The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1869-06-11 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE-BRADFORD BUIWUGRCUTJRT,;CI'Iimney sweep, named Henry Dunn, has been seat to prison for two months, in default of paying a fine of £2 and costs, for having caused a lad, under 16 years of sae, to sweep a chimney..  J.Wu LORD CHANCELLORS during the present century were in the Royal Navy before they reached the Woolsack; the one was Lord Erskine, the other was Lord Chebutford, who took part in the storming of Copenhagen, but wan afterwards called to the bar, and stormed the bench.  IC HAS BEEN OFTEN NOTICED that scarcely any one is married in Lent. It is not no generally known that scarcely any one is married in the Derby week. Every one is supposed to be keeping fast during the former period ; every one is supposed to be looking after the fast horse in the latter.  PROFESSOR BLASER, of Berlin, bas been commissioned to execute a colossal bust of Alexinder yen [Limboldt for a committee in New York. The model is now finished, and has been sent to Hanover, where it will be cast in bronze under the superintendence of Howaldt.  A TRAPEZE PERFORMER, named Becona, while going through his somewhat exciting performances last week, fell a distance of nearly twenty feet, greatly to the alarm of the audience who were witnessing his feats. He sustained such serious injuries as necessitated his Mime. diate removal to the infirmary.  SOUTH KENSINGTON Al USE UM% —Tho Rev. Alexander Dyce has bequeatibed to the South liensing• ton Museum his important .dramatic library, with its unique editions of Shakespeare, and all his pictures, miniatures, antique rings, and other works of art, upon the condition that a suitable room be built to receive them.  A TOLLGATE IMEPER at Maltby has been fined le. and costs for illegally demanding toll for a cart laden with sheep troughs. The complainant urged that the troughs came under the definition of agricultural Implements, which are exempt from toll, and the bench decided in his favour.  THE INQUEST on the men killed in the riot at Mold, in Flintshire, on Wednesday evening, was concluded on Friday. The forbearance of the soldiers and the violence of the rioters were so strongly contrasted in the evidence that the piry at once returned a verdict of "Justifiable homicide."  A LARGE NUMBER of base sovereigns have been put into circulation. They are made ot platinum, and defy ordinary detection. The ring of the metal scarcely differs from that of the genuine article' and the counterfeits have been passed in and out several banks without exciting a.aptoLan. AT Via: HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY on Monday, an important trial for stealing a letter contain. jog £BOO in notes from the mail.bag on the Caledonian Railway between Caretairs Junction and E iinburgh, re. salted in the conviction of the thief, a fireman in the company's employ, and the sentence of seven years' penal servitude was imposed. THE REPORT that Earl Spencer had resigned his post in Ireland was caused by his exeellency having, according to a very proper feeling, called up all his three-monthly bills, that they might be discharged. This was immediately seind upon by the lovers of canards, who spread a report that the Lord-Lieutenant was abeut W give up his Viceroyalty.  THE CHURCRWARDEN of a flir.9l parish- in Kent was not at church on Sunday last to support the minister and overawe wicked boys. It was known to the initiated—that is to say, to all who had bought a sporting newspaper—that be was at Paris, where be rode the horse that ran third for the Grand Prix. This would not have happened a few years ago.  AT YORK CASTLE, a prisoner for debt, named Farrar, has been committed to the felons' quarters of the gaol for 21 dais, for having introduccd tobacco into the prison. To the usual questions put to him on his admission as to his possession of tobacco or spirits, Farrar replied in the negative, but ,cat his being examined his garters were found to consist of "pigtall."  QuFAN has been pleased to extend to the officers and men in the navy and marines employed in operations in New Zealand from 1845 to 1847, and from 1860 to 1866, the same medal which is awarded for service in the army. It will be granted to those survivors who formed part of the naval brigade on shore, and took actual part in the operations against the enemy.