The Brecon Reporter and South Wales General Advertiser

——-—— EPITOME OF HEWS. -0 The Pasha er E-gypt.— Lord Clarence Paget, oommander-in chief of the Mediterranean, is about to proceed to Egypt to invest the Pasha with the Order of the Bath. The ceremony is to be oiie of extraordi- nary splendour. Suicide in the City.—A young man of the name of Pavne, employed in a merchant's office in Adams- Court, O.d Broad-street, committed suicide on Monday morning, by shooting himself through the heart, owing, it is understood, to heavy losses on the Stock Exchange. Suicide through "Want of Employment.-— An inquest was he'd on Saturday at the Sebright Arms, Hackney-road, on William Pebair, aged 47, who drowned himself in a water-bu tt. The deceased Was a cooper by trade, and not being able Work, he fell into a desponding state of fna destroyed himself. Yerdict—Suicide while in an UI1- sound state of mind. The Zioss of the Indus.-Mr. tho eu- pendiary magistrate at Liverpool, who ?^dTf'?,m<lU!ry into the the loss of the ship Indus on the ^h«oast, has reported to the Board of Trade. Mr Raffles concludes I regret to say m which the losa of the ship is wholly attributable to a neglect of the lead. The court felt bound, under V these circumstances, to suspend the certificate of Mr. Daniel Campbell for twelve calendar months." Some very remarkable evidence was given on Tnpsdav at the inquest on the bodies of the miners killed by explosion at the Talk-o'-ih'-Hill Colliery, ^orth Staffordshire.^ There can be no doubt that the men were in the habit of smoking in the pit, and it is equally certain that they carried duplicate keys, by XQeana of which they could open the safety lamps. Coming of Age of the Earl of blarch.-Great festivities have taken place in the counties of Banff, Aberdeen, and Moray, to celebrate the coming of age of the Earl of March, eldest son of the Duke of Rich- mond. They were marked with unusual cordiality and spontaniety, on account of the liberal policy t adopted by the late duke towards his tenantry, which r haa_ been heartily persevered in by the present duke. It is said that on the Richmond estates a farm is never to be found in the market. The Iron and Coal Trade.—Tha ironmasters, who are also colliery proprietors, in what is known as the Wolverhampton or thin-coal district, as also the i\ ooal-masterB in the same district who are also UBCOE- I' sooted with the iron trade, met at tha Swan Hotel on. t Wednesday evening, and resolved to reduce the prioa °f the colliers' and stone-getters' wages in that district to the extent of 3d. a day—namely, from 3s. to 2s. 9 J. The customary fortnight's notice was to be given on Saturday night. The trade in iron is no I better now than it has been for soaae time past; I indeed, there is even less doing. I indeed, there is even less doing. 1', A Supposed Murder Disproved. Some ( time ago a farmer, named West, disappeared from the f neighbourhood of Preateign as he was returning home one night with a considerable sum of money in his possession. It was thought that he had been mur- dered and robbed, but every effort to discover the uody or trace the supposed murder failed. Threo Weeks afterwards—a day or two ago—the body of de- ceased was found in the River Lug, all the circnm- stances indicating that he had fallen into the river accidentally. The coroner's jury accordingly returned a verdict of accidental death, and the suspicion of a foul crime has been removed from the neighbourhood. Abolition of the Bushel Measure. The Chicago Board of Trade have voted an approval of tha "cental" as the standard of measurement for grain, seeds. &c., instead of the bushel," as at present, the. new system to take effect on the 1st of January inst. -provided the leading Boards of Trade in the country agree to adopt it. Action has also been taken by the Boards of Trade of Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, and Detroit, wih the view of substituting the cental for the present cumbrous and unequal system of measur- ing by the bushel. Two Young Ladies Drowned.