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HOUSE OF LORDS.\
HOUSE OF LORDS. MO*DAT—An interestingconversation took place on the subject of the Corn-laws; and we are happy to see Lord Brougham back in his place, find taking nis share in the good work. The Earl of Radnor, took the leatl in it, an j demonstrated that the introduction of foreign corn would by no means displace an equal quantity of home-grown corn, and that wages wo'nd hot tall as corn fell in price. Lord Ashburton contrndicted the Noble Earl, without refuting him. The Earl of Harewood admitted the exis- tence ("If manufacturing distress, but ascribed it to over- trading. Lord Brougham said he was ready. two years ago. to prove at the bar that low wages would not result from low-priced corn, but he was so much opposed that he I g-ive up IIN motion. Some Bills were forwarded asta^e, and their Lordships then adjourned. TUESDAY.—The Corn-laws was again the subject of conversation. The Earl of Radnor took the opportunity of some petitions I)e-,zim"r.-resente(I to re-state, on the authority of the Poor-law Conimissioners for Ireland, the fact. which some Noble Lords had questioned, that the average of wages in Ireland is from kl. to 5d. per day. Lord Brougham presented the City petition, which lie said was signed by 2'1,000 persons in four days. A little conversation arose as to its prayer, which is, we beliere, for a reduction of duties, with a view to their dbolition.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
HOUSE OF COMMONS. M ONDAY.— Mr. O'Connell convicted Mr. Sergeant Jijcksoivof having- repeated a false statement to the House. —The Clerk ot the Peace for Hertford was called to the bar, and questioned tvhv he did not comply with the order of the House to supply a copy of the register ot the electors of Hertford. He answered that the register was not in his keeping, but in the keeping ot the Sheriff, and that he could only supply the House with a copy of a copy. After a short discussion, he was ordered to produce a copy of the register this day.—M r. Wynn having waiverl his motion about prosecuting Mr. Webster for alleged bribery,—Lord John Russell proceeded to explain to the House that he did not intend to bring forward the Corn- laws. The Noble Lord referred shortly to the outlines of the arguments he should have used had he brought ,forward the question, in order to show that agitation of the public would more likely be lessened than increased by discussing the me&ure .in Parliament. The Noble Lord also adverted to Sir Robert Peel's charge, that the Ministers had two budgets, which he positively denied, and ridiculed the imputation as unworthy of belief and unworthy of receiving any countenance from Sir Robert PeeL He proposed to take the estimates for Canada and China, and a vote of credit for the miscellaneous estimates for six months from the month of April. The Noble Lord pointed out the necessity of appealing to the country, and declared that if the decision were against the party now in power they would hasten to resign.—Sir Robert Peel rather taunted the Noble Lord for speaking on the Corn-laws, wh. he did not .bring forward the question. He declared more than once that he wished to take no advantage of his present position in impeding the Go- vernment. He thought the dissolution should be speedy; he-asked the Ministers for a declaration that the new Parliament should be speedily assembled, and having obtained it, contributed to promote the business for the t'stof the evening, with a view of hmrving on the dissolu- ti'n as much as possible.—Mr Wakley addressed the House at some length on the dissolution, and asked Sir R. Peel what he meant to do about the Poor-law. Sir Robert had stated that he would support the law with some modification. Adjourned. TElESDAY.-Withoiit tra,i,,tili,- any bu,,l iiess of public importance, the House sat till H«tlf-past Twelve.
ELECTION MOVEMENTS IN SOUTH…
ELECTION MOVEMENTS IN SOUTH WALES. (kor a dvertising columns contain addresses from Viscount Emlyn offering himself in the Tory in- tercit- for the County of Pembroke, and J. M. Child, Esq.. of Begelly House, in the Liberal in- tcret, fcr the United Boroughs of Pembroke, letiby, Milford, and Wiston. We have also been tkvetvred with copies of addresses issued to the electors of these boroughs by Sir James Graham and Str John Ower. (which cannot appear, hut as advertisements) the former announcing that cir- cumstances have occurred" which compel him to retire, and the latter offering himself as the suc- cessor of the renegade Baronet, merely stating that he will not trouble the electors with a pro- fession of his public principles, which are known to them all." The addresses of the two Torv candidates are remarkable for their vague and in- definite character, alth-augh die patties to whom •they concern are fully aware of the rampant and uncompromising Toryism of both the Noble Lord and the Hon. Baronet, We have yet to learn whether a reform, an anti-monopolist, candidate, will be brought forward to oppose the noble scion of the house of Cawdor, but the honest and inde- pendettt electors of the boroughs above alluded to, n ho have any regard for the sacred principles of liberty, justice, and humanity, will have an oppor- tunity of throwing otf the iron yoke of Tory* ism which they have so long submissively worn. Mr. Child, we are assured, has every prospect of success. We shall return to the subject in our next We have received these addresses at a late hour, and have not room for further comment. We may, however, remark that the Tories of this borough have been moving heaven and earth to seduce some unhappy dupe to take the field in opposition to our excellent representative, David Morris, Esq., and we understand that they talk of bringing forward, as a sort of forlorn hope, J. Banks Davies, Esq. of Myrtle Hill. The idea, however, is absurd he would not, pon honour, have the shadow of a chance, notwithstanding his high attainments. No one but a madman would, in fact, dream of contesting this borough in the Tory interest; in proof of which a poor man called Kin-don-wiie would be a fit inmate for a lunatic asylum—has beenactïvely canvassing the Tory electors dnring the past week. Since the above was written, we have been in- formed that a Lieut.-Colonel Copland, of Sloane- street, London (we are particular in putting the gentleman's addition), is to contest the Cardigan Boroughs in opposition to Mr. Pryse Pryse, the descendant of our Welsh Princes. Upon what this unknown gentleman rests his claims to notice we know not, but the Conservative interest of Cardiganshire must be at a low ebb, indeed, if the United Boroughs are to become the prey of any deigning Saxon, who has the impudence to step -before the landed gentry of that comity-
,"':,,THE MAJORITY OF OXE.I
THE MAJORITY OF OXE. I The vote of Saturday morning will be read in the country as the requiem dirge of the present Parliament. Ministers have nobly done their duty; it is now for the electors to do theirs. The Monopoly question is now thrown on the country Jet the people know, that in grappling with it, ikek Queen and her Ministers iare with them. Tbev (the people) are, their trial. vtundo omuijudice. The landowners have declared that manufactures and commence, which now reel under eorn and other monopolies, shall be sacri- ficed to their individual interests and when the terrible consequences, of their, infatuated policy have been consummated, and when Agriculture, which Sir R. Peel admits is dependent on the prosperity of our manufactures, has sunk under the pressure which effected the ruin of its main supports* the landlords will call for a repeal of the corn laws but it will then be too late to recover our lost trade. We conjure the consti- tuencies to ponder seriously the awful respon- sibility now devolved on them. The present crisis wiil be decisive of the future condition of the country—ay, and of the character of the people themselves. Britain's future weal or woe now haugs in the balance. Will any man, possessing the remotest claim to patriotism, suffer himself to become the victim of timidity, of indecision, or of coercion, so as to be absent' from his post in dangr's hour. England, Britain, and the most extensive and splendid colonial empire that ever owned the sway of a single sceptre, "now expect every man to do his duty." Xow's the day, and now's the hour See the Tories range their power: Sons of freedom man the tower I Whence floats the flag of victory!" We entertain the most sanguine hopes of the people; and that as dangers and difficulties thicken around them, they will be but the more aroused to combat as for life or death. Every Tote is now of importance; let not one be thrown away, or suffered to remain in abeyance. Let monopoly now obtain but a temporary triumph, ntuA "hundreds of capitalists will view it as the aigna) to hasten to qu\t a country which no longer f IJfesfflts a safe field for the investment <Jf their with it the industry of States I' a* wiser policy insures them the prospect 0. being trule to turn it to better amount. ) The greatness of our country htvugi on the prosperity of our manufactures. On the returns obtained for our exported manufactures, million depend for daily bread. Every year we expor less of finished articles, And more pf raw or half finished materials, fo* be wrought up elsewhert by foreign industry and capital. Let the conduc of elector., on this momentous occasion be sue! as to leave them without reproach. The stake to be played for is Britain's present and permanen Treatne.ss and prosperity, or her rapid decadence Tbe election of 1841 will ever form a inemorabh epoch in our country's annals.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S SPEECH.I
LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S SPEECH. I We entreat our readers to peruse and re-peruse Mie speech of Lord John Russell in the House o' r iie -??iierotii tn(! Commons on Friday last. The generous and enlightened statesman, the sound-hearted patriot, and the unflinching advocate of views worthy of Adam Smith and Mr. Huskisson characterise it throughout. Its irresistible power was felt on the Tory benches, and many a quailing eye told plainly that their occupants were conscious that the ill-omened reign of Toryism approaches its finalé. We are truly sorry to be unable to do more than just point to the pointed speeches oi of Mr. C. Buller and Mr. Sheil, both of which told with admirable. effect on the- renegades who mis- represent North Lancashire and Pembroke; and, as an eye-witness expresses it, firit fiaved them alive, and ended by turning them inside out." The speech of Lord John, however, we cannot pass lightly over, embracing as it does, in narrow compass, the whole of the momentous measures which now absorb the, minds and thoughts of all thinking men. His Lordship's masterly vindication of himself and his colleagues from the base, unfair, and dishonest accusations of their unprincipled opponents/was most tri- umphant. The eloquence of his Lordship's reasoning, and the magnanimous we had almost said chivalrous spirit of unbending confidence in the soundness of his principles, chained down the hissing and howling demon of the Tory phalanx and while they quailed under the merciless inflictions of his bold exposure of their hollow policy, the treachery, and the selfish propensities which have ever characterised them, the enthusiastic shouts of his admiring friends Could not be repressed and never did the walls and roof of St. Stephen's echo back cheers more honestly, or more heartily giv^n. We again call upon our readers to "read, mark. learn, and inwardly digest" this splendid oration and surewe are they wiil not peruse it wtth lcs interest while they bear in mind that the noble speaker was brought from a sick chamber to enounce it.
