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THE OLD WATCH.
THE OLD WATCH. Thou battpfed thing, NesUlng so snugly in this dusty nook,- Some dried-up spring Thou 'mind'st me of, or withered leaf forsook Found in the pages of a dreary book Thy days are over,— The flight of Time thou'lt chronicle no more,— That restless rover, Lusty as though he ne'er saw days of yore J Or yet had gathered ages to his store. 1 Thou dusty dummy There's value in thee, though as dingy brown As any mummy. Eo-t rend my thoughts—was that a passin; frown? W e'.l! so—1 thought, thou mightst be melted down. Were languagc thine, Thou worn antique 1 what would thy language be ? Of auld langsyne,— Or, with thy sombre phiz too well agree, Upon the passing hours a homily ? Or. would thy speech With usual chant of aged homo's chime ? Wouldst thou too teach How fallen the present from the hy-gone time, lu the brave days when thou wert in thy prime 1 Or, wouldst thou tell Of the adventures thou hast seen perchance, And wondrous dwell On strange events that might each sense entrancp, More thrilling far than talcs of old Homance ? The Afrit's rise Out of the bottle on Euphrates' shore, That to the skies, Envvreathed by clouds, his form colossal bore, ► Tbou mightst surpass in strangeness from thy store. But thou through life An uneventful course, perchance, hast wended, With dulness rife Thy history is begun, perhaps, and ended With the account how seldom thou wert mended. Ah, thou art dumb! Tis vain to stay, thee, battered relic, eyeing Without, the hum Of busy life, and chime to chime replying, Though thou art mute, remind me Time is flying. Back to thy nook, With thy half-century's dust upon thee crusted With my last look, I feel that he whose sires to thee once trusted, Should so far prize thee as to have thee—dusted.
RETROSPECTION.
RETROSPECTION. There are moments in life that are never forgot, Which brighten and brighten, as time steals away; They give a new charm to the happiest lot, And they shine in the gloom of the loneliest day These moments are hallow'd by smiles and by tears- The first look of love and the last parting given— As the sun in the dawn of his glory appears, And the cloud weeps & glows with the rainbow in heaven. There are hours, there are minutes, which memory brings, Like blossoms of Edeu, to twine round the heart And as lime rushes on by the might of his wings. They may darken awhile, but they never depart. Oh S these hallow'd remembrances cannot decay, But they come on the soul with a magical thrill Anù in da) s that are darkest theJ kindly will stay, And the heart, in its last throb, will beat with them still. They come, like the dawn in its loveliness, now, The same look of beauty that shot to my soul; The snows of the mountain are bleach'd on her brow, And her eyes in the blue of the firmament roll: The roses are dimm'd by her cheeks' living bloom, And her coral lips part like the opening of mowers; She moves through the air in a cloud of perfume, Like the wind from the blossoms of jessamine bowers. From the eye's melting azure there sparkles a flame That kindled my young blood to extacy's glow She speaks—and the tones of her voice are the same As would once, like the wind-harp, in melody now That touch, as her hand meets and. mingles with rniue, Shoots along to my heart with electrical thrill; 'Twas a moment for earth too supremely divine, And while life lasts, its sweetness shall cling to me still. We met—and we drank from the crystalline well That llows from the fountain of science above; On the beauties of thought we would silently dwell, Till we looked though we never were talking of love We parted—the tear glisten'd bright in her eye, AmI ber meiting hand shook as I dropp'd it for ever: Oh that moment will always be hovering bJ- Life Illay frown, but its light shall abandon me never.
LITERARY VARIETIES.
LITERARY VARIETIES. GOOD ANSWER.—The elder folks were talking of the races, hen one turned to a listening child and said, l)id you ever •e a racer, Bobby V' "Yes," was the answer,'• I have seen e candles run. STUDIES.—Variety of studies, so far from weakening the mind, a powerful means of promoting its energy and growth. We Idom meet with persons of vigorous understandings whose .nge of thought has been confined chiefly to one department. A GOOD UIUURK -The Boston Courier says, Aaron Burr led a Christian, according to the Aew York Times. So much e better for himself. If he had lived a Christian, how much tier it would have been for the world A GOOD W ISIl.-An eccentric bauker was eyeing with sus- cious vision a bill presented to blm for discount. You need It fear," "aid the palpilaling customer; one of the parties •eps his carriage. Ay rejoined the banker; "I shall glad if he keep his feet." COURTSllIP.-l\1uch intellect is not an advantage in courtship. ;neral topics interfere with particular attentions. A man, to successful in love, should think only of himself and of his istress. Rochefoucauld observes, that lovers are never tired each other's company, because they are always talking of emselves.—Huzlitt. A MALAPKOP.—A fashionable lady being asked how she Led the dinner given at a distinguished poet's, her reply was- the dinner was eJtplendid, but my seat was so promote from e nick-nacks, that I could not ratify my appetite, and the ■kled cherries had a defect on my- head, that I had a motion leave the table but Mr. —— gave me some hartshorn oleed in water, which bereaved me. TUB MO\;SE.-A philosophical mouse was praising the good- 3S of nature in making mice an object of such peculiar care; for one half of us," he said, are furnished with wings, so at when we who live in the ground are all destroyed by the ts, our race might easily be perpetuated from the bats." The od mouse did not know that there are winged cats who hunt its. Our pride is generally founded on our ignorance. SAGE INQUIRY.—" Master sailor," said an old lady to a weather -atea tar, who had called at her house for a luncheon, you ust see a great many curiosities at sea. Oh yes," said i,ck, and immediately commenced telling of the great levia- ans of the deep. "But how do these great fish live?" leried the old lady. Oh, said Jack, much as the large h live on land, by devouring the smaller ones" But they m't eat them raw, do they ?" Oh no," was the reply, every th fish carries a kettle on his tail for cooking."—Dunstable 'elegraph. THB WITTY PAINTER.—Sir William Lely agreed beforehand r the price of a picture he was to draw for a rich London derman, who was not indebted to nature either for shape or ceo The picture being finished, the alderman endeavoured to :at down the price, alleging, that if he did not purchase it, it auld lie on the painter's hand. That's your mistake," said r William, for I can sell it at double the price I demand." How can that be?" says the alderman, "for it is like nobody it myself1!" True," replied Sir William," but I will draw tail to it, and then it will be an excellent monkey Mr. Iderman, to prevent being exposed, paid down the money the kinter demanded, and carried off the picture. EDUCATION.—It will be a vain task to preach the union of lanhood, if we continue to teach children separation. If we ould make the country one, we must begin by gathering up its agments while they are soft. Thanks to our original nature, .Isectarian, unpolitical, unsophisticated, as it always is, until .rrupted by man, this is not difficult. Children, if left to lemselves, will naturally unite. Their animosities and preju- ices are not theirs, but their fathers'. Such mixture of sects std classes is the true discipline by which these pernicious ten- ancies should be counteracted. There is no place like school j teach universal sympathy and unadulterated Christian bene- jlence—I will not say (for it is a very un-Christian word) juration. Separate at present our children, and the next ge- eration will exhibit all the errors and passions of the old race ver again. The Protestant school will turn out its annual show f Protestants the Catholic school its rival batch of Catholics -just in the same manner as an aristocratic school shapes its xclusives, or a corporation school begets its aldermen and po- ce magistrates. The age and country want Englishmen and rishmen. Nationalism, not sectarianism, should be the first rticle of our common charter.—Sunday School Magazine. TKMI'EHANCB. The chief cause of most of the diseases to ;hich the human body is subject, is a. superabundant acid in le stomach and that superabundance of acid is occasioned by vMloading the stomach with food or drink. For the stomach an digest only a certain portion of food in a given time, namely, aat which is in contact with its sides—all the rest must wait 3 turn consequently, if the stomach be overloaded, the super- buudant food will ferment and generate an acid, and the portion f food thus fermented and converted into acid, when it comes, t\ its turn, to be spread over the sides of the stomach, for the urpose of being converted into chyle, frets and irritates the tomach by the acid and corrosive qualities, and very often pro- uces inflammation, more or less violent, which is indicated itber by heartburn, eructation, stomach-ache, or other uis- resting sensations. Nor is this the whole of the injury. If the fleets of the acid be not arrested, all the organs which sympa- use with the stomach partake of the distress, in proportion to .heir previous constitutional strength or debility. Numerous ustances occur in medical annals of death having been occa- sioned by inordinate eating. Sir Everard Home mentions an nstance of a child losing its life from eating too large a quantity ,f apple-pudding. Morgagni relates an account of a like fate lappeuing to a woman from eating too large a quantity of onions reserved in salt alld vinegar. Aud Bonnet us, in bis Sepuichrwn, tates the case of a boy who died in three hours from eating mmoderately of grapes. In each case, the stomach, when H«?ned, was quite tense, and consequently its power of action ierfectly paralysed.—Hand- Book of Health. 1 HJIBNNAN THE HIGHWAYMAN.—Breunan died by the rope. He was hanged in the town of Clonmel, in or about the year 1808, together with an accomplice called The White Pedlar." Wo remember the occasion well. The member for Tipperary, the Hon. Montague Matthew, a brother of the late Lord Llan- daff strongly interested himself to procure a remission of his sentence for the convict. It was his belief that he might be effectually reclaimed from his dangerous courses, and render good service to society by his active exertions as a police officer. The Duke of Richmond was Lord Lieutenant at the time—and, when the county member vehemently pressed his suit, is said to have answered him, I will consent to your proposal upon one condition." "What is that?" eagerly interposed Mr. Matthew, determining that no trifle should stand between him and the object of his wishes. That you,' said the jocose viceroy, should be hanged in his stead !Of Brennan, an anecdote was then current, which proves him to have been as ready-witted, as he was bold and daring. An old banker of Clonmel, Solomon Watson, was led by curiosity to visit him in his confinement. Brennan observed to him that he, of all men, should not rejoice in his misfortunes. Why so 1" asked Solomon; why should not 1, as well as all other honest and peaceable citizens, rejoice in the capture of so dangerous a cha- racter as you ?" Because," said the robber, I did not join in the cry against your bank, when its credit was so lately en- danaered; and when the whole country was refusing youfaptes, took them wherever I wuli get them IZ'
CORRESPONDENCE.
