The Welshman

THE POLICY OF THK AFFGHAN WAR. I (Extracts from Official Correspondence.) Ifr. Ellis, in a letter dated loth January, writes to Lord Palmerston from Persia I feel quite assured that the British government cannot permit the extension of the Persian monarchy in the direction of Afghanistan, with a due regard to the internal tranquillity of Central India; that extension will at once bring Russian influence to the very threshold of our empire.'— iCorr. p. S) He dhu writes ill the anrexed memorandum. Tlie progress of Persia ought to receive every opposition trom the British government that the obligations of public faith will permit.' "Sir John M'Xeill (Corr. p. I So), referring to the re- tusal of tlie Persian government to giye reparation and satisfaction tor the violence offered to his messenger, remarks, that • some public act of l'epara i(,ti, %N-I,icii will prove to the people of Persia and Aftghanistan that we are not to be insulted with unpumiy, i!ii jn lnv opinion, indispensably necessary; I will not say to restore us to our former position, but to enable us to retain one of any credit, or respectability.' H e rellarks (Corr. p. j DS), Persian govern- ment is prosecuting schemes ot almost undisguised hostility towards It "Again he says (Corr. p. 187), 'Count Simonich, the Russian Ambassador, certa'.nly threatened Mohamed Ameen, a servant of Yar Mahomed Khan (minister to Prince Kamran, of Herat), who was sent wiili a message irom his master to the Persian camp, that if Herat did not surrender to the Shah, lie would march a Russian army against it.' Also, a with a Peisian gentleman at Tehran, Count Siinouich had stated his having advised the Shah. after the fall of Herat, to turn his attention to Sinde,' (east of the Indus). Also, in the same letter, 'Count Simonich, being LmlC from a wound, drove his carriage the whole way from i eh ran to Herat, and could I drive it to Kandahar; and the Shah's' army has now, for neaily seven mouths, subsisted almost exclusively on the supplies of the country immediately around Herat and Ghorian, leaving the still more productive districts of Sulwar and Farrali untouched. In short, I can state, from personal observation, there is absolutely no im- pediment to the march of an army to Herat and that, from all the information I have received, the country between that city and Kandahar not only presents no difficulty, but affords remarkable facilities for the passage ot armies, 8cc. Also (Corr. p. 103), 'The hope of receiving the sub- C ori- p- 19-3), mission of all Afghanistan will be a very strong induce- ment to the Shah to persevere in the enterprise in which he is i ngaged. "Also (Corr. p. 197), At this moment the united influence of Persia and Russia would appear to be es- tablished in ail the A Afghan dominions.' Also (p. IfH), Sir John M'Neill remarks, In short, if Herat should ftll, and if the treaty has really been guaranteed by Russia, and not by Count Simonich per- sonally. Russia becomes by It indisputable mistress of the destinies, political and commercial, of all Central Asia; Great Britain having been forced back to the Indus, Khivaand Bokhara mtist submit, if they are attacked, while: ^?ers a and Afghanistan will already be entirely at her "In a translated extract of a letter from Dost Nio harned toMohamed Shah of Persia, the Amir thus ex- presses hi_mseh (Corr. p. As the Shah (yoilr Ma- jesty; was at a distance, I kept Captain Burnes in evasive discourse, and on hearing the sure information of your Majesty's arrival at Herat, I dismissed him instantly.' This was in substance true, excepting as to the latter word, Corr. p. Dost Mohamed having heard that Lord Auckland had entered into a treaty wth RUIJi' Singh to restore Shooja-ool-moolk, now sends messenger alter messenger to t!)e Russian Ambassador and the Shah, urging ihem to settle matters at Herat, and come on to Kabul, when tne country will be theirs.' Coi-r. p. Corr. p. 423.—Captain Wads says, I submit my opinions, with every deference to the wisdom of his lord- ship's deciiorl but it occurs to me that 'less violence would he done to the prejudices of the people, and to the s?,f-tv and weii-he?'g of our relations with foreign Powers, by acJhtatjlJg' the restorat'on of Shah Shooja, than by forcing the AflWhaiis to submit to the sovereignty of the ,\mir.' And he quotes the opinion of Mr. Masson, at Kabul. The likelihood is that afftirs wiil become worse instead of better, fhe British government could employ j interference without offending half-a-dozen individuals. Shah Shooja, under their au-.pices, woul d not encounter opposition, and the Amir and his friends, if he have any, must yieid to his terms or become fugitives.' Captain Burnes writes from Jellalaliad (Corr. p. 458). I inquired into the troth of the reports in circulation regarding the Amir having actually gone over to Persia. and sought the security ot Russia. The reply was, that they were too true, and that Captain Vickovick had pro mised to get the guarantee of Russia to all their arrange- ments,' &c. Again: 'The chief of Kabul still gives cut that he would not trust Persia alone; but seconded by Captain ickovick, he considers the Russian guarantee will gain for him all his ends, and besides being able successfully 10 contend with the Sikhs, as certain t to bis ambition and fixing his supremacy.' Again (Corr. p. 487), Captain Burnes remarks, I | have only again to repeal my most deliberate conviction, founded on much reflection, regarding passing events in Central Asie, that consequences cf the most serious nature must in the end flow from them, unless the British government applies a prompt, active, and decided

IXTF.LLICF.XT'N. HJ'ól (; d.. (oj. BISHOP OF ST. DAVIDS VISITATION. The right Reverend the Lord Bishop of St, David's arrived at Haverfordwest, last Monday. On Tuesday morning Divine service was performed in St. Mary's church. The prayers were redd by the Rev. James Tho- mas. jun.. iii(I an admirable and impressive sermon was preached by the Rev. H Lloyd, vicar of Carew" who se- lected for his text the 1st Peter, chap, v., verses 2, 3, 1. At the conclusion of the sermon, and after the names of the clergy "pre called over, (whose attendance on the oc- casion was very numerous,) his Lordship proceeded to the delivery of h s charge,—a composition which displayed profound knowledge and erudition, and which occupied above tw.' hours and a half in delivery. On Wcdnesday morning, his Lordship preached a ser- mon in aid of the Society for the Propagation of the Gos' pel ill Foreign Paris, taki;)? for his text, Isaiah chap. )x.. 1, 2, 3, verses:—" Arise, shine; for thvlinht is cume," &c. His Lordship handled his subject in a masterly manner; it was It?deed a most eloquent and luminous dis- course, delivered too in a distinct and clear intonation of voice. He was listened to wi?h profound attention, and doubtless the auditory were much impressed with the solemn truths so ably expounded. CLERICAL EKROU —In reading the service on Tues- day,as(?mfwhat indicrons incident occurred, which put in motion the risibility of the "brethren." The Rev. J. ? Thomas, in reading the Psalms for the dav, gave out 'he 5Gth morning of the mouth and the 11th Psalm, he of course soon discovered his mistake, but appeared cha- grined. PRIM UTV VISITATION OF THE LORD BISHOP OF ST. our last number .ve said that we should probably give an outline of the Bishop's charge but we have since learned that by the unanimous request of the Clergy, it will shortly he published. The charge is described (and we can readily believe it) as possessing much literary iiiei-it inci very proto uiicl views. 