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following adduiop. to tht Pontypool Stakes reached us too late tor insertion in its proper place :— Mr. Gough's bl. g. Pilot, h. b., aged. Gaptarn Fendall's eh. m. by Strephon's dam, by York, h. b. Mr. William Tucker's Lucretia, 4 years. Ur. Bagnall's Lauretta, 4 years. Wr. John Haddy's, by Woodman, aged, h. b. y, () Mr. T. B. Thomas's b. m. The Bowdy, 5 years- _aiP. Q." next week.

HEBDOMADARY. 1B19 s,,n Moon'» Moon Moon Ri»e». Stu. Age. Rite*. StU. « JUNE. II. M. II. M. H. M. H. M. Sunday—SS««d*v^*l'tcrTrii)it.v 3 4S f. IS I s-0 10 U 7 14 I —- 3 '8 9 '6 19'9 10 56 « 37 1 3 49 8 19 w'9 8 9 49 t Th.M 3 50 8 I? 2I'd II 30 II 13 s Kiluu 3 40 8 17 La»t qr II 34 0a«7 < I,?! — 3 *1 8 16 23'0 ll SO J M «TWM||\— oia Midniiniimr D.iy ) si 8 16 «•» morn. 3 «« ^unDap JLessons. I»t l.en.on, Sam. sd l.rsnon, Luke xil. HiigServlcf i«r l,nn, t Sam. xvii.—2d Lesion Epbes. Ti.

TIMES OF HIGH WATER AT NEWPORT. HIGH WATER. I D A I'S. MORN. EVEN. I (I N f H. M. H. M £ 9, Saturday 8 20 8 34 P39, Sunday 8 54 9 6 Mur.v. | 1, Monday .9 24 9 44 | 2, Tuesday 10 5 10 28 3. Wednesday 10 54 11 20j 4, Thursday 11 35 11 55 — < 5, Friday 0 17 0 53

I-IIF KVJHE MEMLIIftlH Netuport, SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1839. The BANK OF ENGLAND has done that which few jyoderate men will justify, and which, we fear, will be productive of the worst resultao the trading and other important interests of the Empire. The Raising of the rate of its interest on first-rate paper, tq five and half per cent, came totally unexpected jtyon the public, and has been met with exclama- .l°ns, which the clique of illiberal gentlemen, sitting 11} conclave in Threadneedle Street, would do well to listen to. But their great desire for profit, of course, blinds them to all considerations of the ge- neral good of the commonwealth, and hence, the tnonetary system of the country must be convulsed, "tat the few may be benefitted at the expense of the *ny. But the people of England have to blame themselves for the present crisis. Had the country hermetically spoken out in 1833, Lord Althorp p°llld not have had the power to renew the 'larter, and a great monopoly would not now ex- lst. as hateful to the law, as it is prejudicial to the tate. The Bank now possesses abilities that ^ould belong to no corporative, and far less to a honied body. In 1833, this Journal took a deter- mined stand against the renewal of the Charter, and it then predicted is, we fear, in course of being ^alised. We then said, as we now reiterate, that Power, so extensive as that committed to the direc- lors of the Bank, who are sworn to exercise that power for the support, i.e., the profit of themselves !nd their co-partners, should not be much abused, Is more than can be expected from the frailty of human nature. That sometimes from alarm, some- I times from caprice, or in support of a theory, and, v'orst of all, sometimes, perhaps, from political party spirit, the directors of the Bank have so conducted the trade of the corporation, as to produce, by the forking of its exclusive privileges, ruinous and filtal effects on the mercantile community, and on the trade and commerce of the whole kingdom, ntu.st be manifest to every one, who has attentively c°nsidered the extension and contraction of the is- ^es of the paper-money of the Bank, particularly *%ing that quarter of a century, while it was under stoppage of payment, and at the commencement 11 aild close of that period. At the time of the stoppage of payment in February, 1797, the notes of the Bank, payable in coin on demand, at the pleasure of the holder, amounted to little than 8k millions, and never before that time, Counted to twelve millions, except in the single ^ar 1795, when they exceeded, by a trifle, the sum ot fourteen millions. But after the stoppage of Payment in February, 1797, when the Bank was excused by law from the payment of all its notes, WI-I,l the end of the war, or for an indefinite period, and its notes were converted into a state-paper, with power to the corporation of issuing that paper, libitum, during the war, for its own profit,-the lSS\\e was forced, with a depreciation of the paper, Counting to nearly 40 per cent., to the extent of mOre than 29 5 millions. On the resumption of paYment of the notes on demand, at the pleasure of > the holder, in the year 1822, the issue was reduced 10 millions, and the year ending in August, 1832, it did not amount to 19 millions. The enormous exclusive privileges conferred by 1 law on the corporation having expired by efflux of tittle 5 it was hoped and expected by the public, that J*e principles of the banking system, and the proper- s and powers of the currency of Great Britain, "ould have been thoroughly sifted, both in and out C) OF Parliament, before any renewal of the charter of the Bank should be granted by the legislature. But that reasonable hope and expectation were disap- pointed by Lord Althorp's bill for renewing that charter. By that bill, great and increased power and means of mischief were given to the directors of the Bank, in spite of the warnings of sad and dear- bought experience, and contrary to every principle of sourfd policy and fair play. In a well-governed Itate, to commit the whole power over a state paper to any body of men, how disinterested soever in its issue would surely be very unwise and impolitic. liut to commit such power to a joint-stock company °f traders, interested in working it only for their °*>n profit, would seem to be little short of legisla- te insanity. It may be doubted whether his then Majesty's Ministers would have succeeded in car- tying the bill through the committee of the House of Commons, if, on the divisions on the important Causes of it, all the votes of directors and partners Or parties interested in the profits of the Bank had been subtracted from the majorities. Men are some- times actuated by motives, of which they themselves are not aware and it is no want of charity to doubt, when the public good is sought to be advanced, only together with the private advantage of its promoters, whether the ostensible be indeed the real motive. Jt appears by the State of Affairs of the Bank laid "efore the committee of the House of Commons, that the whole assets of the corporation, on 29th February, 1832, amouted to £ 44,179,630 and their notes out and the debts due toX26,988,870 Surplus £ 17,190,760 and that the capital of the Bank then amounted to £ 14,553,000. If the public, refusing to renew the charter, had paid back the deposited capital, and the corporation had been dissolved-and supposing all the other assets to have been realised without any loss,-the £ 17,190,760, divided among the proprietors of the £14,553,000, would have given each proprietor, for every £100, of his or her Bank Stock, £118. in :money, and no more. And yet, every £100. of that stock was saleable in the market, during the treaty for the renewal of the charter, at more than 200 per cent. on the average, upon the credit, of C, bourse, of the talent of the directors of the corpora- tion, for outwitting and over-reaching the govern- ment in the treaty on foot for a new bargain. The value of that speculation appears to have been esti- mated on the Stock Exchange at the difference be- tween 118 and 200, or 82 per cent. When exclusive privileges are demanded from the legislature by the members of any joint stock com- l-ctny-however speciously the demand for such may be urged,—they are almost universally, in truth, mere pretexts for securing to themselves some exor- orbitant power profit. The History of the Bank of England clearly es- tablishes the truth of this proposition for there is, perhaps, no subject on which so much delusion has Pervaded the public mind, as on the subject of its fancied importance. As good as the Bank," has long been a proverbial expression and yet the Bank stopped payment in the year 1797, and did not resume its payments for twenty-five