The Welshman

MR. LAING AND THE GREAT WESTERN I CANADA COMPANY. The reply of the Great Western of Canada Company to the recent report of the Committee of Investigation will be read with satisfaction not only as regards the conduct of the Directors, but also with reference to the accusations made against Mr. Laing. Those accu- sations have already been eagerly seized by foreign journals, and such was the vague and angry manner in which they were made, that a leading New York paper has held them up as a complete set-off against tho latest and most notorious example of financial delinquency in the United States. The Financial Minister to India," it is observed, "is accused of pocketing one million sterling by dishonest means. Mires and Laing in wholesale swindling are the counterparts of M. Floyd." The gentlemen who by attacking an English public servant in a spirit that could be made thus to subserve hostile views of the national character should be pre- pared to support their charges to the very letter. Yet it has already been pointed out that their report did not contain a single tangible point against Mr. Laing that would, in the state in which it was presented, be re- ceived with consideration by any body of persons or judicial Court accustomed to an impartial examination of evidence and the Directors of the Company now fur- nish materials to confirm the opinion thus expressed. Although the present Directors were not in office at the distant period of the events which have been dragged up with regard to Mr. Laing, they have the means of testing the allegations in question, and very properly feel it their duty to do so, as he is no longer in Europe to defend himself. An explanation is given of each charge, and in some instances the answer to the matter on which the indignation of the Committee was most excessive is so simple and complete as to be almost ludicrous, if the sense of the ludicrous were not over- powered by the stronger feeling which the occasion merits. As regard s the charges against the Directors, so far as can be estimated from an ordinary perusal, the answers on all main points are equally fatal to the judgment, and it must also be observed, the scrupulous- ness of the Committee. It is to be assumed that they have not intended, in any instance, to deviate from truth, but the number of cases in which direct proof is furnished of the hastiness of their statements appears to be too great to admit of much reliance being placed upon their inferences in general. Among other extraor- dinary things cited by the Directors is the circumstance that a certain loan to the Detroit and Milwaukic Rail- way, which is a subject of especially severe remarks by the Committee, was declared at the time by Mr. Robert Kaye, of Glasgow, one of the members of the Com- mittee, to be absolutely imperative. Air. Kayo had just travelled over the line, and therefore had had better opportunities evun than the London Directors for esti- mating the requirements of the case. Under date of the 26th of September, 1857, he wrote from New York, urging the transaction, and saying, I feel a confidence in this line greater than I dare express to you." He will, consequently, at the meeting to be held on the 11th inst., find it a duty to bring his past convictions into harmony with his present statements. Meanwhile, not only the reply of the Directors, but the charges of the Committee should be carefully read by the public in general. The affair is one of political and national no less than of private interest, and it is dangerous to attempt to summarize statements bearing on the conduct of a body like this Committee of investigation, who have shown themselves ready to fling against all who differ from them, charges of dishonesty and of wilful « garbling," which they hesitate to substantiate when invited. Fortunately the interval is short to the day when all parties will have the opportunity of full discus- sion and justification. The shareholders will attend with the facts before them, and can do what is neces- sary if the committee have been unintentionally mis- represented. The only caution to be suggested is that they should insist upon every charge being put in a concise and specific form, and dismiss as utterly without value all intimations of disclosures which the Com- mittee intend to make at some future period. It is intolerable that the character of a largo number of individuals should be held up to odium by a practice like that adopted in the report of the Committee, of stating that proofs of delinquency exist, which, for the sake of ulterior proceedings it is not thought proper promptly to produce T iiiic8

THE REVENUE AND THE MONEY MARKET. I The Revenue Accounts entirely justify the remarks which we ventured to make upon the profpect? of taxation' this day week. Mr Gladstone's Budget has not destroyed our indirect revenue. On the contrary, during the year we have received from the £ Cuotoms. 23,305,777 Excise. 19,435,000 42,740,777 —a magnificent total, after so extensive a series of changes and reductions. The net decrease, after allowing for the j augmentation in these sources of revenue, which is greater this year than last, is £ 805,995. And though this is not, for the reasons we last week assigned, by any means an exact measure of the financial difficulty with which Mr Gladstone will soon have to cope, it may, nevertheless, prove to us that this difficulty will not be an insuperable one. Next year's account will be different in several respects from last year's; but we see enough to assure us that there are no calamities in store for us which should stagger the money market, or depress an enterprising financier. More novelty attaches to the account No. III. showing the relations of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the loan market. It appears that 1594,000 Exchequer bonds have been issued out of the sum authorised last year, and that E200,000 of the terminable annuities created for the fortifications have likewise been taken. These make together S794,000, and this sum is so much deducted frr m the capital of the world and expended on temporary purposes, and to this extent the operations of the Chancellor of the Exchequer have permanently impoverished the money market. £ 1,000,000 has likewise been borrowed to pay off the Exchequer bills of which payment was demanded. But this operation does i), t affect the aggregate resoutces of the money market. The money so applied still exists; it has not been expended on the temporary exigencies of the country, or appropriated to the construction of permanent works, such as fortifications yielding no pecuniary return. It has simply been paid to the former holders of Exchequer bills it is, in fact, a transfer of loanable capital from the Bank of England to them, and the total funds of the money market as well as the rate of interests are, therefore, wholly unaffected by it. It may be worth while to state that of the L2,000,000 of Exchequer bonds Mr Gladstone took power to i-sue last te.1T, £1,000,000 were taken by the Savings Banks on the 8th November, 1800, and £ -?91,000 have since been issued to the Bank 140(3,000, therefore, oill3- rt iiialti to be issued The issue in November was not an augmentation of tht debt of the country, as .61,000,000 of other bonds then became due and were then paid oft. —Economist.

