The Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette and Merthyr Guardian

SHOOTING AT DKUML^NRIG.—At the close of the ten sou the Duke of Uuccleucli, and a party of lour others, bad six days' shooting at Drumlanrig Castle, where they had excellent sport. His Grace having unfortunately got bis baud severely hurt by the falling uf a stone from a dyke the ifr>t day, the number of nuns for the next live days was reduced to four. I he following was the result of the six days' shooting, iz. -Piw:\SaBts, S.j(); rartrid. I; wtmd(ocks. II wild fowl, 12; hares, 45S; making a total of 832 head.— Edinburgh Advertiser. PliElk4A%rs v. FoxEs — Wehnve frequently endea" voured to show thai ihe opinion (or rather prejudice) which is entertained, to the effect that foxes and game cannot cohabit in sufficient quantities, is not only unfounded, but also ridiculous. We lately proved that, in a cover belonging to the Hon. Neville Gren- ville, Mr Tudway found a brace of foxes, in which ) cover no less than seventy three pheasants were shot on the day following. We arc now enabled to stfitt- tlj:it, oil III(,- four l.ist (I;ii-s' sitootiiiu in tljc! and celebrated Stock Woods, in which covers, it is well known that foxes are more strictly preserved by Mr Yeatman than, in any other cover in tin- West of Kiigland, and from which covers the finest runs are seen year after year, and within these ten ) days, no less than 895 shots were fired by 18 gentle- men, who were invited to bring their guns on stated days, according to the list. and that 5GJ betid of game were killed, including 130 pheasants. We can also add that, in a plantation not.exceeding fourteen acres (in which Mr Drax found his first fox when he lasl inet -it Stock Mouse, prior to the late frost), no less ( than 91 pheasants were found and counted, out of which number 58 were shot, viz.:—on the 29tli Jan. last 30 hares h iving been also seen and accounted for on tllis Same M acres of cover; and, lastly, that on I he 1st of Feb. 50 pheasants were killed in Slock Wood (311 shots having been fired by the party on ( this occasion in that single cover), out of wbj h wood ) the markers counted four foges dii-tinctly, and saw ) them go away in different directions. Well might we exclaim, and invite others to exclaim, With these authenticated facts before us, and in the words of our Uncle Toby, The world is wide euough for us all." -Era, i

IM P E ii 1 A L P A R L IA il/ E .YT IIOL -L OF LORDS,—TUESDAY, FEB. 23. Lord A RINGER presented a petition Irom a poor law union in Norwich against the POllr 1 irivv Ai;ie;:d ment Bill. The Marquess of NORM VNRV said, t!ii, petition • could not be received, as it wa» azainst a bill which had not reached their lordships' House. Lord A Ii ING Eli observed that the petition was also directed against certain provisions of the exist- ing bill. After the c'erk hat! read an extract froltl the peti- tion, and Mil observation irotu the Marquess of Normanby und the Vlarqivss of Lansdowne, Lord A'MNGEli agreed to withdraw the petition Loril BROUlillAM brought, up the report of the select committee on (lie Copyhold Enfranchisement Rill- I he committee had made considerable changes in the bill originally introduced, and had incorporated with it a portion of the other hill. 'The proper form, he believed, would be to report the amendment bill, and to move that the report of the other be received this day six months. A conversation then took place between Lord fiedesdale, Lord Brougham Lord Ahitlger, and the Marquess of Salisbury, as to the time when the bill should be further proceeded with, but the result did not reach the gallery. Lord BROUGHAM laid on the table n bill to tixlenrl tlll law for the recovery of compensation for malicious damage, iu the case of fire or otherwise. is which operates lit every part of Ireland, except the city of Dublin, to that city. Thr bill was read a first time. he, Hishop of EXETER wished to receive some information as to the cause of tlw delay which had occurred in printing certain ordinances of the Governor and Special Council of Lower Canada, which had been laid on the table on the i'Jth of last month, and not printed till the 2dth of the present. Viscount DI NCANNON said, the delay was occasioned in consequence of an ordinance, No. 129, which it was deemed desirable to include with the other papers, having been sent, to the printer after the documents previously lai.1 on the table bad been ordered to be printed. The papers were returned to the Colonial Otiice for the purpose of having that particular document introduced. The omission had caused a delay of 11 days, and he was very willing to allow the ordinances to remain upon the table of the House for an equal number of days beyond the expiration of the 30 days reckoning from the 29tit of January. (Hear). The Bishop of EXETER said, the noble viscount's explanation was tantamount to saying that the ordi- nance,which was never presented to the House, had been presented, and it was made to appear as if it had been. It was a matter, then, which ought not to be treated lightly by the noble viscount. It was a very serious departure from that ingenuousness of conduct which the House had a right to expect from the government. 'The noble viscount said 11 days had been lost; he apprehended that 16 was nearer the truth; and he called upon the noble \iscount to say whether or not the an days allowed for considering the ordinances were to be reckoned from the 16th of the present month ? Viscount MELBOURNE said, lie thought tne right rev prelate had greatly exaggerated the case. The Duke of W ELLINGTON said the intention of the act was to atiowasuthdent opportunity to their lordships for considering the onliuanees. If that ohject waS secured, it was enough. I i' not, the right rev prelate might make his motion a few days sooner than he intended. Viscount DUNCANNON moved for copies of cer- tain dispatches to and from the General Governor of the Canadas upon the subject of the onlinances hfore their lordships; and nlso for a return of the expenses incurred in furnishing and filtill". 111) of the House of Lords for the trial ol the Earl of Cardigan -Oi-tiert-d. Lord DENMAN presented a petition, signed by certain citizens ol London, praying for the abolition of oaths in courts of law, and substituting affirma- tions. Lord lANDMURSr wished to call the attention of the noble Viscount to a h.l! before parliament for facilitating the administration of justice he believed that bill corresponded with one which went down to the House of Commons last session, but it did not pass through that house. It had been introduced by the law officers of the Crown, and, therefore, must be considered a government measure. He hoped the noble Viscount would take care, to have a clause introdllcul into the bill to give adequate compensation to persons possessing vested interests in their offices who might suffer by the operation of the measure. Viscount MELBOURNE could only sav that be would Iake care that compensation clauses should be introduced, having regard to ail lliose who had it cleitr right and claim to compensation (hear). Lord LVNDHL'KST reminded the noble Viscount that he was at the head of the 'Treasury, and that die necessity for some such provision was a sufficient ex- cuse for mentioning the subject (hear). Their lordships then adjourned till Thursday. HOUSE OF COMMONS—TUKSHAY, FEU 23. The SPEAKER informed the House that lie had teccived a communication from the examiners to whom election petitions were referred, slating that one of the proposed Sureties for prosecuting the petition against the return of Nir Smythe for the City of Can- terbury, had been objected to. Mr HANDLEY obtained leave to bring in a bill to facilitate the drainage of laud in England and Wales. Mr F. MAULE obtained leave to bring in a bill for removing doubts as to the, continuance of certain local turnpike acts,and for continuing until the 1st of June, 1842-ti,r, if parliament shall then be sitting until tlittend of the then session of parliament—ihe local turnpike acts for Great Britain, which expire with this or the ensuing session of parliament. Mr CRESSWELL postponed to Thursday week his motion for a committee on the Address to her Majesty respecting the Danish claims- '1 he adjourned debate on Lord Morpeth's Irish Franchise and Registry Bill was begun by Mr YOUNG. He adverted to the course of conciliation in which now for many vears the Legislature had p/oceeded towards Ireland, and declared that he