The Welshman

AN ANATOMY OF Pt'C.TLTSM. (F-om the December uumber of the Spirting R'-r-w.) The Spurtiay Review tor this month contains amongst other articles (which we shall notice next wvek) a COil- i¡.lu<ltory er on Boxing. tviKe uoui It tl*-o sub- joined passages — The announcement of a design to publish in the .Snorting iiev.vir a series ot papers on the practice ol prize- lighting, and the appearance of the iirstotthose art icles, produced a natural and characteristic expression of dis- may ami nialignirv froin those who thrive and grow tat on t >e garbage ot" the rin< In every mitigation of the criminal code. Jack Ketch perceives the decay ot the con- spitutioti and a hint at the suppression of the suws is looked Und!1 ;is a breach of Ma^na Charta !>y the patriots o. Duke's piace. Public sympathy, however, does not wait on the faLing fortunes of the grim servants oi H ides, nolr the discomfiture that menaces the t.ymphs of modern l'aphos. It is the same with your scavenger and reporter o: ;)nze-battles. The punl'ic know there ar.' men driven t :;u:1¡ resources for the sake ot their daily uread, but .H-uid the-give them credit for their indnstrv, they do are fellow- s'1 'y>, or make common cau-e, with very unsavoury tnem- 1>-rs cf society. That the feeling ot ev.-ry man, whose ojiininn is entitled to observance, is opposed to the Sa- t .IUCHI exhibitions of ihe prize-ring, is a position it v- tild be all insult to human nature to suppose required }>oof. I leave the applause ot thoe whn;e approbatioll is the bitterest reproach, to the gentiemen who have proved 'he truth and weight of my observations by the personal amise with which they have honoured die writer, in the earnest hope that every act of my life may be dignified by a >i'.nu..r censure. y In the t!ilr,t of excitement which, howevpr (ilffrently y Seek to slake it. equally :Jfeds ali mankind, there ai,e, no doubt, those of principle and humanity, w;i, have ;>v.if.tenanced prize-fighting, and many who sanct ion it s-'ill. I am its fair a,, tag,),, ist-yleti ged by the con\ ktion of rifC'it, to use niv most zealous eii. rts to abolish so foul J disgrace to manliness, and so gross a cheat upon the credulity of its supoorters. But t should scarce serve l. y purpose did i seek to do so by other tlnn strai 'In- t, wa, d means. The arguments I shall d »pt 1 will take from the materials supplied its advocates; the appeal for its suppression address to th )se who have the power to enforce its abolition, and whose continued in- eltfere,i.-e to the existence of so crying all outrage against social morals and manners is an <>uuage on a Christian mmunity. Gladiatoiial contests h ive ever formed the favourite spectacles of savages. Among their patrons in civilized 1 .nds none are found who dare t > recommend t::èITI as appliances of recreation and enjoyment, but those who, for private emolument, labour to resuscitate their defunct popularity. attempt it by describing them as incentives to fair piav at d manly courage. I will not set up the many and monstrous instances ot dastardly baseness and cow- ardly advantage I have witnessed in my experience of prize-tights, but quote the following commentary as to its it tluence upon honourable contest, written by a pugilist a few weeks ago, and published in the Gazette of the Ring. The writer is Peter Crawley, who fought "for love," al- most as often as for money, and the extract is the portion ot his letter which illustrates the system of lair play that regulates a prize-tight. As a sincere fiend to the interest of the ring, from a firm conviction of its great utility, I cannot but regret to see practised what I con- sider totally opposed to the very first principles ot ring- fighting, as stated in the articles, namely, to be a fair stand-up fight.' Manv referees appear, when deciding the question of a fair or foul fall, to consider that, when "blows have once passed in the round, a man has a right t-' throw himself down. This must no: be. Should a man fail, unless from the eflect of an accidental slip, or when, in a close, slipping down from his opponent's grasp, to avoid being thrown, such fall is toul, and ought invariably to be so decided. It cannot be fair stand-up fighting for a man, after having inflicted punisa- ment upon his opponent, tll throw himself down to avoid the return which he sees coming." Upon this exposItion, ot the manly character of pugilism shown in the practice of its professors, the editor of HeWs Life observes, "In uuropimo.), deliberately to tall without a blow, or f'nm or irc-f biess, or to avoid being thrown in a close with a more powerful opponent, is anything but fair." ■ T: the gentleman, tr-geilier with his valuable opinion that it is anvtiiin b'.ir fair to fall from from accident or weak- ness," had supplied a recipe for enabling an Englishman to keep his Ws when he i,- VIOL able to stand. then, t- ¡f.-P'j, would rtw p Itl">!IS 01 tile nng 1I,1ve IH'come Ill!> debtors beyond tiie possibility of requital. A dainty spectacle would the prize-fight be wherein one or both engaged would exchange the perpendicular only for the iz-ittal oi'the g-ave* My assertion that the taste for prize-fv/hting is fast v ining in this country has been contradicted, and I have been taunted for having m de the statement. 1 repeat it. and f am proud that I can do so teailessly and more, 1 avow my conviction that were tiie true details ot til. ring made public, so monstrous an outrage against civilization — against humanity — would not another day be permitted t,) politite this land. That a great majoi ity of people of this country of every condition in life. Is opposed to the practice of prize- fighting, I assume will not he denied. Upon what grounJs, then, is the gross gratification of the few suffered t,) be pandered for, to the iscandal and annoyance of the manv! 1aitr:\tes are invested with liberal discretionary powers, and very properly; but tiiev are permitted such dis- cretion for its sober, prudent application, and not for its at)use. I bv no means advocate legal interference in the ca«e of casual encounters, in which men. havi ng a disaree- !;wnt, meet to see out" fairly, before their neighbours; it is to thnstf rascally contrivances, 'money-fights," as thev are called, got iii). as they perpetually are, for the purpo>e.i of privaie and public robbery, that these remarks are intended to apply. One of the most respectable aic to ?,I)i, y. hotel-keepers on the Newmarket road had his house Srrip¡H>d of t,v,-tv ounce of it on the

FIRE AT KINGSWOOD, NEAR BRTSToL. the tinstol <iazrtte.) A last evening, a iurid ap" pear.jnce was observed in the heavens iu lhe direction oi K iiigs.vood, about four miles from this city. Shortly afterwards, intelligence reached Bristol that the very extensive premises of Messrs. H. H. and S. Buug.-tt, wholesale grocers and general merchants, at Kingswood- hii!, u'ere on tire, and several engines immediately started tor me scene. Tiie fire iiau reached such a ;:t:¡gJlt as r<> render vain any h<pes of saving the ware- houses., and the exertions ot the ifremen were directed to r>rps<M-vnig she dwelling-house attached to the buildings, well as the stabiir.g and the house of Mr. S, Blidgeu. which is situated a short distance in the rear. This they succeeded in accomplishing, by cutting off the communi- cation. Ihe Methodist thjapel and the I tbernacle, both immediately contiguous to tiie premises, were at one time ,n imminent risk, increased by the burning timber thrown -tito the yard but on this source of danger being pointed nnt. it was by the exorcise of extraordinary etiergy and activity removed, a..d the wind shilling, both pi..ces of worship escaped destruction. The house next to the shop and warehouses was in extreme jeopardy, having caught fire at various points several times, ami but for the change of the wind, could not have been saved. 1 he whole ot the warehouses, counting-houses, and shop present a mass ot ruins. Of these immense buddings. which cover.-d an area ot nearly an acre in extent, no- thing now remains but tottering walls and blackened timbers, amidst which lie scattered in indistinguishable lieads the remains of the valuable stock which they ell- elos. d. 111 one spot may be observed vast quantities of cottee, in the berry, completely roastl-ti m mother, chests u) on chests of tea, burnt by the fire and damaged by water in a third, sacks of flour trampled into one du ty mass whilst a:l about dre running streams of melted sugar. The new tea room, which had been jllst tiinsiled, as well as the library lately fitted up for the use of the younjt men emplojed in the establishment, are both ue.-iroyed. The slllall chapel attached to the premises remains entire. It is impossible, at present, to gi%'e ariv- thing like a conect estimate of the amount of propertv destroyed, but we art- glad to learn that it is expected the i,, stira-tic- -A ill covt-r the itiitir-v, tioiie, both to the build- ings and stock. 11 is a fortunate circumstance that two cargoes of new fruit, just imported, which in aHother day or two would have been taken to Kingswood, had not bee:1 removed from Messrs. Budgett's warehouses in Nelson- Street, or the loss would, of course, have been much greater. 1 he books and pap-rs wei e also saved. At the time of the discovery ot the fire there were nearly 40 valuable horses in the stables, all of which were got out safe. It is also satisfactory to be able to state that no lives were lost orattysfrious injury inti.cted. It is not known how the fire originated.

