The Welshman

ST. DAVID'S DAY (NEW YORK,) I The Welsh residents in America's capital duly cele- brated the day. The subjoined toasts or standard sen- timents were d: unk on the occasion. 1. Saint David's Day—Hallowed by Welshmen in commemoration of the noble achievements of their aires, and truly a befitting epoch for the manifestation of the joy and gladness of patriots and of freemen. Song—"St. David's Day,"—by Mr. R. E. Davies, composed by Mr. Taliesin Williams. 2. Wales-Her mountain fastnesses have ever proved a sanctuary to the homeless and indomitable spirit of freedom, and her very rocks bear the impress of the mighty deeds of her sons. As the home of our child- hood we love her, and as the repository of the sacred remains of our ancestors we will continue to revere and respect her. 3. The British Queen—The perfect woman, the fond wife, and the proud sovereign. Her true lord is her own Albion—her children her loyal and devoted subjects her greatest glory is her powerful empire, its greatest treasure is its noble Queen. "God save the Queen," by the band, and air on the harp by a lady. 4. The President of the United States—The most liable and enviable title that any human being can aspire to—elected by the voice of a free and enlight- ened people, to preside over the destinies cf the hap- piest portion of the human fuiliily. Hail to the Chief," bv the band. o. The- City of New York—The Empire City of the Empire State—governed by wise rulers—populated by industrious citizens-its march is onward, and with no competitors. Song—"Life on the ocean wave," by Mr. R. E. Daties and Miss Roberts, accompanied by the harp. 6. Our Sister Societies—May we walk hand in hand in good fellowship, without distentions and jealousies, spreading over the land a kind and cliaritable influence, and exert ourselvesi to instil harmony, friendship, and unity, among the brotherhood of man. May the manly hearts of the sons of St. David ever remain firm in their attachment to their Society." T. Fessenden, Esq., President of the New England Society, then rose, and in the most brilliant and for- cible manner evinced his intimate acquaintance with, and thorough knowledge of, the history of the people, of Wales, and their language. He spoke of the mo- rality, honesty, and unflinching bravery of the ancient British race-of the antiquity, and many superior ex- cellencies of their venerable language, which had sur- vived the wreck of ages, and successively resisted the many influences and efforts combined for its destruction. The ardent love and devotion of Welshmen to liberty, had not been confined to their native hiils—they had always been found, he said, in the front rank in the field, and ever conspicuous in the councils of those im- mortal men who had so gaVantly fought for, and so nobly achieved, the freedom of America. Mr Fessen- den concluded his truly eloquent remarks (which are here but briefly and imperfectly sketched) by offering the following sentiment—" The Sons of St. David—a race as ancient as they are honourable, and as honour- able as they arc ancient." E. Benson, Esq., President of the St. Nicholas So- e,ety gave The St. David's Benevolent Society—May the success which has attended the efforts of her mem- bers induce them to greater exertions in the cause of Benevolence. 7. The Welsh language—Strenuous by guarded and carefully preserved through the various vicissitudes and revolutions of ages-it has successfully withstood the encroachments of the Saxon, the fury of the Dane, and the address of the Norman. May it be transmitted to tatest posterity in its primitive surpassing excellence. 8. Woiyun-" Heaven's first and best gift to mrm."

ATTEMPT TO BRIBE LORD MONTEAGLE In the Court of Requests, Castle street, on Wednes- day, much surprise was created by the presence of Lord Monteagle, accompanied by several friends a-id gentle- men connected with the Treasury and other Govern- ment officers, to meet a summons for 51.-The plaintiff, William Charman, who, it appears, was formerly a con- stable in the City Police, stated that he claimed the sum 51., which he had put into the hands of Lord Mont- eagle for the purpose of procuring him a situation under goveroment.-A Coi-nmissiorer Are you sure that Lord Monteagle received the money ?—Plaintiff: Yes I saw the money in the hands of Lord Monteagle.—The Commissioner then called on Lord Monteagle for his answer, when his Lordship stated that one afternoon in the month of May, 1840, when about entering the House of Peers, the plaintiff put a letter into his hands, which he did not then stay to open, but broke the seal and examined it after entering the house, when he found that it Contained an enclosure which proved to be a Bank of England 51 note and expressing a request that he would procure for the writer a situation under Government, either as a Custom-house officer, or as a letter-carrier in the Post-office. Immediately after he (Lord M.) returned to the entrance of the house, and inquired of the police constable on duty whether he had seen a person give him a letter, the officer replied ,lzl d seen a pel in the affirmative; upon which his lordship directed the policeman to endeavour to find the individual, and bring him back. The policeman tried for some time, but was unsuccessful in his search. He (Lord M.) consequently retained possession of the note and the letter till plain- tiff applied for an answer. Being then desirous to as- certain whether the writer had offended against the law in ignorance, he granted him an interview; when, find- ing that his knowledge of such matters was superior to that of the lower orders in general, he referred plain- tiff to the Lords of the Treasury, and sent his letter and the enclosure to their lordships, who, after some con- sideration, determined, although a very bad case, that they would not indict the writer, but resolved on paying the 51. note into the Bann of England to the credit of the Exchequer as conscience money," which was ac- cordingly done on the 28th December, 1840. The plain- tiff, after applying several times to official parties to as- certain the result, was referred to him (Lord M.), who referred him back to the Lords of the Treasury and after some time, the pliinUfffjundhe could neither obtain res- titution of his money, nor the appointment he sought, took out the present summons. His lordship produced the Treasury minutes, aud various official letters and documents, including the Bank receipt for the 51. note and was about to produce Mr Bulby, of the Treasury, and other witnesses, when the Commissioners intimated that they were satisfied that the plaintiff had no claim on his lordship, and dismissed the case.

ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE. lFrom the Morning Advertiser.] Last Thursday night, the last scene of the first act of the Anti-corn-law drama was presented to a House every nook and corner of which, from floor to ceiling, was crammed to inconvenient excess; and it went otf not a whit less successfully—nay, more successfully, in some respects—than those scenes that had gone before. We speak of the anti-corn-law meetings at Drury- lane in the cant phraseology of their enemies and ma- hgners-for, as one of the speakers remarked, we know not, seeing that our success will afford of our joking, why we should refuse to joke, even after the fashion of our assailants. It was remarked by Dr. Bowring, that there were there present some distinguished persons from Egypt, who were impatiently awaiting the result of these pow- erful demonstrations upon the British Legislature, and anxious to know whether they should be empowered to return to their own country with the announcement that its overflowing granaries might be opened and poured out before the starving population of Great Britain. Would that the convinced, but hesitating and paltering Premier had been present, for the purpose of ascertain- ing whether he might, without further cruel delay, do what we cannot doubt he proposes to do, whenever he may become satisfied he can do it with safety to the maintenance of his own supremacy—would that he bad been present, and witnessed the spontaneous and almost overpowering bursts of enthusiastic feeling with which every speech there delivered was more or less interrup- ted for we think we know enough of Sir Robert Peel's character, and of the principles by which, as a public man, he is unhappily governed, to venture upon the assertion, that such expressions of feeling, from an audience such as that crammed within the walls of Drury-lane Theatre last night—an audience not compo- sed of such persons as he imagines he may safely des- pise or condemn, but an audience consisting of many of the most wealthy, intelligent, and influential men, ay, and women, too, of this great metropolis. We say, we think we know enough of his character, and of the prin- ciples which govern his policy, to be warranted in saying that, had he also been there, that he would become satisfied that the time had arrived when he might ven- ture, with perfect safety to himself, to wrest from the fists of the dominant oligarchy that power by which they have so long and so fatally ruled the country. The meeting of last Thursday night, which was the last of the first series of Anti-Corn-law League meetings in the metropolis, was characterised by more than a usual amount of boldness and enthusiasm. Every day must surely convince the monopolists, not only that they arc in a false position, but that they are en- dangcring, by their vain but pertinacious attempts to maintain it, some things much more valuable and important to them than the corn laws. Every hour's delay in the settlement of this great question gives rise to some new assault upon the tenure of the feudal aristocracy-not merely upon the tenure of their rents, but upon the tenure of all that constitutes them an aristocracy. Whenever the public become habituated to look, or to dwell only upon the evils of an institution, they soon begin to imagine that it is all evil; and the result of inducing such a state of mind has been seen in more than one country, with the history of which the British aristocracy, especially, should be familiarly acquainted. No one could listen to the Rev. Mr. Burnett's speech of last night, and witness the intense and even boisterous enthusiasm with which it was received by h:s au lience, without feeling this to be the case, with reference to the corn-law controversy. So also when the Chairman, whose addresses have hitherto been characterised by a degree of caution and propriety amounting almost to coldness, when he, after adverting to the blind and selfish opposition of the feudal aristo- cracy to the long urged claims of justice and humanity, menaced them with something beyond what the Anti- Corn-law Leaguers had hitherto menaced them. We will prosecute the war," said he, into the enemy's camp, and wrest from the unwilling hands of the mono- polists that political power which they have so much abused." The whole house rose, as one man, to give its approbation to the Chairman's threat. Throughout the whole proceedings, in fact, the same all-pervading feeling of growing hostility to aristocratic inj ustice, and of a growing determination to bring it to a speedy close, was exhibited and exhibited, too, in a way which fully justified Mr. Burnett in observing, that if any Minister, or any Member of Parliament, could think he might safely despise such indications of the feeling of the metropolitan public, he must be more fit for a mad-house than for a seat in the Legislature. We have not space to characterise, as we could wish to do, the several speeches of the night. Dr. Bowring's eloquent and impressive exhibition of ancient and mo- dern States, in connexion with their commercial policy, and Mr. Burnett's argumentative and occasionally luminous exposition of those great principles which should govern a country like Great Britain, will be read with especial interest. The great truths they expounded were of an enduring value, and will tell with no small effect upon the now rapidly falling monopolists. The League has well done its duty to its constituents, and to the public in prosecuting that portion ofits mis- sion which was brought to a close last night. They return to London, and to Drury-lane Theatre, on the 26th and, for the growing feeling in its favour, which is now observable even in the metropolis, we anticipate no small result from this extension of its mission. -0

EXPLOSION—SEVFN LIVES LosT.-On Thursday afternoon, the business being carried on at the Wal- tham Abbey Powder Mills in the usual way, about five minutes after three o'clock, from some cause at present unknown, an explosion took place in the more northern corning-house. A few seoonda afterwards the press- house and wash-house, separated from the corning-house hy the buttress, also blew up. In a minute or two from that time, the next corning-house, distant from the former 200 yards, shared the same fate, and this in a few seconds was followed by a fourth explosion, and a second press-house and wash-house, separated as in the other case from the corning-house, was in an instant destroyed. Unhappily, in the works which were first blown up, a number of unfortunate persons were em- ployed, not one of whom survives. Seven individuals were instantly deprived of life five of them were car- ried over the river to a very considerable distance, and fell lifeless fragments in the marshes. One corpse was recovered from the ruins, and one dead body was found out of the building on the side of the river. PUNISHING BEFORE TitIAL.-The subjoined case of cruel and illegal treatment of a prisoner before trial was brought to light at the last Denbighshire assizes, and denounced by Sir John Williams, the judge on that circuit. It occurred at Flint, and is thus related in the Chester Chronicle of the 31st of March:—"Edward Williams was charged with stealing a spade, pick, and sledge hammer. Verdict, Guilty; and the prisoner sentenced to imprisonment for one calendar month and to hard labour. It was stated in court that the prisoner had been kept in solitary confinement for five weeks before trial. If so, a most gross act of unj ustifiable tyranny was practised. The judge said, It was the duty of the magistrates to institute an inquiry into tha facts, which he trusted they would do and which I have the greatest mistrust of their doing, for this method of assuming a man to be guilty before trial, and severely punishing him beforehand, is not uncommon in many gaols—it has been repeatedly protested against by the inspectors of prisons, especially at Derby, in several reports. The whole character of our laws is thereby altered, and a very dangerous example afforded by magistrates of substi:uting their practice for its whole- some enactments." WRECK OF THE SOLWAY STEAMER AND GHEAT Loss OF Lii.-E.