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POET RY. GOD SAYE THE CHURCH. nod save the Church, and save the Quecn Mitre and Throne have ever been To weal amI wue alike related, Hy truth revered and treasun hated, God save the Church !-be thi., our cry Huth while we live and wheu we die l-'or, rail her,fuc.men as they win" The Church IS England's glor) still '■ THE REV, R. MONTGOMERY. THE N E AV YEAR. Unsfained and crimeless smiles the infant year, By strains inspiring ushered unto earth, And as the silv'ry sounds approach more near. Man yields to Joy, and to her sister Mirth A hearty welcome, while bright Hope appears, And glittering gilds the Future's happy years. The npw year wears [air Fancy's flattering wreath, Her freshest flowers are o'er the Future cast; But time must come, and then his fatal breath Will blight their beauty like a northern blast: The brightest lJlussoms fading first away, Though prized ami cherished, still they will ùecay. But ever welcome will the new year be, For like a dream it brings back childhood's days, AYhen every impulse of the heut was free, Fond memory lingering each loved scene displays, That OLce shone brightly, wheu its birth was near, And Love and Lauohter chased the childish tear.
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LITERARY VARIETIES. TH3 KXTERNXIR. ASSOCIATIONS OF THE CHURCH IMPRESSIVE AND USEFUL.— Even the simpler customs of ber communion Lave not been destitute of instances of impressive usefulness. Her burial bell has often waked its solemn echo in that careless conscience that would not be persuaùed though one rose from lhe dead." Her chimes have melted, like a gush of tears, the hard heart of that man whom they reminded of days gone by- 0)1 his mother, with her old clasped prayer-book wrapt in the -white Sunday handkerchief, ready, like its owner, to obey the sacred summons. Her grey old tower, Ï1l the clefts of whose crumbling stones grow the sweet flowers that bloom in their season, as if angels planted them up there so high, and none hut the dews of heaven reared, or seemed to care for them, i'retty emblems of the godly ones, who seek in the Towers of Zion their retreat anù dwelling-place above the world! Her ivied porch, whose dark evergreen would. have been dull on any other walls, but here had a sombre beauty of its own, because in keeping with the shadowy associations of the spot, excluding the bold mid-day that glared with a too irreverent glitter fur the h,. use of God, suggested otber evergreens, whose leaf shall not wither, a01 gruves of loveliness, in whose high places flocks of cherubims alight with glory on their wings. And yonder antique dock, that iike the face of time watched, with unslumbering eye, the ileeting bours, and told aloud tbeir numuers as they passed, does it tongue no moral to the old and young, tbat they Lke the late and early hours must pass away-some at the day- da.wn, lome at noon, and some at dead of night, auù all of them when, death-like, 11 grave clock strikes their time. The very weather-vane, with its shifting cardina.ls-the initials of the world-lrem b!ing and yielding (0 every breeze that blows, and contrasting its instability with the fixed spire it stands Oll that llPver noints to anywhere but he-t'-en, acts like an index of the wavering world whose Oracle it is. and ia its uncertainty and incessant windings tu and/ro may be apt to l:irn tbe thollZhtful heart at last to onc "willl whom is 110 variableness neither shadow of turning." The scattered tombstones of challcelled vaults, that seemed to carry to the grave the cold reserve of tirSt would lay apart from its fellows even in the dust, aor defile its haughty boues by contact with any peasant skele- ton. IJ therc no lesso11 to be gathered from the analogy of the dead population with the living? That both have their average of sex, and age, and station, in the sepulchre, as in the city, so that any one of the latter may at any time become a citizen of the former, invested with the freedom of the grave, the immu- nities and privileges of death. These are as the outer hiero- glyphics of the Church—tho material legible parables, whose voiceless ministries symbolise to man. Then shall the dllst return to the earth as'it was, but the spirit shall return to God who gave itfor they are not there who once were here; their dust is there, but man was not dust alone; that has returued like water to its native level, but the nobler part, the soul, has risen, like an extinguished (jre, to its source beyond the skies. i— The Reo, J, B. Owen's Lecture 01' the Liturgy. A DEFINITION IN POLITICAL ECONOMY. Will you never Searu, my dear, the difference between real and exchangeable value 1" The question was put to a husband who had been lucky enough to be tied to a political economist in petticoats. Oh yes, LlY dear, I thil,k I begin to see il." Indeed!" re- sponùed the lady. "Yes," replicated the husbaud. "For instance, my dear, I know your deep learning, and all your other virtues. That's your real value. But I know also, that none of my married frieuds would swap wives with me. That's your exchangeable value." SIMPLE :\1 ¡;SIC. -Simple compositions have at all times ope- rated more powerfully upon individuals anù people than compli- cated scientIfic compositions; and, therefore, it can be 110thing uut idle speculation to pretend that, in modern times. music hath either no longer that wonderful power which it had among the ancients, or that their music was theu in its infancy, com- pared with the more harmonious and the more scientitir develop- ment of ours. Tile power of music is still undimiui5hed, its application to the youth, aud to the people, has only to be learnt. As simple music, then, produces the greatest effect, why should nut every one (jnd an opportunity to learu it ? In order tu make tiio instruction ill this art a really moral instruction, a powerful agent in the advancement anl l'rugress of individuals and na- tions, let us associate the simplest music with the best aud uublest lines of poetical composition. Let us, with songs and poetry, with iessuns of luft), tllUught and practical truth, store the memory of the young. What we are taught to sing, we :.PH! lorget. Tne songs which we learnt ill our) outh. are the s .vet:test and rùJst lasting recoilections of man. — Music and Education, by Ur. Mainztr. TUE OPIUM-EATING OF THE PooR.-And '10 day by ùay, nearer :0.11<1 rer, came the diseased thoughts of John Barton. They excluded the light of heaven, the cheering sounds of earth. They were preparing his death. It is true, much of their morbid power might be ascribed to the use of opium, But before you blame tuo harshly this use, or rather abuse. try a hopeless life. wish daily cravings of the body for fuud. Try, 11ut alone being without bope yourself, but seeing all around you reduced to the same despair, arising from the same circumstances; all around ou telling (d.:1ugh they use no words or language), b): th,eir looks and feeble a.t!tlons, that ther are sutlenng and sinking unúer the pressure of want. Would you not be glad to forget iu'e and its burdens ? Auù opium gives forgetfulness for a time, 1t IS trl4e they who thus purchase it pay dearly for their oblivion; but who can expact the uneducated to count the cost uf their whistle Poor wretches, They pay a heavy price, Days of oppressive weariness and langour, whose realities have the fee- ble sick/int s; of dreams nights, whose dreams are fierce n'al- ilies of agony sinking health, tottering frames, incipient 1U:ldness, and worsp, the consciousness of inciriient madness; thls is the priee of their whistle. But have lOU taught them the science of CO!lst'qllences 1-i.Uary Barton: a Tixle of Man- chester Life, DIABOLICAL REYE:GS.-C.VTIO:-i TO TRAVELLING LADIES.- A spinster laùy. applying for her passport, anù disposed to be facetious, remarks aloud to her companion, that the functionary 1;e1'ore them reminùed her of the apothecary in "Homeo and J utiet." This observation, if apt, is in this respect inopportune, trlat it is perfectly unuerstood by the employe, who not only lias stuùied tbe English language, but being a zealous partisan of the romalltic (as distinguished from the classic) drama, is deeply read in Sliakspere, aud feels in no wowise flattered by the com- parison that has been instituted. But the means of retnlJution are iu his haLd!, ill the shape uf a pen and a printed form. which, after poiiie enquiries as tu the lady's name, age, destination, &c., he proceeds to fill up until he comes to the signalemer.t, or personal description,—often cunsiderately left in blank ill a female's pas spurt. Here, in eharaders as dark as Guyot's encre de La vetite vertu" could make them, he inscribes his n-veuge. 'l'o the hurror of the lady who had been satirical on the outraged employe, she found wheu the document was handed tù her, that he hau thus depicted her Hair, false forehead, luw, eyebrows, dyed eyes, smaJI, greenish; nose, flat (neze- jiate) and complexion tanned (teint basane) Her which had been set down as she had given it, at thirty-five years, was elccompameJ by the remark, "looks lilty-three." And, worse than ali, this libel, which the victim was bound herself to exhibit throughout France-like all libels (at least according to the view taken by the HriLish law in these matters) -was heightened 111 malignity by tbe fact that its truth was undeniah!p.-Sketche¡¡ if France and England. AN OLD ENGLISH INN —The ♦' White Hart," of Farningham, was a neat little country lun, such as was commonly found in tnost uf the small towns of England at the period of m). tale. They are raptdly being brusHed otI the face of earth by the great broom of the steam-engine, and very soon the pleasures uf an inn will he known no longer bnt by the records of history, while men run rvund the world at the ute at a hundred miles an hour, Jiuding nuthing in their way bnt 5tatiuns and" hotels." 1 hate lhe very name hotel. It is un-English, uncomfortable, unsa- tisfactory. Au inn, in the days 1 speak of, was a place famous for white linen, boiled ham, and fresh eggs. 1 cannot say that the beef-steaks were always teuder, or the veal cutlets dune to a turn. or the beds alwa) s the softest i:1 the worlù. but then think of the white dimity curtains, and the casements that rattled just enough tu let ;uu know that it was blowing hard without, anJ the rosy. apple-faced chambermaid, anù the host himself ruund as his own outts-ay, awl as full of beer. An innkeeper of those days WDUU have been ashamed to show hilnself under nineteen stone. lIe was a part of his own sign, the recom- lUendatÙm ur his o'.vu ale His very paunch seemed to say, Look what it has June for me." It entered into his Jat, It flowed through Ins veins, it putfed out his cheeks, it ran out of his eyes, anù malt and hops were heard ilt ever). accent of his tongue. Y ou haù lW lean, wizen faceù, black silk stuckinged inn- keepers ia those t!"J s, and the very aspiring waiters imitated their landloids, aaÜ hourly grew fat under tbe eye, that they might be in a tit conditiun tù marry the widow, aml take the business wuen the "puor dear ¡;entlema.n" was swallowed up in his Beaiict.amp. t THE MODEL OF L'LIM \Ti':S. —Viewed as regards health, or th mere pleasure uf existence, Tampa is the model of all climates- '1: rainy season occurs during Hie hutteH munths ùf the year — June, J,;ly, Augu-;t, anI September—and is so constant, aud tile lain commences so generally in the afternoon (the hottest part of the day j, thai the heelt is reudeied very tolerable. The proportion of tair aays is very great; there ae nut prubably twenty 10 the year ia which the sky, Juring all the dolY, is wholly overcast. Tile morning wdl open as brightly ai