years viz., until the year 1822. In that interval the Bank, among other manoeuvres for the undue increase of its profits, resorted to the issue of notes for five shillings and sixpence, stamped, indeed, upon pieces Z, of silver of the value of about four shillings and four pence, but which, as far as the public was concerned, knight as well have been stamped upon copper, or upon the still cheaper commodity, paper. The cor- poration of the Bank, during that long period, had recourse to various other gainful expedients, which the nation, in the intense and breathless anxiety of the last war, heedlessly and igiiorantly disregarded. The minister of the day would even sometimes de- clare in his place in parliament, that the Bank had been the prop and support of the nation. Now, what was that prop ? a corporation of some 2500 or 3000 individuals, who, in the year 1797, were col- lectively worth the sum of £ 11,086,800., and no more; for, had each individual proprietor been worth that sum, the corporation collectively was worth no more, inasmuch as no proprietor was lia- ble for the dealings of the Bank beyond each share of the joint stock. When the Bank stopped pay- ment in 1797, its promissory notes out amounted to £ 8,640,250., and no more, and the cash and bullion in its coffers to the sum of about one million and a quarter. The order in council, prohibiting the Bank from making further payments in coin, was made public on the 27th of February, 1797, and the reason assigned in the order for that measure was, the apprehension of a want of a sufficient supply of cash to answer the exigencies of the public service." But during the 25 years which elapsed between the years 1797 and 1822, while the stoppage of pay- ment by the bank continued, this nation expended, upon the average, more than seventy millions a-year and in some of the years of the late war, more than one hundred millions in a single year amounting, in the whole, to more than seventeen hundred mil- lions and all without the aid of that one million and a quarter of cash, which, during all that time, remained locked up in the coffers of the Bank, and which, had it been resorted to, would not have de- frayed the public expenditure of a single week The whole capital of the Bank would not indeed have defrayed that expenditure for more than "ive or six weeks,-and yet it was asserted, and by ministers of finance-" risum teneatis"- that without the aid of the corporation, the state (of which it was the creature) could not have been supported The reason assigned by the order in council, then, was either a mere pretext for stopping the payments of the Bank, or was founded upon the greatest ignorance of the principles of the banking system," and of the properties and powers of the circulating medium. The profits which the Bank accumulated, in consequence of stopping payment, are almost incredible for the public continue to deal with the corporation, after it had stopped payment, just as if its promissory notes, payable at the end of the war, had been equivalent in value to the quan- tity of gold nominally, but falsely, thereby made payable to bearer on demand: and to deal with it, moreover, in a manner so reckless and so improvi- dent, as to rival in extravagance and waste the transactions between the spendthrift and usurer. If proof of the truth of so unqualified an assertion be demanded, the following is selected from a mass of other evidence which might be offered. To con- trol the practice, which had obtained in some of the public offices, of applying, and sometimes fraudu- lently, the public money to the use or profit of the accountants, an act of parliament was passed, that they should all pay their balances into the Bank. In consequence of that statute, the Bank had, on an average of ten years ending in 1816, balances of public money always in its hands exceeding, in the aggregate, upon the average, the sum of eleven mil- lions but as the statute, which was made for con- trol of the public accountants, by withdrawing from them the balances of public money, and ordering them to be paid into the Bank, omitted to provide that the Treasury might avail itself of the aggregate of those balances for the public service—that statute had only the effect of transferring the profits, there- tofore made by them, to the corporation of the Bank because, when one department was out of cash, and another department had a full account at the Bank, official forms, not guarded against or removed by the statute, prohibited the one department from re- lieving the wants of the other. In the year 1808 it was indeed proposed to the Bank by the then mi- nister of the day, in consideration of the advantages derived to the Bank from the deposit of those ba- lances, that the corporation should advance to the pnblic three millions of its promissory notes, not payable until the end of the war, without interest, during the war, to be repaid by the public to the Bank twelve months after the ratification of a de- finitive treaty of peace." The answer given by the directors of the Bank to that proposal is so illustra- tive of the truth of the assertion which has just been made respecting the character of the dealings be- tween the public and that corporation, that it is here ?iven verbatim. It was in the following words :— Resolved, that the Court of Directors do accede to the proposal of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to lend for the use of government £ 3,000,000. on Ex- chequer Bills, withoufinterest, during the war pro- vided it is stipulated to be returned within six months after the ratification of a treaty of peace, and under the complete understanding that all transac- tions between the public and the Bank shall be con- tinued in the accustomed manner, though the amount of the public balances should exceed ten millions That is to say-The Bank would consent to lend to the public three millions of its promissory notes, without interest,-provided the public would engage to leave always in the hands of the Bank ten mil- lions of such notes without interest The corpo- ration afterwards, under the authority of 48 Geo. III. cap. 3, which was passed on the 27th of Feb- ruary, 1808, did, in pursuance of this proposal and resolution, advance and lend to the public three mil- lions of its promissory notes, not payable until the end of the war, without interest during the war. But the directors of the Bank, in order to make that advance or loan, without diminishing the number of the promissory notes of the Bank which were then out for the profit of the corporation, just added that number of notes, with about three and a half millions in addition, for its own further profit, to the amount then out-for. The promissory notes of the Bank t f.24,793,990 out on 31st August, 1810, were.. J And on 29th February, 1808 18,188,860 Increase in two years and a half.. £ 6,605,130 The eleven millions of notes belonging to the public, and deposited in the Bank for safe custody, were by this arrangement nominally reduced in amount to eight millions. But during all those ten years, while the public had always more than eleven millions (reduced nominally to eight millions) lying idle in the Bank, there was a continual advance (also, in- deed, nominal,) made by the Bank to the public, on the credit of the land and malt taxes and other re- venues, amounting, on the average, to a very large aggregate sum continually, for which the public paid n interest to the Bank.

THE FUNDS.—LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING. Consols continue buoyant, and have rather improved since the morning, may be quoted at present 93!- f for the opening Reduced, 92! Exchequer Bills, 28 Bank Stock, 190 189J. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active in the morning reached 19J, at present] 91; Portuguese, 34J J; Three per Cents., 201 Colombian, 32! Mexican, 26; Brazilian, 77J 2 Dutch Tvro-and-a-Half per Cents., 55i Five per Cents., 102J 103.

