Monmouthshire Merlin

FRIDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE, OCT. 20. BANKRUPTS.—J. Sheppard, Lower Grosvenor-street, wine nerchant.—W. A. Bassett, Manchester, silk manufacturer.- i. Burrell, Liverpool, ironmonger.—T. Vowles, Yatton, So- nersatshire, tailor and shopkeeper.—W. Kingswell, Liverpool, ooper.- W. H. James, Redditch, Worcestershire, ironmonger. —A. Macleod, Adam's court, Old Broad-street, commission igent.—R. Mirfin, Leeds,draper.— J. Barratt, Boston, Lincoln, nachine maker.

TUESDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE, OCT. 24. BANKRUPTS.—Owen Evans, of 7, Ulstei-place, Regent's- lark, surgeon and apothecary.— Henry Houghton and Thomas Stanton, of Great Dover-road, Southwark, upholsterers.- Wm, 3ilbert,of Hackney, builder.- Richard Henderson, late of Tot- enham-court-road, hosier.- William Killbe and Charles Lud. 'att, of Tivoli Tavern, Windmill-hill, Gravesend, licensed vic- nallers,- William Hyde, of Sheffield, comb manufacturer.— rhomasCompson, of H ales Owen, Shropshire, tanner.—Joseph laycraft, of Birmingham, drvsalter.—John Sheldon, of Chel- enham, bui)der.—Thomas liailey, of Noltingham, and of Bingham and Beeston, Nottinghamshire, draper. DmnFNn.- John Williams, of Abergavenny. Monmouth- .hire, cabinet maker, November 30, at eieven, at tl)8 Ciown inn, Pontypool,

FRANCE- The following telegraphic despatch, announcing the capture of Constantinaj was posted up at the Bourse, In Paris, on Mon- day .1 TOULQN¡ OCToIH,;n 22, ) GENERAL VALLEfc TOJ-HE MINISTER AT WAit. "CONST A NTINA, OCTOBER 13.—The tri-colour flag floats over Consiantina. The army leached (he walls on the 6th, a breach was made on the 11th, and on this morning the place was stormed with the grfeatest bravery and most complete suc- cess. The enemy made a vigorous defence, and we triumphed gloriously. The King and the army have expeiienced a heavy loss by the death of Damremont, who was killed by a cannon- ball whilst proceeding, yesterday, to the battery opposite the breach. I have succeeded him in the command of the army." The Paris newspapers are much occupied with discussing the probable consequences of a coalition which has been formed .between two sections of the Opposition, supposed to be irrecon- cileable. Latitte and Gamier Pages seem to have been the chief promoters of this arrangement; to which Odillon Barrot refused to become a paity. He belonged to the regular Parlia- mentary Opposition but his party seem to have deserted him, and to have joined the Republicans. The Ministers are said to be much annoyed by this demonstration. Chateaubriand has publicly declared that he cannot take the oath of allegiance to Louis Philippe, and must, therefore, decline several offers of election to the Chamber. The Legitimatist party generally, however, has no such scruples; and there will be an effort to return a considerable number of them to the new Parliament.

PORTUGAL. The following is a copy of the circular addressed by the Por- tuguese Government to the Foreign Ministers, on the subject of the attack made on the British Government in Antas's order of the day of the 20th of September, fiist published in the Oporto Vedetn :— "It is with the greatest pain that the Government of her Most Faithful Majesty became informed that there had beeu transcribed among the official articles of the journal Vedeta da Liberdute, No. 213, piinted in the city of Oporto, a copy of an order of the day, dated at Chaves on the 20th of the current month of September, in which expressions are ascnbed to the brave General Viscount Antas entirely unsuitable to his noble and elevated character, and extremely unjust and offensive if intended to be considered as alluding to the British Cabinet, which has always merited, as it does decidedly merit, the esteem and consideration of her Majesty and of her Government. The latter hastens to declare to your Excellency, in oder that you may make it known to your court, that the same Government not only reproves and condemns, in the most positive and solemn manner, those unjust and offensive expressions, but will employ all the means at its disposal to ascertain who it was that, in an underhanded and fraudulent manner, occasioned them to be inserted in the above-mentioned order of the day, or in the copy of it which was published, in order that it may pro- ceed respecting it with all the severity which the degree of cri- minal culpability imputable to them requires. God preserve your Excellency, (Signed) MANOEL DE CASTRO PEREIRA. "Secretary of Slate for Foreign Affairs, this 29th day of September, 1837."

