The Welshman

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY, FEB. 15. The Speaker took the chair at 4 o'clock. In answer to Mr. Craven Berkeley, Lord Morpeth said that the Government was of opinion that the northern side of Waterloo place would be the best site for the Wellington statue. In answer to several questions put by Lord G. Ben- tinck, the Chancellor of the Exchequer said that he was unable to give the answer to the first question of his Noble Friend in detail as respected the poor in Ireland. The first question was, as to the weekly amount of the money expended for the relief of the destitute poor in Ireland, and the answer to that question was, according to the returns The next question as to the number of the persons employed on those works other- wise than labourers. According to the returns of the officials employed on those works, was 480, and the number of persons employed as labourers on those works was 10,897. The daily pay of those persons is £ 2,774. The Noble Lord then asks the amount s of the weekly pay of these persons, and if he would multiply this amount by six, he would find what the aggregate amount was. If the Noble Lord would turn to the blue-book, page 19, he would find that the highest pay of the engineer was 30s. a-day, with 10s. for travelling expenses, with an addition of 10s. per dav when they were out. The lowest pay was for the surveyor of the works, which was 2s. a day. The Noble Lord then asks what is the actual cost of these works, and the maintenance of those who were engaged to survey their execution. To this he might reply that the actual cost was £ 2,700 per day, and the general average of the week was £ 78,000. To the Noble Loi*d, yffag? -0 as t to the expenditure during the wonth of Ja' he could not reply, but the expense during the four weeks of December was upwards of E71,OOO. He was not, in a condition to say what the extreme expenses were, but he might sty that the actual pay of the workmen was from 8d. to lOd. a-day, and the extremist points ranged from 8d. to Is. 4d. for the daily pay during the three months of November, December, and January, for the relief of the destitute poor. The expenditure upon labour or four weeks in the month of November was £ 318,3-31. For the first four weeks in the month of December, £.jb8,045, and for the nine weeks of De- cember and January it was £ 1,-500,000. The amount of coin in bond during those periods amounted to 218,000 quarters. On the order of the day being moved for resuming the adjourned debate on Lord George Bentinck's Bill. The Marquis of Granbv signified his intention of supporting tl' e bill. Mr. W. Browii opposed it on the ground that it \(;uld interfere witlttitCinonetary transactions of the country. Colonel Mure characterised the measure as all exten- sive scheme for the encouragement of railway gambling under the auspices of the state. Alderman Thompson supported the Bill, because lie believed it would do what it professed, promote the employment, of the people of Ireland, and improve their moral condition. Mr. F. French opposed the Bill, which was supported in a lengthened speech by Mr. ewdegn Ip. Mr. John O'Connell thanked Lord G. Bentinck for proposing the Biii, and after asserting that the Govern- ment were quite ignorant upon Irish affairs declared that he purposed voting fUJ" the Bill. Sir Wiliiaru Clay opposed the .second reading of the Bill, as did also -Mr. Frederick Shaw, and Sir W. Molesworth. Mr. Disraeli, then, iii a lengthened and argumenta- tive speech, contended that the adoption of Lord George Bentinck's plan would open up new markets in Ireland, and give a new fact. a new character to the country, a id a new tone to the ;ge. Whatever might be the rct.uit, it was satisfactory to think the discussion had been mrrii-d on without personal altercation. It had not been brought forward in a factious spirit, but in pei tect good taith. It was not meant "to iuju.'e a Go- vernment, but to serve a i.-ition. i he (irijate was then adjourned on the motion of I??r. Osborne, ami the house adjourned at iiilf past 18 o'clock. » TUESDAY, FEB. 16. I I The adjourned debate on the second reading of the Railways (Ireland) Bill was resumed by Mr. i>. Osborne, who supported the bill as the only means to prevent the Poor Relief Bill, which, contrary to to the wishes of the Irish members, was to be forced upon Ireland. Captain Layard, -at considerable length, supported the amendment. Sir J. Walsh should give his cordial support to the bill. Sir R. Peel said his vote upon this measure should be given solely in reference to its merits, and would in no way be influenced by the consequences as respected the retirement of her Majesty's Government. The noble lord called upon the house to pledge the credit of the country to the extent of £ 16,000,000, in order to carry out his scheme, and although it was true that the finances of the country for this year presented a very prosperous aspect, yet this measure should be taken in reference to the probable financial condition of the coun- try in the year ensuing, ra ther than its position at the present moment. He feared the expenditure of the country this year must, as regarded our establishments, be considerably increased and he also feared, that the expenditure required for Ireland would cause a very considerable deficit in the revenue as compared with the total expenditure of the country. He feared that they must look beyond the present year before Ireland could be rescued from its position, for if the root upon which the people of that country had hitherto lived were irre- deemably destroyed, it was impossible that they could at once make the land produce another species of food, which would support the same amount of population. With respect to the sum to be raised, of E16,0,10,000, it was symptomatic of taxation, and in the present state of the money market, with Exchequer-bills scarcely at a premium, and the funds very low, and our relations with foreign powers, though not alarming, yet by no means satisfactory, it was not the most feasible thing in the world, nor, perhaps the most prudent, to obtain a loan of such an amount. In the present financial position of the country one of three courses must be pursued by the Government. The noble lord at its head must, in order to meet the calls from Ireland, either increase the direct taxation of the country and extend it to all parts of the kingdom, or he must make a large issue of Exchequer-bills or, as the only other alternative, obtain a loan for the whole deficit, either providing for its pay- ment by additional taxation, or otherwise providing for the payment of the interest only. Under such chcum- stances it was that the noble lord (Lord G. Bentinck) asked them to pledge the credit of the country for a sum of £ 16,000,000. He could not consent to this. He could not consent to increase the financial embarrassments which he knew the Government must have to encounter in the course of the present year, by supporting a mea- sure requiring such an enormous sum to carry it into operation. The right hon. baronet then proceeded to contend that there was no sufficient ground for believing the money advanced would ever be repaid and at all events they would, by the noble lord's bill, confer a great benefit on shareholders in Irish railways, which could by no means be justified upon any recognised principle. Besides, all if these railways in Ireland were to be so profitable as was alleged, why was it that private capital had not been embarked in such a legitimate commercial enterprise ? Mr. Hudson said they had not money in Ireland to construct them. Sir R. Peel immediately asked him why he did not raise another £10,000,000 as he had raised £ 10,000,000 lately, and embark them in Irish railways, if he believed they would be profitable ? It was said that there was great difficulty in obtaining land for railways in Ireland but if railways were to enhance the value of the land along its line, surely the landlords should give the land rather than that the railways should not be constructed. Lord G. Bentinck hoped the house would not listen to the effete policy of Sir It. Peel, who seven years ago had promulgated his doctrine of leaving everything to pri- vate enterprise. Since then every thing had been left to private enterprise, and what was the result ? While Eng- land and Scotland were covered with railways, they had in Ireland only 123 miles of railway. The noble lord treated as absurd the notion that a loan of £1,000,000 a year for 4 years could not be raised without affecting the public funds or deranging the finances of the country. The noble lord then proceeded to contend that the security for the loan was ample, and, after meeting the various objections urged against his measure, concluded by saying that if his motion were successful he would take all the responsibility, even at the hazard of impeach- ment, of carrying out the measure without the cost of one single shilling to the Government. After some observations from Mr. Collett and Mr. Muntz, Lord J. Russell stated his concurrence in the views taken by Sir n. Peel of the measure in reference to its bearing on the financial condition of the country, and said he did not think the bill of the noble lord well cal- culated to produce the beneficial results he aimed at. The house then divided, and the second reading of the bill was negatived by a majority of 332 to 118. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 17. The House met at 12, and after the presentation of pe- titions, a number of private bills were advanced a stage. The adjourned debate on the Factories Bill was re- sumed, and after a brief and somewhat uninteresting dis- cussion, the House divided OIl a motion for tlieidjotirnincnt of the debate, which was lost by a majority of 27; After another discussion, the house divided on the motion for the second reading of the bill, when there appeared:— For the second reading, 19.); against it 87. Majority, 108. The bill was then read a second time, and the house adjourned.