C-HILT) MURDF.RS IN THE FOREST or DEAN. I — DEATH OF THE MURDERESS. I (From the Glo'ster Jourmil.) I We last week announced the committal or trances Bennett to our county gaol on the charge of llJurderin her six ijitant children. We have IIOW to record that the doom, the apprehension of which terrified her into dis- closures which made public lu-r unnatural and unparal- leled atrocities, has befallen her. She died in the hos- pital ot the county gaol early yesterday morning after a confinement of eight days. Since Iwr atllllission she had every an ntion paid to her which her condition required and her passage to her dread account was, we have rea- son to believe, no way accelerated by th, trealment she received since her reception within the walls ot the pri. son indeed she could not have been. so far as professional attention and nursing were concerned, better, if so well, attended to at her own home. It was not in the power ot human means to rest ie her to health. Consumption had made tatal ravages upon her constitution, and death had set his seal upon her, and she Mr she was summoned away, when she uttered those c()nfesiùn which, from the enormity of the crimes to whiLh they referred, have caused a sensation in every part of the kindom. Year a fter Year did this remorsek'ss woman consign the chil- dren of her body to dca:h and while the murdered re- mains were resting under the stolle? over which her feet were o.tssm? day after day, did she keep the horrid secret of her iniquity from the knowledge of all her neighbours till the summons she received to prepare for her own account, awoke the terrors of a conscience which crime had apparently seared from all compunctious warnings. The district in which these murders were committed is part of one of those few places where the superstitions ot i ye-gone days still linger and are finnly retained by many of that class of persons to which this woman be- longed. Among many of the poorer inhabitants of the Fori st of Dean, as in many other places where the coun- try retains some Of It-I original wildness, and people have not yet multiplied so as entirely to extinguish the solitude of nature, visitants from the invisible world are believed in as a matter almost of religious faith yet this woman could with her own hands stop the breath of her own off- spring and then buiy or assist to bury their insensible bodies under the flooring of her house without beinginfiu- enced by a fear which would have operated upon less hardened mmds that the spectres of these innocent objects of her cruel y would rise up from under her feet, and up- braid her with her horrible inhnmanity. Either the mind of this bad woman was above the innuence of the feelings of oth'rs of her class in life; or, what is perhaps the most proper view of the case, the superstitions of ignJ- rance only debase the mind, and have no salutary opera- tioll in deterring from crime. And yet the most sceptical or strongest-minded villain, one would think, would rather tlilt the bodies of his victims should have a more distant burial-place, than one always within sight, and from which evcu ill the dread hour of the night there was no retreating. Perhaps a few words recapitlllatory of this dreauful business may be interesting to those read- ers who did not see our paper contain.n? me?t-st an- nouncement of it. The woman, Frances Benncrt, was the w dow of a man of that name, who lived at Ruardean- hilf,in the Forest of Dean, and who, at his death, left her a little property, with the stipulation, that it she married again it should pass from her. Afterwards, a man named Thomas Yapp Went to live with her; and probably she was deterred from marrying him in consequence ot the absurd restrictions of the will. By thin man, according j to hr own confession, she had no less than six children, All of whom she murdered, at, or immediately after their oirth, and, as she stated, buried them with Yapp's assist- anee, underneath the paving of her back kitchen. None lot her neighbours appear to have had any suspicion that during till this time she had once been a r,.o'her a few weeks ago, she was taken ill, and fancying it was for death, she made the above confession, and requested thitt the remains ot her children might be dug- up and re- buried in consecrated ground. She described with accu- racy the spots where the bodies lay, and in those precise spots they were all found—at least, five of them w-ere so discovered, and we have heard it stated, that when she was told that the sixth could not be found, she exclaimed, Oh, I remember, the pigs eat him but ot this we cannot speak with any certainty we believe it was not deposed to before the coroner. Thomas Yapp still reo mains in custody in the gaol: how the death of his part- ner will affect his situation we cannot form an opinion; but probably it will be found that the case will be too weak agaiust him to warrant his conviction; ot this, how- ever, it is premature to speak at any length.

THE HON. GRANTLEY BERKKLKYS DEER I MATCii AT CHARBJROliGH PARK. Charborough Park, Nov. 29.-Mr. Berkeley lost his match in Charborough Park this day, the dog having heen disabtedinttenrstrencoctre. The bucks were unusually stromr. There were about fhur thousand persons present, and in order that they'might not be disappointed, Mr. Drax ordered out his deer dogs, and took two bucks which were cleveily hobbled by Mr. Grantley Berkeley, to the satisfac- tion of the observers. A large number of fashionables are sojourning at Chat-borough Park. The following account of this match is by the well known sporting writer, who assumes the pseudonym of Craven" — Pteci-ely at half-past te i, the hour appointed for the business of the day tc comiiioicc, there approached from the mausiori a very imposing cavalcade, consisting of Mr. Drax aud Mr. Hussey-umpires for the inatch-the Hon. Grantley Berkeley, Mr. Drax's huntsmen and whips, and two grooms with spare horses for the party about to assay the wager of woodcraft. The umpires were clad in onti nary equestrian attire- Mr. Berkeley wore a suit of green, a velvet cap of the same colour, wuh a r:C:1 gold Isand. and slung at his back, the implimeuts of his craft. The ser- vants of the hunt-their frocks of jonquil coloured velvet with purple collars, and the grooms' hvpnes of cnmson, which. added to the prevalence of grey horses, gave the cortege as gallaut un appearauce as may with propriety be exhibited in these degenerate days. Having passed in nf_ j pff?M/i,w)Nf|F.sv to !q.ch of their d ?. "Whether for love or money, this was a gallant adven- ture, and one which few men could have undertaken with more chances of success than Mr. Grantley Berkeley The conditions of the match were, that in the course of the day Mr. Berkeley should, with the aid of one dog only, pull down, hobble' (that is, secure by fastening the four legs together), five bucks. & to leave them in possession of the servants, Jbv whom they were to be put into a deer cart, provided for the purpose. When sn carted, thev were to be examined by the umpires, and each one found uninjured that is to say, without any serious wound or hurt—was to count for the captor. Mr. Berkeley's apparatus for ht)l)bliiig' was very complete the horse he had trained to ride up to the courses would lie down at the word, so so as to leave him free to deal with "is quarry, and hb dog-a noble deer hound had already gutted down bis three bucks in one day. The name of the steed is Brock, that of the houllIl Odin-Rud with perhfips the unneressar> explanation that the buck is the adult male of the fallow as the stag ts of the red deer, we will follow the cavalier s afield. "The mounted party already described, led by Mr. Drax, ride up to a large herd (Charborough Park contains a gieat head of ,,eiision- ino, c than one huuurpd red, an d eight htindied fallow deer). and use every device to sepa- rate a buck from the lot. In vain they harass them fro m end to end of the dorinin-ttic best result being to get a hrace of bucks dear-evidently the Damon and Pythias of the herd. These, running wide of each other-Odin is slipp'd at a white one—and io 1 a course is up. The Berkeley rises in his stirrups his voics rings through the clear air he cheers on his houud in tones that innke the gazers hearts leap. But scarce have they run a bow .hot's length when the buck stands ht bay. Ah what is it I see ? By Diaii's self Odin retreats, and, the antler- oeaef is tlae victor! Attain the deer is made to trv his heels —again he is at bay. Mark! some new device occu- pies the huuter. The black buck, who still had vhtched and waited on the Sylvan surrace, is now selected as the victim. Odin is chtereu on to him he flit's, aod almost reaches the lines where the excited spectators look breath- less on. Good tleer brave deer! the hound is at thy hau.ch he leUps to thy throat-ah the forester turns, aud his antlers crash against his foe. Odin is daJhed down the L H, he slinks to his master for succour, and no chter avail ? to launch him again on the forest champion. The dark deer hath won the day. At the third failure Nlr. Hussey rode up to the com- pany, auunuiiciog that Mr. Berkeley had abandoned the match, a statement the gentleman himself presently con- firmed by saying 'It was a bad bu-iness.' Whatever the cause, a more complete faiiure there could not have been.' Mr. Berkeley did all that was possible in the case, but his dog seemed beaten in the first attempt to close with his quarry. I saw him as he was led away, and his keeper told me was a good deal injured- he certainly had some hard knocks. Upon this uutoward finish Mr. Drax sent for his own deer hounds, and there was some good cours- ing before the party broke up. I cannot take my leave of that company without alimline to one member of it, who with his equipage made up as unique a total as probably I ever met in the same sum. It was an equestrian who, together with his pony and his boots, make up a party numbering 126 years—the rider being 84 years old-- the steed 27 and the boots )5 —as it was told to me. This 8S the we, 1 known persoD, Butler, of Frampton-the I RSQ()ciate of King George the Fourth, then Pnnce cf VVates. a?d who looked hale and healthy enough to stand in a simIlar relation to the present prince of that ilk, ¡ whom way God long preeerve."