29ommtc flrtns. The following letter has been addressed as a circular to the Parliamentary friends of the Government by Lord John Russell: "Whitehall, October 16, 1837. Sir,—As the House of Commons will meet on Wednesday, the 15th of November, for the choice of a Speaker, and will proceed on Monday the 20th, to the despatch of business, 1 earnestly request your attend- ance on those days. 1 have the honour to be your most obedient servant, J. RUSSELL." Mr. Elliott, first cousin to the Earl of Minto, one of the Commissioners lately returned from Canada, has been appointed by the Colonial Office, Agent General of Emigration. The Rev. Mr. Spencer, Rector of Buxton, first cousin to Sir J. C. Hobhouse, has been appointed to the See of Madras. The Archbishop of York confirmed on the 14th inst. nine individuals who were deaf and dumb, at Doncaster Church, fhese children were from 13 years old upwards, and had been educated at the School for the Instruction of Deaf and Dumb in that town. The Rev. Dr. Sharpe examined these candidates for confirmation, and was surprised to find them perfectly con- versant with the nature of the holy rite, and fully prepared in a knowledge of their religious duties. The sale of the Royal Stud, about which Sir Francis Burdett has been making such a fuss in the Tory Newspapers, took place on Wednesday, at Hampton Court, and realized—will our readers believe it ?—the enormous sum of £15,000 This is the amount of the horse-flesh which, if dispersed, was de- clared by Old Glory to be pregnant with ruin to the country— was to inflict a blow as irrecoverable as if our whole Navy were destroyed. Old Glory, we know, is not a conjuror. He made that fact manifest enough when he went to St. John Long to have the gout charmed out of his toes, by tickling his back-bone and every thing he has done since, down to the jeremiade about the Royal Stud, has tended to confirm it. None of the horses brought great prices. "Cotonet," the only really superior horse in the whole lot, fetched no more than 1550 guineas, and was bought by Mr. Tattersall. It would not have been a mat- er of the least consequence had every one of them been trans- ported, and Old Glory along with them.5u; A most brutal assault was perpetrated on Thursday se'nnight • bury Fair. Some young men had an altercation with a it;, old Irishman in a public-house, and Spicer, one of them stripped to fight, when another of his companions called out '• Put him on the fire, Tom"—the monster did so, and as he lay on the red hot bars, also poured a kettle of boiling water u his head and body, and then all ran away. The poor fel- 'jw presented a most shocking spectacle. Spicer was appre k>fn on Friday, and committed to await the old man's late fwha i t not likely to recover. j r »-ee brothers named Collins were tried at Cornwall Quarts > ;• i»ess'ons on Wednesday sc ontgm, uu a charge of the musi an .to- unheard-of cruelty and revenge. They had suffered sorr to ge into the garden of Richard and Joel Mathews, wiu i supported an aged mother and sister at <Jaktock, by workirr i two horses on the road, and on prosecutors complaining of 111;1 damage, prisoners swore revenge, which they carried into effcct iviili a barbarity unparalleled. The three brothers were seen ti> lie the under jaws of the horses to the feet, then scoop out their f *yf-r, and finally back them into the shaft of an old tin mini where they were dashed to pieces. The prisoners made a ra, hling incoherent defence, and the Juiy, after being out of CG. an hour, returned the following ridiculous and novel verdict:— We find the three prisoners guilty of pricking, maiming, and cut- ting out the horses eyes, but we have agreed among ourselves to say nothing about killing them I MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—A most lamentable accident oc- cured off Maryport harbour on Wednesday forenoon. On the urival of (he Carlisle steamer Newcastle off that port, a boat, with a crew of four men, put off to her, and received five pas- sengers, who intended to land at Maryport. On the leturn of the boat from the vessel, when about 150 yards from the mouth of the harbour, the boat capsized, and three of the unfortunate passengers were drowned. The boatmen and one of the pas- sengers clung to the boat till assistance was got out to them; and another passenger, a youth about sixteen years of age, was saved by clinging to one of the boatmen. The passengers Irowned were Mr. William Fletcher, a respectable ship-owner, formerly of Maryport, but who has been residing at Liverpool for some time Miss Tolson, of Maryport, about 55 years 01 age; and Miss Tolson, of Workington, about 50 years of age. The two latter were cousins. The passengers saved were Miss Sibson (niece of Miss Tolson, of Maryport), and Mr. William Fletcher's son. All parties were connected by marriage. Miss Tolson, of Maryport, was about to be married in a few days to Mr. Inman, of that place. The melancholy event has plunged a number of respectable families into the deepest grief.—Cur- isle Journal. We have been much amused at a paragraph which has been trumpeted forth Ly the Tory journals of the district, stating that the Hon. H. T. Liddell voted, at the late North Durham elec- non, for his opponents, Mr. Lambton and Sir W. Chaytor.and lauding the hon. gentleman for great libe>ality in so doing. li proves, as we expected, that the whole story is a fabrication. We have made inqu ry respecting it, and we find that Mr. Lid- dell voted at Whirkhim for himself.—Newcastle Chronicle. THE GREAT WINDSOR BREWERY.—Mr.- Ramsbottom has lispoaed of this extensive concern to Mr. Neville Reid, son 01 ihe great London porter brewer of that name. The valuation if the stock alone amounted, we are told, to one hundred and lorty thousand ponnds.— Heading Mercury.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, TUESDAY. (London Sittings, hejore the Chief Justice and a Special Jury.) THE DIRECTORS OF THE STANHOPE AND TYNE RAILWAY V. HARFORD AND OTHERS.—Mr. Sergeant Wilde, Mr. Sergeant ralfourd, Mr. Hodskin, and Mr. Adolphus, appeared for tht plaintiffs; and Sir W. Follett, Mr. Platt, Mr. Richards, and Mr. Watson for the defendants. This was an action brought by the directors of the Stanhopt and Tyne Railway Company against the defendants for breach of contract, and the cause of action arose in the follow- ing circumstances:—The plaintiffs had caused an advertisement to be inserted in the newspapers, on the 9th of ^September,, 1832. for the supply of 3,000 tons of cast-iron rails, one-hal! at the rate of 301b, and the other half at 401b. per yard, with the requisite quantity of chairs, rails, pins, &c., to be made or 1 the best iron, which, when worked must be equal to No. 3, ba; iron, and the chairs to be made of No. I, bar iron." The ad- vertisement was replied to by the defendants, who are extensive iron manufacturers, carrying on business under the name 01 Harford, Davies and Company, of Bristol, and also near New- port, in the county of Monmouth. The acceptance of the ten- der, which was made by the defendants in the words of the ad- vertisement, was dated the 20th of October, and it only re- mained to settle the pattern of the chairs, some railway com- panies using one description and others a different pattern.— In the month of January following, after some correspondence, the pattern was agreed upon, and a gentleman was deputed by the plaintiffs to visit the defendants' works, for the purpose of seeing the description of iron to be used in the process of ma- nufacture, in order to guard against mistake or deception. On his arrival in South Wales some of the furnaces were set at work, and he found that a quantity of refuse, or cinder-iron, was introduced among the mine or ore iron, and he accordingly objected ro it, and ultimately gave notice to the defendants that the plaintiffs would not receive that description of manufacture. The plaintiffs had a communication with the defendants, pro testing against the article of "cinder" being used, and two of the directors went down to repeat their objection. A very lengthened correspondence ensued, the result of which was that the defendants persevered in manufacturing the articles in their own way, and notice was given them that the rails would not be received. The plaintiffs advertised again, and made a con- tract with another party, upon the best terms they could, but the price of iron had in the meantime risen, and the present ac- tion was accordingly brought for the difference between the price stipulated in the contract with the defendants, and that actually paid by the plaintiffs. This loss they estimated ai £8,084. The main question in the cause regarded the con. struction of the contract. On behalf of the plaintiffs it was contended that the defendants were required by it to furnish rails made only of pure mine iron. The defendant's case was that the teims of the contract did not preclude them from using a certain portion of cinder in the manufacture of the iron rails. A large number of witnesses were produced on each side.— Amongst those called by the plaintiffs were Mr. Bramah, l)r. Ewer, and Mr. Story, who stated not only that the terms best iron" precluded the use of cinder, hut that the cinder was posi- tively detrimental to the quality of the iron whilst for the de- fendants a considerable number of iron-masters, amongst whom were Mr. Guest and Mr. C. Harford, expressed a direct contrary opinion. On behalf of the defendants it had also been urged that no bidding contract had been completed between the partisi, but that point, depending upon the conitructien of a lengthened corespondence, vas reserved for the decision of the I court below; Tho examination of lVitOfsses was not concluded until near four o'clock on this, the sectnd day of the trial. Mr. Sergeant Wilde replied upon the evidence, and contended that the constluction which!Nas sought to be put upon the con- tract would render it ahogeher absurd. The Lord Chief Justice summed, and left it to the jury sim- ply to decide between the conflicting statements of the witnesses as to the construction of tie terms of the contract. If they should be of opinion that he defendants, by persisting in their intention of using cinder h the manufacture of tlfe rails which they contracted to furnsh, had refused to comply with the terms of the contract, the, must find their verdict for the plain- tiffs but if, on the otherhand, they should be convinced that the best iron" might he composed Of A portion of cinder, and that consequently the deendants were only prevented from ful- filling their engagement ;IY the conduct of the plaintiffs them- selves, the defendants wtuld be entitled to a verdict at their hands.—The jury returned a verdict for the defendants.