CORRESPONDENCE. To the Editor of the Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian. Llandaff Deanery, Sept. 9. SIR,—Little experienced in the arts of periodical po- lemics, I should feel naturally reluctant to measure myself in this field against a self-constituted director of public opinion, trained by habitual weekly exercise in these manoeuvres—yet, as I was once before called on to offer a reply in vindication of a neighbouring prelate, most laborious and most truly disinterested in the discharge of every duty of his high station, and the most zealous and enlightened advocate of the general and efficient educa- tion of the country (yet most intemperately and injuri- ously attacked), so I am now constrained by the same would-be dictator to examine into the justice of a new attack directed principally against a design for the restora- tion of the beautiful but dilapidated Cathedral entrusted to my official care—a design especially dear to me, because I have received it as a moral inheritance from a prede- cessor whose zealous interest in the best efficiency of our Church—whose temperate discretion in the maintenance of its peace—and whose sound judgment in everything that regarded it, will suffer little, I apprehend, from a compaiison with the same qualities as evinced by any ordinary writer in our public journals, under whatever various name he may be for the time distinguished. The present attack subscribed by the Vicar of Aberdare, al- though prominently directed against the architectural restoration so eloquently advocated by that most beloved and respected member of our Church, also iucludes under the same reprobation the whole design conveyed by the Act of Patliament for its execution to our Ecclesiastical Commissioners, in the augmentation of our pilfered Episcopal revenues—the restoration of our Deanery (sup- pressed since the 13th century), and the re-organization of our Chapter, coupled as all these objects are with their unfortunate location in a spot described by your corres- pondent as some unknown wilderness, remote from the ken and haunts of men—being separated by the enormous and impracticable, distance of one whole mile and a small fraction from the rapidly increasing metropolis of our county, which your correspondent so consistently argues must form the most appropriate situation in which the central seat of our Episcopal government could possibly be placed,—I shall in like manner consider the questiou under these ita general relations, for the particular point of the architectural restoration of the ancient Cathedral of the earliest known See of Wales is obviously a mere subordinate corollary to the general argument. The first question relates to the most convenient situation for the centralization of the Episcopal authority, round which the Chapter (associated originally with that authority as an assistant council) must naturally be grouped. Now I do not need to be reminded that the decrees of Ecclesiastical councils may be cited directing the removal of Sees from remote villages to the real provincial metropolis but, in the present case, I shall maintain that every desirable condition of such a provision is fully met—that LlandafF is in effect only the tural suburb of Cardiff—and that no one important object could be gained by violating every association of antiquity in order to transplant our ancient Cathedral one mile fuither east, and bring it in the midst of the business and bustle of the adjoining metropolis. First, I will speak of the conveniences of the spot for the central Episcopal residence. It was so from the foundation of the See until the ravages of Owen Glen- dower drove our prelates to the more remote security of their castle of Matherne, near which our present beloved and respected Diocesau has placed his own beautiful resi- dence of Hardwick. Should it be the intention (which has not as yet, I believe, been announced) ultimately to re-erect an Episcopal palace at Llandaff, 1 certainly con- ceive that no other point can be indicated more strongly recommended by its central position with reference to the whole dioccse, and consequent readiness of access to the Clergy—and the residence of the Bishop would obviously be far more desirably placed in the adjacent healthy coun- try than in the crowded streets of the heart of the metro- politan town. With reference to the next office connected with the Cathedral, 1 of course should feel the greatest difficulty in speaking, could I not at once refer to the case of a predecessor whose character and exertions must remove every swruple. In him the true use of the Decanal office, like that of the Bishop himself, was seen to be rather the universal good of the diocese, than to exert an influ- ence which could have beneficially been restricted to the limits of any single parochial ministration. What one beneficial institution of our Church, I will ask, was de- prived of any share of his most valuable co-operation, because he resided on Llandaff Green rather than a mile east opposite Cardiff Market-place? As for myself, I can only say that if I be found to neglect any useful institu- tion of that town, I cannot plead local distance as any excuse, as I certainly am in the habit of visiting it almost every day on the most trifling calls of business. With regard to the other four proposed members of our Chapter as intended to be re-fashioned, two are allotted to the most important officers of our diocese, its two Archdeacons. Of these it would manifestly be most inju- rious to impose on the Archdeacon of Monmouth any permanent parochial charge in Cardiff; the other, the Archdeacon of Llandaff, may, very probably, in future times become identified with one of the Vicars of that town. The remaining two stalls will almost necessarily be held by the incumbents of some livings in the diocese who may have most distinguished themselves by really useful exertions. There is nothing to prevent their being the most active Cleigy of Cardiff, or Merthyr, or any other of our most important towns;—to restrict the distinction to any specific cure would surely operate as a disadvantage. The residence of three months which would be required in a canonical house at Llandatf, would only afford such incumbents an agreeable retreat for the period always allowed by law—while the distinction conferred by the appointment would augment their local influence, so as would far more than compensate for these short absences from their cures, and the central and healthy position of Llandaff would add every recommendation and remove every inconvenience. With regard to the restoration of our decayed building, I can only wish to refer to the ardent eloquence and genuine Welsh feeling displayed by my late predecessor in his repeated appeals, which have before appeared in your pages. For myself, though by birth a Saxon stran- ger, yet I can plead that for twelve of the most active years of my life I was one of the labouring Clergy of this diocese, and that I stand connected with the county by the nearest and dearest domestic ties. I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, W. D. CONYBEARE. P.S.—Having thus once for all fairly stated my case, I shall positively decline all further notice of any observa- tions which may hereafter appear in your columns on this subject, and willingly concede to my antagonist the tri- umph of the last word. ♦ LLANDAFF CATHEDRAL. To the Editor of the Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian SIR,—It is exactly three hundred years since Anthony Kitchin, alias Dunstan, the parricide Bishop of this plundered See (of which, says his worthy successor, Bishop Godwin, he became a miserable Impoverisher and nearly the entire destroyer,") obtained a grant from King Henry the Eighth to strip it of its ancient endow- ments. It is exactly one hundred and thirty years since Browne Willis, the able Historian of this Venerable Edifice, in a letter to his friend and patron, Mr. Cart- wright, of Aynhoe, says,—" Wherefore it was that out of a sad contemplation lest so glorious a structure as this Church, honoured by being the ancientest Bishop's See in the Kingdom, (as we have evident authority to shew) raised, enriched, and beautified by the piety of so many noble Founders, should be utterly destroyed and become a woeful spectacle of ruin, that I forthwith (BEING THEREUNTO EXCITED BY THE RUMOUR OF A PROJECTED DESIGN TO REMOVE THE SEE HENCE TO CARDIFF,) have adventured to publish its History as materials have come to my hand." And now, in this nineteenth century, a son of this Venerable Mother Church, a stranger in the Diocese, advocates its removal to Cardiff, to Merthyr, to New- bridge, or even to Aberdare I" (Pray, who would he think the fittest man for the Bislmp were the Cathedral transferred to this last most Episcopal locality 1) The principal, perhaps the only argument of the Writer for the removal of this ancient See from Llandaff is its want of population. Is it not manifest to every reflecting observer, that Cardiff is daily extending its boundaries 1 That the immense wealth of the vast mineral basin, of which Cardiff will be the recipient, is only now in its infancy t That the present is the nucleus only of the future town 1 That, when the space between Saint Mary- street and the Bute Docks is occupied by buildings (which a very few years will bring to pass), she will stretch out her arms to the North and to the West—that the beautiful banks of the Taff will teem with manufac- tories, with streets, and with villas: and that the present time-honoured Fabric, the See of Dubritius, of Teilo, of Urban and of Marshal—and illustrated in later days by the memorable beneficence of Barrington—the manly and powerful eloquence of Watson—the calm piety of the meek and accomplished Van Mildart-the aealous and untiring industry of Sumner, and the distinguished erudition and never-failing benevolence of Copleston, will then be what Mr. Griffith asserts it should be, the centre of an overflowing population! Mr. Griffith is young enough to live to witness this extension. Let him remember that sixty years ago the parish of Merthyr Tydvil did not contain one thousand inhabitants, and (enviable condition!) only two public-houses: -and that his own paiish at the same period did not contain three hundred individuals. I have a print now before me,— "A View of the Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields from the Village of Charing." Fifty years after this view was taken, Charing Cross had blocked up St. Martin's Church, which was no longer "in the Fields," but in the centre of a still growing metropolis! So will our Venerable Cathedral be a3 respects Cardiff; and, as to the Diocese in general, the line of the Engineer could scarcely have made it more conveniently central! Let, therefore, the busy Vicar of Aberdare restrain his ardent zeal for