The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1868-07-24 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE HALF-YEARLY MEETING of the Liverpool Adelphi Bank (Limited) a dividend at the rate of 73/4 per cent, per annum was declared, carrying forward £1,349.  A BATCH OF NEW PEERS is again talked of, among them being Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, of Keir ; Mr. Baillie Cochrane, of Lamington ; and Viscount Bairington (an Irish peer),. to be made a British peer.  SOME ADVERSE criticism has been excited by the severity of a sentence in a recent " suttee " case at Cawnpore. Fourteen men were transported for life, and thirty for ten years; and eleven others were to be nu. poisoned for five years.  AT CORN, a gentleman on landing from the Helvetia steamer, from New York, had a rifle and two revolvers seized by the police. Other similar seizures have been recently made, and, all passengers landing from America are searched.  ON FRIDAY LAST a few of his old students presented Dr. John Harley, F.R.C.P., with a copy, in silver, of the Cellini vase, bearing an appropriate inscription, on the occasion of his retirement from King's College, London, as lecturer on physiology. THE COMMERCIAL PUBLIC Will learn with regret, not unmixed, perhaps, with a stronger feeling, that the useful bill of Sir Colman O'Loghlen on bank holidays and days of grace will have to be withdrawn this session.  WE UNDERSTAND that the difficulties in the way of appointing a successor to Dr. Parry, who has resigned the Bishopric of Barbadoes, have been removed, and that a co-adjutor bishop (as in the case of Jamaica) will be shortly appointed.  .. -BELGIUM is the only country which bestows a mark of distinction on workmen. It consists of an emblematical trophy on black enamel, surrounded by a line of rel. Its motto is " Habilete, moralite," the nbbon being of the national colours.  ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT: after all almost unexampled drought, the Leeds district was visited with a storm of thunder, followed by showers of rain, which will prove of immense benefit to the scorched earth and the growing crops.  MR. HARRY WALL, a New York theatrical agent, is abeut starting for London for the purpose ol bringing out the three latest American successes, Nobody's Daughter, Under the Gaslight, and The Lottery of Life.  AT THE SWIMMING MATCHES at Belfast Lough, a small boat was run down by a schooner, opposite Hollywood, and seven persons immersed in the water, three of whom were drowned, and another not expected to recover.  THE DOORKEEPER of the Cotonne Vendome has been dismissed with a retiring pension, and is not to be replaced in his valuable functions. Henceforth no one will be allowed to ascend the column, and suicides must be committed elsewhere.  UPWARDS OF 300 'local:nuns of pilchards were caught on the Cornish coast during the past week, which was the first week of the season. Sales at is. 64. to 2s. per six score. Larger commissions than in any previous year have been received from London.  THE ROBES worn by George IV. at his coronation, and which cost the country £lB,OOO, together with the robes of Napoleon 1., the bedstead upon which he breathed his last, and numerous other articles of interest, are now on view at Madame Tussaud's Exhibition. _ _ _  MR. EDMUND YATES, the novelist, and who, it appears, is also a clerk in the General Post-office, has petitioned the London Court of Bankruptcy. the unsecured debts are .26,917. He attributes his insolvency to " insufficiency of income."  DURING THE WEEK new carriages have been put on the Northern Railway at Brussels, which can be used by passengers as cabinets de toilette for each sex. This is purely gratuitous and is very thankfully received by the public.