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Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1856-08-06 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

VOL IX.-NO. CCCCLXI.I  Roman Catholic Church in Kensington. The excursion party consisted ol bet wee. 400 and 600 persons, the great majority of whom acre children. They intended proceeding to Fort Washiogton, 14i miles from the coy, where they were to enjoy a pie ore. Orearig to the number of cars and the weight tit the ham their was sonic ii, lay, and the conductor, finditig himself belund time, puttied forward with great rapidity toward. the end of his trip. 'the regular passmiger train for the city lets Gwynedd at six o'clock, and reached the siding at 6.13. Finding the eximrsion main had riot yet inlioed, Mr W. Veiistavoren, the conductor (who inte since, it is said, committed suicide), determtned riot to wait tor it, and hie tint" no. moving along whim the expected train mime thuridering on round a curve, at the rate of 35 miles an hour. A collision, of course, ensurd, wish the most appalling consequence.. The ddwn train escaped without serious damage, but the scene presented by ths excomion train was harlot. The three foremost cars of the train were crushed completely to pieces, aird the wreck, 111111. sling with Haupt the locomotive, took tire, and the flamot eorrinuirricated to the other cars of the train The tArl next Cars to the three that were wrecked outright took fire and were entirely conenmed. The inmates of the three forward cars were completely mined up with the wreck, and a large number it them mere killed outright. There Were probably .10 persons in each of the three ears, I and the lowest estimate we heard hues the nornber at 00, whilst it was feared the dread eggregate would reach 1110. l'he papers are tilled with rho horrible details. The steamer Northent Indiana" was burnt on Lake Erie the sante day. Tin e number of passengers supposed to he lost amounts to 50. Among thr minter ol the lost are—Mrs Miry Ladayerd, Mrs Mary Ackroyds, her 1 ither. mother, husband, arid two etirldreii—•ll from,' England. The weather lias been very hint at New Verb, , and there have been I deaths from Lowy gh. The country 4 beginning to be excited with the throes of the roworig election. The noonannon of Fremont la receitied with enthusiasm by his party, arid they manifest confidence in success. The friends it Mr Buchmmn profess equal confidence, and • hard rinight battle hi anticipated.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1849-07-04 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

PLI•NDKRING.—ATEEMM ST SUICIDE. —Thema, Jones, the youm; man who had been remnaded front Friday and Saturdey,tin a eliarge of stealing a quantity of wearing apparel, crockery wore, bedsteads, chairs, and sundry other property, was this day plied in the ilock, epparently in a very weak condition. It appeared that betweeu seven and eight o'clock on the previous evening, when one of the constables paid the usual halfvisit to the cell, lie was alarmed at beholding the prisoner Jones stretched on his back seneeless, to all appenrances dead, and covered with blood. The officer iratetelititelv procured assistance, and on VXltUrillillg the man, found that he had opened a vein in his arm with a piece of a tobacco pipe, und that the wound had Lied profusely. Dm Howell awl Willi:tins were immediately gent Mr, tuid the unit wart bandaged. IVlien one of the polieem, n visited prisoner's cell previous to this occurrence, he converged with the officer, and nothing unusual was obeervel in his behaviour. The charge against the prisoner was then proceeded with. It was for stealing an prou, valued at 25., the property of Thomas Buttock, berallall. Prosecutor's wife deposed that 011 Wednesday. the 27th ult., she placed Some clothes in a yard at the hawk of her husband's house, in Mattliew-etreet, with tile intention of having them washed. Early on the following wonting the missed the apron produced by P.C. Vaughan; she could positively identify it as her property.—Policeman Vaughan proved having apprehended prisoner, and also having received the apron from Mrs. Mark's sliop.—Milia Sarah Marks deposed to having tolvanced, on Thursday, Is. lid. tin the apron, which was pledged by Mary Francis iu the name of Eliza Soyer.—Mary Francis stated that she received the apron from the prisoner, who represented to her that it was sister's property. She pledged the article in the name of Sayer, a girl who happened to accompanied her to the shop.—Prisener declined eaying any allure in his defence, lie was then committed for trial at the etisUliug esbions. It wan deemed unnecessary to proceed with any ether case. The priecner had only a short time previously been thee:barged trom prison, after undergoing a sentence of ,ix months' imprisonment. 