The Brecon Reporter and South Wales General Advertiser

EPITOME OF NEWS. The result of the appeal in Liverpool for aid to She Confederate prisoners was a sum of C17,1174. Tile secretary hasjtiat stated the amount. gloom has? thrown over the soeiety of Wafelia by the death of the amiable and beautiful Mrs; ,t! oxoea of Callander (née Rose O'K&raY which took place suddenly in DfebKa. J The Munich brevolers,, with all their boasted jjsrity, arc no fo- y oi them have beentaken up and fined for selling bad •Seer. goiith-Elistetil Industrial Exhibition, ■at ufir a. successful career of three months at Greenwich Hospital, closed on the 27th ult., and on Saturday next tins prizes and certificates will be distributed by Lord ^.mnsitu, at, thePHnted-hsll of the hospital. rencii houge is said to have failed to obtain a CuC5i\o0t. for supplying the. city of Leeds with water- oy biiiii undeir-bid by an English house in. the The amount of the contract was „ /4'- £ i.a \<Sivie hospitalities with which Petter Tait inaugurat&d his mayoralty in Aiiiaerick has led to a* on the part of the citisens to entertain his worahip, not at a tete-a-ieie afcauy bat as grand a banquet as money can pro- '-inUlfcC# a' sScjEce of our readers -may possibly like to be. of Algeria. The mocias is simple-ic the extreme; they have wily to go aid live there for three years, and claim the is jJfc naturaEiftttibtaV Bilt they are bound to show J reofagB. I. Albert, formerly meiabar of the j'pro visional Go,{sllmnr t French Republic, is to start for A- .ca in "ApHl, in order to hand over to the widow o £ j. iOoidetfu Lincoln the g»ld medal struck in France o-iaiemdratioii of her husband. A Roman Catholic club has been opened at J-utiicu, with nearly 290men;bers: Among them we note li professors-of the University there, 29'elergy- rneu, 5 editots (f papers, and a number of emvioyes in administrative offices; It is stated thai? the-lbss^-hy which the Marine Assurance offices-as-d-$ie Under writers- at' Lloyd's are _ntei!,sted, through-the Itttio At aBa, or seat < £ 1,000,000 td £ 1,500,-000. wiH- case -of -ag CF)1,0d again la^tvwtosk"iirDilbliii'j and further evi- -did iiot*Seem brtikeri down irithe cross- ex ittdnsy was giv&cr aS "to the'"r £ t-Tonality of the te,,¡tator. Pe&body "has placê[I in the hands of the- anadàitional sum of ,;£,J.i,u¡OOOfÓrlhe sl.i.me purpose As the former endow- ::r1.3Ut. This inabos Mr. FsabVay's total donation a r of a million. Some singular iatalities were, recorded in Lon- 5,or. Ja,st week. A girl died of cholera morbus," ac- ceLen;1,ted by a "clot oi blood in the hearc;" an died, of hemorrhage from the brachial ::>rt(2? severed by the glass of a skylight;" and 2% r> 3343,3 c*'e<^ from thrombus of the basilar At an influential public meeting-in DubHe, a resolution was passed imperatively calling upon the irMh members of Parliament to support the Govern- ment; in seekil, g additiotml powers to prevent the intro- ducaon of the cattle disease by "exporters, drovers, iJ.z:d other means conngeted with the exportation of trom Ireland." The licng Firin iii- C-hetteirflel*d-We are in- fonr.sci, says'the Mcenthcsi&r sBxd/mAmr, that three or E.^mbers of tire Jjjsg- Finn hare recently. their smndling- operation ftotn Chester- Bela, and that a Ettmberof 'MaEch^stsr'fimi.'s are'being with orders from them. Their plan- is to wriid wr goods; arrd, by giving one- or two of their artcoer as rsfeiencfes, accoiiipfeh their object. nt/ticiug the appear- ofthétrágeâiàn lia AldrWge, who is a man of colour, say "that he is the head of the negro theatre established in London.' We know British 3ympathyfor tha dark"man -is"strong, bilt it will, we fancy, be some time before they can delight their eyes by a troupe -of.nero" àctors- and aetressea. Savings banks are rapidly increasing all over Italy, No leas than 50 are already in existence, and their state of prosperity may be gathered from the iaoe the Banea della Piecolla Industria e Com- snereio," founded only last year in Turin, has already had deposits of above 500,000 francs, which yielded a profit of nine pe cent; two per cent. is taken into the I reserve fund,whiRl