Monmouthshire Merlin

M 0 IS MO U T H. r We are requested to state that the Rev. Jenkin I rQrdtna.s has engaged to officiate at the Baptist chapel, Cole- °. the first fortnight in November. shocking and fatal acccident occurred on Mon- 'o a youns; man named Edward Brown, in the employ Messrs. Hall, Brewers and Spirit Merchants, Redbrook, Monm-'Utb. The poor fellow was in the act of turning off e water from a tap over a large furnace, and was conversing Wf moment a mason. who was at work near him, when 'Cai?01 dipped,and he was precipitated into the fuinace of L l~'ng water, with his head foremost. His hair, which was ^s.hy, saved his face and eyes, but the whole of his body was lia i 'n the most frightful manner. Assistance was imme- rendered the unlortunate sufferer, and he was conveyed bJ"s home, a short distance from the brewery, where he w is Hj*1 p omptly attended by G. Wilson, Esq., surgeon, who eve'y means for the alleviation of his patient s agonies, to preservation of his lite, which skill and humanity k Uggest> sll°ck which the nervous system sustained foll however too great, and the poor fellow died early on the J1d5 morning, retaining his consciousness to the last. iren leased was married, but has, fortunately. left nochii su«t • bewail with his widow the untimely loss which she has »ep a,t>ed. He was a native of Monmouth, and from being J generally known, and much respected for his unassuming v quiet demeanour, his sad fate has the more excited public tnmlsseration. Considerable dissatisfaction has beea generally ^nifested in the parish of Monmouth, on the subject of ahe- J4'ions which have been made in the poor's rate books, in the ^'nation of properties since the last valuation of the parish by C(Jf> Purchas, of 1'ilstone. A parish meeting was accordingly lt Evened to examine into the matter, on Thursday week, when fyp88 that these alterations had materially lowered the 'hei* seveta' lhe recent overseers, who had thus reduced '°wn amounts. Two of these gentlemen attended the H k g and explained the causes of their own alterations, but t0 lch were so unsatisfactory to the late payers assembled, as lh an unanimous vote of censure upon the officials for IV, lr Partial conduct. It was at first thought by many thai » Overseers had acted illegally, as well as unfairly but from J,tecent decision, which had been given by the Lord Chief supported by Justices Patteson and Wm.arns.it ap I, *rs Parochial omcers are not obliged to abide by former va- >» S K.1; 'b? onfSd"St it op«»s ..id. doo, fo, !S«. as well as negatives the utility of fresh valuattons ol !?hes, which are always procured at great expence. Wednesdey last, a lad, named 1 £ nch, Neoyf0rfKWOman> Damed Id"ebybt'heWmayora of Monmouth VITI?,¥*S4J!S.B bu,a>g a silver tablespoon, the propei ty of A1 r. ^owjes 'C>r, ot Monmouth. The theft ol th-s spo°n caused h search di0 3nt 'o be served on a person named W iny'. • r"" 'T h"" d tlfoo^^ed atu" I. if 'lih with much violence, and the c°n»o» lhf c.^ bJ 'fie EirifwhUe »b? relascd lo pa'clnse ciuj^^h battered, and from other circumstanc s susPicion. He detained the article, and R 4 j°'n Finch, a shoit distance from Mr. J«• • »er.; ,n custody, where the piisoners again g «>*s of the manner in which they became po^e^ed of he r°bhe' and were therefore committed to take of are dad to observe that the manufacturers «winning plough at the late Monmouth pioughiog match, C*>'tof Which appeared in our columns last week, were 4rs. Lewis, of Abergavenny.

ABERGAVENNY. ILLEGAL FISHING IN THE RIVER USK. In our report last week of the important proceedings before the magistrates at Abergavenny, on an information against a person named Williams, for spearing a salmon in the river Usk, we were obliged to defer the able address of Mr. Secretan, who appeared to support the information on behalf of the Earl of Abergavenny. We now feel great pleasure in giving it insertion, and find it our duty to call the particular attention of the public to it, as it I illustrates in a forcible manner the law as applicable, not only to this case, but to all fisheries. It is valuable at the present time, especially where the right to fisheries is disputed. Mr. Secretan said :— The prosecution has been undertaken at the instance of the association lately formed for the conservancy of the fishery in the river Usk, whose proceedings for that purpose have the sanction of the Eatl of Abergavenoy, and who have gone to considerable expense tn removing obstructions in the river which interrupted the free passage of the fish, aod have thus already conferredgreat public benefit.by the increased quantity offish the river already supplies, and the consequent reduction of price— at least one-third of what it was before attention was paid to the subject. Considerable depredations, however, are still committed by unauthorized persons destroying: the fish by nets, spearing, and other unlawful means; and unless this is put a stop to, little encouragement will remain to the conservators to persevere in their present measures, which whilst as before stated iheyare calculated to do great public good in increasing the supply of fish, also have for their object to afford every facility for the amusement of the fair and legitimate angler. In the present case, the offence was committed on the 20th July last, and the act charged is that of spearing a salmon in that part of the river Usk which runs through the parish of Hanover. I shall prove to you that the defendant was guilty of that act, and further, that in the water in which the offence was com- mitted, the Earl of Abergavenny has a private right of fishing, and that the defendant acted without the consent of the Earl. In a proceeding of this nature, it would be sufficient evi- dence of the private right of fishery in the Earl of Abergavenny, that I should call his steward, who has acted as such for the last twenty-six years, to prove that fact of his own knowledge, but a disposition having been lately manifested amongst some persons to call the Earl's right into question, it may be as well that the present opportunity should be taken to satisfy the public mind in this respect; and with the permission of the Bench I would therefore lay before it a sIPall part only of the documentary evidence we possess, but which will be quite enough to establish beyond doubt the right of fishery claimed by the Earl. The law with respect to rights of fishery not being very generally known, I may perhaps be allowed to state very briefly how it stands with reference to the present case. The different treatises on this subject, class these rights under two general heads-lhe first relating to rights of fishery in the sea and in navigable rivers, which means rivers as far as the tide Bows aod the second relating to lights of fishery in rivers not navigable, or where the tide does not reach. Now with respect to this latter division, under which our case falls, I will at once admit, that originally at common law, the proprietors of estates bounded by private rivers, had the fishing on their respective sides, ad filum aquas," or to the centre of the stream. But then again, by the common law, the original proprietors of these lands were empowered to grant and portion out such interests either in the lands or in the waters adjoining them, as they might think proper; and thus in former days persons having large tracts of Und, with streams running through them, might from time to time grant out the lands to other persons, still reserving to themselves the exclusive rights of fishing in the rivers intersecting them and nothing is more distinctly laid down in all the treatises on this subjeci, than that the exclusive fishery in a private or unnavigable river, may belong to one person, whilst the lands through which they run may belong to another. Indeed, a right of fishery in a stream, implies in itself that the land through which it runs must belong to another for a right of fishery in one'a own land would be attomalous, inasmuch as the proprietary intbetandin itself implies the right of exercising all acts of ownership over it. Thus you never hear of a man's rights of way over his own land, or of a lord of a manor's rights of commonage or pasturage over his own common—these rights necessarityimpty they are something originally granted out of and were held distinct from, the ownership of the soil, 11 is ihere fore not only possible, but more than probable, that the whole of the lands through which the fishery claimed by the Earl of Abergavenny extends, were originally vested in the same pro- prie'or, by whom the lands were from lime to time granted oui, reserving the fishery, which has descended to, and is now vested in, the present Earl. A very strong circumsiance in support of this assumption is, the fact that in a part of the river with- in this fishery, the Earl of Abergavenny has a weir, for which he is in receipt of rent to this veiy day, and as he has not any land whatever adjoining that weir, it shows that originally his ancestors had the soil of this part of the river, and if of this part, then doubtless of the whole of the river throughout his seignory. Now I believe the law to be as I have stated it, but it may be satisfactory to the Bench to have some authority in support of my statement, and I will therefore, with their permission, read a few passages from a work of considerable research upon this subject. (He here quoted largely from Schultes, on aqua- tic rights.) 1 think, therefore, it may be taken as quite clear, that an exclusive fishery may exist for many miles along a river, with- out the river of such fishery having any of the lands upon iis Danks—and to such a fishery the Earl of Abergavenny lays claim, as to that part of the river Usk lying between the Henc Bont, or Upper Bridge, on the coofines of Breconshire, to the Pandv Mill, in the parish of Goyirey, in this county and ir, support of this claim I think I shall be able 10 adduce to you the strongest e.ideDc8 which it is possible to furnish 00 such a subject. This evidence forms the subject of a report made many years ago, relative to this fishery, by Mr. Illingworth, of the Tower, who was then employed at great cost to collect and arrange the various ancient documents existing on the subject, and with the permission of the Bench, I will state from that report of whai the evidence consists, with the introductory and explanatory remarks with which it is prepared. Mr. Secretan then read from the report various inquisition < taken as early as the 18th Edward II.—upwards of 500 years ago-showing a fishery in the river Usk in the then Barons of Abergavenny, and also produced various old leases of the fish- ery, and proved payment of rent under them. and in which its termini were clearly described as extending from the Hene Bont, in Llanwenarth, to the Fatdy Mill, in Goytrey, one of hese leases being granted in the year 1749, to Capel Hanbury LeIgh, of Pontypool Esq, under which he proved payment of ienl down to the year 1800, a period of fifty years, and a lease subsequently granted in the year 1814, to Henry Williams, of Abergavenny, the king of fishermen, Rnd others. Mr. Baker Gabb, agent to the Earl of Aoergavenny for the last twenty six years, proved that the documents produced came tiom the muniments of Lord Abergavenny.

