The Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette and Merthyr Guardian

ODE TO MY NOSE. BY LORD BROUGHAM. Nose! unique of awful power, Never still for balf-an-hour, Never quiet, always changing, Upwards, downwards, sideways ranging- What moves thee so? Is it some unquiet spirit From thy birth thou dost inherit Moveth thee against my will That thou never cans't be still, As others do? Art outward sign that conscience itches, By thy ever restless twitches? At work again I-the deuce is in it! Nose cans't never rest a minute ? Be still, good nose. Turn'd up again! as tho' uncivil, You meant to say. go to the devil!" Well! lead the way to Pluto's home, Following his nose, we'll thither roam- Old Harry to repose.

FROM THB LONDON GAZETTES. London, Friday, December 9. IVSOLVENT. William Pennycad, Rosemary Lane, grocer. BANKHUPTS. Robert Wilkinsnn, Addle Street, City, flannel factor. Thomas Turner, New Bond Street, upholsterer. William Geongc Docking, Hamstead Road, cheese- monger. Thomas Folkard, High Holborn, hackneyman. Joshua Darwin Gander, Brill Row, Somers' Town, licensed victualler. Felix Joseph M'Carthy, Drury Lane, baker. Charles Jean Baptiste Pons, Old Bond Street, hatter. William Nelson Proctor, and Phillip Shaw Hyatt, Manchester, cotton dealers. Robert Askew, Manchester, merchant. Tuesday, December 13. INSOLVENT. Israel Alexander, Chiswell Street, horse dealer. BANKRUPTS. Henry Cox, Goswell Street, St. Luke's, soap manu- facturer. John Anderson, Old Broad Street, merchant, Henry Alexander Douglas, Old Broad Street, mer- chant. John Ingram, Birmingham, grocer. Thomas Legg, Windmill Street, Tottenham Court Road, carver. George Snggett, Barbican, meichant. Henry Cooper, London Street, Ratcliffe, flour factor Joseph Hall, Savage Gardens, Tower Hill, wine merchant. Henry Weston, Chailey, Sussex, victualler. John Jellous Brimmer, Greek Street, Soho, printer. Thomas Taylor, Topping's Wharf, Tooley Street, Southwark cheese factor. Joseph Batchelor, Newport, Hampshire, mercer. James Endersby Nicoll, and John VVarburton, Liver- pool, tailors. Thomas Johnson, Macclesfield, draper. Robert Musgrave, Liverpool, linen draper. George Foster, North Curry, Somersetshire, draper. Thomas Evans, Bridgend, Glamorganshire, draper, Dec. 21, Jan. 24, at 11 o'clock, at the Commercial Rooms Bristol: solicitors, Messrs. Holme, Frampton, and Loftus, New Inn. Joseph Dickinson, Denham Springs, Lancashire, calico printer.

A" inquest was held on Thursday, se'nnight, at Farnworth, upon the bodies of Robeit Taylor, aged 14, and Daniel Taylor, his brother, aged 10 years, who were drowned in a coal-pit at Kearsley, about half-past five o'clock the same morning. It appeared, by the evidence of James Taylor, their father, that he was letting the deceased, together with an elder brother, by a rope down a coal-pit belonging to Mr. Dornin, at Keaisley, in order for them to go to work in a mine, the entrance to which is about nine yards from the pit's mouth. The rope was fastened to a wheel fixed in the drum shaft, having a handle to it, acting as a windlass. When they had got down about eight yards, one of them called out, We are not low enough upon which witness moved the handle of the wheel for the purpose of allowing them a little more rope, and when he had got it to the level where he should have stopped, the wheel overpowered him, and he called to another man, who ran to his assistance; but they were both unable to stop the wheel till the rope ran to the bottom of the pit, which was seven yards deep in water. Sonje persons went down to the assistance of the lads, and found only the eldest son, who had hold of the rope, and was up to his neck in water, and as they weie pulling him up, a piece of wood fell upon his head, without, however, doing him any serious injury. The bodies of the other lads were not found until after eight o'clock, when they were quite dead. Verdict—Accidental death--Bolton Chronicle. POST OFFICE ROBBERY.—Charles Smith, a letter sorter in Bristol Post-office, was on Friday fully com- mitted for trial, charged by the Post-master of this city, with having stolen a letter containIng a bill of exchange for X 10 11. We are sorry to say that other letters, containing enclosures, put into our Post- office, are missing: one with four £00 Bank of England notes amongst the rest. Every enquiry, we understand, has been set on foot by tue proper authorities, to trace the letters, but hitherto without success. By a notice exhibited In our Commercial Rooms, another letter is missing, which was sent by the General Post, containing bills to the amount of X6,290 Is. 2d. in which was one bill for £ 5.253 JIs., drawn by the Newport and Pilgwently Coal Company: the others are al most all from the same neighbourhood and by a placard posted at our Post office, another letter, containing upwards of £ 1500 in bills, put into the Derby post-office, on the 4th of Nov. has not reached its destiiiation.-Bristol Gazette,

"A BLOODY DEED.Hainlet. Mr UConnell has promised to write a letter to the people of Ireland, 44 it it were to be in his own blood." We like not these bloody documents. We know but of one deed which requires such a voucher- and that is when a man sells himself to but unwilling to write the name, we must suggest it by a parallel and illustrative compact:— Mephistopheles.—Why this excitemelit ? why this waste of oratory ? these frantic gestures Any scrap will do-just scratch your name there in a drop of blood. Faustus.-A silly farce—but if it gratifies you- .Mephistophele.Blood it must be-blood hath peculiar virtues. We shall not say that Mr O'Connell's bad angel has forsaken him; but we know that he has need of a good one to get him through his present diffi- culties.-Dublin Evening Mail.

DREADFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. A dreadful accident occurred on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway on Saturday, the Srd instant, by which three persons lost their lives and a great deal of property was damaged. At Wetheral the railway crosses the river Eden by a noble bridge, where a station is placed, of which the traiusal ways stop. About 300 yards urther the railway crosse3 the valley of Corby-beck by a viaduck: and at the western extremity of this is a short branch leading to some coal staiths belonging to the Earl of Carlisle. To enable the waggons to reach this staith, points or switches are placed npon the main line of rails, which are turned to the branch line, and vice versd, by means of an eccentric lever. After the waggons have been taken from the main to the branch line, it is the duty of the persons having the care of the staiths to turn the points to the main line, and fasten the rails in that position by blocks on the north side. On the day in question, the train from Newcastle was proceeding to Carlisle, drawn by the Samson loco- motive engine, about four in the afternoon, with 26 passengers, and a heavy load of goods. About half a mile before reaching Corby-bridge, the steam was let off, aud the train was decending the inclined plain. On reaching the bridge, Simpson, the engine- man, saw a man upon the line, and gave him the signal to get out of the way. Scarcely had this danger been avoided, when, to his horror and consternation, he saw the points were set for the staith instead of the main line. The. alat-m was given, and the motion of the engine WIiS, reversed. Both the engine- man and the fireman had just time to leap off. The reversing of the irntnionof the engine was not suffi- cient to stop it, as it was upon a considerable descent. In an instant the "engine and train ran upon the branch rails and right forward to the staith. Six empty coal waggons, which were standing there, were struck and driven off the rail. At the same moment the stone pillars of the coal cells, supporting the rails, gave way, and theengine fell to the ground, a depth of eight feet, carrying with it the whole of the frame work of the staith. The tender fell in the same way. Attached to the tender was a horse truck laden with corn; this also fell to the ground, but came upon its wheels. Following this was a truck laden with goods and a cart. The truck was also turned over, and rell upon the grain truck. The carriages with the passengers were happily arrested just on the brink of the falling ruins. One of these carriages was a good deal injured, but the passen- gers, with one exception, escaped without any in- jury: he had his hand jammed between broken timbers. When the engine first took the wrong direction, a man named Henry Johnson, a dyer, of Warwick, was on the staith, and had not time to get out of the way he was thown down, and so greatly injured that he died,tl)e next morning. On further examination being mde, two boys, named Matthew Potts and John Kelsay. aged 14 and 16, were found crushed to death between the grain and the truck which had fallen upoij it: they had got npon the train, it appears, unknown to anybody. The head of the eldest youth was crushed quite flat, and pre- sented a frightful spectacle. I An inquest was held upon the bodies of the three unfortunate deceased: Monday. A great number of witnesses were elarnided, and the investigation lasted the whole of. the day. At the conclusion of the evidence^jAhe jufy came to the following ver- dict:—We *id thai Henry Johnson, Matthew Potts, and John Kelsay, came by their deaths accidentally, by reason of the locomotive steam- engine called the Samp90n, and the carriages by which she was followed running from the proper fine of road, and breaking down a staith at Great Corby, such deviation from the right line being caused by the misplacing 0f certain pointsor switches at the west end of Corby-bridge; and that a deodand of £15 be levied upon the steam-engines and car- riages; and that this jury cannot separate without expressing its disapprobation of the.couduet of the railway company ill flot placing their own respon- sible servants at every turn where such switchers are placed, or insisting, upon Lord Carlisle, and all others having private depôt", giving such security for proper attention to the switches leading to such depdts as will give the most perfect security attain- able in such a mode of travelling to those whose lives are committed to their charge."