was t not disposed to any restrictive policy; but he III list oppose a measure which placed the franchise lower than was consistent either with the agricultural or with the social interests of the country. Mr SMITH O'BRIEN cmiteuded, at length, for the bill, grounding himself in some measure upon -tat* Istl cat retiirps, Sir Ii. BA TESON wished the House to know that the majority of the people of Ulster were favourable. to Lord Stanley's bill. Mr CAREVV supported the hill, Lord IIOWICK said, the question was not whether the House would adopt the amount of or any ntlier particular detail, but whether it would adopt tia, assessment to the poor's rate as the test of fran- chise—whether it would attempt the deliuilion of the franchise conjointly with the amendment of the registry. The present state of the franchise—ihe Jilficuity of ascertaining vahte-begot extensive perjury, and arrayed the different classes of societ ugaiust each other. \Vhat remedy presented itself ? tnthepresentstateof parties neither (he beneficial interest test," nor the "solvent tenant test," coulil be tffirmed by a declaratory act. He saw no remedy so I clear and hopeful as the lest by rating. But he must <ay that the returns presented on Monday, which formed the basis of the present hill, were wholly unsa- ;isfactory, so little was there either of accuracy or of uniformity in these valuations. lie knew that his opinions would not satisfy those on his own side, nor iiis vote those on the other; but lie was resolved, Oil questions so deeply affeciing' the public welfare, to ict independently of party considerations. The 1m, Liortance of settling this question was enhanced by I lie doubtful slate of our foreign affairs. Mr LEFRO Y thought the house bound to take the irst opportunity of dismissing a bill which attempted he overthrow of the settlement made by the Reform \ct. If the object of this bill had been to fix by an tccurate test the real value of the tenant's interest leyo'nd his payment to his landlord, that might have tad its advantages; but the object here was merely to lestroy the principle of the Reform Act, and to set jp a principle of democracy in its loom. In the tosvns ins bill went to substitute a value of i'o lor a value ot 4 of' t 10. The chauge uow proposed would soon fill the Irish part of the representation with advocates of epeal; and then the FsistJIICe to that mischievous I' ueasure would become difficult indeed. t The ATTORNEY GENERAL for Ireland said, t hat the propllseJ definitinll of the franchise was the r -e,ki (lites!lon in this debate. All be litigation, all :\¡e perjury, arose upon the question of value fur t .vhile all other matters were matters of fact, this was ( >ne ni opinion only. The dispute about the value was r »ad enough, but there was also that still greater pest, 1 l disputed law. He gave a history ot the way in which he question had been deall with by the judges, who )it sotiie points were iltiiost c(itiit!ly divided, but who, le admitted, were at first ten against two, and after- wards eight against four. in favour of the solvent t :enant test—the main question. To leave a doubt ipon any matter of law, he continued, was discredit- ible to the legislature, but more especially so to leave a Joubt upon political law. The House had two lJills t :0 choose between. Lord Stanley's had not only the tefect of not defining the franchise, but also the iggravation of creating an appeal to the judges, which ( ivent to multiply conferences and doubts on the bench 1 k barrister makes a decision, the judge of assize reverses it; the next barrister, at the ensuing regi- itration, follows the reversal: an appeal is made to a i iiere iit .iii(igt, of assize, and the reversal i reversed. I IVIIS • u some way, then, the matter wist be settled. It was not for him to say what was the intention of the Reform Act; bnt it must not be forgotten that the House were dealing with great masses of men, not now first seeking the franchise, but possessing it already, and about to be disturbed in it-uoder a law of ambiguities, but a law construed by iheui as investing them with the franchise upon a liberal con struction. Sir \V FOLLF/IT expressed his surprise that thr- Attorney Genera! for Ireland should have been si n: on the subject of that which was really the main point — the sweeping change now directed agaiti.st the settlement of the Reform Bill—and should have argued as if the only question on this second reading were the test of ihe poor's rate. Now, h" him-elf and those around him approved that lest, provided ihe rating were upon a s.dl1(:i.-nt property possessed by the voter in the premises rated beyond his rent atal outgoings. But what he and his friends complained of wa, Ihat, under pretence of that salutary te-t, government hatl attacked the Reform Biil in a most material point It was a breach of the compact made at the time of the Relief Bill, when you agreed tn extinguish the 40s. freeholders. This bill did not restore that class of voters in so many words but it 1V0uld bring back that and other more objectionable classes. It was argued that at all events the rating was a very low one; but was a low rate a reason lor requiring no property at all ? The bill ot Sir !>1 Norreys, last year, proposed a test of rating, but a rating lor a net annual value of t'8 beyond the rent. Again, ns to towns; when ill England and Scotland the annual value must be ±10, why was the annual value in Ireland to be only X5 ? MrMACAULAY said ho could not consider the question about the amount of 1:5 as anything but a question of detail, lie thought the dangers greater of unduly narrowing than ot unduly exl'iidiug the tranchise but he woulllllot nOIVenlcr on the quesLion ofainouut, but proceed to whathe considered tiie prin- ciple of the bill. Each of the two measures bore the characteristic marks of its party parentage. Any who thought that a registration bill ought to be a lull of disfranchisement, might act on that opinion, but pmhahly would not avow it. lie thought the object should be to shut out had votes itii,l let in gool ones. (Cheers from Lord Stanley and the Conservatives). In both respects he thought Lord Morpeth's bill superior. He proceeded to compare the machinery of the two, and found no security in Lord Stanley's but the reiteration of trials. It was a childish measure, impeding all to keep out a few. lie dwelt oil the scandal arising from the discrepancy among the judges, and 'lieu addressed himself to the question of finality. Would the house, from a desire to preserve all things fixed, maintain a state of law which left all things unsettled ? Lord Stanley had felt great delicacy ahollt investing the Speaker with thepouertonooti nale the barristers who should hear cases of appeals on the subject ol registration had he no delicacy about committing the control of the registry to the judges? Lord Stanley had said the franchise clause was only a tack. He denied that; he held it to fie the main point of the government bill (Great cheering from the Opposition ) He besought the House to abstain from harshness towards the siste country, hut rather to cement the legislative union by the consolidation of 27,000,000 of men. The (Ichate was theu adjourned to the next day. HOUSE OF COMMONS — WEDNESDAY, FKB. 24. 'The second reading of Lord Sianley's Registration Bill was postponed pro forma till Friday, the noble lord intimating that he would on that day be ready to fix the day on which he would really bring it on. The adjourned debate on Lord Morpeth's Parlia- mentary Voters Bill was resumed by Mr BHOTH Ell- TON, who believed the effect of the bill would be to draw the two countries more closely together. Serjeant JACKSON said, every man attached to monarchial institutions ought to join in throwing out a measure, the rt'sult of which would be to over- whelm the country by the inroads of democracy. Mr THESIGFIl resisted the second reading. Sir J. GRAHAM defended Lord Stanley against the charge of being responsible for the delects of the Irish Reform Act, reminding the house that during the debates that preceded the passing of that act, the system of registration adopted for Ireland had been described as intended to be only temporary, until they should have had ex- perience of the new system of registration introduced by the English Reform Bill. He (Sir James Graham) was determined to stand by the Reform Act. Mr SI I El L described the biil as essentially in the, spirit of the Reform Bill. The debate was then again adjourned.

