The Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette and Merthyr Guardian

THE ARMY. (From the Times.) Many will scarcely credit that the Colonel Thompson who made such a treasonable speech at the Crown end Anchor, a few days since, on Canadian affairs, is a Lieu- tenant-Colonel, unattached, in the British army. Yet it is so. Lord Hill, however, has it in his power to re- commend to the Queen his removal from a service which he has so disgraced by his principles and his language; and we trust her Majesty will exercise her prerogative of ordering the erasure of Colonel Thompson's name from the Army Li3t, as a prudent warning at the present time to others inclined to tread in his steps. An immediate move of all the regiments in Ireland will be the consequence of the withdrawal of troops now under orders for Canada. The 1st hattallion of the Coldstream Guards, at present in Dublin, will most likely return to London, and take their share of the household, duties. The Hercuies, 74, is to take on hoard 500 of the men intended to be added to the service companies of the regiments in Canada. The Inconstant has already em- barked a portion of the 93rd Highlanders, and the head- quarters and remaining companies are to be conveyed out by the Pique, daily expected at Cork. The Boadicea freight-ship is to take out the draught of the 11th and 73rd regiments to Gibralter, where they are to join the service companies; thence the entire will be conveyed to Quebec by ships of war. A correspondent recommends that no resignations of officers in the Guards should be accepted until they join their regiments in Canada, and also that such vacancies should be filled up by promotions from regiments of the line. Major W. F. Williams, K.H. has sailed for Canada by the last packet with dispatches for Sir John Colborne. This distinguished officer was formerly in the 85th Light Infantry, and received several wounds during the Pen- insular war: he is also known for a very beautifully drawn survey of the island of Malta. We consider ic necessary to stat that the number of men intended for Canada, as annoanced by the United Service Gazette of Saturday, is incorrect. inasmuch as onr contemporary states the entire to be only 3.900 whereas the troops at present under orders, including the artillery, amount to very nearly 7,000 rank and tile.

Sir David Wilkie has been taking sittings for the portraits af her Majesty, the Duke of Sussex, the Duke of Wellington, and the Lord Chancellor, In his grand picture of tne Queen taking the oaths before the Privy Council on the morning of her accession. This picture represents the Queen sit- ting at the head of the council table, surrounded by the Ministers of State: at the bottom of the table is the Duke of Sussex, wlio is in the act of receiving a pen from the hand of the Duke of Wellington. The other parts of the picture are filled with the members of the Privy Council. The moment chosen for the action of the scene is im- mediately after the Queen has signed the procla- mation of her succession, and the Council are about to attach their signatures to the same docu- ment. The picture is on a very large scale, the figures being nearly of life size. In the present stage of the work further remark would be pre- mature. GREENWICH RAILWAY.—The severe frost on Tuesday morning caused some of the tubes in one of the engines to burst. This accident caused a tempo- rary delay daring the morning in the running of the trains, but the repnir of the engine was quickly effected. This will no doubt be an useful hint to other railway companies to keep fires always burning in their engines during the prevalence of frost. A barrister blind of one eye, pleading with his spectacles on, said, Gentlemen, in my argument I shall use nothing but what is neecssarv."—" Then," replied a wag, take out one of the glasses of your spectacles."

CANADA. o The following is the substance of the latest intel- ligence from Canada, its communicated by the London papers of Wednesday last The packet-ship Westminster, of London, which left New York on the 20th ult., and reached Falmouth on Tues- day, brings news from Upper Canada to the date of the 11th, and from Montreal to the date of the 13th ult. All the information from both provinces is highly satisfac- tory, except in its details of individual murders, com- mitted by the rebels. Our invaluable correspondent, "A Canada Merchant," was pcrfectly correct in his judgment as to the temporary occupation of Torento, by the traitor party, asserted in the United States journals. To use our correspondent's words, now fully verified, the rebels "never were within three miles of Toronto"—they approached within little more than that distance of the town on the 5th, waited a day, during which they coicmitted some murders and made some prisoners by their marauding parties, and fled upon the first appearance of opposition on the follow- ing day-M'Kenzie and the principal leaders, into the United States. The news from Lower Canada is equally promising of the restoration of permanent tranquillity. On the 13th the districts of Montreal and Quebec enjoyed undis- turbed repose. Some broken bands of rebels in the neiehbourhood of Grand Brule, north-west of Montreal, anLI separated from that city by the principal trunk of the St. Laurence and by the Ottawa river, alone remaining in arms—if, indeed, they did remain in arms, for as no troops were sent to look for them ac any time, even this is doubtful, probably they are only fugitives or robbers. The New York journals