The Welshman

HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURSDAY, ¡.rAY 12. Their lordships did net assrmHe on Wednesdw. Alter the presentation of pctition, the Marquis of! Lansdovvne moved for certain returns relating to the ts- emptions granted to foreigners, under the acts commonly c.ilied the Income Tax and the Property Tax Acts, which, a discussion, in which the Earl of Ilipon. Lord Montengle, and Lord Melbourne took part, were ordi-red. On the motion of Lord Brougham. the House then went into cl)mmitl on the Briberv at elections' BiJi.—Ad- .into c,)rnmittee ori the Br;toi,v clecL.,r-,ns' B i l' A c t FRIDAY, MAY 13. The rovr.l assent wis given to several railway ind pri- vale Lillsl and the house adjourned to next Friciav' i

HOUSE OF COMMONS. J THE TARIFF. j rr: our last we gave an anniysis of Sir Robert Peel's THE TARIFF. —Sir R. PEEL then rose to move tfie order of tbe .1..v for gains into committee on the Customs' Duties' Act, and to make his statemeut on the subject of the proposed commercial tariff. The right hon. baronet beena bv rearettintr the delay which has taken [ilnee in the ■«r»n«nierati!>n of the tariff; hilt it had at least enabled parties affected to make such representations as they «1eemed n-cessxry to the protection of their interests. Those representations, when reasonable, had received the attention of government, however small the political influ- eure "f tbe parties ureins them: where representations hid 1 een made uithont reason, no political influence had prevailed with the envernment to eive w ay to the.a. The great objects of himself and hi, colleague* had been to abo- lish prohibition, by reiiucin? prohibitory iiutie« and to redura the duties on rav materials ami on materials partly ma. nufactured. By these means he hoped to dimir.iah the general exoense of living in this country not, indeed. nr.v individual article would he so cheapened as to afford any erent relief, but that, on the aiferejcate of con- sumption, the relief would be considerable and therefore It was that the Lroverilint nt had mafle its reductions on a great vat iety of articles, so as to give to almo>t every one of those classes which miirbt inevitably suffer from some one or more of the reduction', a compeusittioaupon other-. For instance, the reduction of the duty on various kinds of seed might, by letting in a supply t orn abroad, impair the profits of particular le;tierq t;ut the benefit theiehy con- ferred upon Itllricultluc in veikerml would he an importai.t oi<e. Again, in respect nt farnirure-woods, the hich duties bad preatly (ii*couraLred the industry of cabinet-makers Iiere. atid induced importation* of toriisru furniture. He t-listed that the reduction of c'u'y would establish an tx jnrt trade in that manufacture, and led to the extensive 11't' of luahoeany in soine branches of ship-building to which it was peculiaily applicable. Next, hs to foreign ores for example, copper. At present that metal was tunelted abroad, and copper could there he sol and applied to the sh'-nthinjr of vessels and to other purposes, at rate* much helf-w those at whirh the same objects could be exe- cute-i lu Fuelard, not-vitr-^tHndinu our coal and our manu- facturing advantages. Spermaceti and other whale oils were important articles in our manufactures, and it was now proposed to reduce the duti's upon them because whale oil bad been 100 per cent, dearer in this colititiy than in the United States, which had manufactures exten- sively consuming this article 1101 successfully competing uith our& He reminded the House of Mr. Deacon Hume's dictum., that this country having plenty of untaxed iron, and plenty ot untaxed coal, wanted only plenty of un- taxed wood to give ample employment to her industry "nd thi, was the principle on which government now pro- posed the reduction in the duties on timber. He now came to articles of foreign manufacture, on which it was contemplated so to reduce duties, that they should in no ease exceed the maximum of 20 per cent. It was said that "ueh a reduction, unless accompanied by a repeal 01 the ♦iorn laws, was a great injustice to the Bitish npertttivt. Btk, In fact, there had bren, as the nrnuiit f (lutie., in this very week evinced, a very great reduction in the duties an grain. Salt provisions, too, hieh had been hitherto under a total prohibition, would, under the new system, be admitted at a duty of about a penny a pound. So, as to live animals, about which he trusted he should be able tn make a lnily satisfactory explanation. So likewise as to fish, particularly the fish in which the poor were most interested -namely, herrings. The Irish peasant now paid 20s per barrel; henceforth he would get that barrel from Norway for lot. or would pi ocure herriues off his own coast, by means of that improved craft which the re- duced duty on timber would enable hiin to obtain there The duties were also to be reduced ou the importation of potatoes, rice, and hops ou the last of which articles the reduction of duty would he from £ 8 lis to £ 4 10s. He trusted, therefore, that a full dispOsitiou had been proved, on the part of governmeut. to lower the prces of tho,e articles of food which are principally consumed by the poor. He said, then, an error was commonly prevalent about the comparative cheapness of living in the great manufacturing towns of the Continent, where, although food was indeed produced cheaply, the workman had always to buy it dear, by reason nf the octroi duties payable at the gates of every city. He then argued itS to the straw-plait and other lnatmfacnires that under the present extent of arguggling ni i-.duc, hv hiich duties, there was in acttinl i practice no p-otrcion at all. Now he came to the great question touching the importation ot live cattle. He had been strongly pressed to dtfer to the apprehensions enter- tained on tili subject but he believed it to be a ground, less panic. Advertisements had been published for s'p. plyi^u Ent'ish towns through a firm at Hamburgh with meal at 3d a pound, and ptopir hud been frightened by th<>!>e offers into selling their cuttle at a saer fioe. If thev had waited to inquire, they wouU! liate found that nn such iirlu existed Fit Hamburuh, and that meatin that city itself was ed, ft pound. He would not sav that there would be no reduction in the price tof mrat-tliel-e would be some fcud some there ooght to be, for the price of meat in England was ow ton high. The influx of cattle from Scotland and Ireland by steam, within the last fifteen years, had been i-nmeuse yet the price of meat had slid gone on increasing. Therefore, observed the right hon. bnronet, in 1841 the navy co-itiftet price had ri-en from 35s. in 1835, to 49s. per cwt. iu 1841 whilst the contract price for Greenwich Hospital, where it superior description of meat was used, j I.Ad risco from 40s. in 1835, to 65s. per cwt. in 1841. And in Leaden hall-market the price of meat for shipping had ripen fr-un 3fis. in 18;)5. to 48s. per cwt. in 1841. In coi firmation of his remarks, Sir Robert Peel then read a statement of the prices of sttit pork, in use in the navy, from which It appeared tbat the price in JS35, as corrpared with 1841, was as L4 J4, bd. 10 £7 3s. 5d. All this, it must be remembered, went to swell the navy estimates. The chief objection made against the intended addition int cattle was, that the duty was proposed to be uniform per head, on the fat as well as the lean. Now, the admis- pion r,f the lean cattle was, of course, an advantage to (he trrazifr, whose business was to buy them for fattening and 1fd tar there was a clear benefit to one important class of agriculturists, which benefit would he diminished it lean cattle of a large size were made to hear a hea- vier duty than lean cattle of a small size. But now as to the fat Cattle. The great protection on fat cattle was not the amount of duty, but the length and roughness of the voyage. No fat ox could ever cross the Bay of Biscav. France, however, was neater, and the agriculturists feared an inflix from her shores. But France, for many years, io stead of exporting cattle, ha' on the balance, been im- porting them, and the price of ail sorts of meat bad been rising throughout that country. He contended that the ftarger was equally chimerical of importation from Holland, Germany, and the Prussian League. England I -botd another security in the quality of her meat. So great .r-I -to superiority that he did not despair of seeing Eng- }»n«l an exporter < f that article. Ht: %;Fts asked, why not impose the duty hy weight instead of per head ? He w ould answer fairly, that he wished to have meat somewhat cheaper in London but still the increase of our popula- tion, nod the scarcity of continental stock, gave a complete security acainst any very great diminution of price. We were exporting horses even oow and he saw uo reason why we should not hereafter export other cattle like-ise. On the whole, the fullest communication aril consideration had strongly confirmed the government in their intentions as to the duty upon cattle. He would not revive the dis- cusbii)n on the corn question that he considered as deci- [ ded by Parliament; but, at the proper time, he was pre ) pared to state the reasons why the government did not eousider the general principles of fr..ir trade (which they I folly admitted) as applicable to the present state of the sugar aud timber questions. They bad endeavoured to act itt the spirit of Mr. Huskisseo. and to do as much general good, with as little individual hardship, as possible. Even tor inditiduals, they trusted, the measure would provide compensation; aud they believed that. for the people at j terKe.theben'Stwo?'dbe extensive. He regretted that j other nations had not eutered ioto thdr views, and he had: reserved some sub;ects for o?rrangemrnt with them; but! Jd them take what c"rsr they m'?t. k would still be ) nur interest to buy ch?ap and sell dear. The day would 1 come when those nations aNo would see tbeir -iaten,t thtir perseverance in high dutiS would be met hy that ine  vitable corrvetive-tlie smuggler; and rbe example of Snicland, contrasted with that of states pursuing opposite principles, could hardly fail ot ultimate etfcct sud of recip- rocal benefit. Mr. LABOCCITKFIE then rose, and said that be had beard with very great pleasure the mr-in principles which the right boo. baronet had that evening laid down, and i he out iiiie of the mersurt, he bad proposed. The princi- ples of it were those on which the late government "had intended to act; he only regretted that any party struggle should have prevented the couotry from obtaining the be- aefit of thetb sooner. Any honest sod etfectual reform ot the tariff should have beeo based tipca a hrge alteration in the corn law, aod should huve embraced also the im- portant artieJe of sugar. Mr. D'JSRAFJLI contended that gentlemen, on the oppo- sition side of the House, had no peculiar elhiin to the doc- trines of free trade. These were no modern doctrines; nor waa it true that they had been sustained solely by the VI hi^g, and opposed by the party now in power. He would refer to the year 1787. "hen the Whig party abounded ia eminent statesmen, and when Mr. Pitt, having lotit the great colonial marktt of America, had laid down the prin. ciple of reciprocity aa a foundation for a new commerce between Rutland aud the states of Europe. The doctrine of free trade was then developed by Mr. Pitt and his friends, aud denoooced m a dangerous innovation by Mr. Fox and We follower*, (specially by Mr. (now EfLrl) Grey. He traced the traMMithton of these principles from that time down to the days of Lord Liverpool and Mr. tinskissou, j nod disproved, historically, all pretence of the Whigs to the exclusive authorship or maintenance of tliem. Mr. HVMI: snid that nothing for a long time had given him greater gratification, than to find the right Iron, baro. ¡ net opposite coming forward with measures founded on the principles of free trsde for the mention of which, five-aod- twenty yer. ago, he (Mr. Hume) had been treated with I the most repioacbful epithets. He was delighted to fiud « cabinet commanding so powerful a majority advocating those principle, and that their majority was to be applied to so good a purpose. The state of the country required that the present should nrt be viewed as a party question. tIe would give the right honourable baronet every support ion his power io carrying our the principles which be had aauounced. and he only wishtd that he would apply them to corn. He received the preseot measure as an htfll- ment which must be followed up by others, nnd he was re- joiced to receive such a concession to the principles ot free trade from a converted cabinet. After some oh?t-rvr'on? from Mr. G?adstoue, Mr. E. B. Roche, and Mr. G. Palmer, G,aditoue, '?klr. E. B. Tn order of the day was then real for the House re%Dlv. J log itself into committee on the Customs' Duties' Acts. Major VIVIAN then moved for the production of any adil;ional details yv&ich may have been supplied by Mr. MffV tn the govt'Tr.D1I'r.t, uhthé' to l}.t< i"piirlat;c.n d ?;'r?!t!'r: produce, salt prf'?ts:?na,&c.,nf a/? ??9. or r"v'" »jell may b/ie heensuppresseJ. The ,¡,nti. 'I give ri'e tn considerable discussion,and evenfti.illv a divi- sion, when there appeared-Fur the motiou, 1 £ 2 against it, 21 D. The House went into committee pro forma; the chnir- man reported progress, nod obtained leave tnsit sgaiu on Friday. WEDNESDAY, MAT M. THE POOR LAW ACT: AMENTVMF.NT BILL. —Sir JAMES GRAHAM then r.e to move for leave to bring in a hill "-T-irontifice the po«r law -eomtnissjon for a time to be limited, and for the further artlendment of the laws'relat- ing to the poor in England." The right bnn. baronet I hy hespeakiog the caudid consideration of the House In the subject, expressing a hope that they would entertain it in the genuine spirit of charity, benevolence, and "ood "i'1. He t tok a general view of the laws relating to the administration of relief to the poor, beginning with the act passed in tbe nign of Queen Elizabeth, and coming down to the Poor Law Act of 11,334, passed by Earl Giey's ad- ministration. He dwilt upon the evil which formerly existed of making tip deficient wages from the parochial rates. Earl Grey, he said, had met that evil by the act now in force, which was founded on tfrereport of a com- mittee, and was permanent in all its provisions, except the authority for regulating the administration of the system. The commission had since been prolonged by net of Parlia- ment until the 31 st of July next and the government now intended to propose that it should be further continued for five years from that day nod until the end of the session succeeding. In support of the principle of the commission he cited a speech of Lord Brougham, purporting that the variety of the cases to be administered required a discre- tional y power somewhere He hirr.setf believed that the same necessity existed now which existed when the corn mission was constituted. The Duke of Wellington also had expressed hisconcurrencein Lord Brougham's opinion, •vhen the measure was first adopted and Sir James Graham himself saw nothing in theexperit-nceofthe bill which honld ioduce hiin to change his own persuasion of its necessity. If the old power wereTestored to the ma- gistrates, they must cease to he members of the board of guardians and if the board of guardians were to he broken up, you must dissolve your unions: so that the discon- tinuance ot the commission would be the abrogation of the law. He believed that the boar d as now composed was such as to possess and to deserve general confidence. The number of its members had varied fit present there were ten hut he proposed to ask henceforth, for only nine, the experience now acquired having increased the facility of transacting the business. The Gilbert principle was to relieve the able-bodied at their homes, and the infirm in the workhouses; whereas the principle Of the general law was to relieve the infirm at their homes, and apply the wor khouse test to tbe able-bodied. It was also proposed by the new bill toprevefit the enlargement of uninns already containing 20.000 persons; but to allow combinations of I parishes for the purpose of district schools within such short distances as would leave the children easily visitable by their parents or friends, and with such regulations as sh- uld allow the access of the ministers of all religious denominations. Local committees would be appointed in large unions, for those phrts of them which should be inconveniently remofe from the place of the guardians' meeting. Poor persons, having been long resident in ativ pmr;sh frtr distant from their places of &cttlement, would in cases of sickness be relieved without incurring the liability to be removed as persons chargeable. With respect to bastardy, a remedy against the putative father not maintaining his child would be given in the shape of imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months. These were the main outlines of the bill and he assured the House be ovould not have undertaken the responsibility of it, had he not been persuaded that it would conduce, not only to the comfort of the sick, aged, and infirm, but to the advancement of honest iudus. try and the increase of its just remuneration. Mr. T. Duncombe, Mr. Wakley, Captain Pechell, Mr. S. Wortley, Mr. Ferrand, Mr. Borthwick. Mr. S. Crawford, Mr. Hardy, Mr. Grimsditch, Mr. Muntz, and Viscount Sandon, made objections against the proposed measure. Mr. F. Maute supported Sir James Graham, saying that he thought it time to approach a subject so vast and im- port*. t. without reference to hustings' proceedings. (Cheers.) The bill was then read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Monday se'nnight. THURSDAY, MAY 12. There being only thirty-four members present, the House was adjourned. FRIDAY, MAY 13. u I After the presentatioa of some petitions, Mr. o. Holler presented a petition from Mr. Warburton. late M.P., praying for an inquiry into the Bridport election. On the motion for going ioto committee on the tariff. Lord Howick moven-" That in making a new arrange" ent of the cus. toms' dtities, it is not expedient to impose different rates of duty upon the same articles when imported from foreign countries or from Bri. jh posgessions, in atiy case where no such difference now exists aod that in those cases io which such a difference already exists, it is not expedient that it should be increased." The motion was seconded by Mr. C. Wood. Lord Stanley and Sir It. Peel replied, and the House divided when there itppettred-For going into committee, 281 for Lord Howick's motion, 108. The House rh.,o wrnt into committee, and immediately re- sumed; the Chatruiao reported progress, and the House adojuined.