im. provement to the improvement of his own parishioners, of which, from his own report to the Education Com- missioners, they appear to stand greatly in need. Let him continue unabated his praiseworthy exertions in the establishment of Schools. Let him preach his next sermon from the 6th chapter and 7th verse of the Book of Ezra,—"Let the work of this House of God alone —and let him allow those who love and respect the Edifice so endeared to this country by a thousand fond recollections, to go on with the good work they have commenced under such generous support, and in which they have proceeded with equal judgment, taste, and discretion. Your obedient servant, CYRUS. To the Editor of the Cardiff Sf Merthyr Guardian. SIR,-I was much interested by the communication in your last, received from "A Farmer." It was a case I often heard my father speak of formerly, and who would frequently repeat some anecdote connected with the subject. What "A Farmer" has extracted from the old file of provincial newspapers is substantially correct, and the words "Blue Coat Hunt" strongly remind me of my childish days at Carmarthen, when the Blue Coat Hunt and the Red Coat Hunt gentlemen would, severally, with their horses and hounds, enliven that old town and its neighbourhood at certain seasons of the year; but those things have been long discontinued. As it may afford some interest to your readers, I subjoin several particulars of the murder of Mr. Powell, taken chiefly from a report of that horrible case printed soon after the trial of the murderers. Remaining, Sir, yours respectfully, Swansea, Sept. 11th, 1848. X. Names of the persotu charged with the murder of .1Ir. Powell. William Williams .of Llandovery. Mercer.absconded Wm. Spiggot, alias Spicket do. Barber John Spiggot do.Servant ..acquitted William Morris. do.Saddler William Thomas, alias Will Blink Glover.acquitted David Morgan, alias Dai Lucy Tinker Charles David Morgan Farmer William Charles a boy or lad..acquitted David Llewellin Fanner Walter Evan, alias Wat the Tinker .turned King's evidence William Walter Evan. Farmer or labourer Morgan James. Pedtar. absconded John Isaac ùo, The persons who did not abscond were tried at Here- ford Assizes, on Wednesday, the 28th of March, 1770, before Sir Jo<e).h Yates, Knight, indicted for the wilful murder of William Powell, of Glanareth, in the paiish of Llangadog, in the couuty of Carmarthen, on the 8th day of January, 1770 Waiter Evan, the King's evidence, bein* sworn, the names of the other prisoners were deliberately called over by the clerk of the court. The witness would then point to each prisoner as his name was c:illed. Afterwards, either to in- terrogations or spontaneously, Walter Evan gave the fol- lowing evidence We often met at the New Bear public-house, in Llan- dovery, the principal object of which was to contrive how to kill Mr. Powell. William Walter Evan informed the company that Nir. Powell was not at home. William Williams kept John Isaac and Tom of —— (not one of the prisoners), at the New Bear. 011 Sunday, at the same house, met William Williams, David Morgan, myself, John Isaac, and Tom of We talked plainly of killing Mr. Powell. William Williams said the gentleman must be killed, and that whoever would do it should never want for anything. First time we next met was on New Year's Day, at the New Bear. David Morgan, the tinker I think John Isaac, I cannot be sure as to him; David Llewellin; William Waiter Evan, and William Thomas; and I think Wiilian Spiggot was there; but I am not sure that he stayed there. William Walter Evan said Mr. Powell was gone to Swansea. William Williams sent David Llewellin and myself after Mr. Powell, to Swansea, to kill him. We did not tyet there, but got drunk that night at Llangadog. Stopt all next day and lost one another. The order was given by William Wil- liams, in the presence of David Llewellin and David Mor¡{an. I believe William Thomas was there. I am sure William Walter Evan was there; but not sure John Isaac was. The fourth day after New Year's Day, The Tinker, William Williams, and John Isaac, met at the New Bear. William Williams abused me said I was not true in the business. On Saturday before Mr. Powell was killed, David Morgan. John Laac, and myself, went to K'lcwm. William H'illiarus sent us there. We went to Captain Bowen, and I told him William Williams sent us there. lie directed us to a public house at KiI-y-Cwm. lie came there himself aft r IU, and spent two shillings. Next morning, we went to Llandovery, stayed there all night. We went up stairs and Leech's maid brought us victuals and drink. William Williams, William Morris, David Morgan, William Walter Evan, and William Thoma-, came to us, and we were all together. Charles Dawd Morgan and William Walter Evan, told us publicly that Mr. Powell was come from Swansea. William Williams rejoiced and rubbed his hand*, and said that if they did not kill him then, it was no use to talk any more about it. All heart him say so that chose to hear him, for he spoke publicly. Win. Williams gave them orders to go to Chas. David Morgan's hou<e: they went, and I went witb them; it is not far from Llandovery, and about a mile and a half frooi Mr. Powell's house; viz., Chas. David Morgan, Wm. Walter Evan, John Isaac, David Morgan, David Llewellin, Wm. Thomas, and myself. They sent David Llewellin and my- self to take John Spiggot out of bed he lived a servant at Mr. Howe he did not come that night. Morgan James came next day at dinner. Wm. Morris and Wm. Spiggot came about an hour and a half before leaving the house for Mr. Powell's. All blackened their faces, which was proposed to the best of my recollection by Morgan James. They had no dis- course but of killing Mr. Powell. Set out from Charles David Morgan's house for Mr. Powell's, at the beginning of the night, with weapons. I had a sword, and Wm. Williams a sword or hanger. Before Wm. Spiggot came, I asked Wm. Williams why he would have Mr. Powell killed? He answered, He is a bad man be starved his wife and chitdreo he has nobody belonging to him, and it is no harm to kill him. All set out together from Chas. Dd. Morgan's house; we went as fast as we could across the fields and waste ground John Spiggot joined us at the garden hedge.- Before going into the house, we stopped to put on frocks, and to drink what we had provided in a phial or bottle. William Wil- liams put on one frock, and William Spiggot another. Wil- liam Williams, David Llewellin, and myself went to the door: I think we were the foremost, and that we went to a small door; Williani Williams knocked at the door, and somebody on the inside opened it William Williams, David Llewellin, and myself went in; William Williams took me by the arm, as I was a stranger, and put me to stand at the kitchen door. There was a light came from the parlour; I saw Llewellin and Wiliiams go past me the rest came in a throng so fast 1 could not well know which came first of them; David Morgan, Morgan James, William Spiggot, and William Morris. The others pissed backward and forward, but I could not tell whether they went by the parlour. William Walter Evan fired a pistol in the entry when I called out fire. To the best of my knowledge, the boy William Charles and his father were without. After those I spoke of had gone towards the parlour, I heard a person cry out Murder 1 Hubbub! I think this voice came from the parlour. One in the kitchen lifted up a shovel towards me; I think it was a man I then called out fire, and Wil Wat Evan fired. I afterwards saw William Williams come from that part of the entry where the parlour door was followed by Wil- liam Spiggot, William Morris, and David Llewellin; I cannot tell who the rest were, for as soon as I saw them coming, I went out of the house with them. William Williams had a hanger in his hand, and a frock on William I Spiggot bad a frock on, and he had a pistol in his hand be- fore he went iu there was not one but had a weapon. William Williams said he had stabbed Powell; David Morgan said the same David Llewellin's knife was bloody. There was a quarrel between William William-?, David Llewellin, and William Thomas, on the way back to Chatles David Morgan's house. I caunot say what it was about, but they said William Williams beat them. I heard them all talk about Powell's death Williams said he defied all doctors. I observed blood on the frock Williams had on, also on the frock Spiggot had on, and on Llewellin's knife. and on Morgan James' cravat behind. Before going to Charles David Morgan's house, Williams told us not to go with him, and he gave a guinea to each of the three tinkers -David Morgan, Morgan James and myself. In the cross-examination of this man, Walter Evan, he said thay were not more than about two minutes in the house; but bis evidence seemed not at all shaken. Elizabeth Charles, aged 14, daughter of Charles David Morgan, was next called. The judge directed her to be sworn, and to avoid as far as possible asking her any ques- tions which might affect her father. She was sworn by John Price, the interpreter, as in the case of the previous witness. All she said seemed only fairly to corroborate the evidence of Wat the Tinker, as far forth as what occurred at her father's house. Margaret Jones, who had been a servant at Glanareth, was next sworn and examined, said I was in the kitchen when the murderers came in. In the parlour, with Mr. Powell, was William Price Bowen, Lewis Summers, and John Jones, Mr. Powell's nephew. I heard knocking at the back door; sent a little girl, about 14 years of age, to open the door; I was standing by the fire; heard a great noise as if several persons were coming into the house; and with me in the kitchen were John Williams, who wrote for Mr. Powell, David William Owen, John Morgan, and Hugh Eynon. John Morgan being sworn, said he took a shovel from John William, and defended the kitchen. William Bowen also said he saw a man enter the parlour and attack Mr. Powell, &c. Wm. Pogson, adjutant of the Carmarthen militia, was ex- amined relative to the pursuit made for the murderers. On the night of the murder there was much snow on the ground by which footsteps were traced from Mr. Powell's to the house of Chas. Dd. Morgan and one remarkable impression of a shoe with great nails was observed; it turned out to correspond exactly with a shoe worn by one of the prisoners I think the shoe of Chas. Dd. Morgan himself; another impression of a footstep was recognised to be that of a neat boot worn by William Williams. These things soon led to the detec- tion of several of the party. Thus ends the evidence. All the evidence being over, with the counsel's defence, Sir Joseph Yates summed up,-and of the nine prisoners tried, six were found guilty, and three acquitted. Those found guilty, were executed at Hereford soon after. I forget what day, but the judge, in addressing them, said,—" Oh, villains who could in cold blood forcibly enter the sancti- fied refuge of a man for the purpose of murdering him, but there, on --day next you will be as cold as he is now." A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE PARTIES. Of the Six Found Guilty.