The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1884-02-23 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

CQM. mitted suicide at Monto Carlo: and at Nice another loser at Monto Carlo has attempted to drown himself from the bathing establishment, but was rescued.  Mr. Cameron, of Lochiel, has intimated he will not seek re-electon for Inverneaa-shire. Mr, Reginald Macleod is mentioned as the Conservative, and Sir Kenneth Mackenzie as the Liberal candidate.  The Alert, which has been presented to the American Government to search for the Greeley Arctic Expedition, was alongside Sheerness Dockyard, onl,Wednesday, to receive fittings She will complete her refit at Blackwall.  The second Royal Irish and the East Surrey Regiments, at Aldershot, have made preparations for embareation to Gibraltar and Malta respectively, to take the place of regiments ordered to Egypt. A draft of 49 men of the Army Hospital Corps left Aldershot for Egppt, on Wedncsday morning.  A New York telegram of Tuesday eve : While the Ohio River is falling, reports of the most terrible destruction and destitution continually reach New York. The relief measures are, however, being actively carried out, and money is sent daily to the afflicted district. The Secretary for War has increased and improved his facilities for distributing aid. Orders have been sent for the immediate despatch of the let battalion of South Staffordshire Regiment, and a battery of Garrison Artillery from Malta to Egypt. These troops left Malta on Tuesday in the Poonah. Their place at Malta will be taken as soon as possible by the 2nd battalion of the Essex Regiment, now at Gibraltar.  An Ottawa telegram on Wedne•day states that the Minister of Inland Revenue has resigned on the question of the Canadian Pacific Railway subsidy, and that the Secretary of State will follow his example. Forty-two French members intend to cease supporting the Government if the subsidy is not granted. The annual meeting of Associated Chambers of Commerce was held on Tuesday at Westminster Palace Hotel, Mr. Monk, M.P., presiding. The report presented hoped that the Royal Commission would give increased stimulus to technical instruction, and expressed a regret that the appointment of a Minister of Commerce was making but little progress. A compositor, named Johnson Smith, aged 40, was charged at the Tunbridge-wells Policecourt on Monday, with attempting to commit out ide, and also with attempting to murder his daughter. The evidence showed that on the 9th of FebrUary last, the prisoner deliberately threw himself in front of a train at the Tunbridge-wells Station, dragging his little child with him. He was struck by the engine, and wounded in the head, while the child's arm was cut in two places. Mr. Justice Butt was engaged until late on Monday night, at Liverpool, trying five young men, age from eighteen to twenty, for murdering a Spanish sailor, in a low-lying street of Liverpool, by kicking him to death, under circumstanees of great brutality. In the result, two of the prisoners, Duggan and Maclean, were found guilty of murder, with a recommendation I  to mercy, and were sentenoed to be banged. The three others, Campbell, Ballantine, and Dempsey, were aquitted. Maclean protested his innocence on leaving the dock, blaming Dempsey, who was acquitted of the murder. The following semi-official statement was published at Rome on Sunday :—Th9 Government has received intelligence from Civita Vecchia stating that while the royal train, in which King Humbert was returning from a hunting expedition, was ti avelling between Mobtalto and Corneto, four armed men fired at a earabineer who wae guarding the line. The carabineer fired six shots at his arsailante, one of whom was wounded. He also seized a bottle filled with gun powder, in which a lighted match had been placed, and which the individuals in question threw at the earabineor. The men afterwards escaped. A colonel of the carabineers and several officials have been sent to th scene of the occurrence to institute inquiries. Henry Farrington, aged twenty-six, of 15, Compton Street, Gray's Inn Road, recently a clerk to a Queen's Ceunsel, was brought up I b, fore Mr. Hoaack at Clerkenwell on Monday, charged with being concerned with the man Goodwin (committed for trial last week) in a series of advertising frauds on persona living in the country. Detective-sergeant Nash stated that he apprehended the prisoner in Tottenham Court Road tn Saturday night,Two other officers assisted him, and they captured Farrington from behind, pinioning his arms, as they had reason to believe that he eartiel a revolver. 'lbis belief proved to be correct, for when bearchtd at the police-station a revolver loaded n five chambers was found in the prisoner's , oat pocket.