The Welshman

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,-Pursuiiig the subject of the increased pressure of tithes in Wales since the act for the commutation of titles has come into practical operation, I will endeavour to explain the manner in which many rent-charges in lieu of tithes, are fixed, and the peculiarly unj ust oper- ation of the act in the Principality; and as in Carmar- then market the farmers principally depend on the sale of oats, it is to them that I shall chiefly refer. The corn returns prior to last October (in which Car- marthen is specified) demonstrate that the average price of oats in Carmarthen market is 4s. 6d. per quarter less than the average price for England and Wales, and the corn returns since that period show the same difference on the whole Principality. The tithe impropriator, being very frequently a land- owner also, is unable to produce an average receipt of tithes for the whole parish, and therefore a calculation is made before the Assistant Tithe Commissioner of the actual titheable produce, and one tenth thereof (after deducting expenses) is converted into a money rent- charge at the average prices declared by the corn-inspec- tor, in compliance with the Tithe Act. For instance. the improprietor proves that 50 quarters of wheat, 50 quarters of barley, and 1.50 quarters of oats, are equiva- lent to his tithe taken in kind. Then- 50 quarters of wheat at the declared £ s. d. average of 56s. 2d. is no 8 4 50 quarters of barley at the declared aver- age of 31s. 8d. is 79 3 4 1;)0 quarters of oats at the declared average of 22s. is I 165 0 0 384 11 8 which sum of £ 334 Us. 8d. is accordingly fixed as the rent-charge. But if the average prices in Carmarthen had been taken, the calculation would have been made somewhat thus— 50 quarters of wheat at Carmarthen average f. s. d. of 52s. is 1 0 0 0 50 quarters of barley at Carmarthen average of 30s. is 75 0 0 150 quarters of oats at Carmathen average of 17s. 6d. is. 131 o 0 336 5 0 and the differellce of £ (8 or 11 pe cent., represents the advantage to the impropriator by simple working of he act itself. Hence it appears that all farmers who sell their pro- duce at markets averaging above the general average price for England and Wales are benefitted, and all far- mers who sell their produce at markets averaging lower than the general average price are injured, by the Tithe Act, precisely to the extent of the difference of price on the particular descriptioa of grain which con- stitutes the bulk of the produce of their land. At Carmarthen the difference is such as to be sensibly felt by the occnpier, although he has been unacquainted with the machinery by which the ruinous alteration ba.g been effected, amounting, at the ruling price of oats J.8t autumn and spring, to 80 per cent. on their then market value. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, FAIRPLAY. P. S. You have erroneously inserted E2 instead of £10 in my letter of yesterday. I' m

WHAT 18 AN ESQUHE ?-On Saturday the magis- i iates in petty sessions at Kensington decided that gentlemen acting as commissioners of land-tax did not gold offices of trust under the Crown, and were not entitled to rank as esquires, or to sit on special juries, j they gave the game judgment with regard to captains of ,W».— in WaW we are all res, chandler-sh<.p-ke»peni iudusilt!

I MEETING AT LLAMD0WR33. I A meeting of the gentry and farmers to petition her Majesty for a redress of grievances was advertised to take plate at Llanddowrcr, on Wednesday last. When the hour of meeting arrived, there were but few there, • and those not farmers, but the neighbouring gentlemen. Amongst those present,wer-J. M. Child, Esq., Begelly House, Capt. Evans, Pantykendy, 11. P. Beynon, W. Howell, Edward Waters, Baugh Allen, George L?ck, Pierce Llewellyn, Nicholas Bo\Ylin, Robert Waters, R. Brough, Thomas Allen, Robert Morgan, Richard I.lewellin, Lewis Roberts, James Rogers, and Richard. Richards, Esquires in addition to these the re were about 20 farmers present. On the motion of Captain Evans, seconded by W. Howell, q., of Danygraig, J. Mark Child, Esq. took the chair. It was then represented to the chairman that the notice of holding the meeting had been too short, and that consequently the farmers of the neighbourhood were not aware of it. It was also said that one reason of the paucity of persons present was the fact of a large meeting having been held at Newcastle the previous day, at which 3,000 people attended. A farmer present said that if sufficient notice had been given of the meeting, he would engage there would be thousands there also. It was then proposed by W. Howell, Esq., Danygraig, and seconded by n. P. Beynon, Esq., that the meeting be adjourned until Wednesday, the 1st day of November next, then to be held at Llanddowror. R. Wafers, Esq. wished to hold it at Tavernspite, as that would secure a large attendance from the Castle martin District. Capt. Evans said that it would be farther out of the way for the Carmarthenshire farmers. He should like t. have a meeting in every parish. Baugh Alien, Esq. said that in his opinion it would be better to hold a meeting for Pembrokeshire, the like for Carmarthenshire, and the like for Cardiganshire. After that to have a gra'!ld meeting of the whole three counties. This plan would cause each meeting to carry some weight with it, but nothing could be worse than a thinly attended meeting; it would be better to have none at all. After a short discussion, the original motion was declared carried on a show of hands. The meeting was consequently adjourned.

