The Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette and Merthyr Guardian

0- We once saw a duel fought between two South American Spaniards, on board a schooner belonging to Cumana, on the Spanish Main. She was lying at the same time in St. Pierre, Martinique. The coinbaiants were the owner and cap ain of the ves- sel, both large and muscular men, in the prime of life. It was early in the inoriiiiig-.soine high words, evidently of an irritable tendency, passed between them, and first attracted the attention of the crews of the surrounding vessels. The storm of words in- creased, and with looks of defiance, and eyes spark- ling with indignation, they stood face to face, inzik- ing violent gestures and applying to each other the most insulting terms which can be found in the Spanish language. This wordy warfare lasted per- haps a quarter of an hour, and we expected every moment to see them come to blows. But suddenly, as if by mutual consent, they ceased their revilings and passed down the companion way together. In a few minutes they re-appeared on deck. They were now each lightly clad in a white shirt and trowse.rs. Around the left arm were wound several folds of some party-coloured garment, and in the right hand they brandished that deadly weapon the Spanish knife. As soon as they stepped on the quarter-deck, they confronted each other, and we shall never for- get the demoniac expressions of their coun enances at that moment. On their swarthy visages were fearfully expressed all the evil passioni which disgrace human nature. Their lips were firmly compressed, and we almost fancied we could hear the gritting of their teeth. Their large eyes, blood- shot with frantic passion, seemed like glowing em- bers. For an instant they gazed upon each other, as if each sought to wither his antagonist with a glance then they addressed themselves to their sanguinary work; and never did we witness a more extraordinary display of address and agility than by those two Spaniards thirsting for each other's blood. They fought foot to foot, Thrusts were rapidly inter- changed, and were some time skilfully parried by the lett ann, which was used as a buckler. The blows were all directed at the body, and soon the white vesture of one of the combatants was sullied by a crimson stain. This seemed only to stimulate inni to more desperate exertions, and a moment after a stream of blood was seen flowing from his adver- sary's bosom; and thus they fought more like de- mons than men, their own crew silently gazing on the tearful scene meanwhile, some captains of the American vessels lying near hastened on board to put a stop to the mortal struggle. But ere they cOl1'd reach the schooner, the Spaniards were both stretched on the deck, which was flooded with gore. One had received three dangerous wounds in the breast; the other two in the breast, and three in the abdomen. They were carried on shore, but whether they lived or died we never learned, as we left the harbour of St. Pierre a few hours after.-Lowell Journal.

CHEAP POLITICAL PUBLICATIONS. Some idea of the spread of these pestilent vehicles ol sedition and impiety, called unstamped publica- tions the cherished proteges of Joseph Hume and his clique, may be formed froin the following account gfteu by the Standard :— Average circulation. Poor Man's Guardian 16,900 This is printed by Hetheringtou, an Irish Papist and ex student of Mayaooth. Destructive 8,000 Printed by the same It is scarc« ly. necessary to mention the principles of these publications they are Jacobinical of the deepest, bloodiest dye. ft will be remem- bered that Hetherington has preachcd the use of the dagger a an instrument of rebellion The Poor Man's Guardian and Dainicttue circulate in Lancashire. Gauntlet 22,000 The cjnductor of this is me notorious Cariile- his name is enough. Cosmopolite 5,000 E it )r, Detrosier.—Principles, Owenite aud lic- publican. Working Man's Friend 4. 7,000 Editor, Watson.- Principles, Republican. Crisis 5,000 Conductors, Mr. Owen and Morgan, author of the Wrath of the Bees." Alr. Owen's name precludes the necessity of describing principles. ,The -11 7 000 Conductors, Lee, the chairman ofColribatii lipids meeting, and Petrie.- Principles, Spencean and Republican. Jieforjner 5.000 Principles. Republican and Revolutiouary.- 'Editor, Lorimer.

IRON TRADE 1\1 FRANCE.—A commercial treaty, and with France 1 And how have these dainty negociations sped ? It is a curious story and were I not conscious that I should only be wasting my time in chasing a shadow, I might say much upon it. Yet one instance is always worth two argumeuts and an anecdote is, nt least, amusing. All know that the iron trade is one of the principal branches of our industry and, certainly, there is no country where more iron is consumed than in France. It is, perhaps, in our power to supply the French with iron at a half t e rate at which they can themselves produce it. Here, least, was some grounds to work upon. -A cheap article, although supplied by Eugland, since it is an advantage for the working people, would apparently be popular even with the mouvement. But the French ministry, when applied to upon this head, with all their liberalism, and ail their political economy, hesitate they fear, forsooth, the popular indignation at being forced to make even a good bargain! Such was the pretence. Hut what is the truth ? All know that in France the far greater portion of iron is smelted by charcoal. M. Cassitnir Perier and his family are the greatest wood proprie- tors in France, and find in the French furnaces their best customers. M. Sebastiani, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, derives the principal part of his liicome froui woods. Marshal Soult is also a'very rich wood proprietor; and only the year before he became minister, invested a great part of his fortune in coat mines and in furnaces. M. Montalivet is in the same comfortable predicament. The director of the mines in partnership with Marshal Sault, has considerable investments in that branch of industry over whose interests he watches with true solicitude ■ and last—but,oh! —not least—'hat Royal merchant' as well as citizen Monarch, Louis Philippe, King of the French, and now, I presume, by virtue'of the honourable inheritance which he shares with Madame do Dawes.Feucheres—Prince of Conde, not content with his steam engines and canals-not even content with being the first sugar-baker and the first tallow- chandler of young Frauce- is, besides being lord of many forests, the principal iroh-founder in the country where he has succeeded so worthily to the throne of Francis the First and Henry the Fourth. Magnan- imous country where Sophie I'avisee is woed instead of la belle Gabrielle; and the chivalry of France is represented no longer by Bayard, but by M. Thiers. -Gallomania. A DEATH-BED CONFESSION.