SIR R. PEEL.I
SIR R. PEEL. On Thursday, the 27rh ult., Sir R. Peel said, It may be true that we have not the confidence of the House of Commons, but, perhaps, as Mr. Pitt was able to say, though lyfr. Fox denied it, if we fail in the House of pmous, there are sufficient indications that wtfpossess the confi- dence of the country. First, however, I should say with Mr. Fox, it is dangerous to admit any other recognised organ of public opinion than the House of Commons. It is dangerous to set up the implied or supposed opinions of constituencies against their declared and authorised organ, the House of Commons." On the 2d April, 1835, Sir Robert said, "You talk of your supremacy—of your power to control the executive Government; let me whisper a word in your ear, that though you are triumphant here—thoinjh i/ou are able to fetter our measures in this House—yet the power you pos.'ss does not exten d beyond these walls with the intensity with which it operates within. We may he weak here; but this I again respectfully tell vou, but with a firm conviction of its truth, that there is a public opinion which exists independent of ?najorities-teli;ch is not contn lie I by rotes—which it is essentially necessary to pos. is in addition to mere majorities in this House. I never felt more convinced of anything than I am of the truth of what I have been stating; I never felt more convinced than I now do of this truth, that the public opinion will not sanction-it may with its submission, but not with its appro- bation, saiietion-voilr efforts, even if successful, to throw impediments in the way of the useful measures of Government."
W £ £ Kir is Elvis 0.441PECT.1
W £ £ Kir is Elvis 0.441PECT.1 [FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] LONDON, JUNE 9, 1841. Well does the Examiner say of Sir R. Peel, that "hide and seek is his game. He hides his policy, cries whoop, and leaves his followers and opponents to seek for it. Each may fancy what he pleai;(-t he pleasures of illla. gination and hope are open to all; but they are disturbed by the pains 01 memory, in LLhirh 5If1!Tl" I«f hi. Soll^wt-rB Tcmcmber the passage of the Catholic turn, and tremble for corn." In other words, they fear, and with good rea- son, sliding and slippery as his policy has ever been, lest the pivot on which that anomalous policy turns, should be about to perform such a revolution as it d.d in 1828, when the incomprehensible Baronet slid, pivot and ah, from an uncompromising opposition to the Catholic claims, to the situation of their chief advocate. Truly it is whimsical enough to see a motion de- claratory of want of confidence proposed by a man wlio has the lead of a great party without possessing the con- fidence of any human being. VV e do not believe that there exists a Tory who puts faith or reliance 111 Sir R. Peel. His talents are admitted, his private character respected; but his manners are disliked his double- faced policy detested; his Joseph Surtaceism despised; his faith and candour distrusted. And this is the man whom Toryism would have us (the nation) to substitute for Lord John Russell! We have ever loved our country, and often felt proud of it: but should it prefer the sliding and slippery Baronet to the honest, upright, consistent, and high-principled Noble- man who, during the last six eventful years has so ably, so zealously, and so efficiently sustained the difficult and harassing office of Leader of the House of Commons, we shall feel sorely puzzled when we are called on to say anything in its praise, particularly as respects gratitude, consistency, and discernment. The beeches of Mr. Handley and Sergeant Talfourd on W eanesday, the In instant, told with admirable effect on Sir James Graham. Between them the renegadism and apostacy of the heavy Baronet" were thoroughly dissected. The pas- sage in which Mr. Handley judged the banished of  Cumberland, out of his own mouth," was crushing, and its withering power seemed to be felt in the proper quar- ter—felt so unequivocally as to make the apostate an ob- ject of pity, even to those whom he has so basely deserted, and against whom his powerless malignity is now COli- stantly directed. We sincerely hope the electors of Pem- broke will read these masterly speeches, and ponder well the propriety of again recording their votes in favour of the Knight of Netherby. It will be seen by another arti- cle that Sir James Graham does not intend again to offer himcelf for Pembroke. On Monday evening, Lord John Russell stated to the House, that it had been clererllllued by himself and his colleagues, that as the House had affirmed, though but by a majority of one, the proposition of the Right Hon. Member for Tamworth, that they (the present Ministry) did not possess the confidence of that House, it would neither be respectful to the House, nor consistent with their duty, to submit a measure of such importance as the Corn Laws to the present House of Commons; and lie did not mean, therefore, to give any notice on the said I question at present. His Lordship was vehemently cheered on resuming his seat. Sircdk- Peel, the Noble Lord's paulir-post futurvm successor, followed, and in a I rather elaborate speech, to which the House seemed to listen with some impatience, let out the important an. nouncement, that he should offer no, opposition to the vote of six months' credit for the supplies, which the Chancellor of the Exchequer had asked for! So much candour on the part of the incomprehensible Tory chief took the House qwite by"surprise.' -It wag evident that neithet party was prepared for being let into so much of his future policy. The present House of Commons may now, therefore, be considered as defunct for all but mat- ters of mere business-routine. I'ht?*people mgst now trust to themselves. On them devolves the awfuJly im- portant task of returning a House whose Members shall, unlike the majority of those who preceded them, fear- lessly, zealously, and perseveringlv eiiaq, t the part of genuine patriots; and, independently of party, of personal interests, and of preconceived opinions, legislate far the good of the people, and the prosperity and stability of the Empire. Markets continue in much the same state as indicated in our last report. From the great manufacturing towns the accounts are most afflicting. Failures are of daily occurrence; the stocks of manufactured goods are rapidly increasing; and thousands of operatives are out of em- ployment. Monev continues plentiful, and may be had on easy terms; but profitable investments are difficult to be ob- tained. On Change there is literally nothing doing. Fluctuations, howler, are unknown; and the political crisis which has come upon us can scarcely be said to have been felt in Bartholomew Lane. Consols may be quoted at 89.
-ILOCAIL SEWS.n-I
ILOCAIL SEWS. n- I POLICE INTELLIGENCE, JUNE 4.-Befnre T. T. Webb Esq., Mayor, and Capt. J. G. Philipps. David Peter was charged bv Nicholas Martin, Police Officer, with having been drunk and disorderly on the niaht of Thursday pre- vious, and with having struck him (Martin) several times, on his taking him to the station-house. Fined ten shil- lings and costs, which were then paid. —David Wookock preferred a charge aaillst A 1111 Aubrey with being drunk and disorderly. Reprimanded and discharged.—On the 9th inst., before T. T. Webb, and E. H. Stacev, Esqrs., John Butler stood charged with having stolen, on the Sth inst., three bundles of knives, value Lis. thepiepc-rty of Mr. William Moss, Ironmonger. Mr. Moss not having appeared to substantiate the charge, and no evidence being adduced to prove the fact, the prisoner was dis- charged. THE PAVING AND LIGHTING COMMISSIONERS. — A meeting of the Paving and Lighting Commissioners was befd on Tuesday. The only business transacted was the- ordering of the collector to isitue summonses against i U defaulters. 1jv.IJt:J AACEIUTG O. Üi C TCWU ''ouiuiJ was field on Tuesday, at the Council Chamber, >resent; T. T. Webb, Esq., Mayor, Messrs. John George Phillips. Charles Jones, Edward 'Jones, "Edmund Hills >tacey,Thomas Griffiths,George Phillips, William Phillips fames Morse, William Morris, John Jenkins, George Navies, Edward Morris, and Evan Evans. It was pro- posed by Mr. James Morse, and seconded by Mr. Charles lones, that the road leading from the Parade to Priory- treet be opened forthwith, and a gate put up for the >assage of carts or carriages for the convenience of the proprietors and tenants ot the house on the Parade. VN amendment was moved by Mr. William Morris, tnd seconded by Mr. Edmund Hills Stacev, that the oad be left in its present state, the other road leading to I he Parade below the one in question being sufficiently convenient for the transmission of carts, carriages, &c., .vhen it was put to a vote, and the proposition carried, •vith the understanding that the entrance gate be kept locked, and the key to be kept with the Mayor. A notion that the Corporation be at the expense of the alteration was also put to a vote, and carried. The erection is to be under the direction of Messrs. Charles (ones, James Morse, and VViliiam Phillips. Ordered that the Treasurer of the Corporation pay Mr. John Evans the sum Of je20, on account of the repairs of the road leading over the Bridge to Pensarn Gate; and that me balance of El6 be paid him upon his producing a certificate from the Surveyor, that the road is in a proper state of repair. The meeting then adjourned to the 22d instant. The hay harvest has commenced in this neighbourhood, several fields having been cut. and carried off in prime condition, during the week. The crops in general are very abundant, promising more than an average yield. lhpre is every prospect of a fine harvest, both as regards quantity and quality. FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Monday evening last, ar, Mr. James Manning, gamekeeper to William Chambers, Esq., Llanelly, f-as returning home from that place, his horse became restive, reared up on his hind legs, fell backwards on the flags, and the rider under him, by which he sustained so much injury as to cause his deatli in a few hours afterwards. He was 36 years of age, and has left a wife and several small children to bewail their bereave- ment. On Wednesday, an inquest was held before Wm. Bonville, Esq.. coroner, when a verdict of Accidental death" was rcturned.-A n inquest was held at the Morning Star, in the same parish, before the same coroner, on the body of Sarah Lewis, an infant, who had been left in a dwelling-house, in company with another child. The clothes of the deceased by some means became ignited, and she was so dreadfully 'burnt that she died in a short time. Verdict, Accidentally burnt to death." THE QUEEN'S STATE BALL.—Her Majesty gave a State Ball (the second this season) at Buckingham Palace, on Thursday, the 3d instant. It was very numerously attended. The following nobility and gentry connected with South Wale3 had the honour of receiving invitations. -I)uk-e and Duchess of Beaufort; Dowager Lady Caw- dor, Earl and Countess Cawdor, and Viscount Emlyn; Lord and Lady James Stuart; Sir John and Lady Char- lotte Guest; Sir James and Lady Williams; Sir Richard and Lady Phillips, John H. Vivian, Esq., and Lady, &c.