We are authorised to state that Mr. Blewitt paired off, from June 21st until the 6th July, with Sir H. Smythe. Mr. Joseph Bailey, jun., has, we are authorised to [lay, paired for the remainder of the Session with Capt. Ellice. SHIP LAUNCH.—On Thursday morning, a splen- did barque was launched from the building yard of Mr. Wm. Perkins, of this town. She registers 300 tons, and will carry a very large cargo. She is named the Helen, is intended for the West India trade, and was built for Mr. W. Cooke, of Bristol. She went off the stocks in admirable style, amidst the cheers of a large assembly, and was shortly after taken in tow by a steamer, and proceeded at once to Bristol with the owner, and large party of friends whom he had invited to breakfast on board with him. POWDER MAGAZINE.—We understand that two parties have lodged the requisite notices with the Clerk of the Peace for this county, of their intention to apply to the magis- trates, at the ensuing Quarter Sessions, for license to erect a magazine, for storing unlimited quantities of powder in this port. We beg to call attention to the advertisement, which appears in another column, announcing the opening of a fresh-fish shop in this town. This has long been a detidtyotum in Newport; and it is much to be wondered at, considering the population of the town, and the number of gentry in the neigh- bourhood, who are obliged to obtain their daily supplies of fish from London or Bristol, that a concern of this sort has not long since been set on foot. We wish the enterprising proprietor success in his undertaking. An account of Coal and Iron brought down the Monmouthshire Canal and Tram.Road, in the week ending June 15th, 1839COAL. IRON. Canal 1447 tons. 2037 tons. Tram-Road 10559 tons. 1200 tons. Total. 12006 3237 COUNCIL HOUSE.- The Town-clerk of this bo- rough has received a communication from the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in reply to an application made to his Lordship from the Town Council, in which his Lordship states that he had given directions for preparing a bill to em- power Town Councils to raise money, by mortgage of borough rates, for the purpose of building Council-houses,. CORONER'S INQUEST.—On Wednesday last, a coroner's inquest was held on the body of a man named Thomas Davis, who was Occasionally employed about the canal and wharfs, and who was latterly in very indigent circumstances. He was about thirty years of age. The body was found float- ing on the canal on Tuesday, but no evidence was obtained as to how it cams there. There were two pence in his pocket. Verdict found drowned." CRICKET.-The match between Captain Stretton and Mr. Rolls, of eleven on each side, to be chosen by these gentlemen from among the members of the Ragland Club, and which was to have come off on Thursday last, was postponed in consequence of the absence of some of the principal players. A considerable number of gentlemen attended, and a match was then got up between Ragland and Newport. On the first innings, both sides were equal, but the incessant rain pre- vented them from finishing the game. The match, is however, appointed to come off at Newport, on Tuesday, July 9th next. We are requested to state that the W. Jones, shopkeeper, Newport, whose name appears amongst the list of bankrupts, in Tuesday's London Gazette, is not Mr. William Jones, general shopkeeper and biscuit baker, of Llanarth-street, Newport, Monmouthshire. On Monday last, Vincent was removed to Lon- don by habeas corpus, to appeal to the Court of Queen's Bench on the subject of his bail. V VINCENT ADMITTED TO BAIL.—On Tuesday last, Vincent was brought up before Mr. Justice Patteson, at Cham. bers, on which occasion Mr. Whateley appeared as counsel for the prosecution, and Mr. Roebuck for the prisoner. Mr. Roebuck having stated for whom he appeared, Mr. Justice Patteson said that the Lord Chief Justice thought the case had better be heard by him (the Chief Justice), assisted by another Judge. Mr. Roebuck said it was not intended to contest the commitments, which he believed to be good on the face of them, but to ask his lordship to take bail. Mr. Justice Patteson said that might have been done in the country to which Mr. Roe- buck assented, and added that they wished for his lordship's judgment. The learned gent. then proceeded to state, that the examining magistrates had been frightened, and in their terror had acted most outrageously in requiring enormous bail; that public meetings were the ordinary course by which peo. ple of all classes now sought to attain all objects that meetings of a most innocent kind might in their consequences become illegal but that it would not be fair to visit upon all parties who might attend those meetings, all the possible consequences which every meeting might occasion. The depositions in the case were read by his lordship after which Mr. Whateley read an affidavit on behalf of the prosecution. Mr. Roebuck, again addressing his lordship said, that the bail required was most enormous for a journeyman printer, whose friends must be in the same situation of life with himself, and were not likely to be worth so much as £ 250. Mr. Whateley said that the ma. gistrates did not insist that two sureties only should be accepted but that the £500. bail might be made up by four or five per. sons. Mr. Justice Patteson said he did not think it umeasona- ble that four persons should be bound in £125. each, and saw no reason to reduce the bail required by the magistrates, unless it could be clearly shown him by affidavit that such an amount of bail could not be obtained by them. —Mr. Roebuck then applied to his lordship, to take bail for the appearance of the defendant, without imposing the condi. tion-, I to be of good behaviour for twelve months." His lord- ship said, that he would require the defendant and his bail to be bound for his good behaviour until the assizes, but did not V it necessary to extend the sureties beyond the assizes, as the judge before whom the case might come, would have the power to direct what might, in his judgment, be necessary to be done.