The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1883-01-26 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

ADMIRER.  GENERAL NEWS.  The ports of Revel awl Otles.,a are both closed by  The Berlin police have co:disc:it d a whi.h tvia-ks the Enipro,s Eugouie. Mr. James Leslie has lea appointed Gamut Consular Agent at Fraserburgli in Aberdeenshire. Mr. Ellism, the mnaistrate at ;lie Lambeth Court, who has Leen ill for several eels, ha., sesumed his magisterial duties. The removal of the Russian Court from Gatschioa to St. Peterstaug has given a little more animation to the society of the capital. A young woman named Mary Lewis has committed suicide by throwing herself over the Crtuulin Viaduct, Wales, which is 220 f I. high. The Duke of Portland had, according to the last letters from India, arrived at Bombay, and was in the enjoyment of the best of health. Mr. James Helms, M.P. for Hackney, and Mrs. Helms have left town for Nice, where they will remain until the opening of Parliament. The Marquis of 11 artington has expressed his pleasure at being appointed a Vice-1'1.0.41nd of the Royal Army Coffee Taverns Association. Mr. Donaldson-Hudson, M.P.' has remitted 10 per cent, of the half-yearly rentals to his farmtenants on the Cheswardine estate. Shroush The Duke of Richmond has announced his intention of keeping a pack of foxhounds at Goodwood, to hunt the neighbouring country, which will be given up by Lord Leconfield at the end of the current season. The Earl of March is to be the acting master of the new pack. Details received in reference to the explosion in Puget Sound show that the crown of the boiler of the steamer Josephine shot up through the pilothouse, carrying the wheelman high into tate air, whilst two men totally disappeared. Six others are dead and five injured. Mr. Magniac, M.P., Mr. Whitbread's colleague in the representation of Bedford, has issued an address to his constituents, dated Huelva, Spain. After expressing his regret that it has been necessary for him again to trespass upon their indulgence, he proceeds to discuss political affairs. The Chyobassa, steamship, Capt. Morris, has left Plymouth for Queensland, with 367 souls, equal to 302 statute adults, consisting of 46 married couples, 108 single men, 63 single women, 78 children, and 16 infants in arms. Dr. Beck acted as med cal superintendent, and Mrs. Gunn as matron At Friday's meeting of the Metropolitan Board of Works a deputation attended from an association formed to organise an opposition to tramway schemes proposed for the West End of the metropolis, and after some debate the subject was referred to the Works and General Purposes Committee.  On Friday morning a fireinan named Herbert Fraser, of Skelton, near York, was travelling on a traction-engine between that village and Clifton, when he accidentally slipped and fell underneath the wheels. He was fearfully crushed and bruised, and life was extinct when he was picked up. "Shadow and Sunshlne " is the title of the new four-act drama, written by Mr. R. Palgrave for Miss Bateman (Mrs. Crowe). The central figure in the drama, which, however, is not a one-part piece, is Alice Elmsley, and this character has been designed with a special reference to Miss Bateman's well-known qualifications. The performance of Wagner's " Parsifal " will be repeated next summer at Bayreuth. The performances will last from July 7 to the end of the nionth, but only twelve will be given instead of twenty-four, as originally intended. The Munch orchestra will be employed, and on the wish of King Louis several Munich singers will mlso  appear. At South Stoneham Union, Southampton, the office boy, on cleaning the master's gun, left it with some cartridges. On turning his back another boy inmate, aged 16, appears to have taken up the guu, and the office boy, hearing an explosion, on turning round found his companion lying dead on the floor with the left side of his face shot away. At West Ham, Simon Spratt has been summoned for not handing over a valuable St. Bernard dog to its rightful owner. The defendant said he had found the dog, advertised it, taken out a license for it, and spent about a shilling a day on its food. He considered the £2 offered as compensation insufficient. He was awarded £2 2s. 6d, and ordered to restore the dog. The magazine which Mr. John Morley will shortly become the editor of is ..11nemillan's. Mr. George Grove will retire from the post before the middle of the year. It is highly probable that under Mr. Morley's editorship the ma ,azine will somewhat change its nature, and occupy a middle place between the light and popular periodicals and the heavier monthlies.—Xemches'er Guardian. Arrangements have been made for the election of a Liberal Five Hundred in Lambeth. The cost of establishing the association upon a sound and satisfactory basis is estimated at £2OO. Half this amount has already been promised, and as soon as it is in the hands of Mr. Turner, J.P., the treasurer, the ward meetings for the ele,tion of representatives of the Five Hundred will be made.  The remains of the late Major Colville, who was killed at Tel-el-Kebir, were interred on Friday, in Seale Churchyard, near Aldershot. Two hundred men of the 2nd York and Lancaster Regiment formed the firing party. The bands of the Doz set, York, and Lancaster Regiments were in attendance, and the Ist Cameronians were also present. A man named James Noble, captain of the steamer Aviemore, has been drowned in Penarth Roads. He was going on board his vessel from a boat when he fell into the water. Another man was drowned in the same neighbourhood. On Saturday morning a seaman walked by mistake into East Bute Dock, Cardiff, and was drowned. Scholarships at the Royal Agicultural College, Cirencester, have recently been conferred by the Government of Bengal upon two native gentlemen, one of whom has been lecturer on botany at the Ravenshaw College, Cuttack, and both of whom have lately arrived in London. They were selected from some forty-five cmdidates for these scholar ships. The annual report of the Leeds Public Library, just issued, contains the following very candid paragraph: "The return of issues for 1881-82 shows a decrease upon that of the previous year, which may be accounted for by the improved state of trade in the town' and also by the decision of the committee to discontinue the purchase of threevolume novels." The Imnuicula! o Conceptione, the steam yacht of the late Pio Nono, is attracting considerable attens, tion in steam yachting and shipping circles in London, whither she has found her way for sale. Not the least singular circumstance about her is lhat, although twenty-five ye ;rs old, she is in perfect preservation, and has only made in all the time about nineteen days' actual service at sea under steam. The Era says that Messrs. Holt and Wi'mot, who, as already announced, have secured the lease of the Grand Theatre at Islington (late the Philharmonic), offer a prize of £5OO for the best original drama for their opening attraction. Two dramas are to be selected by competent judges from the