Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald and North and South Wales Independent

It appears that Dr. Hampden whose nam? is now for the second time awakening so much conflict in the neld of theological discussion, is a descendant of John Humpden, who received his death wound onChalgrove- field, Oxfordshire, on the 18th of June, 1643, whilst fighting on the parliamentary side. THE DEAN OF HEREFORD'S POSITION AT COURT. —It was expected that one of the Queen's chap ains the notorious Dr. Merewether—would have been re- lieved by this time from his duties as Deputy Clerk or the Royal Closet, for his violent and virulent inter- ference in the bishopric business. But as that inter- minable affair has now got into the law courts, and will probably not come out till the day of judgment," the chances are that the Dean will continue to enjoy his honorary distinction. And even if the Hampden matter should come to a speedy close by the refusal to snake absolute Kelly's rule nisi for a maiulamut de- claratory of the illegality of the consecration, it is doubtful if Her Majesty would punish his contumacy I in the way mentioned-nrst,out of respect to the Queen i Dowager, whose particular pet Merewether is, and who i would have made him a bishop long ago, had she not been-iv widow and, secondly, because the Principal Clerk of the Closet is the mild and tolerant Bishop of Norwich, who, we may be sure, would interpose to the utmost against the degradation or annoyance of even so truculent a clerical brother as the Dean.—London Correspondent of the Albion.

") Moral Condition of Wales. A Letter Addressed to the Editor of the Liverpool Journal. SIR,-There is, I believe, a maxim of British juris- prudence which declares that every person charged with the commission of crime shall be deemed innocent in the eye of the law until proved to be guilty. The people of Wales have a right to demand that this prin- ciple shall be applied to their case. They are accused of sundry heinous offences in the reports of the educa- tional commissionioners, namely thieving, lying, and drunkenness on the part of the male population, and in- continency on that of the female. This is, in plain terms, the sum of the accusation brought by men ap- pointed under the auspices of government, and there- fore, supposed to be competent and impartial inquirers and their judgment appears to considered by many persons, especially the editor of the 4 Daily News,' as perfectly infallible. But let us see how these Daniel-like judges come to the conclusion before mentioned. "We find, say they, that, according to the oral and written evidence deli- vered to us, numerous petty thefts are committed by sundry of the people, who seem to have a very indis- tinct notion of meum and tUlIm. It is true few of them have the courage to commit < epredations on an exten- sive scale, though some do actually go so far as to steal sheep. We are informed, indeed, that the judges on the Welsh circuits do not complain of being overworked in fact, we may as well say, that their office is almost a sinecure, whilst the barristers too often mouru over briefless bags; but, then, 44 There is in most parts of Wales no police, consequently few convictions for crime, and, consequently, few statistical records of crime." We are therefore of opinion, although facts may seem to prove to the contrary, that the majority of Welshmen are extremely dishonest. As regards the second count of the indictment, we understand it very often occurs in a court of justice, that the witnesses commit breaches of veracity. They care very little whether they speak truth or falsehood, so that the evi- dence do not benefit their own party. A majority of these witnesses, we must allow, are totally unacquainted with the language in which the trial is conducted, which may, in the eyes of some weak-minded persons, account for their prevarications. We, however, think differently, and find the Welsh guilty of being a lying people. Thirdly, the evidence before us states that, on Saturday nights and fair days, numbers of the country people are in the habit of drinking to excess, and when under the influence of liquor, are sometimes addicted to fighting and breaking each other's heads, to the great detriment of our sovereign lady's peace, as well as their own skulls. They confine themselves, it is true, chiefly to beer, and that noue of the strongest, whilst in their conflicts they use no more deadly weapon than their fists. We must also add, that we are informed by several persons of the prevalence of temperance soci- eties throughout the country but be that as it may, it ,ss is our thorough conviction that drunkenness prevails to an awful extent in the principality. In the last place, we are sorry to find, on the testimony of some of the most reputable and respectable country squires and others—men, according to their own showing, of the utmost purity and morality, who exhibit a perfect horror of such naughty proceedings, and who are gene- rally firm and zealous churchmen—we are sorry, we repeat, to find that cases of illegitimacy are extremely numerous in Wales. The causes of such a shocking state of things are not very apparent to us but we have it in evidence before us, that dissent-that monster is at the root of the evil; and we believe that, were the people to adopt the English language, abandon their foolish "nightly prayer meetings," and desert the chapel for the church, we should soon see a wonderful amendment in their morals. Some silly persons pretend to assert, that the districts which have already acted upon this excellent system, are sunk many degrees lower than the other portions of the country in the mire of incontinence. We also hear it whispered, that things were in a tenfold worse condition before dissent originated in the land. It may be so—we know not; but this we know, that the women of Wales are almost universally unchaste. Such, Mr. Editor, is the course of reasoning pursued by the educational commissioners; and will the Welsh nation rest satisfied with their verdict ? Will it bow down in submission under their judgement ? Shall it be said, sons of Cambria, that these sleek and well-paid commissioners—paid with your hard-earned money- are allowed to libel a whole people, nearly a million of individuals, and that you have not the courage to gain- say their false and slanderous assertions ? Shall your fathers, brothers, sons as well as yourselves, be stigma- tised as thieves, liars, and drunkards ? Shall your mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters, be pointed at as lost to virtue and shame ? And will you not rise as one man, and hurl back the foul and atrocious false- hoods in the teeth of those who uttered them ? No man ought to stand neuter when his country is assailed. When foreign invasion threatened, who were so vcuiy to take up arms as the men of Cambria ? Who so eager to stand in the breach, and with their bodies form a barrier against the progress of the invader. True^ we have now no foe from without against whom to eon- tend but is there not an insidious and mortal enemy within our very citadal, casting firebrands amongst us, blasting the moral and social reputation of our father- land and attempting to sap the foundation of our reli- gous liberty ? Arouse yourselves, then—be watchful —or you will behold this enemy, like a vulture, perched on the pinnacle of your glory, and glutting his savage revenge on all