The Brecon Reporter and South Wales General Advertiser

AN OUTRAGEOUS RAILWAY TRA- VELLER. Thomas Smith, of Hull, tailor, was charged, before the magistrates at Driffield Petty Sessions, with being riotous in a railway carriage. On the 1st inst. there was an excursion from Hull to the gala at Malton, and the defendant was a passenger. His conduct, quarrel- ling and fighting with the other passengers, was so dis- graceful, that on the train arriving at Hutton Crans- wick, a complaint was made to the station-master, who proceeded to the carriage in which the prisoner was, and where a frightful scene presented itself. The prisoner was bleeding from the face, and a female and male passenger who sat opposite were covered with blood. It was found that the prisoner had conducted himself more like a madman than a sane person. He was removedfrom the carriage; but the train had scarcely got into motion before it was found necessary to signal for it to be stopped in consequence of the guard hearing a great disturbance in the carriage into which the prisoner had been removed. He had again to be taken from the train by force. He kicked the station-master furiously, knocked his hat off, tore his waistcoat open, pulled his watch out, and threatened to smash him, and knocked him into a, ditch up to the knees in water. With assistance he was secured and placed in the station. Here he threatened to do for the porter, and was feeling in his pecket for a knife to carry his threat into execution when he was given into the custody of a policeman, who conveyed him to the look-up at Driffield. On the following morning, when his breakfast was taken to him by a woman, be threw the hot coffee at her, scalding her arm, and conducted himself in an outrageous manner. The prisoner said he had no defence to make. He was fined 40s., and ordered to pay expenses, 15s.; end in default was sent to the House of Correction for 14 days.

AN AFFILIATION CASE AGAINST A OLE llG YMilN. At the Wingham Petty Sessions, last week, the Rev. Horace Gilder, vicar of St. Peters, Sandwich, was summoned to show cause why he should not support the illegitimate child of Emily Taylor, who was re- cently in his employ as general servant.—The com- plainant said: I have an illegitimate child, who was born at Eastry union-house. The defendant is its father. I entered the defendant's service one Whit suntide, and left in 1865, having been in his employ four years. On entering his service his household consisted of himself, his wife, two children, and a servant. About two months after that time Mrs. Gilder left home for six weeks, during the whole of which time I and the defendant were alone in the house. About a fortnight after that time the intimacies which resulted in the birth of mv child commenced. On that occasion I was upstairs at work, when he called me down to the dining-room and stripped me naked. The intimacy was frequently renewed in the dining and other rooms until I left his service in February, 1865, his wife having been dead only a few months. After t.hat I went to several situations, and, as I went to Sandwich occa- sionally, the intimacy was renewed at his request till close upon Michaelmas. He invited me to his house professedly with the view of seeing his children, but I only saw "them once.—The defendant said: I live at Sandwich. The complainant was in my service up. wards of three years. I never had any intimacy with her nor invited her to my house. The complainant's statement of what took place in the dining room is un- true. I remember seeing her with a girl named B urnap about Michaelmas, and I spoke to her as I speak to every one I know. I did not ask her to come to my house; but she inquired whether she might call to see the children, and I said she might. Mary Ann Bumap deposed I remember being in Sandwich one events g at about Michaelmas time, and seeing Emily Taylor there as she was coming from the station. We saw the defendant standing at the corner of Mrs. Mag- nally's shop, talking to Alfred Rigden, and he spoke to her, saying, Well, aren't you coming in P and she replied No." He said, You had better come in and see the children;" when she said, No, sir, it is too late." Cross-examined: I am nineteen years of age, and have an illegitimate child. The depositions as taken at Sandwich having been read, counsel addressed the bench on behalf of their respective clients; and their worships made an order on the defendant for the payment of 2s. 6d. per week since the date of the application, and mulcted him in the costs, amounting to 23s.

