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CAEDliT- THE Cardiff delegates to the Anti-State Church Conference we understand will be Messrs. J. Batchelor, J. Edy, and D. Evans. ATHENAEUM CONCERT.—Another concert in connexion with this flourishing institution was given on Monday last, when Messrs. Williams and Roberts again appeared before the public—though not this time as rivals. We need not enter into the vexata qltesa as to the superiority of one over the other. Both are well known as admirable performers, but evidently the feeling of the Cardiff public was in favour of one who is a neighbour, and may almost be considered as one of themselves. The evening's amusements were varied by the performance of the Card.if Amateur Band and, by the singing of Messrs. Reece, Davey, and Marks. THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1851.A meeting for the further- ance of this exhibition was convened at the Guildhall, on Saturday his worship the mayor in the chair. Among the gentlemen pre- sent were—Sir George Tyler, Rev. Thos. Stacey, J. B. Pryce, E. P. Richards, Evan David, John Batchelor, Esqrs., &c., &c. Resolutions (for which see advertisement) were passed pro forma. The liberal amount of nearly £100 has been already subscribed. JULLIEN'S CONCERT.—This much talked-of event came off on Tuesday night, when the musical public of Cardiff had a treat they will not soon forget. The room was full, though not so full as it might have been, the reserved seats being principally occupied by the fair sex of Cardiff and its neighbourhood. The performance were of the most brilliant character, and gave the utmost satis- faction to all present. A CATTLE-FAI was held in St. Mary-street on Wednesday last, but was very poorly attended, and business altogether was verv dull. NEW STEAMERS TO BRISTOL.—We are very glad to find that our townsmen are preparing to do what should have been done long before--run steamers for themselves to Bristol. The new company promises to be a most profitable speculation, and we heartily wish it success. If it be a failure the tradesmen of this district (who now complain on account of the high rate for freightage they are compelled to pay) will have only themselees to blame but we are happy to say that such is not likely to be the case, as shares are being taken very fast, and during the past week not only have the shareholders increased to a considerable extent in this town, but places adjoining are acting strenuously in its support Meetings take place two and three times a week, an d the speculation is being carried on with great spirit. Our readers will .perceive that the resolutions &c., are inserted in our adver- tising columns. WARNING TO DRUNKARDS.—On Tuesday night a man named Bee;ton, living in Whitmore-lane, had a very narrow escape from drowning. It appears he was going home, and when opposite the custom-house fell into the canal. Fortunately a policeman was standing by at the time, and got him out, or the man must event- ually have been drowned. It is to be hoped that the cold water cure will be successful in this case. Wu were much gratified last week at viewing some very beau- tiful castings at Messrs. Catleugh's foundry, in this town. They are for the entrance-lights at the Bute docks, and are arranged so as to form a frame to support the lanterns. One of the frames has already been fixed for some time, and the other is now complete and ready for fixing in its place. The whole design, which is re- markably elegant, and appropriately surmounted with the marquis's coronet, is by Mr. Bernard, C.E., and the manner in whicn the metal work has been cast reflects the highest credit on the Messrs. Catleugh. SAWYER AND SON'S AUCTION MART AND FURNITURE ROOMS, CARDIFF.—We observed in our contemporary (the Guardian of last week) a well-timed eulogium up..n the stock and manage- ment of the above establishment, and taking, as we were disposed to do, good advice, we lost no time in dropping in and judging for ourselves. We fully coincide with the Guardian, that the extensive and well-selected stock of Messrs. Sawyer and Sons is (to use our national phrase), indeed, replete with every de. scripuon of articles adapted for household use to suit all parties, and to our judgment of such manufacture as we think cannot fail to give general satisfaction. We would further observe, from the various prices quoted to us, we are equally disposed with our contemporary to testify our unfeigned opinion of its being one of the cheapest and best establishment we have ever had the satisfaction of calling public attention tc. MOHE ROBBERIES AT THE BUTE DOCKS.—During the last few days robberies have been again frequent at this portion of our town, and several vessels have been plundered of artiles, both of great and little value. CASES or DROWNING AT THK BUTE DOCKS.