LIQUID MARBLE.— Dr. Jackson, of Boston, in the United States, has lately made an analysis of the water of that city, in which analysis he calculates that the inhabitants of that city annually drink lime enough to make a column of marble 40 feet long and 2 feet in diameter. The play actors say it takes a long time to excite the Boston audience. Who can wonder, when, according to Dr Jackson's theory, they must present a mere mass of coid unfeeling marble? No offence to Baltimore, but ought not Boston henceforth to be called the monumental city ? -Philadelphia paper A SEXTON BURIED ALIVE—ON Monday morn- ing last, as Samuel Barker, the sexton and grave- digger of Dedham, had nearly finished digging a grave ten feet deep, a great quantity of earth from each side of the grave suddenly caved in and com- pletely buried him. The accident was discovered by a man named Hitchcock, who, about 8 o'clock, was passing through the churchyard on his way home to breakfast, when curiosity led him to go and look at the grave he then discovered that the earth had fallen in as above describe^. Oil a sudden he heard a groan as if coming from a distance, and in a fewsecondsthe groan was repeated. Heimmediately suspected it to proceed from under the loose earth and supposing it possible the grave-digger might have been accidentally buried, he called out ''Sam, are you there?" wlieu he distinctly heard another groan that satisfied him that his suspicions were not ill-founded. He immediately ral. into the street and gave the alarm, and in a very short time a consider- able number of the inhabitants were at the spot, and every exertion was used to clear the loose earth out of the grave, but it was nearly 20 minutes before the body of rhe unfortunate man was extricated, li was found iu a stooping position, and lifeless. The melancholy circumstance has created a great sensa- tion in the neighbourhood. Barker was 4-5 years I of age; he has left a widow and five children Ito bewail their untimely loss.-Clielinsford Chronicle.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE. DISASTROUS ISSUK o?' I'ME FRENCH EX- PEDITION AGAINST CONSTANTINE. The foreign intelligence is peculiarly inter- esting as it regards France. The worst antici- pations of the expedition against Constantine have been realized. The French Government has received a dispatch, by telegraph, from Marshal Clausel, which appears in the Paris journals of Tuesday. The details are too long for our insertion; nor are they, perhaps, accu- rate: indeed, the result remains still unknown, as the communication, by telegraph, was in- terrupted by the state of the atmosphere. The following are the most important par- ticulars:— "We passed without difficulty through the defile of Rach-el-Ayba, and learned there that Achmet (Bey), with his women, and his trea- sures, had left Constantine. At Soma we were surprised, about five o'clo k, by a piercingly cold rain, mixed with snow. Up to that time all had gone on well, but the night was mortal to many of our soldiers, and thousands of others were benumbed \Ve were only three leagues distant from Constantine. On the 21st we resumed our march, seeing the place before us. Atfer de- scending a gentle declivity on which we had encamped, we found the Oued-Ben-Mezioug much swollen, and we were obliged to ford it, the water reaching up to our waists, and the snow continuing to fall; nevertheless, we crossed the river without the loss of a single man, A league further on we had to traverse another branch of the (river) Tumel, where we encountered new difficulties, new causes of r disease, and consequently a diminution of our number of fighting men. There were not then 4,000 combatants out of the 7,000 with whom I had set out. At length, about two o'clock, we arrived 011 the table land of Mantsotire, and were taking up a position at the distance of 24Y yards from the city, when a cannon shot and the hoisting of a red flag destroyed the hope I had entertained of entering Constantine without striking a blow. I then saw that it would be necessary to have recourse to force, and every moment my force was decreasing more and more, for the weather was horrible. The earth and the men were covered with snow, and the carriages disappeared, embedded in the mud. "The inhabitants of the city did not wish to engage in hostilities against its. Some Kabailes were, however, introduced into the place by gates, which we could not blockade, and they took upon themselves by force the defence of the town. I caused it to be cannonaded briskly on the second day to hurst in the gate of Can- tara. We continued our fire on the third day, and the gate was thrown down. But (Interrupted by the unfavourable weather.) The telegraph adds, that the Duke de Neinours is well. The only latest news we have received from Spain is, that Bilboa had not capitulated on the 10th, and that Espartero had quitted the right bank of the river, and taken up a position on the left between Portngalette and Baracaldo.