supply some very interesting documents—the official report of the defeat of the rebels by Colonel Knowlton and a hurried levy of British farmers and agricultural labourers in the Missisqoi territory, ou the sixth—the account of his escape given by the rebel General Brown,—and a similar account of the escape of M'Kenzie. The affair of the Missisquoi gives gratifying proof of the valour and fidelity, as well as of the prudence, of the British settlers. The scene of operations is about fifty miles south of Montreal, on the frontier of the state of Vermont, part, as all know, of the common- wealth union. On the day named, the rebels, abun- dantly supplied with arms and ammunition, provided with two pieces of cannon, and reinforced by adven- turers from the States, were preparing to make an attack upon the village of Philtipsburgh, when they found themselves opposed by a firm but tumultuary force under the command of-Colonel Knowlton, at a distance of about two miles and a half from the vil- lage. The engagement did not last a quarter of an hour, and was managed of course without the least regard to discipline by the Loyalists. Their courage was, however, irresistible and in about the time men- tioned the rebels made a rapid retreat, leaving one man dead, some wounded, and some prisoners, their two pieces of artillery, all their* ammunition, and nearly all their arms. Colonel Knowlton and his gallant Britons followed the fugitives to the Unitea States frontier, but there they most wisely discontinued the pursuit, so as to leave the States Government without a pretext for complaint. The accounts given of their several escapes by Brown and M'Kenzie bear a most pleasing testimony to the loyal zeal of the general population. The traitors would scarcely have had to encounter more of danger and difficulty in stealing their way through the best affected county of Great Britain, than they represent to have obstructed their flight-tlirotigh Canada. French-, low Irish, and United States American squatters, were the only persons of whom they dared to seek relief. Even within the. United States lines, and in the populous town of Buffaloe, M'Kenzie was not considered safe from the Royalists, and accordingly, a body guard of six stout young Republicans was appointed to wait upon his person. A very great number of arrests had been made in Lower Canada-among others Dr. Woolfred Nelson, Papineau's principal colleague, was in custody, and most of the prisoners were persons above the lower rank. Papineau's papers had been seized, and, if wo may trust the Montreal correspondent of the New York Inquirer. these papers may lead to arrests at this side of the Atla"tic -Standard

WESTMINSTER WHIG-RADICAL MEETING .00 (From a Correspondent of the Times ) The Whig Radicals of Westminster had a field day, yesterday, at the Crown and Anchor, on the subject of the grieyances, real and imputed, of the French Canadians. Mr Hume was in the chair, while Mr Leader, Col, Thompson, Mr Grote, Air Roebuck, Sir William MoUsworth, and Dr. Wade, were marshalled in appropriate order to embody treason (to the utterance of which no risk attaches) in speeches characterized by noisy nonsense in all its varieties. It was amusing to hear the nien who uphold the system which leads in England to the sacrifice, annually, of tetis of thousands of infants iu cotton factories, who uphold the system which dooms the hand-loom weavers of Manchester to 16 houis of daily toil in exchange for 4d.of daily wage* who uphold the new poor lav* as a measure calculated to secure "the moral elevation" of the English labourer — it was amusing we say, to hear Uiese men, who declare that the deepest grievances under which the English poor labour are no grievances at all, call upon the English labouring classes to make common cause with the French Canadians, M hose he>t-esta- b'ished grievances scarcely deserve mention in the same day with the deadly tyranny which presses the productive poor of England to the earth. Hume, And. GI ole, and Roebuck, are the deadliest enemies of the English poor. When the Canadians sliall suffer under a factory system, and a new poor law bill, and a commercial system which adjudges to the Canadian weaver 4d. as an equivalent for 16 hours' toil-when the Canadians shall sulfcr under such grievances as these, then will it be incumbent on the English labouring classes to express sympathy for Canada; then will it be consistent with modesty In Roebuck and Hume, and the other abettors of rebel- lion, to call on the English labourers for co-opera- tion. The fact is, that whatever may be the real cauges of complaint which the French Canadians may plead, the i nstigators of rebellion in Canada, Papineau and Company, are very much like the appiauders of Canadian rebellion here—mere selfish jobbers, mere politicil impostors. The chief proot offered by Hume and Leader in support of the pretensions of the Papinéau party was, the fact that the Cauadiaua had actually risen iu rebellion. Thecouvenicnt inference from that fact was, that the Canadians must be right, inasmuch as no people, nor section of a cess people, will ever (if the necessities of Whig Radical logic are to be admitted) rise against a Government without good cause. If this doctrine be admitted, it follows that Hume, and Roebuck, and Grote ought to oppose the new poor law, because the men of Bradford,but a few days ago, prepared to use violence in opposition to the enforcement of that law, and because the assistant poor law commissioner has more than once been compelled