—Mr. Whately said the prosecutors would be quite satis- fied with the bail for good behaviour being continued to the assizes, and would not press for anything further. Whereupon, the matter terminated, and Vincent having been bound in the sum of £ 500., one of his bail in the sum of £ 250., another in sum of £ 150., and another in the sum of £100" a supersedeas was given to the gaoler, and Vincent was set at large. Monmouth Races will take place in the last week in September, or first week in October. Oil Wednesday week, an exhilirating reception was given to J. E. W. Rolls, Esq. and his lady, on their return to their beautiful mansion, at the Hendree, near Monmouth, which has recently undergone considerable enlargement and splendid improvements. The workmen who have been en- gaged on the premises, hearing that Mr. Rolls and his family intended to resume their abode at the Hendree on the above- named day, determined to do honour to the occasion, and they commenced their commendable exertions by throwing arches of evergreens, interspersed with flowers, &c., across the path of the park leading to the house. In the centre of one of these was tastefully introduced the family arms. As soon as their worthy patron and his lady were in sight, their approach was an- nounced by the firing of cannon, and ere the astonished objects of such grateful indications had time to allow their feelings of surprise to subside, the horses were removed from their carriage, and their place was substituted by some dozen hearty fellows, who dragged it, at double quick rate, to the house, amidst the congratulatory cheers and resounding huzzas of the spectators. Mr. Rolls subsequently caused a liberal supply of wine, cider, and cwrw, &c., to be provided for the enthusiastic throng, and the evening was closed with a display of fire works and the dis- charge of cannon. The bells of Llangattock Church rang a merry peal. All the workmen are to be entertained with a subitantial dinner by Mr. Rolls, on an early day. On Monday last, the Brethren of the Loyal Mon- mouth Lodge of Free Masons dined together at the Bell Inn, the worshipful master presiding. The dinner was provided by Air. Wilks in his very best style, and gave unlimited satisfac- tion. The wines were excellent, and the usual toasts were drunk with masonic honours. Previous to the dinner, three new members were admitted. On Tuesday evening last, a young man, named George Williams, of Landogo, met with a watery grave in the W ye, near Trothy mouth, at Monmouth. The deceased had just left Monmouth in a barge of his brother's with which he was proceeding to Llandogo, laden with hoops. The current was running very rapidly, the river having been swollen with 'he rains, and the crew had considerable difficulty in keeping 'he barge in her right position. Williams was in the act of directing the men, when his foot tripped in one of the hoops, 'Ind he fell over the side of the vessel, where for a moment or two he hung with his hands ;—losing his grasp, he fell in the river, but immediately commenced swimming, which he con- tinued doing for a distance of forty yards. Some lads who were fishing from the bank, held out a clenching net towards him, but when nearly within reach of it, he suddenly sank and rose no more. We fear, from the accounts we have heard, that the unf.utunate man was not perfectly sober at the time of the ac. cidt,iit. He was about 25 years of age, and unmarried. His body was picked up on the following morning, very near the spur where he sank. We have much pleasure in giving the annexed stai^inent of the receipts and expenditure towards the losses in- cuned, by the late severe fire in our county town. The chari- table exertions made by the inhabitants, reflect the highest cre- dit upon their humanity and sympathy, and show that although men can be divided in their opinions and judgments upon mat- lers of lesser moment, they are united, and as one man, when circumstances arise to call for the exercise of the best feelings of the human heart.—In the distribution of the funds entrusted to their care, the committee adopted the following resolutions That compensation for all tools lost or destroyed in the late fire, be paid to the full amount of the loss sustained, in the case both of masters and workmen." That the remainder of the funds be paid to Messrs. James and Mr. Jackson, at a percen- tage upon the gross estimated loss, so far as the funds will ex- tend."—i he subscriptions received amounted to the sum of £240. 13s. 4d. Messrs. James's losses were estimated—for tools, £ 60., and for materials and work destroyed, £ 457.: total, f517. Mr. Jackson's losses were estimated—for tools, £11., and for materials and work destroyed, £ 60.9s.: total, £71. 9s. The worth of tools lost and destroyed belonging to nine work- men, £ 34. 3s.—The committee finding that, after having com- pensated for the tools in full, they should have a sum remaining sufficient to pay more than 25 per cent. upon the rest of the es- timate, proceeded to distribute their funds as follows t I\T s* & 8* lo Messrs. James, for tools. 60 0 0 Dividend on £ 457. loss 118 3 0-178 3 0 Io Mr. Jackson, for tools 11 0 0 Dividend on £ 60. 9s. loss 15 13 10- 26 13 10 To nine workmen, for tools. 34 3 0 Incidental expenses 1 13 6 24013 4 I The subscriptions included £10. 10s. from the Duke of Beau- fort £5, from R. Blakemore, Esq., M.P. JE5. from Major Marriott; £ 5. from R. J. Blewitt, Esq., M.P.; £5. from Phi- lip Jones, Esq., non-residents and many sums of the same amount from inhabitants of the town. It should be mentioned that credit is taken in the subscription list, and in the compen- sation to the workmen, for f3. 15s. paid'bv a club at St. Weo- nard's, to Evans, one of their members, for the loss of his tools. Monmouth, June 27, 1839. GEO. ROBERTS, Treasurer. On Monday night last, during the exhibition of Broomsgrove s collection of wild beasts, at Monmouth, a child incautiously approached too near the leopard's cage, when the savage beast putting one paw under the iron bars, clawed the child on a portion of its neck and on its shoulder. The cries of the little sufferer, and of the bye-standers, brought the keeper to its immediate assistance, and it was fortunately rescued, though not without severe laceration of the part On Tuesday kst, a child, of humble parents, named Harris, residing at Over Monnow, Monmouthfwas up- set from a child s vehicle, in which she was being pulled, by a loaded cart, which came into collision with it. The little crea- ture, who is about 2* years of age, became jammed between the cart and the vehicle it was thrown from the wheel of the for- mer, crushing the lower part of its bowels. Medical assistance was promptly procured, and, contrary to all expectation, the child is likely to recover. r On Thursday last, the troop of Lancers, which have for some time past, been stationed at Monmouth, left that town for Abergavenny. We deem it but justice to state that the conduct of the men has, with few exceptions reflected credit upon the corps generally. The Sixteenth Anniversary of the Monmouth Auxiliary Bible Society will be held, as will be seen in our advertising columns, in the Borough Court, at that town, on Tuesday evening next when the Rev. Mr. Phillips will attend as a deputation from the Parent Society. Many clergymen of the town and neighbourhood, both of the establishment, and of the Dissenting body, will attend and address the meeting. Wednesday evening last, our worthy host," Mr. Daniel Thomas, of the Tredegar Arms Inn, Tredegar, in return- ing from Merthyr fell from his horse, and was severely cut in the back of the head, and otherwise bruised he is now ex- tremely low, although, we are happy to say, he is pronounced out of danger by his medical attendant Mr. Coates. We sincerely wish him a speedy recovery.

