The Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette and Merthyr Guardian

SCRIPTURE ILLUSTRA TIONS.-No. 191, JUDG. in. 31. And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines 600 men with an ox goad." APRIL 15, 1697.—"The country people w«re now everywhere at plough in the fields, in order to sow cotton. Twas observable that in ploughing they used goads of an extraordinary size. Cpon measuring of several I found them about eight foot long, and at the bigger end, six inches in circumference. They were armed at the lesser end with a sharp prickle for driving the oxen, and at the other end '-with a small spade, or paddle of iron, strong and massy, for cleansing the plough from the clay that encum- bers it in working. May we not from hence conjecture, that it was with such a goad as one of these, that Sliamgar made that prodigious slaughter related of liiiyi I am confident that whoever should see one of these instruments, would judge it to be a weapon not less fit, per- haps fitter, than a sword for such an execution. Goads of this sort I always saw used hereabouts, and also in Syria and the reason is because the same single person both drives the oxen, and also holds and manages the plough; which makes it necessary to use such a goad as is above described, to avoid the incumbrance of two i nstrti men Journey from jlleppo to Jerusalem.

"GOD IS EVERY-WHERE.—During the ravages of the great plague in London, Lord Craven, whose house was situated where Craven Street now stands, alarmed at the progress of the disease, determined to retire into the country. His carriage was at the door, and he was passing through the hall to enter it, when he heard a negro servant saying to another domestic, 'I suppose, by my Lord's quitting London to avoid the plague,'bat his God lives in the country, and not in town.' The negro said this in the innocent simplicity of his heart, really believing in a plurality of Gods. The speech, however, struck Lord Craven most forcibly. 4 My GO! thought he, lives every- where, and can preserve me in town as well as in the country. I "ill evell stay I elm. The ignorance of that lIegro has preached a useful sermon to me. Lord pardon that unbelief, and that distrust of thy providence, which made me think of running away fi-)m tliy hand., He coiiiiiet-itianded his orders for the journey, he remained in London, he was remarkably useful in administering to the necessities of the sick, and he was saved from the surrounding infection." to CATCHING A HORSE IN NOVA SCOTIA.—Most of them ere dike marshes have what are called" honey- pots" in lett); that i-, a deep tiole full of squash, ,*here you can't find no bottom. Well, every now and then, when a feller goes to look for his horse, he see, his tail a sticking right out on end from one of these honey-pot., and wavin like a head of broom corn and sometimes you see two or three trapped there, e'en a most smothered, everlastin tired, half swimin, half wadin, like rats in a molasses cask. When they find them in that ere pickle, they go and get ropes, and tie 'em tight round their necks, and half hang letn to make "em float, and then haul 'ein out. Awful looking critters they be, you nuy depend, when they do coine out for all the world like half-drowned kittens—all slinkey sliniey-with t teir great long tails glued up like a swab of oakum dipped in tar. If they don't look foolish it's a pity 'Veil, they have to nurse these critters all winter with hot mashes, warm covering, and what not, and when spring cornea they mostly die, and if they don't they are never no good arter. 1 wish with all my heart half the horses in the country were barrel'ed up in these here" honey-pols," and then there'd be near about one-half too many of them left for profit. Jist look at one of these barn-yards in the spritig-lialf a-dozen half-starved colts, with their hair looking a thousand ways for Sunday, and their coats hangiu' in tatters and half-a-dozen good for uothiug old horses, a crowdin out the cows and sheep. -Sain Slick. A few days ago, a gentleman, mounted on a very fine active horse, overtook the Dilligence between Doulens and Amiens, and unexpectedly recognised an old friend inside. After congratulat- ing each other on the agreeable-surprise, a conversa- tion was kept up between the acquaintances for a considerable time, but frequently interrupted by the necessity of the horseman's making room for other carriages passing along the road. At length,another persou in tha Dilligence, after admiring the beauty and action of the horse, and observing upon the inconvenience and risk the rider sustained, very politely offered to change places with him, in order that he might courerse more freely with his friend, aud ride the animal to Amiens. This offer being gratefully accepted, he dismounted and entered the Dilligence, while the complaisaut stranger vaulted into the saddle, and proved himself a skilful eques- trian by displaying to the utmost advantage all the powers and graces of the animal. Sometimes he was g-allopping gaily in advance, sometimes pacing beside the carriage, aud then, in order to give the horse wind, dropping into a slow trot, and remaining in the rear. After a time, however, neither man nor horse were to be seen, and whether the horse ran away with the rider, or the rider with the horse, has not been ascertained, for the most extensive inquiries have not discovered the slightest trace of either of them.- French Paper. "How TO GF.T Os." The Apothecary Method. (From the Pickwick Papers.)—44 Don't you see ?" said Sob he goes up to a house, rings the area bell, pokes a packet of medicine without a direction into the servant's hand, and walks off. Servant take* it into the dining-parlour; master opens it and reads the label, I Di-atiglit to be taken at bedtinie-pilis as before-lotion as usual-the powder. From Sawyer's, late Noc kemorl's, Phy- sicians' prescriptions carefully prepared and all the rest of it, Shows it to his wife-she reads the label; it goes down to the servants—they read the label. Next day the boy calls: 'V ery sorry — his mistake-iaimense bulaitiess-ICreat many parcels to deliver-N,lr Sawyer',s coinpli ments- -late Nockemorf,' The name gets known, and that's the thing, my boy, in the medical way; liless your heart, old fellow, it's better than all the advertising in the world. We K'VS I'Jtftfc&tt one four-ounce bottle that's been to half the Bristol, aad hasn't done yet,

CHIT CHAT. Lady Augusta Gordon, formerly Lady Augusta Kennedy, is appointed to the situation of house- keeper at I-itlace, held by the late Lady de L'lsle. A Hill has been introduced into the House of Commons by a canny Scot to register dnudesiine marriages." Had an Irish- tti ui brought forward such a bill so described, its phraseology might have been deemed natural it. deer are suffering severely from the length of the winter, and the great scarcity of food, "dn Whittlebury forest they have barked nearly all the young trees, and, this last resource failiivi them, numbers are daily found in the riding starved to death.— Northampton Mercury Lord Breadalbane, besides contributing generously to the t'und tor the relief of the destitute High- landers. has given instructions to support the poor on his extensive estate, at his own expense. — Glas- gow Chronicle. In some parts of the country, the practice long known in Wales of feeding cattle on crushed furte has becn-resorted to Wlln great success-- A gentleman calling upon the fate Mr Constable, after along residence abroad, the latter, pointing to his fd,lijly, sai,l, You lind my boys and girls much grown?" "Yes, all the petty constables are now high constables, was the reply. PETTY LF.GISI.ATIOS.