to fly for safety from the fury of the men of Huddersfield. At all events, the logic of the Hume and Roebuck, abettors of the new poor law, involves this consequence,—that the victims of the new poor law have only to shed blood in resisting that law, and then Hume and Roebuck will demand that law's repeal, becauset according to their doc- trines, every people and every section of a people which opposes law by force must, in the nature of things, have justice on its side. Mr Roebuck cautioned the meeting, in very emphatic style, against being led away by dally newspaper, all of which, he declared, had a dishonest interest in opposing thejust claimsof the Canadians. We are not prepared to speak in this matter, on bebalf of all our brethren of the daily press, but of this we are aware, in common with all England, that Mr Roebuck is or was the paid ajent of the Cana- dian rebels and that if the rebellion be put down, why, a long farewell to Mr Roebuck's Canadian salary! It is worthy of note that the meeting was a packed one. So far from the electors of Westminster being found there, three-fourths of the meeting had no connexion with Westminster, and of the Westminster portion not one half possessed theelectoral franchise. A body of cunning schemers which calls itself the Working Mens'Association," hut which, in reality, is a mere tool in the hands of the Malthusian Radi- cal in Parliament, and which reprents the working men of England as fully as Mr Hume represents its intelligence these fellows, with their subordinates, were there, for the purpose of applauding Hume, and Roebuck, and Wade, and for the purpose, also, of preventing any interruption to the harmony of the meeting. An individual did step forward to move an amendment; and these honest liberal per- sonages refused to to give him a hearing

We trnst that when Parliament meets the line adopted by the Conservatives, In whose hands •lone the Monarchy is safe, will be extremely different from that which they have hitherto taken. Let it not be said that Conservative magnanimity, and Conservative consistency, demand that Con- aervatives should support the .'Ministry in this Canadian business against the Radicals. What. ever punishment the Radicals may decree to the Whigs forr taking active measures against the rebels, they deserve ten times more from the Con- servatives for having rendered such measures ne- cessary, by not having exercised a just authority at a time when the commonest exertion of legal authority would have destroyed the danger in limint—John Hull. 0 I ••

LA, TEST INTELLIGENCE. FRIDAY IGHT. There is no foreign intelligence, of interest, in the London papers-of this evening. TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF THE ROYAL EXCHANGE. An event which may be regarded almost as a national calamity, occurred on Wednesday night —the Royal Exchange is a heap of ruins a destructive fire has laid waste this extensive commercial building, one of the most magnifi- cent in Europe. Soon after ten o'clock, the fire broke out in Lloyd's coffee-room, at the north- east corner of the edifice, opposite the Bank. At twelve o'clock, these and Lloyd's establish- ment, thè coffee-room, the captaitis'-rooin, and the offices the under-writers, presented one body of flame, which shot up to a great height, illuminating the Hank, St. Bartholomew's, St Michael's, and St. Mary's, churches. Every object was as visible as at noonday. At half past three the north-west and south sides of the immense building were burnt down, and the flames hatl reached the east, threatening the entire destruction of the range of shops and dwelling-houses connected with the Exchange, and forming the west side of Sweeting's-alley. The inhabitants on both sides of this narrow court succeeded in removing the greater portion of their furniture and stock in trade before the flames reached the alley, and goods to the amount of R50,000 were deposited in places of safety but a good deal of heavy furniture could not be got out of the houses, and was sacrificed. At four o'clock the fire was still burning with unabated fury. The wind, which was blowing fresh all the night, had increased almost to a tempest, and the immense area was one body of flame. The remaining wing, the east, shared the fate of the others, and with it the houses and shops in Sweeting's-alley forming part of the main building. The eastern wing of the Ex- change, like the others, was soon reduced to a heap of ruins, the flames spreading from floor to floor, and from one story to the other. The shops of the news agents and booksellers and the offices of the stock-brokers are consumed. Thursday, Two o'clock. The fire now rages only in the interior parts, the exterior parts on fire are nearly subdued, but at the present time the entities continue playing all around the Royal Exchange. The tower still remains, but a mere shell, and it is stated to be declared in danger of tailing-by the City Surveyor. The only statue remaining is that of Charles II in the centre of the Ex- change, which is entire, although surrounded by the immense ruins in flames, and by fallen monarchs with broken limbs. We understand the Lord Mayor has given permission to the merchants to adopt the Guildhall as the Ex- change for business, until the Royal Exchange is rebuilt. Thej-e is a meeting of the Committee of Lloyd'p holding at present with closed doors. Consequently, to the present hour, nothiifg is known c' It is generally believed that the bitsiness of-, I Lloyd's will be transacted at the East India House.