LADY CARDROSS AND EARL OF BUCHAN, The London Solicitors of Lady Cardross, whose case we copied last week from the Times, have teemingly set the matter right. Tho-y say,- Ten years ago Lord Ca dross, the eldest son of the Earl of IJuchan, married a lady, by whom he had subse- quently three ch Ildren-a -so" and two daughters. He died in December, 1826, having made a testamentary disposition in the Scotch form, by which he constituted his wife. his father and other persons, tutors and curators of his children, of whom Lady Cardroas was to be sine qua nrm, making her consent, therefore, in anything that related to them, indispensable. The children rexiained under her Ladyship's control; but in April last, the Earl of Buchan petitioned the Court of Sessions in Scotland to have them removed into his care. The Court beii.g in vacation, he Lord Ordinary granted an interdict against the children being removed out of the jurisdiction of the Court, until the petition was disposed of; but Lady Cardross, apprehending it was intended to place the children uijper the care of their grandfather, to which she tract an insuperable repug- nance, carried them to London, after which the Lord Ordinary granted a *HrrAnt' to take them and deliver them into the custody of a gentlefhan mllm-a in his order. The messenger or officer intrusted with the execution of the warrant repaired to London, and prevailed upon a magistrate at Union-hall to endorse the warrant, autho- risirg the execution of it at Paradise-street, Lambeth, where it was supposed the children were. We appre- hend that tite magistrate has mistaken his duty. We uflered from the beginning that if the officer would issue an foiheos corpus, a return should be iiikde to it, and then the legality of the warrant would be decided by a judge of the superior courts, but this offer was decided. We wish we could add, that the statements regarding the property to which the children are supposed to be enti- tled rested upon better foundation than the reports al- luded to: but all who knew the late Lord Cardross are too well aware, that that ami&ble nobleillan bequeathed to his o:ispnng nothing but the mherÜance of his ancient name, and the rights to the family property to which he him self would have sm-ceeded if he had survived his father, and hitherto that father has contributed not one farthing towards the support of his orphan grandchildren."

