The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1878-04-19 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

ENOLAND.  Men deemed thee fallen, did they ? fallen like Rome, Coiled into self to avoid a Vandal throng: Not whollymhorn of strength, but vainly strong; Weaned from thy fame by a too happy home, Scanning the ridges of thy teeming loam, Counting thy flocks, humming thy harvest gong, Callous, because thyself secure, 'gainst wrong, Behind the impasAble fences of the foam! The dupes . . Thou aost bat stand erect, and lo! Tho nations cluster round; and while the horde Of wolfish backs slouch homeward to their snow, Thou, mid thy sheaves in peaceful seasons stored, Towerost supreme, victor without a blow, Smilingly lewniug on thy undrawn sword ! ALBRZD AVEITIX, in the World.  Queen Christina of Spain has fractured a bone iu the thigh through a fall in her own house.  The Municipal Council of the city of Rome have passed an order of the day limiting religions instruction in the municipal sehools to those scholars whose p.wents request it, and at separate hours.  •Tom Humphrey, the cricketer, one of the Surrey county eleven, has become deranged, and has been taken from his home to 13rockwood Lunatic Asylum. Humphrey was one of the beat batsmen of the day. Near Newtownards, County Down, Ireland, on Thursday night, the house of a newly-married pair Was set fieo to. The couple had only been married that day. They, as well as the bridgegroom's brother, narrowly escaped suffocation. The hall door was found to have been fastened by means of a rope and stick. At a late hour on Friday night a sad incident occurred in connection with the calling out of the reserve forces. A respectable Derby tradesman named Allen, of Abbey-street, a man of the firstclass army reserve committed suicide by drowning himself in the river Derwent, sooner than obey the summons to join. The river was dragged on Saturday morning, but it was not until mid-clay that the body was recovered. The Bishop of Manchester, in the course of his sermon at Manchester Cathedral, on Sunday night, referred to the prospect of impending war, and expressed a fear that if the nation did engage in war it would do so without sufficiently calculating the consequseees. It might be, he said, that we required some sharp discipline of suffering to bang us back to a healthier moral ceaulition. At the close of the West Riding Assizes, Baron Pollock, iii dismissing the last jury, said that notwithstanding the advance of education in this country, the world at large had got some lesssons from the Leeds Assizes. There had been eight cases of slander, and five of breach of krowie, to marry, so that as the world grew older it did not attain perfect wisdom. The gimeral moral was that people should use their tongues more ,are fully.. 4 Mr. Lane Fox's plan of lighting street houps by electricity was tried on Saturday evening, in Pall. mall and Waterloo-place, London. The trial was not immediately perfect in its effects. Soule of the carbon points had been set too close to one another and to the orifice of the burner, and, as a consequence, the lamps in which this was the case showed no light. But in the great majority ,t instances, where the points had been properly ' adjusted, the experiment i.cceeeded. ' Rescue BY A Doo.—On Friday evening a lad, about eight years of age, was playing upon the steps at Southwark Bridge, and overbalancing himself, fell into about 12 feet of water. Fortunately, at the time, a gentleman was giving his retriever dog a swim by throwing a stick into the river, and whilst going after the piece of wood he caught sight of the little fellow struggling, The dog immediately left the wood and swam to the boy, catching him, as he was going down, by the jacket, and brought idyl safely ashore. .