DIVISION OF NEWPORT.-MONDAY. OCT. 9. (At the Otfice of Messrs. Birch and Davis.) Before the Rev. James Coles. George Symmons and William Bullock were charged with stealing a mare, the property of Mary Thomas, widow, of St. Melons, Monmouthshire. It appealed by the evidence of Mary Thomas, the prosecu- trix, that on the evening of l'uesda>, the 3rd of October, a cart mare, her property, was turned out fot the night in a field be- longing to her, and that between six and seven o'clock next I morning it was missed. Search having been made in the neighbourhood without success, her son, accompanied by Tre- wartha constable of Castletown, went to Bristol in search ol the animal, but found no trace at all of her there. On their return through Westbury-on-Trim, the son heard that a mare supposed to have been stolen, was in the stable at the inn, and going there he identified the mare as that which Ills mother had lost. It appeared that Sergt. Shekleton, of the Glouce-shire County Police, received information that two men of suspicious appearance, with a mare in their possession were approaching Westbury from the passage. He sent Constable Hapgood on the road, who toon met the party, took the men into custody, lodged them in the Station House, and placed the mare at livery, where she was found and identified by W. Thomas, son of The prisoners being called on for their defence, Bullock said that on the day of the night the mare was stolen, he was at the Cumberland Basin. Hotwells, Bristol, where he met the pri- soner Symmons, who offered him 5s and his food to come into Monmouthshire to fetch some cattle that they came to New- port by the packet, and walked six or seven miles out of New- port, when Symmons went into a field and took out the mare, which they brought with them to Westbury on their road to Bristol, where they were taken into custody. The prisoners were committed for trial.

DRAPERS' ASSISTANTS. To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. StR,— It is with the greatest pleasure I find the drapers of Newport have agreed to close their shops at an earlier hour, thus allowing their assistants a portion of time for mental culture and healthful recreation, which they were precluded entirely from enjoying under the old system. This is a boon that cannot be too highly valued by those who have obtained it. The liberality which the employers manifest will tend to stimulate theassistants to increased energy and zeal in their welfare; and I hope to see the young men thus freed, make the best use of their leisure hours. Let them adopt the excellent suggestion of Mr. Hewitt, in a lotter which ap- peared in the last number of the MERLIN—-that is, to become members of the Mechanics' Institute. This would be the best means of manifesting their gratitude towards their genercus employees. Having been acquainted with a drapery establishment, I will, with your permission, show from wheoce the system of late hours arose, and to which the new system must shortly recur unless the public will take an interest in the welfare of the shopmen, by making all their purchases at an earlier hour io the evening. Late shopping is the sole cause, for bv this incoosiderate practice, the shopkeeper is compelled to remain behind his counter, until so late an hour In a dra perv establishment considerable time is lequired to set in order the goods that have been disarranged dunng the morning and evening. Thus customers who visit the shops late in the evening not only prevent the young men from folding these uoorla but throw others into disorder, which causes them a few hours' work, after the departure of the last customer. In this may be found the cause of the evil, and the remedy is obvious Let those who are at the heads of families set exam. pies of early shopping-and further, let them so arrange their domestic concerns that no one under their roofs be necessitated to make their purchases in the evening, and the remedy would be effected. Besides the immense relief this arrangement would prove to the shopmen, purchasers would find it advantageous to them setves; for the defective and ill.coloured article bought by the gaslight, is often found unsuitable in the morning. But I ap- peal not only to their interest, but their humanity also; for it is in their power to save those freed shopmen from being again hrown into the misery ihey bore before the alteration of hours was affected. Let this be done by the customer, and the shops will necessarily continue to be closed, from want of a motive t<> keep them open. Tlien would the shopmen—having leisure to mature their intellectual faculties, and to practise the precepts 01 virtue—become fitted to adorn society, and would assume their legitimate station among their fellow creatures, as men and as Christians. I am, sir, with great esteem, Yours, very obediently, Newport, October 10. PIIILANTHROPOS.

NEWPORT TOWN HALL.—THURSDAY, OCT. 5. PRESERVATION OF SALMON.—CONVICTION FOR SELLING UNSEA. SONABLE FISII. Eliza Howell, the wife of William Howell, of Caerleon, fish. erman, was charged by Mr. Cornelius Evans, the Usk conser- vator, with offering for sale an unseasonable spawney salmon, the same being unfit for food. Mr. Evans, being sworn, stated that about two o clock on Wednesday he received a message frorr. Captain Richards, that a woman had gone down Commercial-street with two fish in a basket, one of which appeared out of season—that he, in com- pany with Mr. Richards followed the woman and came up with her near St. Paul's church, and that upon examining the fish he saw that the one now before the court was in a bad state. After expostulating with the woman upon such conduct, he desired her to accompany him to the Mayor: to this, aftersome demur, she consented the fish. was opened by Mr. Richards, in the presence of his Worship, who ordered the woman, her husband, and the man who took the fish, to appear before the magistrates this day. The state of the fish and the great mass of spawn which were exhibited, excited much attention and surprise in the court, particularly when Mr. Evans, io the course of his remarks, begged to submit to the Court'a calculation of the probable loss sustained by the destruction of this one fish—viz., he estimated the number of the ova then in view, to be about 20,000 a ow- ing a fourth part of this to be wasted by various natural causes the 15,000 left, when come to full maturity, would average 12 pounds each, or even more, producing the enormous amount 01 80 tons 7 cwt. and 161b. of good and wholesome food! Mr. Evans likewise hoped that the abominable state of the fish now before the court, would be a sufficient argument to those who oppose the furtherextension of the fence months; and although the present close time did not commence before the J4\h mst., he contended that the Act empowered him to seize at all times any unseasonable fish that might be taken or offered for sale. Mrs. Howell pleaded guilty to the charge, and the magis- trates, after a long and patient investigation of the Acts 58 George 3, and 33 George 2, c. 27, fined her in the mitigated penalty of 10s, conformably to the last statute, in consequence of her readiness to come forward, and her expressing regret for the offence—the worthy magistrates at the same time informing her and the other parties present that they were determined to enforce the fullest penalties upon all future cases that might be brought before them for adjudication. The fine was paid, and the fish was ordered to be destroyed.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12. Before the Mayor and Thos. Hawkins, Esq. John Evans, the man who has been six weeks in custody, on a charge of assaulting James Mallhews, wiih a poker, was this morning again brought up, and was fined five shillings and costs for the offence, and in default of payment, to be impri- soned in Usk House of Correction for the term of 14 days. The monay was paid, and the prisoner discharged.