—The Darmstadt Official Gazette of the 21st ultimo contains an ordinance forbidding the killing of those birds which des'roy noxious insects, except in cases of public utility. Amongst the birds which the ordi- nance allows to be shot are sparrows, and it is even ordered that every householder shall deliver every year to the police six sparrows, in default of which he will be fined six kreutzers for every one deficient. Lord De Saumerez took the oaths and his seat in the House of Lords on Friday se'n- night, and afterwards presented a petition from Cheltenham against the abolition of Church Rates. -Letters from Rome state, that Thorwaldsen, the celebrated sculptor, had left that capital, after a Ion*' residence, for Munich, and that he intends afterwards to visit Copenhagen, his native place. MISER MODI-D !-An illiterate personage who always volunteered to go round with the hat, but was suspected of sparing his own pocket, overhearing a hint to this effect, he made the following speech Other gentlemen puts down what they thinks proper, and so do 1; charity is a private concern, and what I gives is nothing to no- body. The Highland fisheries have been un- usually productive, and a glut of potatoes from Ireland has lowered the Glasgow markets. This, with Government aid and the subscriptions, opens better prospects for the Highlands. A better room having been provided in Trafalgar Square, than the old coal hole in Somerset House, for the re- ception of works of the chisel, there is this year a larger and better collection of sculpture than usual. By an old Polish edict, any sinner who eats on a fast-day was sentenced to have all his teeth drawn.-A lady beingdreadfully pestered by a conceited coxcomb, told him that she was in danger of dying the death of Adonis, (of being killed by a bore) Striving against nature is like holding i weathercock in one's hand, as soon as the force is taken off, it veers again with the wind.-RAILROADS.-A very simple improve- ment in rail road carriages has at length opened the prospect of avoiding the expenses of tunnelling and embanking in the lines upon which they are intended to run. A gentleman named Wood has just obtained a patent for carriages upon cog wheels, which will enable them toasc«ndor descend acclivities without the assistance of stationary engines, and with almost the same facility as they now move upon a level.-Scarcely a vessel leaves a Belgian port for England without bringing away a small quantity of potatoes. One of those extremely clever things called conundrums, is going about it is this—"Why is the hand- somest carpenter that ever lived uglier than the ugliest man of any other trade?—Because he is a deal planer N. P. Willis, Esq. the well- known author of Pencilling by the Way-side, has been appointed Secretary of Legation to Vienna. Daily use accustoms us to every thing. Who ever thought of the courage of that man who first tried the experiment of nailing a piece of iron to a horse's hoof Dr. Millingen, in his amusing "Curiosities of Medical Experience," says, It is worthy of remark that no woman was ever known to excel in musical composition, how- ever brilliant her instrumental execution might have been." Previously to the chairing, on Friday morning se'nnight, one of Mr Fitzroy's friends expressed to a member of that gentleman's committee, his regret at the unpromising appear- ance of the weather. "Never mind," said the other, "if we doet wet through, every Conservative has two coats." The Earl of Carnarvon has, be- sides giving X300 towards the erection of a new shurch at Burghclere, subscribed the sum off200 to the Winchester diocesan church fund. THE SOANE MUSEUM, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS — The trustees have entered upon their duty, with i he curator and assistants appointed under the Act, and have opened the museum, library, &c. for the present, on Thursday and Friday in- each week, during April, May, and June, under proper restric- tions. Admission can only be gained by tickets. With the library of the late Charles Richardson, of Covent Garden, which is about to be sold by Mr Evans, there will be included the original lion's head, erected by Addison at Button's coffee house, in 1773, to receive the papers of the correspondents of the Guardian; with the motto Servantur Maquis isti Cervicihus Ungues, Non nisi delecta pascitur ilie Fera." PREACHING AND --IPELLilia.Of six and thirty persons (sectarians) who obtained licences to preach, at one session of the Middlesex Magis- trates, six spelled ministers of the Gospel in six different ways, and seven signed their mark. One who applied for a licence, being asked if he could preach, replied—"Mother reads, ani I 'spounds and When the enterprising Humboldt was crossing the mighty Andes, his guide suddenly broke the death-like silence, exclaiming, It is past midnight, for the cross is I)ending." This bright constellatioll, the mariner's guide to the antarctic pole, is said, when midnight is past, to vary its position, and to bend downward. The medal of the Royal Geographical Society of Paris has this year been conferred upon Captain Back, for his discoveries in the Northern Seas. This is the third time that this honour has been conferred by this Society upon our enterprising countrymen. Gambling is greatly on the decrease, as most of the hell-keepers can abundantly testify. The recent expose has done more than magisterial interference. Many of those who formerly almost lived in such dens are now never seen within their doors— A'etr.———Friday a poor widow residing at Holywell colliery boughta small fish of a tra vei- ling fish hawker for a penny, and on opening it found half a sovereign in its stomach !—Tyne Mer- cury. Medical science has just lost one of its best ornaments by the death, at a very advanced age, of the celebrated French physician, Baron Dubois. We understand that Dr Ellison's examination of Greenacre's head was highly satis- factory. Greenacre submitted to the application of the callipers without a frown, and appeared in- tensely anxious that the measurement of his head should coincide.with his confessions.-The London Jle(i cal and Surgical Journal. Under a com- mission of lunacy, a jury have found that Mr Barham, the Member for Kendall, has been insane since the 1st of April last. Mr Barham was a Whig in politics -iiiiii Packet. AFFIRMA- Tlvp, LoVE-Nt,&Ktl,'G -'i'lie courtship of the last but one Earl of Pomfret, and the heiress he after- wards married, was conducted after the following fashionDo you like buttered toast?" "Yes." Buttered ontoth sides! Yes. "So do I; (Ton't yon think we had better be married ?' "Yes," The lady's fourth" Yes" was pronounced before the altar. ONE OF A lie Hev. Thomas Augustine Slater, Roman Catholic priest at Hutton Henry, near Castle Eden, has most honourably signed a petition to the Legislature to uphold the Established Church.————A young man, aged It), died in Bishop<'vea-nnol-,th last week, who had a singular predilection for Birds. He had SO pigeons, a cockatoo, 65 small birds of various kinds, 15 bmtam cocks and hens, and nine other animals of the inged creation. The total amounted to 129. Friday, there were taken from the stomach of a trout, caught in the I ay. ftv piece. of the Fifeshire Journal. They appeared to have been but lately swallowed, as they were quite -I'crth Adz-ertiser legible when dried.—Perth Adier iser,. [I hey were indigestible!!] —A subscription 13 raising at Nottingham for the relief of the suffering poor. No further symptoms of riot llve appeared.- THE CHURCH.—The Bishop of I-ondon, at a recent consecration in his diocese, stated that he had con. secrated 70 new churches since his elevation to this see, 40 of which were in London, and II in the county of Essex.-I t seems that a fool lately imposed upon the Exeter News Letter, by e. ays a fictitioihs notice of marriage. • he editor says that, in future, he will deem all matrimonial notices unauthentic unless accompanied with a larye sli of cake.-We are sorry to state that the Earl of Shannon lies dangerously ill at his house in Hamilton Place from the bursting ot a blood-vessel. His Lordship was thrown off his horse many months ago, and has n6t been well siiiee.-t,Lynch law," says Sam Slick, means hanging a man up alongside a church steeple to aee it it is perpendi- etilar.His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and suite left town on Sunday morning for Rotterdam, by the Netherlands steam ship the Uutuyier,

