The Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette

A MOTHER'S LOVE. And can a mother's love grow cold 1 Can she forget her boy ? His pleading innocence behold, Nor weep for grief—for joy ? A mother may forget her child, While wolves devour it on the wild; Is this a mother's love ? Ten thousand voices answer No!" Ye clasp your babes, and kiss; Your bosoms yearn, your eyes o'erflow; Yet ah remember this— The infant reared alone for earth, May live, may die-to curse his birth? Is this a mother's love 1 A parent's heart may prove a snare; The child she loves so well, Her hand may lead, with gentlest care, Down the smooth road to hell; Nourish its frame-destroy its mind; Thus do the blind mislead the blind, E'en with a mother's love. THE WIFE AND CHILD. My wife and child, come close to me. The world to us is a stormy sea; With your hands in mine, if your eyes but shine, I care not how wild the storm may be. For the fiercest wind that ever blew Is nothing to me, so I shelter you; No warmth do I lack, for the howl at my back Sings down to my heart, Man, bold and true." A pleasant sail, my child! my wife! O'er a pleasant sea, to many is life; The wind blows warm, and they dread no storm, And wherever they go, kind friends are rife. But, wife and child! the love, the love, That lifteth us to the saints above, Could only have grown, where storms have blown, The truth and strength of the heart to prove.

MRS. CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES. MRS. CAUDLE COMPLAINS VERY BITTERLY THAT MB. CAUDLE HAS BROKEN HER CONFIDENCE." 0 Mr, Caudle! you'll catch me telling you anything again Now, I don't want to have any noise; I don't wish you to put yourself in a passion. All I say is this; never again do I open my lips to you about anybody. No if man and wife can't be cue, why there's an end of everything. Oh, you know very well what I mean, Mr. Caudle: you've broken my confidence in the most shameful, the most heartless way, and I repeat it—I can never be again to you as I have been. No: the little charm-it wasn't much-that remained about married life, is gone for ever. Yes; the bloom's quite wiped off the plum, now. Don't be such a hypocrite, Caudle; don't ask me what I mean! Mrs. Badgerly has been here—more like a fiend, I'm sure, than a quiet woman. I haven't done trembling yet! You know the state of my nerves, too; you know-yes. Sir, I had nerves when you married me; and I haven't just found 'em out. Well, you've something to answer for, I think. The Badgerly's are going to separate; she takes the girls, and he the boys, and all through you. How can you lay your head upon that pillow and think of going to sleep, I can't tell. What have you done? Well, you have a face to ask the ques- tion. Done? You've broken my confidence, Mr. Caudle you've advantage of my tenderness, my trust in yon as a wife- the more fool I for my pains I-and you've separated a happy couple for ever. No I'm not talking in the clouds I'm talk- ing in your bed, the more my misfortune. Now, Caudle—yes, I shall sit up in the bed if I chose; I'm not going to sleep till I have this properly explained; for Mrs. Badgerly shan't lay her separation at my door. You won't deny that you were at the club last night ? No. bad as you are, Caudle-and though you're my husband, I can't think you a good man I try to do, but I ca'nt—bad as you are, you can't deny you were at the club. What ? You don't deny it ? That's what I say-you can't. And now, answer me this question. What did you say-before the whole world-of Mr. Badgerly's whiskers ? There's nothing to laugh at, Caudle; if you'd have seen that poor woman to-day, you'd have a heart of stone to laugh. What did you say of his whiskers ? Didn't you tell everybody he dyed 'em? Didn't you hold the candle up to 'em, as you said to show the purple? To be sure you did Ha! people who break jokes never care about breaking hearts. Badgerly went home like a demon; called his wife a false woman! vowed he'd never enter a bed again with her, and, to show he was in earnest, slept all night upon the sofa. He said it was the dearest secret of his life; said she had told me and that I had told you; and that's how it came out. What do you say ? Badgerly was right? I did tell you ? I know I did; but when dear Mrs. Badgerly mentioned the matter to me and a few friends, as we were all laughing at tea together, quite in a confidential way-when she just spoke of her husband's whiskers, and how long he was over 'em every morning-of course, poor soul! she never thought it was to be talked of in the world again. Eh ? Then 1 had no rigkt to tell you of it? And that's the way I'm thanked for my confidence. Because I don't keep a secret from you, but show you, I may say, my naked soul, Caudle, that's how I'm rewarded. Poor Mrs. Bad- gerly-for all her hard words-after she went away, I'm sure my heart quite bled for her. What do you say, Mr. Caudle ? Served her right-she should hold her tongue? Yes; that's like your tyranny—you'd never let a poor woman speak. Eh- what, what, Mr. Caudle ? That's a very fine speech, I dare say; and wives are very much obliged to you, only there's not a bit of truth in it. No, we women don't get together, and pick our husbands to pieces, just as sometimes mischievous little girls rip up their dolls. That's an old sentiment of yours, Mr. Caudle; but I'm sure you've no occasion to say it of me. I hear a good deal of other people's husbands certainly; I can't shut my ears; I wish I could but I never say anything about you,—and I might, and you know it—and there's somebody else that knows it, too. No; I sit still and say nothing; what I have in my own bosom about you, Caudle, will be buried with me. But I know what you think of wives. I heard you talking to Mr. Prettyman when you little thought I was listening, and you did'nt know much what you were saying-I heard you. My dear Pretty- man," says you, "when some women get talking, they club all their husbands' faults together just as children club their cakes and apples, to make a common feast for the whole set," Eh ? You don't remember it ? But I do and I remember, too, what brandy was left, when prettyman went. 'Twould be odd if you could remember much about it, after that. And now you've gone and separated man and wife, and I'm to be blamed for it. You've not only carried misery into a family, but broken my confidence. You've proved to me that henceforth I'm not to trust you with anything, Mr. Caudle. No I'll lock up whatever I know in my own breast,-for now I find nobody, not even one's own husband, is to be relied upon. From this moment I may look upon myself as a solitary woman. Now, it's no use your trying to go to sleep. What do you say ? You know that? Very well. Now I want to ask you one question more. Eh ? You want to ask me one? Very well- go on—I'm not afraid to be catechised. I never dropt a syllable that as a wife I ought to have kept to myself-no, I am not at all forgetting what I have said-and whatever you've got to ask me speak out at once. No-I don't want you to spare me all I want you is to speak. You will <tpeoA? Well, do then. What ? Who told people you'd a false front tooth? And is that all ? Well, I'm sure-as if all the world couldn't see it. I know I did just mention it once, but then I thought every- body knew it-besides I was aggravated to do it; yes, aggra- vated. I remember it was that very day, at Mrs. Badgerly's when husbands' whiskers came np. Well, after we'd done with them, somebody said something about teeth. Whereupon Miss Prettyman-a minx! she was born to destroy the peace of families, I know she was she was there and if I had only known that such a creature was-no, I'm not rambling, not at all, and I'm coming to the tooth. To be sure, this is a great deal you've got against me, isn't it ? Well, somebody spoke about teeth, when Miss Prettyman, with one of her insulting leers, said, she thought Mr. Caudle had the whitest teeth she ever had beheld. Of course my blood was up-every wife's would be and I believed I might have said, Yes, they were well enough but when a young lady so very much praised a married man's teeth, she perhaps didn't know that one of the front ones was an elephant's." Like her impudence !-I set her down for the rest of the evening. But I can see the humour you're in to-night.You only came to bed to quarrel, and I'm not going to indulge you. All I say is this, after the shameful mischief you've made at Badgerly's, you never break my confi- dence again. Never-and now you know it. Caudle hereupon writes-co And here she seemed inclined to sleep. Not for one moment did I think to prevent her.Punch.