BEDWELTY PEDY SESSIONS—OCT. 11. Before Samuel Homfray, Joseph Davies, and E. Williams, Esqs., and the Rev W L Morgan. Mr David Lloyd, one of the overseers of the parish of Bed- welly, appeared to answer a complaint made against him cn the part of the parish of Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire, in conse- quence of his refusing to pay £14 18i 9d, the costs ordered by the Court of Quarter Sessions, on the trial of an appeal at Usk, in October last, to be paid by the overseers of Bedwelty to the overseers ,1r Trefeglwys. The older 01 sessions, signed by the Deputy Clerk of the Peace was produced, and it was proved that a copy of it had been served ipon Ihe overseer, Ihallhe C051S had betn demanded of him, and that he refused to pay them; but the magis ratt. dismissed the complaint, because there was no evidence ihat ihe order was written and signed durina the sitting of the court—be- cause the amount of cos's was not certified by the chairman 01 Qualter SessioDs-and because the demand was nol made by or upon the proper pany; find ordered the complainant (Trefe- giwys) to pay the cosis of the present proceeding. Casein point cited by the magistrates' clerk, Law Journal, vol 10 N S, p 124.

MERTHYR POLICE.—FRIDAY, OCT. 6. Before G. R. Morgan and J. Lewis, Esgri. Timothy Jones, of the Ship and Castle beer house, Merthyr, was summoned by Mr. Superinten lent Davies, for opening hit- house for the sale of beer, &c., before the hour of one o'clock. p.m.. on Sunday, the 1st instant, which was proved hy Sergeant Hume.—Fined 5s and costs. William Phillips, of Dowlais, was charged with selling beer on the 1st instant, without having been duly licensed to do so. -Fined- 203 and costs. 0 David Richards, miner, was charged by Gwenllian Jones, married woman, with assaulting her on the 30th ult.—Fined 5, and costs. Morgan Rees and Danie) Man iay, both of Merthyr, were charged by David Lewis, on behalf ot the Taff Vale Railway Company, with an act of trespass on the tailway, on the 28!í, ult.—Ordered to pay the expenses only, and cautiooed to be more careful in fu:ure. Fifteen persons were summoned by the assistant overseer 01 the poor of the parish of Merihyr Tydvil, for non-payment 01 poor's rales.— Defendants not being able to show any legal excuse, were each ordered to pay the respective sums claimed, aod costs. A few other unimportant cases were settled out of court. MONDAY, OCT. 9. Before G. R. Morgan, Esq. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY. — EXAMINATION OF THE ROBBERS. A ugUSIUS Gaccon, sworn: I amcashierio Ihe Aberdare Iron Company, William Thompson and others. I went to the Wesi of England Bank on Saturday, the 71h of October, for Ihe I monthly pay. 1 was to receive £2000, less by £2 10. aDd .f4 6s 8J. Th* remainder of the money was g'ven to me by 1\11 Thomas Davies, the clerk, and I put it in my portmanteau. I saw a bundle of £ 5 noles lied up in a parcel. I rI.4Ceived a bag of gold, out of which I took 5 sovereigns 10 pay the £4 6s 8d I also received two baga which contained silver one was lied up, and the oilier I tied up myself. I proceeded home with the money in my portmanteau. A little beyond the upper bridge on the mountain between Merthyr and Aberdare, I met Thos. Nicholas John and Fanny Davies. I said Good morning" to the man, and passed on. I stopped to speak to the woman about an errand. The portmanteau was strapped on the saddle before me. When I got to the brow of the hill, I got off my pony, and led it down. I was 50 or 60 yards the Merthyr side of the Blaemant gate, when I observed three men comiug to. wards the gate from the Aberdare side. The three men caire through the gate first, and let the gate drop. As I drew Deal: to the gate, two passed on my right and one on my left: as I was about to open the gaie, a voice from my left ciied Stop,' I once. I turned round and saw a man standing close to me,' vvnh a pistol to my side: ihe prisoner Martin Lowry was the persou who held the pistol the bridle was snatched out of mv hand. I saw two men by the pony at the time, and instantly 1 saw them proceeding up the hill the prisoner Lowry, wlnle the two olheis were in ihe act of going up, said to me De- liver, deliver," and then passed his baud round me and felt m, coat pockets. I said I had noihiog more, or woids to that effect. The prisoner Lowry continued standing by me, and said Go go, or go on." He drew a siep or t*o bark: Itookeddownthe hill, and saw a man with a cart coming up, about 150 yards off. I looked the prisoner full in the face, and then lan down to 'his man, to whom I spoke. I returned to my pony, and galloped down to the works, and gave information of 'he robbery. When I returned to the pony, the portmanteau was gone, and I saw tha three men going up the side of the wall on the ieft hand up the mountain. The portmanteau produced by Superintendent Davies is the one that was taken from the pony. The money was in four bags, and the four bags now produced are like those I had. I received the money at the bank I did not reckon it myself, and it was in the same slate in my portmanteau as when I brought it from the hank. It was near 12 o'clock at Toon when I was attacked. Fanny Davies, sworn I was proceeding from Merthyr to Aberdare, and it was about half-past 11 o'clock when I came to the Mountain gate, on Saturday last. I met the three pri- soners walking on the turf by the side of the road towards Aberdare they were then from 100 to 200 yards below the gate on the Aberdare side. I am quite positive the three prisoners, were the three men I mel. On ascending the mountain on the Aberdare side, I met Mr. Gaccon, who spoke to me of some message. Thomas Nicholas John was with me. We went on towaids Merthyr, and Mi. Gaccon towards Aberdare. About midwry between the two bridges on the Merihyr side of the mountain, David Rowlands came running afler liS with irdor- mation of the robbery. Thomas Nicholas lohn returned up the hill towards Aberdare, and I went towards Merthyr. In about half an hour afterwards Thos. N. John came up to me, having the prisoner Edward Hayes in custody. George Wynne, sworn: I am a carpenter working at Aber- dare 1 received information of the rubbery at the Llwydcoed works, at Ai'erdare, between 12 and 1 o'clock on Saturday last. I proceeded ip the mountain, and from 400 to 500yards beyond the gate, neai the Welfa, I found a ponmanieau Dear ihe wall, opened it, and in the corner of it I found a canvass bag, which 1 untied, and in it were bank notes I did not reckon them I rolled it up, and went on the way to Aberdare office. I met Mr. Morgan and Mr. Lewis Roberts, and by Mr. Morgan's I orders I gave it to Mr. Roberts. William Williams, Sworn: I was on the mountain about 11 o'clock on Saturday last. I saw three men 10gether 00 the Blaenaenaid sheep walk, within a short distance from the load they were running in the direction of Berihwaunnydd, a farm in the occupation of llees Jones: they separated btfore Ihey passed me, two on the Merthyr side pnd one on the Aberdare side. The prisoner Leonard, I am sure. was one of them he had a bag in his right hand. down by his side, as if hiding it from me. The two other prisoners are in size like the two oilier men, but I did not see their faces. The bag was like one of those now produced. I went on towards the road, and mat persons enquiring if I had seen any men, and I told them that I had. 3 Rees Jones, Berthwaunydd, sworn Some time after 12 o'clock on Saturday last, I saw two men about 300 yards from my house. between it and the Aberdare mountain: I saw them walking quickly on my farm, where there is no pathway or road no peison has a right to go there: that attracted my attention 1 went on so as 10 observe them 1 saw several persons on foot and horseback traversing the mountain. In about half an hour after I first saw the two men, David Whitty came and called out to me, and informed of the robbery. Whitty left me and went for some more men, and returned in about half an hour, with several persons. 1 directed the men where to make a search, and remained where 1 was to watch they passed the place where I thought the men were, and I directed them to search b*ck, and accompanied Mr.Smith and o hers in I he wood. We found the two persons, Loury and Leonard, in H very thick bush in the hedge; lhey w..re lYIng together: Ihe.1 were taken *uto custody a shorllime after, having run off abüul three quarters of a mile no one spoke to them before they ran off. We searched and found some bullets and powder ill pieces of paper on the top of the ditch, about three yards from where the men started, and just in the same spot we found two bag-. with tern and earth over them: one of the bags was tied with a string, and theither was open. I delivered them to Mr. Whllly and Mr, Smith: the bags were like those which are now produced. P.C. 1\1. Morgan, sworn Between half past two and three o'clock, I went up to Berthwaunydd, and found the prisoners Lowry and Leonard in the custody of John Llewelyn and others. t'hey were given into my custody. I took Lowry aside, and asked him what he had done with the money he said, ] dropped them on the mountain." I asked him if he could show me the place, and he said he would if I would accompany him. We went up through the fields to the mountain, and walked about three quarters of a mil# on the mountain. We torn* mence'/i the search, and had gone about 400 y-rds, when Lowry «a id we could not have passed i he place. We turned bark to 'iea/ly the place where »c commenced the *e<trch. hen we •atne there he said he thouoht it was <ome«here about there the ihonev wa9 We ,ur,ied rolin(3, and Wllham Jones s,00Ped rr-'1 r? Ultd r„ ,ri,i „ ihe neil i lie three prisoners were Assizes.

