The Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette and Merthyr Guardian

DIONMOUTHSHIRE. ELECTION AND CHAINING OF A MEMBER.—An election has been enacted in Monmouth by the boys of the town, who in the late contest swelled the ranks of Mr. Bailey and Mr. Hall. The can- didate in the blue or conservative interest was a boy of the name of Rosser, and the red or ttud candidate, a Captain Davies. The former obtain ing a majority over his opponent of 48, was duly elected and chaired on Tuesday evening, amidst the acclamations of a vast concourse of friends and partizans. The juvenile representative, being first girt with a sword, stepped into a handsomely deco- rated chair, (which, I Is componere magna, was a counterpart of the clasically elegant cars" used upon a recent occasion,) and was borne on the shoulders of a chosen set of his firmest supporters through the principal streets, acknowledging very gracefully the smiles, and manifestations of ap- plause which marked lus progress. The procession was headed by blue banners, and a band of music consisting of two fifes, a drum, tambourin, and tri- angle; and a more animated and spirit stirring j scene has rarely been witnessed in the quiet little town of Monmouth. To the hotiotir of tile calise, the whole expenses were defrayed by subscription and without cost to the representative—(From a Correspondent.) t ABERGAVENNY STEEPLE CHASE. On Tuesday last this steeple chase came off, and afforded high amusement to a large concourse of persons who had assembled to witness the joyous spectacle. A sweepstakes, five sovereigns each, 12 stone, gentleman riders, course between three and tour miles, was won by Lieut. St. George, 12th L'ancers, ch. g: Redman, ridden by his owner; Mr, Peyton's (12th Lancers) grey g. Frolic, second Mr. Biadlev s Cremona, third; several others started but none of them placed. The fences were somewhat ugly, but jumpable the ground not very heavy, but varied with ploughed fields and hills, the race was very good. The whole arrangement was under the su peiintendance of the umpires, C. Morgan, Esq. M.P. and F. U. Williams, Esq. which gave general satis- faction, as proved by the approbation of even the beaten ones. For two miles and a hall the whole kept well together. Here Cremona, Frolic, and Redman singled themselves out; the two former leading, Redman waiting upon them within two fences of the finish, blood aud condition began to tell, and a thorough bred one, by pace. choked oil his op- ponent and won easily. Frolic refused the last fence but one, which floored his chance, otherwise it was thought by many that he must have won as it was, he got second. Cremona, though well I iddeil, coild not support the p ice. Tile horses were ail of high character in the neighbouring hunts, and the uders may he recognized as accustomed to steeple chases, and the affair altogether was'of first rate character. The winner is half brother to Vivian, and also an Irish horse. The following: is a list of the horses that started Owners. Names. Riders. Mr. Stretton, br. g Worcester Mr. Scroope Mr. St. George, ch. g Redman Owner Mr. W. Jones, ch g. Bobadil 31r.it. Jones l'ir. VaiiVIiati, ell. Turk Owner Mr.Il.T. Davies, b.m Mirutm Jo!,n Lewis Mr.Maybury, b. g Paddy MrKenncuy Mr. I'eyton, gr. g, Frol.c Mr.W .Jones Mr Hi.ll. b.m Vixen Mr- VValien Mr. B rati Icy, b.m. Cremona Owner Mr.Williams, li g M rengo Mr.Piothero N[r. I,. Brickdale, b. g. 'J'atfy Ml'.l"ow'ell Mr. C. Stretton, b. g. Reckless Owner j f The Ball at the Angel Inn, on the following- day (Wednesday; was attended ly upwards of one hundred of the fashionables, and the band, cou- ducted by Mr. Peene, was excellent, We understand that .Mr. Justice Patteson, who had determined upon going the Oxford Circuit this uext Spring, has consented to take the Western, in order to accommodate Mr. Sergeant Coleridge, the new judge, who would otherwise, according to the first arrangement, have been compelled to have gone his own circuit, where he is necessarily acquainted with many of the causes which are to be tried at the ensuing assizes.-Glotteestei- Chronicle.

BREC ONSHIRE. CASE OF THE CRIER OF BRECON. EXCHEQUER COURT.—At the sittings of the Court on Saturday Lord Abinger delivered judgment in the case of JOXES V. WATERS. His Lordship said, the plaintiff in the action was the bellman appointed by the Corporation of Brecon, who claimed the privilege arising from such uppoint- ment of making proclamation of all sales and auctions within the town. That privilege the defendant had invaded, which gave rise to the action. The jury had found that the custom (OpOIl which only lie claim of the privilege could be held good) was well founded, and accordingly found for the plaintiff. The defend- ant had obtained a rule for a new trial, which had been very fully argued. The wltiole (iiiesiioll turned upon the existence of the custom—that point had been seliled by the jury, and the Court saw nothing in the custom contrary to law. They could not see I any thing in it contrary to law and reason, though there could he no doubt it had obtained before the art of printing had been thong-hí of, or at all events before it had been brought to such perfection as it had now aroved aI, They were of opinion that the appoint- ment made by the Corporation was good, and that of course the plaintiff had the exclusive privilege claimed. The rule was therefore discharged. Committed to the Brecon County Gaol, on the 28th ult., Benjamin Cross, charged with feloniously stealing fthe person of Benjamin Griffiths, at Ciickhovvell, 15 sovereigns his property. BITIICKXOCK INFIRMARY, FEB. 3,1835.—Medical Report: In and out Patients remaining last week 68 ■Emitted 7 75 Cured aud relieved 6 p, Remaining. 69 nysician of the week, Dr. Wynter, surgeon, Air. Batt. FAIRS IN FEBRUARY. f't'imorgarisJiirc.—Llnndaff, Monday the 9th; Llan- Priday, ihe I3th Newbridge, Saturday the llih- "ri^end, Wednesday the 25th. tirecohskire.—Builth, Monday the 16th. r""lrtheusliire.—White House on T.ive, Friday the '3th Llandilo-fawr. Friday the 20th. Pembrokeshire —Camros, Friday the 13th Carevv Saturday, the 1-kh. Ctirdiguiisldre.—Cardigan, Friday the I3t(i. Jlojimoiitlifhire—Caerleon, Monday the 9th. Herefordshire—Leominster, Friday the 13th.