MEETING AT FENCRWGYBALOG. A meeting of freeholders, farmers, and farm-labourers, was held on Penerwcybalog, a mountain about two miles from Newcastle Emlyn on Tuesday last. Most of the neighbouring gentry were present, and the assem- blage, which num bered about TOOO persons, was chiefly composed of respectable farmers. E. Lloyd Williams, Esq., of Gwernant, having been called to the chair, said that he had great pleasure in meeting that very respectable assemblage in the day- time. They might rely upon it, that if redress was to be obtained for their grievances, meeting in the day-time to ask that redrtss was the best way to obtain it. The handbill calling the meeting, a copy of which he held in his hand, contained many subjects which it would occupy them too long to discuss there, if they were fully entered into. As far, however, as he understood, the main object of the meeting was, that the farmers and farm- labourers present should determine (in order that peace should be restored to that part of the county) to pass a resolution to discourage by all means in their power, the holding of nightly meetings. With regard to the Turnpike Tolls in that district, he believed they had been settled to the entire satisfaction of the people. Many, however, he was inclined to think, were not aware of what had been done towards alleviating the Tolls I grievance. For their information he would state what I had been done, at least as much as he knew. For the last five years, he had only attended two Trust Meetings. He was Chairman at the last meeting of the Cardigan- shire Trust, held at Cardigan, and he would state to them that at that meeting, a most anxious desire was evinced, not only by the Magistrates, but by the other Trustees, to redress all grievances by reducing the Tolls, and endeavouring in every way to give satisfaction to the country. The tolls had been reduced from ld per horse to ld: the tolls also were not to be taken more than once a-day. The toll of 4d per horse in a cart, had been reduced to 2d; and in case of it being a load of lime, to ld. The toll of lOd per score upon cattle had been reduced to 5d. The Adpar, Kenarth.and New Inn ( Gates had been done away with. He was in clined to think that the tolls were now very reasonable: he had spoken to several farmers upon the subject, and they all expressed themscloes satisved. He hoped, therefore they would have no further grievances to complain of with respect to Turnpike Gates. As far as re- gaded the Poor Law, petitions had already been sent up to the Legislature from that district for an alteration in that law. He had never acted as a Guardian, as he did not like to interfere. He disliked the bill, and did not think it would ever work well with the country. Petitions might again be sent up on the subject, and he would always be ready to join in | any constitutional attempt to get the bill altered. With regard to the Tithes, some had nothing to com- plain of, while others again had cause for complaint. In the parish of Pembryn, by talking the matter over openly with the Tithe Impropriators, who were reason- able men, the farmers had obtained a satisfactory reduc- tion. That was the course to adopt with regard to other grievances. Politics ought not to be introduced into the matter at all; as he was convinced the present disturbances had nothing at all to do with politics. The only thing he had now to do was to entreat the farmers to exert themselves to put an end to the out- rages which had so lately disgraced the country. With- in two miles of the spot from which he was addressing them, two maiden ladies lived, dispensing charity. They gave away to the poor of the neighbourhood no less a sum than E60 a year. Could they, as Welshmen, believe that this country, which had boasted of so many brave men, should send its sons armed to drive those kind-hearted ladies from their home. At Pennarth lived a magistrate and his accomplished lady. He was a physician of great and acknowledged talents, giving his advice freely to all his poorer neighbours ;—he had been shot at in his bed-room, and narrowly escaped death. In the valley beside them, resided Capt. Lloyd, of Dolhaidd. He had peculiar claims upon them. He had fought his country's battles, and had risked his life under Wellington, at Waterloo. He, in common with the other officers who fought so bravely on that occasion, had received the thanks of his Sovereign and of Wellington. When peace to the whole world had been established by that great victory, he left the army and came to reside amongst then,, to endeavour to serve them in the best way he could. In reward for all this, an attempt had been made to destroy his farms by fire. On the banks of the silvery Tivy, was Castle Malgwyn, the residence of Mr. Gower, who had exer- cised offices of charity with a bounteous hand, bestow- ing freely those good gifts with which Providence had blessed him. He had employed no less than GO labourers within the last month, and had given away more than EI,00 during the last winter. Was it not a melancholy thing that such a man should be obliged to have his premises guarded by soldiers to prevent their being de- stroyed ? He was sorry indeed to see a country, once so famed for the peaceable disposition of its inhabitants (and which he yet trusted to see peaceable,) the seat of such disgraceful disturbances. The weir at Llechryd had been exceedingly unpopular, but the way to set it aside, if illegal, was not to commit an outrage by night, but openly to cut a twig for the purpose of trying the question. Let them go openly, after having given no- tice, and cut a twig, they would then have the question fairly tried before a Judge who would come from Eng- land, and they would then have fair play, and chwareu teg was what every Welshman liked. They now came to what was the main object of the meeting, which had originated with the farmers. The object was to put a stop to the outrages, and that would be effected by every farmer pledging himself to do his best to dis- countenance nightly meetings and to control his ser- vants, to endeavour to get peace in the country. Un- less peace were soon established, the gentlemen would be driven out of the country. He would not conceal the fact, as he thought it far better to tell them openly, that it had been his serious intention to shut up his house and let his land, and go to live elsewhere. Would any of them live near where there was an infectious fever raging ? and he thought the present disturbed state of the country a fever of the mind which was calculated to inflict the greatest injury on the people. He would be their friend--their firm and unflinching friend by day, but in God's name let them avoid nightly meetings. It was his desire to live amongst them if they would let him. If there would only be peace in future, the magis- trates did not wish to notice what is past. (Cheers.) No one wanted information with respect to the authors of outrages committed. Let no man, therefore, fear he is in the power of another. He thought he could go so far as to promise them that the magistrates would not use any information that might be given them, provided they would insure peace for the future. He then con- cluded by moving a resolution pledging the farmers pre- sent to obstain from nightly outrages, to discharge thfir servants if they did so, and to use every exertion in their power to restore peace. Capt. Lloyd, of Dolhaidd, seconded the resolution, and spoke in a very feeling way of the outrages that had been perpetrated against himself. If the system of law- lessness continued, it would not stop at the rich, but would reach all indiscriminately. The Rev. Mr. Evan Thomas translated Mr. Williams's speech and proposition into Welsh. Several speakers addressed the meeting in Welsh. Some of the speeches had a political tendency, others were confined to a statement of the grievances under which the country labours. The Rev. Mr. Evan Thomas thought that as there were undoubtedly grievances in the country, they had better not separate without giving expression to their complaints in a formal manner. He then proposed that the petition to the Queen adopted at Allt-cvn-Adda be adopted at this meeting. This was resisted, but was agreed to unanimously on the striking out of the parts relating to legal fees and fixity of tenure. Mr. Williams' resolution was also carried unanimously. After a vote < f thanks to the chairman, the meeting separated. j

I MEETING AT PENRHIWFAWR. I A meeting of the inhabitants of Cilrhcdyn, and the I | adjoining parishes, was held at Penrhiwfawr last Wed- nesday, to consider the best method of restoring peace | and order, in that disturbed part of the county. There I were about 500 present, including W. Lewis Esq., Clynfyw H. W. Howells, Esq., Glaspant, and other respectable inhabitants of the neighbourhood. The Rev D. Hughes, Treleach, moved that W. Lewis, Esq., take the chair, Mr. T. Davis, Chapel-Evan, seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously. In open- ing the proceedings, the chairman said he regretted the disturbances which had disgraced that part of the country, once so famed for its quietness and good order. He hoped they would all join to endeavour to put an end to midnight meetings. Mr. D. Davies, (Dewi Emlyn) said he thought that a prompt and speedy redress of the grievances under which the country laboured, would be the only means of restoring tranquillity. He moved that the meeting do send a petition to Her Majesty, similar to that sent from Mvnydd Selen meeting. Mr. D. Davies, Cwmcoy, commented severely on the conduct of the Magistrates, and Turnpike Trustees, and endeavoured to prove that a considerable saving could be effected with regard to the County Stock. After saying a few words in support of the vote by Ballot, he went on to denounce in strong terms the Poor Law Bill. He advised the people to use moral force in seeking their rights, and to avoid nocturnal meetings. Mr. T. Davies, Chapel-Evan, said that open day was the best time for them to meet, and assert their rights. The present .disturbances are sufficient proofs of the country being in a distressed state, but they must bear in mind. that Parliament is the only place for ameliorating their condition. (Hear, hear.) He then went on to explain several points in the petition, concerning the gates, the Poor Law, and the Tithe Commutation Act. He declared himself in favour of vote by Ballet, and an extension of the suffrage. Rev. D. Hughes, Treleach, said that two things ought to be taken into consideration. lst, the causes of dis- tress, and disturbances. 2d, how to restore order, and prosperity. Under the first, he enumerated government, local, and church taxations—Laws to restrict commerce —high rents-bad harvest—and the unfaithfulness of the people to their own cause in the time of elections. After reprobating strongly the disgraceful practice of destroying and burning property, he proceeded in the second place, to give some few directions. He advised them to endeavour to learn and understand their duties, and rights as subjects, and when they are oppressed by local grievances, to petition the magistrates. Or if oppressed with political burdens, to petition Parliament for redress. He also advised them to take care of their votes, and to vote for no one that is not of Liberal and honest principles. He finished his address with a forcible appeal to the people to abstain from meeting in the night, and infringing the laws. The petition was then agreed to by the meeting. The Chairman however declared that as he dissented from several of the statements made in it, it could not be expected that he should resign it. It was then ar- ranged that it should be sent round for signature by the inhabitants. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the meeting separated. A deputation of five influential parishioners of Kil- rhedyn, was agreed to; be sent by the inhabitants to the Rev. B. Lewis, Dyffryn, to request him to make some reduction in the tithes of that parish.