—On Monday a sad accident happened at Leamington, by which two young ladies, Miss Emma and Miss Emily Place, were drowned. They were skating on the river Learn, about four o'clock in the afternoon, -with several friends, when the ice suddenly broke, and the whole party fell into the water. The son and daughter of the Rev. J. H. Smith struggled in safety to the shore with great difficulty, and one young lady was rescued by means of a rope. The deceased were buoyed up for some time by their clothing, and by holding on to the rope; but finally sunk. Their bodies were not; recovered for an hour after the accident, and all efforts to restore animation proved ineffectual. Education in Hanover.—The Hanover Courier has published a few specimens of answers which have been given at the recent examinations for admission to the class of one-year volunteers referring to mathe- matics, geography, history, agriculture, and music. A. declared Jalius Caesar to have been a Grecian king. B. believed Wallenstein to have been a Swedish genera]; and according to C. Mary Stuart was an Bngliuh prin- cess. D. thought that 1 he source of the Riline was in Bohemia; E. that the Elbe flowed into the Baltic; while F. could not remember any river that flowed into the Baltic; and G. and H. were not agreed as to the whereabouts of Odessa, which the former believed to be in the north cf Russia, and the lattsr in Spain. K. ascribed the alteration of day and night to the re- volution of the earth round the moon. A Crown for the Queen of Belgium.—The Queen of the Belgians has not hitherto possessed a crown; and her Majesty's jeweller was lately com- missioned to make one. It is an incredibly elaborate work of art, composed of 40 pearls, 20 being pear- shaped and of enormous size, 40 largo brilliants, and nearly 5,000 small ones, the whole set in gold, and Wrought in openwork. This crown resembles a co;onal of flame, simple in form, but of unmatched elegance. It weighs less than half-a-pound. Extraordinary Discovery of Ice in a Man's Braln.-At an inquest held before Mr. Langham, London City Coroner, upon the body of a man who had died suddenly, and whose body was removed to the dead-house of St. Margaret's parish, Mr. Hunt, the medical gentleman in the case, stated that in making his post- mortem examination of the body, he was sur- prised to find two pieces of ice inside tha skull, upon the substance of the brain. Both the learned Deputy- Coroner and Dr. Hunt stated that they had never before heard or read of such a remarkable circumstance. The Great Pedestrian of the Age.—The Alia Cahfornan BYS:- We have reoaived a call from C, F. Schaefer, the famous German traveller, who is makmg a tour of the world, so far as practicable, on foot, and 18 now in this cHy en route for Mexico, Central America, South America, as far down as Chile, and ultimately China, Japan, and the countries of the East generally. He has already travelled on foot over a large part of Europe, Africa, and Eastern Asia, and during the 19 months he has been in America has crossed the Contment on foot, and visited 23 Spates and territories. Novel Pedestrian Fe,at.-On Monday morning a foot race of a novel character came off for a stake of Y, 110. The match was one m which a young medical student, named Hemmings. backed himself to run four times round the church railings of St. Clement Danes Church, in the Strand, wnile the clock struck the hour of twelve and chimed the usual "Lass of Gowrie." The start was made at the first stroke of the clock bell, and a smart race was kept up. Each lap round is 170 yards, and the pedestrian having accomplished four circuits when the c»ook hammer had 20 repeats to make, he walked in a winner. The clock occupied three minutes in striking the hour and chiming the subsequent tune. A Captain in Trouble.—On Saturday a person calling himself Captain Stewart was charged before the Andover magistrates with stealing some Bank ot England notes from a farmer named Henly. The captain has for some time been living afe Hurstbourre Tarrant with his wife and family, ana had mixed with the gentlemen of the Tedworth Hunt. On the 14th of December ha and Mr. Henly drove together to Hurstbourne from Andover, and the latter on arriving home missed hia pocket-book, containing seven X5 Bank of England notes. Never suspecting the captain, he advertised his loss, but subsequently some of the notes were paid into the Bank and traced to Captain Stewart. The latter now alleges that Mrs. Henly lent him the notes. He was remanded, bail being refused. A Clever Girl.