The Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette and Merthyr Guardian

HARVEST.—The harvest in this county has been retarded by showers of rain and thunder storms during the past week. Comparatively, only a small breadth of wheat and barley has been cut, some in fine condition, some too hastily. The quantity and quality of the crops are alike various: the samples of wheat and barley on some lands are beautiful and productive; and in otlier-cases the crops are thin, and the ears small and meagre. Wheat and barley in the Northern Principality of Wales are very pro- ductive-there are, we think, fewer failures in these crops than in some parts of Eng] a lid .-Shrewsbury Chronicle. RAIL ROADS.—-It is in contemplation to form a Rail Road from Manheim to Basle and the Lake of Constance. CARPET TRADE--It affords us much satisfac- tion to state, that ^'Kidderminster the carpet weavers are fully employed.. The manufacturers have de- clined many orders in consequence of the advance in wool having rendered it impossible for them to be executed at the late scale of prices.— Worcester Journal. DUDLEY.—The state of trade has much im- proved here of late. Indeed, when the iron trade, which has mended, is good, all classes feel the benefit of the improvement. Still this temporary relief is no reason why a vicious system should be continued, or injustice not be rooted out, wherever its frightful head is visible. NEW CHANNEL IN THE MERSEY. — We feel great pleasure in being able to congratulate the enter- prising merchants and ship-owners engaged in the trade of this port, on the success whieh has attended the exertions of Lieut. Denham, aided by Lieut. Rob- inson, (who were deputed by the Board of Admiralty to make a survey of the river,) in ascertaining the ex- istence of a new half-tide chanDel, at once affording a most valuable and increased facility of navigation in the approach to the port of Liverpool. We are in- formed that the advantages stated to be comprised by the discovery of this new half-tide channel are these that a maritime intercourse may be pursued at all hours, and that a channel to seaward is progressively forming, which affords, at the present time, twelve feet water at two hours' flood, and seventeen feet at half-tide that a ship coming in with an easterl y wind can stand up the Crosby Channel, approaching from the northward, at as eai-lv a period of the tide as the Rock Channel affords,-Lirerpool Standard. LITERARY PURSUITS.—At a meeting of the St. Ronan's Border Club, at Innerleithen, on Thursday week, two sweepstakes were shot for, and both won by Mr. James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd and a race run, with spectacles on, was gained in grand style by Mr Henry Glasford Bell, Advocate and Poet. William Hepplewhite, an apprentice on board the Indian,of Shields,lastvear purchased an old clothes chest for 3s., which on being examined by the Custom House officers, at Cork, where the vessel is now de- livering cargo, was discovered to have a false bottom, under which were found upwards of 2,0001. Duruam Chronicle. DREADFUL EFFECTS OF INTOXICATION—An in- quest was held last week in Shadwell, on the body bf an elderly woman named Eleanor Smith, who came home on the previous Wednesday night deeply intoxicated, and shortly afterwards fire issued from her room. A person who entered the room found her with her head leaning on the grate which contained firing, her right arm burnt literally off, her head nearly severed from the trunk, and her heart and bowels protruding. She appeared to be in a sitting posture, with a short tobacco pipe in her hand, which it was supposed she was attempting to light at the fire place, and that in stooping, as the grate was very low, she overbalanced herself, and from her extreme state of intoxication, was unable to extricate herself from the dreadful situation in which she was.—Verdict Accidental Death. I A G-RICULTURE, COMMERCE, AND LONDON MARKETS. LONDON CORN EXCHANGE, AUG. IP. In this day's maket, which was tolerably well attended by London and other local buyers, but rather thinly by those from more distant parts, very superior wheat and oats were said to have been sold to some extent at an advance of Is. in some few instances 2s. per quarter; and beans, which advanced Is. per quarter towards the close of Friday's market supported their advanced position but with mid- dling and inferior wheatand oats, as also barley, pease, malt, and flour, trade, notwithstanding the above- mentioned moderate state of the week's supply, was exceedingly dull, at last week's prices Linseed and and tares, as also caraay, lucerne, and rapeseed, are held for, and in some instances selling, at somewhat advanced prices, but in other seeds very little is ) doing. s. S. ■ ° AVlieat, Essex Red 4H a 54 White 35 a 40 Fine 55 a 57 Boilers a 42 Old — a — Beans, Small 36 a 38 White 54 a 55 Ticks a 32 Fine. 56 a 58 Harrow a Superfine GO a 62 Oats, Feed 1(» a I" New — a — Fine 18 a 19 Rye 30 a 33 Poland a 20 Barley 2G a 31 Fine a 21 Malt 55 a 58 Potatoe 23 a 24 Fine 58 a 60 Fine a 25 Peas,Hog 32 a 33 Brail 9 a 111 Maple, 33 a 35 Pollard,fine a Maple, 33 a 35 Pollard, fine. iii a I LONDON COAL MARKET, August HJ. Price of Coal per ton at the close of business East Percy, 14s-Hollywell, 15s-Taofield, 14s 9d -Townley, 13s—Wvlam, 14s 3d— Lambtou Primrose, 14s 9d—Merthyr, 20s—Stone Coal, James & Aubrey. 