The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1884-10-03 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

ETY GOSSIP.  (From Tito World.)  The accident to Madame Nilsson, reported in several pacers, amounts to this: On Saturday afternoon Madame Nilsson &Love in a hansom to , the American Exchange for some business transaction; not far from there the horse slipped and fell so violently that the driver was thrown down, and Madame Nilson was thrown forward, and catching hold of the side-guard of the cab, sprained her wrist, and would probably have fallen out of the oab, had not a policeman with great rapidity jumped forward and supported her. She than leaned back in the cab, as a big crowd assembled, and she insisted on being driven to her place of business, where, after a short time, she fully recovered. The suicide of young Rubinstein (not the Rubinstein, as, with determinate incorrectness, so many French and English papers reported) at Lucerne caused a great deal of excitement in the little town especially as it was also spread about there that it was the maestro himself who had taken hie life. The unfortunate man was a distant connection of the composer, and was an excellent pianist ; but with thighs was not satisfied, and desired to 1m himself a composer. His failure to become one, and the miseries of an unsuccessful career, led to suicide. The loss of the gunboat Wasp with her fifty souls seems to be this to negligence. I shall not, in view of the court-martial, attempt to fix responsibility. That tribunal must decide whether a mistake had been made in her reckonings, or cross currents and heavy seas had drifted her landward. But the evidence of the survivors is likely to throw little light upon the disaster, though they may remove the painful impressions created by their incomplete statements to newspaper correspondents as to the measures taken to preserve life when it was found the gunboat must go down. The evidence of experts should be most interesting reading, and the Admiralty general order to economise coal may be shown in this to be mistaken parsimony. Prince Bismarck has been going in strongly for artificial pisciculture during the last three years at Friedrioluiruhe, and every stream and lake on or near his estate is now well stocked with fish. The Prince has an extensive breeding establishment at Grande, near Friedrichsruhe, from which 10,000 young trout have lately been sent out to neighbouring waters. He obtained a large stock of trout from the celebrated ponds at Wolfsbriinnen, near Heidelberg, which are, or at least which ought to be, well known to many of my readers. James Talon, the Dublin car-driver and carowner, had the honour of •'rowling " about the streets of Dublin the Baroness Burdett-Coutts and her husband as they drove about to see the sights of Ireland's capital. He took good oars of his fares, as he always does, and the Baroness presented her Jahn with a five-pound note. Not to be outdone, Talon went off incontinent to Lafayette's, to be photographed, and sent the Baroness his portrait.  (From 7'notA.) Another Billingsgate abuse! A fish-porter was drowned one day last week whilst lauding a cargo from a steamer. Four other porters also fell into the water, which was hardly surprising, seeing that they had to walk from the steamer to the quay with the boxes of fish on their backs, along a narrow plank. Similar accidents, it appears, often take place, as the swell of passing vessels naturally causes the planks to wobble, if not to fall bodily into the water. Seeing that the Corporation makes a profit of something like £IO,OOO a-year out of Billingsgate, I quite agree with the coroner's jury that it is " scandalous" of the Market Committee not to prevent such "accidental deaths" by providing proper landing arrangements. It was proposed to employ Baker Pasha in connection with Lord Wolseley's expedition to Egypt, but the project was peremptorily vetoed by the Queen. I hear that her Majesty took advantage of the opportunity to announce that her decision on this subject is unalterable, and, therefore, she wishes to hear no more about it. The personages who urged in favour of General Baker were sharply snubbed. _  The Bishop of Lincoln has been ordered to abstain from all work for the next three months. Dr. Wordsworth hopes to be able to resume his duties in Januarv,•but if he then finds that he is unequal to the Work of the diocese, he will at once make arrangements to resign his See. I hear that the Crown Princess of Germany has gone away declaring that she enjoyed nothing so mush during her visit to England as the conversations which she had with Air. Gladstone at Balmoral on the congenial subjects of literature and art, and especially about pictures and china, in both of which this accomplished Princess is almost as well versed as the Prime Minister himself. The Crown Princess gave Mr. Gladstone a hearty invitation to Berlin and Potsdam as soon as he can obtain leisure for a long holiday. A Mr. Manning had an unwelcome lesson in Mansion House justice last Friday. He is a contractor, and happened to pass down Farringdon Street at the moment when a carman in his service, named Norman, was grossly ill-using one of his horses. Having seen Norman strike the horse four violent blows on the nose with his clenched fist, Mr. Manning interfered, and stopped the fifth blow by striking the carman. Both parties consequently appeared at the Mansion House, when the Lord Mayor, of whom I should have expected batter things, fined Norman five shillings and Manning ten. At the Mansion House, therefore, a cowardly assault on a horse is measured at about fifteenpence a blow, while a single blow in defence of the horse costs half-a-sovereign. Lord Fife has rented the shooting on Mr. Craven's estate in Cambridgeshire for the season.