—.William Spicket and William Morris were, it seems, two respectable tradesmen of the town of Llandovery David Llewelliu and Charles Da via Morgan were farmers; David Morgan was one of the three tinkers William Walter Evan was, I believe, a farmer, re- siding near to Mr. Powell's house, or in some way connected with him, as from this person generally came information of Mr. Powell's whereabouts. He once made his escape, but was soon taken near Cardigan, and brought by night to Carmarthen in a post-chaise, surrounded by a concourse of people, many of whom carried lighted torches. Of the Three Acquitted.— John Spicket, a gentleman's servant, did not seem firm in the purpose at all; came too late to set off from Charles David Morgan's house; his conduct was highly disapproved by William Williams, who, when he met him near to Mr. Powell's house, called him a cowardly dog; and it is probable he took no part in the transaction any more than being a looker on. Wm. Thomas, alias Will Blink," was a bailiff, and had a writ against Mr. Powell, to serve which was his plea; he was afterward. executed at Pen-y-sarn, near Carmarthen, probably for horse-stealing, as you say; William Charles was a lad, sou of Charles David Morgan (I believe), anil was considered a:- acting uuder his father's control; however, it was his youtlo saved him. I understand that this man, many years after destroyed himself at Bridgend, when accused by Mr. Powell'^ illegitimate daughter (who resided thereabouts) of having murdered her father. She accidentally saw liim-accuseti him of having been a party to the murder of her father-an(j soon afterwards he put an end to his life by jumping off k. rock into the river O.,more, near Old Castle, Bridgend. Of the King's evidence Waiter Evans, alias Wat the Tinker, —This man was a stranger, seems to have been introduced by Dai Lucy to William Williams, who, after receiving an- swers to several questions, had the same opinion of him as King John had of the assassin when he whispered— at This is the man should do the bloody deed," Of tho8e who absconded.—William Williams was a shop- keeper, in the town of Llandovery and from a description of the impression of his foot in the snow we may judce him to have been rather a small man; and from a history of his conduct, to have been very coura^-eius. It is astonishing how he could have escaped the close pursuit made after him in several counties; but it is said he had sincere friends among his pursuers, and who happened to overtake him when he fell quite exhausted by a hedge. The story goes that they told him Lie still," and they covered him with light rubbish, which was at hand, such as cabbage leaves -left him there concealed, and he, by the morning, had escaped in disguised apparel. His friendly pursuers lost no time in returning to others more faithful in the chase -gave them a wronji scent-so led them into another di- rection, by which Williams escaped altogether. Report says he kftjit school many years in France, and that he died some thirty yfears ago. Morgan Jaine,. a pedlar and tinker, also John Isaac, were never heard of afterwards. Air. Powell was a wealthy gentleman residing at Glan- areth, as stated; but, unfortunately, appears to have been very unbeloved in the neighbourhood. Many anecdotes tend to show this; but I shall select one that I read in a magazine printed soon after the murder, which is, that a popular countiy preacher between Carmarthen and Llan- dilo, in addressing his large congregation, made Mr. Powell the subjs-ct of Ins discourse, and selected for his text these remarkable words—" And the Lord set a mark upon Cain." In the discourse he referred to a very unhappy circumstance that occurred at Glanareth during the life of Mr. Powed's father. Mr. Powell was an athletic man for when Wm. Williams entered the room, and made up boldly, Powell floored him as Goliah would a pigmy. Williams cried out,- Help, fiiends, h.-ip! Powell was theu despatched like Ciesar at the senate hOll" Whatever nii--ht have been the faults of Mr. Powell, he met with a cruel death. "An 1 grievously hath Caeiar answer'd it." „ Margaret Jones, Mr. Powell's servant or housekeeper, together with John Jones, his nephew, went over to Gla- morganshiie, were mirried at Tythegstou Church ;—after- wards for the remainder of their lives, they resided at a farm near Bridgend. Some of their children or grand- children reside in the neighbourhood still. I think I have given you the spirit of the case, Nothing extenuating, nor setting down aught in malice." Whatever of the whole you may insert is much at your service. X. 11th Sept, 1848. To the Editor of the Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian. Merihyr, Sept. 5, 1848. SIR,—I am induced to trouble you with a few remarks respecting a sunject which at present excites considerable attention in this towu. The readers of the GUARDIAN are arfare of the remarks that were made by your Merthyr Reporter on a lecture delivered some time since by Mr. Lomax in Merthyr. Va- doubtedly some of the remarks were quite uncalled for; but some of the friends thought it the best course to let everything pass without notice; others, who were more enthusiastic, thought that the talents of our hero should not be doubted, and that they should pour their vengeance on the head of the wretch who dared to do so. But, how- ever, the storm passed for the time, save a puff of smoke which now and then escaped from the crater of our Father," anJ which every one enjoyed because it was more amusing than dingerous. But as time is the bearer of all things, it brought Mr. Lomax to Merthyr the second time; ajid the abstainers and many others of the inhabitants remember well the lengthy comments of that gentleman, to the satisfaction of many of his friends, and the disapprobation of others who came to hear a lecture and not comments upon a by-gone meeting. He complained that it was out of the province of a reporter to give his own opinions relative to the lecture, and not the lecture itself. I agree with him but perhaps he is not aware that some silly officious individuals requested your reporter to write an eulogistic critique upon it; and he fancying from this that Air. Lomax's popularity was due to pulling, determined to give his own opinion line an io fe- pendent Briton, in preference to being the mouthpiece of any one else. What right, therefore, has Mr. Lomax to complain ? Another thing; the lecturer attemi,teil to show that the critic was incousiftent in stating that he was "an effective speaker," while denying him the higher re- quisites of oratory." The confusion of ideas seems to rest with Mr. Looms; for a clown or mountebank, or a strolling player, may produce effect upon their hearers, but scarcely be placed in the same rank with a Brougham, a Sheridan, or a Burke. I have no wish to depreciate Mr. Lomax. I take him for all he is worth, and can assure him I would never put a pen on paper if it were not for some of his remarks this week. when 1 fear he thought that he wa* addressing, not an intellectual assembly, but the low-life vi"itors of the China" tap-rooms, or he would not have condescended to make use of such low personal language relative to our townsman, Mr. Stephens.; Mr. Stephens, I dare say, rates the abuse at what it was worth; but Mr. Lomax has no tight to degrade tee-totallism in public esc- alation in order to gratify his individual spleen. Such lan- guage as "Mr. Stephens has not a mind for criticism"— Mr. Stephens has not a fibre of a faculty"-and more of the same sort, should never have issued from the lips of a temperance advocate. Many tee-totallers were disgusted and to uider that lie has done more to injure the cause than he has done to -erve it. or can yet render. With respect to Mr. Stephens' talents and character, I can assure Mr. Lomax that they are as highly thought of in Merthyr, as he is in Manchester. Mr. Stephens' contributions to the pros of the principality, the many essays he has written in further- 11,1 c, of the cause of progress, his exertions to establish the AJer: byr Library, and the many prizes he has received as rewarJB for his genius, are sufficient to settle this matter. But to return to the offensive report. Mr. Lomas told his hearers at Pontmorlais on Monday evening that very likely many would be complaining of what he had said in that meeting; but that was the best proof of the truth of what he had saill-it was because it was true that it caused uneasiness." I like the argument; but it cuts both ways. There was undoubtedly some, if not much, truth in the critique upon Mr. Lt-rnar. It is the truth of it that makes him feel so sore; and if the truth is to be measured by its effect upon him, there was much truth in it. He said he invited criticism. I do not believe it, unless the critic beforehand allows Mr. Lomax to guide his pen he likes to be criticised gently-provided the critique sounds his praise. But this Mr. Lomax, nor any one else, ought to expect; and whatever other fault your reporter has, he is honest at least. Another thing, and this for his private ear. It is a source of regret to me, and other members of the Temperance Society, that Mr. Lomax^ should have allowed himself to be made a tool in another's hand—to become another man's bully. If he did not see this before, he ought to have learned that such was the case, from the indecent eagerness to applaud shown by a certain personage at his elbow on Monday. The mainspring of all the clamour against your reporter, is the feeiing indicated by the adage Two of a trade can never agree;" but to their shame be it spoken, a temperance lecturer makes himself the mouthpiece of another man's malignity, and large numbers of the English Temperance Society applaud him in his wrong-doing. Let Mr. Lomax take a hint given for his benefit. The next time he comes here I trust that he will remem- ber that the tee-totallers are not a tap-room audience and that they do not relish vituperations and personalities about their respectable neighbours; but that, hn the contrary, they have not been inside of taverns for many years—in fact, they are gentlemen in humble circumstances. I do not approve of all your reporter'.wrote; but Mr. Lomax should bear in mind that his opponent has through- out kept his temper, and written in calm, dignified, aod gentlemanly language. In the meantime, it should be known that too much ado has beeu kicked up about no- thing." I am. Sir, yours respectfully, A TEE-TOTALLEIi OF TEN YEARS* STANDING. P.S.—I am prepared to give my name to any man who has a right to require it.