STMLA STATE PAPER. I Except the late Lord Durham's parting proclamation from Canada. we do not remember so reckless a state- paper as this of Lord Ellenborough from Simla. The anarchy ot the Aflghdii tribes will fizi(I i parallel in the British monarchy, it every temporary holder ot power delegated from the Sovereign is allowed to entertain surrounding States" with the faults and follies of his Queen's government, whenever the actual or former policy of that government does not suit his opinions. There is administrative anarchy, not constitutional go- vernment, where these things are done. We hold that the only authorities competent to pronounce judgment on the policy of the empire, are the legislature and government of the empire-no one of their dtlegates. The party now in power were sufficiently vi hement against Lord Durham's unguardeIness, in publishing his philippic against parliamentary friends and enemies in • menca. The inconvenience and peril of suc h a proceed- ing were denounced justly at that time. Is it less incon- venient and less perilous in the East than in the West to depreciate national policy ? Is plain speaking so indis- pensable to ears Oriental, that Lord Ellei.b trough felt compelled to afford them this remarkable specimen cf it ? Are they so likely to und rstai.d it in a sense serviceable to our moral illOLience ) e can just imagine that ill Eu- rope, a certain magnanimity may be supposed to dictate avowals oi p-ist error though the in. guanumtv would be improved in genuineness if it were exercU. d by those who committed the errors it. question. It is oot exactly j considered that much magnanimity is required to acknow- ledge the errors of other people! especially when ttiose are political oppoiietits. But theseiious t,ulstion is. whether supposed errors of actual or past policy are to be denounced it all by dis- lant "lid .subordinate functionaries to hostile ears We regard this ;.sa most questionable innovat ion of Gover- nors-f ipiiera]. It can serve no purpose, except to ex ilt art individual, or a pai ty, at the expense of the reputation ot the national polity. There is no individual, and no party, wjith any iacn.ite. Tjscic « iu ^dividual,j a id no pirtv. entitled to L: OÎ ti;"ir J :;m;) ¡ credit, and exalt them at the expense of their country's character. Foreigners do not judge of that character fi-oin the cleverriess (or self concit of slIch) of this or that functionary, but from the sustained dignity ot public measures, emanating from a higher s >urce. It was Carthage, not Rome, that aveiv-ed temporary reverses on her own leaders; the imperial city showed honour to hers, even w iile unsuccessful, and Philip the Second had sufficient sense ot dignity to d,, so, on the loss of the Spanish ArnVada. It was reserved for the dignity and discretion of Lord Elletit)(,i outrli to twit hi predecessors with error forgetful apparently that those predecessors represented, as much as he does, the natlle alld govern- ment of Great Britain-not to be traduced lightly to foreign malice! To do as little as possible among the Aftghans, leaving them, for their crimes, to "anarchy," and to get away again as fast as possible, was the height of Lord Ellen- borough's aim in Afghanistan. Not even a word about the rescued captives. Whether or not it is pmdcnt to withdraw, having vindicated our arms, is mi open ques- tion. But surely we withdraw without this undig- nified paean for peace at any price. This proclamation is either the personal impulse of Lord Ellenborough, or the dictate of his government. If the former, it shews the sort of self-will and self-suf- ficiency, which have often been ascribed to him. If the latter, it is worthy a government of which Sir James Graham is a leading- member. But ministers will have to make up their minds, ere the meeting of Parliament, whether or not they will accept the responsibility ot Lord Lllenborough's acts and language. The famous "General Order" of NI;ircli last, fur the immediate evacuation of Afghanistan, U/ore we had," in one short campaign, been avenged upon every scene of past misfortune, and repeated victories in the field, and the capture ot the cities and citadels of Ghuznee and Cabul, had again attached the opinion of invincibility to the British arms" —stands c'ndemnedbythevery terms in which Lord Ellenborough records the facility with which results have been achieved, which, if that general order had been acted on, would, not have been achieved, and the opinion of invincibility" left unattached to the British arms." Unless the issue of that order can be explained in Parlia- ment in seme manner more plausible than if has been in the press, Lord Ellenborouh may live to repent that lie has not, in the language of the northern proverb. saved his own breath to cool his own porridge." He and his employers, may have less leisure than they anticipate, for denouncing the errors" oi others.— Globe.

