The Welshman

REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF INQUIRY. [From the Times. 1 In a former numoer of The Times, immediately after their publication, we primed at length the opinion and r. port of the commissioners on the evidence received by ihcin. We purpose now reviewing the evidence upon which that report of the commissioners has been f.-Lindtd. It will be remembered by the public, that this journal, s. on after the breaking out of the disturbances in Wales, sent down a gentleman of its staff for the purpose of communicating to the public through our columns what was taking place, and if possible to ascertain the cause of the strange warring against turnpike-gates, wiÜch then was the only apparent object of so many outrages. In the prosecution of these inquiries, that gentleman found that the disturbances arose from many causes combining to make the people discontented, and liom time to time, through the columns of this journal, ve made public the result of his inquiries. The most prominent complaints were against the vexatious and expressive operation of the turnpike tax discontent at the expenditure of the New Poor Law; complaints against the increase of the tithes under the Tithe (.'ummutation Act; high rents; maladministration of j istiee; justices' clerks' fees, and on other subjects: •• \d at length these complaints, being entirely unredressed, broke cut into open acts of violence and disturbances, under the name of Rebeccaism; Not only was the state of the country represented—faithfully represented by us, but these several causes of discontent each fmiy lifted by our correspondent, and each made the subject of repeated letters, which then ap- peared in the columns of The Times. At length, when tae cu.iohicf had nearly exhausted itself, and when many of the evils were abated by our public exposure of them, the Government, having first unsuccessfully tried the experiment of sending down a police magistrate, probably to inquire if by an adroit use of force the spirit of insurrection might be quelled, or its ringleaders apprehended, deputed three commissioners to investigate th'.se grievances of which the people complained, and vhich we had alrendy made fully known. In order, however, to avoid as much as possible disclosures upon one of the chief grounds of discontent— tiie Poor Law,—the Home Secretary was careful to select for an office requiring the strictest impartiality one gentleman who was himself a Poor Law Com- missioner, and two others who were known to be supporters of the measure. It will not either be forgotten that a London morning journal, from what cause is indifferent to us, accused us, whilst making public the condition of South Wales, of monstrous exaggeration," of "full blown humbug;" of misrepresenting the causes of the disturbances wilfully and designedly;" of pursuing, "perhaps, the most extraordinary species of systematic delusion and misrepresentation which the annals of the public press could furnish," against which it cautioned the puùlic of exercising an impudent imposture," at which England and Wales had laughed in chorus," and recommended the inhabitants of South Wales to "Lynch I law" our correspondent for his gross perversions of the truth." The inhabftants of the principality did not take this advice. It is not unlikely they thought the mis- representation lay not with us. The immense mass of unarranged evidence before us was taken by the commissioners in the progress of their inquiries through the counties of South Wales. From Her Majesty's commission it appears the commissioners had power to obtain this evidence on oath, where requisite. It is therefore to be presumed that the evidence before us is either evidence on oath or it is the evidence of men to whom they did not think it needful to administer an oath. We propose, in order to make the evidence intelligible, to arrange it under the different subjects of which it treats, and, as we proceed, we will give references to our statements made in The Times previously to this inquiry, on each and every subject; and if it shall appear that our representations are repeated over and over again in every page-if it shall appear that often we have stated the opinions and feelings of people of all ranks in their very words, as sworn to, or credibly stated before the commissioners, it will then be apparent to whom the charge of misre- presenting the causes of the disturbances wilfully and designedly" must attach, and the accusation against our correspondent of gross perversions of the truth" will most fitly recoil upon the heads of its authors. [The writer then proceeds to show what the state of the country wa from the evidence published in the "blue-book." To the readers of the The Welshman" this evidence does not possess sufficient interest for the space its republication would require. It is needless for us to refer, on this subject, to any particular account in our columns of these various disturbances, and of this excited and disorganized state of society. We almost daily described these scenes. We do not either think it necessary to refer to the evidence relating to the burnings, so numerous in Car- marthenshire, to the firing into the windows of tithe agents, or to the murder of the poor old gate-woman at Pontardulais, or to the fight between the police and the people, which resulted in the capture of a young far- mer, who has since been sentenced to 20 years' trans- portation for being concerned in that riot. We have extracted evidence enough to confirm our descriptions as to the state of the country. But in the very midst of all this, what where the representations of our contemporary on this subject ? South Wales (says his reporter) is, on the best information I can obtain, in a state of comparative peace and perfect security. So much is this the case, that I hear on all sides innumerable complaints of the erroneous impressions on this subject promulgated by The Times newspaper." In my journey to this place (Carmarthen) I made inquiries at every town and village lpas-ged through, and I found without a single exception that the people knew and cared very littlefor Rebecca or her daughters." [The Morning Ilerald, as might have been expected, has attacked The Times tooth and nail in grand style, perhaps we should say in Grand-mama's style. The length, however, to which the old lady's sayings ex- tends, prevents us from doing more than wishing her well out of a quarrel which she has the worst of.- Welshman.J ]

CHESTER ASSIZES-EXTRAORDINARY SCENE. On the trial of the Rbuabon Mining cases, an ex- traordinary scene took place in court. Mr. Temple and Mr. Townsend appeared as counsel for the prosecution, but the Attorney-General claimed his right to appear on behalf of the Crown, which right he said had been reserved to him by the the act for the abolition of the Welsh judicature. The jury having been sworn, and the Attorney-General having asked to see the indictment, Mr. Temple said- I object to anybody having the record except the parties retained in the case. This is a nisi prius re- cord, and the Attorney-General has nothing to do with it. It has nothing to do with the gaol delivery. He comes from the Queen's Bench, and if any officer has a right to interfere with the matter, it is the Attorney- General of England." The Attorney-General rose and, holding the record in his hand, said—" May it please your Lordship and gentlemen of the jury, I claim precedence in this pro- secution, but as I am not instructed, and as I do not find any witnesses on the back, I shall here call none." Mr. Temple objected to the Attorney-General inter- fering in this case. The Attorney-General said-" I object to my junior in this prosecution getting up to try the case. As At- torney-General for the Queen, I appear to support her rights and my own. The attorney who has got up this case has not thought fit to instruct me, but I will not give up the Queen's rights and my own for any man living. I have conducted all the cases connected with this dispute. Only one mine has been tried, and the rest have stood over. I could have entered a nolle prosequi on this very indictment in Denbighshire, if I had thought fit; and is it to be said, because the indict- has been removed, that I am to be deprived of the right ? Is the Queen's right thus to be dealt with ? If such conduct as this is to be allowed, whatever rights Her Majesty ever had may be called into question. I will not submit to my junior, and one who has been so all the week; and I do not know of anything tha-t has occurred to give him so much consequence as that he should take the lead of me. I have not been instructed. I am, however, ready to go on if I am instructed. 1 shall not call any witnesses indeed, it would be pre- sumptuous in me to do so, because I do not know what the witnesses might say." The Judge.—" I am the last man to interfere with or infringe upon the rights of any mr n in this or any other case. My personal inclination is, that the Attorney- G neral should be instructed, but how could he prevent the case being submitted to a jury ? If there is an omission, and that there is I must regret, I cannot say because of that omission that the case cannot go on." Mr. T emple.—il The Attorney-General has exhibited considerable heat, which is not unnatural, but all I will say is, that I never appeared in any case without instruc- tions, and these I have no po er to refuse. It is no assumption on my part that I ap ear to conduct this case, but I contend that the attoi,.ey has a right to con- sult any counsel he pleases. This is a nisiprins record, a;,d I have done that for my clients which is their right by the laws of the land. The facts are these :-The irdietment has been found by the grand jury, it has bren recorded in the Queen's Bench, it comes here as a Queen's Bench record, it has nothing to do with the gaol delivery, and even the Attorney-General for England has no right to follow it, and has never aborted that right with respeet to nisi prius records. fy clients have a clear right to employ their own counsel. After some further bickering, Mr. Jervis announced that the matter hnd been adjusted between the parties, and a juTor would be withdrawn. A reference of the case was then agreed on.

