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6Umorgaui0titre. The Lihcrals, with their usual consistency, arc clamorous for the B illot, as a protection to tenants against the tyranny of their landlords. According to them, all tenants who vote for their landlords (if those landlords happen to be Conservatives) must necessarily be enslaved and degraded beings. This doctrine well becomes the Liberals of Glamorganshire. We would beg to ask them one plain question. Where would "Hobson's choice" have been, without the votes of his friend's tenantry. It is notorious that it was by the tenants of Whig landlords that he was inflated" to the bottom of the poll; three-fourths of those votes would have been given for Talbot and Adare," had it not been for the influence of those landlords who perfectly understand doing what they please with their own." We do not blame Mr. Talbot, for instance, for exerting his just influence with his numerous and prosperous tenantry in favour of a candidate of his own principles; still less do we blame the tenantry for voting with their landlord but it certainly does roquire the political effrontery of a Liberal to complain of tenants for acting thus in this county. But it is with this subject just as with that most awkward and vexatious system of objections to votes under the Reform Act. As long as it works well for the Liberal party we never hear a word on the subject from them the very first moment that the Conservatives avail themselves of it, the Liberals begin to discover that it is utterly inadequate to the purpose;" "unsuited to the genius of the age; capable of being used for the worst purposes;" and has so many faults that the whole thing must be altered so as to give them some petty ahd temporary advantage, which they always find it impossible to retain in opposition to the property, education, and religious feelings of the country. The Lord Bishop of Llanrlaff arrived yesterday at DuflTryn, the seat of J. Bruce Pryce, Esq., pre- vious to me oramauon. 111S Lordship, this day, delivers his charge to the candidates, who will be ordained in the cathedral to-morrow. There are nine candidates for priests' orJers, and six for deacons.' We were misinformed as to the visitors at Dunraven Castle. We regret to state that Capt. James Clarke Ross, R.N, has not joined the party, having been attacked by small pox whilst carrying on some mag- netic observations in the Isle of Man. The gentle- men stated by our correspondent to be "Messrs Hamilton and Sabine," are Sir William Hamilton, Astronomer Royal in Ireland, one of the first mathe- maticians of the present day, and formerly Lord Adare's tutor, and Major Edward Sabine, who accompanied Parrv on his polar expedition, and is well known for his magnetic observations. Mr Williams, of Abcrpergwm, Chairman of the Reform Registration Society, of Neath, and the ad- vocate of the ballot, voted a plumper far Lord Adare. Lord Adare received 1,738 promises of plumpers, and 1,701 polled for him. In this respect Glamorgan may cliallengo comparison with any county in the kingdom BEAU NASH.—From a Memoir of this celebrated gentleman, published in Bentley's Miscellany," we learn that his birth-place was Swansea, his school Carmarthen, and his college, Jesus, Oxford. Thus adding another lesser light to Cambrian Biography. CARDIFF THEATRE.—Mrs. Woulds, the rcipccted manageress and talented actress, takes her benefit on Monday next, with a most inviting and attractive bill of fare, sufficient in itself to fill the house, had she no other claims; but the duties of her situation are so admirably performed, and so highly appreciated by the town and neighbourhood, that she inay con- fidently anticipate a bumper house. "#I'##I'# (For the Merthyr Guardian.) CARDIFF TJlEATRE. Ion.This beautiful tra- gedy, the production of the classic pen of Mr Scrj. Talfourd, and which has been deservedly ranked amoag the most strikingly effective dramatic effusions of modern times, was performed at our theatre for the first on Monday night, to a full and fashionable audience, and with the most unbounded applause. We were happy, on this occasion at least, to see the unwearied exertions of our excellent and spirited manager, Mr Woulds, to cater for the refined taste of our rapidly rising town, in some degree rewarded, and it was evident that neither expence nor anxiety on his part, nor on the part of his admirable corps dramatique had been spared. Of the splendid imagery, the lofty conception, the poetic genius, and the touch- ing pathos which characterise the arrangement of this magnificent drama, as well as of the glowing language in which it is clothed, we shall forbear to speak; nor shall we give eve:1 an outline of the drama itself; for we feel that beautiful as it intrinsically is, yet that it is not by readers in the columns of a newspaper, but by listeners to the life, on the stage of the theatre of our county town, that its beauties can be appreci- ated. Suffice it to say then, that the scenery, dresses, and decorations were admirably appropriate. O'er brawny limbs, and foreheads passing fair, The Toga, Tunic, Chaplet-all were there." The acting of Mr CowIe, as Adrastus, was majestic. This gentleman's conception of the character of the Kingof Argos,his graceful attitudes and deep toned and varied vocal modulations, wercstrikinglyeffective. Mr Balmanno, as Ion, was almost equally powerful: we say almost, because throughout his chaste performance there was one, and one only, deviation which struck us as an exception: that was in the scene where he is about to assassinate his father and king. Amid what ought, we think, to be the gloom and silence of night, the chamber of meditated death glared with effulgence, and the midnight murderer spoke his mes- sage to his dreaming and unconscious victim in the voice of a Stentor, instead of breathing it onlv in a faltering whisper: this we think ought not to be,— but we may possibly be in error. Mrs D. Lee looked and acted as she always does, and that is with all the sensitive energy, blended with all the feminine ease and grace and dignity that befit either the tent of a gypsy or the palace of a monarch. Nothing could be more striking than the contrast which this lady's varied talents displayed, in the tragedy as the lovely CJementlia, and in the romantic drama which followed it, as Z trt, the gip3y. We left the theatre in a re- verie, humming to ourselves Black eyes or blue and we have ever since been more bewildered than ever as to which bear the palm and, rustically as well as classically inclined as we are, whether female beauty and versatility are most bewitching in the soft transparent glances and melting tones of Grecian loveliness, or in the deep ami glossy brunette, and in Me wild and impassioned incantations of the Gipsy Sorceress. These were the more prominent characters, and it is of them only our limits allow of our Speaking. For the rest, where all were so good, it Were invidious, even if it were possible, to select from their varied excellencies. We hope to have other opportunities of again witnessing the performance of this beautiful addition to our dramatic, lore, and .most earnestly re- commend it, with Mr Woulds" other entertainments, to our readers. We hear that the season at Cardiff is drawing to a close, and we hope and trust that the respective favourites will, at their approaching bene- fits, receive all the reward and encouragement which they could wish. It is expected that Mrs Woulds' benefit, which is fixed for Monday night next, will be an overflowing bumper. Our Pagan Saxon ancestors, says an old writer, begin their important business according to the course of tiit- iii,-oii, to wit with the increase and not with the wane. They did count time by the nights, where- of we yet retain our saying of se'nnight and fortnight, for seven nights and fourteen nights. The ages of their own lives they computed by winters, as having passed so many seasons of cold and sharp weather. Died on Wednesday, the 27th ult., aged 33, at the seat of her husband, Robert Kearsley Dawson, Esq, at North End Fulham, Ann Maria, second daughter of the Rev. Robert Nicholl, of Dimland House, Glamorganshire; who, as a daughter, wife, and mother. fulfilled most exeinplarily all the relative duties of lif, and after a protracted illness, which she endured without a murmur, yielded up her pure and guiltless spirit into the bands of her gracious Redeemer, in sure and certain hope (through his merits) of 11 the resurrection to eternal life. UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENT.-On Tuesday night last, as Mr Henry Lucas, of Uplands, Swansea, was re- turning home from his brother's at-Sitoutiltll, he waS thrown out of his gig, and found on the following morning in a state of Insensibility in the neighbour- hood of P,irkwern.-We are truly sorry to hear lhat he is in a very precarious state. LUNATICS AND IDIOTS.—The proportion which the number of pauper lunatics and idiots bears to the population generally, is greater in the agricultural, than in the manufacturing and trading districts. In Bedfordshire, it is one in 579; in Lancashire, one in i960, and the same holds good by a comparison of Oxford, Herts, &c., with York, &e. Taking the whole population of England, there is one pauper lunatic, or idiot, for every 1038 perg'jus, aud for Wales, one for every 807 persons, Wm. Jones, Esq., Bedwas Bridge, killed a fine woodcock in the parish of Rudry, on Monday, the 2nd instant. The Revising Barristers, Mr. Vaugban Williams, &c., entered on their duties yesterday morning at nine o'clock, at the Town Hall. I wns in hopes of being ablet to send you the number of Totes struck off on each side. It is impossible to give you any thing like an accurate account. About the middle of the day it was considered that each party were about equal as to the number struck out of the list. The Court con- tinued sitting till 12 o'clock last night, and com- menced this morning at 9. There are about 249 ob- jections in the town and franchise of Swansea yet to be heard, which will most likely occupy the whole day. A great number of the objections of yesterday stand over till to-day, when they are to be decided. The Court was numerously attended, and the profes- sional gentlemen on each side were most indefatigable in support of their cause. Mr. Dillwyn and Mr. Talbot appeared in the Court.-(From a Corre- spondent.) SWANSEA.—From Barmouth, the brig Radical, Anderson, master, which arrived here on the 3rd inst., passed a quantity of deals and timberabreast of Lundy Island, on the morning of Monday last. NIUMBLES.-OCt. 3rd, wind S.S. W., moderate weather, sailed, the American ship, Crawford, Law- rence, for Liverpool, and the brig Cambyses, for Gibraltar. Remaining in the roads, the Eliza Heywood, for Cadiz, and the Galatea Yatch. The brig Cubanna, Bainbridge, master, from St. Iago de Cuba, which has been detained at Swansea by the Coast Guard, stationed at this place since the aath August last, for having a large quantity of cigars on board, has been released by order of the Board of Customs, paying the seizing officer £20. HonsEs.-It is estimated that there are about two million of horses in England, worth about 25 million sterling. The total number of horses charged with duty is, in round numbers, 310,000, and the amount of duty ^430,00 >. Of this number fewer than a thousand are blood or race horses, and their contribu- tion to the revenae is mtly part of the whole. According to a list given in the Times the entire standard at Hampton Court consists of 77 horses, mares and colts.—The Statistical Journal. FA most valuable periodical, and is what it professes to be, a Record of useful knowledge."] The following gentlemen have passed their exami- nations and will be ordained to-morrow PRIESTS. Rev. Kenyon Homfray, A.B. Curate of St. Pierre, Monmouthshire. Rev. James Farquhar, A.M. Curate of Kemmeys Commander, Monmouthshire. Rev. Hopkins Hill, Curate of Llangattoc, Monmouth- shire. Rev. Henry Lynche Blo;se, A.B. Assistant Curate of Cardiff. Rev. Hely H. Rickards, A.B. Curate of Michaelston le Pit. Rev. John Hughes, Curate of St. Lythans. Rev. Richard Pendrill Llewelyn^ Curate of Glyn- corrwg. Rev. Jacob Hughes, (Lampeter,) Curate of Goitre, Monmouthshire. Rev. Charles Emmerson. Curate of Caira. Rev. G. T. Hall, A.B. Curate of Malpas. DEACONS. Rev. Richard Morgan, A.B. Assistant Curate of Llantwit Maior. Rev. Thomas Alexander Mathews, A.B. Assistant Curate of Usk. Rev. Samuel Wright, Literate, Curate of Abercarn Chapel. .#,### TO THE EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE & GUARDIAN. S[R,—I was much struck by a phrase in the speech of Mr Mostyn Pryce, in whjclfi he says that the wages of the great Irish Demagogue—" flow down to liim in a stream of blood like bubble on the Cocytus." I was reminded of a passage in Horace much to the purpose. Visendus ater flumine languido Cocytus errans, et DAN-AI genus Infame,— Yours, R. B. (piscipui.tis.) Swansea, Oct. 2,1837. "ø4>ø#J TO THF. EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE & GUARDIAN. — SIR,—The letter of your mogt'emditc and philanthro- pic correspondent Veritas," in the last Guardian, has created a very deep and general sensation in H our vil- lage;" indeed, so much so, that it is in contemplation to form a committee "to make and cause to be made" certain enquiries in the neighbourhood of the scale beams, at Taff Vale Iron Works, touching the concoction of the said epistle, which, from its elegance of style, un-pedantic phraseology, and veritable assertions, will be no easy matter, I fear and farther, if the said plurality in unity be the writer of sundry letters on the Davy Lamp, that have appeared and astonished the H coal black" world lately (how unfortunate those clever effu- sions have not CAUGHT J, as is shrewdly guessed, the com- mittee are empowered to raise funds, for the purpose of having it printed in letters of gold, framed, and hung up in Gwern-y-gerrwn barn, for the edification of the elect there assembled, and as a terror to evil writers The Reverend Messrs J. B., Me. F., W. J., and W. H., have kindly consented to superintend the enquiry, and consequent exaltation of the author; and doubtless, from such a phalanx of information and common sense, the objects of the committee will be most vigorously prosecuted. So much for the writer: now for what is. written. Save me from my friends" is not the less pungent that it is a trite expression and if Veritas's" Re verend client has seen the communication alluded to, he must have aspirated it most fervently. The boat- swain, himself, I believe, is the bestjudgeof his own cha- racter, and for whatever was unintelligible to "Veritas'' in my former note-the appropriation clause for instance- I beg to refer him to head quarters there, if he i-t an answer, he may form. his own conclusions. The "Word" was particularly "consolatory to me, inas- much as it convinced me of what I often had had doubts of, viz. that there were as great asses and knaves in the world, as are to be found at a certain chapel, not a hundred miles from the Bridgewater Arms. I would recommend Veritas" to take the gatixe off his lamp, for his light is dim, dim. In a few pOsts, probably, I shall have to tell you of the sudden conflagration of the Taff —Taff Vale Iron Works are close on it. I remain, Sir, YOUR NEWBRIDGE CORRESPONDENT. Newbridge, 5th Oct. 1837. [We do not