if the sun had never cast a shadow; towards noon, imm<-Hie misses of c ouds, w lute, huge, a.id builoon-shaped, accumulate irJ. the soutlwest, the sun S'I1/ shining in all IllS p0iver but by three 0 clock tile sky IS nearly ail overcast, anJ sll.;ht showers Jail, or a torrent of rIm cumes down at ullce; tue heavens then clear up again —the mtense light ot a warm climate is again poured forth on the earth, and the day Closes as brightly as It was ushered iu. Tills is the history ot one-third 0r Uie year, during the remainder ram se.dom iails and if there U a prairie a-fire to windward, you nUl thluk ¡mIudlaa summer has sd foot in Florida, su exact y save IU the haziness uf the AT,NOII>HERE, does the we.1ther rL"h;!n¡¡¡le that pleasant season in the nortti. But the nights are I::JOI IU spn,'g, ,anJ autumn; ami in Suu11Uèr nut wanner profuse torrents will Wl fn ^f^e inches o run sometimes tailing in little more than t^Vhours Ihe continuous rams so common in the north coveriu h^h animal aim vegetable creation with gloom, are'unknown Vet ad till: iavour ol blr S',les aud delightful climate is negatived by lllL musquuoes. in the interior a pestile ,t accumulation of vapours hovers around you, .unknown by sight or touch but preying ou you by a continued fever-here your tormentors are xaugible, anu with youi b.ood pump from )'01\ all the small stock oi good-nature yuu b" ve retained fur extraordinary occasions trom > our lormer miseries At place, where there are compa- ratively no musquitoes, their bites are troublesome only at night but wherever they may be said to abound, all hours are the same to them" from night to Inorn, from morn to dewy- eve, slttmg or reclining, ill [lght or darkness, in black or white m breeze or calm, nearer aud nearer still, until fairy footsteps are imprinted on your cheek, do you hear that 4aUest of sounds, The Paradise of Florida^ °
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CORRESPONDENCE. NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN. To the Editor of the Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian. «;lnj—Turnpike-gate riots, almost in every respect similar to the Rebecca riots, took place in Bristol and it vicinity in July and August 1749 Colliers from Kingswood, country people from Gloucestershire and Somersetshire, assembled, many naked with their faces blacked, and destroyed the gates at Bedminster, Ashton, Don John's Cros,, Dundry, Backwell, Nailsca, Redclifle, Totterdown, Teasford and Bath lioads, Hanham, Kingswnod, Stoke's Croft, &c., &c. They called themselves Jack-a-Lents, and had the letters J. L. on their hats and caps. They destroyed some houses, and were only stopped by the arrival of six troaps of Dragoon Guards, when the principal rinKleaders Derrick, Cox, Robert Price, Walter Fitzharding, Pierce Robins, and others, were apprehended, and sent off in postchaUes with armed escorts to Ilchester gaol.* From my old files. A PARMER. A letter wis drawn up by the citizens of Bristol to the Duke of Newcastle, Secretary of State, requesting his Grace to order the speedy trials of the several prisoners in the several gaols of the city for the same offence. —————<-————— PRICE OF SHOES. To the Editor of the Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian. SIR,—Several students of your neighbourhood have lately been engaged in answering aritlimetic.il questions. I wish that either of these, or some other person would solve the following enigmaAbout thirty years ago bar!: was worth £12 a ton at the port of Cardiff (it had been a little before as high as £14) hides were then varying from 4d. and 5d. to as high as 7d. per pound. In December 18-i S, bark was £3 per ton at the port of Cardiff; and Mr. J. W. Hall, of that town, paid for hides (and we believe it was the general price) the wretched price of ONE PENNY per pound and yet shoes and boots, to the composition of which bark and hides so mainly contribute, are as high in price now as when these materials were four times dearer and when there was a heavy duty on leather (now removed )!! The enigma to be solved is, where does the fraud exist ? Is it to be laid at the door of the tanner, the currier, or the shoemaker ? The poor working man is, no doubt, shame- fully treated,—the reduction of bark to a price which will not pay for stripping—the reduction of hides to a price which will scarcely pay their conveyance to market, and the re- raoval of the duty on leather, are no benefit to him. A satisfactory explanation of this apparently scandalous state of things will oblige your Constant Reader, A KIBBOR FARMER. INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS FOR WALES. To the Editor of the Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian. SiB,—Tbe Blue Book" discussion, and the memorials recently addressed to the Government upon the propriety of appointing gentlemen fully competent to the above oflice, have found a response in the selection of the Rev. Henry Longueville Joues, of Beaumaris, M.A. Some folk are never pleased, and this case is no exception to the rule, for the Gazette had no sooner announced the appointment, than an article appeared in the Carnarvon Herald, declaring it an insult to the Principality, that Mr. Jones was no Welshman, and that he did not understand Welsh The Premier's declaration that the memorialists' wishes should have attention, led the country to believe, that a tit and proper person would be selected, and that my country- men may be informed on this poiut, particular inquiries have been made respecting Mr. Jones and I have pleasure in thinking, that, as regards the qualifications of an untried man, the selection made by the Government will prove satisfactory. The Privy Council required of the candidates that they should have taken high mathematical honours, including the differential and integral calculus; Mr. Jones, of course, passed this examination, for he was a Wrangler at Cam- bridge, twice Public examiner for degrees in that University, and many years Lecturer in his own College, Mr. Jones is still further qualitied by practice, for he conducted a Grammar school at Manchester for several years. Thus much for Mr. Jones's ability for office. As respects the nationality of this appointment, Mr. Jones is descended from, and connected with, some of the oldest families in Denbighshire and Flintshire; and since the attack in the Carnarvon paper, Mr. Jones has officiated in Welsh in one or other of the Churches in Anglesey, and especially in his own parish, Llandigfan Moreover, with Mr. Jones originated the establishment of tha Cambrian Archaeological Association, and its able expo. nent, the Cambrian Archaeological Journal. In common with many others, I feel ashamed of thii grumbling at a good appointment by the Crown, and I have been thus particular, because justice to the Country, to the Government, and to the character of the Gentleman appointed, demands it. Sincerely trusting that this appointment is but a fore- runner of many other benefits to be conferred on our long- neglected land, I remain, Sir, yours, obediently, ONE WHO WISHES TO SEE FITTING MEN IN PUBLIC OFFICES. Swansea, Jan. 1, 1849. THE MERTHYR GAS-WORKS. To the Editor of the Cardiff <$* Merthyr Guardian. SIR,-For the last month or six weeks I have been anxiously expecting a letter in your valuable paper, treat- ing on the subject that I now address you but although many complain, few seek to remedy. This has rendered it an imperative duty for me to lay the case before the public. Begging pardon for the presuuiptiom of intru- ding upon your columns, I beg to submit my complaint to your readers. What is complained of is the impurity of the gas manufactured iu Merthyr; so impure, that it is absolutely dangerous to be in a confined room lighted by gas. This calls for remedy; for it is a well-known fact that we pay more for gas in Merthyr than any other town in the principality. Situated as we are, surrounded by coal, one might fancy that it would be cheaper here; but alas! it is vice versa. But even the price would not be complained of, if the gas were pure. Every medical man will, I am sure, coincide with me when I state that it will, unless remedied, lay the foundation of many a pul- monary complaint. Doubt itt Look but for one mo- ment at the large drapers' shops in this town heated by gas, and tbe young men have to suffer the nauseous smell from five to ten Humble as this letter may be, Mr. Editor, I hope it will tend to inquiry in the right quarter, and effectually answer my and fellowtownsmeu's expec- tations. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, A SUFFERER. HEWITT TOWN. NEAR NEWBRIDGE. To the Editor of the Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian. SIB,—Having read in your paper of last week that some person had noticed the state of the road from Newbridge to Llantrissent, I beg you to insert a few facts, which I am compelled to feel in pocket as well as see, for the last three years. The water has been more often ruuning through the ruts that are in the middle of the road than through the gutters intended for its course. The dirt scraped off the road has been left for six months without being taken away, and the same dirt has beer. scraped four or live times in heaps, and allowed to remain until it would be worked by the travelling of carts over a second coating of stones. The case is so at present for half a mile from Penyrhi w to Hewitt Town. They bave been particular at times for the stones to be cut, to pass through a ring of small size, and at the same time, or at any time, I can take my tools to work at stones that are on the middle of the road, some of which will weigh a ton, or you may cut from one of ttie«e stones about 4,W0 of the size which they allow. Why not pay for cutting these stones instead of paying for carrying stones from a long distance, especially as the stones are required so small! A horse worth at least JE30 was killed owing to the cart upsetting in the ruts referred to in your last week's paper. If all that ought to be made public were mentioned, the GUARDIAN itself would be too small to contain it. I will, therefore, leave it at present, as I intend, if I can, to indict the road, if something be not done soon which ought to be done. Yours, respectfully, Jan. 1st. JACOB MORGAN, Penyrhiw. TITHE COMMUTATION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. SIR.As your agricultural, as well as clerical readers, may feel anxious to know the result of the averages for the seven years to Christmas last, which has been published in the London Gazette of this evening, viz., s. d. Wheat 6 10[ per imperial bushel Barley 4 li ditto Oats 2 ditto I beg to state for their information that each Jfc.103 of rent-charge will, for the year 1849, amount to £100 3s. 7|J., or nearly 2 per cent, lower than la-t year. The following statement from my Annual Tithe Commu- tation Tables will show the value of CIOOof rent-cliarge for I beg to state tor their information tbat each Jfc.103 of rent-charge will, for the year 1849, amount to £ 100 3s. 7|J., or nearly 2 per cent, lower than la-t year. The following statement from my Annual Tithe Commu- tation Tables will show the value of J £ 100of rent-cliarge for each year since the passing of the Tithe Commutation Act, viz, For the year. £ s. d. For the year. £ s. d. 1837 98 13 9J 1815 103 17 lli 1838 97 7 11 1S45 102 17 8* 1838 97 7 11 1S45 102 17 8l 1839 95 7 4t 1847 99 18 10* 1S10 98 15 9J 1818 102 1 0 1S41 102 12 1849 101) 3 7} 1842 105 8 2i i ——————— 1»43 105 12 2^ 13) 1,317 0 81 1844 104 3 5j General average for the last 13 years £ 101 (j 2 j I ain, Sir, your obedient servant, CHARLF.S M. WILLICil. 25, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Jan. o.