26s—Wall'sEnd Clark and Co. 13s (-)d-Ul ilda, 15s —Hotspur. 14s 6d —Killinsw' th, 14s Od—Riddel's, 16s to 1I)s 3d-Hetlon, ltis Gd-Lamblon, 17s— Russell's Hetion, 16s 3d—Russell's Lyon's 14s 3d- Stewart's, Ii, fid—-AIUS^'OVC, l;)s-outh Durham, 15s 3d—Tees, 16s 6d—Ships arrived, 39. AUGUST 21. Beaumont, 13s-Dean's Primrose, 12s gd-Het)- burn, 14., 3d-Ulolywell, 14s 9d-Orde's Redheugh, 12s 9d Tanfield, 14s 9d-Townley, Us 3d-West Hartley, 15s 6d—Wiliington, 14s ()d- Wylam, 14s 6d Lambton Primrose, 14s 9d-Cowpen, 14-s 6d-How- ard's Netherton Main, 14s—Stone Coal, James and Aubrey, 2fls Nevell's Llanelly, 20s-Wall's End, Bell and Brown, 14s 9d—Ditto, Bell, Robson, and Co. 14s 9d-Ditto, Carr and Co. 14s 3d-Ditto, Heaton, 15s ôd-Ditto, Hilda, 14s 9d—Ditto, Hotspur, 14s 6d -Ditto, Killingworth, 14s 9d-Ditto, Newmarsh, 14s 9d—Ditto, Northumberland 14s 9d-Dltto, Rid del's, 15s 9d Ditto, Hetton. 16s 3d-Ditto, Lambton, 16s 9d-Russell's Hetton, 16s—Ditto, Stewart's, 16s to ls 3d—Ditto, Adelaide, 15s-Ditto, Musgrave, 15s —Ditto, Tees 16s—Ships arrived, 64, PRICE OF TAr, LOW AND CANDLES, IN LONDON. Whitechapel 2s 9d-St, Jairies 2s 10d s. d s d Town Tallow, per cwt 30 0 Greaves 14 0 Russia ditto, Candle 4'J 0 Good Dregs 5 0 White ditto 0 0 Curd Soap 0 Melted Stuft 37 0 Mottled ditto 70 0 Rough ditto 23 0 Yellow ditto 02 0 White ditto 0 0 Curd Soap 0 Melted Stuft 37 0 Mottled ditto 70 0 Rough ditto 23 0 Yellow ditto 02 0 Imports from St. Petersburg, 10,594 casks. CANDLES.—Moulds, 9s—Stores, 7s 6u—Inferior, 6s 6d per doz. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, AUG. 20. The transactions in the market this morning were trifling, but towards the close an animated demand took place, particularly amongst the speculators, and it is estimated that about 6000 bags have been disposed of, and au advance of ID per lb has beenobtained. 600 Marans at 12*D to 12fd 700 Bahias at 1 LJ to 12jd 150 Egypt at 14jd 2(X) Surats at 7JD to 8JD American description at 9d to 121d

CLEANINGS. YOON»Y A^D DECEMBER—Saturday morning a very interesting girl, only seventeen sex st 8ge' named Ann Godby, of No. 2, Middle- ^hurcvf8^ »«mer 8 Town> was married at St. Paucras 28° Pk° Moore, a retired baker, residing einht' jyioenjx-street, Somer's Town, who is in his On-r A year! The «umber of Pers0,ls who e»ated around St. Pancras Church to catch a fair hr'H haPPy couple was so great that the churrd Was compelled to remain closeted in the the h '^°r uPwards °ftwo hours. In the mean time bride. &.room walked off arm in-arm with the a»e who is upwards of seventy years of bridpn ,ose assembled, supposing her to be the turnpH Persed. The bridegroom afterwards re- "dura *° church, and released his bride from s°UnHnCeff Vl'e> un-interrupted by the discordant to » ^°^'he tin.pots and kettles that were intended r41' nis ears. retllaOKSELLERS AND AUTHORS —It is an old ofautk Publishers drink wine out of the skulls 'Ms n °rS one occas'on> person who pens the JjraSraph overheard a learned antiquary twitting lall,.e Constable with the above proverb, and fiut »'{!* heartily to boot at his imaginary triumph, look 6 bibliopole retorted by alluding to Home by s 6 s P)eading before a court of law, when pressed ]lea(j0In? inexorable creditor—that even his very of aH be said to be mortgaged in consequence headVaUCeS made t0 him by the booksellers. "A the m°rt§'aSed '"said the astonished judge that's ejjo 8ecurity 1 ever heard of' "True sta ° sa'^ ,he other drily, "and probably iu- lorriCe^°f,he kind are rare' ^or 1 assure you, my ft,, l< is not erery head that will mortgage."— vntfriet Courier. AMERICAN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.— ^aesu<er'atu Coke in his Subaltern's Furlough, says he in thS,ruc'S on his first visit to the stranger's gallery, its 6 ^met'cau House of Representatives, to see at mu htrance the foll° wing admonition :—" Gentlemen fro 6 P'eased n°t to place their feet on the board in Ut the gallery, as the dirtfrjm them falls upon utors' heads.^ ChiMfPLDENCE ABASHED.—Fierce as he was, the S(i e Justice (Jeffries) did not always escape the a £ °f a repartee. He once went to a country Siv'Ze' W^en an old man wit'1 a la, £ e beard came to 6 ev<dence, but had not the good fortune to please it IP ^dgej so he quarrelled with bis beard and said, *ill y°Ur conscience is as large as your beard, you bri uVear anJ'thing." The old man was nettled, and con rePlied, My lord, if you go about to measure sciences by beards, your lordship has none."— °° Tych'ft Memoirs of Judge Jeffries. :I, W'