PEMBROKESHIRE.
PEMBROKESHIRE. NARBERTII.— ODD FELLOWS' FU-,rRAL.-Tlie first funeral of the Loyal Saint James' Lodge of the lndepen- dent Order of Odd Fellows, of the M. U., held at the Swan Inn. Narberth, took place on Wednesday last. The brethren assembled at the lodge-room at the hour ap- pointed, and from thence proceeded, arranged in the funeral costume of the order, to the house of their de- ceased brother, David Devonald, tailor and draper. The brethren, accompanied by the members of five Friendly Societies, and the friends of the deceased to the number of nearly 300 persons, preceded the mortal remains of their departed brother to Ffynon Chapel, where the Rev. Richard Phillips delivered a most impressive discourse on the uncertainty and frailty of human existence, from Jer. 22. 29. The P.G. of the lodge delivered an appro- priate address at the grave, and the brethren returned in due order to the lodge-room, deeply impressed with the proceedings in which they had been engaged. MILFOKD, JUNE 9. —A meeting of the inhabitants of this town was convened and In Id at the Nelson Hotel, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of retitioiiing Parliament against the removal of the Irish Mail Packets from the port of Milford, which was res- pectably attended, and a committee appointed to draw up a petition, praying that they would not decide on a point of such vital importance to the county, without the strictest investigation, and hearing evidence on the occa- sion. It was also unanimously agreed, that a committee should be appointed to draw up a petition to the Lords of the Treasury, to include the port of Milford in the list of ports already selected to be submitted to the committee hOW sitting, to decide on the most proper and convenient station for the arrival and departure of foreign mail packets, and that evidence might be heard, and proper inquiry made, before a decision be come to on the proper station for the said mail packets. We understand that a lecture, on the subject of Lnieersat Peace, will be delivered in the town hall, Haverfordwest, on Monday evening, the 14 h inst., by the llev. N. M. Harry, of London, Secretary to the Society for the promotion of Universal Peace. The Rev. gentleman is well known as a native of Pembroke- shire, and a man of rare abilities as a pieachpr, which will no doubt secure for him a numerous and attentive audience. J. L. Morgan, Esq., M.D., has kindly pro- mised to preside. We are exceedingly happy to learn that the public are beginning to find out, and appreciate, the advantages ef Broad and Little Haven (the Brighton of Pembrokeshire) as a watering-place, and summer's residence. It is at a convenient distance from Haverfordwest, six miles only consequently, the necessaries of life can be obtained at a cheap rate. It can boast of the finest sands for bathing in South W alts, it also commands a very extensive dw of Saint Bride's Bay, and the Irish Channel; and. moreover, the air and atmosphere is pure andTefreshin<e. The inhabit. n( nmt its vielnty ? trot go so far as Bath, Cheltenham, &c., to recruit their health. so long as Litde Haven ii within an hour's ride from their own homes. The lodging-houses, and other places of abode, are at the present time quite full. Among the late arrivals are the following:, Colonel and Airs. Scourfield, Mr. and Mrs. James Higgon and family, Mr. John Higgon, Mr. Colby, Miss Davies, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Rees, Mr. and Mrs. Xavier Peel, Mr. and Mrs. Fomnes and family, Mr. and Mrs. George James, Miss Harries, Mr. and Mrs. Warlow and family, Mr. and Mrs. Rowlands and family, N lr. and Mrs. Cawer and family, Mr. and Mrs. Beynon and family, Miss Morris, Mr. and Mrs. Jones and family, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Allen and family, Mr. and Mrs. Smith and family, Mr. and Mrs. Owen Davies and family, Miss Bu-Ier, Mrs. Powell and family, Mrs. Clare and family, jVfrs. Gwynne Harries and familv, Mr. and Mrs. David Lioyd and family, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Davis. BAPTIST, AssocIATIOx.-The Baptist Association for Pembrokshire was held at Fishguard, on Tuesday and W ednesday, the 8th and 9th inst. On Tuesday, at two, sermons were preached by Messrs. Roberts, of 'Swy(ld- ffynnon, and Thomas, of Newport; and at 6, by Messrs. Rees, ofcardigan; and James, of Rhymney. An English sermon was preached in the Methodist chapel bv Mr. D. Davies, of Haverfordwest. At seven, on Wednesday morning, excellent sermons were delivered by Messrs. Roberts, of Penvpark, and Davies, of Kilgerran at ten by Messrs. Williams, of Aberduar Thompson, of Swansea, and Davies, of Swansea; at two, by Messrs. Jones, ot Carmarthen; Morris, of Portsea, and Jones, of Castletown at six, by Messrs. Reynolds, of Felingano); Griffiths, Theological Tutor of Acrington Academy; and Lewis, of Maesyberllan. The sum of jel8 8s. 9d. was collected for the Irish Mission. The churches reported the increase of members at upwards of 800. Nine Ministers, who had been educated at Bradford, breakfasted together on Wednesday. The Rev. B. Thomas, of Narberth, presided. The Baptist denomination is making rapid advances in these parts, and judging from the spirit indicated at the meetings, great prosperity is anticipated. NEWPORT.—A special Sessions for the Hundred of Kemes were held at the Castle Inn, on Tuesday, the 1st instant, before the Rev. John Pugh, Clerk, G. D. Griffith, and J. W. T. James. Esquires, to receive the returns or- dered by the Magistrates in Quarter Sessions, on the 6th day of April last, of the total amount of the annual value of the several estates and rateable property within the several parishes, townships, or places in the County of Pembroke, which occupied their Worships-the greater part of the day; after which Martha Williams and James William were brought forward, charged on the com- plaint of James Lewis, of this town, carrier, with assault- ing him at his own bouse on the evening of Saturday, the loth May. Martha Williams fined (id., and 9s. costs; tt,e 15tli May ?Villiim fine(i 6d., and James William fined 6d., and 8s. costs. John Llewelin, David Lloyd, Thomas Morgan, and Thomas Meyrick were brought up, charged with having on Mon- day, the 2hh of May, committed several depredations about the out houses of Berry Mill, the property of the Misses Bowen, and taking therefrom a quantity of turkey, guinea-fowl, duck, and hen's eggs. This being their first on, nee, t' .e Misses Bowen did not wish to press the charge; they were consequently discharged, after being severely reprimanded by the Magistrates.
CARDIGANSHIRE.