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SINGULAR BRAVER* IN A WOMAN.—Four Montenegrins and thi-ir sister, aged twenty-one, going on a pilgrimage to the shrine ot St. Dasilio, were waylaid by seven Turks iu a rocky defile, so narrow that they could ouly thread it one by one and hardly had tliey entered, between the precipices that bor- dered it on either sicle, when an unexpected disciiarge of fire- arms killed oue brother, and desperately wounded another. To retrace their steps was impossible, without meeting certain and shameful death, since to turn their backs would give their enemy the opportunity of destroying them at pleasure. The two who were unhurt therefore advanced, and returned the fire, killing two Turks, while the wounded one, supporting himself against the rock, tired also, and mortally injured two otliers, but was killed himself in the act. His sister, taking his gun, loaded and tired again simultaneously with her two brothers, but at the same instant oue of them dropped down dead. The two surviving Turks then furiously at the only remaining Montenegrin, who. however, laid open the skull of one of them with his yatagaa, before receiving his own death-ulow, The hapless sister, who had all the lime kept up a constant fire, stood for an instant irresolute wheu suddenly assuming an air of terror and supplication, she entreated for mercy, but the Turk enra"ed at the death of his companions, was brutal enough to take^advantage ol the uuhappy girl's seeming agony, and ouly promised her life at the price of her honour. Hesitating at first, she pretended to listen to the villain's proposal, but no sooner did she see him thrown off his guard, than she buried in his body the knife lihe carried at her girdle, Although mortally wounded, the Turk endeavoured to make the most of his failing strength, and plucking the dagger from his side, staggered towards the courageous girl, who, driven to despair, threw herself on her relentless foe, and with superhuman energy, hurled him down the neighbouring precipice, at the very mo- ment when some shepherds, attracted by the continued tiring, arrived just too late for the rescu e.—Dalmatia and Montenegro with a Visit to Mostar in Heaegmna.
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FRIDAY'S LONDON GAZKr n: B.\sKRIJP'rs, W. and W. Abbott,jun. Southward, hair felt manufacturers J Cottell, Cuwes. Isle of Wight, plumber J. M. Butler, Aylsham, Norfolk saddler G. Streeter, Lissoti draper J. l'arlour, Huxtun, stone mason • VV. Alli n, atton, Norfolk, innkeeper •; F. M Uueen, Houndsditcli, reetifying distiller C. Stephens, Milton-next Gravesend, Kent, ouilder ,1." N. Butler, Edgeware road, wholesale stationer N. and E. Lax, Berry-edge, Durham, grocer S. Ainos, Hanley, Stafford, scrivener A. M'Comb, Liverpool, tailor W, Foster, Nottingham, hat manufacturer W. M'Cr.tW, BislmpsgUe street, cabiuet maker T. Putts, Birmingham, metallic tube manufacturer TUESDAY'S LONDON GAZRITU.-BANKRUPTS. George Addison, Tipton, Staffordshire, builder Thomas Coates, Sunderlaud, wine merchant John Crossfield, Warton, Lancashire, linen merchant John U'Monte Arbuthnot, Great St, Helen's, Bishopsgate-sfreet- within, merchant Thos, Drayton, Park-village East, Regent's-park, glass silverer, Joseph Hastings, Leutou, Nottinghamshire, lace manufacturer James Ilellinys, llugeley, Staffordshire, common brewer Gielis Francis Henry and Henry John Chambers, Kirkdale, Lancashire, vinegar brewers William Walter Irving. G.oucester-street, Bloomsbury, merchant William Lyndon, Digbeth, Warwickshire, provision dealer Benjamin John Mauuder, Mark. Somersetshire, draper Joseph Oxley, Bradford, Yorkshire, cuttonwarp dyer John Fhilpolts, Holborn-bars, City. shawl warehouseman llicliard Rees, Duke-st., Westminster, boot& shoe manufacturer
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LONDON MARKETS, t MA UK LANE, MONDAY. The supply of English wheat at market ttiia morning was far from large, aud it met a good sale, at the extre>ne quotations of Monday last. There was a fair amount of business transacted iu bonded and free foreign wheat, on fully as good terms as last quoted, in fact, in some instances, 1 the turn was in favour of the seller. There was a good nle for both English and foreign barley, at a decline of Is. per qr. The value of free and bonded oats is more nearly ap- proximating, as the 1st of February approaches, and the former may be considered Of. cheaper, and the latter 6d. dearer, than last Monday, with a steady sale. Beans and peas must be noted Is. lower. Flour without material alteration. CUMliNT PKICUSof GUAIN&FLOUIlin MARK LANK s. s. ¡ a. < Wheat English. 4d 43 Grey Peas 33 36 Ditto, old 50 a! Old Beans 26 Wheat English. 4d 43 Grey Peas 33 3ti Ditto, old 50 a! Old Beans 26 Rye 30 ..32 Tick Beans. 23 31 Barley 25 26 OJts (Potatoes) 2d Malt a I 52 Ditto (Feed) Id 21 White Peas 3li .40 Flour 45 4t> SgEDS, &< Clover, red, 30s. to 35s. while 30s. to 40s. pet cwt, ltapeseed, E27 to 1;30 per last. Linseed, crushing, 42s. to 48s.; sowing 56s. to 60s. per qr. Canary seed, 85:1. to 88s. per quarter. Mustard, white, 8s. to 10s. brown 10s to 15s. per bushel. Trefoil, 15s. 10 21s. per cwt.; cow grass, Os. to Os. Cake linseed, per 1,000, £ tl 10«. 10 £ 12 Ills. AGGUEGATK AVERAGE of the Six Weeks which wjcifai the Duty. Wheat 48s. 9d. | Barley 3ls.9d. | Oats 19s. Id. ) Ryt29j. 7. Beans 35s. Lt. I Peas 38s. 8i.
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SM1THFIELD, MONDAY. The suppty of beasts is shorter, but the demaud is still very small; however, late prices are pretty fairly supported fot the best kinds. Trade is very slow for second rate- We have a few more sheep, and uot so many wanted; thtp wet morning is also much against the trade. Prices are lower for all descriptions. A few choice Downs make rather over 4s. but more cannot be quoted as a fair average, and 4- 4d. as an extreme price for the most sclliug long-wools. There are but few calves on offer; in conse- quence there is an advance of fully 2d. per 8ibs.; but trade is iMt tery brisk. Pigs meet with a dull sale, but the suppiy being short, tbey are mostly disposed of. By the quaniuy of 81b. sinking the offal. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Coarse and Inferior Prime coarse- Beasts 3 0..3 4 woolled Sheep 4 2..46 Second quality do. 3 6..3 8 I'runeSouibdown 4 8.4 10 Prime large Oxen 3 8 .3 10 Large crs. Calves 3 6..4 O l'rÏflle SCOlS, &c. a 10..4 0 Prune small do. 4 2..4 & Coarse and inferior Large Hng" 3 hI..4 4 1\ Sheep. 3 2. ,i 5 Neat sin. Porkers 1 6..1 tJ. Second quality do, 3 8.1 0 Lambs 0 0.0 l) Head of Cattle at Market. Beasts.. 3,715 Calves. 60 I Sneep..23,6V) I Pigs 140 HAY aud St'i{.A\V, per Load of 36 Trusses. Hays 1:3 Oi. 0d. to £ i 10s. OJ. I Clover (new) E3 10s. 0d. to, it lOi. 0d. I Clover (old) £ 1 10s. 0 1.10 £ I 15s.Ud. Straw. I I 4s. Od. to 1; 1 8s. Od. v
FINANCIAL REFORM.