PFOFTJNXMTIFS OF PLNCII.—To make a marriage three things are required:—First, that the parties will n^arrv seccndlv, that they can and thirdly, that they do: th,ii,(,h to us it seems that if they do, it matters li,tie wh@th(,r ttiel- and that if they f ill, it is of little consequence whether they con; for if they do, they do-, and ifrhev wil?, rhev nutxt because where there is a will there is a way, end thprefnre there enn if they and if they don't it is because they won't-, v,hich brings ns to the conclusion, that if they do marry, t is absurd to speculate ou whether they will or can.

r ANOTHER CRIMINAL CLERGYMAN. At the Bristol Quarter Sessions last Tuesday the Rev Henry Heathcote, 40 years of age, who is a clergyman of the Church of England, lately residing at Granbyhill, Clifton, a married man with two sons, was placed at the bar charged with series of offences of a most disgusting character. The prosecution was conducted by Mr. Smith and the defence by Messrs. Stone, Skinner, and Piiiiin. The first indictment charged the prisoner with intent to commit an abominable crime on one William Haines, on the 23rd January secondly, with the solicitation to commit; thirdly, with the common assault only; and fourthly, with solicitation, &c.,with one John Cox. A second indictment charged the prisoner with the same offence towards one John Burbidge, on the 23rd of July last; and a third indictment alleged against him similar practices on the 7th of July, towards one Alfred Carter. It is of course utterly impossible to give the evidence, of which we shall say no more than that it disclosed a state of moral depravity on the part of the prisoner which we cannot bring ourselves to believe could exist with sanity of intellect. As respects the first indictment, the Jury acquitted the prisoner of all the serious counts, and found him guilty only of- the common assault on the second indictment they found him not guilty of the intent, but guilty of the solicitation, and of the common assault. On the third indictment, Mr. Smith considering the ends of justice obtained, did not offer any evidence. The Recorder then said it became his painful duty to pronounce the sentence of the Court, which he should do as briefly as possible. For the offence of the common assault in the first indictment, of which he had been found guilty, the prisoner was to pay a fine of 20s. to her Majesty; for the offence in the second indictment, of solicitation to commit an unnatural crime, that he be imprisoned for Twelve Months in the common gaol of this city: and for the common assault in that indictment, he do pay a further fine of 20s.

CIIURCHWARBEN-A Disse)tter-In answer to the question—Can't a person who is a dissenter, be legally appointed churchwarden to a parish church for a town- ship in which he does not reside ? a contemporary says-A person who dissents from the Church of Eng- land is not on that ground exempted from serving the office of churchwarden; but he may execute the office by deputy, 1 Will. IV., c. 18, s. 7 and 11. Formerly it seems to have been considered that no person could be chosen churchwarden for a parish, who lived out of the parish, though he might occupy lands within it. It has, however, been decided that occupancy in a parish without residence is sufficient. Thus it has been held, that a non-resident partner in a house of trade-but residing in another parish-is liable to serve the office of churchwarden where the business is carried on (Stephen- son v. Langston, 1 Consist. 3ï6). THE PRESIDENT AND THE NEGRO.-The life of President Tyler, we learn from the American papers, has been saved by a black man. Heroes of the olden day have gladly preferred death rather than owe their lives to acts of persons mean or infamous and animated by the like enobling spirit, we must believe that President Tyler would have earned for himself a higher reputation with his countrymen, had he loudly and sternly rejected the succour of the black, and suffered himself to be whirled down the mortal precipice before him It would have been a sublime spectacle to behold President Tyler prepared for death, and loudly forbidding the approach of the negro, as a creature with whom he had nothing in common-an outcast of God and man, whose compassionate help brought odium on the assisted. Thus dying, the President would have asserted a great principle, and left a memory sweet and balmly to man-selling Americans. As it is, the life of President Tyler, is damnified, soiled, blotted: for he holds it only from the compassion of a black, who is most probably a slave However President Tyler, in the overflow of his grati- tude, may wish to reward his deliverer. May we sug- gest the mode ? A white man is to be hanged in Louisiana for aiding and abetting the escape of a black woman; let the negro who has saved the white Pre- sident have a place at his execution, that he may see the punishment of the white who, touched by humanity, would save a black.-Punch. F AGGJNG.-A boy of sixteen years of age, named Black, entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, on Thursday the 1st of last month, [February,] as a gentleman-cadet; and had hardly been within the walls of the place when he found himself exposed to every sort of rude insult, personal maltreatment, and vulgar outrage. For the first four days of his residence within the seminary, he continued to get on tolerably well; being merely ordered by the other boys out of his bed, after the fires and lamps were out, and being made to stand in one end of the room while his co- gentlemen-cadets initiated themselves in the mysteries of their intended profession, by throwing shoes, shoe- brushes, or whatever else came to hand, at his head. On the Sunday, during the day, having tied his feet together with a rope, they raised him up in such a manner as-to enable them to force his head into a bucket of water; and on the evening of the same day, they compelled him, under threats of injury of a similar kind, to go out and perchase whisky and brandy for their use. On his return with a bottle of each, the bottle of whisky was accidentally broken; but the brandy the hopeful young gentlemen converted into toddy; and having drank it, retired to bed. From Monday to Thursday, Gentleman-cadet Black continued to endure every