MILFORD. (Prom our Correspondent.J The weather has been exceedingly rough and boisterous during the last fortnight; a large fleet of wnid-bound coasters are now lying in different creeks belonging to'this haven, some of whom have been detained here during the last month. The brig Maitland, —— from Newport, bound to Malta, laden with coals, which put in here some time ago in a leaky state, has been hauled off from alodgside the wharf into the stream, having under- gone a thorough repair, where she now awaits the first fair wind in order to sail tor her destination. The sloop Eliza, Evans, from Cork, bound to Milford in ballast, split her mainsail about mid channel over, in a heavy gale which she encoun- tered on Sunday last. The Barque Town of Ross, Evans, from Ross to Milford, ..rrived here last week in bailust, tor the purpose of undergoing a thorough repair.

BAIL COURT, KINCTTBENCH. NOV EL DIFFICULTY. —Mr. Watson, in moving- in an ejectment case forjudgementagainst theeasual ejector, said there was a difficulty in the case, one of the defendants being a Welshman. (A laugh.) Mr. Justice Patteson—How does that create a diffi- culty ? Air. Watson—My Lord, we have no affidavit that Air. Watson—My Lord, we have no affidavit that the notice was explained to him at the time of service. The other defendant, a'so a VVelshmau but who under- stands English, had the notice explained to him at the time of the service, and he was desired by the clerk who served both defendants at the same time, to explain to his countryman what the notice was. The clerk (who did not understand Welsh), swears that the one defendant thereupon said something to the other, but what that was he did not know. (Loud taughter.) iVIr. Justice Patteson-He said something to the other defendant in Welsh. Mr. Watson—Yes, my Lord, in the iicaring of the Clerk. Mr. Justice Pattelololl- Theil I believe we must take it for granted that he said what he was told to do, and consider him as an interpreter, without being

The Marquis of Bute was tne lirst nobleman who for a century, proposed to build and endow a new parish church in Scotland. Her Grace the Duchess Countess of Sutherland, we learn from the following quotation fiom a contemporary, is the second noble person who has resolved on a similar act of patriotism and piety. We learn from a correspondent, that her Grace the Duchess Countess of Sutherland, with that noble spirit ofbellevulence and liberality by which her grace fe so distinguished amongst her numerous tenantry, has proposed, not only to build, but also to endow a church in the village of Helmsdale, for the accommodation of her numerous tenantry in that part of the pai i>h of Loth. The inhabitants of that part of Sutherland cannot feel too grateful to her grace for this munificent gift. We are happy to add, that the pro- posed building will be commenced in spring first.— Caledonian Mercury. Attempts at iiiiitaling in English tIle alliteratioll and measure of ;hc Welsh Engiyn have not lIlIrre- quenlly been seen, I-.tit rarely with any degree of success, on account 0( the absence of inflections in the English language, together vviili the necessity ofcon- | tiiiuuI recourse to the allxiliâry verbs and other minor words. 'Ihe Latin affords many more facilities, from the superior cuostructiou of its iliou«ii the want of the cliange of the initial letters in that langu.ige give it a rigidity and harshness by no means suitable to this species of composition. However, specimens of the Englyu have sometimes appeared in Latin, which, though not possessing the full character of that style, must nevertheless be allowed to have considerable merit as imitations. Among such vve may rank the following, by the Rev. Edmund Pryse, Archdeacon of Merioneth, oue of the translators of the elsh Bible. lyi,), icits, seu Rythmus, Uiitannieo more concatenatus. Velleui carne vili,—qua prcmor CUIll primis dissolvi; Ccipio ate c;ipi Salvator, amator mi. liuM. Puis ECS, Arehidi. Meirion. AI FAIR OF IIoOlm -All affair of honour was on the topic the other day at Haverfordwest, but we understand matters were not brought to iiiortal arbitriment. Thepartieswereagat)antnava) Lieu- tenant, who sojourned at Cowhridge a few days la*t week, and the sou of a nobie Lord, a fair re- lative of whom prevented by her influence the agi- tated duel. Rumour whispers that the quarrel originated in some dispute at the billiard table, UII 8ullday evening last, Mr. J. P. WuSkins, Surgeon, of this town, was called to attend a young man, labouring under Ihe symptoms of an irreducible rupture, aud, after a trial of the usual remedies in such cases, to reduce it, was obliged, from their failure to perform the nice and delicate operation of freeing the bowel from its incarceration, which was done in fifteen minules by Mr. Watkins, assisted by H. Lawrence, Esq. ft], D. We arc happy to find that the patient, who is a sober industrious man, and who bore the operation with .cheerfulness and courage, is fast recovering—Carmarthen Journal. The Archbishop of Canterbury has been pleased to Liccnse the Hev. Howell Jones, Curate of Bradford, 10 the Perpetual Curacy "f Egerton, in Kent, on the presentation of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's.— Ibid. SERVANTS' WAGKS.—At the Bath Court of Requests, on Wednesday, a servant who had been suddeuly dismissed summoned his master for a months wages, payment of which, or a month's notice, having been agreed upon but it appearing that the servant's dismissal arose from his misconduct, the Court decided that he was not entitled to rceover.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE AND GUARDIAN. SIR -111 one of your late Scripture illustrations, which 1 have read from the beginning with great interest and no small improvement, you speak of the custom of kissing the dead body olnear relations —^Stackhouse has an interesting note on the custom olclosing the eyes, he says:— There seems to be a very natural reason, why such a particular regard should be had, at death, to the e!lcs: and that is because they are in life so eminently serviceable to both body and mind. We close the eyes of the dead because no part of the body looks so ghastly atter death, whereas nothing was so spirightly and beautiful before and the reason why the nearest in blood or friendship should have this office, is too obvious to need any explication." Penelope in one of her epistles to Ulysses, prays that their son Teleniachus may perform this office for them. W'i precor hoc jub ant, uieuntiiius > rdine fads," llle meos ocu os c.IlJlprlll1at, ihe IIIOS. Your obedient servant, OXONIEINSIS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE CAZiLlTE AND GUARDIAN. THE SEVENTEENTH CESTTJRY IN GLAMORGANSHIRE. ] was lately tjiucli interested by being shewn at Sigginslon (a small hamlet between Lanmihangel and Nash) a very humble old cottage, in which, from ihe reign or 1st to the time of Geo. ist, the prin- cipal gentlemen of thai part of the county (from Si. Douats, Lanmihangel, Llantrythyd, Boverton, Nasi., &(-. tised to meet, to smoke their pipes, and dis- cuss politics and provincial gleanings probably, a sort of" tjenial cohijiataiiou; such as Bradwardine, and the Lairds of Bahnawhapple and Killancureit were wont 10 celebrate (iiidei- the sooty rafters of Luckie Macleary's only apartment, thickly tapestried with cobwebs. Happening to mention this in the more eastern end of the county, I find there was a similar chav.tje- /touse" called Pan!-rhhc-coch, near Si. iWelon's, where the families of Tredegar, Cefumablv. Ruperra, Lunrumney, the Van, Lanislien, Euerglyn, <vc. used to hold similar meetings, with ihe addition of cock- fighting. If any of your readers, fond of uuld imnj .v?/could furnish some particulars of these ancient clll bs-v iz. whether they were periodical—what liquor they di-ztiik-,N liel lick. (ullle of t he parties, such as the Stradlines, Turbervilles, Bassetts, &c. being originally Normans) they conversed oil these occa- sions in Welsh—when these meetings were discon- titliied, lam sure it would interest a large proportion of your readers, aud particularly your vve. 1-wisher, CYMHO.

