The Principality

HOUSE OF LORDS.—TUESDAY, MAY 8. The adjourned debate on the Navigation Bill was opened by the Enrl of CARLISLE, who said it was clear that the effect of Navi- gation-laws was to bother" their trade all over the world, by doubling freights and multiplying distances, by creating a host of artificial difficulties, end making the navigation of the ocean a more arduous task than ancient poets had described. As to the argu- ment that the repeal of these laws would affect our maritime supremacy, he met it by stating that the proportion of seamen drswn into the navy from the mercantile marine was very small, a id the number of the seamen in the latter service had of late in- creased so rapidly that there was little danger of its not being able to supply any additional demand that might be made upon it for sailors. He denied that the ship-building interest of this country would be unable to compete with that of others if the protection they at present enjoyed was withdrawn from them, and he rested ihis view chiefly upon the superior strength with which our ships weie constructed, and upon tlie great resources of the country in the materials required for ship-building, especially with regard to steamers. He hoped that the final removal of this monopoly Vfuld have the effect of stimulating exertion, and leading to im- proved methods and more economical management. In many lines of navigation at present open for fair competition with the ships of other countries, their own was at present found to prevail; ai d he held it clear that a country which at the greatest number of points offered the greatest number of vessels, at the lowest freights, niu-t prevail in the struggle for the carrying trade of the world. Earl NELSON deprecated the measure. Lord BRUCE, as an independent, member of the House, sup- .poited it. Lord TALBOT considered the present measure as one dangerous to the country. Earl WALPEGRAVE gave the bill his support. Earl XI ARROW BY predicted that itt the course of six months the unprotected shipowners and shipbuilders of England would be exposed to a ruinous competition. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY opposed the bill as a danger- ous experiment. Earl GREY said that, great as his confidence was in the-merits cf the question before the House, it had been increased by the re- sult (;f the debate, the character of which, as conducted by noble lords opposite, he described as irrelevant, vague, and unsatisfac- tory. Lord STANLEY would ask their lordships what the result would upon the country it the present measure was carried, and it was found to have injuriously affected the commercial marine—what temptations would a merchant have to sail under a British flag at nil, if tLe Xavigaiion-iaws were to be abolished? He declared that a large number of shipowners in this country were prepared t. <r;Ve up their registers and sail under a foreign flag if such, an 4?vent took place. The Government were urging this measure ,Ha;u;st the sense of the country, and he therefore called on their lordships, in a strain of the highest eloquence, to reject the bill. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE replied at some length. Their lordships then, at a quarter past four o'clock, divided, these appeared— A- CuiiteLts-fli,esent 103 ) 170 Proxies. 68 S Non Contents—Present 119 ) 1fio Proxies 44 J Majority for the second reading 10

Travelling1 Accommodation between Absrdare and Swansea. 4 CAR, for the conveyance of PASSENGERS, left the HORSE AND -GROOM, INN, ABERDAliE, on Mondays Thursdays, the 23rd and 26th days of April, returning Tues- days and Fridays; and will continue to perform the journey to aud fvil on the above mentioned days until further notice. TO CORRESPONDENTS. "A. D" (Barmouth).—Your request has been attended to. D. W. JOSHuA.We art much obliged by the information TfTih-ii you kindly forwarded to us. We shall be glad to hear from you again. G. W."—Wo cannot insert your letter relative to the mode in which the pea soup is prepared in the Cardiff Union, simply on the testimony of:1, pauper. We shall be always ready to defend the wronged we must, however, be perfectly satisfied of the truth of £ v;;rv statement before we give currency to it. THOS. WIIITE.We cannot afford yo.u any assistance. -Your letter is libellous, and therefore inadmissible. ANTI-PUFF."—We have as great a clislike to puffing" as you hare, but it would be beneath our dignity to notice every shallow- p ited's pnff, We should like to know who is the greatest sim- pleton—he that puErs, or he that allows himself to be clapped ? The best remedy against the evil is to let it alone. T. S." inquires if self-taught ministers" will be permitted td join the old students of Poatypool College at the proposed brcak- fs.-it. Perhaps one of the old students will give the necessary in- formation.' T. It." (I.lariuwchllyn)The subject, of the letter lias become so insipid that if we complied with your request our readers would xi it forgive us for three months.

