The Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette and Merthyr Guardian

BIRTHS. —— On Sunday last, at Llandaff, the lady of the Rcv, Williams, of a l v. In Bedford sqnare, on the 25th insatit, the wife of the Hev. J. Endcll Tyler, of a OD. On Tk i MARUEL). .Monmouthshire. Oil the 19th inst. in Puitney Street, Rath, bv special VEKA8.?' 1 'IM IP"T /L0\ I'°,RD CARRING,ON> to Mrs Tie T>, ? *"E COUN,TCSS Stanhope and other branches of THE respective families attended upon the occasion On the 20th inst. was married by special lice^e at 't. ueorge'S Church, Hanover Square, the Lord Vi'scouit owerscourt to the Lady Elizabeth Jjcelyn. The CERE- MONY was peiformed by the Hon. and Rev. Sir Francis Stapletor., Bart. The bride WAS GIVPN father, the Earl of Kodeti. THO M.mernus^COMNA ,Y WHO attended returned to the Karl of Roden's HOU«E where they partook of an elegant dejeune. About fozl; o'clock the bride and bridegroom set off in his Lordship's chaise and-folirfor Hyde lIall, Herts, the ancient family seat of the Earl of Roden, 3 DIED. Yesterday, at St. Fagans, in the 62d year of her A<" in pious resignation to the Divine Will, and in humble hut faithful reliance upon the merits of her Redeemer Mary, the. wife of the Rev. William Thomas, Perpetual* Curate of Caerau, in this county. In her death a lar-e family of children, brought xl, with great tenderness, and through many trying circumstances of life, have to lament the loss of one of the best of mothers. At Twvnyrodin, on the 27th instant, aged 25 Mr Eliki Williams, shopkeeper, son of Mr Benjamia WillIams, of the same place. On Wednesday last, at Yniscaedidwg. Llanvabon aged 23, Margaret, daughter of the late Mr Edwaid Edwards, of (jwrnos, Merthvr Tydvil. On Saturday last, aged 6 months, George Edward the infant son of James Peirce, K»Q. Navigation HOUSU^ blandly. At Ebw Vale, on Saturday last, William Williams, for m'lny years a faithful leader in 'he Welsh Wesleyaa Methodist Society. At his Cottage, Crickhowel,Colonel Williams, aged SI* youngest son of Henry Williams, Esq. of LLANSPYDDIJ* Breconshire. h tl 1- I At her residence. Woolwich-common, on Ie. It I inst. Mrs Fead, in her S5th year, widow of the late Lieutenant- General Fead, of the Artillery. At Boath, on the 5th inst. Captain Sir James Dunba- « Bart, R.N. At Ewelmeon the ISth inst. the Rev. Edward Burton D. D. Canon of Christ Church, and Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford. Last week, at Edinburgh, Colonel Alexander Mai- Deputy Govet-nor of St. George. IAI » Lately, 3. V. Ramsden, M.P. fOR Mahon. Malm,, 1 thus lost bo'h its Members M the SANIE °'1 »»=• lion of Sir C. Pepys, having caused the other v On THE 20th instant, at Brussels Ti «Vacancy. M.A. of Cambridge, and Police MaoTstrale of'r"'h'q' Street. "o'sirate of Lambet.i On the 25th instant, at U'i ;.l A,U Vicount Hood, in his 83rd year. Abbey, Henry At Fordington, DORCHPTI^ I Henry Arnold, ESQ I n e instant, Jamrs merly Vicar-Generil""rv. LINCOLN'S Inn-fields, f0!- Advocate to the A .T^ANCELL°* OF Worcester, an 1 resigned soME years" TY' A11 ,WHICH BE ^AD his 7Sth year. previous to his death he WAS IN K™? ,;HEI2LST.INSTANT> MRS WEBB- OF Crook Loc, Bexlev the 5ih °R ST >'EAR- This Lady had descendants^' wa« N S<IERILUOU» having had a grand-daughter who was grandmother,

la test jntel lig ence. Th LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING. eltdorrespondent of the Times states that an Certainlmary courier had arrived at Santander, and Com J1 ^orc a very extraordinary dispatch, for it Cord0UnU'a^< ,,0t'nS h-ss than a battle, as General in,.a "Va S°°d naturedly terms it, and this is by no GoneMn-°rt''nary affair with the troops which the c°fnt>il Ki'1 v'e l),ent'tude of his sarcasm, calls in- Ni'it C .e reader will be surprised to hear MfhereTnera''SS'mo ^v:l,,s was there before the battle: dova d'e W'lS during its progress, poor General Cor- Wat^i 068 n°t pretend to guess. If any fact were P'i«itv^i -*° Prove Cordova's good nature and sim- to f ^P^tch would do it. He evidently tries r»yin_ ^est °f 't for Evans. He excuscs him by coijin] ^'le eagerness of his troops for the fray, t*F;rAnged all the plans which he and Suiciaut'0 a,K^ Evans had laid down for their Sageu ^e was ",a^ *'le t'iree Generals had follow" e'ern,hied not to touch the Carlists till the Prettv'n^ morn''ig, and their troops who, know them iiijr fancied that this amounted to not touch- sectitui^ Instead of doing the business, helier"? ?rteia> on weiit; £ liese well-disciplined troops, i»u,,lL ^r> and attach the few Carlists, who are ltd ti '• Cordova at five battalions, and thus they 'eir COTnrnaridcrs, where by their own shewing livan W°.u' rather not have been—into battle! man i!t 's truei acted the part of a discrcet COuld e ot out of the melee as fast as he ul fill troops were not entirely uninind- tlipy discipline, and they followed him. Where doej |Wer)t, the kind Cordova knowcth not, nor of P^'tend to guess, ile has had no accounts" wh»eh'p—but w]t(j a degree of consideration, for tl^t h *ans ought always to be grateful, he adds, the p e heard a firing" in the "direction taken by t;)e troops." We should not be surprised if | "t followers of the brave leader, yclept tl ^Vans» "w^re, as the nigiit was coming on, flre u enemy near, pouring in a most determined Po —l*ie'r own shadows. js°r Cordova tiiinks he has gained a victory but auj Vei7 innocent and may fancy his loss is a gain, p^P^tainly, as regards the quality of his incoin- is right, though it i$too cutting to Cofj What Espartero did, or whither he went, 'ike *pa Sayet1' not—'whether he is defunct, or missing, Cord ans> We are left to guess, and the friendly 8fe*H°Va 'S a Spanish version of When (v We three meet again ?" teroJj gentleman there, a Colonel Narbaoz, who is r4ed by Cordova, the-never-to-be-sufficiently- "abe '• aPPears to have had what the Scotch call ttuues6 ^°nnet," and was doing some strange Tjjjj ^hich Cordova calls "prodigies of valour." CordUUhapP3f w'S''t fell wounded in the head," saith tttUch°V'1' aS ',e were n°t touched there before, and but wfieved we'e we to learn that lie had fallen, I that Were Sieved by the postscript, which states e*tra f ^ee> we pardon, the "bail had been dan»C and the "wound was not thought to be to4^er°Us\ We are glad to learn that the never- au(BI-lently-priised" is as well as can be 'Pected.11 t^l'O'her Cabinet Council was held at the ""erean Office to-day, at three o'dock. Summonses issued last night to all the Ministers.