N E W P i* thg u,h D/ Qct 1843 Imports and Exports, for the ween e-ndt.. IMPORT^. -ranel, Tiieewer L'Adele, Drot, St. Malo; L Act if, r* Bilim, dnt. ballast.—Star. Richards, Bridgwater; Friends, Bryant, ditto Caroline, Roberfe, Glon' -o;Gia- port Trader, Jackson, ditto Jane and Mary, Guy. c.1^ titude, Knight, ditto, flour.—Three Sisters, Guest, Hobert, Clampitt, ditto William, Clements, ditto r nei.chsLiv Govier, ditto Good Intent, Brooks, Swansea, sundries Perseverance. Cullanan, Kinsale, herrinps.—Sisters, Qumton Gloucester,malt.—Kangaroo.Prosser, Cork, powder. Alliance, Ley, Boss, cattle.—Dolphin, Fry, Cork, oats.-Ueau!y.lu- ohy, Ross, pi?s.—John, Newman, Dublin. vitriol.— Nancy Keiley, Youuhal, oats and catlle.- Prudence. Ivdwaics. Mridgwater; Gamet, James, ditto; Unanimity, Mitchel, ditto Will'; am, Smith, ditto; Eleanor and Grace, })(d"on, ditto Caileon, Headford, ditto, bricks.-Flower, lippeit, Fowey llose, George, ditto; Excellent, Doughty, Barrow Thomas and Elizabeth, Burd, Padstow, iron ore—Wem Collier, Youlden, Gloucester; Amazon, Long, Gloucester, tar. And the market boats from Biistol, with sundries. EXPORTS. Mathilde, Youkehar, Kiel, 148 tons rail tron.—Sopho, <frei'n°rth, ditto, 318 tons rail iron —Maria Fredllca, Schmidt, Stettin J.Wtons rail iron.—Nathaniel Hooper, Churchill. New Votk '601 t\°DS bar and bolt iron.—Beseltatet, Wickblad, Malta, 414 tons col.-Schuelpost, Evers Stettin, 664 boxes, 150tons bar iron.—a?darin.* Co^%y' St. Thomas 336 ons steam coal.-Stately, Eo'ev, d«to, 750 tons steam coal -Eliza- beth, Cuming, Lisbon, 76 U?os steam coal.Rewaid, Treat Gerace. 167 tons bar iron, 3C00 ^e 2P tons pig iron, 20 tons coke, 40 cwt. nail rods, 3 cwt. sheet iron 200 deals.- 2 Irene, Bieckwoldt, Altona, 136 tons bar iron, 375^ cwt. nails. -DonI, Kemp, Southampton; Lord One., Trigg, Falmouth, iron and coal -Newport Trader. Jackson. Gloucester, sundries —32 vessels for various ports, with iron and tin. The market boats for Brisul, with sundr ies and 180 vessels for vaiious ports, with coals. VESSELS ENTERED OCT AND LOADING TOR Vl REIGN Donation. Same. varrif ROIrer Rotterdam Hendricka PIuccker 153 Edwards Roger Siettin Wilhelmine Charlotte .Schroder .120 .n.1™ St. Thomas Stately Edey 479 Ditto Superb Thompson (>35 ditto Gibraltar Caroline Rodd 279 ditto Ditto Marie Fredericke..Schmidt 252 ditto St. Thomas .St. Lawrence.Stodart.2H dttto. Stettin Armeda Tettl bottle — ditto Gerace .Reward Treatt 151 ditto Hamburgh Alonzo Sconlla 220 ditto Stettin Bazaar Nicurnan 221 ditto Ditto Johannes Roach — ditto Oordt Maria Arletta .Schutt 92 ditto Hambro Tennant Meeke 230 ditto Gibraltar Venus Chiicott 82 ditto Venice Fidele Amico Miovich .273 ditto Vice L'Adele Drot 150 ditto Rouen .Tritonia Furze 65 oitto M Thomas Lumabra Harvey .190 Stonehouse & Co Ditto .Concord Hewett 287 ditto Rotterdam Zog Vhet Bsrghois 75 ditto Venice Solway Evans 18? citto Hamburgh Maria .Lenhotf 35 ditto Malta Lencotheo .Bannan .179 ditto Kiel Mathilde Vou Rehu 85 ditto Ditto Sophia Stemorth 234 ditto Gibraltar Laik Prcwse ditto Lisbon Betsy Bayd 09 ditto Stettin Schnellpost Evert IIS ditto Malta Resultalet Wichlad S0O ditto Palermo Jersey Lass Dean 132 ditto Marceilles L'Aclif Paryand 101 ditto Prince Royal Jenkins 79 ditto' Rotterdyra Wilberforce 1*6 ditto Mantes Eclaire Maner 86 ditto Rotterdam Klasina Kars 65 Qiao St. Thomas Mandarin Coiiey 224 Moreton ft Co fcjfo Rio Grande Cousens 220 nitto Y^oeira.Harriet Dasher 223 ditto Barcelona Visitor. Mo;>pett !3G ditto Hamburgh Irene Breckwoldt 117 ditto Jersey. Lord of the Isi.es..Ainie 30 ditto Ditto Turk Suiter 56 ditto Seville "Water Witch Grvnt New York Nat. Huoper t'hurc.11'!—•••••• ditto Lisbon Elizabeth Cummin^

An account of Coal and Iron brought DOW* the Canal during the week ending October 7 :— TONS. Thomas Prothero Thomas Powell Martin Morrison R, J. lile-itt 400 Monmouthshire Iron and Coal Company. W.S. 3til} Rosser Williams 20 Jolin Daues.. »• •• J. F. ilanson 250 t,5iO J" MS Tons 2,9('9