¡ TOWX LETTERS.—XO. I FHOM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. NOTWITHSTANDING the unseasonable weather, we have been k<?pt at a proper degree of heat, in London, by exci'e- mcnt of every kind. Exeter Hall has opened its capacious arms, and embraced, as usual, the most heterogeneous assem- blies. One day listening to the Bishop of Norwich; quot- Z3 ing approvingly the countryman's saying, as he pointed to tho steeples with which all our landscapes abouiid, The greatness of our country comes from them tilings up there;" and another day impartially listening while Mr. Brock borrows the anecdote, and applying it to the Sunday- school teachers beneath hiut, attributes our greatness, To those things down there." We believe that this year the meetings have been remarkably -well attended, and that whatever may be the disadvantages connected with public meetings and platform oratrtry, these things to the great masses of our countrymen are a healthy stimulus and a bene- ficial power. Alas that we have to write it, but as historians we must not omit our duty, the House of Lords has not saved the country. That last hope of the Duke of Richmond and his tail has proved false. The Navigation Bill has been carried by a majority of ten. Thank God," exclaimed the Pro- tectionists, at the meeting held the other day, in the Y9 11 t Hall of Commerce, that we have a House of Lords." Pro- tectionist piety has, we fear, received a heavy blow and great discouragement. The House of Lords has been to them a rotten reed, and the piety that had its origin in the hopes in that House, we fear, will with difficulty survive the blow. Lord Stanley was to have been the angel by whom Russell and Grey were to be rudely yet justly driven from that political paradise of which Downing-street is the centre and the sum. Now Lord Stanley has fired his train of artillery, and no harm has been done. In this respect he was happier than his eager ally, Brougham, who, by his onslaught did materially damage—himself. Protectionism has died out most ignobly—the question as to how it should be buried merely kept the Lords sitting a few hours longer than usual. That was -all. Oh where was the British lion that it did not give one respectable roar-that it did not at any rate wriggle its tail P This inquiry for absent notorieties leads to the natural inquiry, where was Mr. Lane Fox—he who quotes Revela- tions, and told Mr. O'Connell that he was ready to ride up to his charger's neck in the blood of the Papist and the infidel, when the bill was passed which will enable Rothschild, of the circumcision, to sit side by side with himself? Why was he not there to howl with Sir Robert Inglis and Mr. Plumptree over the advancing liberality of the age? It cannot be that he has altered his opinions, for he voted as we might expect, and the bigot is always such; but we I 0 missed his most sweet voice in debate. It is no very profound or very original remark, that people, conscious of having a bad character, are most tetfihy about being suspected of being anything but what is most- proper and correct. We have never heard more impressive lectures from the text that honesty is the best policy, than We_ have from gentlemen of the swell mob. The man sensitive to scandal is the man who is conscious that his life gives to scandal an opportunity and a theme. A man winces because he has something to wince for; it is because the voice within condemns that the voice without has its sting and power. When a man says, I am the best of characters," it is high time that we treat him with caution and reserve. It is the same with public bodies of men. On Monday night Mr. Chatteris, referring to the evidence Mr. Waddington had given as to the Parliamentary expenses incurred by the Eastern Railway Company, in the course of which Mr. Waddington made a statement which he, Mr. Chatteris, considered seri- ously to affect the character of that House, moved an inquiry on so delicate a matter. Of course the charge is false. To affirm that the House consists of any but the immaculate is a grayc scandal. When the House undertakes to prove its own virtue, conviction as to its purity ought to sink deep into every British breast. Poets at any rate have long been aware that all that's bright must fade; even a money-loving public will in time come to learn that fact. Recently how they did worship the golcleii ca,'f--tl,,ey made it chairman of companies innu- merable, mayor, member of Parliament, it dined with dukes, it was gilded by royal smiles, and now how great the change; how soon has the common clay peeped out! lhe great° fact is, that railway companies under _Mi\ Hudson's direction have paid dividends out of their capital in order to enhance the price of their shares—that is, they have obtained money under false pretences-in other words, they have pursued a line of conduct which at the Old Bailey is known by the name of swindling a term more expressive than polite, and therefore never applied to the pecuniary transac- tions of gentlemen and Nf. P.'s; and poor Hudson, who has been the life and soul of such proceedings, is very indignant at being detected, and what is still worse, being severely blamed. On May the 4th, he sent to the shareholders of the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway his resignation of the chair. Alas, poor Yorick! where arc your gibes now, your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that used to set the table (query the House) on a roar ? Not one now to mock your own grinning, quite chap-fallen ? Oh, George Hudson, you have learnt a lesson as salutary as it was seY§W?