I HECTOR O'HALLORAN. Part2. Thi" spirit stir'-ing narrative continues with a degree of vigour and energy which bids fair to place it at the very head of all similar periodicals. Mr. Maxwell, at the close of r.is first number, left his hero, as our readers may recollect, in what our Transatlantic friends would call "a handsome fix;" dismounted aftei a most dashing J'ap, and a captive in the hands of ruffian contrabandists, who, lying in wait for an obnoxiou-, "giuger," have, more HiUrnieo, caught the wrong man. His adventure* in the still hovel are iltpicted with a fearful verisimilitude which almost makes the blood curdle, ably contrasted with the "change tor the better," which forms the subject of the succeeding chapter. The open-hearted hospitality of an Irish gentleman of the old school with a pretty daughter, ■ and a shade of mystery in his composition, is here well depicted, and exhibit just enough of the" tender" to create a strong interest in the fortunes of the parties, without any tendency to ennui. To the aÜvenlHrnllR and the sentimental now succeeds the ludicrous, of which this gifted author has always shewn himself a most powerful master. Hector joins his regiment, and the description of a mess-room dinner, with its consequences, has all the liveliness and fun of a first-rafe "Tom and Jerry'' scene, without its slang and without its vutgarity. The fighting Quaker is a must amusingly drawn personacre; and the contretemps which at the conclusion of the row" instals Hector as the denizen of his comfortable bed, while Samuel sees "Life in a watch-house," is not better con- ceived than executed. Nestor" himself would swear the jest were laughable." "There's luck in odd numbers, eays Rory O'More." We look forward to the, third and continuing numbers of thi-t wcrrk with eager anticipation.—Giob*. j

DISCO VLRY OF A BAN I) OF MUIIDIIRERS AT NUREMBERG. In Decwuber last, the limbs of a body, supposed to be that of a rich wido.v Lamed Bayer, who had suddenly disappeared from her habitation, were found in the streets of Ntiremburg. The police made the greatest efforts to discover the circumstances which had brought ,lie unfortunate deceased to her frightful end. They could only succeed, however, in discovering the most vigue information; and the public had begun to think i that. the crime must remain unpunished, for two other persons had been assassinated in a mysterious man- ner without the criminals ever having been detected. The police still kept a close whtch upon a young wo- man who had been in the habit of working for one of the murdered persons, and at length they succeeded in procuring some very important testimony, and they proceeded to arrest a woman named Romstatt, who, however, denied all knowledge of the matter, and in- deed nothing was found at her residence of a suspicious nature. But a search at the house of her daughter, who lived not far from Pegnitz, iv, attended with different results, for in a drain they found the intestines of a human being, and shortly afterwards the confession of the n'other led to the discovery of the head of Madame Bayer in the drain of the Hntel de Ville. All the part that the woman Romstatt acknowledged to have in the transaction wa3 that of taking the portions of the body to different parts of the city: but she pointed out certain persons as the assassins, who were immediately appre- j liended and imprisoned and proofs were soon esta b- lished of the existence of a band of murderers, who had doubtless committed the murders we have alluded to, and probably many others which have never come to light. As soon as these circumstances became known the irrit ihle character of the citizens of Nuremburg became greatly incensed against the authors of these diabolical outrages; and it became necessary that the police should take extraordinary measures to prevent the populace from ii.dieting summary justice upon the criminals on their way to prison. It appears from the later details of this horrible affair, th.-it the woman Romstatt has stated that Madame Bayer was murdered on St. Thomas's-day, a winter fete which annually brings thousands of strangers to Nuremburg. She says that the assassins having contrived to entice her into a secluded house, seven of them immediately fell upon her with razors and poniards, and that having killed her they proceeded to cut up the body, Romstatt being employed to get rid of the remains by disposing of them in the drains or sewers in different and distant parts of the citv. With regard to the fate of one of the murdered persons, a book-keeper, for whom she had worked as a daily servant or laundress, she pretends utter ignorance. She was, however, heard to say, that a woman named Bezold, who was found in bed with her throat cut, had been murdered by a barber, who formed one of the gang, and who has been apprehended. Nuremburg being situated on the great European route, and being consequently the constant rendezvous of foreigners, it is supposed that the band of demons had imagined that their devilish practices would be less likely to be detected, from the fact that foreigners would not be readily missed.

ARREST OF ENGLISH DELINQUENTS IN AMERICA. (From the New York Herald of April 28.) The following named arrests, made by two of our most energetic officers of police, Gilbert F. Hays and Win. H. Stephens, will be read with interest by many of our English readers. These officers having recei ved previ- ous notice that a man named John Pepper, late clerk in the employ of D. T. Alston, tanner, ot Chalkwell, near Sittingbourne. England, had embezzled a large amount of money belonging to his employer, and sailed for this port in the new ship Holder Borden, obtained a boarding boat and proceeded down the bay, below the Narrows, to await the arrival of the vessel, in order to secuie the gen- tleman who had thus absquatulated. On Saturday even- ing, about dusk, the vessel hove in sight, and they imme- diately boarded her, and found Pepper quietly enjoying himself in the cabin, in company with three other passen- gers, who scarcely expectt d their companion would meet with such a reception on reaching the shores of the new world. Pepper had acted in the capacity of chief collect- ing clerk to Mr. Alston, and had thus become possessed of the funds that he had embezzled. As nearly the whole aiiioun- of money that he had taken was found upon him, he ws discharged by the agent selected to transact the business. The second arrest was made on Tuesday morning; the officers boarded the ship Eli Whitney, eome distance below -otne d i stance below the Narrows, and arrested John Taylor, cattle-dealer, of Leeds, who had overdrawn his account in the Bank of Leeds to a considerable amount, and also committed a forgery, and then took passage in the above-named Vessel to effect his escape to this country. He was found among the steerage passengers, and so completely metamorphosed as to have eluded detection, except by a New York police- officer. Nearly the whole amount of money that he had fraudulently obtained was found in his possession, and to use the police-office phrase, he was turned up and let go" by the agents. The rogues of Europe will learn from this not to shape their course to our shores when guilty of crime.