TO SPORTSMEN. A SPORTSMEN are respectfully requested to from Shooting on the Lands of J. H. Allen r' Bruce, Esquires, ill the parishes of Aberdare ]V|a an^ onno and also upon so much of the lands of the Th0quess of Bute' c- K- K. Tynte, Esq., M. P., William ■^or^aS' > Messrs. the Aberdare Co., Rees Williams, ^av'd, and others, within the hamiet of Cefu- aBai" ^°achers and wilful Trespassers will be proceeded D,°ff acc°rding to law. Abprdare, Aug. 19, 18-13. tll0M LATTER GRASS, !\f THE TWELFTH OF SEPTEMBER NEXT, RV, FOR TEN WEEKS, ■ ATTIRE will be taken for the above time into well-known productive Meadow, called MORFA a6(j °>in the parish of Margam,"being about 100 Acres, p Jading as usual the most superior herbage. ier particulars apply to Wm. Longdon, Taibach >Uer,the postage must be paid. B. more than 50 head will be taken in. 4 TO BE LET, n MAY BE ENTERED UPON IMMEDIATELY, A LARGE and commodious SHOP, advantageously fof situated in the Market place, Aberdare, in which, titrr- rnany years, a very considerable business has been Hes, On, particularly in the Drapery and Grocery Busi. 'tho' and General Country Trade. The premises abound every convenience. lieatbe Present occupiers are retiring in consequence of the »°f the principal person concerned in the business. leiter Particulars may be had by applying personally, or by ij,; • P°st paid, to George Spink, Aberdare. ^'eoT Present Goods, advantageously purchased and well" to^r c<^> may be had at a fair valuation, and every en ~tDent given to a respectable Tenant. SOUTH WALES. XlvtpORTANT FREEHOLD ESTATES, C* Near SWANSEA, Co*A*ny nearly 2500 Acres, Two extensive MAJORS, MINES, and other valuable Property, producing 9ether a Rental of nearly £ 30u0 per Annum. Mr. W. W. SIMPSON 5, mm Sell i)S &uctttm, of the Proprietor, at the MACKWORTH ARMS in «/■' SWANSEA, on TUESDAY, the 27th AUGUST inst. lots, ) A. following valuable Freehold Property, viz l— A CAPITAL BRICK BUILT DWEL- XX LING HOUSE, now used as the Auction ari(^ Garden adjoining, situated in Wind Street, ittls ;£5(} ell, let on lease at f25 per annum, and underlet at oCr ann«m. iSTA^p-The THREE CRANES PUBLIC-HOUSE, situated on the Quay, at Swansea, let I iOs. per annum. The JOLLY SAILOR PUBLIC-HOUSE, 411 ated CODtiguous to the last lot, let at £ 15 15s. per Lrv 'THREE DWELLING-HOUSES, WORK- Tti) S, COACH.HOUSE and STABLING and several €ntS' in the High-street, Swansea. This lot covers Pl.f t oe tlot of ground, possessing three frontages, and is e at per annum, and underlet at f200 per 5.—A valuable PLOT of FREEHOLD presenting a frontage of 39 feet to Llewellin- ot d containing 132 square vards. TheFAIRWOOD ESTATE situated in the ^Pot f 68 Llanrhidian and Ilston, presenting a beantiful ■4rH)»r l'16 erect'on °f a Mansion, and comprising several ing • containing together 329 Acres, let at rents amount- per annum. Beneath this lot are eight Yearns of liighly Bituminous Coal, which will be 1 „ e)J 'n l^e purchase. ACfhe DUNVANT ESTATE, containing 245 *eritg 0 and, situated in the parish of Swansea, let at °f go0^jttl°ut|ting to £ 156 per annum. There are live Veins J. O^"oal '>ing under 30 acres of this land' ta'led V~A vaIuable PIECE of COPYHOLD LAND, ^nrh'H- ^lOR's MEADOW, situated in the parish of *RECT n' AND containing 37A. lR. 29P. on which are ,a ^wei''n? House and Stable. Part of this lot is in o U| es'imatec' annual value of £ 26. There is I 03 the property. »tedit9—The BRING WIN ESTATE, eligibly situ- Ag^j n 'he parish of Loughor, comprising a Farm House, Per au tural Buildings, and 184 Acres of Land, let at £ 90 £ »tatBnanV There are three Veins of Coal under this Piircj1^'sw'1'cli, with the Minerals, will be included in the l0'The COURT-Y CARNE ESTATE,situated tal>0nt, containing 495 Acres, let at £ 485 per PlLo ,p together nith the valuable MANOlv of LLAN- "fs ft ^BONT, with the Rights, Royalties, Fines, atl* "Uitrries, Minerals, &c. thereto belonging. There J:>erty tnknown number of Veins of Coal under this pro S PftrttK 6 only °f which have been proved and worked ''eepjn ereof is let for an unexpired term of 40 years, at a Lof *i retlt £ 300 per annum. She .—Valuable FREEHOLD ESTATES, situate 1 4t -Par'sh of Lanrhidian, comprising 525 Acres of Land. v ^ts amounting to £ 295 per annum together with 'n£l{Èhle MINERALS under this Estate, and the '^ES ESTATE, containing 67A. 3R.23P. The Untier this propkrty are let on lease at £ 260 per Par'8h I2—CARCENWEN FARM, situated in the 0,1 LEAG^r ^anrhidian, containing 14A. 3R. -2P. of Land, let i ..°r ^rf,e lives, at j £ 15 per annum. £ »Hsh y^-TWO valuable FARMS^ si'ua'ed in the I Lanrhidian, known as CWMNEWYDD, and T, containing together 33A. 1R.37P. of. Land, „ Lot iV°w rer»tof £ l6 10s perannum. The LANELLEN ESTATE, CELWEN ^P. sJtJ,atl^ a COTTAGE, containing together I44A.2R. 'n 'he parish of Lanrhidian, and let at rents Ut £ t0 £ 98 16s.per annum. to ,e*>dln The valuable MANOR of KILL1BION, 5'glits if °Ve.r nearly 1000 Acres of Land, with the yties,and Immunities also the KILLIBION Co pri,%ing a Farm-house and Buildings, and Ac,lPatio"n Land together with several small ^0 per containing 37 Acres, producing altogether tK e'xt^'011 ^ove important property is eligible j.. river iq me' as from its contiguity to various parts of ^'Bhboufk U"y> and to several Canals and Docks in the tA v()Od, the Mineral and other produce can be placeg° 8eaport town of Swansea and other ship- 'i!1 'ho o-' atl(^ froin them to various parts of the kingdom Place e I',states St facility. K ,Ce of u'f8 may 'le viewed and particulars had at the j^nsea. 0 £ > of John Jackson Price, Esq. Solicitor, h* ^'ou'eK rnf' *,k°uias Jones, Wind street, Swansea; "^lersb,. ^"cltenham; and of Mr. W. W. Simpson, y> '-<ondon-

