The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1882-09-29 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

GENERAL NEWS.  The Edinburgh Town Council having refused to allow the Tramway Company to run steam oars on the route to Portobello, the directore of the coniptly have given notice tint Lii y will be run between the Parliamentary boundary of the city and Portobello.  The funeral of Colonel Charles J. R. Tynte, formerly M.P. for Somerset, tco!: place at Hale. well, Bridgwater, on Ftiday. A number of gentlemen from Bridgwater, which leoroug'i the deceased represented for several years, attended the funeral.  Mr. Morrison, the owner of Hall Baru, Beacons. field, has informed his tenants' through his agents, that as the estate will pass into the possession of Mr. Levy LAwson on the 29th inst., Ile is desirous of remitting them the half-year's rent due ou that day. 'lwo card-sharpers, well-known to the London police, at present named Henry itobtoson and Henry Vincent, were charged at the Atinsion House with stealing two .£5 notes from a farmer named Welsh. They were sent to prison for three months, as rogues and vagabonds. Two more newspapers will shortly appear in rams, each, as usual, representing some leading poUUoian.'Ehese are L'lndependance Francaise, to be inspired by M. de Freyciuet, and another, as yet unnamed, will be edited by M. Daniel Wilson, the son-in-law of the President.  As one result of the preeent state of affairs in the Mediterranean, the Secretary of State for War has approved of tienerat Lord Napier of Magihat, G.C.8., retaining the command at Gibraltar until the end of the present year as Governor and Commander-in-Cnief.  At the Anderton Hall Colliery, near Chorley, a young fellow named Howard has been instantly killed whilst following his occupation in the main tunnel. A body of rock broke away from the roof and killed the unfortunate young man, weose body was .extricated and removed.  The screw steamship Achilles, of Barrow, ran ashore at Kilmore Bay on Friday night, during a fog. Her fore compartments were stove in, but the weather being calm the captain got her off, and we enabled to reach Cheer Point, Waterford Harbour, where he aucceeded in beaching her. The French wheat markets have been generally well supplied, and prices have continued to exhibit a downward tendeney, having fallen in the northeastern, the central, and the eastern depart ments. Business in wheat has also shown weakness in the French ports. Flour bas been dull at Paris. It is stated in a French newspaper that an interesting discovery has been made at Hyi.‘res. An Adoration of the Shepherds, in chiaroscuro, bce been found on a panel in a tailor's shop. The panel bears an anagram which, it appears, 80M0 people are sanguine enough to believe to be that of Leonardo da Vinci.  Captain Lewis Stafford Northcote, aged 51, hae committed suicide at his residence, Miltithorpe, Winchester. The deceased gentlemtn had been ailing for coins months past, mid had only returned from the Con inent on tixo 14th instant, where he had been on the advice of his medical attendant, for change of air and scene. The Liverpool police have taken an important step as to the betting ihat is said to be carried on in public-house. tied in premises belonging to licensed vic.nallers have ~een watched for some time and the result is that summonses have haeu issm:d against nine L.verpool licensed victuallers for permitting betting on their Premises.  We understand that the directors of the Newport (Mon.) Gas Company decided at their meeting on the 15th inst. to reduce the price of gas to consumers from the 29th inst. from 3s 41 to 3s 24 per 1,000 cubic feet.  TO COUNTRY AND TOIN N SUBSCRIBERS  This paper is sent free by post (for delivery on day of publication) for Is tid per quarter,