admire the tone and spirit of the fore- going letter.But "de gustibus now," &c.] i: i: T MERTHYR. to LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION FOR MER- THYR AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD. A meeting was held on Monday evening, at the Bush, pursuant to an advertisement, for the pur- pose of forming a Society having for its object the establishment of a Scientific and Literary Institution for Merthyr and its neighbourhood. The meeting was numerous and respectable. Mr Guest, M.P. took the chair. The following resolutions were adopted by the meeting, having been proposed and seconded by various gentlemen, in many instances by speeches of considerable force and talent. That it is expedient to establish in Merthyr Tydfil a Literary and Scientific Institution, which shall have for its object the dissemination of useful and practical knowledge to the various classes in this great manufac- turing district." That a Managing Committee be formed, consisting of the undermentioned persons, with po ver to add to their number, for the purpose of drawing up such rules and regulations as may be deemed proper, and that they report at an early period to a general meeting the resu t of their labours W. Meyrick H. W. Fleet W. Perkins Mr Williams, Cyfarthfa H. Scale W\ Wayne, Aberdare C. James Tho^. Evans, Dowlais J. Snow Benj. Martin, Penydarran Dr. Russell Win. Thomas, Plymouth D. W. James Morgan Williams W. Davies Mr Davies, Baptist Minister C. Powell Mr Jones, Druggist Aberdare Ed. Thomas Mr Smith, Aberdare Henry Jones Mr White, Merthyr James Russell "That the Managing Committee be instructea 10 take into consideration the propriety of treating for the as- tronomical and other instruments now in the possession of the members of the late Astronomical Society of Merthyr, and be empowered to receive subscriptions for this purpose." That Mr. T. Williams and E. L. Richards, Esq., be requested to act as Honorary Secretaries, pro tem. until the Committee have tune to appoint their own Secretary," Thanks having been voted to the Chairman by acclamation, the meeting separated. It now only remains for us to eXpress a hope that a work so auspiciously commenced will be steadily fol- lowed up, and that those for whose use and mental improvement we presume this society is primarily instituted, will avaIl themselves of the opportunities afforded them. The liberality of the Member for Merthyr entitles him to the grateful thanks of every man who feels an interest in this Society. He has placed at its disposal a valuable collection of minerals the accumulation of a favourite pursuit from his bov- bood, and we are not without hope that we shall speedily see a building, erected by a distinct public subscription fit for the reception of so valuable a pre- sent and adapted to the general objects of a Literary and Scientific Institution. Nor can we believe that the influence of Mr Guest's example will be lost on those who may have the power of aiding its objects by presents of another klnd-books-instruments- models-any thing, in short, by which the intentions of the committee and managers may be promoted. There are many gentlemen who may have in their libraries duplicates of useful works, and we are per- suaded that they will have sincere pleasure in bestow- ing them where they will be so usefully employed. The Duke of Sussex lately presented several hundred c volumes to a Literary Institution near Kensington, selected from the duplicates of his valuable library. We forbear answering, by anticipation, any objec- tion that may yet linger in honest minds to the mental cultivation of the working classes. We will content ourselves with the following extract from the number of the Statistical Journal just published. It is enti- tled the "Statistics of Crime." The number of persons committed for trial in England and Wales, in the past year 1S36, was 20,9(34. — Of these, 7033 were unable to read and write;-10,983 were able to read and write, but very iinperfectly;-2:215 could read and write well ;-191 had instruction superior to rendingawd writing;—and of 562, the degree of instruction could not be ascer- tained. .####. A meeting of the managers of tlje ^Savings' Bank of Merthyr, Dowlais, &c. was held on Wednesday last, when Thomas Forman, Esq. was elected a Trus- tee, in the room of Thos. R. Guest, Esq. We are truly happy to find that the deposits are rapidly on the increase, and amount to a very considerable sum. We are not a little pleased to hear that the money which so narrowly escaped the burglarious attempt in the house of Daniel Howels, of Cyfarthfa, has now obtained a safe lodgment in this Savings' Bank. We would avail ourselves of every opportunity of recommending workmen and others to make the ex- periment of a money deposit here, instead of throw- ing it into the dirt at beer-houses. Even so small a sum as a shilling will be received; let any man try one as a nest egg, and he will find how soon he has discovered the secret of converting silver into gold. At the late meeting of the British Association Dr. Arnottread a communication "onan Improved Safety Lamp for Coal Mines."—He commenced by observing on the frequent explosions which have occurred even with Davy's lamp, on the loss of light by the wire gauze, and with some allusions to the different attempts which have been made to improve the original apparatus as devised by Davy. The prin- ciple of his own suggestion was, that the external air should be forced into the mine by the engine used for its ventilation, and that the pipes conveying the air should terminate in the intern,which should be one of the ordinary kind, furnished with a chimney con- taining a valve opening outwards. He also explained how the principle might he applied to moveable ns well as fixed lisrljts.- Mr Ettrick made a few remarks upon Dr. Arnott's suggestion, expressive of hisdoubts as to its possibility and utility.-A communication from Dr. Turner on a safety lamp invented by Mr Leethead, was also read. The lamp is a brass cylinder with a glazed aperture; it is furnished with a hollow metalic sphere of about four inches in diameter, screwed to the bottom of the )amp, which it is pro- posed to fill with condensed oxygen gas. Of course, it would be required, that in all colleries where used, there must be a condensing apparatus and a quantity of condensed oxygen kept ready to supply the workmen. —Mr Ettrick objected to the weight of the lamp; and Mr Evans said the ventilation was so imperfect that it world become heated. ,### MERTHYR POLICE. [Before W. THOMAS, Esq.] OCT. 3.-Willimn Jenkins, a native of Pembroke- shire, was committed for trial at the next Quarter Sessions, for stealing cloth and tlannel, while in the pro- cess of manufacture, from the factory of Mr Thomas Harris,at Newbridge. It appeared that the factory was entered on the night of Monday, the 25th ult., through the aperture by which the water-wheel connects with the machinery on the inside. Tlletbicf arrived in Mer- thyr, and obtained permission to leave his ill-gotten bundle for a few days at a house near Pohtmorlais. The landlord soon finding that it contained something not very agreeable to his olfactory nerves, had the curiosity to examine the contents, when instead of working clothes, (which they liad been described to be) they turned out to be pieces of newly made flan- nel and cloth. Inquiries were made, and the robbery of the factory ascertained. The fellow true to his promise* called at the appointed time, and being re- fused the bundle, threatened to go to an attorney for a writ of restitution," but finding himself suspected he suddenly decamped, and after a hot pursuit, was taken about four miles below the town.