LONDON MONEY MARKET. CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH STOCKS—^THURSDAY. Bank Stock 210 3J per cent. Reduced.. 96J India Stock 260 3i per cent New. — 3 per cent. Consols — 4 per cent. 1826 — Consols for Account S8| India Bonds 10 3 per cent. Reduced B7« Exchequer Bills 14 PRICES Or FOREIGN STOCKS. Brazilian Bonds 5 per ct. 81 Greek A ng. Bdq 5 pr. ct. Chilian, 5 per cent. 42 Mex. Bonds, 6 per ct. 21 Colombian Bonds,6 pr ct 22 Portuguese Bds. 5perct 44i Danish Bonds, 3 per ct. 75 Portuguese Reg. Bonds 2S:t Dutch per cent 54 Russian Bonds,5per ct 107^ Dittoo per cent 100a Spanish (1834), 5 perct 20^ French Rentes 5 per ct. Belgian Bonds, 5 per ct I00|

On Saturday, the 1 Oth instant, the christening of the infant son of Lieut-Co!. John Sidney and Lady Susan Doyle took place at Brighton. Their Majesties were graeiously pleased to stand sponsors, and deputed the Earl and Countess of Sheffield to be their proxies The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Thorns* Cooke. There were present the Dowager Countess of Guildford, Earl and Countess of Sheffield, Mrs I1 itzherbert, Hon. Col. and Mrs Dawson Damer, General Sir Charles and Miss Doyle, and the Marquis of Bristol. Lady Sheffield, on the part of their Majesties, presented to the infant a most beautiful piece of plate. Our sporting readers will be rejoiced to hear that some friends of the honest 'Squire of Llanharra" (Richard Hoare Jenkins) are making a subscription of a sovereign each for a picture, by a competent artist, to illustrate the Llanharran hounds. The picture to consist of the 'Squire himself, his Huntsman, Joilo Harry, on his matciiless horse Dinger, and a group Of the favorite hounds. We have seen the list", which amounted, in this early stage, to upwards of sixtY names; and such is the deserved popularity of the master of the hounds, that we have little doubt but the means of acquiring a picture by an eminent hand wi" be readily obtained. The 'Squire of Llanharran waS born a huntsman, he kept bounds 45 years ago while at Cowbridge School, when they were hunted by Tom of Gelliserran, who, from sounding the horo, has lately turned Harpqt^at BrynymenitH May lIe live to see his old must ture I .r"or'-#I'' TO THE EDITOR OF THC, GAZETTE AND GUARDIA*' SIR,—Having observed in your last paper a letter signed J. M." and dated Manchester, I readily take an opportunity of making a communication wbu:b may be of some interest to your correspondent. It was conveyed to me from a female of great respeC' tability who is now SI years of age, and iu the possession of all her faculties. About 60 years agu she went to reside in the pario of Merthyr Mawr, and she perfectly recollects » rumour then current in that neighbourhood, that Scotch pediar had been murdered at a public 1)0"58 called the New Inn. She knew a woman, then residillg at Ogmore, who had lived in the inn as a servant- The history which she remembers to have heard was' that a harper of Bridgend had been plaving one cv"" nig at Merthyr Mawr Place, that 011 returning bo'°e he crossed some fields by a path not far from the Ne* Inn, a light in one of the windows attracted his noti^' be looked in, and saw certain persons in the act 0' murdering a stranger; the poor sufferer was not quitc dead, for a gurgling noise in his throat was Iistillctly beard. The harper proceeded home and cotninun1' cated to his wife all that he had seen. The wife 111 treated him not to disclose the circumstance to one, lest he himself, who was se frequently out a night, should endanger his own life. Some years aftef tins, it seems that a public meeting was held for soi*^ purpose at this New inn. The children were to go out and play to a field near the river, and there in an old quarry, they are said to have found a colleclI tion of human bones. They took the skull home, 0" sight of which, the servant maid exclaimed—"T^ is the skull of the pedlar who was murdered iu house." The name of the harper is known to the old who also thinks that she knows the name of the l'*1" lord who kept the house at the time of the murder., These names I abstain from publishing, for varifllJ reasons. I will, however, readily communicate tl^1" to your correspondent, if he desires it, and you I1"1*" my authority to make my address known to to'"1' should he wish it. It is possible that even now some little light tn be thrown upon this horrible transaction; but, aft^ so long an interval, it is almost certain that the parties must have terminated their sad course, must be left to answer for blood at the bar of infallible judge. I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, .1 MNEMON. 13th December, 1836. A HINT TO "FRIENDS" ROUND NEATH.—AN quent speaker at the Buckinghamshire, meetinif the 9th inst. having described the House of Lords 9 the great breakwater of sedition against which W1,, waves of O'Connell's commotion would beat in adds, Down with the Lords, and what j follow? Once before the experiment was tried, how long did the Commons survive them ? HilV' already stained the scaffold with Royal blood, stroyed that Senate these disturbers now oppose,* trampled the hierarchy to the ground, what was consequence? How long did trial bg Jury survive j* destruction of the sceptre ?