you bold most dear For my own part, I cannot resist crying out, as far as my poor abi- lities enable me, against the flagrant injustice done to my country. I deny, most strenuously, both the premises and con- clusion, of the commissioners. They have in this case acted as judges and jury. Their judgment is partial, and not according to the whole evidence delivered to them; their decision is founded on an ex parte state- ment From their verdict I would appeal to the well- known candour of an enlightened British public, who are better able to adjudicate in a cause like this, than a whole host of salaried commissioners and their syco- phant assist, n s. Let us suppose that a commission were appointed to enquire into the moral condition of Liverpool. The police sheets would exhibit a vast amount of crime, as thefts, drunkenness, and their con- comitants. Our worthy StIptmdlury magistrate would be compelled to acknowledge that his office was no sinecure; whilst the criminal calenders at the sessions and assizes would but enhance, by the addition of more serious offences, the already weighty catalogue of human depravity. It cannot be denied by the most sceptical that our streets swarm wiih unfor'unate females, lost, we fear, to all the better feel.ngs o their nature, and whose situation renders them objects of the deepest commiseration to every well-regulate mind. We must grant, that all this is, unfortunately, too true But ,.s what would be your feelings, men of Liverpool, if in a report, grounded on such evidence, you should be held up to the scorn of the world as dishonest, mendacious, and drunken ? How would your cheeks burn, with shame, women—beautiful and virtuous ladies of Liverpool—on such shallow and insufficient testimony to be branded with the stigma of being lost to virtue; destitute of chastity ? You can, then, I feel assured, sympathise with your fellow-men and fellow-women, the traduced and maligned people of Wales, who have been tried and condemned on evidence quite as shallow and insuf- ficient. In a former letter, published in the 4 Liverpool Chronicle' of the 4th instant, I attempted to show that the reports of the commissioners, or rather what the editor of the Daily News' calls his hasty summary" of them, did not exhibit a correct picture of the moral- ity of Wales. I then adduced the fact of her light cri- minal calendars, and almost empty gaols as the most convincing proof of the absence of any great amount of crime. Nay, says the 4 Daily News,' but in most parts of Wales there is no police, consequently no conviction, consequently no statistical record, &c. &c. What a "lame and impotent conclusion If there is neither conviction nor record, how does the Solomon of the 4 Daily News' ascertain the existence of crime at all ? By hearsay, I imagine, as the commissioners seem to have gleaned a great portion of their information. But who will credit that the poor simple Welsh farmer would permit the midnight depredator to enter his sheepfold or I sheepwalk, as the case might be, time after time-, culling the finest and fattest of his flock, while he, good man, sleeps soundly in his bed, and attempts not to ar- rest the spoiler ? Most probably the theif, being a bIt of an epicure, becomes cloyed with mutton, and to vary his fare, filches, occasionally, a fat goose or capon, or why not a lusty porker? The farmer—kind, indulgent neighbour, sleeps on, and will not prosecute. 41 It is true," very innocently observes the editor, the con- victions are fewer than in England, but still the farmers lose their sheep." This gentleman evinces his igno- rance af the state of Wales in a most lamentable manner, when he maintains that in most parts of it there is no police. I passed through a great portion of boutn Wales last autumn, and perfectly recollect. having noticed no fewer than six of those public guardians be- tween Cross Inn and Carmarthen, a. distance of on y ten miles. In every other county of the principality there is, I believe, a force of rural police established, not so numisrous, indeed, as they are seen in the streets of j^ondon or Liverpool, but quite sufficient for the pro- tjo te tection of property, or the detection of offenders in a thinly-pofulated country. lit us, then, hear no more of such paltry evasions of the point at issue,, but let us be guided by facts. T The remedy which I would propose for ths ssoond evil complained of-—the want of veracity .ampng the_ Welsh, especially in the character of witnesses in civil or criminal eases—is as fellows:—let Welsh judges and barristers be appointed to the Welsh circuits; aye, Mr. Editor, and Welsh bishops to the Welsh sees: the evil will thus be met at once, instead of waiting for the abolition of the language, which mus; be a work of time, if it ever in reality be accomplished. With respect to the next charge, drunkenness, Ihave my opponent of the 4 Standard' to deal with, who denies, in toto, my former assertions on this point. First, he repeats the words of the 4 Daily News,' omitting, by the way, a very important expression. The accusation made was not one of a mere propensity to drunkenness, but a universal propensity. This was met by a state- ment, that the majority of the people of Wales were all tee-totallers. 44 Negatur," says my worthy opponent, at the same time intimating that he knows a great deal more on the subject than he chooses to tell. In the ab- sence of statistical information on this head, it would be idle to dwell upon it. I can, however, adduce evi- dence to prove that the charge, even in its lightest form, is groundless. According to a table, now before me, I find that the dissenting bodies in the principality comprise nearly eight-ninths of the population. The discipline of these bodies is confessedly strict; they will not tolerate in one of their members even a propensity to drunkenness. What then becomes of our friend's flourishing defence on the commissioners' report ? I fear that the 198, 6rl. in the pound, of which he boasts, has dwindled to a very miserable dividend. Again, I stated that in some denominations of dissenters members were not admitted, unless previously abstainers. My opponent, hereupon, enters into a long tirade about liberty of conscience and the voluntary principle, things which have no reference to church discipline. The as- sertion does not rest on my weak authority alone, hut was made by a very talented and respectable clergy- man, the Rev. W.Jones, vicar of Llanbeulan, Anglesey. It will be found in his prize essay on the Welsh cha- racter, p. 35. But still it may, perhaps, be urged, that the people do get drunk at their fairs,&c. I never at- tempted to deny that there are intemperate persons in Wales, as in most other countries; what I contended against was, the imputation of a "universal propensity to the vice of drunkenness." Our friend is welcome, if he pleases, to his total-drunkenness members," but they are no more the people of Wales, than were the 44 three sailors of Tooley-street" the people of England. From the tone of my opponent's remarks, I am led to think that he himself is a Welshman if so, he ought to blush for himself, for having exhibited a spirit which H holds" the good name of his country cheap, for the gratification of personal vanity." My reply to the fourth charge having yet remained unanswered, I have very little to add to my former statement. The editor of the Daily News,' indeed, will persist in his original