sort of personsal violence from the lads who had heralded him to the Academy and on the Thursday he was beaten, because, in requesting from one cadet, for the use of another, a bason of water, he refused to utter the words, Where the h- is the bason ?' and merely said, Can you tell me where the bason is ?' On Friday morning, covered with bruises—shocked and disgusted with the society into which he had been I thrown-perceiving no prospect of an end to the sufferings which he was compelled daily to undergo— Cadet Black fled from the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and after wandering about London, for two days and two nights, got on board a steamer and found his way to Fifeshire, where his parents reside. This lad's case is not the only one of which we have heard as illustrating the state of juvenile ferocity in which the authorities at the Royal Academy, Woolwich, by some extraordinary oversight permit the young men committed to their care :to rear themselves. On contrary, one new cadet was lately stripped quite naked by his more elderly compeers, and in the depth of winter, compelled to go outside of a window where, resting his feet, in the best manner he could, on the outer sill of the win- dow, and clinging to the window itself with his hands, he was oblige4 to remain upwards of an hour—the young savager, meanwhile, in the room within, en- joying the agony they thus caused The consequence of this latter barbarity, we are assured, is, that the cadet so treated had been placed in the hospital of the Academy, and has been alarmingly ill. THE ROMANCE OF RAILROADS.—In the Illustrated Magazine there is a paper by Dr. Roden, entitled Travel and Talk," and dated Naples." The Doctor writes :—To-day Colonel N. called to propose an excur- sion to Herculaneum, and a pic-nic in Pompeii after- wards. To the latter place I was engaged with another party, so discussed only Herculaneum. You will hire the carriages ?" said 1. Oh dear, no he replied, we all intend to go by the railroad." Heavens and earth," I exclaimed, what an anti- thesis !—Herculaneum and the railroad!—why there will not be left a single poetical reminiscence undese- crated by modern inventions. Railroad to Hercu- laneum A French paper describes a most extraordinary debut performed by the Spanish dancer Mademoiselle Lola Montes. not unknown in London. She has now carried what may be called the Honi soit qui mal y pense" principle to its extreme point. The newspapers beyond the Rhine mentioned this lady some months ago on the occasion of a freak which greatly disturbed the composure of the Northern Courts. [Being, we believe, at Warsaw, and attending a review of the Russian troops, the said danseuse, who rode, a frisky horse, ventured beyond the limits imposed upon the public. An attempt was made to make her re-enter them but the impetuous Spaniard responded to iktfith her riding- whip, and routed a party of Muscovite gendarmes. This sort of liberty could not remain unpunished, and the Governor of Warsaw issued a warrant for the appre- hension of Mademoiselle Lola. But Mademoiselle Lola had not parted with her whip; she applied it to the fronts and rears of the Government's agents, and, quick as lighting, fled and vanished. The Government sent a squadron of cavalry in pursuit of her;, but the towns- people protected her retreat, and there was almost a riot on the occasion. From that moment the name of the brave and valiant Spaniard acquired a degree of celebrity, and Paris remembered her prowess quite well, then. a few davs aaro, it was informed that two foreign dancers, Mademoiselle Cerito and Mademoiselle Lola Montes, had just entered its walls. Mademoiselle Cerito had often been demanded by the habituce of the Opera but for the present there was too strong a com- petition for her to stand. The triumphs achieved by the Italian danseuse at the theatres of Venice, Milan, and London, could not rival the horsewhipping dealt by Madamoiselle Lola in a manceuvering field, and before a Russian army. Let us have Lola Montes,' cried the orchestra, stalls, and pit we wish to see whether her foot be as light as her hand.' Forthwith were the Opera-gates thrown open to her; and surely never did orchestra, stalls, and pit, witness a more astounding entree. After her first leap she stopped short on the tips of her toes, and, by a movement of prodigious rapidity, detached one of her garters, to the utter amazement of every opera-glass. Mademoiselle Lola then to-k another leap to the very edge of the proscenium, shaking with her fingers the riband which had just encircled her leg, and mustering her most fascinating graces, she Sung that riband to the specta- tors. Mademoiselle Elssler was but a Spaniard of Berlin. Notwithstanding the excellent effect produced by this piquant eccentricity, Mademoiselle Lola has not met with the reception she expected. Her style of dancing has not been understood; and it has been deemed proper to dispense with her second dn ut, although it had been announced. She may solac herself with the persuasion that she has been the \iitim of a diplomatic cabal, and been sacrificed to the preten- sions of Russia." T. D. E."—" Rora gutta excaveat lapidem." We will persevere, proud to deserve T. D. E.'s praise. We have scores of A Subscriber" every post; the signature is about as significant as that of AConstant Reader." We would gladly insert Olim-Ultra-Tory's" letter, if we had room; it is much too long. M.B."—My Molly's face, my Molly's form The frost of hermit age might warm." Very possible; but no poet is a plagiarist, any more than a true lover is a libertine. ° "A Pembrokeshire Friend :"—we have not room; besides, the lie is not only a barefaced one, but it carries with it its own refutation by a reference merely to the col imns of the Welshman against which the calumny was let off.- There were some misprints in Mr. Rodway's advertisements his manuscript, like our own, was not dealt so fairly with as is desirable. Honestus. They're a cheating, over-reaching, jobbing, dodging, mean, snivelling set. It's as bad as an emetic to think of them. We will, however, nevertheless apply the whip" at the proper time and in the proper place. That Honestus" may depend upon. A Little Wren" flew into our office when all our columns were pre-ocoupied.