MISS CROMWELL'S EPISTLE! It may be probably remembered tnat we alluded to the circumstance of having been honored with a com- munication in AVelsh-English from Miss Cromwell, the eldest daughter, we presume, of Rebecca. We believe its publication calculated to do some good since every- thing which serves in any way as an exponent or reve- lation of the sentiments and passions of a highly stimu- lated, as well as of a greatly aggrieved, populace, is use- ful—especially to those who have to deal with such an element as has spread over this and some parts of the ad- joining counties. We think, therefore, that Miss Crom- well's" letter, in this sense, may be regarded as a con- tribution to the general good and the public safety. We publish then, without comment, what we believe to be a bona fide letter of a Rebeccaite-suppressing only some passages too strong for our columns, we publish it with all its honors thick upon it, literatim et verbatim. The landlords are denounced as lordlings"—for the sake of the rhyme only we suppose 'tis the lordlings that break our peace, yet a brainless Cowardly lord Calls out for a rural police- but to keep them who can afford ? lfet him Call for less tithe and toll- let him Call for a quick reform, and do all he Can to Controul, and to Calm the arising storm. let him instantly fall his rent, and make his Coleigues do the same, then we shall have peace and Content, and Rebeca no more Complain. But will the brigands do this ? no; rather would the gulty Cowards fly their Country than do an act of jus- tice. They know they deserve a. bulct through their I cad, but it is not likely they vill ever Receive one from a llebeca; she don't thirst for their blood; sne only wants a small part of her rights, but the more blood the more glorious with them it's send for more soldiers and policemen; it is down with the presumtious aspi- rants, for daring to make the least effort to get their necks from under the feet that has trampled oil them so many years away with them from the earth it is not fit such fellows should live now they arc no longer willing to Contribute three parts of their hard earnings towards our support. What is high rent, tithe, and toll, poor rates, large families, hard work and hard living to such religious people as them ? I thought they Could bear all this and much more. Certainly the observation is very just; for was they not posscst of this heart Chearing Comfort and support, they must long ere this have sunk under the burden but in fact they Could still brook their hardships, was it not for the Cries of their distrcsst wives and Children, which has enterd into their ears, and stifled the still small voice of the spirit; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak, and now being drove to a state of desperation, it is death or liberty, and I am much afraid it will prove the former, knowing the desperadoes they have to contend with. but if Rebecca should be slain, or if they slay her daughter, a Cromwell shall arrse again, for to avenge their slaughter. the rural police man has been his rounds, and asccrtaind that upwards of one hundred gates has been dcstroyd; now as they have not traveld two hundred mile to des- troy them, there must be more than one gate for every two mile, then here is highway robbery, here is whole- sale plunder, if these slaves has had to pav toll for all these gates (thanks to the police for this information, as the one half of their grievance was not known before) now how many deprivations must they have endured to satisfy these sharks. On; saame! shame! I don't live in a land of liberty, but do I live in a Christian land. Yours to command KATE CROMWELL." I

I REBECCA'S ACTS. The best of them are violent, unlawful, and wrong— palliated indeed by great provocation—but on the mildest view, unjustifiable; and the worst of them is, we fear, such a deed as that the perpetrator ought to be hung—a cold-blooded murder, committed by an armed man on a helpless old woman, merely in order to secure himself from the danger of being imprisoned or trans- ported and perhaps the most shocking part of the whole is the account which our reporter gives of the popular feeling upon the subject, which he says he has been "most anxious to ascertain." "By many respectable people," he says, "it is much regretted, and the general idea is that it was the result of accident. There are others, however, who put a very differcnt face npon the matter; and the statement of one of them, evidently a man of education, was so pointed that I took it down. He said—' Is it wonderful that when the people were exasperated by being shot at and wounded by those policemen at Pontardulais, and when the woman incautiously said that she knew them and would betray them-smartin as they were with shots in their backs, is it wonderful that they killed her.' If the poor woman were really killed by acide?it, that of course relieves the unfortunate instrument of her death from the crime of murder, and excuses the "niany res- pectable people" for merely regretting, instead of execrating, the deed: but even on that supposition, which we fear is far from being the most probable, what can we say of a man of education who, himself believing it to have been an intentional homicide, attempts to justify by a rhetorical flourish an act hardly more savage than it is cowardly ? But so it always is with transgressions of law. Let a man once begin, and he knows not where he will stop, or what he will do next. He commits unlawful violence in order, as he thinks, to right himself; and to escape the punishment of his violence, he finds himself, before he well knows where he is, involved in the guilt of murder. Times.

The Morning Chronicle of last Monday, begins a long pull and a strong pull for the Whigs in the fol- lowing terms:—"We cannot but repeat our decided acquiescence in the prayer of the Welsh farmers at Cwin Twrch, That your petitioners, conceiving the present Parliament was called under circumstances widely different from those which at present exist in this country, and, moreover, that events have occurred to enlighten your Majesty's subjects with respect to the causes of the depressed state of trade, humbly implore your Majesty to exercise your royal prero- gative to dissolve the present Parliament and convoke a new Parliament that shall legislate in accordance with the great changes in opinion which have, under the teachings of experience, taken place within the last two years.' At the risk of repetition, we have inserted, in cxtenso, the substance of the pravcr of these rational men. Nothing can be more true than that the present Parliament was elected under an extraordinary delusion—nothing can be more true than that events have occurred which have corroborated, in every important particular, the wise views of those whom the present Ministers turned out; and we concur entirely in the opinion, that a general election at this period would end in the signal triumph of free trade, and in the signal discomfiture of the Ministry of false nretences."

Carmarthenshire Agricultural Society. A Full Report of the speeches delivered by the Hon. Col. Trevor M.P., Mr. S. Davies M.P., Mr. D. Morris M.P., and Mr. Win. Williams M.P., will be published in our next paper. The latter Hon., gentleman, confining his observations to the subject of Agricultural Improve- ment alone, delivered a speech of considerable length and ability it was full of facts and abounded with valuable suggestions relative to the agriculture of South Wales.