The Junior Fellows of Trinity College, Dublin, have drawn up a petition to the Queen, praying that her Majesty would be gracious y pleased to repeal the statute of celibacy which pre- vents them from marrying. The petition will be presented to her Majesty by Dr. Lefroy, one of the members pf the Uni- versity, 't J t

POLICE. DIVISION OF NEWPORT.—SATURDAY, JUNE 22. Before the Rev. James Coles and the Rev. R. A, Roberts (assisted by T, Phillips, jun.. Esq" Mayor of the Borough.) IMPORTANT CASE,—SEIZURE OF GUNPOWDER. In our two last papers wé. Stdted that a large seizure of gun- powder had been made in the port, but declined td give the re- ports which were current as to the circumstances under which the seizure had been made, on the ground that the matter was about to be submitted .to judicial investigation. The simple facts of the case are as follows:—Oo the morning of Saturday, the 8th instant, the schooner Active, I of Liverpool, Thomas Howells, master, from Cork, laden with a large quantity of gunpowder aud other goods, arrived in the port, and tfas moored, by the pilot, abreast of the powder magazine, and on 'he opposite side of the river, and there lay until the afternoon of Tuesday the 11th inst. She was on that day boarded by the harbour-master, who seized the powder, carried it away, and lodged it in the magazine. The information on which these steps had been taken, was laid by Captain Watkin Richards, harbour-master, under the 12th Geo. 3, c. 61, sec. 11, as follows: No person, being a deaier in gunpowder, shall keep at any one time more lhan two hundred pounds of gunpowder, and not being such, more than fifty pounds, in any house, mill, magazine, storehouse, ware- house, shop, cellar, yard, wharf, or other building or placo occupied by him, (all buildings and places adjoining each other being deemed one house within the act,) or on any river or other water (except in carriages loading or unloading, or passing on the land, or in ships, boats, or ves- sels loading or unloading, or passing on any river or other water, or de- tained there by the tide or bad weather,) within the cities of London or Westminster, or within three miles of either of them; or within any other city, borough, or market town, or one mile thereof; or within two miles of any palace or houses of residence of the King, or any of the King's gunpowder magazines or half a mile of any parish church or in any other part of Great Britain, except in mills or other places at the commencemerit of this act used for the making of gunpowder, and in the places where it shall be lawful to make gunpowder, or to keep greater and unlimited quantities of gunpowder by force of this act; on pain of forfeiting all beyond the quantity hereby allowed to be kept, and the barrels in which such shall be, and also 2s. for every pound be- yond such allowed quantity." The information charged the captain of the Active, Thomas Howells, with keeping a greater quantity than 501bs. weight of gunpowder, viz., 40,0001bs. weight, at one time (he not being a dealer in gunpowder), on board his vessel, on the river Usk, it a greater distance than one mile from the boundary of the bo- rough of Newport; the same not being in a boat or vessel load- tyg or unloading, or passing along or detained upon the said river, by the tide or by bad weather. This was the substance of the information. Mr. T. J. Phillips appeared for the prosecution. Mr. Woollett appeared for the captain, and Mr. Smith, the eminent barrister from Bristol, was brought over specially to defend the interests of the consignors of the powder, for whom Mr. F. Webb was solicitor. The defendant having been required to plead to the infor- mation, said that he was guilty of having the powdef on board, but he had done his best to get it out. Mr. Coles said that was tantamount to a plea of not guilty. The defendant then pleaded not guilty. All the witnesses on both sides having been ordered out of the room, Charles Cox was sworn and examined by Mr. T. J. Phillips. He stated that he was a licenced pilot, in and out of this port; on the morning of the 8th inst., he boarded the schooner Active, in Bridgwater reach he asked the master, Thomas Howell, what cargo he had on board to which he re- plied that he had gunpowder. When witness told him that he should take the vessel to the powder-house to discharge, the defendant said Very well," and witness took the vessel nearly abreast of the powder-house, but a little lower down, and on the opposite side, where he moored her with a kedge. This was about half-past seven o'clock in the morning of Saturday, the 8th inst. It was ebb tide at the time. At half-past ten or eleven o'clock, the Active might have got a berth alongside the powder-house, and might then have begun to discharge. She might have lain where witness moored her, and discharged by boats, or she might have gone across, and discharged directly on the river bank but it is certain that they might have begun to discharge her, if due diligence had been used, about half-past ten 01 eleven o'clock on the morning of her arrival. In his cross-examination by Mr. Smith, witness said that he did not know the boundaries of the borough, but he thought the place where the vessel lay was further from the borough than the powder-house, because the latter is upon the same side of the river. Did not know whether the magazine or powder-house was a government magazitie or not; nor did he know that there were trams ready to carry away the powder; immediately the vessel was moored, the captain went ashore to the man who keeps the magazine j she might have been dis- charged on Saturday the weather was very fine on Monday saw no powder discharged till it was all brought into the ma- gazine, on Tuesday, under seizure.—To Mr. Cotes Boats could, have gone alongside the vessel where she lay at half-past ten o'clock in the morning on which she arrived, and remained there till seven o'clock in the evening, or the vessel might have gone across to the slip at the magazine at eleven o'clock, and been there discharged in three or four hours. Stephen Harris, examined by Mr. T. J. Phillips, stated that he was mate of the Active on her voyage from Cork to New- port; she arrived here on the morning of the 8th inst.; her cargo consisted of powder, oats, and bacon there were barrels and half barrels of powder, equal in the whole to 600 barrels at half past five in the morning the pilot came on board, in the Bridgwaterman's reach (he corroborated last witness, as to the place in which the vessel was moored.) The powder was consigned to Mr. O'Reilly, Messrs. Stonehouse, and Co., and Mr. Rudge. If the vessel had been brought to the ma- gazine slip she could have discharged all her powder in three hours; was on board all day Saturday, and there was no ap- plication made by any parties for the discharge of the powder, and consequently there was none discharged. The same on Sunday. It was fine weather both Saturday and Sunday. Application was made on Monday morning, between three and four o'clock, by persons from Mr. O'Reilly, to get out the powder; his man came aboard, and showed the bills of lading. Witness asked him if he would know the marks on the barrels, and he said he would. The man then went into the hold of the vessel, and said that he could see but a few of his bamls-that the remainder were the barrels belonging to other persons; witness said he would get his people to remove what was above them, and that it could be done in half an hour, but the men said it would be too late, for they would lose the tide and then they went away. Between three and foui o'clock the same afternoon, Mr. Stonehouse took away 100 bar- rels, and on Tuesday morning, batween four and five o'clock, 20 more were taken away. Between three and four o'clock in the afternoon of Tuesday, the harbour-master came on board, and made some enquiry after the captain, who had returned from Bristol. The harbour-master then asked whether the powder was discharged or not; and the captain said No. Then the harbour.master said he was sorry that he had come to take charge of it, and put it into the magazine. They then went into the hold. There was a boat alongside, into which they commenced discharging the powder, and took away the 480 barrels, in about two hours and a half. There were two or three persons with the harbour-master, one of whom was a cus- tom-house officer. They took the powder towards the magazine. —To Mr. Coles There was the same sort of fire on board, as if there had been no gunpowder. The captain was not a dealer in gunpowder.—Cross-examined by Mr. Smith The captain went to Bristol on Saturday, the 8th inst., immediately after reporting the vessel, and the witness had charge of her, and was responsible during the captain s absence. He returned about ten o'clock on Monday morning, There was a second appli- cation made from Mr. O Reilly, on Tuesday morning, for his powder; but he did not get it, for the same reason that he did not get it on the first occasion. Witness was responsible to the owners for all that was lost. It was placed in his charge he gave receipts for it.—To Mr. Woollett: The vessel was moored by direction of the pilot.