—A young man named Daniel Llewellyn, who served as mate under his father master of George IV., of Waterford, has been missing since the 12th of March. One day last week a body was seen floating in the docks, and on being taken out of the water, was discovered to be that of the missing in divi dual. -Another -dtif,)rl uiipte individual named John Davies, who was in the employ of Mr. CI egg, of the Blue Anchor, St. Mary-street, was taking some beer to the Jane of Glo'ster vessel, near the Dowlais Iron Wharf, on Thursday night, and did'not return. While James Alleu and others, be- longing to the John George, were warping up," on Saturday morning, the rope got entangled, and brought to the surface of the water a body which was recognised as that of Davies. On Saturday, inquests were held at the Town-hall, before the coroner, R. L. Reece, and a verdict of Found drowned" was returned in each case. Mr. Stockdale drew attention to the great want of protection at the docks, in the shape of chains, gas lights, &c. ANOTHER ACCIDENT AT THE BUTE DOCKS.—Another inquest was held at the Town-hall on Monday morning, before R. L. Reece, Esq.coroner, to inquire into the death of one Michael Ryan, aged 40, coal trimmer on board the Prince of Wales steam vessel. It appeared that deceased, who was on board on Saturday evening, told a shipmate, named Richard Salmon, that he wished to go up in town for something, and asked him to take the planks in for him. This, however, Salmon did not do, as he thought Ryan would require them to come across into the vessel. He, however, did not return, and on the following morning his body was seen in the water alongside the boat, by a man named John Harries. The real cause of the accident could not be ascertained, but Harries stated that about eleven o'clock on Saturday night he went on board, and the plank had then been carried up over his head by the rise in the tide, and it was only by balancing it down that he was enabled to cross it. There was a boat lying along shore when he returned on the previous night, but it was lying alongside the vessel on the following morning. The boat was very light, and wou!d tip with very little difficulty. There was a great deal of water in I the boat. Verdict, Accident." The mayor, who was present during the inquiry, asked a witness if the part where the deceased fell in was more dangerous than other parts of the docks. Witness Yes it is under the wall, and the gas did not give any light to the part. The Mayor: What means can be adopted for preventing these accidents ? Witness I should think if a police- man were placed on the top it would answer. The Mayor: Would not a gas light be better-that could always be kept lighted, but a policeman might be called off duty. Witness: There was a gas light there already, but it did not give light enough. Mr. Stock- dale's opinion was asked, and he said that there was a slip down which the man must have walked to the packet. This slip at the bottom was very dark, although there was a lamp at the top, but that did not, from being placed too far back, throw any light upon the bottom of the slip. It was evidently the intention to have had a lamp fixed there, as there was a bracket for the purpose if there was one he thought it would be more safe. This was the third accident which had happened there lately, and he really thought that proper means, by lighting and otherwise, ought to be adopted. There was no chain either, as at Bristol, which was another great requisite. The mayor said, that owing to the position he held in the town, he thought it was his duty to refer to the matter, for there could not be the least doubt that the place was dangerous, and very badly lighted. Formerly two watchmen were employed there, and many lives were saved from time to time. These men had been done away with, and he (the mayor) certainly thought that proper protection from accidents ought to be provided. The coroner thought that this was more an accident caused by a boat than otherwise. Mr. Stockdale said that there certainly was not sufficient light. He thought with the mayor, that if these facts were made known, it would be doing a great public service. LLANDAFF EPISCOPAL PALACE.—The Ecclesiastical Commis- sioners have made arrangements for the house and demesne of Llan- daff Court, so that the diocese will now have a resident bishop, after a lapse of upwards of 400 years, the last bishop's residence, then called the Bishop's Castle, having being destroyed by Owen Glendower. The non-residence of the bishop for so long a time has been mainly attributable to the practice of holding the bishopric of Llaudaff with the rich deanery of St. Paul's. POLICE.