The Welshman

I LONDON WEDNESDAY EVENING, 7 O'CLOCK. AMERICA.—The Hibemia reached the port of Liver- pool this morning,bringing some news of general interest. It appears that the elections have terminated in Ten- nessee, Indiana, Illinois, and North Carolina. In the three last mentioned states the democratic party have succeeded in electing a majority of the representatives in Congress respectively, while in the former the Whigs have been triumphant, and by carrying the local legis- lature have secured the choice of two partizan senators to Congress, which continues their present ascendancy in the Upper House. The Presidential canvass is be- ginning to grow warmer, and public opinion will pro- bably settle down ere long on the two principal op- posing candidates. Commercial business has revived in New York. The Southern trade has closed, and the Western will im- mediately commence with fair prospects. The supply of goods, if not large, is sufficient for the demand, and prices will probably retain their present average. Mrs. Gilmour has been surrendered to the English authorities in pursuance of the stipulations of the late treaty. The United States Commissioner gave her up in the lower bay, to the officer empowered to take her into custody. The difficulties between Mexico and Texas are sup- posed to be in a train of settlement. The movements of the American navy are more active than usual. A large number are fitting out for im- mediate cruising, and a want of midshipmen has been sensibly felt. The country is getting into a healthier condition every day. The money market continued easy. Good com- mercial paper had been discounted at three per cent. and the stock market continued firm

LATEST FROM SPAIN. I On the 8th there was still fighting at Barcelona. Accounts from Barcelona of the 8th mention that several mansions were damaged. Three cannon shots had traversed the apartments of the British Consul. Prim's own Volunteers of Reus had taken part against him, and many of the towns had declared for the Cen- tral Junta. A rural Junta of Prim's had been surprised at Sarria, and several of its members slain. A Central Junta had been formed at Girona. Madrid letters of the 5th state that government were about to dismiss a great many superior officers and functionaries opposed to them. The partisans to Don Francisco have decidedly joined the Espatterists.- DONCASTEH RACES.—-THE GREAT ST.LEGERSTAKES were won yesterday by NuUcith, an outsider. According to some accounts Cotherstone, by others Prizefighter, was the second. DEPARTURE OF HER MAJESTY.—Her Majesty and the Royal suite left Brighton for Ostend, on a visit to the King of the Belgians last Tuesday. It is said that the palace at Belgium will be given up to her and her consort, and that the King and Queen of the Belgians will occupy a private house.

REBECCA DRAMATISED.—Last Wednesday, at the Royal Amphitheatre, Liverpool, a new play was brought out, called Rebecca and her Daughters. According to the bill, of which the following is an abridged copy, it is an interesting drama" and no doubt it is inter- esting What better subject for the drama can there be than the great historical events of the day. At the Adelphi, our "West-end correspondent" informs us, there will be brought out with entirely new scenery, decorations, and so forth, a farce, called Taffy and The Turnpikes. The bill announces to the play-going public, at Liverpool, that "On Wednesday, September 13th, 1813, the performances will commence for the first time, with an interesting drama, entitled REBECCA AND HER DAUGHTERS; or, PADDY THE POLICEMAN.- Sir Watkin Wiseacre, a Welsh Justice of Peace, Mr. T. Williams; Captain Squib of the Ponty Puddle Yeomanry, Mr. Abbott; Cornet Cracker, Mr. Blew; Sir Henry Honeycomb (nephew to Sir Watkin) Mr. Coe Paddy Whack (a policeman of the A division, No. 1, consequently the first man in the force) Mr. Fisher Taffy Tibbs, head constable of Ponty Puddle, Mr. Hol- loway; Lady Winterblossom, sister to Sir Watkin, Mrs. Fife Belinda and Floranthe, her sisters, Mrs. Coe and Mrs. Johnson Jenny Jones, their attendant, Miss Fife —Programme of scenery, &c.—Vigilance of the civil and military atithoi,ities.CIOO reward for the apprehension of Rebecca, and £10 for each of her daughters.—False alarm.—Invincible courage of the yeomanry.—Arrival of the London police in disguise Paddy Whack undertakes to capture the delinquents.— Admonition to the constabulary.-—The inspection. Mysterious appearance of Rebecca and her daughters, in the glen of Llandilo at niidniglit.-Trial before the ■ustice of peace.—Happy denouement.

