The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1868-12-04 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE REV. J. M. BELLEW, who lately left the Church of England for the communion of the Church of Rome, has completely disavowed his Anglican orders, and in the advertisements of his "readings" describes himself as "Mr. J. H. Bellew." THE UNDERGRADUATES of Williams College, in Massachusetts, are in open mutiny, in consequence of the passage by the Faculty of a rule which they consider to intimate a doubt of their truthfulness' and rcfuse to attend lectures until the tele is rescinded. THE NOVEMBER SESSIONS of the Central Criminal Court and of the Middle.ex Sessions commenced on Monday. The calendar at the former contained 99 and that at the latter 155 prisoners. Although numerically heavy, the character of the offences charged is not quite so heinous as sometimes happens, there not being a single murder. TELE NEPHEW AND NAMESAKE Of ThaddellB Stevens, to whom the bulk of that leader's property was left, conditionally upon his abstaining from spirits and tobacco, or in default to an asylum for the orphans of soldiers, announces that he has not the heart to keep the orphans from the enjoyment of it. AN INQUEST was held at Billingshurst last week on the body of Mrs. Mary Ann Rogers, whose death was caused by taking a dose of liniment, composed of aconite slightly diluted with water, administered to her in mistake for a draught by her housekeeper. A SERIOUS FIRE took place OIL Tuesday in the leather-cloth factory belonging to Mr. J. A. Keller, at Bermondsey. The fire was extinguished in a short sparse of time, but the drying stoves and the contents, as well as the workshop, were nearly burned out, and the roof off. THE PorE," the Epoque says, "has addressed to Queen Isabella an autograph letter marked by the most sympathetic sentiments. His Holiness, while taking a lively interest in the cause of the Queen of Spain, declares his desire to use every effort in support of the rights of that sovereign." THE damage done to property on the polling day at Bristol is not nearly so great as was reported in the first telegraphic accounts, when it could only be a matter of speculatien. These are more than a hundred sufferers, whose losses range from £2 to £3OO, the whole amounting to £1,235. ON SATURDAY NIGHT two labouring men named John Irvine and William Graham fought in Larklane, Liverpool. Graham insisted on fighting, audio the struggle was knocked down, falling on his head. SOOD afterwards he became insensible, and died the next morning. Irvine is in custody. THE St. Paersburgh Gazette reports that the erection of no fewer than ten theatres for the people, all to be situated in the workmen's quarters of the city, is to be begun forthwith, the plans having been approved of by the Minister of the Interior, under whose supervision they are to be placed. SERIOUS AccinENT.—On Saturday morning four men sustained serious injuries at the Victoria Sta. iluo, ibelehme.o2. They yew.. 02.15.8.1 in pailial I u um. roof of the station, when, owing to the slipping of a rope which supported the scaffolding on which they were standing, they fell a distance of about 50 feet. THERE us a very damaging critique in the Saturday Review of the 21st inst., of a new work, entitled, "The Flowery Scroll," a Chinese novel, translated by Sir J. Bawring, in which it is stated that the learned knight has borrowed largely from a previous translation of the same book, in the Dutch language, by M. SchlegeL A GOOD Examei.E.—" A Grateful Curate," writing to the Leicester Joanutl, says that among the good traits of the late Bishop of Peterborough's character was the following :—lt was his custom every Christmas Day to send to those curates in his diocese who were burdened with large families and slender means cheque for five or ten pounds. This was enclosed in a letter expressed in the most courteous anil delicate terms.