—MONDAY, APRIL [Before his worship the Mayor.] William Fezey, labourer, living at Llancauel, was charged with commit ting a nuisance at the Tuff Vale railway station, on the 30th March. On being asked respecting the matter, which was most gross conduct m the' presence of the passengers, he stated that he was drunk, and recollected nothing about it. although he admitted having committed the e&arge. Fined 10s. and costs, and in default seven days'imprisonment. James Davids and Richard Toomes, two powerful men, were brought up, charged with being drunk and making preparations for a.fight. ii»ey. had committed no breach of the peace, and being sorry for their conduct were reprimanded and discharged. H'Ulia'm Morgan was charged with assaulting Anne Evans; but the ease heing of not a very gross nature, the parties wcie_ advised to settle the matter between tueia. THURSDAY, APIUL 11. — [Before C. Vachell, E<sq., Mayor.] A complaint was preferred against a man lrtmcd Holland, for furious driving. Mr. Williams stated that he witnessed an exhibition of a similar nature on the previous evening, but owing to the poiiee being principally occupied at Cowbridge, he had a difficulty in ending one. As the man escaped h3 should not in this instance iuilict punishment on Holland but had the other man been taken he would have lined both, Disenarged with a caution „ Robert Gould was brought up on a charge of stealing a piece of iron from the wharf at the Bute docks. The prisoner was seen by a policeman in Bute-street, with the iron on his shoulder, coming from the direction 01 the Bute docks. He was followed to Mr. Jones's marine stores, where he was questioned as to how hefhad got the iron, when the usual answer was given—he had bought h of a boatman. The iron was identified by air. Ge orge Smart, agent for Mr. Crawshay Bailey, who recognised a particular mark upon it. He said that he should not have taken up the time of the magistrates, by preferring a charge against the prisoner for taking an article of m little value, but t ie practice of theft was so frequent that no sooner had the prisoner disposed of one piece than he would be on the wharf for the purpose of stea ing more. Remanded. Six rough-looking customers, named Charles Dunn, Charies Rose, WÛham Dorrington, William Tancred, Peter eloqas and G. Powell, old offenders, were placed at the bar by Mr. Stockdale, who stated that, since their being from prison robberies had been frequent at the Bute docks, and vessels had been robbed of rope, warp, &c. The brig Falcon of Wexford, had lately lost a chronometer. Daring their incarceration no robberies had taken place. They were discharged, but told that the case would be gone into on Thurs- day next, if any of tllem were in town.
NEWPORT.
NEWPORT. ATROCIOUS MURDER. As we stated last week one of the most brutal murders ever re- corded was committed on Wednesday evening, the 3rd inst., about six o'clock, on the public road leading from Newport to Bassaleg, by two Irishmen, who give their names Patrick Sullivan and Alul plly. The circumstances of the murder were for a time enveloped in perfect darkness but the active and searching inquiry of the superintendent of the Newport police, and his force, found a clue to the guilty parties, who were apprehended at Chel- tenham. and brought to Newport on Monday night, the 8ih inst. On Wednesday morning, the 10th, they were examined at the office in High-street, before the Revs. James Coles, Chancellor Williams, P. Pope Octavius Morgan, Esq., Ai P., and Russel, Esq.; there were also present Wrn. Beuer, Esq., and T. B. Batchelor, Esq., mayor, borough magistrates. Emma Lewis, daughter of the deceased, Jane Lewis, deposed that her mother went to Newport on Wednesday morning, the 3rd inst., about eleven o'clock in the morning. I saw her putting on her shawl that morning, and would swear that the shawl now produced is the one. I saw it after with Mr. Superintendent English on Saturday last. I have worn it myself many times my mother had it about two years. She had Is. 6d. about her going to Newport, with which she was to buy some worsted and barm I heard her say so before she left home. She had a tin can to carry the barm in and a basket to carry the other things. The can and the basket now produced are they. My parents are not rich she received parish relief of the amount of 2s. 6d. I gave the worsted stocking now produced to Mr. English yester- day. The apron also produced is my mother's; she wore it the day she was murdered. Ammy Jenkins deposed I am wife of James Jenkins, Car- penter's Arms beer-house, in Cross-street, and daughter of the deceased, Jane Lewis. She came to my house on Wednesday, the 3rd of April, about three o'clock in the afternoon. I recollect the shawl and the bonnet she had on that day. I would know the shawl again if I were to see it. The shawl now produced is the one. I know it well I have worn it myself many times. I gave her 6d. she would not stop for a cup of tea she left about four o'clock to go home. Her way home was by the Crosshands, on the Bassaleg road. I have not seen the corpse since, I could not