—A few days ago a mati died in the vicinity of Ellesmere, who obtained relief for his tortured conscience by disclosing to a Clergyman his guilt in the committal of two murders in Shropshire. Upwards of twenty years ago, a man named Preston, a blacksmith, was convicted and exe- cuted for an atrocious murder on two aged people, named Francis Bruce and Ann Taylor, residing at Lotigford, near Drayton. The murder look place on a Sunday evening, aud was not discovered until next day, when the deceased were found with their throats dreadfully cut, and the house in which they lived ransacked and robbed of every thing valuable. The guilt of Preston, as a participator, was established by a chain of very strong circumstantial evidence. He was traced from London to Drayton, where he arrived on the Saturday before the murder, and was then pennyless, in company with two other men. He was seen running from the scene of the murder on the same evening it was committed and next morning lie exhibited a handful or two of gold and bank notes; a stick, with which he had been seen on the Saturday, was found tying by the murdered bodies; and a ham- mer with which the old man's skull was fractured, was proved to have been borrowed by Preston a day or two before. No doubt was therefore entertained by the Jury of Preston's guilt, and he was hanged and anatomized iu pursuance of his sentence. It now appears, from the confession of one who has gone to his account, not from the gallows, but from a remorse- ful and agouized death-bed, that Preston, although he watched at the door when the butchery was going on within, took no share in the atrocity, but co-uuselled that the robbery should be committed without injuring the persons of the old man aud his servant. The mur- der, it now seems, was perpetrated by the other two men, who were never prosecuted, and one of them was the dying man whose agonized mind urged him to make this recent disclosure. Prestin, on the scaffold, denied any share in the murder it is satisfactory, however, to know, that he admitted his share in the robbery, and that he justly met his deserts in an ignominious death. Preston, we believe, was a native cf Market X>raytou—Chesler Commit. I

a J tl. (I'rom the London Guardian.) The union of the YVesleyan Methodists with the Church of England has recently become the subject of some discussion in consequence of certain allusions to it in a recent charge of the Bishop of Exeter., The Christian Advocate, which assumed to represent the sentiments of that respected body of men, but has been formally disowned, appears to suffer con- siderable alarm lest the project, if project indeed there be, which is more than doubtful, should be seriously entertained by them; aud probably upon the principle of self-preservation our contemporary may be justified in his fears, for in such a case his occupation might he damaged. In the number pub, lished last evening he labours with infiuite zeal to avert such a catastrophe; and if the success of his endeavours is to be predicated from the quantity of abuse with which he loads the Established Church, and the rancorous feeling displayed in everysentence against it, he need have no misgivings about the longevity of the Advocate, and the gainful quality of its reuumeration. But that very rancour must carry conviction to every mind, were even other proof wanting, that the writer can have no community of feeling with the influential class of which he would usurp the representation, for greater ignorance and estrangement from their habits, associations, and principles cannot easily be betrayed by the most casual sojourner in the land. Of the "Christian'' spirit in which the question is treated, the following is one example "This equivocal movement on the pait of the Bishops is an emanation of the first law of nature, self preservation. They do not consider how the union is to be effected but what, itself effected, it would effect for them. They see before them nothing but destruction, unless they can re- invigorate what some dissenters have presumed to call the old hai, by a supply of younger blood, and transfuse u vital methoiiicm into the paralysed body of the church. The activity of such nev alies, they suppose, might disarm the enemies of the establishment of that powerful argument which they derive from its present inertness. Justly alarmed by the unfavourable issue of vestry divisions, but fondly imagining that the inethodists have not swollen the 'untoward majorities,' they were ready to swallow with voracious faith the intimatiou of some interested church inethodist, that his brethren are a body well affected to the church. Thus they have eagerly imbibed the notion, that, strengthened by the proposed union, they should be able to bear the establishment unhurt above the prejudices as well as the overt hostility of its determined foes. And, as the Scottish Guardian justly remarks, this would be a won- derful accession of popular streugth to the ebtireii-an accession of that very part of the community where, unfor- tunately, the establishment is the weakest.' We are furthermore informed that Unfortunately for tlie Church, the union, however desirable for her, is hopeless and impracticable. In taking it for granted, that the overture would be received with much gratitude by the Methodists, and that they would think themselves but too happy to be be pressed to the bosom of the Church,' the Bishop of Exeter has made one great mistake. They know, at least; that at one time, the Church was disposed to give them a bear's hug and it would be difficult to persuade them that the leopard is the only animal which cannot change its nature. Unt thc drcad of being crushed is not the only motive by which the Metiiodists would be induced to shut their ears against ts those smooth speeches, to refuse to listen to the voice of the charminc Bishop of Exeter, charm he never so wisely. There is in the minds of nine-tenths of them as rooted an antipathy to the Church, as exists among the Dissenters (so called) themselves. Au assertion more baseless—more in the teeth of every day evidence—we believe never before to have been hazarded. The kindly feeling mutually existing between the members of the establishment and their Wesleyan brethren has not only been matter of com- mon observance, but has notoriously been made the subject of frequent and most acrimonious invective against the latter by nearly all other descriptions of Dissenters, equally as by the W hig aud other political incendiaries of the day. It is a stretch of charily of which, candidly-lo speak, we are not capable, to suppose that our contemporary does not wilfully mis- represent a state of things as clear as the sun at noon day, and of which in his vocation a man could only have been unconscious who had been asleep like Endymion.or when awake keeping company with the moon. The union is in truth so far from being hopeless or impracticable," that the marvel is how the estrange- ment, we mean in outward form, came to endure°so long. On niceties of doctrine and controversy there are and have been no greater differences to reconcile than wkat may be commonly found among the mem- bers of each communion themselves with reference to matters of secondary importance. And there can be little question that the example and the well-knowu sentiments of the Rev. John Wesley himself have powerfully contributed, not only to prevent the bond of union being finally dissevered, but to promote the approximation which for many years has viibly gained ground between conscientious bodies who differ, where at all, upon points of discipline only. That great and venerable founder of the Methodist Connexion was, in despite of the reproach and obloquy unjustly heaped upon him, far from contemplating a disruption with the Mother Church, in whose tenets and under whose protection he was educated he con- sidered, and justly too, her discipline of that period too lax and in need of reform, but he was far from confounding reform with revolution, and from seeking to uproot the oak because parasitical plants had twined around and were insidiously draining it of its best juices. The sentiments of Wesley were paitaken by all hi1* more select aud intimate followers, although most of them from motives of expediency, and some from more ambitious aspirations, decided after his decease to erect themselves iuto a more distinct corporation than during his lifetime and priesthood he had