Ex nihilo nil fit: out of a parliament that does nothing, it is plain nothing can be done-one can't make any thing in the shape of a Summary or any thing else. The same piece of argumentative philosophy of course applies also to the absence of political events, only that the latter may be manufactured by the initiated, as is seen every day, but most signally in the Spanish news line, as a paragraph elsewhere proves. But where there are no striking political events of general interest-as is the case at the present moment—no summary of them can be well and truly made-tltcit we are ready to take our oath of. What then is to be done for a Summary ? Events (we have just said) like our do-no-thing legisla- tors, it would seem, are spending the Easter holidays tigether; and as the men on the money market say nothing is doing." It is just now a season for nothing bat rejoicing, it is a period of perfect pleasuring, pret- tily and profoundly described by an eminent writer of Cockaigne as a jubilee in which all the world and his mother" are enjoying themselves all the world is basking in the sun, even the Prime Minister himself, whose go- vernment just before the Easter recess got into such a scrape, owing partly to Sir James Graham's mal adrcssc, but principally to Lord Ashley's humane heart sup- ported by Lord John Russell's arithmetical head-even the Premier himself is resting himself, and getting a bit of breathing time before his next battle in the house, while Sir James Graham, like a badger, that has been baited at the Westminster pit three nights a week, is licking his sores, thanking the saints that his nose is not quite bit off, and congratulating himself on having saved his own bacon, and his party's also. All the world are enjoying themselves in one way or the other. Mr. Editor alone is at work, and as he doggedly dashes his pen into the columns to be filled, he perhaps thinks that it is for him alone to say, he is always at it- Nullum a labore me reclinat labore." But this is neither here nor there—what's to be done, we should like to know, in the dearth of all news that stands in the way of our Political Summary" ? There's no news at all, either domestic, foreign, or parliamentary- excepting of course, that which is already in our columns, and which requires no summary" to illustrate its salient points. For our part, the best thing, we think- and no bad thought, either—the best thing that can be done under the circumstances, as one's compelled by the world's barrenness and man's holiday-making to write nil this week against the res gesta of both, is to try back, as a Nimrod would say, and take up the par- liamentary res gestee of the semi-session last past. And as we have such a retrospective piece of furniture in our library, cut and dry from able London contempora- ries, we perhaps cannot do better than put it in here at once. Tait-a fellow who has got a knack of telling every month the most unpalatable truths-Tait tells us truly enough that the weary session dragged on till Easter, crowning the small promise of its commence- ment with large talk and infinitesmal performance. If, as has been said, 1 Happy are they whose annals are tedious of perusal,' our legislators must be living in a very paradise. Hansard is coming to be a synonyme of dulness and Adjourned Debate bids fair to be good dictionary-English for vanity and vexation of spirit.' But to the before promised semi-sessional retrospect. Our able but sometimes cynical and prejudiced contem- porary the Spectator" says one half of the session is spent already. What there is to show for it (without adopting his opinions) we will let our contemporary communicate in his characteristic and unmistakeable manner:— Parliament has amused itself in knocking about the Factory Bill, which it so much damaged last session it then struck off the educational clauses-now it has spoiled the bill of its provisions to regulate the time of adolescent and female labour. The bill to amend the Poor-law remains to be mauled after Easter, with every prospect of rough handling. The Irish Parliamentary and Municipal franchise have only just been introduced, and we have as yet scarcely made their acquaintance. Mr. Gladstone has signalized his department by altering the Parliamentary regulations about railway-bills, and by his amendment in the law of partnership. The Lord-Advocate has before Parliament a little bill to amend the Scotch prison-discipline. The Ecclesiastical Courts Bill, a fragment of last year's measure, has floated down from the Lords to the Commons, to take its luck. There have been two notable instances of completed legislation one ii Mr. Goulburn's great financial exploit, the conversion of the Three-and-a-half per Cent Annuities; the other is the passing of the brace of bills to arrest the qui tarn actions against the noble and honourable persons who have infringed the law in excessive betting at horse- races. Among the private legislation, Lord Worsley's endeavour to enclose commons by wholesale is con- spicuous. Mr. Sharman Crawford's attempt systema- tically to stop the Supplies" until grievances were re- dressed, was conspicuous only for C its utter failure. Some things have been talked about plentifully Ireland and the State trial, in the monster-debate of eight nights, besides skirmishes; Maynooth; India and Scinde; the Slave-treaties of 1831 and 1833; Corn Laws, Sugar-duties, Duelling; with more or less of variety -less rather than more. Party has been displayed in its narrowest spirit and meanest aspect. Ireland was the first great subject prostituted to party uses: the Opposition made an exhibition of Liberal professions, an opening was formed for O'Connell to rejoin the Whig alliance; but the voting strength of the party was not augmented, and its palpably factious motive injured its credit. The contest about the Ten-hours project to be engrafted on the Factory Bill, was more damaging to Ministers. Lord Ashley helped the Whigs to throw the Treasury-bench into some confusion; and Ministers were forced into a thankless fight with philantrophy, cant, and hypocrisy. But the conflict of opinion no less shook their assailants, and factious manoeuvering again recoiled in discredit on the faction. Nevertheless, the discussions were not quite fruitless public men have taken up advanced positions in questions of social politics and economy and the birth of Young England has been followed by that of the very infant Anti-Laissez-faire party, represented at present by Lord IIowick and Mr. Buller. Another London contemporary gives our legislators a nice slap, sarcastically exclaiming—" What a laborious semi-session they have just concluded, and how delight- ful the fruits of their toil! They have got through the supplies with unprecedented despatch" observes the Nonconformist. They have discussed a Factories bill which has been withdrawn. They have driven over, until after the holidays, the few measures of public in- terest which have been submitted to their notice; and they have passed a bill for the protection of aristocratic blacklegs. Can we wonder that, even with the oc- casional respite of blank houses and countings out, which occurred on the average nearly twice a week, these patriotic gentlemen should sigh for rest ? Anxiety, too, no doubt, has aggravated their fatigue, for, by a sort of mistake, which, however unforeseen, is easily ac- counted for, they had forced the ministry into a position of temporary peril. Many of them, therefore, require a change of scene, in order that they might forget how they voted on the Ten Hours bill. Country air will, doubtless, powerfully contribute to their recovery of clearsightedness, and, awed by the threats of Sir Robert Peel, they will return to duty with altered views, and with less rebellious spirits."

An intelligent London contemporary-with whom and ourselves there is a coincidence of opinion on the subject of roads, and whose observations on the Welsh Commissioners' Report our columns have the advantage to-day of possessing-says that the whole turnpike- gate system is barbarous. Of all modes of collection of any tax, the collection of turnpike tolls is the most costly-the collection which, with most charge to the tax-payer, brings least revenue into the public coffers for public uses." To each toll-bar is a toll-taker, of necessity. The wages, and the peculation which often exceeds the wages of this army of toll-takers, would doubtless alone suffice to maintain many of the roads under good management, better than they are now maintained. But the toll-taker is not all; there is the lessee of the toll." It is obvious that there is a disadvantage in the collection of this tax, which far exceeds anything incurred where a tax is levied by assessment." Then there is the annoyance of the manner of collection with a host of other annoyances; besides which there is a strong temptation to fraud- forcibly pointed out in the. article to which we have invited the attention of the reader, and to which we now beg at once to refer him. We ourselves will only observe that Fraud of all kinds must necessarily and in the nature of things, or rather of tolls, be frequent. There is not a day indeed passes, but fraud of one sort or the other, is committed either by the toll-people or the toll-payers. No longer ago than yesterday a case was tried at our Carmarthenshire Quarter Sessions, in which a man named William Lewis, was prosecuted to conviction for having illegally erected a turnpike-gate on a public road. In this case there are, however, two points not common to all similar cases. The first is the Learned Chairman's emphatic declaration that it was by such men as Lewis who- hy their iniquity and corruption-first of all exasperated and provoked the people to outrage and violence, and who were there- fore far worse, far more culpable, far more wicked than the mm who have been transported. For the precise terms (we believe they are the ipsissima verba) in which the Learned Chairman pronounced judgment on the prisoner, at the same time denouncing that abominable system of JOBBERY, FRAUD, and Ex- TORTION which the Welshman has so often condemed, we refer the reader to our report in another column. We said that there were t<wo things that took the case in question out of the mass of similar frauds incidental to our vicious toll-system. We have just mentioned one. The other we communicate in the language of a correspondent, who says "It is not a little singular that out of the nine ma- gistrates on the bench at the time of the Chairman's passing sentence upon William Lewis, no less than six of them were Trustees of the very Trust upon the roaJls belonging to which Lewis had erected the illegal toll- gate. There can be no wonder then, that a majority of the magistrates voted against imprisoning the toll- collector. With the knowledge of this fact in view, it can scarcely be marvelled at that suspicion is attached to every act of the magistrates, and that it is even hinted, that the immediate payment of Lewis's jEoO was symptomatic of collusion."