THE LATEST LONDON INTELLIGENCE. 0- A second edition of the Standard" of Thurs- day gives the following:- FALMOUTH, Wednesday Morning. "His Majesty's brig Pantaloon is this moment arrived from Lisbon and Oporto, bringing news of importance, which we can only give in brief- It appears that Marshal Bourmont, with an army of upwards of thirty thousand men, was at San- tarem, about 45 miles from Lisbon, on the 12th inst. the marshal having withdrawn his forces by de- grees from Oporto, and so cautiously that Pedro's officers were not aware of the circumstance until the last division left on the 8th- The marshal had been previously joined by several French officers of distinction, and a plan of an attack on Lisbon determined on. The Miguelite forces were still in possession of the forts at the entrance of the Douro, so that vessels were unable to enter, and fifty merchantmen were laying off the bar. At Lisbon every thing was quiet, and little known of the movements of the Miguelite army, except by Don Pedro's government, who were most actively engaged in preparing to resist an attack, but their whole force did not amount to twelve thousand men and if unassisted by the English marines, there is no probable chance of their standing against so overwhelming a force as that of Don Miguel. The advance guard of Don Pedro had marched out of Lisbon, and it is stated thatJAdmiral Napier was to take the command of a division on shore."

THE LATEST LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. RAILROAD FROM MERTHYR TO LONDON.— Never perhaps was the spirit of enterprise so sig- nally manifest as in the exertions of a gentleman now in this country, who is endeavouring to accom- plish the formation of a Rail Road from the neigh- bourhood of MerthyrTydvil, through Gloucester, to London. The distance is 176 miles, and the project, if undertaken, may be completed at an expense of FAR LESS than that of the rail road now talked of" between Bristol and London. Most earnestly do we hope to see those princely merchants, the iron masters and iron merchants of Merthyr and the surrounding districts, already distinguished bv the improvements in rail roads which they have introduced into the county, take their proper place in an undertaking so vitally important to the wealth and prosperity of" the Garden of Wales." SWANSEA A\D NEATH HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. -The fourth and last show of this society for the current year, was held on Thursday at the Town Hall of Neath, when that fine and spacious building was fitted up with a peculiar display of taste and splendour, of all that the greenhouse, hot house, garden, and pleasure grounds pro- duce, as well as of the more substantial articles appropriate for the table. The whole of this magnificent arrangement was such, from the extreme beauty and variety of the articles exhibited, as to baffle description, to leave to the numerous admiring and fashionable spectators assembled, no other idea but that a fay alone had planned the en- chantment for the occasion! IRON TRADE.—The demand for iron continues brisk, with strong probabilities of being more so, but it has not risen in price. MERTHYR POLICE.—COMMITTED TG SWANSEA HOUSE OF CORRECTION.—Francis Ward, for an assault on Francis Mauwaring, two months, or pay 40s. and costs; also for breaking the window of Elizabeth Ellis, 14 days hard labour, or pay 28. 6d. and costs-Samuel Parkman, for breaking the window of Philip Jones, carpenter, one month, the last 14 days to hard labour, or pay fi>. 8<1. com- pensation and costs.—Isaac Hughes and Terence Jeffreys, for blasphemously cursing and swearing, 10 days hard labour, or pay 6s. 6d. On the 21st instant, Margaret Jenkins, of Hir- wain Iron Works, and Mary, her daughter, aged 16, were committed to Brecon Gaol by M. Morgan, Esq. for milking the cows of Mr. Thomas Williams, of the Court, in the parish of Penderrin, in the night time. Married, yesterday, by special license, at Mer- thyr Church, by the Rev. I. Jones, the Rev. Joshua Thomas, Minister of Adullam Chapel, Merthyr, to Miss Ann Reece, daughter of Mr. John Reece, Dowlais. Died, on Friday week, Mrs. Brown, wife of Mr. J. Brown, landing waiter, of his Majesty's Customs, Milford. Her death was awfully sudden, in a fit of apo- plexy, leaving a disconsolate husband and six children to lament their irreparable loss. Died, on Monday last, at Soring: Gardens, of spasmodic cholera, Lady Charlotte Berkeley, wife of Capt. Berkeley, R.N., a Lord of the Admiralty, and lately M.P, for the city of Gloucester. Her ladyship was sister of the Duke of Richmond.