—A large manufacturing company in Chicago employs a young lady only thirteen yeWcg of age as paymaster. She has paid out since lasfM'Ay a quarter of a million of dollars, keeping thee* sheets, pay-roll, and a private account-book #rc3#fti<| for each of the three or four hundred She reoeives the money w.eekly from the Mm amount of from four to five thousand dollars, carries the transaction of paying all the men through, and settles and makes her balances with the cashier. She knows every man in the establishment, the force being divided into eleven departments, each having its responsible foreman. She commands a salary of 625 dollars per annum, takes two music lessons each week, and attends an evening course at a commercial college, where she has a scholarship. Nor does this produce any overstrain of her intellect. She is in the most robust and vigorous health, never has a day's sickness, and stands ten hours each day at her desk. A Mother-in-law.—Elizabeth Ann Bannister, 197, King's-cross-road, was charged, at the Clerken- well Police-court, on Saturday, with assaulting and beating her son-in-law, Frederick Cheek. The evi- dence went to show that the defendant was in the constant habit of paying her son-in-law a visit, and abusing and insulting him. On the night of the 1st inst. she broke open his bedroom door and said she would murder him. She had a knife in her hand, and threatened to rip him up. The complainant jumped out of bed, and with great difficulty took the knife from her, and on doing so she assaulted him, and bit his legs and thighs in several places. Fined 20s. and costs, or 14 days' imprisonment. She was looked up in default. ¡ Evicted Tenants' Aid Association. — A numerous and influential deputation from the Evicted Tenants' Aid Association waited upon the Earl of Derby, a few days ago, for the purpose of bringing under the notice of the Government the evils and miseries entailed upon the poor of the metropolis by overcrowding1 in their dwellings. The deputation urged that Parliament should be asked to pass measures compelling railway companies to provide dwellings for the poor evicted by their works; and, further, that Mr. Torrens's bill of last session, for the rebuilding of dilapidated houses, and for otherwise providing houses for the poor, should be passed. The Earl of Derby declared his sympathy with the objects of the association, and asked the assistance of the members of Parliament present in providing a remedy for the existing state of things. Recovery from HydropLobia.-t. ringular case of hydrophobia has occurred near Towaesfcer. A man named Harris was attacked a few days ago with the usual terrible symptoms, and a medical man was sent for, who treated the man, through many hours of frightful suffering, with such skill and success that he revived sufficiently to be conveyed to hia home, and there is every probability of the case being added to the few authenticated recoveries from this raesfe dreadfal malady. A fine foxhound, belonging to the Duke of Grafton, kept by Harris's master, was taken ill a month ago, and died without being considered mad. Harris was bitten by the animal while ad- ministering some medicine, but never mentioned the circumstance till after his recovery. A Boy Strangled by Machinery.—A bay, named Beaamount Taylor, nine years of age, residing with his parents, at High-street, Huddersfieid, waa strangled on Monday by some machinery at Da vvhurst's printworks, Aspley. The boy had gone to a winding- frame at the opposite end of the room to where he should have been working, and commenced play lag with a winding-on frame. His scarf became entangled with the shaft that turns the roller, and he was drawn up to it and strangled before another boy who witnessed the occurrence could obtain assistance. Last week- the lad fell into the river Colne, near the works, but was reseaed by one of the men. Unnatural Daughters.