SUBSCRIPTIONS IN AID OF mmn [Ë[Læ:1J!» petatiio^s, ECEIVET) nt the Officc of the GLAMORGAN, 1/ MONMOUTH, AND-BRECON GAZETTE, AND MER- THYIl GUARDIAN -— d. W. Meyrick, Esq 1 0 0 J. Bruce -Pryce, Esq 2 0 0 Rev. W. Bruce Knight .1 0 0 Anthony Hill, Esq 2 0 0 T. W. Booker, Esq 2 0 0 Gazette aud Guardian" 1 0 0 Richard Hoare Jenkins, Esq., Lanharran 1 0 0 R. O. Jones, Esq Fontnon Castla 2 0 0 James Brown, Esq., Blaina Iron Works I 1 0 Llewellyn Luther 0 10 ,6 A Friend to Justice to Ireland ..0 5 0 H. J. Grant, Esq., the Gnoll, Neath 2 '0 0 Htrs. H. J. Grant, do. 1 0 0 More Justice to Ireland 0 5 0 George Rollings, Esq., Llan. rumney 1 0 0 Miss Ann Thomas, Lianartlian.. 0 10 0 Miss Joaii Thomas, ditto 0 10 0 W. J. Rumney 0 10 0 A Protestant Young Lady 0 5 0 H. V., Llancialf 0 100 H. \V., Llandaff 0 10 0 Edward Stephens, Esq., Llanda.fl 0 10 0 The Rev.Thomas Hancorne, Vicar of Newcastle 1 0 0 George W'ardc, Esq., the Gnoll.. 2 0 0 A Friend to Ireland 0 5 0 The Rev. Samuel Davies, Oyster- mouth 10 0 The Rev. R. T. Tyler, Cottrel ..100 Total £ 26 11 6 -=- QzIlF The PiiopwETOK of this Paper begs very resiect/ully to inform the STIBSCiilii.- S, ADVKU- TISKK.C, AGENTS, 4-c., that it is his intention to selld a GtnlLm ui connected with the Establish- ment, on a journey, in the course of a week or ten days, for the purpose of collecting the nume- rous Accounts due for the last year's Papers, Advertisements Sfc., in the Counties ui which the CVZETTE AND GUARDIAN" circulates. The Proprietor further ventures to express a hope that tht heavy expences incurred by such joitniey will fdfiiish an excuse for any thing like impar- t tllnity'l ¡fMsmodeof announcing his intention. I'

TO CORRESPONDENTS. G. L." on ''The Vixen" in our next. Tite erccl,cnt letter of At,-ol" on "High Pressure Steam," came too late for insertion in this week's paper, it .shall appear in our next. The writer has our best thaliks.

MERTHYR TYDVIL, SATURDAY, Jan. 13, lijjs. ca. The last news from Canada was what is termed favourable. In other words, wherever the insurgents have exhibited themselves they have been beaten. A few sharp and short con- flicts have done the business,, but it is quite clear that an atrocious spirit lurks in the Cana- dian population. Our original folly in treat- ing a conquered people, as if they had been a country of generous allies, was often predicted as the sure source of final alienation. By allowing all our public acts to be in French, all the proceedings of the courts, and, in fact, treaiing the Colony as if it were to remain French for ever, we kept it French. The result. was smothered hostility, ready to rise upon any favourable opportunity into open war. Eu! a still more fatal source of disunion was our national neglect of Protestantism under the form of our Established Church, a form which more especially conbines with English feelings, English allegiance and English Constitution It is true that we had a Bishop at Quebec, but for fifty years no step was taken that we ever heard of, to gi:f' the .French Canadians the advantage of,having the scriptures iu their hands. They were, nnd are at this moment as superstitious as if they were living in the heart b1' offtlly. It is true we have now established a Bishop at Montreal, but this is only a late and feeble exertion. Much too will depend on the characters of these two individuals who, we believe, have been utterly tJLheard of in this country, and utterly passive in Canada. We must send energetic men where we send at all. We tell the government that it is neither on their troops nor their laws that the allegiance of the colonies will finally depend, but on their religion. The Papist mil be always a dangerous subject to a Prottstaut throne. We abhor all persecution but it is not persecution but mercy to declare the divine truth to those who have only lived hitherto on Tinman falsehood, to sub- stitute the divine justice for the false and cruel rilles of spiritual tyranny, and to rescue the unhappy and bewildered slaves of idolatry from the desperate and ruinous delusion of soliciting divine forgiveness through the medi- atorship of stocks and stones Let Protestantism be spread by the honest means of education, and the presence of an able, active and eloquent clergy through the Canadas, and instead of an encuniBjirance ami an alarm, they will become ,a Tower, of strength to Britain. ,1

A Parliamentary return has been ordered on the motion of Mr. Hume, from every City and Borough in England and Wales, of the number of Electors registered in each, for 1836 and 1837, classifying them under their respective qualifi- p cati, ns; also a return of Electors who actually polled at the last Election, under a similar clas- sification. For what purpose the redoubtable Joseph Hurne has obtained this return we know not—doubtless for some reform of the REFORM t'ILL-tlie illAXIMA CIJAITTA," the faultless, the definitive The return for the Borough of Merthyr Tydfil, &c., when made to the House, and printed as it will be by order of the House, will furnish us with an authentic document, on which we shall have something to say. An analysis of the constituency of this misrepre- sented Borough, which, as it will not be without its moral, so will it, we trust, awaken the inde- pendent Electors to, a sense of the mockery and degradation of which they have been made the victims, by the enfranchisement of a Borough as close, as corrupt, as unconstitutional, as ever fell beneath the destructive hand of Lord John Russell, or was shelved in Schedule A