There will be seen to day, amongst the multifarious articles which our columns contain, some" Irish notions of Wales." These notions are not only the undoubted product of an Irish pen and of an Irish press, but they are also perfectly Irish" in the general acceptation of that term. That our readers will be delighted with them-we mean with the Hibernian notions which we discovered t'other day in the Nation, and have this evening enriched the Welshman with-no doubt at all can be entertained. For our own part, we think we have discovered a treasure and we feel as men may be imagined to feel who have had the rare felicity to find a rich vein of silver ore on a neglected part of their estate, or a Golconda and Potosi in the potatoe field adjoining the kitchen garden. Nor do we hardly know which most to admire, the writer or the writing, the Irish-man or the Irish matter. It is really difficult to determine which is most to be marvelled at and commended-the intimate acquaintance with the habits of thought and action peculiar to the Principality which the Nation's notions evidence, or the profound knowledge of the principles on which Legislation, localization" and federalization ought to be immutably based. But although the task of assigning superiority to any one thing above another in the Hibernian storehouse of "notions," where all is so emphatically excellent, would defy the discriminating power of even the subtilest philosopher, one thing is certain; and that is, that the Repeal notion is both new and elevating, new and also not a little elevating to a Welshman. Aye, sure It will give him a rise Which must open his eyes. A rise to assert his nationality-a rise to open his eyes, to make him see his slavery, and, as a sequitur, a rise to open his eyes to the necessity of striking the blow. In the language of the Liberator then, we say- Hereditary bondsmen, know ye not, who would be free Themselves must strike the zow.11 Wales is a Nation, a great Nation-it is as much a Nation as the great exponent of public opinion we are now praising. Little Wales is own brother to the sister isle, to old Ireland. Cambria is great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth, first gem of the sea. Why, then, should Cambria be but the footman on the monkey-board of John Bull's carriage of State ? The old calumny and scoundrelly sneer in the Saxon's nursery rhyme was, that "Taffy was a Welshman, and Taffy was a thief"-now, it seems he is a slave. A slave !—no Welshman can be a slave. "Breathes there a man so ba* Who never to himself has said"- You know the rest. Welshmen never, never shall be slaves. We have "baffled the Plantagenets, which so often trod upon the breast-plates of the Norman, which sometimes bent in the summer, but ever rose when the fierce elements of winter came to aid the native." We have stood under Llewellyn, and rallied under Owen Glendower, and gave the dragon flag and Tudor kings of England." "The prophecy of 1200 years" is not "false"—"the people and tongue" have not passed away-not a bit of it. We, the Cymry, who have so often trod upon the breast-plates of the Norman, per- forming prodigies of valour and giving the dragon flag and a good drubbing besides to the stolid Saxon, have a right to a Local Senate. Localization by means of Federalism, seems the natural and best resource of a country like Wales, to guard its purse, and language, and character from imperial oppression and its soil from foreign invasion. As powers run it is not like Ireland, quite able, if free, to hold its own ;.but it has importance enough to entitle it to a local congress for its local affairs." Let localization then by means of federalism be our rallying cry. Wales can do well without England, and the sooner a repeal of the union takes place the better. We ourselves are for having Repeal imme- diately. Get it then, ye men of the mountain, do it then ye little leeks, and without delay for, If it were done, whpn 'tis done, then 'twere well done, If 'twere done quickly." Wales wants to have nothing more to do with England. We have have had enough of the Saxon—the toll- lessees are Saxons. Repeal then we say. We will have Repeal. John Bull, or Behemoth biggest born of earth" may upheave his vastness, but with all his vast- ness, his bullying and eyes-blessing, Wales will have Repeal. Rise Cymru, strike, and your chains will break. Oh I where's the slave so lowly, Who could he burst, His bonds at first. Would pine beneath them slowly?" Hurrah for Repeal! Localization and federalism for ever!

The grain of sense in the "notions" which we have just this moment been smiling at seems to us to be this—" Wales has nominally 29 members, but Taffy and Rebecca seem to have no control over them, though there are 48,000 electors." This is perfectly true; the Welsh constituencies have little or no control over their members. Members walk into Parliament very much as a matter of course, the great bulk of the people knowing little of, and.caring less for, Politics perhaps than any other million (that is our population) in her Majesty's dominions. Give a Welshman of the humbler constituent class his" brarth" and baccar", his "wit- ties" and his worship, and he is as happy as a prince. He never bothers his head about politics, not he. Pastorals even are much more to his taste than politics. Rura mihi et rigui placeant in vallibus amnes, Flumina amem sylvasque mglorius,—" What our friend of the Nation says of the absence of all efficient control in the body constituent over the body representative is perfectly correct. In one sense, at least, the members for the principality have been hitherto (and we believe they all think themselves so too now) the most independent set of gentlemen that ever set foot in St. Stephens, or enjoyed a seat in that august assembly. Whether this sort of independence is a public good or a public evil, is a question which may be safely enough left to the growing intelligence of the people to deter- mine. We are content to state the fact. We know, indeed every body now knows, that if the gentlemen do not fall out with each other there is never any contest, never any opposition or any thing at all unpleasant." There is in short, as we have on former occasions said no Public in Wales there is no Public Opinion, and, as a necessary coincidence, no Public Press. Alto- gether, the good of the country—the interests of Wales and of Welshmen—are less considered and attended to than the demands of almost any county in England. We do not even know a member, not one member for Wales who has ever made a figure in Parliament. What is the reason of this ? Why, one principal reason, amongst other reasons, probably is this- there is no demand in Wales for parliamentary talents and energy. Men, therefore, even if they coula make a figure, do not, and hon. gentlemen take it easy." This free-and-easy legislation is in one of its cffects analogous to easy writing it has been said, that easy writing is deuced hard reading; and may we not also say to Messieurs our M.P.'s—" Good Sirs, your easy legislation is deuced hard bearing."