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TO CORRESPONDENTS. of the Pamphlets on the Dry Rot, fyc. shall be Jtben nett week e Understand that Mr Williams, of Perthi-gleision, colled, at our Office, and stated, that he believes rcport was incorrect, that Morgan Powell intended to marry his, Mr Williams's, daughter as was rc- Pf'ted at the Inquest, held last week, at the Angel *nn- Wc presume, Mr Williams means, that he 'lew of no such intention —the uLterior views of organ Powell would hardly, under the circum- ^<*nce4. have been disclosed to him. its^

AtEIlTHYU TYDVIL, SA 7'1111 DA Y, Jan. 30, 1836 J An article in that incomparable Journal, the ^°ndon Standard, answers in its usual style of ^°<l««ence and argument, the trifling cavils of destructives at what they pronounce, the Cfccts of the Tory system" during its Gov.rn- 'ntof the Empire. Why" says the Standard there would that Empire have been hut Tory system ?" If ever a system was ■J *1 to the core by difficulty and consecrated J Matchless triumph it was this systeiji.— "de We, at this hour, without a foreign enemy, **lbout a domestic evil, except what our own SUr<lities engender, without the most trivial of natHral or Political circumstances hourly losing our weight in Europe, or t°Urly placing the most important branches of Constitution in jeopardy, cannot stir a step .Jtljom a threat of swamping the Lords, abolish- "'e Bishops, and overthrowing the whole ncient Church Establishment, which the Con- ,t,l'ion would follow in few years. While we i\.Y already exercised the broadest force in bZ on the iiivvful privileges of the Corporate j. ,)ave broken a|j tjie 0],| al,d generous tile between the natural Constituent and e natural Representative, have cast down Ptrty from its natural place in the choice "'e Legislature, and have grossly urged into that place many who have neither ropertY-nor knowledge-nor principle, while Addition to all, we have put British Adminis- ^Hion into the hands of a junta, who are them- *elu '*•« in the hands of a Papist faction, openlv QSlt1.e to our Government, country, and religion, H'hiie H* the consequences of all, every man °°ks forward to a revolution^ and no one can whether in ten vears h«m*« that revolution *eav« him a shilling or a country. "What," ,^s the Standard, •* does England o«e to the IIff Government of George lit I" An empire !*0re widely extended than mankind had ever tu °rC w'tness€(^- The commerce, the manufic- turf "(If a sillitil island, shooting far above all tile commerce—all the manufactures, and all the q,- nile of atllhe world i)esloies. -i. few millions I- Pie gathering beneath their peaceful ti e^'r,e« hundred millions of Asiatics, and at e ijgjg redeeming from the iron hand of ■jjmil,'ary despotism, hundreds of millions of ^^Ur°pe;uis. Yes—-T){AFALGAit—and WATKULOO y ,lle time marks of the CONSEUVATIVE KRA. c es Manchester—Liverpool—Birmingham and jU ,n*ercial Lond on — Mad ras, anil Calcutta, are ,e "lolluinerits of CONSERVATIVE GOVEIINSJENT.