THE WELSH disturbances have been absurdly attributed to Whig misrule," though such a conclusion could only be jumped to by overleaping all the bounds of reason and argument. The present state of Wales is not the consequence of any particular party happening to be in power but the disturbances have grown into what they are, simply because the men now holding power have not known how to useit.-Glol)e.. The Chronicle's reporter says that it was stated to him, that a general effort would be made on the part of those who feel interested in the condition of the farming and labouring classes of Wales, to have a case made out for the purpose of its being submitted to Par- liament. There should be committees appointed to make out facts, and form such a body of evidence as will justify a demand for a parliamentary inquiry. ) TAFFY A BABY !—Amongst the nonsense that is | talkea about Wales, is the assertion that Welshmen are but babies, and that such is their fondness for sugar- plums, that if an English visitor do not give them plenty of them, they get into the sulks. One" W. II. B." in a morning paper of last Saturday, says If you wish to make friends with the Welsh, praise their country, and appear very fond of their language." LOYALTY OF THE WELSH.—The people of the prin- cipality arc known to be peculiarly loyal. The Queen's name is beloved by the Welsh. Their allegiance is not mixed perhaps with much personal affection to Her Majesty, but to Majesty, to the Crown, they are— "True as the dial to t7.e sun, Although it bo not shone upon.' The Sun referring to tü says, at this \ery moment our Contemporary is, to all intents and purposes, discharging the functions of Government in South Wales, while the Home Secretary, who should have taken upon himself the task of investigating mat- ters, with a view to apply an adequate remedy, is coolly enjoying himself in the north—after the fatigues of doing nothing during the recess- shooting-fishing- yachting, or, it may be, writing leaden pamphlets on the corn-laws, with a view to furnish the materials for slumber to his readers." MONMOUTHSHIRE TOLLS.-The tolls exacted in Mon- mouthshire are to the full as heavy as in any part of Wales. Take, for instance, Chepstow as a start- ing point of considerable traffic hence to Newport, 16 miles and a half, the tolls upon a conveyance drawn by a pair of horses amount to 4s. 6d. Again, then, from Chepstow to Usk, 3s. 4d. is taken at the gates for an 11 mile stage. On another road from Chepstow it costs 4s. 8d. for 18 miles. At the first gate out of Chepstow Is 4d. is demanded, preventing many of the inhabitants from taking the smallest excursion into the country but on foot. REBECCA AND HER DAUGHTERS IN LONDON.— A few evenings since Mr. Hill, the porter and keeper of the gate of the London University College, which crosses Gower-street, New-road, received a letter with the signature of Rebecca" attached, declaring it to be the intention of herself and others to remove the ob- struction called a gate" on the following night. Mr. Hill believing the matter a joke, took no notice of the circumstance, but, to his astonishment, early in the morning following the night on which the threatened at- tack was promised, he was awakened by the mght por- ter, who informed him that the gate (a large wooden one, such as the ordinary toll-bars) was gone. On ex- amination it was found that, not only had the large pad- lock by which it was fastened been broken and carried away, but the gate had absolutely been filed off its hin- ges, and conveyed by the depredators into the college grounds, and hidden behind some shrubs. The gate has again been reinstated, but, since this occurrence, Mr. Hill has received another threatening notice, inform- ing him that it is the intention of Rebecca and her daughters," on Monday night next, to effect its entire destruction. REBECCA IN RADNORSHIRE AND IYLON IGOMERY- SHIIIE.-This lady commenced the Radnorshire and Montgomeryshire circuits last week. She began on Monday night with Llangirig gate, which though actually in the county of Montgomery, yet is on the very borders of Radnorshire. This place is about 23 miles from Aberystwith, and the Aberystwith and Lon- don mail, via Cheltenham, passes through it. This gate has since been put up. On Wednesday three other gates were broken down and demolished at Rhay- ader, in Radnorshire. These were the Rhayader old gate, the Cwm Glan gate, aiid Cross Lane gate, and these three are still down. Rhayader is about 33 from Aberystwith and in a line with Llangirig on the Cheltenham road. AN-C understand that the destruction of the Rhayader gates was attended with all the pomp and paraphernalia of Rebcceitisiii her ladyship being »lres? cd in fu.1 eoetumer.ititenW.ed with upwards of 200 well mounted followers with due proportion of blow ing of horns and firing of guns. _I OPPRESSION IN POCKET. I have heard the state ment of the people, I have seen their poverty, I have tested the sincerity of what they have told me (its sincerity is tested openly enough when re- spectable men will risk transportation in order to shake off what they believe to be an oppression), and I finftly believe that the present disturbances of South Wales have a cause other than a mere love of wanton outrage, and that cause is opprcssion-oppression in every shape—oppression in pocket, in tolls, in tithes, in rents—oppression in feeling, in the New Poor Law, in a denial of justice, and in a demeanour from those in authority not to be bornc. Times Reporter. PRISON DISCIPLINE—IMPROVED DIETARIES.—(From the Gloucester Chronicle.)—A new scale of dietaries has this week been received at our county jail, from the Se- cretary of State, more nourishing than those previously in use and an important change has been made in those for prisoners sentenced to long periods of imprisonment. Under the old system a prisoner sentenced to a term of IS months or 2 years, for instance, was treated from the 1 commencement similarly to prisoners who were only sen- tenced for short periods. It has been found, however, that the strength declines as the period of incarceration proceeds, and prisoners sentenced to hard labour for terms exceeding three months will in future be placed on a better allowance than others. This change is most just and judicious,

POOR Lkws.-Oi-i tile. motion of Mr. Williams, the hon. member for Coventry, a Return was ordered by the House of Commons shewing the number of in-door and out- door paupers relieved during the first week of the month of April, 1843, in the several unions comprised in each Assistant Poor-law Commissioner's District." It ap- pears from this return, with which we have been to-day favored by Mr. Williams, that there are nine assistant commissioners. The number of unions in the nine districts is 587. In-door paupers relieved in the week mentioned, 115,250. Out-door paupers relieved in the same period, 701,741. Total of paupers relieved in one week, 816,991 The population in 1841 was, in Eng- land and Wales, 13,762,8,5,3. The proportion of the total number of paupers to the population is at about 6 per cent. The return further shows the following two items :—Estimate for unions not included, and places not in unions, in-door paupers, 17,958; out-door, 109,346. Total, 127,304. Estimated totals of (paupers) England and Wales, in-door, 138,208; out-door, 811,687. Total, 914,295, out of a population, in 1841, of 15,906,829; being 6 per cent on the whole—six persons out of every hundred receiving parish relief We shall notice this return again.

Fair Play" forgets that there are such things as an- cestral mortgages, rent-charges, and annuities.—" A Dissenter" is wide of the point. He should supply a precise explanation of the manner in which the terms apply to the subject.—" E. E." Nothing is easier than to call all country squires magisterial autocrats. Prove them rllch al11 "1. 11" Apollo trit.— "E. D." No agent ought to attend to any notice of dis- continuance unless he be first paid for the current quar- ter's subscription. ERRATA,—-The correspondent who complains of a misprint in our last number may think himsdf fortunate that there were no more. In other parts of the paper, and especially in our own articles, the errata were as plenty as blackberries arc now. The latter arc however going out, and the former, our readers may depend upon it, shall go out too. Or GRIEVANCES.—We have just noticed one of the greatest grievances under which any writer can groan. Want of space" is another enormous and irremediable grievance. oi'sp,,tcc,' i s aiiotlier crioriiiou- Mr. Jenkins, M. A. (whose long letter came at the 11th hour instead of the 1st) with a score of other corres- pondents whose favours lie on our library table nn- printed and unpublished, will we are sure agree with us as to the enormity of the grievance.