110 had taken a house in ilowell's-building,s, and had commenced an expeditious method of furnishing it. A number of perimus were present to claim miscellaneous artiticlee, which, when they were produced, caused somo • amusement in court. Even the dress whieli the prisoner • wore was claimed by persons present.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1849-11-28 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ANTI-STATE-CHURCH ASsoCIATION.—A large and influential meeting was held on Monday evening, Nov. 19, in the Town-lialCNewport, to promulgate the principles of the British Anti-Statc-Church Association ; T. B. Batchelor, Esq., mayor, in the chair, who opened the proceedings in a short speech, after which the meeting Was addressed by J. Carvell Williams, Esq., T. Kingsley, Esq., and other gentlemen. The resolutions were carried unimiinoualy.  A melancholy suicide took place at Stoke Prior, Worcestershire, a few days since. Mr. Joseph Baker, a respectable farmer, was mar ied on the II th inst. to a widcw, and on the Sunday following the body of the unfortunate bridegroom wag taken out of the canal lifeless. It appeared that the deceased, a peculiarly inoffensive young man, had been subject to much annoyance since his marriage, by the unkind remarks of so ice of his neighbours and relations of his wife's former bus band. These repoits were too much for the sensitive mind of Mr. Baker, and led to his disties.sing suicide.  A very melancholy accident has destroyed Wm. Armitage, the inventor of the railway fog-signal, with his father, his housekeeper, and a boy and girl employed by him. Mr. ArrnitLge was a chemist residing at Louth, in Lincolnshire; besides the fog-signal, he had invented a snow-signal. and a red-hand light, for railways, but he had registered only the light. The cooposition of the fog signal was known only to himself, his apprentica Walker, and Cottor, a porter. The chief explosive ingredient seems to have been chlorate of potass. The compound was put into tin boxes in a damp state, and when dried a lid was placed on them, and the signals were otherwise made ready for use. On Saturday wick, Mr. Armitage was making up a large order, which lie wanted completed by night. To dry the composition in the boxes, the inventor had recently been in the habit of putting the articles into the kitchen oven. On Saturday afternoon, about 50 boxes were in the oven; there was a large fire, as the housekeeper was ironing lin n. A very strong smell had been perceptibla. Old Mr. Armitage and the boy and girl were in a room over the kitchen tilling boxes. The Imeisekeeper and a female servant were in the kitehen. Mr. Armimge entered, and opened the door of the oven : instantly there was a terrible explosion ; the kitchen r.nd part of the building near it becoming a heap of ruins. The father, the son, and the girl, were taken out dead ; the housikeeper and the bay were rescued alive, but died soon after; the female servant was mangled in the face, but escapd throngh a window allch was blown out by the explosion. Engines stopped the the from spreading, and thus prevented the great explosions which the nature of the stuck in the house would have caused.  Several fires are reported in Cambridgeshire, and they are said tu be wilful.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1849-09-26 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

FOUR CHILDREN POISONED.—One of the most diabolical attempts ever made to destroy human life by poison was perpetrated in Nottingham on the evening of Friday last. About five o'clock, a young man residing near the house occupied by a hawker named Burke, a widower, in Eves's-yard, Narrow Marsh, discovered that the poor man's childrmi had been suddenly taken ill in the absence of their father, and proceeding to render them assistanee, found that they had been vomiting dreadfully. At first it was thought that they had been seized with cholera, but a cup eontaing soon- suspicious-looking ingredient being found upon the table, is number of the neighbours were called in, and the whole fondly, with the cup and its contents, were instantly carried off. to the General Hospital, where restoratives being promptly applied, the two youngest were soon pronounced out of danger. Their names are—Mary, aged 11; TholllllB, 6; Catherine, 4; and Sarah, 2. On Saturday the eldest (Mary) was sufficiently well to make a statement, from which it appeared that having gone out to buy some small articles of grocery, she was met on her return by a woman who asked her if her name was not Burke. The girl replied in the affirmative, and was asked if she would like some good stuff. The woman then gave her a paper containing a quantity of white powder, telling her it was magnesia ; that she must pour hot water upon it, drink some of it, and give the rest to her brothers and sisters. She did so, and they all became very sick. The liquid in the cup and the contents of the children's stomaelis were found to be strongly impregnated with arsenic. The father has since returned. No certain clue bas as yet been discovered to lead to the detection of the woman.  