{,~V. VUI,6IUWUIUUU UUU regret, Hungary has freed herself from the hated Hapsburg yoke, and tho citizens of Rome have repulsed the French, but everywhere the powers that be seem to have agreed on a reactionary line of policy—freedom is to be dcnied-pledges are to be broken—constitutions are to be blotted out. This new crusade against the rights of man is to be led on by the brutal savages of the north. Now is the time for a league of people, to give plot for blow, and blow for blow that the time may the sooner arrive when man shall rise up politically, morally, and socially free. May we have grace to learn it as well, and to profit thereby.

MR. ROEBUCK AT SHEFFIELD. Ax event, as the Times remarks, unexampled in the poli- tical history of Sheffield has recently occurred—the election of a borough member without a contest. The proud dis- tinction of being thus unanimously returned has fallen upon Mr. John Arthur Roebuck. It is with no common pleasure we record this fact. Mr. Roebuck's Parliamentary talents, poliical language, and power of expression have fitted him beyond most to do the State good service. He enters St. Stephen's as an unpledged independent man. He represents no pocket borough—no interest with vested right to commit wrong—no broad acres peopled by political serfs—no class but that of the people —no opinions but those of the free. But few such elections the annals of Parliament since the Reform Bill became law can show. The Sheffield election is the best reply to the arguments that can be brought against the extension of the suffrage that we have for a long time met with. We are told the people are unfit for the franchise, and were that extended the House of Commons would loso its respectability. The demagogue most hardy in professions, most adioit in pander- ing to the interest, or frenzy, or ignorance of the mob, would alone have a chance at the hustings-men of independence, of principle, of knowledge would infallibly be deterred from undergoing the terrors of a canvass, or were they to do so would most certainly be placed at the bottom of the poll. Is not this a most foul libel 011 the masses, by wharfr the j o-reatness and glory of our .country hove boon achieved ? To such slanders Mr. Roebuck's re-election gives the lie; So far from pandering to the people the new member appears to have gone to the opposite extreme, and to have uttered what must have been peculiarly ungrateful to Sheffield ears, He is reported to have denounced the Charter before an assembly consisting principally of Chartists; to have. told a people borne down by taxation that it made no difference to them whether they were taxed heavily or the reverse; and what is still more surprising, whilst he enlisted Dissent- ing sympathies by his broad assertion that every congre- gation ought to support its own minister, he was equally ready, where a majority wish for a State Church, cordially to adopt the compulsory principle. Nor was this the climax of his political legerdemain. As only Mr. Roebuck can do, he went on refining till he satisfied himself that the Church was not the.Church,but the great body of the communicants. If Mr. Roebuck lays the flattering unction to his: soul that If Mr. Roebuck lays the flattering unction to his: soul that in hazarding this remark ho has luckily stumbled on soino hitherto undiscovered truth, he has been most lamentably mistaken. It is worse than nonsense wlielf, we talk bf a State Church to say that it consists of the great body of communis-, cants they are not the Church—they do not pocket its revenues or rejoice in its emoluments—they do not wa fat on tithes, Easter offerings, and such like—they do not refuse 0 to bury Dissenters, nor charitably condemn us to perdition in the world to come. The men who do this form the Church, and it is such a Church-a Church thus full of bigotry, injustice, uncharitableness, and wrong—we wish to see put down. Mr. Roebuck himself thinks that each congregation should support its own minister how then can he reconcile it to his political conscience to advocate State Churches and State creeds? If, as we strongly suspect, Mr. Roebuck is perfectly careless on this head, then he cannot but see that there must be something wrong in the fact that he and men like him are called on to decide on the religious interests of a ^Verily, Mr. Roebuck made