ODD FELLOWS' PROTECTION BILL.
ODD FELLOWS' PROTECTION BILL. The Odd Fellows have received copies of a Parlia- mentary bill for "Protection from Fraud." As this bill materially effects the interests of a very numerous body, we subjoin a copy of it, as amended by the Select Com- mittee. It is entituled— An Act for the more effectual Protection from Fraud and Misapproriation of the Funds of a certain Charitable, Philanthropic, and Provident Association, known by the name of the Independent Order of Odd Felloes. L—Whereas large and increasing numbers of the working classes have, for some time past, associated themselves to- gether its an Association known hy the name of the Indepen- dent Order of Odd Fellows, for the purpose of making pro- vision for themselves and families by contributions, subscriptions, and otherwise against sickness, misfortune, and death, and for the relief of the widows and orphan children of deceased members; and whereas the accumula- non fun,is of that Association (owing to the absence of legal protection) have been subjected to great and serious losses, frauds, and defalcations; and whereas the present rate ot contiibutions of the saLi Society is too low to enable it to fulfil ultiuiatelyall its engagements; and it is expedient to afford protection to the said Society, and the funds thereof, for a certain time, andwnt il the said before-mentioned Society, or the Lodges thereof, by raising the rates of contribution, can be certified under the Provisions of the Friendly Society's Acts; and whereas there is reason to believe; that tbe same may be done within the space of three years; and whereas it is highly expedient to encourage habits of providence and forethought amongst the industrious classes-May it, therefore please your Majesty that it may be enacted, and it is hereby enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, and by and with the advice and consent of the I.ords Spiritual and Tem- poral, and the Commons in tbe present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that all the provisions of the Act now in force relative to Friendly Societies, so far as the same or any part thereof may be applicable to the pur« poses of the Order of Odd Fellows or Lodges thereof, shall extend aud apply, aj j,ereinafier-mentioned, to the 3aid Order of Odd Fellows or Lodges thereof, in such and the same manner as if the provisions of the said Acts had been herein expressly re-enacted. 2.-And be it enacted that the said Order of Odd Fellows and all Lodges thereof established prior to the 1st day of July, UHö, that! be entitled to the protection, privileges, and benefits of the said Acts on their rules being duly certified and deposited as directed by the said Acts relating to Friendly Societies; but no such Society or Lodge thereof shall be eu. tilled to the benefits of the said Act until the rules thereof shall have been so certified and deposited, accompanied by a declaration in such a form as the Registrar of Friendly Soci- eties shall approve of that the said Society or Lodge lliereol bad been so established as aforesaid, and that no secret sigu or passwords will be hereafter used in the said Society or Lodge thereof, and that no lectures will be thereinafter cir- culated by the said Society, to be read at the meetings of any of the Lodges thereof, aud that the practice of funeral ora- tions after the reading of the burial service will be discon- tinued and no such iioinety or Lodge thereof shall be other- wise than as aforesaid required to alter in any manner the rules under which such Society or Lodge is now governed, provided that the said rules be found not to coutaiu any matter or thing direc!ea to the furtherance of any object other than that for which Friendly Societies may now be established. 3-Aud be it enacted that this Act sball continue in force for the space of three years from the passing thereof. .t.-And be it enacted that this Act shall be deemed a public Act, and be judicially taken notice of as such by all judges, Justices, aud others whatsoever, without the same being specially shown or pleaded. 5.—And be it enacted that this Act sball not extend to Ireland. 6.-And be it enacted that this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed daring this session of Parliament."
GENERAL MISCELLANY.
GENERAL MISCELLANY. A woman at Blackburn became last week so excited by passion, that she fell down in a tit aud expired. Mr. Easam, of Sutton-upon-Trent, has found that mustard sown amongst wheat is an effectual cure for the wire worm. Mr. Joseph Hume, M.P., is the son of a fisherman, of Ferryden, near Montrose, and when a boy often la- boured at the oar to earn a livelihood. THE CHARTISTS. —These would-be revolutionists have to cooled down, that government have given directions that the metropolitan police should for the present be de- prived of their cutlasses. CURIOUS, IF TRUE.—It is a curious fact that nearly all the bitths in the animal world (at least in England) this year, are of the male gender. The registrar's return shows a majority of men-children, in most districts and amongst the cattle, sheep, &c., the farmers say there is little but male produce. AS a lady was playing on a piano in Roxbury, a canary bird struck up and sang very loud, as if inspired by the lad) 's music. The bird sang with such zeal and force as to split its windpipe from top to bottom, aud immediately died. COUNTY COUKTS.—In a discussion which took place in the House of Lords, the Lord Chancellor incidentally expressed his hope that before long a plan would be adopted by which the fees in the county courts would be reduced one half. It is reported that lord John Russell, in conjunction with the Archbishop of Canterbury, intends to issue a commission to certain parties to revise the Liturgy, and particularly the Baptismal Services. It is said that Lord G. Beiitin k is about to pay a visit to Ireland, partly to recruit his health at the mansion of the Marquess of Downshite, and partly to inquire into the state of the country. The Brightun Herald mentions the death of Couchman, the prophet of Pluckey, who pretended to a miraculous gift of healing, and some, of whose besotted disciples be- lieve that he will shortly rise again from the dead. LITTLE RISSINGTON.—Last week, a labourer named Wiehinau, fell from a wheat stack while thrashing, and received such severe injuries that he died in a few days. SUDDEN DEATH.—At Mordiford, on Thursday week, Mr. James Gadsall, who was in his 80th year, while em- ployed in his garden, was suddeuly seized with a fit of apoplexy, which terminated his existence in half an hour. TENBY.—A brigantine, with mainsail in the water, and foresail brailed up, was seen near Lundy last week, and a heavy squall having come on, she disappeared, and is supposed to have foundered. PREDICTIONS.—An odd pamphlet, just issued, called the "Prophecy of Onal," says the following has long been current in Germany:—I would not he a king in 18J8; I would not be a grave digger in 1850; But I would be whatever you please in 1851. CURIOSITIES OF MEDICAL EXPERIENCE. — House- Surgeon: "Alt, by the way, there's Higgins's case; there has been a slight mistake, it was the sound leg we cut off! Visitiug-Surgeon: It's uf no consequence, we can cure the other—so it comes to the same thing The Edinburgh newspaper obituary mentions the death of Mr. David Buchanan, fUI" more than twenty years editor of the Edinburgh Evening Courant, and an able writer on politics, statistics, and geography in that long- established journal, and other popular publications. On Sunday week, the remains of a Prussian dwarf, sixty-five years of age, and exactly three feet long iu his coffin, were interred in the ltoman Catholic burial- ground, Oldham, in the the presence of an immense con- course of spectators. The widow, who attended the funeral, is only four feet high. KSCAPE FROM GAOL.—On the night of the 30th ult., a young man named Alexander Ford, escaped from gaol at Hereford. The prisoner, who described himself as a medical student, and lately carried on business at Swan- sea as a chemist, was committed for trial on a charge of obtaining money under false pretences. Government have ordered an indictment for man- slaughter to be preferred against Fogg, the manager of the Bruuswick Mill, Preston, who is charged with mak- ing such an experiment upon a boiler under his care as to cause an explosion, whereby seveial lives were aacri ficed. The inhabitants of Preston, dissatisfied with the verdict of the coroner's jury, forwarded the evidence to Sir G. Grey, and this determination is the result. CAUTION TO PERSONS EATING PLUM PIE.—Ou Thurs- day night, a female named Brattan, residing in Lower Uuion-stteet, Hull, whilst partaking of some plum pie, for supper, incautiously swallowed the plum-stone, and in its passage to the stomach lodged itself in the throat, and remained there so firm as to baflle all attempts to remove it, and, to all appearance, very serious results were likely to ensue, so that it became highly necessary to have recourse to medical aid; and Mr. Beckett being applied to, was speedily in attendance, and immediatel) administered an emetic, which we are happy to say had the desired effect.—Harrogate Herald. THE "EVANGELICAL ALHANce." HUMBUG.—A cor- respondent of the British Banner complains that at a recent meeting of the Evangelical Alliance held at Step- ney, the secretary read the Alliance creed," which re- cognises as Christians, "Advowson dealers and Arch robbers," while it pronounced the Mrs. Frysand J. J. Gurneys of the empire to be castaways." The com- plainant having risen to ask if such were not the fact, was shouted and hissed down "in a manner," he says, that would have disgraced a play-house," and by which he felt the more aggrieved, because this uproar lollowed after a descant upon love and union, for three hours, by various ministers."—Standard. How THEY BUILD IN NEW YORK. —There was once a gentleman who, having moved into a house in Hudson street, tilted his chair backward against the front wall after dinner, as all Americans do, to enjoy his cigar. The diniug-rooin was on the second floor. The wall gave way behind him, and he was spilled into the street. He was an alderman, and, luckily, pitched upon his head —Or, perhaps, he might have been hurt. He had two hours' headache as it was. When he sought damages in the Court of Common Pleas he was nonsuited, on the ground that, living in a house in New York, he must have been aware of the peril,—and was not entitled to compensation for harm of his wilful or careless seeking. A washerwoman in Canal-street, going to drive a nail into the brick wall of the next house, thereto to attach her clothes-line, struck the iron through the skull of the tenant, who happened to be taking his afternoon nap in the posture of the sufferer of the preceding story, and killed him as dead as Sisera.—Boston Herald, THE NEW BEER ACT.—IMPORTANT CAUTION.