The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1883-10-19 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE BOARD OF TRADE AND CHEAP  TRAINS.  A. circular has been addressed by the Board of Trade to the principal railway companies of Great Britain with reference to the provisions of the Cheap Trains Act of last session. The Board state that the reduction, and in certain cases abolition, of passenger duty, were made in the belief i.cd trust that the true policy of the companies in the matter of accommodation to poorer classes of society is consistent with the interests of those classes, and that the future would see a continual increase in the accommodation given them. The Board, therefore, request to be informed what accommodation is now provided.  The annual provincial meeting of the Incorporated Law Society opened onTuesday at Bristol. The traffic receipts of the Suez Canal amounted to 140,000 f. on Monday, against 90,000 f. in the corresponding day of last year. The Rev. Dr. Campbell, who has resigned the pastorate of Horton Lite (Bradford) Congregational Church, was on Monday evening presented with several addze-ses and a cheque fur £750, in evtdence of the esteem in which he is held. A Liverpool publican named George Hooton committed suicide on Monday. morning. He left the bar about nine o'clock, and went into the yard in the rear of the premises. A shot was then heard, and on going into the yard Hooton was discovered lying dead, with a pistol by his side, and a wound in his temple from which blood was spurting. The ball had penetrated the brain, and death, of course, was instantaneous. No motive can be  assigned. The progress made with the headings of the Mersey Tunnel last week wee 38 yards; of these 27 were from the BirkenLead side, with Beaumont'a boring machine, and the remaining eleven from the Liverpool side by hand labour. The distance between the two approaching points is now reduced to a trifle over 430 yards, and it is interesting to state that as the rock under the centre of the river i being pierced it continues remarkably sound and dry.  A London correspondent says a ~hento for the Thames has just been prepared and published by a Mr. Saunders, which is of much interest in its relation to somewhat similar proposals in Manchester. Mr. Saunders proposes to shorten the course of the river from London Bridge to Gravesend by 2i miles, by cutting through the neck of the low land opposite Greenwich known as the Isle of Dogs, of which he would make a veritable island He also proposes to make a weir opposite Greenwich, and to place locks there and in his new channel, so that the Thames to Greenwich would cease to be a tidal river, and that portion of the stream would be permanently maintained at about high-water level. He also suggests an arrangement of high and low level bridges, which would meet the demand that is now strong and increasing for such communication in the eastern districts of London. The plan will probably receive attenth) ~ as the circuit of the Isle of Dogs is a cause of mush delay and danger in Thames navigation.  ADVERTISING is undoubtedly a very effective instrument. The power of this mode of gaining publicity 111 enormous.—W. E.