assertion, that the principal, if not the sole cause of the prevalence of unchastity in Wales is the frequency of 44 nightly prayer meetings," where, as he says, a vague religious enthusiasm, un- connected with moral principle," is aimostcertainto lead young people astray. But what will this gentle- man say, when he is informed, that cases of illegiti- macy are most numerous in the districts where nightly, or any other prayer meetings, are least frequent. Nightly prayer meetings are held in most of the dissent- ing chapels in England, but I have yet to learn that such meetings ever lead to any immoial constquences. I am obliged to conclude, therefore, that religious en- thusiasm, as it prevails in the principality, is a feeling very imperfectly understood by the editor of the 4 Daily ,Ne.lvo., Slioulu he revert to this subject, let me entreat him not to form such hasty" opinions, but first to make himself better acquainted with its true bearings. Before I conclude, allow me, Mr. Editor, to clear Before I conclude, allow me, Mr. Editor, to clear myseit from the imputation of having spoken harshly of the commissioners, or rather of their reports. Had I possessed no stronger proof than my personal know- ledge of my native country and its moral condition, I should perhaps have been silent, trusting to some abler pen for its defence; but I cannot remain indifferent when I read in the appendices of the commissioners' reports, communications directly contradicting the tenor D,, e of the reports themselves. Not to occupy your space, on which, I fear, I have already trespassed too far, with extracts, I would refer the candid reader to the following evidence :—T. W. Booker, Esq., Melin Grif- fith Works, Cardiff; Hugh White, Esq., DowLiis; C. J. Hampton, Esq.; H. A. Ford, Esq.; C. Bowring, Esq.; Honourable Captain Lindsay; R. J. Nevill, Esq.; W. Chambers, junior, Esq., &c. (Pp. 478-487 Part 1. The testimony of these gentlemen is peculiarly valu- able, referring as it does to the mining districts, the most populous, and confessedly the most immoral in the principality. But we are not without other witnesses, were they needed. J. Wyatt, Esq., then attorney-ge- neral for a portion of North Wales, thus speaks in his evidence before the law; commissioners :—" The great body of the people speak the Welsh language, and their habitsand manners are but little changed. They are quiet, religious, and loyal people their ancient sim- plicity and habits of respect to their superiors ramus unaltered.; .and the crimes which disg-ruoe and terrify England, and which her boasted judicature is unable to suppress, are little heard of; capital punishments are rarely inflicted, and these three counties boast with pride that for the last forty years only two executions have taken place in Merioneth, two in Carnarvon, and none has taken place in Anglesey." These three coun- ties are proverbial for their attachment to the Welsh language and dissent. Another commission concluded its labours in Sonth Wales about four years ago, after a period of great excitement and agrarian disturbance. The following remarks, hearing directly on one of the questions, occur in the report. 1805, 44 Is bastardy very common in this country ? Not to much I should say as in England. In fact, the girls in our country are not like the town prostitutes. If they were tran- sported for the crime, the crime would still be commit- ted. I am a registrar of births and deaths for nine parishes, and I have not had a case (of infanticide) since I came here, for five or six years. In my district there are about 9,000 inhabitants." (Capt. J. M. Child.) In England the women are so hardened that they will swear the children on men they never saw; but it is not so here not one inn/tan in ten thousand will take ajitl,ve, oath. The man generally promises the servant girl that lie will marry her." (H. Leach, Esq.) 6510. 44 Is it considered disreputable at all among the women to have bastard children ? Yes, it is; that perhaps is a cause of their leaving the country." 6511. "It in- jures them in the eyes of their neighbours ? Yes, it does." With due respect, then, for the commissioners, I must think either that they have committed an error of judgment, having suffered themselves to be imposed upon by designing men, whose object is but tcO ap- parent throughout their evidence; or that they them- selves weie anxious to make out a case for the interfer- ence of government in the imposition of a state system of education on the dissenters of Wales. I am strength- ened in the latter opinion by a letter, with the perusal of which I have been fav oured. The writer is a cler- gyman of acknowledged reputation, whose name, were I permitted to give it, would kindle the fire of euthus- iasm in the heart of every Welshman. This gentleman conversed with the commissioner for a full hour; but of all his observations, one expression of his alone is re- corded in the report, and that of so unworthy a cha- racter, that lie says no clergyman in his senses would have used it in the sense attached to it; which expres- sion, moreover, he believes he did not use, and bis friends who were present assure him that he never ut- tered it at all In addition he dares the commissioner to publish the whole of his evidence, and states his opi- nion that the report is most incorrect and one-sided. May not something similar to this have occurred in other cases 1 I would ask, then, every one who views this subject dispassionately and impartially, whether 1 have ad- vanced any thing in too harsh and positive a manner 1 Could I have said less ? My aim has been continually to keep within the truth and dearly as I love my na- tive land, and her people, I would not wilfully utter a falsehood in their defence. I thank you. sir, most sincerely for the very kind manner in which you have granted me the use of your columns, and, for the present, beg to subscribe myself Sir, yours most respectfully, T-AS D-NS. Liverpool, Wednesday, Dec. 22nd, 1847.

LORD PALMERSTON.—Instead of being, as super- ficial persons have supposed, a warlike minister, his lordship is the most pacific of all statemen but, tho- roughly understanding human nature as he does, be never dreams of preserving the tranquillity of the world by exposing the wealth and possessions of this empire as a bait to excite the ambition and cupidity of our neighbours. He has caused to be felt throughout Chrisdendom the just influence of Great Britain, but, together with his colleagues, has hitherto failed to excite in the people of this country a proper consci- ousness of their own weakness. What views he takes of our present position we shall soon learn, and when he has delivered his opinion in Parliament the country will be in possession of all that human prudence and forethought can suggest. Meanwhile it is infinitely satisfactory to observe that public opinion is gradually adjusting itself to square with Lord Palmeraton's policy. Rash and ignorant persons, prompted by vanity, or under the influence of still worse motives, laboured incessantly a short time ago, to excite au universal prejudice against his views and character. The period of that declusion is past. We have now made the dis- lno covery that our interests as a notion could be in no Jtafer h,I*d*; and, reasoning from the psst to the future, it will, in my opinion, be our wisest course to place the fullest confidence in his wisdom and genius.—JJentley's MisetUmny.