GREAT EASTERN & WESTERN RAILWAY. On Monday week a most important and highly influential meeting was held at the Guildhall, Worcester, on the subject of the above important undertaking, and at which, Mr. Ward, M.P. for Sheffield, accompanied by Thomas Douglasse, Esq., and others of the Directors of the Company, Mr. Hughes, Secretary, Mr. Elmslie, Solicitor, and Mr. Griffin, Assistant Engineer, at- tended as a deputation from the Company, for the purpose of explaining the objects of the undertaking. In the absence of the Mayor, Mr. Aid. G. Allies was called to the chair, who, having briefly stated the object of the meeting, proceeded to read the circular convening it. Mr. Ward then rose, and said that when the present scheme first came out, as the Great Eastern and Western Railway scheme, it was perhaps too vague, and too vast in its objects. There was no natural or necessary connection between Yarmouth and Swansea, the two termini: but he always thought there was the most necessary and natural connection between the mineral districts of South Wales and Staffordshire and Birming- ham, as well as with the agricultural counties which intervene. The through communication from east to west, though desirable, was a. secondary object with him; but everybody whe travelled knew that while railway communication from north to south was easily attainable, that from east to west was at the present time very imperfect. But the country to the east of Birmingham was already filled up by the lines extending from Yarmouth to Cambridge and Huntingdon, which would be car- ried on to Rugby, and this enabled them to make the district between South Wales their principal object and care. The im- portance of that district it would be difficult to over-rate—indeed it had been sufficiently .proved by the immense competition which had immediatelysSSisen on the announcement of their present schemed For it so happened, that although, when the Great Eastern and Western scheme was first projected, it was called an impracticable scheme his noble friend-if he might be allowed to call him so-Earl Fitzwilliam, had pronounced it impracticable in the House of Lords, yet no sooner was it an- nounced than half a dozen other schemes, having a like object in view, at once sprung up. There was one from Neath to Merthyr-Tydvil, and another to compete with the loop line, thrown out by the Eastern and Western Company, at the sug- gestion of Sir John Guest and Mr. Crawshay Bailey, from the Hirwaen works by Pontypool to Abergavenny, besides various projects, as he understood, both on the broad and narrow gauge in connection with Worcester, amongst which was the project for a line from Worcester to Hereford, which had just now come out. It was not for them to disparage these several schemes, for their existence was a confirmation of the soundness of their own (the Great Eastern and Western) plans, and so was the abortive attempt of the Welsh Midland Company to reach Mer- thyr by a branch from Brecon, instead of passing through the heart of the mineral district, as would be the case of the Great Eastern and Western line. Yet all the various plans, in his judgment, failed to realise the advantages presented by this more direct and comprehensive scheme. Look at the position in which they would be left if the Great Eastern and Western line were not made. What a strange medley of broad and nar- row gauge lines they would have. They would have a broad gauge line from Neath to Merthyr-a gap from Merthyr to Abergavenny, the most important part of the whole which no- body pretended to fill-a narrow gauge line from Abergavenny to Hereford, and a broad gauge from Hereford to Worcester; so that there would be three or more breaks in the through communication between Worcester and Swansea from the change of gauge, besides the hiatus between Merthyr and Aber- gavenny-the most important of the whole—which no company but the Great Eastern and Western proposed to fill up. And, after all, it was Merthyr that they must reach. There was the market for their produce. There the coal and iron which they wanted at home. Mr. Budd, the manager of the Ystalyfera iron works, in the vale of Swansea, up which the Welsh Midland in- tended to pass, put forward the claims of one particular part of the country only, and tried to impress the public with the feel- ing that the Carmarthen, Llandovery, and Llandilo old post-road must be the route which a railway was bound to take. These old associations he (Mr. Ward) felt must give way to the de- mand for improved communication on all hands. On that old road there was no traffic which eould be calculated upon as likely to pay I per cent. upon a railway if made. The Welsh Midland line between Swansea and Brecon only accommodated two iron works, while the Great Eastern and Western line afforded railway accommodation to 21 works-the largest in the world-And included a population of at least 120,000 souls. Admitting, then, all that had been said by Mr. Budd, the advan- tages which he sets forth as likely to arise from railway commu- nication with South Wales, could only be attained by carrying out—not the Welsh Midland, but the Great Eastern and Western Railway scheme. Now, the Eastern and Western, instead of merely touching the iron districts at one isolated point (which was all the Welsh Midland Company proposed to do by the branch from Brecon). absolutely passed through the heart of it. On looking at the map, it would be seen at once that the pecu- liarities of the Merthyr district consisted in the iron works being situate in separate valleys without any possible commu- nication with each other. The Eastern and Western line actu- ally skirted the head of every one of these valleys, passing within one hundred yards of some of the largest works, and not more than three quarters of a mile from any of them, and it was the intention of the Company to put them all on a footing of perfect equality with respect to advantages. It was proposed that the Company should, at their own expense, after construct- ing the main line, take powers in their Act to make short branch lines to each of the mineral valleys, with a goods station at the head of it, to bring them all into communication with the main line. And this arrangement, together with the loop line from the head of the Neath valley to Pontypool and Abergavenny, would afford the most perfect communication that could be desired. Then came the question could all this be accom- plished ? Could they obtain practicable gradients ? The Board of Trade had rather encouraged the doubts that had been raised on this point, by their preference of the coast line. Mr. Ward here read extracts from the Reports of the Board of Trade on the South Wales and Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton lines, and then proceeded. Now, as Birmingham would no doubt be the point at which the broad and narrow guage would ultimately meet, he did not attach much importance to those portions of the Reports of the Board of Trade which referred to the question of guage. They (the Great Eastern and Western Company) admitted that the difficulties to be encountered in an engineer- ing point of view were considerable, but then they were happily concentrated between Nantyglo and Abergavenny. After reach- ing Nantyglo, they came, as their Chairman well knew, upon a table land, presenting no engineering difficulties of any kind, and extending to Dowlais Pond, and though no railway could descend into the basin of Merthyr, they could easily skirt it, and provide by a branch line for the accommodation of the town. He had now the advantage of going over every yard of the line proposed, and viewing it accurately and carefully, it appeared that a more admirable field for engineering purposes-and that without too great cost-was not to be found! He (Mr. Ward) had that morning received from Mr. Gravatt, the Engineer of the Company, a Report on this subject. In that report, Mr. Gravatt stated that he had no doubt that he could obtain better gradi- ents-he stated 50 per cent. better-than those now used upon several other lines in the kingdom, on which a great and profit- able traffic-both in passengers and goods-was actually carried on. Mr. Ward then read Mr. Gravatt's Report, and then pro- ceeded. Now, when he had asked Mr. Gravatt to forward to him at Worcester his written opinion on the engineering capabi- lities of the line, he had expressly cautioned him against making any particular point in the document for the purpose of raising a popular feeling in favour of the line, and hence they now had before them a plain and candid expression of the engineer's opinion of the engineering part of the subject, undertaking to do the work required at moderate cost. Mr. Gravatt's opinion was confirmed by the fact that on the most difficult part of the line (between Aberpergwln and Abergavermy) -that which was called impracticable-there was at present a tram-road in full work, constructed by Mr. Crawshay Bailey, a most practical and sagacious man, at his own expense. The gradients obtained by Mr. Bailey were more difficult than those which Mr. Gravatt had procured in the same vicinity, and it was no disparagement to Mr. Bailey to say this, because he had crept round ravines which the Eastern and Western line would bridge over. and their starting point would be much higher than his. In a great national undertaking like that now under consideration, more bold measures would be taken of necessity than in a private undertaking like that of Mr. Bailey's. But Mr. C. Bailey had solved the problem of the practicability of the line between Abergavenny and Nantyglo by his tramroad, constructed at a trifling expense, and regularly used. As to the saving of dis- tance on this line over the South Wales in direct communica- tion, it might be established, that by the Great Eastern and Western Railway, there would be a saving of more than one half of the distance over the South Wales and Great Western connection; the one being a direct line, the other a circuitous route, via Hereford. He had no doubt that if the Great Eastern and Western line were carried out, a great deal of the raw ma- terial would be conveyed from South Wales into Staffordshire, to be manufactured there, and he had received assurances from several iron-masters in South Wales of their intention to open new works. This passing through Worcester would make that city the centre of a most considerable trade. The approach to Worcester would be by the north end of St. John's, to near the race-course, a permanent bridge crossing the river at that point, This line must necessarily bring a considerable increase to the trade of Worcester. Of course in an undertaking of such magni- "tude and importance as the present, there must be considerable opposition. They had it already in the rival schemes alluded to by him. They were, however: quite ready to fight their battle upon its merits, feeling assured that the intrinsic worth of their scheme must carry it through successfully. At the same time he would say, that no money was more uselessly spent than that lavished in the conduct of railway opposition before Parlia- ment. He believed that in the prosecution of great projects, as well as great principles, in order to carry them, some compro- mise generally became necessary on both sides and looking at the matter in this point of view, if the Great Western Company would give them on fair terms the use of their line from Wor- cester to Wolverhampton. and either open, or allow them to open a communication with Birmingham, the Great Western abandoning its rival schemes between Neath and Merthyr, and Hereford and Worcester, the Eastern and Western Company was willing to meet them in the most friendly spirit, and to throw a larger traffic into their line than the South Wales could ever bring them, because the trade in minerals between Staf- fordshire and Merthyr could never pay unless conducted by the most direct route. They would then be enabled to apply their surplus capital to the new project of carrying the broad guage from Worcester to Rugby across that part of the country which at the present time was totally unoccupied. They (the Eastern and Western Company) would be happy at once to communicate with the Great Western Company on their return to London, should the Great Western be willing to treat with them. In conclusion, Mr. Ward apologised for having occupied the atten- tion of the meeting for so long a period: He had endeavoured to state the objects" which they had in view in as clear and concise a manner as was practicable, and he trusted that he had succeeded in showing that the project had very great merits, and that its fulfilment would be highly advantageous to the public „ "-c J. W. Lea, Esq., the Vice-Chairman of the Severn Improve- ment Commission, said that the explicit statement which had just been made by Mr. Ward was so completely satisfactory that the meeting was unanimously satisfied with it. Knowing himself the importance of a communication with the vast mine- ral fields of South Wales, it had always been his desire to pro- mote such a project of railway communication with Worcester as would bring them the valuable traffic from that district. The Welsh Midland line, on being mooted, he supported, as giving them a sort of communication with this important district, but at that time the Great Eastern and Western line was not in being. This line, instead of affording them (like the Welsh Midland) partial and circuitous communication with the mineral district of South Wales, embraced the very heart of that district—one which, in importance, he would say, was second to none in the world. He would only just instance the produce of one single work. Sir J. Guest made 2,100 tons of iron weekly. He did not mean to say that the Great Eastern and Western Company were going to carry the whole of that 2,100 tons, but, inde- pendent of the commerce and traflic which might reasonably be expected to be derived from such a source, it must be remem- bered that the large number of workmen; employed in these works were dependent on other districts for their supplies of food and provisions. This line would give a communication with the agricultural and other parts of the country, and make available what at present was entirely shut out from that im- portant district. He had received letters on this subject from numerous ironmasters and coal proprietors, and one from Air. Brown, the manager of the Ebbw Vale and Sirhowy Iron-works, which stated that he (Mr. Brown) believed a line to Swansea from this district would have an enormous passenger traffic from Merthyr to Cardiff; they have now a passenger traffic of jEl.400 per month. This would be quadrupled to Swansea from this district." Mr. Beaumont of Cwm Celyn and Blaina Works, gave the following opinion:— Tump, 28th August, 1845. My opinion has been, ever since this line was proposed, that this line of road from Birmingham to Swansea, through the mineral district, would be one of the best, and would put the c Welsh Midland overboard, if it can be carried without very great difficulty through that district. "JOSEPH BEAUMONT." Now he (Mr. Lea) for one, had the most perfect confidence that the line would, as a traffic line, be second to none in the king- dom. The district of South Wales abounded in mineral produce —there were hills and mountains of iron and he would state, on the authority of Mr. Wood, of the eminent Liverpool and Neath firm of Jevons and Wood, as also on that of Mr. Harley, the mineral agent of Capel Hanbury Lee, Esq., that iron ore could be raised .in its raw state, and transported to Stafford- shire, at a very much cheaper rate than that at which it could be raised in the latter district. So that he had no doubt the raw material would actually be carried by the Great Eastern and Western Railway from Wales to Staffordshire, there to be con- verted. Then, as to that part of the line which extended from Wales to Worcester-a purely agricultural district—they had the general support of the landowners and others interested. Mr. Lea then pointed out the advantages which Worcester would derive from the establishment of this line. Votes of thanks were afterwards moved to the deputation and the chairman, after which the meeting separated.