POST OFFICE RUVKNUE—A reiurn of the lofnl not produce of the Post office Revenue in (ire.it Britain and Ireland respectively, in the year ended the 5th day of January, 18-11 :— PAYMENT* INTO THE RXCUFQUKII. Great Britain £ 441,000 0 0 Ireland G,(i«4 10 G E4 17,66 t106 IL nOltDOS. Whitehall Treasury Chambers, Feb. 15. 1811. -A line ol' for commercial communications has been recently established between Brussels and Antwerp. A report by the agent of the United States Post Office who has spent several years in examining the systems of different European nations, contains, among other recommendations, the following—viz., the entire abolition of the franking system, the payment for letters transmitted by the mails according to weight the lixing hut of two rales for the whole union, which would be five cents for loiters not exceeding half an ounce, and less III \1\ 500 miles, and ten cents for more than that distance, with five cenls additional for every additional half ounce; the payment of post- age in advance in every case, the employment of special supervising agents for "aeh statl" and I he appointment of mail guards to take the control of important mails. liEU M.\JEST\'S NAVY.- Bv a statt'III('lIt issu('(1 from the Admiralty ou the 15th instant, it appears that there will be required to be voted, in order to defray the (it the naval expenditure beyond the grants for the year ended March 31. 1B40, the sum of 6:4-1 lis 2d; and for file year ending March 31, 1841, Ihe sum of ,5J0. REJECTION OF PAPISTS AT THE PKOTESTANT COL- m:CU OF ETON.—We stated on the 9th ult, that Dr. Mavvtrey, the head master, had given permission to Count v to send his two SOliS to Eton Col- lege; and that, as tbev were Papists, tliev had like- wise received permission to attend tho Romish Chapel at. Clewer, instead of the Protestant Chapel attached to Eton College. We are informed by a correspon- dent that, after the publicity thus given to the extra ordinary 11 1)(,riiii,si,)Ii "it created the greatest excitement, not only amongst the various authorities connected with the College, but amongst several of the dignitaries of the Established Church, many of whose sons are now receiving their education at that ancient seat of learning. The Provost, with wholll the veto rested, was appealed to by several highly influential individuals, connected with the Chimb, on tiie subject, and the result is, that the permissionoriginally granted has been withdrawn, and the sous ofCotllll Ihthrau\' IIavl' hl'l'n sent else- where. The arrangements for their rcccption at, Eton had been so far completed, thai their tutor had been outraged, and they were to have entered at the open- ing of the school, after the Christmas vacation, about three weeks sineo. Britannia. HoTicuLTitHal SOCIETY.—The ordinary meeting was held Oil Tuesday afternoon. Sir ('liar es Lemon, V.P., Bart iu the cli iir. Several presents were iii- nounced, and a short communication was read from the president on the culture of Rhododendrons. The show was very limited, but there were sou) enowers of the powei fully scented Chimoraiitbus fragrans, which, (lowering at the beginning of January, had this year been retarded by the coldness of the season. NOBLE I'.XAMPI.b, — The LATF. Siti TIIOMVS S. MOSTYN CIIAMP.NEYS, Bvitr.—Tuesday, the Kith, was witness to a joyous and graceful assemblage at the George Inn. Fro me. On that day the larger portion of the creditors of the late Sia T. S. Moslon Canipneys, resident in Fro me and neighbourhood, and whose claims have arisen since 1835, were paid in full by the munificence of the Lady Mostyn Ciiampneys. relict of the deceased baronet. Thcsumpaidon thai day was ill addition to a larger sum lately paid in London to creditors having claims equally re ent, and aNo to about twenty thousand guineas paid recently by her to the assignees of the credi- tors under the sclndu'e uf What further lebts contracted by the haronet since 1835, still I)v li(.r ill Lilt, ::ase of the ensuing month. The whole sum thus paid oil) ttius I)ai(i by her lady ship will amount to about to about ..&30,000. When it is considered that this largesum the raising of whiah involved a great sacrifice of property on her part, has been paid by the lady to those who had no legal claim on her, it must appear to be an instance of noble munificence, and of iiigli principle, such as is seldom witnessed. But it is especially remarkable as evincing her ladyship's feeling ol respect for her husband's wishes, and veneration for his memory. Great, indeed, must be the affection, and deeply seated the love, which dictated such a sacrifice and not less great the con- ujugal virtues of the late Baronet which during his liletime had kindled, and after his death supported, so lasting an attachment in the bosom of his bereaved wi(low.-Clielteiiham Chronicle.

L ÁJ T E S T IS T E LUG E A C E e- CII Y, THUKSDAY. FOUII o'CtotK. A birge failure in tint Australasian trade, tint of the house of MonteHore Brothers, •s reported lo-oav, and has caused some utw asiiu S3 in money ;i (I tit realllde cir- e.s t it should lie the forerunner of others. fi.ii iii (ities,ioii stijoil very liifrii. The amount tor whit Ii it has stopped payment is slated at £ 100,(101), but the friends of the firm confi .eu'ly assert tha wi h a li'tle time, ihere is much more than sufficient to settle all 11;ms. ili.ii M.UKSTY THE QI'EKX DowIGI.it.WE ire happy to suite that there is no foundation whatever for a paragraph which has appeared in several of the dailv papers, s ating thai her Majesty Queen Adelaide was snlfe: ing from a sevt ije cold On inquiring at Marlhoiotigh House this morning, we were informed that the Queen D ;wager was in the lull enjoy i ent of her usual good state of 11,1;11, alld thaI laer Majesty bad Not been stilt" ring any indisposition, or in any manner p evented from taking her usual daily exercises. — S (indurd, Thursday. M AKIIIA<;E OF THK LATK KING OF THK NKI IIKK- LAMJS, NOW Cot'VR OF NASSAU.—ON the 17TH, ill t¡ll IIlorllill" till' I'X Kill!! of IIol' "lIcl, Ct.JJllt of Nassau, and the Countess of '*1Iiiremonl, were married in the strictest incognito, in the Palace of Prince Albert, according to the Pro- testant and Catholic riles. — Ltipsic Gazette- S.MALI.Wooti's VI AG IZ1M'— We have received the March number of this magazine, but have not had time to examine it on account of its late arrival We read, however, with inexpressible deli., ht, the burning verses, the "Cauto Mar- ziale," of (iabrielle Woss. li, and see wi I li'pleasll re that this number contains a continuation of the tale of The Dentist of Frankfort,"—a tale conceived in a highly romantic spirit, ami written willi much force and elegance. Wa promise ourselves much pleasure iu reading this number, and wshall not be disappointed if it tquals in talent the others which we have seen. LONDON MOSKY MAHKET ro.n the o.1'uiai list, containing the busnicD* actually transacted.) CLOSING CHICKS Oil HltlTISII STOCKS—TilliBSlur. n oik st„c .— | lii.li., St. ck. for Ace. J4J 3 It, I t i li i Uomis, — i"a cl C i n J J Sou Ii Sra Nenr Ann*. 86 3A pi-i i i Anas. IMS 07J llmk S.ix k lor Acct. 3.^ per cent ltril.,98 7\ Co s- for Ace., 894 9 N.w ,,e c s.vrj i fHfOUEx.B, 5 I-g *i IttfiO, 13 t -1T. J £ .r.(M) 5 S 1'111 I) ,oi lsrei, Sm ill Jo. <• ,S i m 36 n". Ad. 5 7 Pll!Cb'.S OF POItKION STOCKS—THUKSIMT. Hr.'Zili.oi 3 pet C,-iii, H,i ,.o,, A, r, Hut-. Account, — Coin Mm fi per e-iil. — Ruisiau,— D.i lloiwls. IS21. -1 »itt" M. a t c — c Sp nisli 5 per it, 21 3} Ditt. Account, O t'u Aco — Oi: u Passive. — D i cii f> per cjhi I) in I), ferr>- 1. M x full 5 j>. r cent.,— Fr It.-ieen 3 per ct, — 1) t,, 271 K\clian.(C, — 1)t1). f. Duld. 'l.i Iter ce.¡t. 50' I P A, c — D.Lt Po. tlll1e. 5 eer rent. ))I("h 5 pe: cellt,- N'vv !i fJ., ci iu, /Ii I" A.-c iiiiit. Ditto, A c New Loan, a per ct., SHA IIES. Gn':i! \l"(;*ti r: 89J 9 I '!i it. N Americ i B.ink,— Do New, 6I.J I N tional Provincial Bjnk Do F.itli-, 9 were (looic itt shares, and prices were without iinv great alterulinn. Great Western left oil' *24 to '25 pretninui; Birmingham, 79 lo 81, ex diy., premium South Western, 5758. per share 5,1 to 6.1. ex 4,iv., 1)reiniuni; North Ili(l- i-mil, 27 to 25 discount; Ditto new share*, 5 to 3 discount South Easlerll, Hi l to 15j £ discount Ivisieru Counties, 15 to 14 £ discount IUackw .ll, •V to -1J discoiur H, ighl'oi, 7 10 i discount; Bir- mingham and (j'oocenter, 21 to 20 discount.

