The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1868-10-23 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

WIFE MURDER. A man named Francis Howard Clare has been taken into custody at Norwich on a charge of having murdered his wife by cutting her throat. Clare works as a shoemaker, and was formerly In the army.  TUB DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZFS at the Havre Exhibition will take place on the 26th inst. M. Forcade de la Roquette, Minister of Commerce, will preside, and a grand banquet will be given in the evening at the International Club. THE Canadian Ministers of Customs and Agriculture, it is announced, have decided to remove the prohibition from importing cattle into Canada from the United States after October 8, but inspectors will examine cattle until November.  AN INQUEST has been held on the body of a boy who was killed by jumping hastily from the back of a cab, on which he was stealing a ride, and falling directly under the wheels of a railway van, which could not be stopped in time to save him.  A- FATAL ACCIDENT has occurred near Denmarkhill, on the Brighton line. A train on leaving that station passed through the tunnel and knocked down a man who was on the line, cutting him completely in two. He was a gardener in the employ of a gentleman whose residence is adjacent to the railway. IT IS SAID that the Liberal committee at Nottingham have accepted the offer of Mr. Bernal Osborne to refer the claims of the respective candidates to arbitration, and that they have named Mr. John Stuart Mal an arbitrator. Mr. Merriman declines to accede to this course.  AN INQUEST has been held at Low Wortley on the body of a spinner, named Samuel Pearce. The deceased on Monday took his gun and went down the Ballhill-lane. Not long afterwards he was found with his discharged gun lying by his aide, and the top of his head blown off.  AMONGST THE PASSENGERS who left Liverpool on Saturday were Mr. Cyrus Field and party. Mr. Field was compelled to leave England sooner than he anticipated, and will of course be absent from the banquet about to be given in Liverpool to Mr. Reverdy Johnson.  TEN PARISIANS have burnt their fingers with the Lan[erne. They formed an association to buy up a large number of that incisive periodical at Brussels and sell it in Paris where it fetches a fancy price; for this .they have been sentenced to periods of imprisonment varying from six days to twenty.  A DINNkR WAS GIVEN Wit week to Mr. Tite, hf.P., by a body of gentlemen connected with the West end, to celebrate the pasbing of an Act which authorises the embankment of the Thames in front of Chelsea, a compliment well deserved by that eminent architect and useful public servant. . .  AN OROANNIED body of men recently set out m the state of Mobile to discover a gang of ruffians who had been concerned in the murder of Captain Mason, a superintendent of registration. Four of them were captured, tried, and hung by sentence of a vigilance committee.  A LF.TTER FROM PAU says that the ex-Queen of Spain has been requested by the Emperor and Empress to occupy the palace as long aa she thinks proper. It is now supposed that her ex-Majeaty and suite, which isno numerous as to require accommodation out of the chateau, will remain in France for the winter.  AN ALARMING EXPLOSION took place at the Basinghall Gunpowder Mills, Westmorland, on Satan-day. The two mills where the explosion toak place were entirely unroofed, and about 60Ibs. of powder in each mill was destroyed; but an adjoining mill, also containing • charge, fortunately escaped damage. No one was injured.