Mr. Walter, of Bearwood, has expressed his intention to retire from public life. Lord Lyndhurst, Prince Albert, and Earl Powis, have each been named by rumour as the probable successors of the Duke of Northumberland in the Chancellorship of Cambridge University. APPLICATIONS OF LANDOWNERS FOR ADVANCES t;NDEit THE DRAINAGE ACT.—The object of the act was to authorise the government to make advances to owners of land in' Great Britain and Ireland of money, to be expended in draining, which is to be carried out under the superintendence of the Inclosure Commis- misioners.—Hitherto the Scotch proprietors have been the most, and the Irish the least ready, to apply for such loans. In some instances the amounts are large thus, we find in Scotland, that Mr. James Matheson, in Ross- shire, has applied for no less than £56,000; the Earl of Stair for L70,960 Mr. Alexander Matheson for £ 26,420, while several others require fifteen, eleven, and ten thousand pounds. The sums applied fur, rang- ing from five thousand to five hundred pounds, are very numerous.—In England, the largest sums applied for are E16,917, by Sir E. M. Vavasour, in Yorkshire; 1:15,304, by Mr. John Bowes, in Durham E,31,408, by Mr. Rowland Errington, in Northumberland and Che- shire; £ 12.815, by Mrs. Anne Corbet, in Shropshire; £ 18,000 and J20,000, by the Duke of Sutherland, in Staffordshire and Saloi,) £ 30,000; by the Earl of Lons- dale, in Westmorland and Cumberland C47,133, by by the Earl of Carlisle, in Cumberland, Northumberland, and Yorkshire and E20,000 by the Earl of Ellesmere, in Laiicasliii-e.-Daily News. THE ConN TRADE IN EGYPT.—The speculation in grain of all sorts continues with increased ardour.— Freights have risen to an extraordinary height, and ship-oiviiers are, at all events, beneittirig largely. The last rate of freight paid here (Alexandria) for England was seventeen shillings per quarter-rather an advance on 6s. 6d. per quarter, which was the usual rate six months since. In order that some idea may be formed of the vast business doing here in grain, I need only mention that 71 vessels with cargoes have loaded and sailed between the 24th of December and the 17th ul- timo and that 59 vessels are now loading in this port, of which 42 are English, two being destined for Liver- pool, one for London, and 39 to call at Falmouth to re- ceive orders where they are to unload their cargoes. The very high prices for wheat and Indian corn which have been recently obtained in England and Ireland, have caused such extensive orders to be sent out to this country, to other parts of the Mediterranean, to the Black Sea ports, and to America, that there can be no doubt enormous supplies will be poured into the United Kingdom, and that within two months the supply will greatly exceed any possible demand.—Morning Pest. VERY CHEAP Socr FOB THE POOR, M. SOYEr. AND HIS Ioup KITCHEN.—M. Soyer has written to the daily papers to state that lie has tasted most of the soups made for the poor in the different localities of London, and in his opinion they are not well made. I In some of them the great cook found a want of proper seasoning, which not only. flatters the palate, but restores and strengthens the digestive organs. The contents of some tasted of burning, whilst in others the lice, &c., was underdone I have contrived," writes M. Soyer, the plan of a kitchen for the making and distribution of soup to the poor, of a very simple con- struction, by which a thousand gallons, more or less, of excellent and very economical soup, may be made in a few hours, at about two or three farthings a quart, which could be fairly, cleanly, and quickly distributed to thousands of people, once or twice a day if required." To carry out this design, M. Soyer will himself con- tribute 1:30 and a scientific friend of his will give £20. A RAILWAY ROUND ABOUT TIIE WORLD.—Puck eould"putagirdte round about the world in forty minutes steam might do it in little more than a fort- night. A train on the Great Western Railway was, a few days ago, urged at the speed of 72 miles an hour. This is at the rate of one mile iIl 50 seconds, or 35 one- fifth yards per second. If this speed could be main- tained, a train would pass over 1,728 miles in 21 hours arid, if there were a railway round the world, the entire distance would be performed in about fourteen days and a half. INSTANCES OF CI.KMTINCJY AND CHAUITY.-Acacious, Bishop of Amada, w-;s renowned and much spoken of for the following notable work of mercy which he did. When the Romans had taken seven thousand Persian captives at the reduction of Azazena, and to the grief of the Persian king, wouldtfRt restore them, but kept them in such a (:ondltlOll thy were almost starved for want of food, Acacious, lamenting their state, called his clergy together, and said, "01tr God h^h no need of either dishes or cups, for He neither eateth nor drink- eth wherefore, seeing the Church hath many precious things both of gold and silver, bestowed of the free will, iiiid liberality (it the faithful, it is requisite that the cap- tive soldiers should be therewith redeemed and delivered out of prison and bondage and as they also arc perish- inri witii famine that with some part thereof they should be refreshed anil relieved." This said, he commanded the vessels and gifts to be melted, and made into money, and then sent the whole, partly to redeem the captives out of prison, and partiy to relieve them that were ready to perish Ihro!¡g-h [;l1njne. Lastly, he gave them neces- Setr)" provisions for their journey, and sent then back to thfir king. This notable act of the renowned Bishop made the king of Persia greatly to admire the Romans, thits endeavoured to vanquish their enemies both ways, by wars and mercy. Whereupon lie much desired j to see Acacious, and Theodosius the Emperor, coni- Illanded the Bishop to gratify the king therein.—i'ceratct /'re'M. /7<'?. M. 7, c. l, ?. 385. 7, c

SPADE HUSBANDRY AS A MEANS OF DIMI. I NlSHING POOR nATES. Some interostiiig experiments have lately been tried at Farnley Tyas, upon the estate of the Earl of Dartmouth, the details of which we are confident will be read with pleasure. In the year 1812, when applications for relief from the distressed manufacturers were overwhelming, and the general crv was Give us work, it is not charity we want" a committee in the village of Farnley Tyas, near Iluddersfield, begged £ 40, from the Manufacturers' Relief Committee, and procured five acres of land which these men were paid for cultivating and after keeping an accurate account of all expenses of rent, &c., as well as money paid for spade labour, the PRODUCE was found to overbalance the OUTLAY, and the f40 which if given in poor's rates would have been sunk the first year, RE-PRODUCED from the soil, afterwards paid the same persons for again cultivating it, evidently shewing that where the humble BOON is granted of men being allowed to cultivate their native soil, they can be payers instead of receivers of rates. The system was found thus to succeed so well that further efforts were made, and at the last annual meeting held at Farnley Tyas, the following report was read:— REPORT. I We must once more call to your recollection that we commenced business with a bona fide capital of our own of £ 4-5, which was contributed by the Manufacturers' Relief Committee and the Earl of Dartmouth; to this was added E40 16s. 8d., raised by loans, making altoge- ther f85 16s. Sd. 1st Year, 1843. The whole of this sum of £ 85 16s. Sd. was expended'in wages for spade labour, rent, taxes, &c., on five acres of land, the work being principally by task. (Cropped with potatoes, turnips, and oats.) The farm produced £ 82 18 0 Expended upon it 80 16 8 Balance profit after paying labourers' hire, rent, and all expenses 2 1 4 To this must be added Fl, which the crops sold for more than what they were estimated at. 2nd Year, 1841. (Cropped with potatoes and oats.) The farm produced £ 75 15 9 Expended upon it 70 16 10 Balance profit, after paying labourers' hire, rent, and all cxpeitses 4 18 11 We this year repaid part of our borrowed capital, with interest. 