Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-08-14 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MILS, 11.4YBRIf II ILL,  ,t3.11E FAINTS IN A DOCTOR'S HANDs.  EXCITEMENT AT LIVERPOOL  The excitement in Liverpool, with reference to the Maybriek ease continues. The verdict is I still the subject of eager discussion—it being the I absorbing discussion on 'Change. in trains, and lin the fit:l.y steamers. While many declare that I the woman should have had the benefit of the doubt, numbers express the opinion that the verdict is right, smug them being some ei the ablest lawyers in the city. MI-% surprise. is. however, expressed at the verdict by tithe who had made up their minds as to her guilt. It is I believed that the jury were much Mama-led by j the remarks of Justice Stephen 0i all hand-i intense sympathy is being manifested with the • prisoner, and petitions fir a reprieve are now • ininL- lan,tely signad in (lit-Fere:it parts of the city. The assize courts are sitting, and the trial audits results formed the sole talk with the bar on Thursday, Mrs. Maybrick having numerous defenders here. On enquiring at Walton I Gaol on Thursday it was ascertained that prisoner is very ill and prostrate, and in the hands of the doctors. She is also being seen by Protestant chaplains. Mr. Justice Stephen, on his arrival at the court on Thursday morning, was guarded by one hundred and fifty constables as a precaution against a recurrence of the mobbing which took place last , night.  The TIMI'M says :—The reduction of the cost of the Irish constabulary can readily be affected by the Parnellite party, by the very simple method of abstaining from the employment of their spare time in inciting the ignorant populace to acts of dishonesty and violence. Hypocrisy can hardly assume a garb more odious than it wears, when the very men whose inflammatory harangues have stirred up the peaceful and law-abiding tenants, first to dishonesty, then to violence, stand up in the House , of Commons and pretend to be shocked becaus the Iffsh constabulary cost more than similar bodies in regions happily free from their mis• chievous activity.  A good many have thought sometimes, when reading of the drastic laws passed in the more innocent days of the French Revolution, that it is a pity modern legislators have not equal courage. The good people of Belgium, it seems, have been struck with the same idea ; more than that, they have acted upon it. There is a congress of Hygiene now sitting Paris, and Dr. Jennsen, Chief of the Brussels Sanitaryßuratu, astonished his colleagues on Tuesday with an account of the system prevailing iu his department. The brave Belffe, observed some time ago, like other people, that owners of houses do not hasten to improve their property at the demand of the Sanitary Board, if it be let to a solvent tenant. Accordi• gly these reckless citizens of Brussels looked out for it legal engine which would rouse them to a sense of their duty, and found it in certain French laws passed by the Assemblee Nationale in 1799 and 1790, which they adopted forthwith. By these acts, any complaint made to the Burgomaster, from whatever 14011aCe, must be investigated. If found reasonable, the owner must make such improvements as may be necessary should he refuse, the lodgers are turned out—with a claim for ample damages against their landlord—and the house iimleclared unfit for habitation. These vigorous measures have been perfectly successful, and the death-rate of Brussels has fallen from thirty-two to twenty-two per thousand. But the judicious hear, without surprise, that the highly respectable Congress, after shuddering, voted simply "that the law of April 13, 1850, requires revision." To invent a new process for suicide /I a problem about us difficult as could be put. Those gentlemen who spend their time in framing ingmious plots—one shilling each, in paper cover—devote a good deal of thought to the subject occasionally. But they rather try to put the old materials into new combinations than to think out a scheme absolutely original. A young Vienese student—very young, indeed, evidently—has not only found out a novel idea, but also has proved it. His name is not nuntioned—'tis ever thus with your truly great inventors. We learn simply that he was in love ; " "  that Ile suspected the young lady of deceiving him, and resolved to die. The tale thus far is dplorably common-place, excepting to hie method. Rot, having formed that determination, the youth took a course all his own. He wett off to the Grotto if Torjabuces, Transylvania, which, it seems is full of stifling vapours, entered, and died forthwith. Perhaps the faithless maiden was going to picnic there that day, in which ease his notion was doubly happy. Ore does not commonly feel interest in anonymon., y otng men committing snicido. It  such a.silly thiag to do at their no that tilos, tris was to the inelination must needs be upid ; otherwise they could not fail to remark that no human being was ever permanently benefittod by the operation. But this unfortunate student was an exception, perhaps. He had ingenuity, which might have been turned to some useful purpose. DavorirEITIVESS