Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1866-07-28 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

NEWS.  AND FOREIGN. A telegraphic despstch from Nice announces the death of Michael Garihalot, brother of the general. At Ballinacurra, Ireland, a gentleman, eighty years of age, has committed suicide by hangieg himself.  There will be about 100/. prize money for each priv ate solutes entitled to a share of the Banda and Kirwee money.  A meteorologist, Mr. Symons. states that more rain had fallen dories 1666 up to June 30th thou fell timing the whole of 1864.  It appears from a recent return that the total number of ejectments to Ireland for the last six years was 3,120 In the superior courts, giving an average of 521 a year In the county and borough courts the aggregate numbers were—Tot non.payment, 22910; and for eve! holding, 11,125; the yearly average being 5,072.  At Derby assizes, the other day, Mr. Jtiatiee Mellor remarked that it had always been his opinion that cones many wltnayses to prove one fact was like adding a large quantity of water to a mall quantity of brandy—it made it weak  A New York paper states that upwards ~f 15,000 persons leit ihe United States and Cana Is for Euroiv% be. 0.0.1 May I arid June 15, in the principal steamers and sailing ships that massed the Atlantic eastward. Among the many curiosities of the Paris Exhibition, which will lake place text year, will he a piano-vlolln Attached to a piano of the ordinary kind will he a box containing a violin, rind from some admirable mechanical arrangement, when the keys are touched the violin will disc..." excellent music. It is an American Invention.  The Morning Shy notes that althonuh the now Co. venurnent has been In wiser only a foi tqlght, it has already increased the expendi.nre by close upon boll a million. 01 thls a goodly proportion is for breech loaders and a turrtt Op.  - • The beat was so great in Washington on the 25th June, that the not) irity of the members of the Legislature were overcome with sleep, and had it out in their shirt sleeves.  Sir J. Emerson Tennent draws public attention to the fact that in toldlers families the Millis of male chil.lren exceed those of (opiates in the proportion of nearly two to one.  The American Government has provided 6,075 artificial limhs for soldiers, at a cost of 357,628 dollars.  Prince Trek hail an interview with the Emperor of Austria, and tendered his service. The offer was graciously received. but declined under the eircumstancea of the recent marriage, and the Prince and Princess have returned to London.  A eolicitor named Burton, who resides at Reading, but nil, haa theism"n Clement', lon, London, had met his death under very painful circumstances. Ile µAY knocked down by a rah In Gray's Inn-road admit one ticlock 011 Satin day morning, a ht. WON running after a woman who hart rolow,f hint of his watch and chain lie was thought to he drinik at the time, but on his being taken to the Royal Free Hospital the medical man In attendance thought he was ring from cholera. Ito protested that he had not been hurt hr the ca.l The doctor galvanized him for cholera, hut afterwards thought he was drmik, and ordered hint to be taken to the station-bonen The Bllrgllllll there at once ordered him Loth° H 'thorn Union Infirmary, cent!) ing that he mu not drunk, and was In an extreme state et minim and be died In • ten luntra  The potato rot haw made Ps appearance in the aPlighbo,ir hood ot Dorch.  The ..leutharnptqn papers record the death in that town of Itr (Ike, • Physician, at the age of eighty-one Sears. Ile practised nearly forty years in tiootharopton. Ile was • nitilllll physician, and very kind to the poor. - - - - •  . . The latent Lon mot about EiNmarck in that hia fate depended not upon a thread, but upon a needle. _  The tax upon doge or upon doge' friende for keeping them, le returned In the financial accounts for the year ending with March, 1869, an amounting In Great Britain to 219,313/ , an increane of 8,9841. over the previous year.  The Saba Public of Lyons Mateo] that a service of Vedic vehicles drew, by locomotives, to run between that eny and eremieur, has just been suthorised by the Minister of Public Worke  At the recent firiAtol A MIMI!, Mr. Jumtice said, " The first duty a ma. owed to himself was to avoid the door of n attorney as he would the grave."  • A new feature in the journaliam of Perin in that neither the morning nor the evening Mona,nr now ham a Wimp. The other papers are by no means planed with the partial exemption.  The mont rifle of Vienna in nnalde to advance more than live florins on any article, be it what it may, from a kohl-near downward.  Peer-drinking is rapidly increasing in France. A great deal of the beer drunk is from Burton. At the Paris Universal Exhibition next year 32