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LANCASHIRE COAL FIELD.-From a paper read bv Mr James Heywood, at the late meeting of the British Association, it appears that the coal fields of Lancashire cover a space of nearly 400 square miles, more than half of which is contained in the southern division of the county. Some idea of the quantity of coal consumed in this couutry alone may be formed from the fact stated by Mr Heywood, that in 1S38 the quantity of coal received in Manchester amounted to 913,991 tons, the value of which would be nearly < £ '500,000. We have often heard fears entertained that at no distant period the price of coal would be much raised on account of the increased demand, and the greater difficulty in miniug, from the better parts of the field becoming exhausted. We believe there are no just grounds for much fear on that ac- count. According to the best geologists the coal fields already discovered will furnish this most valua- ble element of our greatness for 1,800 years yet, even although twice the quantity of what we con- sume at present were needed. As for the best parts of the various fields being soon exhausted, even granting it to be true, we may set against that tha improved facilities for transporting coal by railroads, which must tend both to increase the supply of coal and to equalize prices.-Bolton Free Press. TYPHUS FEVER IN LEEDS.—We regret to learn that within the last few days this disease has made its appearance to some considerable extent in that part of the town where its dire effects are most to be apprehended—namely, in the Boot and Shoe- yard, Wellington, and other yards in the vicinity of Kirkgate. The malignant typhus fever rages with great fury, at Tramode, in this island (Mao). In one factory upwards of SO persons are laid up with it. It has proved falal iu many instances.—Monads Herald. SELDE% I have taken much pains," says the learned Selden, "to know every thing that was esteemed worth knowing- amongst men; but with all my disquisitions and reading, nothing now remains with me to comfort me, at the close of life but this passage of St. Paul, It is a faithful sayiu,, and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.' To this I cleave, and herein I find rest." CURIOUS BEQUEST—An old maiden lady bag lately died at Verdun, leaving a consiaerable fortune to her heirs. By a singular clause in her will she bequeaths the sum of 20,000 francs to •uoh inhabitant, of \erdun as will go on foot, and subsisting all the way by alms, to St. Ja2o da Compostella, tbe capital of Gallicia, in Spain to SLpnS;rp°^he 2o'oo° °°■
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I? i > — tTHYR TYDVIL, SATURDAY, Oct. 7, I837. li'r< I <o„ !,tlCe nr)vv sending another army to make her^l,es's over the hills of Africa. Hitherto IIOth.XPloit8 in that quarter have produced ^ut the moral which all iniquitotis wars "ggr^ ^r0^uce—ie min^ed guilt anil folly of But lesson has come more lives "lan usual in this instance, and the nearly 30,000 of her soldiery slain by I 'ance» or with the still more fatal ^hicl C' ^le wa8te a 8Um nati°nal 'noney 4i1(j "'ight have covered France with railways, IlIeh 4i1(j "'ight have covered France with railways, ^iU b 6 lnv°lvements a war i" wl'icl1 victory ? without the fruits of success, and defeat Nfiftiv. J Wi^ ^uied by the honour of the cause a war Prj(je e Norsemen of the desert, whom religion, Hii a,,(l national habits will make hostile, Ji;j, of them remains in existence, are the J)jsj{i a 'esults of the atrocious policy of des- «lle ,fLat °nce the laws of national justice, and <W l^ts°f human property. The French may frill "^d-el Kader, gallant as he is, or any ^i„ant Accession of Arab Captains, but they tOrn not conquer North Africa The most Sive Cte victory. which they can obtain will •Hel]->eni no more than a precarious possession, I I>o^ '0us subjects, the hatred of tlie Mahometan and the jealousy of the Emperor, fol- | li^ by some of those blows from a still higher 4tid 'hieh at once avenge the wrongs of men, '"dicate the wrath of heaven. "riiish Cal)inet too has had a lesson, if I Spa scale, yet strongly impressive. Our I J1\ISh expedition was a breach of national I ^orn "^e twelve thousand unfortunate men j the Qj °"r Government suffered to embark in I ^eHd 'r,St'n° cause, are now tlie living or the I ev"lences of the justice which punishes I 'rivai| Cr,,rle• These men had no more rit^ht to l>rofoe than 12,000 Spaniards in a time of I Peace would have to join a Radical I riub 1n England or a battalion of O'Coniiell's 1,16,1 'n Ireland. They were in the strict- I W, lOWest sense of the word Mercenaries; ith .tit ">eir exccpt perhaps a few of the ollicers, ) lW-0t,ly knowledge of the cause was that it | Uj,, q Pay, and their only object was to ob- this ti OY,Yketit and receive that pay and for I fob they offered themselves as ready to burn. 4ild kill SpaniarJs from one shore of the l^gi"811'51 to anotlier. The event has come. The JiaVe°n is now totally ruined. The survivors le^^turned to beg through our streets, neg- l)y lhe Spanish Government and dis- thltled.by their own countrymen. The body of orth ^l0n are weltering for the kites and dogs llttane Spanish soil. The boastings of the Char- is tn h) led them on reduced into silellce,- lists arch to Madrid is a flight from the Car- OI1: Itnd the triumph of his military name is iuto ridicule. The late accounts from Vtc,*re deplorable the remnant which their General left behind him to fight their bee 11 through debt, danger and disaster, have ert -1 "xterrninated in the field. The latest ac- trjtlllts state the painful probability that one ^de an^ twenty privates and twenty officers I ItCt ►) Prisoners have been shot in cold blood an I ^0r*"itlr conformable to the cruelty of this ^ttig VVar' ,ailcl which will mark the Spanish I ^let|| an iudehble brand of gore. But .k hd r tbis he true or not, the Legion is ruined. 44d let the Leader of the Legion always beaten, ''Be a'Jandoning them, is the Representa- Westminster!! Such is Ra- ,rient ^'9 iwpossible 'o conceive an argu- N oPfPealinS more strongly to 1he common simple fact, that a^,er I''8 Spanish disgraces, his li^^dar ''1B wl'°'e weakness, absurdity and is military course, way bailed by **0" as the fitting Member for West-