FINANCIAL REFORM. We wish that the gentlemen who ngitate by tongue anJ pen upon the subject of tinancial reform and reduction of taxation would be 80 good as to inform us tJy what evidence they have satisfied themselves that the people of this coun- try would thrive better under the system which they so 8treuuously recommend. Tl1ere is no instruction no fairness, in going back to the period of 1830 or 18;35, and endp8vouring to excite the eu*y of the people for the lower establishruents and lower exp"u<iiture of those periods, without carrying the inquiry a little further. What was the condition of the people at those times ? Was ita good con- dition ? Did the people live better Werc their circum- staucC5 less embarrassed ? Was there a more gcneral sense of comfort and 8ecurity than there is now, with our enlarged public establishments and increased public expenditure t So such thing The year 1830 was such a year of distress that petitions upon the subject from every part of Great Britain were poured ill multitudes upon the tables of the two Houses of Parliament. If a low public expenditure could give blessing8 to the people, they had then been happy. But they were not 80. They were wretched and restless beyond precedent. Early in the career of the Duke of Wellington as First Lord of the Treasury he abolished, with one stroke oÎ his pen, a tax of three millions upon the daily drink of the common people. Having a large surplus, instead of giving a little relief here and a little there, he struck oil" the beer-tax. and left the three rniltions a-year which Iud beeu paid b). the thirsty swillers of pots of porter to fructify," as Mr. Poulett Thomson said, in thc pockets of the people." And what was the result of this" fructification ?" Why, that in 1830 the angry lamentation of distress was heard from every corner of the lalld, IInd lierce incendiaries stalked by night through the couutry, marking their way by the destroying blaze of farm-houses and stores of farm produce. III November, 18.10, such was the enraged state of public feeling, tbat the Ministers thought it ulli.1fe for the King to proceed in state to the city of Loudon and in less than a year afterwards the Duke of Wellington, the idol of the people, Ihe Minister who had taken, in one lifl, three mil. lions a-year from the fiscal burden of the common people, was assailed by mobs who sought his life! And yet during ail this time the public establishments were ou a m08t economical scale, The public expenditure was the very re. verse Qf lavish. Mr. CobdGI1, with retroverted and Jonging eyes, regards tile establishments of 1835., What was the condition of the people then ? There was a most abundant crop that year, and in 1836 there was very cheap bread, as well as public establishments on a very low scale; but were the people comfortable and content ? Far from it. The cry of agri- cultural distress resounded through the country, and com- mittees of both Houses of ParJialDent were appointed to investigate tbat distress. What advantage, then, are the people to expect from these financial reformers? Why do they expect the people to believe that under reduced establishments they will be more comfortably circumstanced ? Experience directly contradicts all such assumptions. The people in this coun- try never have been since in so comfortable a condition (excepting it were during the railway mania) us in the times of vast establishments and heavy taxation which existed during the first fifteen years of the century. It is not a heavy Government expenditure which plllches tbe people of this couutry, uut the scarcity Qf clrci}lating money, and tbe con9"quently restricted and scanty employment of la. bour. It is not reduced taxation which gives ease to the labouring masses, but ¡tis increased circulation of money, and in¡;1 eased employment. Let the Government adopt a system which will circulate money among the people, and give a sLimulus to iudu,¡tr,y-taking care, at the same time, Itl cl1eck the excess of speculation, and to restrain the mad. ness of cuphHty-let. the Government look well to the popular means of paying taxes, and, England may be far happier with a taxation of seventy millions a-year tban she is with a taxation of sixty. Tile nonsense uttered by financial quacks would not de- lude the people if they took time to consider what experi- ence has taught, both as to the circumstances of the people and the prophetic calculations of these quacks. One of the prominent i. financial reformers" who fires his gun after Mr. Cobden is Mr. M'Qreg01, M.P. for Glasgow. That gentleruan was examined before the Import Duties Com- mittee, a committee from whicb Sir Robert Peel proclaimed that he had derived an immense 8tOre of useful knowledge. What did Mr. M'Gregor (who now presumeil to lecture on finance) tell the committee Why, he tlll,1 them that the taxation imposed upon the country by the duties on corn aod provisions was really more tllan double the fifty mil- lions hicb at that time were raised by puul1c taxes in Great Britain. According to Mr. M'Gregor, we are now paying a hundred miliions a-year less thau we paid under the laws of 8even years ago. How is it, then, that the country is so distressed ? How is it that the reduction of a few millions a-year in our public establishments should be regarded as of such vital importance, when the hundred millions a-year which, according to the M'Gregorian calcu. lation, we have saved by the Free-tr^de policy, do not afford us any sensible relief 1 Will any man pretend to say that the people now are as well off liS they were in 1845, whcQ the Tory Corn Laws still existed No man can say so. And what is the reason the people were better off in 1845 ? The re:18on is plain enough. At that time money was abundantly circulated. Everyone who haJ money was wil. ling to spend it in SOIDe kind of undertaking. The people were employed, and employed at good wages. That being the case they cared nothing for taxation. Haù the three mililons a-year beer tax been laid on when in March, ISU, Sir 11. Peel took off between three and four millions II-year a; a" grand experiment for the advancerncntof commerce," the thirsty labourers would not have drunk a pot of beer the less. They had the means to pay, and, having the means, they would hlLve paid willingly. Our financial reformers all begin at the wrong end. That ",hidl is really wanting is not the lessening of taxation, but the iruprovement of the coudition of the people who pay the taxes. If those who govern us will not give the couu- try that paper-money which wrought such wonders from 1797 to 1816, let us hope something lrom the supply of gold which America now seems likely to be able to afford. Ten millioD8 added to our active circulation of money \VI)uIJ do ten times the good that could be doue by a reduction of ten millions a-year in our taxation. The industrial means and powers of this nation appear tQ be inexhaustible. All we require is some impulse to set the general industry in mo. tion-solDe motive for pursuing steadily the work of pro. duction. That impulse will be given by all illcrease of tbe circulating mediulD -that motive will be supplied by a ready sale of the things produced. Let, tilen, our ôuanciers look to the promoting of industry, and they need then give themselves very little tronbleaoout the pressure of taxation. Morning Post. PAST AND PRESENT.—WAGES.—EXPENSE OF GOVERNMENT. :\1r. Macaulay's admirable "History of England," recently published, contains a chapter 011 the changes in the stale of England since the period of Charles the Second's death in 168.r>. By industry and research, scarcely surpassed, he has collecled curious materials -the dry-bones of knowledge-from all kinds of out-ol'-the-way literature, and all kinds of records he has animated them liy his own iufurming spirit; emuellished them by his own graphic aud expressive pen; aud placed before us a living picture of our ancestors, such as no master has ever be- fore created. A few of the facts he has collected, illustrating the cOllùition of the lauouring classes, and the l'xpense of the GJvernment at different periods, may not be unacceptable to our readers. To be told the rate of wag23 witholtt knowing the price of food gives no information it is necessary, therefore, to state that the average price of the quarter of wheat during the last twelve years of Charles 11. was 50j. It is now 51s. and, du- ring the existence of tile Corn-laws, the average was not more than otis. 10d. At the former period beer was not more than half its present price, which is kept high 1.:)' the duties levied oa malt. The rural POpuloltioll haù, at the former period, some little advantages, such ai the use of common laud occasion- ail) to feed a dock of geese, or of the woods in which to tum tlie pigs at Michaelmas. He cut turf among the furze. bushes on the mOllr, which is now a meadow bright with clover, and renowned for butter and cheese. lie snared wild-fowl 011 the fen, that has long since been drained aud divided into corn. fields and turnip fields." But the town pupulation had none of these advantages, anù tbeir condition may be accurately estima- ted liy their wages and the price of provisions. Amungst the comruodilil's for which the labourer woulù have had to pay a highcr price in IG80 than his posterity pay in 1848, were sugar, salt, soap, candles, shoes, stockings, and geuerally all articles of cllllhing and all articles of bedding. Jt is an error, therefore, to suppose that inouey wages woulll go much further then in provicting the labourer with the necessaries of life than now ill fact, the same sum of muney would purchase less clothing auù less fuel, less meat, anù a little more uread and more ucpr, then than now, The average wages of agricultural labourers in 1685 were about 4s. a week, without food in Warwickshire, at that pe- riod, they were fixed at that rate, and every employer who gave more, auù every labourer who received more, was liable to bc punished. In Devonshire the wages of the agricultural labourer were 55" without food: in Suffolk, 5s. iu winter, and 6j. in summer. lu Essex, in 16ti I, they were ô"ed at 6s. in winter, and 7s. in summer; but wheat was then 70s. the quarter. In 1 ötSO it was noticed as all exorbitant paymeut that au Englisll mechanic exacted !s. a day. In an old baltad published in the reign of Charles ll., the weaver complained that 6.1. a day was all tlllot could be carned by hard labour at the loom; and the poet demanded as a proper remuneration 1; a day. From the cartfully-kept rccords of Greenwich it appears that ill the course of 1^0 ) ears the daily earnings of the brickla) er have riseu from 4s. til. tu 4,. 