—The Court of Assizes of the Seine-Inferieura has just tried two sisters named Adelaide and Maria Deshayea, the former 31 and the latter 17, keeping a shop at Gournay, for having adopted a course of ill-treatment towards their aged mother, which had at length driven her to attempt suicide. The old woman had, ia fact, after being sub- jected to a final scene of violence, left the house with the intention of drowning herself, but her strength failed her before she could reach the river, and her corpse was found covered with blood from the wounds icflicted by her unnatural daughters. The jury found them both guilty, admitting extenuating circumstances in the case of the younger, who was sentenced by the court to five years' imprisonment, and the elder to ten. Sale of ETegroes in Maryland,—BALTIMORE, DEC. 24.-Four negroes, convicted of larceny, a,nd ordered to be sold by Judge Magruder, were sold by auction at Annapolis oa Saturday, About 20 or 30 farmers were present at the sale. The first one sold was John Johnson, who bid for himself, the auc- tioneer taking his bid. He was finally knocked down to hinfeslf and became his own appraiser for 37 dole. Another man brought 35 dots., and two girls brought respectively 22 dole. and 30 dols. each. There was aa officer of tha Freadaien's Bureau at the salo, and it was thought that tbe bidding would have heea«nore spirited but for the fact that the impression seemed to prevail that the offices in question was about to interfere with the right of the purchasers, and release the negross from their custody. Attempt to Pass a Counterfeit Bank joote -A chiffonnier named Muller, haa just been tried at the Tribunal of Correctional Polios for attempting to pass at the Ministry of Finance, in the purchase of a Treasury Bond, as a. thousand-franc note, a dyer's handbill, printed in imitation of a bank-note, and boat- ing the words Milie France." The man declared that he had received it in exchange for coin from a Prussian who had now returned to his own country, adding that he also possessed a thousand francs in the savings bank and 164 metres of land at Aobervilliers, which he bad purchased at six francs a metre. The man's wife, ho wever, admitted that the. paper had been found in a heap of rags, and the court, considering that Mailer had been awlre that the note was simply a counterfeit, but had hoped the Treasury olerka might overlook it in the hurry of business, condemned him to six months' imprisonment. Abandoned aiiri.es.-Daring the past year Corn- wall Buffered severely by the suspension and entire abandonment of a large number of mines. In the extreme western district alone the following were among the misforLunea which occurred:- Wheal Hearl" stopped, after an outlay of JS8.060; St. Just United, worked under the Limited Liability Act, was suspended after an outlay of about £ 25,000; Wheal Reeth, on which above X30,000 was expended, was entirely abandoned, as was also Treloweth, after an cutla-y of nearly £ 10,000. St. Just Consols, the Tolvadden Mines, Charlotte Uaited, Trevelyon, Treharvah, all yielded to the depressed times and the remark-ably low prices of mineiala. Carnyorth Mine was suspended for a long time, and then parchaeed by the Botallack adventurers, and merged into their very extensive enterprise. New Police Arrangements.—An order has just been issued to the police by Sir Richard Mayne, Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, by order of the Secretary of State, that all charges taken at the Hunter-street police-station, or E division, and which would in the ordinary course be heard at the Clerkenwell Court, should be taken to Bow-street for decision. The order also stated that when the prose- cutor objected, or when the charges taken in the .day time could not be taken to Bow-street for decision that day, but could be taken to ClerkenweU in time, then they are to be taken to that court for deckion. The charges from that division have invariably beea very few, and this coarse is adopted for-the oonve nience of all parties. I. A Railway Switchman Frozen to Death.