The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1877-05-18 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

ROYAL ACADEMY PRITICES.—Mr. Calderon has sold his large picture, "The Der.d Warrior,' for X 11100, Mr. Marks has sold his "Spider and Fly" for £lOOO, and his "Bit of Blue" for £3OO.  The Indian relief troopship Euphrates, Captain Camino, has arrived at Portemouth from Bombay with 43 military officers, 12 Gainers' ladies and families, :00 military invalid; ft.l time-expired men, 11 soldiers' wives, and 42.5 children.  The Duke of Somerset has given notice of his intentn to move for return of any informa•ion which the Board of Trade can furnish showing the progress made in the adoption of additional brake-power ke zhe railway companies of the United Kingdom.  Earl Percy will, en the Ist June, tnove in the House of Commons that it Is expedient that an inquiry shou'd be instituted into the practice of vaecinvion, for the purpose of ascertaiaing whether it cannot be conducted in • more satisfactory manner than it is at present. Mayfair states that many North American naval officers and engineer's have gone to Russia to serve In the Russian navy. Passing through Germany, they stated that many more are coming, and that a steamer with • cargo of torpedoes is ex route from New York for St. Petersburg. A. strange affair Is reported from Bray, a fashionable suburb of Dublin. The body of an elderly man of respectable appearance was on Saturday discovered hanging from a rope passed over a projecting stone in a ruin on the seashore. The hands were tied together with a handkerchief.  Two sisters, named Hunter, occupying a respectable position at North Shields, were on Monday committed for trial at the Northumberland Assizes on charges of fraud and forgery. The accused had insured the life of another sister who was In delicate health, one of them personating the latter.  At a village cilled Drinagh, near Dunnrin way, county Oork, a shocking murder has been perpetrated. Two fartv•rs were disputing shout some and, who one, named Brien. seized a spade and 'trivet the other, named Hurley, repeatedly on the head, fracturing his skull.  Three ladies were last week admitted to the register of the Irish College of Phys'elano. One of them, Dr. Louisa Milne, has already been in practice in London, and the two others, Dr. Sophia Jex Blake and Dr. Edith Peehey, were amongst the earliest Bdinburb students. All the three ladies had already taken degrees on the Continent.  A sea lion cub was born at the Brighton Aquarium early on Monday morning. The moth•r and child are doing well, and great hopes are entertained that the little stranger will be reared. This is the first ceession that a sea lion sob has been burn in captivity. The event will be interesting to ladies, as it is a species of see lion which affords the beautiful tealskin cloaks. hate, de.. so mach patronised by the fair sex.  Richard Battsn,aged 31, was charged at the Marvlebone Police Court. on Monday, with burglary at the house of Mn. Simile Lumley, 21% Devonshire terraeas, I Ilyde Park, and at the house of Mr. Stagg, tn, Craven I hill, Paddington, and with stealing from the former ' place jewlllery valued at £7O, and from the latter jewellery of the value of 1600. Ile was arrested while endeavouring to pawn some of the articles. He was I remanded.  noOD PAY FOR A MDT Airier.—A London correspondent says: A lady artist has just received a commission for .t 2600. The sum sounds lug.; but sup the work. She is an American named Ransom. and she has to paint all the Presidents of the -United States, and their wives, for an inhabitant of Florida, I who means to leave them to some State instftu.lon. Rome of the Presidents were bachelor', I believe. 'How Miss Hanson must wish they all were!