seven" per cent; ia paid as dividend So the shareholders:- "A liostife-Ta&etsirK?," -says the Drmt, "took place reoeafely between-two officers of the squadron of the Cont-G&rdeB. Th acivereariet fought With sabres the iosséof the i'orfeifi«ajtiona near the Porte- de Vc ilHoi. After a sharp contest, one of the com. hat¡¡,d¡gre(j(yi7d rather sharp.cfcfc iii-tfce/hasiS.' The of the duel having been first' blood drawn, the sec&nds intervened, and the parties separated." "p K-ie obi'Ciiary of Sir Fmncis Sykes' demise, who was fourth baronet, and was born at Basildon-park, Barks, Jtuae 1822, and departed this life at hi3 inanor, Isenhurat," Sussex, on the I st'iiist. is succeeded by. his brother Frederic Henry, resident at Hayling Island, only by h's brother Henry, now in I America. Sir Fariois By s'linB. are deposited in the vaait at Ma^-field parish churchyard, being the eMroa beloBgtng tb Isenhurst property. The story goes that at Aberfeldy, a Highland Tillage, through the exertions<>f the bellman, a large assemblage was ponvened to, hear thegcg&t preacher from London, Mr. Spurgeon, but, as he afterwards bitterly confessed, tlioligh,he tried'all means to move them, the a&M blood of the men far North waa undis- turtred-by Mb a^peate; and the "Only movement seen ih tIn) 6,fkee use of the snuff-box, tho irasn asiiig a small spoon to ahovdl'thb anuff from the oy. to the npse." Sailway Collision.—An accident oocurred on Friday. fiigSati, od the Groat Wefetern Bail way, near Cbarlfeury' Station.> Theaeoideni -aroeie-froHj- a- oollt- •3ion between two luggage- trains. The line was blocked for a considerable time, and the carriages fcrfeitWg'the express train; which fahould- haV6 reached i d eter' At ten on FMday "hight, btily* passed thr&tfgfc'tiflfli statioii at a few BttihutSs 'befote' ten'oa S^ttltday TBoraiiig. Two special tfaihs- hW I- however, t-, -n' pttt "on datin g the "night to leasen 1i'B-tár 'ItS POg 3ibi" thstiled^vtaienee'ef the passengefsr of, a. Child.—An inquest wa» iield en Monday at Nawingtcwi on the body Gf, Edward Oliver, aged two and a half years old, who wafr fatally* barnt in the absence of hispoeutg,;by his dress acci- dentally catching fire. He rolled under the bed in his agony, froth which he was dragged by hia brother, aged only six years, who, with great presence of mind, succeeded in exting uishing, the flames. The jury re- turned a verdict of J' Accidental Death," and compli- mqated the boy on his intrepid conduot. The opinion of emtnent" counsel has been taken "by feotne iclfuential "parties, and* sent ottt to- Jamaica, advising the tailitraryand naval officrB to abstain fftfm giving testimony"beforsf the (Joxniffissiorf, on the gr6u?id'that they afe Untenable to their own -üpijriors in a.ll things; and that, the CbiidtaiNsion6ra- having ho power to Corflfiiand their attendance as a court of law, they are at liberty to decline interroga tion if they think proper. Letters for the Ionian Islands and Gree ees—Infofcrcatioa has been received by the Poat- imaster-General ffrom the Italian Post-office that, owing to an alteration in the day of. departure of their ijketB on the line of Brindisi to Corfu, the correa- »it isnee fer the Ionian Islands and Greece, via, Italy, be dispatched from the United Kingdom 24 hours riior -than heretofore. To be in time, therefore, for e packet which leaves Brindisi at two p.m. on Sun- I 7, letters must be postea. In or reach London not than Wednesday morning in each week. All 'Qepondeaoe for the Ionian Islands is sent via Italy, u lesa sp-Maaliy 6irected to be forwarded by another To Me. Lestera for other parta of Greece are, as a rule, • ,ardea by "French packet via Marseilles, but they KtAy also be forwarded via Italy, if specially so ad- .jL"8.a\. Jiijsing the Wind out of the Gales.