ALARMING EXPLOSION IN FAR- RIN<i:DON-STREliiT. Between eleven and twelve o'clock on Monday morning an explosion of an alarming character took place on the works in connection with the Holborn Valley Improvement, the force of which shook the houses, and terrified the inhabitants in the immediate vicinity. The scene of the occurrence is at the back of the houses at the north end of Farringdon- street, and stretching from Skinner-street to Turnagain-lane. It appears that on the works nearest Skinner street a vault, which had been closed for some time, and which was formerly occupied by Mr. Hudson, wine merchant of Garliok-hill, was discovered by the workmen. Up to this time it remained unexplored, but at the time mentioned above, two of the contractors' work- men-one a blacksmith and the other a storekeeper— entered it, for what purpose is as yet unexplained. It is supposed that they must have taken a light with them or struck a luoifer while inside. Be this as it may, their absence had not been long observed before a loud report was heard proceeding from the vault, and shortly afterwards the two poør fellows made their way out at the Skinner-street end, very much scorched about the face and arms. Both were at once taken to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where they had their wounds dressed, and they were afterwards con- veyed to their homes. The most serious part of the calamity was witnessed in Tarnagain -lane which ter- minates the vault, the brick and wood work of which were blown out with considerable force. A man named John Griffiths was passing near this place at the time, and the explosion had the effect of knocking him some distance and felling him to the ground, thereby caus- ing concussion of the hit.),- and ribs. Mr. George Reynolds, reporter of the City Press, who was also passing up Turnagain-lane at the moment was likewise forced down with great violence, aad sustained severe scalp wounds and other injuries, N > time was lost in their removal to the hospital, where they now remain in great suffering. The neighbours assert that a female was struck by a large piaoe of timber while passing, but nothing defiaite as to what became of her could be ascertained. M_

SINGULAR ACTION FOR THE BITE OF A DOG. At the reoent Guildford Assizes the case of Smith v, the Great Eastern Railway Company was tried. This was an action to recover compensation in damages from the defendants, for having, as was alleged, by the negligence of their servants, permitted a ferocious dog to be at one of their stations. The defendants pleaded that there had been no negligence, and that they were not liable. On the evening of Whit-Monday, about eleven o'clock, the plaintiff, who is an elderly woman, was at the Lea-bridge station, and she was about to get into one of the carriages when a large black dog that had been observed running about the place suddenly attacked her, and first seized her gown und tore it, and then bit her leg somewhat severely. The case on the part of the plaintiff was that this dog had previously been seen upon the platform in an excited state, and that it had attempted to bILe a young lady, and two witnesses were called who swore that they informed the station-master or some person in authority at the station, of the way in which the dog had acted, and requested that it might be removed, in order that no further mischief should take place. This caution, it was represented, was disregarded, and the consequence was taat the plaintiff was bitten. Sergeant Ballantine, on behalf of the defendents, submitted that the dog in question was merely a stray dog, which neither the company nor any of their ser- vantii had anything to do with, and it had been several limes driven off the platform. With regard to the statement that the station-master or the porters a the station had had their attention directed to the fact that the dog had bitten another lady, ha waa isstraoted to deny in the most positive manner that anything of the sort occurred, and although the company, of course, regretted the mischief that! had been sustained by the j plaintiff, it would be very unfair to m*,ke them res- ponsibie for an act that they were not in any way concerned in. i Mr. Jc!stioe Wiliee, in summing up, said if tha jury should return a verdict for the plaintiff, he should oar- taiuly have the points of law tha.t had been raised on beha,!f of thedefendantefa.rther considered. He then ex- plained that the law undoubtedly was. in the case where the owner of a dog that had bitten any one was known, that that owner was not responsible, unless it could be shown that he was aware that the dog was a savage animal, and in the habit of biting mankind. In the present case it appeared to be admitted that the dog in question was a stray dog, and it appeared to him that the defendants would not be liable, unless it was established to the satisfaction of the jury that j their servants were aware that the dog was a ravage animal, and that it had bitten other persons at the station. They would then only be responsible upon the supposition that their servants were guilty of negligence in allowing an animal of such a descrip- tion to be upon the platform of the station, where the public-, ),1 an undoubted right to go, and where they also h ..d the right to be protected from mischief. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff.— D X 5 0. Li on was stayed until the legal questions shall have been disposed of.

