The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1875-01-29 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE FUTURE OF INDIA. Ihe Times, referring to uord Salisbury's Manchester speech, says: "India is, without doubt, governed conscientiously, and with a laudable desire to promote in all possible ways the welfare of its teeming millions, but Lord Salisbury appeared to conclude his speech with an admission that something was wanting. He looks for a time when 'the ancient and secular torpor' of the east shall be awakened by a communication of the energy of the north, and he even aspires for 'a sense of community of nationality' between the Imperial and the subject races. We are a very long way off the future thus anticipated, and, if it is ever to be realised, it must be by the introduction of a spirit into the government of India, which has not hitherto been traced in it. We must, indeed, aim at transforming the relations of domiLent and subject races into an equal citizenship. Is this the end for which Lord Salisbury is working? If so, we shall watch his progress with interest, but we shall have to confess that, if there is never to be noted a brea: 07! gauge' in the government of India, there may be a transcendent& rupture of Ltinuity."  The directors of the London Gas Light Company have decided to reduce the price of common gas to 4s. per 1000 cubic feet from the end of the current  quarter. A Board of Trade inquiry held at Hull. into the loge of the steamer Alpha, suspended for twelve months Captain B,obson's certificate for incompe-i  _ trot seamanehip. The bicycle race of 25 miles, between the Hon, John Keith Falconer, of Trinity College, Cambridge. and Mr. H. P. Whiting, came off on Monday, at Lillie Bridge, and was won by Mr. Whiting by 100  yards. FATAL FIGHT BETWEEN Boys Two boys, n.med Duncan and Wood, quarrelled while crossing the river Dee, at Aberdeen, two daya ago, when Wood gave Duncan a severe blow on the stomach. Duncan died on Sunday. an? Wood is now in ens tody. The Counte-s of Carnarvon died on Monday morning about eight o'clock. The deceased was the only daughter of the late Earl Chesterfield, and was in her forty-first year. The Queen telegraphed after midnight on Sunday-making inquiries as to her ladyship's condition. Mr. Macdonald, M.P., speaking at Glasgow on Monday, on the South Wales lock-out, said the men were reasonable in proposing arbitration. The masters showed neither fair play nor common sense in their actions. He thought that English min re were in a better position than .Scotch  miners. Mr. Serjeant Ballantine has been retaioed by Messrs. Lattey and Hart, of Gresham House, on' behalf of the Guicowar of Baroda, who is to be tried at Bombay on or about the 15th of February next. The fees given to the learned serjeant amount, it is said, to 10,000 guineas ; and it may be added that his H:ghnees is fortunate in thus securing the services of so eminent & counseL—London Telegraph. The dispute between the employers and the citeratives in some of the fine spinning mills consequent upon the operation of the new Factory Act is now practically at an end in Manchester. The demand of the piecere that the masters should pay the former rate of wages, so that they should not be losers by the shortened hours of work imposed by the Act, have been, as we are informed, generally accectld to, and to-day all the hand% have returned to work —Manchester Guardian. In reference to the murder of Richard Moran, who wa- found dead in his house at Kilbeggan, county Westmeath, with h:s head battered and hacked by a billhook, it is stated that the crime may prove to be agrarian in its character. About two years ago Moran took the small farm on which he resided, and shortly afterwards a shot was fired at himself and his wife. It took effect on his wife. and he subsequently obtained from the Grand Jury, under the Peace Preservation Act, a presentment for &considerable sum as compensation. SUICIDE OF A BANKER'S CLERK AT DEWSMonday morning, Mr. Chas. Robinson, clerk at. the West Riding Union Bank, Dewsbury, committed suicide by shooting himself. Deceased, it appears, was 28 years of age, and for some time past had only been in a delicate state of health, but had not called in any medical man to see him. On Saturday night he retired to rest at about 10 o'c ock, apparently in his usual state of health. The deceased did not get up as usual, and his mother WI nt to call him at eight o'clock, and was horrified to find him on the bed undressed, and quite dead. The deceased appears to have shot himself in the left aide. A six-barrelled revolver was found lying near. No reason can be assigned for .he rash act. Last evening an inquest was held on the body, when it was shown that tles deceased was of highly sensitive nature, and that e entertained doubts as to his competency for the situation l'e held. The jury returned a verdict tc the effect that at the time of the suicide he was of uniound mind