look at it. The basket now produced was in her hand that day. She appeared quite well when I saw her, and she observed to me that she had not been so well for several years. Her age was sixty-one. The above witnesses gave their evidence under great feeling, frequently weeping bitterly at the sight of some of their poor mother's dress. Ammy Edwards deposed I am a widow, living at Cefn-perfedd farm I remember Wednesday last. It was very wet in the evening. I was going home from the market; I turned into a house on the Bassaleg road out of the rain, and saw the deceased, Mrs. Lewis, going by about half-past five in the evening She had a flannel shawl on, and I believe the one now produced is the same. She was going, when I saw her, towards Bassaleg. I never saw the prisoners before. William Harris, sworn, said I work at Pye Corner, under the Canal Company. I was there on Wednesday last. I saw the prisoners that. day, about three o'clock I am sure that Maurice Murphy is one of the men I saw then I took particular notice of him, as I thought he had taken my stick as I have only one leg, I always walk with a stick. The stick now produced is very much like the stick I saw with him oil Wednesday they wanted to go through the park, but the officer stopped them; they then turned back, and went in the direction of Newport. John Phillips deposed, I live at Bassaleg, and was hauling coal from Pye Corner to the Union. I was on the road about twenty minutes to six o'clock in the evening I saw two men shufflng in under the hedge from the rain, between the Crosshands and Cefn- perfedd. The prisoners are the men. I swear to them. They came out from under the hedge, and went tqwards Bassaleg. I saw the place where the woman was iriurdered it was about half a mile from where I saw the prisoners; they went on towards the place directly after I met the deceased, Jane Lewis, going after them towards Bassaleg; she said to me in Welsh, It is turned out a very wet evening, John." I saw prisoners three times on that road between four and six o'clock that afternoon The shawl produced is the one the deceased had on when I met her. I saw the body on Saturday, the 6th, it was the body of old Mrs. Lewis. On Saturday night I went with P. C. Pullen in pursuit of the prisoners. Henry Phillips, a lad about 13 years of age, sworn, said I am son of Phillips, of Nantcoch, was hauling coal on Wednesday from Pye Corner to the Union; I know the brake by Nantgoch, and saw some peas about six yards from where I was told the body was found. I saw the body in the Union. I did not know her when alive. There was a boy coming after me, who said, Pick up these peas for your supper." I saw prisoners that day. I was hauling coal on the road; that is the very hat one of them (Sullivan) had am certain one of them had a stick. Cornelius Clere deposed I am servant of Mr. John Lewis, of Tydee. I was on the Bassaleg road on Wednesday evening about six o'clock. I was driving my master's carriage. I s w two men on the road I can swear that the prisoner Maurice Murphy was one of them. lie starec1 me very hard in the face. They stood after I passed them. Catherine Sullivan deposed: lama widow living in Friars- field, Newport. I go about the country with a basket selling needles, &c. Was on the Bassaleg road on Wednesday even- ing, between four and five o'clock. When I was going to Newport I met the deceased, Jane Lewis. I did not know her before; saw her dead body afterwards, and it was the same person. She helped me to put my cloak on the wind had blown it on one side. I saw two men on the road. The de- ceased had a shawl on the one now produced is the same. The men I met had the same kind of dress on as the prisoners, and I believe they are the men. I saw the woman first, and the men after, going towards Bassaleg. John Lewis sworn: I am son of the deceased. My sister came to my house OIl Thursday last, about two o'clock, and asked, Is my mother here ? I said, No. She said, She went to Newport yesterday, and is not come back yet. She asked me to go to Newport to look for her, and rny wife wished me to go too. I went from the house about a quarter past two in the afternoon. My mother was subject to a giddiness in the head. I looked over the hedges all the way from the planta- tion at the bottom of the till I found her. I opened the gate of Mr. Powell's clover field, and saw something dark by the side of the hedge, and on examining it found it was my mother; she was carried there from the lane. I knew it was my mother by her hair and boots. I did not stop there half-a-minute; I ran to Nantgoch and told Phillips of it; and then went towards home, and told several in going. I met Mr. Trehorne Rees, and told him of it. He galloped into Newport and told the police. In coming back I met Mr. English, superintendent of police, going to wards the place. I went back with him the body