The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1868-10-16 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

INFRINGEMENT OF THR FACTORY ACT.—Three manufacturers of Birmingham have been summoned at the police-court in that town to answer charges of infringement of the Factory Act. In the case of Mr. Charles Clifford, of Fazeley-street, an excuse was put in that the machinery had broken down during the day, and that they were working overtime to complete an order. The magistrate inflicted the penalty in four eases, amounting to £l3 10a. 6,1. Meatus. Reader and Dingle, 'tampers and pressers, were charged on eight different summonses for detaining girls at work after six. The penalties in this case amounted to £lO is. 6d. Mr. John Higgins, tube-soaker, of Floodgate-Street, had a penalty of .C 3 17s. 6d. inflicted,  "I Will. 11 WIC a good railway contractor," aye Captain Sherard Osborn, "to throw up an earthwork in 43 hours far mere formidable againd any enemy's fleet than anything yet produced at Spithaad or Plymouth."  THE DIKE or BRUNSWICK has been before the Tribunal of the Seine as defendant in a case in which a sum of 510 f. was claimed from him bia NI. Harvard for flowers and plants. The court gave judgment for the plaintiff for the full amount claimed  Ton DUMAN TOWN COUNCIL have granted a site at the foot of Carlisle-bridge, on the south side, for the statue of William Smith O'Brien, which is the result of a public subscription, and is spoken of as a successful work of art.  JOHN BRENNAN, 18 years of age, a farm servant in the employ of Mr. R. W. Richardson, farmer and brewer, Rainford, was working at a steam hay.mitting machine, when his right arm became entangled and was cut off. He died on Saturday night.  TEIE SHIP GENERAL NEILL GOFFEE, which sailed from Limerick on the 2Gth ult., for St. John's, New Brunswick, put back on Wednesday to Scattery Roads, with loss of fore top mast, top gallant mast, &c. Three hands were lost oyerboard.  TIER Bistior OF CHESTER has conferred the canonry of Cheater, vacant by the promotion of Dr. M'Neile to the deanery of Ripon, en the Rev. Dr. Moberley, rector of Brighstone, and for an many years the distinguished master of Winchester .College.  TILE OFFICERS of the 48th Middle-sex Rine Volunteers entertained their late Lieutenant-Colonel, Mr. George Cruikshank, at a complimentary dinner at the St. James's-ball Restaurant, Regent-street, on the occasion of his resigning the command of the corps.  - IT IS CONFIDENTLY nEronTEn in military circles at Chatham that the authorities at the War-office, in conjunction with those of the Horse Guards, have determined on making a considerable reduction in the army at the commencement of the ensuing year. AT Tuscumnu, Alabama, three negroes charged with burning a school-house while filled with scholars, were taken out of gaol by a mob and hanged. The authorities endeavoured to rescue them, but were overpowered by the mob.  TBE NUMBER of co-operative societies certified by the registrar in England in the year 1867 was 137, In Ireland two. The reghtrar in Scotland has not stated the number of rules or amendments which he certified in 1867.  AN AMERICAN paper states that the letter carriers in semi-rnral district; such as the, upper part of New York Island, are to be supplied with velocipedes, with one of which a man can easily make 12 miles an hour.  A WOMAN, named Elizabeth Donkin, 75 years of age, committed suicide at Driffield on Thursday while suffering from a neuralgic attack, which caused her great torture. During the paroxysm of pain she went into a garret and hung herself.  A SINGULAR CONTRACT has just been entered Into with the city of Paris to bay up all the old paving stones for the purpose of shipping them w2ross the Atlantic, where they are to be used to pave the principal thoroughfares of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video. MR. NV. H. SMITH, candidate for Westminster, has resigned the post of President of the London and Westminster Working Alen's Constitutional Association, in order to avoid the appearance of exercising an undue Influence over the members.  ON SUNDAY MORNING the congregation of St. Barnabas, South Kennington, were startled by hearing a single stroke upon the bell about half an hour after the service commenced. It turned out to be a freak of the wind, which was unusually high at the time.  AN IMPERIAL DECREE, dated let inst., orders the execution of a detailed geological map of France at the expense of the State, and upon the same scale as the military map. M. Elie de Beaumont is appointed to superintend the work. TUE COURT OF APPEAL OF MADRID held a formal sitting on the 30th ult., and after removing the portrait of the Queen from the tribunal, declared that it would continue to administer justice in the name of the nation.  TIIE CHARGE against the signalman at Holywell, on the Chester and Holyhead Railway, arising out of a collision to an express train on the lfth September, has resulted in the accused being sentenced to a term of two months' imprisonment.