CARDIGANSHIRE. BAPTIST ASSOCIATION.On Tuesday and Wedties- day, the 1st and 2d instant, the Annual Association 01 the Baptist denomination in Cardiganshire, took place at Card igan. A con?rence was held in the chapei at 10 on Tuesday morning. The annual letter to the churches, composed by the Rev. D. Ilees, of Cardigan, was read, approved of, and ordere d to be printed. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the public services were commenced in a field. The Rev. D. Lloyd, uf Llanrhystyd, delivered an address, and the Rev. Messrs. M. Janles, of Rhymney,' and R. Roberts, of Swyddffynon, preached from Rom. 8, 34, and 2 Cor. 5, 20. At G, the lie v. J. Jones, of Llan- dyssil, introduced, and the Rev. Messrs. T. Davies, of Victoria, and D. Jones, of Middlemill, preached from Psalm 27, 4, 5, and 1 John 5. 11. At half-past G, on Wednesday morning, the Kev. Rees Griffiths, of Pont-y- pool, introduced, and the Rev. Messrs. James Rowe, of Penrhyncoch; and J. Lloyd of Pontypool, preached from John 16. 33, and I Tim. 1. 11. At 10, the Rev. L. Thomas, of Narberth, introduced, and the Rev. Messrs. W. Thomas, of Newport, C. Thomson, of Swansea, and E. Jones, of Casbach, preached from I John 3, 16; Luke 23,33; and Psalm 130, 4. At 2, the Rev. R. Hnghes, of Pantycclyn, introduced, and the Rev. Messrs. D. R. Stephen, of Newport; T. Morris, of Portsea, and D. Davies, of Swansea, preaehed, from Mark 16, It; Rom. 1, 16; and Isaiah 44. 3, -1-. At (i, the Rrv. J. Owens, of Haverfordwest, introduced, and the Refc. Messrs. 11. Owens, of Fishguard, and H. W. Jones, of Carmarthen, preached from Ezec. 47,10, and Rom. 9, 22 The sermons were very gratifying, and gave great satisfaction to the congregations. CARDIGAN.— CIICRCH MISSI^JARY SOCIETy.-On Sunday last, the Rev. John East, A.M., of Bath, preached two sermons in behalf of the above Institution at St. Mary's Church, in that town, and on Monday evening a public meeting was held in the town hall, D. A. S. Davies, Esq., Pentre, the president of the So-iety, in the chair, who having- opened the meeting in an excellent and appropriate speech, called upon the Hev. Griffith Thomas, vicar of St. Mary's, to ask through prayer the Divine blessing upon the proceedings of the evening-, The-Hev. James Owen, Secretary and Treasurer, after- wards read the report; and the Rev. D. Jones, A. M.. Rector of Cilgerran, and Griffith Thomas, Vicar of St. the i, -e,,i 'ei alloi t Lut forcible 'I mtumer. The Rev. Mr. EaSt then, as a deputation from the Parent Society,detailed the proceedings and operations of the society at great length, and the account he gave was truly satisfactory and encouraging. The collections made at Church, and at the town Iiiill, amounted to iel9 Is. ll., including a donation (if £5 from the president, being considerably more than on any other occasion since the establishment of the association at Cardigan. The Rev. G. Thomas having moved II vote of thanks to the worthy president for his most able conduct in the chair, the meeting (which was by far the most numerous and res- pectable that as ever witnessed at Cardigan) separated; highly gratified with the proceedings, and the inter- esting account given by the deputation of the signal success and prosperity of this tru'v laudable and flourishing institution. ABERYSTWITH MINES.—Shipped from the Lisburne, Goginan, ar.d Gogerddan Mines, from the 1st. of March to the 1st of June, 1841, 1040 tons. Mr. William Wheeler, jun. of Aberystwith, has been appointed Comptroller of the Customs at that Port, in the room of P. Lee, Esq., promoted to the Collectorship at Woodbridge. ABERYSTWYTH TOWN HALL. A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD Dk.BT.Oll Tuesdav last, at the sittings before R. O. Powell, Esq., Mayor, Alfred Stephens, Esq., Geo. Jeffries, Esq., and John Hughes, Esq., Solicitor, Mr. James Rees; of the Talbot Inn, was charged by Henry Barran, with an assault, and obtaining from him 3s. 0d., in an illegal manner. It appeared from the evidence, that the brother of the complainant owed Mr. Rees the sum of Ss. for the carriage of a coach parcel. The brother having left Aberystwith without paying the debt, Mr. Rees repeatedly applied to the complainant for payment, which the latter refusnL M r, Rees, meeting the complainant a few evenings since, requested him to walk into his house, and while there, according to the complainant's assertion, under a threat of personal vio- lence, compelled him to pay 3s. 6d. as part of payment of the brother's debt of ,8,s, Thecbarge of personal vio- lence Mr. Rees positively denied, and said that the payment was entirely, voluntary. The magistrates, after carefully considering tlie^vidence, were of opinion that Mr. ltees's conduct was highly culpable, and fined liini jC5, which Mr. Rees paid down forthwith.
I GLAMORGANSHIRE.
I GLAMORGANSHIRE. I SWANSEA, JU^NE 6.—Before the Mayor.—Jane Jones was brought up, charged with being drunk and disor- derly," on the preceding evening. Sentenced to fourteen days' hard labour in the Swansea House of Correction.— On the Hth, before the Rev. Dr. Hewson and T. E. Tho- mas, Esq., Clara Davies, aged 16, a "native" of Saint 011 the 8tii, Clara Da%, i es ?i i t  d to the Swansea House of' David's, was fuily committed to the Swansea House of Correction, for trial at the ensuing Quarter Sessions, charged with stealing a silver watch, of the value of 20s., the property of one Thomas Lewis, of Swansea, labourer. it appears that the prisoner, got enveigled into a house of ill fame some short time ago, and while there became acquainted with the "ways and means" of the neighbour- hood but from her simple demeanour it was evident she had not long been accustomed to the society of her late neighbours. SWANSEA THEATRE.—The necessary arrangements are rapidly perfecting for the re-opening of this neat theatre, on Monday, the 5th of July. We understand Messrs. Newcombe and Bedford have actively availed themselves of the excellent opportunities afiorded by their late management at the Theatre Royal, Bath, to supply themselves with an ample stock of novelty and material for the campaign. THE TRUE IVORITES. —The third annual meeting of this prosperous society took place at Swansea, on the 1st instant, when the two lodges held at the Coach and Horses and Mason's Arms, formed into procession, and were headed by the band, and went in the full cos- tume of the order to Bethesda chapel, where two excellent and appropriate sermons were delivered by the Rev. D. Thomas, from 11 eb. 13, 1, and Rev. T. Davies, of the Kbenezer chapel, from Rom. 12, 10. The one dwelt on the ndture of brotherly love- the benefit and enjoyment resulting from unanimity of scritiiiient- and operation in carrying into effect the objects of the order; and the other on the bounden duty and moral obligation of all to support and foster such institutions, founded upon the natural constitution of the human family—upon the broad prin- ciple of moral dependency—and upon the Divine record. Afterwards, the brethren proceeded, as before, through the principal streets of the town, and returned to their respective lodge houses. At the Coach and Horses about 150 partook of an excellent dinner provided by the worthy host, Mr. Davies. After the removal of the cloth, Brother the Rev. D. Jones, of Clydach, was called to the chair, and Mr. J. Lewis to the vice-chair. Many loyal and patriotic toasts were drunk. During the latter part of the day there were some e xc e 11 nt addresses delivered on subjects bearing on the designs and interest of the 01 der, by Messrs. Chair, Vice, Evans, Davies, Powell, Monger, &c. &c. It affords us much satisfaaion to state that Mr. G. B. Jeffreys, of the H. M. ship Pylades, and a native of Swansea, has been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in conjunction with several other officers for their services on the coast of China. On Saturday week, a melancholy accident occurred at Penrhuttin, near Neath, to a little boy. about five years of age, named Edward Williams. It appeared he had gone out to play with some other children, when he was suddenly missed, and search being made, he was found in the canal, quite dead. An inquest was held on the body, and a verdict returned of—" Found Drowned." SWANSEA HARBOUR TRUST.—On Monday last, the following resolutions, &c., were passed at the monthly meeting of the Harbour Trustees Resolved, "That under the circumstances the New Volunteer be charged the same toEs as are levied on wind-bound vessels. M r. Aubrey gave notice, "That at the next meeting of the trustees he shall propose, that vessels bound for foreign ports may put into the port of Sw.-in*>j» for "stores Or for "eoair? iwtn ¡;rl dun" --(;ulUnN Cameron gave not;ce, "That all vessel similarly circum- stanced with the New Volunteer, which have hitherto paid full tolls are equally entitled to a reduction of their tolls; and that the same proportion of tolls as have been remit- ted to the New Volunteer, be refunded to such vessels."— Mr. Aubrey gave notice, "That Mr. Rosser be paid a certain allowance for collecting the new dues. Resolved, I That it is the opinion nf this meeting that the application of Mr. Burrows, for an advance of £ a.5o'0 on account of the works in progress, be advanced to him forthwith on a bit! of sale of all the live and dead stock now used and em- ployed in the said works, to be executed by Mr. Burrows and his sureties, in the name of the clerk of the Swansea Harbour Trustees; and that actual possession of the s mie be delivered to him ac,-orclin-ly'Tl),tt a bond for £ 500 be given to the Rev. W. Escourt, in lieu of five bonds for iClOO each giveil by this trust to the late Sir John Morris (then John Morris, Esq.) as trustee to the late Edmund Escourt, Esq., by whom the said £ 500 was actually advance(t"- II That a building be erected as commodious as the plan drawn out by the harbour- master wiH admit of; and that it be taken iffo immediate consideration by this board."—"That Captain Edwards be directed so to arrange the services of the men working at the ferry, as to ensure for passengers a speedy passage at night."—Captain Edwards' report on the state of the harbour, &c., was adopted.—"That a committee be ap- pointed t? enquire and report to the trustees, the pro- priety of forming a canal, part of the new cut, so as to form a junction between the Swansea and Neath valley." —"That a circular be transmitted to all trustees, with a copy of the notice intended to be submitted by Mr. James, at the next monthly meeting of the trustees in Julv. Dr. Bird gave notice, That at the next meeting he would propose that in future the collection of the small tolls of this -port be farmed and let by public auction." MACKWORTII ARMS, NLATII--()Ur readers will observe that Mr. Smith has announced in another column his intention of having his opening dinner on the 22nd instant. From accounts we have heard we have no doubt it will be a bumper, and we sincerely wish him that success which his uniform attention and urbanity of manners so well deserves. LLANTRISSENT PETTY SFsslo%-s These sessions were held on Friday, the 4th inst., before R. F. Rickards, Esq., and Captain J. Hewett.