The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1881-10-21 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

GENERAL NEWS.  Glean county in lexao, nan two MUM acres ••• u•k wropmted land  appointment of an Aul/lican Minister at fiur• .1 1. expected to be made very shortly.  viailora to the Tower of Lond,vn last year pai. tcce .4 Vll4it the jearei-honee US much at £2,1 in \Vaahington eight men are kept busy ic photographic gallery making portrait, of Guit.,.l lOr  and provisions are, according to a Bootot,. journal, 16 per cent. higher in that city than tt3 ear ago.  In Um tinancialyeerenoed March 31 her Majeety's btatiooery (Mice reelieed £14,824 16e. 4ci. from the este of treaty."  if err von Sick, who has been Minister of the Interior in Wurtemberg since 1872, has died at Btuttgsrt, of peritonitis. Lord Selborne is fast recovering frees his &Stark (.1 nervous exhaustion and debility, and is regain. nic Arength rapidly.  Ihe amount of fees received from candidates Fit tre t niversity of London in the last financial year atnotosted to £7,267 14. Id. Compainta come from the cornfields in some section', ot North Carolina that groat injury is being Mii‘• by thousands of squirrels that have appears. in  Every Presidential contest in the United States bnngs into action no less than 125,000 oftice-holders, alit,e retention of their places depends upon the ;scurry of their party. 'file Union states that the school founded at Can. tertiary by Pere du Lac and the other Jesuite expelled Irvin their Pane premises last year has more than lOU French pupils. M. Masse, chief judge of the Civil Branch of the o,llf de Cassation, Paris, and one of the leading Ft, itch jurists, has died of apoplexy. lie uses uesanl3 -tour years of age. Is directors of the Bristol Tramway Company, titer twelve nionths' trial of steam locomotives n one branch of their system, have resolved to abandon at sin and resort to horses.  The Watch Collimates of the Sheffield Town Gmancil has .I.oolog to pay a vita to Cheeterecio, t..f or to P.. the electric light there, with a view aiicertain its adaptability for street lighting. John J. Cole and lieorge John Owen have beea env. I.L for tr,al 18.0, Street, London, charged le-oic concerned in defrauding t. a Post °oleo u• opwarue of £l,OOO by weans of forged orders.  'ill.. lae Ukk., • young Isdy now living ii Sysarnar, le an acconapinnual arnbilact. Sho • 00,, the at rn macttual coin., at euruall .if WI OF tig bur ail lot Lusa* yenta in  r.. 1 respondent hears that the Fair Trade gleatiy in si.ed ot tunde—.o worn onle.• euoet iptions are speedily forthcoming, •••• pima, IVI ILL IVIIILIsr CAI% rigu will tusv• to be is ..andmied.  A letAwring man, named Nye, living in Clerken. 0,4 i, hos, niter srverari efovoi MI Law.) 1,1.0 wog'slilt., boon cooanot Lod for trial on the charge of nayo.K souseO the death of hot mother by teamand Om on s .0118 omisions but. mouth.  lilt, statement that Mr. Arthur's sister, Mrs. 111 't..troy, of Albany, would preside at tie White Is coniradi nod, it is said, by her husband, Who Nays htML It is not at all likely that any such 411/Inge/Unlit Hill be made. Judge Jamieson, of the Chicago Criminal Court, amiiessing the tirand July on grain gambling, 14..4,041 that the laws against such operation@ must 1..- enforced, and instructing Vein to indict all buncorned in Li,. prevailing comer." the Council of the Statistical Society has again drcided to grant £2O to the writer who may gain the ilowsrd àiedai in November, 1882. The subject tor oumpetilooh is the state of the prisons of b.dtgland and Wales in the llith century.  U. Waiujeff, the president of the Russian Min. istenal Committee, who is accused of the (Dustinlent sale of a mine, is nut yet arraigned, a commi•vsion having, as a preliminary measure, been appointed to enquire Imo the charge against him. it ie said that although both the sons of the Prince ot Wales are receiving a naval education, the eidest—Piince Albert Victor—will ultimately be appoinissi to a commis/ on in the army; the ,oungest—eriimie George—being destined for the navy.  The ilthenawris elates that Mr. Fawcett haa ready for the prem. a new ediciva of his •.Pres• Trade ami Protectitin," in which he has disensaad the mote remelt development el l'rotection in ureign codeine', and the Fair Trade inurement in Euglani.  The departure of Colonel Mitchell, C.M.G., from Natal will be delayed, owing to the preaeut (balcony with the Boer. and &taut, Sir Evelyn Wood being very aitlioue that the colonel ehoula not leave the colony at a time when his service/ may be of *uch great value. Speaking at St. Alban'. Diocenin Conference, Sir ftelwin Ibbetoon, advocated the attlenatuu of the meanies tot investing entail savtngi, amid sugpotted the estabinhuteut of Pnit Qlh,ø Savitt;,:s in every vnloge, to ouuntoritet the aLtritotiun 01 pubbi.-hou so. After a earmou preached at Erning, nee:Newmarket, in What' ut Addenbrcolte's Hospital, a prreet, most carelully and elaborately dune up. ere oared in the 1•111111-611 X. Ihrtwar ly it aWe; when opened It was found to contain eight* awd- forty faulltuatis.  More than 160 prize essays on "Life Assurance" have been reseived, and are now in the hewn, of the adjudicators fur their decision as to whir shall ie. ceivs the priVi of .Cloo for Lae best away, fitii ir the second, .ud tau tor the third, by the Kquilaule Lae Awurance Society. N'ire men, charged at the Southwark Police Court with carrying on a *Greta lottery by s fling packet* at lowest." tut a peuny, and putiing other wise in none of the bags containing the oweetuniata, which tiny acre extensively patronised by a WU. (*women. pilule) an South...di, have been teach hued 4Ue.  It has been decided that under any circumstances it ie Arsons, le to retain the SW I lkial•ci 1W 0 cevairy regiments in Natal until •ttsars a wore eel. Lied aspect, anti the 10ut...L.1in./ 1/trgoone and 7th klr.esur• will re ion 113 Inc ootony. even should tun inuptreed reductwn trte bot.:4h wive tuxtbr Sir E, .1)0 W \NW • 0: usuirad Do carried Out.  In Bradford, the Irish have denounced lar.Ferster as is tranor, and pledged themselves to oust him at the Arid opportunity. The result of the rariosiiirniary revision, however, shows that over WO lush elestors have been struck off the regiater ju ooiissajmnce of their having during the past year, owing to the state ot trade, applied tor suit received paruoulal relief. The Union Steamship Company have entered into a contract with Slaws. Aitken and filansel, of tibusgow, to build another steamer for the Cape of Hood Hope mail service, which the Union Steamship Company has now conducted for twenty-tour years. Tut with make the fifth large steamer being built for the Union Steamship Company at, tlie present time. The number of suicides in France in 1879, the last year tor w.iich statistics have been issued, is 6,41ni, dr an increase Of 62 over the previous year.