-The Lady Mary Wood steam-packet, Captain Lewis, which arrived from Lisbon, &c., on Sun- day, brought the disastrous and melancholy intelligence of the wreck of the Sohvay steam-ship. This ill-fated vessel is the third that has been totally lost belonging to the Royal Mail Packet company since it sprang into ex- istence, viz., the Medina, having been previously wreck- ed off Turk's Island, and the Isis off Bermuda. It ap- pears from information rendered by Mr. Lane, the purs- er of the Sohvay, and Captain Lewis, of the Lady Mary Wood, that the Solway proceeded on her voyage without anything particular occurring, and put into Corunna to deliver and receive the mails After having left that port two hours, all the passengers and most of the crew (with the exception of those on duty) being in their berths asleep, and unconcious of their danger, the vessel suddenly struck on a rocky shoal, called the Baldayo, within a mile and a half from the coast and notwith- standing the utmost exertions were used by Captain Duncan, the ofifcers, and crew, the unfortunate vessel sunk within 20 minutes, in 13 fathoms. Immediately on the ship striking, the greatest alarm and conster- nation prevailed; but Captain Duncan, although so suddenly placed in this trying and distressing situation, behaved with the greatest coolness, judgment, and intrepidity. He was only anxious to save the lives of those around him, and appeared careless of his own so long as he could render assistance to those unfortunate beings placed under his care. He was last seen on one of the paddle-boxes, endeavouring to unlock and disen- gage the paddle-boat, to save those of the passengers and c: cw who had not taken refuge in the pinnace and first paddle-boat that had been launchel. Under his direction the pinnace was first got into the water, and as many as it could conveniently hold were lowered into it, but the frail bark was not destined to reach the shore. From some cause, still unexplainable, it was capsized, and every soul on board perished. The first paddle- boat was then lowered, and into that also as many crowded as possibly could, and, notwithstanding there was no oar to assist them, it managed to reach the shore in safety by paddling, &c. It is supposed that many went down with the vessel, there being no time to launch the other boat that is kept on the paddle-wheel, to save those unfortunate beings left on board. The whole of the mails are, of course, lost, and in fact, everything be- longing to the vessel. Sunk as she is in thirteen fathoms, and most likely so much injured by strikins so hard as she did on the shoal, it is not at all probable the vessel will ever be raised. A letter from Corunna, dated the 8th inst, says, And we were truly happy to see G3 individuals landed consequently we have already 73 saved, and still confide that our endeavours will not prove unavailing in saving more. We shall anxiously wait the return of the French steamer, and shall imme- diately after send an express to Vigo, in order that you may have the last news by the next packet that leaves that port in the early part of the week." EIGHTEEN VESSELS TOTALLY LOST.—The late north-easterly winds have, been productive of ship- wrecks along the coast, though unattended with loss of life, arising from the alacrity and efficiency of the Coast Guard service and their boatmen. During the last 12 or 14 days upwards of 18 vessels arc known to have been wrecked. The circumstances connected with them are uninteresting. A WOMAN KILLED BY HER HusrAND.-Gre-,it ex- citement prevailed last week at Castle IN orthwich, in consequence of suspicious circumstances attending the death of the wife of Hough, captain of a flat which plies to and from Liverpool. The poor woman died on the 6th inst., and on the 8th inst. an inquest was held when a verdict of "Died by the visitation of God, from natural causes," was returned. On the following day the corpse was buried at Witton, when a scene of great disorder ensued the husband, who attended the funeral, being hooted and groaned at by the spectators as he left the churchyard. After the interment facts were elicited which led to the exhumation of the body and to the hol- ding of another inquest when the jury returned the fol- lowing verdict That the deceased came to her death by inflammation of the brain, brought on by concussion, which was occasioned by inj uries inflicted on her by her husband, and that she would not have so died if such in- juries had not been inflicted on her, but that such in- juries were not inflicted with malice aforethought. Hough, was then committed to Chester Castle to take his trial at the next Assizes on the charge of manslaughter A MAN CONVICTED OF MURDERING HIS WIFE BY THE EVIDENCE OF THEIR SON .-On the 8th of March Hugh Cameron was tried in the Court of Queen's Bench, Montreal, on a charge of having killed his wife John Cameron, a boy aged only 13 years, called-The prison- er is my father. My mother died on the night of Mon- day week last, of wounds inflicted upon her by the pri- soner at the bar. He struck her several times with a tock-a wooden poker. I ran out to the neighbours but they refused to come in. I did not know of any quarrel. I dont know his reason for beating her. He was not sober. She was lying on the bed awake my father was lying beside her. First I saw him stri- king her with his arm. I went out to get some wood for the stove, and while I was away he had seized the po- ker. The boy admitted in his cross-examination that the deceased drank very hard and was a perpetual source of annoyance to his father, who was obliged to lock up things to prevent her selling them to buy liquor. Several other witnesses were then called, and exa- mined by Mr. Hart, who testified to the general good character of the prisoner for industry and honesty. The jury returned with a verdict of Guilty, with a recommendation of the prisoner to the mercy of the Court, by reason of the great provocation he had en- dured. The prisoner having been asked if he had any- thing to say ? replied, I have nothing to say—no me- mory. Sentence of death was then pronounced against the prisoner--to be hanged on the 6th April. AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE.—Every region that has become the home of great cities, has become the home of an improved agriculture. This has resulted in part from the wealth of cities, but still more from their mechanical and scientific skill. In this manner it has often been reserved to cities to convert the desert into a garden, and to give to the richer soils of the earth the aspect of a paradise. The science extended to agricul- ture by the Babylonians and Egyptians, by the Cartha- ginians, and by the Moslems of Spain, was hardly less conspicuous than the wonders which adorned the capital of their respective territories. The owners of land, ac- cordingly, have always had a deep interest in the pros- perity of cities and when such persons begin to regard cities with jealousy, and become employed in defaming them, in cramping their resources, and in endeavouring to reduce them to a state of weakness and passiveness, they become chargeable with the baseness of ingratitude or with the madness of self-destruction. Lands which bring forth a hundredfold in the place of thirty fold, they owe to the science of cities; and sales which give them a high price for their produce in place of a low one, they owe to the wealth of cities.—Dr. Vaughan. COUNTY-MEETING AGAINST THE INCOME TAX.- The county of Northumberland has done its duty. A large and influential meeting, presided over by the High Sheriff, has placed on record its condemnation of the infamous Income Tax of Sir Robert Peel, and its contempt for those false and designing persons, who, under the mask of friendship," have brought to the brink of ruin the once-prosperous farmers (unquestion- ably worse used by the Income Tax than any other class) and the bold peasantry" of old England.— Gatcshead Observer. THE COMET.—The mysterious visitant, with its far- stretching train of light, coming, we know not whence, and going, we know not whither—it seems to be now sufficiently established is a comet-a whole comet-head and tail—and nothing but a comet:—no Zodiacal light or mere transient meteor. Is has proved a true philosopher's puzzle. And how many thousands more may it not perplex and fill with wonder, as it wan- dcrs through the Universe To ONE only is its path known-surely it should remind us of that One. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET:—-Goods have advanced in the last week, refined ones 2s. per cwt., at which rates the demand has been brisk. DEFEAT OF THE SPANISH MINISTRY.—Letters from Madrid, dated on the morning of the 11th inst., have been received in the city by express, which state that on the preceding day, at seven o clock p.m., after a violent debate, the Spanish Ministry was beaten by the coali- tion upon the question of the validity of the elections from Badajoz the numbers were 80 against 55. Sub- sequent advices from Paris announce their having tendered their resignation to the Regent, who has sent to London for General Saneho.Tiines,

The most prominent though not the only feature in the Foreign news is the defeat of the Spanish Ministry, their resignation, and a reported conspiracy: some details connected with that event and with others else- where will be seen in our columns. Neither House has sat during the week, the "parliament chaps" as a con- temporary has it, being off- Abrf a I in the meadows to see the young lambs, Run soorting about by the side of their dams." The later domestic intelligence of the week will be found in a shape something more curtailed than we could have desired this condensation is owing to the unusual demands made upon our space by the impor- tant proceedings of the Haverfordwest Meeting, super- added to some other local intelligence. The dissenters almost throughout the kingdom have recorded their protest against the principle of the Factories' Education Bill: never did a measure receive a more prompt, determined and general opposition. IA-117 .11 1 1 not merely disapproved, it is execrated-and not too by a small party of violent and fanatical individuals' as the Times' insolently characterised the dissenting op- ponency, but by the whole body of sectaries of all denominations throughout the length snd breadth of Great Britain. That their opinion may be more fully demonstrated, and the numerical strength of their re- sistance be more powerfully expressed, we learn from a contemporary that "the Wesleyans have determined to present the aggregate of their petitions, through the representatives for the places from which they