FANNY JJLUUJf J NC-PA Ill." TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE AND GUARDIAN. SIR,—Can any of your Poetical Readers give the date of the" Fanny blooming Fair," written by David Nicholas, the tiiivdd-leuhi of Aberpergwni, so admirably translated into English verse by the late Mr. Oavies of Cringallt? From the English words introduced into the Welsh song, there is reason to believe that Lord Chester- field's is the original. Lady Fanny Shirley, the' Fanny of Lord Chesterfield, was the fourth daughter of the Earl Ferrers, and died at Bath, in ] ICri.—A letter written by Lord Lovell to the EarJ of Essex, dated Holkham, Dec. 21,1735, in which lie (Lord L.) owns his attachment to Lady Fanny, and complains of her preference for Lord Chesterfield, would fix the date of 'his Lordship's versus at least 10il years ago. » Probably David Nicholas's patrons of Aberper- gwm, might have excited him to celebrate a Welsh Fanny to compete with the Saxon Beauty. Your obedient servant, CYVAi MARCH.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE AND GUARDIAN SIR,-PCi-ceiviiig in your paper an account of a Ball given by the worthy Member for Merthyr, J.J. Guest, Esq. after his re-election for that place, I am led to observe, were our equally noble-minded Members for the County, C. H. M. Talbot and L. W. Dill wyn, Esqrs., to follow his very good example, and give their constituents, either at Cowbridge or Bridgend, a similar treat, it would be maintaining their character for liberality and good feeling, f mention tliese^ places, as tbey did not partake of the brilliant fetes given at Cardiff and Swansea;—the,, novelty too would be so great, we feel assured the impression would be most favourable and lasting on the warm hearts of the Welsh ladies and the worthy inhabitants of these places. Yours, &c. Feb. 2, 1835. VERITAS.