We have not yet had much time-or, to be frank any great inclination either, to leave the genial sun, the vernal air, and the green fields, for the sleepy beauties embalmed in the bulky Blue-Book, which, having been so graciously "presented to both houses of Parliament by command of her Majesty" a week or two back, is now on a visit in South Wales. There is nothing very un- natural in our indifference. Only just think for a moment—setting aside the charms of Spring, and the beauties of natural scenery, (beauties no where more numerous than in our own beautiful Wales) and holding no communion with the gentleman who all "the live-long day" (that's the phraso we believe) sings about the charms of pastoral life to the tune of- Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me. And tune his merry note With the sweet bird's throat, Come hither, come hither, come hither." —only do just think for a moment, we say, and sure we are you will concur with us that it is more agreeable, far more agreeable to have a com- panion in Nature than to pore over a dull, dry docu- ment of nearly 500 pages filled with words. Besides, it is not pleasant to put one's foot even in aptiddle and who then can wonder that a man should not shew any marvellous degree of alacrity in wading through, or trying to wade through, a whole ocean of common-place called Evidence-" clear as mud" and formed by the dribbling of Mr. David This, or the out-pouring of Squire Squaw That t And all the rustic jaw and jargon too about that "deadly lively" subject, turnpike-gates and twopenny rates!, Pile-men, Coryphean clerks of trusts, and Justice-of-the-peace-paragons, who, as Dante says- Dream, though their eyes be open reckless some Of error: others well aware they err. with perhaps here and there a ——" Demi gentleman whose fingers ache With posting duties" for poor Taffy's sake. We think everybody must admit there is nothing very inviting in such a task, in such a dealing with such a blue-book-bundle of 11 Evidence." But, nevertheless, we would have undertaken it—irksome as it manifestly is-but where's the use ? the cui bono of so much bother ? All we could possibly get for a sacrifice of really valuable time, all we should get for the tedium endured and the trouble taken, would be but the confirmation of a fore- gone conclusion we know all about it. The Morning Herald, however, in the equally au- dacious and abortive attempt to lower the estima- tion of The Times' labours in South Wales, has pointed our attention (amongst other things) to a particular passage in which one of the Conservative members for this county ascribes as his "belief" that a great deal of the dissatisfaction that has been prevalent in this country was fostered by the efforts of certain news- papers. And,—adds Col. Trevor a little while after- the poverty of the people led them to listen to persons who have been active in ascribing their distress to bad government. Now, the first charge—or opinion-or belief-or fond imagining-call it what one will-it is plain, amounts to nothing more-it is the residuum of all the words after analysis-than that the local authorities-whose misman- agement and incapacity we suppose nobody will be either so hardy or so absurd as to deny—were rendered rather uneasy-the first step, we believe, it is universally ac- knowledged, in the process of improvement. It is not our intention however to discuss either this question, or the soundness of the opinion we hold on the subject of bad government. As to the latter point, we shall certainly not quarrel with any gentleman who is for things as they are, and not things as they ought to be since sincerity, on which side soever of the dividing line of parties it may be found, will always command respect. Besides—disgusted as any man may well be, with the sick- ening slang so constantly spat out into gentlemens' faces from so called Liberal mouths," foaming with affected horror at bad government" that is the bad govern- ment" under which they hold no place either of profit or honor—nothing is more natural than that the phrase should have got into bad odour, stinking even in the nos- trils of country Squires and county members. Well, we throw overboard a whole cargo of cogent common-places about bad government" ,—confining ourselves to a kind of gentle remonstrance (deferentially conceived and to be temperately made) with the Hon. Colonel Trevor, for the unfavourable opinion that hon. gentleman and gallant colonel appears to have entertained of us, merely because we indicated what we ourselves believed was at the bottom of some of the Welsh grievances. Now, for our part, we think by pursuing that course of observation we best consulted the interests even of those persons who do not acknowledge its propriety—we had almost said their obligations to the Welshman for we have no reserve in saying that it was we who diverted the angry feeling against individuals to the system. Bad government and bad education was our standing text, and we not only preached peace but we braved po- pular prejudices and popular odium by holding up to ridicule and reprehension those persons who pulled down gates or committed any breach whatever of the law. What indeed did we say at first, at the moment the gate-breaking began ? While the neighbouring in- capables who conduct what they call" journals" had not the courage to call the people to order-they had not re- gard enough for either the mistaking men themselves, or the class whom such mistaking excitement jeopardised- while Rebeccaism raged in all its folly and danger—we said—"Away with your folly-act like men, not like fools and cowards. Sally not out at night in disguise, but meet in the face of day-discuss your grievances-make them known, and if the local authorities either cannot, or will not redress them, go to the government, petition Parliament." Our advice was to this effect. What a set of simpletons you all are! How cowardly, and more than all, how irrational are your actions You are night- men-fellows, valiant at pulling down a post in the dark, but you dare not show your faces you steal out—dis- guised-in the night-like thieves, or still more like mad men and fools. Why, in the name of common sense, do you not go at once to Government ?—meet, we tell you, discuss your grievances and petition the Legislature-the Legislature alone has the inherent power to radically redress your grievances. You complain of the local authorities-of trustees-Of jobbers-and justices of the peace-and no doubt they are, in some cases, proper objects of blame; but not indiscriminately, nor per- haps to the extent some of you believe—bad govern- ment, the government in London-not this Tory govern- ment or that Whig government, but bad government" in the concrete-erring and defective, negligent and unwise legislation, no doubt lies at the bottom of some of your grievances. The Welshman, in short, discountenanced—promptly and energetically disco an tenanced-all and every breach of the peace. We did so too single-handed. While persons in the neighbourhood, calling themselves Con- servative journalists, looked on timidly or apathetically —or fanned the flame and filled their teeming columns with dressed up accounts of turnpike-gate exploits—not corruptly and with a guilty knowledge of the harm they were doing we believe, but from sheer stupidity-from feebleness of character and want of common sense- the Welshman stood forth unceasingly as the satirist, or the out-speaking censor, of Rebeccaism. Nor were our humble, but zealous efforts wholly use- less. The sharpness of our reproof-and still more the reasonableness of our recommendation to the people—to which recommendation force of course was imparted by our unflinching advocacy of their rights, and the firm, but temperate assertion of the grievances under which they groaned-was recognised by numbers—nay by ALL we believe, who were sufficiently acquainted with the English language to be able to read our paper. The Welshman then, we maintain, stayed the storm that threatened to burst with such terrifie violence on the heads of individuals in South Wales, and, to a con- siderable extent, prevented that lamentable, devastating mischief to life and property which is the usual conco- mitant of popular commotions; and which must be, in the nature of things, all but inseparable in a case like that which was witnessed here-here where the law was for a long time powerless, for Rebecca ruled with un- disputed sway throughout the country—setting at defi- ance the Civil force and laughing at the puny and abortive efforts of all the local authorities and Justices of the Peace, who feebly opposed their authority to the sic volo, sic jubeo of the sovereign people, to the will and pleasure of the then supreme authority. We think then we may say, and with honest pride, that the Welshman diverted popular prejudice and po- pular violence wherever our voice could reach: and if that voice did not reach farther, the unhappy educational destitution of the people alone created the limit. The Welshman diverted popular antipathy from Persons to Measures—from Welsh landlords, Welsh Magistrates and other local functionaries to the English government —to bad government—and by creating, as we did, this fortunate diversion in public opinion, perhaps it is hardly too much to say that we helped to save a section of the kingdom from some of the horrors of Insurrection -of perhaps a BLOODY INSURRECTION. ————— Crudelis ubique Luctus, ubique pavor et plurima mortis imago. At least, this, we have the satisfaction to know, is the opinion of some of the best and wisest friends of South Wales.