—Six months Archbishop of Canterbury was beheaded, a had his tongue cut out for his faith, by the ffoUS" j Commons!! Such was their boasted liberty1 s^' their vaunted toleration!" SWANSEA FREEMASONRY.—THE IVDEVATIOAOO AND BEAUFORT LODGE.—This lodge has been rel1}Obø from the Bush Inn to the Assembly Rooms, and arrangements have been made with a skill which does credit to the committee of managi'i116'1^ for certainly we were never more gratified by tlje pearaiice of any lodge, than by the ornaments or rations, or rather furniture, of the IlIdefatigable Beaufort Lodge. Ou Tuesday last, several parties were permitted to view' it, and thus we gratified by a sight of those emblems to which belongs. We should say the Swansea lodge wa»l1. best furnished, and the handsomest in the pality. When the brothers assembled, the r°Llfi0[i was very large about 50 members met. The elc^j, of Master took place, and Brethren were raised; to after the lodge was closed, a large party sat do* 0{ a most excellent supper, provided by A rs Thoio^jje the Bush Inn, in her usual style, who has h^ ^0 entire management of the Assembly Rooms for last two years, so much to the credit of the toWIl. roJ crsa J On YVednesday, December 7th, the atlnlv 1,00, dinner of the Swansea Harmonic Society took I tbO at the Assembly Rooms, Starling Benson, Esq. the chair. A large selection of glees was made f°f ^3. occasion, and introduced aftey the various Mr Bitrree presided at the piano. We can no1 J* express our delight at the proceedings of this e*cjt0 lent society, which tend so very much both to „t good feeling, aud add so materially to the atnus*3 of the town. The society gave their last ]|, night, which, like the preceding ones, went off' and was both numerously and fashionably attend^' ADVERTISING MONfeY-LENDE^' the [The following case appears to us to require publicity which the Press can give. YVe believe. similar scandalous transactions by the advC^y Money Lenders of the Metropolis are of tioll 'toll occurrence, though few Gentlemen in the situa t,)6 of Mr Jenner have, for reasons that are obviOUs, courage to prosecute,] fl- I ouring tho past week Sir P. Roe has been gating a case involving a charge of forgery |LjiC0 amount of <^500; the party charged with the0 j being a person named John Minter Hart, and Charles Herbert Jenner, son of Sir Herbert *e ^0 I the Judge at Doctors' Commons, being the 1 stands in the situation of prosecutor. On se'nnight an investigation took place in private, Mr Clarkson attended on behalf of the ProsC^0rtt'r and Messrs. Bodkin and C. Pnillips, as our rep ,pte understood, appeared as counsel for the accuse i**3cd, I result was-that the prisoner was ordered to herd11 until the following day, whe.'i he was placed at job" by Ledbitter, the offi.-er. He gave his naifl £ Mjtiter Hart. aW^j' Mr Clarkson conducted tlje prosGitution, and Isaacs, the solicitor, attended to watch the I on behalf of the prisoner, Tho Rev, Charles Herbert Jenner was tbci1 ^1« J and examined by Mr Clarkson. He depose<J,ja^Il0," j lows —I am the clergyman of Wenvoe, i" ganshire. In the month of July last I 0ffef^af j advertisement iu the Morning Post newspapcr Cj 4*> I to lend money, with reference to Mr 0,l, j Haymarket. 1 addressed a letter to that per J have 110 copy of it. The substance 1 however, that I wished to borrow some fop"9 j Sir F. Roe.—What was the result; did j,jesS'j a meeting with the person named Blake f a Pi0 a I did; in consequence of which he. called OP0 Chislebfurst, iu Kent, w^e I was residing- 1° YVas the prisoner the ye rson who cull' there?-Yes. T \*t» < Mr Clarkson.—Did theVVuterview take Pyyit"6'5 tween you on Friday, thtsli ?2d of J uly 1" —Yes, that was the day. *A. at I Be good euougli now to tell us what pa*5 tf J peated the substance of my letter, and tol I wanted a loan of money. e prel You mean the prisoner; bjit who did he be SI scJ Tj name was Blake; but be certainly represent ;| as that person, if he did not do so in words. i the name of Blake, however, when he calle* Of JI the same day at the house of Mr ,1) t'13 where I was stopping at the time. I told ntb5't|j0 wanted to borrow the sum of for 1^ 11 aS t° Sir F. Roe. — Did he make any ProPoSil rgo'|il'tli^/i security?—-Witness. — I proposed my P^.jjn j i' j curity, which he agreed to. I was to p:iy J j rate of £ 5 per cent, for the loan of the dW A i appointed him to meet me on the the house of my father in Chesterfield-»tre I

GLEANINGS LOYALTY. Loyalty is still the same, Whether it lose or win the game True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shone upon. GASTRONOMY.