JUioctilaneoufj. Daring the long dark nights of winter, strict propriety would suggest to the managers of every railway company the necessity of lighting up their third class carriages. A seven hours' ride in the dark is not what ought either to be enforced or tolerated. A veteran, named Donald Ross, died a few days since, at Kiltearn, in Ross-shire, at the great age of 115 years. On Monday last three gentlemen, very curiously named Frost, Williams, and Jones, accompanied by some ladies, went to visit Cardigan Bar, in a phaeton. When going up the hill, the iron rod that connects the seat in which Wil- liams and Jones were seated broke, and they fell, but were not much hurt. It was observed by a byestander that they were more lucky to have fallen in old South Wales, than like their namesakes in New South Wales. MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. On Monday week, as Mrs. Jones, late of the Black Lion Hotel, Cardigan, accom- panied by some friends, were walking on the cliffs at Cardigan Bar, and admiring the view, she suddenly slipped and fell over the cliff. Fortunately it was high water, or she would have been inevitably dashed to pieces. Boats were immediately put off, and she was saved from a watery grave. WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.—At the late conference it was resolved not to admit to the Theological Institution any married student, or any person under engagement of marriage. The reason assigned for this prohibition is, that young men so circumstanced eagerly snatch at any means of getting a livelihood. At the same conference the Wesleyans determined for the first time to avail themselves of the New Marriage Act, and to have their marriages celebrated by their own ministers in their chapels. COPPER IN CARMARTHENSHIRE.—We have been in- formed that a considerable quantity of excellent copper ore has been discovered from time to time in the river Gwilly, near to the farm of Pantey, on the property of Captain J. G. Philipps. It is said that a company for the establishment of copper works, near Carmarthen, will be formed as soon after the construction of some of the various railways now projected, as possible.— Welsh- man. EXPLOSIONS IN COLLIERIES.—These disasters will continue to be of frequent occurrence as long as candles are used in the mines. The only prevention will be the Legislature passing an Act, rendering it highly culpable to use candles, and direct that all collieries shall be compelled to use the Davy layp, or be subject to a very severe penalty, and the consequences of a verdict iof manslaughter .-Mining Journal. RAILWAYS PASSED DURING THE SESSION OF 1845.-As many erroneous notions are abroad respecting the railways passed last session, we beg to refer to a detailed statement published by a gentleman in our office, in our Journal for August 23rd. It is there shown that 115 bills passed, and 100 were lost. The total length of lines and branches granted is 2,8441 miles, the estimates jE49,399,572, the capital authorised to be raised E42,818,330, and loans, £ 14,541,791, making a total of capital and loans of £ 57,360,121.—HerepatK s Journal. RAILWAYS IN SPAIN.-The Spaniards are determined not to be behind the rest of their neighbours, French or Germans, in the construction of railways. Although first attempts have not altogether been successful, the surveys lately made are said to favour such undertakings in that country. We hear of new companies being organised for the London market. The Globe says that at the moment of the taking of Argo, in the Caucasus, the Count de Brukendorff, nephew to the Princess of Lieven, was struck by a ball in the chest. Internal hemorrhage succeeded, and he was on the point of dying from suffocation, when he was struck with a poignard by one of the mountaineers, which proved a fortunate blow for the Prince, as it is stated to have caused a flow of blood, which in all probability will be the means of saving his life. We have heard of a stitch in time," but never before of such "a stick in time." GAME IN THE ROYAL PRESERVES AT WINDSOR.— There is more game (especially pheasants and hares) upon the royal preserves in the vicinity of Windsor Castle this year, than has been known for several pastseasoos. Strict orders have been issued that not a single head of any des- cription is to be shot until the return to Windsor of the Prince Consort. Upon the preserves of Swinley, also one of the farms of his Royal Highness, about eight miles from Windsor, game of all kinds is equally abundant. We rejoice to have it in our power to state, from good authority, that in consequence of the flourishing condi- tion of the public revenue, it is the intention of the Government, if the peace of Europe should continue undisturbed, not to renew the Property Tax at the exni- —Brighton Gazette. T "LORD METCALFE, governor-gerieral of Canada," says a correspondent of the Britannia, is dying by inches; but he is determined to remain as long as he can be of any service. 'As well to die here as elsewhere.' These are his own expressions and his strength of mind is really astonishing, but his sufferings are deplorable. I speak from my own observation, having recently had a good deal of personal intercourse with him." ANCIENT COAL-WORKS.—A short time since, as the men were working Mr. Harrison's Clapgate Colliery, at Pemberton, they discovered a walled-up place, which they considered led to some old workings on this infor- mation, Mr. Harrison himself went down, and, on breaking it open, they found a cavernous opening, from which the coal had been worked to the extent of an acre and a half, and, from many circumstances, it is calculated it must have remained closed for at least 200 years; a pickaxe and a spade of that remote period were found— the latter cut out of one piece of solid oak, the back and front rim shod with sheet-iron. This discovery will form a fine subject for the British Association, the Geo- logical Society, and the antiquary. FREEMASONRY IN GERMANY.—The movement which now agitates the religious world in Germany extends largely into the Masonic lodges. They are divided into the eclectic system, and such as intend to bring the royal craft more in unison with the moral and ethic tenets of Christianity. The lodges of Berlin and Frankfort—very important in the system of German Freemasonry—are for the latter course but those of Berlin have not yet made any positive declaration to that effect. Prince Frederic of Prussia (heir to the throne) is the Grand Master of the Prussian Masons. His circular to all the lodges, recommending the brothers to join and strenu- ously to co-operate with the societies for the improve- ment of the working classes, has made a very favourable impression, and has been attended with the best results. In Austria, Freemasonry is still prohibited. RAILWAYS.—ASPECT OF THE WEEK.The railway mania continues to progress without any sensible inter- ruption. New projects, not only English, but also French, Belgian, and German are daily appearing, and the manufacture of companies seems to have become a profession. On all sides we find schemes brought out, associated with the highest influence of the localities through which they pass, and lords and aldermen, and knights and squires, itinerate about the country expa- tiating on the great advantages of the giant system with all the eloquence that the first retaining fees can secure. The great contest at the present moment is between the several Manchester direct companies, and Rastrick and Remington as the leading engineers in the field carry on a war of words through the medium of advertisements respecting the merits of their separate schemes. It is questionable after all whether to ensure success these companies will not have to amalgamate, and so join in a stand against the Birmingham Company, their chief op- ponent. Both parties seem confident of success, and Rastrick is understood to be already on his line for the purpose of carrying out his plans. A few weeks, we should think, would show what is likely to be the result of the contest between the two companies. The project- ors of the French lines are on the qui vive for the adju- cations which will now shortly take place. In Germany, lines are being chalked out to connect the several leading districts. Some of the lesser foreign companies are of a doubtful character. A WATER DRINKER.—OnThursday week aman named John Harber, living in East-street, Regent's-park, under- took for a wager of 20,s. to drink a pail of water (four gallons) witliin half an hour, which he accomplished, drinking it by a pint at a time till he had swallowed the whole. He then declared that he would drink 12 pints of beer in as many minutes; no one, however, seeraed to doubt it, and that part of the performance was dispensed with. DREADFUL OCCURRENCE.—A young man named Joseph Brammey, employed at the Dinting Vale print works, Derbyshire, on Saturday week, fell into a pan containing 300 gallons of caustic lie, which was at boiling heat, and before the accident was discovered the body was quite eaten away by the liquor. The liquor in the pan was thrown away, and at the bottom of the pan nothing but a few bones could be found, and these looking as if they had been in the ground a hundred years. The leather and soles of his clogs were eaten away a portion of his clothes that were made of cotton had sustained but little injury; and the iron and nails that had been in his clogs were found. The deceased's teeth were discovered all separate. Strange to say, the deceased's heart was found by itself quite sound. All that was collected of the body did not weigh 71bs., and if these parts had remained in the liquor three hours longer, not a particle would have been left. ELOPEMENT.