'I he Liverpool Albion, speaking of the conversion of the Countess of Clare to Catholicism, observes :— We shall have the usual dispu'es between the High Church and tlie Low Church parties, as to which of them have done the mise.hiet. We strongly suspect that they have both helped-- tlic,, former by urging tlie public to adopt as their own the opinions held by the Early Fathers—the latter by abusing Popery' until thcir riuknee has produced a strong reaction in its favour. The I'rcvecca Calvinistic Methodist College was re- opened on the 7 th inst. The following reverend gentlemen assisted upon the occasion: Mr. Griffiths, Gowt-r ?N i i 1,. l,,divir( i s, Gower, Mr. L. Edwards, M.A., Tutor, Mr. Thomas Richards, \Jr. Ed ward J (lues, bervstwith, Mr. Hamil- ton, ot London, Ilr. Henry Kees, of Liverpool, Mr. D. I t olve l l?, Ilowells, Glamor^ri;hire, and Mr. Win. Morris, St. David's preached. The attendance was numerous and respectable, the day unusually tine, the services on the occasion we: e impressive, giving great satisfaction and delight to all present. The general interest taken in this institution connected as it is with the names of Howell Harris, George Whitfield, and the late Countess of Huntingdon, induced many to attend from every county in South Wales, and the day with its hallowed connect ons wIll be fresh in the memory of those present years to come. A collection of more than £ 10 was made towards the institution.—(I'rwu a Correspondent.) Upwards of gl,200 is paid into bank for building a Roman Catholic cathedral at Kilkenny. On Thursday, Sept. 22, the Rev. Benjamin James was publicly recognized as pastor ot the congregational church at Siloh chapel, Abeisychan, near l'ontypool. Risc.t, ftev. J. Rowe, baptist minister of Penhyncoch, Cardiganshire, has accepted the unanimous invitation of the baptist church at Hisca to become their pastor, and enters upon his services the third Sunday in October. THE MILLF.NII;M.— At the twenty-first anniversary meeting of the Norfolk and Norwich Association foi Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews, the Rev. W. olhs(on I'ym, ùI,A., reeor at W 1,/1.'111, U('rts, In the course of his speechstated.thataccotdiog to the different prophecies in the Bible, the Chronologists had calculated that the time which Gcd bad appointed to set the children of "Israel free was fast approaching some of whom stated that it would take place between 1810 and 1850, while rev. speaker believed in. He thought that the Christian churches should unite together in this great undertaking -the C(,Ilcltlsioli of which, lie lelt persuaded, was fast approaching. GEXERAL FAST AND PRAYERS.—On Friday a general fast was most strictly observed, and prayers offered up at all tlie chapels ot tlie esleyan SocuMyin the metropolis, and throughout England, for the future prospe-ity of thecotintry.and more particularly as regards those dis- I [ tricis in which so much distress has and is at present J prevailing.

ALARMING DEFALCATION IN THE RE- V C, U'l'EEL'S POLlCY ILLUSTR:TED. [Abridged from the The official publication ot the Revenue Accounts is look, d to by men of all parties as a faithful index to the condition of the country. Tlie following is a summary of the official tables:— TIle October JO, ISf-2, as compared With the ear ended October 10, 1S11, exhibits an increase of £ 3.15,981. llllt- _Tne Quarter ended October 10, jS,2, with the Quarter ended October 10, 1811, there is a decrease ot £ o 7 :73. Tlie item* by which t,iese eiiei-;il result's are shown, and the still more startling fact established, that a defi- ciency has occurred in the quarter now closed, as com- pared with that which immediately preceded "U, arc as follows: — On the Year— The ii.vrrusr in the Customs Post Office If,5,000 Misce llaneous 477.803 The d- rr.r.v, ill the Excise 733,548 7 12 Taxes Crown Lands 11,000 j lie statement ot trie Quarter's Revenue is yet more discouraging. Notwithstanding the amount received on the importation of foreign corn, and the amount paid into j the Exchequer under the income Tax, tiie deficieiicy on the quarter is £ 67/173; thus shewn:— Increase — In the Customs, including the Duties rc- ceived on Posi Oliice 52,000 1teerease— In the Excise (I) £ 134,831 | Stamps 101,224 Taxes 142,733 But lor the Property Tax, tlie decrease in the latter item of revenue would have reached to the cam of £;bI)77 If ihis lesson, supplied by a practical application of the vicious theories —to which most governments cling until they are compelled to abandon them for sounder princi- ples—do not work conviction in Sir Robert Peel, he will exhibit an obtuseness of intellect and a callosity of feeling beyond anything we—who have never given him credit for comprehensiveness of views, nor tor much sympathy with the people—have assigned to him. Taxation has— it is now shewn, beyond the possibility of successful dis- putation— reached and passed the limit ofpioductiveties.s. Every dotution made to the public burdens merely changes the form of taxation upon the people without adding to the revenues of the State. The late govern- ment added a per-eentage of five and ten per cent. to the existing taxes, The reMilt proved the unsoundne.s of the calculation on which was founded the expectation of an increased amount to the revenue from such an expe- riment. I hey were wise enough to see the necessity for, and bold enough to attempt, a thorough change in our fi,c,ii system. 1 hey Were unable to carry out their views, being defeated by a coinbination of the" protected in- teiest, wdio displaced them from ofifce, and substituted Sir Robert l'eeland his colleagues in their stead. With what results? Pioliibition has, indeed, been reduced by Parliament on their recommendation, amid the bowlings ot the class interests, who imagine that they can prosper only by the means which inflict ruin on the manufac- turers and starvation upon the labouring classes of the community. But the vicious sliding-scale and system of averages have been retained and the uncertainty" which pertains to their operations, while it effectually interferes to repress an interchange of our manufactures tor the corn and Hour ot ot'oer countries, drains the country of specie for the purchase of their corn, when a deficiency in our crops fender a foreign supply necessary for the suste- nance of the population. • l'ot (,,I* the last session we are indebted for the retributive art of the American Congress, in a Tariff wlric:1 increases the duiies upon British manufactures to the extent of twenty-five per cent.: an Act which would never have passed the American Houses of Legislature (■is we recently shewed) but for the provocation supplied by the Act of the British Parliament, which excludes their Hour from our markets. Bral.il-our second best customer—win make the reception of her sugars a sine qua nou for the admission of british manufactures to her ports. The Rrazilian government, we are assured by an authority on which we are justified in placlllg ImpliCit confidence, is prepared to refuse any overtures for com- mercial intercourse commensurate with the wants and wishes of our manufactures, unless the existing prohibi- tory duty on sugar, the produce of that country, he so modified as to admit it to our ports for home consumption. W hether the markets of Brazils sin!) be virtually closed against our skilled proihice, in order that the West India colonists may possess a n.onopoty of the British markets for sugars of their growth, remains to be