The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1868-02-07 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE CENTRAL GLAMORGAN GAZETTE-FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1868.  Tim COUNCIL of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce have resolved to petition tho House of Commons to appoint a speoial commission to inquire into the question of international coinage. THE Guardian of Wednesday night states that the llev. Dr. Hugh AlTell°, the great Protestant leader, was present and communicated at the high celebration at St. Albans Church, Ilolborn, on Sunday morning last. . .  I LIE 05SieVer any :—We are authorised to state that the Bishop of Grahamstown has given the Bishop of London an assurance that the intention of consecrating anew bishop for Natal in England is aban• cloned.  SEVERAL OF 'run Prumian Railway Companies have announced that they are prepared to convey gra. tuitously corn, bread, meat, clothes, &c.—in short. all matters that may be forwarded for the relief of the famishing inhabitants of the Eastern provinces. THE comectr. of the Aeronautical Society have decided upon holding an exhibition in London of objects connected with aeronautical science in the month of June. Arrangements have been made for the exhibition to be held at the Crystal Palace. THE RECENT HEAVY RAINS AND FLOODS have caused considerable damage and inconvenience in the various low-lying suburbs -of the metropolis. The water is lying on many high roads to the depth of some inches, and on several of the lines the trains have to travel over rails completely submerged. ON TUESDAY, IU the Jury Court at Edinburgh, before Lord Barcaple, Fanny Pugh, late manageress of the Crewe Hotel, obtained £1,200 damages from the Honourable William Bruce Ogilvy, a member of the family of the Earl of Airlie, for a breach of promise of marriage. Baron  Tits WILL of the Right non. John Wrottesley, D.O L., late of Wrottesley-ball, near Wolverhampton, and 1, Albemarle-street, was proved in the RegiAry at Lichfield by his son, the Right llon. Arthur, Baron Wrottesley, the sole executor. The personalty was sworn under £20,000. 111 It. J. F. MOULTON, of St. John's, is the soder wrangler at Cambridge this year. He is the son of a Wesleyan minister. A few years ago this honour was gained by the son of a Baptist minister—Mr. Aldis. The second wrangler is Mr. G. H. Darwin, of Trinity, the second son of the distinguished author of the " Origin et-firetheer..-  A PARIS CORRESPONDENT says:—Great preparations are being made for a pilgrimage to Jerusalem on a splendid scale, to bo undertaken by the Princess de la Tour d'Auvergne, who will be accompanied by her suite and by several of the great ladies of Paris, who will be accompanied also by their suites.  ANOTHER CHARGE Of murder on the high seas bas transpired. On Saturday evening a seaman named Blackwell was brought before Mr. Paget at the Thames Police-court, charged with-killing a fellow-seaman named Dorey, on board the Olents, when at Berbice. The case was briefly ope Led and the prisoner remanded. THE ADJOURNED INQUEST on the body of George Thirkhill, the late head gamekeeper to Lord Wharnclille, was resumed on Monday at the Wortly Anus lan. The jury returned a verdict of " %Villa' murder" against the three men in custody, and also against a fourth ins unknown.  A VIVANDIERE, who accompanied the armies oh the First Napoleon, has just died in the Asylum of La Salpetriere, at the age of 104. She went through the Russian campaign and was at Waterloo, and in the course of her long life traversed a thousand dangers. She retained her intellectual faculties to the mat.  THE DUEL at Florence between MM. Nicotera and Assanti, which, it appears, was fought with sabres, arose out of abusive words sill blows exchanged between those two deputies in the course of apolitical discussion. M. Nicotera was seriously wounded in the head, but hopes are entertained that his injury will not prove fatal.  A LOCAL CONTEMPORARY gives an account of the narrow escape of Mrs. Edwards, Br} ngwynen, near Llandilo. She was passing over the railway at that place in her cart, which was laden with Hour, when a train came up at the same moment and caught the horse, which was killed on the spot; but Mrs. Edwards was not at all hurt.  A FISH SALESMAN named Frederick Wordley, residing near Camberwell•park, cut both his wrists across, and then with a razor cut his throat in such a fearful manner that he died in a short time. His wife, who entered the room dining the time, tried to wrench the razor from him, but was unable to do so. For some time past deceased has been suffering from melencholia. IN