As a corpse was being conveyed for interment in the Bunhill-field burial-ground, London, on Monday, when the bearers were in the act of crossing the City-road, a drove of oxen, pursued by a dog, rushed upon them ; the coffin was hurled off the men's shoulders, arid themselves prostrated ; the mourners, chiefly females, tied shrieking in afTright. One of the bearers was as seriously injured as to he unable to proceed. A deplorable case of suicide has occurred in . . •• •  the village of Malvern. The hapless objcet of the dreadful act was the Rev. Peter hull, of Bath, aged about 50, who for some months past had occupied lodgings at Mr. Nssh's, Castle-honse, and had been under the hydropathic treatment for fever, &c. It seems that he committed the rash deed in his bedroom about seven o'clock on Tuesday morning se'unight, and in the presence of his wile, who, in endeavouring to prevent bin], bad her hands cut.  Nearly two hundred unpaid letters last week passed through the post-office at Stamford, addressed to persons in the sown and neighbourhood by the notorious old swindler, Joseph Adv. Some of the letters have been refused, but the majority have been taken in and opened. THE QUEEN or
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1849-10-17 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

LETTER FROM THE LADY WHOM THE AUSTRIANS FLOGOED.  The correspordert of the Daily News at Vienna, writing on the oth inst., says :—" There appeared lately in your columns a letter from Widdin, of which a part, printed in italics, referred to the 11.,gging of a lady by an Austrian officer, and the suicide of her husband in consequence. A letter from the lady herself, who was the victim of this execrable barbarity, which plunged her into a yet deeper misfortune, published in the Wanderer, set the truth of your correspondent's statement beyond all doubt:—" Ruskby. Sept. 18.-1 will narrate to you the fate of my family with calmness and composure, for my heart is become stone. itt our neighbourhood an army of Hungarians surrendered, 10,000 men with 41) cannon. Two days later the Austrians troop entered our town. They consisted of a detachment of Lichtenstein 'Wit horse, commanded by Captain —, a native of Roakby. It is possible that the great domestic happiness which I enjoyed may have stirred envy and gained me enemies in Ruskby, but of no other crime ant I guilty. Two families, low and coarsely bred,— and —, set this captain on his horrible crime. I was torn from the arms of my husband, from the circle of my children, front the hallowl d satienary of my home, charged with no ollence, allowed Ito hearing, arraigned before no judge. I, a woman, wife, and mother, was, in my own native town, before the people accustomed to treat we with .respect, dragged into a square of soldiers and there scourged with rods, Look, I can write this without dropping dead. But my husband killed himself. Robbed of all other weapons, he shot It niselt with a pocket pistol. A cry of horror filled the air. I was dragged further to karanSeber;. The people rose, and would have killed those who instigated these hoicors; but their liVes were saved by the interference of the military. :My eldest son was taken prisoner with the army of Gorgey, find sent as a common soldier into Italy : and so is the measure (Amy gri4 full. Can you picture to yourself the state of mY mind ? You knew not my husband.. I tell .you that no nobler, more el.-Voted, more adorable character does or ever will exist. The productions of his intellect are known. He was the inventor of iron biidges. In his,, the world has suwained a great loss. My misfortune is boundless, Mid , unexampled are the tortures which I have endured. My grief will be eternal. You will conceive that I can dwell on nothing but my sorrow. One only wish still animates me—to liberate toy son. They have transported him to Gratz. If you have friends there, think of my poor boy of eighteen.—F. VON MADERspAciI."  BRITISH EMPIRE MUTUAL FIRE ASSURANCE Seta
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1849-06-06 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