=: LOVE AND VENGEANCE. Ann Coney, a buxom young woman, apparently about 18 years of age, and of decent appearance, was charged before the magistrate at Worship-street, with attempting to commit suicide by swallowing a quantity of copperas, at her home in Hart-s reet, Batfenal-grean. The evidence was that at half-past 12 o'clock on the night of the 28th ult. a loud shriek was heard to pro- ceed from an upper reom of the house in question, and that the prisoner was found lying on a bed there, manifestly in great: pain and excitement. A little girl who was present pointed to an empty cup, and said that" Ann had drank something from it." Banks, 100 H, was called in, and it baiug evident that the prisoner had swallowed some corrosive liquid, he sent for Dr. Phillips, the divisional surgeon. Meanwhile a packet of copperas was found in the room. The medical gentleman arrived, and applied the stomach-pump, which ejected appa- rently to her great satisfaction and relief, a quantity of fluid strongly impregnated with copperas, and after five minutes' insensibility she admitted having, mixed and swallowed ifc. Subsequently she became very ill, but the quantity taken was not sufficient to occasion death. The constable was given to understand that she had had a quarrel with her "young man." The magistrate asked her if it was so, and if so, whether that hadindueed her to attempt self-destruction. Prisoner looked round the court, and only replied, Oh, he is not hare." When given to understand that she must be re- manded for the purpose of hearing good words from the chaplain of the House of Detention, she became again excited, and, while leaving the court for the cell, called to some girl in the body of the court, "Sally, tell him I'll have vengeance for what he has done to me. I'll have his life.

MR. GLADSTONE AND LORD DUN- KELLIN'S AMENDMENT. At a meeting of the East Kent Liberal Registration, held on Saturday at Canterbury, for the purpose of considering the conduct of Sir E. Dering in voting against the late Government upon the rating question of the Reform Bill, the following letters, which had been sent to Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen, were read:— 11, Carlton-house-terrace, S.W., July 30. My dear Huges»en,~I have received your letter, inclosing a copy of one addressed by Sir Edward Dering on the 16th of Jaly to Lieutenant-General Williams; and, as you have asked my opinion on the case, I shall consider, your request as my warrant for commenting on a matter which is indeed of great public interest, but in which I have no title whatever to interfere. "I cannot say that Sir Edward Dering's reasons for voting with Lord Dunkellin have, in my view, any weight. He says it was not proposed by Lord Dlln- kellin, or by any one else, to substitute a L7 rating for en a X7 rental. But I apprehend this very thing was proposed by Mr. Cave, the gentleman selected to seoond the motion. The mover, I think, stated his preference for a,26 rating, which would have excluded a large number whom he had proposed to enfranchise. Sir E. Dering will recollect that the speakers for the amendment were gentlemen opposed either to the bill or to the franchise clauses. He says the Government should have proposed a rating franchise of an amount not higher than the X7 rental franchise. Now, as X6 rating would have been materially higher, he must apparently mean that we ought to have proposed a £5 rating franchise. But this, the next lowest figure, would have given an enfranchisement materially larger than that of the bill. I wonder Sir E. Dering does not see that if we had done this we should for the first time have given colour, and even more than colour, to the charge which has from the beginning been urged against us with such persistency and such gross and palpable injustice,—the charge of having disregarded the fears a.nd scruples of the moderate, I and of having leant to the doctrines of extreme poli- ticians. What he recommends as the obvious and easy remedy for the dilemma was in our view wholly inadmissible. "But it is one question whether the vote, or the reasons given for it, are good, and it is another whether I, if I were an elector of East Kent, should withhold my support from. Sir Edward Dering on acoount of it. It ought, I think, now to he the great object of all who are interested either in the Liberal party, or in the subject of Parliamentary Reform, to bring about such an union of sentiment in the party as may obviate all risk of the repetition of the late unhappy events, and may secure a speedy and satisfactory settlement of the question. I give entire credence to any declaration proceeding from Sir E. Dering; and, examining his letter, with the view I have de- scribed, I find its meaning unequivocal, especially where he says that by proposing an equivalent enfranchisement in an alterad form we should, I if beaten on that vital point,' have 1 put ourselves in the right and our opponents in the wrong.' This proves, without entering into minute criticism, that Sir E. Dering was friendly to the substance of our measure. On that ground, without in the least degree qualifying my opinion as to the particular vote, I not only, if I were one of your brother electors, should Dot vote against Sir E. Dering, but I should continue to afford him exactly the same support as if that vote had not been given. I read his letter and accept his declara- tions, in the spirit of confidence, and not in the spirit of suspicion. We, the supporters of the bill, who have had occasion to feel how the spirit of suspicion poisons the atmosphere of politics, and renders hopeless what other wise, though difficult, was practicable enough, should, I think, set an example of discarding it and of interpreting and treating others as we wish to be treated and interpreted ourselves.—I remain, mv dear Hugessen, simerely yours, W. E. GLADSTONE. E. Knatchbull-Hugessen, Esq,, M.P." Pembroke-lodge, Richmond-park, S.W., August 2, 1866 My dear Rngessen,- I am quite prepared to endorse Gladstone's letter to you. I have returned it to him with that opinion. Pray do all you can to soften the stout Liberals of your county, and tell them that the leaders of the party, with Gladstone and me at their head, think they ought to support Dering. If he agrees to the X5 rating franchise, as I under- stand him to do, be ought to be taken baok into the fold.—Yours very truly, RUSSELL." The reading of these letters evoked grea,t applause. Sir E. Dering then entered into a minute explana- tion of his motives for supporting Lord Dnnkellin's amendment, and disclaimed all intention in so doing of seeking to retard the passing oi the bill. He had simply supported the amendment because he con- sidered a rating qualification to be a more convenient arrangement than one of rental, and he had not ex- pected that upon a mere question of detail the Go- vernment would have resigned their offices. A prolonged discussion ensued, and a motion of censure upon Sir E. Dering was proposed, but was net pressed, it being finally agreed, upon the motion of Sir W. James, to let the matter stand over without pronouncing any opinion upon the subject.