—Wil- liam Burke, the proprietor of a beer-shop in Rosemary- lane (now dignified by the name of Royal Mint-street), Loudon, appeared before Mr. Ballantine, charged under the new act, the 11th and 12th Yie., cap. 49, with selling saud and other articles last Sunday morning. The act expressly prohibits all persons who sell beer by retail, eilher to be drunk on or off the premises, from selling any other articles between the hours of twelve o'clock on Saturday night and one o'clock on Sunday afternoon in the metropolis, and until half-past twelve 011 Sunday in the country. Inspector Ellis, of the H division, cau- tioned the defeudaut and other beer sellers, at 9 o'clock on Sunday morning; but at eleven o'clock the prisoner had his shop open, not for the sale of beer, but for the sale of brick-dust, grocery, and other articles and he was observed to dispose of a halfpennyworth of sand, the sand" not being refreshment for travellers," some mus- tard and some tea. The defendant said he was ignorant of the law, and that the inspector ought to have cautioned him on Saturday night. Mr. Ballantine said the defend- ant was cautioned, and the new law was so universally made public in the newspapers that every beer-seller must be acquainted with it. Retailers of beer, both in town and country, generally carried on a double business, and under the pretence of selling chandlery and vegeta- bles, sold beer and all on the Sabbath before one o'clock, and it was the design of the new law to put an end to that state of things. The law did not require any notice to be given. As this was the first offence brought under his notice, he should fine the defendant Is. and costs only; but a repetition of it would cause the defendant to be fined £5. He hoped this conviction would be made public, that beer sellers and licensed victuallers who car- ried on two trades or more in their houses, might be enabled to steer clear of a violation of the law. Several similar cases were disposed of in like manner. THE FRUIT OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION has been a military despotism. Seven months have now passed; and still order has not been restored. For peace such as that which now exists, is not order. An army surrounds the National Assembly, to defend the representatives of the people from the people. The streets are occupied by regiments en bivouac on the pavement; whole divisions are encamped on the Boulevards, in the church yards, and in the Places. The people of Paris are peaceable simply because they are overpowered. The French are now as ready to overthrow the Republic as they were to root up the monarchy. I declare," exclaims General Cavaignac, "that it would be dangerous to the Republic, to the Constitution, and to the country, to raise the state of siege, while the Assembly discusses the Constitution." And why is it dangerous1 It would not be dangerous if the Constitution and the Republic were the choice of the country. It can only be dangerous supposing the Republic is imposed on the people because they have fallen beneath the sway of democracy. If the danger springs from the Red Republicans, that part of the nation are unfit to govern—and all are governors under a" Re. public. If the danger lies elsewhere, it is clear that the Republic is not desired by an integral part of the people, who, as they can inspire fear, must possess strength. Why, then, we ask, would it be dangerous to raise the state of sieged Because the Republic is the act of the minority. It is not merely the Red Republicans who are dangerous. Thousands of Frenchmen, who bent to the storm, are ready to take arms for a restoration of the past things. Thousands, too, who embarked in the cause while it promised prosperity, desire to retrace their steps, now that it has brought the nation to ruin. Empty shops, deserted hotels, ships rotting in port, un- saleable merchandize, unemployed artizans, have brought the most ardent to their senses. These things have punished both the bourgeosie who betrayed their king, and the artizans who sought his life. The dream of glory has passed and France nnds itself in the grip of poverty. Workmeu are, therefore, willing to take up arms again to bring back the aristocracy that employed them; tradesmen to recover the trade which vanished with the monarchy; and the aristocracy to remove the ban of proscription. True the French still shout Vive /a Repuhlique-it is to conceal the aspirations hidden in their hearts. But one man understands the situatioll- and he is General Cavaignac. He fears the explosion of the hidden mine on which the Republic rests; and hence he is maturing an army for an external war, or to march on Paris in case war should not occur to solve the (Hf- ficulty.—Gluutestershire Chronicle. DR. REYNOLDS, one of the Chartist leaders, has, it is said, successfully eluded all search and shipped for America. A BOLD COACHMAN. — We.mentioned recently that the Niagara Falls had been bridged, and had been crossed by the engineer in a one-horse vehicle. The American papers give the following letter from Mr. Elld, dated the 29th of •July:—" This morning I laid the last p-ank on my fool- bridge on the Canada side, and then drove over and hack again in a buggy. 500 feet ot the bridge was without railing on either side. My horse, though spirited, went along qnietly, touched up occasionally with a whip, just to show him that he was in command and give him courage. On returning, I directed one of the drivers to bring on his team, a two-horse close carriage, weighing over a ton and a half. I took his place on tiie box and drove over and back. The homes went quietly; the flooring is but eight feet wide, 220 feet high, and 762 feet long, and without railing, over such a torrent as you never saw, and never will see anywhere else." — Examiner. THE FINE AnTS AT LAW. h is so rare a case that an artist or other individual of intellectual pursuits escapes from oppression and succeeds against parties ol more worldly turn in any law proceedings, that we have been struck by an instance recorded in the Times of Monday. A sculptor at Manchester, Mr. Clarke, brought an action against his landlord for having illegally, in his absence, seized the studio he renteil from him, and sold the pro- perty it contained, valued at £4:00, for £ S'J, or not quite a sixth part of its worth. In proof of the manner in which the property was sold, it was sworn, we are told, that the bust of John NVesley was put up as that of Vol- taire; Sir Charles Hell as Deal Ilurk^; a cast of Clian- trey was described as the Bafd-headfd chap and one of Ralldelle as the Long-haired show-hoy." An intel- ligent jury returned a* veTdict, that no rent was due, and that the value of the property taken was £275, which en- titles the plaintiff to £;j.jv, being double the amount. THE COMET about which we have all been talking so much has, it seeins, come at last. The wheels of his chariot of lire hive been seen by Dr. Petersen ot Altona, on the verge of our system -driving appropriately to the sign of "The Charioteer"; and Mr. Taylor ot Liverpool has had an interview with the illustrious stranger. The nature of his credentials on the present occasion has not yet transpired; but Air. Taylor reports that he may he seen any evening alter dark, at a respeciful distance, and weather permitting, in the north-east below the north pole, not far from the stars Castor and Pollux, standing towards the star Procyon. The astrologers will, no doubt, have some explanaiion to gi*'e us of all this by-and-bye-and will render a lull and true report of his despatches. The fiery cyphers are for the reading of the adepts alone. Meantime, as it is 291 years since he last visited our sys- tem, lie will see great changes upon the earth. He does not, however, intend, it appears, to take up a near point of view for his observations. The earth aDd the comet," says Mr. Taylor, are now gradually approaching each other, but will not come so near each other as in the year 1201; for the perihelion has this time prescribed the autumnal equinox by a week less than in the year 12G1, when its displ <y was so terrific—' great, bright, and spread- ing a long, broad tail," as described in the auuals ot Colmar. Their nearest approach this time will not be less than 30,000,000 of miles. In the year 1556 the distance 01 the comet from the earth was less than 7,000,000 of miles, the comet being then in its ascending node, whereas it is now about to pass through its descending node, as it did iu the year 1264."—Athenaeum. THE LAW OF BANKRUPTCY.—The new act of Parlia- ment to empower the Commissiimers of the Court of Bankruptcy to order the release of bankrupts from prison in certain cases, which took effect on the 31st ult., has just been printed (11 and 12 Victoria, cap. 8t;). By this act it is provided that where any person has been adjudged bankrupt, and has surrendered to the fiat and obtaiued his protection from arrest pursuant to the practice in Bank- ruptcy, if such person shall be in prison at the time fit "btatningbuch protection, any commissioner acting under such fiat may order his immediate release from prison, eiiher absolutely or upon such condition as such Commis- sioner shall think tit, which release is not to affect the rights of creditors detaining him in prison. The secood clause is an important one:—And be it enacted that if any bankrupt whose last examinati.iii shall have been adjourned sine die, or whose certificate shall have been suspended or retused, shall be in execution, or be taken in execution, uuder a capias ad satisfaciendum at the suit of any creditor who might have proved under the fiat aod detained in prison, any Commissioner acting under his fiat may order his re- lease after he shall have undergone such term of imprison- ment, not exceeding two years, as to such Commissioner may seem a sullicient punishmeut for such offence as he may appear to such Commissioner to have been guilty ot.% ROBBERY OF 2,000 SOVEREIGNS.