seen. That i they will strive to retain it, and that the agn- culo.irist- with whom they combined to prole t their corn monopoly, will aid them, is beyond question. Will they -.u. ceed ? behave before us rhe Report of the Woollen Trade for the month of September, published at the commence- j ment of the present month. This document, which ex- I hibits the opinions and prospects of the parties engaged in that important staple of the country, undive.sted ot all party-political bias, suites, that "the foreign market has maintained its dull uniformity, and especially the American, to which tlie shipments have been exceedingly small for the season." The very large and rapidly increasing diminution in the duties upon articles ot general consumption levied by the Excise, telis a tale ot increasing privation and suffer- ing among the great bulk of the population, which c-alli.ot be contemplated without de, p sympathy, kr their desti- tution, and alarm for the consequences of the desperation it is likely to engender. A people pressed onward to the verge of starvation, without help and without hope, can- not be long confined within the limits of social order. They may once and again be subdued by tne pi eScllce ot it military force, and be illtintidatcd lTlto temporal Y suo- mission to the laws Itv tLc dread which a formidable array of arms and artillery will naturally inspire the prisons may be filled with hundreds and thousands of captured malcontents: the outraged laws may assume the awful majestv in which Special Commissions entrusted to venerable judges will invest them: these laws may speak in judgment, tempered with mercy, through rhe magis- trates: the prisons may be filled and transport-ships freighted with the victims of violated laws: and the land may f*c,r i season resume its quiet. But the quiet, so restored, will he speedily disturbed. The volcano, though •deeping, wiU Dc preje-ring for yet more terrible srruytitu,

IRISH FAIRS, 1 A SIGN or THE TIMKS!—Whatever fat beasts may be doing just now for their owners at Ballinasloe, the following lact serves to show that some feeders nearer home have no cause to be thankful for their profits this season. Mr. e an extensive agriculturist residing near Templeogue, offered four plough-bullocks for sale in Smithfield market, on the first of May last. The animal s were, at the time. in what might be termed good working condition, and or tl 1, each, was refused for them. The owner took th m home and put them to fatten upon four acres of rich meadow land, the produce from which, in hay and aftergrass, had usually made a return Having completely exhausted the keep oil the pasture, early in September, the cattle, in a fat state, were again sent to Smithfield market; but on this occasinn the highest bid the salemaster could obtain was £ 50 tor the lot, or C12 10s. apiece! and thev remained unsold. They were then driven to the fairs of Naas, and Celbridge, bilt at neither of these places was there even a single otter for them. Finally, two out of the four w, e sold at S.nitlifield on Thursday last for .t:H, or £ 12 a betid.—l/ithliu I'rceman's ■Journal. CLONMF.L I'AIII.—Our monthly fair on Wednesday last was not attended as well as usual, owing to many of our country gentlemen being at the great fair of Ballina- sloe however, there was a good share of business trans- acted, and the prices were not so low as some persons anticipated. The decline of prices was very trilling in comparison with those offered last October.— Pigs brought freely ,125. per cwt. -Tippe- rury (í!llst it III itin. Tilt"RLES.—At the fair ot I buries on Monday, fat pigs were high and in great demand; the horse fair on Friday was crowded, but very few good ones to be seen.—I hid. GRAIOIE.—The fair of Carlow Graigu? was held on Wednesday, and was very thinly attended. There was no prime beef or mutton middle stock sold well; spring- ers were in demand. The pig hir Was well attended by W aterford buyers, and the entire stock was sold from 35s. to 3Ss. per cwt.—Carlow Sentinel, !\lL!.Cl'I.LE; F.\IR_TJjis fan' was 11lll on Monday last, and was well attended. Good stock of every descrip- tion brought remunerating prices, the consequence of a subsidence oftbat panic which injured the markets, and only served the Dublin butchers and government con- tractors. £ II JOs. alld .C ).> were ohtained for black cattle by Robert Latotiche, that is nearly £ 1 per had higher than could be obtained for them at nathsalagl) a few days preyiousl v.—Hi I.

BRISTOL SUGAR-MARKET. A better demand has existed for all descriptions of Sugar since our last, except low brown kinds whith are unsaleable; but the chief inquiry is for fine descriptions, whIch are scarce and bring full prices, from 65s. to (;()s. per cwt. More business is doing in ruiii.- Oct. 12. Is there a housekeeper in [Haverfordwest") or else- where, who has escaped that most awful of all I iiiietioll, — a dinner-hunting friend, who seems not only to be aware of your accustomed hour, but to have an instinctive idea of the very day on which 7011 mean/to entertain a party of friends, Oil which occasion, of course, some (',1'lra dcllcacil's are provided? If so he is a lucky individual. For the benefit, however, of the less fortunate we may as well record the means Iw which a friend of ours the other day, managed to relieve* himself from the perpetual visits j of one of those peripatetic ruisances. Four o'clock was his damer tine, and as usual ityout ten minutes before, in walked Mr. Sponge; "confound the fellow" mentally exclaimed Mr.— Tilt clock struck; the footman entered the room and anncuneed to Mr. Spoiiiir's great delight that dinner was >11 the table." "Will yoti," inquired the polite host, d,) is we do Nl'it], tile great- est pleasure, my dear Sir," leplied the sell-invited guest, whose olfactory nerves had just been iilillite.d hy the savoury viands. "Then" slid Mr. lookilig at the same time towards the il(vr, ilways dine at home." This could not be very easily misunderstood, and we most cordially recommend this sinple piocess to the notice of all whom it may concern." NEWPORT.—Last Monday the opening of these docks, which are remarkable, as including the largest lock in the known world, took place ill ifie presence of a concourse of at least 2.1,000 persons,induding most of the leading inhabitants of the county. The event was celebrated by a public dinner, &c. The London papers describe the opening in three lines; tile coulltry papers, including the Bristol Gazette, occupy as many columns about it. We give all that is material. It may be interesting to some of our readers to knol tte extent of ground occupied by the Dock, including- the space to be laid out tor ware- houses,sheds,cranes, &c., is 21' acres. 