3rd Year, 1845. (Cropped with potatoes, oats, and wheat.) The farm produccd £GZ 13 5 Expended upon it 62 16 7 Balance, less, after paying labourers' hire, rent, and all expenses.. 0 3 2 This year our estimated profit of £ 3 15s. 2d., from a great fall in the price of straw, proved a loss of 3s. 2d. We now repaid all cur borrowed capital with interest. 4th Year, 1846. (Cropped with grass 4 acres, oats, with seeds, 1 acre) DR. INDUSTRIAL FARM. Expended. £ s. d. In manual labour 4 9 11 Team work 1 1 0 Oats and hayseeds 1 13 6 Rent and taxes 9 3 6 Superintendent's salary, 5 per cent. on E;30 6s. 6d 1 10 4 Grass Seeds in the ground. 2 8 10 Half of last year's manure 3 3 7 Balance profit after paying labourer's hire, rent, and all expenses. 11 1 6 f34 17 11 PER CONTRA. Cu. Produced. £ s. d. Grass sold 5 7 6 After grass sold 1 19 0 IIayonhand. 15 5 0 Oats on hand 7 15 0 Crops. 30 6 6 Quarter of last year's manure 1 11 9^ Seeds in the ground. 2 IS 10 L34 17 U The work having been performed mostly by task, we have no means of knowing exactly what the labourers' hire has been, but believe that it has ranged from Is. 9d. to 2s. 4d. per day. Of course it mnst have varied accord- ing to the capability of the individual. We do not wish to believe that it has been less than 2s. per day;-and taking that as the average it will appear, reckoning on the whole sum of E,84 Os. 7d. that has been expended in the four years, in manual labour, that we have, oil this plot of five acres, been enabled to afford about 840 days work to unemployed persons; (thus keeping many from the rates) at a time generally when work could not be elsewhere obtained. We started, then, with a capital of E45. We owe not pne shilling, and therefore all that we have is our own, and our stock is as follows:- g s. d. Cash in hand. 19 15 4 Hay valued at the lowest possible rate. 15 5 0 Oats do 7 15 0 Book Debt 2 0 2 We have seeds in the ground which cost.. 2 18 10 Improvements in draining, fencing, and road making, for which is paid 5 18 1 Quarteroflastyear'smanure. 1 11 91 55 4 21 Deduct original capital 45 0 0 Surplus. 10 4 2i This will nearly accord with the three years balance of profit and loss added to our original capital, deducting interest paid on borrowed capital, with an excess which we feel certain will be found in the crops when realized, over Ike estimated value. At the price now affixed our supe^Wtendent is quite willing to take our hay and oats to account. We have a right therefore to consider them as rendered into iiioney. During four years, then, we have worked this farm to profit. We were assured we could not, neither did we expect to do so. We have paid moderate wages for labour, and 5 per cent on the net amount of produce sold, to the manager, and have realized 5 per cent. on the capital employed, with a small actual surplus, and a cer- tain prospect of a larger. This must not be attributed to superior management, for we have made errors in crop- ping the land, and thereby have lost considerably. Nei- ther must it be attributed to the seasons, for they have been against us nor to the soil or climate therefore it appears clear to us that if the casual poor, or unem- ployed manufacturers, can be set to work here at fair wages, in reproductive and independent labour with a positive gain, they may be elsewhere. This has been done on a black mountain at Farnley Tyas at a great elevation—on poor land (chosen'on account of Its sterility, to shew what the spade could do) without loss. We are bound then to believe that it may be done at a lower ele- vation on more fertile soils, with every prospect of a rea- sonable profit. Then why should this country be encumbered with five millions annually of poor's rates, when nearly all the money that is expended to the casual poor might in this manner be reproduced from the soil ? We think that the experiment indicates, in a manner at once clear and convincing, that all Union Workhouses ought to be conducted on self-supporting principles, by employing the inmates in productive industry, in raising part at least of the food that is consumed within them. Admire as we may the ingenious mechanical contri- vances of modern agriculture, we must not overlook the merits of the most simple and primitive of all instruments, the spade. The gardener never lays it aside. It enables him to raise the heaviest crops, and confine his operations to the smallest possible space of ground. To the allotment tenant and the small farmer it is an in valuable instrument; by the latter it may be used when the plough cannot be used at all. By its aid the labourer may husband his scraps of time" in a growing crop, with certain profit. In alliance with the loom, it may be called into action most advantageously; on a very limi- ted space of ground, and as an adjunct to the plough it is almost indispensible on the small mountain farm. If the occupation of spade husbandry may be thought a poor and laborious trade,—it is a healthy and a sure one,—we have proved that it will give fair wages for labour and something more, when the rent is moderate. It is pleasing to know that our increasing population may be disposed of:—not by legislating to encourage emigration to countries abroad, thus sending away the flower of our strength to enrich foreign lands but by devising a humane mode of employment at home, in the heal thy, invigorating, and independent occupations of this minor agriculture. We intended this experiment to be of four years con- tinuance, and borrowed land for this purpose, on the express condition that it should be restored at the end of that time. We are now about to cease to occupy it, and this report will be our concluding one. Part of our capital we leave in the land, and when a permanent holding can be secured, the other part will remain for investment in the farm as before; and their wages for labour paid to our resident poor, will doubtless, be re- produced in crops, year after year, to their benefit, and that of the rate payers. We cannot conclude without expressing our regret, that the handsome grants of money, received in lfH:3 by many townships, from the Manufacturers' Relief Com- mittee. were not disposed of in this way for the labourers and rate-payers would have had the benefit of (11em,- once re-produced each year-for four years and the prospect of having work found, and wages paid again and again, from funds rendered permanent, by simply burying them in the grateful earth." This gratifying report having been