— To Mr. Coles If diligence had been used, the vessel could have been discharged the day she arrived. When the pilot moored the vessel, he said, if he brought her higher up, she would be fineable. The bills of lading were signed by the captain.— To Mr. T. J. Pbiitips The powder was onder his charge, in the same manner that any other por- tion of the cargo was. Witness was employed and paid by the captain, and dischargeable by him. — Clements, agent to Messrs. Curtis and Harvey, proprietors of the powder magazine, examined by Mr. T. J. Philips This witness was examined at much length, to prove that if diligence had been used, the vessel could have discharged all the powder on the day on which she arrived. If the powder had been con- signed to him, he would have discharged her in less than four hours. Knows the boundary of the old borough. The maga- zine is one mile and thirty yards from the nearest point of the boundary has heard it stated that that was the measurement. If the vessel was placed on the other side of the river, opposite the magazine, there would not be five yards difference in the distance of each from the boundary of the old borough.—Cross- examined by Mr. Smith Messrs. Crosfield and Gething (who built the magazine) toLl him that it was one mile and thirty yards from the boundary of the borough. The mile was mea- sured at the time, but as there was some dispute, it was deter- mined to go thirty yards beyond the mile. Mr. Smith then addressed the bench, and said he would save the time of the court, by taking an objection to the form of the information. On the face of it, it was bad and the evidence negatives the allegations, instead of affirming them. The in formation was laid under the 12th Geo. III., cap. 61, sec. 11, which provides that [here Mr. Smith read the section quoted above]. The charge is, that, contrary to this act, the parties did have and keep more than 50lbs. weight within a mile of the boundary of the borough. Mr. T. Phillips, jun., here said, that the charge was, that the powder was kept at a greater distance than one mile from the boundary, and called the attention of Mr. Smith to the words or in any other part of Great Britain," which made it penal to keep the powder, under the circumstances, at a greater distance than a mile from the borough. Mr. Smith again referred to the clause, and admitted that no other construction could be put upon it, but that adopted by the magistrates. He was sure, however, that the words were intro- duced by mistake, and that the clause did not express the inten- tion of the legislature in passing the act. The objection was therefore overruled. Edward Irost was examined, as to the circumstances attend- ing the seizure by the harbour-master, and corroborated the statements made by the mate on that head. He also said, in his epinion, the point where the vessel lay was nearer to the boundary of the borough, than the magazine. Charles Ebsworlh, in the employment of Mr. Clements, was examined, and stated that, on the morning of the 8th, after the Active was moored, the captain came to his house, and told him he had powder for different people, and asked him where they resided. Witness went with him, and showed him the resi- dences of the consignees, and believed that he gave them notice of his arrival. Saw the vessel lying on the eastern side of the river, opposite the magazine, and from where she lay she could have been discharged in three hours, or three hours and a half. She might have come alongside the magazine on Saturday the 8th, at two or half-past two o'clock, and then she could have been discharged in less time. This closed the case for the prosecution. Mr. Smith then addressed the bench on behalf of his clients, the owners ot the powder, who were deeply interested in the decision of the magistrates, who had the power to confiscate their powder. It would be his duty then to submit to the bench that the powder ought not to be confiscated, and there- fore that it ought to be returned. The present being a highly penal act, the informer wasi bound to strict proof of the infor- mation he had laid; he had not done so, however, but had totally faded ID maintaining the information. In order to shew this, .twoutd be. necessary to caU the attention of the magis- trates to Ithe Iact II' (Jhe learned gent. then read the 11th section.) There IS no time specified in this clause within which it is necessary the powder should be discharged it was a general Pr°h'bltl°° .,Tand l° considering the question of time, the magistrates should exercise considerable liberality; and aho in deciding what was the construction (0 be put upon tfi< words, to have and to keep." If the clause had declared that the master should not have or keep more than a certain quan- tity of powder in any vessel except for so many hours or days, the matter would be clear enough, and they would be relieved from any difficulty but as no time was specified, he must ap- peal to an equitable construction ot Jhe time which would be necessary for the purpose of discharging the ponder. All the evidence against the captain proves that he was within the ex- ceptive Clauses. On arriving in the river, the captain could not legally deposit the powder in any place without communi- cating with the consignees, and to do this time tras required.— The evidence proved that, immediately on his arrival, the cap- tain went in search of the consignees, ;!r1d time must also be allowed to the latter for the discharge of their daties. It had been proved that Mr. O'Reilly came by his servants at an early hour on Monday morning ;and if he did not take away the powder consigned to him, it was not his fault. This early application, by Mr. O'Reillly, shewed diligence on his part, and that he was not negligent: it afforded ground for supposing that if he had had earlier intimation of its arrival, he would have applied sooner. On Monday and Tuesday, other parties had come and removed portions of the powder, and may be said to have been in course of Unloading, when the vessel was seized, on Tuesday afternoon. Another ground of objection to the information was that the informer had attacked the wrong party. The person who ought to have been informed against was the mate, and not the captalir. The property is not the matter here in question, j but the custody. Who, then, had the custody of the powder 1 —the mate distinctly swore that he had the custody. Mr. Coles observed that, nevertheless, the captain was re- sponsible for the conduct of his mate. The vessel may be said to have been the captain's house. Mr. Smith proceeded—There are cases, in which a house- keeper is not answerable for the conduct of his servants. His position was this that the captain did not have possession at the ttme that, of necessity, he was not, as captain, in posses- sion of the powder; and the evidence clearly proves that he had not the custody, according to the Act of Parliament. The third ground of objection was, as to the distance at which the ship lay from the boundary of the borough. He mistook the grounds of the information, which he flrst understood to charge the cap- tain with having the powder within a mile of the boundary of the borough but now, it seems, he is charged with having it a greater distance than a mile. The evidence on this point was so vague, as to have totally failed in supporting the information* What did Mr. Clements say ? That he had never measured the distance to the magazine, but had heard that it was a mile and thirty yards from the boundary. But the question was not as to the distance of the magazine, but the distance of the place where the vessel lay, from the borough. The only evidence on that point is that of Mr. Clements, who said the difference in distance between the rfisgazine and the place where the vessel lay from the borough, could not be more than five yards. The informer stated, in his information, that the vessel was more than a mile from the borough. He con- tended, therefore, that the informer was bound to distinctly prove that allegation and he begged leaved to submit that, on that point, he had totally failed. It appeared to be assumed that the parties were obliged to remove the powder into the magazine, but he would contend that they were not under any such obligation, nor did they intend to do so. The powder was intended for use in the country, and it was their duty, as it was their intention, to remove it as soon as possible. It ap. peared to him that much of the impression, that there was delay or negligence, arose from the belief that there was an obligation to place the powder in the magazine but he begged leave to state that, neither under the 12th Geo. III., nor under any other statute, did any such obligation exist; and would it be just, because parties did not choose to pay unnecessary expenses to the keeper of the magazine, that they should be entrapped into the penalties of this act. In appearing for the owners of the powder, he appeared for parties who were entirely innocent of offence, and who appear to have done everything in their power to do for the fulfilment of the taw and begged leave to submit to the consideration of the bench, the hardship to his clients of making them liable for the negligence (if negligence there were) of other parties. The learned gentleman con- cluded his address by shortly recapitulating the three grounds on which he