1 he dock itself is 71)5 feet by 2f0, giving an area of water ot 4 acres and a half, and affording accommodation for 50 vessels of the largest size. Close adjoining is another space of ground covered with water, of the same dimensions, and which, at a comparatively small erst, can be easily added to the present Dock should the necessities ot an increased trade demand it. The width of the frates is (j teet, slEhclrnt j 'o admit any siup, and tin length of the lock is 200 feet from gate to gate. The usual time taken to open the gates will be about ten minutes. Close to the Dock is erected a very neat residence tor the clerk to the w,Jrks and .he Last. Monday, as we have already yaid, was the day fixed for this important ceremony, the de serving at the convenient houl of ten in the morning, j On the Saturday and Sunday previous, visitors from Cardiff, Merihvr, Monrhou.h, and the surrounding heigh- 1 bourhood, continued to airive hourly. On the litter day the steamer conveyed a large parin, froii Bristol, j From/a very early hour on Monday morning the notes of preparation were heard. Freemasons and Oddfellows rose at an unwonted hour, and with Dock Committee Men, Town Councillors (disdaining to follow the examp' le of their Edinburgh co-oflici.d-s), and others, were seen has- i tening in all direction* to the St. Ju'ian's Inn, on the Caerleon-road, the place of rendezvous. The ceremony I | having been concluded, a large company, including Sir Chivies Morgan, Burt., and Lady Morgan, adjourned to the Dock House, where an elegant dejeuner was prepared by tht Dock COllnniltcC, alld SUCC(,ss to the new under- taking drank. The b;>a/ raV'nS nilll other sports then commenced and afforded infinite amusement to the spee- tafors Then came the Dinner at the National School room in Commercial street, a large and convenient building, erected by the hbtrahty of Sir Charles Morgan, ']'lie cliar was taken by H. Blakemore, Esq., M.P., and the vice-chair by Samuel Homfrav, Esq. Amongst the gentlemen present were Charles .Morgan, Bart., Col. Sir Digby Mackwortb, Octavitts Morgan, Esq., M.P., R. J. Blcwett, Esq. The cloth removed, several com- plementas y speeches were made. The Ball at the King's Head followed where dancIng eo!;tim!l'tI till long past midnight. The ifre-works were very fine P-odiiay W bar! was illuminated. THE GKNER-VL WEEKJ-^ -EtiAor. for the kingdom, published 011 Thursday (5os. 2d.) shows a fall 01 lOd. per qr., as compared with that for the week preceding the aggregate, however, only varied a few pence, and the duty consequently remained stationary at ISs. per qr. At this point It seems likely t0 ^t!U1d for some time nor is it of much consequence whether it rises or falls a step or two, for a decline of many s-hnhngs pf.r f.r- !U(lst take place be l'O I C, i- cill be expect ;d to enter for home con- sumption.— Mark ^JP>'es.i of Monday. THE COLLIKUS' S*rRr^iE;We are informed that, with i one exception, all the collieries in the Holytown district have commenced work at the rate of wages insisted on by the lieu when they struck, The colliers in the neighbour- hood of Airdrie, Co¡¡tbnd¡{e, &e., have likewise generally returned to their work, and are paid at the rate of about 4s. perday. The iron-miners, however, stili remain out, and there is little apPtf{iraiTce of- adjustment, for the men are determined on the one hand, aud the laige stocks of iron-stone which are understood to have been accumulated make the masters t'(Ill"ljy so on the other. The Lothian colliers are, we observe, to have a great delegate meeting on Wednesday, to try 8d arrange for an adjustment in that county.—Glasgow Chronicle. STRIKE IN Bikmin^ham.—-The Birmingham papers state that a general stnke for new prices has taken place among the tin-ptatctvorkersofStairordshire; and a simi- lar strike exists to a considerable extent, in Birmingham. THE Bir.monds'-V MUHDI::R.-Tlw'Coroner's Jury has returned a veidictol Wilful Murder" against Wil- liam Jessup. -Duk VDFI I. ACCIDENT TO SIR W. GEARY, BART.— On Thursday niornii g 011 entering his dressing-room he fell over a glass screen, and a fragment, presenting a point, irdlicted a frightful wound oil the right side of Sir V illiam's neck, within the smallest possible distance of the carotid artery, and dividing one) of its principal branches. Lady Geary, who was in the next room, in- stantly ran to Sir William's assistance. lie was stretched oil the floor, his life's blood gushing out with fearful vio- lence. In this dreadful extremity, at her ladyship's suggestion her maid (a Swiss.) seized the wound with her hands, and staved the frightful effusion of blood. On arrival of iiietliciil iiiei-i it was found that the oldy chance of saving the patient was by performing the difficult ope- ration of tying the carotid artery, in order to present hemorrhage-. The previous loss of blood which SirWilliam had sustained produced such an entire inanition, that an attack, of paralysis was superinduced, which threatened to baffle all the skill and anxious attention of his medical attendants. THE LTUEHALS or BRISTOL have gained IFH votes on the parliamentary revision just concluded.—Mf-rcuri/. THE FLOUR AND BISCUIT ACT.-A deputation of corn factors, millers, and bakers, on Saturday, waited upon Mr. Hutt, M. P. for Gateshead, at the Central Ex- change, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, with an address of thanks, for Lis exeniolls in procuring the sanction of the legis- lature, which permits wheat to be taken out of hond 011 the substitution of an equivalent quantity of flour or biscuit. To r.Rimc'ATt CORNS.—Take a small piece of lfannel has not been washed, wrap or screw it round the I corn or toe. One thickness will be sufficient. Wet the flannel where the corn is nieht and morning with Iiiie I sweet oil. Renew the flannel Weekly, and at the same time pare the corn, which will soon disappear. PICKLED FOGS.—Among a variety of other pickles, which a tndy annually introduces into her store-room, are pickled eggs. The process she uses ill enring them is very When she has a large stock of eggs Oil | baud, she boils some six or seven (lozell till they become hard. She then divests them ot the shell, and puts them into large jars, pouring upon them scalding vinegar, satu- | rated with ginger, garlic, whole pepper, and allspice. This pickle is an admirable aid to cold meat, and is in winter months regarded as a perfect farm-house luxury. TIn; PREVAILING SICKNESS.—lhe niiheahhiness of the season has extended its Illfluellee t" the higher, as wdl as to the lower classes of society. W e have had already occasion tc mention the )ndispos)Hon of the Duchess of Kent, the Archduke of Austria, and the French Ambassador. We now learn that at Drayton Hall his Excellency the Russian Ambassadoi was like- wise taken so ill as to require his repairing immediately to town for advice. The next day his Serene Highness the Prince Ksterhazy was likewise attacked with severe indisposition, and removed at once to town. RENTS OF ASSIZE IN WALES. —All parties interested will understand, that no demand for an acquittance fee, exceeding Id. is, or ever was, legal that one acquittance fee alone can be legally demanded for one rent of assize for any number of years' arrear and that any person can copy his last acquittance,or rec ipt, himself, and compel the Receiver to Mgn the same without any /re and, if he refuses, we add, he is, by the same act of parliament which gives the fee, subject to a penalty of forty shillings i for every refusal -1.w.c:o. n .n: IIOOIC INFORMATION.—By tlie (ifh and 7th Wm. |t c. 9ti, s. 5, it is enacted—" That it shall be lawful for any person or persons rated to the relief of the poor of the parish, ill respect of which any rate shall be made, at all seasonable times, to take copies thereof or extracts therefrom, without paying" anything for the same, anything in any act of parliament to the contrary notwithstanding; and in case any person or persons having th custody of such rate shall rerusp to permit, or, stiall not permit such person or persons so rated as a/oresaid, to take copies thereof or extracts therefrom, the person or per.-ons so refusing or not permitting such copy or extract to he mane shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding five pounds, to be recovered iria summary way, before any justice of the peace having jurisdiction in the parish or place.

