The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1869-04-30 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

WHITE-POWDERED wigs are once more coming in, and it is said there is a good chance of their being generally adopted. Several have actually appeared in the Bois do Boulogne, of which a contemporary says :—"'ibis coiffure is a wig, not a timid wig, dissimulating, belonging to the hypocrital order of chignons, bat a wig disdaining Illusion, in a word, a real wig, of which the hair, falling open the shoulders, is retained by bows of ribands: open the whole rests a little three-cornered hat, such as was worn by an abbil of the eighteenth century. We should not omit to state that the wig is lightly powdered, d/a marechqe." This is good news for the bald, supposing baldness should become fashionable. Being "this on the top" won't be regretted any longer. But why was the duty on hair-powder abolished? Was it a concession to the "bloated aristocracy ?" IN the Exchequer Chamber, on Saturday, an appeal against sentence of death was successfully prosecuted. A man named Jenkins was condemned at the Bristol Assizes to be hung for the murder of Fanny Reeves,who was said to have been pushed into the River Avon by the accused. Her screams were heard, and she was rescued ; but died from the effect of the shock to her system. In the interim, while at the hospital, she made a statement on which accused was convicted; but the preliminary passage which stated that she made the deposition with no hope of recovery, had in it the words "at present" The court now hell that these words were a qualification which rendered the deposition inadmissible. The conviction was therefore quashed. Nov long since the prevalent mania in newspaper correspondence was to write to the Ti,nes and deny that one was Madame Rachel's bail. Somewhat similar action has been the chief occupation of the unemployed monarchs of Europe lately, with regard to declining the throne of Spots. At lost tho d'Aosta l,ssv.risl the song, by stating that he will accept Its crown—if it is offered to him. It is stated that at the (Ecumenical Council only one political subject will be discussed. This will be an endeavour on the part of the Pope to persuade the different nations of Europe to disarm their present enormous and costly armies and fleets, and submit their differences to arbitration. Non-Catholic, as well as Catholic, Powers will be urged not to break the peace, and to give a guarantee or promise that they will not do so. Pitts IX. is reported to have said that of the many felicitations he received on the anniversary of his jubilee none gave so much pleasure as the unexpected courtesy of the Q teen of England, who, although differing from Catholics in matters of faith, has by this simple act bound more firmly than ever in loyalty her many Catholic subjects. A REMARKABLY "cheeky" swindle is now being perpetrated. A stupid correspondent writes :—" I saw in a provincial paper an advertisement in which a person professed to send six orders for London theatres for thirty stamps. Thinking the thing not impossible of fulfilment, I sent the stamps, receiving in return the orders in a note, which told me I had received all that was promised, namely, orders, but saying it was left to myself to imagine whether I should be admitted with them or not. A BILL to make provision for facilitating and regulating the supply of pure water in cities, towns, and districts throughout the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, has been prepared and brought in by Mr. Biddulph, Mr. Goldney, Colonel Napier Start, and the Marquis of Larne, and it was published on Tuesday. A constant supply of water is to be furnished by companies. Owners of houses not exceeding a rental of £lO are to pay the rates, instead of the occupier. The act is not to interfere with any rates of existing water companies. Is reply to a deputation of metropolitan guardians, Mr. Coschen strongly condemned the system of administration now pursued by the parochial bodies, and intimated that it would be the duty of the Poor-law Board to take every opportunity of improving the existing mode of local government,  A