The Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette

$oetrjn GO FORTH INTO THE COUNTRY. Go forth into the country, From a world of care and guile, Go forth to the untainted air, And the sunshine's open smile. It shall clear thy clouded brow— It shall loose the worldly coil That binds thy heart too closely up, Thou man of care and toil Go forth into the country, Where gladsome sights and sounds Make the heart's pulses thrill and leap With fresher, quicker bounds. They shall waken fresh within The mind's enchanted llower Go. student of the midnight lamp, And try their magic power Go forth into the country, With its songs of happy birds, Its fertile vales, its grassy hills, Alive with flocks and herds. Against the power of sadness Is its magic all arrayed- Go forth, and dream no idle dreams, Oh, visionary maid! Go forth into the country, Where the nut's rich clusters grow, "Where the strawberry nestles 'midst the furze, And the holly berries glow. Each season hath its treasures, Like thee all free and wild- Who would keep thee from the country, Thou happy, artless child? Go forth into the country, It hath many a solemn grove, And many an altar on its hills, Sacred to peace and love. And whilst with grateful fervour Thine eyes its glories scan, Worship the God who made it all, Oh holy Christian man —Do'man's Magazine. SONG OF A RAILWAY PROPRIETOR. Those railway shares, those railway shares, The source and cause of all my cares; At bed and board, go where I will, They haunt me and they plague me still. Those railway shares, those railway shares, They" mingle even with my prayers Oh! for some Lethe to assuage The pangs of gradient and of gauge From Thames to Tay from Trent to Tweed The Maniac onward moves at speed; And sounds with most discordant jar, Her notes of premium and of par. What though I'm rich as Cresus grown— What boots it if my peace has flown ? No; hence, away, deluding snares- Adieu! adieu! ye railway shares J. A. THE ELDER.

There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed to persecute all other sects, and to plun. der their own. When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defence strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply, MIS-SAYINGS.—Nine out of ten persons say, I will put on my coat and waistcoat, P We do not; we must first put on the waistcoat. So, I will put on my shoes and stockings." Impossible; the stockings must be on first. Again, "I will put on my hat and wig." Assuredly the wig ought to be the first on the head. NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN.—The peculiar mode of placing the extended finger and thumb against the most promi- nent feature of the face, called" taking a sight," which is generally believed to be a vulgarism of modern origin, has been discovered to have existed in the classic ages of Home, A gentleman of our acquaintance at Kensington, has in his posses- sion a piece of Roman tile, found by him during some researches in Italy, in which a youth is represented as attempting to take a garland from a damsel, who is denoting her defiance of his endeavour by placing her thumb to her nose in the mode re- ferred to. FAMILY PRIDE,-Dr, ;\Ionrey. by way of ridiculing family pride, used to confess that the first of his ancestors of any note was a baker and dealer in hops, of whom he told the following anecdote: To raise a present sum, he had robbed his feather beds of their contents, and supplied the deficiency with unsale- able bops. In a few years a severe blight universally prevailing, hops became very scarce, and enormously dear; the boarded treasure was upon this immediately ripped out, and a good sum procured for the hops, which, in a plentiful season, would not have been saleable and thus, the doctor used to add, our family hopped from obscurity." DEATHS OF LITTLE CHILDREN.—The Portuguese give the very poetical name of aniinhos, little angels, to young children when they die and, considering that they are at once translated to heaven, without the unpleasant passage through purgatory, instead of mourning for them, they rejoice, putting on their gay- est attire thus at their funeral no one appears in black, and the parents are congratulated instead of condoled with. I re- member attending the funeral of a friend's child, but when people went up to congratulate him, he shook his head, observ- ing, A father feels the same, whatever may be his child's age," —Lusitanian Sketches of the Pen and Pencil, by William H. G, Kingston, EEq,

MRS. CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES. MRS CAUDLE, SUSPECTING THAT MR, CAUDLE HAS MADE HIS WILL. IS "ONLY ANXIOUS AS A WIFE" TO KNOW ITS PRO- VISIONS. "There, 1 always said you'd a strong mind when you liked, Caudle; and what you've just been doing proves it. Some people won't make a will, because they think they must die directly afterwards, Now, you're above that, love, am't you? Nonsense; you know very well what I mean. I know your will's made, for Scratcherly told me so. What 1 Vot* don', believe it ? Well, I'm sure That's a pretty thing for a man to say to his wife. I know he's too much of a man of business to talk; but I suppose there's a way of telling things without speaking them. And when I put the question to him, lawyer as he is, he hadn't the face to deny it. To be sure, it can be of no consequence to me whether your wilt is made or not. I shall not be alive, Mr. Caudle, to want any thing I shall bo provided for a long time before your will's of any use. No, Mr. Caudle; I shan't survive you and— though a woman's wrong to let her affection for a man be known, for then she's always taken advantage of—though I know it's foolish and weak to say so, still I don't" want to survive you. How should I? No, no; don't say that: I'm not good for a bundred-I shan't see rou out, and another husband too! What a gross idea, Caudle To imagine I'd ever think of marrying again. No—never What ? That's what we all say ? Not at ail; quite the reverse. To me the very idea of such a thing is horrible, and always was. Yes, I know very well, that some do marry again,—but what they're made of, I'm sure I can't tell! Ugh! "There are men, I know, who leave their property in such a way that their widows, to hold it, must keep widows. Now, if there is any thing in the world that is mean and small, it is that. Don't you think so, too, Caudle ? Why don't you speak, love ? That's so like you I never want a little quiet rational talk, but you want to go to sleep, But you never were like any other man! What? How do I know? There now,—that's so like your aggravating way. I never open 81Y lips upon a subject, but you try to put me off! I've no doubt when Miss Prettyman speaks, you can answer her properly enough. There you are, again Upon my life, it is odd but I never in the most inno- cent way mention that person's name that— Why can't [leave her a/OMe ? I'm sure—with all my heart! Who wants to talk about her! I don't: only you always will say something that's certain to bring up her name. What was I saying, Caudle ? Oh, about the way some men bind their widows, To my mind, there is nothing so little. When a man forbids his wife to marry again without losing what he leaves—it's what I call selfishness after death. Mean to a degree It's like taking his wife into the grave with him. Eh ? You never want to do that ? No, I'm sure of that, love you are not tile man to tie a woman up in that mean manner. A man who'd do that would have his widow burnt with him, if he could—just as those monsters, who call themselves men, do in the Indies. However, it's no matter to me how you've made your will; b12t it may be to your second wife, What ? I shall never give you a chance? Ha! you don't know my constitution after all, Caudle. I'm not at all the woman I was. I say nothing about em, but very often you don't know my feelings. And as we're on the subject, dearest, I've only one favour to ask. When you marry again—now it's no use your saying that. After the com- forts you've known of marriage—what are you sighing at, dear after the comforts, you must marry again-now don't forswear yourself in that violent way, taking an oath that you must break—you eouldn't help it, I'm sure of it: and I know you better than you know yourself. Well, all I ask is. love, because it's only for your sake. -and it would make no difference to me then—how should it I-but all I ask is, don't marry Miss Pret There there I've done I woa't say another word about 1t I but all I ask is, don't. After the way you've been thought of, and aftwr the comforts you've been used to, Caudle, she wouldn't be the wife for you. Of course, I could then have no interest in the matter—you might marry the Queen of England, for what it would be to me then—I'm only anxious about you. Mind, Caudle, I'm not saying anything against her; not at all but there's a flightiness in her manner-I dare say, poor thing, 3he meaAs no harm. and it may be, as the saying is, only her jnanner after aU-still, there is a flightiness about her that, after what you've been used to, would make you very wretched. No, for if I may boast of anything, Caudle, it has been my propriety of manner all my life, 1 know that wives who're very particu- lar, ar'nt thought as well of as those who're not—still, it is very little to be virtuous, if people don't seem 110. And virtue, Caudle-no, I'm not going to preach about virtue, for I never do. No and I don't go about with my virtue, like a child with A drum< making all sorts of noises with it. But I know your rrrjnc.ipies. I shall never forget what I once heard you say to and it's no excuse that you'd taken so much wine vou didn't know what you were saying at the time; for wine brings out men's wickedness, just as fire brings out spots of grease. What did you say? Why you sud this Virtue's a beautiful thing in women, when they don t make so much noise about it: but there's some women, who think virtue was given 'em, as slaws were given to cats j es, ca s was the word'to do nothing but scratch with. That s what you said. You don't recollect a syllable of it? No, that sit; when you're in that dreadful state, you recollect nothing; but it s a good thing I do. But we won't talk of that, love—that's all over; I dare say you meant nothing. But I'm glad you agree with me, that the man who'd tie up his widow, not to marry again, is a mean man. It makes me happy that you've that confidence in me to say that. You never said it? That's nothing to do with it— you ye just as geod as said it. No; when a man leaves all his property to his wife, without binding her hands from marrying again, he ■hows what a dependence he has upon her love. He proves to all the world what a wife she's been to him and how, after his death, he knows she'll grieve for him. And then, of course, a second marriage never enters her head. But when she only keeps his money as long as she keeps a widow, why she's aggra- vated to take another husband. I m sure of it, many a poor woman has been driven into wedlock again, only because she was spited into it by her husband's will. Its only natural to suppose it. If I thought, Caudle you could do such a thing, though it would break my heart to do it,—yet, though you were dead and gone, I'd show you I'd a spirit, and marry again directly. Not but what it's ridiculous my talking in such a way, M I shall fgo long before you; still, mark my words, and don t provoke me with any will of that sort, or I d do it-as I m a. living woman in this bed, I'd do it. I did not contradict her," says Caudle, but suffered her o ia such assuraace.»J>wwA,