——" f' sale of unstamped Press," a i it is aneli k mak^tig its way through the country, w,sh yre Id say without the cognizance of ^ftSe who ought to Put a S,°P ,0 And efii)rts matle to put a stop to it have certainly j whether intcwtionuHy or not, to put the its ,llt0 P°P«l«r disgrace.. In the first place, JIoo ellgeance is allowt.d to fall alone upon the Uj- f ^fetches who hawk those publications; <h er,e brings, whose poverty would compel iih t0 poison, if they could make a live- it. Then we have long police derails J,.w e r*,tge<'ness of those unfortunates, and Ra 1' 'Uv» (j ^'hcal lucubra'ionson the cruelty of senri- jail for the sins of ignorance, and *Uoo • of course, the Un, tamped Press reaps the benelit of all this commisseration, alike by by its publicity and by its being an object of resistance to a severe shape of the law. Another and not less offensive feature is, that the prose cutions a¡ left to be carri('d 011 by' ('onlfllOIl informers," a brunch of judicial employ al'o gether intolerable to the commo.i feelings of aii(i iiiore especially tils(,,tistitiLr to fill, feelings of Englishmen. All this plap into the hands of the "Unstamped Press," and it has nothing to do but to continue i's pi-ogresg, s ir, of an access of popularity, from the vile means adopted to put it down. in the mean time we hear of no prosecutions by the acknowledged lam authorities, against the weekly and hourly in- sults to the law by the proprietors of these palpably illegal publications. The wholesale dealers in this traffic, the authors and propaga tors of the whole evil are untouched their placards figure on every wall of the metropolis, their adverlisements flourish in every low news- paper, their glories meet the eye chalked in every corner of the streets. We have heard nothing of the legal thunders of that "Jupiter Touans," Sir John Campbell, being a wakened to the merest growl. The Solicitor General, too, a little busy man, sleeps the sleep of an epicurean deity on this occasion all are dormant. Police officers, it is true, seize, commit, and send to shiver in Newgate, day by day, the poor con- veyancers of this mischief, amidst the groans and wrath of the crowd fhe common informer alsots on the alert summoning his odious and characterless pack, and hounding them through the country, sure to he defeated by the law in all cases wherever the law is known, and equally sure to bring the law into contempt wherever its bearing upon the matter is not known. And' thus the "Radical Unstamped" thrives. But let no one conceive that this thriving is of trivial consequence- We say it gravely, when we say. that a heavier curse could not be inflicted on England than a general Unstamped Press- What, for instance, would be the condition of public society, ifevery ruffian, stimulated by the love of rebellion, plunder, and blood, were to have the power of continually propagating his treasons among the people, perverting every public act of government, degrading every principle of law, and violating every precept of religion, at his will, and this daily, at the small expense necessary to set up the mere materials of print- ing a scrap of a newspaper—and with no more responsibility than might attach to a man des- titute of all ascertainable security, property, and character? l'or a very low price a printing apparatus might be set up that would act as a fire brand through every province of the empire- A single miscreant miulit be enough to fill the mind and hand of every enemy of law and government with materials of national ruin. To argue on the tremendous power of public evil embodied in an iniquitous press would be superflous, but all its iniquities and all its inflic- tions, would b,, "Icalctilat)lv increased by thus suffering it to run its desperate career free from the common obligations of the law. The stamps, ihe securities required of the proprietors, and the consequent liabilities of those proprietors in case of injury to public rights or personal character, are not fetters upon thought but de- fences of liberty, the safeguard of the state and the individual, against the infinite mischiefs and miserres arising from the abuse of the Press. The capital at present required for commencing a newspaper, limits the attempt in general to men who have something to lose—men of pro- perty. character, and condition the feeling of responsibility which belongs to those circuit!- stances, natnrally rciiHcra tlio n«w«jijpUr pro prietor cautious of indulging his personal incli- nations to the extent of public or private evil, ii'iie liave them, and tiie practical result is the comparative absence of general or personal in- jury. But once suffer the unlimited power of saying or doing what they will of every filing and every one, to fill into ttit-, irresponsible hands of tile vicious, the vagabond, and beggared of society, and England would not be a country fit to live in. As in all kinds of ways, the present en- lightened generation are to show, how immea- surably wiser they are than their foolish fore- fathers, who founded the liberties of England, we take the liberty of adding our mite to the general panegyric in the form of a fragment from one of the Police Offices. Our readers are probably not all to be told, that one of the grievances winch most oftends the Piety, Philo- sophy, and profound learning of Ille 9 10 voters, —erudite and thinking people they are,-is the connexion of the Church wiill Ilie State. It is nothing to the purpose that the prejudiced and purblind race, whom we are almost ashamed to call our ancestors, and who, "I fact, were fit for lntle better than to estal)lisll Colistitu:iol),- found Ei-nl)ires-aii(I make their lo,iiitry oi)tllt-llt, and transmit the purest of all faiths in its purest form to posterity, actually committed the extra- vagance of providing every man with the means of Divine worship, and of providing Divine worship itself, with the-means 61 that perma- nency which belongs to institutions guardedly the Law of the Land. The improved plan, how- ever, consists in the simple contrivance of leav- ing every