received with much applause, the Curate of the village proceeded to make some remarks upon the state of a School Farm estab- lished in that neighbourhood The Chairman said—" I sincerely hope that the reports we have just heard relative to the Industrial Farm and the Allotments may give the same pleasure to the noble patron of this society as they have done to me. In re- porting to you the state of the School Farm, I must say that in its superintendence I have found one of the most interesting and delightful tasks. It is most important to teach the young those habits of industry which will tend to render them happier when they become men. You know what the School Farm was a short time ago. It was covered with trees. You may see what it now is, and then sav whether little hands cannot do great things. We have had assistance in performing the heavier labour from the Noble Earl, the promoter of this excellent design. He, on two occasions, stepped in to our aid, when the work was found too hard for these littie hands. The children, however, worked manfully, and succeeded in getting their crops into the ground but I am sorry to say that the mysterious visitation of the potato.disease came, and to a considerable extent frustrated their hopes; still we shall be able to divide among-t them, what will be a j (,)'ful b,),ii-tlie proceed of their little farm: and the amount will be such as will give some of their parents an agreeable surprise. This farm, as many here are aware, is attached to the National School. Its extent is one acre, and this cultivated by the spade. The boys are taught to look upon, to regard, to consider it as their own. The capital to furnish tools, seeds, manure, &c., has come from the Earl's loan fund. It has been borrowed on the distinct understanding, on the part of those children, that it is to be repaid by instalments. The lent must also be paid by them regularly. The produce, deducting all expenses, will be their own, with the exception of one seventh, whidl the isajtcr will take for superintendence. It will be divided onec, a veiir in proportion to the number of hours they labour, the age, and strength of each of them. They pay (such as by the bounty of the Noble Earl are not. free scholars) their school pence to the master. When tile. fiirii comes into active operation, it is believed that such school-pence will nearly be restored to them in this indirect manner,so that the school will be almost self-supporting, and the education nearly cost free. The children work in their farm sometimes one, and sometimes tioo hours in the day, and I can assure you that they learn more, when thus employed in the open air for a short interval, than they otherwise would do. No greater punishment need there be than to deprive one of these boy, on mis- behavour, of the privilege of working on the farm. By exposure to the open air they rarely become unwell, and the principal inconvenience we have to complain of is, that the fanners have discovered the value of boys thus tiught tc handle the spade and the hoe, and now engage them rather too frequently to work on their farms. They will become teachers of their parents, from the know- ledge they acquire in the School Farm. Such has been the effect already that every boy in the village will get to the school if he can do so, and the number there is fast increasing. This school will be one of the greatest bles- sings not to the poor alone, but to the middle class of persons, for good sense has taught them to prefer the school where physical and moral training are thus com- bined. This truly interesting meeting was addressed by several other gentlemen, on the same subject and then separated.

Death of Mr. Daniel O'Connell. I ———— ) We learn, from authority on which we have every reason to place relittnce, that Mr. Daniel O'Connell, M.P. for Cork, died late on Wednesday evening in Lon- don. He bad been indisposed fur some time, but his death was unexpected.

IMPORTANT FROM AMERICA. I The arrival of the mail steamer Ilibernia, at Liver- pool on Monday, has furnished us with intelligence from the United States and other parts of America. Great commercial excitement, occasioned by the political as well as mercantile news received from England during the past month, has throughout per- vaded the markets of New York and other leading cities. Greatly enhanced prices have been demanded upon the chief commodities of trade and commerce. Cotton, flour, wheat, rye, oats, and provisions, have attained prices which have never before been realised. It is considered that these augmented rates of purchase will not speedily be diminished. The information which they will gain by succeeding mails and packets from Europe was looked for with the greatest anxiety by the American merchants, and when they learn the prohibition of the Emperor of Russia against the further exportation of corn from his dominions, it may be pre- sumed that prices generally will be still further ad- vanced. It is, however, gratifying to notice that in the United States, and elsewhere, the resources are ample to meet the demands which have and will continue to be made upon them by their European purchasers. The deficiency of tonnage and not insufficiency of stock in commodities required, is the chief drawback to their commercial prosperity. In a short time the great ca- nals will be freed from their icy thraldom, when vast hoards of grain and bread-stuffs will be rapidly accu- mulated in the sea-port towns for transmission to Europe. Congress has empowered the President to issue 23,000,000 of Treasury notes. The proceeds arising from the sale of public lands are expressly mortgaged to pay the interest of six per cent., and to redeem, at the expiration of twenty years, the notes, or the stock into which they may be converted. The continuance of hostilities between the States and Mexico embarrasses the President and Congress as much as ever. The perplexity, both of the war itself and its direct consequences, political and commercial, is what every patriot throughout the civilised world will rejoice to learn the iniquitous invaders of Mexican independence are now bitterly experiencing. In the Senate the general feeling seems favourably to point to the establishment of a speedy peace. A direct resolution to this effect, moved by Mr. Stephens and couched in terms subversive of the grasping policy of Mr. Polk, was only lost by 12 votes. On the other hand, the Mexican congress have rejected every overture for peace whilst a single ship or soldier of the United States remains in their territory or infests their country and to this the majority of the Congress have sworn under the solemnity of an oath. Canada and the United States are raising handsome subscriptions to testify their sympathy with the dis- tressed condition of Ireland and the Highlanders. The Canadian legislature has voted a subscription of £1000. This spirit of charitable munificence, beyond the positive benefit of alleviating human misery, has the glorious tendency of binding the nations of the earth together; teaching the afflicted that however distantly severed they may be by a vast expanse of the ocean from the more favoured portions of the universe, the voice of distress is no sooner heard than philantrophy spreads its wings to succour their distresses.

