The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1870-02-04 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.—In consequence ,f her late indisposition, Queen Victoria will not Dpen Parliament in person.  Dr. Andrew Anderson, president of the Faculty 5f Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, died OD Friday night, in his 63rd year.  - A " Dickensparty" was recently givenin Boston, at which each of the participants was dressed to represent one of Dickns's characters.  It is understood that the third report presented by the Ritual Commision to the Queen is by the pen of the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. The number of wrecks reported during the past week is 45, making for the present year 191. Mr. W. R. Malcolm, barrister, of Lincoln's Inn, his been appointed by Mr. Bright to the AssistantSecretaryship of the Railway department of the Board of trade. It has been decided not to send the 89th Regiment to India this year. The 102nd Fusiliers will, therefore, come home without being replaced upon the Indian establishment.  Lieut.-General F. W. Hamilton is gazette:l to the colonelcy of the 21st Foot, Major-General Bir A.. 1. Lawrence to the colonelcy of the 68th, and Lieut.General Barlow to the ooloneloy of the 108th Foot.  The other day, a man named Peterson, residing at Fergushill, near Irvine, and employed at the oil-works there, committed suicide by dritikinif a large quantity of vitrioL He had been drinking heavily.  The ceremony of the presentation by the Dutch Ministerto the Sultan of the insignia of the Knighthood of the Royal Golden Lion, conferred upon His Imperial Majesty by the King of Holland, took place last week.  Mr. Charles Stewart, for twenty years secretary to the London and North-Western, says that if all the London lines were amalgamated and managed by a central board there would be an annual saying in expenses of £4,000,000.  On; Roman correspondent, in a letter dated last Friday says :—At the FrPnch Embassy they say there is an understanding with the cabinet of the Tuileries that the dogma of infallibility shall not be proclaimed.—Pall Mall Gazette. It seems that Munich is still the head-quarters of Papal bigotry. Kaulbach lately exhibited there picture representing the horrors of the Inquisition. He haa been forced to discontinue the exhibition in consequence of numerous anonymous letters declaring that the work would be damaged if not immediately withdrawn.  A private letter published in the Courtier du Harre states that Berezowski, the Pole, who attempted to shoot the Emperor of Rtillthi In Paris a few years ago, and very nearly succeeded, recently escape from the French penal settlement at New Caledonia. He was, however, recaptured in the course of three or four days, in a complete state of exhaustion, not having eaten anything for 52 hours.  Vice-Chancellor Malins has ordered the windingup of the National Provincial Life Assurance Association, one of the companies incorporated with the Albert, on the petition of an annuitant. The ViceChancellor said he felt bound to follow the precedent established in the case of the Family Endowment Society. There Was also, however, a petition from a policy-holder, on which he refused to make an order.  A serious encounter between police and military took place in the High-street, Edinburgh, on Friday night. The soldiers, while being marched though the city, were incited by a body of roughs to attack the police, and on the latter attempting to disperse the mob, a melee ensued, in which the soldiers used their belts freely against the constables. Three of the soldien (9th Regiment) were taken into custody. Early on Saturday morning one of the most destructive fires that has occurred in Warrington for some time past broke out in the establishment of Mr. lelounfield, upholsterer and cabinet maker, of Buttermarket-street„ Mr. hiounfield calculated that he had about £1,500 worth of goods upon the premises. The amount of the insurance, with the value of the goods saved, was only about £6OO, leaving the estimated damage done at between £1,200 and £1,300. Galignani states that petitions from all tern are being sent to the French Legislative L 7, covered with signatures more or less legible, demanding the suppression, modification, or maintenance of capital punishment; tot capita, tot sew indite. One of them, taken at random say.: " May it please the hon. deputies to adopt the following bill Article 1. The penalty of death is abolished for those who murder. Article 2. It is maintained for those who are so killed." Tii2