NEWSPAPER REPORTING. We are induced to reprint some (xeellent remarks on thi- duties, obligations, and services of newspaper reporters, which were published some lime since in the columns of the Cheltenham Examiner. It should be borne in mind (observes our contemporary) that the newspaper reporter is the representdtive of the pub- tic his motive for attending public meetings, coroner's courts, po!ice offices, &c., &c., &c., is not for his own gratification, or to satisfy his own curiosity, but simply in the performance of a sometimes irksome duty, in providing the public with a full transcript of passing events. The newspaper of the present day is not only a mirror of passin" occurrences, but an exponent of public feeling and safeguard of public liberty. It has superseded the former weapons of violence and agitation, by which every mainte- nance of popular right was ushered in. aud men are become to r.dy upon its vigilance and power to point out and guard them from any encroachmcnt on their rights and liberties. The newspaper i", in fact, the paid servant of the pubiic-an active, vigilant, unsleeping guardiau of the public interest. The duty of a newspaper conductor is to provide the public with a weekly representation of the world as it is—to detail passing occurrences—to advocate public principles—to ex- plain topics of difficulty—and to enable his reader to see at a glance the varied occurrences of the day. To a person with such duties, the newspaper reporter be- comes an indispensable assistant, and a most useful ally to the public. When Parliament is sitt'.ng, its acts, which are to govern the whole realm, become important to every citizen; but as it is impossible that one ten tho sandth part of the people can attend the senate house, the reporter is there as their representative—he sits.watchful at his post—takes an accurate note of everything important which transpires, and circulates the information through every corner of the land; thus, in effect, is the newspaper reader able to attend, through his newspaper, every debate on every measure of Parliament- ary importance. It IS the, lame with our courts of justice: the only guarantee for the integrity of the administration of justice isj that the proceedings are open to the public, If, by the public, were rne.nt only that small portion which has leisure and inclination to squeeze itself in propria persona into our courts, that guarantee would be slight indeed but although the court-house may be all-but deserted, there sits the public, through its representative the newspaper reporter, note-book and pencil in hand, keeping watch aud ward over the acis of the blind goddess. Every judge who delivers judgment, every barrister who pleads the cause of his client, every witness who gives evidence, every juryman in the box, feels that this silent eye of the public is upon him-that his words and actions are not matters for the present moment alone, but accurately noted down, and cOlIlmitted to indelible black and white in the columns of the newspaper, they stand against him, among his fellow men, lasting witnesses for good orii). The effect of such a eheck upon character and action mUSl be immense. As it is in the House of Parliament and courts of justice, so it is in less important matters. The duties which the reporter is called upon to perform require peculiar qualities in him to ensure their right performance. He is to divest himself of his own feelings, and to act siuiply as the exponent of the opinions of others; whatever may be his own views of what is passing around him, be narrates only the actual occurrences, leaving the public to read and judge for themselves. These habits produce a degree of self-control which other persons wonld find difficalt to pOSSI ss-in scenes of the greatest ex- citement he sits unmoved and isolated, performing his simple duty; and f.ven when opinions are given in direct opposition to his own, he feels himself hound the more scrupulously to report them fairly and impartially.

ittt^cellanfou.s^ A new process of tanning leather is said to have been discovered by Messrs. Darrow, of Dayton, Ohio, by which a side of sole leather is taken in its raw state and thoroughly finished for the manufacturer in seventy-two hours, and a side of upper leather in about sixteen hours. Mr. James M'Nab, of Ayr, has invented a machine, worked by five men, which turns out 24,000 draining tiles per diem. Air. H. K. Skinner, of Whetcombe, North Huish, has invented a wheel plough for tilling turnips. It admits of a roller and harrow being worked with it, and an appara- tus for drilling the seed, so as at once to complete the work. It works so light, that two horses can till an acre with it in seven hours. MAN ATTACKED BY A BULL.—On Sunday week, as a man named Thomas Beans was cleaning out a stall at Horsley, in which a bull was tied up, the beast broke loose, and getting the man up in a. corner trampled and gored him till some one came to the assistance of the poor fellow, who was taken to the Gloucester Infirmary, where it was found that his thigh and several ribs were broken. He is going on well. Last week, two trains took, from Birmingham to Derby, 7,000 children on a pleasure excursion. There were 112 carriages. Another train to the same point had sixty- nine carriages. A sow, belonging to Mr. John Birchley, of the Red Lion Inn, near Chorley, has produced sixty-three pigs in four farrows. The mother of this prolific animal had 113 pigs in seven farrows. A DIAMOND MINE.—The French Consul at Bahia has addressed a remarkable report to the Minister of Foreign Affairs at home, announcing the discovery, at the distance of 80 leagues from that capital, of an abundant mine of diamonds—a source of incalculable wealth to the pro- vince. It lies in a desert place uninhabited, and scarcely accessible, and was discovered by mere accident. The subscriptions for the testimonial to G. Hudson, Esq., M.P., amount to upwards of £15,000. Colonel Tynte gave bis annual splendid entertainment, on the 3rd instant, to the officers of the West Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry, at Halswell House. One day last week, a surgeon extracted from the hand of J. Hull, of Worcester, a musket ball received on the 18th of June, 1815, in the battle of Waterloo. There are now in a young orchard opposite the Great Western station at Bridgwater, several apple-trees in bloom, and fruit on them; one, in particular, having a good crop of apples, and sufficient bloom on it, if in sea- son, to produce more fruit than the tree could support. EXTRAORDINARY TROUT. —One of the members of the Stirling Fishing Club, Mr. Kerr, of Edinburgh, lately caught, in Lochlubnaig, a yellow trout, of the extraordi- nary weight of fifteen founds, and measuring no less than two feet ten inches I-Sterling Journal. THE HUDSON TESTIMONIAL.—It has been suggested that the amount of subscriptions now being gathered in for the Hudson testitDoOlal should be invested in founding almshouses, to be called the Hudson Almshouses," for the widows and children of those who may lose their lives in the service of railwayp. or by accident upon them. We understand that in the course of a few weeks the Bank of England will issue a new list of dividends still unclaimed, which is likely to prove extremely useful, as a long period has elapsed since this publication was last issued, and numerous additions, therefore, will no doubt be made.—Globe. M. Thiers, the celebrated French politician and litera- teur, arrived at Southampton on Thursday night week, in the Queen steamer, from Spain by way of Gibraltar. He is said to be accompanied by Count a natural son of Napoleon." M. Thiers is now at Mivart's hotel. We learn from Hanover that the Princess Royal has resolved to nurse her own child. It appears that the Princess has received a great number of elegant and costly presents from the Royal Family of England on the occa- sion of her accouchement. They have been publicly exhi- bited at the palace. Among them is a service ol silver plate for all the wants of childhood, from the Duchess of Gloucester and the Princess Sophia.—Galignani's Mes- senger. MARRIAGE IN gIGH LIFE—The marriage of Earl Howe with the Hon. Miss Gore, maid of honour to Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, took place on the 9th inst., at theChurcb adjoiningWitley Court. Her Majeuty the Queen Dowager was present on the occasion. The Rev. Canon Wood performed the service, who was assisted by the rec- tor (Rev. Mr. Pearson) of the parish. Shortly after the ceremony, the happy bride and bridegroom left for Gopsall. Leicestershire, the seat of the noble earl.—Standard. Last week, an advance ol threepence per day on the wages of colliers and ironstone-getters in tbe vicinity of WolverhamptoD, took place; making their daily wages 3s. 6d. On the same day, an advance was given to the thick-coal men, who now receive at the rate of 4s. 6d. These payments, it should be understood, are for the stint," or day's work. Expert workmen usually finish the "stint" at between one and two o'clock in the day, and often increase their gains by additional work; the number of days' labour being reckoned by the number of stints" accomplished. The Leeds Intelligencer declares that there is an organ- ized system of robbery pursued on the railways in that district; and it instances six cases of the plundering of passengers. The Leeds police were applied to, and two officers were sent to visit the stations on the Midland Railway: at Rugby they arrested two men, who had at the time a number of carpet bags, a new portmanteau, and a quantity of valuable clothing in their possession. FLOODS IN THE NORTH.—Accounts have been received of disasters caused by floods in the vale of Tyne. The wheat sheaves of 50 acres of land, belonging to Mr. Hall, farmer of Newburn. were carried away by the current, and, about 7 o'clock, on Friday evening, the river in many places was completely covered with agricultural produce and floating timber. The people along the hanks of the Tyne have got out an immense quantity of grain, which of course, is entirely spoiled, except that it may serve to feed poultry. The loss and damage to shipping in the harbour has been very considerable. REDUCTION OF THE DUTY oN TEA.—There can be little doubt that the present high rate of duty materially impedes consumption, and that, looked at only for the interests of the revenue, it is too high. In the island of Newfoundland, where the duty is three pence per pound, the consumption of tea was no less than 401,681 Ibs. in 1843, among a population of 77,000 people; being at the rate of 51bs. per head. At the same rate, the con- sumption of this countiy would be 140,000,000 Ibs. annually. Again, in the Channel Islands, where the duty is very low, a population of 70,065 consume 346,000 lbs. of tea annually, or at the rate of 4} lbs. per head at which rate our consumption would be I21,000,0001bs., instead of 40,000,000. We have, therefore, little doubt that a very considerable reduction in the duties would, before long, be compensated to the full by an increased sonsumption. TURPIN'S OAK.