_u- It was our intention to have offered a few remarks in this portion of our Paper on those monstrosities of Whig legislation, The Mar- riage and Registration Acts." We find, how- ever, in the Morning Herald of Monday last, some admirable strictures on this subject, and we transfer them to our columns not only as expressing our sentiments in powerful language, but as having the full concurrence of our deli- berate judgment in their adoption. We shall defer, therefore, our own observations until pext week. il If the British Parliament did its duty in a manner becoming the Legislature of a Christian country, it would never have passed the Whig Marriage and Registration Acts, which, under the pretence of relieving the tender consciences of Disspntera from the Established Church, strikes a ,r heavy blow" not only to the national religion, but even to Christianity itself. The clergy of the city and neighbourhood of Lincoln have petitioned for the repeal of those acts, as we stated the other day, alleging, as one among a number of grounds for such repeal, that the reformed law compels them, in certain cases, to violate the canons of the Church by enforcing a compliance with the orders of a Registrar, even when such orders are actually opposed to the canonical laN). Need we add that this was intended, by a side wind, to be a "heavy blow" and great discouragement to the Protestant religion as bylaw established ? The Whigs failed in their direct attacks upon tFie property and stability of the Church; but, in this instance, their insidious hostility to the national faith was, unfortunately, successful. We have said that it is not the Church alone that has been aimed at in this truly Whig and, we may not ad! infidel measure, but Christ- ianity itself, aye, and Christian morality too has been struck at in its very source by this dis- graceful law. It throws contempt 011 the bap- tismal sacrament, and on the marriage contract. It institutes as a familiar practice the naming a child as a do may be named, without any reference to the reception of the infant into the Church of ChrisL It reduces the marriage union into a mere civil contract; a change which must have a fearful effect upon the na- tional morals, which, in England, owe much to the solemn and holy character which marriage .1 IMS derived frorri the sanction of religion. The Whigs, as if anxious to earn the distinc- tion of being the Vandals of the nineteenth century, take a pride in breaking down whatever is respsi talde, and in desecrating whatever is holy in our national institutions. At a recent meeting of the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Worcester? at which Archdeacon Onslow ,It; j 1 d presided, and a report of which appeared in our ulO'lumns, the ltev. T. Baker thus described the character and effects of the Whig Registration Act as to the two important points to which we havealinded. The new system,' said the Rev. Gentleman, "iu giving power to the Deputy Registrar to y 11 enrol Christian names, not only throws atslight on the sacrament of baptism, but it holds out an inducement, a kind of premium to the mother of illegitimate children. It leads her to register the offspring of her crime at the civil office instead of having it christened at the Church; by this means she not only escaped the exposure of her shame, but the well--intended rebuke and wholesome admonition of ber spiritual adviser." As to marriage, he proceeded to observe, The 20th and 21st clauses of the Marriage Act authorised the performance of the marriage ceremony at any licensed place of worship, or a contract before a Registrar. If there were any act of a man's life which demands more con- sideration than another—if any which more requires the aid of prayer and the Divine assis- tance of power from on high, it is that which is to uuite him, till death shall dissolve the tie, to the partner of his joys, the soother of his sor- rows, and the mother of his children; but, under the new enactment, no more importance is at- tached to the solemn undertaking than to the hirin 4 of a farm or a servant. And this is modern legislation It is, indeed, rpodern legislation, .to the shame of all parties in the British Parliament be it spoken, -as well as those who devised as those who sanctioned a law so unworthy of a Chris- tian it The ppople of England in general are yet untainted with the infection of those irreligious and demoralizing sentiments which it is the great object of Whig legislation at the present! day to desseminate through the land. But how long they may continue so should the present Ministers be allowed to wield much longer the powers of the state against those principles which constitute the moral and social strength and welfare of the State itself is another ques- tion. The following extract from the speech of the Rev. T. Baker expresses our own sentiments oil the subject: He firmly believed that the I õ!" ME people of England were a r-ligious people, as people who loved their Chur< h and her minis- ters. It was the minister of the Church who was the instrument in making their children mem- bers of the body of Christ; it was the minister of the Church who united with the mother of those children, in offering np her sacrifices (if praise and thanksgiving to God, who raised her from the bed of pain and sickness in their hirth and it was the minister of the Church who joined the parents of those children in the holy bond of wedlock. If the demoralizing influence of these innovations should prevail, we should have to thank the present Ministry for weaning the affections of the people of England from their national Church. What is a national Church ?—what is any other ancient and noble institution of the country to a Ministry distinguished for n utter con- tempt of national feeling? Place is the only object of their veneration, and to that they sacrifice the grandeur of the Crown, the sanctity of the Church, and the morals of the people.