ESSAYS AND REVIEWS." •id THE KHITOll OF "THE WEL";IDI. I Sir,— Will ytfii kindly allow ine to apply through your columns a little "oil and wififi to a "wounded traveller" lying by the way-side ? SAMARITAN. LONDON, 8th April, 1861. REV. AND JJEAK oiii, — AS you have published a public letter to the Rev. R. B. Ivennard, you will not be surprised at being yourself publicly addressed even anonymously by one not altogether a stranger to you. I shall not put my name, not from any dislike to do so, but bocausc not entering upon any investigation of the theological questions involved I merely wish to draw your attention to a few little matters which it might be as well for you to look into and bear in mind, and for that purpose my name is of no consequence. The other day a lecture was given on Essays and Jieviews at Sion College, London, by a very learned member of the Church to his brethren the beneficed clergy of London, in which with true wisdom he begged them not to attempt to answer the book until they had fully made themselves masters of the subject. I can myself bear testimony to the prudence of this course, because some years ago having occasion to study Strauss, I sooft saw that no Churchman could answer him. Talking the matter over with a beneficed clergyman of the diocese of London, of a most liberal and enlightened mind, he admitted that the clergy very painfully felt this to be the case, and as they did not know how to do it, they were silent. I remarked that Neander's method, though clever and well-meant, is ineffective, but that there was a mode of doing it which some day I might, as a layman, perhaps, carry into execution but I imagined that Churchmen would no more like my method than they liked Strauss. He begged me to do it, nevertheless, and said if you can answer Strauss and neutralise him, we may perhaps be able to answer you. I laughingly replied that the success of my answer would depend solely on its general truthfulness, however unpalatable it might be to Churchmen and quoting the inutility of kicking against tho pricks," pointed out a similar train of thought to that in Essays and Reviews as the only means that I saw possible of counteracting Strauss's poison. The Essayists, it is true, have made some blunders of detail, but what human writing is exempt from error r I would therefore beg of you, rev. and dear sir, to study before you condemn them. One result of my own study and investigation is, that, contrary to the received opinion, which of course is yours at present, the whole Greek New Testament (not even excluding the Epistles to the Romans and the Corinthians, with the quotations from heathen poets) was originally composed in Hebrew, i.e., the Aramaic dialect of Judaea; and a singular proof of this being the case with regard to the Apocalypse, I myself discovered in an ancient Greek MS New Testa- ment, uncollated by Griesbach or Mill, in the public library at Poitiers, in France. It will be borne in mind that the Lateinos interpretation of the famous No. 666 holds good in the Hebrew as in the Greek and that Bishop Marsh's ideas about a Hebrew origin for the Gospels (annexed to his translation of Michaelis) has received of late years a strange confirmation in the discovery of the translation of the Pistis Sophia, which says of the Apostle Philip (I quote from memory), Iste est qui scripsit omnia qua; dixit Jesus, et omnia quae fecit." Another piece of advice of the learned lecturer at Sion College I cannot so cordially agree with, namely, to base all the arguments on the uniform and infallible interpretations of the Church. Again I say, study the subject deeply, not forgetting what James says in his Corruptions of the Fathers, &c. and examining care- fully the various readings of Eusebius, &c. Rufinus's preface to Justin, and various Roman Catholic writers who justify the charges made in the works of various writers for the good of the Church." I think you will then see with me that it would not be quite safe to fol- low this advice. Before I lay down my pen I would wish to draw your attention to a little work I put my hand on in my own library the other evening, when looking for a book to while away an idle hour, and which till then I was perfectly unconscious I possessed. It is a thin octavo of 166 pp., a reprint in 1838, by Strange, of 21, Pater- noster-row, of a book published in 1802, entitled Re- flections upon the State of Religion in Christendom Its author died in 1805, having previously resigned the livings of Tewkesbury and Longdon, to the great regret of his Bishop (Dr. Hurd), and of his friend the then | Bishop of Rochester. The author's interpretation of! unfulfilled prophecy (which, disclaiming infallibility, differs from any I have before seen) startled me not a little in many things. He puts the termination of the 1260 years in or soon after 1860, in which I am inclined to think his own reasoning shows him to be some 6 or 7 years too early. I cannot resist the temptation of: quoting the following from pp. 77 and 78 :—" When the termination of the 1260 years shall be nearly approach- ing, the above-mentioned small number of faithful Christians, who testify against the corruption and im- piety of that Church, will be somewhere severely per- secuted by the Civil power, and suffer a political death. In which state of degradation and political extinction they will continue for three years and a half, in some one of those subdivisions of the Western semi-empire where the Apostate Church is established. At the expiration of which time their political life will be restored to them; they