10d.; those of the mason frolU 2s. til. to 5s. 3 J.; those ot the carpenter frum 2s. 6ll. to 5i. 5d.; and those uf the plumber from 3s. to 5s. tid. it seems cleu, therefore, that the wages of labour estimated ill money were, i.1 1 (is;), not more thau half what they now are, and that the money would not buy more good things then thau uow. We do not say, cause wages are better now than in 1685, that the people should not strive for higher wages; though their condition may in comparison be improved, it is universally felt to be worse than it ought to be it is, in fact, dangerous to society; aud Mr. Ma- caulay tells us that there is constant improvement," only because there is constant discoutent." The improvement in their condiliou since the Jap of tbe 8tuarts, though tritlin should keep people alive, and be an assurauce tll them thai Lv perseverance and guod conduct better days gradually CUloe, and "re always coming faster and faster. The employment of children, which has so much inlerested humanity iu uur ùay, is not a modern invention. At Norwich, in lliso, a little creature, six years old, was thought tit for labour. Several writers of that time, "ome of them considered as eminently benevolent, mentilln with exultation the lact, that ill .\ur\\ id! alone boys autl girls of teuder age created wealth exceeding the value of their own subsistence b) £ 12,00J a year. The number of paupers, it is probable, bore a greater pwpor- tion tll the popu,latiOI1 ,ill Iti»5 than now. Gregory King, an excellent authority, estimated them at more than a tilth. Mr. Macautay thinks this an exaggeration. The average proporhou now, and it is considered large, is about one-tenth and he shows good reason lur believing Ihat it was considerably greater then. The rate oi 1D0rlalit)" about which we have lately heard so much, ig another cnterion of the conditwu of the labouring classes, who in every cOlluDuuity lorru a laroe portion, if nut the bulk of the population. lu the year 1685, not a sickly year, more than one in 23 of the inhabitants of the capital died. At present only one iuha- ultant of the capilal in forty dieg annually. WretcneJ ail the accommodatioll uf the poor ill the metropolis now io', it WüS worse then but theu there was no newspalJer to plead their causej aad nowhere was found "that sensitive auù restless compa3siuu" which in our day has assuaged every human woe, and eudeavoured to save the life eveu of the murderer." Not only has the physical condition beell improved, it is plcasino t.) retlect that the public mind 01 England has lufteueù while it has ripened, and that we han., in the course of ages, become not only a wiser uut also a kiuder people." Tile Government has takeu to itself a fuli share of the social advautages it is bound to secure to others. Properly does Mr. .\1acanlay say, that the great object of every inquirer who wishes to form a correct notion of the state of the commlinity at a given time, is tl) ascertain of how manl persoWl it consists. From a variety of authorities, agreeing with other writers, he states the population of England and Wales, in 1685, at between 5,000,000 and 5,500,000 inhabitants. In the reign of Charles the Second, the revenue of England and Wales is put down at about £ 1,400,0(10. In the reign of James II. the annual income of the State, accurately given by other authorities, was £ -,061,856. Let us say £ 2,000,000. Assuming the smallest number as the amount of population (5.000,000). and the largest sum as the revenue of the Government ( £ 2,000,000), it follows that the amount of taxation per head, in England and Wales, at that period, was 8s. At present the population of England and Wales may be assumed to be 18,OHO.OOO, which is probably beyond the amount. The cost of the Government last year, according to Mr. Cobden's letter, was £ 55.175,00;). Say, for the sake of round numbers, £,-);OOO,O:H), and let us strike off (which will be a large allowance) oue-third for the revenue contributed by Scotland and Ireland, we shall then have thirty- seven millions some hundred thousand pounds as the revenue or England and Wales in 1848, which is something more than £ 2 per head as the present amount of taxation. The population, since 1685, has increased 3,11 timps; but the Government ex- pense has increased, including the debt. 181, times, and, exclu- ding the debt, ninefold, since the reign of James It. and Mr. Macaulay puts the increase down at thirtyfold, but this is, we think, an exaggeration, though ours is an under statement. It is well known that the amount uf rent, though Mr. Ma- caulay gives us no data on this subject, has increased in a much greater ratio than the wages of labour or the expense of Govern- ment and that the profits on capital have increased to a greater amount than rent and as it is by comparison that men judge of their condition, the more rapid increase of the wealth of the Government, landowners, ami capitalists, than of the labourers, supplies ail explanation ul the grumbling and discontent of the I abouring classes, though their condition absolutely has been inproved,—A Correspondent of the Illustrated News. THE REVENUE, An Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain, in the^ears and Quarters ended the 5th of January, 1818 and 184U, showing the Increase or Decrease thereof — 5th of January, 1818 and 184U, showing the Increase or Decrease thereof:- Years ending Jan. 5. 1818. 1819. Increase. Decrease. £ £ £ Customs 18,015,298 18,929,360 914,0'52 Excise 11,730,746 12,832,140 1,101,394 Stamps. 6,959,546 6,U0,818| 818,698 Taxes 4,334,561 4,314,704 19,857 Property Tax 5,450,801 5,347,365 103,436 I'ost Office 861,000 776,000 88,000 Crown Lands 77,000 81,000 4,000 Miscellaneous. 184,92(5 101,166 83,760 China Money 539,305 539,305 Imprst.&other monies 216,612 485,381 208,742; ltepayts. of Advances 561,046| 414,25t 149,795 Total Income 48,397,566(49,931,023 2,827,503il,293,546 Deduct Decrease 1,293,546 Increase on the Year 1,533,957 Quarters ended J au. 5 1818. '[ 1849. Increase. Decrease. £ £ £ £ Customs 4,111,862 4,682,39) 570,531; Excise 3,246,883 3,253,162 0,297 Stamps 1,564,855 1,472,598 92,257 Taxes 1,914,783 1,921,013 6,230 Property Tax 462,567 424,134 1 38,133 Post Office 308,000 198,000 loiooo Crown Lands 40,000 30 000.) 10,000 Miscellaneous 11,746 21,709 9,963 China Money 84,284 84.2841 Imprst.&other monies 30,614 123,89"' 93,28l! ltepayts. ot' Advances. 71,048 140,696 66,6471 Total Income 11,665,358 13,352,185 837,217! 150,390 Deduct Decrease 150,390| Increase on the Quarter 686,827[ As the revenue of this country is the ouly one in this part of the world which is not rapidly sinking, or scarcely propped up by the most extraordinary and oppressive expe- dients, we presume it is lawful to congratulate our readers upon the statement for the quarter just enled, It still ex- hibits that steady improvement which is the most natural and therefore most healthful symptom that could be desired. The practised explorer of this table will at once recognize the figures on which its main gist and interest depend—the comparison of the two quarters ending respectively January a, 1848, and the same day, 1849. The teveral items of in- crease on the ordinary revenue amount to £ 5'J3 005, the item, of decrease to £15U,39Q, the balance being an increase of 4442,015 on the quarter just ended. On taking into amount the inciease of "China Money," "impre-t and other money," and" repayment of advances," this improve. ment on the quarter becomes £G36.827; but it is unneces- sary to observe that these extraordinary and accidental items, though they augment the existing resources of the Exchequer, have no beaiingon the question of prosperity, tor which this return is usually consulted As we have ob- served on previous occasions, the financial year beginning with April, 1847, was too exceptional in its circumstances to be a proper subject of comparison. It is fairer to go back a whole year. On referring, then, to the quarter ended i1 i-'iL-j we tlle Preseat quarter falls short of it by only £ .48o,047. We say only, because here a^ain we have to deal with aa extraordinary year, 1646,—a year of exces- sive speculation and expenditure, between two famines, but scarcely affected by their financial results. To go into the several item;, we come first to the Customs. ^7-e_r5 's. au 'Urease on the quarter to the amount of £ 07U,od3 and going further back to the quarter ending January 5, 1847, an increase of £ 167,674. It must, how- ever, be remembered that in the quarter just ended there has been a revenue on the import of corn, of which we have now seen the list. We can only hope, and we do hope, that the general improvement of the Customs will next year supply this deficiency. In the item of Excise, the quarter exhibits an increase of £ 6,279. We believe there would have been a decrease but tor a change of account, which has transferred to this department certain portions of reve- uue hitherto collected by the Board of Stamps and Taxes. 