V. KltTIIYll TYDVIL. AM> T.-SKCON, I February In our last number we gave a report of tha judgment in the queslio vexala of the LSrnintrce Church Wale, as delivered in the Coiti-t of Exchequer by the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, at the head of all the Judges of that Court and the Barons of the Exchequer. I'lie iii(igiii,-iit tlier(,ft)re liiid all the so!etiiiiitv a.-i well as all the authority which could be imparted to it by the presence and concurrence of the most venerable and distinguished Judges of the 1-1-1(1 -1 and this unwonted array was rendered necessary, inasmuch as the proceedings had arrived at the stage, and came before the Court in the shape of a writ of error from a judgment if the Court of Queen's Bench, where the validity of the rate as laid by the Churchwardens was substantially affirmed, inasmuch as that Court declined to entertain the application for a prohibition to issue restraining the interference of the Ecclesiastical Courts where suit had been instituted to compel payment of the rate so made. liy and in the name of the Court of Appeal, so constituted as above, Sir NICHOLAS TINDAL, I the Lord Chief Justice, after a patient investi- gation into the merits of the case, reversed the I judgment of the Queen's Bench, and found the rate illegal. For the clear perception of the reasons which led to this decision, by which, as it would seem, the validity of a Church Rate, unless proposed I

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MERlMYR CHUKCHI TO ARCT-IJTECTS. ^B^IIF, COUMIT'IT.E ..f flic above Cimrei A UKQURST t li, t all AKCHlTFCrS who III:m feel disposed tn w1,lr-rt;¡k.. the pr,tinll of III" s.:ii. Church ilo «p.n>l in l'l.AsS. Si' W I!" IC T IM NS JIV ,n ,r before tlit-, Fifth ilny o. M\UCH nrxt llic building must If laree ennui: to on" thou-sard person*. inrhidin'i a front (;allcrv, whirl: mut a."rninm->i!ittp t lirec h um'.rcd i hih'.ren with roon for tin- rrection of an Organ, and having room fo Si(!e ^ufTicient room niuct hp '.oft in each pew to IIn" tl" coiiireija ion to kneel. and m'-an'; 111"t he provided fw that purp :sr. and in other rcspsrM the Architect m'lt iI" guided in vi, ii., in Lis Plans by the regulations of the Church i'nil.linj The whole Church "ill h, repnlarlv pe'>e<l. •• irli thr ption of the in the; for the children I-urther particulars mav he learned on application to the Srcrriaiy, the l\ev. Thomas Wi'linuis. Nlertli., r Tydvil, Mci thyr Tydvil, Feb 26, 1811. Secretary. T 17) \l.\s > T K P H !•: X S, CHij x. 1ST Aiv'B n It XT & & 2 3 T, B! <JS to inform his Friends and Public, that. he has purchased tin* business of Mr DAVID MOIICAN in the High Street. Nter-livr. and intends earrvir <*■ II:} CHKMlCAl, anil DI'U • FS I KSS. in conjunction with that of an ()ll< and IT A 1,1 AN' WAHKIIOUSK T. Stephens trn-ts that it will not be necessarv fo. liim t«> say that his skill and attention to his profession are well known, and having hern with his IH"d('('S301 for upwards of six years, he is perfectly well acijiinirred with every branch of the ""i""s, and it is his deter- mination by keepiiis: a regular SIIIU!v of the best iroods at moderate prices to endeavour to give sati faction to 1.11 who may kindly favour liivn with >h< ir support. n. G R IFF T T H S, CHEtSIST AND I> 2t IT ii G S 3 T, ( L,,te Ifrs BF.OS to inform his Friends and the Public ,it larzc, that he as COM M V'.N C liD HUS1N KSS as s CII li \l I>T and D.'iUGOIST H., trusts that man\' years' experience in the business and its branches, as connected in this place, will ensure him their confidence, and that hv personal attention to business, moderate prices, and keeping goods of the very best qualities, to obtain a share of the r pa'ronase and support. High Street, Merthyr, February 2if;h, 1841, LAUGHING GAS! MR PARTRIDGK !> KOS to iiiiiiotiiici' that lie will publicly exhibit, a ) NiiXT WEEK OXLY. ar a lioom opposite the Bush Inn, lIich Street, Merthvr. Ilw astonishing and laughable elffccts of the NITROUS OXlDK, or, as ii is expressively called, LA U GIII N G G S, when breathed into the luns. A dmission—f a dies and Gentleinen, Is Merhanics,6d. Hours of administering the Gas, Seven, Fight and Nine o'clock, each evening. BOROUGH OF MERTHYR TYDVIL. FOTES FOR THE COUNTY. Valuable Leasehold Property. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By Mr J NO. WINSTON K, At the A N GIL IN\, „n W ROVES DAY. the 17th of %fAl?r,ll, 1841, at Two o'clock in the Afternoon (subjectto such Conditions as shall he then produced). rjMIE following VALUABLE LFASFHOLI) t Pi¡OPEHTY, sitllat at ()o\L.HS and MERTHYR. LOT I. All that «'ihstantially built and commodious INN, railed the Will Ph. HM'T, Powlais, toccther with the Yard. Stabirs. Rrewlw.use, a-id other Outhous.es thereto nttaihed, and now in the occupation of Mr '1': omas Jenkins, as yearly tenant, at the low rent of [[jO. Thpse Premises are well situated and adapted for carrying oil an extensive business, hcim* the, only Inn near to the Powlais terminus of the Taff Vale Kailway and to the Junction of the projected iiail wav from Mer'hyr to Brecon. 