THE QUEEff'S VISIT TO THE CITY. A memorial is in course of signature, and has already re- ceived the names of mmy of the most respectable inhabitants of Piccadilly. praying :hat her Majesty, on die occasion of her dining with the citizeiu of London, may be graciously pleased to pass along that strett on her way from Buckingham Palace. It is said that in the cent of the Queen's complying with the prayer of the memorialists, a triumphal arch will be erected across the road, on thj assent between the Green Park Hotel and Lord Ashburtorfs mansion. The intended visit of her Majesty to the City las necessarily caused all alteration to be made in the time of tie Lord Mayor elect proceeding in pro- cession to Westminster. Heretofore it has been customary to leave the City and enbark at Blackfriars-bridge between 12 and one o'clock; bu on the forthcoming occasion the new Lord Mayor willleare the Mansion-house, accompanied by the aldermen, comnmi-councilmen, and livery, as early as 9 o'clock in the morning, and after passing through Prince's- street, Lothbury, Frogmoreton-street, Old Broad-street, the back of the Royal Exchange and Bank, and through King William-street, embark at London-bridge. After being sworn in at Westminster, the procession will return to Soutmvark- bridge, and thence proceed through Queen-street, and King- street, to Guildhall On the breaking up of the procession the various companies will take up their ancient and accustomed standings, in their livery gowns, in the public streets of the City through which her Majesty will pass to the Guildhall, displaying their flags and banners, and the emblems of their respective companies. Her Majesty is expected to leave the Palace at two o'clock, so as to arrrive at Guildhall at four o'clock to dinner. Seats in the houses all along the line of procession, from Charing-cross, to Guildhall are announced to be let fpr prices varying from 5s to 5 guineas. It is said that whole floors have been let for as much as fifty guineas; and in the houses near Temple-bar the most extravagant prices have been asked land offered. At many of the houses in the Strand 5s is asked for a seat in the shop, and a guinea for one in the upper floors. In the city the prices are much higher, and at several-places 10s are asked for a view from the small garret windows. At many of the houses bills may be seen in the windows, stating that "seats to view the royal procession may be obtained here and such appears the anxiety to get a view of it, that the householders expect to make a rich harvest. TIIE ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE.—On Saturday the RovalEntertainment Committee assembled, for the purpose of making regulations about the invitations. The applications for tickets from the first people in the country have been innu- merable. Some surprise has been manifested at the extraor- dinary fact, that Lord Stanley and Sir James Graham have declined the invitation to dine on the 9th of November. The committee are determined to spare no exertions in procuring the most costly and elegant novelies with which to ornament the Royal board. There was exhibited to them a most magni- ficent dessert service of glass, intended solely for her Majesty's table. The plates, intended expressly for the use of her Ma- jesty, are exceedingly beautiful, the centre of each consisting of the armorial ensigns of England, richly executed in enamel, with a royal star surrounding the national wreath of the rose, shamrock, and thistle, while those for the other Royal perso- nages have also their respective armorial bearings enamelled in the same style. These splendid specimens are wholly of English manufacture. The Duke of Wellington has accepted the invitation of the City Authorities to dinner at the Guildhall, on the 9th of No- vember. It is a singular fact that 76 years have elapsed since the City of London was honoured by the presence of the Sovereign on Lord Mayor's day, and it is not a little curious to remark the difference in the cost of the three last Royal entertainments.— In the year 1727, George II. with his Queen, dined with the Lord Mayor and Corporation on that day when the total dis- bursements were ,£4889. 4s. In 1761, when George III. with Ins Queen, and the Members of the Royal Family, were feasted by the Civic Authorities, the expense was £6898. 5s 4d whilst the banquet at which George IV. then Prince Regent, and the Foreign Sovereigns were present, called forth an expenditure of about j625,000 from the corporation funds. On each occa- sion the utmost economy consistent with the event was said to have been observed, and it will be a matter of no inconsidera- ble interest to mark the amount expended, and the contrast, in the November of the present year.