con- templated. But there were also several of his most beloved disciples who felt it as nothing less than heresy to depart even in form from the injunctions of their great teacher, and more religiously venerated the law when the law-giver was no more, than if they had been bound by a Lycurgan oath. The disunion consequent on Wesley's death was not extensive, but there were many who remained with or re-entered the church, who had long been counted as the most esteemed, the most confided in, and the most learned of his followers. We are here stating facts well known to many yet living among the Methodists, without intending to insinuate any decided opinion of our own as to the propriety or the utility of a com- plete amalgamation of the two churches at the present moment. We may perhaps be excused even for say- ing that, considering the perfect harmony and brotherly feeling universally prevalent between the members of the respective communions, we feel little disposed to raise the question of any more intimate brother- hood. Events are in progress which must eventually rally more than even their own estimable and tried friends aronnd the Church of England as around the ark of the covenant. These events need scarcely be pointed out—we allude to the rapid march ofUnita- rianism and infidelity under the present government. Amidst much that is reprehensible, and a good deal that is unintelligible, the Christian Advocate seems to have a sluggish apprehension of this sort. In an article on the evident resolve of the Whigs to take all sects into their own pay and patronage as a means of preserving influence and power, he thus expresses himself:— Now, much as we dislike the church as an establish- ment possessing exclusive rights and privileges, yet we prefer the plan of the Tories to what we conceive to be the design of the Whigs. Let the patronage of Government be equally apportioned among all denominations of pro fessing Christians, heterodox as well as orthodox, and what will be the result ? With regard to the Government, such a scheme might strengthen its position; but, with regard to religion, it will leave it as it found it. All beiiig or, a, equal footing the aid of the state would be neutralized. The portion g'iven to an orthodox sect would produce its proportion of good fruit: and the portion given to a heterodox sect its proportion of bad fruit: which proportions, hke equal quanti, les on opposite sides of an equation, would destroy each other. But, whilst the whole of the Government patronage is bestowed upon the Church of England, there is a ehance of some good resulting for amid much that is opposed to Scripture in her forms and ceremonies, she main- tains the most essential features of Christianity in undoubted perfection—we mean the atonement of Christ, and the insuf- ficiency of human merit. There is common sense in a state supporting a church like this; but for the Government of a -ch like this country to extend its patronage in an equal degree to Trini- tarians and Unitarians, to Protestants and lapiss, to Jews and Christians, and to all other contrarieties of religious creed, were excessively absurd, and would betray an infidel indifference about religion, instead of justifying pretensions to a wonderful zeal on its behalf." Now in a race for profit and place nothing can be more clear than that an Unitarian, or an infidel, will leave all others far behind. The reason is obvious enough. These people having no belief, and no fear of a future state-in the one case doubting even the existence of a Deity-self becomes the god of their idolatry, for they have nothing else to worship. Let any man look through the world so far only as in his own sphere, and he will find these classes without the charities of lite common to all other sects. The case holds good even in those public or private charities where men, otherwise hard-hearted, are shamed into something like an imitation of their fellows. An Unitarian is, not by nature but by his creed, an egotist, whose heart is shut against whatever does not come home to hi. own pocket- for the pocket is after al: v\ nil theui the prooi of successful worship of the golden calf they have set up. The patronage of such a faith-It faith it can be called-by the Whig Government, ought to be and will be a subject of coiisidel-able aiixiety with all who tbii.k religion something more than a name. Of the various Corn- missions originated by the present Administration, about tin ee-lourths of the members are reputed to he Unitailjiis. or something worse. In the recent Com- mission for Inquiry into Corporations, there are three Li-pool barriers of no standing and little repute, all I "Ital ians, exclusive uf the rest, the majority of whom with the disintereMed Secretary are of the same cast. The Factory Cummissioa and the Trade Com- mission to Paris were similarly composed. The Law Commission has some of this leaven in it. The head or the Excise department has, at an expense of thousands to the country, been lately selected from the same sect-—a scct, by the by, Jhe most contemptible iu numbers of any in Great Britain. In short these worshipprrs of self are to be found everywhere, and none so constant in besieging and storming the trea- suly as they. This is a matfer which more concerns Christian sectarians than the Church of England; tor people with no religion have invariably been found the most dogged supporters of any religion incidentally connected with their own selfish purposes of aggran- disement. Such men as Parkes, itushton, Bowring, or Chadwick would be, if their capacities admitted, the firmet props of the church, provided they can flourish under it. Tne inclination of Lord Droun ham towards uuita- rianisiii has been talked of; of course a man isjudged by the compauy he habitually keeps. We are not among those who suspect his Lordship of fixed prin- ciples of any sort, except it be the priuciple of expe- diency as regards his own interests. Excepting that he is n >t so powerful an orator, and in some other essentials not so efficient a man, Lord Brougham is but the double of Mirabeau, and in nothing more evidently than the conversion of the labours of other men to his own profit without acknowledgment. Like Mirabeau, he would rather falsify science or history than spoil a nietaphor. Some time ago the llev. Mr. Shepherd, an unitarian and polit icar doctor of Liver- pool was in London, and as an old frieud of his Lord- ship they often took their grog together. One Sunday morning he called upon his Lordship, who, when he was about to depart, offered to convey him to the chapel, where (we believe) he was going to preach, iu his own carriage. Shepherd with more good sense than his host, represented the scandal it might cause to see the carriage of the Lord High Chancellor of England at the door of an Unitarian chapel, and his Lordship cheek by jowl with an Unitaiian parson. His Lordship persisted—perhaps damned the world -aiid the thing was settled. At the moment however, drew up the carriage of Ciiief Justice Deuman, upon which his Lordship, having business with him, apolo- gised to Shepherd, but handed him into Den man's carriage, and so he was driven to his meeting-house in the equipage, not of the Lord Chancellor, but of the Lord Chief Justice of England. Shepherd himself tells the anecdote with great glee in all companies, and we are ill consequence led to believe that the Liverpool Coll, a, issioiiei-s for corporation inquisition owe their appointment to the double advantage of their Unitar.anism and convivial qualifications for consorting- with his Lordship. Let the Dissenters look to it, for it is their business.