1,0: a ronv-ni<*nt and well finished DWELLING HOUSli, adjoininf the last mentioned Premises, now in rh., occupation of John ussell. Ksq., and known as the |)rt\V L\|S SUltOUHY. yii'ldinu a rent of £ '18. adjoining the Wbite IJart, all in thoro'^h repair, and let to uood tenants, producinea rent [75. Tlie whole of the above Premises are held under Lease for three Lives, or, 99 Years (83 of which arc ¡¡¡;pxpj,pu). subject 10 a zronnd rent of, £ 5 lTjsfid. Lor 3.— I WO IIOUS liS, Tvi'h Ur whouse and other Outbuildings, situate in Vine Street, Dowlais, adjacent to the principal Entrance to the Dowiais \t'orks. and let at i rent of £20. These Premises are held under T,na.e for three Lives, or 99 Years (82 of which are unexpired), subject to a ground rent of £ 1 4.« 6d. I.oi 4.—A DVV'r LLIVO HOUSE, situate at Pont- moriais. near the Zoar Chapel, held under Lease (about 1.51).vear;. of which are unexpired), subject to a ground rent of 10;; (id. and let at a lent of £ 3 I iis. Further paiticulars mav be had 0.1 application to the Auctioneer, Victor! > Street; or. at the Office of Mr Gi ot^e Overton, Soli itor, Merthyr. (Letters to be prepaid.) BREC O N S IIIR E. ELKCiWT. MODERN, AND VALUABLE tlouschold jPurniture, FOR SALE, HUGH JONES Having received instructions from alCIUr. D HILL Mi l' Its, Rscj to Sell %wito,le of flip FIeLi,rit aiid M-d,,rii tl()LTSr- HOLD FritNTrUKfi, at FETEKSTONE COURT, bv AUCTION, has fixld W li!)NfiSD Y and THURSOW. the J7th and 18th days of MARCH, 1S41. for that purpose. I'lle Ft,NT11,1, C"llsis of Mahogany Dining Tables, with fo'ir leaves, and a valuable Side Hoard, Mahogany and Rose Wood. Card. Loo, Writing, Pembroke, and other Tables, a dozen Dining l'o in Chairs, with Spring Cushions, 1;>}¡"gau. Rose Wood, and other Chairs, Looki g Glasses, Turkey, Hr1Isph, arid other Carpets, ami Hearth !II\¡:S. Hronze -,nd otiier Feuders, Fire Irons, expensive Aioreen and oihrt Window Ha1}1,inn: and lUi)I!\rn Vi,hn ny Fourjiost Bnisteads, xvi'h Ir .n Springs and .Moreen Haniinjs. and Windo v C::rl"i"3 to match, v eil seasoned Feather Hecis, Ma'tresses anti Paiii isses. Counterpanes, and Beddinsr. Children's Cribs, several Mahogany and oti)er Bid- dets. Dressing 1'nbies Chest of Drawers, &c. &c. toucher with a PTKNT M VNGLIi, a I'ouhle Barrelled {;n. Saddl. s alld Bridles, "11.1 a ,-ood Set of Carriage Harness, and a quan'ity of Kitchen Riquisitcs, and nairv and Brewing Uieusiis; also a vonj One Horse Cart, and about K!(<T TONS or PRIME HAY. N.B.—T e Sale will couimence at r: tCVClI o'clock p eiisely. TOWN OK BRECON. VT.RY VALIIABLI- JIOUSKHOLD FUJINITURK, &(., FOR SALE. HUGH JONES ]5eg3 to announce {that lie has been instructed to dl 11;1 auction, Without the least reserve, onTUiiSDAY and WE!). NK5DAY, the9:h and 10th days of M A RCH 1841, rt HI' whole uf the" very Viluabht HOUSEHOLD § KU R N ITUUK Sec., at the late Residence of Ci)n- sisting of other Brdsteads, with .Moreen, Chintz, and Dimity Furniture, and Window Hangings to Match; Nine very snperior and well seasoned Peather Beds; Blankets Quilts. a:.d Counterpanes; Bedside Carpeting, Palliasses Hair and Straw Mattresses; Dressing Tables, several very g od } ier and Swing Looking (ilasses. Mahogiiuy ancl other Wardrobe"} Mahogany Chest of Drawers; Washhand Stands; Chamber Chairs, Uedsteps, \ight'I ables and Co in modes a sjdendid \i a !io-an v Side lion rd Sofas and C ouches; »Ma)io^any Dining 'Table; Maluigany ano Posewood Card. Pembroke,and other Tables; og:\r.y Hair, Cane, and Rush bottomed Chairs; Brussels and other Carpets (nrad, new); Hearth Hng, Bronze Fenders. Brass and other Fire fron; Two good Fight. ilay Clocks a quantity of the very best Lit en Plated Articles, and Cut Glass -,i handsome China Dinner Service, and a Breakfast and Tea (li!fo, &c. 1/< to^i tl.er witii the us ial assoituient of Culinary Rcq.tisiti s, ar.cl a useful I rO\¡¥ CARIUAGK AND HARNESS. N.B.— The Aucli'.neer i.egs tocall th.- atiention of the Public to the above Sale, which will commence st Eleven o'clock precisely.

7,fl I A gentleman in .Stirlingshire, in the year 1811, purchased a property in the parish ol New Motiklaixl, Lanarkshire, lor which lie paid 4Mf»i; nnd.in conse- quence of the railway which was lately cmried through in that quarter passing in its immediate vicinity, lie lias now, in 1841, got an offer lor the ironstone alone in it at the rate of £ 100 per acre, which, as it contains 16 acres, makes it worth £ 1600, exclusive of the value ol the coal unci the land itself.—Stirling Journal' Lanarkshire, lor which lie paid 4Mf»i; nnd.in conse- quence of the railway which was lately cmried through in that quarter passing ill its immccliacc vicinity, lie lias now, in 1841, got an offer lor the ironstone alone itt it at the r;tte of 1:100 I)t,r acre, wiiiclk, :is it e4)iit;ill)S 16 acres, makes it worth £ 1600, exclusive of the value ol the coal unci the land itself.-Stirtinq jourmi.