SUMMARY.—All that time and chance have turned up since our last publication will be found in our present one—the state of South Wales and our own affairs, as usual, occupying of course many a goodly column. Nor did we ever less grudge the space claimed by our own local matters than we do to-day; for the general politics of the last few days challenge but small attention and a duller, a less fecund, or a more dreary week altogether, the quidnuncs or the political world perhaps have seldom seen The only event" of the week is the contest for the representation of the city of London, vacant by the death of Sir Matthew Wood. In this contest Mr. Baring is the ministerial candidate and a more cautions and crafty candidate, a gentleman less direct, or rather, more cquhooal, in his profession of principles the city never saw. Mr. Pattison on the other hand, who is a Governor of the Bank of Engbnd, a free trader, and who has sat twice before fur the city, no less than 6,070 vntes having been given to him at 1,?5 Imt election—Mr. P?ttison is in all that he says, as plain and straightforward as his op- ponent is ambiguous and shuffling. Altogether, the contest is not an unimportant one, as its issue involves the triumph or defeat of free-trade principles, so far as the City of London is concerned. Turning from Eng- land to Scotland, we see the church riots in Rosshire, which is the next "stirring" event; and taken in con- nexion with the repeal movement in Ireland, and our own" grievance" movement here in South Wales, they altogether present a picture upon which we think it is impossible to felicitate Sir Robert Peel and the govern- ment under which such things arc going on. Trade it is believed, however, is something better but the improve- ment is an accidental and temporary one. It can hardly be any thing more and most of the improvement talked of, we believe, is limited to the manufacturers of ma- chinery for exportation. With regard to Foreign affairs little need be said. AVe noticed last week the fact that Greece had been the theatre of a successful and bloodless Revolution, and the progress of the Spanish struggle, with all the continental news of any interest, will be found in another column.

We do not remember to have read any thing on the subject of the insurrectionary movement in our neigh- bourhood displaying more good sense than the follow- ing extracts of a letter published by Mr. Aytoun in the | Fife Herald. That gentleman takes precisely the same view of the question which we ourselves do; and this view, of course, we think the common-sense view of it. That all our readers will agree with us, it were absurd to expect; but we apprehend the dissentient who should undertake to oppose such reasonable views regarding Rebeccaism would find the enterprise a rather hardy one. Without, however, saying any more about it, we subjoin those extracts—all unpalatable as they may be to certain persons—which we avow find an echo in our own conviction A determined opponent of class legislation in every department, my feelings are not limited to indignation against the landed aristocracy. I feel equal indigna- tion against the pretensions and assumptions of the cotton and linen aristocracy, who are to the full as much opposed to the extension of popular right as are the landlords. Nay, if yvl will go into the royal burghs" [aye and also in our own boroughs, Welsh as well as English] you will find the privileged ten-pounders declaiming, as they are in the habit of doing, against corn laws and tolls and country gentlernen-yet as much opposed to extending the franchise beyond their own class as are the most conservative of the squirear- chy. 1 should like to know what greater title a burgess, because he happens to pay ten pounds of rent, has to the exclusive right of voting for a member of Parliament, for town councillors, for a police board, and to lay on as- sessments upon the poorer class of householders, than have the landlords to regulate with regaid to tolls and county assessments ? And I can assure you that I have in my experience met with as much PECULATION, JOBBING, and MISMANAGEMENT OF FUNDS amongst the privileged classes in boroughs as I have ever witnessed in counties. That principle is quite as con- trary to justice which deprives every citizen not paying ten pounds of rent from having his due share in burgal matters, as that which gives in counties the full power of county matters to county gentlemen. I therefore confess, I am inclined to suspect those persons who have always in their mouths declamations against the landed aristocracy, but not a word against any of the other privileged classes, as being amongst those one- sided politicians who Compound for sins they are inclined to, Dy damning those they have no mind to." I attribute those riots to two things-first, to the management of the Road Trustees, and, secondly, to the want of civilization and education amongst the in- habitants of Wales. The Welsh, I believe, are the most ignorant of the whole population of Great Britain. The Welsh speak for the most part a barbarous dialect, and learn English, the language of books, as if it was a Foreign tongue. As a matter of course the spread of education among such a people must be very limited. The country gentleman, so far from profiting by the toll-dues, is that person of all others who is most affec- ted by their weight. Every toll paid by the farmer is just so much money taken from the rent of the landlord. When a tenant offers for a farm, all the burdens to which he will be subjected, undergo a regular calcula- tion. The amount of statute labour, of tithe, and poor rates, when they are paid, as in England, by the farmer, and, above all, the state of the roads in the neighbour-l hood, and the amount of tolls to which the farmer wil be subjected, form as inateriol items in the calculation as to the rent he is to offer, as do the quality of the soil or the nature of the climate. If there are heavy tolls then, the farmer pays so much less rent than he would pay if the tolls were light. In fact, so great is the interest landlords and trustees feel in having low toll-rates, that there is great difficulty in preventing them from lowering them to such an extent as to dim- inish the revenue below what is necessary to keep the roads in a proper state. To talk, therefore, of the lan- ded interest taking an interest in excessive tolls is the merest rhodomontade and absurdity. Some persons think that the insurrection in Wales is likely to advance the cause of reform. Never could there be sur-h a mistake. The extension of populrr rights has never been a:id never will be advanced by tumultuous violence, which has always the effect of in- disposing the mind against the extension of the suffrage, and affording an excuse to Conservatives to say that the people arc unfit to possess the privilege of exercising the elective franchise. As to high rents, landlords, of course, have no right to bolster up rent by means of Corn Laws, by which a tax is levied upon the whole community. But as be- twixt the landlord and farmer, the landlord has just as much right to take as high a rent as he can get as the shopkeeper has to obtain the highest possible price for the article in which he deals and to controul the land- lord in this right, would be a direct infringement on the rights of property. No one is more aware than I am, that the landed in- terest has more than its share in the representation of the country, for which we may thank the Whigs of the Reform Bill; the leader of whom, Lord J. Russell, has declared again and again in Parliament, that, in fraining that bill, it was the deliberate intention of the Cabinet of Lord Grey to give the landed interest a predomi- nance in the country. It is to this that we are to at- tribute the disgraceful continuance of the Corn Laws in our statute book."