—Two tj/ious. begging impostors, named Wadc-y and r.o!d«,; have been eharged before the Liverpool. ..atrites with endeavouring to raise money by false ifccentitioJsa. Waiddy had described himself as a c;ta.in tratdiDg between Bristol' and 'the Iala of LID, And'had represented that his ■ship, with all his-pro- :'+Y; hai bovi:. lc^r. çc:n;g 1m l-.it-j Ç"I; V,"Il:¿¿ t1:0 other prisoner substantiated this tale in the eharacter of a Channel pilot. As the men had tried the same practices on before, they were stopped, after victi- mising a few persons, and arrested. Both were re- manded. Previous convictions were proved against them. Tlie "Gazette de Cambrai" relates a sad accident which had taken place at the theatre of that town. In a piece called La Vieillese de Bfididi a pistol had to be fired, and, as is usual on such occa- sions, two had been charged with powder only for the purpose. At the end of the performance one of the -cene-shifters took up the weapon which had not been used to put it away, when a boy between thirteen and fourteen years of age made a snatch at it, causing it to go off in the direction of his own hand. Two of the child's fingers were broken by the waddiug, which had been rammed down very tight, and his hand was other. wise so much injured that amputation, the medical men thought, would very probably be necessary. A. Miser.-Ar, old woman, aged seventy-nine, named Ann Wintry, was found dead in bed last week in a miserable old hut containing one room, at'Spring- thqrpe, Liucolnshire. On a search being made by the parish authorities a large quantity of clothes, linen, &c., was found, which were subsequently offered by auction, and realised about £ 12. Among the things ¡ sold were twenty gowns, more than half new, some never havingbeen worn, twenty-two pairs of stock- ings, more than a dozen pocket-handkerchiefs, a. dozen nightgowns; also shawls, towels, sheets, flan- I nels, &o., in abundance. The deceased had been in the receipt of parish relief for nearly twenty years, although, in addition to the above effects- she had X-52 in a savings bank. For the last dozen years she went about with scarcely any clothing upon her. A Mast Gored by a Bull.—At about h-ulf-past two o'clock on Thursday afternoon-, as a man named John Ha-rdi-ag, 21 years of age,' engraver-by. oc3upa- tiosj residing in Wellington place* Makta'- srtisat- tio-a, residing in Wellington place-, Makta'- street, was "jassing down'Loveday-street, he wit's-attacked by a fier'ee bull which waB being' driven-along the street. The bull ma "put" at-him, and: throwing Mm. down, gored himrather seriohsly -aboHfrth^head. The maa also 'bore inyrks of the brute's violence about' I his body, as he was bruised ia a number or' places. He was picked up, covered with reM. and removed to the Grsneral Hospital, where his injuries were attended to. They were happily not of a serious nature, and after sta yingo al,-out, an- heurin the institu- tion he was able to bear the fatigue of removal to his own home. Letters f63? the Ionian Islands- andGr&eee. —Ini'orHi^rbion has been received by the1 -Postmaster* I General-frota the that,. owing to an altt-Tation- in the day of departure of their pllteketson the line of Brindisito Corfu, thcr the Ionian Is?landa and Greece, vir), Italy, must be dis- I patched from the United Kingdom twenty-four honra I earlier than heretofore. To-be in tims, therefore, for the paekeij which leaves Brindisi at two p.m. on Sana, day, letters mast be-posted-in or reach London BOB later than Wednesday morning in eacih week. All- coirespondsziee-for the Ionian Islandsia sent H&Italy, unless specially directed to be forwarded by: another route, letters for other parts of Greece are, aa-a rule, forwarded by Frenah packet v-i-i bmt, they m ay. also-be forwarded viti Italy, if specially so addressed.. Tils M-i'd-IjOndbn. Railway in HolbOms—A comiriitCee of m'e Holborn Board of Works has madtr a report, in which it is stated that the -M.LI &-Loud on Sail ivay is A very line as afiboting the in. terests of thëitlháHitants of the distiict, and that efforts shefttW be made to obtain the of clauses in the bill. requiring the company to construct" the railway so as tb "admit of the houses the soiith side of Ilolborn being rebuilt a new and improved" line of frontage,, to be agreed upon by the surveyor to the board and the to the compa-ay, and also, limi t-irl the period within which it shall be lawful to I' execute the works of constraetion. It-is-understood that the