The constabulary reports to Government allege that more than a proportionate breadth of ground throughout Ireland is sowed this year with wheat. We are informed that information was yester- day received that the Emperor of Russia has prohibited all further exportation of corn from his dominions.— Times. GREAT INFLUX OF IRISH PAUPERS INTO WALES. Last week the Wanderer arrived from the Cove of Cork at Newport, Monmouthshire, with a large importation of Irish paupers, amounting to about two hundred, thirty of whom were in a dying state and had it not been for the prompt aid rendered they would have died of starvation soon after reaching land. A great com- plaint is raised by the Welsh and Eaglish residents of Newport against being thus burthened by paupers from Ireland, in addition to those of their own country. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET AND IMPORTS.—LIVER- POOL, TUESDAY AFTERNOON.—The frost has left us and to-day has been exceedingly mild. It was expected that the advance in yesterday's London Corn Market would have caused a considerable rise here to-day, but the dealers have fought shy of the market. Our arrivals from America to-day are large :-39,582 bushels of Indian corn; 13,606 sacks of Indian corn: 13,953 bags of Indian corn 17,923 barrels of American flour; besides large quantities of corn meal, beef, pork, and other provisions. ROBBERY OF -ClO.OOO.—Notwithstanding the expose at the Mansion-house on Saturday concerning the doings of the swell mob in the city, and the caution the Lord Mayor threw out, a robbery of no less a sum than £ 10,000 in Bank of England notes was yesterday, about 1 o'clock, effected in the vicinity of the Royal Exchange from a Banker's Clerk. Messrs. Bush and Mullens, the solici- tors for the Association of Bankers, have forwarded a list of the notes, not only to every town throughout England, but also to the Continent. A reward of £500 is offered for the restitution of the notes. ROIAN CATHOLIC RELIEF.—A Bill for the further Repeal of Enactments imposing Pains and Penaities upon Her Majesty's Roman Catholic Subjects on account of their Religion," has been prepared and brought in by Mr. Watson, Lord J. Manners, and Mr. Escott. It proposes to repeal the acts 1 Elizabeth, cap. I the 13th Elizabeth, cap. 2 the 13th and 14th Charles II., cap. 4; the 2.5th Charles II., cap. 2; the 30 Charles II., s. 2, cap. 1; the 7th and 8th William III., cap. 24 the 31st George III., cap. 32; and the 10th George IV., cap. 7, or parts thereof. The repeal of certain portions of these latter acts would go to allow Popish priests to officiate in churches with steeples and bells, now prohibited, and to wear the habits of their order elsewhere than in the usual places of worship of the Popish religion, and likewise remove the prohibitions and discouragements at present in force against the secret society of Jesuits. ConN TO CAVALRY HOP-SEs.-In consequence of the present extraordinary high price of oats, occasioned by the general scarcity of all descriptions of grain, an order has just been issued from the Horse Guards to the colonels of all the cavalry regiments in Her Majesty's service, for a considerable reduction to be made in the supply of corn to the troop horses. In a cavalry regi- ment of 800 horses, under the new arrangement, the enormous saving of upwards of 50 bushels of oa-ts will be the daily average, and nearly 18,000 bushels fii the twelvemonth.

I HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. The Carmarthenshire Fox Hounds will meet on Mon- day next, at Abergwilly, at 10; on Wednesday, at the Plough and Harrow, at half-past 10 on Friday, at the Kennel, at half-past 10. The Bronwydd Beagles will meet on Monday next, at Capel Cynon; on Wednesday, at Troedyraur Village; on Saturday, at Llandyfriog Mill—each day at half-past 10 o'clock. The Tivy-Side Fox Hounds will meet on Monday next, at Newcastle Emlyn; on Thursday, at the Kennel—each day at 10 o'clock.

LOCAL MARKETS. CARMARTHEN CORN RETURNS. FEB. 6th, 18-17. Total Quantities. — Wheat, 93 quarters barley, 42 quarters, 3 bushels: oats, 130 quarters, 5 bushels. I'rice per Quarter.—Wheat, 67s. 2d.; barley, 43s. 9d.; oats, 25s. 7d. CARMARTHEN.—Beef, (per lb.) 5d. to 7d. Mut- ton, 6d. to 7d. Veal, 4d. to (3d. per lb Pork, 6d. to 7d. Lamb, Od. per lb. Fresh butter, (2-1 oz.; ls. Cd. Salt do., 9d. to9id.; Turkeys, (each) 2s. to 5s.; Geese, 2s.Od. to 3s.0d. Ducks, lOd. tolSd.; Eggs, (per dozen) .5d.; Cheese 28s. per cwt.; fowls, from lOd. to Is. 3d. each Potatoes, 71bs. for 6d. HAVERFORDWEST.—Wheat per bushel from Ss. Gel. to 9s. barley, 5s. 8d. to 6s. oats, 3s. to 3s. 6d. beef, per lb. (;d. to 7d. mutton, 5d. to 7d.; veal, 5d. to 7d.; pork, 5d. to 6d.; butter (24 oz.) Is. 3d. to Is. 5d. NEATII.—Wheat, 10s. Gd. to I barley, Gs. 6d. to 7s.; oats, 3s. 6d. to 4s. beef, 6d. to 7d. mutton, od. to 6d. pork, Cd. to 7d. per lb.; potatoes, 33s. to 35s. per sack turnips 6s. to 6s. 6d. onions per Ib 3d. to 4d. FISHGUARD.—Beef, per lb., od. Mutton, do., 6d, Pork, do., 5d.; Fresh Butter, Is., Salt Butter, 9d. Checsp,do., 3d. Geese each, 2s. Ducks per couple Fowls, do., Is. 6d. Wheat, per bushel, 7s. lOd. Cailey, 5s.; Oats do. 2s.' Id. to 2s. (id.; per 8d. A We cannot insert, or notice in any way, any commu- I nication that is sent to us ationyinously but those who choose to address us ill confidence will find their con- fidence respected. Neither can we undertake to return any manuscripts whatever. The publication of the Welshman commences on Fri- day morning in time for the Glamorganshire mail, which leaves Carmarthen at eight o'clock.