The paramount importance of Agriculture to the Principality at once explains and justifies the Welshman s frequent recurrence to it. Unlike the Foreign, or ephemeral questions which not seldom arc furbished up into factitious importance and stupidly pushed through newspaper columns into a tediously-protracted prominence, occupying a space quite disproportioncd to their real value— they are also wholly irrelevant to the immediate interests of our native industry—the considera- tions growing out of the policy piirslied by Sir Robert Peel in relation to the great interest of the country—we of course mean the Landed Interest, possess a solid usefulness and an enduring practical importance which come home to the business and bosom of every man in the kingdom —but to none, perhaps, do these considerations come home nearer or more directly—because the Premier's policy affects none more—than those persons who reside, or have property, ill the Principality of Wales. We have hitherto uniformly treated Sir Robert Peel's innovating and partial process, less as a party than a national question, and in the few observations which we now propose ¡I for public perusal, we shall endeavour to preserve the same unshackled spirit. Whether the minister came into office on false pretences, deceiving country constituencies, or on thi. c ;itrary, employed, no more of artfulness or reserve than was allowable under the circum- stances is a subject which continues to be hotly discussed but it is one after all in which we have no g"eat or immediate interest. The cunning deceit or the cautious diplomacy, (call it whichever we may) of Sir R. Peel, when a candidate for oflice is past—we have to look at the present. The attacks therefore which have been so vigorously levelled at the right hon. bart. by Sir Hussey Vyvyaa and several other Conservatives as well as by the Whigs possess no other value now than a page of mere political-party history; while the defence of Sir Robert which the Quarterly Review, and similar publications, have unsuccessfully at- tempted can be regarded only as the ingenious advocacy of counsel for the accused. Take for example of the latter, the Quarterly s special plead- ing in the case of the Income tax—which it is affirmed" may be looked upon as somewhat of 1 1 the nature of a temporary advance made by wealthy capitalists to relieve and facilitate certain branches of industry which-though now suffering-will, by this timely assistance, be enabled to recover themselves, and to repay at no long interval their debt to the general fund! If we are able to comprehend the meaning involved in this fine- drawn fallacy, it is that the operation of the Tariff will more than compensate us for the imposition of the Income tax. Will it ?—let the agriculturists answer. They tell us, and tell us truly, that the admission of Foreign Cattle with the sliding-scalc, and the 1,150 articles pressed into Sir Robert's 'L'arifT-li?? so far from compensating them, will rend er the tax much more burthensomeand oppres- Sive to them. That //?y have to sustain a greater weight, with less strength, admits of no question. Hut although the farmers ana landlords may be losers, the country at large will he benefited ? No such thinir. The breaking of the rural population xi ill not be the making of the urban or metropolitan class of. cons tutors. The Examiner, which may be deemed a faithful enough represen- tative ot the latter says,— "The Whigs would have recruited the revenue and re- lieved commerce and industry by the same measures. Sir Robert Peel effects a thousand peddling little reliefs in a thousand peddling little things, and to make up for them to the revenup, he imposes one heavy, unequal, and most vexatious burden. Many people are a very Iitttle better off in some very little things, anti very much worse off in one large imposition. A number of interests are dis- turbed, and in the first pain and distress of their derange- ment the Income Tax comes upon them to crowl) their troubles. In short, Sir Robert Peel's measures may be described as a scheme to do everybody some little good, I and some great harm—a halfpenny in the pound benefit by the Tariff, and seven -pence in the pound Iocs by the Income Tax." This may be considered the Town's-estimate of the Tariff—the country's of course would be lower still and altogether more damning and depre- ciatory. In the case of Sir Robert Peel, the question of "deceit or no deceit," of foul or of fair play has engaged many hundreds of pens, spreading their encubrations in streams of speculation, some deep, some shallow, but all of them more or less beside the real question. This controversial speculation seems to us (as we have already intimated) of infinitely less importance than would be a calm consideration of the actual state of the great inter- est of the country, with a view to the adoption of such methods as are at our command for restoring peaceful prosperity. Designing demagogueism on the one hand, and sordid blindness on the other, have too long been permitted to extend their pestiferous influence over the region of political discussion. One of the consequences of which is, a continuance of much mischievous legis- lation. Had not for example the landlords—who have at least as much, if not more right to their estates than the fundholders to their Consols— had not the landed aristocracy been unwisely as well as most unjustly branded as griping extor- tioners, public robbers, &rc., &c.—and thus calum- niated, rendered obstinate in error, we should all probably have been in a very different situation from that in which we now find ourselves. Say what we will about the interestedness of human nature, men will sometimes sacrifice their interest to their feelings—the landlords, no doubt, did so in becoming parties to measures which must, in their operation, be anything but pleasant or bene- ficial. No class of men has been" better abused" than the landlords. The Sun never rose but to | proclaim them thieves and traitors, and as con- stantly denounced the Coru-Iavrs as the "Devil's Laws." Indeed, no means of annoyance or exas- peration have been left unemployed. To badger and abuse the landlords has been deemed better than to reason with them. One instance of the equally bad taste and tactics of a Corn-law repeal agent occurred, but the other day. We allude to Mr. AcKlumVs lcttov to the fluke ot Cleveland. His Grace's epistle, it is true, is a singularly infelicitous specimen of ducal dignity but it was not he who began the lray; and the head and front of his original offence appears to the putting in ofa plea for protection." It was urged against the Duke, that when dining with his tenants, he told them that it was mad- ness to suppose the British farmer could compete with the foreigner without protection, and which protection was given to enable him to bear the enormous amount of taxation laid upon land at the close of the war." This fallacy might certainlv have been refuted without making war with the utterer of it himself, and carrying annoyance to the very walls of the noble Duke's castle. The landlords may, and will be, led by an appeal to their reason; but it is not very likely that they, the most powerful class, will be driven by taunts and an incessant volley of vituperation. The worst enemies to sound legislation are such as render its principles, odious by fierce and reckless advocacy. It matters little for the purposes of our recommendation to abstinence from gratuitous offence whether Sir Robert Peel's scheme is the best or the worst that a minister could have devised. Oue thing is quite certain, the jantled interest does not derive any benefit from it; and if the landlords were deceived by the right