—John Lewis, of Treforrest, inn-keeper, was charged by Jennet Ellis, of the parish of Eglwysilian, with a common assault on her person, on the 10th ult. The charge of assault, however, could not be sustained. The case was, therefore, dismissed, and com- plainant ordered to pay costs.—This being the day ap- pointed for the transfer of eight different licenses within this petty sessional district, they were transferred accor- dingly, and no other business of any importance to the public was transacted. DARIXG ROBBERY.—On the morning of the 1st inst. some burglars entered the. dwelling-house of Mr. Wheeler Vernon-Arms, Briton-Ferry, and stole therefrom about five pounds in gold and silver, a gold chain and two gold seals, fifteen silver spoons, a quantity of spirits, and about 2 lbs. of tea. Upon examination, it was found that the miscreants had entered by breaking the centre pane of glass opposite the brass fastening- of the hr.r window. After having brokejj.op^ti.seiieraj dsawmstid. cupboard*, I they effected their exit tht-otfgli I the front door, which they unbarred. Some suspicion having been entertained, two vessels were searched, but no clue was obtained to lead to the discovery of the burglars. ROBBERY.—The Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire butter-merchants generally reach Crue public-house (the half-way house between Merthyr and Brecon), on Mon- day evenings, and go to the iron manufacturing districts on the following day, to dispose of their goods; if they meet with a ready sale they return to the same public- house on the Tuesday evening; On Monday, the 31st ult., as some carts filled with casks and tubs of butter were standing by the house, thev were eased of three casks and one tub, which were carried off and deposited by the side of the river Taff, in a field belonging to Mr. Lewis. The thieves then made towards home with a few pound s for breakfast, thinking rio doubt to return on Tuesday night for their booty. On Tuesday, however, he lost property was found; and it is sincerely hoped, with the aid of the staff, the robbers will be apprehended also, and sent to Brecon college to learn that honesty is the best policy." NEWBRIDGE PETTY SESSIONS.—These sessions were held on Wednesday, the 2nd inst., before R. F. Rickards, Esq., and Capt. J. Hewett. William Barry, of the parish of Lanvabon, labourer, was brought up in custody of R. Roberts, No. 6, rural police-officer, charged by John Evans, of the parish of Merthyr-Tydvil, labourer, with unlawfully breaking the front-door of his house, and also with partly demolishing a feather-bed, the property of the complainant, early in the morning of that day. It ap- peared in evidence, that defendant at some former time had given the sum of five pounds to a daughter of the complainant to keep fur him, as he was then paying his addresses to her; but in consequence of the young woman having died some time ago, and before she had returned all the money, the defendant (when in a state of intoxi- cation) made a demand on the father for the full amount of five pounds which had been placed in the hands of his deceased daughter. When the policeman arrived at the house, defendant was busily employed in scattering about a bed of feathers, and was himself literally covered with them. He could not, however, form any warrantable excu <I" for his misconduct, and was therefore .adjudged to pay for the damages he had done, which amounted to k3 3s.. including costs, and in default of payment was committed to Cardiff goal for the space of two calendar months.— Evan Rees, of the parish of Llanwit-Vardre, labourer, was charged by Jemima Phillips, of the same parish, with a common assault on her person. The assault being proved, defendant was adjudged to pay 20s., including costs, which were paid. \'e c.rc??J ?uL?ervc ??t Mi. J?ms? Ro?er:? I of Mr. Phillip Rogers, ot Coleridge House, Swansea, had his name enrolled on the list of members of the Royal college of surgeons in London, on the 12th May, and received his licence to practice from the court of Ex- aminers at Apothecaries Hall on the 3rd inst. BRIDGEND, JUNE 3.—Mary Evans, alias Davies, aged 17, an innocent-looking country giri, was fully committed to the Swansea House of Correction, for trial at the Quarter Sessions, by R. Franklin, Esq., charged with stealing two aprons, of the value of 2s., the property of one Evan Evans, and one pair of stockings, of the value of Is., the property of one Anne David, of Langonoyd. Notwithstanding her innocent appearance, she was con- victed of stealing clothes at the last Quarter Sessions, where there were ftmr indictments against her. CARDIFF POLICE, JUNE 3.Before David Evans, Esq., Mayor.—Francis Powell, and two others, b liliffs, preferred a charge against Michael Cochran, for an assault. Com- plainant stated that he was employed to make a levy for rent, and having done so, the prisoner requested a short delay, while he went to seek advice, and on his return, he forcibly shut the door, and forced complainants into the garden, when they (the bailiffs) seized two pigs. The prisoner, accompanied by his wife, then made a furious attack on the officers, having armed himself with a piece of an old scythe, with which he repeatedly struck them, and finally drove them off the premises. Fined 20s. and costs for each assault, or one month's imprisonment. Prisoner went to gaol.-On the 7th, before the same gen- tleman, Mr. David Gregory, Inspector of the market, preferred a complaint against Anne Jones and Elizabeth Ingram, for using short weights. The defendants (who said the weigats were not their own, being only borrowed to weigh some potatoes) were fined in the penalty of 5s. each, and costs, which they instantly paid. MERTHYR TYDVIL.—The chartists were summoned, by placard, to meet Mr. Vincent, on Monday last, at the Station-House, where he arrived by the evening train from Cardiff. He was escorted in "triumph" to the Market-square, a band of music (called so by courtesy) leading the way. His chariot was a one-horse car, from w, in. ch he harangued the assembly for about an hour. The tone of the address was moderate for the man, the place, and the occasion. There were, perhaps, 2000 persons present, including all who came from curiosity—women without bonnets, and little children. It was amusing to see the throng, at the close of the harangue, turning inno- cently to a show just by to listen to their music, and to laugh at their harangues" in praise of wax dolls. On Monday and Wednesday evening, Mr. V. delivered lec- tures on Chartism, at the Cross Keys. At Dowlais also he lectured on Tuesday evening, at a private-property chapel, on the same subject. No great effect seems to be produced by this "beahng up" visit. The Merthyr people are not to be cheated with chaff. MERTHYR.—Exertions have been made for some vears to establish a (vanity) fair in Tydvil-street It is nothing to be compared as yet to the "Cefen" Bartholemew. FATA'. ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday, the 26th ult., as William Harry, of Rhymney, aged 80, was taking shelter behind a large iron bucket, which was lying on its edge near one of the mine pits at Dowlais Iron Works, the wmd hlew with such violence, that although the bucket weighs, it is said, about three tons, it overturned, and killed the old man on the spot. No blame is attributed to any one. It is acknowledged by the oldest inhabitants in Bre- conshire that they never saw such a quantity of grass on the hills, at this period of the year. Notwithstanding the good pasture seen almost every- where, such is the consumption at the Iron Works that some hrfy is taken every week from the upper counties" to Merthyr. The water has decreased very much in the greater and lesser Taffs, within these last nine days. Notices to reduce wages have been actually given at Penydarren and A berdare Iron Works. Some fool or rogue, or both, has been humbugging the London papers with a false account of an assault by Cnartist boys, at Hirwain, on a Bristol commercial man. No person has been committed on the charge—no charge has .been made—and the scribe should be sent to learn wit to a place called Coventry. No commercial man ought to speak to him. In contradiction to the advice given by our cotemporary of Merthyr, we beg to warn the honest Liberals of Gla- morganshire against the wily devices and schemes which are beinr- planned and concocted to wean them from their duty, under the most specious appearances of sincerity. This we are enabled to do, although, we are not every day readers of Coke upon Li/ttletun, nor are we admitted fre- quently into court favour; yet we have sufficient discern- ment to convince us, though we do not designate our- selves by the title of lawyer. that when certain dirty work is to be done, there can always be found a clique ready to administer to the wants and necessities of that moving power of which they are the mere puppet strings. NEATH PETTY SESSIONS, JUNE 4. Before Nash Edwards Vaughan and Griffith Llewellyn, Esquires. Elizabeth Jones, of Mexico Row, complained of Ann Thomas and Elizabeth Bezly, of the same place, for having violently assaulted and beaten her on Wednesday, the 2d instant; complainant, on being sworn, stated that defendants had beaten her, and threatened to kill her and her children, and that defendant Ann Thomas said she would stick her with a knife she had in her hand, and afterwards took her cap from off her head, and tore it all to pieces. (T¡.e rags of the cap were produced.) 1 bornas Barrett deposed to having seen defendants beating complainant, and that Ann Thomas cried out she would murder her and all her children. At this stage of the proceedings, it came out that there were cross-warrants in the case, and after n long and angry discusoion between the parties, the magistrates, thinking all equally culpable, imposed a fine on each of 2s. 6d. and costs, amounting in the whole to 8s., which were paid, and the parties retired as full of ire" against each other as before. Oakwood Company v. James Bennet, Daniel Evans. Wil- liam Mughts, and John Jones.-Titi- was a complaint pre- fprorl h, M>* I l>».<• "6" i„ tl,c o.iKwoou ana Argoed Company, against the defendant, for having left their employ without giving proper notice. Mr. Har- greaves, solicitor, appeared for the detence. The case, which occupied the attention of the bench for some time, was of no public interest, and was eventually arranged between the agent and Mr. Hargreaves, without requiring the interference of their Worships.