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. I Upwards of two thousand persons partook of Chinese beverage at the Merthyr Baptist chapel on Monday last, I he tea dvinkinc commenced at two o'clock, and conti- nued incessantly until eight, when short addresses were I delivered by the Rev. Mr. Thomas, Theological Tutor of POlity pool Academy, and others. The Revds. David Lewis and James were or- dained at Zion chapel, Merthyr, on Wednesday, the 23d ult., when the attendance was larte. and the services ti-tily edifying. Several were appointed deacons at the same tiietting. A monument, subscribed for by the friends of the aholi- tion of slavery, has lately been erected in Westminster Abbey, to the memory of that patient and persevering advocate of the cause, Zachariah Macaulay. It consists of a very handsome sarcophagus, enriched with appro- priate emblems, an.1 surmounted by a bust, which bears a strong resemblance to the deceased, and is moreover singularly expressive of that peculiar mildness and bene- voleuce which so distinguished him through life. INCOMH TAX.- Schedules have been served on the ma- nagers of Dissenting congregations, requiring returns of the seac-rents of chapels, with a view to impose property-tax on them. A Committee of the Central Board of Dis- senters have made inquiries on this subject, and, we understand, have ascertained that under the old law (the ,I present statute is merely a transcript of tile former) con- gregations never were charged. THE TACTICS OF THE TUACTARIAVS.—The Pusey- ites are aiming at the civil as well as reliirious subjection of their countrymen. Their organ, the Times, was advo- cating auricular confession," the other day, and contend- ing that no clergyman should be called upon to reveal the confession of a criminal however essential to the ends of justice. More recently, the has been putting III a word for the prirsts to govern the Church independently of Parliament. "It ought (says the '/imes) to be consi- dered, whether it is either safe in principle, or likely to answer any good purpose, for Parliament (constituted as it is upon a basis comprehending persons of every denomi- nation, however hostile to the imurcn,) to legislate upon questions vitally affecting the Church s spiritual interests, without taking the sense of the Church herself, represented according to her proper organization." The Puseyites of Eugland, in fact, are yearning after the same object which the Nou-Intrusionists of Scotland are struggling to achieve. They would fain have the cash without the chains of the State the freedom of Noucouformity with the wealth of a State Church. Dr. Lang, author of" Religion and Education in Ame- rica," and senior minister of the Presbyterian Church in New Sooth Wales, having announced his intention of leaving his congregation, they asked him on what terms (if any) he would remain their pastor. He replied that he would continue with them on two con(litions:-I. To renounce all connection with the State, and maintain their minister by voluntary contributions. 2. To renounce all connection with the Swiod, ou the simple ground ef its alliance with the State. The congregation, by a large majority, resolved to agree to these couditious, and retain their pastor. TERMINATION OF THE CONVOCATION.—EDIN- BURGH, FRIDAY.—The Convocation of the Non-Intru- sion Clergy, which has been sitting here during the last week, terminated its labours 'eqerdl\r evening, on which occasion a public meeting was calltd in Lady Glenorchy s -?v, A ;,tte,?(te?, the bodyof R variety statements Werl uicuimru n "I?, u,c nftheproct-edinE?. The meeting of last night was called in order to alford the Convocation all opportunity of explaining the course that had been pursued by them. The principal speakers were the Rev. Dr. Buchanan of Glasgow, and the Key. Dr. Candish, of Edinburgh. Dr. Clason intimated that 479 ministers had attended the Convocation, and that in general great harmony had obtained. There were two sets of resolutions proposed for the first of which 427 voted, and the second was carried with equal unanimity and cordiality. The Rev. Dr Candlisb, in the course of a long speech, referred to these resolutions and said — I hold in mv hand the two set of resolutions to which my respected father, Dr. Clason, has referred. But I shall not now trouble the Convocation, or the meeting assembled, to sympathise with us I shall not troutile the meeting by reading these re-olutions; they are somewhat long, and they will be more calmly consi- (let-t-d by our friends and brethren when reading them at their leisure but I may take leave to state what I under- "tarld to he the substance of these t .vo sets of resolutions, which, taken together, bring out, clearly and consistently, our testimony to a great scriptural truth in rela ion to the connection or alliance between the Church and the State. If I were to characterize th se two sets of reso- lutions, testimony is borne by the brethren to the duty of the Church, as Christ's house, to acknowledge the authority of Christ, anI. of Christ alone and that, in the second set ot resolutions, testimony is borne to the duty of the civil magistrate as bound to acknowledge Christ and to protect Christ's servants. The first set of resolu- tions, then, testifies as to the duty of the Church as sub- ject to the authority of Christ alone, aud, therefore, bound to resist the servitude of every other master. The duty is clearly set forth in the declaration that the Church cannot recognise the authoiity of the civil courts, or even of the supreme power of the State, the legislature, or the conn. try; that the Chmch cannot recognise the authority of the ci vii UIItItrates as binding- upon her conscience in matters spiritual-as laying her under any obligation to act contrary to her own conviction of duty—these convic- tions being founded on the word of God alone. The par- ticuiar matters referred to, in which the Church believes that her spiritual piovince has been invaded, are glowingly set forth in these resolutions. They refer to the various encroachments made on the spiritual province by the civil courts, in rt-ft rcnce to the admission of ministers-in re- ft-rence to the deposition of ministers-in reference to the general exercise ol discipline and, in particular, to the precise bearing of the recent judgment ill the Aucther- araer case.

I THE NON INTRUSIONISTS AND THEIR CON- VENTION. His Lordship levelled the following just rebuke ngainst the soleiiiii mockery with which, while following the in. j s'incts ot their own bad passions, the dominant party ha. represented themselves as actiug under the express direc- lion of the Deity, whom they have tried to make, as it were, a partIcipator in their wrath and malignity "The Lord Ordinary must add that the solemn style used bv the Church Courts in such sentences as that UII. d,r eviea as well as the severity of the iitfliction, ought to ren(ler this veneiable body peculiarly slow to pronounce them, aud justily the civil court in examining jealously the competency of the sentence, when not iutlicted for a clear nioi-al tielinquericy. The extract of the sentence now be- fore the Lord Ordinary bears that, in the course of the proceedings complaiued of, the Assembly, before giving itid,ae t, engaged in prayer;' and thereafter a great majority ot them proceeded, in the name of the Lord Jesus bhritt, the sole Head of the Church,' to depose the seven p ureters frl,,n th,!i.- office,-nll Oecause the accused had lotrepilly persevered in yielding obedieuce to the laws of .1 z couutry, when their ecclesiastical rulers desired them to ie violated, l'here has certaiuly been no such exhibi- tion in Europe for many centuries. It is impossible to believe that the mernbers themselves, who, by their votes, passed this sentence, could suppose for a moment that it would be submitted to by the parties affected, or carried into effect by any other court in the ki?dota po?essiut; ■executive power." The hint of acting on such lofty authority has been akeo by others and a dissenting cfer?ymao has protested against the ?tm?nf the Convocation at Edinburgh in the Dallle of the Lord Jesus Christ and is he not 83 well entitled to prefer to act under such authority as any other mere human beiug is ?—Eorummcr.

SINGULAR REWARD Fort THE DETECTION OF A ELOXY, A reward ot* 10s., and an acre of land, for five years, rent free, to any poor man, has been offered for giving information which may lead to the conviction of some persons, who, on the 9th of November, or early on the billowing morning, wilfully and maliciously cut down au avenue of young trees, the property of Richard Norton Cart' right, Esq., growing iLi the abbey grounds of Ix- Ihe town of 1 hetford, in Norfolk, has been thrown into a state of unpleasant ferment during the last few days, ill consequenceot a solicitor, hitherto considered of the h?h?t resp?ctaMiity, haviug suddenly absconded, leaving ))Hhi)tt)fs Hlcurn:d by bim to the amount, it is supposed at the lowest, of £ 20,000. He had appointed iMiday last for meeting some very heavy mortgage ac- counts. 1t1,1! for hanuing over the amount for a farm which he had lecently purchased; and his non-appe.tr. ncc 00 that and ihe following days, fed to the above unpleasant ui»eovery. Mis absence has almost created a panic in the neighbourhood, as from his extensive transactions in mortgages, conveyances, and other monetary matters, it is impossible to cillculiite at present the t'xtent of his defalcation: B*I.?I')I. "i R.UI ^R.AHKI:T. — Behave experienced 7 a b. t er demand for Sugars this week, especially tor good and line descriptions, which continue very scarce and have brought rather higher prices. l,ov Brown kiu.-ls continue neglected.—(icizette, Nov. 30.-We con- tinue exceedingly flit in sugars. A few grocery Jamaieas were brought forward, which reilized v i-y fuil prices. Other sorts quite neglected. — Mercury, Nov. 25. A n address was delivered, pursuant to Public Notice, at the Bull Inn, Brecon, on Wednesday evening last, by Mr. Griffith, on" of the Leemrcrs of the Anti-Corn Law League. Mr. G. commenced sooo after 7 o'clock, and spoke at considerable length, addressing himself princi- pally to the bearing of the question upon the landed interest, with a view to show that the protection derived from prohibitory measures was fallacious, and in reality injurious by the reaction which was occasioned by de- creasing the means of the farmer's best customers—the working classes. In support of his arguments, he de- duced illustrations from the increased prosperity of the British Shipping interest since their monopoly had been thrown open by Mr. Huskisson from the increased pro- duction of Silk feince the protection of that trade had been abolished; and from the increased price of Wool of all ki:;ds after the admission of Foreign Wool at a nomillal duty. The decreased consumption uf Sug-ar, and the iu- creased consumption of Coffee, also supplied him with an illustralion oflhe effects of high and low prices, of which he availed himself; concluding by attacking the Corn Laws Oil Scriptural grounds, as opposed to the revealed will of Providence. The room was very full, and the Lecturer was frequently interrupted by expressions of applause, which were renewed at the conclusion of his address.—Silurian.

