The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1868-04-10 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SOARCF.LY inferior in interest to the Irish debate, and in some quarters even supm ior to that great imperid question, is the annual boat race between the univers, ties of Oxford and Cambridge, which was decided on Saturday in favour of the former by three boats' lengths. The fineness of the weather and the convenient hour at which the race was rowed, brought together unprecedented crowds of spectators, not one-fourth of whom could have seen anything whatever of the race. There was, however, muck good-humoured excitement, and a liberal display of new bonnets, of dark or light blue, according as the fair wearers espoused the cause of the Isis or the Cam.  GREAT preparations are being made by the town and corporation of Portsmouth to render the Easter Volunteer Review a triennial institution. The volunteer force will amount to 30,000 men of all arms, exclusive of the garrison, which will probably muster 3,000 strong. A squadron of gun-boats will co operate in the attack on Portsdown-hill, and contribute to the DORM as well as to the general effect of the spectacle. IT has been officially stated that, in all human prob ibility, Sir Robert Napier and King Theodorus trie i h•sues in the last days of March. The enemy was encamped in a strong position twenty-five miles from Magdala, and confident in his own courage and military prowess. The news from the prisoners continues to be satisfactory.  THERE is at last some hope of peace being restored is South America. The Paraguayans, after bravely struggling against superior force, have been worsted by sea and land. The passage of Hamaita was forced on the 17th February by six iron-clads, with trilling loss, and at the same time the Marquis de Caxias stormed an earthwork north of Humaita and captured fifteen guns, but with a loss of some six hundred men on both sides Three ironclads subsequently pushed on to Assompciu,. which they found abandoned.  THE impeachment of President Johnson drags it. slow length. As the object of the President's accusers is rather to discredit his policy than to inflict any punishment upon himself, it is likely that the conclusion of this unpleasant affair will be lame and impotent, and quite unworthy of having occupied the time of the American Senate and people. ANOTHER dreadful steamboat explosion has been re. ported from America. The Magnolia, with one hundred passengers on board, burst her boilers on the Ohio river, about twelve miles from Cincinnati. The crew and servants were sixty in number, but of these one hundred and sixty human beings only fifty-seven have been saved —all the others being either drowned or burnt to death.  SOME rioting has taken place at Wigan and at Warrington, and it has been found necessary to call out the soldiery. SIMILAR but more serious disturbances have occurred in the coal districts of Belgium, and were only quelled after the loss of ten lives.  IN France, also, there have been symptoms of ferment, originating in the new law of conscription—the "blood. tax," as it is called by young men and mothers. Fortunately, the Government has wisely allowed the ellervescence to subside of itself, and has treated the ringleaders with the leniency that belongs to consciousness of strength.  IN this country a woman, one Frances Kidder, has been hanged for the murder of her step-daughter. There is no doubt whatever of the fact that she did take the life of the girl, but it is quite as certain that the woman was of the very lowest order of rational creature; ignorant, brutal, and debased from her birth. Her death may have avenged the law, but it has also shocked and disgusted many more than it will terrify, or deter from the like indulgence of savage instincts.  _ A BRUTAL Prize•fight, attended with fatal consequences, has disgraced Glamorganshire. Two cousins knocked each other about for the space of two hours, until one of them received a blow whi..l stretched him lifeless on the ground. If the lash, so happily banished from the army, were reserved for protters and prize-lighters, both classes of raglans might probably relinquish practices whielt insured corporeal sulfering to themselves.