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^he p Sls's0ff° y the British Cabinet now con- 1|Ci)vy bi°Ur Car(,inal measures. "To give the °VV anC^ Sreal discouragement to Pro- ^ttQu Stl1, To give Mr O'Connell the whole (if te, anfl consequently the whole power T° fi«ht the los ing battle of Queen tilid to let through all losses of public honour, o its (lorniiieeritig autocracy of Russia '»e first in the North and East of Europe. Sec%(j W''l involve the Constitution, the 'r°y ^|Wl^ ^0rfeit Ireland, the third will des- l>0ssibility of sincere alliance with ^dj(e ?tntl the fourth will leave us of the jj r*nean just so much as we cover with I() fleet, aud of the East, in a few yefars
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——-——————-——— ^eel'ng is strongly turned to the ^H»tle °6 Lord Melbourne at Windsor hj ^'s Lordship has long since achieved to,'lcl A REP"tation for gallantry which Htiy 'lave rendered his society gratifying 1 1 ^Uee°'niU1 Wl'° va'e<1 1,er OWMl esteem 0,)g as e" l>er'laPs must endure his presence so "'step 8'1C 01031 unwisely endures him as a t,q 0 (!;k tWe have heard much of her virtuous 'Utionaj ''er Persorial delicacy, and her consti- ^'e'n. jj^novvleclge. We cannot doubt any of 'nUat iiI \1t If all this be true, with what eyes .e look round her? 1
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fttoitmoutfisilurc. ABERGAVENNY CYMREIGYDDION. We have just received a printed list of subjects, signatures of competitors, &c., against the fourth an- niversary" of the Abergavenny Cymreigyddion, and desire to congratulate that Society on their increasing Influence and utility as a Literary Institution. Their programme, for the ensuing meeting, contains lists under fictitious names, of those who have written on the various subjects. announced at the close of their last Eisteddfod, and subsequently. Among the various topics, we notice several that require deep research and investigation, and an extensive acquaintance with ancient and modern authors. Among the first day's adjudications (Wednesday, the 18th instant,) arc medals and premiums for the best compositions On the Origin, Progress, and their Effects on Society, of the South Wales Iron Works," (given by the Society) "The History of the Lords Marchers," (by T. Wakemao, Esq.) The History of Mcrthyr Tydfil," (by Lady Charlotte Guest.) The history of Iestyn ab Gwrgant," (by Mrs. Hall.) "The best collection of unpublished vVe!s!i music," (Lady Greenly ) M The best History of the Town and Abbey of Neath, and the Castle of Aberitfan," (W. Williams, Esq., Aberpergwin) The best Englyn on a Fountain," (the same.) "The best Poem on Welsh Schools," (Miss Wil- liams, Aberpergwm.) The best Air, minor key, in the Ancient Welsh Style," (Miss Jane Williams.) "The best 12 Englyuion, to the worthy CARNHU- ANAWC," (by Mr Howel, our unflinching Patriot.) "The best Account of the Sepulchral jHonameiJts at Abergavenny Church," (Rev. H. Peake.) 11 rijo best Essay on the Origin, Genius, and Objects of Bardism, &c." (by T. Phillips, Jun. Esq.) The best w.count of the parish of Aberystrwytb," (W. Price, Esq.) "The best Ode on the view from the Sugar Loaf," (Society.) The best Poetical Composition on Welsh Hospitality;" (J. Rolls, Esq.) The best Essay on the use of the letter H, ip Welsh orthography (Mr H. Morgan) and on a few more, of rather minor import- ance, in a literary point of view; but of utility in other respects. The subjects we have just recapitu- lated, have, we trust, from the very numerous com- petitions on most of them, been treated with literary ability and we crave t:IC indulgence of the Society, when we suggest, that all compositions should cer- tainly rise above mediocrity, to merit the rank of Prize Essays or Poems; for the salutary maxim. -1 Judex damnntur, cum nocens absolvitur" 'should be ever borne in mind. We would further suggest to this very laudable Society, the propriety of publish- ing the best, and second best, compositions on every subject. I bus they would afford social amusement, and, frequently, become valuable documents in the hands of the historian but, hitherto, they have only been consigned to the locked repository of the Society. We trust that our well-meant hints will not be mis- construed. We are, as far as ill us lies, the warm friends and-patrons of literature; nor did we make Wales our domicile, but with an ardent desire to study her history, her antiquities, the peculiar cus- toms and manners of her people, '° rescue from the risk of oblivion, the extensive remains of her ancient literature; and in every Society, like that of the highly patronised Abergavenny Cymreigyddion, we recognize fraternal co-operation- We shall re- cur to this subject next week. ,##'#' ABERGAVENNY CYMRBIGVDDIO?R'R'LE preparations at Llanover on occasion of the Abergavenny Cym- reigyddiou Anniversary and House-Warming, are proceeding on a large scale. Mr Guuter, we hear, is engaged, with a number of his best men, to prepare the ball supper of the 19th; and tbe- orders ill Aber. gavenny are so extensive, that that town will cer- tainly have reasons to rejoice in the Festival. We are glad to learn that those tradespeople possessing comfortable accommodation have now put bills in their windows, which is a convenience to strangers leeking lodgings. A number of distinguished visitors are expected. There are three large Hotels in Aber- gavenny,—the Angel, Greyhound, and the George, each possessing extensive accommodations. We understand Messrs. Baileys, Morgan, and Co., of Abergavennv, have taken to the business of the National Provincial Bank, at Usk, and that Mr Lewis, the late manager is retained to conduct the establishment. THE FROST, par exccllence, has set in at Newport with great severity. A sharp and bitter pamphlet has been issued bv the Mayor, who rejoices in the happy name we have quoteri-revéls in the detection of "buses.aud smells the quarry from afar. His pen.that long had slept, has wakened with a vengeance. He has issued a pamphlet entitled Letters to the Whig Magistrates," &c., calling for an inquiry into the misapplication of fines for offences—and sparing, like the giant whose name he bears, neither friend nor foe, hoar oak nor sapling. A hand-bill, signed A New- port Reformer," has been issued in reply; but our dread of the Attorney-General, forbids us to quote it in our columns, without his Worship's permission. A correspondent however thus writes:—The money of the poor Burgesses of Newport still remains in the pockets of Mr John Frost, the Mayor of Newport. He is always accusing others of plundering the public money. Pray ask him, in the names of the starving freemen, what be has done with their money. He should purge himself of the sordid imputation that attaches to his own conduct, before he imputes to others an itching palm for gold." On the 18th ult. Mr Greening, sen., watchmaker, Chepstow, dined with his brother and two sisters, whose united ages amounted to 328 years. On Saturday, the 30th ult, a schooner was launched from the ship-yard of Messrs. B. Batchelor and Co. Also at the same time, h schooner Was launched from the ship-yardof Mr John Young. These two schooners were built in yards directly opposite to each other, and were launched as rapidly as circumstances would admit after each other. Although not large vessels the launches were beautiful. On Monday was launched from the ship-yard of Mr. W. Perkins, a fine barque called the John Panther, built for Mr Wall, of this port. A steam vessel was waiting to take her in tow immediately on being launched for Bristol. She went off the stocks in a very easy style, amidst the shouts of numerous spectators. TREDEGAR.