PA Tl LI A MEN TA11Y PAPER. REPORT OF A SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON ARMY AND NAVY APPOINTMENTS. The Committee appointed to iuquire into every branch of pay and emolument of all General and Staff Officers in the Army, both at home and abroad, and into the emoluments of Naval Officers holding the appointments of Vice and Rear-Admirals and of Generals and Colonels of Marines, have made their report. The committee are of opinion that upon the principle repeatedly laid down by parliament, that all sinecure offiices ought to be abolished, no garrison appointments be made where no efficient military duty is performed but as the officers now holding such appear for the most part justly entitled to the rewards of their profession by their long military services, or their distinguished merits, the com- mittee do not reccommend the withdrawal of the salaries to the prejudice of the existing interests of any of those officers. The number of garrison ap- pointments was greater in 1792 than at present! the committee, therefore, taking this into consideration as well us the claims of so many of its members on the gratitude"<of the country, cannot propose the abolition of these appointments without suggesting some other plans of military rewards in their stead. With this view they recommend that the King should be empowered to grant Rewards for dis- tinguished services in the army," in a manner similar "V recognized by parliament in the vote tor Good services." In the Ordnance Estimates, sub- ject to the conditions, that the grants on the whole shall not exceed 18,0001. a year, being a reduction Of about 12,0001,. a year on the present amount of the home garrison appointments and that the name and service of every ollicer appointed to receive these rewards shall be inserted in the first Army Estimate after his appointment. The committee recommend that he Tithes of Corn" in Guernsey, and "The hmg s levenue in Jersey," now appropriated to the nonresident Governors of those islands, should. 111 fu- ture b applied todefray the expence of theirfgarrison f ej'u nts;and that the large income nowreceiv- ed by e governor Qf Gibraltar be made subject to si- milarregulations.The committee also recommend sav- ings in the emoluments of the colonels of regiments, which shall produce an immediate saving of 9,767/. a year, and a prospective saving of 25,321/. The staff pay of general officers has undergone no change since 1 > and those who fought at Waterloo receive just the same rate of pay as those who fought at Minden and Blenheim but the committee must desire to call the attention of the government to the large number ot general officers now on the list, and to express their anxious hope that no addition will be made to it, except upon very strong grounds of public neces- sity. Ot the appointments in the navy w hich been referred to the committee, those of Vice Admiral and Rear Admiral of England, and Lieutenant Gene- ral and Major General of Marines, are held by flag officers, and those of Colonels of Marines by Post Captains. Their net receipt is 4,5651. 14s. These are the only professional honours or emoluments, unconnected with active duties, at the disposal of the Crown, for the reward of distinguished merit in the naval service. The two first are venerable from their antiquity, and still more so from the names of those who have held them. They have always been reckoned amongst the highest honours to which a naval officer could aspire. The committee, therefore recommend, that the situation of Vice Admiral and Rear Admiral of England should remain on their present footing the whole emoluments of both being less than 800/. a year. They do not, however, consider that the same reasons exist for keeping up the Generals and Colonels of Marines, but that they may, with pro- priety, be abolished as they severally become vacant. In recommending this, however, they feel bound, in justice, to propose that a sum, equal in amount to the salaries of those appointments, should be con- tinued at the disposal of the Crown, for the reward of distinguished naval and marine services, subject to the same conditions as the grant proposed to be made for the like purpose to the army and that all pensions so granted should be tenable with the the half-pay of the officers holding them. The committee, in conclusion, express their anxious hope that no addition to the number of flag officers in the navy, any more than to that of general officers in the army, will in future be- made, except on grounds of public necessity.

A DESPERATE RUFFIAN.—A fellow named Donovan, well known to our police, was on Thursday committed to prison from the council-house for an as. sault. His conduct was extremely violent, and hand. cuffs were at first obliged to be resorted to, for the purpose of restraining his motions. In the way to prison, however, he was allowed the use of his hands under a promise of behaving peaceably, and he kept his promise so fur as regarded the officers, though he chose to adopt a singular mode of giving them trouble' in passing Bathurst Basin he took it into his head to jump into the water, and would have ended his worldly cares in a short time had not the officers procured grappling irons and fished him out; when relief Was first extended to hini) he obstinately refused to use any effort to avail himself of it, and had sunk twice, when, as he afterwards acknowledged, he thought better of it, and caught hold of the irons Many of the by-standers expressed their regret that the attempt to save him was so long persevered in Felix Farley's Journal. A wealthy merchant of t. Dennis, in Paris aged about 37, having ascertained that a younar tudy to whom he had long paid his addresses was mere favourably inclined to one of his partners, came in his cabriolet to the Faubourg St. Dennis a few days ago hastily entered a house, ran up to the fifth storj-' threw himself iuto the street, and was killed on the e spot.