GRAND BALL AT LLANOVER. Having received a more particular and correct account of the entertainment given at Llanover to celebrate the fourth anniver- sary of the Abergavenny Cymreigyddion, than could be col- lected immediately after it took place, we subjoin the following particulars :— We mentioned in our number of last week, that the guests of the President, to the number of about 35, were entertained at the Greyhound at dinner, afier the close of the proceedings of the second day. Ahout half-past nine o'clock the company be- gan to arrive, and the first object that struck them was a gene- ral illumination of the village of Rhyd y Mierch, Llanover, each house of which had been lighted up by its inhabitants as u' respect to the President and his distinguished visitors 0^ outer gate to the mansion (a distance of three-quarters fa mile) the road was illuminated by large censors, contain- v,,> "r<;a!1t flames, which lasted the whole night, and sur- pillars placed at reguia, The visitors were ■ h' red through the massive porch into the vestibule, whose of of scarlet and gold was lighted by suspended tamps t- >ice tbgy. ^ntered the staircase-hall, which was illumi- f< ■•'Variegated lights, and is adorned by a colossal statue it In this hall, two handmaids, attired in the manu- 'acitre of the country, attended to dispose of the ladies' cloaks. A-- frti-room was then passed into the great library, which, vtith !oak and rich ceiling, appeared lighted up to great ad- and across the end of which a refreshment table was pplied with ices, lemonades, &c. &c., handed out by lemale attendants in the full costume and manufacture of their country. (The effect of this table, by Cambrian nymphs, was particularly admired.) From the library the company entered the drawing-room, which is fitted up entirely with ebony furni- ture, elaborately carved, and hung with green silk and gold. In the centre a chandelier, of extraordinalily delicate work. manship, illuminated the room while from the walls (which are green, studded with gold oak leaves,) are hung numerous gilt sconees, of antique form, filled with candles. From the drawing-room the company entered the scene of ac'ion, the hall, around which, midway, appeared a wall of wax lights, which, together with the immense lanthorn suspended from the centre, completely made visible every intrii acy of the carved and gilded roof. The end of the hall has a galleiy of richly carved wOlk, picked out in gold and in this gaUoy were the musicians, the leader of the band being stationed in the centre of the platform, covered with crimson cloth. The ball was begun by a good Welsh country dance. Mr. Hall leading off the Lady Emily Foley (daughter of the Duke of Montrose), and the venerable Baronet of Tredegar following with Mrs. Hall (Gwenynen Gwent.) Quadrilles, country dances (of which there was a double set), and gallopades suc- ceeded each other, till twelve o'clock, when the crim on cur- tains were withdrawn, the doors of the dining-room thrown open, and a banquet appeared laid out by Mr. Cunter, who had sent down seven assistants for the occasion. The dining-room appeared to be hung with brown cloth, covered with a Lold gold figure of plumes of feathers at the end was a deep niche, con- taining a sideboard of the finest oak carving, the back of which reached the ceiling, and encircled large plates of looking-glass, across which were shelves filled with lights, pia Ie, tare china, and floweis. The tables extended down two sides of the room, and were covered with pines, grapes, aod peaches, in vases while other rare, though more substantial viands, were also in abundance—the whole served on plate. It was commenced by a supply of hot soups, and it was re-supplied till past seven in the morning, when the last visitors took their departure from the festive >ce e. Among the numerous admirable dresses which appeared on this occasion, we think it right to specify first those in Welsh costume:—Mrs. Hanbnry Leigh, in the real manufacture of Neath, adorned w th gold, and resplendent with diamonds.— Mrs. Scudamore, of Kentchurch, in a strictly coirect Cardigan- shire costume, composed of rich satin, in the native stripes, woven on purpose her hat adorned with diamonds most be- comingly attired.—The Lady Charlotte Guest was most exceed- ingly admired, in a correct Merihyr costume, composed also of rich satin, being a perfect facsimile of the patterns of Welsh manufacture. Her Ladyship afteiwards appeared as Mary Queen of Sccts, and in this magnificently attired if a prefer* "eoce coutd be given, it was to her native dress.— Mr. Guest, M.P., was admirable as a mountain farmer, in native costume. —Mrs. Berrington (the sister of the host) was an object of great attraction, in the full Caermarthenshiie costume, in sa- tin.—Lady C. Greenly, a Gwentiao costume.—Miss Jones, of Llanarth, as a Caermarthenshire peasant, was much ad- mired.—Miss Tudor (the fair victor), wearing the gold harp of Tredegar, was also very much admired.—Miss Angharad Llwyd (the celebrated Bardess of North Wales) appeared in the green and white colours of her country, and in full costume, The appearance of this talented and distinguished Cambrian lady at the Cymreigyddion y Fenni was considered one of the highest honours it could receive.—The Misses Wil- liams, of Aberpergwm, were so beautifully and correctly at- tired in the costume of Cwm Nedd, of 100 years ago (in satins from the looms of the patriotic Messrs. Howell and James), that it is difficult to do justice to the picturesque and elegant effect of their attire, or, we may add, its richness.—Lady Rod- ney was habited in the well known and admired Welsh Rodney stripe, in satin.—Miss Hall, of Llanover (Gwenynen Fach), appeared in the Pembrokeshire costume, in brown satins, which was considered particularly becoming.—Mis. Hall, of Llan- over (Gwenynen Gwent), was in the costume of Gwent, exe- cuted in satins in her hat she wore a diamond leek, surrounded by the Rose, Thistle, and Shamrock, in diamonds, and a velvet band round her throat was confined by a diamond clasp, with the cypher G. G., and the prize nng suspended, won on a former occasion. Among the fancy costumes, we noticed the Hon. Mrs. Stret- too, as particularly elegant, and the Hon. Mrs. Angerstein also, Mr. B. Powell, as an Albanian; Mr. Little and his party, as Persians; Miss Vivian, as a French peasant; the Hon. Miss Devereux, as a Swiss Mr. Hobhouse, as a Turk Miss Wilkins, of Maesdeenen, as a Sultana Mr. Wilkins, Charles the Second, &c. &c. The number present were supposed to be about 250, com- prising all the principal families in Gwent and Morganwg, and many visitors from North Wales. The names of those present we have not been able to obtain a complete list of, further than those of the visitors in the house, of which were the following :—Viscount and Viscountess Hele- ford Hon. Mr. and Miss Devereux Lord and Lady Rodney; Mr. and Lady C. Guest; Lord Carewe H. Hobhouse, Esq. Miss Vivian; Miss Duff Gcidon; Miss Angharad Llwyd; the Misses llose, of Court yr Ala Rev. Mr. Jones (Tegid) A. Johnes, Esq.; A. Herbeit, Esq.; Lady Collin Greenly; Mr. Foley, M.P., &nd Lady Emily Fotey Sir Chas. Morgan J. L. Scudamore, Esq. and Lady; Rev. T. Price (Carnu- hanawc); Rev. Bernard Port; Rev. George Waddington Rev. Mostyn Price, of Gunly Mr. and Mrs. Herrington Mr. and Mrs. Rolls, of the Hendre and Miss Long. The banners suspended from the minstrel's gallery, of gold and green, were emblazoned with the arnx of the Principality, 93 taken from the seal of Owen Glendwr, in the possession of Sir S. Meyrick. The motto surrounding them was Bren- hines Victoria, in addition to the old inscription of Tywy- sogaeth Cymru." A flag of green and white, with Llanover Porth Mawr," waved from the Porth Mawr; and another, of the same colour, from the mansion. The horses' heads were each day decoiated with green and white ribbons, that conveyed the Llanover party; and girls, in full Welsh costume, pie- sented silver leeks as the carriages passed through the gates. The party did not break up at Llanover till the Saturday and Tuesday following large dinner parties took place each day and the infant Welsh harpers from Newbridge, with Jones, of Gelly Gare, were stationed in the hall (harps in hand), to sere- nade the guests as they passed to dinner.