— A night switchman, named Warneri employed on tha Great Western Railway at Readiagi was .on Friday night frozen in such a manner that hia death resulted on Sunday. Warner had been & porter at >the com- pany's station at Oxford, and only recently-removed to Reading. He performed his duties «s,narrow- gauge switohman duriag Thursday might, and .pro- ceeded home, but only-slept two or three ioura oa Friday, as he had laCTaigad to fetch his wife and family from Oxfords on tkat day. This ha did, and at night went on duty. Jo;the BaoriiiBg.be was found in a dreadfully colfi'Cassdifeioxt, and removed to ona of ttee rooms as thasqptaiacn^iiriMPO evartthitiig possiblff was done to relie^fcAke removed to skia hame, Mr i A Bulley, eiiEgeon io the Great Wsalatn. Baitway P*w aent» SoaietyjforShe Reading atfceaded Warner, aad, nofrwitli- standfflg jtraal as cafe ct thooaee, the patient -RoWtCfOfar ■aa<l hitosstf-r«e«nk).y a was taken befose^a in J1,on Moodfry, charged i*fkh > ob ufedw *a*'l86l,*efe«M3e3. lit ifevesobari 'teBSyilji.'<*MS aeas Shqifti- HWonSjfc-' tr«e6togi' fibesfrffeg tbo'Í$tefiørrûglUl' 4W4¡.W'V.3;¡¡ dt- the time no account. Warrants were issued against him a few days afterwards, and then Major Bacon made proposals for payment of the cheques and stoppage of proceedings; but nothing coming of these proposals, Mr. Bacon, on the 22nd ultimo, gave himself up at Bow-street, referring the inspector to the Police Gazette of December, 1865, ia which his person and offanca were described. Two cases only were gone into. In both the prisoner appeared to have obtained change for cheques on the bank at the time he had no account there. He was committed for trial. The Price of Meat in Sydney.—The folio ving list of prices is taken from a butcher's advertisement, which appears in the Sydney Herald of Nov. 23:— Hind quarter mutton, 2id. per lb.; fore quarter mut- ton, I'd.; by whole or half sheep, 2d.; mutton chops, 3,1 rump steaks, 2|d.; boiling beef, Id.; corn bed, Id.: ribs of roastiag beef, lid.; sirloin of roasting 2 beef, 2-|r].; spice beer:, 4d.; round beef, cooked, 41.; 2 German sausage, 4d.; black pudding, 3d.; beef sau- sage, l-g-l,; pork sansaga, 6d.; legs of pork, 6d.; loins of pork, 7d.; veal, 5d.; suet, 6d. white pudaing, 6d. per lb.; and ox tongue, Is. 3d. each; beefsteaks, I ide per lb. A Boy Charmed by Serpents.—The Maysville (Kentucky) Eagle says that a boy, four or five years of age, in Bracken county, was in the habit, daring the whole of last summer, of going out in the woods near his homo to pi "y with his pretty things," as he called them. After much persuasion, one day his mother was induced to follow him to his playgrounds to see what attracted him so much, when, to her horror, she discovered her little darling playing with a trio of huge black snakes, wholly unconscious of bis peril. The boy was completely fascinated, and would advance and retreat, and sport and dally with his hideous comrades as if he were in the charmed circle of hia brothers and sisters. The mother, in terror, ran to the house crying for help, when the father of the child rushed to the rescue of the boy, and, after some difiioulty, killed the snakes. Wonderful to relate-and we have this information from a gentle- man of unquestionable veracity-the little boy soon took to his bed, from which he never arose. He pined away and died, an early victim of the fascination of the serpents. Robbery by a Jeweller's Assistant.—At th Olei-ksnweH Police-court, on Wednesday, a para e named Joha Do.vns, a jeweller, of Farringdon-road> ;■ ClerkesweH, was charged with stealing' within the past six months a number of gold and silver watohea, watch-cases, and other property. It appears that Downs has been in the employment of Mr. E. J. Thompson, of Peroival-street, Clerkenwell, for about 12 Hioiiths, His duty was to examine watch move- ments and fit them. to cases. One morning he was suddenly asked to produce some cases that were wanting; but instead of doing so he produoed a number of pawnbrokers' duplicates. He was -given into custody, and his employer soon after discovered a large quantity of his property at various pawn- brokers', and the accused was identified as the pawner. At one pawnbroker's twelve parcels of jewellery wore discovered, and at another thirteen silver watch cases. The accused was remanded. A British Ship Seized by Chinese