1 here has been an increase, it is said, on the malt, paper, and soap duties. all of them articles of necessity a decrease in bricks, hops, and spirits. A decrease on the consump- tion of spirits will be deplored less thau 011 the other articles in the list. liiicks are. more or less, a speculative expen- diture, and hops are beyond the reach of financial calcula- tion. The Excise, therefore, notwithstanding a virtual decline, indicates increasing prosperity and comfort. The downward course of speculation, and the change of accounts we have already referred to, have prepared the public for a decrease of £ 94,257_ on the Stamps. The Taxes," as usual, are very stationary. In tile property-tax there is a decrease upon the quarter, which suggests some gloomy reflections. VY e observed the same fact last October. The quarterly decrease was then £ 25,755. It is now £ 38,133,— a sum which represents several millions of annual income embarrassed or altogether extinguished. In the other items there is no change worthy of notice, unless it be ne- cessary to observe that the Post-olfice and the Crown lands ive are very little more productive than they were a year ago. The ordinary revenue of the whole year 184S exhibits an increase of £ 875,705, the most observable items being an increase of £ 914/362 in the Customs of the year, of £ 1,101,394 in the Excise and a decrease of £ 848,698 in the Stamps. VVe have been gradually improving the whole year. The total ordinary revenue for the year ending Jan. 5, 1848, was £47,616,878; for the year ending Jan. 5, 1849, £ 48,492,583. Some extraordinary items swell the increase to £ 1,533,957. The tide which, after the 10lP summer's ebb, turned in our favour last October, is now flowiug fast and full. For the month ending the 5th of December there was an increase of exports co "pared with the corresponding month of the previous year, to the value of £ 132,548 and there can be 110 doubt from the reports daily arriving from the inanufic. turing districts that the month just ended will be found to exhibit a still more decided result. The next considerable increase is in woollen manufactures, that on woollen-yarn being comparatively slight. The chief decrease has been on iron, steel, and machinery betraying the miserable condition of continental trade and manufactures. The in- crease in the monthly imports balances that on the exports with unusual cloieness-a fact which indicates the safe and cclutiotu footing of our commerce at this moment, and which seems to augur that our returning prosperity is des- tined to a loog and vigorous growth. — Times. ♦ ADDRKSS TO TUB PltO TESTA TS oli" THE RVIPKIE BY THE COVIMl I'l UK OK TUH N'.VITOM.VL CLUB. It is the practice of a certain class, at the present day, to call all political changes in a particular direction by the sig- nificant appellation of progress;" aud when once this kind of change has bf-en made, it is set down as an axiom that it is irrevocable. Whether for gool or for evil, it is asserted that it is impossible to go back." Such reasoning, which is often as mischievous as it is falla- cious, has been too long acquiesced in by those, whose hopes aud whose efforts have been limiied to conservation. The consequence has been that, when a particular coarse of policy has proved so disastrous as to be quite unbearable, its sqp- porters maintain, that, since you cauuot s:and still, and it is impossible « to go back," there is no choice left but," to go IIU," at the same time, hazarding the bold assertion, that the utter failure of their remedies is not owing to their being founded on principles radically wrong, but to those principles I not having been carried out sufficiently far. These remarks are strikingly exemplified by the conduct of the approversof the policy of ttie lfnperiil Government towards Ireland tor the last nineteen years. It was at the commencement of that peiiod ( 1829), that the Emancipation Act was passed. All the avowed wishes of the Roman Catholics were fulfilled by it; clergy aud laity were alike solemnly pledged to be satisfied with it, yet a very short period elapsed before all these pledges were violated. 111 183J, a new administration was installed, whose doctrine it was, that, if emancipation had farted, n was because enough bad not been conceded the YVbig .Ministers therefore devoted themselves to the task of conciliating the Irisli Ifouianists, not only by conferring on thclII all the patronage which they could, and by increasing their political power, but by discouraging individual Protestants, and by giving" heavy blows" to the l'rotestant Church. During eleven years ibis system con- tinued, but evidently without any teal progress being made towards securing the loyalty of the Humanists, for the last year (1840) of the Whij; i,dministration was rendered memorable by the establishment of the Precursor Association," avow- edly so named, as being the precursor of au association for the repeal of the legislative union. Accordingly, when the Conservative Government was formed, the new Premier had the caudour, or the weakness, to confess, that his "great difficulty was Ireland," The suspicion, however, never seems to have coine across him, thai there might be something wrong 1:1 the principles and policy of his predecessors, whicli had produced results so hopeless and disappointing "■ for, it appears, 111 ItUli aliairs, he followed closely in their wake. Hence, to deny justice to the Protestauts, and to send "messages of peace" to Humanists, were the modes to which he resorted to for sol ving his Irish "dif- ficulty." These weapons were, however, stiil less successful in his hands than they had been in those of his Whig opponents. Ihey did not secure even an apparent calm. Midway, in bit ministerial career, he was compelled by monster meetings to o.cupy Ireland with a large anny aud this he justified to the House of Commons by asserting that I. the Human Ca- tho ic clergy, laity, aud physical strength bad combined against the liritish Government, and llriiish connexion." His official existence expired in a vain attempt to deprive of arois that same section of the Irish population, which, during the whole of that existence, he had spent his best energies in courting. In 1H46 the former Whig Ministers again appeared on the scene neither their own previous failure, nor that of the in- termediate Government seems to have shaken their faith an the efficacy of a system which, administered by different hands after seventeen years of trial, had ripeucd such bitter fruits. The result of two years' further perseverance in it has been a rehelÎnus outbreak, which is only now prevented from hllr,t- irig out afresh by a large and expensive, arroy, coupled with the suspension of the H abea, Corpus Act, the great safeguard of personal I ibert y. Still, however, the cry is raised II we cannot go back;" hOlJeless ruin awaits us If we remain as we are, therefore we have no choice but" to go on." The nex» step in advance, is the endowment of the Hom:11I priesthood. The ministers avo v that they ollly wait for '8 favourable opportuni'v to propose il. Shon1d it be passed, and fail, as hil it will, we may then with equal reason, be told that we have: no choice but 10 go on." Tne confiscated estates mu-t he restored to the descendants of the traitors^ through whose treasun they wcre forfeited; and the Homan piiesthood must be illstalled ill "ur I'rotestal1: churches. If nineteen years'trial of a system, each successive year of which has been marked by a failure, more undoubted thau the one by which it has been preceded, is not sulnciellt to prove its hollowness, lIotilillg surely can do sn, whilst aught remains to concede. Tile estates, therefore, must be restored — rhe Protestant churches handed over fdr Popish rites. In India, the cxpnilnent of making the Ifomanist clergy of the Slate has been recently tried It h", not been a successful om. The (;,)vernment of Ihe Bombay Pre. sidency has just been compelled tn ejeot from the country one Roman Catholic bishop, and I hrec [rish lloman CathnllC priests, in cOllsecluellcc uf I':cir too ell irts to exi i:e to mutiny Ihe previously ullhlemishetl 81th regiment of her Majesty's army. 111 Newfoundland, sueh was the disorganization produced by the machiuatinns of Ihe lloman priesthood, that about three years ago Ihe Imperial Government wa. compelled tn interfere, and an aCI of parliament 1\), passed, to alrer Ih" cOlnllosition of the Legislative Assembly "f that colony. We say, then, these idle and ruilloLIS t'!1lperiaWlIls dt con- ciliation have been Iripd a (treat 1,Ieal too long. They have been ptlrsueù with such ubstinate perseverance, that thev are producing the very opposi;e effects lu those, for the sake of securing which they are made lor the parties un whom they life tried, belicve them to be, 1101 the result of gOJd- ..iii, but that oi coward tear wbich springs from a sense of weakness. It is time that we should have it Govewment 1II,iclt will pursue a more manly aud more honcst couise. As Prot estants, therefore, we demand a Government by whom our pure and rpformeù faith shall uot merely cease to be discouraged, but shall be encouraged iu every just and reasonable way. We demand a Government whIch will secure religious toleration, not only in name, bnt ill Liet: which will take cue that eacn inhabitant of Ireland is pro- tecled against iiiole-itatiori 011 account of his religious convic- tions. VVe demand Ibis, not for ourselvi s alone, but fOI thc sake of those of the Rom.ui-caiholic lallY, willi are now under a prieslly thraldom-fr,.m which they caunot escape, because the illlllleflce of the priesthood is backed by the f.t1.:igl¡t and authority of the Home a id Vice reg It Governments. We demand a Government wblch will 1101 hetray the true Catholic faith, by refllslOg all peclltliary aid 10 our Script/lral schools. We demand thi", not for ourselves alou", hut for the sake also of those thousands of lioman-Catliolics, who gladly sent their children to these schools, wilen Priest and Goverllll1<:nt were not combined against them. We demand a Government which shall open a free course to the teaching of Scripture, and which will dd the ministers of the Established Church ia instructing anti reclaiming the people; — which will not try to impiove an unlettered race through the agency of those whose lessons euthral the reason anu deprave the heart j—which will, with a firm hand, en- force an inflexible law, making itself respected aud frared by a justice Ylhidl knows no pally, and a streng'h wl.llt. suffers Uu rival. These are first necessities, and whatever other tneas ires, either political or fiscal, may he osi.-uiial for the wdfitre of Ireland, these cannot be dispensed wilh; for well we know that QO course of policy, however skilful, can be 8l1ccelliful, unless God's hlesllillg be on it. further, seeing that a policy which lias tampered witli religion, — which lias halted between two opinions—which has shrunk from uphohling the truth,- whilst denouncing Popery iu w .rds as idolatrous, has yet dued to encourage it by deed, has beeu already biigllted by Heaven; surely, it is not too Illltch to predict, that, if pèrse- vered iu, it mllst enù iu a failure still more disgraceful, and, by disorganising socieiy, unst endanger the vitality of the empire.—By the Committee, IV. H. Bellamy, Secretary.