—There is still standing on Finchley- common, although in the last sad stage of decay, the identical oak tree behind which the notorious highway- man Dick Turpin, and his confederates, were in the habit of concealing themselves when they were intent upon committing a highway robbery upon some traveller who might be traversing the road between London and Barnet. When Finchley-common was inclosed, some twenty-five vears since, the whole of the timber standing upon the waste was felled, with the exception of the oak in question, which was fenced round at the expense of a private in- habitant at Fincbley. This ancient tree is opposite Brown's Wells," which are situate in a bottom about midway between Highgateand Whststone verging upon the highroad. The greater portion of the limbs are dead and leafless, which gives it a very picturesque appearance, From tiru immemorial it has gone in the above llelsh. bourhood by ti* ablution of Julia's Oak," An advertiser in the newspapers offers to make anybod y capable of earning JE10 a week, by "railway suiveying and levelling," in a fortnight or less. The master of a Glasgow schooner, a Mr. Williams, has sustained a fearful injury his foot became entangled in the hawser by which the steamer was about to tow the vessel np the Mersey, and was in an instant torn off at the ancle. Donald Ross, a Highlander, who was employed as a special messenger during the rebellion of 1745, died on the 23rd ult., at Kiltern, Ross-shire, in his hundred and sixteenth year. The veteran enjoyed his health and faculties until a few days before his death.—Edinburgh Witness. For some time back," says the Constitutionnel, the medical men of France have ordoretl to Algeria persons afflicted with pulmonary diseases. The minister of war has just directed a scientific commission to proceed to that country, to examine whether it might not be advisa- ble to establish at Algiers a military hospital for soldiers so affected." [This would be a good way of weeding the Army, while turning invalids to the best account— converting the battle-field to a hospital.] Pedro Yinals, a bandit who had long been the terror of Catalonia, was executed at Gerona on the 20th ult. This outlaw was but twenty-four years of age. Having fled intoJFrance, he was claimed by the Captain-General; and was delivered up to him by the French authorities, on the 24th July, in virtue of existing treaties. He con- fessed, whilst in capiila, having killed nine persons, and wounded many more. He had joined the Carlist bands at the age of fourteen, and his life had been ever since a tissue of crimes. The Paris papers mention an odd suicide at Dinan, to which the self-murderer was provoked by misreading some figures. Two peasants brought an action against a young girl to whom their father had left his property. They were cast in the suit, and condemned to pay the costs. One of them withdrew, in great distress of mind, awaiting the avoue's bill. It came, and the peasant read in it that he owed 1,284 francs, [about £;)0.] Being unable to pay the sum, he went and hanged himself. He did this under the influence of mistake, for the amount of the bill was not 1,284 francs, but 12 francs 48 centimes, [about 10s.] Before the Vice-Chancellor of England, at Cowes, in the Isle of Wight, on Wednesday, Mr. H. Prendergast applied for an injunction to restrain the sale of certain numbers of the Law Times; a weekly journal, the con- ductors of which had been in the habit of transferring to their columns, sometimes without acknowledgment, whole articles from the Law Review, a quarterly volume published by Mr. Richards, of Fleet-street. Remon- strances and warnings had been utterly disregarded. The Vice-Chancellor, having compared the respective publications, was of opinion that there was a clear case of piracy and an injunction was granted against all num- bers of the Law Times containing articles pirated from the Law Review. SHOOTING A POLICEMAN IN HOTHAM-STIIEET BRIDE- WELL.—We regret to say that an affair of this nature, which may turn out to be one of fatal consequences, oc- curred at Hotham-street Bridewell about half-past one o'clock Sunday morning. It appears that about that hour three very respectably dressed persons, gentlemen by their exterior, were found drunk and disorderly in one of the neighbouring streets, and in the act of attempting to break open a door. Upon being conveyed to Hotham-street Bridewell they were searched, and upon the person of one a brace of pocket pistols were found. The pistols were laid upon the counter for a minute or two for the purpose of completing the search, and the person upon whom they were discovered seems to have put those present on their guard, for, as our informant states, he distinctly declared, in an audible voice, that they were loaded. Immediately after, however, the youngest of his companions seized one of the pistols and fired it at police-officer, No. 418. The contents entered the bridge of the unfortunate man's nose, and passed, as was subsequently ascertained, in a slanting direction through his head. He was placed on a mattress in the bridewell, and surgical assistance was speedily pro- cured. The wound bled profusely. Subsequently he was conveyed to the Infirmary, in Browniow-slreet, where he lay during the whole of yesterday in a precarious state. Up to last bight the doctors were unable to extract the ball, and consequently to pronounce any opinion as to the probability of the man's recovery. There is every reason to fear that the pistol was loaded with a ball or a large slug, for the wound is of such a nature as would have beeu inflicted with a charge of that kind, and a large slug has been extracted from the second pistol. It was rumoured Monday that both the pistols had been loaded for the last six mouths, and that tbe owner had carried them with him upon a tour he made during the past summer through the south of England. The three prisoners, upon being booked, gave fictitious names: but it has since been ascer- tained that their real names are Emanuel Broniilow, Thos. Benhow, and Thomas Francis Russell. The latter, who had the sum of JE28 upon his person, tired the shot. One of them states that he is a medical man, and another that he is brother to a timber-merchant; but who Russell is we have not been able to learn. The unlortunate police- ofiicer was an Irishman by birth.—Liverpool paper. THE REVENUE.—The revenue accounts for the year and quarter, published on Saturday morning, and printed in another page, exhibit a considerable decrease; less, however, in the total revenue than in the one important item of Customs. At first the aspect of the account is startling; but a little examination dissipates both surprise and alarm. In the account for the year there is an in- crease on every item, except Customs and Property-tax and there is in the Stamps an increase of £ 428,000. On the quarter there is likewise a large decrease also on the Excise and Taxes, but so small as to signify nothing— that mere oscillation which is a virtual equality. It is obvious to all who have their eyes open, that neither private property nor private income has decreased during the year; and therefore the variation in the Property and Income-tax must be simply a matter of accounts and collection. It is, then, with the decrease in the Customs alone that we have to grapple ;—on the year it is £ 1,590,000, on the quarter, £ 1,154,000. The way in which the several journals handle this ugly feature is various: the Times suspends all remark the Post briefly sets forth; the Chronicle is alarmed lest reduction of taxes should incur discredit; the Herald, lest the Minis- ter should do so. The Ministerial paper enumerates taxes which have been reduced to the extent of nearly £3,500,000 in the Customs and Excise—of more than JE2,000,000 in the Customs alone. This partly accounts for the falling-off; and we suspect that temporary de- rangements of import trade would still further account for it. The Excise-revenue keeps even, or advances, in spite of the reductions. So that on the whole, for three millions and a half saved to the consumer, the revenue loses at the most one million and a half. Moreover, the Customs-revenue of the previous year was swelled by the duty paid on a large importation of corn and the Herald intimates that we may still look for money from that quarter. The assurance cuts two ways; the revenue may benefit, but what will the corn-grower and the bread- consumer sayl However, the apparent decrease on the substantial articles of a customs-revenue is diminished by the consideration. The Chronicle observes that the re- venue seems, in 1845, as in 1825 and 1835, to have attained its culminating point, and warns us to prepare for the periodical ebb of prosperity. The warning need not be disregarded; though there is nothing to urge it very cogently in these Revenue-tables, in spite of the ugly decrease.—Spectator. The Times" reports a curious financial operation which the Danish Government has in hand; it would be easy to make the statement shorter, but not without injury to the story London," it is often said, is a place where everything may be got for money; from a Scotch county to a cellar iu Saint Giles's, from tae sarcophagus of Cheops to a peach in February, frolD a cartoon by Rapuaello a penny corkscrew. The crav- ings of the consumer are surpassed continually by the research and enterprise of the supplier. Do you want all coins of Alexander's successors?—look over the advertisements, and before long YOIl will find they are to be sold at Ihe Auction Mart to the highest bidder. Do you want a railroad all to yourself?—you can have one in any part of England, or any part of the world you please. Estates in any climate, under any government and any religion, are equally to be had-for money. But we should think our readers are hardly prepared for the commodity now in the market, positively to be sold without reserve. It is not a hundred thousand pine-apples; it is not a patent for a new moving power. These are every- day affairs. It is an old-established colony. For the moderate sum of £80,000, John Smith, or Robert Brown, or Mrs. liliza- beth Thompson, or Lady Mary Applebury, or any other he or she speculator of high or low degree, may become King or Queen of Denmark, as the case may be, so far forth as con- cerns that whole portion of the Danish empire lying ami ,ituate on the Western coast of Africa. Here is an opportunity which may not soon occur. Don't pass it by without giving it a thought. Denmark, it is well known, has loag beeu in rather indifferent circumstances. What is worse, she has long been deeply indebted, beyond even that serious degree of indebted- ness with which we are experimentally familiar. Considering then, the folly of an appearance above one's means, Denmark has wisely determined to retrench, and, as a first step thereto, to part with her colonies for what they will fetch. She has lately sold usTranquebar and Seranipore, her only Eastln.lian colonies, which had for ages been Ii losing specular ion, and which she was only able to protect from the Native Pdnces by British assistance. lJaving disposed of one lot, the Dam s are now putting up another for sale. Their long-established settlement on the coast of Guinea, with the fort of Christian- berg and all its armament, is now in the market, and we believe at this moment may be had cheap. Nay, if Mother (J03sip is to be believed, the commodity, though offered for a mere song. has been hawked about very freely, wiihout a pur- chaser, France was inclined to speculate; but hardly had she shown her nose in the matter, before England declared she oti'^ht to have the pre-emption, the lot being adjacent to her own estate in those quarters. Franc.; accordingly pulled up, and let us pass. Denmark hereupon, expecting an immediate sight of the purchase-money, said, Well, then, take the colony.' It appeared, however, that our Government had as little notion of undertaking a new African colony itself as of seeing it in the hand; of a rival. So, dogs in the manger as we are, we have spoiled the French bargain, and refused to make one ourselves ou any terms. 