The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1868-04-17 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE TWENTY-THIRD ANNIVERSARY of the Royal General Theatrical Fund was held last week, upon which occasion the subscriptions amounted to  HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE is to be rebuilt. The Prince of Wales will lay the first stone on his return from Ireland. Mr. Charles Lee is to be the architect, and the cost is to be £65,000. TIIE GENEVA WORKMEN have won in the contest with their masters. On the 13th of April they resumed work. They are henceforth to work 11 hours per day, and their wages will be inereased 10 per cent. Hfs ROYAL HIGHNESS TIIE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE, as Field Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, has left Gloucester-house for Dublin, where he will stay during the visit of the Prince and and Princess of Wales.  M. MELLINET, the French Consul-General, has been called from Bucharest, in order to report on the Jewish question personally. He will return without delay to his post.  THE FIRST COMMISSIONER Of Her Majesty's Works has granted permission for the performance of sacred music at Regent's-park, which commenced on Easter Sunday. THE THAMES STEAMBOAT COMPANIES on Friday raised the fares for conveyance from piers between London-bridge and Hungerford to Lambeth Irons H. to 2d.  TIIE MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE has passed bills that practically abolish the gallows, give the accused a right to testify in all criminal cases, and prepare the way for the abolition of grand juries. MR. ARTHUR ANDERSON, late of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, has left a legacy of £l,OOO to the Scottish Hospital, of which he was for the period of 25 years a respected governor. not EASTERN PORTION of the Southern Thames Embankment—that between Lambeth Church and Westminster•bridge—will (says the South Lopidon Press) be opened for the public use on the first of May next. ON THURSDAY MORNING a fire broke out in a pile of warehouses in Errington-atreet, off Victoria-road, at the north end of Liverpool. The loss will probably reach £30,000.  CHARLES YOUNG, 51, was sentenced to one month's hard labour for attempting to stab Sarah Ann Lucas with a clasp knife. The prosecutrix assists her father in a fish shop in Smithfield, and the prisoner came to purchase fish, but refused to pay for it. Words ensued, and he attempted to stab the prosecutrix. His hand, however, was knocked aside by some persons standing at the shop. EDWARD THORNTON, a child six years of age, has been burned to death in the 'Knighton Workhouse, Herefordshire. The child, with five others, was in the infirmary suffering from some illness, and no 11111130 or other person was in attendance. The jury at the inquest "recommended fire-screens for the future, and the appointment of a responsible person to look after the sick in the workhouse." A MILITARY CONTEMPORARY understands that Sir John Pakington contemplates employing some of the money accumulated in the reserve fund in purchasing out the two first captains who may wish to sell their commissions after the return of their regiment from foreign service, provided that in the meantime the two supernumerary captains are not otherwise absorbed.  IN A REPORT transmitted to the House of Representatives at Washington by the Secretary of the Treasury, the opinion is expressed that the interests of American citizens would be consulted by the revival of the Reciprocity Treaty with Canada.  THE commrrrEE of the Master Tailors have just issued a balance-sheet relating to the funds subscribed and expended on account ot the strike of last year. The guarantee fund amounted to £8,029, of which suns £5,450 was paid in. The law charges amounted to .£4,436, in prosecuting the officers and pickets of the Operatives' Asswiation.  THE LONDON CORRESPONDENT of the Glasgow Herald renews the rumour that an addition is to be made to the allowance granted to the Prince of Wales by .£lO,OOO a year, in consequence of the great expense to which the Prince and Princess are put in representing the Queen at drawing-rooms, levees, and other royal ceremonies.  TICE RECTORY OF TODMORDEN, vacant by the death of the Rev. A. J. Plow, who was so brutally murdered by Miles Weatherall, has been conferred on the Rev. Reynell F. Molesworth, M.A., of Brasenose College, Oxford, lecturer at Bideford.  THE LONDON CORRESPONDENT of the Oxford Times says :—" Ministers have not the least intention of resigning, nor will they immediately appeal to the country."