man to provide for his religion just as he pleases. if any "all choose to have no religion at all, or that no religion at all shou*«l exist, why should he pay ? says the 010 ern system. if any man have not the means of paying, why should any he called on by the law to pay for him, says the new School of politics and philosophy. True it may seem to the more unlightencd that if the existence of a religion is to depend on the -eiiero,ity of the n)iilll,tide, consisting of the idle, the ignorant, and the vicious, who naturally think that they have nothing to do with the matter, there is a strong probability that the existence of religion in a country will he left to the care of those few who inherit old feelings Sll fficiclltly to prefer a c hurch on Sunday to an Upera House, a xavern, or a Debating Club wuile, if the poor are to be shut out from Divine worship until they can afford to build Chapels and portion Ministers, they are likely to be a considerable time without either Minister or Chapel. But all these are obsolete notions, and not to be brought into company with the blooming discoveries of the age of ten pounders and patriotism. The con- summation of the discovery is the Voluntary System," by which every man is to do just as he likes, every congregation is to make or un- make its own pastor as it pleases, and every pastor is to live free as air" from every autho- rity on earth, except that of the majority of his congregation, and we should not forget the Police Magistrate, obviously a natural and be- coming settler of Ecclesiastical opinions. The following scene is from the Voluntary System," and occurred at the Marylebone office, London, and at no more reijuote period than last week. The Reverend I -———— (we oll)it the a I ¡¡, for our ¡'Olll't'rn I. ¡Ih p' ill i¡Jles, I/O: I%veek. individual*) attended 9t the office to answer the CUlllplaillt of another lieverend -—————. fur (In act of ititerriii)tioli, &c- &c. iiiiderthe 12 section, Geo. 3, c 155. The complainant stated that havin been appointed Reader at a certain Chapel, by the Trustees, he proceeded to ofliri ite as was his duty, at the celebration of »•»" Ho!> Sacrament—he took the book and was aoout to commence the uSllal prayer, when one of the Con gregalion came in front and told him to desist, at this IIIOlllellt, IlIe (hfendant; wlio is Minister of the Chapel, told the complainant that he knew nothing of him, alld turning to the Congregation, t)ttt It to them whether he had any business there, calling on those who were of the same opinion to hold up their handsA great many did so, and soiiie ci-ied out All-all." The defendant then began to address them in front, and said "he knew nothing of that man, and that he might he one of the very worst of characters. After this, he gave out a HYMN, contrary to all usage, which was sung by the Congregation, de then took two of the plates containing the bread (here began a scene of still more scanda- lous profanation, which we recommend to thf attention of the admirers of the V oluntary System)—the complainant took another plate, but the defendant took it forcibly out of his hand, saying "Sir you have nothing to do with it." Complainant bowed, and was so disgusted with the occurrence, that lie sat down. He stib- sequently rose to receive the brtjad from the ueacons, but they refused. Complainant then took it himself, when defendant saw this, he turned to the Congregation, to some of whom he had just jidministered the Communion, and said they need not go far to ascertain the charai ter of the IIHllI who could dare to enter that piace and take the bread from tne Altar." There were six wine vessels on thetalJle which the defendant placed on one side of him, standing between them and complainant, so that they were out of his reach and he could not partake of the wine—he remonstrated, but the defen- dant told hUll to hold his tongue and have no 11 speechify t'iig The defendant admitted the greater part of the facts alleged, and the Magis- trate concluded the affair by ordering him to find bail to meet the charge at the Quarter Sessions. Now we submit it to thecvtmmou decencies of mankind was not this w hole exhibition—vile, abominable, and impiolls. The scene, the altar- the -ei-eii,olly, 'the coiiiiiititi*!oii-tlie spectators, a congregation calling itself Cliristian,-aiid the combatants, persons calling themselves Ministers of Christianity. The people, with the sacrament of peace actually on their lips, called upon to join in the quarrel; the emblems of the body and blood of the Redeemer, dragged from hand to hand, and the whole pro- fanation suitably concluded by a display before a Police Magistrate in the midst of a group of constables — pick-pockets, and the drunken raggedness of street walkers. -*nd these are the fruits of the" Voluntary System," and we say the natural fruits, lor there was nothing in the whole business that might not occur in any instance where two vulg ir men may be made Ministers of a Chapel by any vulgar canvass- where any rude congregation may liC summoned to have a voice in the Church, and where no authority but that of the Police Magistrate exists to keep the rabble from joining tile dis- putants, and the disputants from trampling on each other. A Bishop, tis true, would have prevented the original quarrel by putting a fit Minister into the Chapel; Church authority would have prevented the riot by the just fear of Ecclesiastical censure Ecclesiastical law l»c\vo .Jottlùd hof.o Uivrttl tho Ti;;hi, of 4.1It: Reader and the Minister, and saved the Sacra. ment from being torn and profaned. But all this would be inconsistent with the March of intellect, however in keeping with the "order and decency" enjoined by Apostolic command. Bishops have been Pastors and Heads of the Church only for the last eighteen hundred years, and are unworthy of the new light which shines upon the lucubrations of every colder in our luminous age. Canvass of the mob is the true principle to ascertain the merit of the Minister and the Voluntary System" is the triumph of reason and of the 19th century.

