The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1866-07-13 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

HAY MARKETS.,..,. _  I Cumberland. Whitechape'. a. d. e. d.l i. d. N. d. d. a. d. Meadow Hay 90 0 tolla 0 90 Oto 115 0 88 0 to 115 0 Clover Straw 3BO 45 01 40 0 45 el 38 0 as o  A Warm Reception.—A curious case has jamb been brought before the Correctional Court of Metz on appeal. On the night of the let of April last a young man of dissipated character, named Meyer, having clambered over some palings on the premises of one &hits, an inkeeper, near Sarregneminee, endeavpnred to enter, by the aid of a ladder, the bedroom occupied on the first floor by Sehitz'a daughter, a girl of fourteen, when the latter awoke, and ran to inform her father. Sehitz, being convinced from former acts that Meyer must be the person, armed himself with a doublebarrelled gun, and waited in her room for the aggressor. The latter soon recommenced his attempt, on which the father, wishing to give him an opportunity for escape, fired in the air. But the other, far from abandoning his design, persisted; Schitz then fired again, and hit the trespasser in the face and left arra. Meyer, the next day, preferred a charge before the local court of Sarregnemines, which at once dismissed the complaint. An appeal was then brought before the Tribunal of Metz, but that court confirmed the former decision, and acquitted &hits.  Dartag Outrage and Garotte Robbery.—At the Thames Polioe.oolart, Jeremiah Cronin, 21, and James Coleman, 20, labourers, were brought up on remand, charged with violently assaulting Mr. W. Brown, mate of the ship Eek, and stealing from his person a silver watch chain, value ..el. A few nights since the prosecutor was suddenly attacked in Princes,. square, Ratchff.highway. by the prisoners and another man. They knocked him down, and one of them seized him by the throat. He called out "Murder!" and " Polioe ! " and made a determined and valiant resistance. His watch and chain were taken from him by force. He seized Cronin, and hung to him, and the chain was taken out of Coleman's hand. Assi.tance was readily afforded by several respectable inhabitants, and the prisoners were secured. Their confederate has not yet been taken.—The case was clearly made out against the prisoners. They are desperate thieves, and have been summarily convicted several times.— They treated the matter with great indifference.—Mr. Paget committed them for trial.  -- - Loan Societies.—The annual abstract of the accounts of loan societies in England and Wales shows that at the end f the year 1865 they had £5lB ,806 ha the hands of borrowers. In the course of that year there were 181,171 applications for loans, and 170,318 loans were made. The sums paid in the year for forms of application and for inquiry amounted to £10,435, and adding to this the amount paid for interest the gross profits of the year reached .453,509. The expenses of management wore £21.315, and the interest paid to depositors or shareholders .£32,859, and these payments left for net profits of the }ear £6,391. 13,203 summonses wore issned in the year for some amounting to £31,586, and 2,101 distress warrants were issued. Tha boirowers or their sureties paid .£2,300 for costs. The loan societies in the metropolis are in moss instances upon a small scale. In Yorkshire there are handsset e societies cos f with borrowers;s,ooofBb.,l3thBo,Nanoidtinegvhen...£l.ln,oood Henley noy tito have a loan seciety, with £14,000 lent out; in Bit. mingham there is one with £20,000 in the hands of the borrowers.