nWELTY TO A PAIllSil APPRENTICE. (From the Manchester Guardian.) A ease of cruelly ha- recently occurred at Rocli lale. which has excited a strong sensation in out neighbourhood. The lollowi g are the facts, a~ staled to ns by a correspondent — On the lII"r:lin.: of Thtnsday a car' vas driven 10 the door of a poor widow, named Kershaw, residing in Church Lane. Rochdale; and iro n it was lifted and conveyed in-ide a most bai- ^ard and spectral object, whom she at length recog •lised as her son Edmund, a boy about 12 yeais.d >g". He had been some time before apprenticed bv the overseers ol Castleton to a coal miner, named Robert Brietley, who rested at liagslnke, and woikeil in one of the coal mines in the neigh- lonrhood of Rooley Moor. The bov, on examina- tion, was fOllno to be quite emaciated, and almosl one mass of «ounds; and as, !o al 1 appearance he could not lon^ survive, a constable named Taylor was called in llie next morning, and he very pro- perly determined to bring the case before the magistrates. The necessary information having been s^orn to, Mr Chadwick issued a warrant for die apprehension of Brierlev, who was on Friday ifternoon taken into cusiody at his father's resi- lenee at Woodhouses, to which place he had absconded from bis own residence at Bab,}"k. I'lie boy meantime had been attended by -Mr Lumb. of file ti,,ii of Lumb and M ilner, surgeons, and he iiad received every relief which 'kill and humanity could apply. On Saturday las! the prisoner Brierley, the boy, the mother and the surgeon, appeared be- fore Messrs Bojd and Chad wick, at the lolieLOiiiec, in Voik-hiie Street; and an attorney (lir liiiiii) was employed to conduct the defence by the pri- soner. The poor boy, being unable either to stand or to sit, was placed on the floor of t^e office, laid on bis side, on a small Cladle b, d; and his evi- dence disclosed a series of the most abominable crue'ly and oppression ever perpetrated on a human being. Without giving the e i.lence in detail, it is enough to state that the helpless sufferer was loiin(i to be covered with wounds from head to tool. He liiid no fc,, er than 26 "incised wound. as the surgeon described them, on his leg. thighs, arms, Mid hody. His head appeared to have been a mass of bruises, being covered with seams and weals of old wounds which had healed, in3 it was almost devoid of hair. His posteriors were completely in a pill PY state; and one arm presented a thick and callous rim behiw the elbow, where it had been broken by a blow with an iron waggon rail. Thi. fracture had. never been set, and the bones had been left to adhere spontaneously, which left the part lame and delormed. Il appeared from the evidence, and was indeed admitted by (lie defendant, that he bad been in the habil uf beating the child <iih a flat piece of wood, in "hicli a nail was driven, and projected about hall an inch; and such had been the violence of the blows, that the nail had penetrated the clothes, and had caused the wounds described by the surgeon. 1 lie lad had also been miserably starved for want of food, and had been kept at his work (which was to waggon dt the bottom of one of lue pi's before spoken ol), until there was no further prospect of his beinj of any use; when his inhuman master sent him home as "bove described. 31r litint crorq examined the sufferer; but no legal assistant appeared on behalf of the wronged party. Thp rpsulr was, that the defendant was I,t)ed t5 and costs, which he deposited the same eveni ng.

Mr Nl;ittliew X% v:itt having obtained from the government one of the guns taken :\t Waterloo, has cast (lie niet'il info a fine colossal liUeness ol tile Duke of Wellington, for the equestrian statue on which fit, is engaged, mid which is to be erected opposite the entrance to Hyde Park. — Court Journal BK^UESTS TO HIE UNIVUHSITV OF OXFOHD— Dr M:\soti, of Hurley, has bequeathed to the University of Oxford n painting of the Zodiac, taken from the temple of Tentvrn. in F.gypt, togel her with all his I'jjvptian Papyri, and a in odd of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre al Jerusalem. The former hedirec.s fo be iii t!i(, Picture the latter in the Iiod'eian, to which libr;.iyhe also be- queaths the sum of forty tftoHsanil pounds (stock) to be expended for the benefit ol llio said library at the uncontrolled discretion of the trustees. He leaves to Queen's College all his Kgyptian, Grecian, Roman, and other relics of antiquity (excepting those h..forc bequeathed to the Bodleian), together with a pieturo of the late Mr lii-fzoiii. and his shells and in addition thirty thousand pounds (stock) to be expended in hooks within a period limited by his will — Oxford 1: is stated for certain (says a Vienna correspondent of the Frankfort Journal) that Lord Beau vale is going to marry Mile, the Countess Alexandrine von Ma'tzahit, eldest daughter el" the Prussian ambassador at this Court. Immediately after the nuptials, which are to fake place about Kaster, his Excellency and Ins hridt, wiil pay a visit to Ktiglalid. The Monitcur Varisten publishes the following letter written by an officer on board the Neptune, dated Cagliari, Feb. 2:—" We left Toulon onthe21st Jaiiua.y. The sea was calm The next day the weather changed, and a frightful wind blew from the north east, which created great disorder in the Hugon division; our mainmast broke, and the damages increased with the wind. In the. evening we were all on deck, when a sudden blast knocked us all down; and in this pell mell, in which legs were broken and arms put out 01 joint, the in which the crew's soup was boiling, was overthrown, pouring its contents out upon the deck, and scalding all who had not had time or strength to get tip. The wind conti- nued increasing; a great quantity of sails were carried awav; the great yard arm was broken into bits: the mizen jurist cracked; an immense sea carried away two of the boats and broke two olhcrs, carrying away at the sar: lime 56 packets of grape shot and one of the nuns. The weather continued in this state for six days The vessel was scarcely able to keep the sea, and we scudded under bate poles until we came to Cagliari, where we found the Jena and tile Triton, both in worse condition than 11 it: Neptune. We regret to say that our last ;:ccounts from Jamaica exhibited a distressing picture of the ravages committed there by virulent lever, which our correspondent represents to have been almost unpre- vit) its attacks upon the military class of tiie population. The S~2d, in particular, is stated to have suffered seveiely from tin's deadly scourge. Independently of n great many men, the regiment had lost two of its officers in rapid succes- sion, Surgeon Pope having died at Ep Park Camp on the 3d, and Lieutenant Sherlock, at Fort Augusta, on the 25th of December last. Lieutenant Kerr, of the 81st, Aid.; de Camp, and brother in law to Ma.ior Generai Sir William M- Gonial, K.C. B., commanding theforces,had also sunk under an attack of the same kind. Lieutenant Kerr was a very promising, intel- !i"ent, and active young officer, whose loss will be 4 long and deeply lamented. All the suffered more or less from the prevailing epidemic, and the casualties in every direction were frightfully numerous. We have long been of opinion that these lament ;b!e occurrences mi-iht