are re- spectively forwarded, on the first night on which the House of Commons meets after the recess—if they can be received on that night. It is estimated that the number of their petitions will exceed three thousand, and many of them will contain several hundred signa- tures." We think with the Globe' that "the govern- ment will not venture to proceed with the educational clauses of the Bill. Mr. Ewart's motion for dividing the Factory labour regulations part of the Bill from that which provides for the education of children employed in factories, and which will, of course, precede the secon d reading, will elicit from Sir James Graham the inten- tions of the Cabinet respecting it." With regard to the principles involved in the provisions of the Bill, our opinion is precisely the same as was expressed in the Welshman' from the first. The members of both Church and Chapel obviously have equal rights. As Lord WharnQliffe said when lie laid on the table of the House of Lords, by command of her Majesty, the minutes of the Committee of Privy Council on Education for the years 1841 and 1842, every man in this country, whether Churchman or Dissenter, is equally entitled to the support of the government, and to share in the distri- bution of a grant for the purposes of education." When detailing the grants which had been appropriated by the Committee, his lordship further observed he found the Church making the first claims upon the pro- perty of the country but he must say that, attached as he was to the Church, he thought that the Church itself was greatly obliged to the Dissenters for the ex- ample they had set her." But a Morning paper, which we will not believe very faithfully reflects the wishes of the Church, not merely puts in a priority of claim, but pretends to exclusive rights. The Globe' deals with this arrogant and absurd pretension in the following terms A grant of public money is to be voted out of the general taxation for the purpose of supplying the poor children in the factory districts with extended means of education; and it is gravely contended that the grant is to be confined in its application, and the education to be provided by its means is to be ex- clusively directed and controlled by the Clergy of the Established Church They might, with equal con- sistency, contend that the Dissenters should be excluded from the protection afforded by the laws te the lives and properties of the entire nation." We have said that the sectaries execrate the bill, but we ourselves, although believing that it is an insidious blow levelled at our religious liberties, and therefore of course largely sharing the general disapprobation felt by the public, should be ashamed to be thought to participate in the fanatacism and unreasoning vehemence which in one or two in- stances, we are sorry to see, has been displayed by the most violent and least liberal portion of the dissenting body. In our opinion it seems yet undecided, equally by Church and Chapel, what constitutes the training termed education." That appears to us a point of paramount importance. It certainly does not consist in bandaging up human hearts in bigotry, and in breaking down human wills by superstitious notions—but in ilistilling into people's hearts right sentiments, the stirring up within them an affection for truth and the infusion into their souls of high, generous, noble, divine sentiments."

We have a word or two to say about something that appeared in the columns of a contemporary just a week ago. Our frame of mind while mentioning it, we beg to be believed, is unaffectedly serious; for, of course, all religious scruples claim respect; and although one may not share them, no well constituted mind would make pegs of them on which to hang the bunting badinage or the coarse jest. We may feel surprise when we see an odd custom abroad, or at home as in the present case, but a sensible man neither giggles nor sneers at it. We ourselves then were not moved to laughter, nor surprised at the strangeness of the follow- ing announcement of our local contemporary put forth last Friday in the most prominent part of his paper. This day, (said our contemporary)" being the Chris- tian anniversary of the Crucifixion, it has been our prac- tice to abstain from political comment; and as we have heretofore experienced the kind indulgence of our read- ers, and a respectful consideration for our motive, we have the most undoubted confidence that we will not suffer in their estimation by adhering to a practice which can only be objectionable to the sceptic race, whose good opinion we care not to conciliate." Now, for the reason already stated, we will not re- mark either on the singularity of the sentiment adum- brated, or of the hurried oddness of the terms in which it is conveyed. But in the calmest and most courteous spirit we may just point out an inference or two, that seems irresistibly to flow from our contemporary's course. All the papers in the kingdom-or if there be one that keeps our contemporary in countenance, it is so obscure and insignificant that we have never heard of its existence-all the newspapers in England, then, we say, come out on Good Friday, just the same as on any other Friday. Does our Carmarthen contemporary then set up claims to superior sanctity ?—Yes, it does it shakes its head ecclesiastical rebukingly at the Stand- ard and Herald, and calls its conservative confreres sinners. In short, it says, or seems to say, to the whole newspaper press :—" On Good Friday we abstain from political comment; you do not; we then are holier than thou:" we are holier than thou 0 Post! than thou 0 Times than thou 0 Chronicle !-than thou 0 Globe, Sun, Standard, all!, yea than all of yon!" The infer- ence of our local contemporary's claim to pre-eminent piety, we think is fairly deducible (although it may be disclaimed) from the declaration he deliberately re- corded in the columns of the Journal last week. But the matter does not end here it does not end with the assumption of superior sanctity-there is another as- sumption, and it is one which we think it will be found rather difficult to reconcile with the other. The as- sumptions are antagonistic, & cannot co-exist—at least not in the eye of reason, though they may possibly in the imagination of our contemporary. We suppose our contemporary as well as all the world will admit that the publication of "political comment" on "the Chris- tian anniversary" is either good, or that it is bad. If good, why is it repudiated by our contemporary ?-if bad, why is it practised by our contemporary ? In one part of the paper there is political comment," in another there is a solemn protest against political comment" —page 1 bears aloft the (religious) pro- test, and page 4 rejoices in some (irreligious) political commentary copied from the Morning Ilerald. Is not this inconsistency most extraordinary ? Can such things be & overcomeus like a summer's cloud Without our special wonder." But like wonders, the inconsistencies and incongruities of our contemporary never cease. He has no objection whatever to print his paper on Good -Friday; to publish it on Good Friday, and to put it in the hands of every body on Good Friday-at least of every body who has a groat to pay for it, but he has a most religious horror against letting one of his own leaders desecrate the columns sacred to Good Friday. The Jews keep some Christian wench, whose soul they hold not worth a thought, to stir the fire for them on their Sabbath-day, as their dogmas deem feeding the fire, eating con- demnation. Are our contemporary's prejudices of a similar sort ?--Is he of the Jewish persuasion on the point of self-abstinence and vicarious wickedness. Besides the considerations we have referred to, there is one other reflection that must irresistibly force itsel upon every body; for who can help seeing that our con- temporary himself thinks his own political conmenta- rics, those which he is compelled (for like Paley and other eminent men he also is possibly too poor to have a conscience) to write weekly, are very wicked perpetra- tions of a paid, yet reluctant pen. He evidently thinks his own productions more pernicious than the most per- nicious part of the Journal on which lie is retained. He leaves out his own effusion as being too bad—he virtually confesses that his own writing would be less fitted for Good Friday, than even the cases of "piracy and murder, frightful accidents, and monomaniac museums, horrible brutality, Rebecca, and revolution—bigamy and seduction, &e. &c.all of which made their ap- pearance in our contemporary's paper on that Chris- tian anniversary." This brethren (in effect said our contemporary) is Good Friday. I cannot afford to abstain from selling the newspaper you shall have it slick with all its pleasant vices served up as usual- but as it is a Christian anniversary' I really cannot to-day go so far in sin and sophistry as to contaminate tive commentary. Stop, however, till next week, and you'll see I'll not be overnice, but will trim, twist and trick, truckle and throw dust in the eyes of the farmers, and, in short, do the bidding of my tory masters to their heart's content." Thus our contempo- rary we think stands self-convicted of having for a long time contributed weekly to a paper, its most offensive portion, the portion at all events which he considers most offensive to morals and religion on the Christian anniversary.