Extraordinary Love Affair in West Derby, near Liverpool. In the township of West Derby there stands a quiet, respectable, and well-conducted hotel. The building is most pleasantly situated, looks out upon a varied landscape of considerable extent, and is exactly the place wiiere retirement and fresh air may be enjoyed by day, and interesting gossip, lively anecdote, the pleasand song and the jocund laugh, may be heard at night. A more comfortable room than the bar parlour, once the shades of evening begin to fall, it is impossible to conceive. Cowper, one might suppose, had this identical room in his imagination, when he wrote his 44 winter piece," and drew his inimitable picture of the well-fastened shutters, the closely-drawn curtains, the blazing-fire, the cheerful hearth, and all the other et- ceteras which serve to impart to erring and sinful mor- tals something like a foretaste and realization of hap- piness unalloyed. The same set of faces might be seen in that bar-parlour night after night. The old fashioned family clock does not strike its hours more regularly— the earth does not turn with greater uniformity upon its axis—than did, and do still, some twenty or more of the respectable inhabitants of that neighbourhood, men in comfortable, though not, perhaps, in indepen- dent circumstances, repair there to enjoy their pipe and glass, and to give a zest to that enjoyment by chat- ting freely, and either thinking demurely or laughing lustily (as the case may be) over the freshest conversa- tional topic of the day. Amongst the number of these communicative and never-varying visitors was a young man, who, for the sake of perspicuity in the narrative, we shall call Mr. H He was an individual of fashionable exterior, of most agreeable manners, and of very gentlemanly address and about a month before Christmas last an opportunity presented itself for showing that he did not possess all these desirable qualifications in the bachelor without being able to make 311 impression on the heart of the softer and more sensitive sex. About that period a young lady from Cheshire came on a visit to the inmates of the hotel, which consisted of the landlord, and the landlord's wife and daughter. It would be diiiicult, if not impossible, to convey to the reader an exttggerated notion of the elegance and accomplishments of this Cheshire lady. She was, in truth, a perfect specimen of female loveliness and bud- ding womanhood. Her long, light silken tresses over- shadowed a face aud neck of exquisite natural form and beauty. Her features were remarkable for their expression, and her modest blue eyes plainly betokened the iunocency of the mind, of which, like the sun in the soiiir system, they were the light. She was slightly below the miutile stature, and of exquisite proportions und she added to many other accomplishments the ad- vantage of having received a very liberal education, which her father's landed property, by no means in- considerable, had placed whhin her reach. Of course she was introduced to the regular visiters of the parlour, including Mr. II who, from the first, manifested in various ways to all around, buj more particularly to the young laity herself, that lie had been smitten with her many attractions. The young lady, as most young ladies do, did not in the first instance reciprocate his professed esteem and regard, but lie, by no means daunted, won upon her plastic heart by his strong and frequent protestations of attachment and love, and at length she yielded up the fortress with a willing mind. His happiness was then cornpltted He blessed the happy day which had dawned upcu their first acquaint- ance. He dwelt upon the melancholy void within him which must never have been filled up had accident, -or chance,—or fatality,—or, as he would some- times say, Providence, not thrown them in each other's way and he would, sitting by her side, paint the future which awaited tliem in all the brilliant colouring of a glowing, fervid, and ardent imagination. Hers was a most sincere love. It was a first and constant love. Pure in its Origin, and firm in its pro- gress, it every day exhibited mort and more undeniable symptoms of its devotedness, until, at length, in his absence she was the most miserable of busman beings, and in his company enjoyed the very acmé of terrestrial happiness. Many happy hours did they en joy of each other's society, and many interesting little endear- ments, known only to lovers, did they exchange. It was a blissful period. It was moreover the joyous season-tbe season of Christmas. The house had to be decorated with brunches of hclly and ivy, and the happy couple cut and prepared the branehes and de- corated it with becoming taste and when the misletoe bough which was hung up at last in the centre of the kitchen ceiling (and they often, smiling, made magni ticant allusions to what would take place under that bough the moment it was suspended), Mr. H- had a fond, and, (as it was the first that was publicly seen) a prolonged and rapturous kiss under it of the sweet and prettily-tinted lips of his charming one. She pre- tended to chide him for having taken such a liberty before the household, but he ended the little amicable dilute by repeating the same liberty under the bough. Thus matters continued to glide. The landlord and the landlord's wife, aware from the first, of the love suit that was going on, highly approved of it, having known Mr. II for a long time to be one of their most constant and respectable visitors, and their con- fident and conscientious representation to the father of the young lady in Cheshire produced a very favourable impression upon that elderly gentlemen's mind. Under these circumstances Mr. H- was received in the family as the acknowledged suitor of the fair visitor, and by all the event which was 44 to unite two happy souls in one" was daily expected. Whilst affairf were in this state, drawing apparently with great rapidity to their preparatory conclusion. Mr. If- entered the hotel with the landlord at two o'clock on the morning of a certain day, not many days ago. They had been spending the evening in the S, town; busjlJess had kept them until after midnight; and it was two, as we have said, when they reac led the hotel. The landlord s wife was in bed and, indeed, all the household were fast asleep, with the exception of the lovely Creature who forms so interesting a por- tion of this narrative, and who had purposely remained up to catch another glimpse and hear another endear- ing eXI)ressl()zl from him she so dearly loved. 