The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1874-03-20 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.  At the Mansion House, on Saturday, a smartlooting young Frenchman, named Lucien Betheny, was brought before the Lord Mayor in custody of a City plain-clothes constable, named Williams, charged with having th; eatened to commit suicide. A gentleman who carries on business in the City stated that the prisoner's family resided in Paris, and he had been sent to his establishment by his tither to learn business proceedings. He had for some time been so engaged; but, in consequence of something that occurred, he was ordered to dismiss the prisoner from his service; but he still resided in London. On Friday afternoon he received a letter in the prisoner's handwriting, which he handed in to be read, with a request that the name of the lady mentioned in it might not be made public. It was in the following terms : ".March.l3, 1874. _ . .  "Madam.—lt is quite impossible to believe how much your letter made me wilier. lam the utmost sorry, and hope you will forgive me one day for being the only cause of all your trouble since I had the pleasure of knowing you. Wanting not to live • day longer. I will before write to Mr. —, and try to bring, by my death, a reconciliation between you and him. If you want to see me for tne last time, I will be at the hotel in Trinity square at eight o'clock this evening. In the ease that I could not see you any more, I give you all that I r. Remember me, and believe that I die inegayou.—Yours faithfully and truly, " LUCIEN Birritzwr."  The Lord Mayor: Yes, very romantic and very pretty. (A laugh.) The witness proceeded to state that he went to the Cannon street Station, in censequence of information he received, and found the prisoner in the waiting-room, and he then avowed his intention to destroy his life, and he in consequence gave him into the custody of Williams, the constable, and he was taken to the police-station_ He added that he had no doubt, from all that was within his knowledge, thattha prisoner really intended to destroy his life.  Williams, the officer, confirmed the statement made by the gentleman who had been summoned, and said that when the prisoner was asked by the inspector whether he really meant to carry out his intention, he replied that he did... .  The Lord Mayor, addressing the primmer, told him he had been guilty of a very serious offence, accordion( to the law of this country, and he wished to know what explanation he had to give upon the subject. The prisoner, who exhibited a good deal of depression. said that he was awa e that he was doing wrong, but still he had resolved upon carrying out his intention. He considered, as he had stated in his letter, that his death was the only way to make peace after what had happened. The gentleman who had been summoned knew the reason why he had come to this determination.  The Lite employer of the prisoner said that he had telegraphed to the prisoner's father in Paris, and had received a reply, stating that be would be in London on Saturday evening, and he asked that the prisoner might be detained until he arrived. The Lord Mayor asked the prisoner whether be had anything to urge why he should not be remanded.  He replied that he had nothing to say. The Lord Mayor said that he thought the best coarse would be to remand the prisoner until his father could attend.  On Monday his father attended at the Mansion House, and promised to take charge of the prisoner, who was then discharged.  At a fire which broke out in Waterford on Satin. day, Thomas Maher, labourer, was burned to den X; whilst lying drunk. Four houses were destreyed. ; TEE LOSS BY THE BANK OF ENGLAND Fonointis. 41,r4 —At the meeting of the Bank ot England propr tors last week (the Economist says) the gov r made a statement as to the net loss whiCh bank had sustained by the great bill forgeties of last year. The sum originally written off, he -sa4d, was £77,000, but it had finally been necessary tto write off £50,000 only. Since the account in Which the Bum of £77,000 bad been written off, they had recovered nearly the whole (or ..£73,000 woeth) of the property; but their erpenses had beeti.£46,ooo, so that the net eum to be deducted from the itnount previously written off was about £27,000, leaving £50,000 uncovered.  • FATAL BOAT ACCIIANT AT Yoar.—On Sunday, at York, a man named John Warwick, labourer it the Railway Plant Work s, was d ro wned, and three others narrowly escaped with their lives, from the upsetting of a boat. In the afternoon Warwick and three others, one a stranger to the rest, and the others named James Ferguson and Thomas Nunn, dyers, with Mr. Balmford, of Coney-street, hired a pair-oared boat for a row en the Ouse. Ferguson had the bow oar and the stranger the stroke, ,Warwick and Nunn sitting in the stern. After a while Ferguson tried to step over the stroke our for the purpose of allowing Nunn to pull in the bow. when the boat suddenly capsized, and the party were thrown into the river. None of them could swim, but the occurrence fortunately taking place almo4 close to Skeldergate Ferry the ferry-beat was at once sculled to the rescue. The stranger and Nunn and Ferguson were with difficulty got Out in, an insensible condition. Warwick sank, and was drowned, but his body was soon after recorefed by dragging. The accident is doubtless attribnta/de to overloading and inexperience of tSe pasty in the management of the boat. , ,  The Great Western Railway Company have Presented the widow of the guard Hoskins, who was killed in the West Drayton colliaion, with .2300.  The London Corporation on Monday decided to preeent the Deice and Duchess of Edinburgh with a servic, of plate of the value of three thousand guineas.  In a case of smnpr,ling, heard at the Southwark Police Court, London, a penalty of £lOO was imposed, with the alternative of six months' imprisonment.  Advices from Constantinople state that the new Grand Vizier has revoked the Con cessions made by his predecessor to Servia, iucluding the right to conclude treaties with foreign countries.