Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1849-01-24 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

CARMARTHENSHIRE. POST-OFFICE DELINCIU EICCIES.—Much painful sensation was created last week, by the report, which, unfortunately proved true, that a young person, employed in the post-office at Carmarthen, had been apprehended on a charge of detaining letters, and abstracting the contents therefrom. It appears that, for some time past, complaints have been made to the authorities at the General Post Office, of the loss of property, and on Tuesday last an Inspector from the Post-office or- , rived in town, and commenced a search, and some property having been found, the party was given in custody, , and underwent a private examination on Wednesday last, the result of which was that the party in question was reinanded.—Carnanthen Journal. [The individual alluded to is Miss Ann Matthews, slaughter of the postmaster of Carmarthen, who was in tlfe habit :of transacting the principal part of the business of the postoffice in that town. Thipainful circumstance has created the most intense sensation at Carmarthen. There are one or two officials connected with the General Postoffice in attendance on the part of the prosecution. The magistrates conduct the investigation with closed dows, but we understand that the evidence adduced against the unfortunate accused is of a very conclusive character. It is stated that th 6 authorities have been on the alert for s.ime time past, in consequence of complaints as to the h,ss of property passing through die Carmarthen post-office, and they eventual:y adopted the plan of posting loners containing property, at various towns, so that they should pass through :the office in question. One of these having been missed, suspicion rested upon the prisoner. lierbox was searched, when the contents of the letter in qtiestien were found therein, in addition to numerous registered Ictiers whiA had been missed at various times, containing coin and other ptoperty to a considerable amount. :several parties from the neighbourhood of Newport and other places passed through Swansea by mail yesterday, having been summoned as witne=ses to prove the identity of the property enclosed in some of the missing letters. Mr. Richard Edwards, of Crencocd, near I,landilarog, committed suicide last week, in a very determined manner. It appears that he went into the , cow house, and having procured a rope, made it fast to the beam, and then tied the other end round his neck, and ttirrew himself off. No reason can be assigned  for the rash act. Mr. Bateson, M.P., eldFst son of Sir Robert Bateson, Bart., of llelvoir l'srk,'-county Down, is shortly to lead to the hymeneal altar Miss Trevor, the lovely and accomplished daughte of the lion. Col. Rice Trevor. The sum subscribed in Carmarthen towards the erection of a new Lancasterian school-room, amounted 1 to £4,10, and the onward added by Goletaineat in aid lof that suit is L it. Let the opponents of the pdscy of . I rceocneiiinv iiititgceGaOi.ev ebt:iistiiileynetnariadgeldminnd Peer teocntintgbis tar a suiitilbleitil: ti ' on which to erect the buildings. The Golconda recently discovered in Calii f 'ciao has nearly upset the wits of many an inhabitant I of tillu usually quiet county, and to such a degree has either etiteiprise OT cupidity been awakened that a littlinbar of farm labourers have left the neighbourhood of Llangendeis nu to order to act forth upon a joirmey to the  El Dorado of the west. To our thinking the qtri^t par. suit of unpretending industry is preferable to this eager emithdon for the attainment of sudden tidies. An estate which has been recently purchased by T. Charles Morris, Esq., near Abergwilly, exhibits in a striking manner the remarkable results of a judicious employment of capital in agricultural improvements. By the removal of numbers of old trees and the displacement of various hedges and ditches, a considerable increlse in land has been obtained, by which doubtless in a few years a remunerating profit will accrue to the spirited proprietor.  1111