TIIE AMERICAN CORN ADMISSION BILL is naturally enough viewed with alarm by many parties, and with dissatisfaction by all. Lord Rendlesham, with other conservatives, we see ha publicly declared his deter- mination to oppose it; and last week the Morning Post put the public in possession of the fact that remonstrance on the subject had been offered to her Majesty's Ministers by gentlemen whom her Majesty's Ministers would not willingly offend. It seems, how- ever, that her Majesty's Ministers can't help offending some of their supporters; for, according to the authority just quoted, Ministers were very sorry, but they pleaded the principle of allowing the manufactures of the colo- nies to come free, no matter from whence the raw material might be derived, and they submitted that, upon this principle, flour, which is a manufacture, should be admitted from Canada, though the raw ma- terial (the wheat) be a foreign product, admitted at a low duty." We are reminded by a contemporary that this statement exactly confirms Mr. Cobden's remark to the Norwich millers, that the corn is not to be allowed to come in the raw material, and employ their grinding stones; but it is to be made into flour in Canada. Why, did anybody ever hear of such a mon- strous thing as this ? American corn is to be carried to Canada, and ground upon her streams, which arc amongst the finest in the world, and is to be brought here as Canadian manufacture and the miller here has to compete with free trade in flour, and is not allowed to have the raw material to make the flour from." Ministers may call this Canadian Flour Bill an advance towards the system of treating our colonies as an integral part of the empire;" but mystify the matter as much as they will, it all comes to this—that Foreign Flour will find its way to our shores at a nominal duty only, and in such a mode as while injuring agriculture, will add nothing to the revenue of the country, nothing to its trade, nothing to the comforts of the people. On former occasions we have shown that the wheat of America, after having first been tossed about on ship- board, and then converted into flour by the Canadians, will be introduced into this country as colonial produce, and we have now the authority of Mr. Gladstone himself, speaking through the Foreign and Colonial Review," in corroboration of the statements we then made. The Secretary of the Board of Trade, in the Review," frankly admits that Even in the home consumption of Canada, the colonial farmer meets with a rival who can undersell him in the citizen of the United States, and we cannot but admit that very great facilities exist for that rival carrying his produce into the British market also under the name of Canadian produce." In the Globe of last Monday there are some extracts from a portion of correspondence which, it is believed, has been also submitted to members of Government and the House of Commons. The writer observes I fear that ruinous consequences will result, not only to the millers of the United Kingdom, but also to the farmers, landed and other interests, by permitting the free importation of the manufactured article of flour; and which, in my opinion, would not be the result as regards a free importation of wheat from those colonies, or even from the continent of Europe, for many reasons, among which are the following At the present time the best quality of flour can be shipped free on board at Montreal, all expenses included, a I 17s. 6d. British sterling per barrel of 1961bs., and it is confidently expected to be so low as 15s., which is the present price in Baltimore and many other places in the United States, at which price large orders to purchase have been sent out from England within the last few weeks; adding 3s. to 3s. 6d. per barrel for freight, and Is. for insurance and other charges, the importer can sell it here at 21s., with a fair profit or say at 12s. per cwt. for the finest quality of bakers' flour; to compete with which the millers of the United Kingdom would require to have the best quality of wheat at 7s. per cwt. of 1121bs., or on an average weight of 621bs. to the im- perial bushel, at 31s. sterling per quarter. It is apprehended, from the very low prices of wheat in the interior of America, and the excellence of the land along the line of the Lakes in the worth-west, as also the extensive vale of the Mississippi to the south- ward, that eventually such a quantity of wheat would be imported thence into Canada, the exportation of which in flour to this country would materially reduce both the quantity and price of the home growth." The writer goes on to say:- That the free importation of wheat would not be so injurious as that of flour to the farmers, millers, and other interests of the country, and would be equally advantageous to the Canadians, I conclude, for the fol- lowing reasons, viz,:— In receiving FLOUR from the Canadas, the greatest quantity, if not all, must arrive in the summer and autumn months, periods which would seriously interfere with the value of the produce of our own harvest, and render the market fluctuating and unsteady; whereas, if imported as wheat, it would not require to go directly into consumption, or be sold on arrival, which would be a decided advantage, not only to the Canadian exporter, but also to his British correspondent. In wet and cold seasons, also, the wheat grown in the North of England, Scotland, and Ireland, is not of a quality good enough to make bakers' flour, without a large mixture of the finer description of foreign wheat; the value of our growth in such seasons would, there- fore, be still further reduced by an importation of flour instead of wheat, as the foreign wheat being mixed with an inferior quality enables the miller to make flour therefrom-fit for making bread, thereby assisting to keep up the price of our own growth, which an importa- tion of flour would tend to depress. In illustration, I would state, that within these five years past the best foreign wheats have been occasionally nearly double the price of Irish and had it not been for the supply thereof to mix our inferior Irish with, its price at such times must have been still lower, if not rendered altogether unsaleable for millers' purposes. What would be the consequence of our having one or two bad wheat harvests here, with corresponding good harvests in America and the Canadas, under the inten- ded law for the importing of flour ? Our home-grown corn, ifsaleable at all, would be at a lower price than oats the low price of the Canadian flour preventing any improvement in our averages, so as to enable us to release foreign wheat to assist in the manufacture of our own, and without which it would be impracticable." After urging various considerations, which we have not space for, "the conclusion arrived at is- The propriety of altering the Corn-laws, so as to per- mit wheat only, and not flour, to be imported into the United Kingdom, and that at a fixed rate of duty, say of 10s. per quarter, taking off Is. yearly, until it is reduced to 6s. per quarter or should it be impracticable to pro- hibit the importation of flour, that then the same amount of duty be laid on a barrel of flour weighing 1961bs. as upon a quarter of wheat, from all parts of the world, except our own colonies, calculated on the above scale of duties. And that from the Canadas, and all our other colo- nies, wheat and oats only be admitted free of duty into the United Kingdom, under the proposed regulations for importation into the Canadas from America; but if im- ported as flour or meal, that the same duty be chargeable thereon as if it were coming from a foreign country." We have not room to indicate with how much of the above reasoning we concur, but reverting to the general question, we may be perhaps excused for saying, that the Change which was predicted some months since, and for which conjecture we were then laughed at for our pains, appears to be progressing with a roundabout rapidity more perilous than any sound straightforward policy would sanction. The farmers' outspeaking friends see that, If, says one of them, it be admitted that to impose a duty of 3s. per qr. on wheat imported from the States into Canada be treating that colony as an integral part of the empire, the application of the same principle to this part of the empire will soon follow." Yes, no doubt that consummation cannot long be delayed. But, meantime, what grievous, what gratuitous injury is done to all classes and to every interest!—and how much more may be, nay will be inflicted on the commerce, the domestic industry and the Agriculture of the country Out then upon th e time-serving tories, out upon those official trimmers who know the right and yet the wrong pursue "— who sacrifice principle to expediency, and who sneak- ingly ruin the Empire, they greedily undertook to rule. Foreign Corn to be admitted next July, at a nominal duty, into Great Britain, and free or fair trade, at the same time, to be prohibited and driven away This is the Peel policy.

