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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 227, 23 September 1872, Page 4

Wife Murder in Wales: —A dreadful wife murder was recently committed near Llanelly, Caermarthenshire. The prisoner, Henry Brice, employed a man, who lodged with him. Last week Brice was "on the spree" and:his wife having gone to look for tim, tho lodger went to bed. About eleven o'clock he heard a terrible row downstairs, and on going down be saw Mrs, Brice crouched down on the floor, seekiDg refuge behind a chair, her clothes torn, and Brice himself kicking her with a "span new pair of draining boots "and hammering hor with a poker. The lodger seized Brice, but Brice told him with an oath to leave the house. He threatened the lodger, and then turning to his wife, kicked her till she was in another corner. The lodger was then turned out, and when outside he heard the victim " screeching " for mercy. Nevertheless he went and quietly slept under a haystack all night without giving" an alarm. Two poachers also heard tho woman beggir^ her husband for G-od*s sake not to murder her, but they did not interfere. In the morning Brice said he had left his wife in the chair, aod that she had run off home. Two days after the murder Brice was seen by a woman carrying his wife's body, with one leg under each arm, and her head thrown over his shoulder. He tried to throw her down an old coal pit, but it was arched in. He then hid her under some bushes and was beginning to dig a grave when he was discovered and arrested. The body was fearfullg bruised. Pakliamentart .Amenities. — The Australasian thus refers to a speech made by one of the foremost Victorian politicians: —''Mr. Yale was in. fine form on Thursday, August 29, when the amiable qualities of the hon. member were exhibited in the fullest light. An opportunity, was afforded him of defying and bullying the House, and of addressing offensive and insulting language to several of its members, and Mr. Yale was thoroughly equal to the occasion. He first went out of his. way to make a reckless statement respecting Mr. Macpherson, which that hon. member declared was absolutely untrue. Being, then called upon, in accordance with parliamentary practice, lo withdraw an assertion which was denied by the member to whom it referred, Mr. Vale en- : deavored, in accordance with his own practice, to reiterate the statement in a more in- ' suiting form under guise of a withdrawal. Several members offered some feeble resistance to.the way in which this member now, as on other occasions, insulted the .House and disregarded the ruling of the Speaker, and asked why his bullying should be tolerated. Why, indeed? And yet the answer is sufficiently clear. It is that members are afraid of the disgraceful abuse of Mr. Vale, and prefer to allow it to expend itself upon generalities than to attract it to themselves by endeavouring to restrict his licence of language. An instance of this was afforded in the course of the altercation on Thursday evening. Mr.' Vale was proceeding to state that the assertion he had. made was grounded on a {letter he had seen as a member of the Civil Service Commission when he was met by a cry of " shame" from a member who had beeu a Minister in the former Government. He at once turned fiercely on the interrupter,.and ia the most insolent manner directed him to "go home and sell his salted tea." This savage assault completely, so to speak "knocked over " the member assaailed, who was hors :de combat fot,tix$ { rebt of the night. Mr. yaje, .after., having -gone, on in this way for- some time, and having fairly bullied the house into subjection, took the oppor- • tunity, as^ajparting^hot^to insinuate an insult to,,th^? Spfaker, and; thgn* as,.the; objectionable i; ei^reisib^ %hicK by this ::tin^^fasjgsi^ r^ofieiasire >rema^a^^m"''th^i ;f sp^rce^' :; almpst^ySii!^