—The good people in the quiet neigh- bourhood of W e, in this county, have recently been somewhat excited by the circumstance of the elope- ment of a young lady, the eldest daughter of M—— W-, Esq., of W e, with the son of a highly respectable ikmer, also residing in that neighbourhood. The young gentleman had been paying his addresses to the lady a considerable time, but rather against the con- sent of her parents, and an intimation wa3 given him that he had better be gone, or a very summary mode of ejectment would be adopted. This brought matters to a crisis, and Mr. S. though young in years (being only 19) proved himself, when incited by love, no mean antagonist. The lady's will was soon known, and the young swain equally soon arranged his plans. Accordingly, on the night of the 19th ult. he arrived with a carriage at the dwelling-house of the lady. An opening of a window might have been heard in the darkness of the night; a light step upon a ladder; a movement of persons leaving the premises a crack of a whip; and then the rattling of carriage wheels told the success of the attempt. A very quiet wedding took place in Cheltenham the next day, and the young lady rejoiced in the name of Mrs. S.— Gloucestershire Chronicle. HONESTY REWARDED!—Another of those rare instances of extraordinary honesty, on the part of a very poor man, meeting with a commensurate reward, has occurred this week. A labouring man, residing somewhere in St. George's, the other day, picked up a bag upon the high road, containing about seventeen hundred sovereigns. He instantly put himself in communication with a res- pectable neighbour, and the two were counting the money when they received information that a gentleman in a gig was inquiring after some property he had lost. The gentleman, satisfactorily establishing that the bai^ of gold was his property, and that it had dropped from his gig about an hour and a half previously, it was at once re- stored to him. Of course, in the excess of his joy at the recovery of so large a sum, and, to mark his high sense of the poor man'^ honesty, he left behind him, for the benefit of the worthy man's family, substantial proof that honesty is the best policy Yes, he clutched his bag of gold, said Thankee," and retired! Such an instance of munificence in these parsimonious days is quite refresh- ing.—Bristol Mirror. THE GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.—When a steamer leaves the smoother waters and goes among head-winds and cross-currents, although its speed be not increased it seems to be making the hubbub which the elements cause by beating against its bow?. So it is with the course of government in Ireland though not more violent than it is in England, it appears to occasion the tumult which it merely marks and does not cause. There is no measure but what must encounter storms in that stormy land, unless it be quite nugatory; and even then it may breed the worst of tumults, as witness the nugcR of Repeal. The assent or even acquiescence of one party implies the frantic hostility of all others. For the May- nooth Bill, the wind with the Repealers is fair: and therefore it meets a hurricane from the Orange quarter: the project of the new Colleges wins the gradual con- currence of the moderate Roman Catholics, headed by the most discreet and intelligent of their Prelates and therefore it provokes the increasing wrath of the immo- derate Catholics and thVtess discreet Prelates, as well as that of the more violent Conservatives. While Arch- bishops Crolly and Murray are promising the measure a fair trial, Archbishop M'Hale is writing fierce invectives to Sir Robert Peel; and Mr. John O'Connell, with a bitter feeling that stings him to candour, admits that the Minister has succeeded in sowing division among the Roman Catholics. Again, when the Repeal Magistrates began to promote an agitation seditious in its tendencies, Ministers dismissed those magistrates: it is now the turn of the Orange magistrates to imitate the offence of their antagonists: Government continue identically the same course, and there is equal fuming and spluttering among the Orange party. In Ireland, every one's hand is raised against all the rest—Repealer, Orangeman, Catholic, Protestant, Ribandman, Landlord, Tenant: there all the relations of society are bitter antagonisms but all are against the Government. Properly speaking, there is no Ministerial party in Ireland—no political party at all; for men are not banded together by open opinions which each individual freely adopts on convic- tion, but banded by traditional hereditary prejudices and factious interests. If real opinion exists in the depen- dency of Great Britain, it shines by a reflected light.— Spectator. THE FRENCH NAVY.—The Prince de Joinville, having the interests of his country much at heart, has been emu- lating the English patriotism of Viscount Palmerston, in exposing her defenceless condition. He has obtained a Royal Commission, has procured himself to be its chair- man, has instigated it to echo his celebrated "Note on the steam-marine of France, and has published a second and more emphatic version of the Note in the shape of a Report. France, say the Prince and his Commission, has not a steam-navy: 'he largest steam-ships are huge delusions, incapable ot bearing the guns meant for them the 450-horse frigates are deficient in power & speed, fit only for transports, not war-ships the smaller frigates are equally inept; and the "Transatlantic" boats have been made, really as well as ostensibly, packet-boats. For, as the clever young admiral divulged to us his cunning device to come upon ns in the night, anj^" kill, kill, kill," so he now lets us know that the sffcalled post-office packets were meant for war-ships whereas they have actually been- made packet-ships) There is an amazing redundancy of humour in that intent to deceive, self- frustration, and self-exposure both of the fraud and the failure. In such fashion the French might indulge themselves in wars most harmlessly, doing all sides of the contest themselves; planning the attack, providing the defeat, and magnanimously winning the victory over themselves—said by moralists to be the most glorious of all victories. Themselves their sole victors, they may achieve campaigns without ravaging countries, aggres- sions without striking a blow, defeat without disgrace, victories without envy, and a great many other things without a great many other thiugs." Like the serpent chewing his own tail, emblem of cunning and eternity, (though how such a mouthful can be eternally borne, or such conduct be cunning, we are rather slow to conce've) France opens wide her jaws, seeking whom she may devour; and devours—herself. Joinvillesaysso. May good digestion wait on appetite. DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE AT A WEDDING PARTY IN AMBRICA.—[From the Belleville Advocate, July 17th.] —Thursday last, July the 11th, was distinguished by a calamity, in this county, which, in all its circum- stances, is unparalleled in fearful horror by any accident within our recollection. This day, at seven o'clock, a.m., was appointed for the marriage of Charles H. Kettler, Esq., of Prairie du Long, Monroe county, to Miss Rosalie Huelberg, of Dutch Hill, in this county, about ten miles distant, on the east side of the Kaskaskia river. Intervening about half way is the river, which was then very high, and had overspread its banks. The wedding party was assembled and waiting at Mr. Kettler's. The house was decorated most richly for the joyful occasion. The hour passed without the bride. The sun crossed the meridian, and no news from her or an y%f her people. Evening was fast waning, when a messenger arrived with the dreadful tidings that all, except the father and son, were drowned on their way to the wedding. Five women- the mother, the bride, two sisters, and a young female friend in their company, had met their deaths! In the waters of the Kaskaskia all were ingulfed, when life to them was full of promise and joyful anticipation. The bridegroom hastened to the river, and on its bank met the distracted aged father, who fell into his arms: — "They are all—all drowned!" said he. The corpses were before them, dressed in the habiliments of festivity, dripping with water. Death had set his iron seal upon those features. Each corpse was taken up and placed upon a bier, and the sad procession, by seven o'clock in the evening had reached the house of feasting, thus suddenly changed to a house of mourning. The feeling of this wedding party, of the aged father, whose grey hairs are going down in sorrow to the grave, for a family thus annihilated; of the brother, who mourns for his mother and sisters, thus struck down in his presence; of a lover whose heart is riven with a thunderbolt. The feelings anll emotions of these can neither be imagined or described. On the next day one grave was dug for five persons, and side by side were they laid, the mother with her three daughters, and their young friend and companion, Miss Dressel. The funeral was attended by a vast assemblage of the neighbouring country, and the funeral sermon was preached by the Rev. A. Dony, Lutheran pr^jpher of Belleville> ^ad attended for a very different service. Mr. Huelberg, the father, had risen early on the day before, and with his family started for the place of their graves. They were all cheerful and happy, and bounding with hope. One carriage contained them, and as they approached the river, where the ferry was awaiting them, and were crossing the bottom on the road which was covered with water, .he horses were turned off, oversetting the carriage and its passengers into a deep slough of ravine. The water was running rapidly. The father clung to tne vehicle; the son to a cluster of bushes. One girl, the youngest daughter, was floating with a trunk. Hold fast, daughter," cried the father. <« I will," said she. Another girl was between the struggling and drowning horses. The rest had sank to the bottom. Two hunters came up, and to them the old man called to save his youngest, who was clinging to the trunk; he was old and weak and could not swim. One of them swam to the floating girl, who seized him by the leg, preventing him from swimming. He shook her off, intending to take her up again by a better hold but he saw her no more; she was gone for ever, HYDROPHOBIA.