'i ho worthy I anes are somewhat disguated-how naturally, it would be unpatriotic in us to say and it is actually reported that their Minister, not many days back, offered the colony to a large capitalist in the city for a mere song'—viz., for £BQ,OOO. It is not every day tnat a sovereignty goes a-begging; and we cannot help thinking that the Danish Minister will before long find a customer." THE •'ECLAIR."—Sheerness, Monday. We regret to state that more deaths have occurred among the persons who were on board the unfortuuate steam-sioop Eclair. Since the re- moval of the sufferers to the Worcester, 50, frigate, Lleul. Charles A. Isaacson (1814), in whose recovery we had strong confidence, died on Saturday morning; and Mr. Saunders, the pilot, who was taken on board the Eclair, died on Fnday night. Mr. Kogers. the assistant surgeon of the Ocean, who was sent on board on Monday week to attend the poor ie o™'8) was taken iil on Saturday, but was belter on Sunday. J he assistant surgeons of the Dwarf, screw-steamer, and the Raven, cutter, Messrs. Heath and Slevin, have volunteered their services, and are in readiness to do duty Oil board when ordered.—Morning Herald, The Paris papers state that the Minister of the Marine has sent despatches to the maritime Prefects, uigin<: them to expedite as much as possible the fitting out of the ships destined for the station on the Western coasts of Africa; which are to rendezvous at Cadiz by the 1st, December. Marshal Bugeaud was to quit his scat of ICxcideuil on Tuesday night, for Marseilles where he proposed to embark on the 10th for Algeria. The Coroner's bill for inquests held on the bodies of the people who perished at Yarmouth by the fall of the sus- pension-bridge amounts to £181. The Town-Council were astonished at its niaguitude, the Coroner having charged for an inquest 03 each separate body of the 79 persons who were killed. The Recorder in Quarter Ses- sions will have to decide as to the legality of one portion of the charge, a fee of £1 on each inquest; anti the Coun- cil will be guided by his view of the matter. DEVON LUNATIC ASYLUM.—This magnificent structure is now nearly completed, and has been opened for the reception of patients, of whom there at present about 150, male and female. The arrangements appear to be of the most perfect description, and reflect great credit on those concerned in their carrying out. The whole of the cookery for the numerous inmates is performed in a kitchen in the centre, which is fitted up with apparatus for roasting, boiling, steaming, &c., on a large scale while baking, brewing, &c., are carried oil in separate apartments. The laundry is at the extremity of one of the wings, and is most complete in its kind, the drying being done by steam. The immense building is divided into the male and female departments, the point of junction being a commodious chapel, where prayers are read twice every Sunday, and once on all other days. In the centre, in front, is the governor's house, an ele- gant and commodious ouiiding, containing offices for the visiting magistrates. The whole of these extensive pre- mises is lighted with gas, which is manufactured on the premises, and the apparatus (which includes, we under- stand, about 200 burners), has been completed within the last day or two. The superintendence of this important establishment is entrusted to Dr. Bucknell, the resident physician and as we have had an opportunity of going over the whole of the asylum, we can speak with some confidence of the effects of the system which he has pursued.-—Woolmer's Exeter Gazette. THE NEW GAMES AND WAGERS ACT.—Lately (the 10th instant) a portion of the act of last session (8 and 9 Vic., c. 109), which was passed to amend the law con- cerning games and wagers, came into effect in respect to the granting of licences to keep billiard and bagatelle tables in other places than Middlesex and Surrey. The magistrates have a discretionary power to grant licences to persons who have a victualler's licence, which licences are annually to terminate on the 10th of October, and for which a sum of 6s. is to he charged. Houses where ex- ciseable liquors are not sold, other than in Middlesex and Surrey, and where billiards or bagatelle are played, must, from this day (the 10th instant) be licensed under this act, and the words, Licensed for billiards," be con- spicuously exhibited outside the door of the house. There are penalties for infringing the act. Persons licensed under the act will be liable to be visited by constables and other officers as often as they shall think fit. Bil- liards must not be played after one and before eight o'clock in the morning of any day. The act has applica- tion to Middlesex and Surrey from the 5th of April next. Some difficulty is expected on account of. parties not having given notice. THE NEW GAMING ACT.—IMPORTANT TO LICENSED VICTUALLERS.—Several licensed victuallers attended on Friday last, at the Marlborough-stieet Court, to apply for licenses to keep billiard tables, under the impression that the New Gaming Act came into operation that day, and that they were required to take out a special license if they intended to allow billiards or bagatelle to be played in their houses. The applicants were informed that they were under a mistake in supposing that the new act, which came into partial operation on Friday, extended to Middlesex and Surrey. These two counties were not to be subjected to the regulations until the 5th of next April. Mr. Hardwick further informed one of the ap- plicants that upon looking into the provisions of the new act, he was of opinion that it was not necessary for licensed victuallers to take out a license for billiards or bagatelle, for that, under their publican's license, they were entitled to have billiard and bagatelle tables if they chose. The applicant wished to know what new restric- tions were placed on the publican who kept a billiard table by the new act'! Mr. Hardwick said the act itself, in some of its clauses, was not very clear: in fact, it appeared that one of the objects of the legislature—tne prevention of tippling in billiard-rooms so far from being iikely to be attained by the act, would be entirely defeated, if his construction of the particular clause was correct. Licensed victuallers were empowered to keep open their houses for billiards during all those hours at. which they might legally keep open for the sale of exciseable liquors. Now, a licensed victualler, under the existing law, might keep open all night if he chose, and might sell exciseable liquors without being liable for a breach of any act of par- liament. Consequently, licensed victuallers, under the New Gaming Act, may keep open all night, for billiards, and may allow exciseable liquors to be consumed all night in their billiard-rooms. The only restriction upon this absolute freedom was on Saturday nights, when they were required to close their billiard-rooms before twelve o'clock. The applicant thanked the magistrate for the information he had obtained, and remarked that it would be new to most publicans, and was of importance to the trade that their exact position under the new law should be ascertained. DEATH OF MS. JACKSON, THE CELEBRATED PUGILIST. •-This celebrated character, whose fame as the greatest of British gladiators will render him immortal, died in his 77th year on Tuesday week, at his residence, No. 4, Lower Grosveuor-street West. An attack of paralysis was the immediate cause of death. Mr. Jackson was born in Loudon, and was the son of the eminent builder bv whom the arch was thrown over the old Fleet-ditch. The symmetry and macular development of Mr. Jackson were perfect. His height was 5ft. 11 inches, and his weight 11 stone. At the age of 19 he became a fre- quenter of the sparring-schools. On the 9th of June, 179S, he fought his first public battle with Fustent, a Birmingham hero, awl gallantly defeated him in the presence of George IV., then Prince of Wales, who ever after was Jackson's patron. Mr. Jackson s third and last battle was with the redoubtable Mendoza, whom he beat in 10) minutes, in the presence and to the gratifica- tion of the Duke of Hamilton and a vast number of noblemen and gentlemen. Independent of his pugilistic superioriiy, Mr. Jackson was distinguished for his extra- ordinary powers as a mnuer for a short distance; and. as a leaper, no man of his day was equal to him at a stann. ing jump. His muscular strength was equal to his bodily activity, and in the presence of Mr. Harvey Coombe, a never-shrinking advocate of the national sports of his countrymen, he lifted 10 hundred weight and a quattet, and with 841b. weight on his little finger, wrote his own name! Mr. Jackson, soon after defeating Mendoza, established a school at No. 13, Bond-street, not only for givinw lessons to his numerous pupils, but for the intro- duction of such men as had either distinguished them- selves in combat, or wete desirous of seeking fame in the pugilistic arena. I-I c received the encouragement of the Dukes of York and Clarence (William IV.), the Duke of Queensbury, Earls Albetnarle and Sefton, Marquis of Worcester (present Duke of Beaufort), Marquis of Tweeddale, Lords Byron, Craven, Somerville, Barry more, Fife, Sir W. W. Wynne, Colonel Berkeley (now Earl Fitzhardinge), Mr. Harvey Coombe, &c. After the coro- nation of George I"VM at which Mr. Jackson and 17 of the most distinguished prize fighters of the day were employed, dressed as pages, to guard the entrances of Westminster Hall and Abbey, which they did most effectually, he retired from public life, remaining still, however, the frequent companion of noblemen and gen- tlemen who felt desirous of maintaining the old national sport of boxing, and who, through him, distributed those rewards which the conduct of the exhibitants deserved. As a private associate, and boon companion," his com- pany was courted by men of the highest distinction. Mr. Jackson was a man of great benevolence, proved by in- cessant charitable acts. In manner he was unassuming, and in language and demeanour a gentleman. He lived and died in easy circumstances, and his property will be inherited by his niece, his constant and affectionate attendant. Loss OF THE SCHOONER PACKET, OF GREAT YAH. MOUTH.