The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1868-12-18 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

VICE-CHANCELLOR Cr-IFFARD will be the new Lord Justice, and will be succeeded, it is said, in his present office by Mr. W. M. James. MR. H. L. BRISTOWE, of the firm of Bristowe Brothers, has been elected a member of the committee of the Stock Exchange, vice Mr. Aaron Goldsmid, resigned. WE VERY MUCH REGRET to hear that the illness of Mr. Justice Mellor is such that it is feared he will be unable to resume his duties in the Court of Queen's Bench.—Law Times.  THE LIBERAL PARTY in Nottingham have determined upon presenting a testimonial to Mr. P. W. Clayden, one of the gentlemen who unsuccessfully fought their battle at the last election.  • OR SATURDAY, December 5, a labourer living on the banks of the Bran, near its confluence with the Usk, killed a cub otter in his garden with a stick. It weighed 311 b., and was probably about two months old. THE HEALTH of the so-called " Countess of Derwentwatev " is said to have receifed a severe shock, In consequence of the exposure she lately underwent in the lane at Dilston. She is under medical treatment.  SOME TIME SINCE an election for local officers took place in Charleston, SC. After the votes had been counted it was declared that the negrcei had elected their candidate for mayor by a majority of eighteen. The election was contested; it has finally been declared void. _ _ _  THE WEEKLY BULLETIN of the health of the Prince Royal of Belgium was issued on Saturday, and states that the improvement which has been observed during the past six weeks continues, although his high. ness's condition is still precarious.  MR. BYRON has produced another drama at Manchester. It is entitled Not Such a Fool as he Looks, and is in three acts, Mr. Byron himself enacting the hero, Sir Simon Simple, Bart. The piece, it is said, is a success.  DIE LAW which suppresses in Gallicia the restriction to which the nomination of Jews to communal functions was hitherto subject, has obtained the sanction of the Emperor Francis Joseph. Ills counter. signed by the Minister Giskra. IT IS ANNOUNCED from Paris that the ex-Queen Isabella of Spain has purchased for £72,000 a magnificent residence on the Boulevard du hot de Rome, and paid a forfeit of £2300 to be quit of the two houses she had previously taken in the Champs Epees.  IT is announced from Ottawa that all the Fenian prisoners in gaol there under the suapension of the pri. vilege of the writ of habeas corpus are to be liberated at once. This clemency, however, does not include those charged with complicity in the murder of Thomas D'Arcy M'Cree. _  AT THE MANCIIESTFR ASSIZES a jury gave £l,OOO damages against the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company; the plaintiff, a linenclraper at R,och. dale, having received injuries which produced concussion of the spine in an accident which took place in October, 1867, near Bacup.  REPORTS HAVE REACHED New York of a great storm which has raged in Nova Scotia and adjoining parts; At Halifax a terrific gale canoed much damage on land, and in the harbour thirty vessels have been more or less damaged by it.  IN THE LONG -DRAWN Out case of the Agriculturist Cattle Insurance Company, notice is given that on the 18th inst. the Master of the Rolls intends to make a call on the contributories at the rate of £250 on each £2O share, and of £62 10s. on each share of a. As A PROOF of the remarkable accuracy now attained in the manufacture of philosophical instrument; a chronograph, invented by Captain Noble, It A.., for measuring the velocity of projectiles within the bore of a gnu, and lately used by the Ordnance Select Committee, registers the hundred-thousandth of a second. Miss NEILSON'S Rosalind, a performance that has not yet been seen in London, has been received with great favour in LiverpooL Miss Neilson has also played in flame° and Juliet, and has given readings front Tennyson. This talented actress has now taken her departure for Dablin. ST.