—HORRIBLE, IF TRUE.—A case of hy- drophobia occurred at Ennistymon on Tuesday last. A girl named Anoe Gallery, about 15 years of age. was bitten six weeks since by a dog. The dog did not show any signs of madness, but he has not since been heard of or seen. Our informant adds," this poor creature was smothered between two beds." Can this be true? We presume it was not advised by the medical attendants. The circumstance being known, an inquiry will, no doubt be instituted into the murder.—Clare Journal. THE IRON TRADE.—In our notice of the coal and iron trade last week, and the recent strike of the workmen, we expressed an opinion, founded on information on which we could rely, that another rise in the price of iron might safely be calculated on. The advance which we anticipa- ted has taken place during the present week, several of the largest houses in South Staffordshire having issued cir- culars on Thursday last, quoting the price of bars at 20s and pigs 10s. in advance of the former prices. Under these rates no further orders will be executed by the lead- ing firms. The effect of this rise will be injurious to the manufacturers of heavy goods, whose trade suffered scvere- ly during the rapid advance about nine months ago, and was but just recovering the shock it then received. There is every probability, however, that the present rates will be maintained, as the demand for rails for the new companies is very great, and likely to continue so for some time. The colliers have given notice of another advance of 6d. a day; but whether they will succeed in their present move- ment, the policy of which is very questionable after the late concessions on the part of the masters, remains to be seen.—Birmingham Journal. PROFESSIONAL INCOME, &c., OF SiR W. FOLLETT.— As, like Scarlett, his main object was to make money, his gains must have been immense. He bad as many special retainers as Scarlett in his best days, and more general and varied business; but Scarlett enjoyed forty-four years' practice, while Follett bad only been twenty-one years at the bar when he died. Scarlett had been twenty-five years at the bar before he obtained a silk gown Follett obtained one in ten years, as Lord Plunkett had done; but they were both outstripped by Erskine, who obtained his silk gown in 1783, when he was only five years' standing in the profession. Scarlett was thirty-six years' standing before he became Attorney General, while Follett was not twenty, and only ten when named Solicitor General. The 'professional income of Scarlett was for many years rated at jE 17,000 a year, and we have ourselves heard him say, he one yearmade £ 19,500; but we doubt that Follett ever made more than £ 15,000 a year; and we incline to think the gains of Lord Abinger must have been greatly exaggerated. He has left no more than £8,000 a year behind him; and making full allowance for some impru- dent purchases, we doubt that his professional gains put together, ever amounted to £220,000.-Fraser's Mag. CASTING OF THE WELLINGTON STATUE.—On Saturday afternoon a number of scientific and literary gentlemen, together with several ladies, witnessed the casting of 17 tons of metal at the atelier of Mr. Wyatt, Dudley Grove, Paddington. The bronze casting was for the fore part of the colossal horse intended for the Wellington statue at the West-end. The hinder part has already been cast, and is now in progress of being finished. The immense body of metal was occasionally seen through the iron door of a huge furnace it was intensely brilliant and perfectly fluid. A deep "run" led from the door of the furnace, and conveyed the liquid metal to a large pit wherein the model was deposited. At a given signal an aperture in the front of the furnace was opened, and a hollow noise like that from a volcano was heard. The metal then in a complete state of fusion glided forth like a stream of lava, hissing and spitting as it went along to the model-pit. A thick whitish smoke, like that from burning arsenic, and nearly as mephitic, entirely filled the atelier, to the roof, making it dark—a darkness which might be felt below, while the red burning river of metal continued to send forth an almost insupportable heat. In about half an hour the whole 17 tons had run into the pit in a continuous even flow, giving indication that all was right below. It will take five weeks before the mass can be sufficiently fixed and cool—a period of considerable excitement and suspense to the artist. It is curious that the two principal workmen employed on the occasion are Frenchmen, chosen by Mr. Wyatt for their knowledge in bronze casting. They are two hearty fellows, and stirred up the liquid metal with perfect nonchalance, apparently heedless about its having origi- nally been cannon taken from the armies of their country in order to form a statue of Wellington. The coincidence afforded subject for remark among the ladies and gentle- men present. Of these there were Mr. Faraday, Mr. Donaldson, F.R.S., Mr. Jerdan, &c. — Observer. The commissioner of the Times continues his letters; writing from Donegal. Derived more directly from his own experiences, they become more interesting and forci- ble and though the subjects are inevitably state, they are to a certain extent calculated to extend a better knowledge of the facts among many classes in England who have not read much upon the subject. We give a few of the salient points in a greatly condensed form. One of his facts, to show the neglected natural resources of Ireland, is the want of a canal, four miles in length, to open Lough Erne to the Western shores of Ireland. By the enterprising people of the North-east, Lough Neagh has been opened to the sea; and Belfast is the key to the whole of that in- ternal communication, reaching to the Western extremity of Lough Erne. By a similar enterprise, Enniskillen would become the Belfast of the West: but the canal is still uncommenced and the vast amount of water-power in the river that falls from Lough Erne is all wasted. This neglect arises from want of capital. The Commis- sioner takes for one cardinal datum the calculation of political economists that the rent should absorb one-third of the produce ot land; and that the other two-thirds should go to support the farmer, and to replace expenses, including seeds and wages ot labour; the last portion con- stituting "capital." In Ireland, the excessive rents exacted by landlords and by middlemen, both of whom are often absentees, deduct not only from the subsistence of the farmer and labourer, but also from the capital thus prevent all improvement, and ultimately subtract from the means of all parties. The tenant-right" of Ulster, which secures a charge sometimes of £10 an acre to the outgoing tenant for the "good-will," constitutes another burden on the land, similar in its nature to rent. Instances are shown of the working of this high-rent system. On a very superior farm in Donegal county, of which the produce is worth £:i0 a year, the tenant pays a rent of £ 10; his wages as a labourer (fcr he works him- self) are taken at £10, his expenses are £9: and his profit qua farmer is just £ L. In the same neighbourhood, a labourer pays 30s. rent for his cottage, 30s. for a quarter of an acre of conacre-£3 in all: he grows 32 pounds of potatoes a day, has a pig worth JE 4, and makes £7 16s. wages leaving, after his rent is paid, assets tor his family subsistence £8 16s. and the potatoes. But when living on potatoes alone, a man needs 8 pounds a day allowing G pounds for the wife, and three for each of four children, there is a human consumption of 26 pounds a day leaving hut 6 for the pig, which ought to have 20. Ihe deficiency must be made up from the 3s. 4d. a week in money. Such a man is well off; and in Donegal there is no "Molly Maguireism." In Leitrim, matters are different: land- lords are not in repute, and rents are higher. A ten-acre farm will yield in butter, &c., produce worth £ 20; the rent is £10 (half the produce) the expenses, (including interest of money for purchase of stock, £3) are £7; the working farmer's wages, £9. Out ot that £9 ivagcs he must pay the excess in the rent, about £6; leaving him about £3 remuneration fur the year! The tabourtn Leitrim makes in the year about JE:3 18s. wages; pig £4 deduct rent, (cottage £2 10s., a rood of conacre £2 lOa.) £5, and his net yearly income will be £2 18s. and the potatoes. If he cannot get conacre be starves. I his county is in the cdfitre of Molly Maguireism.' With these cases the Commissioner contrasts some improvements et, fected by Mr. Hamilton, at Pettigo, in Donegal land reclaimed by draining. Mr. Hamilton rents a farm for which he pays 18s. an acre rent. Three years ago, a field of 1 acre and 18 perches was quite worthless berechumed it at a cost of JE18 10s. In the first year, the profit was £19s. 2d. in the second, £ 13 His.; In the third, £9 2s, Bd. With similar results, 20 more acres ot this tarm were re- olaimed two years ago; 50 acres last year; and loO will probably be reclaimed this year. The Commissioner, by the help of such facts and the Tenure of Land Report,# calculates that the reclaiming of 150,000 acres of waste land in the county of Donegal would add 150,000 guineas a year rental for the landlords, would Increase the wealth of the tenant-farmers by £750,000 a year, and would provide constant work and wages for 6,390 labourers in Donegal alone. The great wants of Ireland are want of capital and want of employment for its labour. here is a mine of capital and employment.