—The following is an extract of a letter received at Lloyd's from their agent at Vigo :—" We lor ward to you a "copy of the letter written to the British Consul at Vigo, by the chief-mate of the English vessel Packet, of Yarmouth, which vessel, it must be supposed, sunk at sea and in order that MacDonald's gallant behaviour may be known to the committee, as well as the humane proceedings of Jose Ma Vicente, master of the Spanish vessel Sabina:—' Brig Sabina, lying in Vigo, Sept. 20th, 1845. Sir—My being a British subject emboldens me to trouble you with this to acquaint you with the loss of the liritish schooner Packet, of Great Yarmouth. The Packet, under the command of H. Barker, sailed from Port-au-Prince, in llayti. on the 29th of July, with a full cargo of coffee, cotton, and logwood, having six men on board, besides H. Barker's wife. On the 7th of August, the said H. Barker expired. On the 17th of August Mrs. Barker requested to be put on board of the barque Catherine, Jenkins, from Cuba to Swansea, which was complied with. On the 19th August the Packet was dismasted in a most dreadful hurricane. On the 22nd August spoke the barque Rapid, from Swansea to London, and remained by us all night, the crew, seeing the rudder slack, the woodlock gone, stanchions and stern port started, would work no more, but went on board of the said Rapid: From the 7th August I took charge of the Packet, being then chief-mate, aud seeing that the vessel's bottom was tight, I remained on board myself, bearing two tug-sails and three small sails, in hopes of falling in with a vessel that could spare hands to assist me in getting the Packet into a safe place. I saw vessels, and made signals of distress, but, to my loss and misfor- tune, they took no notice of me, and 111 a most dreadful situ- ation I was for twelve long days and nights pumping and steering, trying to keep in the track of vessels; at last so much salt-water going over me, and the sun so powerful, drying it. on me at the helm, affected my whole frame my legs swelled and broke into dreadful sores my strength failing; the pumps gaining* At 10 p.m. Sept. 3, I was taken on board the brig Sabina, from Havannah to Vigo, where I was kindly received and my wounds checked; the sea then veiy high. The captain being informed there was only one person on board, he ventured her boat, which I got without a jacket, a shoe, or a stocking, the ship's papers and log-book fast round my body, leaving the Packet with three feet water in her hold, in lat. 39-09. long. 45-07. All other particulars will be seen in the log-book. Your obedient, EWEN MAC. DONALD, The British Consul." The Glasgow and Ayr Railway Company has followed the laudable example of some English railway companies, of allotting a compartment of a first-class carriage in each of the traim for the accommodatioa of ladies only.— "•'c ittis/i Guardian. The Frankfort Journal" mentions that a whole parish in Silesia having unanimously embraced German Catho- licism, considered that according to law the village church belonged to them, but. when they were on the point of Divine service, they were interdicted by the authorities, aided by several gendarmes. The name of the village is Jerschendorf, near Neumark. Ou the 1st, the people celebrated the anniversary of the publication ot Ronge's letter to the Bishop of Treves, declaring that the attempts to repress the reformation would now prove vain. D.iATii OF Two HOUSES BY IIVDHOIMOBIA.— Last Week, two horses, belonging to George Tyright, Esq., of llayswater, were compelled to be destroyed, having been seized with hydrophobia. About rcn days ago a small dog, belonging to the groom, was observed snapping at several things in the stable within his reach, and fearful that he was afflicted with hydropho- bia, he was destroyed. For some days past the horses have appeared ill, and were not allowed to quit the stables. On Wednesday, a veterinary surgeon was sent tot, and on examining them, he pronounced them to be affected with hydrophobia. On Thursday morning they were both worse, when, to prevent further mischief, they were shot. ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A YOUNG LADY.—We have just received a statement, the perfect accuracy of which we have not the means of verifying at the moment, but from inquiries which we have made, there is every reason to apprehend that it will prove to be too true. The ac- count is as follows:—On Monday night the usually quiet village ot Byford—[a few miles from Hereford]—was thrown into the greatest agitation and alarm inconsequence of Miss Ellen Davies, a very interesting and pretty girl, having been shut at She was picked up—[the exact spot is not mentioned] -insensible, and bathed in.blood, which flowed from the left arm and shoulder, which are fractured, and she lies in a dangerous state. A quantity of blood was also traced down the meadow and over a stile at the back of the house, so that some one else besides Miss D. niU; t have been wounded, as she was not ill that direction. From what our correspondent subsequently states, it is not improbable that the perpetrator afterwards attempted his own life. For nearly three years past (he says) a gentleman paid his addresses to her, but was rejected on account of a previous engagement: lie then left England, but returned again, and renewed his addresses in a most tlueatening and resolute manner, she vainly endeavouring to avoid him. Her friends seeing that lie still pursued her, thought that she had better receive his addresses,— which, I believe, she did but it appears that she received information that he had formerly led a very gay life, and he was again rejected. Since that time he has been in a deranged state of mind, and confined. lie used then to say that he would shoot her; that she should never have any other; that he would shoot himself with her, &c. He has been watching his opportunity more than a week. Our correspondent speaks in the highest terms of the vic- tim's prudence, good temper, and happy disposition, and adds, I believe there has been more than one attempt to carry Miss D. oil'. Three weeks ago she had a narrow escape; she was met by two men muffled up in a great cloak, but her father and his man happening to be coining along the road at the time, they then put her down and took to their heels. That party cannot be found out. The distress of her parents at the event which has just occurred, may be better imagined than told." We have learnt that Miss Davies was greatly annoyed by the ad- dresses of a person such as described—so much so th-It she iutended to leave the place. It is not improbable, therefore, that with the desperate passion for the destruc- tion of life which characterises the lunatic, he may first have attempted to kill his victim and afterwards himself.— Hereford Journal. RAILWAY LABOURERS.—We have already spoken of the value of Railways in the complete state as the means of military strength and of augmenting the material wealth of the country; but, in their progress, they must be eminently beneficial in an influence upon the moral as well as upon the physical condi- tion of the humbler classes. A most pleasing sug- gestion was last week thrown out by a contemporary, as to the number and character of labourers on rail- roads who have already succeeded in establishing themselves in cottages provided from their own savings. We have followed up this hint, and found the results greatly to exceed what could be hoped the number of such retired labouves is very great; all the instances, too, are marked by a perfect uniformity of moral and intellectual improvement. Here is "the cottage allotment system" in operation upon a gigantic scale, without a penny cost to any one. The moral and intellectual improvement may be thought opposed to what experience has taught of the effect of the accumulation of human beings in manufacturing districts; but it is to be remembered that railway labour is not pursued in towns with allurements to demoralising indulgence at hand, and that there is no intermixture of the sexes in railway works. Railway labour, too, is severe and sedative, though not ex- hausting, and the reverse of unhealthy. It is just that kind of labour which we know from JUVENAL'S time to be the common associate of vigour of body and purity of mind. The men become more intelli- gent by association, without becoming corrupt. On the other hand, where due pains are taken, they afford the finest and easiest opportunity for moral training; and to such inestimable moral training may more than half a million of the people be admitted for many years to come. This is a glorious view of the matter, and doubtless the most important; but it is not the only important view. Tilts halt million of railway labourers is an ar.nv, greater and more powerful than is possessed by any other nation,—halt a million of men trained to regu-ar and severe labour—to habits of obedience, intelligent co-operation, and prompt, combined action, discipline 1 in all that natural cour- age and physical strength (which they have abund- antly) required to pcrfect the soldier. Here is your ready army of half a million trained to even more than the ordinary soldier's skill, and trained without expense to the nation. But we have said that this army of railroad makers are trained to more than the ordinary soldier's skill—and so they are — they are all in their several gradations engineers. The superb corps of military engineers, so long justly our pride as the finest in the world, will .still be the finest corps at home or abroad but the railroads have given them half a million of auxiliaries—many hundreds of these men qualified to teach tll"ir science to the most ex- perienced military engineers of the Continent. What do we want with fortiifcations? We have the men who can make fortifications, who could convert the whole of this huge city into an entrenched camp a month before an army could be collected to invade us. Meanwhile, our people are better employed in making railroads to augment the national wealth, and the ground in much better use as streets or squares, fields or highways, than in ramparts, parapets, ditches, and glacees. Machiavel and Folard have remarked that Rome owed more of her military success to the sfJale than to the sword, and never was the spade in Rome or anywhere else in such perfect training m so many or such vigorous hands as it is like soon to be in England, without expense, and without giving cause for jealousy to any neighbour. This great military school of more than half a million of strong men—disciplined in all the habits of a camp, except its license—is surely even in a military aspect the most magnificent spectacle that the world has ever seen; but in what aspect is the spectacle not magni- ficent and full of encouragement ? We cannot exhaust the subject in one article—or in many -tor, from whatever point of view we contemplate it, it presents new grounds for congratulation and thankfulness. Morning Herald.