THE WONDERFUL SPYGLASS. (BY ROKY O'I\IOR£.) TO DANIEL O'CONNELL. [We arc happy our limits permit us this week to give inser- tion to the recently published paper of Rory O'More. We were only enabled to give the two first sentences in our last publication. We now reprint them.]. The great astrologer hardskull, that saw the men in the moon threw his tallowscoop (last summer was a twelvemonth) at the Cape of Good Hope, and discovered that they were all ffyin munkees, won't have his degrees taken out till he goes to school to the inventor of a wonderful spyglas that is set up in this town. It bates all the moonshine that ever was none on airth, for showin things in the dark and for seein what's going on out of site, as well as things that the peepl on the spot never saw in their live*. It is a niiiy long glass, a rale stretcher, with a sweep in the sinther for spyan round corners, and it stands convaniant to Black Frires-bridge, mounted upon a Standard for any boddy to luck trew for the sum of fippence. They say it belongs to a company that clubs their weekly money to keep it up and to put down the Irish nashun, and there's lords and ladys of the land consarned, besides all the jurnymcn emploid to pollish the glasses and snuf the candels. For a curossaty, I dar say the like's not in this wurrild nor in the nickst. 1 dhropt in to see this merraklus chube along with one Billy Bullock, of the Golden Vane, a cousin o' mine of Krummel's breed. He is here studdyan the law in the Timple, where any man or boy that nose how to eight beef griskins fore limes a yeer for two yeers runnin can be made a cownsillor of, upon paying his pheeze. l'it be bail for Billy, he won't be bacards to fulfil his part of the conthract, at taste in the regard of the griskins. Ma Gra Gltel-but 'tis his own fore boans 'il make the brave big blundherbush of law when he gits the black cloke about his showldhers. I'll make you laff at some of his capers in this place byanby, when I've more time to spare than at the present ritin. The shoman of the glass is by nature a soart of an Irishman, and can see further into a dale boord or the wall of a house than any other kunjaror alive. Persavin somehow that I be- longed to the sod—it cudn't be my tung, for every body nose that I spake quite Cocknytide-he axed meet wonst to luck in at the Irish i of the glass and no suner said than done—who wood I see but yerself cherrupin to the baygles on the cliffs of Darrynane ? Who d'ye sec there 1" says the shoman. Who but Dan," says I, wadin up to his neeze in the haith with a big stake in his hand, the little dogs out breth afore him, and a long-legged half-starved theef of a hair stailin away acrash the hills towrts the say." And is that all you can see, Misthur O'Moore 1" says the shoman. Can't ye spy out any thing morel" No more at present, sir," says I, "unless you considher the loch o' the bay down yondher with a herrin-bote upon it anything." Then Billy," says he, "will you. be plased to clap your i to the spyhole and enliten the jintleman's undherstandin V I spy Dan, sure enuf," says Billy, but instead of bein up to his neeze in haith, tis nee-deep in Orange blud he is, the tiger. And threw for you, Rory, he has a stake in his fist; but by my oath (and that's as good as if I swore it) tis like Pursell O'Gorman's stake in the counthry ther's a brave lump of a pike at one ind of tt. What you call the little dogs are his tale runnin-" Stop, stop asy now, Billy, asy," says I; "is it his tale you main runnin out afore him 1" Aye, indeed, jew'l, and runnin like mad two, but afther no hair, no, nor a fox neither, but skelpin along, if I ben't entirely desaved, afther a Prodestan ministher for all the wurrild like the Bishop of Ma th." Now," says the shoman, what d'ye say to that, Master Rory isn't it a quare thing 1 The quarest thing in nature, sir," says I, to hear of a jintleman, odds of sixty years ould, and as good as fifteen stone wait, dhriven his own tale afore him afther the Bishop of Maith." Well, then," says the shoman, "as quare as it luch, that's the very accapation your frind Dan is fottyin at this mo- ment at his mountain rethrateup yondther, beyant Killarney." Bedershin," says I, but let us have another peep at your spyglass." The nickst thing I viewed was the Lord-Liftinnent at his dinner, with lots of fine quollity sittin about him, and the best of every thing good and warm before them. Ogh by dad, 'twas a deferent soart of a fiist to the goold plates with nothing at all to fill them, that the Evening Mail yuste to be so funny about, in the Tory Juke's time. Ther was enuf and no stint: Liberty Hall-do what you plase or I'll make you. D'ye see any one theie," says the shoman, that autn'tto be there 1" Never a one," says I, unless may be the young officer that's in the chair facin the two decanthers-of wine, where I'd just like to be myself." "Ah," says he, I persave how it is. None so blind as them that can't see. Hook on the Bull's I for him." With that they skrude on a little thing like an oppary gla.<s at the end of the long one, and d'ye think but then I sees your noble self and Misther Hulton, sittin where you wornt before, 0.t jich side. of h;. A lr."eIlQoQY, dhrinkin porthur. It isn't Guinnesses," says the shoman. I'll take my corporation oath o'that," says Billy. I turned the glass about to the Connaught side o' the room, and 10 and behold you, ther was as good as aight or nine hun- dred boys beside the wals of an puld cassel, some o' them with pitchforks, some with spadehandles, one or two with rusty gun- barrels, and far the biggest part of them with nothing at all in ther hands only ther too fists. What d'ye think of thatl" says the shoman "isn't it a quite counthry where an army of that soart cums out for drill aight nights of the week 1 Why, man, the camp at Vinegar- hill was only a batthern to it." What army are ye talken about?" says I; "it lucks liker a cockfite or a match of hurleis nor anything else." Stay a minit," says he, you havn't the rite fokis and he pulls the masheen out half a yard longer, so as to sho a dale more of the brass. Now take the cloud away from yer vizhun and try if it can bare the truth." My dear dear, I thaut the site id lave my iis. It wasn't thrustin to aight or nine hundred boys any more but as good as twenty thousand min, all with green cockades in their hats and suggans of green ribbon round their middle, wor drawn up and goin throw the manial exarsize with guns and braud soords. I don't doubt but they had a kuppal o' peesses of cannon in the bargen, and there was a skwodderin of horse to bring up the rare. To be sure tis the wonderfullest masheen in the world, and I bleeve the shoman tould rather less than the hole truth when he said the abjectglass of it was ground by the great Titus Oates, spyglass-inaker to the King of Hanover, with his own hands. The last site he shode me was the mimbers of Parlamint go- ing to her juty. There was O'Ferrell turning out of his own oak woods at Ballynagh, planted by his anscsthors before the rifformashan Talbot came out of his cassie in his coach and fore with two outriders and a pare of sarvants in the dicky; Bellew, a thrue Milesian, a nobleman of King Priam's creation, that the ould state of his father, where them that are lords now first tasted butter to their praties Wyse, from the manor of St. John, that was in the family before ever a King of England owned a sod of our green land, not to talk of his estate in the Queen's own county Walker, from his fine place and his happy tenants in Wexford. Thank ye at last," says I; this is a proud site for ould Ireland." Why, ye ignoramush of a Papist," says the shoman wipin the glas with his orange pocket-hankerchief, can't ye see ? Did ever ye behould sich a crew of beggarmen 1 There's not the price of a leg o' mutton among 'em all, nor credit for a ha'p' ney candle. Luck at their rags-luck at their brogues"— 0 cum cum, honest man," says I, don't think I'm a fool entirely, to be comin over me with that soait of talk." I tell you," says-he, by But I won't repate the oath he swore 'twould make the hare rise off yer hed. I tell you they have hardly a rag to cover their bax, and if they wornt the ungratefullest varmint on airth and the blackest Papishes, tis down on their marraboans they'd be blessin the Consarvatives for having the marcy not to pittishun agin every molhir's sowl of em, for bein elected anonomously without op- position." And then he began to vow to the Lord Harry and the sowl of King Wiliiam, that the jinllemen I saw fernent me wor only fit to stand behind the Lord Mare's chare of Dublin, or clane his shoes may be and that I was an etarnal villian, a rebble, a Sassinian, and a lebberil Prodestan, if 1 said another word agin it. I was going to git vext; but father Quigly, who was by all the time, gemme a nudge and whispers to roc. Never heed him," sats hb; don't ye see 'tis Lord Pether ye have to dale with, only he's at the rong side o' the guther V And so I came away to give you an account of this wonderful spy- glass, and to fIX you who the priest mains by Lord Pether ? London, 0'9.. R. O'M.