THE SCENES OF MY YOUTII. AN ELEGY.-By Joseph Downes. [Written exclusively for The Welshman.] When pleasures pall and hopes decay, I n the" black vesper" of our day, And like a pageant passed away The world appears Still fresh and beautiful and green, (While time and distance intervene) To fancy glows each vanished scene Of earlier years. But visited—alas, how changed! What playmates dead—what hearts estranged The sick heart, like a mind deranged, Strange visions cross, Of something we no more can find j A mighty void in heart and mind— A ceaseless sense of undefined Retrieveless loss! Another heart has dispossest That which so bounded in the breast; Or that, transformed, shut up, deprest- Is now become Like a green leaf by canker curled Another and a drearier world, Where death's pale banner peeps unfurled, Is round us, dumb. Dumb as the grave for deaf as death- The mind, when, (th' outer sense beneath,) The intellectual listeneth To joy's long knell, My memory rung in hearts grown old, As seems interminably roll'd The sound-mid caverned mountains toll'd- Of one death-bell. No more the wounded mind finds balm No more the troubled spirit calm Turned to a dirge is now the psalm, The matin-hymn, The voiceless hallelujah hope Sounds on the strings of hearts that ope To her '-and for the grave we grope Midst shadows grim. Yet slow the astonished hearts" belief, That scene of joy to scenes of grief Time turns, as autumn turns the leaf Long f re its fall; The scene the tame, its charms no more, Long seeks the soul the cause, before We find the change we so deplore. Internal all. So the torn deer, returned to slake His death-thirst at some well-known lake, Which saw him, in the morning wake, The hunter scorning, No more sees headlong hills appear, No more a skyblue mirror clear, Nor knows 'tis his own blood and tear, That breaks the beauteous hemisphere He saw, that morning. Come no more, wanderer! turn no more, For comfort to thy native shore, How lovely—loved, so e'er before !— By setting day, Dream of returning-roll thine eye To its imagined spot of sky— Cherish its pleasant memory; Live on that dreamed return—but die Far, far away! Builth.

POSTPONEMENT OF ARTICLES.—At the eleventh iiour we are compelled for want of room to withhold one or two articles, and amongst the number those relative to the representation of Carmarthenshire, county and borough. The appearance also of some contributions, original (in- cluding "The Honest Farmer") as well as select, are reluctantly, but unavoidably postponed.—' P.' The Bris- tol Gazette (published every Wednesday) and the Bristol Mercury (published every Saturday) are the best Bristol papers.—The Philanthropist monthly newspaper is wel- comed. Our Aberystwith subscribers are informed that we have this day written to the Postmaster General, who will, no doubt, apply a much-needed remedy. ERRA T A.-The printers owe an apology to our Pem- brokeshire readers for the errata with which the early edition of our paper was filled. They have no other excuse than this, that the Pembrokeshire post goes out so early that it is next to impossible to correct the press in post time. We notice one or two only of the typographical mistakes which misrepresent the sense intended to be conveyed.—For anonymous" tittle" in page 3 column 3 read tittle tattle: in the foil-owing clause of the sentence misprinted, no doubt there is a good deal of vulgar as- sumption on the Bench (and quite as much in the pulpit) here as wellas elsewhere" —for pulpit read off of it": for church and chapel "routing" read church and chapel routine.

A fortnight ago we said that we were sorry to see that, in several places, Rebeccs'sm was getting worse, and that a different class of persons with different objects, had taken the"«cid. Malice, we saw, had in the particular places which we referred to, made head, and an outrage had been committed on the person and property of one individual at Llanon, which the Vice Lieutenant of this county, the county in which it took place, has described as "murderous," and which we will add, is also disgraceful, disgraceful to the last and lowest degree of agrarian brutality. Mr. Edwards, the agent upon whom the enraged gang of desperadoes wreaked their vengeance on the occasion alluded to, may have applied the screw he may have been harsh, oppressive, and even extortionate; he may have been a bad man of this either one way or the other we know nothing, but Mr. Edwards's character does not alter the case, it does not at all change its color. Granted that Edwards was all this and more-are we then like savages to violate the sanctity of the man's home, and to trample under feet all law and justice ? No there is not any wrong without a remedy. And this brings us to the point which we feel it our duty to urge upon the serious attention of the suffering masses in this part of South Wales. We entreat then all those persons who arc suffering under a sense of wrong to recollect that obedience to the law is the duty as well as the interest of all of us. We would also entreat them to believe in the sincerity of our sympathy with their suffering to believe also in the earnestness of our desire to see every grievance under which they groan swept away, and to be assured that so far as the Welshman's unwearied and unflinching advocacy of the rights of the people and a bold assertion of their claims to a full enjoyment of the fruits of their honest labour, aye to all the fruits of their labour, undi- minished by the improper exactions, and the scan- dalous jobbery of the better dressed but worse conducted men who have lived too long on the infamous toll system and similar abuses, wringing from the hard hand of industry in some cases, the sustenance which was necessary to the comfort and almost to the very existence of the families of the poor farmers and labour- ers thus plundered—so far as the temperate, but fearless and uncompromising advocacy of the rights of the people can avail, the people are secure. This fact ought to inspire them at once with self-respect and a just confidence. They have the Press with them—we speak not of the humble Welshman, with its weekly issue of something less than Two Thousand—they have the English Press with them. They have a vigilant, fearless, and almost omnipotent London Press on their side. From the