"A PREMONITION TO PRINCES," and A PART- ING GLANCE," are unavoidably postponed.

MERTHYR TYDVIL, SATURDAY, Aug. 24,1833 480. Recent discussions on the East India and the China Trade Bills in the Lords, and more especially some observations by Lord ELLEN- BOROUGH, upon the construction of the latter. have induced us to procure copies of them for better reference, and in order by ourselves to verify the extraordinary and unconstitutional powers which the government was silently seeking to usurp, and the jobs it was attempting to create under favour of commercial legislation, The Bills now lie before us, but ere we pro- ceed to any examination of them, we have a few general remarks to offer on the great question of the opening of the trade itself to the extensive regions beyond the Cape of Good Hope, generally understood by China and the East. Entertaining a sincere respect for the East India Company as a Corporate Body, and fully alive to the advantages, which in the infancy and more advanced stages of commerce it has rendered to the empire at large, we yet cannot shut our eyes to the prejudce which the longer continuance of a close monopoly must cause in a trading community, the members of whieh are now, and have been for some time past, in so advanced a stage of wealth, enterprise and knowledge, as to be equal to mercantile specula- I tion, however vast, or the theatre however distant. That the Indies should be illimitably opened, and China, so far as independently of its Celestial Chief it can be, to the spirit of adventure which, on every side, is felt with continuous and elastic spring, pressing against the fetters which would hold it in bondage, is what every calm spectator of the course of :events must have anticipated, and every reasoning mind must have approved. Our objections apply only to the mode in which the inevitable changes are in course of operation, or are actually determined. When the merchants of Liverpool and the manufacturers of Manches- ter petitioned for th abrogation of the exclusive privileges of the chartered Company, they were far from denying their equal right with them- selves to trade thither. With a manliness pecu- liar to their character, and an independence of spirit which, were it not justified by the con- stant success of their exertions, might be thought daring, they invited competition, they asked only a fair field and no favour; and whilst deprecating monopoly in others, sought no selfish advantage for themselvts. A measure of injustice, there- fore, has been gratuitously dealt to the members of the East India Company, by debarring them from any participation in trading operations, seeing that their EQUAL right and power, should they deem it prudent so to employ heir resources, was neither denied nor protested against by the country. Apart, however, from this injustice- losing sight, for a moment, of the blundering sample of legislation which the two years pro- found meditation of Ministers, and the six months' travail of a House of Commons pregnant with ignorance, conceit and slavishness, have at length brought forth—postponing, for a while, any reference to the abandonment or defiance of great constitutional principles and land-marks, and the gross partiality with which different interests are provided for or regarded—apart from all these p considerations we say, that the removal of all hindrances to the extension of our intercourse with- the ancient EllIpire of the Mogul, and the abull- tion of all those barriers which opposed the gene- ral cultivation of such commercial relations with China, as the peculiar characterand jealous solici- tude of its government against foreigners would permit, are measures whose beneficial results we believe to be as indisputable as they are incalcu- lable. Whether the nation be indebted to this or to another administration for this splendid con- summation, is and ought to be a matter of com- paratively inferior importance, although as a matter of strict justice it seems but right to hear in mind that the great principle of the cessation of the Company's monopoly had been determined by the Duke of WELLINGTON long before the pre- sent Ministers came into office. Most heartily do we congratulate the great shipping, mercantile, manufacturing, and mining interests of the United Kingdom on the magnificent prospects which are dawning upon them, from the increased facilities o afforded to industry and enterprise in a more than full participation of the benefits of which the whole of Wales, but more especially South Wales, and the extensive portion of it where the GAZETTE and GUARDIAN has the honour more particularly to circulate, may assuredly reckon. Having fulfilled the more agreeable part of our duty, let us now turn our attention to some some small matters out of the quantity of jobbing and injustice which his Majesty's Minsters, with a baleful activity, have contrived to heap together upon so glorious a foundation. And first, in the China Trade Bill, we find a special enactment which, had it passed the Lords as it did the Commons, would have enabled the present or any other administration equally cor- rupt, to have levied to any amount of taxation upon the property of British subjects trading to China, for payment of the salaries of so many placemen [as it might have suited the tender mercies and the economical propensities of our Whig rulers to inflict upon its. That such pro- visions were actually introduced into the Bill, and but for the vigilance of the Duke of WEL- LINGTON and Lord ELLENBOROUGH would have passed into a law, will hardly be credited, yet is nevertheless matter of fact and almost of history. The following is the clause by which provision is made to saddle a whole generation of Whigs upon the country And whereas it is expedient for the objects of trade