BIRTHS. On Sunday the 8th instant, at Ty CenoI farm, Llanvapley, Mrs J. Straker, late of Newport, of a daughter. On ilie 26th ult.. the wife of Mr. D. Morns, postmaster, St. Clears, of a daughter. On the 4th inst., at Ruyan house, Brighton, the lady of Charies Morgan, Esq., M P., Ruperra Castle, of a daughter. On Sunday, the 9th inst., at the vicarge, Swafield, Norfolk, the lady of the Rev. Lawson Sisson, M.A., of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 12th inst., by the Rev. J. Callowhall, B.A., rector, Mr. William Brown, Cardiffi to Mary, eldest daughter of JJr. Morgan Williams, Penycoed Castle. DIED. On the 7th inst., Mr.John Farish Me. Fee, third son of Capt. Mc. Fee, of this town, aged 23 years, deeply lamented by his parents; and a large circle of frieuds mourn ins pre- mature decease. On Sunday, the 8th inst., aged 38 years, Mr. Wm. Tanner, late fotemitn to Mr. Davies, tailor and draper, of this town. Ou Sunday last, at Monmouth, after a few hours of extreme suffering, to the great grief of her widowed mother, Catherine Frances, the infant daughter Qf Mrs, H. Morgan, Parade. On Thursday lasi, after a very short illness, Mr. James Butt, of the Roads Farm, St. iiviavels. On Sunday October 1st, Augusta Maria Marsh, third daughter of William Addams Williams. Esq of Ltangibby. On Saturday October 7ih, at Usk, Mary, the wife of Mr. John Edwards. Diuggist, of Chepstow. On Saturday lost, October 7th, in the 20th year of her aste, Jane, eldest daughter of Mr. 7'bomas Williams, Tyntjla, Farmer, in the parish of Ystradylodwg, Glamorganshire. On the 6th ins! aged 29 years, Mr. Thomas Cufflining, of the firin of Hstines and Cummiog, of Swansea, regretted by all who knew him. On the 30th ult., at Penrhwtyn House, near Neath, aged 14 years, Etiward Howell Cutbbertson, eldest son of Air. Cuth- berison. Solicitor. On the 6111 inst. at Troedyrbun, near Merthyr, the Rer. Dr. Thomas, Independent minister, aged 29, leav.ng a wife and child to deplore his loss. He was highly belowed by his flock.

MER THY R, D.\RING ROBBERY OF TWO THOUSAND POUNDS —CAPTURE OF THE ROBBERS. CnTllis town was thrown into the greatest consternation, in beÐaequence of a report being circulated that an extensive rob- had been committed on Aberdare mountain, about two '[e» from Merthyr. The particulars are these L seems that tlie cashiers of the different works go to the ju6'1* on Saturday mornings for cash io pay the men's wages. • Gaccon, the cashier of the Aberdare Iron Works, was re- d rnUlg from Mtrthyr-haviog been to the bank—over Aber- hi|| between eleven aod twelve o'clock last Saturday *>«, and when at the top of the hill he dismounted and *Jed down the declivity. By a gate called CNyd-ty pyllydd, came forward and presented a pistol at him, whilst M,* 0,t>ers rushed up and took the bags and portmanteau from «add!e. Mr. Gaccon, thinking the two latter had pistols Ak BO resistance, but with all possible has e ro >obk are' *° inform the proprietor and the workmen tj0 *'y» and. requested every one that he met to give in orm I). 'he police station in this town. Mr. Superintenden in,8.* with the activity for which he is so justly celebrated, 10m lately despatched the constables in various directions lbe e of whom were favoured with the horses of gentlemen ot by 'i0.*0* Every assistance that could be given was rendered !'• .Several persons were taken up on suspicion, but after- too, t discharged. The Aberdaie workmen, almost to a man, Other () the 11111 in search 01 the villains, wiih large sticks, and the We"P°ns. Mr. Rees Price went with some men to o, where the robbery was committed, where, w,thin three W"' *ard' of the gate, they found a bag containing £ 1000 C; 0o,«. which welcome news was speedily brought to this kill0- A great many workmen made a thorough se wch over .he in a wood a few .lies fiom Merthyr, called Pa.th- s^-Vdd, they found the robbers concealing themselves, i he ? ,°F £ 605 WBS found hidden in different places, leavmg only folln ce of JE395. wl,icl1 was hIs0 found J!S,Xl°J ,C °D| t'og morning, ne-r the place where they hid themselves. b/>«rof one of the Aberdare men was desperately bitten H of the miscreants. They were conveyed to the Station ■p** "midst the hurrahs of vast crowds of people. P'isonen were taken on Monday before G. R. Morgan, W,' aDd ^ere, on the clearest evidence, committed to take then «»ort i ,he Glamorganshire Assizes. They had been at t fo' *ome time at Dowlais, but were, we believe, out ol C ,l "'e Ume they engaged in this transaction. (See Mer- Volice 'epoiia.) POLICE HORSE.— It appears that 80 •en ^»tr*d«men of this town have subscribed Is each to pre- di«tr- Superintendent Davits with another horse. Othei to ^c,s "> Glamorgan are do.ng the same. I his is unknown who, it seems, is very popular, and de y l0* Grth oney orders, to the number of one thousand the )trea'>oa*s> have been granted at Merthyr post office, during th« ..71 quarter. The charges the same were £ 16 7s dd. covered £ 1927, 9s, 9d. About 1400 were given only Months ago.