REVIEW OF THE BRITISH CORN TRADE DURING THE WEEK. The weather has continued very unfavourable for bringing harvest operations to a conclusion in the late districts, and as it can scarcely be expected that the corn still remaining in the fields can be secured in good condition, the impression that our home grown supply of bread stuffs will prove deficient, both in quantity and quality, has gained ground, and the advance in values, which took place towards the close of last week, has not only been fully sustained, but improved upon, at all the leading provincial markets held since this day se'nnight. At Bristol, on Thursday, English wheat was from Is. to 2s. per quarter higher, and foreign and old Irish were held at a similar improvement. Scarcely any new Irish has yet appeared in the market. Flour was in fair demand, at Is. per sack more money. New malting barley, in consequence of short sup- plies, was sought after, and sales could readily be made at advanced quotations. Grinding parcels at- tracted rather more attention. Old white oats con- tinued scarce, and in request. New white would have found buyers at 22s. 6d. to 23s. 3d. per 320lbs., and black 21s. to 21s. 6d. per imperial qr., according to quality, but the arrivals were trifling. For heans there was an active enquiry at full prices with few offering. At Mark Lane, on Friday, in consequence of the unsettled state of the weather since Monday, and un- favourable accounts from the north, wheat advanced 2s. per quarter, on all descriptions, both free and bonded, with more enquiry for the latter than the former. Flour was more saleable, and ship marks were the turn dearer. Malting barley was very scarce, and Monday's improvement well supported. Grinding qualities were Is. dearer. Malt was again the turnm favour of the seller. There were very few oats fresh up, either coastwise, from Ireland, or from abroad. The best qualities were 6d. to is. per qr. higher, and all other sorts quite as dear as on Monday. A parcel of fine new Scotch potatoe oats were sold at the high price of 32s. Cd. per qr. Beans were by no means plentiful, and this article was scarcely obtaina- ble at previous prices. Peas were more enquired for than iu the beginning of the week, Tn London, during the week, the arrivals of wheat coastwise have been moderate, whilst the quantity exhibited at Mark Lane by land carriage, samples from the home counties, has been small. On Monday the Kent and Suffolk stands were poorly supplied, and from Essex there was scarcely an average show. Besides a good demand from our own millers, there was an active country inquiry, and factors experienced no difficulty in effecting a clearance at prices Is. and 2s. per quarter above those of that day week. On Wednesday this advance was not only supported but in several instances exceeded, and from present ap- pearances a further rise is by no means an improbable event. Foreign free wheat has been taken rather largely for mixing with the inferior new English, and the sales made have mostly been at rates Is. and 2s. per quarter above those previously current. An in- creased disposition to make investments in bonded wheat has enabled holders to obtain extreme rates, say for moderately good Dantzig, 52s. and 54s" nnd from the best sorts of Lower Baltic red, 49s. and 51s. per quarter. It is certain that the duty will in a fort- night begin to recede, and, before the end of Novem- ber, it is likely to be several shillings per quarter lower than at present; importers of wheat are there- fore by no means inclined to enter at the existing rates, and the supplies from abroad are mostly landed under lock. Flour has excited a moderate degree of attention. In quotations of town made no change has occurred. Ship samples have slightly risen in value, and for the Canadian lately received 32s. and 34s. per barrel has been paid. The value of every description of grain continues steadily to advance in the Irish and Scotch markets. FAILURE IN THE POTATOE CROP. \V f' have Wen requested to «ive inserrion to the following p "per on th's important snl ject — At a 111 e:i!l\ of the Hadlei^h Farn1p.r;¡' Club. on Friday, Sept, 13, the lameutahle failure of lhe potatoe crop formed the principal subject of discussion. In the hope of allavin-z the alarm which prevails in rhe neighbourhood respecting the use of potatees tbat have become partially injured, and also of su»gestin^ a method hy whieh a large amount of wholrsome fool1 may he saved from SlIch as would otherwise he thrown away or given to the pig., it was resolved that a statement should he circulated expressing the opinion of tile duh on thes • subjects: — 1. Itapp ";>rs to Iw certain that the failure is entirely owing to the season having been nnsuited to fully pcrfecring the tubers of most of the varieties of the potatoe. 2. Wherever tho. leaves and stems arc dead. it is advisable to dig up the crop as s¡.eeJilv as possible; and to select the hest tubers (to b kept apart frul1llhe rest) for seed. potatoes. It is probable there will be a great scarcity when sets will be wanted, unless are pretty generally adopted fOt saving the best. 3. The potatoes thus separated for sfts. should be preserved with more rare than u ual. Thev should he kept as dryas possible, and examined at intervals, to see whether any of them are beginning to decay; and all stich should be immedi- ately removed. 4. The spotted and decaying patato^s should he carefully picked out from among such as arc to be preserved in store for winter and spring use. 5 As there is gieat danger from a single decaying potatoe being left in contact with others in the Same heap. lest it should lend to rot all atound it care 1I111.t be cakell 10 stack the store potatoes in tavern, with sand or dry earth between them, and so that each potatoe may be prevented from touch- ing its neighbours. A trenrh muht be advantageously dug around the store; and if the wh ile were thatched it would tend to keep ihem very dry. It will be advisable to delay the operation of clamping as long as possible, to allow the potatoes to dry the more thoroughly. 6. The progress of decav in the spotted potatoes (oay be stopped (at least for some time) by expo-iug them in dry situations to the light, but their decay will proceed if they are placed in the dark, or on moi*t gro in-i. 7. If the decaying paris are pared off,or cut out, the. rest of the poutoe is perfectly wholesome. Many idle rumours h tve p:evailed to the contra y, which are unworthy of credit. 8. If the dr.caying potatoes have not passed to a state of putriditv they may he saiVly given to pi; hut they would be improved by being scalded, with tiie addition of a little *a! f. 9. It seems to he a providential arrangement that as yet the rcaily nutritive portion of the potatoe is very little injured even in those rubers winch have become partially decayed, and appear to be wholly unfit for food. The nutritious por- tion of the potatoe Consists or delicate white grains of starch- like matter, which are enclosed in little cells. When the cells arc broken the grat is fall out, and collecting together f..rm a beautifully white flour. It is very easy to separate this flour from the rest of the substance of the potatoe and if a few persons in different villages would nndertake to make the method generally known among the poor, a vast amount of wholesome food may yet be secured to them, which other- wise they will su/fir to perish. From an experiment Ihat has. been tried during the past week, it appears that where l:llb; ot flour can he extraclcJ from a bushel of sound potatoes, 8lh. "an be procareJ from such a, have become Sc) far decayed as to be useless us an article of food. JO. To obtain the flour separate from the decaying cells the potatoes should be first verv thoroughly 'a I!I d; so rhat not a particle of dirt remains upon ihem; they should then he finely grated widl a bread grater into a tub of water, and tbe pulp nell stirred ahollt to separate the particles of starch as much as possible from their cells. The whole should then he left to settle, and the heavier particles of starch will soon fall to the bottom, whilst th lighter -kin and cells will settle above them, and maybe poured otf wilh the water. The mass of flour formed by the ssttiing of the particles should be washed Iwo or three tÎ.l1", lOare, -hy pourillg water IIPOII it and stirring it ahout, and again leaving it to settle as before. \fter the flout- is considered tll he sufficiently washed, it must, be spread upon a cloth placed on a board itt 'he sun, or in a warm room, ta dry; or it may bp. dried in the oven afler 'he hread has b?cn rell,o.L Il mav then he kppt for noy length of time, and when wanted, II ed like wheat flour for making puditings, &c. This process wi be sufficient for common purposes, hut a more perfect \Ue"I,,1 may Iw described, by whtch :1, porato., (four can be prociucJ in its purest slate, ill which it IS frequently ",)1.1 for arrow-root, and by a variety of other names, ,s< a dedicate food for w. ak digestions for chi!