The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1878-01-04 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

POLICE COMXISSION.—The report of the Commission may be expected in a few days. It is expected that the Commission win recommend the continuance of Scotland Yard as the central detective department, with a legal chief is:insulting commissioner at the 'head of affairs, having under him an acting chief superintendent. It is believed that they will also recomnlend that there should be subordinate detective divisions in lifferent parts of the metropolis, that the pay of the deteotive officers be increased, and also a Larger money allowance granted for contingent Napalms in the performance of the detectives' intim  'Larger  Small-pox has shown itself in Inswich, no less than ten cases being ume.r ses.l e .t in the fever hospital. At Delhi there has been a severe outbreak of small-pox, and as many as 1600 people have died from the disease since July.  A paper condemning the practice of offering wine or spirituous liquors at funerals was n.ad in all the Dundee churches on Sunday.  Mr. Commissioner Kerr has written to a Scotch paper to deny a report that he was going to stand for the Kilmarnock Burghs as a Home Rule candidate.  Two young men, Henry Holden and Vincent Williams, were charged at Salford Police Court, on Monday, with stealing £l3O bclonging to their employer. They were remanded. The Russian St. Petersburg Gazette learns from Berlin that on the day after the fall of Plevna the German Emperor gave out "Plevna" as the watchword for the garrison of Berlin for that day. The intelligence has caused great satisfaction in Russia.  Such is the depression, and even bsnkruptcy, of the newspaper business in some parts of tic United States, that an American paper suggests that next year, instead of asking whether the editor hi in," visitors will ask sea matter of course "whether the sheriff is out?" A young man, na.ned Sydney Allen Ogg, who had been for the last three or four years a clerk in the Malvern branch bank of Messrs. Berwick and Co., Worcester Old Bank, has been committed :or trial by the Malvern magistrates on a 'charge of de.rauding Messrs. Berwiok and Co. of the sum of 2350. • Owing to the introduction of new rules, chiefly affecting the hours of working, the men employed at the extensive slate quarries owned by Lord Penrhyn, at Bethesda, struck work on Tuesday afternoon. The men ultimately agreed to refer the points in dispute to a committee, and resumed their bargains until the end of the month. John Hartley, a compositor, was again remanded, at the Lambeth Police Court, London, on Monday, charged w.th attempting to murder his wife, whom he had stabbed several times with a knife. It was stated that the prisoner had purchased the knife for the purpose of murdering his wife, and he confessed that the act was premeditated. The sufferer is in a critical condition. At Penkridge Sessions, on Monday, a man named James Fairbanks was remanded on suspicion of being concerned in the recent murder at Hanford, and also of being connected with burglaries lately committed at Lougton. He was arrested at Church Eaton, on Saturday night, as a vagrant, when it was found that he answered the description of a man wanted by the police for the Longton burglaries.  The new armour-plated ship Northampton, which has been built by private contract, is ordered to proceed to Chatham to be brought forward for sea. The Independenzia, the Brazilian vessel, is to be docked at Chatham, to ascertain the damage she sustained by running aground in the Thames a few days back. STRANGE Sumier.—Persons who were passing the front part of a fashionable villa, at Stoke, Devonport, on Tuesday afternoon, observed the body of a man hanging from one of the trees. The body, on being cut down, was found to be that of a retired tradesman, named Keen, who had thus publicly sought to end his existence. No reason for this act is assigned.