THE COAL DUTY. I (From the Gateshead Observer.) We are glad to find the ranks of opposition to the proposed coal-duty acquiring strength daily. Many of the once valiant defenders of the tax are now discreetly silent, and among our new allies we are glad to reckon the Morning Post, which has taken up the subject in a candid and straightforward manner that cannot but have its influence with the Ministerial party. The Post for<:ibly asks, \Y hy the export of British iron is permitted, it, as the advocates of the coal-duty contend, foreign manufac- turers ought not to be assisted to work in competition with the manufacturers of this country." There is no argument against the export of coal which does not apply to iron, as we have stated on several occasions when treating of this subject. But it is quite clear, as the Post remarks, that the Minister does not either wish or expect to stop the expert of coal, because he estimates the pro- duce of his 4s. duty at £200,000. His object, it is clear, is the obtainment of revenue, and not obstruction to the foreign manufacturer. It has been already so distinctly shown that the exports would fall off under a duty, that we need only remind the reader that the Return" lately published by the House of Commons, presents the in- structive fact, that in 1828 the quantity of coal exported to Holland (including Belgium) only amounted to 3,050 tons. whereas in 1S40 the exports to Holland alone were 205,757. Last year, in consequence of the equally-poised prices of English and Belgian coal, the 205,757 fell off to 173,378 tons, proving the trade to be exposed to danger enough, without the infliction of a duty here w hich1 would be certain ruin to it-and to many a small shipowner besides. The fact is, the French and Dutch coal-trade with England affords the very means of existence to a large number of British shipowners, whose vessels could not obtain employment elsewhere. It is full time, therefore, that the shipowners were bestirring themselves. Instead of corresponding with the Lord Lieutenant, a certain "South Shields gentleman" had better apprize the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the injury which a coal-duty would indict upon the borough—an injury, certainly, far beyond any to which it has been exposed from the" Whiggery" of the Justices acting within its limits. The following extract of a letter, lately received from Belgium, will show that the eftect of the proposed coal- duty would be to transfer to that country a large portion of our coal-trade with the Baltic and Mediterranean :— II UIlENT, may 4, JN42.—1 have this instant freighted a vessel t) take Belgian cocl from here to Stettin, at 5s. per ton and shoula Sir Robert Peel persist in his pro- ject of putting an export duty of t9. per ton on coals, I have no doubt that I shall be able to get as much as I require from here, and also to send a good portion to Marseilles and Bordeaux. The ship I have chartered is Prussian. There come a great many here every month with umber and other articles from the Baltic. Hitherto they have taken ballast from here to Newcastle, to load coal from tlience t-or the Baltic, therefore they will rather take it4 or £ 5 per keel (that is, 4s. or 5s. per ton) from here, than go to Newcastle to get ZS or je9. The reason is clear-tht-Y can -go from here to Stettin almost as quick as from here to Newcastle, and at the same time save the expense of loading and unloading the ballast and the ttme necessary for the passage from Newcastle to Stettin. I offered 6s. per ton as an inducement for the man to make the trial, but now I have no doubt that I shall henceforth get them from 4s. to 4s. 6d. In a few days I expect to get a vessel for Marseilles at about 7s. or 83. per ton. There will thus be a dilfaence of from 2s. to3s. per ten in favour of shipments of ctial from hence, both to the north and south, should 'the export duty of 4s. per ton b2 imposed on English coal. Twent-y-slx hips came here from the Baltic last month with corn and timber."

NEW REFORM ASSOCIATION. • I We are much pleased to find, by a circular which has been transmitted to us, that measures have been taken j for the formation of a society in the metropolis, to be called "The Metropolitan Parliamentary Reform Asso- ciation," and whose objects and principles can be best explained by the following extract trom the prospectus they have issued, namely:— "To obtain for each man of 21 years of age the right of voting for a representative (o serve in the Commons' House of Parliament. "That the country b^ divided into as many polling districts as there may be representatives in the House of Commous. "That the duration of Parliaments may be shorter, but shall not be longer. Th:tt every elector shall be eligible to be elected. "That the right of voting for 4 representative shall be exercised secretly bv baJioL Such are the objects which it is the design of "The MetropoMt-m Reform Association" to accomplish, add, ?ithugli ()?iniotin may vary as to the extent to which certain reforms should be c?rrie t, there can be no one who sincerely and honestly wishes to see the people of Great Britain and Ireland fully and fairly represented, who can hesitate for a moment in giving his best exer- tions to put an end to the atrociously corrupt svstem by which members are at present returned to the House of Commons. We have been informed that several well- tried Reformers have joined the Association we have above alluded to, and so far as its proceedings sbaJl war- rant, it sball have our assistance and support. i See Prospectus in our first page.