Pirates. —The ship China, from Shanghai for Batavia, arrived at Hong Kong on the 4th of. October, with the chief mate and 17 of the crew of the ship Westminster, bound to London, which they report at Pratas Shoals. The captain took ft boat, and made for East End Island for assistance, leaving the mate in charge of the ship, which was soon after boarded by Chill amen, who advised all on board to leave. The mate and crew left the ship in two boats. The captain and six men retarded to tho vessel, and are supposed to have been raurdered by the pirates, as the mate afterwards hailed the ship and was told that t*he captain had left some time before. The watsr-boats were soon after picked up by the ship China. Commodore Jones, hearing the particulars, is reported as h^viug sent gunboa s *-o rh<, assistance of the vessel. Tne V\rostuiInster had ali,r;»c- cargo from Calcutta. Hong Kong dates to C jh Ocfcobe- announce the capture of the American. brigau tine Cab", by Chinese pirates, near Podro Branca, The oapturn waa deliberately shot, and the vessel pillaged and set on fire, and abandoned. Through the exortiong of the survivors the fire was ex^ngu-t-hed, and the ship brought safely into per! The Cost of a Hindoo Wedd.ing.-A the sitting of the Insolvent Debtors' Couru recenfiy, Pandoornns* Trimback, a man belonging to the Sepoy casts, applied for his discha<.= >e. His debts were 133643-10 rupees, aad his assess nil. The learned commissioner (Sir Charles Sargent) asked for SCMele explanations in reference to an item of 1,500 rupees in the echedale for money expended on the marriage of the iesoiveijt's daughter. Ria (insolvent's) inoome appeared to be 900 rupees a jeat only, and thuG hI) had spent nearly two years' earminga on tho we -inj; I. ceremony. The insolvent eaid his daughter had become of a marriageable age, that he had found it very difficult fca find a husband foe her, and therefore he had to spend a larga sum of money on tho ceremony out of the money he had to present the hasba,nd wi.¡h clothes and some cash. His lordahip ^ran'cd til order for discharge.—Times of India. The Charge of Scuttling the Ship Stveiv- The four men, Holds worth, Dean, vV ühb, and. who are charged with boh thog .is ship S ve.ii, una, defrauding an insurance company of XI,500, werEt again brought before Mr. Alderman Finnis, r-J: tbd Mansion-hons-a, on Monday. Mr. G. H. Le#fei solicitor, appeared for th? prosecution. Mr. B^aedi solicitor, def'eaded the prisoner Holds worth; Buchanan, solicitor, the pris?Lerj Webb J Dean defended himself. T^e whole c £ the e?id%sK>j taken in the case was reail over to th? scvfe^l-wit-l nesses by Mr. Oko, the chief clerk. Finnis told the prisoners that he was ut. eeta&mili them to the Old Bailey, for trial, amCd7, th usual caution as to anything theymi«?ht foeiny rased against them at their trial. AH fetw declared they were perfectly made against them, end re^e1 v^d t-fe^ir were then committed for trial. Tha "False Lights" at Wmtburn — in official report into th'i investigation of the.ajjv^ £ t £$%4 h -h^.s a*- Wnir,b iru Lan been mads by tJia'&ppoioJtadi magi ir^tcs. Tbe rapo-fc st^tjs that after^ihe cvx-'u1 iuvct ti/iw JOB, it has caaio to tha conclusion: that the only foundation for the ar&ecuM.a t'-Oi?t a false light" had, been exhibited in that vicinity. have had its odgip hi the fiiel. t-hat, to a yeses! wl erf too much irshore to the southward of S-jutor Points praotiae whicb, greatly provail.3 with a westerly w^nd). the ghwe o? refleCtio'n of"the tofty light at the entrane y _gh of the Tynr* is vii-ible in some states-ot tiica^Eios'isCteid over thehigh)and of This ppearar-o oti!h'~ not. jnd o^rta'nly would nc^, mislead a^eeamarj! of ordinary exp- rienco or observation. The pVftV&lenoi} the hnd to the southward of Sotrter'ha j led sMppj horp before and pince thi^ easaaity, teto ;,dmg(4r, ar>d ooti^imia to do.,so' as lottg Ej shut in the Tyrewath L'ght, before they firs' tiOlth1 northward of Sont^r P<nnt. In eonclasioa the-^twi have oi'ly to OHI! «rftterntion to the evidenrte of Hrs; -Harrison and B!a»r, both of ht) -'of opinion that a Ifjht cm the Smter potnf wo aid greasy facilitate tfien^yisnHaa of hh part of the coast.