-Cardinal Fesch, a name of honor in the annals of gastronomy, had invited a large party to dinner. By a fortunate coincidence two turbots of singular beauty arrived as presents to his Emi- nence, on the very morning of the feast. To serve both would be ridiculous, but the Cardinal was, not- withstanding, most anxious to have the credit of both. He imparted his embarrassment to his Chef. Be of good faith, your Eminence," was the reply, both shall appear, both shall enjoy the reception which is their due. The dinner was served: one of the turbots relieved the soup, exclamations una- nimous, enthusiastic, religious, gastronomical-Ïl was the moment of the eprouvette positive. The maitre d'hotel advances; two attendants raise thfe monster and carry him off to cut him up; but one of them loses his equilibrium; the attendants and the turbot roll together on the floor. At this sad sight, the assembled Cardinals became pale as death, and a solemn silence reigned in the conclave, it was the moment of the eprouvette negative-but the maitre d'hotel suddenly turns to the attendants, Bring another turbot," said he, with the most perfect cool- ness. The other returned, and the eprourette posi- tive was gloriously renewed. CHARACTER OF DR. HAMMOND IN HIS EPITAPH. Nihil eo excelsius erat aut humilius: Scriptis suis Factisque, Sibi uni non placuit, Qui, tam Calamo quam Vita, Humano Generi complacuerat. THE WEEPING WILLOW.-The first weeping willow grown in this couutry was introduced at the commencement of the last century, by Mr Vernon, a Turkey merchant, who brought it with hxmfrom the banks of the Euphrates, and planted it at his seat in Twickenham Park; a descendant, probably, of those on which the Jewish captives "hanged their harps by the rivers of Babylon." PARALLELS.—Man is strong; woman is beantiful. Man is daring and confident; woman is diffident and unassuming. Man is great in action; woman in suffering. Man shines abroad woman at home. Man talks to convince; woman to persuade and please. Man has a rugged heart; woman a soft and tender one. Man prevents misery; woman re- lieves it. Man has science; woman taste. Man has judgment; woman sensibility. Man is a being of justice; woman of mercy. LAW AND EQUITY. Pray, my lord," said a gentleman to a late respected and rather whimsical judge, 11 What is the distinction between Law and Equity Courts ?"—<4Very little in the end," replied his lordship; 11 they only differ so far as time 4s concerned..At common law you are done for at once: in equity you are not so eaSily disposed of. The former is a bullet, which is instantaneously and most charitably effective; the latter is an angler's hook, which plays with its victim before it kills it. The one is prussic acid, and the other laudanum." BLINDED WITH EXCESS OF LIGHT.-A curious circumstance, observes a Hull paper, connected with birds of passage illl, that during their migrations in the night they frequently fly with such force against the lights on Flamborough Head, as to be killed on the spot. Ducks, woodcocks, starlings, fieldfares, redwings, and in short almost every species of the migratory tribe, fall victims to this flattening but unintentional decoy, allured, no doubt, and dazzled by the glare. The astonishing number of seventeen dozens of starlings were lately picked up near the light-house, having been killed, lamed, or stupified by flying against the dome of that brilliant light.

PUiiLIC DI-N-NLit TO flie ME.UuEiiS FOR GLASGOW. At eleven o'clock on Tuesday forenoon, a meeting of the gentlemen who signed the requi- sition, inviting our representatives, Lord Wm. Bentinck and Mr Oswald, to a public dinner, was held in the BlacfcUuU Hall, Robt. Grahame, Esq. of Whitehill, in the chair. Mr Oswald having previously accepted the invitation, the meeting was called for the purpose of receiving Lord William's final answer. The following is his Lordship's reply to Mr Grahame, received on Monday afternoon, which was read to the meeting :— Edingburgh, Dec. 5tb, 1836. "Dear Sir,—Deeply grateful as [ (eel, for the flattering mark of approbation intended towards my respected colleague and myself, in the invitation to a public dinner, by so very large and respectable a body of onrconstituent8( it is indeed most embarrass- ing and mortyfyiug1 to find myself compelled to de- cline that honour. But my health, though greatly improved, ought, as I afn strongly advised, to be kept free from any particular exposure or pressure; and I feel it a paramount duty to avoid any unne- cessary risk, which might deprive me of the power of pertoriiiing, as effectually as their interests require, the office of their representative. I beg your kind interference, and that of the other members of the deputation, that these reasons may be indulgently received.-I have the houour to be, dear Sir, vour most obedient servant, W. BENTINCK, Robert Grahame, Esq., of Whitehill." After the letter had been read,. it was agreed that the Chairman should write to his Lordship, conveying to him the thanks of the requisitionists, for the expressions of interest and regard con- tained in his communication. It was then pro- posed, on the motion of Mr Eankier, that a public dinner should be got up to Mr Oswald alone. This being agreed to, and a numerous committee appointed, the meeting, which waa very thinly attended, broke up. We have been informed that the proposed dinner will take place on or about the 20th current.-Scottish Guardian.

TO CORRESPONDENTS. We entreat the favour of our Correspondents to re- member that- Wisdom says little, but that little well in other wards, we cannot undertake to insert long letters upon any subject. W. D. on the Mistletoe, in our next. There is a great want of liberality in many neighbour- ing provincials, who abstract articles of intelligence without acknowledgment. We have long submitted, in silence, to this disingenuous practice; if it is re- peated, we will name the parties.