relied for the dismissal of the information by the benrh. Mr. Woollett, for the captain, said the arguments so ably put by the learned counsel being the best that could be urged on behalf of his client, he had nothing to add to the case he had made out; but would leave it in the hands of the magistrates The magistrates and Mr. T. Phillips, jun., having retired to consider their decision, they returned in a few minutes, when Mr. Coles said he wished every case which came before the bench were conducted in the same manner as the learned gent. (Mr. Smith) had conducted the present: evincing not only ability and skill, but an absence of all attempt to mystify or mislead. The magistrates had considered the case, and they were of opinion that the distance should have been moreclearly made out. They would therefore recommend that each party should appoint a competent person to measure it, and the ma- gistrates would be ready, the next day at two o'clock, to re- ceive the report, and give tbeir decision. Mr. Smith hoped that, as the informer had failed to satisfy the bench as to the distance, that they would consider him en- titled to a discharge. Mr. T. Phillips jun., said that the magistrates would not adopt that course, because they had a doubt whether it was not for Mr. Smith to negative the allegation of the informer, as to the distance. Mr. Smith then asked whether, if the magistrates decided against him on the point of distance, he was to consider their decision against him generally. Mr. Coles: Yes. There was a second information, laid by the same party, against the captain, under the same clause, charging her with having and keeping the powder within a mile of the boundary of the borough, to which the captain pleaded not guilty. The examination on this information was postponed till next day after which, the court adjourned. On Saturday, (immediately after the decision on the assault case, which is reported below,) the parties appeared before the same magistrates, at the office of Mr. T. J. Phillips, when Mr. Wade, a land-surveyor, produced a map, showing the nearest point of the boundary of the old borough, and also the place where the vessel was proved to have tain he also proved that he had measured the distance from one point to the other, and found that it was several yards short of a mile. The magistrates, on this evidence, dismissed the first in- formation. The second information was then gone into, and the depo- sitions of all the witnesses taken the day before having been read over to them, they were put in as evidence on this infor- mation, and Mr. Wade having proved the distance between the place where the vessel lay, and the nearest point of the old borough, to be less than a mile, the captain was convicted on the second information. The evidence on the foregoing informations having proved that the magazine in which the confiscated powder was lodged, was within a mile of the borough, and therefore not a legal place for storing unlimited quantities of gunpowder, in the course of the evening Mr. Webb, solicitor for Mr. O'Reilly, submitted the information of the latter gentleman to Mr. Coles, who thereupon granted a warrant for the seizure of the gunpow- der so alleged to be illegally stored.—The warrant was placed in the hands of Hopkins, the superintendent of police, who, at an early hour on Monday morning, gained access to the maga- zine, seized the whole of the powder removed there under the first seizure, and a f. barrels more and having placed the pro- perty on board a vessel, it was conveyed the same evening to Bristol river, where it was stored in the magazine there. Alonzo TVm. Kinsey appeared, to answer the information of William Adams, for an assault. It appeared, from the evi- dence of Adams, that he was a park keeper, in the employment of Sir Chas. Morgan, Bart., at Tredegar, and that on the 14th inst., he observed the defendant in a part of the park where there was no path, and going towards a place where there were does fawning that he repeatedly called out to defendant, who paid no attention to him that be then went up to him and told him be was park keeper, and desired him to lenve the park. Whereupon, defendant said that he had as much right to be there as Sir Charles Morgan, and would not leave. Complainant then collared him, when defendant knocked com- plainant down; he got up, and was knocked down again. Defendant then ran away out of the park into the road, but was followed by complainant and another man, when defendant gave his name and told where he lived. Complainant did not ask defendant for his name before he collared him.—Defendant who was greatly excited denied the truth of the statement of Adams, and declared that the latter collared him before he knocked him down. There was a difference of opinion between the magistrates, as to the conduct of the gamekeeper. Mr. Roberts considering that he had no right to collar defendant before he had demanded his name and place. Complaint dismissed. POLICE OFFICE.—JUNE27. Before William Brewer and Lewis Edwards, Esquires. COMBINATION. John Pitman appeared to answer the charge of using threats and intimidation towards James Lamprey, with intent to force him to leave his employment.—It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Wedlake, of Pill, who is a coal merchant, that last week the men whom he employed as coal shippers, turned out for wages, and that in consequence, he took a man named James Lamprey to do the work, and that the persons who had left his employment, among whom was the prisoner, threatened and intimidated Lamprey. Mr. Wedlake also stated that all the men in his yard earned at least 18s. per week each, besides having perquisites to the amount of 6s. per week.—James Lamprey being sworn, proved the offence against the prisoner, who was committed for three months to the House of Correction. Griffith Griffiths and Betsey Reece were charged with assist- ing in committing one of the most brutal assaults on the per- sons of three foreigners, named Chaperon, Dubois, and ano- ther, ever-committed in this borough. The complainants, who could not speak a woid of English, were examined through the medium of an interpreter. Two of them had tbeir heads tied up, their faces were dreadfully disfigured with wounds and bruises, and their eyes closed up the third had an awful gash on the top of his head. The complainants were unable to identify either of the prisoners as having been present during the outrage, because of the number of men and women by whom they were attacked, and also that they were knocked down instantly, and incapacitated from seeing. It appeared, however, by their statement, that on Sunday night, between eleven and twelve o'clock, they went into a house in Friars' Fields, and gave a shilling to get some beer, but none could be obtained, and they desired the return of the shilling, which was refused. They then went out into the street, where they were set upon by a crowd of men and women. One of them was knocked down by a violent blow of a stone on the eye, which closed up the organ, and disfigured the roan's countenance in a frightful manner. He had other wounds on his head, and alto- gether presented a dreadful spectacle. Another, on going into the street, was knocked down with a blow of a spade, which lacerated him shockingly over the eye. lie, too, had other wounds and bruises. The third had a wound of serious dimen- sions on his head, from the aforesaid spade, which, fortunately, he succeeded in wresting from the hands of the murderous vil- lain who used it, or otherwise the lives of the unfortunate Frenchmen would have been sacrificed. There were two wit- nesses, a woman and a man who live near the place where the shocking scene occurred, and who came out of their residence on hearing the cry of murder" raised. The woman saw the prisoner Griffiths running towards the place with stones; the man saw him throw a stone, and knock down one of the com- plainants with the blow. The female prisoner was not identi- fied by either witness, and she was discharged. The prisoner Griffiths was convicted in the penalty of £5., or in default, to be committed to the House of Correction, and bard labour for two months. TREDEGAR POLICE. JUNE 26.—The Petty Sessions for the parish of Bedwelty, was this day held, agreeably to notice, at the Town-hall, Tre- degar, before Samuel Homfray, Esq., when the following caseat were brought forward by the superintendent of police:— Mary Davies, for obtaining five shillings under false pretences, in the name of Timothy Lynch, from the shop of the Victoria Iron Company. Adjourned to produce witnesses.—Thomas Evans, hallier, far £ 1. 10s. the property of Thomas Llewellyn. The parties not appearing, the case was dismissed.— William Evans, for assault on John Legg, at Rhymney. Allowed to settle.— John Bryant, labourer, of the New Works, for assault on Rd. Donovan, for want of 3 second magistrate. Adjourned to the Rock,—on the 10th of July next.—Donald Ragan, of the New Works, for assault on Patrick Donovan. AdJourned.-Hos. Joies, for assault on George Jones, constat)Je» in the execution of his duty. Adjourned to the Rock.—Edward Williams, of Tredegar, for being drunk and assaulting Willialrf levies, constable, in the execution of his duty. Adjourned.