but a poor hand of it when he came to the Church, nor was he much more successful when he discoursed on taxation. It is altogether false that the instantaneous effect of the masters discovering that tea, tobacco, sugar, were lowered one half in price, would be, that down would go the workman's wages one half. Of course they would, to a considerable extent, be reduced. Even were they to be reduced one half, still the working man would be most materially benefited by the change; 0 he would have what he is now too often without, work; he would be enabled to compete with workmen now taxed much lighter than himself; through all Europe he would find no rival- he would thus be enabled to carry his workmanship into every market in the world. i Nevertheless we rejoice that Mr. Roebuck, since ne has not been sent to Bath, has been sent, and with success, to Sheffield; he has great talents and principles, and perhaps a reputation greater still; but he is suspected of being crotchetty, and has the credit of not being of the best of tempers. Mr. Roebuck reminds us of an elderly female who was wont loudly to proclaim the depravity of human nature in general, and her own in particular, but whose ire was most violently excited did any one take her at her word, and venture, as the poet says, "To hint a doubt and hesitate dislike." We can imagine in some such manner Mr. Roebuck to have been driven to speak as if he had never been as dear to England's democracy as Thomas Slingsby Duncombe him- self. In a sudden frenzy, merely perhaps to astonish the weak nerves of Mr. Ironside, he seemed to have resolved to sink his character for Radicalism, and to have uttered what a Disraeli might have thought, or a Sibthorp cheered. By this time we trust he will have emerged again into consis- tency, and that Sheffield will have reason to rejoice that the trust so nobly reposed has been sacredly preserved.

THE AN IT-STATE CHURCH ASSOCIATION. AMONGST the signs of tho times we must note the steady progress of the association whose name we have placed at the head of this article. We deem it a right, subject of con- gratulation that this society—despised in its infancy—wel- comed only by a few earnest and honest men—by Dissenters barely tolerated—by the enemies of Dissent malignantly attacked-has worked its way to the possession of its pre- sent amount of popularity and power. Never, perhaps, since the short existence of the society, had its friends better rea- son to rejoice than they have now. The tide has set in their favour. They are moving with the spirit of the age. The State Church is evidently in an unsettled state. She gives forth symptoms of weakness and decay. We- see honest and conscientious men, who have been brought up to believe her authority and to pocket her money, one after another bursting their bonds, and becoming free. Such secessions will deprive the State Church of its moral power those who remain-will be, most of them, the bigoted—the interested'—the base. Till it be struck down by the people's irresistible will, the State Church will remain without form and gracO-,Ic-stitu(Ic of all that could fit it to bless humanity, or to-retain human respect or love. Men will then wonder how they could have seen in it anything but a political machllw-a pretence for picking the people's pocket—how they ever could have been so unutterably absurd as to deem it an -instituion of God, or to fancy that its utraiices were divine. To hasten the coming of tli,tit -timc- to emancipate the Church from the fetters of the State—to make truth free— has been the aim of that society of which Edward Miall has been the chief ornament and strength. Five years have but increased their experience, matured their plans, and in no degree diminished their zeal. As to their ultimate success there can be no room for doubt. Sooner or later the British public will form its own conclusion, and that conclusion w drive intolerance and persecution from our land. The sug- gestion as to the propriety of petitioning Parliament we consider peculiarly appropriate. The idea will be thus kept before the public-men's minds will be familiarised with it —and such members of Parliament as in this matter may represent our opinions will be encouraged boldly to speak out. We are glad to find the report referred to the. visit paid us by the deputation recently in a flattering manner. Here the Anti-State Church Association will always find sympa- thy and support. Wales is the land of Dissent—it is that in which we were born and bred. We have too long suf- fered from the tyranny of the State Church to wish that its reign should be perpetual. With us it has never been the Church of the people-never a living power for good, but an ever present curse; and now that the final struggle is approaching, that the crisis is advancing, Wales, foremost far in suffering for the sake of conscience and the truth of God, will also be foremost in girding herself for the contest, and in making the victory sure.