I LATEST NEWS. I LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The statement of the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury shows a surplus in the national in- come over the expenditure of LI,443,302 18s. Sid. for the year ending the 5th January last, and consequently one-fourth of this sum, or £ 360,825 14s. 8d., together with 1999 10s. 9d. on account of donations and be- quests, will be applicable to the purchase of the funded and unfunded debt, 1:60,89-5 14s. 8d. being for invest- ment in the former. This has of necessity led to a further improvement in the value of stock. Consols have been done at 100j, being an advance of per cent. on yesterday's quotation—they arc now 10QA. We have no fresh arrivals of English wheat offering for sale this morning, and its value may be consider- ed nominally the same as on Monday. Foreign, sells slowly at that day's prices. In barley, beans, and peas, there is no alteration. Oats are held firmly, but meet a limited demand. THE WILL FonGERIEs.-The counsel for the pri- soners asked as an indulgence that the case should be postpoued until to-morrow. ELECTIONS.—In anticipation of a vacancy, by the elevation of Sir Frederick Pollock to the bench, the Huntingdon electors are already on the alert for some successor. Mr. Foster states his intention of standing for the borough of Cambridge if the report of an approaching vacancy, founded on the probability of Mr. Fitzroy Kelly becoming Attorney-peneral, be realised. POST-OFFICE CHANGES.—Instead of seven deliveries per diem, as is now the case, there are in future to be ten daily. The Opera re-opened last night in its full magni- ficence, the whole constellation of stars" appearing before the public. Grisi has returned in magnificent voice. LIGHT GOLD.-Many of the country bankers, who charged sixpence each for sovereigns that were short weight, have since re-issued them at full value, and thereby made a very large profit. The tradesmen in the provinces now take gold without any remark as to weight. MARRIAGE OF AN OJIBBEWAY INDIAN.—Yesterday morning Alexander Cadoc, or Notten-akm (the strong wind), was married to Miss Haines, daughter of a carver and gilder, residing at No. 52, George street, Hampstead road. The fair bride, elegantly attired, was accompanied by her father, mother, brother, and sisters; and the happy bridegroom was attended by his Indian com- panions, male and female, dressed in full native costume, which had a most wild and grotesque appearance. A great crowd was attracted to witness the singular and interesting ceremony, which took place at the church of St. Martin's-in-the-fields. Indeed there could not have been fewer than from 2,000 to 3,000 persons as- sembled. The Zanthian expedition, after contending with almost insurmountable difficulties, from the destruction, by a deluge of rain, at the very moment .they were most wanted, of the newly constructed roads and bridges, finally mustered, with the collected treasurers, at Malta, on the 12th of March. The Aurora fays, the young man sentenced to death for aiding in the escape of a quadroon slave, has been pardoned by the Governor of South Carolina. He is, however, to be publicly whipped.

CARMARTHENSHIRE QUARTER SESSIONS. The April Quarter Sessions for Carmarthenshire commenced yesterday, and are continued to-day. The following Magistrates were present :—D. Pugh, Esq., Chairman, Sir James Hamlyn Williams, Bart., J. E. Saunders, John Walter Philipps, Daniel Prytherch, R. G. Thomas, J. Ll. Price, J. B. Davies, J. G. Philipps, David Davies, Charles Morgan, M.D., Charles Morgan, junior, H. Lawrence, M.D., John Bowen, M.D., Thomas Jones, M.D., W. G. Hughes, R. P. Beynon, D. Lewis. J. Bowen, J. Picton, M.D., and A. Timmins, Esqs., the Rev. B. Lewis, and Rev. T. B. Gwyn. J. Picton, M. D., and A. Timmins, Esqrs., qualified as Magistrates for the county. The following gentlemen composed the Grand Jury —John Trevor Alcock, Esq., Foreman Henry Lewis, Hendre; James Rogers, St. Clears; G. B. W. Stack- pole, Laugharne Robert Rollo; Henry Malin, Aber- gwilly; Richard Lewis, Abergwilly; David Simpson, Glantowy Henry Davies, Castlehowell; Thomas Rees, Lanfawr D. R. Parry, Llwyndwyfilltir; John Rees, Maesyrdafan David Griffiths, Eagle's Bush Charles Jones, Bline William Jones, Cwmgendeirne and John Morgan, Glanrynys. The Chairman addressed the Grand Jury in the fol- lowing terms:— GENTLEMEN OF THE GRAND JURY,—I shall detain you but a short time, as there are but very few cases in the calendar, and those only of the simplest description. I think it unnecessary to make any remarks on the Report of the Commissioners, because it has been now for some time in the hands of the public, and because I do not yet know what measures may eventually be founded on it by the Government. A consolidation of the Turnpike Trusts you are aware is mentioned as one. Whatever those measures may be, and I trust they will prove satisfactory to the country, this advantage, I think, has been secured by the appointment of the Com- mission. It cannot but be good, not for the magistrates alone, but for that widely-extended class of men to whom in this, more than in any other country, important trusts and responsible powers are given by the constitution, it cannot but be good for them to know that there is no time, no length of time after which the light may not be let in on their proceedings, and those proceedings sub- jected to the healthy action of public opinion. If this consideration, founded on a retrospect of last year's events, shall induce them all in their different spheres, to watch with peculiar care over the interests confided to their charge, the Commission will not have been appointed in vain and last year's difficulties and trou- bles, sad though they were at the time to look on, will have called good out of evil, as the storm that clears the air. Let them henceforth work, as if every eye were on them, and make their proceedings as public as they can. Then whatever enquiry may be instituted, they at least will come out of it triumphant: and though there be no investigation at all, theirs will be the consolation, theirs the bright reward, that they will have no cause for self-accusation, when they look back, and reflect upon the past. The Gaoler's, Visiting Justices, and Gaol Surgeon's reports were filed. David Evans, a carpenter, of the parish of Llangen. deirne, was indicted for having in March last, stolen a plank, the property of the Kidwelly and Llanelly canal and tram road Company. It appeared that the plank was a stop plank, and had been used to prevent water from going from one part of the canal to another. It was missed, and shortly afterwards found in the house where the prisoner lodged, made up into a coal box. It was identified by the mark of a staple and mortice that had been in it. The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to be imprisoned, and kept to hard labour for 2 weeks. Joseph Phillips and James Phillips were indicted for having stolen a flannel jacket and a waistcoat, the pro- perty of one Thomas Jones, of Pencarreg. The clothes in question were hanging on a hedge near the prosecu- tor's house. He missed them and heard shortly after- wards that some of his neighbours had seen three men. He went in search of them and on overtaking them found them to be the two prisoners at the bar, and ano- ther man, who ran away. They all had bundles and in one of the bundles was found the flannel jacket, while upon the person of James Phillips, was found the waist- coat. The prisoners were found Guilty and sentenced, James Phillips to 6 calendar months' imprisonment, and Joseph Phillips to 7 months' imprisonment. ILLEGAL TOLL-GATES.