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] I The destructive movement here is but another in- stance of the danger that attends a neglect of the peti- tions of the people, when directed against the continu- ance of grievances, the bare existence of which has a tendency to the subversion of order, and the alienation of the loyalty of the subject. This anomaly in the history of all outbreaks had its commencement in the destruction of some two or three turnpike-gates in the neighbourhood of Llandowror some seven years ago, from which period the rancour of the people has been slumbering. The poor farmers in that locality, borne upon by a weight of turnpike taxation, have to this time groaned under, petitioned against, but finally continued to pay, this most severe and obnoxious of imposts. Within the short space of fifteen miles, many of these people have to pay 3s., and even in some instances 4s., for a small cart and horse to bring their commodities to market, the value of which perchance may not amount to dou- ble that sum and for a cart load of lime, the pit-cost of which may be Gs. or 7s., an equal sum is levied for tolls along the roads, in most instances bad roads, to the farmer's residence; whilst along the main turn- pike-roads, on the sides of which the seats of their more wealthy neighbours are placed, the tolls are compara- tively light. Many representations have been made, individually and collectively, to many of the trusts in South Wales, of the intolerable burden of these tolls but the trustees in great part were directly interested, as tally-holders, in keeping up the tolls of their district; and it was no argument to them that the safety of the public peace and the preservation of order and of property was en- dangered in !Ile attempt tn uphold a system of extor- tion, which the poverty of the people could no longer pay :—no their more direct and more interested course was to disregard the remonstrances of the people, and to extort from them the utmost penny in the power of the poor farmer to pay and hence it was that, goaded to desperation by this manifest injustice of the tally-hol- ders, and united as one body, they chose Rebecca for their leader, and she, followed by her children, boldly took the field, and in the autumn of last year waged war against that system, the unequal oppression of which she and her children had so long condemned. The tally-holders now, with as much fear as they had hitheito exercised of oppression, fled to government and craved protection against this host of marauders, as they were called, and the whole country became alarmed at the daring exploits of Rebecca." Sir James Graham, however, denied to the St. Clears magistracy the employment of the military as toll col- lectors; and old Saunders of Glanrhydw, in turn taunted the St. Clears bench, and defied the whole host of" Re- becca and her daughters yet the entire of the obnox- ious gates in the neighbourhood of St. Clears having been first demolished, Rebecca left that scene of her operations, and in front of Ty Glanrhydw the lawn gate has been burnt in the very teeth of old Saunders —the desecration of the gates of Somnauth was never so complete as that of the gate at Ty Glanrhydw. From this point the devastating course of Rebecca lia-, been fo l loive d t h i-oii,, h has been followed through Llanddarog, Porthyrhyd, Cross Hands, Pontardulais, &c., and these and all the intermediate and surrounding gates in her course have fallen. The employment of the military is farcical and worthy only of the genius of a Justice Shallow. 20,000 dragoons, variously interspersed, could avail but little against Rebecca's knowledge of her country and child- ren. The towering mountains which here and there flank the scenes of her operations, are entirely inacces- sible to troop horses, and a start of one minute in ad- vance will place any one acquainted with these moun- tain passes entirely out of reach of gun shot, and as safe from an attack of the soldiery as was Rob Roy on the •urmnit of Ben-venue, or in the deep defile of .Scui-au-duuic. Magistrates and other magnates of the principality have, in the aberration of their own heated imagination, mystified facts. But let us look dispassionately at the real state of things, and unfold the cause and the ma- chinery of Rebeccaism. We have alluded already to the injustice of the tally- holders, a body of people who became, by virtue of an Act of Parliament, Trustees of certain roads and who thought proper, for some purpose, perhaps not very closely connected with their Trust, to lend money to it, on security of the tolls which the Act authorised them to impose on the poor farmers of their district. The farmers, unable to pay this taxation, and feeling a monstrous injustice in the act which called upon them to pay for passing along roads which they had previously constructed at their own expense—remonstrated in all ways with the Trustees. A deaf car was turned to these complaints, and the system of extortion out of which this movement arose, continued till the people deter- mined on levelling the whole of the toll-gates placed on the bye-roads—and it was against these, and not in any way interfering with the gates on the highv ays, nor with any other description of property, that the Rebecca war was waged. But, it has happened in this as in other warfare of a more elevated character, that success in one campaign begets a desire for further possessions, and hence it will appear that what was in the first instance an attack upon the bye-road tolls only, has now extended to those of the highways also, and with what justice an event of the past week will show—for we see in a newspaper police report T)f proceedings at Swansea, that a lessee of tolls in that locality, has been permitted by the Trustees to enforce payment of tolls from the people carrying coal into that town, for up- wards of a year, double the amount that he was legally entitled to take. Looking then at these and other facts as we find them and bringing to a consideration of them a cool judgment, we consider that the rights of the people have been so wantonly outraged that sur- prise at the outbreak must cease. The affair of the Carmarthen poorhouse-occurring on the day Rebecca came into town for the purpose. of stating her grievances to the authorities, in accordance with her previously-expressed intention so to do-was incited by an abandoned pauper woman who had some personal wrong to avenge, and who took advantage of the excitement, caused by the presence of Rebecca and her daughters, to encourage the idle and thoughtless to join her, and some of the train of Rebecca also followed and whilst this woman was busy in pitching the beds out of the workhouse windows, and ursa major was spouting to serve a purpose, Carmarthenshire history will tell to future generations, that an heroic magistrate boldly led on a troop of dragoons, and captured the old lady and her followers, amid the hearty congratulations of a host of equally zealous, though less intrepid, cham- pions of the peace of the good Queen Victoria in Carmarthen. And history will also have to tell that another func- tionary, big in the importance of his office, and with a degree of courage only to be equalled by his loyalty to his Queen, boldly seized upon a poor mason on his way home from his work, and handed him over to the custody of some of the soldiery, to be dealt with according to law, for having had the audacity, in the open day time, and in the presence of the mayor of Carmarthen, to cry, Beeca for ever."

In re Yelverton and Morris.—Another week has passed, and no answer has been put in to the short bill which was filed by the next friend to the public, calling our contemporary to come before the Welshman,' a master Extraordinary of the court of public opinion, with an account. Docs he think no account is neces sary ? Does our contemporary think that political- honesty and consistency may be all very fine, but that neither he, nor the dying journal has, or ever had anything to do with them ? Is this what he wishes the public to infer ? Or, is honesty—we of course mean its practice, not its profession-is the practice of honesty very low and vulgar ? Does our contemporary deem it a thing fit for the vulgus profanwn alone ? Is there a perfect coincidence of opinion on this point between our protestant contemporary and the popish Cardinal who laid it down as a maxim that honesty was made only for the canaille ? Pope, it will be remembered, like a blockhead as he was, declared that An Honest man is the noblest work of God." "That Pope "-practically says our contemporary— was a poet,—what has the Journal to do with Pope's absurd postiilatum ? The Honest man indeed!—Maza- rine's the man for my money." Now, Mazarine denies the appropriateness of honesty it is not, that Catholic Cardinal affirms, fit in a certain elevated situation of life similar to that one occupied by our contemporary- a situation filled with such singular honor to the Journal and so much advantage to the country The good Cardinal Mazarine says, que I'honnetete n'etait faite que pour le Bourgeois, ot qiion ne (lovait nullement y avoir egard dans Vadministration des affairespubliques" Is not to conduct a public Journal to administer public affairs ?" the Journal may ask,—thinking that it is a good defence to the trimming with which it stands charged; but neither the Welsh public, nor the Welshman." deems it any defence at all. And our contemporary will be pleased to consider that he is remanded until next Friday, when probably he will again be brought up to the bar of public opinion. 1