will be elevated with honour in the sight of their enemies, and at the same time some great commotion of the people will take place, in which the Church of that State, forming one chief street of the City of Babylon, or one-tenth part of the whole Apostate Church, will be abolished." The author goes on to allude to the conversion of the Jews .into the then uni- versally received religion of Christ, and the duration of such Church for 1000 years &c. I had written thus far on Saturday night, intending here to bring this letter to a close. On Sunday evening I took up an old collection of sermons, and found a funeral one on a Mr. Thos Firinin, preached at the end of 1697, by a friend, evidently a clever and learned Churchman, whom perhaps at this distance of time it might be difficult if not impossible to identify, more especially as the defunct was the intimate friend of the Archbishop of Canterbury (Tillotson), the Bishop of: London (Compton), and most of the Episcopal Bench both of England and Ireland, as well as of the greater part of the leading clergy of that day. The text is Luke x. 36—37. The following is an extract:— 3. Not the levite, not the priest, says our Saviour here, but the Samaritan, the doer of good, is that neigh- bour, whom by God's law thou art to love as thyself. It is true, the Samaritan is of another religion, he is so overseen (I presume this means what we should call benighted) as not to own some books that are genuine parts of holy scripture; nay, he has great mistakes about the very object of worship, about the very person of God his conceptions of God are so confused and un- certain, that he worships he knows not (well) what. For all that, I say to thee, seeing he is a useful man, full of good works, thou art to love him as thyself; his strange country, or his mistaken religion notwithstand- ing. Nobody will deny, that this is Our Savour's plain meaning in the text, and the context. But if so, why is it the practice of so many, to be disaffected to the very best persons, for their (supposed) errors in religion ? How dare we to contravene, go against, the undeniable charge given to us all in this plain text ? The man, say you, is a Samaritan in our judgment he is mistaken in some points of religion it may be about the very object of worship; the nature and the properties of God. I pray, Christians, think of it, that it is our Saviour who supposes that the person is indeed a Samaritan. He tells us plainly he is of a different religion from the true church, and even that he worships he knows not what: yet, after all, the same Saviour says, decrees, that this is thy neighbour, whom thou art to love as thyself; be- cause, says he, he is a doer of good, open-hearted, well- conditioned. I will have thee (says that teacher, whom 'ice are to hear in all things whatsoever lie shall say unto us) to embrace this Samaritan; to think him worthy of more love than the orthodox levito, or priest, sound in the faith. But here, what say some men ? What ? embrace a Samaritan, a heretic, a man of false religion ? We have learned better things, and that, from Holy Scripture, from the word of God itself, (Titus, I.e., 10.) 'A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject;' that is, cast him off, have nothing to do with him, avoid him as a pest. It is too common among the contending parties of Christians, to take scripture words and names, and, having put them on the wrong person or subject, to conclude presently, we have con- futed and shamed them. A heretic, says the Apostles, reiect him, cast him off. Right! but then let us mean by heretics what he means. He means factious persons, whether they be of a right or a wrong opinion in reli- gion. To say it in few words, heresy is bigotry or fac- tion; and a heretic is a bigot, a factious or turbulent person, whether such perscn happens to be right or wrong in his opinions. Jleteses sunt placita Vehementius defensa, says a most learned critic Heresy is any opinion, whether in phIlosophy, relIgIon, or politics, for which men contend too earnestly and fiercely.' It is not then the truth or falsehood of any opinion that makes it to be heresy, and the person that holds it a heretic it is the stir, clamour, and bustle made about it by any, that makes the opinion heresy, and the man a heretic. Concerning such men the apostle directs well, reject them; after hav- mg admomsled them once and again of their dangerous warmtti, avoid them, have no more to do with them. But as lor others who are mistaken (that is, we think they. are mistaken in their doctrines), the charge con- cerning them is, not reject them, or avoid them. On the contrary, we are cautioned not to judge them, not to condemn them; and for this reason, because they, erring conscientiously, God receives them, God accepts then, God will uphold them (Rom. I.e., 4.) Who art thou that judgest (allotrion onketeen)* the servant of another To his own master, to God, he must stand or fall; yea, he shall be holden up.' He had said in the foregoing verse, (proselabeto auton hothco^ God hath accepted him, j or God hath received, him. In short, they say a heretic is to be rejected. 1 answer, yes, every bigot, every tuibulent person, every fire-brand, of whatever sect or persuasion. But for heretics, that are commonly so mis-called (that is, per- sons erring in doctrine) it will but ill become us t' > reject them, when the holy scriptures assure lie; in express terms, God accepts thou." I am, Rev. and dear Sir, Very truly yours, SAMARITAN. To the Rev. Sir Erasmus Williams, Bart., St. Davids. We have no greek type. -ED, W.