—Transfer of Licenses. —Mr. Hargreaves applied, on behalf of the Vale of Neath Brewery Company, for a transfer of the license for the premises called the "Jersey Arms," at Briton Ferry, from TITofnas Williams to Mrs. Jane Bevan. The ad- mission of the neCcSSélrv notices having been given to the Overseer and Constable being proved, the Transfer was granted.—Mr John Smith also applied for a transfer of License to him of The Mackworth Arms Inn," (late New Market Tavern "), which was likewise granted. THEATRE, NEATH.—The < loom which, we regret to say, has enveloped the manager's progress for some weeks, was on Friday last dispelled by the attendance of a numerous and fashionable audience to witness a new drama, entitled The Cuhbler's Hut" from the able pen of Charles Tennant, Esq., of Cadoxton the plot of which is extremely simple, and may be told in few words. The Count de Worowski having married Poleska de Fersteim -a lady of somewhat violent temper and excessive Pride -resolves upon the following stratagem to cure his lady- love. Having left her, to prepare for her reception at a newly-purchased estate in Poland, he disguises himself as a serf, and enters the service of Peter, a cobbler-a tenant of the estate—in which character of Alexis we find him at the commencement of the drama, pursuing his humble calling. He confides to Peter a portion of his secret, viz., that under a feigned title of nobility he has married the high lady, who by a preconcerted accident is overturned in a carnage at the Cobbler's Hut, and is compelled there to find an asylum. Here her violence of temper is greatly wrought upon by Peter and M. Koulikott, the intendant of the domain, who, from a love ot mischief, or a feeling of revenge, treat her with various indignities, believing her to be only, as the wife of a serf, a vassal of the domain, which gives rise to many richly comic situations, till, at length, the painful truth is confirmed by the appearance of Alexis, and his endeavours to compel her to assume the dress, and succumb to the labours of their humble station. She, however, contrives to employ some peasants to convey a letter to the Castle of W orowski, where the Baroness Vladimar, sister of the Count, has arrived, who immediately dispatches an escort to take all the parties at the Cobbler's Hut into custody, and convey them to the Castle, where Poliska comes to lay her complaint. The Baroness warmly espouses her cause, and sentences Alexis the serf to death, for the deception and seduction of Poliska, whose better feelings, however, burst forth, and at her plea the sentence is revoked, and that of tlivorce offered, which at first is readily accepted, but with the reflection that he may then marry another, the love of the wife returns, and she requests time for consideration her better nature is about to triumph, when she learns from Kontikoff that her husband is at the feet of the Baroness-under the influence of jealousy she signs the prayer of divorce, which Alexis, ignorant of the cause, agrees to. She is about to return to her early home, when the Count de Worowski is announced; pride and anger vanish at the sound, Poliska throws herself at his feet, and prays the Count to arrnul the act of divorce. Upon hearing she alone has the power to do so, she destroys the document, and, liftingher eyes in gratitude to her benefactor, recog- nizes in the Count her much-loved husband. Her temper is conquered, her affections are triumphant, and the curtain falls on the happy reconciliation. To the manner in which the drama is conducted we are com- pelled to award the highest praise. The language is throughout characteristic and refined, never sinking to bombast on the one hand or vulgarity on the other; the characters are figured with great discrimination, and contrast powerfully with each other, while the dramatic situations, though powerfully brought out, arise naturally from the business of the scene, and arc highly imposing, without any apparent effort to render them o. We have rarely witnessed a drama in which the various dramatic lequisites are so strongly combined, and beautifully developed. Of the acting we have but room to say a few words. Miss Maria Tyrer, who was engaged by the manager, from Bath, expressly for this character, delighted all beholders; she is an actress of first-rate talent, and represented-the high-flown pride, the deep resentment, the passionate feelings, and the fond affection of Poliska to the life. Alexis was well sustained by Mr. King he more than realized the expectations which Irs previous efforts exci ed, and was warmly applauded throughout. The comic parts, in the hands of Messrs. Bass and Sanders, ? we])," and Mcsdames Pahner and Sanders, as !he Barone--s and M ichelene, were all that could be dcstred. H earty applause attended the piece throughout and on the fall of the curtain, three loud cheers, and one cheer more, were given for the author, whose dramatic abilities, judgii'g from this first specimen, we are hold to say must place him on the highest roll of living dramatists. SWANSEA I?rtHMARY.-Abstract of the House Sur- geon's Report to the Weekly ??. from the 1st ?'7?? of June, 1841, inclusive- I Kpmatned by last Report 20 2g 7n ?oor Admitted since 2- ?3 ..( 1- {Discharged, cure d and re heved? ? ? Remaining 18 (-Remained by last Report .178 Admitted since .] 38—216 Out-door Discharged cured aud relieved 25 patients. ] Died Remaining. 191 Medical Officers for the H eek ■' — Physician, Dr. Howells, I Surgeon: Mr. Itowland.-(,oinntitlee: W. 11. Grove, E:'q., Chairman; L. Lt. Dillwyn, Esquire, Vice-Chairman.— I Messrs. E. Budd, R. Higgs, And R. Aubrey.
THE CORN LAVIS.
THE CORN LAWS. I I IMPORTANT PUBLIC MEETING AT SWANSEA. I I (Contiizuedfrom oul- Fourth Page ) I Mr. Charles Tennant, of Cadoxton Lodze, Neath, said: I hope, Mr, Mayor, that I am not viewed here in the light of an intruder. Representing for myself, and other's of my family, property to no inconsiderable amounC 111 this county, I consider my individual interests to be perfectly identified with yours. On that account I do not df-em it necessary to apologize for addressing this meeting. I stand here in the character of a friend to the people (cheers), and that means, a friend to myself also; for I am one of the people, and my interests are inti- mately connected with the interests of the people at large (cheers). Although I am not a working man- that is, I do not work with my hands, I do not engage in manual labour I am dependant upon the working man. But I beg to say, that I am an advocate for the just rights, according to my own understanding of those rights, of all classes of society, and for preserving that respect which We all owe to each other. (Cheers.) Mark what I say—tl>«; respect we owe to each other: for if you, the working classes, owe respect to that class to which I belong; I also owe respect to you, in your several sta- ting,, so long as you discharge faithfully your respective duties in society. (Hear.) I do make distinctions in thedaes of society but I make no distinction in the question of political rights (Cheers). I am not an advocate for liberty and equality, a doctrine so abhorrent to my principles, and the very words so dangerous to be used, from the liability of being misunderstood, that I should not here have ventured to have mentioned them, but to correct what I believe to have been a wilful mis- representation by some of n.y worda at the late meeting at Neath. I told the people there, as tell you all here, that what I understand and mean by liberty and equality is, that free liberty of will and speech which is admitted by the constitution of the land; and that equality of jus- tice which is recognised and established by the laws. Thus far, and no further, do I claim for myself and all others, as our just and lawful right, and this will 1 ever insist upon and maintain by every lawful means within my power. FlIere the Mayor interrupted the speaker by requesting him to confine himself to the question before the meeting.] After some little confusion, Mr. C. Ten- the i-neeting. ?ed- I am told to keep to the subject before the meeting I do keep to the subject—the subject of our meeting here being your rights (Loud cheers). I tell the Mayor that I am speaking to the question, and that he shall have enough of it before I have done with it (Cheers). I came here to be heard (Renewed cheers)—I will be heard, in my own way, with the will of the people. (Tremendous cheering). The Mayor: Gentlemen, Mr. Tennant says he will be heard in his own way. We are not met here to discuss the question of-liberty and equality, and I will not sit here and allow him to speak on subjects foreign to our present purpose. (Hisses, cheers, and cries of" Chair.") As long as he wishes to address you on the question be- fore the meeting, I shall be happy to hear him. (Hisses, an d cr i es of and cries of Chair.") Mr. Tennant: Respect the chair, my friends. I bow, sir, with submission to the constituted authorities of the country. We have met here to discuss a great and im- portant point; I am not going to make a very long speech, but I wish to give you something to carry away with you, something which you can tell your families at home-cer- tain facts connected with the subject for reflection at home, that you may not be guided by my opinion alone, but that you may try all I tell you by that blessed gift of God- reason. To your reason, not to your passions, I do appeal. (Hear.) I appeal to your reason, my friends, and I ask your masters to let your reason have fair play. (Cheers.) I ask them (if there be any here), for their own sakes, not to drive a loyal people to desperation. I ask them to let the people have a will of their own, founded on reason, and within the pale of the law; for take care, my friends, you do not step beyond the pale of the law. (Hear, hear.) The law protects you as long as you obey. it; and punishes you if you infringe it. Ah your enemies would be glad to see you step beyond the pale of the law. (Deafening cheers and laughter.) There are many here in this county who would be glad to drive you beyond the pale of the law, that they might cut you down. (Hear.) Ay, cut you down by the military, and then trample upon you. The Mayor: I must again request that you will con • fine yourself to the subject matter of the petition. Mr. Tennant: I stand corrected. We are met here to consider whether the Queen and her Ministers are en- titled to your voices or not. (Hear.) Your Queen is with you. (Cheers.) It is not often we have a king or queen of this