31r. H——and the landlord had no sooner entered the house, than a loud knocking at the front door, which they had just fastened after them, announced that there was some one requiiing admission, who would not, or could not, brook delay. The landlord inquired "who was there," and was answered in a female voice, the tones of which seemed not nnfamilier to Mr. II—, for he started and changed colour. 1 he landlord instantly opened the door, and a young female presented herself, under feelings which, though greatly excited, she modestly endeavoured, with a desperate effort, to suppress. Her countenance bore evident traces that she was indeed one of the numerous children of sorrow and suffering, though she had not numbered twenty winters. It wore an ashy paleness und an emaciated appearance, telling but too plainly that however much she might have been cared for once by fond parents, in a happy home, a change of adverse and harassing circumstances had now overtaken her, against which her attenuated frame was fast giving way. She demanded her hus- band Mr. II and the lady from Cheshire had by this time entered the bar parlour—the scene of so many of their former gay delights. The landlord—simple, unsuspecting soul!—immediately replied that he was the only husband in the house, and that his good, honest wife was up stairs, and in bed. The female said she had long been ignorant of where her husband had spent all his evenings, and oftentimes all his nights that that night she had determined to watch that ac- cident had drawn her into the immediate vicinity of the hotel a fev minutes before, and that, while she lay under a ditch upon the side of the road, bemoaning her unhappy fate, two men passed her, one of whom she could discern by the dim moonlight to be her husband. She added that she had tracked them to the hotel, and that they had only just entered it when she reached the door. A gleam broke in upon the mind of the asto- nished landlord at this brief recital. He motioned her towards the bar parlour; she followed; and there pointed out the heartless lover, who had all the time been intently listening to the conversation, as her hus- band What a discovery, and under what circum- stances If the landlord was petrified at this revela- tion, what shall we say of the young lady ? She fell into hysterics, and the state of her outraged and deeply injured feelings since can be more easily conceived than depicted T The whole household were immedia- tely roused from their slumbers, and when they ap- peared—alarmed, astonished, and naturally operated upon by the most indignant feehngs—the bar-parlour presented a most unwonted scene, from which, in the midst of the confusion, Mr. II- thought it the better part of valour suddenly to decamp. He has not since been seen in the neighbourhood of the establishment, and most probably never will be if he be not altogether lost to all sense of shame but, by all parties in the vicinity, and by none more than by the nightly frequenters of the parlour, the extraordi- nary denouement of the affair is talked of, and, for the honour of human nature, it is hoped, that the case is one which does Dot often occur in any line of public life.-Liverpool Courier.

A lady named Barber, and two of her children, bava been fined 51. and 1/. each, respectively, at Bridge- water, for having assaulted a maid servant, who had complained to Mr. Barber of the children's misconduct and had thus- caused them to be punished. Barber was afterwards informed by bpr abildrv* thst the servant had told take, and wasaovioetn07*r"?*t*j that, in conjunction with the two who were leed an I two others, she attacked the aalueky E"i i I aa be" her with giteat severity.

from the London Gazette. FRIDAY BVENING, JANUARY 14. BANKRUPTS. L Alexander and W Bardlett, Old Broad-street, City, merchants, Jan. 27 and March 13, at 11, at the Bank- ruptol' Court, B. Tipper, Maiden-lane, Queen-street, Cheapside, whole- sale stationer, Jan. 20, at 2, and Feb. 25, at 1, at the Bankrupts'Court. J. Woore, Staines, victualler, Jan. 27, at half-past 11, and Feb. "25, at hair-past 1, at the Bankrupts Court. A. Duncan (trading under the style or firm ot Yule and Co ), Wilson-street, Finsbury, manuiactuirer of pre- served provisions, Jan. 21, at half-past 10, and Feb. 25, at 1<>, at the B.inirupts'Court. W Dunklev, Tower-street, Southwark, undertaker, Feb. 21, at half-past n. at the Bankrupts Court F Peake and J. Jillinsrs, Honiton, draper, Feb. 21, at half-past 11, at the Bankrupts' Court. 0. W. King, Hart-street, Bloomsbury, licensed vic- tualler, Feb. 28, at II, at the Bankrupts Court. W. Giblert, New Bond-street, butcher, Feb. ~4, at 11, at the Bankrupts' Court. J M'Kinnell, Bilitter-street, City, wine merchant, Jan. 27, at 2, and February 24, at 1, at the Bankrupts Court. TT R. Stapleton and W. Thorn, Whitefriar*, and Upper Ground-street, scavengers, Jan. 28 and March at 11, at the Bankrupts' Court' 0, W T Morgan, Neath, draper. Jan. 24 and reb. 2_, at half-past 11, at the Bankrupts' Court, Bristol. T. Sartaid, jmi.. Holt, Wiltshire, sheep dealer, Jan. 27 and Feb. 24, a- 11, at the Bankrupts' Court, Bristol. G. Stacey, Bristol, victualler, Jan. 23 and Feb. 25, at 11, at the Bankrupts' Court, Bristol. S. Smith Manchester, grocer, Jan 17 and Feb. 17, at 11, at the Bankrupts' Court, Manchester. e. L. Greenwood and R. Leach, Boutonle-Moors, iron founders. Jan. 25 and Feb 15, at 11, at the Bankrupts* Court Manches'er. W. Harkess, Sunderland, shin builder, Jan. 25, at 12, and Feb. 29, at l,at the Bankrupts' Court, Newcastle- upon-Tyne. S. H. Gununer, Bridport, attorney at law, Jnn. -26, at 12, and Feb. 22, at II, at ths Bankrupts' Court, Exeter. R. Ortrill, Netherseal, Leicestershire, wheelwright, Jan. 28 und Marc". 