and amicable intercourse with the dominions of the Em- peror of China, that provision be made for the establish. ment of a British authority in the same dominions; be it therefore enacted, that it shall and may be lawful for his Majesty, by any commission or commissions, or warrantor warrants uneerhis royal sign manual, to appoint three or more of his Majesty's subjects to be superintendents of the trade of his Majesty's subjects to and from the said dominions, for the purpose of protecting and promoting such trade, and bv any such commission or warrant as aforesaid to settle such gradation and subordination amonj the said superintendents (one of whom shall be styled the chief superintendent) and to appoint such officers to ussist them in the execution of theirduties, and to grant such salariesto such siipei-interdents and officers, as hi..11ajesty shall from time to time deem ex. pedient; and the said superintendents shall be stationed at at such place or places as his Majesty shall from time to time direct." The care and precision with which the law officers of Lord GREY have contrived to leave the number of places to be created, and the amount of salaries to be p (id indeterminate, must have secured the high approbation of their superiors. The manner in which, and the extent to which it was contemplated raising the funds necessary to satisfy the cravings of this array of officials is described in the clause which follows:- And be it enacted, that it shall ba lawful for his Ma jesty, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, by any order or orders to be issued from time to time, to Impose and to empower such persons as his Majesty in council shall tllinli fit to collect and levy from or on account ot any ship or vessel belonging to any of the subjects of his Majesty en tering any port or place where the said superintendents or any of them shall be stationed, such duty on tonnage and goods as shail from time to time be specitied 111 such order or orders, the fund arising from the collection of which duties shall be appropriated, in stichmanner as his Majesty in council shall direct, towards defraying the expencet of the establishments by this Act authorized within the said dominions.' It will be observed with some surprise by su- perficial persons, that a revenue UNLIMITED IN AMOUNT, and assignable for whatever purposes under a certain designation government may choose, is here voted by a House of Commons chosen by and professing to represent the people under the reformed Constitution. To us, who thought a Reform in the representation absolutely called for, and who cannot but feel grateful to the measure which has among others given a re- presentative to the populous and respectable borough which is more particularly the seat of our labours, this excessive prodigality of a Reformed House would cause more surprise and mortifica-' tion, but that there is so great a predominance of LIBERALISM in its composition. The class of people known LIBEERAL OPINIONS, for are always lavish of the property of others, because, gener- ally speaking, they have little of their own to care about. It has been fortunate that the Upper House on this as on other occosions, have stepped in to take the guardianship of the public purse, which the lower House seems to have either abandoned or betrayed. By the exertions of the two noble Lords we have mentioned before, the number of superintendents has been limited to three, but all their efforts were ineffectual to reduce the amount of taxation to be inflicted more than one half: the dues on tonnage being lowered to 5s. per ton, and 10s per £ 100 value on goods, leaving still nearly NINETY THOUSAND POUNDS per annum at the disposal of the Ministers, for the benefit of their families, friends, and dependants, in a convenient House of Commons. Nor is this all the jobbing in places with the materials of which both the Bills are plenteously endowed—but it is nearly all that we have room for at the present. We cannot, however, quit the subject without remarking on the contempt and scandal thrown upon religion by the way in which the dignitaries of the Church are treated upon the subject of their appointments. The salary of an ordinary member of Council is fixed by the India Bill at96,000 rupees per annum (about two shillings per rupee); whilst *24,000 rupees are assigned to a Bishop, being one-fourth only of the pay of the former. Now if the Coun- cillor did four times the labour, or had four times the responsibility, little could be said against such a disposition of the law. But the reverse is the fact; the Councillor may be a man embarked in other affairs-he attends to take a part only on legislative questions in Council, which occupy but a small portion of his time, and for the rest he seems to have nothing to do but to eat, drink, and be merry. The Bishop, on the contrary, has to labour incessantly in that awful climate, to traverse the country far and. wide, thousands of miles in a year, in order to survey the state of of his flock, and provide for them accordingly. That labour will best be comprehended by a peru- sal.of BiMiop Leber's JJiary ana Lale, anu so faint idea of it may be formed by the fact that he fell an early sacrifice, and that two Bishops, his successors (we write from memory), became also early victims to it. This distinction and parti- ality between divers classes of functionaries so unequally burdened with duties, may partly be ascribed to that indifference for all religion and religious institutions, which is one distinguishing feature of the present administration but it must also, in a great measure, be attributed to the more direct patronage which the appointment of the Civil office invests them with for we repeat it, jobbing and patronage have presided in the concoction of these Bills.