Efiurdi. The Bishop of London and family have left town for a visit to Paris and Normandy. The Hon. and Rev. William C. Henniker, whose death was announced in our last, was son of the late, and Bro- ther to the present Lord Henniker. The Hon. and Rev. gentleman had only attained his 33rd year. George Hudson, Esq., M. P., has presented the sum of £200, in aid of the subscription tor the proposed new Church for the district of All Saints, Monk-Wearmouth, recently created under Sir Robert Peel's Endowment Act. CHURCHES IN IRELAND.—Among the recently issued Paliamentary papers is one containing a copy of the cor- respondence between Lord Heytesbury, as Lord-Lieuten- ant of Ireland, and the Irish Ecclesiastical Commissioners, relative to the building and repairing ot Churches in Ire- land. It seems that the Lord-Lieuttnant laid before the Government a communication from the Ecclesiastical Com- missioners, with which the Government was not well pleased, and further information was demanded. It appears that JE34,600 is now yearly expended in Ireland for providing requisites for the decent celebration of Divine worship, which was considered a large sum. It was stated that £10,603 was expected to arise in the cur- rent year from the sale of perpetuities. The Commissioners in answer to the mandate, among other matters mentioned that they had 244 applications for the enlargement of Churches, and that some of them were of a very urgent character. ACCIDENT TO THE DEAN OF EXETER.—We deeply regret to state that a serious accident occurred on Friday to the very Rev. the Dean of Exeter, Thomas Hill Lowe. This rev. and highly respected dignitary had gone to Culm- stock, for the purpose of visiting the church at that place, leaving his horse at the inn. Having concluded the business which brought him there, he returned for his horse, in order to journey homewards, when, going himself into the stable, the horse kicked at him, and the blow took effect on the bone of the knee. Assistance was immediately rendered him, and though the dean remains at Culmstock, we are happy to say the accounts announce him as going on favourably,—Bristol Mirror. By the death of Dr. Gordon, Dean of Lincoln, upwards of twenty livings, which were in his sole gift as Dean, will fall, under the provisions of the last Ecclesiastical Com- missioners' Act, to the Bishops of the DinCeses in which they happen to be situated; and the value of the Deanery, which was very considerable, will also be diminished to the next holder in other ways. The result of the inquiries of the Commissioners of Chari- table Bequests in the Diocesan and Prerogative Court, as connected with the county Kerry, have extended to charitable legacies left so tar back as forty-five years ago, and, from the list sent by them to Dr. Egan, it would ap- pear that very large sums in abeyance for a considerable time are recoverable for Roman Catholic purposes off va- rious properties in the neighbourhood of Killamey.— Limerick Chronicle. CHURCH-RATE VICTORY AT WAKEFIELD.—After four- teen days hard struggle, and the most gross bribery and corruption on the part of the Dissenters, the rate has been carried. At the time of receiving our latest statements from Wakefield last week the anti-rate party had a large majority, which they used every means to maintain, but which was gradually diminished by the friends of the Church, until Monday night last, when the numbers were nearly equal, and the rate party had a great many votes in reserve, which they could bring forward when re- quired. Many of these were brought up on Tuesday mor- ning, when a majority was obtained in favour of the rate, and which was gradually increased during the day. It was arranged between the parties, that whenever twenty minutes should elapse without a vote being tendered the poll should he finally closed. From the scarcity of votes offered by the anti-rate party it was evident they had ex- hausted their strength, and that the polling must shortly terminate. Several parties were in attendance to vote for the rate; but, a majority having been obtained, it was unnecessary to take their votes, and between three and four o'clock, the anti-raters being unable to tender a vote, the 20 minutes elapsed, and the poll was declared finally closed. The proceedings were adjourned until evening, for the purpose of having the state of the poll officially de- clared. Between seven and eight o'clock at night, the declaration was made, when the numbers appeared as fol- lows;—For the rate, 2,376; against it, 2,361; majority for the rate, 15! This announcement was received with tremendous cheers by a large assembly; the bells of the parish Church rang a merry peal; and other demonstra- tions of victory were manifested. A scrutiny of votes was demanded, and protests were given in to the Vicar against the proceedings; but there is good reason for believing that the scrutiny will not be prosecuted.—Doncaster Chronicle.

&grtculture, horticulture, &'C. REVIEW OF THE BRITISH CORN TRADE DURING THE PAST WEEK.— The weather, although fine, has been quite of an autumnal character since this day se'nnight, and great pro- gress has consequently been made in harvest-work. A warmer temperature is, however, much to he desired, as in the northern districts a considerable breadth of the outstand- ing corn is not yet ripe, and the late wheats, in particular, require a few days of bright sunshine to bring them to matu- rity. The reports as to the yield of all crops, are even more contradictory than usual, but we are still disposed to think that wheat will prove somewhere about an average in quantity, though inferior in quality and condition to that of last year's growth. Barley and oats are generally very good. ilt every respect, in nearly all parts of th,. country, but, on the other hand, the faiJnre of the potato crop, in so many quarters, must necessarily cause a greatly increased demand on out stock of bread-stuffs Whatever importance may attach to this last consideration, it certainly, at present, does not in any degree influence either Mark-lane transactions, or those of the principal provincial markets, where a further declIne In the value of wheat, to an extent little short of 2s. per quarter, has taken place since this day week. In London during the week, the arrivals of wheat coastwise have not been large, and a falling off has taken place in the quantity brought forward by land-carriage from the home counties. Nearly all of the quanlhy sold was or this year's growth the samples varying considerably both in condition and quality. The best selected parcels of new have moved off at about 58; good runs at 50s. to 57s and inferior at 45s. to 50s. perquaiter. Old wheat has been rather neglected, though offered at from Is, to 2s. per quarter below former rates. In foreign wheat, whether free or in bond, there has been very litile business done indeed, so little as to render quotations nearly nomi- nal. The duty fell Is. on Thursday, being now 17s. per quarter, and will probably recede another shilling on the 19th Inst, but 16s. is the lowest point it can at present be expected to fat! to. Flour has sold very slowly throughout the week, and less money has in partial cases been taken for ship sam- ples. A few parcels of new barley have been brought for- ward from Essex and Kent, mostly of coarse quality for the best of which 33,. per quarter have been obtained. In old foreign barley there has been nothing of interest passing, and prices have undergone no change. Malt has been saleable in retail at quite former quotations. The market has for months past been very scantily supplied with English and Scotch oats and had we not had good arrivals from abroad, this article must have risen materially in value. On Monday teally fine qualities of home growth were actually dearer, whilst duty paid on foreign were offered at an abatement of 6d. per quarter. Beans have moved off rather tardily at late rates. New white peas have sold at 38s. to 40s., and gray and maple at 36s. to 39s. per quarter. The number of quarters of wheat returned, •'as sold iu the 290 towns which govern duties, for the twelve months ending 30th ultimo, was o.o6i},015 against 5,268,383; and of barley, 2,714,407 against 2,517.657, in the same number of weeks last year. From Ireland we learn that the tine weather continues there also, without any appearance of a change. The crops are being rapidly cut down, and with the exception of a failure of the potatoes in Ulster, there is every prospect of a more tfian averagg return. Potatoes of a bad quality had been sold in Cavan at 3d, per stone-a heavy price for the poor people, it being only £ d. less than the cost of the very best kinds in the Dublin markets. The corn markets were rather declining. The weather in Scotland has likewise been beautifully tine, but wheat is held with much firmness. Barley was steady oats not so brisk. Flour a languid demand. HIGHLAND SOCIETY.