The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1869-11-05 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

WESLEYAN MINISTER IN GAOL.—It will be remembered that the Rev. John Broadbent, of Not th Shields a well.known Wesleyan minister, who zealously advocates the temperance movement, was recently fined by the local magistrates for the alleged offence of brawling. The offence imputed was, that lie ha I instigated a number of men after attending a temperance meeting to halt in front of one or Iv, o public-houses in North Shields, and commence hurrahing. After the conviction by the local magistrates Mr. Broadbent appealed to the Northumberland Quarter Sessions against the conviction, and all Its friends and admirers subscribed to meet his costs. The conviction, however, was sustained. The Sun. derlemd Times understands that the rev, gentleman has gone to prison rather than pay the fine.  DREADFUL SUICIDE NEAR CHESTERFIELD,—.C:. Saturday morning, the town of Chesterfield wee thrown into a state of excitement by the sad intelligence that Mr. Luke Ludlam, colliery proprietor, had committed suicide. The report was soon ascertained to be too true. It appears that Mr. Ludlam requered his man to load his gun on Friday evening, for he purpose of shooting Borne small birds, that lie too.. the gun with him into his bedroom, and about eight o'clock on Saturday morning, as soon as Mrs. Ludlam left the room. hoot out of bail. and placing tho*n.l of the barrel in his mouth he moved tee trigger wile his foot. The gun was discharged and the contents almost shattered his head to pieces. Dodh was oi course instantaneous. As soon as the report was heard several members of the family were alarmed, and when the cause of their alarm was known their grief was of the most heartrending ditncription. It Is rumoured that the unfortunate gentleman's mini has been unsettled of late, owing to the colliery wo, ks which he has been erecting proving unfortunate spe:tu Wiens.  COLLISION ON THE LONDON AND NORTH WES r ERN RAILWAY —About half past fivo on Saturday morn ing two goods trains came into collision at D y Port, on the Stour Valley branch of the Loudon and North-Western Railway, by which a consiJerablo destruction of property has resulted. At the ethtion named, which is midway between Wolverhampton and Birmi, gham, there is &junction which leads into Dudley upon the high level. A goods train was coming down the Dudley branch, and was making for a siding at Dudley Port jus as the fastgoods trom Birmingham to Liverpool was passing without stoning. By some unexplained mishap the four driving wheels of the Dudley train got off the rails at the point of junction with the main line, and da.hing across the metals rushed into the cen roof the Liver pool goods. The force was so terrific that the latter became severed, five trucks smashed up irretrievably and eleven others were considerably damaged. The stoker received a wounded face as he fell forwa, d upon the rails, when leaping from his place besi le the driver. The escape of both driver and stoker was exceedingly narrow. Trains were slightly delayed, but were got on, those to the north, oil Beg. cot and the Grand Junction, and the trains from the north, via Princes End and Wednesbury. Darkness had, however, again set in before, on Saturday night, the broken up waggons and the scattered merchandise had been removed, and the rails and sleepers ploughed up replaced. CHARGE OF SENDING A THREATENING LETTER TO A hi AOISITtaTE.—At the Central Criminal Court, on Friday, Arthur Brown, a respectably-dressed man, thirty years of age, was tried before Mr. Justice IC suing for the offence of feloniously sending a letter to Thomas James Arnold, Esq., one of the magistrates of the Westminster Police-court, demanding money with threats and menaces, and with intent to extort money from him. In the month of July, 1859, the prisoner was taken before Mr. Arnold at the Westminster Police-court, for being drunk and creatirg a disturbance, and assaulting several persons at Ore. gnome Gardens, and for thee offences he was fined three separate penalties of £5 each and El costs. The money was paid, and nothing more was heard of tho matter, which had entirely passed from the mind of the prosecutor, until the let of Jane in the present year, when the prosecutor received the letter that was the subject of the present indictment. It was &it( d Jersey, May 30, and intimated i hat if in the conrre of next week he did not find in one of the numbers of the Standard newspaper an adve.tisement headed .` Compensation," intimating Mr. Arnold's int^ntion of giving damages for all the prisoner suffered through his injustice, he had taken the oath that next Sunday the magistrate should be dead. A plot was laid, and the letter, with others which followed, was traced to the prisoner. The jury, after a very brief delibo a. tion, found the prisoner guilty.—Mr. Kibtou, on bc_ half of the family of the prisoner, asked that the sentence might be postponed to the next sessions, with a view to afford some information to the court in reference to the prisoner. The application was fp anted.  A