—Another of those art- fully concocted aud very mysterious robberies which are occasionally brought under the notice of the public has taken plate, the plunder being no less in amount than £2,OOU, It appears that one day last week a strong deal box, about eight inches square, and iron bound, containing 2,000 sovereigns, was sent from the firm of Messrs. Praed and Co., Fleet-street, London, addressed to Tweedy and Co., bankers, Truro, Cornwat) it was forwarded in the first instance to Chaplin and Home's offices, Swan-with- two necks, Lad-lane, to be by them conveyed in the usual course to the Paddington station; on the next morning a box which was sent by the mail train, directed as above, was received at the establishment of Messrs. Tweedy and Co., and on its heing opened it was fouod to contaio nothing more than a quantity of melted pewter and other rnbhisii; it turns out that the said box was of somewhat larger dimensions than the one sent from Praed's, but that the address thereon was a very good imitation of that on tho) original box, for which the other had been in so artful and extraordinary a way substituted. A gentleman from the Truro Bank, accompanied by an officer of police, ar- rived at Paddington late on Thursday night week, when they had an immediate interview with Mr. Saanders, the secretary of the railway company. Mr. Collard, the ac- tive superintendent of the company's police, is, with other officers, upou the alert in order to discover, if possible, the perpetrators of the pluuder. The Cornwall Gazette recounts an interesting surgical operation performed in the Royal Infirmary, under the local use of chloroform, A young man from the parish' of Breage had been suffeiing for seven years from a very painlul tumour in the sole of his left foot. The pain had been gradually increasing with the size of the swelling since December last, so that he could not move a step with- out greatly aggravating his sufferings. An operation being determined 011, folded lint, saturated with chloroform, Was applied to the tumour, over which a piece of oiled ailk was placed to prevent its too rapid evaporation, and a few turns of a roller was made around the foot to retain the lint in contact with the skin. After a quarter uf an hour had elapsed, more chloroform was added to the iint, but the quantity used was rather less than two tea-spoon- fuls; and in about half-an-hour from its first application it was found that the skin, which would not before bear the slightest touch without pain, might now be compressed with impunity. The operation was then proceeded with the patient betraying no sign of suffering; and he after- wards assured the gentlemen present that the only part of the process at which he felt pain was in the deepest part of the incision, but that was so little as to be • not worth talking about.' MODE OF EXTINGUISHING FIRES AT SEA.—Dr. Reid.. of London, in a letter to a metropolitan contemporary, htts made some suggestions for the extinguishing of fires at sea, which would seem to be worthy of attention. Dr. Reid says,—" Flame or combustion cannot go on where there is carbonic acid gas. This is one of theetotaentary prin- ciples of chemistry. The production of carbonic acid gas is completely at our command, for on adding dilute sul- phuric acid to chalk, we can set at liberty, in the space of two or three minutes, enormous volumes of tbe so-called fixed air. The cost of material for a ship of 1,000 tons., would not exceed, at the utmost £ t5 or £ 20 sterling. By uieaos ot tubes proceeding from the upper deck tu con- nection with a cistern containing the dilute sulphuric acid, to the quarters below where there is ino&t likelihood of danger from fire; or moveable hoae (made of gutta percha), which can be introduced into any part of the vessel-the oil of vitriol, previously diluted with water, cau be at once poured uvM the chalk (which is thrown down in the place where the fire rages), and immediately, the carbonic acid b^ing set at liberty, the fire is ex- tinguished for combustion cannot go on in an atmosphere of carboniu acid gas. I have been much occupied expe- rimenting on this subject, and find that from five tons of chalk as much carbonic acid may be obtained as will be sufficient to completely fill a vessel of 1,000 tons burdeu. The expense of laying the tubes will not exceed thirty or lorty pounds, and once laid, there is no further trouble or expense. Lightning conductors are provided for ships— surgeons, also, to take care of the health of the crew— assuredly no expense (and it is but a trifle) would be grudged to secure a ship and its passengers from the con- tingency of such a melancholy mishap all that of fire." FATAL TERMINATION OF AN ELOPEMENT.—An excite- ment of a very extraordinary and painful nature has been occasioned in the parish of St, Luke's, Old-street, by the elopement of Mr. Bacon, the master of the workhouse, and Mrs. Walter, the workhouse school-mistress, both of them married persons with families of young children, aud now known to have been amongst the passeugers on board tbe ill-fated emigrant ship Ocean Monarch. Bacon had obtained leave ot absence for a fortnight upon a plea of urgent private business to settle iu the country and a few days after his departure, Mrs. Walter, the schoolmistress, also obtained leave for a short absence, alleging that she had been sent by her mother, who was dangerously ill in Devonshire. It happeoed rather singularly, however, that soon afterwards her mother arrived, in good health, in London, for the purpose of visiting her, and was astonished to hear of her absence under such circumstances. This led to inquiry, which resulted in the discovery that the missing pair were together, intending to take flight to America, Walter, the husband, who was the workhouse school-master, had no opportunity of observing any of these movements, being a prisoner in the House of Correction, for indecently exposing himself to several respectable females, resident in the neighbourhood of the workhouse. When he was under examination before the magistrate, he received au excellent character for morality and general good couduct from the master of the workhouse, Mr. Bacon, who thus, during the husband's incarceration, made off with his wife! The latter, a genteel and remarkably good-Jooking woman," took with her her youugest child, leaving the rest to her husband or to the parish. The respective relatives have ascertained beyond doubt that the fugitive pair, instead of proceeding to Devonshire, as they had pretended, em- barked as above mentioned on board the Ocean Monarch, and, together with the woman's child, perished, when that ship was destroyed by fire. Mr. Bacon is kuown to have had some previous knowledge of America. He was for- merly a police officer, and a few years back was sent to America in pursuit of a vestry clerk, who bad absconded with a very large amount of the pariah money, and be acceeded in recovering some portion of tbe property. ROYAL ARTILLERY, WOOI WICH, Sept. 9.—An extra reserve battery is in progress of formation, to be com- posed of married men of from 14 to 20 years' service, and the horses when cast in future as unfit for field battery service, instead of being sent to one of the London horse repositories for sale, are to be put in the extra reserve battery, and employed so long as they are capable of do ing work in the Royal Arsenal and the fatigues of the garrison. By this improved arrangement the horses of the regular field batteries will always be avaitable for exercise. The non-commissioned officers of the extra reserve battery will have Is. per day, and the men 9d. per day, in addition to their pay when employed at the Royal Arsenal, or on the fatigue duties of the garrison, which will be a great acquisition to many steady married men who have seen long service. The whole of the newly formed 16 companies mustered yesterday to show their kits to their respective commanding officers. BEWARE OF WIDOWS.—Benjamin Holmes, the keeper of an eating house in Kirkgate, Leeds, who bad been convicted of Bigamy, and had also seduced a young woman, was emboldened to lay siege to a widow, in the character of a farmer from Cookridge. The enterprise prospered for a time, and even the wedding day was fixed; but his wife got an inkling of the affair, and conveyed a j word of warning to his new victim. An invitation to a ¡ cup of tea was then sent to him by a friend of the widow, resident in in Albion-square, which he was only too happy to accept; and accordingly, on Tuesday week, be was bitting in the midat of a fair circle, enjoying himself with "the cup that cheers"—and also "inebriates;" for the tea was lac"rl." The first cup had gone off, aud another was poured out, when uprose the ladies; his artm were pinioned and gas tar having been poured over his head, lie was stuck all over with feathers, and turned into the street, a spectacle for boys and wo- men. Such a mob gathered at the sinner's heels, and hooted and huziaed, that he was fain to throw himself upon the police, and take refuse in the stat on-house.
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FRIDAY'S LONOON GAZKRI'K — BANKRUPTS. James Kmoiins, builder, t'rinces-road. Noting hill Joseph Robinson Towers, innkeeper, High ffolnorn j Abraham Nash, scythe plater, Netherton, Worcestershire William Couch anil John D*vie* Couch, Miliuaker*. Swansea, Glamorganshire Ito^cr Elliott, biiild#r, Plymouth Joseph Bannister, thread manufacturer, LocXw^od, Almond- [> bury. Yorkshire T. Carter & G. Wharton, engineers Ss millwrights, Gainsborough Absalom lliiuiphrcys, boot anti shoe maker, Liverpool Geoige Low, woollen draper, Chesterfield TUESDAY'S 1,0VDOM GAZEM:. — BANKRUPT*. Lawrence Williams Ash, White Liou-stieel, I'emoorille, corn and coal merchant John Uroudson, Wigan, Lancashire, money scriveuer John Dillon. Hereford, ironmonger C. Green, Beckfoid-row, Walwortb-rd., corn St coal merchant Edward Hammond, Kingston, Surrey, oil crusher Thomas Keating, St. Paul's-churchyard, City, druggist John Miller, Oxford-st bookseller I hoiuas Howell, Hartlepool, Durham, merchant William Wallace and Geotge Oorinand, Sunderland, butchers John Ya,es,j-iii Colwicli, Staffordihirr, corn factor
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LO N U 0 N M R K E T S J COIIN KXCHANGB. MONDAY. The supply of wheat this morning by lind-c irria^e stn- ple< from Essex was good th it from Kent was but moderate. Tiie condition of a large po.tion of tiie Essex white wheat was superior to that of last week, which enabled factors to' obtain folly the rates ot Monday list, tuferior run. were heavy sale at that day's (luotation,. In free foreign wheat the transactions were limited to the actual wauts of tilo millers, who bad to pay the ext erne value of last week. Very little business was doue iu bonded or floating cargoes- Barley sold on abnt the same terms a* last week. Tie fresh ariivals of oats have been unimportant it, amount, and the trade ruled dull at previous psic,-s. Heaos and peas were un iltered in value The top price of towu-mide tionf remains oo ninaHy the same as last quoted; but ship and country marks were difficult of disposal, with the turn it* price in favour of the bayer. CUitllUNT r!t[CE3ofGUAIM&FLOUlliu MARK f.AME. S. B. I g. ». Wheat, English wh. 51 61 I Grey Peas 33 3S I Ditto, red 5V 6'J I Old Beans 24 W Rye 32 | Tick Beans. Si Ditto, red 5V 6'J I Old Beans 24 W Rye. :Jl .H | Tick Beans. Si Barley. 29 35 | Oats ^Potatoes) 21 24 Malt -IS 61) I Ditto (Feed) 21 23 White Peas (boilers) 38 42 | Flour 4U 53 SKUDS, Set. Clover, red, 30s. to 35s. white 2Js. to 3dj. per cwt. Kapcsced, £ .'u to per last. Linseed, crushing, 3.):4. to los. sowing J¡)j. to 55s. per qr. Canary seed, 95s. to 10's. per quarter. Mustard, whi'.e, 10s. to 15s.; brown 14s. to 16s. per bu.heL Trefoil, 16:1. to i Is. per cwt.; cow grass, 3Ss. to 63s. C.tkehtneed.peft.<X)0,JEHtoft2. AGCiltlSCxATIS AVfiltAUlS of the Six Weeks which regw.'ate the Dutv. Wheat 51s. 2d. | Barley 30s. Gd. | Oats 21s. 61. I Rye 30s. SJ. lleaa.,4 361. 11 d. I PeLLs 3fis. 5d.
