The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1869-08-13 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE MINERS RIOT AT MOLD.  The trial of the six prisoners charged with riot and assault at Mold on the 2nd of June was concluded on Monday. Lord Chief Justice Bovill, in summing up, said his only surprise was that so numerous a body of soldiers and constables who went through the eventful fifteen or twenty minutes, all escaped with their lives. It was fortunate for them, but still more fortunate for the prisoners, because, bad death followed, it would have been the duty of the prosecution to have preferred charges of wilful murder against thorn. He had ruled that the men who were on the day of the riot being taken to the railway station were in lawful custody, and there was no excuse for attacking and wounding the constables. It must be made out to the satisfaction of the Jury that the wounds were inflicted with one or other or all of the intents mentioned in the indictments in order to find the prisoners guilty. It was scarcely possible, and not necessary, to prove which man threw the atone that wounded any particular individual. The jury mop' judge from the numbers and conduct of the mob. IT asked for what purpose 1,500 people remained Olh` hour and a half after the men were committed to prison? No answer had been suggested by the prisoners' counsel. He had been unable to discover with what lawful object the mob threw stones. Captain Blake deserved the greatest commendation for the humanity with which he exercised the powers en• trusted to him; for when the soldiers were ordered to fire, they were not to do so ineffectually. The summing up occupied more than three hours and a half. The Jury consulted for a quarter of an Lour. They acquitted Richard Jones, but convicted all the other prisoners on all the counts.—The Lord Chief Justice, in passing sentence, said it was a painful thing that the prisoners should be placed in so serious a position. They were responsible for the loss of life and and for the bloodshed that had occurred, and had run the most serious risk. They had endeavoured by violence to break the law, and to defy authority. They thought to overpower a small body of men and to escape detection. The wonder was that hundreds of them did not welter in their blood. If such things were permitted there would be an end to all order. But the law was too powerful for such attacks. They might be successful for the moment; but the consequences must recoil on the heads of all who had recourse to violence. It was impossible to look lightly on such an offence; but he had power to mitigate the extreme sentence which the law allowed. It was necessary to prevent the recurrence of such attacks. I I c sentenced each of the prisoners to penal servitude fur ten years. The sentence produced much sensation in court. The trial was not concluded until past eight.  The Duke and Duchess of Argyll had the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal Family on Saturday. A farmer at Fort Smith, Arkansas,recently ploughe np a keg containing 5,000 dollars in Spanish silver dollars of old date. The keg was probably buried 20 or 30 years age.  The Madras papers announce the death of the Rev. T. Brotherton, M.A., one of the oldest missionaries of tic Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. Mr. Southern has written to the American papers giving an unqualified contradiction to the assertion that he had endeavoured to injure Mr. Jefferson in his theatrical position.  The Morning Post states that a marriage is arranged een Lady Blanche Osborne, third daughter of the Duke of Leeds' and Colonel Morris, C.B. son of the late Sir J. and Lady Morris.  The German poet, Ferdinand Freiligrath, has been offered the position of editor of the Nene Freie Preese under very favourable conditions, but it is not probable that ho will accept it.  It is officially announced that rather more than twenty million journeys were made on the Metropoliton and Metropolitan District Railways and their ex'claim, in the helf-teer eudituanue 30  r. Halligan, a gold broker at Rockhampton, had i murdered by two men, named Palmer and WI!.  ii in who were a;sisted by a. publican, named Archibald. Archibald has turned Queen's evidence, and the an her prisoners have made confession of their participation in the crime.—Afelbourne Argus.