The daughter of the Countess of L and all her family, residing in Paris, were poisoned a few days ago by partaking of a stew which had been allowed to stand and get cold in a cop- per saucepan. Notwithstanding that the ablest medical assis- tance was immediately procured, the lady of the house expired in a few hours in excruciating agony. EFFICACY OFVITHIOL FOR THE PREVENTION OF SMUT IN WHEAT. Mr. Parsons, of Hillside Farm, Banghurst, complained to Mr. Jackson, Newbury, that his land was no use to him as wheat land for it was always smutty Mr. Jackson advised him to try the prepared vitriol, which he did in the following manner :— One field of twenty-eight acres, he sowed with the prepared wheat, and also a strip with the same sort of corn, not prepared the result is, the prapared corn is remarkably clean and healthy, while the strip, which was through the field, is so smutty that it is nearly useles.—Oxford Herald. At a meeting of the Westminster Medical Society, held on Saturday evening, Dr. James Johnson introduced the subject of dissecting-room and other poisoning wounds, from an appli- cation proposed for the former by Dr. Macartney, of Dublin, by wrapping up the affected part in rags steeped in a saturated solution of alum water, which were to be kept moist for two or three days. In every case where this had been adopted no bad result had occurred, and the etficacy of this remedy would seem '0 point out its advantageous employment in many other cases of poisoned wounds produced from animal virus, or substances. MONKKY LOVE.—At the new building erected for the monkies in the Jardin des Plants, a Paris paper says—" The visitors are highly around with ihe marks of affection shown by a loving couple to each other, and to a baby ape, with which their union has been blessed These displays are particularly striking after a temporary separation of the papa from his consort and child. On being re-admitted he embraces his companion, takes up the marmotte, and bestows upon it a thousand caresses TEETOTALISM.—The young ladies of Lincoln have formed a Teetotal Society, one of the rules of which is that they shall declare, on joining the body, that they will not marry any young man who will not join the teetotal, or total abstinence pledge. One of the by-law. provides that the rule shall not interfere with any previously formed engagement*.