THE COTTON CRISIS OF 1861 THE C Or, How shall tce be Clotted in the 1862 A bone I for Welsh nien to pirk. By J OH FLAXMAN, YEOMAN. I There are but few soils which are not adapted to the cultivation of this graceful and useful plant. Loams. sound, dry and light, and even sandy, rank amongst the first class; but upon all soils kttown as "barley and turnip soil," flax will find itself at home and thrive well. The subsoil should, if possible, be of limestone gravel or other natural drainage. If of stiff clay, it should be well drained, as water below the plant or a cold im- permeable subsoil is injurious to the quality of the fibre. Any ground capable of growing sound and mealy potatoes or other domestic vegetable produce, may be safely relied upon. Under clean, attentive, and timely cultivation, the flax plant is not capricious and it may be suddenly called upon to resume a position in Welsh husbandry, and in fact incur a kind of social responsibility to which it has been long time a stranger. Its place in the rotation of crops must depend upon the nature of soil, the value and distance of markets (though under the present railway system few markets are inaccessible), and the kind of husbandry pursued, as pasture, arable, or mixed. It may follow any green crop to advantage. Potato, turnip, or mangold land ploughed and ridged up before winter; grain crop stub- bles, also, well cleaned and ridged up, and in spring refreshed by a dressing of guano and rape dust, are a good preparation for flax sowing. A stolen" or inter- vening crop of rape or vetches fed off by sheep forms at once an easy and profitable bed for flax. Indeed it can be hardly sown amiss, except upon heavy, ill- drained soils, which are valueless, not only as regards flax, but everything else besides rushes, osiers, and snipes. For all profitable husbandry, the preparation of the soil is the foundation of successful progress. Spade husbandry itself is not too fine, or too exact for flax culture, if dclicacy of fibre, which ought to be the aim of the flax grower, be the object in view. Land intended for flax, if under winter fallow, should be deeply ploughed and well ridged j up so as to receive the full benefit of air and i frost and be in readiness for an early spring furrow. If manured from the farm-yard, the rotten and mellow portion of the dung heap should be preferred. If guano or other artificial manure be employed, let it be applied in spring. In fact do all you can to bring the flax ground to a fine state of tilth, at once friable, clean, and fertile. Generally speaking, the month of April is a favour- able epoch for putting in the seed, as it falls between oat and barley sowing. The choice of seed requires attention, and new seed should be preferred. It should have a lustre on its surface, and handle lively;" that is, when the hand seizes a sample, the seed should escape from the fingers, and glide from the palm easily and freely. Home saved seed is probably the best, and inspires with confidence those who have, perhaps, seen all their labour lost by the frauds of ill-principled chapmen yet an occasional change of seed with one's neighbours is of great advantage. Above all, see that your seed-flax is properly cleansed from all extraneous matter. Where fine flax is the object, thick sowing is pre- ferable, because the plant will branch out less, and will bear a more delicate stem. If coarse flax, or the production of seed be the object, thin sowing may be followed. The ground being finely worked, roll lightly and sow; cover with a light seed harrow, and roll again or, if the plan be feasible, cover the ridges lightly with mould taken from the water furrows, and then roll or bush harrow, or both. After sowing, horse treading should be avoided as much as possible. If the water-furrow be well arranged, work-people can always pass readily to do any hand-work; or a pony, or even a donkey, may draw two light seed har- rows, thus taking half a ridge at each turn, and so passing from furrow to furrow until the whole be completed. The Belgian practice is to sow carrot seed sparingly amongst the flax, which, after the severance of the latter, produces an after crop, of which every farmer and farmer's wife can appreciate the value. Little will be required before harvest, or flax-pulling | time, but to watch the crop, eradicate weeds, and ad- mire the beauty of as graceful a plant as ever adorned hedge-row, farm, or garden. A flax ground in full bloom is a beautiful sight; the slender and graceful stems, each crowned with flowers of azure blue, are attractive to the eye, and promising to the hopes of the grower. Some nicety, and the master's eye, will be required to determine upon the pulling or harvesting. The flax plant is not cut, or mown, but carefully pulled up by the root. If pulled too soon, although the fibre may be fine, is will run to waste, in the after pro- cesses on the other hand, if the pulling be left till too late, the fibre, or linen material in fact, will be found too coarse for the spinners of fine flax. There are, however, two indications which may be relied upon. j The seed should acquire a pale brown, and the stalk, as with wheat, for about two-thirds of its length, a |I pale yellow colour. If the crop be in part lodged, or layed by wind and weather, it will be well to pull such part separately. In severing the crop from the soil, let the work-people grasp a good handfull firmly and carefully, and rather near the ground. Withdraw the plant so that all the root ends lie evenly and broom-like together, and deposit it in the form of small sheaves side fey side upon the ground as cleared. Thus laid they will be ready for the binders, who in their turn will tie them together near the head with flax stalks, and place them in an erect and conical form, or as corn is stooked-in a lineal direction, and in a form easily represented by two sides of the capital letter A. If they are thus placed on either side of the water furrow which separates the ridges, a current of air will be secured highly useful in preparing the flax plant for the next process, that of rippling. It is an easy process, by which the flax seed, or linseed, is separated from the parent flax, or linen plant. The instrument used is called a ripple, and consists of a stout block of oak or other hard wood, furnished with an upright row of prongs or teeth, each tapering to a point, let in and secured by means of screws or rivets. These prongs or teeth are'about 18 inches in height, and distant from each other at the base nearly a quarter of an inch, and half an inch at the points or summit. They should be well steeled" so as to act with a kind of spring or rebound, and thus carry away the seed pods without injury to the stem. The block of the i ripple is thon secured firmly to a form or bench, across which the workman sits with a stride. The sheaves, being within reach, he spreads each