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MANAGEMENT OF ECCLESIASTICAL Pn.orllRTY.-It is stated a new commission is contemplated to inquire into the state of the law respeeting the letting and manage- ment of ecclesiastical property, with a view to legislation 011 this important subject. The matters to be investigated are of themselves of a sufficiently extensive and compli- cated nature to require the deepest attention, and the per- sons selected for the task will not all interfere with the duties or the construction of the ecclesiastical commis- sion, but will be employed UpOIl a field iJf labour and enquiry entirely distinct. JENNY LIND AT WORCESTER AND BpUUNGH,Ut. An extremely liberal ami generous intimation has been conveyed in a letter to the Lord Bishop of Worcester, from a lady, on behalf of )(adlle. Linll, to the effect that as she is now a free agent, she hall much pleasure in ten- dering her gratuitous services at a concert to be given in that city either at the eud of the present or the com- mencement of the ensuillg month, 011 behalf of the local charities. An address was delivered to Madlle. Lind on behalf of the Mayor and Corporation, by whom she was presented with a splendid papier machee cabinet. Jenny Lind, 1 ist week, S lng gratuitously at Birmingham, in aid of the funtl" of the Queen's Hospital, in that town. U p- wards of 3,000 persons were presellt. The receipts were £ l,:W0. TUE ARCUIIISIIOP OF CANTERBURY AND THH NA- TIONAL SOC{I{Ty.-h will be remembered that a few weeks sioce certaio negociations were pending between the Na- tional Society aod the Committee of Privy Council, which failed. Hence, by nUloerous members of the National Society, il wall deemed expedient that an address should be drawn up for pre8entatiuu to tbe archbishop, aod signed by as many as lelt the necessity of requesting his grace, as president, "to convene a public meeting, for the purpose 01 QDDsidering what measures it will be expedient to adopt." This course having heen decided on, a requisition, with lite signatures of upwards of 400 members of the National Society, was forwarded to his grace, who in reply stated, that he could not accede to their desire, the requisition being grounded on an aSAUllIptiou which he diJ not admit, tlHt the recent negociatious Itatl failed. The archbishop adds But, independently of this objection, the in- conveniences of 110Y public discussion of the tenus of a liitncult and delicate uegociation are too great and obvious to be encountered witho I t SOllie proportionate ad- vantage attainable in no other way. The only aùvantage or the proposed ineetiug woulù be the advuutage it might all'ord of acquainting the committee in whom the manage- ment and government of tue society is vested by charter witu the sentiments of the members then assembled. This object may be secared by other means less open to excep- tion, by such written statements, lilr instance, as the com- mittee may deliberately cnUllult upon." THE MAIL UOBUERY ON TUG GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—In our last number we gave the particulars of this extensive and IUllst daring robbery. The two IDen suspected of being implicated in the affair, Poole aud another; whose nalue is Dol ascertained, were hrought up for re-examination before the Exeter magistrates on Satur- day last. The spacious Guildhall was densely crowded. Tbe prisoners, on being placed at the bar, looked anxiously round, but betrayed no further signs of emotion. It ap- pears from an interview of the magistrates with the railway officials, that Poole, one of tbe prisoners in custody, had a year or two since become suddenly possessed of cODsi- derable property. By what means he became possesllell of tbe property, and what were his avocations, were sub- jects which excited mucb gossip, but interest in the matter eventually sub8ided. Sioce bis retirement from the Great Western Company, he has been observed to travel up the line dressed iu singular style, at other times attired as a private gentleman, and sometimes in tue garb of a me- chauic. Turee or four months, when dressed as a labour- ing ruan, he was found in what is technically called tba locker" (11' a railway carriage (tbe place in which the par. cels are deposited), but little or no suspicion was excited on UCCUUllt of tite plausible excuses which the man offered for his conduct. When betook the tickets fur hiiuselt and companion at the Exeter Rulway. on the evening of the robbery, he was hahite,1 iu a capacious cloak, Ii cap of 8ingular construction, which completely altered the ap- pearance ot his countenance, false whiskers, and an aris- tocratic moustache. Another part of the conversation alluded to had reference to a remarkable prophecy of the wile of one of the guards, to whom, up to the prebent time, not the slightest suspicion has been attached. The prophecy" the magistrates view in a totally different light. The woman predicted to '1 friend that on or abollt Ii certain day the mail train would be robbed in ao adroit and mysterious manner, and that several perllnus in tbe neighhourhood who were atliassiQg large sums of money might lonk out" for some disastrous losses. The subject (If the lusses by bankers alld merchantll was discussed. Mr. Badcock, of Taunton, aod Mr. Snow, uf lixeter, will be beavy losers, Opinions have been hazarded /1S to the disposal of the properly extracted from the post office tender. One prisoner gave his name Henry Poole, the other prisoner declined giving his name. Several clerks in the post-office service gave evidence as to tbe arrangement and contents of tue hags, &c.-Leonard Barret, the mail guard 011 the nigut of the robbery, gave particulars of the down journey to 8ristol, up to wh icb time the bags were all sale. It was at Biidgwater that [ discovered tbe bags to he misplaced, the Plymouth bag heing tied with a ùilferent string from that used iù the pOSI. I left Mr. Silk in charge of the tender, aud walked Ju.vn to the tirst class carriage. III the first compitrtmeot I saw a gentleman lying dosvn. The next wall the lady's car- riage, I did not see any ODe it) that. In the third the blinds were so closdy drawn down that I could out see the inside. I then went to the fourth an,1 saw anutber gentle- mitn asleep. 1 went upon the platform, and saw t.\ II men sitting on the division near the platform. They were the prisuners at the bar. I toill Gibbous, a Plymouth super- intendent, what hall happened in the post-office vall, and that it must be them (the prisoners). We theu went to Exeter, and they were removed t" the superintendent's rooUJ. This witness said he had tried the possibility of getting from the tirst-class carriages to the tender, when lhe traia was in motion, and had succeeded. Joseph Gibbous, the 1'°lice-otIicc:' alluded tu by last witness, gave evidence as to the apprehension of tht: prisouers. They replied, in auswer to an observation," I know noihiug abont it." Witne88 produced a pocket-book from one 0. the prisoners. J. Thomas, a witness, gave evidence as to the search of a carriage in which the prilloners were be tound a bundle coutaining letters and small parcels, He opeued ooe corner of the itauLlkercllief and saw HOlUe re- gistered letters. 0 udertleath the same seat and near the bundle he found an oil-calle cap. 011 Ii second search be found a hook, used in going frtllll one carriage tu auother, to bold on by. Several other witnesses were examined in conlirmation of the above ev ¡dence, and owners as to the iùentification of tbe enclosures in the parceis found in the carriage in which tbe prisoners had been. The pri- soners were remanded for onH week. It is rumoured that Poole had £ 500 with his wile. who is also in receipt of £ 50 yearly. He was dismised from bis siluation soon after the robbery of a box of sovereigns, on their transit from London to Truro*
GENERAL MISCELLANY. 1
GENERAL MISCELLANY. The Mold, a line in the mineral districts of North Wales, is now nearly completed. Gtisi, it is said, has declared her intention to retire from the stage after the campaign of 184;). Doling the last year very nearly 13,000 persons have been buried within the precincts of the metropolis. In cutting up a large cod, in Montrose market, the other day, tlie operator lotnnl a young pi^ iu the stomach. The receipts of the Additional Carates* Fund Society amounted, last ycar, tu £;3:3,;) 11. Marmont and 8IUlt arc now the only survivors of Napoleon's ruarshals. Since the 3rd of August, nearly twenty thousind per- sous have died ofchotera in Poland. Large quantities of turkeys and other poultry were last week imported from France for the metropolis market. Hethatnevereltangedanyofhisopinionsnevercor- rected any of his mistakes. The Daily News has formally confirmed the rumour that its price is to be raised to tivepence. It is said that the Morning Herald and the Morniny Chronicle, are to be amalgamated. A line of packets between Dublin anll the United States, to be called the Shamrock line," is about to be established. A correspondent of the Eastern Counties Herakl says that thousands of pounds are annually sacrificed in Hull, rather than sue for it ill the County Court. Mr. G. G. Whits states, in a letter to the Lancet, that the rumbling sound perceived on stopping the ears with the fingers, proceeds from the circulation of the blood. An immense pork pie, W!¡¡crl weighed 1321 bs., though the crust had been raised by hr.nd, without the aid of a mould, was exhibitedlastweekat Hull. A man has been filled by the Glasgow magistrates, for stabling a cart horse in a bedroom adjoining the kitchen wherein he and his family dwelt. CARRIERS' DISPUTHS.—One carrier alone seeks to recover from the Great Western Company foOOO and £ 1?00 for "overcharges." A policeman on the Bristol and Exeter Railway was found dead in his box a few days back, and the presump- tion is that ha was frozen to death. Among the list of penalties for the regulation of Queen Elizabeth's household was the following Tnat none toy with the maidens on pain of fourpence." The horrible practice of "burking" appears to have been revived. A strange discovery of the existence of the system has taken place at Dudley. The value of property insured against fire in the United Kingdom was, ill 1831, rather over £ 520,009,000 by 1841, it had increased to £ (382,OOJ,OJJ; being an ilJ- crease of nearly 30 per cent, in ten years. A hogshead of wine has been shipped from Western Australia for London, with the view of obtaining English wine merchants' opinions 011 the quality of Australian wine. CHINESE ORE.