3, at half-past 11, at the Baijkt-upte Court, Nottingham. G. Meeks. Biri»iui>lnun, hardwareman, .Inn. 29 and Feb. 23, at 11, at the Bankrupts' Court, Birmingham. DIVIDENDS. J. Agor, Northampton, bootmaker. R. Dawson, But- teslanu-street. Hoxton New-town. C. Houghton, lJud- lev-grove, iron-monger. W. Child, Sun-street, Bishops- gate, shoe mercer, Jan. 15, and two following Saturdays. R. Wilson, Liverpool, tallow chandler, any Wednesday. C. Taylor and T. Hawkey, Monkwearmouth Shore, ship builders, any Saturday. J. H and G. Southam, Ash- ton-under-Lyne, cotton spinuers. S. Stocks and M. L. Tate, Manchester, and Ileaton Mersey, bleachers. T. Nici.oisoii, Burstwick, horse draler. Al. Molison, Great Grimshy, corn merchant, any Tuesday. J. Jay, London- wall, builder. A. Bartlett, Millbrook, fly proprietor. W. M'Naup-ht, Parson's-mead, Surrey, draper, Ft'h. 5. J. Bradshaw, St. Al hail's, draper. L. Metmier, Ltdces- ter-piace, Leicester-square, hotel keeper, Feb. 4. J. Chorley, Liverpool, merchant, Feb. 4. R. Greenliam, Liverpool, merchant, Feb. 8. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on th" day of meeting. T. Christian. Park-road, North Brixton, merchant, Feb. 4. J. Phillips, Brecon, grocer, Ft b 8. C. Ed- monds, Strand, bookseller, Feb. 5. J. P- rkin^, enlock- street, Hoxton. J. Watery Great U ilde-street, Lin- coln's-inn, baker. D. B Soriev, Liverpool, broker. E. Yeoland, Liverpool, milliner, Feb. 4. G. Morton, Leeds, paper s:ainer W. F. Atkinson, Wakefield. wooUia:der. T. Wilson, Bradford, boot maker, Feb. 10. W Bate, Bridgnorth, millwright, Feb. 5. J. C. Micdo iald, Hoi beach, booKseller. A. Alsop, Lea-bri3ge, lead lIler- chant, Feb. 4. CERTIFICATES to be granted by the Court of Re view, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on or before Feb. 4.. T. C. Burgo.i, Great St. Helen s, Bishopsgate-street, drvsalter. T Burrell, Billericay, licensed vietnailer. J. Cale, Gloucester, builder. T. M lear, W Hnd^eld, and E. Thompson, Liverpool, merchants. H J. Cook, Hedge-row, Hi-h-srreet, Islington, linen dr iper W. Dowsing, Ipswich, oil and colour man. R. Rich, Bod- min, currier. J Lowden, Leeds, ironmonger. J. E. Pye', Berkeley-square, milliner. J. Gordon, jun.. East India-chambers, Leadenhall-street. and Albany-road, Cambei well, shin broker. W, Palmer, Uxbridge, jewel- ler. H. Woods, Liverpool, cooper. TUESDAY EVENING, JAN. 17. BANKRUPTS. J. Brown, John-street, Edgeware-road. chessemonger, Jan. 27 and March 3, at 1, at the Bankrupt' Coiirt. D. Duthoi-, Moorgate-street, uphoisreier, Jan. '27, at 12, March 3, at h:ilt-past 12, at the Bankrupts' Court. J. M. R. Deere, Hotntrton. lithographer, Jan. 25, at 2, March 3, at I, at the Bankrupts' Court. J. Rhoades, Mitcham, grocer, Jan. 28, at 12. March 3, at 2, at the Bankrupts' Court. G. and E. K. Marsh, Hammersmith, drapers, Jan. 27 and Mi&rrh 3, at 1, at <be Bankrupts' Court E. Weddell and J K Shelton, Bridge-place, City-road, l>ookselleis, Jan. 25. "t hltlï-put 12, March 3, at 12, at the Bankrupts' Court. J. Bell, Lower Thames-street, fish fartor, Jnn. 04, at 2, Feb 29, at half-past 11, at the Bankrupts' Court. A.Warrand, Skinner street,Snow-hill, money scrivener, Jan. 25, at 1, Feb. 28, at half-past 11, at the Bank- rupts' Court. J. Mainer, Southampton, saddler, Jan. 24, at 1, Feb. 28, at half-past 12, at the Bankrupts' Court. G Clay, Queen-street, Cheapside. woollen warehouse- man, Jan. 28, at half-past 12, March 2, at 12, at the B:tllkrupts' COUI't. T. Williams, Jermyn-street, licensed victualler, Jan. 26, at half-past 2, March I, at the Ba n<rn t>' Court. W. S. Clarke, Dorking, printer, Jan. '28, ut 2, feb. 26, nl 12, at the Bankrupts Court. F. Pinder, Bishop's Stortford, tanner, Jan. 28, at hilf- past 2, Feb. 26, at half-past 12, at the Bankrupts* Court. J. Biumore, Lower Brook-street, Gro,e'It)Y'-Fqu'Hf" coffee-house keeper, Feb. 1, at 12, at the B ankrupts* Court. J. Rogers, Strand, oil and Italian warehouseman, Jan. -8, at t, Feh. 28. at 12, at the Bankrupts' Court. T Tullidge, Beaulieu, Hampshire, common brewer, Feb. I, at 1, Feb. 25, at 1, at the Bankrupts' Court. J. Thompson, Well's-row, Islington, stone-mason, Jan. 28 and Feb. 22, at I, at th' Bankrupts' Court. R. Goulding, Gainsborough, cabinet maker, Feb. 9 and March 1, at 10, at tlit, B-itikriijits' C,),If.t, Leeds. J. Mawson, Runcorn, druggist, Jan 29 and Feb. 19, at 12 at the Bankrupts' Court, Manchester. J J.'Moody, Stockport, cotton doubler, Jan. 27 and Feb. 18, at 11, at the Bankrupts' Court, Manchester. J A. White, Stockland, draper, Feb 1 and 29, at 11, at the Bankrupts' Court, Exeter. J. Y. Ashton, Liverpool, builder, Feb. 1 and 23, at 11, at the Bankrupts' Court, Liverpool. J. Sidebottom, Derby, plumber, Jan. 28 and March 3, at 11, at the Bankrupts' Court, Nottingham. J. Meads, Nottingham, grocer, Jan. 28 and March 3, at 11, at the Binkrupts' Court, Nottingham. J. Leyshon, Llanelly, ship builder, Feh I and -9, at 12, at the Bankrupts' Court, B" stol. E Whitehall, Newport, watchmaker, Feb. I and 29, at 12. at the Bankrupts' Court, Bristol. J. Wilson, jun., Ogle, Northumberland, timber mer- chant, Feb. 7, at half-past 10, Feb. 29, at half-past 1, at the Bankrupts' Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. DIVJ bEN DS. T. Pye, King's-road Chelsea, timber merchant, Jan. 24 T. Whinney, Panton-street, Havmarket, licensed victualler, Jan. 24. J. and R. Reay, Mark-lane, wina merchants, on any Saturday. T. Peirson, V arwick- court, Hoi born, on any Saturday. T L