office of the Londcn Times alone issues every day 20,000 papers, each and all containing facts and figures more or less illustrative of the condition of the country, and more or less conducive to its ameliora- tion. -No abuse escapes censure, no impropriety even of manner in the magnates is passed over rudeness is rebuked; peculation quails, jobbery stands abashed- all the dark corners of petty corruption and magisterial mismanagement are examined, and in short every thing is done which a Government Commission efficiently composed could effect-and five hundred thousand times as much good as the commission sent by the government has done-things indeed have assumed a much more serious aspect since Mr. Hall's return than before he came here. The persons then, we say, who are suffering from the pressure of tolls, tithes, high rent, and the poor law (we throw the latter in as a makeweight) have an unspeakably powerful ally in the English Press; their complaints, all their griev- ances are made known to the whole world, and all the wrong-doers, high and low, are brought before the tribunal of that public opinion to which not only magis- trates and country squires must, and do eventually bow but which Majesty bends to, which dictates to the Imperial legislature itself, consisting of Queens, Lords, and Commons, and which, in short, governs the world. Why then will foolish violent men defeat the intentions of such an all powerful agency ? Why will they per- sist in plunging themselves into an abyss of guilt, and madly rush on to self destruction ? Their grievances have enlisted the advocacy as well as the sympathy of England and Englishmen on their side—why will they detach it, why destroy it by unreasoning riots and acts of lawlessness, for which they themselves alone will pay the penalty ? They have also, we know, the best wishes of a large majority of their own countrymen, indeed of all the best and most influential men in Wales, for their success in removing all unjust burthens. Nay, let us be just, we believe that the number of those who would perpetuate peculation, and the infamous toll system is small, very tmall, if any. 1Vc know, every man who can do more than count his fingers must know, that there is actually but ONE interest in the country, and the larger the amount of material suffering amongst the inhabitants at large, the more powerful is the bond of that interest, the more it is to the interest of the governing portion of those inhabi- tants in removing it, and in getting rid of all grievances. The higher classes here, as elsewhere, have not, in reality, (although some few of them, perhaps, think they have) a separate interest. The interest of one class is really the interest Df all classes. It may be urged that notwithstanding the promises of prompt redress held out, many of those fair promises remain unfulfilled to this day-and that is partly true. Downing Street doubtless has not done its duty so efficiently as might have been expected; the Govern- ment Commission so far seems to have been little better than a solemn farce played by a solitary itinerant: and we are unfortunately just now bestrided by a fool- ish, feeble government which is spurred on by the perplexed, anomalous, & suicidal Sir Robt. Peel to much that is vile in policy, to more that is vacillating, and to a great deal that is vicious in principle. Our readers will remember that we have always, from first to last, referred the origin of all the mischief to bad social and local arrangements in part only, but principally to bad government. But because we have a do-nothing government, shall we run our heads against a post ? Shall we by a wild, hair-brained violation of the laws and constitution of our country be driven from that country with ignominy and disgrace, and in a felon's frock—shall we endanger not only our liberty but our lives in a trumpery turnpike squabble ? Does not the sense of every man respond a ready NO. Would not any person with a single grain of common sense s ay, If we are to run the risk of transportation, or of being shot, or-s-,tbred-or worse still, killed off by the common hangman at the drop of a'county jail, the ob- ject at least in the attainment of which we fell will command the respect and sympathy of mankind: and if we must die, for God's sake let it not be like mad Mcrry-andrews and hermaphroditical loons in caps and petticoats beside the brokendown posts of a paltry toll collector-but let us die, if a necessity should ever arise for the sacrifice, as our forefathers have done-like men and patriots in the glorious assertion of some national right, of some GREAT AND NOBLE principle involving civil and religious freedom." Descending however from the altitude of the Hamp- den and patriotic martyrdom preferred by people gene- rally, let us again go back to the original and influen- tial, certainly, if not the sole cause of the general suffering and disaffection. Bad government we repeat for the hundredth time is at the bottom of all of it. And that form or edition of bad government-bad for one reason, because it is feeble almost to abject powerlessness—given to the public by Sir Robert Peel's administration, is a cause of the general suffering of the material hardship and of the consequent disaffection. An Evening contemporary with whose general views The Welshman generally agrees, justly says that the apathy or imbecility, or both, of the Government" is to blame for the existing state of South Wales. The whole aspect of the Welsh disturbances, obser- ved the Globe last Saturday, must induce the opinion that they never could have reached their present height had the Government acted with ordinary tact and judg- ment. Inquiry and firmness in the first instance would most probably have put an end to the whole matter but the present Government could not resort to these salutary measures, for the very obvious reason that if they looked into the causes of agitation in Wales they would have been bound to look into the causes of agita- tion in Ireland. They have resorted in the former case to inquiry when too late, & which has led.to nothing even when it was at last entered on. Their position with re- gard to the Welsh disturbances is a sort of burlesque on their position with regard to Ireland. The former is ludicrous—the latter truly deplorable."