was still there, and a great many people by it. This was on Thursday. Superintendent English sworn: About five o'clock on Thursday morning I received information that a person was murdered on the Bassaleg road. I immediately went, with two policemen, to the place. I met the last witness coming to- wards Newport he went back with me, and showed me his mother; she was lying on her back; the back part of her dress seemed as if she had been dragged along the road her pocket was hanging outside of her dress, and three thimbles by her side. I perceived a large wound over her right eye, and. a clot of blood and a smaller clot over the other eye. I d1 d not allow the body to be disturbed till the medical man came' She was carried a distance of twenty yards from the gate. I exa- mined the place all around. Ten yards from the gate on the road I found a quantity of peas imbedded in the ground, close by were five stones in the ground, and the mark of another which I could not find. I also found a bit of fringe on the briars, :and on comparing it with the shawl produced it cor- responded exactly there is a vacant place on the shawl an- swering to it. Dr. Stack arrived soon after he examined her. I had her removed to the Hand Post, and on Friday I took her to the workluuse, I did all I could to discover the murderers. From information I received on Saturday, 1 sent for a Joanna Colenin, and received from her the shawl produced. There marks of blood not washed oat on it. I Sergeant Harlow in pursuit of the prisoners on the London road, in the direction of Gloucester, and I proceeded through Bristol. I arrived in Cheltenham about haif-aa-huur after the prisoners were appre- hended. I know Maurice Murphy. The waistcoat 1 now pro- duce was found on the prisoner on which there are marks of blood. On Monday morning, near Westbury-on-Severn, pri- soner Sullivan asked me for one of the bills. 1 gave it him he read it, and prisoner Murphy asked him what was in it. He said, they say we are 5ft. 7in. Murphy asked, What will they do with us ? I said, If you are found guilty, you will very likely be hung. Dr. Stack then gave evidence as- to the injuries received, which were sufficient to cause death speedily. Maria Therston, assistant at the shop of Mrs. Nelson, pawn- broker, Llanarth-street, sworn: On Wednesday list, between six and seven o'clock in the evening, prisoner Sullivan came into the shop and offered to pledge a shawl for Is. I refused it because it was too wet. The shawl now produced is the same. It was so wet that I said the red had run into the white. He said it was his sister's shawl. I gave it back to him and said-, Take it home to dry it, then we will take it. He said, Faith and sure I have no home at all. Mary Hill, wife of Joseph Hill, nailer, who lodges at Mr. T. Ryan's, Cross-street, sworn I remember last Wednesday see- ing the prisoners coming in together to Ryan's house about seven o'clock in the evening. One of them had a hat on and the other a cap. Sullivan put his hand into his left breast, and said before he took anything out, 1 have a handkerchief to-day when he pulled it out. I. saw that it was a woman's sha wringing wet. He said he had been trying to pawn it, but that they had refused to take it till it was dry. The prisoners offered the shawl to Mrs. Ryan for 2s. 6d., and offered it to Mrs. Ryan's daughter for 2s., and afterwards sold it to her for Is. 5d. They went off then for, some beer. They never re- turned after. I have not seen them since till to-day. I am sure the shawl now produced is the one. Joanna Colenin, daughter of Thomas Ryan, lodging-hoa?e keeper, living in Cross-street, said: Between six and seven o'clock on Wednesday, saw the two prisoners at my father's house, in Cross-street. They were both standing before the fire. I heard there was a shawl for sale. I asked where it was; one of the prisoners said-here it is. I bought it, after a deal of plead- ing, for Is. 5d. They consulted together about selling it. The shawl produced is the o:ie. I went to Cheltenham with Hr. Superintendent English on Sunday, and directly I saw the men I knew them. Samuel Harlow, sergeant of police, at Newport said In con- sequence of what I was told by Mr. English I went for Dr. Stack, and proceeded on the Bassaleg road, till I came to Nantgoch brake I saw some peas on the road I went into the brake, there I saw a woman apparently murdered I found a basket there with several articles in it. Mr. English, superintendent, sent me in pursuit of the prisoners I went in the direction of Chepstow at Caerwent I received the first information I went to Chepstow after; heard there of a man being murdered at Lidney, and that he was robbed and left for dead—everything taken from him but his shirt and stockings. I suspected that it was done by the same party I went on to Newnham a postman described two men to me of the same