Since the commencement of the present session of parliament, we have oftener than once adverted to the gratifying unanimity which all parties have dis- played in deliberating on all the measures that have been submitted to them respecting the best mode of alleviating the distress now so prevalent in Ireland, and of permanently improving her moral and physical condition. But, inter calicem et labra multa cadunt- verily there is many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip." Ere yet the whole of these measures had become laws, the spirit that still rankles in the breasts of those who may be termed the rump of the old country party," namely, that section of it which, obstinately refusing to grow wiser by experience, and to keep pace with the march of the age, still smarts under the humiliating defeat which, at the hands of the chief whom it once delighted to honour, it received last summer, has, within the last ten days, broadly manifested itself; and, under the specious guise of enlarged liberality, has found vent in a motion, made by that paragon of statesmanship, Lord George Bentinck, for a bill to sanction the advance of the trifling sum of £16,000,000 for the construction of railways in Ireland. Timco Danaos et dona ferentes. Had Government submitted such a measure to the Imperial Parliament, and had the defeated and mortified monopolist phalanx sounded the note of a determined opposition, the conduct of the latter would not only have been intelligible, but they could have adduced motives for it which would have commanded respect. But at the very moment when the ministers of the crown are using the utmost des- patch in carrying through the legislatur e, bills which will before the 1st of next September, cost the national exchequer ten millions of money for the purpose of enabling the Irish to procure the means of existence, it may be well doubted whether the motives of the party which rejoices in the leadership of the noble member for Lynn be as pure and as patriotic in this matter as they would have us believe. When, towards the close of last session, Government saw meet to ask the sanction of Parliament to a grant of money for the purpose of employing the surplus labour of Ireland in the construction of public works, in contemplating what these works should be, it can hardly be doubted that the formation of railroads was duly considered by them. But of the following statistic facts they must have been fully cognizant:—Within the last eleven years acts of Parliament have passed for the construction of 1522 miles of railway in Ireland, of which only 123 miles have been completed, and 164 miles are in languid progress. In England and Ire- land, 2,800 miles have been completed, and acts have been obtained for constructing 4,600 miles more, the greater portion of which will be completed before the middle of 1848. It will thus be seen that two years hence the ratio of the extent of railways in Ireland to that of Great Britain will be as 1 to 26, that is as regards railways that have been or soon will be con- structed. But in point of geographical superfices Ire- land is somewhat more than one third part of Great Britain and as her soil is much superior to the ave- rage of that of England and Scotland, how comes it that the capitalists of the latter countries have not as freely come forward with their money for constructing railways in the sister island as they have for similar undertakings in Britain, in France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Russia, Prussia, India, and North and South America ? Why, for this simple and obvious reason,—In Ireland the very elements of a traffic which would sufficiently remunerate the outlay necessary to construct the framework and keep up the machinery of such an extent of railways as would place her on a level with Great Britain has yet to be created. It is well known that in the latter country the transit of human beings pays more than two-thirds of the vast sum that is now annually drawn by the railway-proprietors, and in several instances the amount so derived is fully three- fourths of the whole revenue but in a country in nearly four-fifths of which a middle-class can hardly be said to exist, of whose population five-sixteenths are paupers and mendicants, and in which, with the ex- ception of the raw produce of the soil, the traffic is extremely limited, the transit of human beings by railway conveyance cannot be a profitable source of revenue. Paupers and mendicants no doubt travel a great deal: but, in Cockney phrase, they travel by the Mary-le-bone (marrow-bone) stage. Of the capital that has been already expended on the formation of railways in Ireland more than three-fourths have been subscribed by Englishmen and Scotchmen but experience has rendered these men very cautious in risking any more of their money in such speculations on the western side of St. George's channel. Of this King Hudson—who it appears, in the concoction of this precious clap-trap ruse, has acted the part of dry-nurse to Lord George-is no doubt fully aware and there- fore, knowing that even three millions of money would not be subscribed for so preposterous a scheme on this sidji the water, his majesty and his protege modestly ask the legislature to advance the small amount of £ 16,000,000, which, with a modesty which must have been imported from the land which they so generously patronise, they assure the Government will soon bear a high premium, and be speedily repaid. Credat Judceus. Well did the Chancellor of the Exchequer observe on Friday evening (12th inst.) that the names of the par- ties by whom the bill was endorsed spoke volumes as to the motives and intentions of those who pull the strings of the machinery of which the noble member for Lynn is only the puppet. Irish landlords, through whose estates the projected railways would pass, who would thus obtain large sums for the land required, and persons who would have the contracts for supplying the materials; these are the patriotic and disinterested parties whose mouthpieces Lord George Bentinck is on this occasion 0 Ireland! sorely dost thou stand in need of true and gifted patriots but it has ever been thy melancholy fate, in all times of thy most dire calamity, to have a sad lack of such. Of-inerceiiary and unprincipled de- magogues thou hast been abundantly fruitful but of how few of those of thy sons who have declaimed about thy wrongs, and agitated for a redress of them, can it be said, in the words of the author of Marmion, that they Spurned the vile lure of sordid pelf, And served their country for herself!" Lord George Bentinck may be a friend to Ireland. We hope he is, but we confess we arc of the number of those who think he would have better testified his friendship for her by assisting ministers to pass measures for her benefit which are both feasible and practicable than by urging one of his own which is neither the one nor the other.

LORD GEORGE and his party' are really most amusing nonentities. PUNCH and his party could scarcely be less so, especially if JUDY were to perform on the Jew's harp, for the pleasure and profit of those very disinter- ested Irish members, whose high-mindedness prompts them to the laudable endeavour of pocketting as much of the public money as any two or more succeeding premiers may permit them to appropriate. Their honest policy is (as an outspoken English member plainly told them) to get as much as they can from LOItD JOHN, and when he and the liberal side of the House is squeezed dry, to bring in LOHD GeORGE and his party, and then to submit them to the same squeezing pro- cess. It is as good ai going lo the ply to read 'he un' premeditated speeches of LoaD GEORGE. His prosaic performance sometimes is almost equal to the sublime effusions of "the poet TJUNN." 13LBBLF BENTINCK and BOMBASTO FURIOSO look like own brothers, but tin former over a fiat course beats the other hollow. Ilis talk of 'his party' is itself the very soul of joke. THE PREMIER on Thursday plucked up purpose enough to say he certainly would not take upon himself the re- sponsibility and burthen of blowing the railway-bubble of his lordship, and must see the question decided at once without further delay. LORD GEORGE then rose and amongst other amusing outbursts of magniloquent drollery, delivered the following eloquent peroration :— But since I am challenged by the first Minister of the Crown, willing as I am to pay attention to the wishes of the Irish members, I feel-when the Queen's Minister, who is responsible for the safety of the country, tells me it is for the advantage of the country that this mea- sure should be forthwith brought forward, considered and disposed of-that I should be wanting in my duty to her Majesty as well as the country, if I were to hesitate in proceeding with my moticn without delay. And, sir, whatever may be the result, however important the con- sequences, on my head is not that responsibility. Should it be the pleasure of her Majesty's ministers, in the pre- sent difficulties of Ireland, to desert the helm of State, great as I admit to be the dangers, greater than even the difficulties which other governments have felt in the conduct of the affairs of Ireland, my friends are not ap- palled by those difficulties, and we will not shrink from any responsibility." My friends are not at all frightened at the appalling difficulties of Ireland. We are quite ready to take office. This is the plain English of LORD GEORGE'S inflated phrases. But what he means by the fustian in that part of the philippic, where he talks of his head,' we confess our inability to say:on my head lies not the responsibility.' Really my lord, we have yet to learn that your lordship has any head. And as for the hungry set of members whom you so drolly style your party, what are they but a band of beggars for office ? When you boast of having a party, and pro- fessing a head, you speak my lord, permit the public to assure you, de non existentibus.

