Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1854-07-19 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The First Lieutenant of the Tiger arrived in London on Monday night, having been exchanged. The estimate for the Post-office Pocket. Service is £812,826 ; being £22,000 leas than last year. Mr. Commissioner Eric and Mr. Denison, of the Chancery bar. and Mr Thomas Phinn, 51.1'., and Mr It. P. Collier, M.P., of the Conimou Law tor, were sworn in before the lord Chancellor at tlic flour, of Lords, on Monday, es Queen's emosel ; the latter two •itli patents of preeedenee. The ship " Cuthbert Young" has been recovered _ front the Rill pirates be the Queen's steamer Prometheus. The vessel le.d been tjbfrd of her contents. he Prometheus bed a ekirtnisli with the pirates, iill.l three ot her ore Isere slightly wounded: therirole, suffered much more. Tee Prometheus carried the Cuthbert Young to Gibraltar, ; awl then lett to search for another vessel takeit by the pirates. . The estimated expense for the new War Department in its officers is D0,t07. Two node, secretarien private eecretaries, tilt-re clerks, lihreriao, °thee keeper, and potters, rerittelotled. The present esnmate In for nine months. The salary of the Minist, rof War is eorn pined at the rate of LAO) per mations Under the head of contingencies, messengers and postage', t 1093 is put down; nmking in sll £l7 ,300 . Trade in the manufacturing districts, without exhibiting toy extraordinary artivay, is reported to show great genernt steadiness. Great distress prevails among the handloomweavers of Petteit It, who have nearly all been natal work , far two months. I In addition to the great iron works at Middlesborough and Easton-on-the-Tees, the maoutieture of iron .in about to to commenced at Stockton, where sites for six blam furnace. have been secured. The ironstone will lie I brought iron, the Clevelead II dls by mil. A trial was made at Toulon on Saturday week of some newly-invented rocket nhells, whielt me admitted to be • great itoptovement on those hitherto used. They were found to produce • praligimis effect at a distance of fern 4000 to 1360 yards. (di ettieti, while the others only parried front 3300 to 2500 yard.. It is slated that the Government has purchased the steamer "Hymalaya," for £140,000 as a troop-ship. The cargoes of II Itusshin prizes, principally salt were sold at Garraway's, on Tuesday week, and produced 163903. Mrs. Dunn, a monied woman, thirty-one years I of age, has commenced, near Liverpool, the tusk of walkI bag a thousand miles in a thousand successive hours. The war in the East has stirred up the people of Marseilles to unwonted activity. A screw memo, has been placed on the Constantinople line. Some shopkeepers are selling off their stocks, that they may melt ' fortunes in the East they put in their shop windows an ennouncement—. On part pour Varna." The extent of the weekly mail for the Baltic has astonished the post-office authorities at Dantgic: it is mentioned as a great marvel that in the course of fourteen days 1,500 English letters passed through their hands. Five deaths limn cholera occuried in the WWII 01 Liverpool in the week ending Saturday last.  • --,--M. Julien had a truly " mender" concert in the Crystal l'alace at New York, before his departure for England. Several choral weieties aided, and there were 640 voices; while the audience numbered 42,000 persons. , "Rule Britannia " end" God nave the Queeu " were remired with an enthusiasm that must have sent a colil , chill to the heart of any Irish " pattiot " patent; while a I Russian hymn was heard in solemn silence, and a Turkish I march N. La vociferously applauded. A gold chaplet can presented to J oil'. im the pall of the American muaicians. A correspon&nt of the Ohio Stair Journal stales that he ilaS met a sporting Englishman in the c mesa of a tour thromgh Kansas. " Before we passed the Kansas river we route upon ao encampinent that attracted attention. It turned out to be • grand hunting company for the plaits, Sir St. George Gore, an Eintliah baronet, had taken it into his head that it will be tine spurt to hitot buffalos, tke., on our great Western plains ; so Ile packed up his trunks, rod started fora regular summer campa tgee . Ito brought tim movt magnificent pock of tin, that wero ever Seen in this country. Betweett forty and fifty dogs, ntrotly greyhounds :Lod vtaglioutols, of the the most heart. trial brecds,compose this port of the expedition. Ile had a large carriage, and probably a dozen large waggons to transport provisions, etc. 'These require five yoke of oxen to each waggon. These with the hones, men, fie., made up quit an impoving company. Sir St. George S char-built, stout, light-haired, atid resolutralooking man. Butthere are other things bevides fun in such a trip, and it will try the manner of stuff of which he is made before he returns." Varna is lively enough; the more to, peradventure, that or many of its ordinary denizens have Ms•PPeared bafore Eke" marott nt improvement." Ycanto aware front previous letters, of the railroad pace at which we have been improving. New buildings, new grow, new storehouses, stree. regularly named and numbered, public otticea conspicuously indwated, thoroughbirea alive with business of all kinds. But those of the inhabitants who remain look et all this with not merely apathy but with sullen gloomy distrust. front is no use in conceallog ii; they do not like us or our neighbourhood to them, and would infinitely prefer their congenial filth and vqualor to all this novel and troublesomc cleanliness, briskoes, and bustle.—Mnearerr Post Currapornical. Sian clergymen of the Church of England have a=lrcelasel,,•ixetritstligoc.edt thopteotilloawir gieciare,l.ii3,ll.t. Birmingham, On Sunday, whilst some of the men were replacing the piston at a steam engine at the factory of Mr Itnbert Fairweather, cotton-spinter, Gaythorn. Manchester, a shocking accident occurred. Beery Hurst, the engine-driver, aced 32, was standing under the piston, which is upwards of half a too in weight, when the rope by which it had been raised suddenly mapped asunder, and killed him On the spot. The week was done on Sonde', to avoid the necessity of he wiery workmen employed in the mill having to be kept idle on the Monday. Tan ALLEGED 5V117102 OF MEI:TENANT Gnrsu Av. —ln a letter l'roin au alb er to one of her IlltliestY'e MAP 4 in the Baltic, it rota mention.] that Lieut. Gresham, of the "St. George," had committed suicide by shooting himself in the breast in hisrottio. Eitne of the pliant °Metre friends, to whom the announcement Los given great pain, state that there is every reason to believe that Lieutenant Gresham's premature death was roused, not by design, but was entirely the result of accident, al ising from the b trrel or a revolter discharging its contents iuto his ab• dometi while he one erominitig it.—Sforsdurd. FlItE AT •