Imperial IJ.ultameitt. 011 Thursday, being the Queen's birth-day, the Houses of Pilrliamlnt did lIot sit. HOUSE OF LORDS-FHIDAY. A great number of Petitions were presented against tha. abolition of Church Hates, aud on other subjects. The Order of the Day was then read for present- ing the Petition of the Protestants of Ireland, which was agreed to on the 21:h of January fist, at the great meeting in the citv of Dublin. The Marquis of DOWNSHIRE, on presenting this Petition, stated that it rose from apprehension* entertained by the Protestants as to the state ot Ire- land, and to the unjust imputation of motives to the Protestaut body at a meeting of the General Asso- ciation. Under these circumstances it was deemed expedient that they should meet in order to petitioll the Throne aud the two Houses of Parliament. His Lordship begged to state, with respect to himself, that he had voted for the Catholic Relief Bill in the hope that it would prove advantageous to Ireland; hut when he a\V' that the General Association in Dublin were endeavouring to place the Roman Catholics in the situation which the Protestants possessed before the Act was passed, he could not help regretting the vote lie had trivea. After stating that the Pdilion was signed by upwards of 200.000 persons, him Lordship concluded by reading it at length. Lord MELBOURNE complimented the Noble Lord on the moderation of his speech, and the tone which he adopted on this side of the water. He reminded their Lordships that a protest against the Petition had been signed by forty-four Peers of the Realm, and by sixty-seven Irish Members of Par- liament. There was, therefore, a large body of Pi otestants who dissented from the objects of the meeting. He could make great allowance for the feelings of the Protestants, but still he felt that a latitude of observation had 'been itidu!ged on the occasion which exceeded all the fair limits of argu- ment. His Lordship then entered into a defence of the Irish Government, and replied to the different charges brought against the Lord Lieutenant, par- ticularly that of having abused the prerogative of mercy. If it were supposed that the Govern- mellt had acted in the mallllcr imputed to them in this respect, it was the duty of those who made it to bring a distinct charge, and move for their immediate removal. He would contend there was no other remedy for it. He considered the resolution, on the other hand, as most violent, most rash, most un- pardonable, and unfounded. Id conciusion, his Lordship declared that he should not object to the Petition heing bid on the table. The Earl of RODEN maintained that the objects of the meeting in Dublin were not unwarranted, and that the Protestants of lieland were called upon to defeud their principles. He denied that there was tranquillity in Ireland, and entered into several de- tails to show that it was an illusion to f-uppose so. It was the tranquillity of death that reigned in that country. The proclamations issued by the Lord- Lieutenant proved to demonstration the nature of that tranquillity. Within a short period there had been no less than 290 proclamations, seventy-one of which were for murder. In the period of only sixteen days, there had been no less than eleven proclamations for murder. After some further ob- lIeryatiuns illustrative/of the present state of Ireland, the Noble Lord observed, that they were on the verge of a crisis, which would call upon them to adopt one of two great measures —either repealing theActof 1829, or repealing the Act of Union, and he knew which course he would advocate, believing, as he did, that the Act of 1829 gave no security to Protestantism for the dangers to be apprehended from the admission of Roman Catholics to Par- liament. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE contended that the tranquillity of Dublin had been seriously en- dangered by the meeting. If the Noble Lord could have proved the truth of the resolutions, he ought not to have stopped there. If sedition existed, it ought to be made the subject of a motion in Parlia- ment. Irishmen ought not to talk lightly of asso- ciat ions. -What carried the first free trade for Ireland-what carried the independence of the Irish Parliament-what carried Catholic Etniticipatiori- but associations ? The Noble Lord then proceeded to vindicate the conduct of the Irish Goverutnent from the charges set forth in the Petition. The Duke of WELLINGTON insisted that when sedition against Protestant interests and property was preached, there was just ground for alarm and that when organized agitation existed, it was vain to talk of tranquillity. Let their LoMships look and see if the Protestants had not some reason for jealousy in the transactions of the last two years. Let them look M the total destruction of tithe pro- perty, the treatment of the Church, and other cir- cumstances showing the existence of an intention of putting down the Protestant religion in Ireland, and substituting for it something like the voluntary system. The Noble Viscount had referred to the history of 1782 and 1798. Let them look further back-to the letters of the Earl of Clarendon, when Lord Lieutenant, and see if matteis were not now growing to the same state as then and if there did not exist the same power over the Government as in those days. Lord CLONCURRY defended the Irish Govern- ment, and observed that the Protestants of Ireland were still more anxious than the Catholics for the establishment of municipal institutions. The Peti- tion %vils tilcii ordered t,) lie oil the tab'e. The English Municipal Corporation Bill was postponed to the 8th of May. HOUSE OF COMMON'S—FRIDAY. A motion by Mi P. M. STEWART, on the sub- ject of the Brighton Railway Committee, by which it was proposed that, Rennie s having been rejected by the union of the friends of the other lines, all three should now he put to the vote simultaneously, was, after some slight debate, withdrawn. The Ashburn and Leith Roads' Bill was read a third time; and passed. The second reading of the Over (Cambridg-e) Ellclosure Bill was earned on a division, by 183 to 51. A new writ was ordered for Huddersfield in the a -b"rne. room of the late Mr Blackburne. A Petition, which stated that 9183,480 of the no- minal subscription to the London and Brighton share list had been subscribed by persons in very humble circumstances, and praying inquiry, was referred to the Deptford and Dover Committee. Lord J. RUSSELL moved that from June 15 to July 1, orders of the day should take precedence of motions. The Irish lithe Bill, aud the Irish Poor Law Bill, would he discussed Oil Monday, and the Church Rate Bill on the 22d May. On the Canada resolutions bping brought up, Mr Grote and Mr Hume, in the absence of Mr Roebuck, who ;s seriously indisposed, bid on the table a series of resolutions, by way of protest against the resolu- tions of the Noble Lord. The motion that they be received was negatived. The Canada resolutions were agreed to, and ordered to be communicated to the Lords in a conference. IRISH POOR. LAWI. Mr O'CONNELL said he rose to speak on this Bill and not either for oragainst it. It would aggra- vate and not alleviate the miseries of Ireland, there- fore he would not support it, and he had reasons for uot voting gainst iK Nothing would give prosperity to Ireland but a legislature of her own, but as the experiment of doing without it would be inconip'ete, unless the poor la ws were tried, he would not vote against