VERFORDINTST. n accordance wi th an anno al mama svhich has been observed here for a great mar.y years, a public dinner, termed the " Mayor's dianer" an given et the Mariner's lintel, on Whit Monday. The chair was taken ha' James Owen, Esq., mayor, and the vice chair by Wm. Walters, 1,,a1., ex-mayor. Tho gathering was more numerous than on most former occasions, anti in.:hided a great many of the gentlemen and tradesmen of the town, who took advantage of this opportunity of shewing their esteem for a gentleman, who, as a private individual, as well as in his public character as chief magistrate of the town, has deservedly acquired general respect. The cloth being removed, the usual loy.d and patriotie feasts were given; then followed the toast of the evening The Mayor," which was drank with three times three. The healths of the "Lord Lieutenant of the cornty," The. Members for the town and county,' with other local toasts succeeded, and the evening was spent in the most convivial manner. Trio comp toy separated at a seanonable , hour.  UsLikiPiazia.asnz. T'tete v ere no fewer tlum 116 v,,Lrrants„ eltellY Mph, received into Brecon workhouse during a fortnight, and such is the imminent danger of fever and infection that it has been necessary to take an empty house tor the reception of these hapless b-ings. There were no loom. than forty dor,,,ttrts at the They feir—nn amount of cruelty which it Wag painful to witness, and which ought to be put an end to by leg islative enactitimit. The vow W eel evan Chapel at the 11.. per Look, near Brecon, was opened for divine eervice on Tuesday and Wednesday, May Vith and I6M. and th,, following Sabbath, when sermons were delivered by the Reyds. Wilcot, of 'Amidlnes, and K. Williams, of Aberystn Mr. G. Roberts, of Merthyr, the Revs. T. iours, of Lionidiom, It. *Vilcox, R. Williama, end other ministers. The collections at the opening murices, amounted to upwards of £l6. SUICIDE Ar
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1849-03-28 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

DISGRACEFUL SCENE.—The funeral of the man Jones, whce,e suicide at Carmarthen was noticed in our last, and with reApect to whom the jury had passed a ver lint of" Feb de se," took place on 'Thursday, the 15th instant. The scene that took place was in perfect keeping with tle barbarity of the custom which prescribes that the burial of a person committiog suicide should be amducted without the usual rites of sepalture. It having become known that the body was to be interred on the above night, a vast concourse of people, amounting to some hundreds, assembled to witness the sight; the cofiin was brought out about nine o'clock p.m., borne on the shoulders of four men, who galloped away with it at the top of their speed. The lady having been brought into the churchyard,was almost literally thrown into the grave, and covered over with tile greatest rapidity. The mob filled up the time occupied in waiting for the sight its course and indecent jesting. laughing, jeering, end other more depraved acts. We certainly do not approve of the taste evinced by the Carmarthen eight-seers in their selection of mat cr lies for killing time, nor do we think it a very cogent proof of the superior intelligence, morality, , of a Welsh populace; but brutal as their conduct may be, it is not more brutal than tlie law which sanctions inch an absurdity—such flit outrage oh humanity—such an assumption of a prerogn due that belongs not to man, is is arrogated ill pronouncing any White creature unworthy of the tribute of respect which is implied in the performante of religious rites on ronsigning him to his final resting plate. If the mob are brutal, what shall we think of those why whom the ettstolll is upheld situ sanctioned ? MELANCHOLY ACCIDEgT.-0o Stturdav week a melancholy accident ovulated to Hr. Herbert Evans, youngest son of the late Mr. Mans, Alltyeadtto. The young stun wus riding home late at night, and had got as far as Pilner I.lwyd, when the horse came in contact with it heap of stones oil the road. He was thrown off, and received man) severe injuries. The horse galloped home; and on The following morning Mrs. Evans perceiving the animal in the yard, and finding that her tiOn bud not returned home, search was made, mid he wits found on the road where the aceident oceuned, in a state of Wilton-BClOllBlle9B. He lies in a very precarious condition. LLANDao tCHANICS'
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1849-09-19 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