- dren, nnd for tbe sick. 11. The more perfeet process of obtaining the fi .ur in the fori.i of '• Briii^h arrow-root" is as folio.vs — Thoroughly wash the po'aio. s. J'cd away ti." skin, wiihout cutting oIT much. Orate the peeled pota nes finely into a pulp. 1'lac.e tiie pulp 011 a iiair sieve, poor water over it, stirring it about well, :il| the w iter ceases to pass through with a tniiky appearance. The pulp left on th" sieve tnaybe thrown away, and the milky water put aside to senlr. When the particles of starctt have all settled, the water should he poured off, and fresh water added the whole stirred up alresh and allowed to settle again. These washings may be repeated foar or five time«, when the starch will have d the character of arrow-root, and will have become while ai suow whist the water will now be perfectly clear. The prepared flour mast be thoroughly dried, aud may be kept for any length of time in jars or casks. 12. When a dish of potatoes i- about to be obtained from the inside parts of suco ilS arc only p irtialiy decayed, Instead of peeling them the decayed n-irts may he grated, and wlnt- ever starch can be extrac-d from these par's, might be added to the boiled potatoes. Tillis very little will be 10,.t of the whole amount of nourishment which the potatoes would have contained if they had been quite found, [n many cases, it may he more convenient to keep such gratings for three or four days, till enough has been collected to make it better worth while to complete the process. 13. In times of scarcity, it may he useful for persons to be made aware of the fact, that excellent starch-like arrow-root may be procured from certain wiid plants. In tbe Isle of Portland, some of the poor are in the habit of preparing it from the rubers of the plants commonly called Lords and Ladies (Arum maculatwn.) The tubers are well washed and grated, and the pulp treated like that of thcpotatoe. The process gets rid of an acrid juice, with which the fresh tuber abounds. This sort of arrow-root is sold in the neighbour- hood of \Veymouth for about 8d. the ponnd. 14. It was suggested that local companies or societies might be formed, to buy up the decaying potatoes, and to employ some of the poor to prepare the starch, which could be sold at little or no Ins*. It i* the practice 111 Scotland, when the store potatoes are found to be frozen, to extract the starch from them iu the matint r described. HOTHOUSE, GRF.F.MIOIISK, &C.—Prune the vines in the early bouses, and .whitewash the walls. As the days draw in. and the nights become cold, the temperature must be care- fully regulated, not exceeding 70 degrees by day and 60 by night. I'ay particular attention to the yonng vines in pots that are inteuded for forcing, or they may bccome s iddened, and the young roots considerably injured. The tali grapes should be kept dry and confo.-table; the mildewed fruit, should there he any, ought (0 he ent nut at once. and a little fire by clay applied occasionally, with plenty of air. The cariy peach-house should he pllt in order- the tress pruned, and tied; the borders forked up, alid neütll"S5 at once esta- blished. A quantity of ¡¡sh .Ieaved kidney potatoes, prepared for the purpo>e, should now he planted tor growing in pots inside the pcacli-limise, for coming In at Christinas or the beginning of the new year. Fl.OWLR GARDEN,—Continue to pot and shelter all such plants as have been out of (loots during the snmmf-r, but are 100 delicate to bear the winter's cold. Clean the beds of pinks, and see that thev are ctcarot worms. Picpare beds for planting out ralluncullls roots next sp'iug. COUIiIlIlC to gather all ripe seeds. KITCHEN GARDEN.—Plant out strong plants for eoleworts aud successions of the best plants sown in the season for standing as spring cabbage; prick out a quantity on sloping banks, &c., for a reserve for making up deficiencies that may, be caused through the winter, and for planting succesiions in Spring. Continue to prick out cauliflowers as they become fit tohandte; and see toat enough of all previously recommended articles arc provided, lafce favourable opportunities at all titnes for earthing celery j see that it is quite dry, and the earth applied iQ ,11 healthy pulverised condition should il become affected with the fly, dredge it with soot and charcoal dust, lindive should he blanched in succession, and continue to piant it on banks, Take lip cal rots, and store them ill sand. Sec that the onions already stored are in good condition. Those that have not already potted strong plants or parsley for I a reserve in rough weather, should lose no time in performing it now. FRUIT GAR''En-—Continue to gather the late varieties of pears and apples carefully and .see that those already stored arc in good condition. \V;,1 nts which have beeu collected and swea'cd, should he placed in earthen pans quite dry and not glazed", cover them with a piece ot cauvass or thick btown paper, and about one inch of dry sand over it then store them in a moderate dry place, and as required for use in succession, they should be placed for eight or ten days previ- ously in a damper situation, which will freshen them, and cause the inner skin to peel off easily. This is the be3t and most easy mcihofor keeping cither walnuts or filberts. Lose no time in preparing and planting fruit trees. See that the potted slra»berii-es arc secure from the wet. Hun a soft broom Over the peach ai'd nectarine trees with great care, to take off just the very ripest ot the leaves. Pruning may now be com- menced amongst pears and app es. Shreds should bo pre- pared on wet days, as well as labels for naming fruit trees. See that the old wall nails are cleaned and prepared ia rea- diness for use, ia the manner already directed,

BANKRL PTS.—{From the London Gazelles.) Fuw.\y,-Joh ElJi ott Beer Lane, (ireat Tower-street, ship smith. Joseph Farrar, Leeds, and John Farrar, Halifax, wool- si'.piers. John Lilly, Brinepitts, Dodderhill, Worcestershire, t'arincr. Eli/.aheih Glover, SWllon, Stoke-npon-Tront, K«afford- I'i.'t', publican. William Brown and Thomas Preston, jua., Manchester, cottun spi 1.1('r8. I' ESDAY.—It. J. Chapman Bedford New-road, Clapham, market gardener. J. S. Williams, Clement's lane, Lombard- street, master-manner. T. Ashwoith and M. S. Key worth, Manchester, common brewers. H, G. Gibson, Ve>vcas'le- lpon-Tyne, chemist. T. P. Shillam, Dudbtidge, Gloucestcr- shire, wool broker. DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP. — Evans and Wiiliems, Llandovery. Carmarthenshire, rabinet makers. Hl V iDKN D. — Vov. 5 h J. Wood, Cardiff. :roo