A Correspondent has favoured us with an account of a work entitled, Diary illustrative of the Times of George IV., interspersed with original Letters from the late Queen Caroline, &c." We do not agree with our Correspondent as to the abscnce of offence in the book, for we regard it as an offensive, and in some parts an indelicate production. In our Correspondent's notice, however, there is no offence; and we are happy to enUven the duluess of the season by his amusing description of a publication now making sensation1 'in the circles of fashion. All the world knows by this time that Colburn, the chief publisher of fashionable novels, has just published an extraordinary book. It is n(yv.about five and twenty years since another extraordinary book was published on the same subject, which underwent as many transmi- grations as if it had been written by a disciple of Py- thagoras, with every faculty but the faculty of holding his tongue. It was successively a book, a pamphlet, and a string of newspaper paragraphs, and then reappear- d as a book again, mystifying all mankind. Its origin was as mysterious as its nature. Its authorship was successively given to the Prime Minister, to the Lord Chancellor, and to the Secretary of State. Perceval and Canning were said to dispute the honors of its parentage. It was reported that Lord Eldon furnished it with daughters, that it passed through the refining hands of Lord Ellenborough, and that the Privy Coun- cil presided at the solemnity of its accouchement. It was said that it turned out one Ministry, and kept in ano- ther in short, it was the great puzzle—the Doctor Faustus-the emperor of all conjurors of its day. That book was the narrative of the early transactions of the late Queen Caroline, when Princess of Wales. At the close of this quarter of the century, a4id fortunate would be the century that would produce four such books in the course of its transit, another stimulant to public curiosity has been administered in the shape of another book, equally mysterious, but infinitely more amusing-, the subject the same the matter different; the scene shifting-from England to the Continent, and from the Continent to England—from the dullness of Kensington to the pomps of Genoa, -from Genoa to the fetes of Naples,—from Naples to Kensington; its grave deli- berations, its hours of exasperated Royalty, and its meetings of anti-ministerial faction. All this in any hands might form an amusing book, but in the hands of the writer, evidently a person connected with high life, and on the spot,—a Courtier, yet who calls things by the plainest of all names,—a person of fashion, yet perfectly alive to the humour of humbler life,—and with all this, a keen, ready, and sarcastic manager of the pen, it must form one of the most striking and characteristic works of the time. It must be admitted, that the writer now and then describes scenes, which, unless a remarkably thick veil was thrown over the authorship, might make the individual blush a little on recognition and as it is now discovered, and the only point discovered, that the author is a lady, we must acknowledged that if she has seen strange things, she has told them in language equally strange. However, let us be understood. There is no language of indelicacy in the work, even iu de- scribing the freaks of the unfortunate Queen, there is a pertect avoidance, of,all that ought to offend. The writer tells her story like a gentlewoman, though like a very odd gentlewoman. To give an idea of what we mean of the unhesitating style of the work, let the fol- lowing two or three toullCs suffice The Princess of Wales came to me yesterday in a great bustle, as though she were big with the fate of Cato and of Rome. She had just received a letter from the Princess Charlotte, telling her that the Prince, (afterwards George the 4th,") had gone with the Chan- cellor to Windsor, and in presence of Queen Charlotte, demanded what she meant by refusing to have a governess. She referred him entirely to her letter, upon which the Queen and her father abused her, as being an obstinate, perverse, headstrong girl. Besides, said the Prince, I knew all tlrat passed in Windsor Park, andsif it were not for my clcmancy, I would have you shut up for life." Lady de Clifford then cam to tell the same story. The Chancellor told the Princess Charlotte, that if she had been his daughter, and had written him such a letter, he would have locked her up till she came to her senses. Rather violent language, said Lady do Clifford, for a coalheaver's son to the future Queen of England. Sunday, th: 22nd., yesterday, the Princess went t6 meet the Princess Charlotte, at Kensington, Lady told me, when the latter arrived, she rushed up to her mother and said, for heaven's sake be civil to her, meaning thg Ducliess of Leeds, who followed her. Lady D- said she was sorry for the latter, but when the Princess of Wales talked to her, she soon became so free and easy, that one could not have any feeling about her feelings. Then follows a note from the Prin- cess of Wales, whose matiimonial moral is very charac- teristic. The only astonishing news that I can offer you, is that the Regent is dangerously ill. Still I am not sanguine enough to flatter myself, that the period' to all my troubles and misfortunes is to come, yet one must 'hope for the best, yours, C. P." The writch- deals with all ranks in the same spirit of candour. Here follows a little anecdote of the latevMiss Long, the great Esses heiress, who gave her forty thousand pounds a year to that very eccentric personage Long Pole Wcllesley, an absurdity of choice common to great heiresses, and which the poor girl afterwards expiated by beggary and a broken'heart. "They say that when the Duke of Clarence deputed Mrs F-n to make