To THE EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE <$' GUARDIAN. SIR,—The present period is pregnant with the deepest interest: it is a period in which the relative value and importance of our institutions must he widened in the balance, and the limit of popular power ileiined. la such p crisis, our natural aim is to mark the practical limits of innovation-Io (iissect and lay open t' u principles them- selves upon which changes in our institutions may be ad- v,,caied with safety or rejected with certainty. Amon^ these principles, that of the admission of popular influence in he Legislation is of para:r.olllll consideration, involving as il does the (ii ctissi,),, of other important changes, and 1 he tone and spirit in which these are to he aiteiupte.l. On •he very threshold of this'view, it appeais certain that any further admission of popular infliifnce in the constitution oj 1 He House oi Commons is incompatible Itn the existence or the Mouse of Lords, in its present state, as j- legislative branch of the constitution; and that he who supports auv further extension of the franchise can only do so with the J"a 0; advocating a UTeal and, in such ease, neccssarv change in the constitution of this braocn ol the snat, j^ucJi ;< l ijv.'nf our position therefore naturally suggests a hiiitaiion of popular power, such us may ensure the pre- nervation of the constitution, by upholding the harmony oi 1(s relative parts:—in other words we are called upon to examine with a prudent, and patriotic attention upon what principle, and to what extent, the responsibility involved "I tile exercise of the elective franchise can, with safety to our institutiolls and to the community, be conceded. In a constitutional point of view, the political power- which has been obtained by the lleform Ui l, is a new power—new lo the constItution in .1 I'l,\ctical, IllOUgll per- haps nut in a theoretical se'.ise. History shews that up to '^liaaoetii's time the franchise was arbitrarily conferred by tuu Crown. Camden, who wrote in her time, relates thai she herself, in the I3;h of her reign, chartered Eye, ai which place he found nothing but the rubbish of an old -11 of an ol,j monastery and the ruins oi a caSLIC. St. (.eriiiains too, whicli Iesays was nothing hUe" small fislunj village, composed of huts, was chartered by the same doughty Queen, livery one knows how little pretence was made by toe llouseoi Commons in her time to political independence 01 opinion. Such a t'idng as populai power was llnknowu. SInce ihe tillle of Cromwell il may be truly said, lhat the constitution 01 ihe Commons has been purely aristocratic, independent of the people, and more or less attached to the Crown by opinion and iiiierest-tliai the popular voice has only found'vent within its walls at the will and by the sympathy (if its members, with the exception of occasional hursts and ehuliitiolls of popular bigotry and fanatic zeal.— Thai the moral temper aud condition of the people was suited to this dominancy of the aristocracy, aud that to a certain extent the nation went with them there can be no doubi bin certain it is that under this regimen, property alone has been directly represented, and iuiiustry, or the people, except JI1 such general rights as were equally valuable to sll c.asses, only indirectly and impliedly as being naturally nependunt on the former. (u other wurlis the people never have been in tacl represented, but pro- perty alone, until the present time Previous to the Ixetorm Bill the member's passpor. to his sea. was, we well [ know, his purse, or the aristocratic power of himself or his friends. The constitution of IfiSS effected no practical representation ot the people. Parliamentary influence has been absorbed by wealth and aristocratic power from that day to the prescnl:-tile people shared it not. The present .nay therelore be justiy denominated, in respect to the ex- hibition of popular power and influence in the legislature, it. new era-the power llsel." I/CIV power. l'e people now possess << real and fundamental influence; for with this change in our civil and social condition, the artisan is rising in the political spnere—entering into political fraternity with the knight and ihe burgess—not over the election cup, in the mad mockery of social equality, bill in the calm aud sober estimation of the patriot. This is a prmlll station, Let him not dishonour it. While he iiitigs away the cup of despotism, let him not be betrayed to caste ilial of aiiai-cliy. D'n having marched thus far in the career of liberty, the necessity of limiting the political power of the'people,' now that. they have become possessed of power, is as apparent, as lluit of limiting the power of the Crowll or the Peerage. Let any person ask himself what would be ihe Condition of this country, even in its present compa- ratively enlightened state, if the members of the House of COlIJtllans werc "II or iucstoi them mere delegates of mere numbers. W ould Iot !lIIS ilmOunt to a dissoliuiun of the Mate < It is no libel upon the neonle to assert that considering the present moral and intellectual condition of the great body, taken collectively, the constituency ought, for the public good, to be composed of a selected class; and iL may he assumed as ;> imsim, thai the e, tension ot the franchise, wit horn rcieicnce to the moral and political conuition of the class to which il isextenued, is liigh y dangerous to the community. LILILil W, can I banish penury from the land and raise the moral as well as intellectual condition of the mass of the people to an enviable standard-a consummation devoutly to be wished, let us not flatter ourselves that we arc in a condition to admit the principle of nniveisul snjjrajfe, or even a suffrage much more limited than this. We are aware that the condition of the United States may he, as it has often been, urged against the above doctrine. There is no parallel. The United States has no indigent class who can deem it lilejj* interest to attack property or political institutions; all classes are therefore patriotic from interest, and from the absence of motives to be otherwise; and the indcpendance of each separate pro- vince is under such circumstances a check upon any revo- lutionary excesses in any one of theui." It is self-evident thai while property and industry reci- procally constitute the base of the social cOihpaCl, tu preserve this base intact the constituency can only be with safely composed of individuals—or rather of a class possessing sympathy with both interests, properly, and indusl ry-a. class composed of individuals placed not above sympathy with wain, bur*bove the temptations to insubordination which are incident to penury 1nd ignorance —individuals who feel that thev have an interest in the preservation of property, as the fulcrum of industry, and who are capable oi connecting the prosperity <u property with t ie prosperity of industry, and tiic oc-^tiuction and spoliation of the former wnh tiie ruin of the latter. Now tiie result of ihe present admission of popular in- fitituce in tiie state is, thai ihe executive can no longer con- troiii the constitution oi the Commons by the machinery of the franch Ise-the pnhlic voice, not the semblance of It, ,,lust he heard and attended to. Against it the executive can no longer controu) the destinies of the community. With o much achieved, let us not push the principles of freedom to a dangerous extent. As iL ig, the Government must now he carried on on another principle than that, of a vast and Lillwieldly patronage and all real abuses in the state musi be remedied. In making iiie foregoing observations we mean not to deprecate the cause of freedom or the Reform Act we can, on the contrary, trace its origin to the altered spirit and circumstances of the times. But viewing it as a uew power in the constitution, it is not to be wondered at that there should be those who consider ibat the growtli of sudl a power may be prurient, and that its advancement should lie regulateo by sounl; discretion; since it must require as well as any pie-established power, ivingly or aristocratic, to be guarded against the danger of corruption and abuse, and cannot be safely developed in the absence of moral as well as intellectual iitness. In compatativeiy uuellJi¡?,¡1leneu ages and countries, even allowing for national ditlerence of character, popular power has always pro-cd a (telitsion-or rather a reality whose resul:s have been anarchy and despotism, ob- scured with blood and violence; let us then refrain from sneering at a cautionary feeling. It is only because the present popular power emanates from a puriiied source thai it can be safely admitted as an' ingredient in legislation. That the state of our representation was itself a fiction of liberty, and inadequate to the pre- selJ, moral and social capacily of the community, lias been sufficiently clecided.- But let liS not grow giddy with our political advancement, nor intoxicate ourselves with va»ue and specious generalities of Freedom and Populai Power since, as we nave shewn, the latter can only safely lO- exist with a patriotic and enlightened constituency. Against Universal Suffrage vve protest, and vve therefore lioid tbjt the mere payment of Taxes can, in a practical visw, although the contrary is affirmed, convey no right to the franchise; for upon this plea, as all pay them directly or indirecly, it would be unjust to reiuse the suffrage to any. The payment of taxes is however a convenient test for tiie qnalitications to become an elector, as we have been e.'ideavouriug to define them, and for instituting those practical limitations which Lhe existing condition ofsc,ciety requires; since under these provisions the constituency can only i)e augmented with the increase of the class fitted to exercise its functions. We attribute the existence of the popular influence of the present to the altered circumstances of this age, and we recognise a sober and patriotic spirit in a great class, comprehending the whole constituency, and many indivi- fluals eve" beneath this limit. This new spirit is in its nature expansive with the growing intelligence of the com- munity, and it is in its nature moderate yet tirm, present- ing an increasing contrast to the narrow views, the irra- tional and selrtsh bigotry, and the ferocious violence of former political and civil changes. Without intelligence this power could not exist as it exists at preseilt-forbear- ingly and wisely. rVith inteliigence it cannot but exist, alld if we would repress it we must retrograde-to a bar- bansm worse than feodal, in which the feelings of mankind were bound to each other by ties now dis- solved. 13y Education and the Press we create in- telligence-create a Popular Public Opinioyl-tlle origin of the new political power we have been discussing. If we liierefoie create it, it would be unwise, because finally impossible, to feller it it therefore behoves its to consider and admit the actual bearing and just influence which, in the nature of things, it ought to exercise. A change of human iffaiis has gradually proved the way for political improvement,thewhote relative position of pro- perl)" and industry has become modified. The dependance of the poor upon the rich is no longer the dependance of individual upon individual,but of class tipoiiclass. Interests are become separated, diversified, and multiplied by the increase and extension of wealth. Industry is viewed in a distinct and separate aspect—the industrious orders no longer implicitly or exclusively rest the protection of their interests on wisdom above their own —and the responsi- bility of political influence is no longer shunned as iu davs of despotism; we must therefote maven, but march wisely with the acknowledged spirit of the age. I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, PHILO-PO RTIUS.