-—A vessel which has just arrived in the docks from Canton, has brought 123 tons of copper ote, as a portion of her cargo, This is a somewhat remark- able and interesting importation from the Chinese empire. Thele are at present eighty families dependent upon the Leicester Union, whose fathers have deserted them, and gone to America or elsewhere, leaving them to be sujip >rceil at the public expense. "Xow AND THEN.ln reign of Charles II., no provincial town in the kingdom contained 30,000 inha- bitants: and only four provincial towns contained so many as 10,000 inhabitants. The Dover Chronicle tells a long story about a sham ghost which has been playing its pranks for some time at Folkstone, and which, on being captured the other night, turned out to be an old fellow named Spicer, up- wards of 70 years of age, and a parish pauper. Mr. Catlin, an engraver, has been awarded JE900 damages, in the Common Pleas, against the Diamond Steam Navigation Company, for the loss of his leg, by collision with another steam packet, between Hungerford Pier and Gravesend. All attorney's clerk, nimed Twiss, was on Monday week, discharged under the Insolvent Debtors' Act. His salary had been £25U a-year; and his liabilities, princi- pally incurred through railway speculation, exceeded £ 19,000. Earl Ducie has become the president of the Bristol Mesmeric Institute. His lordship says, that he should not hesitate to express publicly his convictions of the great utility and truthfulness of mesmerism, as a curative agent, and that from his own experience. The Lancaster Guardian says that on Saturday week a male wild cat, measuriuor four feet from tail to snout, and weighing !JIbs., was taken ill a vermin trap by the game- keeper to Joseph Buslull, Esq., of Bulk, on that gentle- man's estate. It is said that the subject of Mr. Young's letter to General Napier relating to tho alleged revolutionary movement in support of the Reform Bill, will be brought under the notice of Parliament in the L >rds, by Lord Lyndhurst, and in the Commons by Mr. Gladstone. Ihe Metropolitan Counties and General Life Assurance Company offer to insure parlies travelling by railway at 10s. for every £ 100 by single payments so that, the re- presentatives of any person killed by railroad accident will secure the amount assured. On Sunday night week, a female, the wife ofafish- monger, suddenly flung open the door of a cab in which she was crossing Waterloo-bridge, jumped out, and ascended the parnpet, and before it' was possible for any one to prevent her, she threw herself into the river, and sunk to rise no more. A Turk was publicly beheaded at Constantinople on the 30th ult., for the crime of having, while ill- a state of intoxication, said that he did not care a straw for Allah or the prophet. The poor wretch, before his execution, said he deserved death if he had said such a thing, but he did not remember it. A CANINE THIEF.—A gentleman, accompanied by a Newfoundland dog, lately entered a bank at Scarborough; and, in a few minutes, the dog quietly left the office, car- rying in his mouth a bag containing 100 sovereigns, which he had purloined from behind the counter. Luckily he was stopped by one of the clerks. Not long since nearly all the diamond merchants in London were Quakers' who would not have worn jewels themselves, nor allow them to decorate any of their family or friends; and it is notorious that doctors, who disap- prove of luxurious eating, generally give to their friends and patients the most splendid entertainments. All old woman, named Grace Pemberthy, nearly eighty years of age, who had been living for some time in a state ot great poverty and wretchedness, was lately removed to the union workhouse at Crediton, when—in the house she had quitted—no less than 7G sovereigns were found, the accumulation of many years' penurious living. CHARTISM A Chartist leader, named Jas. Frankland, secretary to the Preston Loan Society, has, by means of adding figures in his book to sums lent, and inserting sums as lent which were never ieut at all, defrauded the society of £5UO, with which he has got clear off to America. He was a professing teetotaller, and an ardent Chartist. AN INDEPENDENT HUSBAND "Ah! John, you won't have me much longer I shall never leave this bed I alive!" "Please thee self, Betty, and thee'll please I," replied John with great equanimity. I have been a good wife to you, John," persisted the dying woman. "Middlin, Betty, tniddliu," responded the matter-of-fact husband. ILLICIT DISTILLATION IN MANCHESTER.—The Man- chester Courier says:—"It is believed that jL 100,000 a-year would not clear the duty on illicit spirits made in the parish of Manchester alone. A party arrested 011 the 27th October last. in Union-street, Ardwick, sold his spirits from 9s. to 10;. (i 1. per gallon, whilst the duty on spirits of that strength would be at least lis. 91., and is sold by the trade at li»s- 6d." A SEA-SERPENT ON A SMALL SCALE.—A monster eel was caught on Friday last, at Kessock Ferry. It was seen by one of the men ilVilDlDing slowly in the shallow water at the wooden jetty. A boathook was immediately pro- cured, and a lucky blow on the head stunned the monster. It was then transtixed and hauled ashore, when it was found to measure tive feet in length and fourteen inches round the thickest part. —Inverness Courier. CHEAP LIGHT.—The new electrical light, which can be attended to by any person of ordinary capacity, can be produced and maintained at a proportionate cost from that of a candle 10 to the pound to 1000 or upwards. The Hanovar-square Rooms, 100 feet long, 36 feet wide, and 35 high, were lighted with a single electrical light, the usual complement being 400 wax-candles. Useful hints these to the upholders of dear gas. The expense of fittings is about the same as that of gas-lights. A GOLDEN DISCOVERY.—At the recent sale of the eflects of the late Kev. Mdes Barton, of lloole, among other articles an antique chest was purchased by the Rev. Mr. Price, of Longton, to whose residence it was re- moved. On examining the interior narrowly Mr. Price was surprised in finding secreted therein the sum of £240, which had evidently reposed in security for a long series of years. The treasure was immediately returned to the proper parties. ECLIPSES IN 1849.—The following are the eclipses for the forthcoming year ;-1. An annular eclipse of the Sun, February 22, invisible at Greenwich, v. A partial eclipse of the Moon, M irch 8, visible at Greenwich begins llh. 25m. afternoon; middle, 1211. 55m. ditto- ends, -2li. 25m. morning. 3. A total eclipse of the Sun, August 17, invisible at Greenwich. 4. A partial eclipse of the Moon, Sept. 2. This eclipse will not be visible at Greenwich, as the Moon will not rise till 6.49 but she will be obscured by the penumbra at tisiri". MR. NoBODy."—A tradesman 0:1 the Tyne. who had long suffered, during his occasional absence from the counter, from the carelessness of that invisible and irre. sponsible imp, "Nobody," at length bestowed the name on his eldest apprentice, and held him accountable for all the acts ot the bodyless evil-doer. "Mr Nobody" having thus received a questionable shape," was readily called to account for every piece of mischief ascribed to him and the result was that he was always able to fix the blame upon "Somebody;" and greater care is now exercised in the establishment by Everybody.Gates- head Observer* CONTRACT FOR COAL.—The East India Company have given notice, that they will be ready, on the 17th instant, 10 receive tenders for the supply of 3000 tons of coal, of either ot the undermentioned sorts, to be delivered at Aden, on the southern coast of Arabia West Hartley, Garr s Hartley, Buddie's Hartley, Glasgow Hard Splint Coal (scieened), & Risea Black Vein Coal (handpicked). The contracts ot the East India Company for coal are au- nually 011 the increase, which proves that, although there are plenty of coal-fields in India, it is of that quality that will not suit for steam navigation-giving out much sul- phur and corrosive gases. The progress of railways in that vast portion of the British empire will, no doubt, cause a large demand for mixing with the native cjal, and that of the Island of Borneo, ,¡" CARDIGAN GAOL has lately been examined hy an architect and builder, with a view to make it agreeable to the present system of prison discipline, and estimates have been sent in. ( Bisuor HAMPDEN AND DEAN MEREWE.YTIIER.— The Rev. G. Clark has been installed to the prebend of More- ton and Whaddon, in our cathedral, but we hear under caveat and protest of the very rev. the Dean, rector of the cathedral. — Hereford Times. EMIGRATION. — A youth from Nottingham was found ill the streets here, a few days ago, asking the load to l Australia.—Plymouth Herald. to" DKYTH Buronn BIRTH.—The Anglo-Celt, an Irish paper, says that Mrs. Walsh, of Roscommon, whose life was attempted by an assas-in a short time since, was on Wednesday last delivered of a child, still burn, whose body contained three slu\{s." A GUANO EMBALMED CHILD The other day the mummy of a male child, found imbedded in a \ast i deposit of Peruvian guano, near Arica, was brought froin that port to Liverpool, by the barque "Octavia." In the S deposit were found three bodies, supposed to be those of a father and mother, and this child. The two adult bodies have been forwarded to the British Museum.—■ Liverpool .TournaI. A SUBLIME CHARACTER.—At the County Petty Ses- sions, 011 Friday last, a young woman, summoned for stealing wearing apparel, produced the following charac- ter to the bench :—"The Bearer mary Chasen acted As house Keeper for me one year her Character was very sublime and Exemplary to the Capacity of any in levedual T. inplemartin, December 20, IS4N."—Not withstanding the sublimity of her character the young lady was com- mitted for trial.—Kilkenny Journal. A SEVERELY BRUISED AND WOUNDED LBG CURED BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS. — Mr. Hugh M'Neil, of Kincardine, a shipwright, when working on a vessel, struck his leg a most violent blow, which in- dicted a severe bruise and wound. The limb immediately turned black from the ankle to the hip; all application* to it for weeks had no power to heal the wound. The sufferer having heard so much in praise of HullowajS Ointment and Pills, determined on trying them, and, fortunately, he did, for by their use alone his leg was cured, and he was able in a month to resume his work.
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