-CONVICTION. T r "11, nr. vw imam iewis, collector oi i-una vu ..no .L. v-uu- motts' Trust was indicted for having illegally erected a toll bar across a high road. The bill was found against him at the last Quarter Sessions and had been traversed to the present one. The gate which the defendant was charged with having illegally erected was between the Porthyrhyd and Voelgastell gates. On being called on to plead, Lewis pleaded Guilty. An affidavit in mitigation of the punishment was put in by the defendant's attorney. It stated that a number of the gates on the Trust had been destroyed, and that Lewis conceived that the better plan for him would be to erect a gate in the vicinity of Porthyrhyd, where there were plenty of police and soldiers to protect it. Mr. Jeffries argued that the offence was committed under very aggravated circumstances. There appeared to be some difference of opinion on the Bench as to the amount of punishment to be in- flicted on the defendant. The votes of the Magistrates were twice taken. The Chairman then addressed the defendant as fol- lows William Lewis, you have pleaded guilty to an indictment charging you with having illegally erected a turnpike gate on a public road. I think it right to mention that many Magistrates thought that this was a fit case for the imposition of imprisonment, but the majority on the Bench were of opinion that the justice of the case would be met by the infliction of a fine. I cannot omit this opportunity of stating that you, and men like you, by their iniquity and corruption, have first of all exasperated and provoked the people to outrage and violence, and that you are therefore far worse, far more culpable, far more wicked than they. Who shall say that of those misguided men, who unfortunately have lately been banished beyond the seas, or otherwise punished for offences against the law, some were provoked to' raise their hands against that law by your injustice, misconduct, and oppression. You first taught them to war- you first trained their fingers to fight, and you ought therefore to hold yourself responsible for all their sufferings and misery. The sentence of the Court is that you pay a fine of £5.0 to the Queen, and that you be imprisoned until such fine be paid. The defendant immediately paid the fine and left the Court. The indictment against Anne Owen, Mary Lewis. John Evans, and William Evans, for having on the 18th of January last, riotously and tumultuously as- sembled at Penyback, and then and there made a riot, was ignored. The costs of the prosecution were, how- ever, allowed. Jane Morris, Mary Morris, Richard Brace, and John Davies, were indicted for riotously resisting the exe- cution of a process, and for assaulting Thomas Jones, a sheriff's officer. Mr. John Morgan appeared for the prosecution.-It appeared that Mr. W. Rogers, at- torney, had obtained a suit of ejectment against Jane Morris, who resided at Laugharne, which was put into the hands of Thomas Jones to execute. He proceeded to do so and was resisted and forced to walk through a pond. John David and Richard Brace on hearing the females screaming, came and declared that she should not be turned out. Mr. Wilson defended the prisoners, and a verdict was returned of acquittal against Richard Brace and John Davies, while the two female prisoners were found guilty of a common assault. The Court sentenced them to pay a fine of 5s. each. The Court then adjourned till this day. FRIDAY (THIS DAY.) I L I The Court met at auoui. eleven o clock, in addition to the magistrates present on the first day there were Sir John Mansel, Bart., and Sir J. H. Williams, Bart. Mr. It. G. Thomas proceeded to state that the Finance Committee had met and had determined to recommend several measures to the Court for adoption or rejec- tion. The first related to the expense of removing con- victs. The sum at present paid for the removal of each con- vict was £ 15. The committee were of opinion that ES would be quite sufficient. The next point the Finance Com- mitted wished to draw attention to was the great expense of printing and stationery. Another point was whether it would not be advisable to employ the Rural Police lo do the work of the parish constables. The constables bills came very heavy and if the police did their work of course a saving would be effected. The next point was the enormous sum paid for the publication of the county accounts in the newspapers. The magistrates would learn with surprise that JE69 a year were paid for adver- tising the county accounts. The Finance Committee recommended the printing of a number of the accounts and the sending of them to each clerk in petty sessions throughout the county. Doctor Jones said that he had a nofce of motion to give to that effect. He then gave notice that at the next Quarter Sessions it will be moved that the county accounts be no longer published in the newspapers, but that in lieu thereof, the accounts be printed and dis- tributedtto each clerk of petty sessions throughout the county, 0 be inspectedby any person who wishes to do so. Sir James H. Williams thought the suppression of the county accounts would have a prejudicial effect. It would, he had no doubt, be extremely convenient to those persons who had private bridges to be repaired by the county, and who of course, did not wish to see their names in print. Mr. R. G. Thomas said that his sole motive and the sole motive, he believed, of the committee, was to lessen the expense to the county. He had not the least ob- jection to publicity. He wished to see everything put before the public fairly, clearly, and above board. Sir J. H. Williams presented a petition from a number of rate ^payers praying for the removal of the Rural police force from the country, and also praying for relief from the heavy expense entailed on them by that force. He cordially concurred in the prayer of that petition. Sir John Mansel said he also had a petition of similar nature, but which he thought was more to the point, inasmuch as the petition prayed for the removal of a portion only of the rural police, and for a reduction of the head constable's salary. (Hear, hear, from Sir James Williams). But he (Sir J. Mansel) thought that until they were perfectly assured of the tranquillity of the country, that it would be inexpedient to reduce the pre- sent number of the force—but thought that the subject had better be introduced at the next Quarter Sessions. [The remainder of this day's proceedings will be given in our next number )