—The ptaff officers of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland are to houour Dumfiies by a visit the first week in October, litile more than a mon'h hence; and considering the high utility of the Association, and the vast benefits conferred on Agriculture in all its branches, extended over a lengthened series of years, it would be a libel to doubt that the gathering will be one of the Great- est that ever gladdened the hanks of the Nith. Strangers, as before, will flock in from all quarters, not in hundreds, but literally in thousands;—some to exhibit stock, seeds, or imple- ments-others to analyse what is going forward-not a few to compare notes with persons engaged in similar pursuits, and the mass to collect data for future cogitation, the practical effects of which will he witnessed hereafter in localises not a little distant. Eight years have now elapsed since the Society visited the south of Scotland and as many changes have been introduced since that timn by practical chemistry, foreign manures, aud the marked increase of steam power, whether as applied to railroads or navigation,new inducements to travel will arise from facilities multiplied and multiplying <n all directions, which abridge alike time, distance, and cost. Of stock, entries have already been made from Lancashire, Yorkshire, Northumberland, Cumberland, north of Ireland, &c.; and as the books in the hands of the Local Secretary are to he kept open till the lith current, the lapse of every day will add to their number. The exhibitions as a whole will afford much to gratify the most competent judges, and thus confer credit on the Queen ot the South. Apavition sea'ed to accommodate from 1000 to 1200 persons, is in course of erection; preparations too are being made for inclos- ing and subdividing the show-ground the public dinners and breakfasts have been contracted for on the spot, and altoge- ther everything will be found ripe and ready whenthe period • or action arrives,—Dumfries Courier. FLOWER-GARDEN AND SIIRUUBF-RIES.—As the numerous varieties of Verbena ate now in nlootn, the best kinds should be selected for bedding out next year, also the part.-cnlar habit and colour should be noticed for the better arrangement of them at planting time in the in-comiug season. The same observation holds good in regard to the new Petunias, Fuch- sias, Pelargoniums, &c. Where there are conven enres for storing up In winter, as many kinds sh >u'd be grown as possible for planting on rockwork. iu borders, &c., to produce variety but in clumps nothing but first rate kinds should be planted! and rake borders as often as they require it, and carefully weed beds that are filled up. Pits and Frames. Continue to pot off such cuttings as are rooted place un m in a close pit ?y £ ame a few days, in Order that they may gel established lnltie pots when they should be removed to a sheltered situa- tion to harden. Keep every pit or frame well filled, as no time should be lost in getting a sufficient stock for next year. FLORISTS' I LOWERS.—Auriculas mustbeshetteredirom bright sunshine, as well as from excessive rain, keeping the pots free from weeds, and occasionally stirriug the surfacee f the soil with a blunt stick. It is now a good time to got in plants from a distance, that they may be established before winter. Carnations and Picotees. — Layers, where surficiently rooted, may now be taken off the stools, and potted in "jnt pots; the soil should be of a sandy texture, witho :^y manure being mixed with it, in order to prevent the pi nts assuming too gross a habit, which is prejudicial to tneir health in winter. Pinks should be planted in their blooming beds without delay; occasionally they are potted and sheltered in a similar manner to the Carnation, and then turned out with the ball entire in the sprir.g wÍlere there is the neces- sary convenipnce this latter mode is the best. Pamies may now be divided and planted out; cuttings of the weakest shoots strike root easily, and make better plants than those of more robust habit. Dahlias should have' all malformed flowers removed as soon as perceived and, where necessary some of the brauches may be throned Ollt. Trap earwigs in every possible way. and keep the ground clean lound plants HAKDY FmiiT AND KITCHEN GARDEN.— Particular atten- tion should now be directed to the gathering of the earliest varieties of Apples and Pears. As a general rule, the latter may be considered fit when the stalk parts from the spur by merely raising the fruit to a horizontal position, without pulling. The Flemish Beauty is, however, an exception, and must be gathered whilst it retains considerable hold, other- wise it becomes dry and musky instead of being melting and sweet. The particular tinge of colour which I'eaches and Nectarines acquire when ripe should heparticutarty obseived, in order that they might not be touched until they readily part from the tree. Funnel-shaped gatherers, lined with velvet, have been recommended but the hand is far prefer able, if applied so as to grasp the fruit with gentle and equal pressure on fine points of contact. In some cases the flavour of these fruits will ba improved if they are not used till the day after they are gathered but they must be laid softly oa cl ith, or ou cotton covered with tissue paper. Kitchen Gar- den.—Onions are not generally so sound as usual, and are likely to keep badly. They wllltherclOre require to be spread out thinly, and frequently looked over. Sow Cauliflowers on I warm border, in case the earlier sowings prove too forward. Sow and plant Lettuces. Thin Winter Spinach to three or four inches apart in the rows; vacancies may be filled up by transplanting, aud by this means also the crop of Lettuce- leaved Spinach may be extended.

BANKRUPTS.—{From the London Gazette.) FRIDAY.—Samuel Callum Bigmore, printer, Haverill, Suffolk, Robert Starbuck, shipwright, Oravesend. William Menzies. draper, Gloucester. Rowland Parry, flour dealer, Bangor. Jo- seph Dalton, Joseph Burn, and Robert Turpin, earthenware manufacturers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Richard Mayer, dealer in ale, Stoke-upon-Trent. TUESDAY. — S. Davies, Bankside, and Wilton-road, Pimlico, coal merchant. t. Ward, late of Rosaman-street, Clerkenwell, oilman. J. Savage, Old Crompton-street, Soho-square, vic- tualler. G. Cox, Plymouth, victualler, J. Ramsden, sen., Leeds, cloth manufacturer, )

Shipping JuteUigntce. RuTE DOCKS.— Arrived, the Daphne, Sprague, Plymnnth, ballast.. Liverpool, Stags, Waterfurd, do.. Kin>; of Tyre, Ste- phens, Dartmouth, limestones..Kate, Daniel, St. Ives, ballast Roebuck, Beard, Weston, pit wood.. Maria, Every, Weston light.Volante, Roda, Gloucester, ballast.Uenrv, Rohius' I'owey.do Lady Mary, Williams, Gloucester, do. l'ort Revel, Cbermstig. Bristol, liglit. Dinar. Mills, do., t.o. Rhondda, Bowen, do., do. Knras, Cashman, Southampton, ballast.Friends, Beer, Bristol, light .Speedy, Narrainore, aterford, ballast. Rapid, Pavry, Waterford, do.. Brothers, Davies, Newport, sleepers Francis, Preston, Gloucester, light. Jane and Ann, Walker. Bristol, ballast.Taff, Hooper, do., light..Swiit, Tawton, do., do..Beatis, Corish, do., do.. John and Susan, Rrown, do., do ..Eleanor, Hawkes, Bridg- water,do.rriumph, Goldsack, Falmouth, ballast.. J .,anna, Hichards,^ Hayle, do..William, Kdwards, Hayle, do.John Harvey, (iarnant, do,, do.. Amy, Di<con, Exeter, do..Cctthi- riue O Managan, Phillips, Scilley, light..Providenee, Baker Bristol, ballost.. Hereford, Fryer, Chepstow, pitwood.. Fame, Grenfell, Hayle, ballast.Bnrliugton, Arkley, Gloucester, do. Providence, Russell, Havle, do.Countess Fortescue Chap- man, St. I ves, do. Carnsew, Clark, Hayle, do. Prince of Walas (s ), Jones, Bristol, general cargo.. Lady Charlotte (s.). Jefferys, do.,do. v Sailed, the Maria, Evpry, Bristol, coal. Stiperior, Cockburn, Dublin, iron..Captive, Cook, Gloucester.. Dinas, Mills, Bris- tol..Rhondda, Bowen, no..Lavin;a, George, Falmouth.. Sir A. M. Kenzie, Davies, Waterford, all with coal. Elizabeth. Adamson, Liverpool, iron..Venus, Poole, Bridgwater. iron Olive Branch, Bowen, Barry, light..Hope, Hichards, Rotter- dam, iron.. Concordia, Reed, Waterford.Alpha, White do Me anma, Curtis Kalmouth.Joanna, Nugent, Waterlord.. Billow, Fishwick, do.. Ono. Williams, St. lves.. Prince, Fal- coner, London. Betsey, Rowe, Bideford, all with coal. Anna Greyson, Pen rice, Dublin, Cambrian, Jones, Pwllheli. Triumph, Mills, London. t'aif, Hooper, Bristol.. T,aC/n' dr°V"H?;>ry' An,lrews.St. Ives.. Harmony, Chaddock, Waterford. Venus, Bawnen, Penrance lewis Charles, Wallas, Penzance..Erin, Stone. Dublin..Susannah Kingston, Fowey.. Palmerston, Davies, Dublin, all with iron .Edward, Wettensen, L'ronstadr, iron.Victoty, Lee Bide- forp, coal.Anna Maria, Johu, Aberthaw, coal. Prince of Wales (s.), Jones, Bristol, general cargo. Lady Charlotte (s.), Jefferyt, do.. do. GLAMORGANSHIRE CANAL.