The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1868-03-20 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE BREECH-LOADING Small Anus Committee have made their report upon the competition of rifles, and have awarded the second prize to Mr. Henry. The first prize is withheld, and the question of cartridges Is still under trial.  MR. H. READWEIL, who had backe4 his mare "Poll" to trot five miles in harness, within 20 minutes, for a stake of £25 a side, has performed his task, at Wimbledon, and won the match with one-and-a-half minute to spare.  itusBuc4 VESSE,S I;ave recommenced conveying Cretan families to Greece. The Greek steamer Crete has made another successful run to Candle with clothes, ammunition, and provisions, and has returned to Syra. .  PRIVATE TELEGRAMS it 1.9 reported have been received at Vienna, stating that the Powers are negotiating for a settlement of the Cretan question at a Conference of Ambassadors held at Constantinople with the assent of the Porte. THE DEATH is announced of a Welsh bard, Morgan Owen, at the age of 80. it is stated that he had never been more than four miles away from home, had never written a letter during his life, neither had he ever received one.  AT LANCASTER, Mr. Nicol, manager of the niaaliburn branch of the Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, has been convicted of forgery, and sentenced to fifteen mouths' imprisonment with hard labour. ,  DURING THE LAST WEEK a hen of the black Spanish 'breed, belonging to bir. Francis Hunter, hairdresser, of Stockton, laid an egg which weighed four ounces, and measured four inches and a half in length, and six inches and a half in circumference. IN A HISToKY of the New Law Courts it is stated that in the register at St. Clement Dane's Churah there appears on one page, among the baptisms in 1567, the familiar names of "Richard Cobden" and "John Bright." TUB LITTLE BOY ARTHUR ABBOTT, who has lain so long in the Royal Free Hospital, and who it was feared would be blind for life from the injuries ho sustained at the recent explosion in Clerkenwell, has suddenly recovered the use of his eyes.  THE QUEEN has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the great seal of the United Kingdom, appointing Sir William Page Wood, Knt., a vice-chancellor, to be judge of the Court of Appeal in Chancery, in the room of the Right Hon. Hugh Mac Cal. mont, Baron Cairns, resigned. THE SPANISH MINISTER of the Interior has issued a circular to the prefects, desiring them to use every effort in their power to remedy the effects of the prevalent dearness of provisions, and ordering that all disturbers of the public peace shall be rigorously punished. THE VIENNA JOURNALS mention that the Prince de Salm•Salm, formerly aide-de-camp of the Emperor Maximilian, is at present at Brussels, having to make certain communications from the deceased to the Empress Charlotte.  MR. TRAIN has issued the prospectus of a new penny journal, which he is to conduct during his detentan in the Marshalsea, with the title of "George Francis Train's First Epistle to the Philistines ; or, America in an English Gaol."  THE SATISFACTORY ANNOUNCEMENT has been made that an arrangement has been virtually concluded between the Atlantic Telegraph Company and the AmzloAmerican Company, on the terms suggested by the Board of the latter company:  AT LANCAZTER CASTLE, on Monday afternoon, an inquest was held upon the body of Joseph Baxendale, aged 57, a convict under sentence of penal servitude for life for attempting to pinrder his wife, who had strangled himself in his cell on Sunday forenoon with his scarf. The jury returned a verdict of felo de se.  THE FOLLOWING was the subject of a debate at the weekly meeting of the Oxford University Debating Society :—" That this house regrets that it should have been found necessary to entrust the post of Prime Minister to so dishonest a politician as Mr, Disraeli." Moved bv Mr. Alcock. Bramenose.  Two UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENTS occurred at the American circus at Tours a few nights hack. The Spanish gymnast, Mottat, while performing on the trapeze at a height of 30 feet, missed his hold and fell, breaking his thigh. Later in the evening one of the attendants had his arm severely torn by a lion. THE Times has been authorised to state that there is no foundation for the report in the OW that Lord Derby has conferred an English peerage on Lord Barrington, or raised Mr. Gerard Start, xp. for Dorset. shire, to the peerage. TWENTY THOUSAND COLLIERS of St. Helens district are on strike against a proposed reduction of their wages of 15 per cent. They are willing to accept a reduction of 10 per cent., but to this the masters refuse to assent.  IT MAY BE CONYENIP,NT to persons who have to send old letters for literary purposes to be informed that they may be sent by post under the usual conditions of book postage, at Id. for 4 oz., and need not be sent as letters at Id. for half-an-cunce.  Tipt VALUE of the petroleum imported last year was comparatively small, viz, £367,722, agsinst £696,639 iu 1866, and £429,999 in 1865. Of these amounts £364,675, £676,006, and £348,006, referred to petroleum received from the United States. IT Is ST iTF.D that the Italian mission to this country has been offered to General La Marmora and been declined by him. M. Minghetti is now spoken of as the probable successor of the Marquis d'Areglio, who will retire into private life, but will continue to reside in this country.  lIFR MAJESTY has been pleased to present, through Sir William Jailer, to St. Thomas's Hospital, for the use of the patients, a copy of "Leaves from the Journal of our Life in the Highlands." The presents. tion of the volume is recorded therein by the Queen's Royal sign manual.