them. The causes of Irish misery were political. Ignorance and poverty were increased hv notitil Ktuintes. They forbade the education of J I' a Ca Ilioli4 cililli at home or abroad. (Hear, hear). The quantity of hands iu Ireland employed in agri- culture at tile pi-e-eiit day was all two to one com- pared with England, and the produce of England was as four to one compared with Ireland, and the wages in Ireland one-fourth of what they were in England. Hence it was that more thau half a inillioil of people were, t'uv more than half the year, in a state of destitution; and the Bill before the House would relieve 17,000. He then read state. ments of the distress of every county in Ireland, and observed that there was not a country in the world where such distress was to be found. And was this poverty the fault of Ireland? "Did we govern ourselves? Englishmen, you did it Will you give £ -20,000,000 for the relief of Ireland? will you -ive half a m Iilioii? No; Yon will give uA leave to tax ourselves." He would employ the people in roads and public works. He analyzed, at great length the report of Mr Nicholls, and asked if the House would proceed on calculationsj)0 grossly fal- lacious? "You confine relief in England to prisons, because you have demoralized the people by your poor law 5" hut would the Irish require the stimu- lant of a prison to make thetn labour? This Bill would take from the poor a millisu and a half of alms, and benumb their national affections" Do you not take away from the wages of the labourer every shilling you demand for the poor rate? Be- sides, the plan, if it be carried into operation at all, must be as extensive as her distress." The great evil of Ireland was that nine-tenths of the produce was spent abroad. They would find it, he said, as difficult to create act of Parliament charity as they had found it to create act of Parliament piety of Ireland. Mr S. CRAWFORD agreed with the RQQ. Geotle man that Ireland owed her evils to England, but the first of these was the want of a Poor Law. He ob- jected to the Bill before the House, but was not the less convinced that some measure of the kind must pass. He entered at great length into the subject, but our limits will not ullow of eveu au outline of his speech. inii. RICHARDS and Mr S. O'BRIEN, though differing from the ministry as to the merits of some parts of this Bill, thought that Ireland owed them a lasting debt of gratitude for having grappled with the subject. Lord MORPETH said that among the many plans or experiments proposed for the relief of Iicland, Government had preferred to lay down the broad and clear principle of a Poor Law, to provide relief for a'l destitute persons, but to provide it 011 such terms as all but the really destitute would decline to accept. In connection with this measure, and subsidiary to it, Government was perfectly ready and prepared to do all in their power to provide the fullest facilities to per, desirous of emigrating from Ireland to our colonies abroad, and alsf) to find work for the able- bodied in public works. With these views some Ri Is had already been laid on the table ofthe House. No doubt it wa" the object of the measure to aiford the utmost possible relief ro all destitute persons in Ireland; but it must be r-membered that a per- manent relief provided for 80,009 or 100,000 persons was equal to occasional re'ief given to all infinitely larger number. H, after the experiment had been tried a short time, it was found that the verge of relief could he exteuded, no one would be more t'ejoiced than himself. All he asked was, that the House would affirm the principle of a Legislative relief for the Poor of Ireland. After a few words from Col. Conolly the debate was adjourned. (For continuation of Parliament see second page.)

LITERATURE. The Hollowing touching domestic poem is from the pen of the Rev. John Moultrie, one of the contri- butors to the Etonian." THE THREE SONS. I have a son, a litle son. a boy just five years old. With eyes of thoughtful earnestness, and mind of gentle mould. They tell me that unusual grace in all his ways appears, That my child is grave and wise of heart beyond his x childish years. I cannot say how this may be, I know his face is fair, And yet his chiefest comeliness is his sweet and serious- air I know his heart is kind and fond, I know he loveth me, But loveth yet his mother more with grateful fervency: But that which others most admire, is the thought which tills his mind, The food for grave enquiring speech he every where doth find. Stiange questions doth he ask of me, when we together walk; He scarcely thinks as children think, or talks as children talk. Nor tares he much for childish sports, dotes not on bat or ball, But looks on manhood's ways and works, and aptly uimicks all. His little, heart is busy still, and oftentimes perplext With thoughts about this world of ours, and thoughts ahout the next. He kneels at his dear mother's knee, she teacheth him to pray, And strange, and sweet, and solemn then are the words which lie will say. Oh,should my gentle child be spared to manhood s years like me, A holier and a wiser man I trust that lie will be And when I look into his eyes, and stroke his thoughtful brow, I dare not think what I should feel, were I to lose him now! I have a son, a second son, a simple child of three; I'll not declare how bright and fair his litle features be How silver sweet those tones of his when he prattles on my knee: I do not thiuk his light blue eye is, like his brother' keen, Nor his brow so full of childish thought as his hath ever been; But his little heart's a fountain pure of kind and tender feeling, And his every look's a gleam of light, rich depths of love revealing. When he walks with me, the country folk, who pass its in the street, Will shout for joy, and bless my boy, he looks SQ^mild and sweet. A playfellow is he to all, and yet with cheerful tone, Will sing his little song of love, when left to sport alone. His presence is like suushiue sent to gladden home aud hearth, To comfllrt"lIs in all our griefs. and sweeten all our mirth. Should he grow up to riper 4cars, God grant his heart may prove As sweet a home for heavenly grace as now for earthly love: And if, beside his grave, the tears our aching eyes must dim, God comfort us for all the love which we shall lose in It i in. I have a son, a third sweet son his age I cannot tell. For they reckon not by years and months where he is gone 10 dwell, To us, for fourteen anxioHS months, his infant smiles were given, And then he bade farewell to Earth, and went to live in Heaven. I cannot tell what form his is, what looks he weare h now. Nor guess how bright a glory crowns his shining seraph brow. The thoughts that till his sinless s -nilp the hlisi which he doth feel. Are number'd with the secret tilings which God will not reveal. But I know (for God hath told me this) that he is now at rest, Where other blessed infants be, on their Saviour's loving breast. [ know his spirit feels no more this weary load of flesh, But his sleep is bless'd with endiess dreams of joy for ever fresh. I know the angels fold him close beneath their glittering wings.. And soothe him with a song that breathes of Heaven's divinesr things- I know that we shall meet our babe, (his mother dear, and I,) Where God for aye shall wipe away all tears from every eye. Whateler befalls his brethren twain. hu bliss can never cease; Their lot may here be grief and fear, but his is certain peace. It may he that the tempter s wiles their souls from bliss may sever, But, if our own poor fattu tail not, he must be our» for ever. When we think of what our darling is, and what we still must be When we muse 011 that world's perfect bliss, and this world's misery When we groan beneath this load of sin, and fee) this grief and pain. Oh we'd rather lose our other two, than have him here again.