NAVAL COURT MARTIAL.-A court martial has been held at Plymouth, which occupied several days, a decision not having been arrived at until Wednesday evening. The charges against Commander Pitman were of his having practised much cruelty and barbarity towards the men under his command in H.M.S. Childers. Two officers, Messrs. Graham and Elliot, were ti ied a short time ago for having deserted from the Childers and were dismissed the service in consequence. They alleged that they were driven to desert through the tyranny of Commander Pitman. Among the evidence given was that cf Serjeant dy, R.M., who showed that the punishment of 14 nry White, private ma. ine, by the default book, was (June 27, 1816) for leaving dirty shirt on deck, seveu days' water grog, and block listed until further orders. August 12, 1816, dirty at divisions, seven days water grog and black listed until further orders. On August 15 he went on the sick list, and returned to his duty Sept. 8. On Sept. 11, for being ragged and dirty at quarters, he was put in the report, and ordered forward to be scrubbed. On going to the ship's he td for that purpose, he jumped overbmrd and was drowned. This witness heard Commander Pitman, when he ordered White forward, say he would give him four dozen the next mrning. The punishment of one Haigh entered in the default book on Fl-pt 2, did not appear in the log ul the Ith. In the default book the punishment of private maii.ie lohn Bright, for disobedience of orders to First Ideutenint .7.:tillet and Commander Pitman, on March 17, 1818, was five d;iys and water, eight hours aft each (lay in marching or& r, and to such in in at night, ten days watch and watch, grog stopped thirteen days. The midshipmen's steward, Matthews, committed suicide by drowning-he had been flogged once. Witness used to inspect the boys before reporting them to the officer. Among them was the servant to Commander Pitman, a lad named Cleverton, whom he had seen with a black eye'and sre ear, and had heard crying in the C(11111118 rider's cabin. On one occasion the boy's head was cut open, and dressed by the assistant surgeon. The loy would never tell him how it happened : he might have been afraid ; he had asked him several times when lie had semi him crying. It appeared from other evidence given, that punishments were devised with peat ingenuity by Commander Pitmansuch as lashing a copper funnel to the heads of the boys, punching, kicking, and abusing thrm, and putting their necks into wooden collars. In defence, scveral letteis from naval officers wire read, in which Commander Ptman was spoken of in the highest te;tll . The come decided that the charges were partly pi oved, anti it cmsequently adjudged Commander Pitman to be dismissed her Majesty's service.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1857-05-27 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

GROUNDS. ; Thiecase was heard in the Cour; of Dube^ Heath. on Foiday, before Lout Campbell afid logien Coleridge, Wtottenlatv, and CtuMption. it MAW' Yregt•lstoton Patel I. the (dome r. the finial Board of ' es The collet had grouted a maudith in. the Rale Braid of tivertilto, to try the queostioe hether tbe pen ot the cemetery at that town ontendedge he consecrated ha beau placed 10 a fit and propar con tine to be cO- tiv the bishop oh the dioeme. It appeared thee the .Imard had. wile a line of demarcation between the ewe- • ; tWerated euflinmqwerated portions, commune of • wall ' eighteen inblfes high ; but the Dols. of fetter reweave eni. four feet high, and as tilt 13timrd deetineil to do mom thsn they had already done, he refused to mineecram the emend Me. kmedion now mooed to get aside an order widish heal bore Mode by Re. destiee Colavideo, mongol.. the proseedien Co Owed 11 alearaal plea; letting net bosh middlings' Mem with regard to the state of the burial groom!. In the return to the mandamus the banal board elated that the ground om it, • fit tad Motu. mud:non tor coneeormiee, het did not traverse Use alk.ation of the writ—that it did not appear to the Isithop that it was in a fit and proper condition for Met purpose, µas faistiag • aulre,i rpmetiou of law and face The prow., tool decierred to the return on the armies' that it wooer ! answer to !toe mandamus to say that the portion jimmied ! to be consecrated woe 1.0 fit and proper cooditio. for eon.ecration, unless it appeared to the bishop, who was tar judge ot its flumes, to be in such • state The learned ammo' add the remelt and mond.msos tally raided the . whole question, and (bat the *mood plea which the prosennors propmed to plead wee entteeemary, and was ralrultiled to ember,. the Judge who tried tbe mood all.. Loud Campbell said it did not appear on the reacted in What respect the grand ems not fit fur consecration, nor whit over* the mini& objections of Me bishop. It would ,PC very desirable to have the whole of the facts retard ,a the ilea, as the court might then give lodgment upon the ennurrer to tlin plea, and tints render a tnal •n-neeemary. The better way, therefore, would be for Mr. Kiltedun to communicate with the 1.1111101 on the other Side, and me whether they could form such a plea ; and if they could not agree, he might then hikes • Yale to show cause.  THE RECENT SUICIDES or