Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-10-12 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

OCT, 12,1667.  King 1.1 Han,ierM.ving it rmani "re.. to come convinced that he eau uever remAni kinmi —has a, rept,ll the ettereoft " flrinncial arrangement" ttal, Iry _  The light for ;ii-s.i—championship will come off on Tuesday, °citifies lath, in what W known as " Ihe District," the stakes tieing Z 2 ooa stile, with the tie. our of the Champion's But. John Geittin, the man who was suspected of having shot his a iie a, Tridee, NMI represented that sae committed suicide, has heen committe I UT trial on the ,h*i-ge of murder. Lie was a Peflllioller from the 7th II usears At Mons, in Belgium, a few days ago, a menagerie whitil hoe,, ini tie Place Owen.- Iltirit.g the fair, was preparing to leave, Wil.l a hear, chaiiied to a smite. seized a little hay who had iheautiously strayed within his reach The animal had drawn the child tinder him, and wa stifling it, when M. Lebo., eounnissary of police, Clouds passing, sashed up, mid after a desperate :struggle succeeded in releinti lig the I,ttle fellow, who escaped with a few scratches on the leg.  The French Society for he Protection of Children offers a prize of £2o for the best essay "on the nursing of 'Omits by the mother, as regards the latter, the child, and society at large." The wife of an agricultural labourer a Rosemount, Perthshire, a woman enjoying excellent health di eamt about two'cars ago that she was 'tending In the enr 114111 14 Rosemount, and that she was looking upon one or the stack stathels and saw the enliven Wane id the stathel as white as paler, with large pr Med letters traced thereon, thus— " Volt must die on XXV :sent." Anoitt two mouths ago she bee me ill, and died on the 25th tilt.  The Prussian military authorities have just published the first of five porthole of the work forming the history of the campaign of 18416 This section contains all account of the diplomatic relations, preparations for war, concentration and position of the armies. and the operations against Hanover and Electoral Reese . Then are also aupplementary chapters, containing orders of battle, returns of the effective, and an account of the troops conveyed by railway. Ott Friday a brenize statue of the late Prince COrairt Was placed on a pedebtal on rude 111.011 work, cox-misting 44 hinge blocks if granite, atom filly yards west from the obelisk erected by the tenant, y, mid a quarter of • mile east from Balmoral. The statne, a hich is i,y l'heed, is a striking likeness of the lamented Prince, and as a work ,4 are is thought to possess great merit. Ile is represented With the right hand on the head of a large shaggy etaghound by his Aide, with a rifle in the left, and with the face towards Balmoral.  The Cheshire magistrates, on Saturday, committed for trial eight men on a charge of being eiders and abettors in two price fights which Gat place the other day on 11111,re Island, at the ti ..... th of the Mersey. The first light was for £lO a side, between Barnacle and a man named M•Kay, who has not leen apprehended. The second was between Sheridan and Starkey, and was for £5. the men had 'morseled from Liverpool, accompanied by between 200 and 3,0 roughs, in a steamer they had specially engaged for the purpose. The National Steanphip Company's steamer Helve tia, which reached the Mersey last Saturday morning, had on board among her piusengera 94 soldiers, in charge of an officer who belonged to the army of the late Emperor Maximilian. The distiand,d them, which came home from Vera Cruz, by way of New York, are all Frenchmen, sot bear evidence of the severity of the Mexican climate and the campaign. Many of them wore the " regulaton" cap, whilst the majority had the wide Mexican sombrero. •  '- The wine-shops of Brusseki, which hitherto had been compelled by law ti I cl. se at Qin. iN the morning, ii tee received liberty to remain open, if thm choose, all night The consequence is that they now shut up at half-past twelve, thirty minutes earlier then before. People, knowing that they are not restricted as to time, care less about remaining in thee., places, and go home earlier. The attraction of the forbidden fruit is withdrawn, and, so far from abusing the privilege, the customers do not even avail themselves of it. The unfortunate bandsman, McDonnell, who wee shot by mistake for • Fenian informer, died of his wound& on Friday night. The reward for the apprehension of his murderers has c.nsequently been raised trom gdiat to £3,00. On the evening of McDonnell's death, another utioffemliug man passing through the locality where the outrage took place, was mistaken for a Fenian informer, and seriously maltreated by a snob of drunken Irishmen. He, however, was rescued by the police. The funeral of McDonnell took place on Tuesday afternoon with much military pomp at the Windsor Cemetery. The whole of the regiment and the bands of the let and 2nd Life Guards and Rm al Horse Guards followed. There was a large concourse oh spectators.  A painful accident is reportsd by the Lyons journals as having taverna in a chemist's shop in that city. none sulphuric Flier, an extremely inflanmiable fluid, was hemg distilled in the laboratory, and from certain defects in the apparatus a considerable portion escaped and pervaded the apartment. One of the young men entering with a light was immediately wrapped in flame mid dreadfully burnt, the flesh on lois hands and farn falling off in pieces at the slightest touch. The stiff, rer WSS taken to the h.pitak where little hopes were entertained of his recovery, Thu damage ceased to the laboratory was trifling.  A c:rcular has been issued by the Russian Ministry ot Finance prohibiting the trade in two conek pieces. The taws inflected with this circular are rather singular. In 1865 a large quantity of gold was missed from the Mint In St, Petersburg, and no trace of it could be found. Now, however, it appears that a workman had stolen the gob!, and suspicion having fallen on him he was not able to dispose of it He, therefore, in order to rid himself of the carpus &heti, threw it into a smelting caldron filled with copper for the mat ng of two-copek pieces. Some sharp speculators having found out this fact, instantly set about biting up the wh ISI3I tsionopek coinage at twice and thrice its ordinary tnJue. This remunerative trade is now to be stopped, and the got-less coppers are to go back to the