os were broken into a short time into, and a large quantity of jewellery stolen. alr. Row became mach excited in con sequence of the prominent part he was called on to take, and last week committi d suicide by shooting hilaself. Baron Kemeny, a Hungarian nobleman, died suddenly on Monday week, while his secretary was reading him is letter from the Daily New., written by a Mr. Toutiind containing ref-leaning upon the Baron and the Kungarian refugees generally. The Baron, it appeared, had been much vexed and excited by previous letters written by the same person, and had sent his secretary to the writer to point out the mischief of such communications, but without effect, The coroner said that it was clear the poor creature had died of a broken heart. The deceased was anxiously listening to what was being read to him, his heart till the time beating violently, t:11 at length it swelled mid burst. A verdict to that died was returned. Mn-. Edwards, a member of the Liverpool Town Council, died on the 2711 r ult, rather suddenly, and was buried in due time. Suspicion has since been excited that his death was occasioned by poison, and the body has been exhumed fi,r examination this week, the result of which is that it has been discovered that he died from the effects of taking prussic acid. Ilis circumstances had become embarrassed. The Manchester Gstardktn states, on good authority, that the late Mr. Turner. It A., has left by his will a sum of f'S'2o,ooo, for the purope .of founding an institution for the relief ot decayed artists, and hits given all his pictures (with the exception of three of his awn works, which are left to the nation) tor the purpose of embellishing the building which is to be erected for that purpose.