-I'y.=-- M OJSJI o u TilXHlliE. T Jf e i fin ct that the late arrival (2f the following interesting cunmlltllication precluded us frum inserting it in the nsinit place of Monmouthshire Intelligence. THE BISHOP OF LLANDAFF. On Tuesday, the 17th instant, the Lord Bishop of Llandaff held his Triennial Visitation at Usk. Never did we witness a more full or more interesting meeting. There seemed an anxious desire on all sides to manifest a public feeling of honour and esteem towards this excellent Prelate, who is not more conspicuous for his talents, acquirements, and literary power on the one hand, than for his truly Christian character and distinguished benevolence, on the other. The improvements that have taken place in the external, as well as inward condition of our venerable church, of late years, are now ad- mitted by all, and happy are we to observe that they have been progressively advancing during I nis Lordship's Incumbency. There were upwards of titty-clergymen present, a full attendance of church- wardens, and great numbers of the neighbouring gentry, The sermon was preached by "the Rev. H. Talbot, Rector of Michell Troy, who did anipie justice to the choice thus made. His text was trom the-19 Acts, "Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are ye r" Ihe early part of the discourse referred to the means of admission into the sacred office, pointed at Episcopal ordination as a divine ordinance, and therefore essential to the validity of the Ministerial functions. In the latter portion, the condition of our Church was ably alluded to, the calumnies that have been directed against her ably refuted, and the advantages of an establishment powerfully main- tained, and shewn to deserve the support of the l)tssenter, as well as every sincere friend of the Christian cause. After the sermon, the Clergy were called over, and the Lord Bishop delivered the charge. To attempt a detail of this very admirable performance would scarcely be doing justice to it. In defence of theChurch of Eugland, full sound, and satisfactory: In vindication of an Establishment, unanswerable Candid at the same time, and in- dicating every disposition to amendment that any reasonable party could require. It is with heart- felt pleasure we learn that the Bishop has acceded, to the universal wish expressed by all who heard it, that he should print the Charge for the benefit of the public at large. We anticipate every ad- vantage from sueh a publication. After the conclusion of the Charge when the Churchwardens. gave in their Presentments, the Chancellor of the Diocese the Rev. Bruce Knight, delivered an elaborate judgment in regard to a subject connected with the Inhabitants of the Dis- trict of St. Thomas, Over-monnow, a Deputation from whom had been sent to Usk, for the purpose of having his opinion. The decision appeared to give general satisfaction and will be the means of pre- senting any further legal controversy between the parties. On Thursday the Lord Bishop of Llandafif held his triennial visitation in Usk for the Deaner- ies of Newport and Netherwent The attendance was very numerous and of the highest respectability. The Rev. R. a. Roberts, Vicar of Cliristchurch, delivered a most excellent discourse from Rom. x. |. The Right Rev. Prelate afterwards delivered that most luminous and excellent charge to which we have referred above. ¡'

HEREFORD CORPOI',A-ri ON. -Tile enquiry into the affairs or the Corporation of Hereford terminated on Thursday, having- occupied two days. Whatever may have been objected to the Body on political grounds,it is an act of justice to acknowledge that the Public statement of their accounts was mostcomplele and tlatÏfdactory-even the principal opponent of the corporation stated that he had no objection to offer to them. The public will be surprised to find that the whole income of the chamber was last year little more than 1100Z. (it is probably sometimes less) of which above 9001 was actually expended. With the exception of the Mayor, who has an allowance of lOOt. no Aldernisin or Member of the Body receives any salary or emolument of the slightest iuportance. Most of the officers are likewise very inadequately Paid and if we add that the expenses incident to the situation of Mayor beyond the allowance, have seldom been less than from loot. to 1501. and often more, paid from the private purse of the person who fills the office, the distinction attendant on this municipal honour will probably be conisdered rather a dear one by many Hereford Journal. STEAM-CARRIAGE TRIP TO BRIGIITON.-Oll Wednesday, in last week, Mr. Walter Hancock, started at six in the morning, from London for Brigh- ton in a uew steam-carriage which he had constructed. from want of previous arrangements for taking in water, &c., he encountered many delays on the road, and did not reach Brighton till a quarter before four. Exclusive of stoppages, he would have been consider- ably less than six hours on the jouruey, although he had immense hills to encounter and the roads were in a very unfavourable state, from the wet. This is the first instance of a steam-carriage performing that journey in one day. DREADFUL DEATH.—On Saturday afternoon last, as a boy named William Hutton was, with some other boys, searching for blackerries in the neigh- bourhood of Moresby, he fell into the shaft of an old coalpit, overgrown with briars and brushwood. The unfortunate lad was cautioned by his companions not to go near the place, but he persisted, and in reaching out for berries he fell, and was precipitated to the bottom of the pit, a depth of fifteen fathoms. As he fell, the other boys who had been playing in company with him, and who were in great terror at the accident, could distinctly hear the tin can which he had in his hand, knock against the sides of the shaft. At the bottom of the pit there were two fathoms of water, into which the body of the hapless boy was plunged. Some time elapsed before his affrighted companions mustered resolution to acquaint his friends of his sad fate. On Sunday, however, it was resolved to search for his body with grappling irons, which were lowered into the shaft for the purpose, and the remains, much mutilated, were brought to the surface. The scull was fractured, the thigh broken, and there were several other serious injuries on the body, which clearly proved that the poor boy did not languish in his torments at the dark bottom of the pit, but must have died jin ined iatelY. Carlisle Patriot. HORRIBLE DEATH.—On the evening of the 12th inst. Mr Cartlege Hurst, son of John Hurst, Esq. of Bradley Mills, was pigeon shooting near one of his father's ponds—some of the birds 'ell into the water, and he put a plank to recover, them his foot slipped, and he fell in, and not being able to swim, be soon sunk. Many persons saw it, but the pond being very deep, they were afraid to venture. John Kitchen, a faithful servant of Mr. Hurst's saId" I can swim, and I will venture my life for him," and in- stantly plunged into the pond. When he got near the place where young Mr. Hurst sunk, he was seized by the leg, and taken under water, exclaiming as he went down, he is drowning me." Such was the intense grasp with which he was held by the expiring youth— neither of them ever rose again, the youug man was 18 years 'ofage, and the faithful servant has left a wife and five children.-Leeds Intellige licer.-[It is to be hoped that this widow and her children will never want bread while Mr. Hurst has a loaf to divide with them.—ED-M. G.]