—At the last Petty Sessions, held in this town, before Samuel Homfray, Joseph Davis, and Summers Harford, Esqrs., Richard Powell, of Bedwellty, farmer, was apprehended and brought before the Magistrates by the Superintendent of Police, for stealing a sheep, the property of Sarah Williams, a widow, of the said parish; the skin and carcase being found in his possession, and sworn to, he was fully committed for trial at the next Assizes at Monmouth. .#11' MONMOUTH RACES. Our Rótces commenced on Tuesday—the weather most unfavourable. The following is the running account; The Chippenbam Stakes, 10 sovs. each, and 30 added. Mr Day's ch c Skaiter, 4 years, 8 st. 2 lbs (Wakefield) 3 Mr Griffith's br g Rambler, 6 years, 9 st. 7 lbs 2 Mr Bristow's br h Doctor Slop, 4 years, 9 st. (Hardy) 1 A spirited rate; won only by a neck. The Hack Stakes, 5 sovs. each, and 20 added. Mr Day's ch g Oberon, aged, 11 st. 12 lbs (Mr Sadler) 1 1 Mr Bowen Davies' b m MaotuA, 4 years, 9 st. 13 lbs 2 0 Mr Matthews's b m Game Fowl, 5 years, 10 st. 11 lbs 3 0 Mr Griffith's b h Rambler, 6 years, 11 st. 12 lbs (C. Hardy). 4 0 Mr Hinton's b g Romantic, 5 years, 10 st. 11 lbs drawn. A well contested race, each heat being one by a length. The other Stakes did not fill, which made the first day's sport rather meagre; but a soakiflg rain coming on before the running was over, put the field to the route, and it was sauve qui peut with horse and foot. The Stewards' ordinary at the King's Head, this day, was well attended, and the new landlord gave much satisfaction. The ball at the Beaufort Arms was fashionably attended. The Stewards, Mr Bailey, junr., and Mr Scud a more, did the botiourg of the tablo and the dance with equal animation. WEDNESDAY. The Town Stakes for horses not thoroughbred, 10 sov. each, and 25 added. Mr Hinton's bay g Romantic, 5 years, 11 st. P. j'i'vV"! Sadler) 1 1 Mr Edwards b fy Clytha Cap, 4 vrs., 10 st. 7 lbs 2 2 Mr Vever's b g Charity, aged, 12 st. 21bs (Mr Powell) 3 0 The Monmouthshire Stakes, 10 sov. each, half for- feit, aud 40 added. Mr Bristow's br h Doctor Slop, 4 yrs. 8 st r 7Ib. (C. Hardy) 21 1 o^u s c Skater, 4 years, 8 st. 21b. (Wakefield) 1 3 3 a S arne>* Bodkin, aged, 9 st. 4lbs (Dixon) 3 2 2 The Scurry Stakes, 3 sov. each, 15 added. Mr ^,?avies' b 111 Mantua, 4 yrs. 10 st. « m £ (Mr Oliver) 1 1 Mr Matthews b m Cripple, 5 vrs. 11 st. 91bs ;2 (Mr Powell) 2 2 Mr Bosley s ch g Rustic, 12 st. 21bs r Hatton) 3 3 Hurdle Race, 5 sov. each, 25 added, 4 leaps in each heat. Mr Vever's b g Charity, aged, 12 st. 2 lbs (Mr Powell) 1 l Mr Day's ch g Oberon, aged, 12 St. 2 lbs. (\lr Sadler) 2 0 :—■ Cholstrey. 4 2 Mr Marshall's b g Railroad, 7 vrs. 12 St. 2 lbs. CMr Oliver) 3 0 The weather and the sport this day afforded the highest satisfaction to a gay and crowded company. The Dinner at the Beaufort Arms, which, though not so fully attended as on the first dav, did Mr Whiting cred,t M°r catcrinS' and passed off well. B. Hall, Esq., M, P., and Capt, Jones, consonted to accept the office of Stewards for next year's Races. THURSDAY. The amusements were kept up, by the adjournment of a Pony Race, to the 3rd dav, when Jennet, Jem Crow, and Jenpy Wren, belonging to Mr Jones, Mr Turner, and Mr Powell, gallopped like good ones, dis- daining alike both boundary and curb; and "how to stop a bolter," was more than the skill of the riders could accomplish. In fact, the stratagem of starting at a point, where, to make for the stable, they must pass the winning post, was the only thing that could keep the little goes together; when the purse of 5 sov. added to a sweepstake of ten shillings eacli, was won by Jennet. The Purse for Galloways, which did not fill the first day, was likewise decided on Thursday.—Mr V oyce's Finnikin, beating two others cleverly.
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BRECONSaturday, Oct. 7, 1837. .0-. We remember nothing more severe-and the more severe because true—than the following scorching exposition of the tactics of the Whigs. It is the touch of the Ithuriel spear which no falsehood can endure, and which compels the fiend to start up in his own shape. Our readers will be better pleased to see modern Whiggery thus presented to them in the forcible language of the Church of England Quarterly Review," than in any feebler words of our own. "The State is now governed by parties, and of those we must judge, not by their own avowals, but by facts; audithose facts we must interpret by their principles. vvinggism now takes the lead; it consti- tutes the nominal government; but it holds the sceptre only by compromise; its existence is pro- longed only by the alms of Radicalism and Popery; and every hour at once exhibits the precariousness of those alnls, and the humiliation to which it stoops for them. Taunted with its subserviency to both factions, it only takes refuge the more openly with both. The menial proves his independence onlv by mingling the livery of both his masters, and wearing it 4n the face of day. A bolder spirit would disdain alike the service of either; fling 0. 