sort; they had slept at Westbury union. I went then to Gloucester, from there to Cheltenham I went 8 miles beyond Cheltenham, and could get no information of them turned back to Cheltenham, and gave information at the police-station to Sergeant Chechinton, when he told me to wait half an hour, that he would go with me, or send another omcer. I then went down the street with Ryan, from Newport; went to an Irish lodging- house, and found that the superintendent and the other sergeant were searching it. They came out and went to another, and re- quested me to stop outside, as we were too many to go in they not coming out I went i., and found the prisoners they were then being handcuffed. Thomas Ryan said, they are the men. I asked them to give them up to me; Superintendent Ceys said, stop a bit;" they would not give them up they were searched before me. They were then taken to the station-house aid searched again. I applied to Mr. Keel, deputy-chief constable he refused. Soon after Mr. Superintendent English came The prisoners were taken to Newnham, before Mr. Bathurst, who on hearing my statement ordered them to be given up to me. They were then taken to Newport by Mr. English and the Gloucester police. Edmond Williams deposed: I live at Bassaleg I heard of a murder last Thursday about five o'clock, the body was then found I searched the brake and found a basket, which'I gave to Sergeant Harlow. The basket now produced is the one, it was about 100 yards from where the body was found. I also found a tin flask and a worsted ball; there were also some peas in the basket, I gave all up to the policeman. John Cheldeton, sergeant of the county of Gloucester police, was next examined. His evidence, which we are compelled to omit, referred to the finding of the prisoners. Superintendent Ceys gave similar evidence. It came out in Mr. Superintendent Ceys' evidence, that prisoners had been to mass the morning they were apprehended. In going with them to Newnham, Murphy wept, and said if he had a knife he would run it through himself. Robert Long, police officer, of Newport, said: Murphy, between seven and eight o'clock last night, without any commu- nication with me, said I am charged with the murder. I was present, and knows all about it and I will tell the truth if I go to the gallows for it. I own selling the watch at Gloucester, and having the boots. Prisoner Sullivan was here taken to another room. Murphy, on being asked if he had anything to say, said: There was another boy with us both there; that that boy anI Sullivan done it—killed the woman. I saw the shawl with Sullivan inside his jacket, and the other boy along with him. He offered it at the pawn shop, they would not take it; it was too wet. Prisoner then gaveja long account of all the trans- actiohhp to the time they were apprehended at Cheltenham. Prisoner Sullivan was then brought back to court, and was asked if he had anything to say—said no; but wanted to know what Maurice Murphy had said. Finding that he could not be told that, he asked if Maurice Murphy said that he struck the woman. Maurice Murphy was then removed, and Patrick Sullivan said We were by the side of the ditch, and as the woliit passed, Maurice Murphy struck her with the stone on the back part of her head. She fell down, and the basket fell, and the things fell out. He has changed his name. He told z, me his name was Welsh. He asked me to help him to carry her in I did. He kicked her with the toe of his shoe on her eye. He (Maurice Murphy) kicked her jaws and cheek with the heel of his shoe. Took her shawl away, and other things. They were fully committed to take their trial for the wil- ful murder of Jane Lewis. The case lasted from half-past ten in the morning till six in the evening, during which the greatest excitement pre- vailed.
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merthyX LIBRATIY LECTURE.—The iortmghtiy lecture was delivered on the 3d inst., by the Rev. J. O. Hill, Independent minister—the subject being poetry. We were much gratified at the able man- ner in which the reverend gentleman treated his subject, and con- sidering he was limited to one lecture, we think it could not be less than satisfactory. He interspersed it with various specimen* of poetry, both from our own and American authors, and insisted very strongly upon the necessity that all good poetry sa juld have the purest moral tendency.
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HiEWAUN. T1 o Wednesday evening last, the iiev. John Tnomas, >f Glyn- neath (late of Bvvlchnewydd), delivered a very able leetare, on the Principles of Nonconformity," at Nebo Independent chapel, at this place, which was crowded to excess; when Messrs. David E. Williams, Thomas Williams, and Evan Evans, were appointed delegates to the forthcoming Parliamentary Iloform Association, and Anti-State Church Conferences.
SWANSEA.
