The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1868-08-07 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

FIRE 011 61.112 day morning at a goods station at Huddersfield. A considerable quantity of merchandise was destroyed.  LAST WEEK at the meeting of the Wesleyan Conference, the Rey. S. R Hall was elected President for the year._  LAMBS have been selling for 108. each, and sheep for 20s. each in the south of England, the farmers having no keep for them. THE LATEST NEWS from Varzin states that Count Bismarck's health continues steadily to improve, although he is often deprived of sleep. MR. JEFFERSON DAVIS contemplates making a trip to Europe as goon SA he recovers sufficiently from the effeats of his recent fall.  Oscmt BECKER, known for his attempt on the life of the King of PriL,sia, is reported to have just died in the hospital of Alexandria in Egypt.  ON SATURDAY a respectably-dressed man, aged about 40 years, committed suicide from Southwarkbridge. His body could not be recovered.  THE QUEEN has been pleased to appoint Captain Charles Bonen Hugh Mitchell, KM., to be Colonial Secretary for the Colony of Honduras.  _ GREAT UNEASINESS prevails about the health of the Queen of Spain, who resides at Santo-Ildefonso, in the strictest retirement.  COAL, it is said, is to be found in any quantity throughout the whole district of Chanda in the Central Provinces (an area of about 600 square miles).  A BOILER EXPLODED at the Bells Mill Colliery OD Friday night, and the fireman, William Shaw, was killed.  A GUNNER named Sheldon has been hanged at Lneknow for shooting and killing a bombardier belonging to the same battery of artillery as himself. THE SHIP CARLSHAVEN, which sailed from New York to Bremen on the 14th of November, has not since been heard of.  No LESS than twelve foreign mail steamers are due at Southampton from the United States during the present month.  THE RETAIL PR/CE OF FLOUR and bread bag been reduced 2d. per peck and id. per loaf at Bir =lngham.  _ IT HAS been decided by the War Department that the Mill wall shield shall be fired at by a shot from the 12-inch gun at a range of 70 yards. MR. CHARLES GREY WSTFIERSPOON, of the Home Circuit, has been appointed Revising Barrister for Mid Kent, and also for Chatham and Rochester.  THE PRINCE IMPERIAL is expected next winter to inhabit the Elysee Palace with an establishment of  -717 Ni. SPANISH GOVERNMENT thinks a revolutionary movement is imminent, and has but little confi• derma in the loyalty of the officers of the fleet. Mn. Du CANE, Conservative member for North FARM; has accepted the Governorship of Tasmania. It Is worth £4,000 a year.  AT A FIRE which broke out at St. Marie, Canton of Etalle, in Luxembourg, 41 home were reduced to ashes.  TH2 SALES OF ENGLISH WHICAT noted last week were 27,993 qrs. at 62a. 9cl, against 26,471 qrs. in 1867. The I ondon averages were 621. sd. on 1,802 qrs. THE Cincinnati Price Current of the 15th ult. states there can be no doubt that ths quantity of wheat gathered in the United States this season will exceed that of any previous year by 20 per cent  A JOINER, named George Mantle, employed In Chatham dockyard, perished while bathing in the yard on Saturday, contrary to orders. He leaves a wife and one child, and the poor woman i 5 now enceinte.  Taw FENIAN "SENATORS ' apparently mean mischief. They have been sitting in secret council at Buffalo, and the doors of their place of meeting were guarded by armed sentinels.  THE PUBLIC -HOUSE KEEPERS of Roscrea, county Tipperary, have, at the solicitation of the Roman Catholic clergy of the town, pledged themselvN snot to sell intoxicating drinks on Sundays. THE MORTAL REMAINS Of Lord Cranworth were on Friday deposited in the churchyard of Keaton, a retired village a few miles beyond Bromley, in Kent, and close to his lord,hip's seat, flolwood.park. THE New York Tribune begs Miss Rye to send out a few hundred thousand servant girls to the United States. The abolition of slavery has, it says, raised the price of all labour, and especially of domestic servants. AT THE SALE at M. Cheri's establishment in Paris of M. Fasquel's stud last week, the stallion Fortev Brea, sire of many winners, ~as sold for 400 Bova, and Charlatan for 124 Bova.