hand- ful out, as a fan may be spread, and with a firm but careful grasp he draws it downwards and at the same time towards himself. With a turn of 1the hand he repeats the stroke, and thus completes the process. The sheaves, as rippled, are placed on the left or contrary side of the rippler, in order that they may be rebound and carried away to the steeping pool, or to be carefully started until all is ready for that process. Experienced growers advise that the flax should be rippled as soon as pulled, and watered as soon as rippled, These conditions of success, however, are not stringent. Much must depend upon weather, supply of labour and of water, the state of the markets, and the general engagements of the farmer. The writer's personal experience has comprized both methods, and he con- siders that much may be left to discretion and to cir- cumstances. The watering, however, is at all times a delicate operation, and to an inexperienced hand, pre- sents, perhaps, the chief difficulty. Rivers and streams must be avoided. Flaz- water is fatal to fish, injurious to animals, and is a liquid manure of no ordinary value. To steep flax in a public stream, if not contrary to statute law, is an offence against the public or common law, and they who practice it to the injury of their neighbours would probably be legally and heavily re- sponsible. River or soft water is, however, the best, and should be let into a tank or reservoir provided for the purpose. If spring water must of necessity be • used the tank should be filled for some weeks before hand so that it may become soft" by exposure to the atmosphere. The depth, width, and length of the steeping pool will of course vary according to the crop. A width of from 12 to 18 feet by a depth of 4 feet will be found iconvenient, and the length can be increased according to circumstances. Let the flax be carefully and regu- larly laid in the pool, row after row, slightly inclined, and with the root ends downwards. Cover the steeping tank with rushes, osier work or light hurdles, upon which stones or even turf sods may be arranged, so as to keep the flax down in the water. Much will depend upon the season and temperature, but from 18 to 15 days may be considered an average steeping time. (To be Oontinucd.) IWHIIWWMMil———————— I

SOUTH WALES RAILWAY. TRAFFIC RETURN. ———— £ B. d. Week ending April 6, 1861 7272 9 3 i Corresponding week, 1860 ..1 6169 9 1

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. The iron-cased frigate Invincible was successfully launched at Toulon on Friday. The Paris papers publish a telegr;un dated Constanti- nople, 4th April, stating that the Porte had addressed a memorandum to the Representatives of the Powers, an- nouncing the blockade of the Adnatic coast on the sid;j of Monteneg'ro. ,rh(, We learn that the Emperor, faithful to the policy he has constantly followed in regard to Italy-—a policy excluding all family ambition and all idea of conquest—has written a letter to Prince Murat expressing these noble sentiments, and conse- quently disapproving the manifesto of the Prince." WARSAW, Friday Evening. The city presents a very gloomy aspect. The deepest mourning is worn by every one of the in- habitants, without exception. The theatres have been closed for a fortnight. Last night a crowd of about 3,000 persons assembled on the spot where the victims of February fell. Prayers were intoned before the picture of the Virgin on their behalf. The crowd afterwards dispersed, shouting the words Until we meet again." The military, which were stationed a short distance off, made no attempt to interfere. SATURDAY. The demonstration which took place on Thursday night before the picture of the Virgin was repeated yes- terday evening. The crowd again dispersed without being interfered with by the military. The cause of the prevailing agitation is the suppres- sion of the delegation of citizens for the maintenance of public order. POSEN, APRIL 7. A monster popular demonstration is to take place at Warsaw to-day. Numerous bands of people will proceed to the ceme- tery where the victims of February were buried, The excitement is very great. In the Polish pro- vinces demonstrations are likewise taking place. The Governor of Sawalki has tendered his resignation, which has been accepted. The Governor of Lublin has left that city for. War- saw. WARSAW, APRIL 7. A great popular demonstration has taken place before the Palace of the Governor, in consequence of which the military were called out. The Governor personally exhorted the people to maintain order and disperse. The people replied that they would do so if the mili- tary were first withdrawn. The Governor gave orders to that effect, and the crowd then dispersed quietly. TUESDAY Morning. Yesterday popular demonstrations again took place in the streets of this city. The military dispersed the people by force, killing and wounding a great number. To-day the city is filled with troops. TUESDAY Afternoon. The great popular demonstrations which took place yesterday were occasioned by the dissolution of the Agricultural Society. A large but unarmed crowd appeared before the Castle. The cavalry charged and the infantry fired on the people, killing and wounding upwards of 100. NAPLES, APRIL 7. A rumour is current that General Boscoe arrived at Naples five days ago, in order to direct a reactionary movement, which was to have broken out yesterday. The police are said to be on his track. The ramifications of the conspiracy have been dis- covered. They extend even to the provinces. In some places the conspiracy has really broken out, and most atrocious deeds have been commited. Several priests have been arrested, among whom are several curates of this city. The inhabitants request the Government to take energetic measures against the Reactionists. Yesterday reactionary attempts in the environs of Naples were suppressed. by the National Guards. Several Bourbon officers and priests implicated in the conspiracy have been arrested. A depot of arms and ammunition has been discovered in Naples. The inhabitants are everywhere quiet. APRIL 9. In consequence of the Bourbon conspiracy recently discovered here the Duke Cajanella and Bishop Trotta have been arrested. Yesterday 300 rifles were seized, and this morning 600 muskets and ammunition. Forty-three armed persons were arrested yesterday at Caserta. The attempts at insurrection made at Castiglione in the Abruzzi, and at Vico in the Capitana, have been easily suppressed. The insurgents of Castiglione committed incredible atrocities. The Muratists of Naples have made a de- monstration by sending voting tickets to the houses of the inhabitants, bearing the inscription, Murat, King Naples, by the vote of the people." The Chevalier di Nigra displayed great firmness. Naples is tranquil. To-day great numbers of the in- habitants went to the races, at which Prince Carignan was present.