A writer at the period of the French Revolution, 1793, speaking of the state of liu ustry in Franee,says, they starve on equality till the nuinbci ,1:1 the same desperate situation, becomes great enough tor their sured duiy of insurrection, then they rise, knock their governors on the head, and are themselves elected into their places but this cures the evil scarcely for one m a thousand the mass ,.emain slij, poor, and must necessarily reman, so, for such convul- sions do not re-establish manufactures. Do we want Jacis to prove this, and to check an ignorant disposition to spoliation ail(| incendiarism, let us turn to the I'Vcnch revo.uLion ( 175)3-4.) The manufac- turers" says St. Just, (a 'Jlc,1,Rr of the National Conven- tion and a revolutionist.) make nothing; nothing is bought; commerce is alive onle in soldiers, f see noihiii" in trade but our imprudence and our blood. Nothing will soon be seen in France but misery and 1) Dec. 1. )-The deputation from Loire and Ellre tell the National Convention, the price of bread is inaccessible to ihe poor, its heiyht. Illegal troops of men in many departments SCIZZ, tile corn in the markets without paying for It.. At Louviers 5 or 0000 workmen arose to force the magi>tiates to go at their bead to seek corn in ihe granaries ot the farmers. Last week, at Passv they seized all that was in the; market while GOO others spread devastation tiirough the forests."—Monit. Nov. JS Jan. !). Our food, says St. Just, «« has disappeared in proportion as our libel.> has extended.—Monit. Dec. I.— The deputation of tne department of Loire and C.iei-at the bar of tlle Natwnal COIl\entiflll, Nov. 26, declare an insurrection oi 2J.000 men, on account of the hi«h price ,c! of corn. They assert that there is corn enough in the country for year, hUI, tne operations of the people occa- sion such distress, that a poor woman of the parish of L'Hovital went three times to the market of Koinorentin for corn, but not being able to procure it, she went home, and, driven by excess ot hunger, she killed her infant to prevent its dying ol wanl, for which act she was afterwards hanged.—Monit. Nov. 17.