We have always affirmed, that the great sub- stratum of the national wealth of the country, that in the absence of which, we might truly be said to merge into the ocean, is the agricultural wealth, and the agricultural resources for all other wealth, that the country intrinsically pos- sesses. It is perfectly clear that all the high wrought perfections that we have attained in numberless manufactures, and in the thousand ingenious arts which, in their preparatory steps, conduce to that perfection, would be of no value to us, would be only a splendid barrenness, if we had not the means of exchanging the productions of those admirable manufactures for food, for the subsistence of the men who practise these arts. From a statistic \iew which we gave in a former number, (20th of July) it is found that the consumption of productions of British in- dustry in the United Kingdom amounts, in round numbers, to 175 millions in the British Colonies, to 10 millions and a half; while in all other places in the world, they amount to a sum very far below 28 millions. Can there be a stronger proof of the indissoluble tie by which our manufacturing interests are linked to our agricultural ? Can there be a stronger proof that if the one totters the other must fall ? And whit shall we think of the wisdom or the virtue of those crackbrained speechifiers, whether in the one house or the other house, or in no house at all, who are in- cessantly striving to oppress the agricultural classes ? If the people of England, not only those who are engaged in agriculture, but all who subsist by industry, have a clear comprehension of their interests, they will consider the protection of British agriculture a subject of primary, even of vital importance. They will not only resist to the uttermost all the attempts which are made, madly by theorists, or wickedly by the worst enemies of their country, to rob us of this great fountain of subsistence but they will endeavour to enlarge it, and to render it more productive. Of the countless projects, of which, for several years, the two houses of Parliament have talked, and only talked, the most important is that which goes to the cultivation of the millions of acres that now lie waste, and to the extension of that great productive and practical improvement, spade-husbandry. These subjects, in all places of great intrinsic importance, are peculiarly so in the Principality. We see around us extensive tracts, spreading miles on every side, of mountain land wholly un- cultivated, and almost wholly unproductive. We observe that the land on the sides of these hills, up to a certain height, has been enclosed and cultivated and we learn that this has been done in most instances with amply remunerating suc- cess. But why cultivation has stopped at the precise point at which it has stopped, why one side of a certain boundary has been enclosed and made a fruitful garden, and the other side neg- lected and left a barren desert, is a question which we have not yet heard clearly solved. We have heard indeed of difficulties in the way but they are all difficulties which have been encoun. tered and subdued in the first cultivation of nearly every acre of land that is now productive. In a recent experiment in our own neighbour- hood, these difficulties have been so successfully grappled with, that we believe that capital, applied with agricultural skill, would be successful in rendering the sides, and in time the spacious summits, of the Glamorganshire Hills at least three or four times as productive as they now are of the subsistence of man. In saying this, we distinctly mean that the returns would replace the outlay with a fair profit; and that consequently the increase would be a solid and permanent gain to the landlord, to the farmer, to the agricultural population, and to the public. We admit that there are two obstacles, and very untractable obstacles they are, in the way at present; but as they are wholly of a political nature, nothing is more likely than that in these changing times they will by accident be removed. The first of these obstacles is the deficiency of capital, of which the farmers, as well as all other producers, suffer their share. When the legislature, in the banking terrors of 1825-6, prohibited the issue of country £ 1 notes, they smote the whole produc- tive population of the Kingdom with a severer blow than the public pre aware of. The real business of every locality in the country consists of production of some description or other, car- ried on by capitalists, who employ numbers of labourers in producing. The produce of these operations then used to be sold, rarely for cash, but for bills: these bills were carried to the country banker, who, from his knowledge of the parties, felt secure in discounting them. The value of the bill was then drawn out, principally for the purpose of paying wages, which purpose was substantially answered bv:Cl tiotes. As long, therefore, as the country banker could issue £ l notes he was enabled to create a fund sufficient to form wages for the bulk of the labouring classes in his neiglibotirhood but when the legislature deprived him of this resource, when he was obliged for every pound that he discounted to provide ti in gold, the process of increasing pro- duction with the increase of population was suddenly stopped and wages, on the production that was continued, fell in proportion. The remedy of this miserable blunder is supposed to be effected in the new plan on which the Bank Charter is to be continued but in this we shall be disappointed. The great thing needful is to insure the resource for wages in proportion as the people increase. The £ 5 notes will not serve to pay wages: and the amount of dis- counts, the amount of productions, and the tottle" of wages, must still be chained down to the stunted amount of the gold and silver which peradventure may be circulated. We spoke of two obstacles. The second is. that no man will plough where he is not sure to reap and who that has seen the doings of the Whig Ministers will venture to deny that this is u1 all liiiugs tlie must uncertain one hope, one ray of cheering ho] seen of late years so many and I changes, such assertions of princi abandonments of principles, in all Whigs, from Lord GREY downwards even to the "independent" Cambrian, that surely it cannot be long before the Whig Ministers and their nonsensical systems vanish in a mist together.