wrance, Read- ing, draper, on any Saturday. C. E. Neate, Creek- wharf, Hammersmith, coal merchant, Jan. 24. J. Kirkland, New-sireet, Covent-garden, grocer, Jan. 24. H. J. Bellars, of WhirtleBeu, money wrivener, Jan 24. J Marshall, BirchiiVane, any Wednesday. W. Dicken, Brentford-end, lsleworth, grocer, any edees- day. W. H. Osborn, jun., St. James's street, Picca- dilly, any Saturday. H. C- Broome, Lawrence Pount- ney Hill, grocer, any Saturday. A. Tunstall, Bristol, merchant, any Wednesday. II Elkington, Vaida- hill East, chemist, Feb. B. J. Gray, W. st Smithtield, saddler, Feu. 8. G. Shufflebottoui, lateof Macclesfield, coach builder, Feb 11. J. England, Bath, grocer, Feb. 10 C. Curme, Hilperton, Wiltshire, common brewer, Feb. 29 N. J R-ed, Marlborough, licensed common brewer, Feb 15. J. Broadbent, New Barn, Yorkshire. Feh 22. T. Barraclongh, Skircoat, woollen cloth ma- nufacturer, Feh 22. T. Jackson, Salterhebble, York- shire, worsted spinner, Feb. 22. J. and Z. Wilkinson, Clayton-heights, Yorkshire, snuff manufacturers, Feb. '22 L. A V. Rudolphi, Sunderland, general merchant, Feb. 8. H. Wanstall, Durham, grocer, Feb 8 W. D. Hay, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, baker, Feb. 10. T. Bowser, linen draper, Feb. 10. CERTIFICATES to-be granted, unless cause be shown to the, contrary, on the day of meeting. W. Eutcher, Belle Sauvage-yard, L".(,fratrh!i1'.h1S manufacturer, Feb. 8. J. Cramond, Limeys broker, Feb. 9. O. Evans, Grove-lane, surgeon, Feb. 10. F. Smee, Bromley. j)roj.er' brewer, Feb. 9. J. Asheroft, Liver)X>o » Feb ll! Feb. 8. J Murray, vipt|l>l]ler#f J Jones and A Brown, »"ore| peh oo n. Peb ll. J. Bates, sraith, Manch«ter, Scholes. Bury, Bradford, baker, Feb. 15. CERTIFICATBS to be granted by the Court of Review, unless <»use be shown to the contrary, ou or before Eebw Smith. Bristol, currier. J. Let, Coventry. wJtoh jpanufacturer. T G. Brownsmi h, B-dtord- Cw-sot-*erden, fringe manufacturer. H. C. Thaptfra, Woolwich,»urgeon. W. H. Gratrix, Nuneaton, •ilker manufacturer. G. Ssudeman, York-street, South- yirkt ironinortT. Moorc^ liti of Tioton, proccri R. J. Jones, Bashingstoke, tailor. W. Snmpson, She/Held, wholesale spirit merchant, al. War burton. Bury, hat' manufacturer. A. Litu^v, Sheffield, sheen shear BinimflaMurer. J. Kirklai.d. New-sireet, Covent- garden, »rocer. H. Brewer, Gr^at Waltham, draper. B. Hutahinmii, rj-street, Alagate, leather seller.

Opinions of the Press. THE BRITISH BCEOTIA. They who so hotly contended last year that neither the quantity nor the quality of the education for the poor was defective, would do well to study the Reports of the Commissioners of Inquiry in Wales. Few can have been prepared for the disclosures of the depths of ignorance and the slough of sensuality in the Princi- pality. Generally speaking, little is taught in the schools, and the little that is taught is worthless. The children of an advanced age can seldom give a proper answer to questions relating to the most notorious jaets. One puts Dublin in Scotland another rates Devon- shire as the second city of the kingdom another ex- plains that the Queen's name is Alexander, but has no idea where she lives another classes a peacock as a vegetable another does not know the name of the month nor the year we are living in. The schools are often as dirty as pig-sties, and many of the N-itioiial Schools seem to be as bad as those not connected vv: tli the church. But the schooling (education we will not miscall it), wretched as it is, is far from uniform. In I the evidence of the Rev. J, Pugh, rector of Llandila- fawr, we find this specimen in one William Davies, a boy of sixteen, and who does not seem deficient in ca- pacity from some of his replies, but as ignorant as a Pig I have never been inside a school or chapel. I do not know who to pray to. I do not know what be- comes of people when they die-I have heard of (rod I know nothing about Urn. I think I have a soul-I don't know what a soul is, nor whether it is different from the body. I never heard of the devil; I know nothing about him I have heard of him when people swear. I have never heard of heaven; but I have heard of hell-heaven is the best of the two, but I don't know why." Mr. Pugh declares that this boy is not more ignorant than the rest. His father is a farmer paying 50/ a-year rent. The boy Davies expressed his desire for education, and parents generally are anxious to have the benefit of it, such as it is, for their children but they cannot reconcile themselves to paying anything1 for it, and will not spare three-halfpence a week for the purpose, in Mr. Pugh's neighbourhood (Carmarthen). In the vicinity of Llunrlilo there are 100 children, be- tween the ages of seven and sixteen, who attended no school or place of worship. The Rev. Mr. Williams, of Hirwaren, ascribes the Frost insurrection to the profound ignorance of the people, who can be made to believe any absurdity. A witness of the outbreak told him, 44 The men who marched to join Frost had no definite object, beyond a fanatical notion that they were to march immediately to London, fight a great battle, and conquer a great kingdom." The ignorance of the farmers is profound and tho- roughly self-satisDed-they scorn the idea of improve- ment. A tenant of Mr. Chambers, when asked why he did not claim the allowance of 21 per cent. for draining, answered, He did not want any drains, 'twas all damned stuff, and not worth the bother, something like guano." He would not carry the guano back in his empty cart from Llanelly, whither lie went once a week. In the same enlightened neighbourhood Mr. Davies remembers the time when there was not a builder who could measure a wall. The masters of schools are in many cases persons utterly illiterate, belonging to the labouring classes. We find in the Report for North Wales this choice specimen both of the voucher for the qualification of a teacher, and an astounding practical proof of the pro- fessor's accomplishments: Sir, I am sending those fue Lines Concerning School Master at- that he is a Good Teacher of a children and bears a good chariter eepin [keeping] a good time with children, and very carefull in Teaching them I had my children with him a Long time. f David-- Sirgeen Witness our hands ? —— Do. to V. thomas The candidate so recommended wrote in round text as follows:- 44 I willingly to come fore 67. per Quarter if you things proper. 