lIlC reprc-smtatirc ot the Morning unroin.rae at Car- marthen, whom we welcomed ana. announrcrllast week, fully justifies the anticipations we had previously formed of the course he would take in his communications on the State of South Wales, to the English public. In medio tutissimns est appears to be his motto. Little additional light, however, of course can be now thrown on the condition of the country; although it is quite certain that any gentleman from London—necessarily unacquainted with the peculiar habits of thought and action in JValcs-must occasionally form ridiculously erroneous views both of the men and the things he sees in this strange land. The Chronicle's representative has a good deal to learn about Wales; and while heartily wishing him success in his task, we would suggest to him that he is in a literally strange land; and that if he jump at conclusions, he is sure soon to find himself in bogs and quagmires. With this necessary, and no less friendly caution, we lay before our readers some of his Saturday's sayings. The Chronicle's reporter begins by observing, There are few places which I have visited that I have found to be so difficult to come at a precise knowledge of facts, as Wales." What I have heard complained ofhere, and heard it from many quarters, is, that the discontent of the people against the toll-gate grievance has been taken advan- tage of by those who seek, by means of agitation, to make themselves of consequence in the county. One of the persons thus complained of, is Mr. Williams— the English speaker at Allt Cyn Adda. It is stated that he is a Chartist, and that the attempt is making te convert the present excitement into a Chartist move- ment; that the first speaker in Welsh (in the meeting at which I was present) is an inhabitant of this town, and in politics a Chartist, whilst his religious notions are those of a Socialist. On the other hand, it is declared that the reason why Mr. Williams takes so conspicuous a part in those assemblages is, that the people arc so unaccustomed to those things—they are so ignorant as to petitions and public meetings—that they should not know what to do if Mr. Williams did not give them the advantage of his professional know- ledge and his practical experience that the prominent position in which he is placed is not so much a matter of his own seeking as it is the result of the selection of others and that he is, it might almost be said, in despite of himself, the petit O'Connell of the Princi- pality. I must add, too, in justice to this gentleman, that in the speech I heard him utter there was not even the most distant allusion to the Charter, while a portion of it was, if an insurrectionary or malignant spirit pervaded his auditors, a manly disregard of his own popularity whilst he most properly, and at the same time most strongly, denounced the outrages upon property which had occurred, in the case of Mr. Cham- bers and others." After some gossip about Chartists, he says, What- ever be the cause, there can be little doubt but that discontent is brooding in the minds of the population." He then compares the condition of our population with that of the Irish, and concludes that we are not so badly off as he had been led to believe. In juxta posi- tion with this opinion, he candidly quotes from the Welshman the case of the Owens at Abcrnailt, as a contrast to what he himself has seen.

THE LIVE PROPIIET.-ON rei-ie?it toujours d sea pre- miers pensees, says a French author. Once a prophet always a prophet; all the failures in the world wo'n't keep a man from vaticinating, if he be under the delu- sion that he has the gift of prophecy. Nay, the more signal his failures, and the louder the laugh of derision at his prophecies, the more prophetic and positive he becomes. Our local contemporary for example, is now "as morally certain" of the fulfilment of a prophecy that fell from his inspired pen last Friday, as he is of his own personal existence" This prophecy, the last one, has only a month to run and will arrive at maturity next November. Well, we shall see what we shall see. Grandmama in London, we find, has got a prophet; she keeps him, however, in her columns, not to prophecy, but only to make fun of. May we partake the right merry entertainment, and do as our Catherine-Street contem- porary does. Permission being granted, we set to:- "Live prophet of the dying journal! thou most mys- terious because the most unintelligible, thou most ab- struse because the most absurd of prophets in these modern times, do not call upon the heavens to fall merely that you may have a spit-full of larks Live prophet! you most undoubtedly know all that has been, all that is, and all that is to come; your sapient comments upon the past, your severe strictures on the present, and your strange revelations of the future, as- sure us of tlt(tt; but after all, it is unpleasant to hear from your oracular lips prophecies that are never fulfilled, and of things predicted that have never come to pass. Think of this—and cease to prophesy And then, live prophet, remember what awful responsibility attaches to the man whose predictions set poor old Mrs. Partington about her old job of mopping up the Atlan- tic But if I give up the metier of prophet, what am I to do ?" our contemporary may exclaim. Why cast nativities; that's the nearest to political prophecy, and when, like Sam Slick's Dr. Skruitz, you are asked what a hoioseope is, your copia verborum is capital-in mysti- fication and magniloquence our live prophet of the dying o urnal is mere than a match for any man living—and you can make answer and say, "When the nosturna hour is so far procrastinated by a superabundant appli cation of the oleaginous, acidulous, piperine, mustardific- oviparous component of a crustacio-piscatory salad and its vinous and alcoholic accidents, an undue expaniioI1 of the stomachic integuments ensues, which in the pro- gress of its constipating irifluences, stigmatiies the cerebral functions, confuses the nervo-optic system, and gives a scope to the horrors."

THE CIRCULATION OF SOUTH WELSH NEWSPAPERS. —The Welstmaki, it is believed, has at present about the largest botietficle circulation in South Wales. But we do not see in this adventitious distinction auy cause for pride-knowing, as of course everybody does know, that a paper may be a very good one, and yet at the same time have but an indifferent circulation; it may perchance take high ground, and from that very circum- stance have a low circulation. We mean, it may go in advance of public opinion, as the Spectator did for years, and be seen consequently as that journal was, by few. In Wales especially, where, in point of fact, there are comparatively few newspaper readers, and no public at all, so to speak-a circumstance referable mainly to the poverty, and partly to the ignorance, of the great body of the people-the number of copies that happen to be circulated by any paper must be necessarily small. No circulation attainable in such a country can be boasted of. There is seen nevertheless occasionally, even in Wales, an ostentatious display of circulation" or rather an exhibition of numerical poverty, while else- where, the trick, as well as its exposure, is of every day practice. In the last number of the Plymouth Journal for example, we find the following expose— I GRANDMAMMA" AND THE STAMP RETURNS. The public, perhaps, are not aware, that the follow- ing tricks among many others, are practised to deceive them as to the Stamp Returns :-That large paper, larger than is intended to be printed on, is sent to the Stamp Office and stamped. It is then returned to the stationer, the stamps cut off, and the same paper sent again to the Stamp Office to be re-stamped.—That in a late bank- ruptcy affaii- in London, the creditors discovered that a ton of Stamps had been sold to a rag merchant, as rags, —That London stationers have been solicited "by the proprietors of local papers to tender certain amounts of duty, to get the number recorded, without the issue taking place.—That even in Plymouth, stamps have been cut up and used for common job printin;That large quantities of Stamps are purchased a few days before tne return is made, and stored and it may be that portions of such quantities are on the premises of the Oid Lady' at this moment.—The Question with the public will be —How docs the 'Old Lady' swell her Stamp Returns?" Returning to the Welsh papers, it is, perhaps, not ge- nerally known, that the word "partners" is scarcely known in any other sense by the people of the princi- pality, than as denoting a division of the cost of receiving a fourpenny paper once a week! We know a case where there are no less than 14 partners to one paper; and respectable tradesmen even, who cannot get the pe- rusal of a paper for nothing—as many of them one way or the other contrive to do-even respectable tradesmen have one or more partners to bear the cost of a news- paper, the price of that paper being 4d. or 4id! It is not, then, much to be wondered at, considering the general ignorance of English, and this singular sys- tem of partnership that the Welsh press is what it is. Tocqueville said that newspapers maintain civiliza- tion," and it may be added, that they are maintained by civilization alone. As knowledge extends the value of newspapers will be seen in South Wales, as it is seen in more favoured parts of the United Kingdom At pre- sent, Wales can scarce be said to have a Newspaper Press. And the wholesome censorship" of the South Wales press is a mere fiction. There is in it, as a whole, no more of public censorship, than a mere hand- bill or advertising sheet has. Its deficiency on the score of censorship is certainly supplied by sycophancy and pambynambyism, and praise of all but the very poor is pitchforked into its columns with marvellous liberality, while the Public, and the Public Interest are left to take care of themselves.