SATURDAY, OCT. 7. Before the Mayor, an,d T. Hughes, and T. Hawkins, Esqs. BEHOLD THE BRITANNIA." Richard Bowler, Henry Hancock, John Vasey, John Bate- man, and William Penniger, five sailors of the market-boat and trow class, well begrimed with coal dust and tobacco juice,were charged with assaulting John Elliot, landlord of a beerhouse on the Canal Parade, known as the Britannia. Elliot appearing with his head bound up, looking like a man what lost the fight, stated that last night, about eight o'clock, tfe prisoners came to his house and drank nine quarts and a pint of beer, and that growing uproarious, happy and glorious, ihey had commenced dancing OD Ihe tables, stllnding on thei; heads, balancing chairs, and finally breaking the fumituie, also smashing in a door, and finishing the work by cracking his head. In support of the accusation, complainant brought forward a very jovial and rosy little lellow, aged about fifty, who stated that he was first fiddler to the Britannia, where his services were nightly retained for the musical comfort of the guests. Last night he played some of his slap-up luoes at the aforesaid house of entertainment; but seeing the prisoners grow violent, battel the furniture, and hussel the landlord, fearing the scrim- mage would reach him, he picked up his cremnna, and hid himself in a corner, and so saw no moie of the affair. Mr. Hawkins examined this disciple of Orpheus at consider. able length, to elicit whether the Britannia WIIS not a harem hut the Tittle fiddler had evidently come prepaied to sound no note on that theme, and very little the>efore waseticited Irom him beyond the fact that he was paid for fiddling, and that was all he cared about. A second charge was here preferred against the prisoners for cuttino and maiming a sailor named Edmund Burns, who, by the bye, evinced in his dialect and mannerism the perfect Yankee. This case was part and parcel" of the foregoing. Burns staled, with a nasal twang, that he was emering the Britannia last night about nine o'clock, as a lodger and boarder. when he found his progress s'opped by the outrushing of the five pri-oners at the bar, one of whom-he couldn't tell which cut his thumb almost slick off, with some sharp instrumeni Hnd when he got inside, a gal named Ann summat" laid hold of him, and wouldn't let him smash the fellers, but made him set down and that was nil he knew about it. Mr. Hawkins examined this transatlantic gentleman also, to prove the Biitaonia a house of immoral fame but Burns was very wary. "GREAT C.ESAR FELL." A third charge was next preferred against the prisoners by another" lodger and boarder" at the Britannia, who gloried in the name of Cffisar Fell, for that they had, against the statute in that case made and provided, pot him a whopper" which spoiled his features, and made him run. Caesar was also a sailor, and looked extremely cunning with his left eye stopped up with a mourning border, and a newly-made" organ" over the darkened peeper. Caesar, with many sly winks at the prisoners, which seemed lo say, I'll cook yer willies for yer," proceeded to say that he was at the Biitanma last night along with his female Ineod, when the scrimmage was a-going on, and seeing Fennegar, one of the prisoners, laying hold of the col/nr of poor Elliot's coal, I "just as though he was a goin to brush 'em down," he bote a hand 10 rescuethe landlord, when his gal laid hold OD him, and I pulled him down, where he sat quietly enough till the fun grew roo" fast and furious" for him to look quieily upon, and just I then somebody's hand—he couldn't say whose—hit him a-reel- ing, and Ihus" Cæsar fell I" He rose up ann cut away as soon as he could, seeing things growing too hot to be safe. By the Bench Now, Cfflsar, how many females are there living there ? Czesar, looking innocently amazed at the question, replied- Why I never sees not any on 'em there, 'sept Ann, and she's only a visitor. (Laughter ) Mr. Hawkins: What! don't you know the names of the others 1 Caesar: What, you means gals as resorts to the house 1 Oh, I does'nt know about that. Mayo Now, Caesar, isn't it a very comfortable housed Caesar: Why, faith J wouldn't wish a much more comfort able house. (Laughter.) Mayor: Aye, everything as comfortable as man coul wi I dare say-eh ? Caesar: Oh, now you're chaffing me. (Laughter.) The prisoners then made a statement, showing that there were several "play actors" in the Britannia when they were there, and they were the persons who began dancing on the table, and standing on their heads, and creating the distuibance and riot in the house. After some consultation on the Bench, the Mayor sentenced each prisoner to pay a fine of 2s 6d and 7s costs, and each sailor having mustered the cash, and paid it. ieft the court. "FINE TALi: Jane Thomas, who has obtained the alias of Fine Talk, from a superior style and conversation, was ehaiged with being dis- ordcrty, &c. The prisoner was discharged with a caution. Daniel Owen was charged with having stolen an oar from the m° w0hin. Drisco11' Pi'ot, at Pillgwenlly. Mr. Woollen appeared for the prosecution, and sufficient evi- dence having been produced. Owen was committed to take his trial at Usk Sessions for the offence. Henry Rodnidge was charged with stealing a gig cushion, the property of Mr. Iggulden, of the Carpenter's Arms; butpri- sonei having produced a witness who swore that he saw him pick the cushion up from ihe road, the prisoner was discharged. THE HIBERNIAN BAGPIPER. Mister Hart, a speaking-eyed roll.ck.ng elderly blade, whose jovial and benevolent countenance indicated his being on good terms with htmself and the woild, was charged with bating" a policeman. g Halt, after scraping his foot insalutation to the Bench,stood at the bar with as comic and arch an expression of features, as hIS celebrated countryman Curran, when telling his story of the mutual murder and eating (all but the tails) of the Kilkenny cats. P.C. Hayward, one of the municipal guard," stated that on the previous night he heard a loud noise and something like a disturbance at the beer shop of Mr. Patiick O'Brian in^Pi". about half-past 12 o'clock, and that on going towards the door he found it shut: moreover, they would not open it till they had cleared away the drinking apparatus, beer, &c. When at length he gained admittance, prisoner, who was one of the party, said he was welcome to come and see them, as all the boys were lodgers." There were three other men there but no drink appealed in requisition. The constable then cautioned them against late hours—Hart interrupting, "Sure, doesn't Tim Moore, the poet say- The best of all wa) s to lengthen our days Is to steal a few hours from night. my love.' (Laughter.) Hayward, in continuation 1 then went out and along the street, when I heard the door open, and presently up came prisoner, "pan which I told 111m he had soon left his lodgings, and ordered him home. Hart desired me to mind my own business, and not to interfere with other gentlemen's trans- actions—he said he was well acquainted with a policeman's duty, and would mend my meddling if I treated him so in Ire, land. Witness shoved him on, when prisoner struck blm io the mouth and collared him, for." hich he was locked up. Mr. Hart, innocently turning up his eyes, Ob, murther, is thruth gone out of the force. (Laughter.) The Bench Now, Mr. lIart, you have heard what witness has said have you any questions to ask him thereupon. Hart, promptly: Questions, your wership, to be sure I have- Now, then, my blade, attend to me. When y"u obthruded, I was sated, and so was the boys: there was no dnuk not a drop, and my instrument— Mr. Pyke: Stop, Mr. Hart, you are making a statement, not asking questions, accoiding to the suggestions of the Bench. Hait: Of), by Gor,I was refreshing Ills knowledge before I Pul the questions, as 1 was ateard his memory is treacherous. ( Loud laughter, at which the officer imperatively called silence.) Hart: Arrah, let the poor cratures enjoy their diversion; its a loud sound comes off an empty biomach. (Roars 01 laughter.) Hart I was sated like any dacent man, so was the boys- Mr. Pyke There you go again, w.th your statement making put your questions, if you have any, to witness. Hart: Bluran ouns. yer wenship I'm givin'the whole truth. (Loud laughter.) Mr. Policeman, didn't I put "P my hand 10 yer face like this (suiting the action to the word); and when you keet hauted nie, and was goino to knock me down as Rill as a flounder with youi mallel-(Iaughler)-may be, yer ho- nours, I might have touched his face like this (slightly patting hIs own chin) just to defend mvself that's all. (Laughter.; And says 1, its home I'm going and says he, your e drunk: well, may be, I am, me buck, but not at your expense. (A laugh.) Mr. Hart was here again called to order.. Hart: Yes, yer reverences, and when he was going to g,,e me a polthogue wid his mallet, I tucked up my instrument lbe Bench: What instrument 1 T nm a nurfes- Hart: And didn't yer wertships know that^ am a purfes sional man, and plays the bagpipes 1 Bench Why didyou not play the a haps your music might h«e sof.ened him • mi e. Policeman He wanted to play 036 r":?'1; ..oul for marie. «» U>« Hart. I m afeard he has not a soui « haythen, yer honours; but if you would like a tune in the gmes of blarney p1*'iU J 4 tJfl 8l -hun house for me you. if ye send the policeman to the stav*. » pipes. (Roar, 0f laughter, in which the Bench jo. •> pipes. (Roar, 0f laughter, in which the Bench jo. •> Bench: Where is your bagpipes 1 H,Ht: Its a presoner, me lords. (Laughter.) Its a hard 1 esse when ye remember what the pipes did in fomenung the army against the murthering French at the bat'le of Taleyvera, in Spain or Porlugal-I donno which, that my pipes should be hung up in limbo at yer dirty stashun house. (Roars of laughter.) Bench: How do you get your living Hart Don't I play for the boys at a shilling a night 1 Bench: But how came you to get drunk 1 Hart Why, then, its the drops the boys would be giving me for the sake of ould times and ould Ireland. Bench You probably drank a drop of whiskey too much last night. Hait (rubbing his hands and smacking his lips): Its beyant probability Mr. Judges. (Loud laughter.) 'Tis mighty sel- dom we taste any of the rale gum-tickling crature in this conn- fry; but, be Gor, there was a taste of rale necture to the fore, last night. (Roars of laughter.) Mr. Hawkins: Well, Hart, I have known you for a sober man a long time, and as you do not appear to have been violem towards the policeman, perhaps the magistrates will let you off this time. Hart: Musha, may Heaven never leave off blessing you. (Loud lauohter.) Its meself that will be after taking the best care in nature of the dacent character that ye gave me.— (Laughter.) Mayor: Pat, your wit has aided you much to day you are discharged. Hart: 1"11 pray for yer the longest day I live, and that's me birth day, the 21st of June. (Roars of laughter.) HeteHart was elbowing his way out of court as fast as possible, when ilie Clerk suddenly called out, Slop, Pat, you must pay me 3s 6d fees!" Hart pulled up, and with an irresistibly comical leer, said- Mr. Pyke, me honey, praps you'd take it out in lilts on the pipes. (Roars of laughter.) Thiee and sixpence, indeed! — why there's no such sum in nature wid a poor bagpiper. (Loud laughter.) The Mayor: Well, well, you have piped away hard enough fur your discharge. YOIl and youi instrument are at liberty. Pat: Oh, then, we'll both be under the blue sky of Heaven. (Roais of laughter.)