COMMITMENTS TO USKTIOUSE OF CORRECTION- JUNE 31.—John Wiltshire, by Samuel Homfray, Esq., with stealing, at Tredegar, a hat, two silk handkerchiefs, and a flannel shirt, the propeity of Job Lewis.—John Edmonds, for being an idle and disorderly person in the parish of Bedwelty. One month hard labour. June 22.-Jooeph Holder, and Richard Burke, by F. H. Wil- liams, Esq., charged with stealing from the person of John Jones, farmer, at Abergavenny, eight £5. notes, four sove- reigns, and other monies, his property. June 25.—Jeremiah O'Brian, and Morrice Megan, by Wm. Brewer, and Lewis Edwards, Esq., with stealing, at Newport, one pair of trowsers and a silk handkerchief, the property ot Salomon Lyons.—Luke Lott, with assaulting William Lewis, at Newport. One month, or pay £1. 15s. fine and costs.— Timothy Barnard, with assaulting Wm. Lewis, at Newport.— One month, or pay £1. 15s. fine and costs. Forty prisoners, up to Wednesday evening, for trial at the sessions.

To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. SIR,—Knowing your readiness at all times to promote and further public good, whether political or local, I write this, trusting that it will not be trespassing too much on the columns of your valuable paper, with a view to call the attention of the Tredegar Wharf Company, and the inhabitants of Pillgwenlly, to the Well," (so called, but which is no other than a small stream, but little more than dropping, from a pipe,) which is at present the only place provided for the supply of a population of at least 2000 inhabitants, besides the numbers of shipping which daily demand, and that, too, gratuitously and in turn, their quantum suff." of this prime necessary of life. Yours, &c., Pill, June 26,1836. FACILITATUS.

THE PRINCIPALITY. CAUTION TO SERVANTS.-—William Holland, a farm servant employed by Mr. D. Williams, of Newton, was convicted ott Thursday week, before the Rev. HIT^h Bold and Dr. Lucaa, and committed to the Brecon House .f Correction for one month with hard labour, for neglecting his vTwk. AN HEIR TO THE HOUSE OF MAROAM.—0'.r68t rejoicings have taken place on this occasion among Mr. Talbot'5 tenantry, at Margam. There was a battery of cannon dragged cp and fired from the Half Moon, on the top of the Great Wood, at Llangonoyd, Pyle and Kenffig, and the numerous otber pa- rishes in which the large Mansel property is situated. The eveat was enthusiastically commemorated. Similar rejoicings took place among the tenantry in Gower.—Merthyr Guardian. DEATH OF MR. RICHARD WILLRAMS (Dryw Bach).—We have been favoured with the following communication from Mr. Taliesin Williams.—Died, on Thursday the 20th instant, aged 49, after a protracted period of great suffering, Mr. Richard Williams, of Pant y Gerdinen, in the parish of Aberdare ;—a man whose name will long be dear to the admirers of Welsh music, poetry, and literature generally. At an early period of his life be developed a superior taste in Welsh lyrics combin- ing in his songs, many elegancies of imagination with a natural taste of genuine humour. He also attained a proficiency in the higher order of Welsh poetry. His justly admired prize, Awdl i'r Goleulli" (Ode to Light) is a fine composition, that evinces strong mental powers. He has also been a successful competitor on other subjects. His Englynion on Newbridge (Pont-y-ty-pridd) acquired for him an elegant silver medal, with an additional premium at the great Eisteddfod, held at Cardiff, in 1834 and he was second best in his encomiastic englynion to the Marquess and Marchioness of Bute, for the Royal Medal presented to that high festival, by the Princess Victoria (our present gracious Queen) and the Duchess of Kent. He has, subseqnently, won on other topics. His last successful effort was a composition on the marriage of William Williams, Esq., of AberpergwnJ in which he gave ample tes- timony of his regard for the ancient families of his native coun- try. Nor was his talents in music of an inferior order, for he has left behind him medals awarded iC b1' yocal powers.- As a husband, and the parent of a large fami.?» he discharged the duties of a meritorious man. In his various occupations of fjrmer, auctioneer, and wool-dealer, &c., he susUine the worthy character of industrious integrity and gladly wouUO all who transacted business with him have hailed his recovery ?o an extended period of intercourse. In social life he was obli- ging. and an ardent promoter of cheerfulness, in the best spirit of good feeling.-Alas! poor Dryw Bach !—Ibid. HEREFORDSHIRE. The hay-harvest has commenced in this neighbourhood, and the crop has been very greatly increased by the recent beneficial rains. In places, however, there is a deficiency of under-grass, owing doubtless to the long-continued drought of the spring.— Hereford Jcurnal. A decline of about one shilling per bushel in the price of wheat has lately taken place in the Hereford and neighbouring inarkets, and it is expected by dealers that it will be still lower, ;ven before the harvest. This is an unusual occurrence at this. tdvanced period of the season and should nothing occur to pre- sent the housing of the luxuriant crops in good condi lion, it is not improbable that the price of grain will approximate to the low amount, so ruinous to the farmer, at which it remained for 5everal years.-Ibid. ■ CAUTION.—On the 18th inst., an inquest was held at Castle Frome, before Thomas Evans, Esq., Coroner, on the body of George Woodyatt, who, after taking three glasses of whiskey— d companion taking the same quantity, which was given to them by a visitor at a house where they called—contrived to lnnk a considerable portion of the ardent. spirit from the 1bott e. after his companion had left, whom he followed, ana both, after ascending a hill, lay on the ground exposed to the sun. A thunder storm taking place, they were conveyed to a buildiug tnd Woodyatt appearing very ill, a surgeon was sent tor; but before he arrived, the unfortunate man had ceased to live the other man recovered. The Jury returned a verdict, that W ood- yatt died in consequence of having by his own free will drunk. a }uantityof ardent spirits.— Ibid. A SINGULAR FACT.—Mr. Wm. Rowlands, of the parish of Orcop, has now a fine brood of eight young geese hatched by a gander in April last the goose whilst sitting, was taken ill and died when the dead body was removed, the gander took pos- session of the nest, and actually continued sitting till the whole .vere hatched, and are now a fine brood of birds nearly fit for the table.