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VEERING ROUND or what may be, somewhat more soundingly, it not quite so accurately called tory-politico-prosrression has been now some time pretty apparent in the .proceedings of Sir Robert Peel and his parliamentary supporters. We do not advert to this gratifying advancement, for the purpose either of twitting the tories and re- proaching the converts to P. more enlarged and purer political faith, or'of vauntihg the immense and daily increasing strength which Liberal principles of government are, it is now undeni- able, rapidly acquiring. We are quite content with the homage thus rendered by the conserva- tives to our Nor is our satisfaction, at this tributary testimony, without the most abun- dant reason for it is indeed the political homage which vice pays to virtue. It is nothing less than the triumph of right over error, of intelligence over ignorance, of purity over corruption, of libe- ralism over illiberalism, and of good government over bad. Having now then, as is apparent, morally achieved a victory which we think, is d -ai\ ..1.t,1., t-.Io"D.n: on ;f'nn-nlllpo nn dvel-Tiit^ HS aomcn 't(illelices, it were ahke ungenerous and irfiitioiflil to waste oppor- tunities of improvement in unseemly crimination and mere party warfare. We have accomplished much, but much also remains to be done. We ourselves, therefore, are disposed to declare a kind of political amnesty with, and indemnity for, all well-meaning, we will not say repentant, conser- vatives, conditioned of course oil their not back- sliding, but on the contrary, upon their continuing to improve. CONCILIATION AND ADVANCEMENT are words that appear to describe our true policy and the wisest course reformers can pursue. Be they then our political guides—be they so while in the onward inarch, be they so w hellthe-peace-cry of forward!" "forward!" is re-echoed bv thou- sands of glad voices in our lovely vallies, *be they our watch-words amid the vast solitude and impressive grandeur of our mountain-homes, warmed by the love of liberty and of order. In the existing relation of parties there is at present exhibited what may he regarded, if not as a political phenomenon, at least certainly as a very curious and unprecedented circumstance. We do not remember to have seen or heard it stated before, although it is so obvious that every- body must acknowledge it as soon as it is told. Between the enlightened men of both parties it is known that .no great diflerence of opinion exists on fiscal and commercial polity. The conserva- tives, then so far, may be considered reluctant converts to rational principles and we have no more doubt than we have of our own identity, that if Sir Robert 1ecl, supported by the earnest conservative party, remain in oflice long enough, that Say's and Adam Smith's free-trade principles which Huskisson may be said to have officiallv launched, and Canning to have stood state sponsor for will be fully adopted by the present Government. Free-trade having then become a part and parcel of the "constitution," or the law" of England, which are synonymous terms the only debateable ground, will, it appears to us be Free 'lnstitutions. Into the friends and the enemies of free institu- tions we think the two great parties probably will be split. Democracy will be seen in more direct as well as more distinctly marked antago- nisu^to aristocracy than at present perhaps the line ef demarcation between the movement and the statu-quo-ites may be expected to remain for some time with considerable breadth but the great outposts of Financial and Commercial reform havingbeen quietly carried, administrative, electoral and Representative reform will in course eventually follow and the Sovereignty of public opinion thus again acknowledged and in another and a yet higher department of government will he the rule of governors and (under the favor of the divine superintendent of the world) the hap- piness of the governed will be secured. Then there will be, what there ousrht to be now, but ONE PARTY THE PARTY OF THE PEOPLE.

As a pendant to the opinions advanced in our foregoing article we submit the subjoined obser- vations of an evening contemporary. After allud- ing to the lugubrious looks of the dissatisfied tories although they have got Peel, the Globe savs, Not satisfied with reducing the protection duties on corn, Sir Robert Peel has introduced to their markets foreign live and dead stock, to conipete with the cattle of British farmers; thus diminishing his returns on one of the principal soarces of their profit. Corn in bond has been liberated, to be ground, in order to be re-exported in the shape of flour and biscuits; and the measure for in- dieting this additional blow and serious discouragement on the English grower, was introduced by the very statesman who had opposed and defeated a similar measure when brought in under the Whigs I The Poor-law Commission, which the Tory journals affirmed would be abolished imme- diately that a Tory ministry was placed in office, has been continued by them for five years while the ameliorations which the Whigs were ready to introduce, have been postponed sine die. The Maynooth grant, which the Protestaut Associations were assured would he withdrawn by Sir Robort Peel, is continued and, what is yet more mortifying, they are told it will probably be increased The system of National Education in Ireland is to be maintained, ma'yre all the clamour which has been raised against it The education of the people, on the system introduced bp the late govomment, and which the whole Tory phalanx opposed, is, with an inconsistency most pitiable, not, only continued, but is to be extended now they are in power. Church Extension is •hcifed, to the dismay of Sir. R. H. INGi.is and his faithful baud of Church Exteusioriists, and the not small party they repre. sent oitt of doors, who are filled with wrath against the Premier for the disappointment he was cansetl to them. These are a few of the many causes of the chap-falle n ap. pearance which the Tories exliihit; and of the regrets and upbraidiugs iu which their oracles and orators indulge. We shall have more of these before we have less."