The King will hold a Council on Tuesday next, when the Speech for opening the Session of Parliament will be submitted to his Majesty for his approbation. On the following day, Viscount Mel- bourne will give a grand entertainment at his house, in South Street, to the Duke of Leinster, the mover of the Address, and other Nobie Peers, to whom the King's Speech will be read after dinner. The same ceremony will take place at the residence of Lord John Russell at Wilton-crescent, who will entertain a numerous party of tne members of the House of Commons on the occasion. It is understood that his Majesty will open the Session in person. The Address, to be moved in the Lords bv the Duke of Leinster, will be seconded by Lord Burlington; in the Commons moved by Sir John Wrottestey, and seconded by Mr. Parker, Member for Sheffield. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Marquis of Lansdowne attended in the Court of Exchequer to prick for the Sheriffs of jthe different counties yesterday. ir Robert Peel is now entertaining, at his seat at Drayton Manor, the following distinguished personages:—His Grace the Duke of Wellington, the Earl of Jersey, tiie Earl of Harrowby, the Earl and Countess of Lincoln, Lord ttranviile Somerset, and several of his political friends-of the House of Com- mons. On Thursday, the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert met the Athcrstolle fox hounds at Canwell Gate, where they soon found a fine old fox, and after a severe run they Succeeded in killing him; his Grace and Sir Robert being in at the death. His Grace appears in the enjoyment of excellent healtli.-Staf- fordshire Advertiser. The nishop of Peterborough is still very iII- so much so as to be unable to leave his room. Mr George ilenry Freei ng has left town for Paris, to resume his negodátiolls. wit11 the French Government on the subject of the Post-office. The late Baron Texeira Campavo, ex-Por- tuguese Consul-General, has left immense wealth, which he has distributed among his friends and rela- tives. His fortune in this country is said to amount to upwards of X iso,ooo ,and on the Continent it is stated to exceed 400,0:m. He and his brother, the late Conde de Porva, made their vast fortunes by contracting for the English army in the Peninsula. The Kentish Gazette says:—THE CANTKRBUUY CORPOR4'l'lON, Ve have'woted a wotc of thanks to Lord John Russell and Willjain Rex, the King, on wellum parchment—it's what I call doing the thing handsome, and shows that we intends in follow- ing up the footsteps of the old corruptionists to do the tiling what's right," exclaimed one of the Blue new lights to a friend, as he recovered himself after stumbling down the Hall steps on the first night of the Council meeting. Frederick Weisser, a well-known humorous German writer, and Councillor of Finance, died at Studgardt recently, in the 75th year of his age. He was a man generally loved and esteemed. His works have been much read. Many of the corporations have discarded the maces, swords, and habiliments of office; a change which, as far as regards the aldermen's gown, at least, is injudicious, as some of the newly elected aldermen, we understand, would be vastly improved in external appearance if their own vestments were concealed beneath a robe of office.-Manehester Courier. The new corporations are beginning their march of tom-foolery," we use their own epithet- how long they will continue it, remains to be seen. A town councillor, not 100 miles from Bolton, de- clared, after his instalment, that if a bottle of wine were introduced into the council-room, by way of refreshment, he wolld 1, smash it with his stick."— Stwtyort Advertisert