MERTHYR TYDVIL, SATURDAY, Dec. 17, 1836 4p Among the most singular matters of a time certainly not deficient in singularity, is the re- tention of Office by a Cabinet, whose whole ad- ministration has been marked with failure. Leaving to public notoriety their disasters in every shape of domestic polity, we, for the mo- ment, cast a glance at their conduct on our Foreign relations. Let no man suppose that, because we are separated from the Continent by fifteen miles of Sea, those relations are not of the very highest importance. In them con- sist the prosperity of our Foreign Commerce, which is wealth, the. extension of our National Influence, which is strength, the security of the Country against the burthens of a War Esta- blishment, which gives the privilege of expend- ing our superfluous income in all improvements at home, and lastly, and perhaps highest of all, the general invigoration of the National Mind, by its unrestricted, intelligent and benevolent intercourse with mankind throughout the world. The failures of the Cabinet are failures of principle. They are not simply the work of the Melbournes, Russells and Pftlmerstons, but the work of the elements of which those men are made. They are not the web woven over the Constitution, by the small dexterity and inscct venom of a few trivial and temporary creatures, whose natural place is in the obscurest corners of public life, they are the winding sheet pre- pared for the Constitution by the evil genins of hostility to Church and State. \Vhigt>ism is the grand operator; and whether, like Milton's fiend, it squats at the ear of the people, in the shape of the toad, or springs up and menaces 1e spirits of truth and holiness and freedom, in the shape of the Giant armed, its flatteries and its threats have all the same low and selfish purpose, personal domination, the overthrow of all generous rivalry and the feast of personal revenge, The Reform Bill' had its origin in that low selfishness and in that personal re- venge; it was the bitter retaliaiion of a malig- nant faction, for a forty years exile from power. It was the cold conspiracy to make a faction masters of the Treasury, at the risk of Bank- ruptcy to the Empire. But we must now look to the proceedings of Whiggism in our Foreign Affairs. In what posi- tion are they at this hour in the Peninsula? Portugal was once the habitual ally of England. What has Whig policy done there ? It first brought forward a Pretender, Don Pedro, who had solemnly and on oath resigned the Portu- guese Crown, ou usurping that of the Brazils. It thus offended the Portuguese nation, and pro- duced a Civil War. It next brought forward a Child, already disinherited by the Father's act, placed her on the Throne, and thus produced a long train of tumults, ending in a Democratic insurrection. Then, after involving the honor of the British name and the honor of the British forces, in a squabble between a Queen made by an army of mercenaries and a i. Peii,oct,itcy by an army of the rabble, it finally gave way before that rabble, and was thus the virtual in- strument of establishing a Democracy in the heart of Europe. But the curtain has not yet fallen on this tragi-comedy of blunders. The rightful King of Portugal has-declared to his people, that he is oil the eve of returning to reclaim his Throne. His proclamations are already flying through the land, pronouncing the present possessor an Usurper, reprobating the atrocious Confisca- tions of Private and Church Property, and pro- mising restitution and retribution to all. What will next be the Whig policy. To go to war with Don Miguel, of course. But for whom ? Donna Maria is no longer Queen she is a pri- soner. For our beloved Cousin, the Popish Protestant Cobourg who has wedded her He is neither King nor Commander now, nor any thing but a hanger-on at a Court in chains. For what are we to go to war ? If for Don Miguel, we undo all that we have been doing these last half-dozen years. If for Donna Maria, we al- ready fight for a Democracy which keeps this unhappy Girl in durance, and which consists of Serjeants and Corporals of the Volunteers of Lisbon. Is our position more cheering in Spain ? There we have a band of miserable mercenaries, who Alioot Spaniards for a shilling a day when they can get it,—starve when they cannot,—are shot when they are taken prisoners,—and desert whenever they can find an opportunity. So much for the principle of our alliance. Ministers protest so keenly against taking any part in the war, yet they send ships, marines, artillerymen, and engineers to fight Spaniards with whom we are not at war; we see our troops actually beaten by those Spaniards on the very field of our most eminent victories. And what do we gain by all this wretched and busy inter- meddling! Nothing, but the sure hatred of the future King, the unquestionable abhorrence of his people, and the ready ridicule of Europe. Among our other blunders, we have blundered on the wrong side, for Don Carlos will inevitably be the Monarch, unless in the alternative much more formidable, the Democracy of Madrid reign iu his stead. Do we charge those misera- ble results on the Members of the Cabinet ex- clusively? No, we charge them upon the sys- tem by which such Ministers were fabricated out of the dross of party, by which they are upheld against all reason, and by which they are furnished with the means of such compre- hensive folly. It is Whiggism which has driven them to the absolute necessity of all this weak, worthless, and unprincipled Intervention. The rabble of Radicals and Jesuits, by whom they were placed in power, naturally exulted at every sign of rabble supremacy abroad, and Ministers dared not shrink from their demand of Intervention. Why did all the Radical Orators panegyrise Don Pedro and the Spanish Queen from the moment of their usurpa- tion ? undoubtedly because they regarded in them both the creatures of rabble revolt, the leaders of the new Jacobinism of Spain and Portugal. Why did the British marines suffer the indignity of a retreat before the mob of Lisbon ? because they were the mob, and because the Whig Potentates of Ef'gland dared not risk offending the sympathies of the mob at home. How long are these slaves and sycophants to be 11 borne by the British nation ?

