The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1868-09-18 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

FRI. 811 DISTURBANCE among the natives is reported from New Zealand, occasioned, as is supposed, by the escape and return to their tribes of some Maori prisoners. THE COLONY OF VICTORIA received and sent by the Peninsular and Oriental mail steamers, during the mouth of May last, 76,518 letters, 2,181 book packets, and 137,954 newspapers.  M. HENRI ROCHEFORT la about to be prosecuted cx officio by the Belgian Government for his attacks on qv Emperor of the French. The trial is to take place `nerore tbe Court of Assizes.  A YOUTH named Alfred Butterfield, aged 16 years, collier, committed suicide in the house of Ws parents at Northowram, near Halifax, on Sunday, by hanging himself from the bedpost.  - FROM the lot of October the Bavarian army, now completely re-organised, will be divided into two distinct army corps, the general quarters of which will be established respectively at Munich and Wurzburg. BY THE DEATH of Mr. George Morgan, which took place a few days ago, the office of official assignee in the Court of Bankruptcy at Manchester has become vacant.  REPORTS from southern and western Irish counties say that the present weather has put it beyond doubt that the "poor man's harvest" in the remoter districts will be as favourable as the harvest Is in Ireland generally. _ _  FORMOSA won the St. Leger on Wednesday, Paul Jones coming in second, and Mercury third. Fordham's proverbial ill-luck attended him on this cc. casion, for be came to the post with the second horse, Challoner bringing in the winner. A SHOCK OF EARTHQUAKE was felt on the coast of New South Wales on the 18th June. The Sgdney Morning Herald says that the motion does not appear to have been violent, or to have been perceived by a large proportion of the population. A LADY INFORMS THE Leamington Chronicle that she has recently seen the humming bird in Staffordshire, Cheshire, and Warwickshire. The plumage was of a reddish brown, speckled upon the back with white.  THE PRINCESS CLOTILDE and her children are staying in the Pyrenees. The mot on the Boulevards is that her Imperial highness has only toe great cause to give her husband the title of Prince pion sort (Consort) —the prince who is always being sent abroad.  . Tag MEDICAL COLLEGE FOR WOMEN, established by the Female Medical Society to teach the theory and practice of midwifery, and the accessory branches of medicine, will commence its sth annual session on October Ist, 1868, at 4, Fitzroy•square.  Triz PARSONs' converted rifled 8-inch gun (originally a cast-iron 68-pounder) has been fired at Shoeburyness with heavy charges of 3011 s. of powder and 150Ib. projectiles, and has endured 31 rounds without Injury. TWELVE CARS of freight were recently taken from New York to the present termination of the Pacific line, 1,200 miles west of Chicago, a distance of about 2,100 miles from the starting point, without transhipment. IN THE LAST FOURTEEN TEARS nearly 4,000 aliens, an average of 283 a year, have obtained certifi• catea of naturalisation from the Secretary of State for the Home Department, wider the provisions of the Act of 1844. ItIORENG, an Italian adventurer, offers to the United States an Wand in Asian waters. He modestly asks that a ship of war be sent to the island under his direction : if the agents of the Government are dissatisfied they need int purchase.