Jacta est alea. Lord George Bentinck, in Yankee phraze, has received a "considerable cow-hiding," and his marvellous project for the regeneration of Ire- land has received the coup de grace. At 3 o'clock on Wednesday morning, in a House of 440 members, 214 of a majority against the new aspirant to the prem iership, gave him a somewhat praetical.proof of the view which the popular branch of the Legislature en- tertains of the noble member's fitness for becoming, at the present juncture, at all events, the chief adviser of the Crown. Last July the Noble Lord stated his conviction that no one but a person of "stable mind" ought ever to hold the office of prime minister in this country. Now, we cordially agree with Punch that his Lordship, in one sense at least, is decidedly a stable-minded man. Thou- sands of those who are well fitted to describe what, at certain Reasons of the year, are the chief attractions of Newmarket, Doncaster, Epsom, &c., can vouch for the fact, but it may well be doubted whether the society and pastimes which, to many, render these places so attractive, are really the best schools for forming that stability of mind, that mental vigour, that capacity for business, and that commanding elevation of thought, which, in a higher or lower degree, have ever charac- terised the first statesmen of every land, and which were pre-eminently displayed by Cardinal Richelieu, Cardinal Mazarin, the Duke de Sully, Cardinal Ximines, Colbert, De Witt, Oxenstiern, Walpole, the Earl of Chatham, Wyndham, Pitt, Fox, &c. These were all men of stable mind; but from all that Lord George Bentinck's senatorial career has yet taught us we are compelled to believe that they were so iu a sense very different from that in which he can be so designated; and fortunately for himself as well as for his country, the House of Commons has broadly and unequivocally declared that, for the present, as prime minister, the stability of his mind shall not be put to the test. Sir Robert Peel's speech was a masterly one, in the course of which he utterly demolished the cobweb fabric of arguments which the rump of the protectionist party had adduced on behalf of the Bentinck-Hudson Scheme. The speech will well repay a careful perusal; and we cannot help feeling gratified that the chief reasons which the Right lion. Baronet assigned for his opposi- tion to the sixteen million project, as it is termed, are those which we have urged in a preceding article.

The educational scheme of the Government is good as far as it goes, but that is a very little way indeed The only distinctive feature in it is an acknowledgment of the necessity of appointing a great many more inspectors, but even this recognition is all but merely pro forma, for only four new inspectors are appointed although, it is declared, many, very many more are required. Besides the four additional inspectors there are introduced into the Government scheme, some improvements hardly worth mentioning. As to laying down any principle, that we look in vain for neither principle nor system is any part of the plan. Why did LORD JOHN RUSSELL so distinctly announce a system of National Education when he had none ? Surely he knew of the difficulty of appeasing the dual dogmatism of the Church and the Dissenters in July as well as he does now ? It is manifest that we may whistle for Education IN WALES."

The announcement which the latest intelligence from Constantinople contains, namely, that the Turkish Sultan has taken the initiative in the utter abolition of slavery in his dominions, is one the importance of which it would be difficult to over-estimate. We were not ignorant of the important reforms which his father, the late Sultan, had the magnanimity and the moral courage to originate in almost every department of his policy and government; and we were also aware that, young as the present sovereign was when the royal tiara descended to him, he saw meet not only to carry out the glorious work of ameliorating the moral and social condition of the Mussulman population which his predecessor had begun, but he has continued his favour to those of his father's ministers who had shown the greatest zeal in correcting old abuses and removing popular grievances. But hopeful as has hitherto been the career of this descendant of the illustrious Soliman the Great, of Bajazet, and Amurath, we confess we were not prepared for the anouncement which it is now our pleasant task to record and comment on. When we thought of the three and a half millions of slaves that are still to be found in the southern provinces of the United States and when we called to mind the lofty pretensions which the whole inhabitants of that country boastfully put- forward as to their claims to be considered the most enlightened and free commnnity on the face of the earth, we certainly did not contemplate the "great fuct" as likely to be soon realized that, on the shores of the Bosphorus, and by the followers of Mohamed, a practical lesson of humanity would be read to the inhabitants of W ashington, New York, Philadelphia, and New Orleans, most of whom profess to be followers of Jesus of Nazareth, one of whose maxims was, Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy," and who declared that the sum of the second table of the Decalogue was, whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you do ye even so unto them." So teacheth the religion of him who came to be a light to enlighten the Gentiles but what shall wc think or say when we contrast the conduct of those who profess Christianity on the banks of the Chesapeake and Potowmac, with that of those who profess Islamism in that land where, for nearly .100 years, the crescent has usurped the place of the cross. It appeared that while Ibrahim Pacha, eldest son of the viceroy of Egypt, sojourned among us last summer, he diligently marked, learned, and inwardly digested" all that he saw of our moral and social Institute" lur  iur manners and customs, our privileges, liberties, ?"' &c.; and as soon as he reached Alexandria he i"u d an order for the manumission and enfranchisemeo* every person, male and female, old and young, offl t whom as a master, he had any controul; and his father and many of the chief men of the country have siuel followed his example. But the slavery of the TurkishEmpire was exce('di11( mild compared with that which exists in the Uni^« States. In the former the sIales \Tere also  States. In the former the s l aves were also consider and treated as bona ?e members of the dotne? establishments to which they belonged, and generally as well used as servants are with us; Whot in the latter all Europeans agree in saying that th't wretched slave population are treated and spoken of a class of beings who have but few of the attributes J humanity, and consequently have no title to sh$o its privileges. Such is American morality in tbo middle of the nineteenth century. Let them take heed' lest the men of Thrace and Macedonia rise up in judg" ment and condemn them. J While, however, we hail it as an auspicious sign the times that a more enlightened and generous spIt! animates the councils of the Sublime Porte than tb.1 which guides the deliberations of the congress of tbo United States, we cannot and would not forget that tlo light which has at length penetrated Turkey, and il rapidly dispelling the darkness of Islamism is but beam reflected from the Christian torch which has to long illuminated western Europe. Foeda eadem Cip totum mundtan illuminet. _—< <