MUNICIPAL REGlSTh ATrON. i 1 was held at the A court for the revisal of the municipal lists !|0ck Esa. Town Hall, Newport, on Tnesdav last, Richard J. IU- Mayor, and the two assessors, Messrs. Farr and Jewel, > cilors, presid ing. Mr. Smythtes, solicitor, appeared for the objectors in a of the cases, and Mr. Webbwasrelained by the Messrs. lotn_«, two of the parties objected to. The fol lowing claims were disallowed — Richard Hannefcrd, Thomas Peters, Thomas Griffin Phillpotts, Lazarus Samuel, Henry Smythies, Wm. M Townsend, and Thomas Wells. Claim withdrawn—William Tombs. Claims allowed—Thomas John, Richard Thomas, John Tombs. The two important cases of the day, causing much public attention, were those of \:r. Lewis Edwaids, ex-mayor, and Mr. D. Tombs, jun, and both these gentlemen followed up their claims to remain on the list with a determination and vehemence which will long be remembered by litose present. Mr. Tombs deposed that he was an inhabitant householder in the borough, and contributed to the household expenses he considered himself an inhabitant householder these four yeais, ever since he had been rated for premi-es he lived in a house on the Canal Parade, and his lather and bro'her lived with htm. The house is his father' property on the first of M-)y last, In- commenced paying £150 for the house and other premiss he was not rated for that house, but considered himself as occupier The collector of the Newport Improvement Rate proved that he had given a receipt then put in, to Mr. Daniel lombs and Mr. D. Tombs, jun., for rates on premises occupied by them. The Mayor, alter a long and desultory conversation, in which much sparring and warm recrimination took place between I'd r. Smythies and his Worship, declated his opinion that Mr. 1 ombs had substantiated his claim, whilst the two assessors expressed their decided conviction that the claim stood upon no valid ground, and disallowed it. This produced considerable heat of expression between the Mayor and Assessors, the latter gen- tlemen holding that the decision of the majority of the court I was conclusive as to the fate of the case, whilst ihe Mayor beld that the assessors had not equal power with him. After a controversy, in which the Bench, the Town Clerk, the solicitors, the objectors, and many of the rate payers present,took a very excited and exciting part, the case was deferred till Saturday. At the close, Mr. Daniel Tombs, jun., requested the Mayor to put a question, through the court, to Mr. Harris, the collector that question was, why he had left his (Mr. Tombs') name out of the list, and if instructed to do so, who had so advised him 1 Mr. Llewellin said he considered such a question highly im- proper; a public officer had performed what he deemed a dut\ and it was wrong to subject him to such an inquisitorial course as that suggested. Mr. Farr concurred with Mr. Llewellin. The Mayor said he thought Mr. Harris had acted partially, and he would putlhequestion, and he might answer it ornot, as he liked. Mr. Smythies strongly protested against the question be:ng put, and counselled Harris not 10 answer. Mr. Tombs The Irurh must out, sir; I must have it. Mr Edwards, Mr Turner, andothe'S, pressed Harris, who said that an offiCial person had told him to bevery particular in making nut the Lsts, and Icferred him to section efeven of dIe Municipal Act. The Mayor observed that Harris had not left out other names io a similar position to those he had expunged. In consequence of some observation being thrown out that thl" official person was the Town Clerk, thai gentleman arose, and I said, on his honour, he was not the person he h-id done, and would continue to do, his duly fairly, impartially, and fearlessly. Mr Harris ultimately s;ave the name of the official person, in writing, to the Mayor. OBJECTION TO MR. LEWIS EDWARDS. Mr. Edwards, who appeared with some law books, and in his usual good spirits, had been in court duiing the whole 01 the morning, wailing for the coming on of his case, applied tu the assessors to enter at once upon the matter. The Mayor I am perfectly willing. Mr. Smythies Bill I beg to object at present, as my wit- ness is gone out of court. The Mayor You mny object sir, but you have no right. Mr. Edwards Now, pray who do you appear here for, Mr. Smy'hies 1 Mr. Smythies replied Lewis John. Mr. Edwards: Then Lewis John outfit to have been litre. I mighl have some queslions to ask him, which I shan't ttcu'.le t/ou with, Mr. Smythies. (Loud hughltr.) 1'hc Town Clelk referred to the Municipal Act, and showec 'hat any person objecting to an individual mi^iit appoint who-. he pleased to appear in support of th,t objection. The Mayor said he should like :0 see Mr. Smythies's written ditei iions to appear there for Lewis John. Mr. Smythies said he had received that person's verbal in structions, !ind produced the notice ofohjtClioo signed by Lewis John, in ct-roboranon of his rig.ht to appear for him. Mr. E'lwards Oh, then, I have a similar noltce here, also signed by Lewis John, and I thiak I'll appear for him against myself. (Laughter.) The Mayor: I do not think, Mr. Smythies, that verbal in, I structions ara sufficient. Marry other persons ia court might isc up, "I a p jjea fin Lewi* John, by his vethal direction." Mr. Llewellyn Perhaps the objector would not like to ep- The Mayor: Not like to, sir? And what objection could pear himself. 1 the man have ? Mr. Edwards, hastily: I want this Lewis John—I .vant to see my (rlend Lewi. John bere before me. (Laughter). John Nicholls, process setver, was then sworn, and said he had received notices from Mr. Sm)lhies, to serve on Mr. Ed. wards and Ihe Town Clerk. He served Mr. Edwards's on I If, premises, about the 151h of September—he did not recollect when it was exactly. On witness's being asked if he wrote the indorsement, purporled to be his, at the back of the notice, he said he did not. The Mayor And pray who dared to write youi name and indorsement 00 thet notice 1 Mr. Stnyihies I did, sir. The Mayor: I shall require the proof from him of what day that nollce was served. John Nicholls then swore that he served the notice at Mr Edwards's premises, on the 15th September last. Mr. Edwards to the Mayor: 1 am here defending myself. I expected a professional gen'ternHn's services, but 1 am here without one. [I'o Nicholls]—To whom did you deliver thai notice? Nicholls: To an olJ woman. Mr Fwards pursued his c-oss-exminatton with much point and pertinacity, and proved by him that he had not served tlu nonce on the plemses, but upon the highway or roadside acj. cent, which Mr. E. held to be no service at all. Nil hoi Is, in reply to Mr. Edwards, said the elderly wo- man" w as rather tall, and iha« he saw her by the moonlight Mr. Edwards? There was no moon in being that night (Loud laughter.) Look at the almanack, then; look there, and you'll see. Mr. Edwards, to Nicholls: nidyou tell Mr. Smythies to write your name on the back of that notice? Nicholls; I did not. Mr. Edwards: Aye, very; very pretty,indeed. (Lighter.) Mr. Farr then elicited from Nicholls that he served the no- tices on the day he received thern from Mr. Smythies; and the latter gentleman proved that he gave them to Nicholls on the 151 h September. Mr Edwards: Now, Nicholls, where did you get this notice ? Nicholls: Why at Mr. Jehoida Brewer's surgery. (Sen- sation.) Mr. Edwards rose up, immediately, and was about to speak, when the mayor begged him to sit down again for a while. The Mayor, to Nicholls You swore, in the first instance, that you received the notices from Mr. Smythies, and now lOll sav that you got them at Mr. Brewer s surgery. Mr. Llewellyn I really cannot see what this has to do with proving lhe service of notice, at all. Mr. Farr: Nothing to do with it at all. (Disapproving ex pressions in theCouit.) The Mayor I trust, sir, you will be quiet. I will not be dictated to by you. (Approb-itionin Courl.) Nicholls: Mr W. H. Willi?.ms was in the surgery when 1 received ihe notices. (Hisses and laughter.) Mr Edwards suddenly sprung up, and pointing very sarcas- j lically at Mr Williams, the celebrated coal-merchant, said to Nicholls: What thai genilemen there J.—that t'lin gentleman ? (Roars of laughter, Mr W. H. being raiher Falstaffian.) I The Mayor. Ths is shocking. (Approval, and cheers.; How can we believe that man Nicholls for he first swears 1\1: Smythies gave him the notices, and then thdt sorneboúye!s(: did. We cannot take his evidence. (Cheers.) Mr Smythtes My impression is, that I gave him the notices myself. (Hear, hear.) Mr Samuel Jones, a rate-paver Then that makes it all the worse for your witness—you prove his falsehood. (Applause ) Mr Llewellyn It is immaterial who gave htm the notices, provided he swears he served them. Here Mr Edwards got upon (he table to speak. Having plan ed one (oot 011 Ihe table, and anoiher on the bench, he made some remarks, but as there was loud laughter and gene- rill confuMon at the moment, it was impossible to distinguish who was the object of ihe gentleman's speech. -M r Llewellyn I do not wonder ai the witness being bothered, so many persons art- examining and cross-examining him at tht same lime. (Heor, hear). Mr Edwards. Bless your soul, Mr. Llewellyn, you don't believe Ihe man. do you 1 ( Laughter.) The Mayor, with some degree of excitement: I'll indict thai man (pointing to the witness Nicholls), lor perjury. (Greai sensation.) I'll do my duly, regardless of lhe smiles of one, or lhe frowns of the olher. (Loud cheers.) Mr Farr said he differed in opinion with the mayor. Ht considered ihe man entitled to belief so far as the service. l\1r Llewellyn I certainly consider Ihe service to be good. Mr Edwaids again sprung up to get on the table, ami,hl much laughter, Mr Farr I must say, as a part of this court, tInt no msn has a right to ielt the wiintss here publicly ihat lie had perjured huti self. Any person so sayihg is liable to an action. (Much sensation.) The Mayor: I distinctly sav, sir, that when a man swears a. one time that he obtained the notice in question from Mr Smy Ihles, and Immediately afler declares 00 his oath that he dio not receive the notice from 1\1 r Smvihiss, but fiom some person at Mr Brewer's surgery, ihat he is'a perjurer. Mr Williams, the coal-merchant, here got up, pretty cons- derably excited, and was proceeding tosay something about 1. not having given Nicholls the notices, though he was present, when he was interrupted and told to be silent by his worship. Mr Williams, excited a de^iee warmer: But I have a ngl.i to speak, sir. Jamhit. (Laughter.) Mr Edwards was here about to speak something impressivel;, to the Town Clerl:, who WHS, with much difficulty, trYing to COP) something like the proceedings of the court. Mr Town Clerk, impatiently, and with some displeasure Really, Mr Edwards, I wish you would hold your tongue. I won't attend to anybody's directions but the mayor's. (Much laughter.) In a moment or two mora, Mr Edwardi, Mr Towa Clerk, and Mr Smythies were engaged in such a wordy war, that we could not with accuracy i;) e their sayings if we had a ten holso pORer of reporting. After a moment's p'use, »e heard Mr Lewis Edwards agaiir obseive somMhiiig to the Town Cleik thrfi he need not tie so snappish, but lake down what he was telling hin), winch diew lorth an anyrv remrt and a displeased countenance f fn that gentleman «hen Mr. Edwards tartly rema.kcd A I, ayc, -ir, you nnv look as cross as tou can, sir, and as crabbed as "ou like, sir; 1)\); when I ask you a civil question, 1 dun', expect an answer as if it came from a bottle of vinegar. (Loud Lau;hier.) Mr. Smythies having here made a remark. Mr Edwsrls said to him You could not employ a worse man than thai Nicholls, who has perjured himself. Mr Smytine; 13ut 1 really did not know what scit of II mar. he was. 1 never saw him previously. Mr. Edwaids: Mr Harris, would you believe that man ot his oath We understood Mr Harris to indicate a doubt of the man s veracity. '„r was then adjourned till Saturday, at ten in the Ihemsu.. vVor-htp contending that the majority of ihe morning, hu eot to decide on the credibility of the witnest court was not SU'.TK isicholl s, testimony"' n(j Oj>jections were then settled. Several other claim? —