—Arrived, the William, Hill, Bnllow Pill..Newnhain, Smith, do..Mary, Evans, Bristol.. Sisters, Knapp, Bullow Pill.. Kairie, Welsh, Whitehaven!" Nottingham, Knapp, Bullow Pill.Active, Cope, do..Wil- liam, Hill, do., all with iron ore..James. Evans, Bristol. Heform, Thomas, Gloucester.. Flower of Severn, Miles, Bristol .Recovery, Gorley, Brixham. Rapid, Weegs, Exeter. Hope, Milling, Bridgwater. Daniel, Hamlyn, Drixham.,1. Lavinia, Salt, Bute Docks.. Sol way, Brown, Beaumaris. Mary, Jones, Aberystwith.Carmarthen Packet, Evans, Car- marthen.Queen, Harvey. Torquay Ada, M'Namura Bideford.. Ellen, Harper. Dublin.. Victory, Rtchards Bide- ford..Sophie Catherine, Fericks, Bremen.. Emerald, Giffard, Torquay.. Unternchmung, Vekke., Bremen..John, Westlev' Bristol.. Perseverance, Uavid, Bristol, all in ballcst..Union Prewett Newport.. Lady Seiina, Evans, Bristol.. Providence' Baker, do..C,>met, Griffiths, Cardigan.. Bute, Walters, Bristol Mermaid, Connor, Wexford.Pearl, Jones, Liverpool. Gleaner, Thomas, Newport Charles, Howe, do.John Rn°rge. lUl^rJ' Brid.g^ater.. Betsey, Evans, Aberthaw.. Wlen, Green, Truro.Merth\r Packet, Thomas, Bristol.. Sisters, I ifoot, Newport. William, Lawrence, do..Swift" Gaming, do Mary, Evaus, Aberthaw. Royal Forrester' rumey, Bndgwater.Affo, Gaining, Bristol..Robert, Men- ens, New port.Swift, Hiscock, do..Union, Prewett do Martha, J'?nes, Porthcawl. Trusty, Field, Gloucester, all Willi suudrles Satted, the Gleaner, Squire, Newcastle..Daniel, Hamlyn do.. Providence, Baker, Bristol..Lavinia, Salt, WaXrU J, 1 Walters, Bristol..Celerity, Williams, London. FH ""p58' Lanca8ter. Kruerald, Giffard, Newcastle Friends, Evans, Bristol.. Reform, Thomas, Dublin..Carma'r castle h1'' T3' Canr'ar<h«n.Recov'ery, GoHe^New. stle.East Cornwall, Bones, London. Merthyr Packet learson lV '? i -■ e8' L,verPool> with iron.. Amity* I j Br,«ol..S,.te™, Hart, Gloucester.. William, Ween^ London.Fancy, Gartskell, Balbriggan.Charles Ho?,se' for'i 6l?atHr" Evans' Aberthaw..John George Guili-I tord, Bndgwater.. Victory, Richards, Bideford.Perseve OakV VM'rwto1* — Ada' M'tfamaw, Bideford.. Vlaiden CoJ;? T' °UCe8ter-^™«. Evans, Bristol. Mermai? eris L-'rons" N SS"'LadyJ5el,na' Kvans' Bristo1--Easfancbl nf <s ame#»»Hope, Billing, Bridgwater.. Flower fesant^Yarl S'i v810' *S Wift' Hl^ck' Chepstow.. B, coIT John WMH Nantes. Affo, Gaining, Weston,all with Westley, Bristol. Dolphin, Hawke, Port Talbot Roeh e!* ^"h, Bullow Pill.Mary, Evans, Bristol Ssttr i f °arv' v*'est°n. • Sisters, Knapp, Ballot rill. Suters, l.foot, Newport..Nottingham, Knapp, Bullow Pill Act,ve, Cope, do..Swift, Vanning, Barry. William llLw* rence, Newport.Robe«, Mendensfdo., light! J-L.I,_providence> parker> pQrt Ta,_ m.He PrIama^ rane< Bennelt' Bideford.. Kitty, Elliott MARSLNGA'V Bid'F8' Aaron, Evans, Aberayroa .Mars, Gay, Bideford. Friends, Coblev. Minehead Man., Carm, Bideford.Villers. 'DALTOZ* SSAMPVON ballast. Eliza AND Ann, Morgan, Barrow.. Hopewell, Morgan' Poi tmadoc VV .ltam, Jones, Barrow Prudence,'JEE' Barrow., friendship, Govier, Ratchet.. Speedwell, Lewis Barrow iron ore Magnet, Davis, Port Talbot, bricks biizabeth and harah, lamplin, Swansea.. Fame Nichollaw Newport, sundrie*$arat>, Air, Bristol, general careo NEATH.—Sailed, the Lovely Peggy, Evans, Aberystwitb.. Concordia Ball, Salcombe..Lark. Lee, do.Friends, Stevens, st. Ives.Jane, Quick, do.. Bee, Hryes, Bridgwater..Margaiu Packet, Evans, do.EliZabeth, Pearn, Plymouth.. Emerald. Orago, do. ♦Concord, Hill, do,. Li race Darling, Atteridge, Kinsale.Ann, Long, New Ross.Henry Take, Laughlin, Arklow. Mary, Berriman, Waterford. Abbess, Harris, do. ..Sinbad, Jones. do.Anrora, Wheaten, Youghal.Annel Hayes,do.. Busy, Jones, do. ltichard Hill, Cole, Teignmouth ..Heroine, Godfrey, do..Princess Charlotte, Perreyman, do. Fn' <ld°"H°Pf U°r'" — dj mV* j P'lblln..Fnends, Litten, Exeter..Com- nerce, Edwards, Milford.Endeavour, Sheckle, do..Fonmoa Castle, George, Bristol. Hope, Chidzey, Watchet.Pen- darves, Dogar, Portreath.. i rypbena, Harding, do. Orwell, Mollard, do.. Vlaiy Helena, Osborne, Pad.tow.. St. Stephens Clemens, do..Alpha, Steer, Dartmouth. Industry, Paynter* Penzance.Ocean, Spray, Hayle.. Mary Ann, Nicholls, Si* lves..Mervinia, Summerfield, Gloucester.Mermaid, Wit- liams, Aberystwith..Lively, Evans, Redwharf.Catherine. Delahodge, do..Two Sisters, Sprague, Torquay.. Hope San ders, do. William and Thomas, Pengeliy, Looe.IlWatia and Betsey, Giloert, Hayle. -=

LONDON MARKETS. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES of CORN per Quauer computed from the Inspectors' Returns. GENERAL AVERAGE. Wheat. 55 1 Rye. IA Barley 29 7 Beans 4. 1 0ats 22 6] Peas 39 3 DUTY ON FOREIGN CORN. 17 li j R,e I' J "ailey 9 0 Beans ] a 0ats e 01 Peas .v. i | CORN EXCHANGE-MONDAY. WHEAT. s •$ Essex & Kent red 56 58 White 60 — 62 01li Do 54 — 58 Do 6(j — 62 RYE. 32 — 34 J New 36 38 BARLEY. S. 8 Grinding 28 — 30 Chevalier 33 — 34 billing 0 — 32 Here 25—0 Irish 26 — 28 MALT. s. s. s. 1. Suffolk and Norfolk 58 — 63 Brown 56 6(> Kingston and Ware 60 — 0 | Chevalier 65 —• O OATS. Sl s. s. Yorkshire and Lin- colnshire feed 22 — 24 Potato 24 2(5 You-hall and Cork Cork white "21 — 22 Wack 20 — 21 Westport 22 — 21 22 Black 21- 22 Waterford white 21 — 22 Newry '23 — 24 Gal way 20 21 Scotch feed 23 — 24 Fotato °4 25 ol"naiel 22 — 23 Limerick" 23 — 2* Londonderry 23 — 24 Siigo. 22 23 BEANS. s. s. s_ Tick new 30 — 36 I Old small 38 — 40 PEAS. 8. S'I s. s. Grey 38 10 Maple 0 39 White. 3U 40 1 Boilers. 33 40 SMITHFIELD MARKETS—MONDAY. A Statement aurl Comparison ot the Supplies and Prices of Fat Stock, exhibited and Sold in Smithtield Cattle Market, on Monday, Sep. 9, 1841., and Monday, Sep. 8. 1815. Sep. O. ISH. Sep. 8, 181-5.. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Coarse and inferior Beasts. 2 8 to 3 0.2 6 to 2 10' Second quality ditto. 3 2 3 4.3 0 3 4- Piime large Oxen. 3 6 3 8.3 6" 3 8< PrimcScots.&c. 3 10 4 0.3 10 4 0 Coarse aud inferior Sheep.. 3 2 3 4.3 2 3 ? Second quaiitv ditto 3 6 3 U.3 8 4 2- Prime coaise woolled ditto .3 8 3 10.4 4 4 (j Prime Southdown ditto. 4 0 4 2.4 8 5 0' Lambs 3 4 4 6.4 6 56 Large coarse Calves 3 4 3 g 3 jy 4 K Prime small ditto. 3 10 4 4.4 ]() 5 O Large Hogs 3 2 3 10.3 0 3 ? Neat small Porkers 4 0 4 2.3 10 4 4io I5iIi SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1845. Published by the sole Proprietor, HENRY WEBBER at his residence Charles-street, in the Parish of Saint John the Baptist, in the Town of CarditF and County- of Glamorgan, and Printed by him at his General Printuiff Oitice in Duke-street, in the said Parishi of Saint John, in the Town and County aforesaid. Advertisements and Orders received by the following Aftonts :— J °' LOMJON Mr. Barker, 33, Fleet-street; Messrs. N ewtolu and Co., 5, Warwick-square; Mr. G. Reynell, 42,. Chancery-lane; Mr. Deacon, 3. Walbrook, near the- Mansion-house; Mr. Joseph Thomas, 1, Finch-lane,, Cornhill; -Mr. Hammond, 27, Lombard-street; Mr.. C. barker, 12, Birchin-lane W. Dawson and Son,. 74, Cannon-street, City Messrs. Lewis and Lowe, 3,. Castle Cuort, Birchin Lane. MERTHYR Mr. H. W. White, Stationer,, BRECON Mr. William Evans, Ship-street,, SWANSEA Nil.. Jo!m Lewis, 6, Nelson Place,. And by all Postmasters and Clerks on the Road. This paper is regularly filed in London at Lloyd's. Coffee House City Peel's Coffee-house, Fleet-street. ——The Chapter Coffee-house St. Paul's.—Deacoa»r Coifee-house, Walbrook.