NEWPORT. List of Arrivals and Sailings ftfr the. week ending the 26th of October. iNw/iitDs.—Friends, Owens, from Cork, wrthstteep andpigso Eleanor, Hughes, from Waterford, with flour, oaHn#bttU«r, Amelia, Scudamore, from Cardin, with sundries. Twin Bro- thers, Griffiths, from Bristol, tttth beans. Bee, Casey, from Cork, with feathers. Newport Trader, Jackson, from Glouces- ter, with flour. Kitty, Waters, from Bristol, with corn. Unanimity, Bushen, from Bridgwater, with flow. Eliza, Arr, from Bristol, with wheat and oats. Bristol Packet, Williams, from Truro; his, Wedock, from Truro, with block tin. Onta- rio, Jones, from Bristol; Caroline, Richards, from Padtfow with iron ore. Moderator. Johns George, Coombs Brittol Packet, Gainey Swift, Richards; Fanny, Scott; Carieon, Harwood Mary. Fiver, with sundries. OUTWARDS—Vine, Hunter; Jessie, Scott; Cbepstow, Wes- lake; Dianna, May Norval, Wright; Ann, Tadd Turtle Dove, Williams Eleanor, Scott; Ann, and Maria, Drum- mond; New Diligence, Jones Cordelia, Miller; Chailes, Edwards Eliza, Arr; Henry Turner, Williams; Robert, Cjampitt; Providence, Watkins Nymph, Hughes; Euphe- mia, Leash Maria, Jones Walter Johnson, Evans Minerva, Widdecome Charles, Howe Abbess, Harris Sibyl, Rich- ards; with iron and tin plates. Moderator Johns; George, Coombs Bristol Packet, Gainey Swift, Richards; Fanny, Scott; Caileon, Harwood Mary, Tiver; with sundries. 0 CARDIFF. List of Arrivals and Sailings for the week ending the 24tb of October. COASTERS INWARDS.—Thomas Mahoney Gough, from Dun- garvon, with oats. Norwelen, Coleman, from Bridgwater, with fruit. Elizabeth, Brewith, from Lydney, with stones. Alex- ander, Hooper, from Waterford, with flour. Castle, Jones, from Bristol, with sundries. Ann, Jones, from Portmadoc, with slates. Tyne. Chapman, from Waterford, with floor, &c. Jane, Jones, from Portmadoc, with slates. Two Brothers ami Sisters, Batch, from Falmouth, with stones. Amelia, Sctttb- more, from Newport, with cinders. Hopewell, Shaw, from Lydney, with stones. Industry, Thomas, from Bridgwater, with bricks. Harmony, Cadogan, from Lydney with stones. Venus, Gulliford, from Bridgwater with sundries. John and Mary Ann, Best, from Lyndey Defiance, Hunt, from Cork with stones. Ann and Elizabeth, Smith, from Fowey, with stones.—11 vessels with ore—27 in ballast. COASTERS OUTWARDS.—Cambrian, Jones, for London; Whitehaven, Ber, for Liverpool with iron. Robert, Clam- pitt, for Newport, with sundries. John, Newman, for Chep- stow; Gleaner, Biggs, for Bristol; Helston, Spurshott, for London, with iron. Merthyr Paeket, Edwards, for Bristol, with sundries. Active. Balmano, for Exeter, with iron. Fly, Dyer, for Fowey, with iron and coal. Mars, Hooper, for Bris- tol William, Pearce, for Liverpool; with iron. Amity, Ro- gers, for Bristol, with sundries. Hopewell, Owens, for Li- merick, with iron. Eliza, Jones, for Ross, with iron and coal. -27 with coal. LYDNEY. List of Arrivals and Sailings for the week ending the 25th of October. AmuvED.—Severn, Hooper, from Falmouth. Ann, Haw- kins; Frendship, Dowell; from Gloucester. Lydney Trader, Knight; Brothers, Allpass; Princess, Pinnegar; Elizabeth, Morgan Argo, Fryer Hope, Hawkins Regulator, M'Neil; Roebuck, Smart; Aust, Hart; Mayflower, Palmer; ;Trotter, Beard Happy Return, Clark; Jane, Nurse from Bristol. Minerva, Quick; from Swansea. Union, Bendall; Sisters, Knapp from Newport. Victory, Merret; Bransby, Prout; from Cardiff. Minerva, Morgan; from Dundalk. Union, Beynon; Spraycombe, Marsh; from Bridgwater. Union, Machin Sisters, Bray Brothers, Quinton; Bee, Rymer from Chepstow. SAILED.—Lydney Trader, Knight Princess, Pinnegar; Happy Return, Clarke; Mayflower, Palmer; Aust, Hart; Hope, Hawkins Argo, Fryer; Independent, Gower Eliza- beth, Morgan Friendship, Dowell Ann, Hawkins; Roebuck, Smart; for Bristol. Trotter, Beard Union, Machin Sisters, Bray; Brothers, Quinton Bee, Rymer; for Chepstow. Se- vern, Hooper Minerva, Quick for Truro. Jane, Nurse Vic- tory, Merret; Bransby, Prout; Royal Forester, Furney So- phia, Cridland; for Bridgwater. Regulator, M'Neil, for Cardiff.

COUNTRY MARKETS. Monmouth, Saturday, Oct. 21.-Wheat, per quarter, Impe- rial measure, 58s IOd to Os Od; Barley, 32s 6d to 00s Od Oats, 00s Od to Os Od. Bristol, October 24.-Wheat, per quarter, 50s 3d Barley, 30s 9d; Oats, 20s 2d Rye, 00s Od Beans, 39s 4d Peas, 0s Od. Brecon, Tuesday, October 18.—Wheat, per bushel, Imperial measure, 8s 3d to Os Od Barley, 4s Od to Os Od; Oats, 3* 9d to Os Od Malt, 00s Od to 00s Cd Peas, Os Od to Os Od Beef, per lb. 4d to 5d Mutton, 5d to 6d Pork, 5Jd to 6Jd Veal, 0d to Od Lamb, Od to Od Butter, fresh, Is la to Is 2d ditto, salt, Is Od to Os Od; Cheese, new, 4d to 41d ditto, old, 6d. Hereford, October 21.—Wheat (old) per bushel, Imperial Measure. 7s 7d to 7s 8d; ditto (new), 7s Od to 7s 3d Barley, 3s 9d to 4s Od; Beans, old, 5s Od to 5s 6d ditto, new, 4s lOd to 5s Od Peas (white). Os Od to Os Od ditto (grey), 5s Od to Os Od; Vetches, 3s 9d to 4s Od Oats, 3s Od to 4s Od. Gloucester, October 21.—Wheat per bushel of 601bs.,6s0d to 7s 6d; Barley per Imp. Quar. 32s Od to 36s Od Beans, per Imp. bush. 5s 3d to 5s 7d Oats, Imp. Quar. 22s Od tp. 30s Od; Peas, Imp. Quar. 49s Od to 51s Od; Malt, Imperial Quar. Os Od to Os Od Fine Flour per sack of 2801bs. 44& to 46s Od. Carmarthen, Oct. 21.—Wheat per imperial bushel, 6s 2d to 6s 9d Barley, 3s 6d to 4s Od Oats, Is 4d to 2s Od Malt, 8s Od to Os Od Salt Butter, per lb., Os 9d to Os 91d; Fresh Butter, Is 2d to Is 6d. Cardiff.—Average price of Corn at Cardiff market for the week ending Oct. 3rd, 1837:-Wheat, 66s 3d Barley, 36s 4d Oats, 21s 4d Beans, 48s Od-per Imperial Quarter. Hay, from £5 per ton. Swansea.- Wheat, 5s 9d to 6s 3d; Barley, 3s Od to 3s 6d Oats, 2s 3d to 2s 6d—per Imperial Bushel. Beef, 5d to 7d Mutton, 5d to 6d Veal, 5d to 6d Lamb, 5d to 6d Pork, 5d to 6d per lb.; Salt Butter, 9d to lOd per lb.