44 I humbly beg to you to sand me a line in answer with the Bearer." These evidences of learning were admitted as per- fectly satisfactory by the parties engaged in the pro- motion of education. The man had been a weaver, but having turned preacher, it was thought by his sect that the business of teaching would leave him more leisure for his ministerial avocations. About his qualification there was no doubt; it was probably as good for the one as for the other of his pursuits. Endowments are shamefully bused. The Report of North Wales states that endowed schools are amongst the very wovstl visitation and inspection having been wanting, and the ill-choseu master left irresponsible from the time of his appointment. Many schools are in abeyance, while there is the most shameful breach of trust in the misappropriation of charitable funds avail- able for their support. Carnarvon has a pre-eminence in Welsh ignorance and immorality. Wages are high, and drunkenness flourishes in proportion. Men who earn twenty-six .tunings a week will spend twenty-one in the public- house, and bring the odd five to their families. Tne ftev. William Williams, Independent minister, em- phatically says, "They are beastly in their habits in this town." In Merthyr, on the other hand, the fault is laid with the women, who go about tea-drinking when they should be receiving their husbands, coming from their work, and supplying their little con.forts. A Merthyr man said, If ever I marry, I will marry a cook, for she will have something for me to eat when I come home '-a choice, and good reason for it; which in- dicates how much is wanting in the education of the female poor, and how much instruction in simple cook- ery would conduce to the comfort, the economy, and the morals, let us add, of the working classes; for the 1 pleasure which the poor man finds in his home has Oiuch to do with his habits, good or bad. But to return to Carnarvon—we find that seafaring men, Without the, slightest education, get employed as masters, and grope their way about at sea without skill enough to take an observation or to keep a dead reck- oning. Tlii only teacher of navigation at Carnarvon is an old woman. Chastity is held in no sort of honour amongst the poor in Wales. Their habits are those of animals, and will not bear description. The sin prevails without the slightest touch of shame. But it is not venal, any more than the habits ofanimols in the same respects and they are superior to animals in this particular, that the stute of wedlock is recognized among them, and desired—everything but waited for. A great cause of the backwardness of the benighted principality is undoubtedly the language, to which the peoplt. are attached, and from which they should be weaned by every inducement—though it was but the other day that we saw announced a premium by an illustrious personage for skill in that barbarity-perpe- tuating tongue. The ignorance of the people is locked in their language, and the one will not give way with- out the other. An improved system of education is the only means to this end, and the first step to it is efleeted in the very complete exposure in the Reports before us, which do great credit to the judgment and well-directed activity of the Commissioners. We have seldom seen a better-conducted investigation the field has been most thoroughly explored, and the specimens of evidence selected with excellent discretion.—Ex- aminer.

On Thursday last a number of persons endeavoured to prevent the shipment of potatoes at Ramsey. They complained that was hard that they could not get any to pureha-e at the market-pl ace, when there such quan- tities shipped daily, which did not shew a scarcity. The mob increased, and proceeded to the High-Bailiff, to whom they laid their complaint. After cheering lustily, they quietly dispersed, determined to petition the Government to put a stop to the exportation of po- tatoes for the present.—Manx Sun. MELANCHOLY SUICIDE OF SIR J. MILDMAY, BART'~7 *8 our painful duty to record the premature death of Sir John Mildniay, Bart., which melancholy event took place by his own hands, at an early hour on Monday morning, at his residence, No. 6, Halkin- terrace, Belgrave-square. It appears that the de- ceased gentleman had resided as above for about five years J118 establishment consisted of two males and an equa' number of female servants and his health of late wtis stated to be tolerably good but for several day. pllst hu. valet had noticed that he appeared low and depressed in spirits, but on the previous day (Sun- day) the deceased appeared somewhat better, and par- took of his meals, apparently, with a better appetite. He retired to restbetween eleven and twelve o'clock, and nothing more was heard or Been of him until shortly before fi*e o c oc on Monday morning, when his valet was »*o e y ea ened report of firearms. He was undecide< or ome nne what to do, but eventually Krent up stairs to Sir Jolt, bedchamber, on the se- cond floor, when on enteriyag the room lie was horror- struck on discovering his master lying prostrate on the carpet writwing in his blood, and lifeless; his head was shattered to atoms and the walla and ceiling were covered with his blood and brains, a small double- barrel, bolster pistol, which had been recently dis- charged, WM lying close to his right hand, AND had evidently been discharged m the mouth. Several me- dieal Promptly in attendance, who "WW to be instantaneous.