THE IRrsn Nl Al LS.- I n reference to the removarl from Milford of the mails, the Briitol Gazette with more of flip- pancy and cc:oJ impudence than of either truth owmmon jus' ice !Oays We think the gentlemen of South Wales arc hardly justified in pressing into their service the advan- tages and facilities afforded by the Great Western Railway. That railway owes its existence mainly to the energy and enterprise of Bristolians, and if through its means our port has increased in eligibility of communication between the metropolis and the south of Ireland, Bristol ought to reap the advantage. We should like to know what proportion of shares in the railway are (or rather were when the undertaking was struggling with difficulty) held bv our friends in South Wales. Those who bore an insig- nificant burthen in the toil and expense of constructing this magnificent line, are little entitled to us: it, when in perfect operation, for the purpose of depriving its original promoters of any real or supposed benefit." i Si.SGFLAH Oce i FCRE.NFC. Oil Friday foiein'oti con I iJt;Tab¡e excitement was occa9io''ed throughout the m'i?hbourhuod of Hammersmith )'yt!)f.circu):)tionof a report that a female child, about five years-of-age, while' passing along the high road near to the Broadway, at Hammersmith, had been attacked by a numhei of Her Majesty's huckhounds, and nearly torn-to pieces before she could be rescued from them. From inquiries made on the spot, it appears that the report was considerably exaggerated, although it is true that such an occurrence took place. The particulars are as foUow: A bout 10 o'clock, as one of the assistants to Mr. Davis, the Queen's huntsman, was proceeding to town for the purpose of conveying a pack of buckhounds (fifteen couples) from the royal kennel at Windsor to the premises of Mr. Tattersall, in Grosvenor-place, preparatory to their being sent off to America, while passing along the road near Hammersmith Broadway, a child, named Ann Stamson, about five years of age, the daughter of a labouring man residing at No. 3, Union-court, Broadway, was run against by one of the couples and thrown down, when the fero- cious animals in tantly attacked the poor child, one fastening on the upper lip and the other on the back of her thigh.. The persons who witnessed the occurrence were fearful of rendering any assistance, lest they should be attacked by the whole of the dogs but the huntsman, on hearing their cries, instantly went to her rescue, and iu driving off the dogs was severely bitt-n by one of them in the hand. The poor chi!d was then immediately carried, covered with blood, to the surgery of Messrs. Bowling and Pickering, in King-street, and after it-i wounds had been dressed, it was conveyed to the residence of its parents. The huntsman, however, regardless of the accident, proceeded on his course with the hounds towards town, without waiting to ascertain how far the child had be' n injurtd; but the police having received information of the occurrence, policeman Webb, i. 99. foHowed him to Kensington, where he overtook him and took him in custody to the station-house, adjoining 'he Kensington Police-court, where he gave his name as George Norris, and having pledged himself to attend at the court at 4 o'clock that afternoon, to answer any charge that might be brought against bim, lie was allowed to proceed with the hounds to their destination. WONDERFUL, IF TRUE.—On Monday last, a boy in the service of Mr. Robert Grange, of Willg-rove, in Kent, who was employed in tending sheep on the waste lands bordering on a rather extensive tract of woodlands known as the Fells," came running in a state of breathless haste and alarm to the residence of his master, and gave the following extraordinary account:—He was lying on the ground, he said, watching the sheep, near to the hedge which separates the wood from the waste, when his at- tention was attracted by hearing a c-rackling noise in the hedge, and immediately afterwards a large snake darted out, and made a spring at of the lambs. The lamb, however, according to the boy's statement, gave a jump and ran away, and the snake then coiled itself up and lay at the foot of the hedge. The lad described the reptile as being as long as a hop-pole, usually from 10 to 15 feet, and he further stated, that he threw a stick at the snake, upon which it retreated to the wood and twined itself round the stem of a sapling on the borders of the copse. On hearing the boy's account, Mr. Robert Grange, jun., although somewhat sceptical of the accuracy of the state- ment, accompanie d him to the spot, and to his great sur- prise he beheld twined round the tree at the plaae pointed out by the lad, a large brown-looking snake. Mr. Grange threw a hedge-stake at the reptile, and which evidently struck the snake, for it instantly uncoiled Itself and made struck the snake. for. it insta,l K I ur. 6ringe then sent the for the recesses of the wood. Mr. Grange then sent the boy to the house for agun, and on the lad's return, ac- companied by two of the workmen, the party entered the wood, when the snake was again discovered endeavour- ing to make its way through the underwood, upon which Mr. Grange fired, when the reptile twined itself round the trunk of a tree, writhing as though in agony. A dis charge from the second barrel of the gun, directed at the creature's head, brought it down to the ground, where it commenced a series of violent struggles, writhing and twisting itself into a variety of positions, and crushing the decayed underwood, and even green branches of a considerable thickness, with tearful violence. At length the struggles of the reptile being somewhat abated, the party ventured to approich, the spot, when they disco- vered the snake lying with its jaws distended and quite dead. It was immediately drawn from the close cover to an open place, and on being exposed tully to view, its size excited the astonishment of the captors, the creature measuring 6 feet 4 inches in length, and bLinEr nearly a foot in circumferance at the thickest part. The snake has since been pronounced by a gentleman who has had frequent opportunities of examining the species, to be a young boa-constrictor, but by what chance the reptile became a denizen of the" Falls" remains a mystery. The most probable conjecture is that the creature made its escape from some travelling exhibition. No visible re- mains of food were found in the snake's viscera, on beir.g examined after the skin had been stripped off, prepara- tory to the process of stufli iig, it beii il the intention of Mr. Grange to preserve a resemblance of the snake for the inspection of the curious. ANNIVERSARY THANKSGIVING ON THE 29TH OF MAY.—The 29th day of May this year falls on a Sunday. This is an unusual occurrence, which cannot again take place for several years. When this is the case, the clprgy are required to use the whole of the proper office for that day. Moreover, by the Rubric prefixed to the form of prayer with thanksgiving to Almighty God for having put an end to the great rebellion," as well as by the act of parliament 12 Car. I I., chap: xiv., confirmed in the 13th year of King Charles II., the clergy are required to read that act "publicly in all churches itt morning prayer, immediately after the Nicene Creed, on the Lord's Day next before every such 29th day of May," and to t-ive notice for the due observation of that (lay." Next Sunday, the 22d inst., is the day on ir.'r'ch the clerjy are required to read the act in question "publicly and distinctly." THREE LIVES L^ST.—Ort Monday afternoon, five youths engaged a brut jut ..which they rowed to, I;reen. wich after visiting the fair and the park they left to re- turn home shortly before eight o'clock, the whole being perfectly sober, with the exception of one named Allen. On arriving'we^rly o:r ttk; enti-atice to the London Dockr,, Allen wis about to step to the head ot the boat, when he gave a lurch and instantly fell overboard, and in the anxiety of his friends to save him from a watery grave, the whole were precipitated into the river, and, melancholy to say, two fine youths, named George Smart (aged 15) and Thomas Rogers (aged 17), in addition to Allen, lost their lives. The other two were picked up by two gentlemen who were most providentially rowing past at the time. It is proposed to regulate all the Post Office clocks in the kingdom by the time brought from London daily by the mail-coach chronometers, so as to render time pre- cisely uniform throughout Fnglz nd. The-great banking houfze of Leyland, Liverpool, has given notice that it will allow no interest on deposits and all the discount houses in Lombard-street have reduced their rates on lodgments to 2 per cent., and, as might be expected, with all thfi hlt of money, this evidence of plethoric wealth, e lid trade at its lowest ehb, and starvation widely diffbsed amongst the people. This fact justly observes the Carnarvon Mi-raid, is demonstrative that the commercial dstern of the country is unsound, that it is fettered an cramped, and has nut adequate room to expand so as to meet the exigencies of the pop u lation. THE NAVY. —From the official returns of the ships of war and steamers now buijj?g and fit for service, it ap- pears that the latter, ??-steamers for service, number 84; steamers buiP?"?' 20; ships of war building, 5() total ships of war, inoramary and commission, including ips of warn, g fro'" ? to 120 gj?s each, 605. The British neet, the Jar?est ? the world, employs in time of peace 33,000 abJe-bod'ed seamen, 2,000 lads, and 13,000 Royal Mannes-forming in all an effective naval force of 46,000 men, and 2,000 lads. THE LATE DlsTIJR13ANCES AT DUDLEY. The town and the adjoining districts are now restored to a state of partial tranquillity' Several men have been committed for being concerned Iti the disturbances. Some troops of the Queen's Own "orcestershire Yeomanty are still out on duty, and wi.I remain until Saturday. The Worcester, Evesha" Upton, and W.t'ey troops have returned home; an" ? during the week the regiment h*s beemtdtioned at Du"'ey.Oldbury, Ha!es Owen, Cradl ey, Stourbridge, and Bfom?rove. Stourbridge, Kidd«rtfunster, and. Broms j jrove. THE RAILWAY AcCtD?T XE?ftTAhn.—The .Va<Ma/ publishes several additional details relattvp to the suffer- ers by the late catastrophe on the Versailles railroad. Five more of the mutilatecj corpse's, rcmaming uninter- red in the churchyard of Moiint f&rnasse, had been re- cognised, amongst whom was a barrister, named Lepon- tois, his brother, and his niece. Two deaths had occurred —one at the ospitalechr, and another at the Hotel Dieu. Of nine persons who left the Hotel du Cheval Blanc, rue de Beaubotirg, ofr Versailles, not one has since been heard of No trace can be found of a family of five persons residing in the Chaussee d'Antin. La Presse states that k yiting female, whose name has not been ascertained,, caijed on the second engineer, who, although severely wounded by the accident on the VeT- sailles Railroad, escaped with his life, and handed him 500f.. saying at the same time, You saved him whom I love--he is horribly disfigured, but you have restored bim to me. You are the father of a family; you have suffered severely by this dreadful calamity. Receive, I pray you, the widow's mhe." The engineer refused, and the widow having placed 500f. in gold on his bed, withdrew. A serious defalcation in the Post-office revenue has been the result of negligence on the part of post-office keepers, in not examining the amount of postage taken by postmasters from whom they receive letter bags, by which m-ans errors and frauds have not been detected. It ap- pears that the Postmaf;tcr..Gener"l' suspicions were ex- cited by receiving no reports of mistakes committed in the daily summing up of postage for some considerable time—and a large number of officers were discovered neg- lecting this material portion of their duties. They would have been dismissed the service if they had not proved that the time allowed them for performing their duties was not sufficient. The amount which the PostroiIice reventie has lost must have been very considerable. All sums for postage which a deputy postmaster takes from the public, and whirh he does not account for in his daily communications with other postmasters, unless checked by the latter, are perquisites .If the former, and are eu- tirely lost to the public revenue. STEALING NEWSPAPERS IN THE POST- orricig. -At the late sitting of the Glasgow Circuit Court of Justiciary, Daniel Peddle, sorter ot newspapers in the Post-office, Glasgow, was accused, on six charges, of stealing, embez- zling, or secreting, or of wilfully detaining or delaying, in course of conveyance or delivery thereof by post, printed newspapers" ithout covers, or in covers open at the sides. The prisoner pleaded lIiJty to two of the charges, and was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. It appeared that the papers so abstracted were principally those directed to foreign parts, upon which the postage had not be-en paid, and which the prisoner ought to have transmitted to the Dead Letter-office." EXTRAORDINARY WEATHER IN SOUTH WALES.— We have scarcely had a single drop of rain for upwards of two entire months; and until the last week the weather here has been unprecedentedly cold. Last Monday, how- ever, the mercury in the glass got up nearly to summer heat, and it has never been lower during the week than 58. genera!)y standing in the shade at day time between 60 an d 70. 58. and 70. Yesterday and to day also we have had some showers, but unless we have more riiii, the prospects of the fanners already bad will be still worse. Another bad season is generally apprehended.. The state of the ground has hitherto prevented several farmers, from sowing, although the usual, seed.-sowing period has long paMed.

I TO README AND CORRESPONDENTS. I The Coroner for tlte County" will. We hope, pardon our omission of his favour fas w.. did not call in question his opinions, his I..tt..r Is unnecessary. I JfsAtH,—The conui.u.ifcatfons of ivir. 11-9 are not rcceivable- the-, are declined attoxfthyt. J. rtern days must elnps# from the death of the Intestate. before the issuing of letters of administration, unless there 1 should flopear any special cause, ast, for Instance, the surety that the goois would perish unless decreed sooner. J C. The naval ;'alute to the English flag began in Alfred's reign, and has con'wiued ever since A. Z.—Cannot an executor recovet zel4 that is (iiving by a naval officer, and which ha. been standing since I82t»?—It depends upon whether the 6Utute of limitations operates hi the cas, that III. whether payment has been demanded or promised within the last six years. We bes to acknow ledge the letter of our correspondent at Swan- sea, ind to assure him that we shall endeacour to comply with his request as far as we can consistently Idtb the cha- racter and arrangements of this journal. Tbe Rev. Mr E. J.L. has very liberally given us tvhat was cot fb to give, like Swift's nmniticent lord- Who, out of his great bounty. Built a h ifige-ut the expense of the county. ALPHA.No. We tio not nant brilliant coruscations, fervid eloquence," an(i so foith j but good sense :-if "AlphA" have any, it will be welcomed. IMPORTANT TO ELECTORS -To avoid the disfran- chisements of electors in cities and b iroujhs, al! the poor- rates and window-tax (it any) payable from them in res- pect of their premises, previously to the 6th of April,, must be paid on or before the 20th of July. The win. dow-tax is payable by Act of Parliament, whether de manded or not.

I PRANKS OF PRINTERS-DEVILS, Amongst the I I jrond works made manifest by the imps of mis- I chiel in our columns last week, was the substitu- tion of "proper," for "people," and "friends," for "fiends." The member for all Ireland," is made also Lord Mayor of Ireland," "manufac- tures," are made into "manufacturers," "pieces," are turned into "peas." Breaking Priscian's head is nothing to the pranks played by printers- devils, generally throughout the principality.

