The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1881-01-21 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

BOO.  The notices given by the colliers at Mitchell Mein, Barnsley, one of the leading collieries in the distnet, have been withdrawn.  It is stated that Ahmed Moukhtar Pasha will be appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Turi.ieh forte, on the Greek frontier.  The Basuto stronghold has been stormed and taken. Five Colonials were wounded, while the rebel luszvs were very considerable. New York adviees indicate that the hitherto rival telegraph lines, the Western Union and the Amer-eau Union, will consolidate.  The Mormons of Utah have lit their streets with electricity, besides erecting four powerful !amps un the dome of the Town Hall.  Robert Hume, charged with the murder of Annie Harcourt in tit. John'e Wood, has been discharged by the Marylebone magistrates. The Queen of tiweden, travelling as Cou.,iess Ilag,a, has arrived at Queenborough on her way to Loudon to spend the remainder ot the winter. The Birmingham gunmahers say that from 6.0.'9 to 8,000 constabulary revolvers have been nein Ireland within three months—not ler constabulary nee.  Mr. Henry G. Barlow, It N., secretary to ViceAdmiral II•Donald, dropped ad on Friday morning, while transacting official business at Stu,' MSC  Much anxiety is felt at Portsmouth on account of the disappearance of Marine Sergeant 31.eley, mho has not been seen since December 2.8. Foul play is suspected. TI e Doily News understands that the Queen has notified her intention to grant a pension of i2oo a year to Mr. Alfred R. Wallace, the eminent naturalist.  The Sultan is stated to have issued orders that his Idinisters are to decide without further delay upon the terms of the note to be addreseed to the l'oe ere on the Greek queation.  The Agent-General for New South Wales has been informed by telegram of the arrival in Sydney of the chip Glamie, which nailed from Plymouth with emigrants in October last.  A dortractire fire broke out at Upper Bußingham, near Hereford, the other night, and tuo lemeee, occupied by farm labourers employed on a Lim, were burned to the ground.  Rope has been abandoned of the safety of the bd.; Bee, of Scarborough, which left Sunderland on Deoranber 18 last with (old for Aberdevn, land tuts not since been heard of. She carried, crew of five !OM.  The London Gazette contains a Privy Council order scheduling the Isle of Wight, including the boruughs of Newport and ltyde, as an area infected with footand-mouth disease. The order tahe.l effect from the 214 of January. Charles James Smith, a hat manufacturer, has been charged at the London Mansion House, on remand, with obtaining a largo quantity of goods by false pretences, with intent to defraud. Thu prisoner was committed for trial.  A meeting has been called by the Lord Mayor, to be held at York on January 26, to elect a local reception committee, and to make arrangements for the forthcoming gathering of the British Association which will begin on August 31.  The funded debt of the tflasgow Ckwporation Waterworks has become such a popular int tst unlit that the debt is now Ling sold at 10s. for every £lOO. The rate of intenst fur loans on mortgage has been reduced horn 4 to 3", per ceat. At the Central Criminal Court, Sarah Jane Swann has been convicted of the manslaughter of her illegitimate infant child, which elm had placed in her master's coal cellar. She was sentenced by Mr. Justice Grove to five years' penal servitude.  Two men engaged shooting in a wood near New. at, Monmouthshire, the ether day, discovered tho ...y of a man in a nude state hanging from a tree. The clothing was found a short distance off, and it is believed that the deceased committed suicide.  The Medical Prot, and Circular says that the office of Physician to the Queen in Ireland, vacated by the death of Dr. Hudson, has been conferred on Dr. Benjamin George 3l'Dowel, son of Dr. Ephraim M•Dowel, an equally valued physician of his day.  It is anted that the trusteeeunder the will of the late 51r. E. Harris, of Preston, purpose founding in that town on orphan home and a science and art school. 'l'lley will expend on the tirst-inuned institution a in Of .£lOO,OOO and On the other .C 50,000. Its' the will of the late Mr. Stanford, re. cently dertarctl, a ictittilicent bequest is made to St. Mary's Hospital of the sum of .V. 45,000. With this fund a W ing will be erected, which will hear the nante of his mother, Mary Stanford.—tritish Joiunal.  At the County Court, nt Ipswich, a surgeon recovvred 1.:50 from the (,rent E.tatern Railway