GLAMORGAN CONSTI N 11 >\U. AND OVSEKVA- TIVE ASSOCIATION.^—We are rejoiced to state that the result of the reports made to the meeting at Bridgend on Monday last, were of the most satisfactory nature and, to use the words of an able Contemporary, We are mistaken if in both parts of the still United Kingdom these manly defences of life and property do not rapidly spread, until they emprace the whole moral force of a relfecting and high-principled nation." Mr J. Kemvs Tynte, M.P. will be preventi from taking the Criair at Freemasons' Hall on the anniversary of the birth-day of his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, in consequence of the decease of his brother-in-law, the late Sir W. A. Cooper, Bart. Mr Ldward Romilly is appointed Commis- sioner of Audit, in the place of Mr Winshaw, who has retired, after thirty years' service. We have to record in our obituary of this day the death of one of our oldest Fellow citizens, Lieut. Col. Ollney. We understand this gentleman has bequeathed i?40,000 to charitable purposes !—the particulars have not reached us, but we believe we arc correct in stating that es,ooo has been left to charities in this city, exclusive of £1,000 to the Infirmary. We shall siVe further particulars next week. The funeral will take place this day, when all that remains of mortality will be deposited in the cloisters of our venerable Cataedral. Lord Segrave will pay his last tribute of respect to the deceased by attending his remains to the grave.-Gloucester Chronicle. -#'#-# LORD SVNDON AND THE LIVERPOOL TRADESMENS' CONSERVATIVE ASSO- CIATION. When his Lordship had finished his admirable speech and had been proposed a member of the club, he said, He feared he should make a bad tradesman, begin- ning too late in life. However, wit.) the ciianges and chances now going on, it was not improbable that he might be obliged to take to soine trade or other. (Laughter and cheers.) If at any future period he should be looking about him for that purpose, he should know where to come to. lie was sure he should find a friend or two in Liverpool who would put him in tne way of turn ng a penny. The President said—if he had not a perfect know- ledge of the Noble Lord, he should recommend him to take up the trade of an Agitator, for it was much the most profitable. (Lord Sandon is son of the Earl of Harrowby and married Lady Frances Stuart, daughter of the late Marquess of Bute.) SWANSEA AND NEATH HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. A general meeting was heid at the Public Rooms, Swansea, on Saturduy last. The President, Mr Vivian, after having explained a plan to be adopted towards the censors through the year, as to their being left entirely alone whilst adjudging the prizes, re- marked on the latter part of the second rule, which runs thus" but in the case of two medals being offered for sets of specimens of the same description, only differing in the number of articles in the set, no member to be allowed to compete for the prizes in the two sets." Ibis subject he wished to be particularly attended to by every exhibitor, as under the proposed arrange- ment, however strong a gardener might be in flowers, fruit, or vegetables, he could not run off with the silver and bronze medals; and lie (the President) had taken infinite pains to arrange it in this manner, that every one might be encouraged to try for prizes in some department of horticulture. The Secretary having stated that there were still several defaulters, the managing committee, recommended that notes be addressed by the Secretary to taose members, remind- ing them of their arrears, which being approved, the meeting separated. BOROUGH OF SWANSKA.—List of persons re- turned to fiil up the vacancies occasioned by the election of Aldermen UPPER WARD. William Bevan 115S Charles Henry Smith 146 Thomas Oweii 137 David Walters 135 I.OWEK WARD. Thomas Glover 153 William Johns 143 The election took place on the 36th instant. SWANSEA TO CHELTENHAM, THROUGH THE VALE OF NEATH AND MEKTHYR.—;We are concerned to hear that the Contractors of the Mail between this town and Swansea, are about to relinquish the under- taking at the expiration of their form, in consennnn^ ot tiie detective state of the roads we understand, however, should a better line be formed, that they declare their determination to establish aivuninter- rupted channel of intercourse by coach, through Merthyr, from Swansea to Cheltenham some pre- liminary measures towards improving the road, have been already taken, frequent Meetings held, and a new direction surveyed and approved by Mr Brnnel and other experienced engineers; the lack of means is the obstacle to the completion oi the project, but we confidently hope that shortly, some mode will be adopted to supply t:iÏs deficiency. BATTLE OF ST. PAGANS AND LENGTH OF OUAL I BADITION. A man yet young may remember our late Glamorg-allshirc Bard, Edward Williams (1010 Morganwg) had he been now living, he would have been 92 years of age. He perfectly remembered (when a boy of six or seven years of age) hearing from an old woman at Penatark then aged 105, that while she was milking her master's cows at Caira she had seen "tht Rout" (which was the term by which she designated Cromwell's Troops) in detached bodies, crossing the fields, and committing various acts of depredation oil their way to St. Pagan's, previous to the sanguinary battle which took place there about 1 ne same old woman also told our Bard that the heat of the battle was on the banks of the Ely, and that the river was discoloured with blood for a considerable distance. It is a well-recorded faet tuat such was tiie slaughter of Mr Lewis's tenants in that battle, that for Very many years afterwards the harvest was secured, and other laborious farm labour performed by the women. There arc numerous re- cords of this battle still among the inhabitants of the hundred of Miskin, where the Royalists were very strong. One is, that scvcu brothcrs from Ystradyfodwg were killed in that battle, and all buried together in Llantrissent Church-yard. Major Mathews, of Blaen- gwawr, in the parish Gf Aberdare, a brother of Edward Mathews, of Aberanian, took an active part on the I side of the Royalists- -Williiiii Bassett, of Miskin, was Sheriff of Glamorgan in that year. VIOLENCE OF THE STORM ON FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY MORNING LAST.—Such was the extraor- dinary violence of the wind on Saturday morning last, the 23rd instant, tuat a daughter of TlIOS. Edmunds, a Dowlais collier, who was fifteen years of age, was literally blown under the Dowlais locomotive engine, nearGellivaelog Bridge, and only survived a few hours. —Several large trees were snapped in tiie middle, and in some places great numbers were uprooted. The oldest people never remember the wind so boisterous. We saudder to think ol the state of the shipping during so awful a storm. THE GALE OF THE 23rd.—HOLYHEAD, 23rd JAN. 4, P.M.—It has blown a tremendous gale all day from the west. A Dutch brig in a sinking state, has run on the strand the other side of the bay. The life-boat took a pilot on board. The vessel will be got off. A brig and schooner are at anchor far to the leeward; the brig is from Cardiff to Liverpool, and the schooner belongs to Belfast. COMMITMENTS TO CARDIFF GAOL AND HOUSE OF CORRECTION.—Jan. 18th. Edward Tonks, by T. R. Guest, Esq., charged with being a deserter from His Majesty's 440til Regiment of Foot. Jan. 25th. Mary Williams, by same Magistrate, charged with uttering one piece of false and counter- feit coin, ealled a crown, and one other piece of false and counterfeit coin, called a half-a-erown, as, and for good, legal, and current silver coin, well knowing the same to be false and counterfeit. i)n Tuesday the 26th inst. an ir,quest was held at Penmark, in this county, by Lewis Recce, Esq. the Coroner, upon the body of John Richards, who was killed the proceeding day by falling from a cart. Verdict—Accidental Death. He had been a faithful servant as a bailiff, in the service of the Rev. Dr. Casberd, thirty eight years. 1# MERTHYR POLICE. (Before J. B. BRUCE and W. THOMAS, Esqrs.) (Jan. 19 and 20, omitted last week.) JANUARY 19.—311 persons appealed, from Inability to pay poor's rate. Exonerated 278 To pay 23 Postponed for enquiry 1 v ztd Not found, removed, and dead 9 311 JAN. 20.-301 appeals were heard Exoiler, 259 ,it(-(I Ordered to pay 2-1 Vacantandronoved. IS 301 Thomas Griffiths was fined 2s. OJ. and costs, for an assault oa Mary Nicholas. JAN. 26.—There were this day 293 appeals against payment of poor's rate:— Exonerated. 230 Ordered to pay. 28 Removed and not found 3,5 21)3 John M'f oy, otherwise Hughes, was committed for trial, at the ensuing Assizes, for stealing a coat, tiie property of John Griffiths, ostler, at the Crown, in this town. David Itees, Coach and Horses, Dowlais, was charged with keeping his house open after the ap- pointed hour, on Sunday, the 17th instant, but owing to a discrepancy as to proof of time, he was dis- charged. David Jones, Barley-Mow, Dowlais, was charged with the same offence, but was convicted in the costs, 011 account ol having drunken inen in his house at the time in dispute. Henry Thomas, Bute Arms, licensed victualler, was fined Is. and costs, for having his house open during Divine Service, on the same day. The Ma- gistrates observing, that he owed the sniaUncss of the fine to ti)e previous good character of his house, cer- tified by Mr Evans, the agent. J AN. 27-—James Barnett, stone-dresser, was fined 50s. for an assault, with a hammer, upon John Ryan, a fellow-workman, in the new gas works, and in default of payment, was committed for one month to the I louse of Correction. John Lewis, Three Salmons, beer-house, Dowlais, was fined 40s. for keeping his house open after hours, on Sunday night, the 17Lji instant. John Griffiths, Dowlais, was fined 2s. for profanely I,- cursing and swearing. JAN. 29.-298 persons appealed against payment of poor rates-24S were exonerated-41 ordered to pay—and nine dead and removed. William Lewis, Cyfarthfa Boat, was fined 40s. for letting down a lock paddle on the Glamorganshire Canal without a windlass. Wm. Jones, boat No. 3t, was fined 40s. for forcing open the top gate of a lock by means of a horse and rope. Wm. Davies, coal boat, David Jones, Dowlais boat, and David Davies, jun. coal boat, were each fined 12s. 6d. for navigating their boats without it drivers. Edm. Howel, Mr W111. Jones's timber boat, was fined IDs. for the same offence. Thomas Jenkins, Three Pigeons, beer house, Dow- lais, was fined 40s. for keeping his house open after legal hours on Sunday the 17th inst.