There was a letter in our last Number which had so much the look of the puff collusive, that if it had been carefully read by us we should have consigned it to the waste paper receptacle. The letter alluded to wonders how the 'Journal' manages to "drag on its miserable existence." Now, this is supremely silly. It's existence is not more miserable than that of some others, in the principality and there's no call at all for wonderment, "It's a very poor paper, has little news, nothing hardly either to amuse or inform the public mind"- admitted. Well, what of that! It does not sell a Number the less for being a bad paper, nor would it sell a Number the more if it were a good one. How so?" I Why, the reason is obvious. It has two classes only of politics nightly by means of the London Evening or Morning papers—and those who think two or three shillings a week for a London newspaper two much. The first class are quite satisfied with the Journal' if it gratify their little vanities and advance their private interests. And the other class who take it, are too ignorant to see its deficiencies. This appears to us to be the fact The Welshman's readers, comprehending the great body of the people hereabout, require more for their money-and they have it. There's no mystery in the matter—no occasion for the expression of wonder about our contemporarys' miserable existence' and the other well meaning twaddle of the correspondent whose communication we have thought it but fair to the Jour- nal' to correct.

In another column will be found a correspondence on the subject of the non-payment of the Income Tax, to which we beg to call particular attention. We shall at present abstain from saying one word upon the matter.

LATEST NEWS. I LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, 7 O'CLOCK. CONSPIRACY AT MADRID.—Oar letters from Paris to- day, by express, mention that the French government has received a telegraphic despatch from Madrid, with the news of an extensive conspiracy having been dis- covered at Madrid, with ramifications at Barcelona. It is also stated that the whole of the Spanish ministry has resigned-even Calatrava, the Ministry of Finance and that it is feared some time will elapse before a fresh one is formed, as General Sancho, who has been sent for from London, will not arrive at Madrid before the 4th May and it is even then feared that lie will not take upon himself the onerous charge of forming a ministry. -Globe. HER MAJESTY.—' The interesting event' is daily ex- pectecl all the great officers of state remain in readiness. THE DVKE OF SUSSEX.—The following is a copy of the bulletin issued this morning His Royal High- ness the Duke of Sussex had some return of fever last night, and is not so well to-day as he was yesterday. (Signed) W. FREDERICK CHAMBERS. IIE.NRY HOLLAND. "THOMAS COPLAND. "Kensington Palace, 9 a.m., April 19, 1840." The nomination for East Suffolk took place on Tues- day the polling will commence on Friday morning, and terminate on Saturday afternoon. CONSOLS for Acc. closed at 9G. COItN-EXCHANGL-(Tiiis DAY.)—The runs of Eng- lish wheat left over on Monday are quite unsaleable unless at a further decline in price; and in foreign there is no business doing. Other articles remain the same as on last day.

CARMARTHENSHIRE. I ADMISSION OF FOREIGN FLOUR AT A NOMINAL DUTY.—-The following is the copy of a Petition against the Canadian Corn Law and protection" d la Peel. We understand that it will soon be in course of signa- ture in the neighbourhood of Llysnewydd, and (proba- bly also) in other places in this and the adjoining coun- ties :— To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain and Ireland.—The humble petition of the Landholders and occupiers of the parish of in the county of Carmarthen. SHEWETH—That your petitioners have heard with much alarm that its in the contemplation of her Majesty's Ministers to allow wheat converted into flour to be introduced into the United Kingdom through the Canadas at a fixed duty of THREE SHILLINGS A QUARTER. That your petitioners believe that the effect of this will be in ordinary seasons to bring down the price of wheat to no greater a sum than 33s. A QUARTER, thus depriving the Agricultural Interests of that protection which they have hitherto enjoyed, and without the con- tinuance of which not only will the land be unable to bear those burdens which sopeculiarly press upon it, but all connected with it will be involved in [one common ruin. Your petitioners therefore most humbly pray, That your Honourble House will not pass any law for the importation of flour or wheat from Canada upon any terms which may have a tendency to place the price of wheat at any lower sum than is already fixed by the existing corn laws. And your petitioners, &c." We have elsewhere in a separate article submitted a word or two on the subject which this petition refers to. We may however here just observe, that we do not say the sooner we get rid of protection," as it is mean- inglessly & most unthinkingly called, the better, because all violent and sudden changes involving the displace- ment of domestic industry, and the disturbance of deeply rooted interests, of course ought carefully to be avoided but we believe there are few men who still remain so cheated by" a mere word, by the claptrap remain so cheate d b y a. mere word, by the claptrap protection" we mean, as not to see that a vacillating, uncertain, ever-shifting policy such as Sir Robert Peel has all along pursued, unsettling every thing and"set- tling nothing, is more pernicious to landlords and cul- tivators of the British soil, as well as to the consumers of its produce than any straightforward course could pos- sibly be, even though deteriorated by a