be considerably dimi- nished by the exercise of a little more forethought and humanity upon the part of the home authorities We iiave repeatedly complained of the wretched state of the barracks at Jamaica, and of the culpable neglect of not rendering them more weather tight, and betler to the At many of the out stations they are absolutely untenantable, and much more iikelv to engender and encourage disease than to repel it. This is wore C'specially the case at Port Antonio, where a detachment of the 2d West India Regiment I is (tn duty, with barrack accommodation in a shame- fully dilapidated condition and yet this very place is, perhaps, the most titilic-altliv Spot ill the who!? island. It is surely neither wise nor humane thus to jeopardise the lives of our gallant countrymen, when a few hund.td pounds would remedy the delect, and place them upon a comparative footing of comlort and security. Our advices from the Windward and Leeward Islands are, generally speaking, ol a favour- able character. The settlements were in a healthy state. c;isti;,Ities had occurred; Assistant Surgeon lIan,hrouk, of the 74th, died at Baroadoes, on the 1st of December, of dysentery; and Lieut. O'Donagliue, of the 1st West India Regiment, or fc I er, on the same day. But with these exceptions, every tiling was going on well, and Lieut General Maister, commanding the forces, gave a very pleasing report of the stale and efficiency of the troops under his command.—United Service Gazette. THK NEWSPAPER PRESS AND T[IF PO,T CFICH- -From one end of the country to the other the pro prietors of newspapers are complaining thai proper care is not taken, by the post office authorities, to ensure a punctual delivery of their papers, though they are as fully punted to proiee itiii as letter^, than which they fe.rnisli a much larger revenue Complaints are constancy ui'uing of the nmi-deiivci of papers, as we have ourselves exper.enced, and the ouiy answer" Idell can be given to the disappointed Lllid chc<lpt1 ¡;lIh,.cri',ers, i. \e re'jLII':Y pot our papers in tiije time and by the proper mails, and the fault must be in the p"st office." — We have a right to demand a remedy for this injui ious negli- gence and we hope our contemporaries will lake the subject vigorously up at their next annual meet- ing in London.—Bristol Journal. POST OI FICE IJOIIBEltlvs.-A corresl)oi)dent (,,I a Bristol paper siy,s I liave a new charge to biiutr against lh.»l omnivorous animal the post office. Within the space of three months it has devoured and digested two very dissimilar articles belonging to me, namely, a pair of embroidered silk braces and a sovereign. Can The HyniiiA do more 2"

ICXTlt \O!iD1N A R Y KXi'iOiUM LNT. (From the Times.) An experiment was tried on Saturday afternoon of one of the inventions to which we alluded last autumn, which a Iriend on wiioiii we have reliance had all opportunity of witnessing. The trial took plat1' in the grounds of Mr Boyd, in the county of I Kssex, a few miles Irom town, in the presence ol i Sir Robert Peel, Sir George Murray, Sir j liardinge, Sir Francis Burdett, Lor.I lug( s'rie, Coi. Gunvood, Captain Britten, Captain Webster, and u III, other gentlemen, who alt appeared very much astonished at what they saw. By tiio kindness of the inventor, our informant occupied a position that enabled him 10 command a view of all that took place. A boat ^3 leet long and 7 broad was placed in a large sheet of water; the boat- had been the day before tilled in with solid timber, 4.^1't. in depth, cross d in every direction, and clamped together with 8 inch spike nails. This filling in was m .• de under the inspection of Captain lJritteu, who stated the fact to the distinguished gentlemen we have mentioned, and also that the inventor never went near the workmen employed th .t no suspicion might be entertained of any combustible materials beinj iii Elie liol(I of ifie Several of the gentlemen were oil Saturday rowed in a punt to the vessel, and examined for themselves, so that every doubt might be removed as to the cause of destruc- tion being external, and not from the springing of any mine. When the (I ift-rcipt parties h id taken up their positions, oil a signal from the inventor, the boat was set ill motion, and struck just abaft her starboard how, a 1101 instantaneously scattered illto II thousand fragments. Al the moment of collision, the water parted, and presented to the eye of our I informant the appearan-e of attune bowl, while upon its troubled surface lie noticed a corruscation precisely resembling forked lightning. A column of water was lifted up in the air like a large fountain, from which were projected, upwards of many hundred feet, the shattered fragments of the vessel, whidl Idl ill-Illy of them several hundred yards distance in the adjacent fields. Our informant examined many pieces, and found the huge nails snapped like carrots; the mast looked like a tree riven by lightning; never before, as he assures us, has lie witnessed so sudden and complete a destruction, though he has seen shell and rocket practice on the largest scale. lIch seemed to be the unanimous opinion of all pre- sent. How this mighty effect was produced was of eouse not disclosed to so numerous a party, but two naval officers present were perfectly aware of the mode of operation, and the inventor offered totro into details confidentially with one or two of Un- distinguished elficers present. In answer to a question from Sir Henry liardinge, the inventor slated that without a battering train he could transport on a mule's back the means of destroying the strongest fo tress in Kurope. No doubt this is very startling, but, hearing what we have, we cannot pronounce it impossible; and as in every particular the inventor has done what he Ins undertaken lo accomplish, it is only fair to giva him credit for the performance of more than has yet been diselos- d. The existence of th ■se tremendous powers is placed beyond a doubt, and the inventor asserts tliein to be completely under his eontroul, winch, from what our informant has had an opportunity of observing, he believes to be really the case. The instrument that wrought so terrible an effect on Saturday, lifting into the air a boat weighing two and a half tons of solid timber, and displacing at least 14 or 15 tons and filled ill with b Ions of solid timber, and displacing at least 14 or L> tons of water, was only 1 Sib weight. Out informant bas handled it and kicked it roulld a room when charged with its deadly contents, so portable and at the time so safe is it- a pointed" vast importance, when we remember the daily accidents that are occurring from the detonating shells now used in our service. At Acre most of those employed burst before they reached tlieirobject and they are 'iab'eto explode when rolling about a ship's deck, as was proved by the fatal accidents on board her Ma- jesty's ship Medea, off Alexandria, and the EXteJ- lent, at Portsmouth, and are dangerous to carry in a common ammunition carton a rough road. Whether Lord Melbourne will condescend (o examine into this matter, and secure these mighty powers for this country, or permit them to pass into the hands of our ei emies, is more tlxtu we can venture to predict, hut about which we cannot think baigiaud will remain indifferent.