— — i PRICES OF STOCKS. ], IUUI O'CLOCK. Friday Sat. | Mon, Tues. Wed. Thur«., ] Bank Stock. 2001 210J —— 210! 211 alcj India Stock. 282 262 —— —— 2ft ——- ) 3 per Cent. Consols D2» 92| 92| 02} 92i 02l Old 34 per Cent —- —- — < 3 per Cent. Reduced Ann. 91} Oil 91} 92 02} 92 3J per Cent. Reduced .J 99i 99* 99} 991 9Rf New per Cent I00 £ lno| tooj !00{ 100J loof India Bonds 55s. p. 54s. p- 51s. p. SSs. p. 55s. p. 55*. p Exchequer Bills 5H. p. 52s. p. 53s. p. 53». p. 5.1s. p. 53».p. Consols for Account 9ii 92} 92( 92i 93 92l Long Annuities 14} 14} 14J 14|

PRICES OF SHARES AT LONDON. No. of Shares. CANALS. Price per Share. 1005 Brecknock and Abergavenny 150/. sh. i 600 Glamorganshire, Averagecost.l72M3s4d. 2409 Monmouthshire 100/. sh. 200 533 Swansea.1001. sh. 3762 Severn and Wye & Railway Av. 351. sh. 264 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 20,000 North and South Wales 20/.sh.5/.pd. 10,000 Gloucestershire.501. sh. JOl. pd. 30,000 London & Westminster. 100/. sh. 20/. pd. 21 25,000 Liverpool 100/. sh. 10/. pd. 21 50,000 Manches.&Liverpl.Disct.00/.sh.l5i.pd. 194 20,000 Manchester sh. 25/. pd. 27 25,000 Moomouthsh.&Glamorgaosh.20b¡h. JOt.pd. 131 20,000 Provincial Bank of Ireland. 100/ sh.25/.pd. 40; 20,000 National Bank of Ire)aod.50Lsh.!7,<.pd. I3 £ al3 H),000 NationalProvinl.Englaml.100/.sh.35t.pd. 50,000 West of England and South Wales l 12 District.20t. sh. 10/. pd. S 20,OCO Wilts and Dorset.15t. she 711. pd. 10,000 Bank of Birmingham.50t. she lOt. pd. IRON RAILWAYS. 9500- Birmingham and Gloucester. \Ot. pd. 14.000 Cheltm., Oxford, & Tring 1001. sli. 51. pd. 7500- Cheltm. is Gt. Western .100/. sh. 7211. pd.

PRICES OF SHARES AT BRISTOL. COMMERCIAL ROOMS, BRISTOL, WEDNESDAY EVENING. Paid. Price per Shar' > Bristol and Exeter 10 a 4 Bristol and Coal-pit Heath 50 42 Eastern Counties 3 J I Cireat Westein Railway Company 55 64 65 London and Greenwich 20 131 14 TaffVale 20 14 15 Birmingham and Gloucester. 121 4J 5 Cheltenham and Gt. Western Union 7 £ 1 1 £ London and Birmingham 90 140 142 London and Southampton 45 27 28 London and Brighton 5 1it Liverpool and Manchester 100 200 Leeds and Manchester 10 9 Bristol Coal Gas 20 37 38 J Oil ditto 25 26 27 I Bristol Union Insurance 10 10 10M General Steam Navigation Company. 13 West of England and South Wales f ,0, IO I0l District Bank S 11 „ National Provincial Bank 35 32| 3>?

BRISTOL PRICES CURRENT OF LEATHER AND RAW GOODS. d lb. lb. d. d. I lb. Ib. d. d CropHldes,perlb 30.35-lltõI2! Irish Skins 13 14 1 40 60-12 H Welsh Skins 38 40-14. 16 Foreign Hides.30 35) 10 ,,j 40 15—15 17 Foreign Hides.30 35) ,n ,,j 40 15—15 17 40 45) a .45 50—16 18 Middlings IIJ 12$52 56—18 20 Heavy 12 13 27 35—12 14 Butts, English 16 20—14 15 £ Kips, English and Welsh. 12 14 24 26—15 16 Petersburgli 6 B—14 16 28 30—15 16 £ 9 10—12 14 extra 3+ 36—16 18 East India 12 15 Foreign. 16 20—13J 14^ Seal Skins, small 18 20 22 25—14 15 middling 14 I5 28 30—144 15J large II 13 Extra strong 34 36-15 16 Basils 10 13 Best Saddlers' Offal, Foreign Bellies 6 7i Hides 37 40—14 15 Foreign Shoulders. 7 10 Common ditto 35 40—12 13 Dressing Hide Bell. 8 !)x Shaved Hides 18 22—13 16 Ditto Shoulders 9 111 Shoe Hides 20 2:J-1I 12 Common ditto 27 2fl—11 12 RAW GOODS. Welsh Hides H 12J Dry B. A. Hides 7A 9 Bull Hides 10 12 Salted ditto 3i 4J English Horse Hides 9 12 ?/a, ',t5° H Welsh ditto 9 Hi ^ar,ke^i"°-"V 'i\ ?? German ditto II 14 Market Calf Skins 3j 5* Spanish ditto 14 18 Peterburgh Kips 8 !|J Ditto Shaved, without i.ast India ditto 6J 9 butts 1 Is to 16s each. ? Horse Butts 9 11 Bark £ 6 to £ 7. 5s per ton* UcstPatrn. Skins 30 36—13$15 I Valonia. £ 15 to £ 18. 5s per tor- 56 70—19 21 Shumac 14s to tog per cwt- 80 100—15 10 Ox Horns 45s to 55s per 12G- 100 120-14 15 Cow ditto 18s to 20s. j

The packets at Falmouth have within the last fortnight oee." sionally gone out of harbour for the purpose of exercising the crews in naval gunnery. This is said to have been ordered in consequence of the appearance of formidable piratical vessels in the West Indian seas and the Gulf of Mexico, pretending to sail under the Texican government. They have captured I several vessels and sent them into Matagoida and Galveston, where they have been held for ransom or gutted of their con-' tents. The Eliza, a British vessel from Liverpool, bound to Campeachy, was captured under the pretence of having Mexi* can property on board.—Detonpott Telegraph. THE ROYAI. STUD.—Measures are in progress for converting the royal stud" into a joint-stock company, which, under the pationage of the nobility and gentry, is now forming, for the purchase and continuance of the stud an appropriation of the shares, most of which are already subscribed for, took place on Saturday and application has, we hear, been made to Kef ( Majesty for permission to rent of the Crown the land and esta' I bhshment of the stud at Hampton Court. No difficulty what<) ever has been made to this purchase by private contract of the stud, by its possessors, the late King's family nor are w« aware that Sir II. Wheatley, the late King's executor, oppost^i any obstacle to such ao arrangement,—Mm Hull,