haste in legisla- tion which every statesman should avoid. At a Vestry Meeting held in St. Peter's Church this morning, the Ven. Archdeacon Bevan in the chair, Messrs. G. Goode and J. B. Jeffries were appointed Churchwardens for the ensuing year the former by the parish (on the nomination of E. H. Stacey, Esq., se- conded by J. G. Philipps, Esq.) and the latter by the Vicar. Last Sunday, the Lord Bishop of St. David's preach- ed in English, at St. Peter's Church, Carmarthen, de- livering a lucid explanation of the reasons why the early disciples of our Saviour Kept holy the first day of the week in lieu of the Jewish Sabbath. The dis- course occupied upwards of fifty minutes and the text was taken from the 20th verse of the 7th chapter of the Acts. Our contemporary with that accuracy of intelli- gence for which he is famed, announced that His Lord- ship would preach in Welsh at St. David's, instead of which he preached in English at St. Peter's. JOHS BROWN'S FAIR, last Saturday, was not very well attended, but all stock presented for sale was bought though at very low prices. There was a very small attendance of horses which did not find ready buyers. The pig fair on Monday was very brisk, being well attended, small pigs selling well, the larger ones finding greater difficulty in changing owners. Llangathen fair went off well, the demand for cattle being brisk. ODD FELLOWS.—The Anniversary Festival of the different lodges of Odd Fellows in Carmarthen, was held on Easter Monday. There was no procession, the powers that be" deeming it unnecessary, but a dinner was laid out at each lodge-room, and partaken of by numbers of the brethren. At the Merlin Lodge, (Cooper's Arms,) N. G. James Jenkins filled the chair, and P.G.M. W. Thomas, the vice; singing and hilarity were the order of the evening, and the usual loyal toasts were drank with enthusiasm. About 150 sat down to dinner at this lodge. At the Ancient Briton Lodge, (Old Ivy Bush) N. G. Daniel Harries took the chair, the vice being occupied by iD. G. M. R. Evans. This Lodge was attended by many most respectable trades- men and others, about 80 in number. The speeches were first-rate, several in favour of the Widow and Or- phan's Fund, being ably and impressively delivered by Brothers Bogle, (Machester,) Stone, (Bristol,) R. Evans, and T. Jones. The singing was capital, and the con- vivialities kept up until the wee short hours." At the Vale of Towy Lodge, (Angel), a good dinner was provided, and the strains of the tdyn enlivened the meeting, while singing and joviality rendered the even- ing an extremely pleasant one. Last Saturday, a fine schooner was launched from the building-yard of Mr. James Jenkins, Ship builder, Quay. She is a fine model, and left the stocks in capital style. The body of Mr. Price, of Llwynymendy, who was supposed to have been drowned in trying to cross the Towy by a ford above Llandilo, was found on Monday in the river near Drwyslwyn Castle, about ten miles from the ford. At the inquest held the next day, there was no evidence to explain how the poor man met his fate. He was last seen alive by a farm servant, on the even- ing of the 4th inst., at a mile's distance from the ford. He proposed crossing the river there, but was dissuaded by the man, who told him that the river had suddenly risen. He then desisted, saying he would go round by Llandilo. The jury returned a verdict of found drowned." TONE OF A TORY ORGAN.—The following elegant extract is from a Public Journal :'— On Wednesday last a woodcock, of a very large size, was shot near Havodnethin, by C. Morgan, Esq., jun. We should have been exceedingly glad to have partaken of a portion of it; however, we must acknow- ledge that the partridges and the pheasants he was kind enough to send us last winter were most acceptable. We will wait till next winter for the woodcocks." This paper, that so appropriately sends out a dignified remonstrance in the matter of a single woodcock shot by a C. somebody, Esquire, is the same one that set forth in its columns some time ago that a pair of soles had been thankfully received by its Editor! and who has since put on record in conservative' columns the important Public fact that a gentleman's gardner sent him some very nice vegetables! The Journal is unquestionable the gentlemen's paper." REBECCA.—About 11 to 12 o'clock last Tuesday night, Bwlchyclawdd gate, near Newcastle-Emlyn, was de- stroyed: in less than ten minutes the gate posts and toll-house were entirely demolished. They told the toll- keeper that if they should find him again in any toll- house they would punish him. They were all armed with guns, pistols, swords, &c. &c., and as they were leaving, they said they had two more in the neighbour- hood, Velindre-Shenkin and Newrastle-N'ri o-ntf- THREATS OF REBECCAITES—WAR TO THE KNIFE- —A Special Petty Sessions for the Hundred of El vet, was held yesterday at the Blue Bell, Conwil, for '10 purpose of determining the claim for compensation un- der the Act 7 & 8 Geo. IV., c. 31. sec. 2, by the lessee of the Nantyclawdd Toll-House and Gcte belonging the Newcastle-Emlyn Trust, for its destruction by Rebecca and her daughters, on the night of the 15th ult. There was an unusually large assemblage of magistrates- The only claim heard was that of David Jones, the lessee of the Tolls. Evidence being taken of the destruction and the amount of the injury, an order was made for the payment of the same, with costs, making altogether, £ 22 8s. lOd. A letter in Welsh, addressed to the Bench, was found fastened with a large clasp knife Oil Conwil Bridge. It contained the most awful threats and denunciations against all parties concerned in this day proceedings, but it was passed by unheeded by the magistrates.