SIR WALTER SCOTT. From the 2nd vol. of Lockhart's life of this cele- brated man, we extract the following account of his literary and personal habits He rose by five o'clock, lit his own fli-e when the reason required one, and shaved and dressed with great deliberation for he was a very martinet as to all but the mere coxcombries of the toilet, not abhorring effemiuate daudyism itself so cordially as the slight est approach to personal sloven I iuess,or even those bed-gown atid-slipper tricks,' as he cabled them, in which literary men are so apt to indulge. Arrayed in his shooting-jacket, or whatever dress he meant to use till dinner-'im(% he was seated at his desk by six o'clock, all his papers arranged before him in the most accurate order, and his books of reference marshalled around him on the floor, while at least one favourite dog lay watching his eye just beyond the line of circumvallation. Thus, by the time the family assembled for breakfast, be- tween nine and ten, he had done enough (iu his own language) 'to break the neck of the day's \Vork.' After breakfast, a couple of hours, more were given to his solitary tasks, and by noon he was, as he used to say, his own man.' When the weather was bad he would labour incessantly all the morning; but the general rule was, to be out and on horse- back by olle o'clock at the latest; while, if any more distant excursion had been proposed over night, he was ready to start on it by ten liia occasional rainy days of uuintermitted study forming, a* he said, a fund in his favour, out of which he was entitled to draw for accommodation whenever the sun shone with special brightness. It was another rule that every letter he received should be answered that same day. Nothing else could have enabled him to keep abreast with the flood of communications that in the sequel put his good nature to the severest test: but already the demands on him ill this way also were numerous; and 'he included attention to them among the necessary business which must be despatched before he had a right to close his writ- ing-box, or, as he phrased It, to say, Out, damned spot!' and be a gentleman.' In turning over his enormous mass of correspondence, I have always invariably found some indication that, when a letter had remained more than a day or two unanswered, it had been so because he found occasion for inquiry, or deliberate consideration. I ought not to omit that, in those days, Scott was far too zealous a dragoon not to take a principal share in the stable duly, Before beginning bit desk wgvk iu the room-. iug-, he uniformly visited his favourite steed; and neither Captain nor Lieutetiaiit, iior the Lieutenant's successor, Brown Adam ("0 called after one of the heroes of the 'Minstrelsy'), liked to he fed except by him. The latter charger was, indeed, altogether intractable in oilier hands, though in his the most submissive of fiithtul allies. The moment he was bridled and saddled, it iva. the custom to open the stable-door as a signal that his master expected him when he immediately trotted to the side of the leaping-on stone, of which Scott, from his lameness, found it convenient to m,lke use, and stood there silent and motionless as a rock, until he was fairly in his seat, after which he displayed his joy by neighing triumphantly through a brilliant succes- sion of curvcttings. » Brown Adam never suffered himself to be backed but by his master. He broke, I believe, one groom's arm, and another's leg-, in the ra-iii attempt to titinpei- with his difriiity. Camp was, at this time, the constant parlour dog. He was very handsome, very intelligent, and naturally very fierce, but gentle as a lamb among the children. As tor the more locomotive Douglas and Percv. he kept one window of his study open, whatever might be the state of the weather, that they might leap out and in as the fancy moved. He always talked to Camp as if he understood what was said and the animal, certainly, did understand not a little of it; in particular, it seemed as if he perfectly compre- hended on all occasions that his master considered him as a sensible and steady friend the greyhounds as volalile youlIg creatures, whose freaks must be borne with." Blackwood (for May) concludes a very able article

on « The English Church Rates, and Scotch Church Establishments, with the following eloquent, just, and encouraing observatiotis:- "In the close of thee few remarks, we would once more observe, that we have approached this question in order merely to point out some of its bearings on our own National Church, and to indicate the views of those among us who have engaged in the r.ecent agitation of it aud that, as we have therefore ab- stained from entering into aily )f* its details, we have refrained altogethpr from noticing the juggling and fraudulent scheme by which the Church-rates are proposed to be supplied. That scheme, both with respect to the English Church itself, and the lessees of its property, we regard as a scheme of confiscation in its woist and most corrupt form: And even if it were otherwise unobjectionable, we should strenuously protest against it, orf the plain and obvious ground, that by throwing the main- tenance of "the fabric of the Church" on Church property, it directly aids the views of the enemies of the Establishment, by depming it in so far of its proper national character. On this subject, however, we deem it unnecessary to enter; the more e-pecially as it must be evident to all who are in the least degree conversant with the subject, that if the abolition piiuciple were to be recognised con- nsca:ion itself could not supplv any similar fund for the support of our Scotch Churches. Without therefore, detaining our readers by ad- verting either to this or any of the various other views of the subject, which have elsewhere been s6 ably illustrated, we would merely ask in conclusion, and with reference to those points to which we have en- deavoured to direct attention, whether it is possible for any rational being honestly to maintain, that the national religion would not be endanfrered by a measure which is so obviously demanded with a view to its destruction, and the extension of which to this part of the kingdom, tyiii-i iti a fe%v years render ours itti Establishment without churches and without residences for our clergy? We are con- vinced, that nothing, save the most inveterate political prejudice, could induce any conscientious person in his right mind to hesitate for an instant in answer- ing this question. We believe, moreover, that it is a question as to which even political prejudice is already fast giving way; and that the Ministry find to their cost, that in this portentous measure they have mistaken their influeuce with many of their own adherents. What course they may pursue in attempting to retrieve their error, weeatinot presum to conjecture; We pretend not to calculate the resources of their dishonesty, or to fathom the depths of their degradation. We feel assured, how- ever, that in this direction at least, their revolutionary progress must be arrested and that ueither force nor fraud will yet prevail in a contest where we have every thing to protect which a nation can value, and every thing to avert which it can fear. The security of our National Church is indeed the quest ion of questionsand it is ft to be Hot by tl)at portion of our people which forms the true strength of the country. Assailed by the vulgar hatred of the obscene and grovelling herd of iufidels. and the deeper enmity of Papists and "Voluntaries''—be- trayed by a weak, sordid, self-seeking Government, and the ohsequiuus aud un-British majorily of the House of Coniiiirin.who shall yet doul t, that- a fortress at once, and a teinl,le"-built on the sure foundation of a people's love-our Protestant Esta., blishment will bid defiance to them all? In the humblest edifice which rears its modest form among the graves of their fathers, there is a charm in the sight of our simplest villagers-in" the sound of the church-going bell" there is a music to their inmost hearts, of which the motley and party- colotired to il)c of ciiiii-ch-i-eforitier* evidently know nothing nor perhaps has this ignorance of feelings, the oldest and the most changeless which bind us to our native land, ever been more clearly eviuced that in the present measure." The following passage from the second volume