ALLEGED « DECLINE OF DISSENT." SEVERAL correspondents have called our attention to an anonymous and malicious letter, which appeared a fortnight ago in four or five Welsh newspapers, relative to the Normal. College for Wales, and reflecting on the conduct of the committee of that institution. The writer, in doing so, availed himself of a paragraph which appeared in several metropolitan and provincial Tory journals, relative to the sale of Highbury College to certain members of the Church of England, and the consequent decline of Dissent." The writer, we are given to understand, is a professed Dissenter, but whose name we are not at liberty to publish. He has, by his effort to damage the Normal College, given currency to a falsehood, which, if left uncontradicted, might have proved prejudicial to the interests of Noncon- formity. Wre feel great pleasure in calling the attention of our correspondent and our readers generally to an article on the subject inserted in another column, copied from the Patriot, which will prove satisfactory to themselves, and an answer to the calumnies of those who would glory in the decline of Dissent."

DAHDIFJf. JEWRY versus LiSLr,TlieiL,v,, cause was heard at the Town- hall, onWednesday, before the judge of the county court, and a special jury. The trial occupied the court for about four hours, and judging from the number of persons in attendance, we believe it must have caused considerable interest in the town. The plain- tiff is Mr. Jewry, boot and shoe maker, and the defendant is Mr. Morgan Lisle, iron founder, both of this town. The cause of the action was a dispute which arose between plaintiff and defendant at the office of the latter, when a scuffle took place, in which the plaintiff believed lie was injured, and for which he claimed X 10 damages. Mr. Fhillpotts appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. John Biul for defendant, who ably and faithfully advocated the claims, of their respective clients. The evidence of the contending parties was quite contradictory, and of a nature unfit for publication in our columns. Mr. Jewry said that Mr. Lisle gave the first blow and Mr. Lisle, on the other hand, asserted the contrary. Several witnesses were examined, but as neither of them were present at the "))attle," their evidence was unimportant as regarded the question at issue. After the judge had carefully summed up, the jury retired, and in alout half an hour returned with a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 5s. CHAIRMAN OF THE SOUTH WALES RAILWAY COMPANY,-—At a meeting of the directors of this conipany, held on Wednesday week, C. R. M. Talbot, Esq., M.P., was elected chairman of the board, in the room of Mr. Charles Russell, who has resigned. From the active interest which Mr. Talbot has ever evinced in this un- dertaking, his knowledge of, and connexion with the country through which the hne passes, we regard this appointment as all auspicious event for the future prosperity of the South Wales Railway. COUONEK'S I QU LST.k- respectable jury was empannelled on Tuesday evening lat, to inquire into the cause of the death of W. Morgan, aged 50, who expired on Monday night and the sur- geon, Mr. Payne, who attended him, considered it necessary to make inquiry, es it was not expected that he would die from the symptoms present. From the evidence of John Pidell, a lodging- house keeper, in Whitmore-lane, it seemed that the deceased, a healthy man, had obtained work at breaking stones near the new dock, and came to his house on Saturday night to sleep. He got up quite well on'Sunday morning, breakfasted, and went out, and on his return said that, he did not leel well, and that he had had a pint of twopenny brer, and eaten some wild celery, as he called it (though the latter fact was not stated to the surgeon until his death). As he felt worse,.a surgeon was sent for, who sent him two draughts, which he took according to the directions. A mus- tard poultice, was applied to his stomach, and his feet and legs rubbed and put into warm water. He continued to get worse, gOfflplaining fif his stomach, and not. eating anything until a few minutes past five, on Monday afternoon, when he died. A post mortem examination of the body was u-izicle, tiiid his stomach and the small intestines were found inflamed in patches, and in the opinion of Mr. Payne, the state of the stomach was such as to show that he died from the effects of a atrong vegetable poison, although arsenic would have produced similar effects. The jury, having considered that there was sufficient evidence without the chemical examination of the contents of the stomach of the de- ceased, returned a verdict iu accordance with the above. TAFF VALlS RAILWAY.