hM. bart. that betrayal ought to serve as an additional incentive to treat them with courtesy and consideration. Agriculture droop;-its destruction is predicted farmers and landlorrh gellrllny are alarmed for their profits are threatened with serious diminution-some indeed, in the signs of the times, see their utter extinction. Surely then, this is not the time that a generous mind would select for venting' splenetic sarcasm, for hurling defiance, or for vociferating triumphant taunts. N,): eveki ;f tt;eof polirv nnd pf wisdom did not (as they do) forbid it,the commonest generosity and courtesy would. In another column, under the head Foreign Corn, Cat- tie, &c. we have, as is our weekly practice, placed toge- I ther some of the moit recent arrivals. It is not our design, to-day, to say more about them, than that they afford proof that the foreigner has found his wav into o-i mad\et-1d that, tpo, l.Ir.der circustnCts  cannot m?et-Md th?t, t?o, ur.der circumstances which cannot i be contemplnted with unalloyed satisfaction ^by any ciasa. It may, however, serve to bring, even the dullest landlords to their senses,—showing, as we think it most conclusively does, how infinitely preferable would have been an 88. fixed duty as proposed by the official predecessor of Sir Robert Peel, to the present fluctuating, unsettled, unsatis- factory, and most uncertain state of the agricultural inter- est. The principal ,rEtin of this interest, last Monday, in noticing the speech of the Earl of Verularn. ;;t the Tier's Agricultural Society, declares that, it is an insalt. to the understanding of tho: farmers U> tell them that the will sustain no injury from the recent changes in the Cora Law and the Tariff; inasmuch as the leading mem be'■a of the Government have declared the u'jject or t'jt-tr legis- lation to be a reduction of prices by means of r.he impor- tation of foreign produce," Our own opinion on this subject has been over an 1 ovar again expressed. Sir R Peel, amongst other glaring errors, began at the wrong end he began with cattle instead of corn; and what renders it worse, the right hon. baronet has proceeded throughout on no defined or intelligible principle—it were- indeed, vain to seek for any regulating principle whatever in his agricultural policy. We have "a stringent corn-law, a lax tariff," and—no trade. In a recent number, it may be remembered, we quoted, not wholly without nppro- bation, the sentiments of a "Warwickshire Farmer." He has again addressed the editor of the Marl; Lane Ex- press and a3 we coincide in some of the opinions sup. ported in the following letter, we cannot, perhaps, do bet- ter than conclude our article by giving it to our re.-i.,Iers In venturing to affirm that the present corn laws and the new Tariff are unsound in principle, and will be found ruinous in their results, I by no means intended to attack the doctrines of free trade (for ultimately, only from the reaction which may be expected from the practice ot those doctrines to the fullest extent, can the agricultural interest be permanently and efficiently benefited), but to ex- pose the inconsistency and dangerous tendency of a strin- gent corn law, and a lax tariff as regards stock and ani- mal food. [ cannot but think that the upshot of this system will be to force the capital of the foreigner to be em- ployed in pastoral pursuits to a greater extent than here- tofore, forsaking in the same degree the rising of grain, &e.; whilst on the contrary, our capital will be forced, by the greater foreign competition in 'pastoral,' and the lesser competition in 'arable,' pursuits, to be employed mainly in the latter. And what will be the result? The foreigner will obtain the largest profits, from the more costly and higher branch of agriculture being opened to his hand, and his land will contiuually improve in con- dition from the increase of his live stock, and extension of pastures whilst we shall get only the lesser profits of a corn-growing country, with a constantly depreciating com- pettiion of the soil, from the gradual abstraction of the stock, and the more extensive employment of the plough. These changes will be slow of course, but they appear to be inevitable, from the operation of a law partly prohibi- tory with respect to corn, but not anywise prohibitory with regard to live stock and animal food hence, I say, the principle is ilu sound, and the practical result will he found injurious, nay, ruinous, to the present system of British farming. If we are to maintain our present system of stock farm- ing, the alteration of the corn law to a low fixed duty, even below the level of that which regulates the importa- tion of live stock, &c., I hold to be a sine (fUrl una, But we are at present on a different tack, and the effects are already apparent, and in correspondence with the views I have endeavoured to explain." In accordance with these views, it is desirable that as British farmers we should seek to obtain the abolition of the slidin" scale.' and the adoption of a low fixed duty, the repeal of the malt tax, the destruction of every monopoly under the sun if possible, and the regulation and adjustment of the debt due to the national creditor, in accordance with the change in prices effecting through the operations of certain acts' of the legislature, in order that we may obtain the benefit of that" reaction," w;¡ich is now the only hope lcft u-, and I believe we may safely reiy upon it, which can only be expected as the result of the fullest expansion of trade and commerce, which a perfectly unrestricted system will allow of. The present rents cannot be much longer ob- tained by our lan(ilor(li, unless, like men of honour, cou- rage, and discernment, scorning all lesser, meaner con- siderations, they shall determine to act upon principles of strict justice and true patriotism. Away then, with your protections,' falsely so called, and your 'prohibitions;' we want no artificial hindrances." As to the adjustment of the national debt, we hold the Warwickshire farmer in error,- his farming is better than his finance. He inherits the crotchet of Cobbett, and has probably been dosed by Attwood or some of the other- Currency quacks of the day; but we cordially re-echo his repudiation of artificial hindrances"; and, upon some- what different premises from Lord Verulam, we come to the same conclusion his lordship communicated to the Herts Agricultural Society-namely, that the agriculturists might set at defiance all the vessels by which cattle and corn are imported "-if commerce were unrestricted and left to the natural laws only, which regulate the interchange 0" commodities between the several nlltinns of the ivorld. With the farmer, then, we say, "away with your protec- tion,' falsely so called, and vour prohibitions «ant no artificial hindrances."

'w TIIE RF.VENVE ACCOS TS oflidaPy published this wec k itwin h.'s''en,?;ntO!htT part of our paper, and to which we especially invite p I: bi t I ?T l?! 11 e\h'hit a f)l!in? o?t'/AM October, ?scoit);. u ? di the nre-i':us one, r,f 110 less.than ,.tJI,! 3 Hero ri I). ..v" an ulus!ration the Ped-poliev, no less mel.lm.holy than pregnant with instruction. What a scene ot wretchedness do not these figures suggest! A comparison of three short, months only, shows a diminution in duties upon articles of treneral consumption to the amount of Sixty-seven Thousand, Four Hundred and Seventy-three Pounds. At the same rate of diminution for a year, the amount will be represented by £ 2(39,792 If this do not work conviction on Sir H. Peel, we think with the Globe, whose remarks will be found elsewhere, that he will exhibit an obtuseness of intellect and a callosity of feeling beyond any thing ever assigned to him.