of Lord Mahon's "History of England," just pub- lished, is well deserving the consideration of those to whom it relates Thus, then, stands the case- A lititidi-ed years ago, t the Churchman was slack in his duty, and slumbering at his post. ft was the voice of an enthusiast that roused the sleeper. Truth must condemn alike the overstrained excitement of the one, and the untimely supineness of the other. But the progress of time, and, still more, of mutual emulation, has corrected the defects of each. Sleep has never again fallen on the Churchman enthusiasm has, in a great degree, departed from the Methodist. So closely have the two per- suasions drawn to each other, that they are now separated on no essential points,. and by little more than the shadowy lines of preiiiii-e and habit. It might be well for the followers of Wesley seriously to ponder whether, in still continuing apart from the Church, they do not keep lip a distinction without a dilfere-nce-whether, by join ing the Church, they would not best serve the cause of true religion, and disappoint the ma chinations of their common enemies. Sure I am, at least, that if Wesley himself were now alive, he would feel and act in this manner; had the Church been in his time what it is in ours, he would never have left it; and were he to behold these times, he would acknowledge, that the Establishment, which once wanted efficiency, HOW stands in need of nothing hut support. "Were %Vesley himself alive in these later times, he would surely exclaim, though in words more impressive than mine—Happy they who have grown up in the creed of their fathers, and who join in communion with the great body of their countrymen To them the church bells are music, to them the church path is a way of pleasantness and peace! Long may they look with veneration and attachment to that time-worn spire where their infancy was blessed in baptism, where their man- hood has drawn in the words of consolation, and where their remains will finally repose

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the com- panion of genius: the duiice finds a hundred roads to her palace; there is but one opn, and that a very indifferent one, for men of letters. Cervantes is supposed to have wanted bread; Cttmoenx, de. prived of the necessaries 6f life, perished i" the streets; Tavso va,, obliged to borrow a erown from a friend to subsist through the week Ar to com- plains billerly of poverty in his satir s; it ic-tte found Corneille dying, deprived even c' a iitle broth; Spenser languished out his life In mis" and died in want of bread; Otway, Butler, and Chatterton it is sufficient to name.—WIsraeli. POPE, AN ECONOmsT.-The original MS. of Pope's Homer (preserved ill the British Museum) is almost entirely written 011 the covers of letters, sometimes between tite liiie,,of leiters tli (, nigel %,es.- Nichols. The poet is, therefore, well denominated II paper sparing Pope" by Swift, in his Advice to the Grub Street Verse Writers: — "Get all your printed fair, Then let them well be difr-d And Curll must have a special care To leave the margin wide. Send these to paper-sparing Pope And when he sits to write, No letter with an envelope Coal(] give I)iln slicli. delig)it.1726. MRS MONTAGU AND VOLTAIRE.— Mrs Montagu is returned safe and well from Paris. I had a very pleaallt letter from ChaiUot; perhaps you have heard her admirable bon ntot. i'+ answer to Voltaire's callitig Shakipeii-e ult She said, et, avoit le sort savoir d'enrieher des terres ingrates. 11 You know Voltaire is reckoned to have stolen a great deal from Shakspeare, and he certainly is not grateful enough to own it.Extract from a letter of "Irs Boscawen to Hannah More. On Voltaire calling Shakspeare a Dunghill, Mrs Montagu replied, It was his fate to fertilize ungrateful soils." II

» To THE KDITOR OF THE GAZETTE & GUARDIAN. SIR,- While preparing notes for my recent publi- cation, "The Doom of ("ol vii Dolpliyii," I applied to my friend Edward L. Richards, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn, for a geological description of St. Donais and the other estates and manors in Glamorganshire thai forfnerly belonged to the magnanimous and learned Stradliugs; placing greater reliance on his intimate knowledge on the subject than on my own less ex- tensive acquaintance with it. In prompt answer to my request I received from him the following lucid epitome, which, however, from the considerable ex- tent of explanation requisite for the more immedi- ately involved topics of the poem, I reluctantly found it necessary to omit. Considering the cotntnu- ..¡ca'ion well calculated to attract the attention of your scientific readers, I beg to request its insertion iu the next Guardian, aud remain, Sir, Yuiirs obedient'y, TALlESIN WILLIAMS.

(COPY.) MY DEAR Sllt,-It is impossible, within the limits of a note, to give you any other than a very general idea of the geology of St. Donats and its neighbourhood. as it does, one of the most beautiflll aud picturesque portions of our coast, and possessing within its range inexhaustible sources of interest and study to the general en- quirer, as well as to the scientific observer, a minute description of its locality, its stratification, order of superpositiou and fossil remains would doubtlessly be valuable; but this would be as foreign to the de- sign of your publication as I fear it would be beyond the present means of the friend who has now the pleasure of addressing you. I shall, therefore con- fine myself as strictly as possible to the object you have in view, and endeavour to sketch, as faithfully as circumstances will allow me, the general geog- uastic character of the district in question. How far the lands of the Stradling family extended I am not at present aware, but it will be sufficient, I ima- gine, if we he the space between the district of Sully and the river Ogmore, and as far inland as the junction with tne lordships of Fonmon, L'aublethian, and Ewenny. Fhe^ first formation we meet with in • he descending series, and one upon which in the regular-order of superposition the whole of the ooiitic formation tests, (classed in the supermedial order of Conybeaie, and in the secondary strata of other writers) is the has limestone. This rock, in its grey aud blue state, is very characteristic of the neighbourhood. It occurs, occasionallv distorted hy the influence of faultnt in jhe inferior strata, but generally in regular order, inclining at a slight angle to the south, alternating with clay-slate of a dark ^liiumiuous nature and possessing nodules of argillaceous iron ore, and portions of iron pyrites. At the back of the co.ist this limestone forms seve- ral upfillings, and is found in this position near COW bridge, Wick, Ewenny, and Bridgend, even to I I the verye of the gieat Glamorganshire coal field. Its fossils arc numerous, among which may be found the gryphus ammonites of various species, the rea, pectins, co,-ul- &c., aiid ve!,etable substances mineralized by the sulphuret of iron, ,ilex, atid cartollate Of litlie, Taking Aberthaw as a central point, the lias, aboundiug in gryphites and occupying the coast to Porthkerry on the east, and to Sotitherdown on the west, appears to present the upper beds of this great formation, while the lower strata are exhibited eastwards in Barry har- bour and along the cliffs from Lovernock to Pen- narth, reposing on red marie. Throughout this tract the fossils present some most curious and inter- esting conditions; the gryphites and other shells having very generally their original calcarious sub- stance replaced by a chalcedonie deposit. It is very difficult to conceive what cause could have deeora- oosed and removed the calcai iOllS matter rxt' «Ka I included shell and yet have left unaffected the in- cluding limestone. The occurrence of siliceous matter is also very rare in the lias of oilier coun- tries. A