company will not objec-t-to the clauses in-c s' question, but in order to obtain a locus sismdi before the committee the board hav'e resolved to petition Par- iameR tagMnat the seheme. The Cattle Plagfue at EdinbrirKfe. The entire cessation of the in Edinburgh was- announced at the meeting of the Town Council, the other day; on" the' authority' of Professdr BifcK: The'' fact is important and' gr&tifying, not only in'iteslf, but as indicating that the "disease 'exhausts itself—the measures of prevention" and of' "stamping out" not- Pi having been more rigid in Sdlisburgh than in many other places; The-Vastiiesa of the lo'ss, however, that-' maybe incurred before the-disease rung'its course in any district where it onee makes entry, is inS&afcted'by- the-fact that- about four-fifths of the cows in Edin- burgh when ths disease broke oat' havediod orbeéh silled. Deatli of tbs Earl of- M,It own.' !lie, death of the Earl of Milltown, of Suaborougk, oouiity Wicklow, has j'aat taken place at 'his temporary sea- side residence on Bray-strand. Hia Ibrdshigt'-Md'f-dr"" some time past been suffering: from" severe indispbsi- rtion, the immediatB cause of daathbeing an at'task of bronchitis. Eia lordship had "attained the ad-Vtinced-age oF'sixty-seven years." He is -understood to have made a full and careful disposition" of hia ex- tensive property by will some time previocts to his ddafh. The late Joseph Lees oh, fourth" B^rl'of'Mill-■ I town, was born in 1793. He succeeded- hih grand-" father in -1857J marrying in 1828 the daughter of'the late Sir Joshua C. Meredith, Bart., and widow- of the lata Lord* Castlecoote. He will be in his title by his eldest son, Joseph "Henry Tiscouht Bus- borough. Postal MismanagemeaAtr—A cormgpondi3nb writes to tho Times:—" My residence is aifciate in the- parish-of MisMeham, where" there ia" a post-onice, two miles only distant nöjjatné- post"-town of LbebelhoAd. But there "ia no ebmifiuhieatioa between these two plag^si Lefrers postad "for this-parish at ILeathexheadi only reach us after 'trans'taissioa to London, from whence they are Sent back" to Dorking and bete by lettdr-baitiki àft.èr-ë@Iisidera1:Hê defey, só tN&t a clicilif,' of i& made to. âCèomplish the delifery of letters requiring"" a direct tra.BaaMaaibm.of only two" miles." This taioinaly "would bel-etaoved byiSfe aihlpl^- appointment of a letter-carrier' bet ween ijeath-erfieM'" and Miekleharm, and yeftM €teit&ral Foat-Oiffce easiv' n"6tTbe Hfov'ed'to remeay't'he m^h^ehieAtiej 'whibhlh ar neighbb'arhb'od cSf "iihiS' kind la very ggnSSill^'an'd Wld^' felt." 3ffr. T. L. F-isiedek, the author of Headlpagv Hall," Crotchet Castle," Nightmara Abbey and other books popalat in their da-y, died a few davs ago, at the age ofS& TKe friend and executor of SHelisy,. 'almost ids last iiterary 2&l>oiir was a defence of -the character of't:ie pcTet's first wife, Helen Weatbrook. The catalogue of Xtr. Paaooek's works-'would be rather a loag one.' One-of the mos t"remarkable of hia works ia also the least known. It is a little book of some fifty pages, printed in-18:37, "noUQr sala," entitled ||Faper Money Lyrics, and other Poems." Pjper Money Lyrics" were written in the vsater of 1S-25-26, aftsr the great bank aud company crash, and are sharp, whimsical satires upon Scotch banking and the paper money men" generally. Amongst the other Poams is Bieh and Poor;; or,-Saint and Sinner," of which few people have read the whole, whilst there are few WL:O will not reeolleob the first versa :— The peot man's ejus are glaring, In the-iaee of gh.ostly warning, He is saugbt ia ttia fact Ot'an overt act—- Buying greens on: Sunday moiurig." Mr4 I^acook was |one of thafc'-eminent' band of writers of whom the servioe of the Old-East India Company can boast. He retired, snortly before the suppression of the Company, and spent the closing years of his life1 amongst hia books. Large lircrsase in Emigration from Liver- paol.