VICE ROYALTY OF IRELAND.—The Marquess of Anglesea has retired from the government of Ireland, it is said in consequence of ill health. He will be succeeded by the MarquessWellesley. This appoint- ment has excited deep disgust; as his Excellency is known to entertain a strong predilection in favour of the Popish Clergy. He expects to attach these persons to the British government by granting them a revenue paid by the state!—It is reported that the Marquess of Anglesea is about to be created Duke of Mona. inir. Parry, jun. leaves Paris this week for Naples, where lie intends to pass the winter, in order to take lessons in singing from the celebrated La- blache. De Bourienne, author of Memoirs of Napo- leon is now confined in a lunatic asylum near Paris. THE KING OF THr, Gi,oRtoijs DAys.Tiie Duke of Leuchtenberg, the favoured sui'or to Donna Mpria, who has acknowledged that he is not indiffer- ent to her, was compelled by the French Govern- ment to quit France while her Majesty was receiving the royal hospitality of that very gallant court. The young man has addressed a very spirited protest on the occasion to Louis Phillippe, who has- pocketed the affront, that it may not see daylight. Among other resources beneficial to the pocket, this "King of the French" derives a considerable reve- nue from the trade and calling of a tallow-chandler but we are sure there is not a tallow-chandler in all England but would be ashamed of such a scurvy brother. Why even Poulett Thomson would blush at him. ORDINATION AT LLA-,DAFr.-Tlie L :rd Bishop of Llandaff is at present visiting the Monmouthshire portion of his diocese, and on Sunday next, (the 22d inst.) he will hold an Ordination at the Cathedral, Llandaff, on which occasion, it IS probable, his Lordship will preach. The Lord Bishop of St. David's has instituted the Rev. Wm. Davies, P. C. of Mount, to the Rec- tory of Llanguallo, in the county ot Cardigan, vacant by the death of the Rev. John Jones on the presentation of the parishoners. His Lordship has also instituted the Rev. Thomas Williams, Curate of Nolton and Roach, Pembrokeshire, to the Rectory of Langwan, in the same county vacant by the demise of the Rev. J. Norris, on the presentation of Mrs. Ann Barlow, of Bath, formerly of Lawrenny. PAROCHIAL OVERSEERS -As, the time an- proaches for the discharge of their duties by the "Revising Barristers," we think it well to remind those of our friends who may be holding the office I of overseer of the Poor, that by one, out of many, of the wholesome provisions of the Reform Bill, they, (the Overseers) are to be mulcted FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS if they fail of attendance, With all notices of claims delivered to them, at the Court of theRevisine: Barristers for their respective parishes. BANK OF -N-IA NCH ESTI,R.-T lie directors of this establishment have announced a dividend of G per cent. on the capital stock, payable on and after Wednesday next. BitITIS11 NAVY IN 1833.—According TO a Par- liamentary Return, his Majesty's ships and vessels in commission, at the commencement of the present year, consisted of five first rates, whose joint com- plements amounted to 2,910 men; two second rates, 844 men four third rates, 2,358 men five fourth rates, 2,255 men ten fifih rates, 2,799 men; four- teen sixth rates, 2,409 men thirty-five sloops, 3,685 men; thirty-three yachts, surveying vessels, brig Sloops, &c., 1,59s men; thirteen steam vessels, 464 Men and twenty-six packets, 754 men. The total amount of wages for the officers and men employed, 22,500 in number, including twelve flag officers, one commodore, 99 secretaries, servants, &c., and 2,821 men tor reliefs, was 687,375f. Pay able seamen, Il. l is. per lunar month. BRITISH' ARMY IN 1833.-At the same period the military forces stationed in our Colonies were as follows :-Cape of Good Hope, 1,725 officers and men Gibraltar, 2,875; Malta, 2,366; Ionian Islands, 2,889 Canadas, 2,417 Western Africa, 255 Nova Scotia and Bermuda, 3,222 Windward and Leeward Colonies, 4,482 Jamaica, Bahamas, and Honduras, 3,122; Mauritius, 1,445; Ceylon. B.547 New South Wales and its dependencies, 2,539. Total, SO,855, In Great Britain there were 5,781 cavalry, 4,452 foot guards, and 18,569 infantry. Total, 28,772. In Ireland, 2,626 cavalry, 745 foot guards, and 19,428 infantry. Total, 22,799. In the East Indies, 2,fi63 cavalry, and 15,701 infantry-making a grand total of 100,790. J)RA,,I-DRINKING. -The children of dram- drinkers are generally of diminutive size, of un- healthy appearance, and sickly constitutions, and in adults this vice is peculiarly destructive in its operation. -It deranges the animal economy, weakens the nerves, destroys the digestive powers, obstructs the secretions, and destroys the life the stomach is kept by it in a constant state of excitement, and, by the frequent application of an artificial stimulus, at length loses its tone, fand refuses to perform its office, the appetite becomes vitiated and fails. The more important organs of the body, particularly the liver and lungs, are disturbed in their functions, and frequently become the subjects of incurable disease. Depression of spirits almost invariablyaccompan- les drinking, while the effect produced by every fresh stimulus is only to excite to temporary action which, when it has ceased, leaves the same lan- guor anddepression to be again removed by the same destructive means. Almost all attacks of fever or inflammatory disease are found fatal in the case of dram-drinkers, because the blood of such persons is remarkably destitute of oxygen, and therefore can afford little or no antiseptic resistance to such dis- eases; in some cases dropsy and consumption, in others paralysis and apoplexy are evident conse- quences while premature old age is observed in most instances, and a miserable existence in all.— Evidence of John Poynders, Esq before the Com, mittee of the House of Commons. FUNERAL OF THE LATE MRS. HANNAH MORE.