Swansea Journal and South Wales Liberal. — 1895-08-17 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

GLADSTONE." A targeman named Costin, aged 45,Was found any on Wednesday morning, lying on the deck ' of his barge, at Sittingbourne, with his skull and jaw fractured. He died shortly after his discovery. There were no symptoms of foul play. It is supposed that he accidentally fell from the rigging during the night, and thus met with the injuries which terminated fatally. The Exchequer returns between April 1 and August 10 are as follow :—Receipts £32,493,987, expenditure £36,199,505, balances £2,020,018; corresponding period last year, receipts .£29,257,528, expenditure £35,937,235, balances £928,802.  Lady Gunning was, on Friday, at Bow-street, committed for trial on the charge of fraudulently uttering a forged bill of exchange. Inspector Brockwell said he found, in the prisoner's room, what appeared to be a betting book, containing, in her handwriting, entries relating to horses in Cambridgeshire, dated 1889. The magistrate said other entries betokened that the prisoner had been winning more than she had lost. Prisoner reserved her defence, but admitted that the signatures purporting to be her father's were her own. _ _  _ A sad boating fatality has occurred at St. Malo. A gentleman and wife, M. and Madame Busnel, visitors from Paris, accompanied by a governess, went out for a sail, when the boat was suddenly swamped by a waterspout. It sank at once, dragging one of the boatmen down with it. An oar was thrown to the Busnels, but before further assistance could arrive they sank clasped in each other's arms. The only survivor was one of the boatmen, whowas picked up afterwards. Tin botlics of M. Busnel ard wife have since been recovered.  A Russian official stated in the course of a conversation, says the "Daily Chronicle" correspondet,thatipolitic circles in St. Petersburg are watching keenly for the first development of a rapproachment of England to the Triple Alliance. In the event of a Quadruple Alliance being formed secret or open, Russia will at once seize the occasion to reopen a number of embarrassing questions concerning the Indian Empire and British trade in the far east, and would incline to move a concerted action with France in Egypt. A rather serious charge was preferred against a footman named Albert Leah, at the Llandovery Petty Sessions on Friday. It was alleged by a maid servant named Jane Morgan that, besides slapping her on the face, as ''she was leaving the servants' hall he shot at her with a gun with the result that she was shot in the shoulder, and the next day her arm was amputated from the joint. A considerable amount of evidence was called for the defence which went to show that the parties were always on good terms, and that the gun episode was the result of a pure accident. The Bench eventually decided to dismiss the case. Mr. William Berry, the well-known blacking manufacturer, of Manchester, whe died at Bowden, Cheshire a few week's since, has bequeathed a sum of £51,000 to Manchester andlocal charities. To the Manchester Infirmary he leaves £lO,OOO, to the Manchester City Mission £5,000, to the Boys Refuge £3,000, to the National Lifeboat Institution, £2,000, Southport Convalesent Hospital £2,000, Dr. Barnacle's Homes £l,OOO, Royal Eye Hospital £l,OOO, Blind Asylum, Old Trafford, £l,OOO, Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, £l,ooo. A sad story is the suicide.of the aristocratic Ferdinand de Saint Ferree', who lived under the name of Ferdinand de La Briere, in a wretched hovel in Paris, in the Rue Saint Claude. M. de Saint Ferreol was not a ruined gambler, and had never been a spendthrift. He married a governess without a dowry, and, after having occupied poorly paid situations, fell into absolute distress. The other day he packed off wife and children to his relations, and told the Auver,gnat who supplied him with coals that he was about to poison himself. A few moments after, he swallowed a dose of cyanide of potassium, and fell dead. Me de Saint Ferreot was highly educated, and had translated lierodotus in popular form. Dennis Flannagan, porter in the Borough Market, was remanded on Monday, at Southwark, charged with causing the death of John Barrett, early on Sunday morning. Prisoner was seen by deceased's wife to rush at her husband and feu him with a blow of his fist, causing death in the hospital. All the parties had been drinking. Prisoner, when arrested, said that after an exchange of words. Bassett struck first blow, and then he pushed him anti he fell. The apprentice boys of Derry held their annual Orange demonstration on Monday, numerous contingents from the neighbouring towns arriving to assist. An unusual feature of the proceedings was that the brethren refused to attend the service in the cathedral owing to their not being allowed to have a preacher of their own selection. Services were thereupon held in two Protestant Chapels. During the celebrations a young man named John Holland was engaged in firing a "feu de joie." He had converted a cart axle box into a cannon, and under pressure of the charge this primitive weapon exploded, killing Holland upon the spot. The sea-going torpedo boat Forban has just undergone the preliminary trials at Havre, and proved itself the fastest vessel afloat. The contract speed was 29 knots, but despite a heavy sea and high wind, the Forban easily accomplished 30.2 knots, which makes her faster than any other vessel in the world. Telegrams from Belgrade. state that the Bulgarian police are said to have received information that a plot is being hatched against Prince Ferdinand's life. This accounts for the extraordinary precaution taken by the police of the various countries through which he passed, but the belief here is that the plot has been merely invented by the Bulgarian police for reasons of their own. It is stated on good authority that striking proofs of Russia's goodwill towards Bulgaria will soon be made manifest, but whether a diplomatic agent will be sent from St Peters'burg, or whether Prince Ferdinand will be !officially recognised has not transpired.