-The official returns of the Government agents at Liverpool Were completed for the month of January last week. They show that during the month there sailed to the United States ships under the Act, 21 with 289 cabin and 3,483 steerage passengers, of whom 1,418 were Efiglish, 86T Scotch, 940 Irish, and 1,039 foreigners. To Victoria 2, ships, 3 cabin and 276 steerage passengers, of whom 110 were Esglish, 13 Scotch, 149 Irish, and 4 foreigners. To Queensland— 1 ship, with 2 c,1hin passengers and 313 steerage, of whom 190 were English, 22 Scotch, and 131 Irish, making a total of 4,387. Of short ships (not under the Act) there sailed to tha United States-12 ships, 479 passengers; to Victoria—1 ship and 19 passengers to South Autferioa—4 ships, with 49 passengers; to the West Indies—2 ships, with 20 passengers; to Africa— 1 ship, with 35 pSts&eiigers; making a tstal of 602 passengers," which added to the thipa under the Act makes a grand total of 4,989. In the same month of laet year, there only sailed 2,277 passengers, which gives aa increase "in of January., 1866, of 2,712. Invasion of I-lainpstead-heath. Two rail- way companies have entored tho field to invade Hamp- stead-Heath. Mr. Bazalgette, the engineer, in a re- port made to the Metropolitan Board of Works, states that the North Metropolitan Railway proposes to make an open cutting through the heath at a depth of 54 to 56 feet below the surfaco, thus curtailing its area and severing it from Parliament-hill for about three- quarters of a mile. The Metropolitan and St.-John's- wood Railway Extension to Finchley is also proposed to cross the heath for a length of about three-quarters of a mile, partly on an embankment, partly in cutting, and for about 250 yards in tunnel, which will also materially curtail the area of the heath and interfere with the access from one part to the other of this much frequented spot. Low Temperatures in Ameriere.-The Mon- treal Gazette of January 12, states that it has been extremely cold from the 4th to the 10th, the thermo- meter in that city fot foot successive days and nightff ranging from 7 deg. tb 26 deg. belo<iv zerb. Quebec, Utioili, and in the former place to 34 deg. below- zero, and in the other two towns it went down to 31. The cold extended to North Caro- lina; arid Alabama; and even in tllOsestates it was freezing -in the sun. More northerhly parts .Nà,¡.r Brunswick and- pai-ta of-Maine and Michigan—eaba-ped the extreme cold,-the thermomi^et hot msitking bblbw" zero. The cold wave is described as travelling ap- parently from the-east westward. At Montreal'theice on the St. Lawrence became 18 iDohes thick. Death of Sir T. V. -The death is anhounbed of Sir Timothy Vansittart Stonehouse, Bart. Ho was "the 'second sonof "Mr. John 'Stondh'ouse-, aifd entered the civil" service of the E,adt "India Com- pahy at Madras, in 18T5. He was appointed a provi- sioh'al member of council there in June, 1850. The first-;bacfOriet"was the son" ofMr. George Stonehouae, one of the clerks õfthe; Board of Green Cloth in 'the time of The third baronet sur- rendered the original patent, aird obtained a new one from Charles II., entailing.the title upon his second and third sons, and excluding the- eldest. At hia death, however, the eldest son claimed the baronetcy, and succeeded bis father under the earlier patent, while the second son inherited the title created by the new patent. Qtr the death of the sixth possessor of the earlier title that baroaatcy. devolved upon the third baronet of the new creation, and the two have since ramainad united. The deceased baronet is suc- ceeded by his son Henry Vansittarfe who was bora in 1327. Royal Institution. On Saturday afternoon Professor R. Westmacott, E.A., F.B.A., delivered his second lecture on "Art Education." He began by describing the gradual' progress of ancient art, Egyp- tian and Assyrian sculpt,'are occupying a large share of attention. He then spoke of the three Greek schools-, under Phidias, Praxiteles, and Sisyphus, and told how Phidias broke through the conservatism of custom by departing from ancient types, and iiitrc- ducing beauty and nobility in sculptural art, where- fore he was much persecuted by hia compeers, and probably lost his life by violence. Polychromy in sta- tuary was next strongly condemned by the lecturer, who characterised the practice as abominable." He