Equally sure that it is our duty, as well as our uni- form inclination to say what we think right, and not to ask ourselves first what this or that set of persons may say of us, we last week hazarded an opinion at which we knew at the time many respectable old ladies in severe caps would take fright, as well as all the Cant- Wells with a goodly number also of the hirsute and galligaskined" illuminati who talked so well and wisely t'other day at Llandeveilog about niissionaries-declaring that Wales ought to defend religion just the same as in Madagascar and Otaheite" Touch not my idols, great is Diana, is the shibboleth of not a few of the un- informed and (if there be not a profanity in using the word" religion" in connexion with its contrary) we would substitute jpriest-ridden for religious-ridden, and say that it is the shibbolth of not a few of the unin- formed and religious-ridden people in these parts. The opinion thus hazarded last week had reference to the mere soulless, mechanical habit of going at stated times to church or chapel as the case might be. It is said by some persons, persons too of undoubted piety and devotion that a large proportion of the people in this county, on the borders of Glamorganshire, are too liable to consider that going to chapel, with subscribing to a godly publication" is the one thing needful that like indulgencies sold formerly by the Romish church, a sent and subscription is a sort of absolution-that hear- ing the Elect is a substitute for an observance of the rules of morality,—that paying him (the preacher) is all but securing a dispensation from disagreeable duties, andthat it acts as an exemption from obligations which men of better and sounder understanding regard with the re- verence due to the highest and most sacred things on earth. Our freedom of opinion we fear has frightened some of the well-meaning routine" folks who find the pro- cess of thinking a very tiresome one, and therefore do and say as others of the unenquiring and uninformed mass do. We should be very sorry to offend anybody- we respect the lowliest and least cultivated hind. He who would hurt the feelings of another, further than the cause of truth requires, is unquestionably bitter but he who pretends to expose a sinful system without hurting the feelings of its abettors is doing but little for the ad- vantage of Christianity. We do not insist upon the necessary correctness of our opinion of men and things, but such as our opinion, is we think it right to give it fairly to our readers. We repeat then that what the people in the principality mainly want is ELEVATION OF CONDITION AND CHARACTER. At present a great majority of them we fear, are but children of a larger growth, and so long as they have not the sense to see that the same Supreme Power who commands his crea- tures' worship, endowed man with other, if not higher, faculties than are necessarily implied in either (mere mechanical) church, or chapel routine, they will remain so. Man's sphere is on EARTH and, so far as the uninformed masses in the principality are concerned, we fear that t hey live in lamentable ignorance of the fact. There is said to be amongst them more meeting than morality, more even of canting ignorance than of useful knowledge—that they are of outward show elaborate, of inward less exact and that many of the so-called religious papers and persons are not exactly the best possible instruc- tors" for a country, the condition of whose inhabitants so imperatively calls for amelioration and improvement." This is our opinion we may be wrong, but we firmly believe in its correctness. We retain also the impression that if it be the practice of any preacher to announce from the pulpit as a Godly publication" a political magazine, it is a very bad practice, and the sooner it is left off the better. There is probably but one prac- titioner in this way, there can indeed be but one who announces such stuff; and it is the best, because the most lebaritable, supposition to infer that he not only saw no desecration or anything unseemly in so acting, but on the contrary deeming the dissemination of the political opinions contained in his magazine (monstrous and absurd as other persons think them) conducive to good, he did not scruple to promote its circulation by praising it from the pulpit. We may here mention incidentally-and not at all as the ground of the opinion we have expressed against rendering the pulpit subservient to the sale of a political publication-that the tone and style of the indivi- dual whom some of the Independents it seems have long (perhaps too long) entrusted with editorial duties for which he does not appear to be very well qualified even by education, we fear are calculated to bring but little credit either on the cause he attempts to advocate, or on that portion of the Independents (a body of men second in numbers and importance to none) whose delegated trust is so lamentably mismanaged. Judging from the extracts of the publication managed by this individual- of whom we know nothing, and who possibly may be a pious good preacher although a very bad editor-we not only think that discredit is brought upon the too con- fiding parties who patronize it, but it is quite impossible r.ot to discern great danger in it also. Far be it from us to insinuate any connexion which we are not in a condition to establish by facts, much less to assert that the late lamentable scenes which happened in the neighbourhood of the publication alluded to, as a result, had anything to do with the reading of that doubtless very frothy and fanatical pub- lication. But it is nevertheless a