Different towns in France are loud in their complaints against the detached forts. Louis Philippe declares that the idea of them is entirely given up; but his loving subjects appear not to believe him. They surely have the best means of knowing him. 4'1 The affairs of Don Miguel appear to be rapidly improving, and the people are rising in every di- rection to join his standard. A' party of his troops, amounting to two thousand, has defeated a detachment of the army of Count Villa Flor, which formed the garrison of St. Bartolomeo de Mesniers, and penetrated into the' Algarves, taking possession of several towns in that district! The Duke Cadaval occupied the heights of Torres Vedras and was in full communication with Oporto. Viscount Molellos holds possession of Alentejo, and is carrying on a most activ e guerilla war. Marshal Bourmont had ordered 5,0(;0 troops to march to aid the Duke of Cadaval in attacking Lisbon, and declared that no doubt could be entertained as to the certain success of Miguel's cause. Since the above Molello's troops understanding that he was in treaty to sell them to Don Pedro, deprived him of the command, obliged several other officers to quit, and elected .1 amongst themselves other leaders, who imme- t, diately proceeded to join the Duke de Cadava!. The prisons of Lisbon are crowded by the unfor- tunate victims of Don Pedro's government. Up to the 6th inst. tranquillity had not been disturbed in Lisbon, but the respectable portion of the Por- tuguese inhabitants were in a state of great anxiety On the 4th the Pope's Nuncio sailed for Italy. The Spanish minister was at Coimbra. Don Pedro's progress is arrested by the impos- sibility of obtaining money. Intelligence to the evening of the 7th states that Bourmont had raised the siege of Oporto, and Don Miguel and the Marshal were then about to move at the head of a strong force to attack Lisbon. It is reported that Mr. Hoppner, the British Consul at Lisbon, has been recalled, at the desire of Lord Grey, in consequence of his having taken upon himself, without any authority so to do, to give instruc- tions to Admiral Parker to land the marines. A mail from Lisbon brings advices from that that capital to the' 8th and Oporto, to the 11th. The news of the raising of the siege of the latter city on the 7th by Marshal Bourmont is fully confirmed. The'general character of the intelli- gence from Portugal gives every prospect of a long and fearful struggle. A letter from the agents to Lloyd's at Lisbon, dated August 7th, says, Figuera and Aveira are strictly blockaded, and it is supposed that the ports to the Douro are by this time in the same state." A commission deputed from the different States of Germany, to enquire into the con. spiracies lately formed against the Diet has been formed, and is now sitting at Frankfort. Serious disturbances have occurred in Landau on account of the trials of the individuals charged as accomplices in the Frankfort conspiracy. In Switzerland the Federalists have taken possession of Basle and, elated with victory they declare that Basle must pay for their inter- vention. A strong sensation has been produced throughout the country, by the resignation of office of M. Mousson, the Federal Chan- cellor; and the Landamann Ruttimann, late Counsellor of State at Lucerne. The principal part of the Russian fleet sent to f't.fr}nf;nnn1p Vine I"ptllrno fro..1. ^auaiouvi.r- LV llJt: port of The- odosia. The Emperor continues to extend still farther the Polish; amnesty; and it is said that the Polish army is to be established, each brioade to contain an equal number of Poles and Russians. At Batavia, the news of the embargo on Dutch vessels has excited a strong sensation; the ships that had their cargoes were sent to Sourabaya, aya, and the coasts were lined with artillery, expecting to be attacked by the English.-At Sumatra an insurrection which has broken out against the Europeans has cost the lives of 136 persons besides 40 in the hospitals; the disturbance has been quelled, and the ringleader, Sintot, made prisoner, and sent to Batavia. Accounts received from Jamaica of 29th June, when the colonists had not heard of the 20 millions compensation, represent the inhabitants as under a strong feeling of indignation. Lord Mulgrave, at Jamaica, and Sir James Carmichael Smith, at Demerara, had issued proclamations to allay the irritation. By papers from St. Kitt's and Trinidad to the 25th of June, the accounts from the Colonies are very unfavourable. The sugar crop in most of the islands will be considerably below the average, and the sensation excited at the receipt of the particulars of the original government plan of emancipation is very strong. The planters then beheld nothing but impending ruin in the minis- terial measures. The province of San Juan is suffering severely from the spread of hydrophobia. At Palmyra, in Missouri, the cholera broke out on the 3d of June, and spread with unprecedented violence. In several parts of Kentucky, and at Shelbysville, in Tennessee, by accounts to the 20th June, the malady was also spreading with dreadful destruction. Accounts from the Mauritius to the 19th of July represent the colony in the greatest state of excitement at the prospect of Jeremy's return there, which was daily expected. Scarcely any business was doing in consequence. Singapore papers to Feb. 28, state that British manufactures were fully maintaining their prices in the markets of Canton on February 4.

ELECTION FOR THE COUNTY OF BUTE.—On Wed- nesday anew writ was ordered for the county of Bute in the room of Capt. S. Stuart, cousin to the Marquess of Bute, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. The gallant Captain has been ap- pointed to the Adjutancy of the Grenadier Guards in which regiment he is now Captain. In our advertising coloumns will be found the advertisement of the London and Westminster Bank, about which there has been for some time past a good deal of interest manifested both in London and in various parts of the country. The immensity of its proposed capital and the respectability of the Direct- ing-Committee entitle it to rank as a Xational Rank second only to the Biink of England itself. The plan of allowing some interest on deposits is we see an- nounced, and can hardly fail of securing to it a iargp share of that beneficial description of banking business. For detailed particulars however we must refer to the advertisement itself. s- &