y 'HJs IntrlUgrncr. illiTE DOCKS—Arrived. —Jane and Mary, Thomas Havre, b.;tllast.. Swindale, Gloucester.. Lion, Morsjin. Bristol.. J)i na- Mils, Bristol.. Hhondda, Bowen, Bristol — '•i'1' Caledonia, Barren. Swansea.Thomas Mahouv, Muicarv hl;,t,,].. Eùward Saule, Howell, llelford — ballast .Taff, Mitchell, Bristol.. S virt, Tawton, Bristol—!i;;ht .lioyal (Lk, Tyler, Falmouth.. C!!rton, Partridge, Glou- cester—ballast. Catherine Isabella, ''obinson, Whitehaven -iron ore. Klizdheth and Ann, Curtis, Pentwon —iron o-e .Aw, Jennings, St. Ives.. \Jars. Guv, Bid-, ford—ballast i'.Nfter, IMirbles, Hiistol..Oiler. White, Gloucester.. Hereford, h ryer, Glamorganslii; e Canal—light. Kiiz itie.h Levy, Cointje.. Ta.bot. Stove, -veck.New Frieiv.l .hip, Pearce, Portsmouth—ballast Dinai, Mills. Hristo' Ithondda, Howen, Bristol.. Friends, James, Bridgwater. William and Mary, Clark, Bristol.. Mleinior anil Mart, Gronin, Bridgw ater —light. Paiuec of Wales, (s.) Jones, Bristol.. Lady Chailotte, (s.) Jeffcrvs. Bristol—ircneial cargo. I)eparture.y.-Siiil)ad. J.nes. Waterford.W'erm Collier, Gouldtng, Bristol.. Park, Gregorv, flayle..Turtle, Hotkleri, Bristol.Martha, Fitzpatrick. Waterford. Lion. Morgan, Penarh.hichard and Jd" Lol,b, Fowey.Hope, Nich ills, Fowcy.. Bunbury, Stone. Cnrk all with coal. Anna, Ko |- Almne—iron.William, Edward, Havlo.Eliza, Cla,k, Belfast.Vesper, Giasson, Penzance..Heed, Hendv, Pen- zance.George, Hu'tdie, Cork..John and Elizabeth, Fisher, Bidelord..Countess of Fortescuc, Chapman, St. Ivas..Tho- mas, B rnt, Penzance.. Pembroke. Bawi.in. Fowcy•. Luvinia, G;oge, Falmouth.William, Collins, Newport.Superior, Muit. HaUe..TufT, Mitchell. Biis ol ..Swift, Tawton, Bris- tol.. Eitzabrtih, Grudge, Hayle.. Uesolution, Grove, Bidford ..Octavia. Reed. Valpraiso..Sir John Newport, Ntcholls, Waerford—all with c >al. Star, Ewart, Naples—iron. Success. Lewis, Gloucester.. Diarina, Martin, Dublin..Chal- lenger, Anthony, VVa-eifo-d — with o>al. Ci'o, Siroldt ..Hereford, Fryer, Gloucester—coal. Scotia, Davidson, Glamo'gan-h r Canal —li.jht. Prince of Wal. s, (s) Jones, Ili-istol. Lady Charlotte, (s.) Jefferys, Bri tol —general cark >, G I. A MORG ANSHI RE CA N A L. —Arrived — Noitingham, Knap, Bullow pj.I.IIewnharn, Smith, Bullow Pill.. Cinderella, Nurse, B.illow Pill.. Active, Cope. Builow Pill.. Ootner, Owens, A herthaw.. James, JIIlles, Abersoeh.Sisters, Knapp, Bollow Pill.Oliver Lloyd, Tit mas, B illow P.il.. Penbym Castle, Thomas, Abersoeh.William, ILl., Builow Pill all with iron ore. Providence, Baker, Bristol.. Aeneas, Lindleboon, Sapp'Tmecr.. Nelson, Vial pah, Bristol.Splendid, Keer, Strangford.. Atlas, Thomas, Bristol.Lady Selina, Evans, Biistol.Hope, Billing, Bridgwater.. Providence, Baker, Bristol.. Jane, Noaile, Bridgwater.Friends, Beer, Bristol., Emiie, iione), Nantes—all with ballast. Miner, Jones, Bridgwatc.. f.atimer, Madley, Liverpool.. "Imerva, Knight, Gloucester.. Merthyr Packet. Thomas, Bristol. ly, Bowie*, Gloucester.. Endeavour, Hawkins, Glouri'ster.. John George. Gulliford, Bridgwater.. Brothers, Bryant, Bridgwater.. Koyal Forrester, Furn^y, Bridgwater.Newpcit trader, Jackson, Newport.. HDefo.d, Fryer, Chepstow.. Bristol Packc', Williams, Newport..) ark, Mayo, Glouces- ter.. Active, Cames, Fortinadoc.. William, Fisher, Waterford ..Ann, Fast, Pivmouth.Catherine, Sa:t. Fowey.Eliza, Cann, Lydney.Unanimity, .Mitchel, Bridgwater" Hubert, Mendus, Newport.. Olive Branch, Bowen, Barry. Frieuds. Evans, Bristol..John, Mayo, (;Ioucester. Cardiff Trader, Bowles, Gloucester.Charles, Howe, Newport.Union, I rewett, Newport ..James and Ann, James, Bidefo d.. liiree Broth'rs, Browning. Gloucester—all with snndrits. Sailt.d.-Jdsprh Calnp, Wright, London.. Amity, Pearson, Bristol,Merthyr Packet, Thomas, Bristol. Providence, Baker, Bristol.. Atlas, Window, Bristol.. Iris, Walter;, Bremen..United Friend", Lewis, Liverpool.. Elizabeth, Wright, Bristol., Emerald, Owen, Dublin..Sardina, Acton, \msterdain .Aiida, Jonke, liutterdam.Hope, Billing, Bridgwater.Providence, Beer, Bristol. Active, Cope, Gloucester,. Bristol Packet, Williams, Swausca.. Anna Maria Bennett, Fleetwood.. Splendid, Keer, Marvpgrt,.Latimer, Wadley, Liverpool.. Catherine, Salt, Dordt ..Oliver LhJd. Thomas, Lancaster—all with iron. \da, M'Namara, Bid ford.. Brisk, Gregory, Bridpor: Armboth, Sloato, Ne«ry.. Caroline, Bowles, Bridgwater.Koyal Forester, Forney, Bridgwater.Mary, Evans, Bristol Amicable Hyacinth, Bandidt, Nantes. IV.rsevcranct, llalgard, Mantes. Douro, Heed, Dublin.Neptune, Corder, Biidgwa'er.Johanna Gesina, Hulling, Bremen.. Lady Selina, Evans, Bristoi. Vlary Ann, Williams, Bristol..John* George, Guliil'nril. Bridgwater. Elizabeth, Ellis, Dublin.Philip, Roberts, Dublin.. N Is.m, Malpas, Bristol.. Miuerva, Knight, litistol ,)ukeof Wellington, Xoalle, Gloucester.Brothers, Bryau., Bridgwater, PORTHCAWL.— Arriaals.— Martha, Jones, Port Talbot. Tredegtr, Crockford. M!nchcad..Good Intent. Howells, New Pessage.. Claudia, (Harward, London, Marina, Jerinyn, Truro—ballast. Margaret and Mary, Jonps, Portmadac.. New Hope, Da"i', Barrow.ilefoun, Thomas, Portinadoc.. Elizabeth, May]) Charleston — iton ore. Hope, Davies, New- port—bricks. Betsey, Evans. Abcrthaw—stone. Fame, Nicholls, Gloucester—sundries.Sarah, Ami, Bi-istol- general cargo. Outwards. — William, Pearn, Milford..Kilty, nix, Cork— —COAIS. Thomas and Francis, i'engolley, Newporr.. Hope, Davis, Carditf-irou. PoRf TALa IT,-ArrÙJals.-Thomas and Mary, Harris, Devoran..Orleans. Deiripicv, Cork.. Anne, Western, Barn- s'aple..Teressew, Lewis, Milford..Ilame, Davies, Penzance Secret, Popham, Padstow..Richmond, Foley, Plymouth.. Eliza Ann, Teddy, Truro..Commerce, Hart, Bristol.in- dustry, Shapcott, Looe.. Industry, Davidge, Bridgwater.. Nautili, Williams, Hayle.. Antigua Planter, Hodge, Peu- zance..Need, Libby, Looe.Houor> Bell, Newpor,—all witlk copper ore, bricks and irIJn. Suited.—John and Mary, James, Newport.Sun, Potts, Swansea.. Brothers, Trick, Bideford.. Union, Anthony, IV- voran.. tt-inger, D ibson, Newport..James, Bartleu. Cardiff ..Sisters, Hicks, St. Agness..John and Mary, Cbanuon, Bid. ford.. liosa.nond June, Ellery, Padstow.Marttia, Jones, I)ort licit Q.i,-ei Victoria, Sutton, Bristol.. Fancy, Davies, Swansea.iargaret, Davies, Bristol.. Itoyal Oak, Vlatthian, Neath.. P'.lot, Beynon, Swansea. • Eliza, Sutiou, S.vansca.. Ann-. Western, Barnstaple.. industry, Chapcott, Neath.

LONDON MARKETS^ GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES of CORN pel Quarter CVluputeJ from the Inspectors' Returns. GENERAL AVERAGE. s. d. s. d* Wheat 51 8 live 3} 7 Barley 30 9 Beans 43 6 Oats 22 5 Peas 38 3 DUTY ON FOREIGN CORN. s d., s.d Wheat 18 0 Itye 9 6 Harlt-y 8 0 Beans I 0 Oats 6 0 j Peas 4 6

CORN EXCHANGE—MONDAY. WHEAT. s s. s« s Essex & Kent red 56 — 6U White 60 GO* OU Do 60 — 64 Do 65 72 Old Do 60 64 Do 65 -72 RYE. II. s- I s. s. Old 35 — o7 I Mew 38 — 40 MALT. S s. I s. s. Suffolk and Norfolk 58 — 6j Brown 56 60 Kingston and Ware til — 0 | Chevalier. 64 — o OATS. s. s. II. s. Yorkshire and Lin- colnshire feed 23 — 23 Potato 25 —27 Yoti-iiall and Cork Cork white 0 23 black 22 23 Wcstport 2.3 24 Dublin 22 — 23 Black. 22-23 Waterford white 22 23 Newry 22 25 (;alway 22 — 24 Scotch feed 24 2a Potato 30 33 Clunmel 2;3 24 Limerick 25 27 Londonderry 24 — 25 Sligo 23 24; BEANS. S- s. s. s. lick new 37 — 40 j Old small 42 — 4!> PRAS. s. K. j a. s. Grey 4-1 Maple 40 — 42 Ahite 0 43 | Boilers. 45 50

FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE NKWS, ETC., SEE SUPPLEMENT TO THE CARDIFF" L AND MERTHYR. GUARDIAN" OF THIS DA Y. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1845. Published by the sole Proprietor, HENRY VVKBEHU, at his residence Charles-street, in the Parish of Saint John the Baptist, in the Town of Cardiff and County of Glamorgan, and Printed by him at his Generat Printing Office in Duke-street, in the said Parish of Saint John, in the Town and County aforesaid. Advertisements and Orders received by the follovrfttg: Agents LONDON: Mr. Barker, 33, Fleet-street; Messrs. Jvewtoni and Co., 5, Warwick-square Mr. G. Reyaell, 4.2. Chancery-lane; Mr. Deacon, 3, Walbrook, near too Mansion-house; Mr. Joseph Thomas, 1, Finch-lane,. Carnhill; Mr. Hammond, 27, Lombard-street; Mr. C. Barker, 12, Birchin-lane W. Dawson and Son, 74, Cannon-street, City Messis. Lewis and Lowe* 3^ Castle C'uort, Birchin Lane. MERTHYR, H. W. White, St&tSMter,. BRECON iMr. William Evans, Ship-street,, SWANSEA Mr. John Lewis, 6, inelron Place* And by all Postmasters and Clerks ou tli# Road 'I his pa.par is regularly tiled in London at Lloyd's; Coffee House City.——Peel's Coffee-house, Fleet-streetv. -The Chapter Coffee-house St. Paul, s.-Deacca!* Coffee-house, Walbrook.