—We perceive, by an advertisement in another column, that the directors of the above railway have mtde the alterations in the time of departure of the passenger trains, to which we referred last week. We understand that a petition, numerously and respectably signed, was presented to the directors at their meeting on Wednesday last, and that they immediately adopted the change suggested by the petitioners, although the change will, we understand, be attended with considerable more expense than the arrangement now in operation. We are much gratified with this proof of the disposition of the directors of the Taff Vale Railway to consult the comfort and convenience of the public. ACClDENT.- W e have heard that a passenger, named Goldstone, on the Taff Vale Railway, broke his leg by carelessly entering a carriage at the Navigation station on Monday afternoon. It ap- pears that his foot slipped in between the platform and the carriage, in which position lie tell backward, and sustained the fracture of his leg. He was immediately taken to Aberdfre (towhièll'llace he was going), where medical aid was promptly obtained. TOWN- MATTERS;—We directed the attention of the rate-payers last week to the propriety of providing for the next vacancies m the council. We have siiice been given to understand that the' out-going members of the council have already been canvassing the rate-payers for their re-election. It is a matter of importance to the rate-payers that the affairs of the town are judiciously and economically carried out. We understand that the corporation

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY, MAY 8. Petitions were presented by Mr. PRYSB, in favour of the County R.-ttes and Expenditure Bill, from the board of guardians of the Abprystwyih Union; and in favour of a General Conservancy Bill, from Cardigan.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY, MAY 9. EMPLOYMENT OF LABOUR (IRELAND) BILL. Mr. SCROPE moved the second reading of this bill, which, after a short debate, was thrown out. -=-=r

— — WHAT WELSHMEN ARE NOT. COMMENDED TO THE RUMINATION OF THOSE WHO WISH TO KNOW WHAT THEY ARE. OUR Tory neighbour, some little time ago, worked himself into a vehement heat, insisting that Welshmen were not Chartists." In breathless horror he made the asseveration and with a quiet smile at his choler, we listened to him. Doubtless our contemporary had brooded over his vague perceptions of political truth till lie had perplexed himself in amaze of first principles, and their perversions by ignorant and irritated men, so as to lose all power of discrimination. Possibly he has not yet brought himself to regard the Char- tist form of political faith as equally worthy of calm discus- sion with other forms espoused by other parties in the State. We think it time, however, to assist his thoughts, by telling him what we are quite sure Welshmen are not, whatever they may think of The People's Charter as an exposition of sound government. To begin. Welshmen are not blind idolaters of Royalty, though firmly attached to a constitutional monarchy conse- quently they utterly contemn the notion of impeccability iu the chief magistrate, and attach ful as much importance to the du- ties as to the prerogatives of the Crown. Again, Welshmen, thou'hfervent in their religion, are not devotees to an ecclesias- tical "supreemacy, of purely human authority, yet claiming- mastery over their judgments, consciences, and purses. Thus it follows that they have small reverence for mitres, lawn- sleeves, gowns, and surplices, regarding them as so many outward signs of an anti-Christian system, opposed to civil not less than religious liberty. Furthermore, Welshmen are not believers in the purity of election to seats in Parliament, under the present system of aristociatical dictation, and more vulgar bribery. Neither do they consider the electoral franchise°fairly distributed amongst the industrious and ill- convinced that there must needs be hereditary wisdom in hereditary legislators, or divine unction in "spiritual peers." Welshmen are not satisfied with the inequalities of taxation, which now press insufferably 011 the middle and lower classes, sparing the most wealthy nor are they to be persuaded that our public expenditure is either