Bridgend Chronicle, Cowbridge, Llantrisant, and Maesteg Advertiser. — 1883-09-21 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

LADY WINDSOR'S DARDEN PARTY  MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.  The Speaker's notice for the issue of a writ for Manchester was published in Tuesday night's Ga:ette. -• •  ----• Mr. T. Payne Collier, the well-known Shakesperian critic, died at Maidenhead on Tuesday, aud 94. Mr Elliott Lees, of Witnborne Minster, Dorset, has been accepted as the Conservative candidate for Droitwich.  A meeting of Yorkshire miners' delegates was held at Barnsley on Monday. It is believed they will ask for a 15 per cent. advance. . . . .  -•••- .--- Sir John Swinburne has declined the invitation of the East Yorkshire Liberal Aasociation to contest the riding at the next election. A gas explosion occurred on Saturday night at a Bible Christian Chapel, Jersey. Five doors and a window were blown out, and two persons injured.  The miners at several collieries near Leicester have given notice for an advance. The colliers of South Leicestershire are expected to follow their example. The funeral of the Irish Lord Chancellor took place on Saturday at Mount Jerome Cemetery. The Viceroy and all the judg,s now in Dublin/oh. lowed in the procession. The body of a young •man with a pistol-shot wound in his neck was found on Saturday night in Denmark Hill tunnel, on the Brighton Railway. The case is supposed to be one of suicide. -  On Monday, at the Dublin Police Court, Alexander : Reilly, aged twenty, was remanded on a charge of , having used threatening language to Alice Carroll, who gave evidence against the " Invincibles."  A man named Vincent was arrested on board a collier in Folkestone Harbour on Monday .1 a charge of murder, committed in France stave months ago. The prisoner admits having deserted from the French Navy.  At Grays, Essex, on Tuesday, whilst a gang of men were moving sonic heavy machinery by means of a powerful travelling crane, the latter toppled right over and crashed down on three of the workmen, injuring them in a terrible manner.  The Dean of Bangor, addressing a meeting at Bangor on Monday, strongly denounced the statement of Mr. Cox, County Court judge, that perjury was universally prevalent in Wales, and expressed regret that the judge should use such intemperate and injudicial language. The Exchequer returns from April Ito September 15 show the receipts to be £313,030,165, and the expenditure £37,530,192 ; balances, £4,717,720. The figures of tho corresponding period of last year were ,—Receipts, £35,233,433 expenditure, £38650396; balances, £3249,081. Nicholas mended  Nicholas Clubberse, aged 40, sailor, was remanded at Dublin on Monday on a charge of having murdered his brother-in-law by stabbing him with a knife in the abdomen during the course of a drunken brawl. Sul,,quently an inquest was held, and a verdict returned "That the deceased died from the effects of a wound inflicted by Clubb-ree." A large meeting of the National League was held at Limerick on Sunday. Father Ambrose, addressing the people, declared that the heart and soul of Ireland was in the present [pavement. The spirit of the Land League, which the resources of civilisation could not put down with the bayonet, was stiff alive. Government reporters were present taking notes of the proceedings.