I There was a very odd colloquy in our Carmar- then contemporary's last paper-so odd, indeed, tliat we think it would puzzle any plain person to make it out. "Was the writer in jest or in earnest ?" has been asked us. Allowing that the question is natural enough we have been quite unable to answer it. We not only confess our inability to untie the strange little Gordian knot our contem- porary made out of a still less election paragraph, which had gone "the round" for a fortnight be- fore but we cannot even say whether he was intent on good or ill towards his own party, the old ultra-Tories—those formerly full-feathered high-flying, but now despised, denuded, and crest- fallen gentlemen, whose long faces, and lugubrious looks alternately excite the compassion and the derisive shouts of the whole country. Our ingenious contemporary uses the catch, words "Whig" and "Conservative" something like a conj uror, like one of those itinerant jugglers whom one sees occasionally at fairs tossing up in the air, a couple of balls equally to the amusement and mystification of "every beholder." Our contemporary's friends—his quondam friends we mean, for like the poor he has no friends now— were the ultra-tories. Where are they now? With a ruined character they were compelled to conceal their very name, and have lately been passing by ¡ another—just as swindlers in private life are seen to do—in order to cloak their real character. When in trouble, "Conservative" was thought euphonious, it was a good name, a capital cloak, and according it was adopted by the common consent of the detected party. Of course, there are no tories now—it is no longer" respectable" to be a tory—neither in truth, is it any longer safe to be so. The "tories" as a party are defunct, clean passed away and gone nobody knows where. As we said some weeks since, people ask, What has become of the old Tory party?" and echo answers, "What?" What has become of them? Nobody can tell. They cannot tell themselves—if, indeed, there be such an animal as an ultra-tory extant, to tell anything. For ourselves we do not believe that there is. We look upon the species as extinct, or, if not quite extinct, as being so very rare that one might as soon expect to meet with a unicorn, or to find a lost needle in a hay-stack as to discover one. A live ultra tory would be a wondetful attraction in a menagerie. lIe w-onld draw "prodigious crowds. He would be the observed of all observers; all eyes would be rivete d on him. The giraffe, the lion, the tiger, the leopard, and all the animals in the adjoining cages would be thrown into the shade. He would be the sole attraction. Why does not Mr. Wombwell endeavour to add to his collection of other animals a Tory, provided one is to be had? He would be worth all the other creatures in his menagerie put together. He would make his fortune in an incredibly short time. What we have said about the impossibility of exactly makingout our contemporary's meaning of the tories' as- sumption of a false name consequent on their loss of character and the confusion thus created, will hRve pre.. pared the reader for an admission on our part that we hardly know how to (leal with such excessively slippery gentlemen—one might indeed dmost as well hunt a shad- ow or whip the wind as to bring them up to our editorial bar. Perhaps then it will be better just now to let them have the name they widi to go by-for the nonce they shall be "conservatives." Well then, taking them even as they wish to be received, we deny the spread of con- servative principles: and as to the defection of political allies from the Liberal party" asserted -in -th Carmarthen Journal, we think that man must indeed be oblivious who is indiscreet enough to place prominently enough, though ,'?& -1. n rnn q '(\.f'ç,: RNURPRTIOK from THE TORX oncC matter of recoru and of regret to men of all parties, who respect dignity of character; and would preserve the confidence of the public in the political professions of County Members. Of a piece with this absurd braggadocio, so injudiciously indulged in by our contemporary, is the cool calculation that assigns 500 votes in the bargain" to the conservatives, besides a triumphant majority" to them, in case any non-conservative should dare to come lioulct dare to come l'orward This is pretty well. But our contemporary in his gasconade out-Gullivers Gulliver, for in the face of the fact we published last week, and which of course is alike indisputable by, and accessible to, anybody, he boastfully says, that "at the last contest Mr. Jones defeated the liberal candidate by a swinging majority." If by a "swinging majority" our contemporary mean a considerable one, we refer him to figures, to that evidence which it is said cannot err and he will then find that the numbers respectively polled by the 3 candidates (there were two against one; Sir James Williams being the only Liberal man) were as followsWilliams WTO, Trevor 2, lti9, James 2,155. When we saw it by a sort of second-hand assertion pro- claimed in the Journal, that it was <' no longer respectable to be a Whig," we certainly marvelled much and thought then, as we now think, that such praise of toryism is the severest satire in disguise that could be employed against its friends. For everybody has heard of the disgraces of the conservative party and pities their political misfor- tunes, and the deep degradation into which they have sunk since Sir Robert Peel's accession to office. That allusion to "respcctability" was, we think, the unkindest cut of all; it was just such an one as a "good natured friend" in his malice might have bestowed on a party whom he desired to annihilate. The next analogously amusing feature which we shall notice in the article under cursory comment, is the bold avertment, that the list of Mr. Saunders Davies's sup- porters comprises "full four-fifths of the aristocracy and proprietary of the county." We do not profess to possess the advantage of that intimate knowledge of the aristocracy" which our contemporary enjoys from a long residence amongst them; but we know quite enough of the constitution of that list to affirm that though there are doubtless the names of some of the aristocracy," there is also a not inconsiderable sprinkling of small aliop-keepers-tllose dealers in sundries," or muhiform merchants," as we believe modern refinement, which makes every man a gentleman, now calls chandler's-shop-keepers. Several names too, belonging to owners of a class superior to those just al- luded to, have been pointed out to us as not having even so much as a forty shilling freehold, or a single rood of land. The list, however, is good enough it is only when puffed, or attempted to be puffed up, at such a rate as four-fifth of the aristocracy," and so forth, it be- comes questionable. Political writer like men of meaner dimensions, are suoject to fits of spleen and we really are disposed to think that our contemporary's observations were Denned while labouring under this sort of temporary insanity. In addition to the evidence we have a.'ready adduced of our friend's frame of article, if not of mind, we would ask what earthly reason, othetythan that of raising up an op- position, could he have in talking about one ? Nobody thought of opposing Mr. Saunders Da vies. He has the undisputed field to himself—he will walk over the course this time; and before we have another election he will probably have improved the color of his politics-already far from bad. We say nothing, just now, of that gentle- man's great personal respectability, of his proud position as a magistrate and a country gentleman, of the spotless purity of his character, nor of that kind and conciliatory bearing whIch wins golden opinions of all men—but we regard Mr. Davies as a rational conservative not, per- haps, wholly free from errors of judgment on fiscal policy, but independent in mind, and ever ready to receive such impressions, both in and out of parliament, as may come recommended to him by a more extended sphere of observation, and by that sound argument and powerful reasoning, which have lately made so many converts to the true faith. Besides, if we are not much misinformed Mr. Davies, in 18,il, prove(I himselfareal Reformer by I)ci-- sonally supporting the Hon. Fulke Greville against Sir John Ovven for theCounty d Pembroke. This indication w:, deem the more noticeable as Mr. Davies's opposition to the tory candidate seems to involve a repudiation of those flagrantly dishonest tricks which Sir John's party unblushingly resorted to, and but for which the Hon. Mr. Greville would have had a majority of nearly a thousand i r,t trigot votes. Mr. Davies's discountenancing such discreditable proceedings, we say, furnishes favourable augury and for this reason, as well as many others, we think him the b'st mm of his ptrty and, in tli- absence of an earnest Whig and fir-going Liberal, more deserving the contidence of the c.oanty than other gentle- man in the three counties of Carin irthen, Cardigan, and Pembroke. 1L> has only to learn how to move onward well and wisely in the march of financial and representa- tive reform to secure his seat at a general election, when a very sharp contest may be calculated upon.

JL LT EST K >VS. LONDON1, WEDNESDAY EVENING, 7 O'CLOCK. ARRIVAL OF THE CALEDONIA, The Standard received by Express, at a late hour to- day, New Vork papers to the llith instant, brought by the Caledonia steamer, which reached Liverpool last night. The news transmitted by this vessel, is not ol political or commercial importance. The Standard's correspondent says,- Possibly the most interesting topic by this arrival is relative to the respec- tive conditions of the shipping interest, especially io that employed in trading between the two countries. It will be relllelll bered, that among other matters spoken of by Mr. Webster, in his Boston speech, he called social atten- tion to the subject ot the unfavourable consequence to the United States of their commercial treaties with foreign powers. At the late session of Congress, Mr. Crushing, from the committee on foreign afl iirs, made a long and somewhat able report upon the subject, which went to show tha t while the imports and exports ot tlie United States had greatly increased during the last ten years, the American tonnage employed had increased in a far less than proportionate ratio, as compared with the amount engaged in the business prior to that period The subject is now engaging universal attention in the seaport towns of America, and it is presumed the execu- tive will present the matter at an early period to different Lioverninents, and to England especially, as the most pro- minent. It is of little consequence whether the United States had previously enjoyed more than their share of the carrying trade, and that the shipping of other nations has since risen to its relative importance in it, or whe- t her, American vessels do not find the business which they may consider to belong exclusively to them. It is very certain here is a decrease on the side of the United States, and that they will make an effort to regain their loss, ltoiii whatever cause such loss may have arisen. HF.R MAJESTY has not yet arrived in London from W aimer Castle. Letters were received in town yesterday morning an- nouncing the death of Lady Patteson, the wife of Mr. Justice Patteson, who has been for some time indisposed. Lady Patteson was the sister of Mr. Justice Coleridge. Lastevening the corporation of the Trinity House gave a sumptuous entertainment to his Imperial Highness the Archduke Frederick of Austria, on Tower-hill. Several of the Cabinet Ministers visited Sir Robert Peel this morning, at the right hon. baronet's residence in Whitehall Gardens. PRIZE BATTLE Foil £ 50.—Yesterday an affair for the above sum was to have been decided between two East- end pugilists, named Church and Fisher. The articles were that the fight should take place about thirty miles from London. Accordingly, yesterday morning the com- batants met at Heading, in Berkshire, to name the p)ace, Twyford was selected, whither all parties repaired. The police, however, by this time got scent, and follo?ed them, and succeeded in apprehending Church before the action commenced. He was ultimately conveyed before a magistrate, who, after hearing the facts, bound him over to keep the peace. Thus a stop was put to the atfair at present. THE FRENCH PAPERS are chiefly occupied with the affairs of Spain. In spite of the opinions of the French journalists, the revolt in Catalonia is expected to be suppressed almost immediately.