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. I CARMARTHENSHIRE. I Major Scott, Brigade Major of the South Wales 1JÎf' trict, has been appointed Assistant Quarter Master General to the Army in Ireland, and will, we lest* proceed to the duties of his new station without delay- The Queen held a levee on Friday at St. James Palace, which was very numerously and brilliantlf attended. Mr. Justice Vaughan Williams was Prtl sented to Her Majesty by the Lord Chancellor upon bit appointment as one of the Judges of the Court of CoV mon Pleas. Lloyd Vaughan Watkins, Esq., was alsO presented to Her Majesty by Lord John Russell, his appointment as Lord Lieutenant of Breconshirt. Lieutenant Manners Wood, A. D. C., 8th Hussars to General Thorne was afterwards presented by Mr. Lloyd Vaughan Watkins. GRAND BALL.—On Friday last a grand ball WO given at the Boar's Head Assembly Rooms, by W illorris, Esq., in his capacity as Steward of the Hunt Week, all a in order in some measure to compensate for the disair pointment occasioned by the postponement of the Race* in consequence of the severity of the weather. The In t vitations included all the elite of the town and neigb'! bourhood, together with most of the visitors to the HuO* ¡ Week. A large party assembled, and dancing was kept f up until an early hour on Saturday morning, the "I t rangements being of first-rate description, and reflectifli? I the highest credit on Miss Philipps, by whom the reo < fections were furnished, and under whose superilv tendence they were served. CARMARTHEN BARRACKS.—There is now no doubt whatever that it is the intention of Her Majesty's GOí vernment to cause the erection of a commodious centril Barracks in this town. During the week letters have been received by the owners of the land required, sig- nifying the intention of the Board of Ordnance to pur' chase it, and we understand that Colonel Love ba- personally inspected the proposed site. It is coo; puted that about eight acres will be required, and th" t the cost of construction will altogether amount to E38,000. Should Parliament vote that sum in the Army Estimates, it is expected the work will be coP)' menced in the ensuing spring. SOUTH WALES RAILWAY.—Four contracts for work* on this important line were let last week. The contraC" from Swansea to Kidwelly was let to Mr. Davies, Of Neath, who has, we believe, other contracts on the line. That from Kidwelly to the point where the railroad crosses the river Towy, (and which contains some verlif heavy works) was taken by Mr. Sharp, of Swanse" t The contract from the Towy to Whitland, nearly fout- f teen miles, was let to Mr. D. Mainwaring, of this towO» I the amount of the contract being E90,000 and that ( from Whitland to a place called Cross-inn-fach was I taken by Mr. Garrett, an old contractor under ?Jr. Brunei. As soon as the necessary securities ha*0 been entered into, operations will commence, and tbl works on each contract are to be completed in twenty months from the time that the engineer gives notice ? ■ the contractor to commence. We are glad to learn tb' our townsman, Mr. Mainwaring, has been successful ? obtaining a contract upon this important line, and fr0<? ;? information that we have received, we are gratified to find that it is probable he will be well remunerated fot his enterprise. DISTRESS IN IRELAND.—On Sunday last, in obe, dience to the Queen's Letter, the Lord Bishop of Sain* David's, ever foremost in every work and labour of love, preached a sermon at St. Peter's Church, in this toW"» in aid of the fund raising in the kingdom of Great Britain, for the relief of the famishing population ot Ireland. His Lordship took for his text the Charity never faileth," and it need scarcely be said that the discourse was a master piece of appellant elo* quence. The collection at the close of the service amounted to jE42 17s. As the weather was exceedingly J boisterous, many persons were prevented from attending, but we learn that their donations, as well as those 0 any other individuals who may be charitably disposed, will be received by the Ven. Archdeacon Bevan, or by Messrs. Morris, Bankers. A collection for the same pur' pose to the amount of JE21 was made in Water-street chapel, on the same day, by the Calvinistic Methodist Connexion and Sunday School. A similar sum had been raised only the Sunday week previous by the san]O congregation and school, in aid of the Home Missionary cause in their connexion. On the same day, and for the like praiseworthy and benevolent object, the Rev, J. G. Avery, preached two deeply impressive and in' teresting sermons at the English Wesleyan Chapel. In the course of his sermons, the Rev. Gentleman read several extracts from communications which he had received, to show the awfully extreme destitution at present existing in Ireland. The congregations, though small, responded nobly to the appeals made, and the collections amounted to £ 15 10s. THE BAZAAR in aid of St. David's Church Endow- ment progressed prosperously on Friday last, on which day £2.5 were netted. All present seemed determined to exert themselves to the utmost to render the under- taking successful, and their efforts were deservedly rewarded with a success beyond the anticipations of the most sanguine. The fair stall-keepers put on their most persuasive mien, and the gentlemen did not fail to respond liberally to the pressing claims which were urged. Nor was the Bazaar devoid of innocent hilarityp for the wit of Mr. Richard Phillips, of Dale Castle, near Haverfordwest, (who officiated as auctioneer on Friday, and on whom the mantle of the deceased Geo. Robins appeared to have fallen) contributed in no small degree to the pleasure of those who had the opportunity of lis- tening to his jocund sayings. If Mr. Phillips is ever ( inclined to turn" Knight of the hammer," he will per- haps excuse us for jocularly remarking that his renown I would be spread far and wide. Joking aside, his exer- tions really benefitted the Bazaar in no slight degree, |f as did also those of his brother, Mr. Arthur Phillips. The sum reali,ed by this happy mode of levying con- tributions from the kindly disposed towards the Esta- blished Church, is no less than £180, while about f50 worth of beautiful fancy articles remain unsold, but will we understand, be offered for sale on a future occasion. This satisfactory result of the Bazaar must be highiy gratifying to those who interested themselves in the affair, and doubly so to all who were anxious to see the debt upon St. David's Church extinguished. We be- lieve a surplus o^more than £ 60 remains after the payment of the' > and we cannot refrain from men- tioning that M."Vorris have evinced great kindness in not having charged any interest upon the money so long since advanced. CARMARTHEN UNION.—The usual fortnightly meet- ing of the Board of Guardians was held on Monday last, Capt. D. Davies in the chair. The minutes of the pre- vious meeting were read and confirmed. Thos. Harries, relieving officer for the fourth district of the Union, into whose conduct an inquiry was lately made before As- sistant Commissioner Aneurin Owen, Esq., sent in his resignation, which was accepted by the Board. The usual routine business was then proceeded with, after which Mr. John Adams rose and addressing the Chairman, said that as it was understood to be the in- tention of Government to make some, alterations in the present laws relating to the reliefofthe poor, he thought this a fitting opportunity for the Board to express its opinion upon the subject. The Poor Removal Act which was passed in the last Session of Parliament, had been a prolific source of contention and ill will through- out the kingdom, and had caused great inconvenience to the poor themselves, as well as entailed additional poor rates upon many of the parishes in this Union. He considered the Law of Settlement altogether bad as to the removal of paupers from parish to parish, which was attended with considerable expense, and there was scarcely a Quarter Sessions at which there was not liti- gation respecting the removal of paupers, which of course caused an unwise expenditure of the rates. He thought all these expenses bore hard upon the country, and was of opinion that it was high time to apply a remedy. He was glad to perceive that petitions had already been sent to Parliament from all parts of England, and from some unions in the Principality, praying for a system of National Settlement, and that the poor of the country might be supported from the Consolidated fund, and lie would therefore give notice th at at the next meeting of the Board he should pro- pose that similar petitions be forwarded to both branches of the Le gislature. The chairman expressed himself favorably to Union Settlements although he did not approve of National Settlements. Mr. Adams's re- tition was then read by the clerk, and the notice en- tered. The B0).d then ad joivvec)