noticeable circumstance that all those recent outrages which arc most devilish in spirit and design have occurred in the immediate neighbourhood of that godly" publication printed in Welsh. And they are too the only cases in which blood has been spilled. The murderous attack on Mr. Ed- wards was made but the other day, and since that outrage, others exceeding in atrocity even that, have been per- petrated. We have indeed this week heard nothing but I of poor misled mobs falling into the hands of the police --poor fellows who speak and know only Welsh and the godly" publications given them in that language—of a farmer's son havin bcen shot-of another all but mortally wounded—of six silly and strongly stimulated 4 Yid :ol1e'nform¡l' s\eU-h boL x creatures being lodged in jail for incendiarism—of landlords driven from their estates—and we grieve to fill up the catalogue of crime committed by some of the disciples of designing and ignorant fanatics who dis- grace dissent-we grieve to fill up the catalogue of trime by adding MURDER, the murder too of a help- less woman. Having in view the incitements to violence pub- lished by the unstamped paper alluded to above, we said last week :—We have not a very high opinion of these Welsh magazines, but if they were as well conducted as we believe them to be ill conducted, and were as con- ducive to the diffusion of useful knowledge as they are said to be obstructive to it, the practice [of puffing or proclaiming them from the pulpit as the most Godly publications of the age] could not be com- mended. Recent events may or may not have any connexion with these godly publications" but they have not caused us to think more favourably of them than before. Written too in the Welsh for the instruction (?) of the ignorant who know no other language and read little else than these, and perhaps similar godly publications," this unstamped paper is at least likely to be looked upon even by the most candid and indulgent, as if not having fomented insurrection, at least as not having checked and prevented it. Its inoperativeness if not its criminality we fear cannot be denied. I In the debate on the 14th-ult., Mr. Buller if we remember right, said in allusion to the wide spread spirit of agrarian turbulence in this part of the country, that such a violation of the laws, as South Wales is the scene of, betokened a general uneasiness, the cause of a general disaffection." Now, we will venture to affirm, without reference to any periodical written in the Welsh language, that if the people had been acquainted with the English language, had had proper instructions provided instead of being as they now are a prey to designing hypocrites, with religion on their lips and wickedness in their hearts-a prey too at the same time to ignorance of their rights, and to the penal con- seauence of anarchical proceedings they would be at this moment, from the geographical and other peculiar advantages of their position, the happiest as well as the most peaceful and prosperous population in the world. The Times reporter, it will be remembered, having received some information at Llanelly from highly respectable though mistaking (we use the mildest term) parties, that there was a rather too close connexion between the turnpike rebellion and certain pulpit dis- courses, was, it is known, led to look at a little sixpenny magazine published there and conducted, we are in- formed, by the ranting preacher against whom the (so far) groundless charge was brought. Well, it has turned out since that the writer in the Times found in this sixpenny monthly so much to confirm the original statement, that when the latter, although given on reputable authority, was discovered to be leaky, he at once took refuge in the former, and citing certain passages from it, fierce and foolish enough certainly to support a charge of sickening stuff, as well as of sedi- tious language, he maintained with some success his position as against the individual preacher in his com- piling capacity. The charge being thus shifted, and made to apply to one Independent singly, and not to his flock or the Independents of the vicinity in their associated capacity, has been strengthened by several extracts from the Llanelly publication-extracts which although, as we said on a former occasion, are less poisonous to the minds of the people from the habit contracted by them, in their acquaintance with this Mawworm Magazine, of constantly swallowing similar stimulants from the same contaminated source, could scarcely fail to excitc either derision or indignation according to the temperament of the commentator on them. For our part we shall only express a hope that his most religious majesty, the sixpenny religionist and Reformer will reform his publication a little, so that it may not at least be obnoxious to the contempt and and indignation of all thinking men, and to every well constituted mind. Such perpetrations, we need scarcely say, are a drag chain on Man's advancement, for they retard the religion and Reform which they profess to pro- mote, damaging the very cause to which they pretend to do good. We would suggest to persons who co- operate with, or embark in, such a business the neces- sity of great caution where there is great moral if not legal responsibility while to the compiler or producer of the stuff we would hint once for all that hypocritical cant, dirty disingenousness, vulgar abuse, bullying blackguardism, rabid rant, fierce fustian, arrant noodle- ism, nauseous nonsense, sanguinary incitement, and semi-blasphemous bombast, can serve no good cause, but may beget VICE, MISERY, AND EVEN MURDER.