concluded by narrating how sensuoss sculpture began to predominate, and how it resulted- in the gradual fall and decline of art. Extensive Seizure ofPike,-A;-In the course of Thursday-Mr, Superintendent Ryan, in consequence of trifling circumstances which had come- to his know- ledge, l!1ent tnepolictJ to Lranglord-l'ane; in tha'neigh- bourhood of Angier-stieet, Dublin, with direetions to search a place formerly used aa a stable. Gh a search being made there were found conceAIed- in the ceiling nearly 200 pikes and about 300 12-feet pike handles, the larger portion of which were in a perfectly finished condition. The police also foand at the house of a carpenter, named O'Brien, two a pistol, two, swords, a bullet-mould, four powder- horns, two shot pouehea, and some powder and shot. O'Brien was taken int» custody for having arms in a proclaimed- district without license. Death! of another Bbniati CatlioIiG? Bislibp. I'BiAhop William Hogarth, of the Roman Catholic Church in the >Jbrth of Englandj .died'at hia residence at Darlington oil Monday afternoon. The vaherkble ■bishop preached in his own chapel no -later than on ] Sunday morning last, and it was remarked that on that occasion he displ%yed'more than usual vigour. Shortly after service he was seized with apoplezy, and from I' that time until his decease on Monday aStei-noon, at half-past three o'clock, be was and -did not appear to suffer any pain. Canon Eyre tod some- others of the Roman Catholic clergy were- present at his death. The deceased gentleman, who was in his eightieth year; was educated at Crook, near Dutharii, and afterwards' became' one of the superiors of the ( College of Us-haw, in the same locality. EBe waaTtiade bishop of th$■ Iforthsrn Divisionin 1847, and has preached-as priest, arid subsequently a» biehop, at" Darlington, for the long period of forty years. He Was'one of the oldest'residents-of and was greatly respected by the leadittg men of the town, and by many'who'belonged to other" religions de-nomina- tions. Th» remains of the bishop are to be interred at Ushaw this day week. Tha fact-of the death was communicated to the Roman Ossbholitf cosisniunity in Ifewcastle at the meeting' in the' Leeture-hall, at* which Father AylWard Was lectuiing. Tile Police and the Ca&uals-.—At the weekly meeting of the directors of the poor of St. Pancras, held at"the Vestry-hall, CamdehTtown, Mr. Church- j warden Robsbn in the chair, a communication was read froni the, Poor-law Boarf, appriaiBg them of an Ii arrangement which had 'been entered into with Sir R t May lie for the "employment of the police as assistant- relieving officer's, so far as the admission nightly of casuals was concerned. The communication referred to the good effedts" which had resulted in the Poplar UniOri by the employment of the police in checking the admissibri of bfiminarvagrants;. arid, aft^ir stating that several of the metropolitan parishes were adopting the principle, desired to know if the guardians "of St. Pan ;ras were willing to accept the servicea of thfe police in the same way. The chairman adopting the principle, desired to know if the guardians "of St. Pan ;ras were willing to accept the servicea of thfe police in the same way. The chairman sftid thallfffiryléooIie "guardians had accepted" the offices of the police to control the admission of casuals inter their wards for three months as an ex- pieti'jii^nt,' atfd "therefore" he thought it desirable thai the directors of St. Panels should adopt a similar course; for; if they did net, the-probable resttlt would be that ail) the extreme roughs, who were unwilling' to pass-the ordeal of examination by the police prior to admission to the casual ward of Marylebone, would find their way to St. Pancras, and they must either firid room for them in the house; or lodge them out of it. Alr., Boas moved that the services of the police for the supervision of the vagrants be accepted for three months. Mr. Stockton seconded the resoiation, which was carried unanimously. Tho ISTew -Prison Act.Th .a new Prison Act, passed last Session, cam.; into operation on the first of this' month. Several prisons