sitnildi- substitution of siliceous for calca- rious matter often occurs in the mountain limestone, but that formation always contains an abundant intermixture of layers of chert. Running west- ward from the neighbourhood of Aberthaw (where is found the blue Has that composes the well known lime of commerce), we find the bold and beautiful promontories from Colchue ravine to St. Donats, Nass, and Duuraveu1>formed of the gryphite lias. At Dunraveu it is known as the b!uff cliff on which the castle stands, where, in nearly horizontal strati- fication, it forms, on each side of the cove, mural heights of extreme grandeur, which, when viewed from the sea, with theit. dark lines of clay-slate, become objects of sublime and magnificent attrac- tion. Towards the western termination of the lias, Oil the coast beyond Dunraven Castle, it assumes a very peculiar character. The lias bects here repose immediately on the mountain limestone, which is often seen breaking out along the beach, as beneath Dunraven headland, under the cove, &c. II is here that the remarkable deposit called the Sutton stone is found, whieh is so beautiful and of such singular occurrence as to deserve some attention. It has, at first sight a setui-vetrified appearance, and is com- posed of coarse particles of sandstone, quartz, carbonate of lime and specs of galena. It is easy to work, bleaches perfectly white, on exposure to the atmosphere, and forms the conspicuous stone so frequently found in the coins and window sills of several religious houses and old castles in Glamor- gan. lis fossils are numerous and allied lo the lias species, and in mineralized veiretable matter it abound*. For a long period the true origin of this cong'omerate was a matter of great uncertainty; but the result of the.iuvestigations of Dr. Bucklaud and the Rev. W. D- Conybeare has pldced the mat- ter in its proper light. I am happy to forward you the substance of a communication I have just re- ceived from the latter gentleman,whose loug resi- dence on our coast, and distinguished position in the geological world, gives to his assertions the highest authority, and to whose kindness and ntlcnlion I have been (it, I believe, with many other young geologists) so frequency and deeply indebted. He states that it appears that before any of the subsequent deposits of the new red sandstone and lias took place, the surface of the mountain lime- stone was covered by beds of shingle composed of Ir igmeuts of itself abraded by former convulsions. Whatever formation, therefore, was deposited above such a surface, entangled in its lower portion this shingle of mountain limestone and became a conglomerate. (The lower conglomerate of the new red sandstone series forms the well known mae-ne- siau conglomerate.) When as near Dunraveu the has beds have been deposited on this previous shin- gle, a very singular lias conglomerate occurs. This appears to be the true origin ot the Sutton stone, which, from an examination of its fossils, is clearly referable to the lias formation. Other examples of the lias couglomeraie may be seen close .to the western gate of Cowbridge. In Somersetshire, also, it may be well studied, ai, the junction of he Has aud mountain limestone, along the south-eastern ex- tremity of the Meudip Hills. These are the principal coast features oftbisiiiter. esting district. The in'and portion is principally com- posed of mountain limestone, with,occasionally thin supervening layers ofdolotneiic limestone, and mag- nesiau couglomorate, containing beds of galena manganese, calamine and hematitic iron ore. This ride of limestone forms one of the two parellel zones that encompass the south portion of the great South Welsh coa! ifeld, and basgiveu rise, from its peculiar position, to the question, "Does the intermediate 9, pqcc between the two ridges, forming the country from the vale of Ely to the Ogmore, now partially "covered by horizontal strata of lias, new red sand "stOIlP, and magtleiall couglomorate, contain aeon "tinuaiionofthf great coal series ?" WiMiout pausing lo enter i:ito this question, 1 will mere'y stale that I he fle, ()t Ile ,Id red sandstone having been thrust up ill several portions ot this district, and that it forms an ant iclinal line parallel with the limestone the wtiole way from Monmouthshire 10 Gower, renders the mailer extrclllely doubllul. I caiitiot, my clear Sir, cluse this hasty sketch without an allusion to the magnificent caverns of this district, so full of legend and roinatice, atid to (lie rniiiikablo phenomenon of the never failing stream of fresh walei, which issues from the i-ock of mountain limestone 011 the Ewenny river, near its junction with the Ogmore. The latter forms one of the most beautil-ill instances I have ever witnessed of the water of probably, a far distant region finding, by this natural subteranean cana', a ready exit to the ocean. It has been a matter of surprise, that the learned and distinguished owner of this spot, has not yet it to i-onfensftu) purpose. By inch sing the tipace aronnd the mouth, and raising the walls, a uever failing power of immense torce might be easily obtained, 1 saw a rock of this kind, near Neufchatel, sopplv water suflieient for 50 mills, of all description by merely economizing space and regulatiug- the level between the fountain head and the lake. Believe me to remain, My dear Sir, Yours very truly E. L. RICHARDS. • Sir J, Nichol,

AGRICULTURE, COMMERCE, j AND LONDON MARKETS. | LONDON CORN EXCHANGE. 3 LONDON CORN EXCHANGE. 3 t. M.$t • I Infrrior Rn| Wheat.. 47 » 53 White ;t » 37 J itili,iii..g ti 4.56 ISoilrrs Jfi » 4! j l?i,,c hi a Kpmm, Small 39 ■ *'3 | t'ltei n,r White :.0 a 5.1 Tickj :t3 a *•» J f'"r 5/ a 5'J Harrow — a-" I Super^ie tij nj Oatu, Fred 20 25 Mailing iiarley 31 a .'$ti Fine j (1" 28 30 Poland a 'lye .14 h Fine — a — j ^'n't 52 a 61 l'utatse 36 a [ — a — Fine — s-— I'ens.Hog 31 a r«» — a — MaPic 3(ia38 P,,IlArd, ifne 11- PRICE OF HOI'S IN LONDON, PER CWT. l New Pockets. £ 1 £ ■ ji,g.. C at0 I2;iat Kent ti it 1 7 0 Farnham -— a— — Mid. Kent 5 5 a 6 5 M.d Kent 4 10 a 6 0 4 10 a 5 5 East Kent 5 5 a 6 0 Sussex 4 10 a 5 5 Suaivj 4 5 a 4 1> Fariihdin 8 t> a 9 0 Essex J 5 a -t 0 SIITIIFI EJ.D MAHKKT Per stone of Sibe to aioL tktt offals. sdsd s d s d t Inferior Beef. 2 6 tu 2 » Prime Beef 4 0 to 4 j Ditto Mutton. • 3 2 to 3 4 Ditto Mutton .5 2 I" 5 t* I At it 11a ef 3 0 to 3 8 I V.al 4 2 to 5 4 I Ditto Mutton 3 8 :o 5 « | Pork. i 6 to 5 > Litub, 5.< 0d to 7J, LONDON COAL EXCHANGE. Hetton's 23 0 Pontup — » Lamuioir* *3 9 Tanfichl Muor — MruKri'a 2i 0 j Ur.uldyl' W. K 24 • Tees.W. E 22 3 J Alerttiyr 30 0 Dixon** Biittetknowle — 0 « Northumberland — BRITISH AND FOREIGN WOOLS-Per lb. a. d. ol d. Kltcioral Saxony woo', fi-oin 4 S to 5 F'r»t Austrian, Bohemian, & oilier Gentian wools 2 8 t«, 4 siec.md ditto d.tto 20 t.26 Intci ior UiHtI,l..amb.diuo.2 4tu 3 Hungarian •lieep'-i ditto 2 OiO.2 P Leoncs* sneep's ditto 2 6 to30 Se-ovia ditto 2 2 to 3 Sona ditto 2 0 10 3 • U.icari> ditto 2 1 10 3 0 Spjnish L linti'a wo-.I J »; to fi German and Spam nil tro#» ditto 2 2 3 4 Portugal ••lieep*» ditto 2 4 to 3 Australian, lint crossed nallve ulteep's 2 4 to 3 6 Van Dietii.tn's L tiul ditto 1- 6 to 2 S Urilixh ditto 1 6 to 3 • PRICES OF METALS, &c. Copper-ii.*it. Cakes, ton 8* 0 0 Tiie.d;).a ho V 0 Sheets, I r 16 .0AI I Bottoms 0 1 0 S. AmerieH ld) 3/s 1 wt) bd..tOII. 0 0 Iron British, pig, No. 1 5 15 0 B.ir-tuii 9 15 0 io 10 0 Do. Cargo in Wales 8 10 0 Bolts. ton lo50 Nail Hods lu )5 0 Hoopa ton 12 16 0 Sh"etl.KIIlI(I., .1011 13 10 0 (Ottieisin piopoition.) Foreign— Swedes, cn bd ton 14 0 0 'or Sieel, fvar mksj Duty 30j. J t0l| j;)0 0 0 to 25 0 I) per ton Russia com 13 0 0 f r a 1. ton 15 0 0 e c ti u ton |9 00 Lead, British Pigs ton 22 0 0 Sheet ton 23 10 0 Shot to« 26 0 0 ton 25 10 0 White (dry; 31 • 0 Do. (Sd in oil) ton 3300 Litharge 25 10 0 I orewn—Spanish (dy 40s per ton) bd ton 21 0 0 Tin BriLish-lilock.4 ewt4J50 B»" cwt 4 17 0 Mate*,common I 1 c 113 0 to 1 17 0 to best, per 1 10 0 to 2 3 0 box. lixx 2 5 0 to 2 9 » Wasters of the above Mks 3j less,all others 6s lt*a. (Others iu proportion.) LOCAL MARKETS.