We shall never be deterred by any narrow and sordid Tiews of expediency to refrain from saying that we think, especially when the unspeakably important interests of religion are concerned. Sweeping too as the Welshman may be imagined in its convictions regarding the abuses of a simoniacal state-church, we do not deny that the spiritual interests of the people are not in all cases so well provided for in the conventicle as it is desirable they should be- To take the first however and to begin with one at a time, let the following observations of the well-instructed Mr. Buckingham suffice for the present- The monstrous inequality, not to say gross misappro- priation of wealth, in an establishment, the very essence of which ought to be temperance, chastity, self-denial, and humility, is so revolting to all our notions of Christianity, as it was taught and practised by the evangelists, that it appears to me the best interests of sound morality and religion would be served by demand- ing a more equitable appropriation of the wealth of the church among all its functionaries, and its application to every purpose for which it was originally granted; so as to relieve the public or the state from the slightest addition to its funds. In it the only rule of reward ought to be, the beautiful scriptural maxim that the labourer is worthy of his hire so that instead of men being paid, as they now are, the highest salaries and emoluments when they do the least, there should be a complete driving out of these money-changers and traffickers in mitres, stall, and pluralities, who now defile the temple; and the most learned, the most industrious, the most pious, and the most worthy, should fill the highest posts of honour, while the humblfst labourers in the vineyard should be fairly compensated for their toils." Some additions we see have just been made to the incomes of the working clergy: the Ecclesiastical Com- missioners have recently made grants to a considerable number of churches throughout the country, so as to bring up the incumbents to the sum of E 150 per annum, when the population amounts to 2,000 and upwards, and to E120 in places having above 1,000 and less than 2,000 inhabitants.

POVERTY OF THE PRINCIPALITY'S CIIURCII.-On seeing the large-and it were uncandid not to add, most valuable — amount of statistical information relative to the piesent cost of providing for the churches and chapels in our locality, which we last week transferred to our own columns from those of the Times," we were so much surprised by the con- clusions which a writer in that paper desired to draw from them that, at the momen1, we entertained an intention to throw down the gauntlet-first admitting his premises, and then battering down the crazy fabric, to the propping up of which they had been made sub- servient. This however we now feel would be purely a work of supererogation. The conclusions adverse to the provision made here by dissenters for their minis- ters we are sure may be safely left to do execution upon themselves. This is our conviction. The fallacies arc too naked to require any exposure that even the weakest and least cultivated mind amongst the dis- senters is not able to supply. The writer himself indeed appears to have cared nothing about them for while whole columns are devoted to facts and figures, a line or two incidentally thrown in, is all that the argumenta- tive part of the article is thought worth. We leave this point then, to direct the attention of our readers to two articles in our fourth page, and which we have headed Poverty of the Church in South Wales. The Herald, it will be seen, accuses the leading journal with a covert attack on the church. The article in the Times is one of the plcasantest, and at the same time the most significant, as well as the most suggestive of reflection we have read for many a day, and our readers need not be told how important it is altogether.

REBECCA'S PARENTAGE, is still involved inconsider- able obscurity. Her Grandmother however having re- ceived through the Times newspaper information as well as intelligence relating to the ubiquitous lady who levels gates and performs a variety of other interesting opera- tions, has sent down to Carmarthen an agent with a view of making the necessary enquiries into her state and the state of South Wales." The agent however, it is said, has been bribed; he has been treated, and dined, and danced and feted, and in short so great a fuss has been made about him that he has quite forgotten poor Rebecca, the object of his mission. Some indeed go the length of saying that even Becca's Grandmama, the Herald herself, has thus been bought over by the big- wigs or magistrates, who combine the complex character of justices, toll-trustees, and lay impropriators. What gives a colour to the rumour is that Beccy's Granny, the widow of the defunct, and when living, the most illus- trious M. C. of his or any other Vauxhall, is always scolding her grand-daughter, and never says a word in condemnation of those persons who have made poor Beccy what she is. Our rural readers who may chance to see any thing in the Morning Herald will believe more than they ought if they believe one half of it. And as to the charges which the old lady brings against her betters, accusing them of sys- tematic delusion and misrepresentation, we can assure the public that the annals of the public press cannot furnish a finer specimen of impudent imposture than the old lady of Shoe Lane herself supplies, in her aukward attempts to wash the blackamoor white. But to say nothing either of her foolish attempts at what is impossible, or the perpetration of mischievous mis- representation which she shows us is quite possible, her slothfulness and ill-spent senility render her broad- sheets positively unbearable. To say nothing of the general quality or the odour of the things, they are never fresh, and the standing reproach still sticks to the old lady of Shoe Lane that The Times is always a day before the Herald in Wales, as well as .11 over the world THE CARMARTHEN PROPHET.