will be. iscen. tinued, and considerable alterations made- in the management and diiieiplins: of the establishments in England and Wales. Although the statute ma passed to "amend and consolidate the law" relating to pri. sons, it does not embrace the whole law on the subject. The new Act is divided into four parts. It treats of the government and maintenance of prHronll; of the law relating to prisons, of the' discontinuance of pri- aons, and tho repeal of the statute. Ulldethe new law there wSl be two kiilds of hard labour,_of the first and second class, and an efficient discipline introduced., Already Si» George Grey -ha» called the attention of the visiting justices, to the ne.v reguiationa to fee car- ried out, and various improvements will take place. Among the numerous provisions are two to the effect, that where the imprisonment expires on a Sunday the liberation is to be on the preceding day, and when a prisoner is discharged a sum of money is to be given to him, or for his benefit. There will now ba worked out in the several prisons uniformity of regulations. The Alleged Murder of ia Policeman ill Drury-lane.—On Wednesday afternoon Mr. Bedford, coroner for Westminster, resumed an inquiry at the King's College Hospital into the circumstances attend- ing the death of William Fitzgerald, a member of the Metropolitan police force, who, it was alleged, had bei3n murdered while on duty in Drury-lane. On the morning of tha 21st of January the deceased took a man named Robert Daly into custody, and took him down Long-acre from Drury-lane. Whilst passing along Daly said, I'll give you a good shake-up before you get me to the station." Daly was drunk. When the deceased and Daly got to Broad court, two men, named Cahill and Curtis, were there. When the de- ceased had got about twenty yards down tfcd cotet, Ife was kicked and knocked down. He said, I OJ Rub (Daly) knocked the down and kicked m-> in t j j Assistance -WAS obtained, arid, the' fieceiset, A OJJI 1 yeyed to the hospital, where he died in consequence o the injuries he had received. Daly, Cahill- and Curtis were afterwards apprehended. Evidence in support of this statement having been sworn, the jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of manslaughter against Daly. The Late Murder at SwanseeL. A- FREE PARDON GRANTI;i).-Her Majesty has been pleased to grant- a free pardon to Francisco Giardinieri, the Italian who was tried and corideirined at the last assizes at Swansea, for the murder of Peter Moitch, a liussian sailor. The condition imposed is that he must quit her Majesty's dominions within thirty days after his release from custody, and never return thereto again during the term of his natural life; failing compliance the capital sentence to be carried into effect. The prisoner, who ha.s been confined at the Swansea Gaol since his trial, received the welcome news With every demonstration of gratitude, stating, that- he would be glad to comply with the conditions of his reprieve. The efforts made on behalf of Giardinieri by Mr. Charles Bath, MiBenvenuti, and others who interested- themselves in the cause of jaatice and humanity, deserve honourable mention, and they may be can- gratulated on the happy result that has attended their prompt intervention, without which the probability is that, m-consequence of the blunder of the police, the real murderar would have escaped, and the innocent have suffered instead-certainly a sad altfeEtesfcive had it come to paaa. ^ree firidges;for thfe People.-In the vatiOti& bills to be laid before ParHamerit for na?^ linW aiid metropolitan extensions of railways are sevefal for lines designed to -cross tha Thames by'new bridgas. Now, as it ia estiEaaited that these' sohe'teer, 'if -carried' out,- would cause the-destruction the nufeberoz houses in and-nsarLondoii, wouldit be tdo isiuch to ask on behalf of the labouring cla-ssda 'thits ejected, many of who/s are driven to a distance for heuae-room, that each of the new-railway bridges" shall have a free footway like that at Charing-croSa attached to it, so- that working men in the vicinity rlle-y not-have to go out ef .the-way to cross the river daily ? It ia fo bs 'hoped'that the present Parliament will not; liketoony of its predecessors, suffer the righta-of the puMic to be saori'S'ced to the interest-of the corrrpanieff?