THE TARIFF AND THE TRICKERY. I We have elsewhere submitted some remarks on the plausible pretext, often put forward by people who are constantly crying out, I belong to no party;" and it may perhaps here be as well to suggest, that in our opinion, the only true freedom from party, of which a man can rationally boast, consists in never sacrificing to its ties, either impar- tial truth, or the general interest. If, for example, the Welshmall,thought that the Tariff and the Corn Importation Bill were calculated to do good, we should deem it our duty to say so at once, irres- pectively of party considerations, and without reference to the particular side of the house from which the measures came; for the obligations to truth, and our own convictions, of course, must rise superior to those of mere party. But we say then that the Tariff is little better than a piece of I political trickery, played off by apolitical impostor, tor, prima facie, the meanest of all possible political purposes—as nothing can be plainer than that Sir Robert Peel's principal object was a lust of power and place. That the right hon. bart.'s fiscal leger- 'demain is clever enough we do not deny—but that recourse to such arts consists with the cha- racter of a British statesman, his blindest admirers themselves are not bold enough to affirm. In the analysis of the Tariff, for instance, which we gave last week, it was seen, that even the government's ablest and staunchest supporter was compelled to admit amid his praise of the Premier, that "the Tariff is a COMPROMISE—and a compromise of that kind which extends beyond the PRESENT." It is a compromise with consequences. And what are those consequences ?-that question, we appre- hend, does not admit of an off-hand solution for God only knows what will be the end of such dishonest shifts and weak compliances. The government papers admit this much and the Standard, in its attempt to reconcile the country to the compromises into which the Premier has entered, says, that "it must necessarily w-igh with severity in some particular quarters"—but that, as it is a compromise, contemplating the future, all must make some present sacrifices, be they greater or less," We have it here told us, on as good as government authority, that the Tariff will press upon us with some SEVERITY, and that we must make SACRIFICES. If these are the fruits of the Tariff tree, what may we not apprehend from the government gardening operations generally ? -xvtiat xi-illcome from the Corn Importation B¡ll? -what will he the three years' growth of the In- I come Tax Bill ? Truly the conservatives.' crops are peculiarly promising, and the country may calculate on something more than an average of dissatisfaction, distress and pauperism. Let us, however, look at the matter seriously and impar- tially. We neither affirm nor deny that the Tarings immediate and direct operation on the agricultural interest will be very injurious—it trill probably do them neither harm nor good to any very great extent. Many representatives of agricultural con- stituencies, however, are not free from serious apprehension of injury; and, as our readers are aware, almost every one of the great agricultural counties of England has protested against it, as well as the alteration in the sliding-scale. Mr. Miles has pledged himself to take the sense of the house on Sir Robert's Cattle and meat clauses; and Mr. Palmer, one of the members for Essex, with several other country gentlemen have strongly expressed their dissatisfaction with the Tariff and its Trickery. Mr. Palmer pronounced it a series of contradictions," and told the "Premier that if the Tories had known what his plans were, they would never have placed him in the position he then enjoyed. If," said the hon. member for j South Essex, Sir Roberthad declared his intention a year ago, the result of the elections would have been very different." Of course they would- every body, now, sees the hollowness of Sir Robert's previous professions--the trickery now 'tis too late, is manifest—the cheat is plain; Peel-ism is palpable enough, now-but now Peel himself is in power, and no doubt laughs in his sleeve at the credulity of the country gentlemen whom he has deceived. Their notions of free-trade may be very foolish, but they have a right to entertain them and entertaining them, not to be treated like big- babies, much less to be made the victims of a minister's false pretences. They have, in short, the strongest possible case against Sir Robert Peel. We say this quite dispassionately, for our political principles and theirs do not harmonize. The corn bill cannot but he a sore place with the class we arc speaking of-for although that mea- sure is now wholly inoperative in spite of the reduction of duty, its principle has been invaded, and it is quite impossible to tell where or when such innovation may end. Then the importation of live Cattle anli salted meat must be a most un- i on to the Conservative palatable piece of legation to the Conservative country gentlemen. They have a perfect right to say to Sir Robert Peel these changes are O'JIIO^ ious to us; we look upon them as a heavy blow to our interests, and your's is not the hand by which it ought to have been dealt." Our objec- tion to the Tariff is, that it owes its birth to a kind of political swindle, that promised one thins and performed atiother:-tbat "it was got by Fraud out of False Pretences" (as a Whig nobleman re- cently said), is one ground of objection. But our objection is not altogether grounded on the treachery and trickery that attaches to the Tariff- neither is ourprincipal objection that that measure is of itself bad for we said months since, indeed, as soon as Sir Robert Peel made his financial state- ment, that it was I; a step in the right direction- but we protest against it, because it is a piece of patchwork legislation—if not a little measure, it is decidedly neither a large nor a comprehensive one -we, in short, disapprove it principally because the Corn-law question instead of being shuttled, sneaked out of; and unsettled, ought to have had applied to it the same principle as that which pro- fessedly pervades the Tariff. As Mr. Laboucliere has justly remarked, H Sir Robert Peel has dealt with the great subject of the Corn-laws in a differ- t'nt manner from that in which he has dealt with the comparatively minor subject of the Tariff." If our whole system of taxation and of commercial inter- course were put upon a sound and wholesome foot- ing, no class would have any right to complain of the consequences of a change which would increase the general prosperity but if this is not done or attempted—if the cost of living is kept up, and the cost of producing manufactured arcicles, we do think that our agriculturists and manufactur- ers have a right to complain that they are to be exposed to foreign competition without any com- pensation to themselves, or any considerable ad- vantage to their customers. As we shall have frequent opportunities of re- turning to this subject, we may, for the present, conclude with an extract from the columns of two of our London contemporaries. Of 20 articles in one department of Sir R. Peel's Tariff, the great majority of them are wholly unimportant, in so far as concerns the comforts and consumption of the people, such as" Dry Comfits," "Preserved Cucumbers," "Citron preserved with Salt," "Tur- tle," "Sturgeon," "Caviar" (not for "the multi- tude"), "Botargo," "Truffles," "Almond Paste," "Tapioca," "Vanelloes," "Mead," 11 Nlum," and) the like. On all of these, which no one need care much about, there is ft very handsome reduction of duty. But our great reformer in Truffles and Botargo" ceases to be a reformer altogether when he comes to deal with articles productive to the Treasury, or, which is the same thing, with com- I' modities extensively consumed by the masses. His 120 articles yield an annual revenue of £963,227; and out of this large sum the reformer I of truffles and trifles operates on the amount of 979,630. It is remarkable, indeed, that without an exception, he leaves every considerable article unreformed—untouched, or, what is worse, makes it the subject, by a differential duty, of a new monopoly." The a;obl', speaking of Sir Robert Peel's sleight- of-hand trickery, justly enough observes, that the country merits the deception which has been oractised on its credulity. To trust Sir Robert Pe.alw:\ys most to be suspected when most pItinsiMe—'is so monstrous a stretch of besotted credunfv, that the sufferers from their own mis- placed coafidt'ice can scarcely expect sympathy. Thev have gut Robert Peel-and with him they have got not 1.crely, an Income Tax, but thev have, associated Wh it, the hollow promises they liave, RSSOC i ale d ?vl,- of reliel from ameliorated IIL duties, which we:e made as experiments upon glill,bilitn, but 1 t h ,-tti t?c 9,:I)e which were no sooner swalloweu, fhati the q< be mouches were absolutely laughed at bj i' deceiver for allowing themselves to be duped by b,7 flitnsy a pretence from such a source. The pro,d:,d reduction in the prices ot tuod was merely t;e I honey in which the Income Tax, the Prater's bitter pill for the restoration of the country's ex- hausted energies, was, concealed— he revolting properties of which required something sweet to induce the patient to swallow it; but which, hav- ing taken, the administrator chuckles in thecheated patient's face at the success of the deception he had so adroitly practised."