BANQUET TO SIR R. PEEL.-Applications for tickets have poured in upon the secretary to an almost incredible extent, and just now we learn that within a very few of 3.000 applications are entered upon bis books. We are happy to in- form our readers that preparations are going on with great spirit. A contract has been entered into with Mr Archibald Edmiston for the erection of the pavilion, at the sum of £ 1,220, exclusive of interior decoration and the workmen have commenced operations. A letter has been re- ceived by the committee from Lady Peel, in which she expresses her grateful sense of the high honour intended for her husband, and, we understand, apologizes for her not accompanying him, on the plea of previous engagements and the inclemency of the weather—a plea which all who know that amiable lady's devotion to her distinguished partner will readily admit to be urged in perfect sincerity. The list of stewards has been made out. Arrangements have been made for the strictest regularity and fairness in the order of admission- Under the auspices of a committee which could not be surpassed for efficiency, we confidently anticipate that this will be one of the most magnificent festivals ever celebrated in the British empire.— Glasgow COli, DAKINC, ATTEMPT AT THE BANK OF FltA:C¡' One of our Paris letters of Friday mentions a most extraordinary occurrence of that day at the Bank of France- Two men placed them- selves in a passage through wli cit, from the Caisse (or Great Cash-ofhce) the cashiers pass with the specie or bank-notes necessary for the day's transactions. One of them, with 200,000 francs (£c;,OOO) in hank notes, enclosed in a pasteboard b(,x, was proceeding to his station, when the two men just alluded to seized him, took from him the box which eucloserl the money, and endeavoured to place a pitch plaster on his mouth. lie contrived, however, to give an alarm, upon which the robbers attempted to escape. One of them succeeded, after knocking down or pushing aside a sentinel who sought to bar his passage." The oth r was arrested and brought into one of the offices. Oil being searched, a brace of loaded pistols were found upon him, and were placed on a table, while those engaged in it drew iii) a report of the affair. Watching his opportunity, the prisoner sprang on the pistols, seized and cocked one in a twinkling, and with it blew out his brains Tlmes. The assertion of Sir Humphry uavy that no species of plant will vegetate downward has lately been contradicted by an experiment made by Messrs. Lockliart and O).,florists, Cheapside, in a Narcissus, the bulb of which is placed in a large glass vase filled with water. The Narcis- sus is now on the point of coming into flower downwards, a large pod of bloom and several long leaves being already visible in the water RAILROAD IN RUSSIA.— The fullovviug particu- lars respecting a railroad now making between. St. Petersburgh and Zatskojecelo, of which a prospectus has appeared in this country, may not be uninteresting to the public. The rail- road is to terminate in the Imperial l'ark at Pauloffsky, two miles from i-he palace of 4urs- kojecelo, and 17 from t. Petersburg. The village of Zarskojecelo is'a mere dependency 011 the palace, contains no manfactures what- ever, aii(i it' population is composed of the attendants on the Court and the military quar- tered there. The only returns that can be expected by the shareholders mUst"iii'iie from the passengers between St. Letersburghaud Zarskojecelo-a class ot travellers which cannot long continue numerous, wilen cllrioslty. or pleasure, and not business, governs their motions. The road is said to, be so badly constructed as to insure the uccessity of its repair when the spring shall arrive. The absurdity of a railroad specu a- lion in Russia tnu-t he obvious 10 every person who reflects that nature has given the Russians a natu- ra! railroad, by means of ice and sinnv, for at least six months out oflhe 12 and during all that period the iron rails must he deeply imbedded in snow.* ANECDOTE. ORIGINAL.—An officer of the Navy being in company with an assembly of green- horns, in the country, was showing his importance and blustering and spinning tough yarns. Speak- ing of the swiftness with which he had sailed upon the seas, he declared that he had passed so rapidly through the waves as to tear off the ship's copper. A young sailor who had been standing by incognito, upon hearing the speech, suddenly reiinarILed,- '• Oh, that s not worth speaking of,—1 have fre- quently sailed so fast that we were obliged to heave to, to cool the ship's rudder irons."