—'ExarnhhsT. 11 HopaftLIs." Two juveniles, named Albert Barlow; aged ten, and George Barlow, aged eight, wert? charged, before the sitting magistrates, at the Birmingham' Petty Sessions, with stealing" a brooch, valae Is: 6d., the property of Mr. Charles Henry Rosq, of High-atrest. About ten o'clock on Wednesday mothiflg the prisoners went into the prosecutor's shop, -and inqiiiro'd the price of a pair of braces. The prosecutor's wife told tham, and whilst doing so she saw the eldest prisoner put his hand in" his pocket. Feeling suspicious that they had taken something, she searched the shop after they were gone-arid missed t broach. She immediately followed* the prisoners, and caught them. She charged them with stealing the brooch, when the elder prisoner'said he- 1-iad not got it. She'then asked them what'thoy had done with it, when the prisoner Albert Barlow1 said he had thrown it into a garden, aridbêgged for-' giveiiesa. The wife of prosecutor then sent for a pojicemair, and prisoners were given into custody. The elder prisoner had bsto previously cohvicted for feltray. The mother of this priabn'era appeared, and | mformed the-1 magistrates that she could do nothing with her son Albert, but her son George had never committed a felony before. She supposed that he had been led to do-it by the elder prisoner.—The bench sentenced* the prisoner Albert BELtlow, to prison for ten oays" and ordered him tG' receive 12 stripes with ahirch rod. The other prisoner WItS -sent to, prison for one' day. Manslaughter in. the Street.—AninqBesfwaa" bold on Saturday a-lrthe London Hospital, an the body of Mary Ann Haynes, aged- fifty-three, a shosbinder, whbae death was a aid to have be^n caii^d-by violence. Oa-the evening of Wednesday fortnight the deceased, a widow, was returning home through Briek-laiie, Whitechapel, aftsr visiting a friend, after nine or, ten o'clock. Two persons were quarrelling in the street, and she Wfint between feaenr and received a wburid in tha; back, which proved to -be very deep. Arrived horile,- aire friends that she did not kaoW the persons Who had stabbed her, or what instrument had been used. She was removed to the hospital, where she died_on the 23rd u.t. Deceased was given to habits_ of intemperance. The post-mortem examina- tion showed that-the wound penetrated the dorsal vertebrae. Hah- the spinal column was completely cut throagh., and death, was consequently inevitable The coroner inquired whether anything was known of the parties: who stabbed the deceased P Inspector Os- borne said the policehad'not been told any thing about the outrage until after the woman's daath, conae- quoatly great di&walties^Wsre thrown in. the-way, but- they were maki^g-inquifies-everywhere in the neigh- bourhood. Veidiet)" Manslaughter against some- person or persons unknown." Ciiriofeiitieas of;5 Slate StaSMl^S.— The Exd0s6 de la Situation, de' I'Empire contains some curion3-cyphers. The French efnpiro has the advantage-erf possessing no less than 446,000 municipal councillors, which number actually exceeds that of the army, and 37,160'raayors. There are 1,6§7 news- papers, ,vh;cli-aYe thus elas?ififed In Paris, there are 60- soi^d-istttii"political-" newspapers; the pro'viriceS,' 267. In Pairis 703 non-political-jotirflals appear daily and weekly; and 604" in different county towns. The "Expose" congratulates the country on the diminu- tion of crime in Paris. The returns of the oolportage prove that of 1,542 works published during the past year but 82, were stspped at the Censeur, The ini- portation of foreign works has notably increased. In 1864 210,00a, kilogrammes weight were brought into France, whereas last year 250,000 kilos, entered the country. Iris Certainly not very flattering to foreign Mterature thus to its progress by the same weight by which one's grocer weighs out tea and coffee. Fiench books are counted, while" foreign works are Weighed. What has become of French politeness ?