I LATEST NEWS. LONDON WEDNESDAY EVENING, 7'OCLOCK. Consols for Account closed at 24.. Spanish, 191. CORN MARKET.—MARK LANE.—THIS DAY.—The supply of English wheat is 3,320 quarters of foreign 2,140. The prices are rather lower, and the market is very dull. ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR.—THIS DAY.—STATB OF THE POLL.-THREE O'CLOCK.—AldermanMagnay, 688 the Lord Mayor, 113 Alderman Wood. 68. SEES OF ST. ASAPH AND BANGOR. On the debate which arose on the motion of the Earl of Powis, respecting the union of these sees, the Duke of Wellington and the Bishop of London were reported to have expressed themselves to the effect, that as far as they had heard, the union of the sees of Gloucester and Bristol had worked well, and was a measure in accordance with the feelings of the Church. We are now authorized to say, that a circular, signed by a majority of the resident clergy of these united bishoprics, has been forwarded to the two noble Peers in question, in- forming them that the union is a measure disad- vantageous to the Church which communication has been acknowledged by those distinguished person- ages.— Times. MORE RIOTS IN ROSS-SIIIRE.-In the Ross Adier- tiser, a state-church paper, appears the following ac- count. The Rev. Mr. Mackenzie, having been induc- ted by the presbytery at Dingwall, proceeded te preach at Logie on Sunday last, but found a vast collection of people congregated at the church in the utmost state of excitement. The entrance was barricaded, and a law- less desperate mob hovered round it, resolved to prevent any person whatever from going into the church. Lady Rees, Balnagown, drove up to the church, and was as- sailed with the most virulent Billingsgate. Not only so, but a woman actually struck at her ladyship with a stick, and she received a blow on the arm. Lady Ross then withdrew, amidst a shower of stones and blackguard abuse. Shortly after this Mr. Ross, of Cromarty, ac- companied by his son, Mr. George Ross, arrived at the church. Access was denied them, and the most scan- dalous and impious language uttered. The church bell was tolling, and the noise and clamour of the crowd were at that pitch as to threaten the most awful conse- quences. Mr. Ross retaired to Tain for Mr. Sheriff Cameron, who accompanied him to Logie. The Rev. Mr Mackenzie had by this time gone away; but, as there was still a large crowd at the church, the sheriff used the utmost exertion to restore quiet. We under- stand that some of the people said, if a site were given to them for a church, they would desist from further an- noyance. The crowd shortly afterwards dispersed, without further violence. Similar proceedings took place at Rosskeen. On Tuesday morning, four officers arrived at Invergordon, from Tain, with warrants for ap- prehending two individuals connected with the riots. On this being known, the bell was sent through the town, and an immense crowd immediately collected, who rescued the prisoners, and ordered the officers to go home, under the penalty of being stoned to death. The men took the hint, and their prisoners are still at large. THE ROSS-SHIRE RIOTs--The riots have assumed such a serious aspect, that we understand 200 troops have been ordered to Ross-shire; and are at present on their march tliither.-Abe)-dee?t Herald. SPAIN .-The following telegraphic despatches have been received:— Bayonne, Sept. 30. Matters were in the same situation at Saragossa on the 27th. The insurgents were beginning to quarrel among themselves. General Canedo has assumed the command of the government forces. The blockade is extremely strict, and the city has consumed its provisions. The Junta has levied an extraordinary contribution on the inhabitants. Madrid was tranquil in the evening of the 26th, but fresh arrests had taken place on the preceding night. Order continued to reign in Andalusia and Galicia. Prim has been appointed Major-general by a decree of the 2Gth." Perpignan, Oct. 1. Forty insurgents presented themselves on the 26th ult. before Piiyeerda, with an order from the Junta to deliver to them the money in the public treasury, and send carbineers to Girona. The Governor declined to obey the order, and threatened to fire upon them if they advanced. The insurgents retired." Accounts from Madrid of the 25th ult. state, that that capital continued to be entirely at the discretion of Ge- nerals Narvaez and Mazzarcdo, who arbitrarily arrested the citizens without giving notice of their proceedings to the authorities or ministry, and had even already sent passports to several English residents. There were reports afloat of the pronunciamiento of Cadiz, Cartha- gena, and Nurcia.

EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS FROM PARIS. PARIS, OCT. 3.—The journals are full of Mr. O'Con- nell's speech of the 28th. Madrid letters of the 26th state, that Caballero, the Home Minister, quits Madrid and goes to Saragossa. Ayllon then remains the only Liberal in the Cabinet. The garrison were again under arms, and Narvaez in a panic all night. He had ordered Colone Bristow to quit Madrid. General Canedo writes from Saragossa that he had blockaded the city on the right bank of the.Ebro. Letters of the 26th from Barcelona represents the in- surgents as determined to hold out. Amettler they re- present as master of Girona and Mataro, and with aug- mented force on the sea coast between the towns. On the other hand, the French government accounts are that Prim had taken 800 men in Mataro, and shot their commander. There is no knowing what to believe but it is evident that Prim has not been able to do more than gain partial successes, and that Amettler still re- mains in force and unsubdued.—Chronicle. RUSSIAN PROJECTS.—The Times has a letter from Gumri, which mentions the erection' 'of an immense fortress at Alexandropol, half a league from the river Arpatchia, which separates the Russian possessions in the Trans-caucasus from the Pashalik of Kars. "The barracks and hospital, surrounded by a ditch and solid walls, are capable of receiving and lodging an arihy of 50,000 m«n. Tliis fortress is only eight days' march from Jlrzetoun;, the capital of Turkish Armenia."