CHUKCI-i MEETING AT BIRMINGHAM.—On Tues- day, a meeting- of nearly 3,000 persons, amongst whom were a great portion of the neighl>ourkiio- nobility and gentry, and most of the resident clergy, was held at Cirmingham- The Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry presided. The object was to promote the building- 0f churches in the diocese, and to extend religious in- struction to the lower classes generally. Several noblemen and clergymen spoke in support of these objects, and resolutions in furtherance thereof were adopted. POLITICAL CAIIICATUKES.—H. B. who is ever on the look out, has been more than usually prolific this last fortnight. We have before us five sketches, emn-r his version ot recent events. '• Th-goose of the Capitol" is a smart rap at Hume, wiih a striking full front of Wellington. l'eol is annoyed at the cack- ling of the goose, but Wellington supposes he is oulv trcttlllg tor SOIllC of hIs compalliolls. The liopposi- tiun Buses" shows a steam omnibus oil one side, with the late niiiii-,tei'ial leit(ler,, acting as direciors, whilst the Hero of Waterloo, acts av call to the old-fashioned bus, and endeavours to persuade Job.. Bull to -o with a,, he has a careful driver, steady trained horses, and rate of [JOl1/fj1/Wchff/stcr than formerly. T!ie usujl oi cur coat ot the duke, and his round liat, are without much difficulty converted into the g ji'itseuls of the cad. 1 eel sits composedly in the box, holding the rellls ot a puir of N%ell-eoiiditioried "ma- chiners." Absolution, a retrospective sketch, exhibits the piemier on his knees itb:sola- tion from the Pope. The Coalition" ':iyes Ih O'Conoell in the di^uise of a wolf, with the head and cross bones marked upon his flank, requesting Lords Althorpand John Ku.-sell to merge triflino- differences, aud wage war upon the tyrannical watch dogs, the premier and his man, who sit hesidfc an illustrious personage in the gaib of a pastor Corydon. I^e effect ot this sketch would be much inipi-oved ifilie likeness had not been hung on as it were, instead of being worked into the head of the animal. "'Pick-a- Back," a capital caricature likeness of the hot), members for Middlesex, Joseph lidinghi school- boy fashion upon the back of Byng; not only are the features like the originals, but the caricature of the two maybe easily judged from these "fancy charac- tl'¡ s: Tiie thoughtful calculating look of ihe one is only in point ot excellence equalled by the rurisem- blrmce of the top boots and lettliers" of his long- legged companion.

THE SPRING CIRCUITS. NORTHERN CIRCUIT. Before Mr. Baron Parke ajid Mr Baron Alderson. Durlwm-Saturdav. February 2ti, at Durham. Northumberland.—Wednesday, March 4, at Newcastle- on-Tvne. Town of Newcastle on the same day. Ctll1¡ber[¡ll¡d.-Ionday. 1\1 arch 9, at Carlisle. Westmoreland. — Thursday, .March 12,at Appleby. Lancashire.—Saturday, March 14,at Lancaster. Yorkshire.—Saturday, March "28, at York. OXFORD CIRCUIT. Mr. Justice Park" and j\1r. Justice Coleridge. Berkshire.—Saturday. February 28, at Ueading. Oxfordshire—Thursday, March 5, at Oxford. Worcestershire.— Tuesday, March 10, at Worcester. City IIf It orcester.— Same day and same place. Utajfoi'dshire.—'Saturday, March 14. at Stafford. Slz""pshire-3atur,y, March 21, at Shrewsbury. Herefordshire -Thu;,sd ay, Much 2fj. at Hereford. Monmouthshire.— Tuesday March 31, at Monmouth. Gloucestershire.—Saturday, April 4, at Gloucester. City °f Gloucester.—Same day and place. NORTH WA LHS CIRCUIT. Before Mr. Baron Holland- Montgomeryshire.—Saturday, March 7, at Welchpool. Merionethshire.—Wednesday, March 11, at Bala. Carnarvonshire -Saturday, March 14,at Carnarvon. Anglesea—Wednesday, March IS, at Beaumaris. Denbighshire.—Saturday, March 21, at Ruthin, Flintshire.—Wednesday, March '25, at Mold. Cheshire.—Saturday, March 2S, at Cluster.

MERTHYR POLICE. Before J. B Bruce and W, Thomas, E,.qrs. CAUTION TO MERTHYR PUBLICANS. FEB. 3.—-A case displaying a scene of fraud and robbery on the part of some of the boatmen on the Glamorgan Canal, occupied the Magistrates a great part of this morning. On the hth of December two casks of spirits for the Crawshay's Arms, and a cask of wine for Mr. Rice Lewis, were tapped by some boatmen, who also endeavoured to implicate the lock- keeper in the transaction. The work was done in the most professional manner, by tapping the casks with a gimlet under one of the irori hoops. From what occurred during the examination, it is too pro- bable that this work is carried on to an enormous extent, and that a gimlet, tundish and even a stock of spiggots, for filling up' the holes, are kept by some boatmen for this purpose. When they have ab- stracted the quantity required, they fill it up from the spout of the teakettle with canal water.-AII parties purchasing liquors in small quantities are earnestly recommended to cider it to be sent to them in stone jars, with the seal of the merchants on the bung coi k. In the present case, the principal delinquent, John Saunders, of Cardiff, has absconded; aud the testimony of the principal wituess, Jabez Thomas, lost mucii of its weight from his previous bad character, but of the fact there was not the smallest doubt. Jeremiah Meredith was fined 2s. 6d. and costs for an assault on Gwenllian Harry. FEB. 5.—John Morgan, boatman, was committed to hard labour in the house of correction for two months for a misdemeanor in the employ of Messrs. Hill, viz. for leaving his loaded boat in the canal near Cardiff, from the 24th Dec. til! the 2nd of January. David Williams, ploughman at Yniseydidog, near Newbridge, was committed to the house of correction for three months, for abandoning his serv ice under circumstances of peculiar ingratitude. His master, Mr. David Edwards, had lent him money in advance which he had walked off with as; well as with :306. which he had choused out of a poor orphan boy in the same service.—We were much struck with an observation of Mr. Edwards, who is one ot the best masters, and one of the most industrious tanners in this county, viz. that he would challenge England and Wales for a servant to say what this servant could, viz. that his master worked at the same work with him, eat the same food at the same table with him, and slept in the same chamber with him." DEATH OF WILLIAM THOMAS, COOPER, DOWLAIS. FEB. 6.—The Chief-Constable of Merthyr, at the desire of the Coroner and the Jury, preferred a charge against Edmund Edmunds, the landlord of the Pen-y- darrau Inn, for keeping his house open after hours. It was -clearly proved tKat he had admitted four youug men and a female into his house after mid- night on Monday last, and that the Pen-y-darran clock struck one while they were there. The party soon afterwards ruet with the poor cooper, whose inquest will be seen above, and whose death may be attributed to their want of common humanity, if not to actual violence. The magistrates fined the publican in the sum of five pounds and costs, being the highest penalty awarded by the Act. A charge was also preferred against Thomas Mathews, of the Horse and Groom Beer House, for keeping his house open at illegal hours; but the complaiut was discharged for want of sufficient proof. David Stephen, the younger of Aberdare, was fined 40s. and costs, for an assault upon Elizabeth, the daughter of John Eynon. Martha King was ordered to have 5. abated from her wages for quilting the service of Lewis Jenkins, of Yuta-Oweti, without legal notice.