WEEKLY RETROSPECT, OR SUMMARY I OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC NEWS. I [FROM OIJR LONDON SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] LONDON, WEDNESDAY LVFININO, 7 O'CLOCK. There never was, perhaps, any period in the memory o,' the oldest inhabitant of this town," so stale, Hat, and unprofitable, for the mere quid-nunc, as the presenL- neither was there ever since Great Britain has been a nation a period when her present position and future prospc-cts assumed a greater degree of importance. I am not, however, going to descant on this wide question. We have, it may be said, war at home and abroad: many of our jails are filled with Insurgents, a Special Commis- sion is now doing its work on hundreds of malcontents, and all the horrors of war arp witnessed in the East. Our financial condition keeps pace with our social wretched- ness; a deficit in the Revenue has just been declared which speaks like a proclamation of the peoplc's pri vation. Trade remains inactive and unproductive there is no ErnploYlllen t t'i ther for labour or capital. The agriculture of tll", cOlllltry i, if possible, in a worse condition than its commerce complaints from every part of the United Kingdom have reached the Government- not only do the Corn-growing counties of England, such as Essex, complain but all the great grazing couuties are alarmed. The agricultural interests of Wales as well as Scotland and Ireland are jeopardized—nay. they are actually suffering severely from the depreciation in the price of stock. Things, however, have not yet come to their worst. We have to wait in painful suspense for a full manifestation ot the results of Sir Robert Peel's delusive and most destructive policy. Germany as well as America are taking reprisals for our new Tariff, and the retaliatory policy of both nations with the Anglo-phobia in France, and upon the Continent generally", altogether do not present the pleasantest prospect in the world for British propprity. The Government papers, accordingly, are hard at work to allay the alarm prevalent in the public mind; but to little purpose -all their ingenuity is thrown away. Facts are stubborn things, and it is no use to disguise the deteriorating course of events. It is vain for us to be told that the German capitalists will not, to any con. siderable amount, invest their money in manufactures. And that the time does not seem to have yet arrived for German manufactures that England must transfer a little more of her wealth to Germany, and the peace of Europe be better guarantied before we can be ruined. This logic doubtless will remind everybody of the lawyer who persisted till even the cord was round his client's neck, that they could not hang liiiii, The unfortunate man nevertheless paid the penalty of his offence, and it is to be feared, that unless England mend her ways, we too shall pay the price of the niad and sriminal legis- lation 01 Sir Robert Feel. fhe intelligence brought by the Indian Mail, of course, is 111 tne It elshtnait's columns, and requires therefore no J partic'.iLu notice. Indeed, it may he summed up in a very few words—advance upon Cabool had been de- termined upon the Governor-General wns still at Allha- bad anil ne^oeiations are spoken of for the release of Lady Sale, and dll the ether captives, of whose health favour- abIlIe reports have been received. Chapoo succumbed to the British forces 1nst May, and the "C!cs,t,als" seem in a fair way to be made liÜnce- meat of. 1 bo feUows, however, are musterinc strong everywhere, and present altogether an array which tor numbers may be termed formidable, and immense. London is as (lull as trade itself, and the Qtlly thing in the shape of political gossip, excepting an on dit, ot the | Junes, about the (not ve y probable) deposition ofthe Em- peror ot China is the foll(,N",illg wlli'cll sI t,be round V Lord Lyndhurst is providing for some oi bis toadies at the Rar, ky Riving them appointments under the new Bank- ( I ruptcy Act. It is alleged in the circles of the profession ( that these appointments are likely to constitute his last t political act, and that in fact the state of his health .lias become so very precarious—('remember 'hat he r; no i chicken, having been born in >Vty, I?72;-that it ;s thought he has continued-to'h.old the seals till now thaf he might bequeath something perma'ati.- to tr.e ;e t.i.• aforesaid. 1 ho two ibrcign crenui*\s left in the famiiv circle of the Court ot'-Si. Haul 's s— w Baroness Lehzen and Baron Sitnckmar—have ieit in what may be c;¡ned di?race..As' to -the disgrace that's .d! moonshin. ■ moonshu'e. Connected with th,: di:(:ri1i ?c..E?..the Chro:uc:c s<ys it repotted f'at n?.' H.'?' I 'di.? Company have efrM'ted some financial arrangement, by which Uie Bank of England will be relieved of two millions of specie. I be rumour is, that the money is wanted to supply the expenses of the Aflghan war. For the rest we have the London Journals chock-full of Special Commission re- ports, with here and there like an oasis in the a I< ire, a murder in Bermonclsey. another in Derbyshire,' and another upon that somewhere ele. Ten persons too have oeer. poisoned at Bolton, Cbirtist leaders have been apprehended, tried, and found guilty—a bad bill of farf,, i btit li 's the beet the season affords. There's a political atrophy, a commercial and agricultural paralysation—we are in short, in a decline, and unless the State physician can find something better for us than a falling revenue, a slicling-scale, devastating war, popular discontent, com- mercial inanition and the pestiferousness of a destructive policy, go we must. Great Britain will become little she will sink from a first rate power to a third or fourth rate nation. What Greece and Rome now are. Great Britain will be, if a ch,U1c;e-aye, a great and a prompt change in our policy do not take place. May the Decline and Fall of the British Empire be averted by wiser counsels is the prayer of -il as of M.P.

I LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, 7 O'CLOCK. The Gazette ot last evening contains the official des- patches received at the India House from the Governor. General of India, by the last mail, narrating the opera- tions of Brigadier Monteath, in the valley of Shinwarree, on the 2fith of July. A-, we printed the whole of these documents verbatim in our paper of the 8th instant (four days since) we do not deem it necessary to repro- duce them. On dit that overtures have been made by an influential party in China to the British authorities in that country, the objects of which are to depose the Emperor, to estab- lish another form of government, and to enter, should the revolution succeed, into terms of amity with Great Bri- tain, both political and commercial. Tunes. THE SPECIAL COMMISSIONS.—Lord Abinger charged the grand jury at Liverpool, on Monday. The judg-es sat separately in the three courts. Before Lord Abinger five persons were indicted for assaulting Thomas Ship- man, and stealing fifty loaves of bread. They were found guilty, and sentence was deferred. James Kelly and two others were then indicted for a riot and attempt to demolish the mills of Messrs. Stirling, at Manchester. They were found guilty, and sentenced to be imprisoned for one year. John Hickey and five others were found guilty of a second attempt on the same mill, and received a similar sentence. Before Mr. Baron Alderson several prisoners were found guilty of riots at Manchester, but sentence was lleferred. Before Mr. Justice Cresswell similar trials took place, and all the prisoners were found guilty, but senten-e was deferred. The trials of Fear- gus O'Connor, the Rev. J. Scholefield, and the Rev. W. Hill (the editor of the Northern Star), will not take place at this special commission, the parties having a right to traverse, and intending to avail themselves of that privi- lege. At Stafford, on Monday, the trial of the prisoners for the attack upon the Rev. Mr. Aitkin's house has been brought to a conclusion. All the parties have been found guilty, except three, Kelsall, Dcane. and Spode. Sen- tence was deferred. Before Mr. Baron Rolfe, John Room and five others were found guilty of an assault npon Bel jamin Benton, and sentenced to transportation for life. Yesterday sentence was passed by Chief Justice Tindal nnon the persons convicted of the demolition of Dr. Vale's house. Six of them were transported for twenty-one years, one for fifteen years, and six for ten years; four were imprisoned for twelve months, three for four months, and one for two months. Arthur O'Xiel was placed at the bar; and an application was made by Mr. Lpe, his counsel, to traverse till next assizes. The Chief J ustiec said lie would consider, and give his deci- sion to-day. Cooper, the Leicester chartist, was then brought up, charged with several others with demolishing the house of M r. W. Parker. Cooper's case was taken alone, and he challanged the whole of the jury. The trial was proceeding when the express left. Before Barons Parke and Rolfe various trials for rioting are proceeding, but no further sentence? have been pronounced. MARRIAGE A LA MODE BRISTOL.