country with us on such questions as tht"=e. I am going to tell you why you should support your pa- triot Queen, and her patriot Ministers. There is a de- ficiency in the revenue of about two millions, four hundred thousand pounds, in the last financial year, and the Tory party say that in consequence of that deficiency, as one of their grounds, the Ministers of the Queea are not entitled to the confidence of the people, and therefore are not competent to conduct the affairs of the country. That I believe to be a plain state of the case. Now, I submit to you that I am in order, if I go into the reason of that de- ficiency. I believe I shall be within the object of the meeting. (Cheers.) I would beg to remind you of the taxes taken off by t meeting. (Cheers.) he Whigs; that is much to the purpose. I will mention some of the principal burdens from which the people have been relieved during the last ten years of Whisr'government. The Whigs have taken off the duty on coal, amounting- fo upwards of nine hundred thousand pounds; the duty off candles, Jive hundred thousand pounds; the duty off printed cotton, Jive hundred and fifty thousand pounds; one million two hundred thousand pounds of house taxes have been taken off; and off soap,fice hundred and mnety-three thousand pounds: the salt tax, and many other oppressive taxes, which I need not enumerate. In ad- dition to all these, is the reduction ot postage duty, a great gift to the people, but at present attended with a loss to the revenue of about one million sterling a year the whole making a sum total of taxes taken off by the Whig government of secen millions two hundred tf^mand pound*, in the last -ten years th--) i and that, after de- 1.au.mi/cvt aid ninety-seven thousand, eight hun- dred and two pounds, estittiatcd by the Chancellor of the Exchequer as the amount of new taxes out on. (Hear.) Then, I say, they have h id to contend with unusual diffi- culties. The rebellion in Canada cost this country three and a half millions to suppress. That rebellion no one will presume to say was in consequence of Whig Admi- nistration. I shall not detain you by entering into the inquiry at whose door that matter is to belaid; it is stiflicient for me to say that it cannot be attributed to the Whigs. Well, three and a half millions were paid for i quellIng that insurrection, and saving Canada: whether worth the saving, at the cost. being another and a differ- ent question, with which we have nothing to do here. I will now allude to Syria. The war apprehende d there was suddenly quelled by the energy of the British go- vernment. That disturbance was put down by the prompt and encrgetic measures of her Majesty's Ministers. iflear.) Then, there is the affair with China, another expensive affair, and still pending. But, bear in mind, that while engaged in those expensive operations, the Whig Administration paid their way as they went on. They have not laid on additional taxes, nor burthened the nation with additional and permanent debt; but they have honestly paid their way, and have rescued their country from the horrors of an European war. (Deafening cheers for several seconds). I think it is very important that I should call your attention to those points, which are easily understood, and from which you may perceive that the present Administration is deserving of your continued confidence and support (hear); and my business here this evening is to ask you to support your Queen and her Ministers (cheers), and I think it incumbent on me to state the grounds on which I make the application. You have already heard that there is a deficiency in the revenue. There are three modes by which this deficiency may be met: I shall lay these before you, that you may Judge for yourselves, wheth( r the Chancellor of the Exchequer has chosen the best; because we can under- stand the matter as well as he can; we have the same sources of information as the Government, only they get it a little sooner than we do. The reason I am here to tell you all these things is, that I have, perhaps, more leisure to look into these matters than many of you. Now just attend, and you will understand it in five minutes. One mode of meeting our present difficulties would be, by raising a loan. We are so deep in debt already, that it becomes very dinicult to pay the interest of the present debt. We have already raised 8 or 9 hun- dred millions, and find it troublesome to pay the interest. Now, raising a loan, you see, is a very bad way to go to work; and the Chancellor of the Exchequer seems to be of the same opinion. There is another way—putting on fresh taxe. Oh, no. the Tories do not like that (laughter.) The Tories are not fond of taxing the people (renewed laughter.) If they had come into power you would have heard them say—to tax the poor working classes, what a shame! (roars of laughter.) I will not dwell on that topic, as it will waster rime-t but I will just tell you, that they have a great (lislik-e to all taxes which directly touch themselves. There is another, a third method, and that the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposed to try; but the Tories will not let. him. The third way is. by reducing the taxation (hear, hear.) A very novel plan (laughter.) We are not accustomed to it (cheers and laughter); it has never been tried. People will not believe it possible that by reducing taxation the revenue may be increased (cheers and laughter.) There is such a thing as timber duty. There are some timber mer- chants here, I dare say. They will understand my allusion (laughter.) There 15 what we call a protecting duty on timber brought from the Canadas. lis. 6d. a load, plus the five per cent. which was put on last year. Then there is a duty of 56s. 6d. on the Baltic. timber, which is the best—Canada timber, you all know, is the worst. This heavy duty is put on to force us to use the rotten timber of Canada, because Canada is a British colony. Now, the Chancellor of the Exchequer wishes to increase the duty on the bad Canada timber to 20s. a load, and to lower the duty on the good Baltic timber to 50s., thereby making a differential duty of 30s. a load, for the protection, as it is called, of Canada timber. The Chancellor of the Exchequer calculates on getting £ 700,000 a-year by this new arrangement (hear.) There is such a thing as sugar. The working classes are told that it is not a good thing for them to drink intoxicating liquors (and indeed they are not allowed to drink much of any sort- I need not remind you of the duty on malt.) They are told to drink tea, though, to be sure, that bears a duty of 95 per cent. Then there is coffee, a nice whole- some beverage for the people, but it requires sugar. I never saw a man who could drink coffee without sugar (laughter); therefore, I sny, that sugar is almost one of the necessaries of life to the working man (hear, hear.) Now. what is the tax on foreign sugar? 63s. a cwt., plus the 5 per oent. (hear, hear.) What does the Chancellor of the Exchequer intend to do? Why, to britiz it tiov. n Kn 37s. per cwt., and God grant that he may be enabled to do so. But lie is strongly opposed. The effect o this tax of 63s. per cwt. is not to make sugar dear, but to prohibit the use of it altogether. I will not use false terms. I will not say that it makes sugar dear. You do not get this sugar at all; it is prohibited. V, e have the right of petitioning, and let us petition for the removal of this grievance. The Tories say, we ought not to purchase slave,grown sugar; but they admitted slave-grown suaar when they were in power. They have belied their own assertion, because the Tory Government admiiied the principle when they were in power; and ;t ? st^ll the FIlv of the land, that slave-grown .ugar ?v'b? a?hS into this country, on payment of this duty? and we all know that it is now admitted into this ewmtry m enor- mous quantities in bond, for the purpose of being refined, and taken-where ? Why, to our West Indian colonies, to be sold to the negroes themselves ('hear, hear, hear). Is not this monstrous? Is not this audacious? To hold it out as a reason to the people whv they should be denied this comfort of life, that we thereby encourage slavery, The canting hypocrite* < £ ncrtur«ge slavery? Why aduju it at all? iVhy it out to our West Lidirui-colonies for he r.™ro?s,-and prohibit the comfort to labourers ? The working man here pays 12d. for that which the negroes pay 4a, Moreover, the whole of the sugar so refined and exported. instead of producing revenue to this country, goes out free of duty (hca r), A v. and that is the least evil attend- ing this system of monopoly; but the time has now. arrived for an alteration—when the tariffs of all the chief nations of the earth shall be remodelled. This great question affects the whole world. At the time we arc here as.-embled, discussing this important question, similar meeting!" are probably held throughout the empire and let us recollect that the decision of this question will in- fluence all the nations of the earth, in the renewal of their treaties of commerce with this nation (heat, hr). Mr. lennant then entered into details of the present state of our commercial relations with fcreign countries, shewing that foreign parts were already closed, or nearly so, and might soon be entirely closed, against British manufac. tures, in consequence of our restrictive laws on the im- portation of foreign corn and other commodities. He proceeded: we cannot grow corr enough to supply the de. mands ot our population therefore it is in vain to say that we can be independentof foreign nations. We cannot. We are dependant upon each other a» individuals and it is the same with nations «s it is with individuals. It was part of the great design ot the Creator that we should be mutually dependant on each other, and this truth Is exemplified in a thousand ways. There is Co mistaking it. It is intended that we should be bound together by our interests, not by our fears; that all the nations of the earth should be tied together by the bonds of mutual interests; and thus should be preserved a universal tjeace (hear, hear, hear). It is contrary to the design of Provi- dence that men should slay each other. W ar ever watV and must be, an evil, and must always be attended with afflicting consequences, as punishments for our infringe- ment ot the moral law. I say with confidence, without fear of contradiction, that it is the interest of this nation to be dependant on foreign nations, and thereby to make other nations dependant upon us. Speaking of the Corn Laws, and their injurious tendency, Mr. Tennant made use of the following illustration:—Suppose now they were to build a wall around Swansea, or any other town, say Birmingham or Manchester—that