The Committee of the Estates in Holstein, it is re- ported, have come to the conclusion that the Estate* cannot treat the budget in the manner proposed by the Danish Government, namely, that the Assembly should merely make proposals, and that the Government should decide thereon. The report of the Committee is to be discussed to-day. Monday being the anniversary of the death of Count Szecheny, who was executed by the Austrians for his part in the Hungarian rebellion of 1848, the inhabitants of Pesth observed the day with religious ceremonies, all the shops being closed and black flags displayed. For- tunately there were no disturbances, and the city re- mains tranquil. The Patrie of Saturday says the report that a French naval division has left for Syria is altogether false. The insurgents of the Herzegovina have been again repulsed by the Turks from before Poglizza, on which they again made an attack. The Turkish blockading squadron has arrived before Antivara. The Bourbon party in Naples are incessant in their intrigues against the new order of things, stimulated, it appears, by the ex-King, as the Government have arrested the Duke of Cazaniello, on account of two letters he had received from Francis II. It is further stated that an important conspiracy has been discovered, in which five bishops are implicated, and several mem- bers of a Bourbon committee have been arrested. The conspirators meet with no sympathy from the people, who view their proceedings with great indignation. The Italian Chamber of Deputies on Saturday adopted a resolution equivalent to a vote of confidence in the Ministry—viz., That the Chamber, confident that the Ministry will take the most suitable measures for hastening the administrative unification of the provinces of Naples and Sicily, and insisting on the immediate publicaton of the measures of public safety promised by Government, and on the execution of public works, passes to the order of the day." The Opinione gives a denial to the report that the Italian Government intends to issue a forced loan. The accounts from Warsaw still represent that city as being the scene of much agitation. Every one appears in the deepest mourning, the theatres are closed, and crowds assemble on the spot where the victims of February fell, but preserve such strict order that the military, who watch them, have no pretence for inter- fering. The cause of the agitation is said to be the suppression of the delegation of citizens for the main- tenance of public order; and the discontent is likely to be increased by a subsequent order for the dissolution of the Agricultural Society of Poland. There has been no further demonstration at Kalisch, where order is maintained by a committee of citizens. The French Government are exhibiting great interest in the affairs of the Ionian Islands, in which it appears to think the people ought to participate, and has ac- cordingly communicated a paragraph to several of the Paris journals, informing them of the agitation that prevails in the Islands for annexation to Greece. This proceeding will not tend to allay the suspicion that • French intrigues have something to do with the dis- affection of the islanders towards the English Govern- ment. The iron-cased frigate, the Invincible, makes the fifth of these formidable vessels now afloat in the French navy. Warlike rumours are still current. It is said that 40,000 men are to be sent to Lyons to reinforce the 60,000 already there, and that Marshal Canrobert is to command 80,000 men stationed on the eastern frontier.

CARMARTHENSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. No. 6 COMPANY. DRILL FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. Mon. Tues. Wed. ?ThurB Fri. ? Sat. Mon. TUfl. wed'I!I p.m. j p.m. p.m.¡ p.m. p.m. p.m. Company drill.. 7.0 j — — 7.0 Position drill 7 0 7.0  Bayonet exercise — — j 7 0 —? T h o r e et xi ec-'rac1 ise? 70 Principles.. ? I I I Aiming drill. — I 8.0 I Orderly officer for the w?k Lientenant Wilson. dcrIySer,eantforth??? ??'Ser/ jeant 0 p;mUniform' Instructor, Saijeant  Kyle. Att?danc. at the Orderly Room from 6.30 p.m. to i.O p.m. rniform  -??'?  gaiters, and knee-caps, to be worn on  and Fridays. The Band will parade in uniform on Monday, at 7.m., and on Wed- -¡¡<IV. at a Quarter to 8 p.m. = Captain THIRLWALL.

c c LUNACY IN PARIS. Another lunatic on Thursday in the person of a young man, wanted to pay a visit to the Emperor, He presented himself at the guardhouse in the Louvre, occupied by a detachment of dragoons, and thinking it was the entrance to the palace, said to the soldiers, I am the son of Charles X. I have just ariived from the West Indies, where I was commander-in-chief. I for some time (lisi'harfTTiJ my duties villi diligence, but I at last got ii,ed, Pt-,] ii-,tv, come back to my own country. I with to make an arrangement with tie Emperor, iv t him give me rank of Piince, and an income brg?- enough to support my raiik, and then I will ceflrtefct to abandon temporarily my rigLts to the t .r-jt'c of France, and will live quietly in l\iris The poor man was given into cus- tody and sent to the Prefecture. REYNARD IN A Fix.-A few days ago a large fox was caught by the gamekeeper of Moy, on the Sand Hills Of Culbin. One of his fore legs was firmly hcH in the teeth of a strong iron spring trap. Bouncing From one side to the other as f,r is fie chain aflis.»d to the tether would allow, hel oosened the stake wbich wa^ driven 20 inches into the ground, and then made off, trap, stake, and all He was traced for a mile and a half over the hills inland, hut ott reaching cover all mark^j of the dragging were lost, and further pursuit for the time given up. Next day the game- keeper, ccompanird by his dogs, carefully followed up the supposed trail to a hole ia an adjoining plantation, where reynard had tflkeiJ refu. He wns unearih'd and con- signed to his fate. The trap still held his ten fast, for he had draggEd tnp and chain and stake with him to his retreat. He measured four fret three inches from snout to tip of tail.—Forres Gazette. ATTEMPT TO SUFFOCATE A FAMILY.—At the meeting of the Kesteven magistrates, held at Lincoln on Friday, a woman, named Fanny Moore, was charged with having on the previous Saturday evening, at half-past 12 o'clock at night, wilfully attempted to murder by suffocation a man named Holmes, his wife, and four children, who reside in an adjoining house under the same roof, at Bassingham, near Newark. She had endeavoured to send up brimstone fumes j into his room from one below, which she occupied hfctself. The woman, in reply to the magistrates, denied having com- mitted the offence, and laid all the bhtnc upon her husband, who was also prrsent. As there Was not sufficient evidence to place them on their trial for at'empted murder, it was only left for the magistrates to biud the husband over in his own recognisancp. of Y,10 for the good behaviour of his wife for six months, and to pay all the expenses incurred. AWFUL SUICIDE.