The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1879-02-21 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

TUE "TIMES."] . . . . . . .  When peace is restored, what, it may be asked, can India want with a huge army? Her people are quiet enough, and it would be confessedly more easy to keep them in obedience with a small force under a light system of taxation than with a large force under a heavy one. The country is to be relieved from all dread of invasion, and at the same time from the troublesome and expensive little wars which were continually breaking out along the frontier we have now passed. The only danger which can be imagined must arise from the armed forces of the native States which are not directly under our control. But for these armies it would not be easy at the present moment to make out a good rai, on d'etre. They are in excess of the police requirements of the districts In which they are maintained, and they are not wanted for any other purpose whatever. If they are put forward as an excuse for keening up a counter force to match them, the plea is, on the face of it, absurd. To allow the existence of a needless army, and then to raise another for the mere ' object of holding the first in check, is a roundabout device, of not, perhaps, the soundest political judgment. The result, however de,irahle, could so very obviously be attained in s more simple way. The case might be met by mutual disarmament, if, indeed, the relations between the two parties admit of the thing being so described. Nor is there reason to call in question the loyal purpose of the semi-independent native rulers. They profess themselves ready to place their troops at the disposal of the Indian Government as often as their services may be called for. Is it too much to Bug. gest that the offer might be accepted en per. manenee, and that the, needless and troublesome distinction between two sets of soldiers in the same,country should be thus brought to an end? The men, from both divisions, would be just as available as ever for the only services they can be called upon to render, and if they were counted henceforth by hundreds instead of by thousands on both sides, there could be no offence given to the susceptibilities of their immediate chiefs. The real difference would be to:the two sets of taxpayers, and it is quite certain that these would not grumble at it.  A TERRIBLII Jolo.—On Saturday morning, at six o'clock, a shocking suicide was committed near Grosvenor square, Loudon, by Mr. Daniel Thomas Green, dining and supper room keeper, Duke street. Deceased, who was 50 years old, had been very strange lately, and tried poison and razors to destroy himself, and the last time the rash deed was prevented. He, however, on Saturday morninr ucceeded in dashing himself out of the window to the street, and from an awful fracImre his blam protruded. Peath was instantaneous.  A new novel entitled "Quaker Cousins," from the pen of Mrs. Macaw:mil, will be issued by Messrs. Hurst and Blackett.  A pamphlet by Ms;or Osborne in defence of the foreign rolicy advocated by the Whig party during the French war is in the press.  "British Cyprus" is the title of Mr. Hepworth plzon's forthcoming work, which is in the press and will be published in a few days, The Rev. A. J. Church is engaged on a volume of Stories from the Greek Dramatists, as a corn. panion volume to his Stories from Homer and Virgil.  Tux