PEMBROKESHIRE. DEATH OF MR. ALLEN OF CRESSELLY. We regret to have to announce to our readers the death of John II. Allen Esq., which took place at his seat, Cresselly, Pembrokeshire, on the morning of Good Friday, at the age of 73. It will be remembered that Mr. Allen, formerly represented the Borough of Pem* broke in Parliament, and together with the present Lord Cawdor (then Mr. Campbell) exerted himself stiongly towards the abolition of the old system of judicature in Wales. Mr. Allen was also for upwards of 25 years, Chairman of the Quarter Sessions for the county of Pembroke. He married in 1822 a daughter of the late Lord Robert Seymour, for many years M-f- for this county. The late distinguished literary cha- racters, Sir James Mackintosh, and M. de Sismondt were married to two of the sisters of the deceased gen- tleman. Mr, Allen had latterly been afflicted with frequent returns of a most painful disorder, which he bore with patient resignation, and pious fortitude. His life was one consistent course of urbanity and kindness to those of his own station, benevolence and charity to those beneath him, the warmest affeetion to relatives and friends, and the purest benevolence to all. He was especially the poor man's friend." With these qualities his loss will be long and most severely felt, but so also will be, we trust, his bright example. Such a cha- racter and such an example as his, it is our own most sacred duty to hold forth to public regret and venera- tion-and we do so, imperfectly, but with a sincerity that proceeds from a just appreciation of moral worth, of political integrity and of high intellectual qualities. [From a Correspondent], lsetore the next appearance of your pages the mortal remains of a good man will have been laid in the tomb. The character of the late Mr. Allen of Cresselly was one, which the writer of these few lines would not have dared to pourtray whilst he yet dwelt among men; for truth would have borne too much the appearance of fulsome panegyric. If the most unhesitating purity oi principle, combined with invincible kindliness of dispo- sition, in other words, if to revere the Creator, and do good to every fellow creature in adversity, be the duty of a christian, then was he most truly such. If to avoid the utterance of an ill-natured remark on any one in their absence himself, and to check all observations 01 such a nature in others by a smile or a repartee, be the surest characteristic of a gentleman; then was he most truly such. If to suffer severe pains in his own person without repining, but to require only a hint that others suffered, to induce him to offer the best aid in his power to alleviate their pangs, be the part of a good man; then was he most truly such. That he never under' took any duty without using his utmost endeavours to fulfil it properly, is best proved by the almost entire absence of appeals from his decisions, during the many yeats he so honourably filled the Chair at the Quarter Sessions for this county. The writer's acquaintance with the merits of those grave questions, which are, and ever have been, dividing the chief men of this county into two great parties, is not sufficiently extensive to enable him to constitute himself a judge between the opposing sections of the Legislature. But if an eaget and extensive research after truth, as exhibited in the writings of all parties, if an unflinching support of those views which his researches led him to believe to be correct, are the essential of an honest politician, then must the late Mr. Allen, be placed in the foremost ra-uk of the best representatives of a people in a popula1 assembly" —————. LONGEVITY.—On Saturday, the 8th inst.,died at Pan- teague, in the Parish of Llandewy Velfrey, Pembroke- shire, aged 101 years, David John, late Forrester, in the employ of J. H. Allen, Esq., of Cresselly. He retained his faculties to the last, and frequently walked to market within the last twelve months. EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—DEATH AND THE LAWS.—On Thursday last, John Mabe, a Butcher, resid- ing at Templeton, near Narberth, was apprehended un' der a magistrate's warrant for a breach of the ganle laws, committed about two years ago, and in default 01 payment of the penalty, the constable proceeded to coll- vey him to the County Gaol at Haverfordwest. The prisoner offered the most determined resistance to the constables, and it is said expressed his deter- mination not to go to jail at all events." After some time a cart was procured, and Mabe placed therein in the custody of three constables having been previously handcuffed. They proceeded about three miles on the Haverfordwest road, when the prisoner jumped out of the cart, and made directly towards the river CleddY, where he dashed in, followed by Rome, one of the con- stables. After a struggle of some minutes in the river; the prisoner (Mabe) sunk to rise no more, and the con- stable (Rome) with difficulty made his escape from ¡1. watery grave. An inquest was held on Saturday last, before J. Stokes, Esq., coroner, on a view of the body, and after a careful investigation the Jury returned the following verdict:—"That the deceased was acci- dentally drowned in endeavouring to escape from the constables, who were attempting to convey him to jail." EXCISE CONVICTIONS.—At Narberth, on the 17tll instant, there were the following convictions:—John Griffiths for fraudulently making malt, E25, David Gibbon and Martha Rowland, £50 each for a similar offence Jane Thomas and William Merryman, £1) each for selling beer without a license. EXTRAORDINARY FECUNDITY.—Mr. Rd. Llewellyn* of Honey Park, in the parish of Carew, in this county, has an ewe of the Leicester breed, which produced three lambs in the month of March, 1842, on the 22d Sep- tember following, she produced the same number, and on the 1st day of April last four, all of which lived, with the exception of one of the three yeaned in March, 1842. LAUNCH OF THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT YACHT.—" The Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert" will be launched from the Dock-yard, on Wednesday, the 26tb inst., and should the tide prove favourable, of which at present there is no doubt, she will be released from the > slip precisely at half-past three in the afternoon-it being; the intention of docking her immediately afterwards. The interesting ceremony of naming her will be per- formed by the Countess of Cawdor, at the express desire of her Majesty. The same day, at noon, the foundation stone of the National School about to be erected at Pembroke Dock, will be laid with the usual ceremonies. The school wll contain about 400 children, and its erection will cost about E70. The funds are being raised by voluntary contributions, by bazaars, and by the aid of the Council of Education, and the National School Society. SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.-— We feel much pleasure in stating that the above society has lately granted a liberal supply of books to the Rev. James Owen, officiating minister of Cilgerran, in the county of Pembroke, for the use of the Sunday school, in that parish and which we understand is in a very favourable state as to instruction. The attention which this truly excellent & laudable institution always evinces, and its ready compliance with every application made to it from the principality, entitle it to the generosity of its inhabitants by subscribing cheerfully and liberally towards its funds..

FACTORIES EDUCATION BILL.—PUBLIC MEET- ING AT HAVERFORDWEST. [FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] The unjust and iniquitous Bill of Sir James Grahans has had the effect of arousing the Dissenters throughout the length and breadth of the land, from their long and culpable state of vassalage and supineness. The spirit of bold and uncompromising hostility to its tyrannous details has in no instance perhaps been more resolutely evidenced than in a public meeting held in this town, on the evening of Monday last, the 17th inst. A requisition numerously and respectably signed was in the preceding week presented to the Mayor of Haverfordwest, requesting him to convene a meeting of the inhabitants, to consider the propriety of petitioning Parliament to reject entirely the educational clauses of the proposed Bill. His worship acceded to the request of the requisitionists and appointed the meeting to be held at the Town-hall, on Monday, the 17th. The whole of the spacious edifice was densely crowded, and on the motion of J. Ll. Morgan, Esq., M.D., seconded by Wrn- Rees, Esq., the Mayor, J. Potter, Esq., was called to the chair. The chairman opened the business of the meeting by expressing his acknowledgements for the honor conferred on him, and after reading the requisition which he stated was "signed by upwards of one hundred respectable gentlemen," called upon T Lloyd, Esq., to move the first resolution. (All the resolutions will be found in our advertising columns.) Mr. Lloyd first read the resolution, and then proceeded as follows-Mr. Mayor, ladies and gentlemen, and Christian friends,- if we take a glance at the progress which education has made within the last 40 years, we shall see that it is not in that deplorable state in which some people are willing to represent it. Forty years ago there did not, with the exception of one solitary instance, exist a single Sunday school in the whole county, and not a very great number in the Kingdom itself, but now the whole country is almost brought under the instruction of Sunday school teaching, and when we look at the kingdom, we behold at this moment one million and half of children receiving instruction every Sabbath in the Sunday school, from 250,000 gratuitous Sunday school teachers. I remember Haverfordwest before a Sunday school was established in it, and there are many present who can remember it better than I can, and