LATEST NEWS FROM SPAIN. I Intelligence from Barcelona has been received down to the 26th instant. The bombardment of the city, which was to commence at mid-day, was, on the 2fill suspended. The junta was in parley with Van Halen, who demanded the captive regiments. The French and other foreigners were on board of the French vessels. The consuls of all the powers had protested. Those of France and England were still on shore; the others had embarked on board the Meleager. A further dispatch says, That the national guard had consented that the captive troops should rejoin V?n Halen without arms, according to their capitulation. Campredor has recognised the J unta. The republican chief, Abon l'erradas, has failed in the' Lampurdan. olot, and the environs, have recognised the Junta. The insurrectionary movement, which took place at Valencia on the 20th instant, was appeased on the 21st. The Hegent took with him two regiments of infantry, one of cavalry, a battery of artillery, and four companies of sappers, who are to be replaced in Madrid by several regiments ordered thither from the provinces. The national militia now constitutes the sole garrison of the capital. The Cortes have promised their support to the Regent, but oil condition that ihe measures adopted by the government should be constitutional and legal. On the 22nd the Cortes were prorogued. On the probability of the insurrection being suppresse d, the Times coi res- pondent says, "Notwithstanding the degree of gravity which the French government journals endeavour to im- part to the movements in Catalonia, I am still assured, on the best possible authority, that the revolt will be crushed. The causes in which it originated will, however, and may possibly, at no remote day, produce another ot those calamitous events which have brought so much evil upon Spaiii-a war of succession." CORN MARKET. MARK LANE, Tins DAY.-The ,N loii d a?,'s prices. Monday's prices. The supply of English wheat is 2,150 quarters; of foreign, 1,360 quarters. MONEY MARKET.—Public securities remain nearly in the same position as yesterday. The market is rather fiat, but the (tullness arises more from the idea enter- tained that there will soon be a more productive opening for money than from any actual sales effected. The bona fide transfer business has become trifling from the stock being locked up in permanent investment, and the want of the floating material has so narrowed the means for speculation with any fair chance of success, that no capital worth naming is embarked in gambling for time, and the operations ot the minor fry are scarcely worth notice. Conscls have been done at 94A and § for Money, and I at 95 for the account, and Exchequer-bills are 51 5J p.m.

CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE NEW CANDIDATE. To the correspondence that passed between Mr. Saun- ders Davies and Mr. Edward Croinpton Lloyd Hall, (published in the Welshman last week) we have to add the following letter, addressed by the new candidate, to Mr. Hall, last Friday, on the day of our publication:— (c 0 I- Y.) DEAR SIR,— I have received your letter of the 21st, but the very short time that will probably intervene before the d iy of election, and the consequent incessant employment of my time will prevent my giving it an answer in detail. I can only repeat that my principles are Conservative in the general acceptation of the term—that the present Government conducted, as I conceive it is, "n those principles, posseses my confidence and that I shall, if I am elected, give it such support as shall be consistent with maintallling at the same time my personal indepen- dence. I am, Dear Sir, Faithfully yours, (signed) D. SAUNDKRS DAVIES. Pentre, 2tth Nov., 18x2. Edw. Cr. Lloyd Hall, Esq., &c., &c., &c. CARMARTHENSHIRE ELEC-Cio,-z.-We have nothing new to communicate regarding the election but some ob sf-rvations on the subject, it will be seen, we have thrown together in another column. There will be no battle now; lejeu, it is thought, we say, not how well or wisely lie vaut pas la chandel/e. But on a tuture occasion a sharp contest and a full field too, is something more than mere matter of conjecture amongst our Carmarthenshire politicians. Sir James Williams, doubtless, has greatly disappointed the liberal constituency of the county, and it is urged, that he ought not, either by his silence, to have encouraged the expectation that lie would come forward, or to have given his political opponents any grounds whatever, for taunting him and his friends, with not having redeemed the pledge which he gave at the close of the last election. This sort ot thing, it cannot be concealed, is certainly obnoxious to adverse remark. We may add, that it is our firm conviction, that the Liberal interest has lost a golden opportunity; for in the present state of public opinion throughout t. is extensive agricul- tural district, we are sure, nothing in the world would have been easier for any opponent of the Peel-govern- ment, than to have been returned to parliament by an unprecedentedly large majority. The Liberals had the game entirely mjtheir own hands. We can mention the names ot many men, any one of whom, we are confident, could have carried everything before them, and with per- fect ease. We are induced to refer to our stinding notice address- ed to Readers and Correspondents (which is always in our fourth page), for the purpose of reiterating our decla- ration of editorial irresponsibility regarding communi- cations from correspondents that sometimes appear in the Jtélskman's. columns. For example, it may be remem- bered that in a report with which we were favoured by a valued and respected correspondent, the descent of Air. Jones, of Llandoveiy, from the horned cattle interest," was said to have been objected to by some of the gentlemcn ot the i. ivy-Side. For ourselves and for our correspondent also, we repudiate any ill-natured or oil the accident of birth and although I considerable latitude of course, is always conceded in electioneering controversy, we should be extremeiv sorry to violate any ot those conventional courtesies that gentlemen of all parties respect. For the rest, there is no doubt, if Mr. D. Jones had permitted himself to be put in nomination, he would have obtained the suffrages of a numerous body ot electors in his district. We advise him in all friendliness when a vacancy again occurs to do in rejility and boldly, what many hon. members during the past sessions have less fairly arrived at-namely, deel ire in favor ot sound and Liberal principles of legis- lation, His success we are disposed to believe would then be pretty certain against any stand-still stupid tory. THE NEW NTA RKi,r.-We can do tio iiiore to-(lay than ■-■imply refer to the report in this coltiiiiii, ot the special meetin of the couuctl. The calie appears LO us complete; and we think it will so appear to everybody who shall have read the clear, convincing, and conclusive statement o facts submitted to the council last Tuesday, by Mr. L. Morris, the town clerk. Some misrepresentation, it seems, has been at A or k 11 by those who arc always ready to find lault with projects, however much they may bene- fit the eommunity a: large, provided they emanate from their political opponents, or appear, in the smallest de- gree, io interfere with their own ends." I THE G- o o E) OLD -f 1 7,f C S. -k WORD OR -i -D k B C) V WAUONS, &C.— Whether it is because we ourselves are not young; and therefore, naturally enough, like what is old-fa-i'iiioned, or tiu t, despite our editorial infallibility, (which, as a Frenchman might say, va wis dire,) we have our prejudices—whether for these reasons or some others equally profound and momentous, we do not know but we certainly have an inbred regard tor a good many things that your high-pres!1re-steam-people and the modern mark-of-intelluct men (as old Cobbett ustd to call the superfine/ee/osoters) hold cheap, derisively turn- ing up their noses at every thing tll; t does not come directly from (A? age of wonder- orkiu" progression. As a matter of course, we prefer the good old turnpike roads to the lfat, forbidding level of the' rail' -that iron. aged horrible rail, with its hideous screaming clatter and steam engine atrocity, vomiting forth smoke and stench enough to make a man imagine he is in his Satanic Majesty's country. A mail-coach with four fiery, yet fine-tempered, fast, full-blooded tits, its trim artist and trusty, gaily clad guard, are to us a picture-aye a picture (laugh it you like,) almost as pleasing an one as a clief d'ouvre of Domenichino. The Road" is a fine old thing, let superfine steam-engii.e gentlemen say and sneer as much as they will. The Pembroke Nlail never passes our house on Picton Terrace, that we do not rise to see it bowl alone so bravely by us and the guard's bugle always gladdens our heart, however heavy it may have before beeu. "Our heart, indeed, leaps up when we be- hold" it—it is a kind of rainbow on a dull day, and yet duller evening. So was it when my life began, So Is it o,v, I am a man. So be it wlieu I shall grow old." Shall we even go further now that we are in the confes" s ional. W ell, w like to see even the hu^e waggon. North Rees's never passes or meets us that we do'nt find ourselves involuntarily turning routicl and awening uporK the associations it creates. A waggon may appear a not very picturesque object to boarding-school boys and misses, or even to bagsmen, who, or course, are for steam, locomotives, enlightened age, and all that sort of things but even these overmuch wise Utilitarians of the ledger and order-book, must admit, that as regards safety and certainty, there is nothing like land carriage—nothing like the old way, the antiijva via which the younkers are in such a prodigious hurry to decry, disuse and abuse. We will undertake to back N urth Rees's wagon, for SAFETY AND CERTAINTY, (no slight advantages) against all your new fangied, fly-a-gig modes of gltlllg goods"—ice will back the wagon but then, we, it is confessed, are old-fa- shioned, for the sight, even, of a steamer, almost turns us sick while, what is called, a sailing vessel," is our abomination. So our voice i,3 still for a wagon-especi- ally such an one as North Rees's. In a word, we wish to see the steamer supreme on the sen, her own element; but on the road, and for goods," commend us io ilia lordly wain" of Ilees. For we and all'abont us heie, 1 ?hro,igh all the changes of the year. Have seen him through the mountains go, In pomp of mist or pomp of snow, Magcstically huge and slow Or with the milder grace adorning, The landscape of a summer's morning." While—but enough begging Wordsworth's pardon for spoiling his poetry, and our readers' pardon also tor tax- ing their patience; we beg now to bow out the "lordly wain," wishing it may survive the wreck of Time, and thus serve as a sort of link between the Past and the Present. There is a peroration for North Rees, and a concern which has been established for centuries, aad remained all that time in the same family.