—On Friday afternoon, a very respcct- ably-dressed elderly gentleman committed self-destruction at the Bull's Head Inn, Chester, by shooting himself through the mouth. It appears the unfortunate deceased arrived in that city by the two o'clock train from Birk e11. head, and called at the above-named inn for some refresh- ments. Before he had partaken of these he went into the yard, and after the report of firearms had been heard, the alarm was given, and he was discovered in a leaning posi- tion, with blood oozing from his ears and bis chin. A medical man was immediately in attendance, but life was then extinct, In the pocket of the deceased was found a letter addressed Mr. J. Darnell, Mrs. Amos, Prospect- vale, Fairfield, Liverpool, or Tax-office, Custom House, Liverpool." He had a silk umbrella, inlaid with silver; the handle bore an inscription, which corresponded with the above address, and by these doubtless his friends will be able to identify him. THE LATE EXTRAORDINARY ISCIUIDE AT BRII:TOL.-At the Oxford Ass.ze>, on I;rid iy, an action was brought by a Mrs. Hinchcliffe, against a Mr. Henry Halford, a coal pro- prietor at Westbromwic.il, for slander. The plaintiff was the widow of the late Mr. Hinchcliffe, one of the coroners for the county of Stafford, who, it will bo recollected, became insane iminediateiv on his marriage with the plaintiff, and destroyed himself by throwing himself out of the window at Clifton, where he had gone with his bride to s pend the honeymoon. The present action was brought to recover damages for slanderous words spoken by the defendant at the White Horse Hotel at Westbromwieb, imputing to plaintiff that she had been the cause of her husband's death by the discovery which he made upon his marriage that his newly-married wife had been guilty of unchaste and im- moral conduct previous to Ilfr maniage, with her own brother-in-law. Mr. Serjeant Pigott, who appeared for the defendant, said he was -nxious to withdraw eery imputa- tion alleged to have been cast by him upon the plaintiff's character. The words complained of, if uttered at all, which the defendant did not recollect, were spoken at the White Horse when he was excited bv wine. Mr. Huddlestmi said the only object of the plaintiff's coming into court was to vindicate her character, and, as that object had been attained, he was ready, on the part of the plaintiff, to ex- press himself satisfied. A verdict was then taken fur the plaintiff, with 40s. damages, to carry costs. FATAL BITE OF A DOG.-An inquest was held at Hamp. tltead on Thursday evening on the body of William Brodie aged eight years. The mother of the deceased stated that be died on Wednesday morning, at a-quarter before 4 o'clock. On the Sunday nUrht he complained of great pain in his stomach, and on the Monday morning he was seised with convulsive fits. He never rallied, and died on the Wednesday morning. While in the fits she discovered some marks on the child's right thumb, and his younger brother then said it was where Billy was bitten by th dog on Friday. Air. TurnbuH, of I)rummond strsar the medical gentleman called in said he found the- ohild 1n convul,ive fits, from whi,,h, although he usou ev, ry endeavour, he was unable to recover him. looked at his hand, and saw distinctly the marks 0f a dog's teeth on his right thumb. There were certainly symptoms of hydrophobia in this case. A dog, the property of a man name I Henning, living in Little Extaoutil-strect, was produced, and its merits as a quiet, harmless creature were expatiated upon by its owner. On beins; presented before the jury the animal was at once identified by the child as the do that had bitten his brother. The animal was placed upon the table, and immediately proved itself a snapping little cur, inst the re- verse of what it had been represented to be by its owner. The jury expressed a very strong opinion that the dog be. longing to the man Henning was a most vicious animal, although they had no distinct evidence that it "as the iden- tical dog which bit the child. They ultimately returned a verdict That the deceased died from the effects of a bite from a dog, with a recommendation to Henning that the animal he produced should be destroyed." ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE The following pre- ferments and appointments have recently been made Rectories Rev. J. Bolton, B.A., to the rectory of Swyre, Doiset; Rev. J. G. Palmer, to the rectorj of Linwood, Lincolnshire i Rev. N. Pinder, to the rectory of Rother- field Grays, Oxfordshire. Vicarage. Rev. It. Evans to the vicarage of Llandebie, Carmarthenshire. Curacit's, &c Rev. W. La Barte, to the curacy of Lexden, Essex; Rev. I G. C.P. Beauchamp, to the curacy of Haselbury-Bryan Dorset; Hev. W. S. Pratten, to the perpetual curacy of Hale, Cumberland Rev. F. G. White, to the curacy of Winwick, Northamptonshire; Rev. O. Wilkinson, to the curacy of Great Stukeley and King's liipton, Hunts. THE RECORDERSHIV OF LEEDS.—Mr. Thomas Flower Ellis, the Recorder of Leeds, died oi Friday at his residence in London. The deceased was 66 years of age; he was called to the bar in February, 1824, and was appoirted Recorder of Leeds in 1839. At the time of his death he also held the office of Attorney-General of the Duchy of Lancaster. The late Mr. Ellis was a lawyer <>f considerable legal attainments, and is well known to the profession in connexion with the law reports of Adolphus and Ellin and Ellis and Blackburn He was one of the executors under the will of the late Lord Macaulay, and recently brought out a volume of essays, reviews, poems, and other literary fragments by that great historian. CRUELTY AVE-(;ED.