THE LATE DOWAGER DUCHESS OF NORTHUMBERLAND. The funeral of the Dowager Duchess of Northum- berland took place on Friday morning at Westminster Abbey. The remains were placed in the Percy vault, in the Chapel of St. Nicholas. The funeral procession, consisting of a hearse and four, followed by a mourn- ing-coach, containing the Very Rev. Dr. Parish, Mr. Horatio Gxosvenor Day, Mr. Thomas Williams, and Mr. Surman, left Lebanon-house, Twickenham, at a quarter past nine o'clock. The private carriages of the following relatives and friends fell in on the way to Westminster Abbey late Duchess Dowager, Eteanor Duchess of Northumberland, and the Duke of Northumberland, the Earl Percy, the Earl of Powis, the Earl Amherst, Lord Willoughby d'Ereaby, Baroness Windsor, the Misses Walpole, &c. On the arrival of the proeession at the Abbey, shortly after twelve o'clock, the body was received by the Rev. Canon Jennings and the Rev. Canon Hawkins. The following mourners, who had assembled in the Jerusalem Chamber, joined in the processionThe Earl of Powis, the Earl Percy, the Earl Amherst, Lord Josceline Percy, Lord Chas. Percy, Lord H. Percy, Colonel Hon. Percy Herbert, Hon. and Rev. George Herbert, HOB. Robert Herbert, Captain Hon. George Windsor Clive, Captain Hon. Wm. H. Herbert, Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, Bar! Sir Hugh Williams, the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, the Rev. Mr. Gran- ville, Mr. W. Williams, Mr. Robert Millias, Mr. R. H. Williams, Mr. Owen Williams, Mr. Edward Hussey, Mr. F. Calvert, Mr. G. Thompson, and Mr. Alfred Bell. The service was read by the Rev. Canon Jennings, assisted by the Rev. Canon Hawkins. At the conclusion the remains of the late duchess were buried beside those of her husband Hugh, third duke.

MURDER WfLL OUT. Sometime towards the end of 1862 a most diabolical murder was perpetrated in Richmond-row, Liverpool, the victim of the foul deed being a Mrs. Reed, the wife of a tip-plate worker. Immediately after the murder was discovered, the husband of the murdered woman disappeared, and, notwithstanding all the endeavours of the police to trace him, he managed to keep out of the way until within the last few weeks, when he fell into the hands of the United States authorities. Reed, it appears, who was well known to the Liverpool police, carried on a comfortable business in Richmond- row but, in consequence of some irregularities on his part, there were often family quarrels, in which Reed once or twice threatened to do for his wife. It was on a Saturday night, during the period mentioned above, that Reed came home apparently dissatisfied about something, and not finding Mrs. Reed at heme, he ascertained that she was at a neighbour's house, and sent for her. She returned home in about a quarter of an hour, and from that time (about half-past eleven at night) until she was found in a dying state nothing was heard or seen of her or husband. When found by some neighbours, she had a deep and fatal wound in her left side, and all the evidence collected showed clearly that her husband was the murderer. However, after being free for upwards of throe years, he has been secured, and Detective Marsden, of the Liverpool police force, has just left Liverpool for New York in the steamer Etna, the same vessel that brought Mulier to Liver- pool from America, for the purpose of bringing Reed back to the scene of his wife's murder.

