The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1869-09-10 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

TERRIBLE CHARGE AGAINST A COLONIAL BISHOP. —A warrant has been issued against Dr. Twells, the Bishop of Orange Free State, charged with committing an undiscussable offence. The Bishop was absent on a visitation tour to the Transvaal, and his friends asked the public to suspend their judgment until the case had been heard. His chaplain, who has been closely associated with his daily life for years, speaks with the utmost confidence of the Bishop's perfect innocence. When the Cape mail was despatched the apprehension of the bishop had not been effected, but it was expected shortly to take place. The Frontier Mast, of July 24, contains an article which assumes the truth of the charge against the bishop, and plainly indicates the nature of the offence. In the course of its observations that journal says :—The news which the post of Saturday last brought from Bloomfontien concerning the shameless atrocities committed by Edward Twells, bishop of the Episcopal Church in the Orange Free State, was really painful and heartrending. The crime laid to the charge of the bishop we think is of such a nature as to cause the Episcopal Church to lose caste in the South African colonies. We read of atrocities innumerable committed in the lZitti and 14th centuries when thousands of lives have been lost through a false religions frenzy and enthusiasm; we also read that females were dishonoured times out of number by persons wearing the garb of religion awl pretending to be servants of God; the crimes also which are laid to the Reformed Church nnd to the Roman Catholics have at times been startEng and monstrous; but all these, when compered to the one laid to the charge of Bishop Twells, are irlues. Can it be conceived that a person so highly educated, gifted by Providence with powers and advantages over the majority of his followmei2, a person who has spent. the greatest part of his life in the ,rvi7e of relivion—a person ',tiger! to be the governoo of a elterch—shonld be tmiltv of a crime of seek ..nmmnitY. The pnnishment of tlit, offence which it is Itoted Edward Tivells bee committed is, secording to Bernan-Detch law, canita'. tic was the highest digMissy of the .Ephicopal Church in the Orange Free State : to him was entrusted the management of the Church, the appointing of ministers to the different relishes in the state; and when we thing of his abilitie' and pesition, ard then think of the atrocious hi-id to 1”, charge, we stand aghast at its heinQ.511'1.4.4 RIO unnsturalacea.  In a letter acknowledging the receipt of a copy of resolutions passed at a recent meeting in Dublin in favour of an amnesty to political prisoners in Ire. land," Mr. Gladstone states that he will not fail to give his most earnest attention to this important question." The Army and Navy Gazette says :—" We have good reason for believing that, daring the cruise which Mr. Childers in now taking in company with some of the most experienced and intelligent officers in the service he will find leisure, assisted by them, to mature such a scheme of retirement as will be eminently satisfactory to the navy, and, in consequence, to the country."  _ . . _ In Philadelphia, the other day, an insane young man named Marshall H. Evans shot and killed his father, Thomas L. Evans, an old man aged 63, in his own hOuse, No. 806, South Tenth-street, not far from the scene of the famous Twitchell murder. The father was about to leave the house to consult with the family physician regarding the son's condition, and to suggest his removal to an asylum.