An account of Coal and lion biought down the Tram-road during the "eek endmg October? :— TON!:> CWT, Thomas Prothero iy<8 11 I homas Po well 2387 2 Rosser Thomas and Co.. 1240 2 T. Phillips & Son 758 5 Martin Morrison. 759 H Joseph Beaumont 545 11 W.S Cartwright 7.34 ]7 I he Tredeg-rr Coal Co 929 7 Rock Coal Co 1169 16 Rogei Lewis 6H3 7 Joseph Jones 276 4 John Jones. Victoria 206 2 Latch and Cope 1114 12 John Russell, and Co. 1343 4 James Poole 0 0 Total. 14.152 11 IRON, The Tredegar Iron Co 370 7 Ebb-v Vale Co •• 82i 9 Rhymnev Iron Co 3H2 IS Cwrvi Celyn and Blaina Co. 454 19 Coal Brook Vale Co 155 0 Total 21&8 13

LECTURES.— We perceive that a series of lectures will be given ai the National School-rooms, Caerleon, curing the ensuing winter, on different subjects, by JVJr.Siiibbs, schoolmastei and we nust they will meet with general suppott. USK.—On Thursday, the 12th instant, a sermon was preached in Usk church, by the Rev. — Jatksoo, of Wo- riastow,onbe!)-')t of theSocieties for Promoting Christian Know ledge and the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. At he conclusion of Divine Service, the meeting adjourned to the Town Hall. where the Lord Bishop of Llandaff took the chair. The proceedings of the meeting lNere comlneoced by ihe Rev. Jafnes A,he Gabb, the secretary of the Society for Piomoting Christian Knowledge, anti the Rev. Thomas Willianis, secretary d the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign PdTIS, reading itie reports of the last commiliees. Resoiutiong ,t-re made, and the meeting wzsi-loq»en»ly addressed by Sir Dig by Mackworth, bart, Mr Sergeant Taddy, Rev Dan. Jones, Kev Hugh Williams, Rev Thomas Williams, Llanvapley, Rev. W Crawley, F H Williams, Esq, and other gentlemen. The i ol'eciions amounted to £ 19 18s. As a proof of the extraordinary mildness of the season, we may instance 1 h at in the oichardaf H y. Mostyn, n E,q, of Usk, there is an apple tree with a branch containing a lari;e apple. an appie blossom in a flourishing state, and two of the vouag fruit formed. The Quarter Sessions for this county commence on Monday next. The calendar, up to 1 hjrsday evening, contains the names of thirty-three prisoners for trial. State uf ihe gaol at Usk :— Prisoners for trial 33 Undei sentence 44 Total in the gaol 77 RHMNEY.—Scores of workmen, principally miners, have beendiscbargedherehtety. Tuesday night's Gazette contains the appoint- ment of the Right Hon, T. F. Lewis, the Hon. R. Ciive, and William Cripps, Esq., as her Majesty's Commissioners urder he great Seal, to enquire into the present atBtt: of the lav." jg administered i". South Wales, which regulate the turnpike-roads, aid also into the circumstance* whtch bau9 led 10 the recent act, of violence and outrage in-certain ditivictsof that country