Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1861-08-28 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. The Augsburg Gazette says that the Met has ordered 4520 rifled cannon for the arming of the federal fortresses. The Diet has voted .5,451,977 florins for the armament of these fortresses. Of this sum 2,216,000 are for the purchase of rifled cannon, which are to be placed on the ramparts by the end of the present year. We have heard that the author of Torn Brown holds the professorship of boxing at the Working Alan's College. Mr. ilollingshead's accomplishments in the acrobatic way are not unknown to tame; and Mr. Dickens is said to pride himself quite as insets upon his excellence as a pedestrian as upon the authorship of Pickwick . Critic.  The weather abroad at the end of lust week was yet hotter than in England. Fatal coups de soleil are reported as having taken place at Marseilles. The wheat And other crops in Catalonia have suffered much from the extreme height of the temperature, while in the southern Spanish cities it was universally considered dangerous to be out of doors in the day-time. At the Central Criminal Ceurt, on Thursday, the Rev. J. Roe was convicted of forging and uttering an order for the payment of £6,000, with intent to defraud. The facts of this ClBO have already appeared, and it will only be necessary to remind the reader that Roe, having been disappointed of a large legacy which he expected on the decease of an uncle of the sami, name, forged that gentleman's signature to a check for £6,0011, purporting to be dated some months before his death. The prisoner then procured an engraver to execute two stamps, in imitation of those of the Post-office, with which he marked the forged letter, and then produced it to his uncle's executors. The facts were clearly proved, and the wretched man was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude.  It appears by the Registrar-General's annual report that the Established Church still continues the great tyer of the marriage knot. 136,000 marriages out of 167,700 were performed in churches, 10,800 in Superintendent Registrars' ofllces, and the rest in Dissenting and Roman Catholic chapels. No less than seven post-office messengers were convicted at the Central Criminal Court, on Thursday, of stealing letters containing money. The sums varied from sixpence to 1:16. Where there was no provision in a policy that it should be void if the insured party should die by his own hands, the Court of Chancery refused to declare such policy void, the insured having committed suicide.— Borne v. The Anglo-Australian Insurance Co pany." The Lombardo, of the 18th, makes the following announcement:—" General Turr is about to marry the Prineess Weiss-Bonaparte, a young lady of 17, of great beauty, and uniting to noble sentiments a brilliant educa Lion. General Turr has today made known his marriage to the Prince de Carignan, who has a particular predilection for the Magyar" The Rev. Ralph J. Lyon, late of Weymouth, has beet appointed by the rector, the Ven. Archdeacon Law, to the curacy of the Parish Church, Weston-superMare, vacant by the presentation of the Rev. W. blunt (formerly of Clifton) to the inoun,o— -Church of tho shortly 1-Woo 'AY.