— The remains of this celebrated authoress and bene- volent lady were removed on Friday last, from No. 4, Windsor Terrace, Clifton, and interred in the family vault in Wrington churchyard. Mrs. More was the survivor of five sisters, each of whom possessed great literary attainments but none shone in so brilliant a sphere as that writer, whose imaginations flowed from Divine inspiration. Her income (though much curtailed) was sufliciently handsome to afford her the gratification of relieving others. After all lega- cies are paid the residue goes to the Bristol Infirmary. She was the intimate friend of the late Mr. Wilber- force, and, like him, particularly wished that her fu- neral should be devoid of public paraphernalia but in its stead suits of mourning to be given to 15 poor old men of her acquaintance. In this respect her wish has been obeyed. The procession from Clifton consisted only of a hearse, three mourning coaches, and five private carriages on passing through Bristol all the bells of the churches tolled at the entrance of her native parish the scene was indeed (not one of pomp) but imposing. About a mile from Wrington all the gentlemen of the neighbourhood met the procession, and for the last half mile the road on either side was lined with villagers, chiefly in black, scarcely one without a riband or crape as an emblem of respect and esteem. At the entrance of the village, charity children, amounting to more than 200, with a great number of the clergy in their gowns headed the procession. Ihe shops and shutters of private houses were all closed, and it may be said without exaggeration that a sable concourse of more than a thousand persons attended to pay the last tribute to their benefactress. Her mortal remains lie very near the grave of the cel- ebrated Locke. Her immortal soul is wafted to everlasting bliss, in the bosom of the God she adored. Mrs. More's life, which contains a fund of interest for all, is very shortly to be published. The burial service was performed with much feeling by that venerable minister, the Rev. Mr. Biddulph rector of St. James's, Bristol; and the funeral arrangements were conducted by Mr. Bury, under- taker, of Bat h.-Kei-.ne',v Bath Journal. THE DESTROYING ENGINE.—Sir Thomas Urqu- hart tells us, that John Napier, the father of the first Lord, and the inventer of logarithms, had invented a destroying engine that would clear a space of a mile in extent each way of the enemy in other words, of 30,000 Turkti "ithout the loss of a Christian. But on being requested by his friend, iu his last illness, to reveal the contrivance, he replied, That if he could lessen the means already existing for the de- struction of man, he would with all his might apply himself to the purpose, but that they should never by his means be increased." He died 1617.— Sharpe's rcei agc, just published.

_+. GLSANIN&S. 1 Qi'ioii TRAVELLING.— I lie mite makes 5'00 STEP' in a second, or 3;),000 in a minute. Allowing the hor-e to move at all equal ratio, he would perfornt 10-22 iiiilcs iii aii tiotir. I'he journey from Loudon to .Birmingham would then occupy but six minutes a"" a fraction.—St. J a me is Chronick'. A CHANCE HIT.—A distinguished Poet, nOW living, was admiring the Falls of the Clyde, when ba overheard a smartly dressed man say to his compa- iiion, It is a majestic waterfa'I." The Poet was sO delighted with the word, which he thought exactly suited to the object, that lie could not-lielp turiiiiir round and s tying, Yes Sir, it is majestic, you hae hit the expression; it is better than sublime, or finpr or beautiful." The man was highly pleased at thIS compliment to his taste, aud replied, Well, I reaHV think it the majcstickest, prettiest thing of the kilt I ever saw.—Saturday's Magazine. A GENTLE HIT. YOllr )• VID annoys me I exceedingly," said ihe Prince of La Roche-suryon to a talkative person-who was sitting near him at dinnerf and who was constantly suiting the action to the wordi" Indeed, my lord, replied the gabble''< "we are so crowded at table, (hat I do not ku"^ where to put my hand." "Put it in your mouth/ 1 said the Prince. 1 SIONS OF PROSPERITY. (FROM THE CHINESE.) | Where spades grow bright, and idle swords grow dull V I Whore gaols are empty, and where fcarns arc full Where church paths are with frequent feet outworn J j Law court yards weedy, silent, anil forlorn Where doctors foot it, and where farmers ride Where age abounds, aud youth is multiplied Where these signs are, they clearly iudxate A happy people and well governed state. A PICTURESQUE SCENE.—Last week, the doors of the houses at Farringdon, Berks werp robbed ot the knockers a Reading paper says that the knocker^ less doors presented a most picturesque appearance- A COURT IN HOT WATEit.-Workmeti are now engaged in erecting an apparatus upon a netf plan, for Urmitig the Bankruptcy Court with pipes filled with hot water. We had thought that the old plan of keeping the folks in Court in hot water of. auoiher kind had been sufficient. A BLAZING DUKE.—On the presentation of the Duke Furnazi at the Levee on Wednesday, who commands the Neapolitan brig of war in the river, all illustrious person is said to have remarked," a capital fellow to fire red-hot shot, and a rare one to blaze away, I should say from his name." HINT TO C.tEDITOits.-In a case heard in the Insolvent Debtors' Court, lately, it was proved that during the insolvent's imprisonment a creditor had written to him in these tectiks: If you include uly name in your schedule 1 shall oppose you; if you do- not, I shall not interfere. The court decided that the writing of the letter nullified the opposition. I RATHER IRISH.—A Dublin Editor falling foul of another, saith of him that in private he openly reviled Mr. Littleton." RATHER GRAVE.—" To be sold, two commodi' oils family sepulchral vaults under the metropolitan church in Marlborough-street." A desirable invest" ment !-ÐubUn Paper. WHAT A KITCHEN IS AND IS NOT.