TOWN COUNCIL MEETING. Last Tuesday morning an adjourned meeting- of the Town Council was specially held, when the following gentlemen were present: -E. H. Stacey, mayor, in the c hair, W. Morris, T. T. Webb, J. Jenkins, G. Davies, T. Griffiths, C. B. igstocke, T. B. Powel!, W. G. Thomas, E. Morris, C. Jones, R. E. Jones, and Lewis Morris, Esquires. Mr. Stacey stated there was a vacfifhcy in the Free Grammar School, which was filled up, on the motion ot Mr. G. Davies, seconded by Mr. E. Morris, by the son of Mr. J. Lawrence ot this town. The mayor called the atten- tion ot the council to the state of the Grammar School, the south will ot which was unsafe; the surveyor was ordered to inspect the school and report at the next meet- ing; and also on the state of the present market, parts of which were out ot repair. A vacancy in the Borough school was filled up by the nomination of Henry Augus- tus, son of John Augustus, absent with the 40th regiment in Cabool, on the motion of Mr. G. Davies and seconded by Mr. T. B. Powell. Some desultory conversation arose on the continued removals of the boys trom the school, which ended in a motion of Mr. Morris, seconded by Mr. Powell, that Mr. D. P. Davies be requested to state to the council the cause of the four last vacancies. Mr. W. Morris, with Mr. Evans, appeared to complain of Jacob Williams slaughtering beasts, sheep, pigs, &c., in a place, formerly a malthouse, attached to the Bear, by which they sustained loss. The council directed him to obtain summonses against the parties. Mr. Morris pre- sented a bill of repairs done to the poultry and meat markets, and withdrew. Mr. Charles Jones then said, he hoped the council would allow him to express his sentiments on the subject. He should not have been there that day unless he had He s l iou l d not have been 1. felt deeply interested in the prosperity of the town. The opposition had turned out exactly as he had calculated. What had been done respecting the new market had been done for the good of the town. It was indeed the best means of incieasing their revenue, and at the same lime doing away with the Borough rate. He hoped that their efforts would not be paralysed by the factious opposition of those who had resisted the improvements; but when called upon had not appeared, thus shewing the character of the opposition, and how much they cared for the pros- perity of the town. Mr. L. Morris then rose and addressed the Council to the following effect:—1 have been offered within the last fortnight by a person who is fully competent to make a fair estimate jCI,000 per annum for the tolls of the mar- ket and slaughter-houses, when snnctioned by the pro- visions of an act similar to that obtained at Cardiff. The L r1-- fv l ooo, purc h aco of land, and expenses of act, is not more than A:(;,Ooo, ti),s sum it is proposed to raise in mortgage of the tolls at k: per cent. interest, or by debentures of £50 each, it found practicable. The rental of the present market-place has not netted for the last three years £ 200 per annum. Bv the statemeut I have just made, it is evident, that the inhabitants will gain Z500 per annum by the nrrano-P. ment, wlirjh will, of course, at once red uce the borough- rate by that amount, with a fair prospect of further reduction l he objection to the removal on the score of its being further from the east end of Carmarthen, is I submit, without the slightest possible foundation, for the present and proposed market are not as I have before said, distant more than thirty-five yards from one ano- ther. What I have said, will, I trust, be the means of removing all misapprehension on the subject, and it is a matter ot serious regret to Ille, that the gentlemen who signed the memorial to the Council did not accept the invitation to attend here to-day, to explain their objections to the removal of the site of the market-place, from its present position to the east part of Parkvvelvet. Why the invitation was not accepted, I am at no loss tu account for, as it is quite evident, that if the objection. urged by the memorialists, and the explanations, which it was in the power ol the Council to g- ive, were fairly canvassed here, there would be no great difficulty for the public to arrive at a fair conclusion as to the merits of the case. The memorialists however having declined to attend, I deem it a duty I owe to the Council to explain for the satisfaction of the puulic, the motives which determined the Corporation to remove the site to Park- yvelvet, and which were not arrived at without mature deliberation, and a prolonged and careful investigation. The plan tor the erection of a new market-place, on the site ot th, present one, made by Mr. Coliard, the architect, by the direction of the Corporation, contained an area of 4,275 square yards, or about three quarters of an acre. This was considered quite inadequate for all the purposes of the market, and it would have been necessary provided we had adopted that site to have looked out elsewhere for accommodation for the sale of live cattle, &c. To furnish the area, I have mentioned it was necessary to have purchased a house and yard from Mr. Taylor, the whole of the house, stables, ami yard, of ot'6 Vlr^Thormf1 House public house, in the occupation yard and if "'?' a portion °?''e White Horse yard, an.d or t some houses adjoining to the r.orth, as well ?premises, some the property of Mr. Wm. Philipps. ?"e poultry market, the borough gaol, and yard, and the present market-place, with the road dividing the former tiom the latter, must also have been appropriated. The area thus obtained, would after all, have been quite ina- dequate for the purposes of the market, without a second story, which would have most materially added to the outlay, and been a source of great inconvenience. It must be fresh in the memory of every person who was a member of the Council at the time, that our first step in endeavouring to obtain the site of the borough gaol was met, after our being led to expect quite a diderent result, by a most signal discomfiture, for upon application to the county magistrates at Quarter Sessions, our application tor a consolidation of the gaols was met with a direct negative, and we were told by Mr. Daniel Prythe-ch one of the visiting Justices, that there was not sufficient room in the county gaol for their own prisoners. Havui"- failed to obtain the portion of land covered by the borough gaol and yard, it was quite evident that the space left was totally out of the question, and it therefore became necessary that the proposed site should be abandoned and another selected. It was then suggested, that we should apply to Mr. M. Philipps, to sell such portion I of Parky velvet as might be considered necessary I made the application to him by your direction, and every member of the Council must recollect how promptly and liberally Mr. Philipps met our views, and stated that we might have any part of Parky velvet we thought uroner at such price as two valuers, one to be named by him and his sail Major Philipps, and the other by the Council should agree upon, and in the event of their disagreeing that an umpire named by the referees should seule th* value. Mr. Philipps further offered to make an entrance at his own expenoe into the market from Lam- mas-street, and to leave the ascertained value of the land a charge by way of mortgige, if the Council wished. Tile Corporation then employed a Surveyor to ascertain what quantity ot land would be necessary for every pur- pose ot the new market-place, and the most desirable. site. The Surveyor with the approval of the Committee, reported to the Council that two acres would be required, and that he would advise that the east end of the field should be selected. Upon this spot there are no build- nigs erected, and it has the advantage of apploachl's from lemmas-street, the present market-place, and Saint Catliei-itie-street; and if required from Water-street— the eastern entrance being merdy across the street, and not distant more than 3H yards from the principal entrance to the present market-place. An objection has been made by the ineiiiorialists, that the ereit.on of a new market-place will increase the rates how any man could have anived at such a conclusion, I must confess I ain utterly at a loss to conceive, for one of the main objects of the Council, in first, proposing the measure, was the wish if possible to obviate the necessity of any boiou^h rate whatever, and if the views which we are justified in regarding practicable are carried out; this object, it is hoped will be in f, ime fully attained, putting a stop to further misrepresentation on the part of tli(,ee who are always ready to tii.d fault with projects, however much they may benefit the community at large, provided they emanate from their political opponents, or appear in the smallest degree to interfere with their own ends. The respectable rate-p 'yers who have signed the memorial mnst bear in mind that the Council have already made every effort to comply with their wishes so tar .is the removal of the site is concerned, that there is no prospect