his proposals of marriage to Miss Long, she went to her, and stated very gravely that the Duke of Clarence was willing to part with Mrs Jordan, and give her place in his affections to Miss Long, on which the poor little girl thought she was intended to officiate in the same capacity as her predecessor, on which she fell a crying, and called the unlucky ambassa- dress all the names she could think of. The following sarcastic remark is a specimen of the style. H In the mean time, Miss Long has become quite cruel to Wcllesley Pole, and divides her favour between Lords Killen and Kilworth, two as simple Irish boys as ever gave birth to a bull. I wish to hymen that she were fairly married, for all this pother gives one a disgusting picture of human nature. Avarice in children is shock- ing, yet the united schools of hton and Westminster are gaping after this girl as if she were fairer than a myriad of venuses." But, the be;t jest of all, is one that has arisen out of this volume, in consequence of the revival of the very pungent story of the present Lady Holland's having buried a kid in place of her daughter, and having preferred Lord Holland to her hu;band and run o:f with him in the absence of that husband. Col. Webster, his son, takes up the gauntlet at once, calls on Colburn, the publisher, for the name of the author, and on Colburn's expressing a regret and so forth, in the most customary style, the Colonel writes a letter to a periodical journal for what conceivable purpose. Is it to deny the facts stated in the book? Not one of them. With the most curious simplicity of soul he declares that the statements were perfectly true, that his mother ran away from his father to live wjth another man, that she actually did bury a kid instead of her daughter, and so forth. The Colonel is monstrously indignant, it seems that the truth should be told, though that truth was as common in the London world, as if it had been placarded at Charing Cros. In the meantime, the Colonel's leyer has gone the round of the newspapers, and will form thehappiest of all advertisements lor the volumes,, which it was the simple Colousl's object to suppress,

(Firm a Correspondent.) NEwnRmnE.—Pursuant to a public notice a meet- ing of the friends (1) of tue Slaves in the West Indies was held in the Baptist chapel here, on the eveninff of Monday last, the Sth inst., the Rev. D. DAVIS in the criair, topetition the Legislature for the Abolition of the Apprenticeship System now in operation in those Colonies, and the immediate emancipation of the slaves. The meeting was opened with prayer; when Mr. THOMPSON, of TafT Vale Iron Works, in his usual eloquent and impressive inauticr, advocated the inte- rests of our poor degraded sable brethren of the JVest 3**1 Indies, and pourtrayed in most affecting aild,T touching language the miseries they are obliged,1, to endure under the present system, both from the barbarity and immorality of their inhuman masters. He strongly recommended the pertwal 0? a pamphlet, from which he had gleaned mtfi. useful informa- tion on the subject, written (as we understood him) by a negro, and in which he assured his audience they would find his assertions doubly confirmed." Mr Thompson also made all apology for his ina- bility to address the meeting in their vernacular, but trusted that those who did understand him would duly appreciate what he had told them. and concur with him in reprobating such a diabolical j system as that now in exis, aiit-e in our West India. colonies. Mr ROBERTS, of Tredegar, followed in Welsh, "on the same side," but went more minutely into detail than the gentleman who preceded him, instancing some dreadful acts of cruelty and oppression prac- tised upon the poor unoffending 8la4% especially those on the tread mill, without the slightest redress, I, and implored the meeting, and the country generally* not to stand idly by, while such sceues were being enacted across the Atlantic, but to Agitate! Agitate I 1 Agitate! until every human being, without regard to colour or complexion, should be as free ns the four winds of heaven," and as unfettered as the Gazelle, that calls the boundless desert her home. Mr Roberts wound up his striking harangue with a fervent hope, that although J. J. Guest, Esq., was now only Member for Merthyr, he would live to see him representative of all "Morganwg, and proposed that the petition to the House of Commons, signed by the Chairman in the name of the meeting, should be pre- sented by that I Jon. Gentleman, and that, for the House of Lords by Lord Brougham. The Chairman was thanked for his conduct during the evening, and the meeting broke up. It is to be regretted that the provisions of Lord Stanley's hill are not more carefully examined into by those who compose such meetings as the above, and their results not more accurately, or rather impar- tially, made known; the former would indisputably prove that it is the direct interest of the planter to treat his apprentices humanely, and to his serious loss if he is obliged to complain of their conduct tq a magistrate, (for none but the feathered tribe" of Newbridge, believes the masters have the power of inflicting punishment in their own hands,) by loss of the offender's time if sentenced to confinement, or by the disability to labour," if punished corporally, and the latter would set the question at rest for ever. The representations of the philanthropic Mr Sturge, and his no less zealous friends, ought to be received witli cautiot), -Enthusiasm must necesarily have greatly prompted their late journey tothe West Indies, with all its horrors and disagremens, and consequently certain degree of colour must inevitably be impllrteq" to their details, especially gathered as some of 'tB&tf" were, from the negroes thcmscl ves-than whom?,is said, a more cunning race, does not exist. The abolitionists of tho apprenticeship system slmuldv therefore, rather cry out,—" Examine, examine, ex- amine!" than" Agitate, agitate, agitate!" and every object contemplated by the Act would be found to be accomplished. .