—Now a kitchen is nobody's premises a kitchen is Dot a ware- house, nor a wash-house, a brew-house, nor a bake* house, all inn-house, nor an out-house, nor a d welliug- house.—No! 'tis absolutely and bona fide neither more nor less than a Ki rcHFN or, as the law more classically expresses, a kitchen is camera necessary pro usus cookare ;-cum saucepunnis, stewpannlS scullero, dressero, coalholo, stovis, smokejaeko pro roastandum, boilandurn, fryandum, ct plum.pudding' mixandum pro turtle sonpos, ca Ives- hea d-hashib Usil cum calipee ct calipasfiibus. MADEIRA WIVES AND HUSBANDS.—If a Portf" guese merchant has occasion to be absent from Ma- deira for a short period of time, he hurries his loving and weeping wife to an institution remarkable for Js dreary appearance and barred windows, where she J treated and watched, much against her opinion of tbc propriety of it, until his return and, like the mald servant in many good worldly families, is not allawed any followers. She is to be seen as the evening setiJ in, with a pale melancholy face at the grated windows, casting many a wistful look upon the Plaza, and sigh* ing, iike Yorick's starling, I can't get out. Macdouull's Narrative of a Voyttge to Patagonia, ffe' LADIES' DRESSES FIFTY YEARS Sl'CE. The cos- tume of ladies of my time, which is now much ridiculed* was then of an extraordinary richness and brilliancyi worn with innuite taste, aud chastened in all I'" exaggerations. With all this paraphernalia of feathers* rich stnffs, hoops, and flounces, a woman was forced to use a slow majesty in all her movements. I have seen some very fair ladies who, when powdered, and drawing after them their long trains of white sat; and balancing with skill the spotless plumes th waved over their foreheads, might be truly cornparea to some bird like to, but much more noble than 9 swan. Perhaps a white turtle dove is the better type for the delicate little bodies concealed enormous folds of silk and replications of muslin, with the long wings of lace that fell from our arms con- cealed us as the down does the dove; and when we thrust out from beneath this graceful pile of white out little balancing feet in those high-heeled shoes, that allowed only the extremities of the toes to meet the ground, it was truly then that we feared to touch tilo earth, and that we walked with the disdainful caulloSl of a little shepherdess on the border of a brook.- Confessions of a Lady Of Quality,mctropolitao Magazine How TO PASS YOUR LIfE.-In the Familiar Let- ters of Benjamin Franklin (just published), the ful- lowing passage occurs, which is remarkably charac- tei istic of the man :—" For my own part, at present" I pass my time agreeably enough. I enjoy, through mercy, a tolerable share of health. I read a deal, ride a little, do a little business for myself, an" now and then for others, retire when I can, and gO into company when I please so the year rolls roundj and the last will come, when I would rather have j-t said, He lived usefully, than He died rich." QUALITIES WHICH A GOOD WIFE SHOULD POSSESS. —A good wife should be like three things, wbic" three things she should not be like! First, she should be like a syzail, always keep within her own house, but she should not be like a snail, to carry all skeho* upon her back. Secondly, she should be like an cc/10, to speak when she is spoken to but she shouldllot be like an echo, always to have the last word. Thirdly* she should be like the town-clock, always keep Ume and regularity but she should not be like the tovvo* clock, to speak so loud that all the town may hear. POLITICAL ECONOMY.—When you go to Theatre, never leave an umbrella or a great coat wit 9 the person who generally takes care of those thing's, for if you do, he'll expect sixpence! whereas if y0^ pawn it, before you go iu, the interest will not exc«e a halfpenny, thereby saving 5d.-Joe Hume. t SIR JONAH BARRINGTON.-Dit)ing one day a the house of a friend, where he met his relative? Capt. Keogh, the counsellor Shears, and others, 11 said to the former, "My dear Keogh, it is quite c'ea. that you and 1, in this famous rebellion, shall be 0 different sides of tbe question; and of course, 0,1 or other of us must necessarily be hanged at or befar its termination I upon a lamp-iron in Dublin, or yoa on the bridge of Wexford now, we'll make a bargallJ, —if we beat you, upon my honour I'll do all I can save your neck; and if your folks beat us, you save me from the honour of the lamp-iron." shook hands on the bargain, which created merriment, and he returned to Wexford with a decio? impression of the danger of the country, and a COIPb plete presentiment that either himself or Capt. Ke'!I would never see the conclusion of that summer. I anticipations were realized for, on his next visit o Wexford, lie said, I saw the heads of Capt. Mr. Harvey, and Mr. Colclough, on spikes over the Court house door." Their execute Vjli?. if been 60 speedy that Sir Jonah had no time to make aiiy eXer tions to save his friend according to his promise. Georgian Era.. • VERY GOOD.—The President and suite visite the Deaf and Lumb Asylum while at Hartford. q a lads were arranged 011 each side of the passage, a" welcomed him with their mute huzzas, waving *he hats. The pupils performed some of their exer.lSa, in their recreation rooms, very much to the tion and amusement of the company. The »' President was introduced by the teacher to a yotJb lady from Albany, and had some conversation ,vlhe her ou the black board. Among other question8* asked her age. With a rather roguish expression countenance, she quickly wrote, "are you rnarrr)iy sir?" Mr. Van Buren, is a widower, and her rep raised a laugh at his expense. KEEPING THE SABBATH.—On Sunday SE'"N,ER at a beer shop in Norfolk, one man challenged an^ j,ad to drink the most beer in an hour. After eac drank 12 pints, one of them gave in; the 0 j)0 labourer) then called for another half pint, whic immediately drank, thereby beating his beastly c petiior..