SWANSEA. Mas. STAMP.—This energetic advocate of temperance prin- ciples has delivered during the week addresses at several of our places of worship. On Friday evening Mrs. Stamp addressed a large assemblage at Bethesda chapel; on Sunday she preached a sermon at Tower-lane ehapel; and on Monday evening at Castle- street chapel. Large audiences assembled on each occasion, and at Castle-street chapel an appeal on behdf of the temperance cause was responded to by a liberal collection.
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llanelly" iv t ANTI-ST.YTE CHURCH ASSOC IA/I'ION".—At a public meeting held at Capel Als, on the 8th inst. (the Rev. J. Spencer in the chair), the Rev. T. Roberts and Mr. R. Palmer were appointed delegates to the triennial conference of the Anti-State Church Association, to be held in London on the 30,h instant. THE Ilev. Thomas Davies, Lla uliio, delivered his excellent lecture on Hanes Cened! y Cynry," at Capel Als, L'anelly. 0.1 AprilS. That edifice, large as it is, was crowded to excess, ) The tickets were sold without any effort, which shows that tho Welsh improve in their taste for lectures. The Rev. Jam; Spencer presided, and the proceeds went towards the LlaneUy | school.
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is more blind. But they escaped this time, and may go on buying caps for the King of Dahomeys three thousand fighting women—who are employed in supplying the de- mand occasioned by the very slave trade we spend more than a million a-year in putting- down-till the patience of the public is exhausted. But so long as John Bull is silent -so long as Mr. Hume complains the estimates are voted in a thin °House—will Government urge the old plea of inability to spare the income-tax—and so long will the Finan- cialltcform Association find that, unlike Othello's, its occu- pation is not gone. Mr. Sidney Herbert's emigration plan has at length been got into working order. It was liberally subscribed to by the rich and the liberal. A detachment of females has alreadv been sent out. A second detachment departed on Wednesday week, by the ship Tory, bound to Port Adelaide and Sydney. The party consisted of thirty young women, nearly all of the class of needle-workers and stitchers. They were assembled at the Fenchurch-street ter- minus at twelve o'clock, under the charge of a matron, and were accompanied to Blackball by their relatives and friends, and several members of the committee. The Hon. A. Kinnaird, the Count de Strzelecki, the Rev. Jos. Brown, ltcv. W. Quekett, and the Rev. B. C. Sangar, were amongst the company, and several ladies who took an interest in the welfare of the emigrants also accompanied them down the river. At Blackball a steamer was in waiting to convey them on board the vessel, in which very satisfactory arrange- ments appeared to have been made for their accommodation. Mr. Sidney Herbert did not accompany this party, being absent, as was understood, on important business in Ireland. A third detachment of female emigrants will leave early in the ensuing week. Upwards of 200 young women have been already selected by the committee, and this work of emigration is reputed to be making as rapid and as favour- able progress as its best friends could possible desire. The only objection to the plan that can be urged that the women sent out are precisely those we want at home. The hzy, the -v,ious, we oeuld willingly spare; bat such are not to be sent out. Then want of eligibility compels them to be a disgrace and encumbrance at home. By a natural association of ideas emigration leads us to mention a plan of model villages, which, in spite of the selfishness of the cotton-lords, has been put into practice by some of them, and found to be attended with the most beneficial results. A writer in the Aihencemn gives some account of an inspection he has lately made of several vil- lages in the valley of Turton, in Lancashire, the property of Messrs. Ashworth, spinners, and manufacturers of staple articles in cotton. The schools, cottages, and mills are de- scribed as being ail in admirable condition. The homes of the workpeople arc clean—wall-furnished—well-regulated the schools "filled with rosy-cheeked, bright-eyed, intellig; nt children, of from six to twelve years old." Not one of the older boys but can read, write, and cipher, and has a very creditable acquaintance with history, geography, and physical science-not one of the older girls but can read, write, knit, and sew well enough for all ordinary purposes. The grown-up "hands" have a sort of literary society amoiv themselves—and their employers have built them a reading-room. In the Ashworth villages" there is no ale- house, and a man of intemperate habits has 110 chance of long holding a position in any one of them. The proprietors have 110 ueed to interfere. The rebuke comes from his own order. Public opinion is too strong and he must conform to the habits of the place, or decamp to some larger town, where his vices may be hidden in the crowd. The result of this admirable experiment," adds the writer, is satisfactory in every respect. The authors of it have stated that the order and content' of