CARDIFF. WUeat(W.b.)23«. Odto25s. od. | Veal 5 to 6d Barley 15s. Oil. Itis. 0<1. Lamb, per lb. •<) t» tM Outs 3. 0d. 3s. 6d, Butter ]3d M*t Beef, per lb. 0s. 54. 0s. 61I. Salt do 1M 0s- 5d. 0s. 6.1. Fowls,pr couplers 3il to 2* Mutton Os. 6d 0s- 7d. | EKSs,d»z 9dto Getse, (per lb.) 6d to 7d Potatoes, (per sack) 7" t. 86 MERTHYR. '• <*• «• d. i. t. 4 Fine Flour 4 9(o5 0 Beef.perlh 0 0 fi Best Seconds 4 6 5 0 Mutton 0 8.1 • Butter,fresh, perlb 1 3 0 0 V«al 5 t *i salt Oil 0 0 Pork, per lb" 6 5 • <> Fowls, per couple 2 0 2 6 Lamb, per lb 0 9 0 10 Duck,, ditto 3 6 4 0 Cheese 0 B 0 0 fc-SSS, per hundred 5 OtoO I) Uacou per »core..7 0 8 » NEWBRIDGE. NKWBRIDGK, Wednesday, May 3. 18S7. Red Wheat (Imperial bushel) 6 9 to 7 8 White, ditto 7 to 8 6 Barley 3 0 to 4 « Malting ditto .40to 46 Oats- Pot atoe \And Pol.ad .00 t, 00 Feed Oats 2 3 to 3 6 Clover Seed 0 otoO 0 Beef from 6d to 7 J.I | Cream Cheese Od to 9 I Mutton 7d to 8d j Sheep« milk ditto 8,1 to 9 I.amb Od to Od I Fresh Butter ,13dtol5<i SJ to 71 I Salt ditto lOd to Pofk 5^d to 7d j Lard 7d to 8d Potatoes per sack 7s. 6d. to 9s. Od. Ited ditto, ditto Ss. Od.to 10s. Od. Early ditto. per bushel 3s. Od. to 4s. 0d. Cows with calves, £6 10 to C7 7. Pigs three to six and nine months from. 15s 20. 32i. Pigs per score 7s. 6d. to B!. N E kTH. Salting Pies. 4$I | Fresh butter I- ld Potatoes, per cwt. 5s I Cask do ] 1J4 Wheat s 0 to 9 0 Barley 4 0 to 4 6 Oats 12 0 to 18 0 COWBRIDGE. Wheat (W. bu.) 7s. 6d. 8s Od. Mutton (perlb.)Os 0,1. Of. 7<* DoWiuch.bushel 7s. 9.1. 0 s. d. Veal. Us 0.1 toOs. «<l °arley 0s. 0d. 5s 6<J. Pork OS. 44'a — •J*- :J'' 3»- 9.1. Lamb .0s.- 6d. 0s. Od Clover, per lb.. — tld — Od. Fresh butter— 0a Od. Is 2d I reio.l, ditto — Od — 0d. Eggs (per doz) s. Od. 0s.— Ueef Os. 5 £ d. o*. 6d. SWANSEA. 8s. 0,1. I Oats s». 6d Bnrley 3s. 6d. I Beans oj. —.1 MON MOUTH. Wlieat. 56s. 9.1.1 Beans —s. Od Bai"'ey 31*. Set. j Pease Ot. 0 Oats —s. 0d. I ABERGA VENNY. Wheat £ 2 5 1 | Barley £ ft f Oats — 0 0 1 Beans. « • o Pease 0 0 o | CHEPSTOW. Wheat 56s. 7.1. Oats. 23s. 0d Uarley 34s. 8df | Beans _» Od BRECON. Wheatlmp bu. Cs lOdto 7* 0.1. | Beef (per lb.) 6<l.to 7 Barley 4s. 2d. 4s. -Id. Mutton. 6d. 7 Outs 2s. fid. 2». 9d. LVeal 6d. <» Malt. —s. Od. 43s. Od. I Pork 5d. Cd Pease {is. 2d. 6s. 4d. ( Fine Flour s. CLLICKHOWEL. Wheat 7s. 6<1. I Vetches .4. 0s. « Barley 4«. 6J. | Pease 5s. 6 OQo\ 3.. Otl. Butter, per lb. IOd to 0 CARMARTHEN. Wheat,per(!4!bs..7 6 ti 8 0 Cask Butter, perlb. 0 9 B >r'ey 3 6 3 10 Fresh, ditto, 24 ox 1 6 O its 1 C 2 4| Cheesr, ditto 0 0 BRISTOL CORN EXCHANGE. s. d. s. d. t. d. s. d Wheat, Red. 51 0 to 56 o Rye o to White 57 o to 5S o Beans, New 38 o to 40 Barley,Grindine2t 0 to 26 0 Oli.. 42 o to It Malt in? 32 o to 3S o Peas, White 4n o to -I t Oats, Feed 16 o lo 18 o Malt. 51 o to «0 Potatoe ..22 o to 25 o Flour, Fine 46 o to 48 o Seconds 42 o to 44 o Thirds 31) 0 to .14 o Pollard, per ton 130 o to 155 o Bran 115 o to 120 o PRICE OF LEATHER AT BRISTOl.. d. d. d. 1i Crop Hides, per lb.11.Jtolt'.J Horse Butts 9 JJ • Foreign Hides 1 0 12 Calf Skius, host I'. 22 2?4 L'.shi Foreign Mid. 12 l.'i.J Calf Skins, common., 14 £ 0l Heaw ditto 13 H lri-.li Sfrins 12 14 English Butts 15 M Welsh 13 20 F"r<iitn Butts 13$17 Kips, En»lish&Welsh H 17 B'-stSiiddlers'Hides.. 15 16.} Foreign Kip* ^eters. Common ditto 13$U4 burgh, 14 17 Shavedditto. 15 18 Foreign Kips. Ea-t Shoehides. 12 13 India 10 Iii Common ditto 12 13 Small Seal Skins 19 20 Welsh Hides. 12 13 Middling ditto 15 Iti Best Bull ditto 1IJ 12J LarRe ditto. 13 11 Common If) II Basil 10 IX Horse do. (English).. 12 14 OFFAL. Welsh ditto 11 13 Foreign Bellies 5 8 Germanditto. 12 1,1 Slioiildttrs .910 Spanish ditto 14 18 99t Shaved do. without -Shoulders.. II 11' £ butts,11s. to 15s.0d.each.

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