GARIBALDI AND HIS VOLUNTEERS. A correspondent of the Observer, writing from Con- dino Pieve di Buono on the 31st of July, saya — Only those who have stood together by the; ick bad of a beloved one, knowing each that he must die, yet striving by eye and voice to inspire others with hope, can enter into the feelings of the veteran soldiers of Italian liberty gathered here on the confines of the Tyrol, watching the death throes of Italian honour and glory. When the news of the suspension of I hostilities first reached head-quarters on the morning of the 21th, just as Garibaldi was preparing to attack Fort Lardaro, and combine an entrance into Trento with Medici, all knew and felr. that the last shot had been fired, the last protest made by Italians that the rest would be done for them without their consent, if needs be against their will; nevertheless, a feverish activity reigned throughout the army. Each com- mander of a corps olamoured for Enfield rifles-the head £ the little fleet for a Monitor from England— the head of the Sanitary Corps to establish temporary hospitals along the line where wounded Garibaldians will never lie. No one would acknowledge to his dearest friend that it is all over; that France and dearest friend that it is all over; that France and Prussia will settle Italian destinies, and that nothing I is left but to repent in sackcloth and ashes the wilful blindness of the last six years of trusting the fate of a young nation, regenerated in the blood of its martyrs, to men whose only aim was to consign Italy gagged and bound into the hands of the French Emperor. Since I wrote you last the day of the surrender of Fort Ampolla, the soil of the Tyrol—which is denied to Italy-has been drenched with the blood of 500 victims, 65 of whom are buried in the valley of Tarno, the rest distributed in the hospitals from Strada to Brescia. As soon as Fort Ampolla. surrendered, the order was issued for a portion of the troops to march towards Condino, the remainder towards Tearno, Bisecca, and Pieve. In the first line on the mountains right and left the road that threads the valley, was ranged the 5th Regiment, commanded by Chiassi, and in second line at Tirano di Sopra, the regiment com- manded by Menotti Garibaldi. It was the first time during this campaign that Giovanni Chiassi, the veteran of five campaigns, imprisoned by Austria, exiled by Piedmont in 1857, decorated with the cross of military valour, had eucceeded in leading his regiment to the front. At nine p.m. on the even- ing of the 20th I rode with him through the ranks, and as we parted on the threshhold of his lodging he said, Don't faah yourself for a roof to-morrow, this house will be empty-either the Austrians will attack us, or we shill go a head until we unearth them." At dawn on the morning of the 21st the enemy, issuing from Lardaro and Molina, attacked the two front battalions, and the shots fired from above from the fatal stutzen decimated the ranks. Chiassi, at the head of the foremost, led them again and again to the charge, until, with Major Pessiva, Lieutenant Fabbri, another aide-de-camp, fell shot through the heart, and for an hour remained a dying prisoner in the hands of the Austrians. At this junc- ture six mountain pieces, placed by Garibaldi on an elevation, opened fire. Garibaldi himself, in an open carriage, encouraged the soldiers by his presence and voice. His staff, dismounting, led on the different companies. Menotti's regiment came up, and at noon the general telegraphed victory all along the line-a victory dearly purchased, as all would say who had spent a week in the hospitals, feeling that all those suffering heroes have fought and bled in vain. In the I afternoon the body of poor Chiassi was recovered. We placed him in a rough deal box, and accompanied by his secretary and riderless horse, the mournful train proceeded to Brescia, where the poor mother awaited the remains of her only son, who had hidden from her to the last the fact that he waa once more about to peril his ife for Italy. On the following day the general ordered his troops back to Storo, intending to effect an entry into Trento in conjunction with Medici, but the armistice sus- pended this and all other plans. The evacuation of Terano rendered its re-occupation by the enemy pro- bable, hence the necessity for the immediate removal of the wounded. For eight and forty hours the ambu- lance surgeons toiled, amputating here, transporting there, Bertani overlooking all; and when all seemed done, riding to the extreme point of the combat to see whether one unfortunate had been forgotten. With the exception of 14, impossible to move, all were transported to Storo, thence to Anfo, Cabbaro, and Vestone. For the first day or so the hospitals were sad to see, men on hay and straw, but all their wounds dressed. Now they are resting between clean sheets, and all, without exception, say, We are content." Here in private oiroles it is rumoured that G. resigns. I hope not, I trust not. Forty thousand volunteers with ordered arms, and demonstrations in each Italian city, might yet succeed in showing that our dead have city, not died in vain.