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SMITH FIELD, MONDAY. ) The arrivals of Foreign cattle and sheep into the port of London during the past week have been very large, much more so than for many months past. Tbe reiarn gives 4^9* oxen, 7(/9 cows, 589 calves, making a total of 1,727 cattle, aod> | 16 pigs and 5,830 sheep, together forming 7,573 head. The following statement of the imports of live stock from the Con- tinent iuto England during the present year is taken from an official source, corrected up to last Saturday week Oxen, Cows Sheep 8c t>o Prom Jan. 1 to Sept. 2, 1843. & Calves Lauta ii London 27,191 66,&fc> Si Liverpool 11) ITD Hull 3097 1,306 & Southampton 1,064 43 2: Yarmouth 1,5'20 520 31, Total 33,485 6ü.258 331 The supplies of cattle and sheep to the Smithfield market tbio morning were large,btit iu consequence of the very favourable state of the weather for slaughtering of stock aud the retail trade a very good business was transacted. The supply of beet comprised 4.062 head of beasis in good condition and quality. The demand was good for beef at a rise of 2d per stone. Piiine Scots fetched 41 2d, middling quality 3s lud* and inferior at 3j 6d per stone. The supply of sheep coo-- sisted of about 27,300 head, beiog but a few above the number: of last Monday. A good busiuess was done, and an advance* of 2<1 per stoue was obtaiued for the better qualities. Downs* fetched 5s 2d, and hatf.bredt 4s lOd. Polled sheep went. aoit 4s 4d per 8lbs. The veal trade was good at a rise of 2d. Per stone. The lamb trade was hardly so good, but prices W la- ferior quality were higher than last week. There wu an ex- cellent inquiry for pork in consequence of the cold state of the weather, and an advance of 4d pel stone wasobtaini-U, Large. pork sold firmly at 4s, and small porkers at 4s 10J. pork sold firmly at 4s, and small porkers at 4s 10J. (rer stone ot olb., sinking the oiial.) J Beef 3s. 61, 4s. 2d. I Veal 3s. 10d., 4+.4J. Mutton .4s. 4d^5s. 2d. | Pork .4s, 0d., ♦»- I Lamb 4s. bd«,5s. Od. j Head of Cattle at Market. Beasts.. 4.052 | Calves. 2o» | Sneep 27.340 | Piga 360 HAY and STRAW, per Load of 36 Trmwa Hay, £ 210s. Od. to £ i I0s.0d. | Clover, £ 3 15s. Q>A.M £ 5 5».6d- Straw. £ 1 6s. 0d. to £ 1 10s. Oil. Hay, £ 210s. Od. to 93 I0s.0d. I Cluver, £:j 15s. Q>A.M £ 5 5,. 6J- Straw. £ 1 6s. OJ. to £1 10s. Oil.
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THE METAL TilADK. I jE s.d.Jt:a.d. | LiLex-Bax Wales ..•••••per ton 0 0 0- 5 L; 01 „ Luadon. 612 6— 6 15 tlI Nail rods .«.••• 6 12 O— 7 15 W IIoop(8taf.j, 8 5 0- 8 111 « Sheet „ 9 5 U- 9 101 0 Bars 710 0- & 0 0 Welsh cold-blast foundry pig.. 310 O-.a 0 0 Scotch 2 5 0- 2 ti 0 Kails, average. 0 Q V- Ii 0 0 Chairs U 0 0—4 0 0 Hussiau, COND 0 0 0-17 0 0> „ l'Si t» 0 0— 0 0 0> GourieiT 0 0 0— 0 0 0« .> „ Archangel 0 0 0 -13 0 0, I Swedish, on the spot ■ 10 15 0—11 0 W „ Steel, tasft..». U 0 0—15 0 Ot „ „ kc-j* 0 0 0—13 lit '4 COPPRIL-Tile 0 0 U—7& 0 Tough cake. 0 0 0—I'S 0 Beat selct.;W. 0 0 a-Si m 0 Ordiuary sheets. lb. 0 0 ti— I) 0 it „ UciluoM 0 U th- 0 0 10 YBLLOW MK.TA.a fSttBUTlIINU 0 0 0— 0 0 7J Tis—blocks cwt. a 0 0- 3 13 0 M bars. t> 0 0— 3 14 0 K (Mined 0 0 0— 3 18 (I. Straits. 0 0 0— 3 14 u, < Banca 0 0 0— 4 0 iU TIN PLATBS—Ch., 1C bpx. 1 8 0- 1 1(1 U IX I 11 0- 1 U I Coke, 1C t 5 6 1. 6. „ IX. Ill 6- 1 14' u LEAD-Sheet ton 0 0 0-—0 O Pig, refined 0 0 o a „ COlnIDon. 16 ix Or-ir, io Li, ..Spaniah.mbd. 0 —16 0 O' Red *4 0—18 it) 0, Dry White IJ, <4 0—S3 00. Shot (Patent) Ui T) 0 —la 10 01 SrBLTBU—(Cakt»J.••••••••••••«#. 0 U-14 Ii, to for arrival. fi o 0— 0 0 0 ZING—(Sheet)export.».w».. <20 0 0-21 0 0 QUICKSILYI&K 0 0 0- 0 3 6 REKIXBO METAL.to i 0 0 0- 0 l) 0 ..jar Sa.TURD.uq, SEPTEMBER 16, 1S48. Published by the sole Proprietor, HaNBY VVBBBEB, at his residence Charles-street, in the Parish of Saint John the Baptist, in the Town of Cardiff and County ot ulamorgwi, and Priuted by him at his General I nntiag 0; £ ee in Duke-aireet, La the said Parish ot ■> oaiut Joho, iu the To\vu and County aforesaid. Adverttsemeuts and Orders received by the following.' Agents London Messrs. Baorkwr & White, 33, Fleet-st. Messw* S^&wton & Co., 5, Warwick-square Mr. U. Heynallo, 42, Chancery-laaue Mr. Deacon, 3, Walbrook, near iiii f Alansiou-houae; Mr. Joseph Thomas, 1, Finch-teim* Cornhill; Mou Hammond, 27, Lombard-street; 34** C. Barkec, 12, Birchin-lane W. Dawson and S&u, 74, Caiiuoti-street, City; Messrs. S. and E. JL JKyre, 19, l}/ouverie-3treet, Fleet-street; Mr. W. Thomas, 2L, Catherine-street, Strand. LOCAL AGENTS:- ABERDARE Mr. Thos. Evana^ St&oohinaster ABEKAVON Mr. Thomas Jouea, Ironmonger BRECON Mr. John Evans, Clerk o^ Peace Oliice; I BRIDGEND Mr. W. iLeyshtm, Atamp oflice-, CRICKHOWELL Mr. Ttwa* Williams, Bookseller MEKTHYR MV H.. W» \hite, Stationer' NEWBRIDGE J45.. C.. BasAett, Chemist, &c. NEWPORT..Mr. M. Evaja?,, Staliojuw^ and Mr. W.1, Kelly, SMsatipujec NEATII %I r. W. p. RReeeess SWANSEA E. Grtiffiluis, Printer, High-street TAtBACH. Mr. Japwss, Bird, CWln Avon Works And by all postmasters a .od Clerks on the Road 'J.'bu paper is regujar.lv filed in London at Lloyd's Ij Qo^ee-house, City p -Ve'al'ii Coffee-liouse, Fieet.ttreet. JI "T he Chapter Coffec>»ljouae. g(, .Paul'?-—rif*cop'i otfee-hpute, Walbrook* j