Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-10-19 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

CSAKI.I-, in England, nrinunitii.g to £llOO,OOO sterling, are to be trAnst,ron to the King of Prussia. since the treaty 1714 coluluded on the sc.-11151,M of the Elector of Hanover to the throne of England, etipulat as that this revenue shall hereafter belong to him who shall wear the crown of Hanover.  The will of John thdaunt was wound up with this expression—  '• In witness whereof and forsooth I bite the white was with the fang of my tooth?  - - The Liverpool police made a descent on Saturday on one of the most notorious Fenian meeting places in that town, and succeeded in arresting six men, one of whom is the " head centre' for the Liverpool district. He and two others have Leen identified 311 having taken part to the Manchester outrage All were nmegi ohd the arrelit VMS conducted with great caution and determination.  In a private letter to a gentleman in Belfast, Lord Russell this expresses ilimsclf with regard to ate national system of education in Ireland I KW happy to hear I hat the national schoobt have been so extensively diffused in Ire. land ; and I should be much rejoiced it I could see a prospect of octal dishing the same system in England which you have In Ireland."  A disgusting case of unlawfully wounding came under the notice of the Liverpool stipendiary magigrate Monday. Ou Saturday night two labouring men, nain,l Patrick Duffy and Bernard IPAtlani, were lighting in Great owardatreet, when ll'Adam seized Duify's bottom lip with hie teeth, bit it off, and spat it upon the ground. Al 'Adam was sent for trial. -  The ancient pariah -..hurch of St. Bartholomew, at Winchester, is about t:2 te rebuilt and made a resting place for the remains of Mire,: the Great and his Queen Alswitha. The remains are 146 enolosed in two mortuary chests, with felt crowns and suitable inscrii.tams.  • While travelling on the Great Western Railway from Bristol to London, • member of the British iervice Club lost his purse containing .El 7 loa All he ',new was that he had been asleep, and that there were other pers4ms to the carriage. On applying at the Loat Property Office next morning, and describing the rune, it was at once handed to him, and a charge ef 2d. only made. - -• • • •  A curious statistical fact has just been published by a M Minard. Friday is considered such an unlucky day in France, that not only is the ntunber of travellers by rail much smaller on that than on other days. hut the difference Is also monthly felt in the receipts of the omnibuses. A servant girl at Antwerp attempted a few days back to commit suicide, after a dispute with her mistress, by throwing herself from a window; she was saved by her crinoline, which formed a parachute, and brought her gently to the ground. . . . •  On Saturday night information tem received at Salford barracks, Manchester, that the lenient, intended for purposes of plunder to extinguish all the gas in Manchester. The military authorities, in order to prevent darkness, gave to each soldier a candle and a lucifer match, the use of which, however, was fortunately not required, the Venison, whatever their intentions might have been, leaving the gas undisturbed.  Two more butchers' shops for the sale of horse flesh as an article of human food have been opened in Paris, which brings up the number of theve establishments in the City to seventeen or eighteen. For " prime cuts " the modest price of twenty-two sous is demanded per pound, that into say ltd of our money. Many of the poor who receive relief from the bureaus of bienjoi.vance are furnished with tickets for potage and viande de ehevaL --• • •  At the Liverpool Police-court, on Monday, a hawker, named Carney, was brought up charged with attempting to murder his wife. He went home the other night, and finding the poor woman in bed, deliberately took off his coat and said to her, "New, prepare yourself, for you'll ties corpse before morning." He then belaboured her with his fists until she became insensible, when lie took a poker, and beat her about the bead, Milian, several frightful wounds. She was brought into court Ins tainting state. Rapidity of in inting has just been carried iii France to a degree far exceeding anything which has yet been accomplished in machine-work, and outstripping the famous American machines, which were supposed to have realised everything attainable in the way of speed. St. arinoni has just put up in the new printing offices of the Petit Journal 'a halfpenny daily paper' 61, Rue La Fayette, a machine of his invention, which prints WO copies a minute. Your of these powerful machines turn rut 141,00 copies an hour, the whole impression being 446,000 daily. Mr. Read, the farmers' member, will not hear of boys and girls being prevented from working in the fields. At the meeting of the Norfolk Chamber of Agriculture on Saturday, lie said he thought a girl of eleven or twelve as strong as a boy of about that age, and he contended that • there was no good farming without the assistance of this , juvenile and female labour. He had travelled in different counties, he had lived in Wales, and he had also been in Scotland, and he never saw a well-cultivated farm in his life on which some women and children bad not been ma /toyet lie was sure that unless a boy went to work when 1 he was nine or tell years of age he would not make a good labourer.