Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-12-14 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

SATURDAY, DEC. 14, 1867.  In the reign of Henry VIIL the City of London petitioned Parliament against two nuisances, viz., Newcastle coal on account of its smell: and against ho lon account of their spoiling the taste of beer ! Every theatre in Loudon is now the scene of con siderable activity, in consequence of the extensive preparations which are being made in every department for the Christmas holidays. A movement has been set on foot to erect an asylum I for useless young men. The only trouble which the " committee " fear will be insurmountable, is that of getting the building Large enough. A Swiss journal states that a young woman named i Anna Arnold, sister of an inliesper at Willisaan . Lucerne!, has just carried off the first prize at a rineahooting competition of that town, having made a white with every shot. I, Since the trial of the young woman Adelaide Macdonald for the attempt to shoot a policeman at Mancheater, her boxes at the place where she was in service, at Ashton', under.iyne, have been searched, and documents and letters I have been found fully proving her connection with the Fenian organisation. A Calais correspondent writes that a fishing sniack belonging to the port of Calais was about in nild Clituniel 011 Friday morning, when a thunderstorm came on suddenly and a flash of lightning struck the vessel, running down the mast, and injaring every one of the crew more or less. The master of the boat wail so much burnt that his life was at first despaired of, but he has subsequently partially recoveredi The Countess Martini della Torre has been ordered by the police to leave Rome. The Countess is the daughter of the Piedmont.. General Pelaaco, who signed the truce with the Austrians after the the battle of Novara, and is the Intimate friend of (laribaldi. She came to Rome from Monte Rotondo to attend the wounded Garibaldiane, and has been led into this difficulty by making patriotic speeches in the hospitals. A woman named Ambraze, the wife e an innkeeper at A caller !Aube' has committed suicide, by charcoal, with her three children, aged respectively five, seven, and ten years. The motives for this act are said to be domestic Illtreatment. She had prepared beforehand the grave clothes for her children. Six hundred of the roost important houses in Matamorsw were destroyed by the recent hurricane en the Rio Grande, November 7 and 8, and 5,000,00 dollars worth of property was lost. Twenty persona were killed and fitly injured. Nearly all the river steamers were disabled. In Brownsville few buildings were left uninjured. The -British Medical Journal hce good reason to believe that an uniform and adequate dietary scale for country workhouses is under the consideration of the Poorlaw Board, and that measures are likely to be taken to secure that desirable result. On Monday a distressing accident occurred at the Sheeparash Mill, belonging to Messrs. Ashton Brothers, Stockport. A man, named Rowland Brooke, formerly the head of the sanitary department of the corporation, was taken in by the devil," a machine used in the blowing room awl torn to pieces. The scene presented was frightful The labour question in Queensland seems likely to assume a new aspect. Large quantities of land are being taken up for the cultivation of sugar and cotton, and lease growers are trying the experiment of introducing Smith sea Islanders to work on the plantations, on the coolie system adopted at the Mauritius and other places. The men are engaged for three years, at alxiut ,f.,6 per annum and rations. A fearful crime has just been committed at Beauvais !Oise). A milkwoman, ceiling on a gardener named Millet, found him and his wife lying on the floor of their cottage dead, murdered by blows on the heal with 110010 blunt instrument. An attempt had been made to burn the house, and the bed was partially consumed. Robbery is believed to have been the motive for the crime, as Millet was said to be in good circumstances. The Devon magistrates, after much deliberation upon the question whether compensation can be awarded to claimants whose property suffered at the hands of the November rioters, have come to the conclusion that they have no power to order compensation out of the public funds. It its related that once upon a time Earl Russell, taking a cab from Palace Yard to Chesham Place, gave the I driver a sovereign for a shilling. When on the following I day the man was identified, he was found to have invested the windfall in a pair of boots. "Some call them Wellingtons, my lord," said the fellow, "but I call them Russell." The earl pardoned his dishonesty for the sake oi his wit. Father Hyacinthe gave his first Advent sermon on Sunday in Paris. The famous orator on this occasion surpassed himself in boldness, and to a certain extent in liberalism. His arguments were based upon the three important points of our existence, viz., that in which we are been, that in which we linst love, and that of oar death. His reverence advocates the absolute right and authority of the father of a family in all matters pertaining to the family itself.