their workmen are worth to them X50 a-week and that they would not exchange their 1,200 hands for an equal number, equally skilled, taken from the mass of a large town population, for £ 10,000. This is an argument to reach a class of minds inaccessible to the moral reasons. Virtue is here its own reward, even in the worldly economical sense." If all proprietors, whether of lands pr manufactories, would go and do likewise, we should hear less of ignorance and increase of crime than we do. But the rich have neglected their duty, they have violated a law of the universe, and for the sins of former years we have now to suffer and to mourn. Savings-banks were thought a great blessing when they c ZD first started into existence. They, however, are being dis- tanced by Penny Banks, of which a lady, of the name of liathbone, has given an interesting notice in the Public Good. A short account is given of the working of the Penny Bank lately established in Hull. In this bank every depositor has a ruled card or ticket given to him, with his name inscribed, and space for six entries of savings in the week, a similar account of each deposit being registered whenever money, is brought, in a regular ledger. Whoever lays by something, however little, each week of the year, receives a premium of a shilling at the end of twelve months. The cost of house-room for receiving the daily deposits has hitherto been saved to the institution, by the business hours being appointed at such firm s in the morning or evening as enables the depositors to have the free use of other savings- banks or public school-rooms, before or after these rooms are needed for their ordinary transactions. At Greenock the hank is opened from eight to ten o'clock every morning; and at Hull it is open from five to seven o'clock every even- ing. The mechanical part of the work is managed by six clerks (sometimes under fourteen years of age), who receive a salary of s62 per annum, and are again under the superin- tendence of a superior clerk, at £10 per annum. The six clerks sit at a long table, with six money-boxes before them, and each having a separate ledger. Every day the cash is balanced and paid over to the head clerk, who gives it to the treasurer. At Hull the amount received is partly invested in the savings-bank, and partly in the bank of Messrs. Pease and Liddell; but in both instances the investment is made in the names of the trustees of the institution, without whose written order no money can be withdrawn. A paid auditor examines the books weekly. The new system came into operation at Hull on the 1st of August, 1849; and before the close of the old year the deposits amounted to X630, from above four thousand depositors, who are daily increasing. Not yet has peace visited the ranks of Wesleyanism. Nor, from present appearances, is it likely soon to do so. Like the Church of England, it is split into two sections, who, inspired by the true odium theologium, are likely to become bitter and more antagonistic every day. We learn from the lVesleyan Times, of Monday, that as a result of the special district meeting of the Third London Circuit, which met Oil Thursday week, with closed doors, sundry of the leaders and trustees received a missive, from which we extract the following:—" We are directed by the Special District Meet- ing to inform you, that, after a patient and lengthened con- sideration of all the circumstances, it is their so emn and painful conviction, thcit you Juice forfeited the privilege of Membership in the Methodist Society. This conviction rests on the fact, that your conduct is deemed to have beeu notoriously hostile to our long-established and Connexional dhc'phne. The meeting is, however, ready to afford you every opportunity of retracing your steps, and before pro- ceeding, in the exercisj of its constitutional power, to acts oF is willing—(how merciful)—to hear any rea- son you may be prepared to allege in arrest of judgment, to afford you its pastoral expostulations, and to ascertain from you whether you will engage henceforth to abstain from all agitation; and, if not giving up your own opinions on con- troverted points, at least will acquiesce in the disciplinary regulations of the Connexion." There was a great demon- stration in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, on Friday evening last, at which an immense number of persons were present. From Ireland we learn that a little agitation is being at- tempted to detain in Dublin the poor pomp of the Vice-Regal Court. The Dubli I people do nctat ailrelishthe ideaof losing it. The aggregate meeting of the citizens, convened in pursuance of a requisition to the Lord Mayor, to petition the legislature against the contemplated abolition of the office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, was held on Monday in the round room of the Rotunda. The whole of the edifice was crowded almost to excess, the audience including some ladies in the reserved places. The chair was taken by the Lord Mayor. Resolutions condemnatory of the intended abolition of the Vice-Regal Court were adopted. We fear, however, the Dablin people are doomed to disappointment. WIDE AWAKE.