—No man or editor is a prophet in his own neighbourhood, tig distance lends enchantment to the view," and the great unknown of the London press would probably be thought as little of as us poor provincialists, if they were seen every day by everybody. It's a rare thing to find a wiseman," but to catch a live prophet is a piece of luck, that does not happen once in an age. We have one here however we found him last Friday at dusk nestling in the folds of Majesty." Didn't he nestle and bang the big words about; didn't he magniloquently and marvellously prophecy I wish you had heard him in tones louder and sweeter than any oracle, Pythian, Paperian, or Delphian, enunciate the following prediction. We," we of 'Majesty's might and Mail,' "WE venture to predict, that the collision at Pontardulais will do more to check Rebeccaism in that neighbourhood, by destroying the impression of its invincibility, than any- thing that could be done to stay its progress and pre- vent its triumph." Now this is rich-very rich, seeing that it was said on Friday, the very day before Spudder's gate was destroyed, and the toll-house destroyed. If our friend have any regard for the reputation of Majesty's Mail," he will leave off playing the prophet. Never did any prophet prophecy so falsely. Besides the double destruction which happened (of course without his knowing it,) the day before the delivery of his prophecy, we have unhappily had a series of outrages perpetrated, so terrific in character as to leave all previous ones in the shade. Property to a large amount has been destroyed, the anti-landlord warfare has assumed an alarming phasis, and Murder has stained our soil. So much for the habitual sagacity, and foresight of our unfortunate friend the live prophet of the dying Journal.

ALARMING STATE OF CARMARTHENSHIRE. I EJECTMENT OF LANDLORDS.—In Ireland the tenantry are sometimes cruelly ejected in Wales it is the land- lords who are turned out of house and home and compelled by nocturnal incendiaiies to run for their lives with no other light than that supplied by the blazing ricks of the hated lords of the soil. This is a fearful state of things-a temporary disruption of the bonds of society which is sufficient to strike terror into the stoutest heart, and for the repression of which all the rigours of the law will be required. The Cham- berses-a family of large possessions, and every membet of which has hitherto been very popular-have been compelled to leave Llanelly to seek that safety in Eng- land which their own vindictive countrymen deny them. William Chambers, Esq., jun., the gentleman whose letter as well as address, appears in our columns to-day, we have however heard, is still at Llanelly. The Adamses, of Middleton Hall, in another part of the count,y seeing the diabolical and destructive spirit abroad have also deemed it high time to fly from it. A Morning paper says that this anti-landlord warfare is the fruits of slighted remonstrances and unremedied injustice." The incendiarism at Llanelly is described in another part of our paper, and with respect to Middleton Hall the state of things there is still worse. The faqts are truly frightful. We are informed that on Mr. Adams's way home in his carriage from Carmarthen on Tuesday night, where he had been attending his duties at the Adjourned Quarter Sessions, he observed a fire in the direction of Middleton Hall. Upon inquiring he was coolly informed, that Middleton Hall was on fire. On approaching nearer he found this to be but too true, for the stacks in the farm-yard were blazing, presenting a mass of fire most awful to behold. He found also that the wood near his house was literally alive with armed men. He entered his house, and there he found his family in a state of alarm bordering on despair, the female members of it expecting every moment would be the last of their lives. After endeavouring to reassure them, Mr. Adams armed himself and proceeded to secure his papers, title deeds, and such other documents as he deemed most valuable, at the same time despatching an express to Carmarthen for the military to protect his property, and the life of himself and family. Col. Trevor sent the messenger despatched from the Hall to Col. Love but as the men had before been out on duty it was not thought proper to send the succour sought. The refusal to send the military to Middleton Hall, may admit of explanation it certainly requires some. The amount of property destroyed is trifling,perhaps 3001 will cover it, but the animus shown is serious and alarming to the last degree. We had forgotten to mention that the incendiaries had removed the plug from the fishpond, thus effectually preventing a supply of water for extinguishing the fire. It is believed that Mr. Adams has been made thus to suffer from the vindictiveness of the incendiaries through some expressions that fell from him in the Grand Jury room at Carmarthen, and which somehow or the ether reached the ears of ttp incendiaries. CARMARTHEN.—"Is Capt. Scott, the gentlemen at the head of your police," enquires a correspondent, a relation to, or connected with the Buccleugh Camily. The two soldiers who were condemned by the Court Martial last week received their sentence on Tuesday. Benjamin King, a private in the 4th Light Dragoons, was sentenced to four months' imprisonment and Joseph Kirwan, a private in the 75th Regiment of Foot, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment.-Capt. J. G. Philipps wai elected an Alderman of the Town -touncil of this Borough, in the room of Evan Rees, Esq., deceased. A Bench of Carmarthenshire magistrates this week ordered compensation to be granted for the damage sustained by the destruction of several dwelling houses in the Commotts of Iskennen, and Kidwelly. Mr. Hugh Williams appeared for the inhabitants. As these cases are of trivial importance to most of our readers we have not reported them at length. On Monday night, the 4th inst., the village of Velitv voel, about one mile from Llanelly, was visited by Re- becca and her daughters. On their arrival they halted before the public-house called the Bear, when they called out to the landlord, David Williams, David Williams, come down stairs, come down stairs." He instantly made his appearance, when Rebecca, who was on horseback, told him they did not wish to hurt him, and asked him if he knew any of her daughters, and whether he did not say to some person he did ? At which he replied he did not know any of them, and that he had not opened his mouth respecting them. Re. becca then strictly charged him not to make use of her name, or any of her daughters, or else she would cer- tainly punish him the next time she hoard of it. The whole of them, after discharging their guns, dispersed, and were soon lost among the mountains. We under- stand a letter was sent to the landlord, warning him previous to her coming. REBECCA RELIEVING THE MAYOII OF KIDWELLT>— At one o'clock last Monday morning (it was a beau- tiful moonlit midnight) about 80 Rebaccaite reformers of the law rode up to the farm-house of his worship the Mayor or ex-mayor of Kidwelly, who like Sheridan and other great men had attracted to his house a brace of those barons of the law, conventionally known as bum- bailiffs. These gentlemen were the honored guests of Mr. Mayor, and it was intended by the Sheriff that after the pleasures of the table and a good night's rest they should further enjoy themselves by distraining on his worship's live cattle, &c.-a species of sport which is considered equal to shooting, and which beats cock- fighting hollow. Becca, however, spoiled the antici- pated sport, protested to the Mayor that they were poachers, and insisted upon his turning them out. The Mayor thus addressed, thrust his head out of window and begged the Beccaites to be quiet. No; they wouldn't. The mayor remonstrated, implored the ruthless reform- ers at least to respect the rights of hospitality. Guests, he said, were in his house. Are they welcome ones," bawled Becca at the top of her voice—"Are they wel- come guests ?" chorused the noble army of law-reform- ers. The Mayor is a religious man (a resident at Kidwelly, he had not learned the art of lying from any canting hypocrite at Llanelly) and could not deny that the bum-bailiffs were rather unwelcome guests so he was silent. Becca thereupon immediately forced the outposts of the Mayor's castle, an entrance effected, the dormitory was easily gained, and the bums were in double quick time bundled out of bed. Down upon your marrow-bones you beggarly bums," authoritatively ex- claimed Becca—instantly down went the poor devils on their knees. Swear," said Rebecca assuming a solemn air, swear that you will never again attempt to execute another distress warrant." "We swear" said the bums. Rise then" said Becca come down into the yard mount this marc (a dog-horse destined for the kennel worth perhaps a pound) both of ye and be off." The bailiffs of course did not require to be told twice, and urging the skeleton horse into a walk by blows and kicks, they moved off, thanking God for their providential escape. WIIITLANI) TRUST.-A meeting was held at Llan- boidy on Wednesday, to take into consideration the grievances complained of on the Whitland Trust, and for the purpose of devising the best means for the future welfare of the district. W. R. H. Powell, Esq., Maesgwyn (who was unanimously called to the chair) explained fully the object of the meeting, and said although this district was at present tranquil; it was lamentable to be told of the disgraceful proceedings which had recently taken place in some parts of the county, and that it was heart-breaking to hear that Rebeccaism had extended from attacks on toll-gates to the sacrifice of private property and attempts on the lives of their fellow countrymen. He called upon the meeting to lend their aid, and exert all their influence as masters, parents, and Christians to prevent even the appearance of nocturnal assemblies, and he begged all present to state apenly and plainly any grievance they had to complain of. The meeting was thco addressed by the Rev. J. Lewis, of Ilenllan, Mr. George, of Lan, Mr. Wm. Evans, of Llanboidy, and others, all of whom expressed an equally strong feeling against outrage and the manner in which the affairs of the Whitland Trust had been long conducted. The day was then fixed for another meeting. Foun MORE GATES DESTROYED.—Last Wednesday night, a party of mounted Rcbeccaites, about 300 in number, visited 3 turnpike gates in the neighbourhood of Llangadock and completely destroyed them. Two of them had been before down and re-erected. The names of the gates are Wainstredverys, Pontarlucoe and Carig- Southey. The Pontardulais Gate, where the fight took place a week ago, between the Rebeccaitcs and the police, was also on Wednesday night taken off the hinges and carried away by tke Rebeccaites.