0 u m 0 ittlvsSlucf. The late Dowager Duchess of Beaufort, daughter of Admiral the Hon. Edward Roscawen, who died in 1828, lived to see her posterity flourish in an extraordinary manner, being herself the parent of twelve children, seventy-one grandchildren, and four- teen great grandchildren, a number which has since materially increased.

BccconShfvc. PHESF.NT STATE OF KIIECOV COIJTY GAOL,- For tri-,Il 2 Under Sentence Debtors 7 23 "MONEY MAK-S MONEY." — This homely, thougn most true adage, was never more clearly ex- emplified than in the late great advance in cask butter. The hilly farmers, without capital, were compelled to sell their salt bntter in November, and early in De- cember, to meet their Christmas rents. The price then was from Sd. to 9d.—very little so high as 9d. and some lower th.n 8d. Within the last three weeks it has advanced to 13d. by the cask, and is re- tailed at 14d.; so that they who have been able to hold their stock will gain about 5d. a pound. A hilly farmer, renting £ "2;) or £ S ) a-year, will often sell four casks of butter weighing from 80 to looibs. so that the monied farmer will have an advantage of t-i. or £ 8. over the poor one. The great advance in this article is not only attributable to the unusually drv summer of 1835, but to the very great heat which occasionally prevailed, at which time no butter could be made at all. We have heard of several Iarg-c farms where scarcely any butter was made for three weeks successively. At Carmarthen, the beginning of the week, they were shipping butter busily for the English market. CRICKHOWELL POLICE INTELLIGENCE.— On Monday, the 25th instant, Thomas Probert and Isaac- Morgan were convicted at Crickhowell, before. n wynne, Esq., Rev. R. W. Davies, and E. W. Seymour, Esq., with having illegally killing a salmon in the river Usk, and fined in the mitigated penalty of ,£:5 each, and In default of such payment, they (iaoIt'ic're 'io'Ue'kept \o 'Iia'rd labour for two cafentiar months.

HUNTING APPOTNT2IENTS. THE LLANBLETIIIAN HARRIERS will meet on Monday Feb. 1st at Golden mile. Wednesday 3d .at Stalling Down. Fridav 5th .at Wick. At half-past ten. The MONMOUTHSHIRE HOUNDS will meet on Monday. Feb. 1st .Crowfield. Thursday 5th • • • • Ooss Buchan. At half-past ten o dock.

FAIRS IN FEBRUARY. Glamorganshire.—Oowbridgp, nrst l uesflay in Feb- ruary; Lknd.-tfF, 9;h Llantrissent, 13th. Monmouthshire. -Carleon, 2nd Monday in February. Brcconshirt.-Ruilth, 3rd Monday in February; Cri(-kliow(,Il, Ist. Radnorshire.—Howey, Saturday before 13th. Pemb rokes li ire. —-Camrass^ £ -7- 1:

CIRCUITS OF THE JUDGES. I The Judges met on Thursday se nnight, in the Exchequer Chamber, when they selected their Circuits for the Spring Assizes as under S SOUTH WAI.ES.. MI Justice Uoieruige. \ORTH WAI.ES MR Bar A G.irney. OXFORD Mr Baron Alderson and Mr Justice Williams. NORTHERN Lord Oenman and BSRON Parke. HOME Lord Chief Justice Tindal and Mr Justice Vaughan. MIDLAND Lord Abinger and Mr J -a s t c <? Hosanquet. „ 1 NORFOLK. Mr Justice Park and Mr Justice Gaselee. WESTERN Mr Justice Littlcdale and Mr Baron Holland. OXFORD CIRCUIT The following days and place arc appointed for holding the Lent Assizes, before Mr Baron Alderson and .Mr Justice Williams Monmouthshire—Saturday, March 26, at Monmouth. Gloucestershire—Tuesday, March '29, at Gloucester. City of ditto—Same d'-»y. at Glouces'er. Ilercford.ddre —Wednesday,March 23, at Hereford. Berkshire—Wednesday. Feb- 24, at Reading. Oxfordshire—Saturday, Feh. 27, at Oxford.0 Worcestershire — Friday. March 4, at Worcester. City of ditto-Same (lav, at Worcester, Staffordshire—Thursday', March 10. at Stafford, Shropshire—Friday, March IS, at Shrewsbury.

(From our Milford Correspondent, Jan. 27.) A Schooner which run lip l'or shelter this afternoon, was blown on shore in Ilubberston Pill, but is expected to be got off as soon as the weather moderates without damage. A schooner belonging to Brixliam, laden with iroll from Cardiff, was wrecked on Saturday morning last, near West Dale, where she was )vh)g at an anchor during a tremendous gale of wind "from S.W. The crew, with the exception of one man, washed overboard were saved by taking to the boat. The weather has been extremely boisterous the greater part of the last week, on Saturday, it blew almost a hurricane from S. VV., in consequence of which, His Majesty Steam Packet was delaved in conveying the Irish mail across the channel. Several vessels are reported to have been lost outside this harbour, particulars of which have not yet been re- eeived. L'he East India Ship, Ltinten, Gilmore, from Liverpool, bound to Bombay with a general cargo, put in here for shelter oil Friday last, during a heavy gale. WORCESTER POLICE. A Welsh boy, named David Morgan, about 19 years of age, was brought forward by Inspector Douglas, found lying asleep, in Pump Street about three o clock on Sunday morning. He stated that he had been apprenticed to the trade of a tailor, and had walked from Carmarthen, through Swansea and Ross, to Worcester, hoping to get employment. Mr Douglas told him there was little cliancc of that, unless lie could prove serving his whole apprenticeship, The Magistrates told him if lie did not get employment in 2.4 hours, there was no chance be would get it at all in Worcester, and re- commended him, in that case, to go back to Swansea, where he last worked.—Worcester Guardian. THE LOST HpSB\D.-A lady ()f t'ie (iet)i,rt- ment des Ardennes offers a reward of 1,500 francs to any person who will bring back her husband, who is missing since Mav, 1834, or to any one who will make known his place of retreat. He is thus described :— Age 49, height four feet two inches, complexion tan colour, eves trrev head bald, liair and beard black, nose inclining to a red, face rather pale, scar on the left check in form of a V, and very deaf,