economical or commonly honest, whilst the pension list blushes with its array of costly and undeserving national paupers. Finally, Welshmen are not spoonies," and there tore cannot be ca- joled into the folly of regarding old things as synonymous with good things, or sitting down meekly under gross abuses, because those abuses are miscalled venerable institutions." Having thus briefly asserted that Welshmen arc not, and what we devoutly believe no power on earth can ever make them, we shall not insist on attaching any party name to the opinions which actually prevail among them. Our in- telligent compatriots claim the full privileges of freemen, under a constitution professedly based upon freedom, eivil and religious, however infamously prostituted by Whigs and Tories to corrupt and oppressive ends. In pursuing an object so legitimate, so laudable in the sight of Heaven, we challenge any man's right to impugn their motives or malign, their characters. Wre tell our contemporary that the rabid Toryism of Ellenborough and under the third and fourth Georges, is not more distinct from the diluted Toryism which 'struggles for life under Queen Victoria, than is the rabid Chartism of John Frost and his physical- force colleagues, from Chartism as originally promulgated by the Duke of Richmond and other British peers in the days of William Pitt, and embodying those vital principles of political wisdom which arc daily becoming more and more appreciated by inquiring minds. The grand difference between the two modifications is, that the foi met- is a gradual dispersion of error, and the latter a broader development of truth. We care nought for a name, be it a title or a nickname. Our business is with principles, and our interest not that of a section, but of the whole body politic, from the throne to the hut. Whatever promotes this common interest shall be honestly advocated by the PRINCIPALITY, on behalf of the Cymry.

0 THE NONCONFORMIST CEMETERY AT SWANSEA. TIIE recent refusal to bury a Dissenter at Swansea has, as our readers are aware, created a good deal of excitement in that town. The consequence has been that two cemetery companies have been proposed—one to be open to all, and an- other that will exclude all who—and they are a large and influential class—attach a value to consecrated earth. This latter is the cemetery the Nonconformists propose to sup- port. That they have a perfect right thus to act we readily admit, but we more than question the propriety of such a step. Why not build a cemetery which may admit the Churchman as well as the Dissenter P Death is our common lot, where then the impropriety of a common grave ? Let a part be consecrated for the Churchman. The Dissenter should be as ready to respect his conscience as he is to re- quire that the Churchman should respect his own. In most cemeteries the plan we recommend has been found to work well, and so it would at Swansea would the Dissenter bear with his weak brother, who on this point may not be so en- lightened as himself. There is something very ungraceful at the very least in virtually inscribing on our burial grounds —" No Churchman buried here in making them the arena of religious controversy-in mingling with the solemn feelings that should prevail there the bitter rivalries of which life is too often and too necessarily the scene. It is no reply that consecration is nothing but a popish relic to the Churchman it is more than that—and for men who ask that conscience should be respected that is enough. It surely becomes the advocates of toleration to avoid anything that savours in the least of intolerance. We cannot blame Churchmen for refusing to inter Dissenters if we pursue a similar course of conduct of ourselves. A spirit of liberality is now abroad; let us not show that that spirit of which we so proudly boast—which we have so fondly lursed.-is de- parting from our midst.

British Parliament could be no civil injury to individuals who be- longed to Germany as much as to England, and who were taught to look forward to their re-establishment in Canaan. In the course of the debate, the bill was defended by Messrs, PBEI" WILLIAMS, TRELAWNEY, ROBARTES, PAGAN, MILNES. ROEBUCK, Lords MAHON and RUSSELL, and the Earl of ARUNDEL; it was opposed by Messrs. TURNER, HOPE, NEWDEGATB, SFOONER, PLUMPTREE, BANKES, and the Marquis of GRANBY. At the conclusion of Mr. ROEBUCK'S speech, the House divided, when th&re appeared- For the bill 278 Against it. 185 Majority for the second reading. 93