The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1881-07-15 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

EPITOME OF NEWS. Notices. ... Mr Mpew has withdrawn from the contest foe . i paella tittle th. of New York State. A. ;Ulm l'tilA is announced of the Rev. Henry Octeems Core, Bodleian Librarian, at the age of 70. I'll.. death of Count Paul de Saint Victor, the French literary and art critic, is announced. Kilrush, on Saturday, Patric Brien, a miller, Cooraelare, was arrested under the Coercion Act. A Departmental Committee has been appointed for the purpose of reorganising the Chancery Audit Office. Marshal von Moltke will shortly proceed from his Silesian estate to Gastein, where he will meet the Emperor. Tr', French Senate has voted the supplementary credit of 14,000,000 francs for the Tunisian expedition. A marble bust of the late Lord Lawrence by Mr. Woolner has been placed by his family in Wester Abbey. There is great joy in the Fatherland at the finding of the missing steamer Vandalia, with her living fre.ght of emigrants. The experiment of the Passion players in the secular drama has, according to the Allgenteita Zcitmny, been a decided failure. The Stamford understands that the Under-Secretaryship of State for the Colonies will probably be offered to Mr. W. E. Baxter. A general exhibition of photography will take place at Frankfort-on-the-Main in August. The photographers of England are invited ta assist. A new drama by Messrs. Paul Merritt and Augustus Harris is announced for production at Drury Lane after the departure of the bleiningen company. A commercial traveller named Godkin has been committed for trial, at the Southwark Police Cowl, on a charge of uttering a forged order for a chequebook. The Beatrice Company will shortly appear for fortnight, at the Olympic Theatre, producing there a eomestic drama from the French, new to London playgoers. The Preston and District Weavers' Association has issued an address to the operatives, stating that trade has materially improved, and that there is • demand for operatives. It is dated that the Japanese colony in Paris is about to have a pagoda constructed in which to perform their devotions. The Yokohama pagoda will be taken as a model. Owilig to the continued depression in trade' a movement has been set on foot in Dundee to place the spinning mills on short time, by closing them entirely on Saturday. Seven gentlemen have been struck out of the Commission of the l'eace for Boston, for being implicated in corrupt practices at the last l'arlumnentary election for that borough. The arrangement by which Mrs. Scott Siddons was to have taken possession of the Haymarket Theatre during the absence of Mr. and Mrs. Bag. croft has fallen through. The various vestries and district boards have been invited to appoint delegates to consider the Government Water Bill directly it has been introduced into the House of Commons. Mr. Henry Irving hai consented to preside at the next annual dinner of the Royal General Theatrical Fend, which will take place at the Freemasons' Tavern on Friday, the 29th July. The Wyoming, from Liverpool, landed 800 Mormon emigrants at New York last week. They are chiefly Scandinavians and Danes but there are among them a few English and Wash. At the Portsmouth Police Court, a groom, named Bennett, was committed for trial to the Quarter Sessions on a charge of forcibly abducting a e.Mld six years old, the daughter of a railway guard. About 200 persons employed in theatres were entertained to a substantial tea in the Lower Hall, Exeter Hall, London, the other afternoon. Lord Radstock, Mr. Forbes, and others addressed the meeting. Monsignor Cataldi is expected in Paris on a private mission from the Vatican. It is believed that ha will represent to the French bishops the impolicy of identifying themselves too much with the Legitimist party at the coming elections. At Bristol, Robert Taylor has been fined £5 and costa, or a month's imprisonment for endeavouring to persuade a stamen not to proceed to sea in the steamer Brooklyn City, after he had signed articles, and was in the ship leaving the docks. We understand that the new block of barracks which has been for some time under course of erection at Newcastle-on-Tyne are nearly completed, and will shortly be taken over by the lot and lird Brigade DepOt.—Army aad -Vary Gazette. On Saturday afternoon Mr. Fade backed his eel'. heated retriever bitch, Now Then to swim from thu suspension bridge at Chelsea to London Bridge in two hours. The animal accomplished the distance in one hour five minutes nineteen seconds. At Faversham, Edward Martin, jun., the solicitor's clerk who recently attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat at Sheerness, has been committed for trial on the charge of embezzling over £5O, the money of his employer, Mr. H. Bathurst, solicitor, Faversham. Mr. Francis Ottiwell Adams, First Secretary of Embassy at Paris, will (the Daily News understands) succeed Mr. Hussey Vivian as MinisterResident at Berne. Mr. Adams will, it is believed, be succeeded by Mr. Plunket, now First Secretary of Embassy at St. Petersburg. A breach of promise of marriage action bas been tried at York, in which the plaintiff was Bliss Harriet Selina Aldridge, and the defendant, Mr. Henry Bennett, a grocer and provision dealer, of Bridlington. The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff, and assessed the damages at 1.:200. The second annual raee for the Crystal Palace Challenge Cup, distance ten miles, was decided in the grounds at Sydenbam, on Saturday, and the Sutton Bicycle Club, represented by C. Crute and F. Allport, were the winners, beating the London Bicycle Club. A one-mile open handicap fell to C. Crete.  . E. JONES, (Late Jones and )i'Lean),