■ ■ii nwnum _a. POETRY- THE L i'\ D OF MY nrrÜn. Dear Cambria I lo, e thee, Tliv vales, aid tliv mountains; And Beauty, and Grandeur, Proclaim thee their home: Whilst da, k /10" ill:; streams And fair crystalizcd fountains, O'er thy fertilized bosom, Delightfully roam; But lovelit i- than all. Are thv beantiiul daughters. Whose smiles are like suul eams, That gladden the earth; Whose forms are more fair Than the nymphs of tllY waters; They bless and auorn thee, Lov'd land of my birtil Dear Cambria, 1 love thee, Tue lion.e of my lathers, > Whom Liberty honoured As chiefs in her cause; Though hoary destruction Now silently gathers Around the grey relics Tha, speak their applause Alld Sympathy rai" W ilillears of affection, A lasting memorial Of iiiiinite worth, To those who to shelter, f; word and subjection, E'en dying, defended Thee Land of my birth Dear Cambria, I love thee, Long- lamed in thv glory And lorili-coming ages Shall cherish thy lame The deeds of thy heroes, Clnrivailed in story, With trophies immortal Now blazon thy name No more may iierce war's Bloody trumpet sound o'er thee, Thv battle hymns changed For the anthems of mirth; May the song of tiiy bald Ifave no cause to deploie thee, nUl peace ("er smile On thee Land of my birth t LEGS.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES. LOllf/on, Friday, Jan. 30, 1835. Dr.CLAH ATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. Anthony Harris S.nitla, Newcastle-upon-Ty'iie, and North Shields. grocei- and tea dealer. Joseph Uorrington, Foruingoridge,Southampton, plumber and glazier. James Crisp. Sydnev allev, Leicester square, hosier. UA NK IU: PTC Y A NMi.L KI). Thomas Morgan, Hereford, timber !IIrcl,ant, B ANK 151 PIS. Phwbe Harlev, New street, Newington, baker. ltev. Thomas Fisher I'erriby, Kiiigston-npon-Miill, Rev. Joliu Fisher, Higham-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire, and Mary Simmons, Ashbey-de-la-Zouch, widow, [¡,\IIkcrs, William Henry Clarke, C..stle court, Budge row, city, wine merchant. Henry Havers, Hadleigh, Suffolk, linen draper. John Bouhctiier Foter, Lower road, Islington, brick nJker, and of Bayswatcr, publican. Thomas Walker, Fort street, Spital-fields, silk manufac- turer. George Forster, Stourbridge, Worcestershire, spade, shovel, and edge-tool manufacturer. J,lIue, Frederick Dixon Stewart, River street, Penton- vilie, coal merchant. Henry William Williamson, Balsham, Cambridgeshire. Robert Johnson, Byker, Northumberland, shipowner. J.-nies Coilins, Worcester, linen draper. Thomas Jennings, and Thomas Jcnuings the younger, Brompton \roV!, Kensington livery stable keepers. William Butt her, Po-tsmouth, grocer.^ Stephen Boi.d, Westmoreland street, St. Mary-le-bone, wine merchant. William Jackson, Macclesfield, silk manufacturer. London, Pcb. 3. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. Thomas Wybrow, New-cut, Lambeth, cheesemonger. BANKRUPTS. John Page, Hayes court, Greek street, Soho, newspaper vend er. J.i:nrs Crisp, Sydney alley, Leicrster square, hosier. John Callow, St. John street, Cierkenwell, victualler. John Wood, Castle street, Holborn, fianuel dealer. Joseph Martin, Steel yard, Upper Thames street, wine merchant. William Langhorne, Throgmorton street, stock broker. Joseph Oldham, Friday street, City, laceman. Mary Ann Phillips, Dorset square, Maiylebotie, school mistress. George Tuck, Cleveland street, Fitzroy square, grocer. Henry Harben, High street. Bloomsbury, cheesemonger. George Joseph Kain, Blackheath park, Kent, coal izier- chant. Richard Gough. Newbury, Berks, corn factor. Thomas Smith, Stroud, Gloucestershire, earthenware dealer. Daniel Bennett, Walcot, Somersetshire, spirit merchant.