POLITICAL LATITUDINARISM. It may probably be in the recollection of some of our readers that, on a recent occasion, we con- cluded a few cursory remarks which we had thrown together under this head by intimating that, in our next number, we should say a word or two more on the same subject, with a view of proving that individual political effort, as contra-distin- guished from the combined exertions of a numer- ous and co-operative body, is unavailing; and that the cuckoo cry of "measures not men" is a good axiom, commonly perverted and rendered subservient to very bad purposes. Our self-imposed task is evidently by no means a difficult one on the contrary, it is so easy, that even the familiar inference deducible from the division of the bonded-sticks, which respectively standing alone, it will be recollected, were little stronger than a straw, although, when united, they formed a compact body efficient equally fur defence and aggression, supplies tolerably conclusive proof of the proposition contained in the first clause of our sentence: if Union is Strength, there can be no great differeace or distance between weakness and disunion. But we have other ground to walk over. And in doing so, we have only to put it to the experience of any man, whether the cuckoo-cry deprecated by us be not often delusive and dishonest or still oftener senseless. We do not desire to dogmatise or set up our own hum- ble opinion for more then it is worth but we contend that, in every case, where the phrase, measures not men," is mouthed, tIe shibboleth is either a sort of second-hand substitute, that has been picked up and adopted without giving the subject a thought —or that it is made to serve as a stalking-horse for very questionable political proceed- ings or for hardly less questionable Political Indifference. Our readers will be good enough to bear in mind that when we spoke of the feeoleness of individual effort, we did so comparatively only, and as contra-distinguished from the co-operative combination of numbers—the fact being well enough known that the exertions of individuals have been often successful in rescuing a question from oblivion, and moulding it into such a practical and tangi- ble form, that it could be taken up and grappled with by a section of the public men of the day." This admission, however, evidently presupposes the existence of a flection or party as indispensibie, and without such section or party to cherish it, the question would die in the arms of the individual who brought it forth—if all good measures in England do not owe their origin to Party (meaning, of course, by this term, the agreement of a body of men in certain principles) it is incontrovertible that all im- portant political results have been obtained through the medium ot party. The same liberal London contempo- rary whose opinion and words we have just adopted, observes— The abuses of party spirit have always been a fertile topic for declamation, We do not deny their existence. There is, we admit, a narrowness of view consequent on regarding a public question only so far as it may be made subservient to the interests of the party to whose advocacy and support it is committed for suc- cess. There is, too, the sacrifice of conscientious opinion to expediency, by which principle is conceded and to a certain extent abandoned. But the contrary extreme is more dangerous, because more plausible. To be su- perior to party spirit" sounds so well, that it is at once a self-conferred patient of honesty and philosophy. The integrity which can toar above the inter,sts-the libera- lity that can rise superior to the prejudices of society, and enable their possessor to act independently of the motives and objects which actuate the great bulk of man. kind—must belong to a being of superior order; who may, at least in his own opinion, claim the homage of the age! Yet, notwithstanding the example and efforts of these paragons of honesty and philosophy, so ety will generally be found right." Although the Globe's argu- ments apply only tothe several members that compose the House of Commons, and our.; go to the entire community, there is a sufficient connexion between us both, to war- rant us in detaching from ourcontemporaneous article the following passages for we are both alike opposed to dis- union, and both alike think, that there is more of dishonesty and indifference, than of either sense or sound integrity in the too prevalent and plausible plea ot being "superior to party:" —"If a man leave one of the great political parties Into which Parliament and the country iredivided, public opinion sets him down as at least making over- tures to go over to the other and though sometimes, perhaps, wrong, there is something in the practical con- clusion that shews the general opinion of those conversant with public men. It will require much pains to persuade the world that a man who has by choice entered upon the career of practical politics, but so far abandons the practi- cal as to refuse to be governed by the customary rules of party cohesion, is without a secret motive for his refusal. And, we assent that this rule is self-defensive; for, if a party splits into divisions, and sends out indivi- duals to describe their own eccentric orbits, in such a case—which recent instances suggest — there would, as- suredly, be this practical result, brought about by the operation of a spurious idea of independence—an Oppo sition with each of its members pulling different ways, or divided into small sections of 10 or 12, whose opinions cross each other in the most complete variety. In such a state of things there could be no public business, and no government. The Opposition would be decomposed, and the Government all powerful. The absurd doctrine of independence of party; if largely acted upon, would, prove fatal to the existence of an Opposition, and throw power, entirely without a check, into the hands of the Ministry. For these reasons we decidedly protest againt the claims set up to this sort of independence, because of the practical absurdities and positive mischiefs to which it leads." This is the effect which the prevalence of independ- ence" as it is called, and the being "superioi to party" would infallibly produce. There could be no public business and no government. The Opposition would be decomposed and the Government all powerful." Let us then no longer allow the claims set up, sometimes by knaves, and still oftener by fools. These fellows forsooth, "belonz to no party"—are neither Whig, Tory, or Radi- cal—they are too liberal-minded, too enlightened, too ho- nest to belong to any party Disallow their claims say we they are founded either in fraud or in tojly -and in tlther case ought to be put down, \Ye.ahull at present trespass upon our readers no fur. titer than a WDrci or two, having more immediate refer- ence to thfe Political iiidincrcnce which we recently animadverted on, may carry us. We should have no quarrgl with the men-not-measures"-people if they were uj .earnest for out of earnestness of all sorts, some good must come; and ore of the signs of such earnestness would of course bf seen in the war they would carry on for principles. But, in ninety-nine cases out of a hun- dred, they have no earnestness -there is no health in them, they are spiritless atid unsound, with tongues little better than tinkling brass-whited sepulchres whose mouths are full of folly and fouled by false pretences. Why are these persons of no party ? "—why have they "no politics?" Do they think thaf by taking care ot themselves and their own private interests they discharge their duty as men and as citizens? Are the rights and libert -es of mankind of so little value, that a good man I may see them trampled on before his face, and yet with- out reproach lift not up his voice against the tyrannical infraction—or stay the ruthless hand of the oppressor w hose whole force is directed against the common-weal. No. Well, my fr ends," (a party-man may say,) "you may deny, and no douut do conscientiously enough deny, that you are so base and utterly lost to every generous and (patriotic feeling as the terms of the question imply; but you are nevertheless guilty. Your want of principle is the same, whatever difference of opinion the mere word- ing of the matter may seem to make. As subjects of a Free State, intrusted with political duties, you ought to possess political opinions and possessing them you are bound by your solemn oblig ition as citiz-ns not only to declare them, but to boldly avow them, to fearlessly and with i nwearied perseverance assert them in season and out of season. If my friends you do less than this, you do not discharge the full amount of duty devolving on you. Don't deceive yourselves; you have not done all that political truth requires of you, when you have taken care of yourselves. You are entrusted with sacred principles, whose supremacy you are bound to contend for through good report and through 1 vil report. It is absurd to sup- pose that any man in this country, especially any man who is electorally within the pale of the constitution, has not political duties to perform- every man, we j repeat, has political. as well as domestic duties—neg- lect and indifference in one case may be, and no doubt is, worse than in another, but, because there are degrees in criminality, shall we assert that the lower degree is venial." A contemporary, having in view tli correction of error analogous to that of which we ourselves have spoken some days since said, if we remember rightly, The principles people hold, they are not at liberty to do with as they will —exhibit or conceal them, vaunt their excellency or de. preciate their worth, study them or let them a lone. They are not at liberty to walk up and down their little paths of influence, blessing themselves at every turn that they take no interest in politics, and flattering their consciences .t.hat they live in peace with all men. It may be very convenient, very easy, very amiable, withal (at least in outward appearance,) to leave agression upon titled, flrell- paid, and highly reputed error, to thoal- whose vocati^u it is thought to be to brawl and seek distinction. But we make bold to tell those whom it concerns, that it is an as- sumption of a freedom which is not theirs. These prin- ciples belong not to them-wcre not originated by them —were not specially designed for their advantage. They belong to the world, to posterity, to truth-and those who hold them are bound to turn them to general account. If it is to be viewed as a mere matter ot temporary and local expediency, whether bad government is to be ex- posed, or whether it is to be let alone, then is there no error so monstrous, no hypocrisy so pernicious, no dogma so delusive and ensnaring, as to impose upon men a sa- cred obligation of rooting it out of society. We may all do as we like-profess when it serves us, deny when it is more in unison with our inclinations—attack, when we may do so with safety, and bow in homage when we can get aught by it."

