Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1857-07-01 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ATROCIOUS MURDER—An atrocious murder ha. been e onmitted at Chingford Hatch, a few mile* from Woodford, in Essex. Mr Small, a farmer secompanied by his trite, left home about half past, ten on Sunday morning to attend the parish church. Mrs Mary White, an aged person, sister in law to Mrs Small. was left in charge of the house. At . twelve o'clock, Mrs Emma Small, neice to Mrs White, arrived from London on a visit ; receiving Ste answer when she knocked at the front door, she went to the back of the house and entered by the garden. All the gates and doors were open. On entering the kitchen, she found her aunt lying in the doorway—her liead in the kitchen and her legs on the stairs. Thinking MINI White was in a fit, Mrs Small called in a neighbour, and the two lifted her up Mrs White : she was dead—her throat had been cut. On further examination, braises were found on her body; her clothes wele torn; she had evidently struggled with her murderer. • Money, watches, and jewellery had been stolen from the house. No trace of the assassin could at first be found. oil 41 New Um-kr:O.—The general government recently • gave diem to a resolution of the Howie of Representatives with regard to flax. The House voted X:4oooas a rewardfor the discovery of efficient means for rendering flax and other fibrous plant. of New , Zealand available as articles of export. £2OOO is offered to the person who shall by some process of his own invention first produce front a plant to. digenoue to New Zealand 100 tons of Merchandise; £lOOO to any person other than the liereon entitlea in the first reward, who shall produce from a fibrous plant indigenious to New Zealand, 100 tons of merchandise. The merchandise must be saleable as an article of export from the colony of New Zealand, and have been produced at a cost not exceeding 75 per cent of its value at the port of entry where it is exported. Copies of the Government Gazelle, containing tbe notice, have been bent to London, Leeds, Manchester, Sze., for publication there. Reference is also made to the discovered gold fields, but no ssnguine hopes are entertained of large suppfies of auriferous deposits. The yield had been confined to scaly particles and a single nugget vveigfting a few pennyweights. Tin; Vats-re Cogsong.—At a l'rivy Council which airs held on Thursday, enabler was paased for publiehing a letier patent, by which the taseen grants to Ponce Albert the title of " Prince Consort" during their joint lives. It is explained that hitherto Prince Albert hats had no recognised or recognisable title abroad, and that hie being made Prin. Comert of the United Ritmo:lan" —whatever OM any mean—places him in the " Royal" rang on the Continent, whereas hitherto be has only stnnd is the," Serene" rank. Tins PRINCE op Pat:Bata ants TERI Ciltp.—At special Court of Common Cdonail, held on Saturday, at Guildhall, the Lord Mayor presiding it was ...musty resolved, upon the MORON 05 Mr De Jersey, seconded by Mr. Vallenee, to present to his thorn! Highness Prince Frederick William of Prussia, as tho betrothed husband of the Princess }Loyal of England, the honorary freedom or the City of London, enclosed in a gold box, of tie value at 100 guineas, Tee Cnieomt QI-ESTION —At the Lambeth Polio, on Saturday. Mr George Fender, a grocer, carrying ow ,s.jaco.i,, Ileadley-terracc, IVandtworth road, appeared before Mr Elliott to answer LO MI information laid ageinot but by Mr Moore, the supervisor of excise for the district, fur selling, contrary to law, a mixture of chieory with coffee, riba, pure coffee was asked and paid for. Mr Marshall, a gentleman from the Inland Revenue OfAers, meted that on the kika et April last Mr Lancaster entered the shop of defendant and Baked for • quarter ef a poen& of pure con,. The delete:bud took some whole ootee met of a beg, ground it, and folded it up ins paper, on whit* was printial "This it sold as a mixture of chicory and aiitiec," and eharged him fimpence for it. Mr Lanoestrt at the time told the defendant that if any clioary wm dim covered in the coffee the representation at the paw would cot protect hint from o prosecution, and the defendant's explanation was that he had ground the buff.* in the chicory mill, and that, therefore, • fear grains of tin latter might haws gut mixed with it. A portion of the coffee Ives se. to Mr Ware for analysis, and that gentleman on his ottli declared that lie dimmer.d chicory in it to the amount of 21 per mid For the defendant the wk. .  nessee were examiti:d at some length with the view et showing that some change might hare taken place in preparing the samples tor Mr Ware, the ehemiat, for analyals; hut they deposed to the contrary, and Mr Manfull snared the court that the officers had not the slightest interest In conviction, and that their dories were solely for dr protection of the public. Mr Elliott observed that awe could be no doubt that there was a mixture of chicory irs the coffee to the amount of 24 per cent. He eonvieled the defendant ion penalty of £26. The defendant's solicitor gave national appeal. (AtiVertitiefrient.)—Bba ties Gory ten BIIIW Male Pitts, price Is lid and 2s 911 per box .—E awe. ot a letter, written by John NI uteri! Wheeler, Beg Collector of Customs, Jamaica, having been handed Ins brother, Swindon, to Mr Prow, for publication.—'' know you have never bad occasion to take Blair's Pills uot let me emphatteady tell yoti, in mercy rosily 'fiend who may suffer from gout, rheumatic gout, lumbago, sciatica, rheumatism, or any branch of that ntdely.nllied family, to recommend then °nog them. In thin clue', try rile), are of wonderful efficacy; not only am I personally aware of their powers, but I see my friends and acquartaances recmeing unfailing benefit from their use I would not be without them on any account. If taker in the early stage ot disease, they dis-ipate it altogether: it in a later, they alleviate pain, and effect a much speedier cure than by any other means within my knowledge." Sold by all Medicine Vendors. Sr. the nan • of " Thomas Prow, 229, Strand, Loudon," or; Ow Go ernment Mr. E. Briggs, manufacturer, of Blackburn, on-unlit, 1 suicide on rinirsday by hanging himself in an engine house.