SPOR TING IN TEL LIG EN CE. The MONMOUTHSHIRE HOUNDS will meet on Tuesday Feb. 10 Clyiha Lodge. Friday 13 •• •• Graig Hill. At half-past ten o'clock each day. MR. MORGAN'S HOUNDS will meet on M'-nday Feb. D Cieppa Park Wednesday. 11 Michaelstone Fri day.. 13 •• Marshfreld Each dav at II o'clock, THE LLAN BLETHlA HARRIERS will meet on Monday Feb. 9 .• ick Wednesday. -11 •• Golden Mile Fridav 13 Three Ashes At halt-past ten each day.

The original manuscript of Dr Johnson's "Tour in Wales," which is the property of Arch- dcacua Butler of Shrewsbury, is now in the pos- ses-ion of Mr. Murray, of Albemarle street. In this age of autngTaphs it is a great literacy curiosity.

MARRIED. On the 29:h ult. at Trostrey, Monm Mithshire, by the Rev. J. Asi.c Gabb. M-A. Edwin New, Esq. of Alstone, in the county of Worce-ter, to Susan, eldest daughter of Mr. Thomas Ardlur, 01 Redgate House.. DIED. On the 16th ult- :11 Cardiff, aged 25. Mr. Robert Brown, son of Robert Bi'O'Vn, hsq. Medical Snperintendaut at SiandaMe Creek, Kent. In lite he was universally beloved, in death universally lamented. On the 24:h ult. at Newbridge, in the 74: h vcar of his age, after a long and painful ulness t>r the dropsy, winch h bore with great patiencc and resignation for nearly four years, Mr Alorris, sell. He was a rejuiai com- municant at Groe>wen for upwards of CO years, dull never failed being a partaker of the Holy Communion through any misconduct during lhat 1 ng period he »iied with a strong hope of enjoying the iruits of his long ami faithful labours in the vineyard of his Lord. At Cowbridge, aged 78, .or. the 1st infant, Mr. John Howe, father of Mr. Richard Howe, farmer, On Wednesday, the 4th instant, aged 32, after a long illness, Mr. W'hlium Hall, grocer. New port. On Tuesday last, at Great House, near Cardiff, John, voungest and only surviving son of the late lid ward Jenkins, Esq. of Pentieved On the 24th ult. at Fairford, at an advanced age, the ltev. John K.ei»le, M.A. On Monday last, aged S4, Mary, relict of the late Win. Morris, Esq Banker, Carmarthen. Assiduous in the dis- charge of every relative duty, her life was spent in de- votedness to her family, who with their friends deeply deplore their irreparable loss. Lately, at Brighton, toe Lady Harriet Villiers, only daughter ot the l'.ai't ot Clarendon. ERRATUM —In publishing an account of the ieatfi of a daughter of Mr. Richard Jenkins, of Abervan. it was by mistake inserted ]fm. Kichaid Jenkins, foi Mr. RLhard Jenkins.

pi ast week, Mr. JohnTrevillian Jenkins, oi this ce, was admitted an Attorney at his Majesty's °Urt °* King's Bench, Common Pleas, &e. ^ACCIDEXTS.—On Saturday last, as two hoys were >usii)gr themselves by sharpening their knives at the aw* ^.or,is> Swansea, one of tliem playfully ran f ay w'lh the hone, which the other, eager to recover, °wed him, when iji the scuffle which ensued, he fell sht*'16 c'asP knife which he held in his hand, and th°C^ j o relate the knife entered the right side ot obi he!ween the fifth and sixth ribs, passing 'luely upwards and inwards into the cavity of the th 'fm'.racu'ously avoiding the artery running along •nferior edge of the rib, escaping also the internal tjj m^ry>the great medium of communication between as suPei,Jpr and inferior extremities. Mr. Rowland, seiit'f6 °^^le su,'g'eolls our Infirmary, was instantly pa, °r> aad found on examination that the knife had a '° l',e very '1"'> wound freely admitting tVggl e °' ^ve inches long, through which the air was j, y Emitted on every respiration. Before closing Mr. Rowland relieved the boy of about Ha (?Ua,ts blood, the consequence of effusion. PP'ly the boy is in a fair way of recovery. (as^MATEUl1 PEKFORMA\CH.—On Monday next col seen by an advertisement in another jj Umn) the remaining .Members of the company benUH •l,ere by Mr- Glover> PurP0Se taking a Se nti-11 order to assist them out of their pre- tow and t0 enable them to leave this n. Severai amateurs, purely from charitable ave 0c°c'v.es> have volunteered their services on this sti asl0n' we ',0Pe °"r theatrical readers will be ^initiated with the same motive, and act well lr part. There are two pieces announced and a "ety of singing and dancing. of VV^°CKlXG -^CCIDENT—Early in the morning I fo ec'nesday last, the body of Serjeant Llewelyn, rnie''ly of the 1st Foot Guards, was found in the it*'61"' "ear the Old Mill, at Merthyr. He had been, j)e's ^eared, in a state ofintoxieationalinost ever since •sn received his last quarter's pension, and he is 0> l|P0Sjed to have fallen over the wall about ten 0 °ck on Tuesday night. He was above 60 years belge, allll a tailor by trade. An inquest has been o on the body and a verdict returned—Found rowned as ti°CIDENT AT ^0WI A,S-—O'1 Thursday last, flreinan, David Vittle, employed at the new ^r§e engine, Dowlais, was clearing the grates, lrlstrinnen's used for the purpose accidentally W|6 ln contact with the plug at the bottom ot the ^r'a"d forced it from its place, through which ver | Water rushed by, and the poor fellow was se- $ur Scalded. It is much feared he will not re VlVe the injury he has sustained. The engine tho 'ne^ *ts usual work almost immediately alter e accident.