The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1879-07-11 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.-A SAD TALE.  At the Liverpool Police Court, before Mr. Clarks &spinall, Lucy Williams, eighteen years of age, hat been charged with having att ded to commit , suicide by cutting her throat.— .ee-constable 756 stated that, leaving been informed that a woman had attempted to commit suicide by cutting her throat, he proceeded to Travis Street, and found the prisoner there with a wound in her throat, and removed her to the East Dispensary, where the wound, which the surgeon said was not a serious one, was dressed by Dr. Limerick. The prisoner then stated that she had been brought away from Bristol by a man who represented himself to be unmarried. She went with him in a ship from Bristol to Cardiff, where they left the ship. Having but little money he and she walked from Cardiff to Bristol. The other week they started from Bristol to Liverpool, and she then ascertained that he was married and lived in Premier Street. She was completely astounded by the discovery, and did not know what she was doing. She regretted what she had done, and would return to Bristol if she were discharged.—A woman stated that the prisoner, who was accompanied by a man, had asked her to direct sec to lodgings, and she allowed her to remain at her house in Travis Street that night. The man called m the following day, and promised to pay the witness for the girl's accommodation.—A person of respectdile appearance, who said her name was Mrs. Dobinan, and that she was the wife of the man referred to and had six children, stated that she had sent V to her husband to enable him to come home, end that his brother-in-law had also sent him money, which he must have misspent. She believed that the 4irl and her husband had walked from Bristol to Liverpool. The witness had repeatedly asked her husband to let her know where the girl was, in order that she might make some reparation to her, and when he told her that the girl Lived in a house in Pravis Street, she made inquiries there and had written to the girl's friends in Bedminster, but had not received an encouraging reply.—Mr. Aspinall spoke in terms of commendation of the kind conduct of Mrs. Dobinan, and said that he would remand the case, the girl to be in the meantime taken to the workhouse, with a view to her complete recovery, and in order that further inquiries might be made with the object of rendering her some assistance.—A gentleman in , court, a missionary, who attends daily, also promised , to interest himself in the girl's behalf,  The liovernor-ueneral ot Canada and the Prineese Louise are about to make a tour in the United States, on which the Marquis will write a book, to be illustrated by his wife. The former has given a commission to a firm at Troy to build two saloon ears for him—one a sitting room and the other a smoking room—at a cost of £3,000.' and these will be used for the American tour, and also for the purpose of a Viceregal trip which it is proposed to make in Ontario.  A War Office order just issued directs that conductors of supplies and conductors of stores, being warrant officers and senior to all non-commissioned officers, they will supply the place of subaltern officers when required, but they will not sit as members of courts of inquiry or on regimental boards. When their numbers are not sufficient to enable them to form a separate mess for themselves, they will be at liberty to become honorary members of sergeants' messes. They will take post as officers on all parades, but will never salute.  The Rev. J. G. Beresford, rector of Bedale, North Yorkshire, considers that he has been "held up to public odium" for having refused the burial service tn case of anunbaptised young woman, and has asked the Bishop of Ripon to state authoratively whether he has exceeded his duty. Tho Bishop has replied that the burial service of the Church of England cannot legally be read over any person who has not been baptized, and that Mr. B'eresford would have been guilty of an eceleaiastioal offence had he read tin psvito ovOr Um pawn reistral to.