APPARATUS FOR. PREVENTING THE lOxpt.o- sio\' OF STI:AM BOILERS.—The frequent explosions of fleam boiler-, caused in many instances by the sio,iiii being confined until it acquires a density jfi-eater than the boiler call re.»i>t, has led to the invention of a self acting apparatus, intended to warn the engineer whenever the pressure exceeded tile proper degree of safety. The apparatus is con- structed Oil the principle that steam, in propoitioii In its density, wi I support a column of water, or n-er cui y, of a i,'iven height, and that any fluid tiiil find the same level in two or more ve-sels, provided there be a free communication between them. It in y be called a inercui ial safely valve, and consists of a cylinder, within which are two cups, with two pipe- dipping into them of a length proportioned to the pressui e of I lie steiiiii these pipes are connected at the top with two valves on one spindle, so anaiiged, as that when one is open the other IIIIII he cltIed. On the top is a waste steam pipe open to the; atmosphere. One pipe being tilled with mercury, and the valve connected with it being open, the mercury remains stationary until the pressure of the steam exceeds its proper point. It will then be blown out and tall into the empty cup, ai lowing the steam lo escape by the waste pipe, and giving warning to the engineer by its noise When rhe pressure i" again reduced to its proper point the valve is reversed, and the mercury will, oil the next occasion of an increase of pressure, be blown back again, till giving warning oil the other side. LIFE App.wtvrus FOIl SHIPWUKCK.—At the meet- ing of W edncsday evening last, the Society of Arts awarded the large silver medal to Mr Harrison, of Newliaven, for the invention of an apparatus for saving the lives of persons shipwrecked under the precipitous cliffs of a coast where there is no beach. It appears, from the evidence of the naval officers who attended the committee, that the cases to which Mr Harvion's contrivance is adapted are of frequent occurrence, and that many lives have been lost for want of a similar machine. As the apparatus is very portable, and requires but few hands to work it, it is recommended that one be kept attach coast guard station wherever the nature of the coast points out the probability of its being usefully applied.—Athe- naeum. RUUAL Pot,inE IN IlBHTFotiostiiitn.—Oil Wednesday week a public meeting was held at the King's Arms Inn, Berkhampstead, for the purpose of considering the proposition for the introduction of a rural police into that part of the COllllty. Nearly ill tije (listi-ict magistrates attended. A petition to both houses of parliament against the extension of the force to that district was unanimously adopted, and received 250 signatures in the room. ESTABLISHMENT OF THK RURAL, POLICE IN THE WtsT LIIIJIVG OF YORK. —List week a meet- ing of magistrates of the W.-st Riding of York was held at the Court House, Wakefield, to consider the p'opriely of establishing the rural police throughout the Riding, the result of which was the adoption of a resolutioll to the namely, That the rural police force be established throughout the whole Riding alld ¡¡I"o, ,C Ihat it i.. the opinion of Ibis Court that. in the West Riding of the County of York, the ordinary officers appointed for the preser- vatiou of the pcace arc- not sufficient for the pre*er- vation of the peace and for the protection of the inhabitants, and fo the security of property. Thpre was a good ifeal of dilfeience ofol,illion upon the subject, and the motion was carried by a majority of seven, ihe numbers b..ill, for it, 2". against it, 21. Among those who took an active part in the business of the day were Lord Whariielilfe, the Hon. E. Luscelles, Col. Tempest, Rev. — Rhodes, Rev. J. T' Ilr U. VVoo(l, ilir Ciiil(let-s;, Ilr FL-iitoii Scott, Mr E. Dennison, and Mr Stansfield. It was also resolved to take the necessary steps for apply- ing to the Secretary of Slate for the Home Depart- men I. TIfE DHAMA. — A few gentlemen connected with the Theatre Royal, anxious to manifest their esteem and gratitude to Mr Duneombe, M.P., for the exertion* be has made to promote generally the interests of the members of the "jIOtk and buskin," ate about to pre sent him, through the hands of the own Mr 'I'. viLli i I)e;l(ltil'ul Scotch mull, splen- didly mounted in gold,with chased top and Cairngorum stone. A shield of gold on the front of the mull bears the following inscription Presented to T. S. Duneombe, Ksq., M P., as an humble but sincere t o: respect (from 12 admirers, for his great exer tions to further the interests of the theatrical profes- sion. Edinburgh, Feb. I, 184L"—Caledonian Mercury. On Wednesday evening, as Mr Kean was playing Richard the 'Third, in the battle scene, a fine dog be- longing to that gentleman, made his appearance on the stage, and, showing Ills teeth, snarled at Richmond, and barked at the audience. VVh II Richard fell, the animal walked round the dying wanior and licked his face; and Nlr servant was obliged to enter Bos worth Field to take the faitltful auimal captive and remove him.-E,rcler Flying F(jt. COMPOSITION OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF FOOD.— Potatoes contain, it lias been ascertained, from Gl to 70 per cent. of water; lentils 16 per cent.; fresh beef, 72 to 76 per cent.; and brown bread (Schwarz Lrod) 31 to 32 per CCIlt. of water.

INTERESTING STATISTICS OF THE LIVER- POOL POLICE OFFICE. (Froai the, Liverpool Standard). The following details exhibit the business transacted at the Po ice Office in Liverpool, from the 1st day ol January, 184'). to the 3lst day i f Deceuiber, inclusive The table ol prisoners shows that the greatest number ol offences in the town ol Liverpool are committed in ihe summer months. ^Tid that more than half of the offenders are females* The informations for penalties include all the offences against the acts for regulating the town and harho!lr;-r¡lSes ol collision of vessels, and da lialr. within t.he port, as weii as all offences the punishment of which is bv forfeiture under acts for regulating the respective "trades of licensed victuallers, pawn- brokers, See. It appears that a large regiment is raised every year in the borough,—the number of recruits attested being (during the past year) no fewer than 828. The beneficial operation of these acts which enable seamen to recover their wages by summons, and land lords to recover possession of tenements under live value of £ -20. bv summary proceedit Igs, in tie nature of an action of ejectment is ampl y proved ;—the cases of applications for the recovery of seamen's w ages, heard by the, magistrates, being 2*21, and those for the recovery of small tenements being 100- It wiil he observed, thai while the orders of removal of paupers to parishes in England are, but of paupers to parishes in England are, but the passes of Irish and Scotch paupers amount to :O\I i. These returns, and particularly that of the prisoners, if carefully examined, and kept for a series (if (which we hope '11 he enabled to do,) would afford valuable evidence of the effect of our system n(prison discipline. allll the means used for the prevention of crime by the activity of the police. We hope arrange, ments will speedily be made which will admit of further reformatory meliorations in the Borough Gaol, —in which, we understand, the average number of prisoners during the past year has greatly ex- ceeded ijiOrt It i big-hly ratifying to observe, thai the expenses of the Police Olnce for the year are more than paid by the legal charges for business transacted Number of Prisoners hrouzhl before the Magistrates of Liverpool during the 1 ear 1 S40. Months. Male Female. Total January S97 477 1374 February 7S0 375 1155 March SD4 40*2 1856 April 879 51-1 1:193 M<y 1048 5*29 1577 June 1124 652 1776 July 1 *22 3 635 1858 August. 1101 595 1(596 September 94*2 539 1481 October 932 587 1519 November 876 466 1342 December 807 451 1258 Grand Total 11,503 6282 17,785 Miscellaneous Cases fin addition to the. above.) heard before the Magistrates during the yetti- Informations, for penalties 8,296 Assaults, by summons 1,362 For damage to property, by summons 173 Against pawnbrokers, by summons 121 Against apprentices, by summons Hi7 By seamen, for wages, by summons 22-1 Against benefit societies, by summons 24 For unlawfully pawning, by summons 40 For detaining a stolen dog, by summons 1 For threatening violence 7to the person, by SUllllllons 34 Masters against handicraftsmen, by summon* 2 Complaints under ships passengers act by summons f» Detaining effects of seamen, by summons. 21 Detaining ships'registers, by summons 3 Complaints to recover possession, under the small tenement act 100 lnl'orni,.iti,)ri, l'or Excise penalties 62 Ditto Ditto 20 Recru ils attested. 8-28 Applications (average 15 daily) 4,500 The following is an account of business trans. actedfor the Parish Complaints by overseers against persons for refusing to support their parents, whereby they become chargeable. 2 By overseers, for non-payment of poor rates 619 Ditto, for orders ol removal or pauptrs to parishes in England 109 Passes of Irish an.! Scolch paupers. 3091 Orders in bastardy M Complaints against parties for non pay- ment of watch and sewerage rates 156S 5,471 39,240 ;t 't abstract of the accounts of Eliisand Shuttleivorthy the clerks to the war/istrates, with the Treanlrer uf the iiorowjh Fund of the Borough of Liverpool, jrom Nov 1, 1839, to October 31, 184(i By cash received for fees, and paid over to the Borough Fund ,f-2,3S3 16 3 By amount of bills, for business done 1,357 4 6 £ 3,741 0 9 Less salaries, selves and clerks, print- ing stationery, law stationery, ad- vertising, and all other expenses 2,068 14 6 Balance in favour of the Borough Fund £ 1,672 6 3 This disparity with regaul to the sexes, as compared willi the offenders in other-and particularly manufac- turing—places, probablv may ari-;e from the general want of employment for females in a maritime town, and the allurements to which they are consequently exposed.