- A very painful case has been sub- mitted to the Court of Asize of La Manche. A physician j named Chesnel, of Mortain, married, nine years ago, Mademoiselle Nuel, daughter of an advocate of that town, but they were not able to agree, and frequent quarrel s took place between them. Some time since the doctor's character became completely soured by the death of bis only child, and he not only quarrelled more than ever with his wife, but ill-treated her on several occasions. She complained to her parents and to her brother, a young ffian, and they naturally felt irritation against the husband. On the 31st of December Dr. Chesnel was in a very I)ad humour, and after dinrer he drunk a quantity of liquor ¡¡nd became partly intoxicated. He then took a whip and went up to his wife, who on concluding her dinner h d retired to her chamber. He ordered his servant to follow him, but she declined to obov. On listening, however, this woman heard the man abuse his wife in gross terms, and afterwards cry to her in a loud voice, II Go home with you!" The poor woman rushed downstairs, and her husband followed her with his whip. She ran across the garden to her father's, "hich was near, and, on entering the home, criel, Albert, come to me!" Her brolht r, who was engaged in writing in his own room, went downstairs, aud seeing his sister bathed in tears, took up two knives which happened to be on the table, and proceeded straight to Cbesiif-l's house, The servant, seeing him enter with the knives, CIÎed, Ah, Monsieur Albert, take care what "you are doing!" but he stalked right up to Chesnel. The latter, without saying a word, struck him in the face with his whip, and 011 that the young man stabbed him repeatedly with one of the knives. The physician fell to the floor and expired. In defence of the accused it was submitted that the act was excusable as he had received gross provocation. The jury acquitted him. PARLIAMENT AND ITS WORK Parliament resumes business with no less than 90 Bills in various stages of progress, 80 of them in the Commons. There are also, besides the committees on private Bills, 12 select committees in the Commons and two in the Lords on important public subjects and there is the Budget close at band. One Bill, promised in the Queen's Speech, is conspicuous by its absence-a Bill for rendering more easy the transfer of land. The Bills are almost, exactly divided in equal shares between the Government and private members. Some of the Government Bills are not likely to occupy much time, and fotne of the Bills of private members are probably destined to extinction before they have given much trouble, but still there is no want of work. Bills have had to bo i fixed for days in May and even in June. A few Bills which were introduced by private members have already disap- peared—Mr. Hadfnld's Qualification for Offices Bill, Sir J. Trelawny's County Rates Bill, Mr. L. King's County Fran- chise Bill, the DisLop of Oxford's Bill-, Mr. Milnes's Super- annuation Bill, and Mr. Hardcastle's Charities Bill. Since the House of Commons met in February it has lost seven of its iiiembers,-ti)rcc have been called to the House of Peers, two have retired, one has been promoted to the Irish judicial bench, and one hits died, making new elections necessary for South Wilts, Sutherlaudshire, Cork County, Aberdeen, Pembroke, Bolton, and Bradford. THE BISHOPRIC OF MADRAS. —The see of Madras, which has become vacant by the death of the Right liev. Dr. Ibonuis Dealtry, ircludes the whole of the Prefidency, and and is worth £ 2,500 a-year. The appointment of a suc- cessor will devolve upon Sir Charles Wood, the Secretary of State for India, He graduated LLJ). (tt St. Catherine's College, Cambridge, in 1828, when he took a first class in civil law. In 1846, Dr. llowiey, then Archbishop of Can- terbury, conftr.ed upon him the degrte of Dot tor of Divinity. He was for some years minister of St. John's Chapel, Bedford-row, when the Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel seceded from the Church of England, and previously Arch- deacon of Calcutta, under Bishop Wilson. He was ap- pointed to the Bishopric of Madras in 1849, on the retire- ment of Bishop Spencer, now Chancellor of St. Paul's. The cese coicisisii; of 141,923 square miles, the population 13,000,000, and the number of clergy about 140. FATAL ACCIDENT FROM CRINOLINE. — On Friday last, Elspet Bruce, aged 14, daughter of William Brute, tailcir, employed at Port Elphilistohe Paper Mill, when at work at a windlass tised for taking up rags, and driven by steam, was caught by the clothes and whirled round the shaft. Before the machinery could be stopped the poor girl had ceased to live. The accident is attributed to her terirtolinVa, ?e?ce?t/bM?'? -zlbc)-dee?? Jour?l,,f,?iUltDElt AT DUNDRY, ?E\R Bms- TOL.—the excitement consequent on the terrible murder of old Mrs. Waterman, for which her murderers, Arthur Wedmore and Charles Wedoiore, were executed at Taunton as recently as Friday hst, has not had time to ^,u?oido eJv the committal of another fcry barharctuf h.tjsni'iide Has been discovered in the Cam? tigighbijiiilidod. The circumstances connected witli thë discovery are as follows -At a distance of si hundred yards or so from the cottage in which the former terrible tragedy was enacted is an Inn called the Three Compasses, kept by a person named Stallard. At- tached to this house is a field, which, strangely enough, formed part of a farm the occupier of Which, ah elderly man named Haell; waÓ murdered, under circumstances ) til.,e never been thoroughly elucidated, some years ago. In this field is a pond, to which, on Saturday after- neon, a daughter of Mr. Stallard went for the purpose of dipping out some water. On approaching it she observed something floating, which she, for the moment, thought was a sheep's head, and supposing that there had been some sheep stealing going on, she called her brother. He procured a stick and got it out, and they then discovered, to their hor- ror, that it was the mutilated body of a child. Shortly after- wards, concealed in a hole at one side of the pond, they discovered some clothes, which had apparently belonged to the same child. Mr. Shorland, the surgeon, was at once applied to, and discovered, on examining the body, that the skull of the deceased had been fractured, apparently by being beaten in on the top with a three cornered stdne, and also that a wound six inches long had been inflicted on the bark of the nesii. Suspicion falls on a woman of loose character, who is well known to the police as coha- biting with and having had children by a man who lives at Bedmlllstrr Down, near Bristol. A short time ago she was at Dundry, and had with her a child of about four months old, similar to that found. She called at the Compasses Tavern, and Mrs. Stallard noticed that the little creature appeared as if neglected and mentioned her opinion to the mother. Some days afterwards the woman was there again, but without the child, which she Slid she had buried at Bristol. The clothe s found were submitted to Mrs. Stallard's inspection, and she expresses the strongest belief th-it they arc the same which the child had on on the evening when the woman brought it with her to the house.