The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1878-06-14 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE CABINET AND THE CONGRESS. Lord Beaconsfield and Lord Salisbury are to represent England in the Congress, or rather, they are to wield the power of England in the Congress; but as to representing England, that would be difficult, for they have given England no opportunity of knowing what policy they are going to support, and it is impossible for them to say whether or not that policy is approved by the country. They go to the Congress as completely without consulting the nation, as completely free of Parliamentary engagements, as the Chancellor of Russia or the Foreign Minister of Turkey. The dissolved Turkish Parliament will not have less real influence over the Turkish Ministers at the Congress than the sitting English Parliament will have over the English Ministers there. They will take part in an assembly chiefly consisting of the representatives of personal monarchies, and if they are controlled from home at all, it will be, in all probability, much more by their Monarch than by their Legislature. Lord Derby—who, whatever his faults, was thoroughly Constitutional— being once got rid of, each successive step taken has been taken almost in scorn of the Houses of Parliament, which talk so much and effect so little. Lord Beaconsfield has broken through all precedents to go and lord it at the Congress as the great personal equivalent of England, and undoubtedly it will be as the great personal equivalent of England, and not as her great Parliamentary chief, that he will be there. If Parliament knows its own mind on the Eastern question at all—which, under the circumstances of the holm' opathic doses of information vouchsafed to, it, does not seem very likely—it is certain that Lord Beaconsfield does not know its mind, and ' does not care a jot what it is. He is master of the' situation, and master of the situation he will remain, till he has posed in the German capital as the mouthpiece of a country whose wishes he himself dictates. He has, in any case, given a sharp lesson to the English statesmen of the future in , the art of hoodwinking, while pretending to consult, the representatives of the people, and of I gradually superseding sudbringing into somethine like contempt, the great Constitutional .principles which have made England what she is.—Spertoter.l  Yorrnrci, StUCIDES. The neighbourhood of Nottingham is getting somewhat notorious for suicides by young persons. Within a few weeks a girl of sixteen and a boy were reported to have made assay with themselves. Now we have tht account of a girl of twelve drowning herself in canal at Newark. Efforts had been made to get the girl admitted into the Jersey School, but then failed, and poor Elisabeth Wostenholme became much dejected in consequence. She stayed oui for a night, and next day was seen taking oil bei jacket by the canal, but upon being observed slit lot it on again. The jacket and tie vere afterwards found, however, at the same spot, and the child's body was dragged out of the usual several days afterwards. An open verdict was returntd.  Lord Ebury opened a coffee tavern at Pinner a few days since, in the presence of a very large number of the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, Mr. W. Barber, of Barrow Point, who has bad the building erected at a cost of £l2OO, afterwards entertained 400 working people at tea in his grounds.  At the Surrey Sessions, last week, William Spencer, a stonemason, was sentenced to five years' penal servitude for maliciously wounding a woman named Mary Ann Bedford by striking her a violent blow and destroying dna of her eyes. The chairman regretted that he could not pass a heavier sentence.  It is understood that Mr. Mackonochie intends continuing to officiate, unless the Bishop of London dislodges him by force. He will then offieiate in the S eters' Chapel, behind St. Alban's, .shea rumour says it has long been his practice to receive the sacrament. The other services he mill (viaduct j&j Qv 14001.