ø".#>#6> ST. DAVID'S COLLKGE.—At the close of the Ex- aminations held in the College Hall, at the end of the Term, the following gentlemen were elected to the scholarships set apposite their names, VIZ. Josiah Rees Butler. Richard Jones Butler. David Lloyd Coyty. Arthur ltees Hannah More. James John Evans Burton. John Lewis, sen Eldon-Hebrew. William Evans Eldon—Welsh. Henry Morgan. Dery Ormond. A "College" scholarship, open to all members of the College, is still vacant, for which there will be an Examination early in March.—The College bai num- bered during the Term 50 young men, and a consi- derable accession of numbers is expected next Term. The remains of Mrs. Van Mildert, relict of the late Bishop of Durham, who died at Harrogate last week, were interred on Thursday, in Durham Cathedral, where they now rest in the tomb prepared for those of her late husband and lierself, in front of the commu- nion table. On Sunday, the 24th ult., Mr G. D. Sparks, (Liter- ate,) was ordained Deacon by the Bishop of Glou- cester and Bristol, by letters dimissory from tho Bishop of LlanjIafF. And at the same time the Rev. H. Crowther, St. Dayids, Lampeter, was ordained Priest by letters dimissory from the Lord Bishop of St. I CLERGYMEN IN WALES.-Tlie report of "the Or- ders in Council ratifying the schemes of the Eccles- iastical Commissioners'' has been printed. A abstract of the part relating to Wales is as follows,— IVelsh Languaye.-Diited May 10, 1S37. — Ap- proval of a special report of the Ecclesiastical Com- missioners for England, whereby they proposed to abstain for the present, for reasons given in the report and an appendix, from suggesting any scheme for •:>*•»'Bt « carrying into effect the provisions of section 11 «f, ,.<? the Act 6 and 7 William IV., c. 71. whereby it" ia enacted that they should prepare and lay before blij Majesty in Council such scheme as should appear to them to be the best adapted for preventing the ap- pointment of any Clergyman not fully conversant with the Welsh Language to any benefice with cure of souls in Wales in any parish the majority of the inhabitants of which do not understand the Knglisii language.— Intimation from his Majesty in Council that the Com- missioners are to keep the subject in view. On Monday a public examination of the children of the Welsh School took p!ace at the school house, iu Gray's [nil Road, in presence of the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of St. Asaph, the Right Rev. tho Lord Bishop of Llandaff, the Rev. John Jennings,preben- dary of Westminster, V.T. j the Rev. Dr. Griffith, chaplain of the institution, and a very respectable company of the governors and their ladies. The Right Rev. Prelates, who were so kind as to conduct the examination, expressed themselves highly gratified with the proifciency of the children in all the branches of their education, anil particularly those which related to their religious instruction, and all present testified their unqualified approbation of their very neat, healthy, and orderly appearance. A rumour is prevalent tlmta requisition numerously signed, will be presented to Mr Leader, requesting him to resign his seat for Westminster; and that Lord D. Stuart, late M. P. for Arundel, the stanch friend of the Poles, be solicited to olfer himself as a candidate, should a vaeancy occur. -,Ili nisterial paper. LONG COURTSHIP.—Last week were married at Uettws, near Abergele, Mr Owen Williams, Llan- saintfraid, to Miss Sarah Jones, of Bettws. Each party was 65 years of age, and the courtship had continued unbroken during forty years, he having to go seven miles to see Ijis sweetheart, which he did every Sunday, and having thus walked nearly 30,000 miles on these love expeditions. \Ve recommend the following by way of experiment to our hill fanners: — CHEESE FROM POTATOES —Cheese, it is said, of extremely fine quality, is made from potatoes, in Thuringia and part of Saxony, in the following mau- nrr :—After having collected a quantity of potatoes of good quality,giving the preference to the white kind, thev nrc hoiled in a caldron, and after becoming cool, they are peeled, and reduced by a pulp either by means of a g-rate or inortar. To five pounds of this pulp, which oui,,bt to be as equal as possible, is added a pound of sour milk, and the necessary quantity of salt. Tile whole is kneaded together, and the mix- ture covered up and aliowed to lie three or four days, according to the season. At the end of this time it is frPi t kneaded anew, and the cheeses are places in little has- kets, when the superfluous moisture is allowed to escape, They are then allowed to t. "'1 the shade, and placed in layers in large pots 01 --sseis, where they must remain for fifteen days. The older these are, the more their quality improves. Three kinds of them are made. The first, which is the most common, is made according to the proportions above indicated; the second, with four parts of potatoes, and two parts of etir(I led mi I k; the third, with two parts of potatoes, and four parts of cow or ewe milk. These cheeses have this advantage over every other kind, that they do not engender worms, and keep fresh for a great number oC-years, provided they are placed in a dry situation, and in well-closed vessels. PATENT MINERS' LIFE PitOTECTOR.-A second public trial of Mr. Fourness' Patent Ventilator, for the purpose of clearing coal mines, &c. of fire or choke damp, took place at Osmondthorp colliery, Leeds, on Wednesday last. There were present a great number, 1