1 °ne hand the red cap of the Jacobin, and with the other the domino of the Jesuit; call the empire to its assistance, and be free and British again. An lionester spirit would disdain to exist by the tenure of perpetual duplicity. The Whig of the Revolution of 1688 would have swept the traffickers for place, the traffickers for privilege, alike out of the Temple of the Constitution, and having thus purified the worship, would have let in the people. The Wbig of the Revolution of 1S32 him- self turns the temple into a gaming-house, keeps the tables, invites both factions to the game, and lives on what he can make by cheating them together. But this trimming and balancing system must be fatal. While Ministers are busy in the little circle of their personal hopes and fears, the great circle of the world is going round. Nations are in movement. But what is the movement to them? Continents may be outstripping us in civilisation. Old allies may be perishing under popular violence or foreign hostility. Young sovereigns, at the head of young empires, may be preparing to heave Europe and Asia from their foundations. What are the earthquakes or the thunder clouds to them ? A squirrel in its cage could not be more busily employed in climbing round its own little wheel. All the great questions must degenerate into petty rules for personal preservation. Men to whom place is the exclusive object of life, and who tremble from hour to hour at the hazard of its Joss, cannot find the time, the firmness, or the faculties, for government. The official rope-dancer dares not lift his glance from the cord on which he treads with such precarious feet. The Minister, forced to watch for every hint of surrounding faction, aod whose eye is perpetually fixed on the visages, capricious and scorn- ful enough, which are to decide his fate in the House, can have no thought for the world beyond its walls. He unquestionably can have none of that calm and comprehensible thought which is essential to the ruler of an empire. Living in a hot and unhealthy atmos- phere of intrigue, his lungs cannot expand to the fresh and bold blasts that try him in the loftier region abroad. His sense of vision becomes deranged and microscopic; constantly fixed on minuteness, it learns to magnify trifles; while in the sunshine it is blind. To a ministry of this order all the proportions of public things are necessarily perverted. The House of Commons is the empire; the loss of a vote is the loss of a battle; the accession of a renegade is worth a province; the lists of majorities and minorities su- persede the map of Europe. Austria may sweep Italy from the Alps to the Abruzzi, tinquestioned, if Mr Humc can bnt be persuaded to yout off his com- mittee. The failure of all British influence in tlie Peninsula falls lightly on bosoms exhilarated by the promised allegiance of a Sir Samuel Whalley and Russia may bind the Ottoman hand and foot, crush Circassia, send sultans and khans to Siberia, and pounce on India at her leisure, while the wrath of Mr O'Connell can be held aloof, and his conscience or his corruption can stoop to accept the whole patronage of Ireland as the ransom for ministerial existence. "Last year Lord Brougham predicted that the Cabinet would do nothing. The prophecy was safe, for he had compounded the Cabinet. But, if its utter unfruitfulness during the last session has been a matter of surprise to any man, we have here the solution of the problem. All the anxieties of Ministers were for themselves: tossed and whirled about on every current of faction, without native buoyancy to float, or acquired strength to struggle, who could expect them to control the surge ? It was an achievement to keep themselves from going down at once. But men catching at straws are incapable of wielding sceptres. But Whiggism, willing as it is to wear the mask of every party for the hour, has yet a physiognomy of its own; and those indelible features are, a passion for power and an absence of dignity; the most extra- vagant ambition and the readiest prostration to the mob; unlimited arrogance in the object, and unlimited mendicancy in the means. The airy navigators, whose balloons daily shoot up above our roofs and steeples, buoyed by the feculent vapours and gases of the furnace, and, after all, ascending only to ramble through the clouds, are no insufficient emblem of a party which, for the last fifty years, has never hesitated to rise to the giddiest height by the grossest inflation of the breath of the multitude."
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Our borough registration commenced on Saturday, and terminated on Monday morning, at the Town Hall here, before the revising barristers, Thomas Wilkinson Hill, and John Frederic Leach, Esqrs. Objections by Conservatives 14 Votes allowed. 9 Struck off 5 Claims by Conservatives 24 Disallowed 8 Allowed. 16 21 Objections by Radicals 24 Votes allowed 20 Struck off, only, 4 Claims by Radicals 9 Disallowed 5 Allowed. 4 8 Majority in favour of Conservatism. 13 At the conclusion of the borough registration, the same barristers, at the same place, proceeded with the county registration, and by Tuesday evening had concluded their labours, with respect to the hundreds of Dcvynnock, Merthyr, and Penkellv, and the several parishes within the borough of Brecon. This morning they commenced at Crickhowell. The objections within the County amount to about 700: the principal part by the Radicals availing them- selves freely of all the obnoxious parts of their favourite Reform Bill. COUNTY REOISTBATION We have just received the following rqport: Conservative objer-tions 34 Sustained. 17 Failed 17 Radical objections 209 Sustained. 4 Failed 205 We have no time to do more than point the atten- tion of our readers to this atrocious perversion of the Reform Bill, by its authors and supporters: 209 ob- jections, made in a spirit of opposition the most frivo- lous and vexatious, and four only sustained this is too bad but it is an evil that will work its own cure. -Tbe number of new Conservative claims, at Crick- howell, was 120. A poor woman, of the name of Mary" Jones, resi- dent in Brecon, was, on Wednesday night last, acci- dentally drowned as she was returning from the races.
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FAIRS FOR OCTOBER. Glamorganshire.- Aubrey Arms, near Cowbridge, Monday, 9th; Caerphilly, Monday, 9th; Llantri- sent, Monday, 30th; Llaoridian, Friday, 20th; Loughour Castle, Tuesday, 10th and Wednesday, 11th; Newbridge, Saturday, 14th; Swansea, Mon- day, 9th; Wain, Monday, 23rd. Monmouthshire.—Chepstow, Friday, 27th; Ponty- pool, Tuesday, 10th; Stow, Tuesday, 17th; Usk, Monday, 80th. ay Breconshire.—Hay, Tuesday, 10th; Trecastle, Tuesday, 10th. Radnorshire.—Knighton, Thursday, 80th; New Radnor, Wednesday, 25th; Presteign, Friday, 18th Penybont, Thursday, 26th; Rhayader, Saturday, 14th. Carmarthenshire. Abergwilly, Friday, 27th; Brechfa, Saturday, 28th; Carmarthen, Monday, gth; Kidwelly, Monday, 30th; Llandovery, Wed- nesday, 11th; Llanvihangel Yeroth, Tuesday, 10th; Llangadock, Thursday, 19th; Llangynnyeh, Mon- day, 23rd; Llanychan, Thursday, 18tb; Llansawol, day, 23rd; Llanychan, Thursday, 18tb; Unsawel, Monday. 23rd; Llanthoysant, Tuesday, lOüJ; Motiivey, Wednesday, ISth SL CMearsi: Tuesday, loth; Newcastle Emlyn, Friday, Ittsb.