THE CARDIGANSHIRE ROBBERY! This may be considered a coarse term-we care not, it is a true one. Were not the poll-books stolen ? Was not that a robbery? Were not also the constituency of the Cardiganshire boroughs robbed of the parliamentary ser- vices of their representative? Did not the Harfordites dishonestly deprive the electors of the undoubted rights they, the electors enjoyed, through Mr.Pryse, to take part in the legislation of the country ? Did not they do this for weeks together, nay, for months and is not this robbery ? It is true, the dastards, at last, made a confession of their criminality and suffered judgment to pass by default. But was their motive a good one ? Did it even possess the manliness of remorse? No, it was wrung from them by the rigour of the law. Byron was quite right in assign- ing to "noble minds" only, remorse; mean villains" are i-trangers to any but the coward or felon-feeling. We are of course speaking politically not personally. ? c innot, however, be detied, that a private mjuryandauM? ? ?u?iic wrong were consequent on the dbstracuon or" m. teriou- disappearance" of the poll-books. The pubbc wron? co.'?'?'"? against the constituency of the Card- ganshire Bo "ougH we have already glanced at the pri* gansliire B(,. ??"?"'7. ?"d we must say, so wIckedly, vatei.nj. ur Zso Pryse is apparent ThatgendenM? do lie to  ir. Prys, documents establitshiiig hisrigltt Hrst has stolen from hn? do?menta estabh?ng h?nght to take that seat in the'h?'?L.e. which hehas -if .i advantge  hi.,& occupied ?h honour to him. constituents —the hon. gentleman !? fll robbed ot his title, an d then is plundered by the same ?" ? .h extent of severa l hun d re d poun d s. The investigate. extent of several hundred pounds. Theinvest!?? the double return, (although it did not last half an h00t,/ consequent on the politica knavery proceeding from &MM of the Harford party has cost Mr. Pryse, we believe. be- tween One and Two Thousand Pounds. We have spoken somewhat strongly on this subj ect* because we feel strongly but we are tar from including in our condemnation, the conduct of such honourable and right-minded men, as were so unfortunate as to have been pplitically associated with a party that has resorted to the bdse, mean, and unworthy practices, which the Welshman, as well as every honest man, must of course deprecate.

WEEKLY RETROSPECT, OR SUMMARY I OF DOMESTIC & FOREIGN NEWS. 1 i LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENINO, 7 O'CLOCI. 1 In presenting my usual hebdomadal bird's eye view of political news, I am relieved from reviewing much par- liamentary speech-making; for both Houses are up-and ■ your Special London Correspondent M. P. might add (if he were addicted to punning) that many of the noble and hon. members also, are either up-in-arms; or that they affect to he so, and pretend to be in a towering passion, all the while laughing in their sleeves at the humbug in which they and their prime actor Peel are playing their assigned parts in the farce. A well-informed friend writes:- lie alterations in the Corn-law monopoly are mere s'eight-of-hand -tricks, played off to delude the vulgar; but are perfectly seen through by the initiated. The dissatisfaction expressed by a portion of the Tory puty at Sir Robert's Corn-law and Tariff, is employed to glill the people into a belief that some substantial good will certainly be achieved by their operation; seeing the monopolists themselves appear alarmed at the changes to be affected by it Lest the apprehensions of the farmers that any substantial and abiding injury should result to their exclusive interests, by the reductions ef duty on the importation of Live cattle and Meat proposed by the new Tariff, Sir Robert Peel employed himself on fues* day the 10th, in demonstrating the impossibility of their interests being atfec;ed by the new scale of duties, and has thus dispelled the delusion. On Wednesday night Sir James Graham introduced a Bill "to Perpetuate the Poor-law! Truly these Tories are the veriest cheats and tluinble-riggers that ever played fast and loose—they got into otttce on the understanding that the Corn-laws were not to be meddled with, and that the Bastile Bill as they then called it, should never again disgrace the sta- tute and torture the poor. The position of a Cabinet it must be confessed is rather awkward when they must choose one of two courses—either to abandon a wise measure, or ask a body of their supporters to vote with them in violation of pledges and hustings' declarations. Well, after the turns and shifts, the trickeries and dirty delusions put in practice by the Peelites, where t will the word "shabby" stick ?-certainly not on the shoulders of the Whigs who never committed any thing half so shabby as these Tory trickeries. On Friday, Lord Howick moved a resolution declaratory of the inexpediency of imposing, in any fresh instances, differential duties. A debate followed, and the House divided, when Ministers had a majority of 173. The committee, moved for by Mr. Roebuck fur inquiring into the recent compromises of elections, has since been no* minated. Distress is so general, that a circular letter is to be ad- dressed to all the clergy of the establishment, and collec- tions fur the poor are to be made in every parish. This is well enough in its way, butjtts-ice is tar bet er for apeople than alms. Let them have f.iir play, and leave theRi to 1 fight their way in the world, but do not Ciipple them by a Corn-law—do not paralyse the arm of industry by im- posing restrictions on the importation of that supply of tood for which it is ready to work. The court have had their revelry, and played at the antique marvellously to their own satisfaction. Indeed, the Masqued Bail, at Buckingham Palace, is said to have been the grandest entertainment ever seen. The foreign news, since my last, is small in &nount. and insignificant in character. An impression is growing up against ail wars but more particularly against that in the East. John Bull, as usual, with starvation in his own country, can, nevertheless, find thousands and thou- sands of pounds for the poor burnt-out Hamburgers. Perhaps, however, we ought to be just before we are generous. Charity, in some cases, should certainly begin at home—with our own countrymen. The position of the Tories is far from a strong one; nor should I be surprised to see them turned to the right about, sooner than people expect. They are gettinl1 j weaker and weaker every day. And if the Whigs 4d not lost much of the confidence ofthe country, by trying to propitiate the Conservatives, they might calculate f upon being called back again to ofifce, for the pøopl. are thoroughly sick—no less sick than the agriculturists, the cheated party in the House-are of the gentlemen who the reins of government on the strength of pro- mises which they have neither the ability, the courage, nor the honesty to perform. M. P.  1 I

I JLA/R.EST SKWU, I!J I LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVEJJINU, 7 O'CLOCK. f HER MAJESTY'S BIRTH-DAY.—Yesterday being the day appointed for the celebration of her MajeMy't birth- 1| day, the morning was ushered in by a merry peal from the several churches of the metropolis. At one P.M., the Park and Tower guns fired a royal salute, the vessels ia H the river displayed their various colours, and in every .'1 other respect the customary modes of marking loyal and dutiful feeling observed. In the evening, grand official banquets were given by the Ministers and grand officers of state; and the public officers, club-houses of her Majesty's tradespeople, were brilliantly illuminated. The London p-ipers of Wednesday evening furnish little additional news ot the slightest interest. It seems pretty certain that France will not ratify the engagements into which she has entered in reference to the right of Search Treaty. The authorities in Barcelona have been extremely ac- tive in their endeavours to extirpate the Carlist guerillas. From New York, we have no news as the Britannia, the only arrival, sailed but one day later than the Great j Western. An extraordinary change in the state of our Money Market, within the last few days, has taken place. A week ago money was not readily placed even at 2A per cents and now it is worth 3 to 3 per cent. ie the discount market, and much more in the stock market for abort Joans. At t'iC close of the Stock Market Consols were 92 Ditto for Account J)2|;) Dutch 52f; Ditto 6 per Cent. 101. At the Corn Exchange both English and free foreign wheat fully maintained inlonday's, prices botided is In more request and some cargoes have been sold floating. In other articles we have no alteration to notice. Th.' Bristol Gazette says that their Sugar Market con- tinues inactive, and will probably continue so until the London market assumes a more settled appearance. Tbe few sales effected have been in favour of the buyers. ——— i

CARMARTHENSHIRE. ( THE LIBERALS or CARMARTHEN as well as all other ) liberal" constituencies, are invited to read a word or two that we have ventured to submit on the subject of Politi- eal Indifference and that (too Liberal!) lukawarmnem ) which consists in the convenient practice cf making no difference between foes and friends-of acknowledgiow so party obligations—and as a corollary, of course witnoiding alike all proper countenance and substantial support from parties that have a rht to expect both. The article alluded to ia headed" Political La titudianairsm," and b»a foe object, the correction of mistakes, which, though genip. ral enough, we are sorry to say, are more frequently committed by Whigs than Tories. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—GUILDHALL, MAY IS.— Present :-John George Philipps, T. T. Webb, David Davies, and E. H. Stacey, Esqrs.—Jane Thoma. a sickly looking girl, charged Owen Davies, a weaver, living in John-str :et, with having cruelly assaulted and beaten bar with a horsewhip on the evening of the 10th instant, near the Butcher's Arms, in this town, without any sortef provocation. The complainant detailed the circumstan- ces with a great deal of artless simplicity i and was corobo- rated in her testimony, by a little girl of the name of Susan Edwards. The inagistratest deemed it a very cruel case of assault; especially as the girl appeared anything hut healthy, and fined the defendant 10s. and costs, whiefe he at once paid, preferring compliance to a fortnight em I the treadmill. IVORITEs.-Last Saturday morning, the Ivorites of t Llanelly, to the number of 300 attended the funeral of odk of their order. After the funeral, they went in procession through the tewn in a respectable manner to Velin Voel where they sat down to a dinner provided by Jatntl Lewis, of Union Tave n. The usual toasts were gIve, and the assembly broke up in an orderly, marnler. Two ponies the property of Mr. Chambers were either stolen or have strayed from Llanelly. It will be seeo by. an advertisement in our columns that a reward is offrretl for their restoration, or for the conviction of the thief 44 thic-vft as the case may be* 1