they built a wall com- pletely round it, with no door to let anv body in or out. Well, they have nothing, in provisions/but what is shut up within this wall. Fancy that you hear the inhabitants say, Oh, do not be dependant on any one, have we not all within the walls(laughter). Well, it is the same with us here we are on an island, surrounded by water; would it do for us to say that we will not be dependant on other nations ? Are we prepared to cut off all connexion, all communication with other countries ? Why, we should starve (hear). If the Tories had their way, we should be driven to destruction! With regard to the enclosed town, where would the inhabitants get their corn from-f. They would be driven to grow their corn in flower-pott (roars of laughter). Oh! yes, they would say, we wilt grow corn in flower pots. A capital thing it would be for those who had flower-pots (renewed laughter). Would No, indeed. What do you think would be the price of their corn ? I suppose it would be very high. But ould he seller be much better off than the buyers ? It is proOttble they would all starve together. Not only would the flower-pot corn be enormously dear, but every thing else tn proportion. You would have to give £100 tor a coat, £ ot) for a shirt; and £20 for a pair ot stockings (roars ot laughter), and you could not hope to have a pair of shoes under ten guineas (renewed laughter). Now, juat apply that lllusiration; it contains a history of the whole corn question (hear, hear, hear). If we are told to keep to the produce of our own country, knowing that we can- not control the seasons knowing that the farmer is subject to that. which is beyond al human control, how are we to provide for the sustenance of the people ? Mr. Tennant next adverted to the sliding scale of corn duties, and suggested that it should be called the hocus pocus scale; because it hocus-pocused away from the labouring man at least one-fourth of his hard-earned daily bread; that it was a direct property tax of at least 2 per cent. upon the labouring classes, not tor keeping up the revenue of the nation, but for the purpose (a most mistaken notion) of keeping up the landlords' rent" Mr. Tennast then went into very full explanatory details, shewing the ruinous effects the of Com Lawson e-cry c?  oht'r "?resting details andta?be? ht every shdni? .ngper quarter added to the price of corn wasestnn?d to be equal to a tax of ? minions and a hah on th. peopie. He also said, that in the year 1839- -1.0, there had been introduced into this country four mil, lions of quarters of foreign corn, at the average duty of Is and Is. he poi.-ited out the loss to the revenue in those years, from not having a fixed duty, such as is now propos d by Ministers. He further said, that he was hims?f strongly opposed to any tax on bread for any purpose but that be did not come there to argue against the Min st r a! mane propo e 1; that upon ttx prindple of half a loaf being better than none, ne would advise them to accept the boon offered by Ministers, and at a convenient season take the other half. He proceeded at considerable length in his remarks on the corn question He adverted to the price of Polish corn-that the average price of corn at Dantzic for the last ten years was 35s a quarter—average amount of freight per quarter lOa. — duty 8s.. which would make it 53s. a quarter by the time it would reach the British market, exclusive of allowance for loss, damage; and profit to the importer- so thai he had brought it to within 2s. of the price which Sir Robert Peel admitted was the average price of corn in this country, t. e" 5os. a quarter. He argued, from this conclusion, that the landlords, who dreaded a fall in their rents, had n^thin* to far. He would admit that the rents nil;ht fall a little, but not to any great extent, and that if the nominal value were reduced, the actual value wotjd be much more increased. As a land proprietor himself, he did not care whether they fell or not—consult the great intercuts ot the nation, and you best consult the intirfsts of individuals. Mr. Tennant held up the ex- ample of the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Fitzwi?iam, a id many other gre?t landowners, and dwelt with power? flandinpres?ve la?guaye on the glory of the Brish Aristocracy, the just pride of the British natlo" He shghdyg?n ed at the currency qm-ttinn «nd dre-a very d)stressr)Kp cure of what must have been .h?pTMent prospect fnr flis country, had not Pr(lvi"álc cheered m with the appearance of a plentiful harvest. The nume- rous topics introduced into his very excellent speech render it impossible even to advert to them in detail, itS the whole speech, if published, would occupy at least six columns of our paper. He quoted the words of scripture. fl Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn, which, with his accompanying remark., had a very powerful effect on the minds of his hearers. He ilIu.- trated the condition of landlord and tenant in this country by the following story:-A white man and a red man were hunting together in the back woods of America. At the close of the day they emptied their game bag, when they turned out only a wild turkey, which is very pretty picking, and a buzzard, which is carrion. Well, now," said the white man to the red man, You shall take the buzzard, and take the turkey. Or, if you please, I'll take the turkey, and you shall take the buzzard." said the red man, shaking his long black-matted hair, "white man never say turkey once to poor Indian." I leave you, my friends, to apply this little story. The white man's word was the law, and he divided the spoil. The only choice to the red man was, the carrion or nothing. 1 ell your children this little story; remember it, and ap- ply It for yourselves. We give another extract from his speech: I will suppose the wages of the agricultural labourer to be 10s. per week; an3 that he has a w?fe and three children to provide for-five in all. I will suppose his family to consume eight quartern loaves per week as the workit-g c lasses live principally on bread. It is caleu. lated by political economists that there is a duty of4od. upon a quartern loaf; I will take 3d., it will be enough for my purpose. The duty on eight quartern loaves, at 3d. on each, is 2s.; so that a working man who earns 10s. per week, and consumes in his family eight quartern loaves a week, pays 2s. per week in the shape of bread tax alone, and that is twenty per cent. on his week's wages. That is a direct tax, and no mistake! The Tories try to mys. tify the matter, but it is your fault if you let them. There is no hocus pocus work here; this is a- plain fact, clear, and no mistake (Hear, hear). I will now give you ano- ther illustration. Take, for example, the family of a respectable old gentleman, himself, his wife, and three single young ladies, the daughters—five in all. They do not eat nearly so .much bread as the workinc man's family- They get good beef and mutton, and many other goodth.ng? whIch the working man's familv never see, nor think ot. But I will mako sa™ allowance of Hght quartern loaves a week to Sthi" s respectable old <rent]eman hIs i i_ rCC daughters. Now, suppose this respectable „H gentileman to possess, the moderate but resnecta11 ??come of ?.000 a^ar- or, say ?O a?eckl? ?"?? '"?? Now, ?"' be ?r/clear o you, my fnend, tl.a a tax of 2.. a week on ?M a wek, is I very dt?rent thing from 2s. a week on 10s. a week. One 's20 per cent., and the oth?r—how much per cent. Oh! shame upon the Tories, who <a)) this?quai iUltiee! and shame upon the nation that permits this gross injus- uce.— Mr. Tennant then proceeded with great force and effect to show that the outcry rViSed by themonopoliats, that low wages would be a necessai'jVlf'^wq.uence of cheap bread, was a gross fallacy, to deceive the working classes-a fallacy founded.on such gross tjnbrangs, that it was difficult to believe pf many'who made tliis assertion that they themselves really believed it. Mr. Tennant said, "I admit that in speaking of the motives of mea„ much caution is necessary and, perhaps, it is seldom wise, or s afe. But it ever there was a case which justified the imputation of bad motives, the Corn Law monopolist furnishes that case. But be the motive what it may, believing as I do that the consequences are ruinous to the best interests of this nation, and operating to the misery and even to the destruction, of millions of the huaaM race, not ouy in bB country, but in fe'n CO\1ntries; also, by the mevttable cn'lquence wh'ch? wind.mo minate as the r.nected evils of* a vicious sy?m I s?d here to denounce this vicious systen- and I can  wh hear me to raise their woic<? .1711 e?ll 1 stand .■), ?!? a•ll this denunciation (Immensecheering) W' mvfrTendT and an awfu! fact. we? worthy ??<y?oHS.?? it ,s a fact, sta<T of ?e. ?me YS??? se? re0ect)on,that,tn the tiro es of scarcity an«i high nrieea of bread, the staff of Jre,- crime and n1,i¡¡y sf on together through the k ?. You have bX refer to tTe tables ol cnmT.. andther? ycu ?v?n? Xe mcrease ofx> crime in proportion ,to ? mise,ry ? the population and the miwrV of t?e populntw,, 1 M? OOt teH you, is in nrnn^nrlinn to P?? the ne&. £$ams of fl!; Men w?SSv d? ,?"??? ? starvat. ?'s ? ?? death, aa?nd d thev mi?! ) j ? 'iard. ?? ? spea'* ?? t?y<?r passioM — I sr. I I,  ??  your reason Cod fbrb? we should be „ffl- wth a had ha?st ? and may €? bc? YON, if we &re tor thpRy?havpno other holp-tp'jd^ ?br. r i^ook not to the nations of Europe for help; for then they will not help you. We havedtone them all the evil thai we can, and, like vultures watchl fur theIr prey.!>. \JU they nounce down upon us in But I will not pj-effeat this picture ftirthrr to ymn. yiew, lest I should go loo far, and miss my aim, which^is to hit your reasoo. Therefore, I go hack, and sayv beware of your enemies-trust them not—believe thempot; and ieast of aii, when they tell you. that the high price of hreaj brings high wages (Loud eheers). Jtaage for yo.uyseJyes. Have you ever found it so ? Have you not always found it directly the reverse (much oheering); and so H ever must be. The wisdom of aficent Creator has provided that it shall ever be so. jfcit here, let us for a moment pause, and think- Do ytM not all feel, and know it to he true, that the wages of latKW ever are, and evrmnst be. d?endent on the demand ? Do you at all LeI, a d know it to he true, that tbe denvjiu' fcr r must be regulated by the demand for the prokuns of that labor that if we exclude the natural products of other nations, those natJOn", having fewer articles of interchange with us, are by so much the less able to purchase our commodities? —that the inevitable: ^on-sr- quence of this is, not onfy to glut our hotae macket,.apd thereby at