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VFAIRS—There was a larger supply of cattle and cheese at Ledbury Fair on Monday, than has been witnessed for some time; business was, in conse- quence, dull in the earlier part of the day, but after- wards became brisk, and the fair was a tolerably good one. Fat cows sold readily at 6d. per lb., but lean stock were dull of sale. Sheep and pigs, of which the supply was not so large, went at about the recent prices best cheese fetched from t3. 33. to £8. 15s. per cwt.; two-meal 50s. to 56s.; and family X2. 2s. Very little was left unsold in the evening. Hops sold at the same prices as at Wore-ter.-At Ludlow, on Thursday, there was a good attendance of buyers of hops, and the supply, (about 800 pockets,) was chiefly bought in the course of the day. In the morn- ing, the growers held off for higher prices than the buyers would accede to but oil the former giving way, a lively sale took place, at from 68s. to 75s.; and some choice lots fetched 80s. per cwt. bait but- ter 12s. per quantity of 12 lbs.-At Gloucester fair, on Thursday, there was a greater display of stock than witnessed for many years, and a considerable degree of business was transacted, upon terms, satisfactory to sellers and buyers. The abundance of stock in the cattle market," however was confined to the store kind, very few fat beasts being exhibited, but the fresher sort of stores went off readily at good prices, the average being about tSd, per lb. The sheep fair was very well supplied; useful ewes, particularly downs, sold readily at fair prices, as did also fresh wethers, the terms averaging from 6d. to 6Jd. per lb. The demand for other sorts was dull, and many of inferior descriptions were left unsold. The pig markej was brisk, nice English porkers selling freely at 10s. per score. The supply of cheese was rather scanty, with a tendency to dulness in the sale; indeed, so much so, that we hardly know how to quote prices; but from the best information we can obtain we would say that best-making sold at from 58s. to 63s.; se- conds, at from 50s. to 56s.; and family, from 35s. to 40s. per cwt. Onions sold at Is- 6d. per peck.—At Abergavenny, there was a fair supply of stock, and fat cattle went from 5d. to 6d. per lb.-Iean animals were in little demand. Cheese, of which there was a large supply, averaged 63s. to 65s. per cwt. A new line of road, commencing at the Trumpet Inn, on the Ledbury road, and passing through Dymock and Newent to Gloucester, will shortly be opened, by which the distance between this citv and Gloucester will be shortened nearly three miles, and the distance to Cheltenham will also be lessened to the same extent, with the advantage of a completely level road to each town.—Hereford Journal.
DREADFUL MURDER AND SUICIDE.
We give the following as we find it, much doubt- ing its truth. DREADFUL MURDER AND SUICIDE. Clifton (Bristol), Sept. 20. A circumstance occurred yesterday which has thrown our beautiful village into a state of the utmost agita- tion and excitement. It mav not generally be known, that at nearly the summit of a cliff rising 300 feet above the surface of the river Avon, and which is commonly styled St. Vincent's-rock, there is a hole or nearly circular aperture extending twenty or thirty yards inward, and to which an under-ground passage has lately been excavated by the proprietor of tho Clifton Observatory. About noon yesterday, an elderly gentleman, accompanied by a young and lovely leraale, appeared at the door of the Observa- tory, and requested to be admitted to the Giant's Hole," as the cave is generally called. While one of the attendants went for a torch, which was to light them through the passage, the door-keeper, observing that the gentleman seemed in a state of great excite- ment, muttering to himself in a low tone of voice, asked if he were not well, hinting that it might be better he should rest himself ere he ventured into the close air of the cavern. This intimation was either not heard or not heeded but the lady said, I am much obliged to you for your attention, but my husband is subject to these fits of absence." The torch-bearer, having performed his office, left them leaning over the balustrade at the outer entrance of the cave, enjoying the view of the picturesque land- scape on each side of them, and of the river rolling at their feet. What remains of this catastrophe can only be told by the people who were 'walking under the rocks at the time. They state that they saw a lady and gentleman leaning over the balustrade; the gentleman soon turned round, and could be distinctly perceived using violent gestures to tbe lady, whoy terrified, sank to the ground, clinging to the raiting; they then saw him attempt to lift her up by the waist, which she resisted, still holding fast to the iron rails. and uttering the most piercing screams. He at last succeeded in lifting her up to the top of the railing the people at the Observatory, hearing the cries, hastened to the scene, but not in time to save the victim; be no sooner beard their footsteps than, with a jerk, he hurled her into the depths below; for a moment he steadfastly regarded the body of the un- fortunate lady at it whirled round in the air and fell upon the ground a disfigured mass, and then with a spring, and a demoniacal laugh at those who were on the point of seizing him, he cleared the barrier betwixt him and eternity; but a just Providence ordained that he should suffer acutely for his double crime, be fell upon a pointed pinnacle of a rock, and there, impaled and writhing, the wretched man hung for nearly a minute; gradually his hold relaxed, his joint stiffened, and he fell heavily about ten yards from the body of his wife. Those that ran to the lady when she fell only heard her repeat those words —"My God, I am innocent." On inquiry, it has been ascertained that they arrived at the Gloucester 51 Hotel the night before, from London; but all at- tempts to discover the name or address of the parties has proved abortive.
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NEGLECT OF OVERSEERS. The number of persons who have been temporarily disfranchised by the neglect of overseers in not fixing on the church doors of their respective parishes copies of notices of claims, objections, &c., served upon them in pursuance of the Act of Parliament, gave rise to some very general and well-founded complaints during the revision of the lists in the citv. More than one action has already been commenced against overseers, to recover the penalties they have incurred by neglect of their duty. The difficulty, however, in most of the cases, will be to prove that the neglect on the part of the parish officers was wilful, and in de- fault of such proof the penalty caunot be recovered. The following are the words of the Act with referenea to this subject If any overseer, &c., shall wilfully contravene or < disobey the provisions of this Aet, or any of them, with respect to any matter or thing which such over- seer, &c., is hereby required to do, he shall for sucli his offence be liable to be sued in an action of debt in any of her Majesty's Courts of Record at Westmin- ster, for the penal sum of five hundred pounds; and the jury before whom such action shall be tried may find their verdict for the full sum of five hundred pounds, or for any less sum which the said jury should think it just that he should pay for such his offence and the defendant in such action being convicted shall pay such penal sum so awarded, with full costs of suit, to the party who may sue for the sa.me." With regard to one of the actions now pending, wa believe there will be ample proof that the neglect on •" the part of the overseer was wilful, for, on receiving 1 the notices of objection (which he subsequently lWg: lected to affix on the church door,) he said 11 01, theso are only a parcel of Tory objections; I shall not take any notice of them."
Family Notices
BIRTHS. Sept. 26, at Gabalva, the lady of John Moggridge, Esq., of a daughter. B Same day, at Keynshambury House, Cheltenham, tha lady of Capt. Newall, E. 1. C. Naval Service, of a son. MARRIED. On Tuesday, the 3rd instant, at St. Mary's Church, Brecon. by the Rev. Edward Blencowe, A.M., William Ives, Esq. to Jane Rhoda, daughter of Henry Lucas- Esq., M.D. Oct. 2nd, at St. George's, Hanover Square, G. E. Anson, Esq., to the Hon. Miss Harberd, dauchter of the late Lord Suffield. DIED. On the 28th ult., at his house in Welbeck-street John Sharpe Palmer, Esq., in the 100th year of his age. In the 74th year of his age, Richard S. Harford, a respected member of the Society of Friends. On the 29th ult., at Ty Mawr, Breconshire, Fanny, wife of William H. West, Esq., and daughter of C. C. Clifton, Esq. On the 29th nit., at Cheltenham, aged 64, Thomas Meyrick, Esq,, of Bush, Pembrokeshire. „ On the 19th ult., at Ham, Mr Thomas Turner, of ouUy, aud late of Boverton Placel in this county.