—This being the day fixed for the re-examination of Miss Mary Bryers and Mary Ann Morgan. The greatest curiosity was manifested to see the persons of the prisoners, who have made themselves and their silly and selfish victim so much objects of notoriety. Mr. IVoolley did not" show," but his attorney stated that it was not his client's inten- tion to take any further steps against the prisoners in this Court. He requested the magistrate to order a gold watch, &c., to be given up to Mr. Woolley. But Mr. Traill the magistrate refused to make any such order and dismissed the prisoners. Neither of them is i-,retty-par- ticularly Morgan, who has the appearance of a servant girl. Bryers had her face covered with a veil, and ap- peared very humble; but neither seemed at all alarmed at their situation. Yesterday a messenger of Doctors' Commons served a citation on Mary Ann Morgan, the commencement of proceedings instituted in the Ecclesiastical Courts by Mr. Woolley, with whom she had so recently contracted:1 marriage under the extraordinary circumstances already well known. That gentleman, it appears, is now desirous of obtaining a divorce as speedily as possible and when the process was placed in his wife's hands,and she was informed that she had better transmit it to the solicitor or proctor whom she intended to employ, her reply was that she h id no money to go to law, and that she must therefore let the law take its course. DEATH OF THE MURDERER Jr:ssup.-Tliis wretclied man expired this morning at half-past one o'clock.—The coroner's jury, who sat upon the body of the wife, had. yesterday afternoon, returned a verdict of wilful murder" against him, C'OVENT GARDEN THEATRE.—Yesterday the reward or ,two which had been offered for the discovery of the perpetrators of the extensive and singular robbery of ('i-momls to the amount of £ 9000, which was committed i;' "r Theatre on tlie eveningof Wednesday, the oih mst. upon tlie person ofa foreign gentleman, was augmented to the sum of /CluO •. The moat strenuous exertions have been made by the police to discover tne perpetrators, but without effect. The general opinion of the police is, that they have escaped with their valuable booty to the Continent. I ON so i. s f/l, J-; Ditto for Account Oct. 13,93, Dutch m per cent. 52 J Ditto 5 per Cent. l00. CORN MAHKET, MARK L\r:, THTS D,\ y.-ThesuppJy of wheat is small of both English and foreign. Very little business is doing, as the sellers bold back fur Monday's prices, which the buyers are not willing to give.

CARMARTHENSHIRE. AXTI CORN-LAW MEETING AT CARMARTHEN. Last Tuesday there was a large meeting at the Theatre in this town. [An application, we understand, had been previously made to the Mayor for the use of the Town-hall; but his Worship—for reasons, with which we are not acquainted, though, doubtless good ones, as he himself is professedly a Liberal, and the near relative of Mr. Morris, the Liberal member for the borough—refused what we deem to havi; been an application, which no merely joint-stock consider- ations ought to have stood in the the way of his granting1, though the absence of a requisition might. In the mayor- alty of Mr. Webb, a highly popular gentleman, we believe, a similar course called forth some remonstrance. For our- selves, we are disposed to regard a Town-hall not as the property of a joint-stock company, but as municipal or public property—we look upon it as the property of the town. as belonging to the town's people, to be by them and their representatives used on all fit occasions.] A few minutes after seven o'clock in the evening the business of the meeting commenced. Mr. B. Davies moved and Mr. E. Evans seconded a re- lation proposing Mr. J. P. Davies as chairman, who ac- cordingly took the chair, and made a few observations to the effect that every body must admit the importance of the subject they were assembled to hear illustrated. H0' was sorry that they could not have many more to llear, but lIe could promise a free stage and fair play to all. Mr. Walter Griffith then came forward and said he was a lecturer of the Anti-Corn-law League at Manchester; he would much rather speak in Welsh than English, and hoped they would give him a fair hearing and overlook any English blunders, as he was born at the foot of Snolf- don— Mr. Griffith proceeded to address the meeting in E T'g, hsh but the chairman put it to them whether the addre^ should not be in Welsh, as almost every one understo? Wd,h. The question having been carried in the Idi" mative, Mr. Griffith delivered the greatest part ot t" lecture in Welsh. He began by avowing himself th representative of the National Anti-Corn-law L?g"< body—having for its object the total and immediate repc3 of the Corn-h wS,-a body belonging to no political  He trusted they wou!d grant him a fair tearing, and it i1^\ they wished to rep!y, he would give them the same. Be ,j advocated the repeal of the Corn-laws, because he beJ¡evcd i)j them to be unjust; and that the repeal would benefit the III w hole nation. He then proved tha.t the farmer? rec-E?ive?, no benefit from tho$c laws, by showing the great fluctU- ,t ations that have taken place in prices, and the greavtf distress prevailing among them for the last 25 years- j The farmers had entered upon high rent farms? in hop? that they would receive high prices, but the law failed, all?' thousands of farmers were ruined by prices. The law J must injurious to the farmer, because it lets corn m a i low prices when he wants to sell his corn. It makes th" corn trade a gambling concern. He then showed tha the agricultural labourers were not benefited by th j Corn-law; ajthou?h it was true they went out at th f breezy ca 11 of incense breathing morn." It was also uY I that they got only 7s. a week for their hard labonr..1 i then showed the importance of trade to the agriculture It was in the trading districts they found market fi their produce. If the people are not well employed* the cannot be the farmers' customers. Heais' trade took <'?; overplus population from the agricultural district, which/ could not be employed at home, and he tnstance? th' great increase per cent. of the manufacturing popuiat?' over the ncu1tur:). l]e then said that the farmers h,? a r?ht to complain of Sir R. !'eel, the cnu? ot their mtress was, that their customers were rutne? He then showed the importance of Foreign trade, anV said if those markets were lost, the hands would be tur,cl out of employment, and instead of being the family customers, they would become paupers, and eat  hmd up. N The lecturer proceeded in En?i?h to illustrate advantages of Iree-trade by instancing the Mcts of tht! | great increase of tonnage and imports to India J"?'j )' C!nna since the part'at and total abolition of the?? t India Companys' monapoty. Also showed what a P?'' c¡>[' ft?'S'?.'? the reduction of duty on thrown and o??,, silks ] i i produced in 'he consumption of the art»c'f' named. That a n:—i. of getting rid of the Income' tax, ih?- :nust fh-s' get rid cf the sugar and other  .? ,¡ i,? '? Government tried to reheve the people ?.fpn's letter, and emigration; but that t'? people did not want charity but justice, and that the I whole amount of the sum raised by the Queen's letter did not much exceed the sum paid for wgc for a single (Ii-?tric,t. After some further remarks O-ffith resume-! his seat amidst the cheers of th? assembly. I Mr. Thomas Jfnes, Ironmonger, proposed and ?? ( Harries secon'.?d ?hat a vote of thanks be given to bUD Aft' r Mr. Girilhh had returned thanks, a vote of thank was passed to the Chairman for his conduct in thechai- In returning thanks, he staged that he had knt the Th?? atre, ?ec?use the lecturer had been ref used the vise Hall bv the mayor and that too while the HaU had b< used for common exhibitions, jugglers, and others, o; question rehttixg to the food of the penp!e, the hah c? pot be obtained, which he thought was disereditab'c. u