THE LATE DR BURTON OF OXFORD. (From a Correspondent.) The deepest gloom has been thrown over the whole University by the deatil of the Rev. Dr. Burton, the Regius Professor of Divinity. His health, never strong, had been impaired by unremitting labour in his public and private duties, it, which he was engaged till within a few days of his decease. He was a man of great learning and research, of peculiar clearness of judgment, sound and accurate in taste, and singu- larly happy in a lucid explanation of his views. He devoted himself zealously to the instruction of students in Theology, not only in public, but private lectures, which he undertook voluntarily to the great benefit of the University, at great sacrifice of time, and it may be feared of health. And be endeared himself to all his numerous classes bv his unaffected kindness, openness, and simplicity of character. Without being attached to any party, or fond of con- troversy, he was a determined maintainer of truth and in many of the discussions which have lately been forced upon tile University, lie took the lead, and witn a remarkable union of firmness, candour, ear- I ), 0 nestness, and genuine liberality. To these qualities, which eminently fitted him at this crisis for his im- portant position, he joined a thorough acquaintance I with the practical management of a parish, and exhi- bited at his living of Eweline an admirable specimen of an active country clergyman. He mixed in society with unaffected cheerfulness and good nature with- out the slightest pedantry; and rendered himself as acceptable to the poor by his benevolence and charity, as to the educated men by his learning. It is under- stood that by his own request, and in perfect con- sistency with the simplicity of his life, his remains will be deposited privately in the church-vard at Ewelme where he has already raised the best monu- ment to his memory in the "embellishment and im- provement of the parish church, at a great cost to himself, and with singular taste. It may be said, with perfect trnth, and as the highest tribute which can be paid to his character, that no blow at this moment could have fallen on the University so uni- versally and severely felt and apparentiy so irrepara- able. And it can only be fervently hoped that the calamity will not be increased by the injudicious selection of a successor less free from party spirit, or less active in his academical duties.—Standard.

CAMBRIDGE, JxsT^T The following gentlemen obtained honours at the examination for B.A., which closed yesterday, and will be admitted to their degrees this morning :— WRAXGLEItS. 1 A. Smith, Trin. IS S. Turner, Trin. 2 Colenso, Joh. 19 Currey, Trin. 3 Robinson, Joh. 20 Bates, Christ's 4 Aldam, Trin. 21 Clayton, Caius. õ Piri<" Trin. 22 Lawson. Joh. 6 Collison, Joh. 23 Lane, Caius. 7 Lane, Job. 24 Uwins, Joh. 8 Walton, Trin. 25 Patteson, Corpus 9 Haslain, Joh. 26 Farrand, Clare 10 Conway Trin. 27 Chapman, Joh. 11 Sheppard, Clare. ] 28 Sparling, Joh. 12 Smith, Joh. 29 Swinny, Magd. 13 Tozer, Caius. 30 Calvert, Pemb. 14 Hedley, Trin. 31 Gambier, Trin. 15 W. Turner, Trin. 32 Ansted, Jesus 16 Atkinson, Trin. 33 Fisher, Cath. 17 Headlam, Trin. 34 Adcock, Clare. The following gentlemen passed their examinations yesterday; and such of them as have kept their re- gular terms will be admitted to the degree of B.A. this morning:— I Coward, Queen's 54 Berrv, Mag. 1 2 Sehvvd, Trin. 55 Bruce, Qu. ( 3 Broome, Trin. H. 56 Thomson, Mag. ) 4 Carrick, Cath. II. 57 Harrison, Queen's 5 Mitiiken, Joh. 58 Hotson, Pcmb. 6 Kipling, Trin. 59 Percy, Joh. 7 Jones, Trin. 60 Cartwright, Joh. 8 Hal ton, Jesus 61 Carrow, Trin. 9 Cripps, Joh. 62 Methuen, Trin. 10 Beauchamp, Clir. 63 Leete, Caius. 11 Lloyd, Trin. 64 Burgas, Trin. 12 Dover, Cath. II. 05 Cardale, Pet. } 13 Browne, Trin. 66 Daubenny, Jesus 14 Austin, Trin. ) 67 Williams, Job. 3 15 Hodgson, Trin. S 68 Knightlev, Jesus 16 Levanthorpe, Jesus 69 Dayrell, Mag. 1/ Coxhead, Triii. 70 Johnstone, Trin. 18 Gower, Trin. II. 7J Pitts, Pet. 19 Roupell, Trin. 72 Day, Pem. 20 Dodge, Job. 73 Hart, Corp. { 21 Williamson, Job. 74 Le Hunte, Triii, 22 Greenstreet, Car. 75 Mackiimon, Joh. ) 23 Templer, Trin. 76 Bayfield, Cath. 11. 24 Robinson, Emm. 77 Hervey, Ld. C.Trin. ( 25 White, Magd. 78 Ward, Ouoer, 26 Campbell, Queen's \i;u 7, -• 00 cuisliam, Laius -v 28 Enables, Jesus 81 Dennys, Queen f 29 Ford, Pet. 82 Wardroper, Chr. 30 GaHvev, Joh. 83 Morshead, Pet. J 31 Barker, Caius 84 Ibotscn, Magd. 32 Baker, Chr. 85 Ellis, Cath. 33 Awdrev, Cath. H. S6 Allin, Queen 1 34 Stackhouse, Cath. 11.87 Saville.Hon.P.Trin.$ 35 Bird, Joh. IS8 Brown, Trin. 36 Wilson, Trin. S9 Burdett, Emm. 37 Wood, Mag. S 90 Barton, Queen's 3S Brotlierton, Corp.) 91 Nurse, 39 Mudie, Trin.$92 Hart, Chr 40 Upcher, Trin. 93 Glaves, Cath. II. 41 Yorke, Clare 94 Saville, IIonC.Queen s 42 Rose, Joh. 95 May, «ueen > 43 Pealcy, Queen-) 96 Teed, "'cs,us 44 Elwiii, Cath. 97 Holley, ret. 45 Lingwood, Chr. 3 98 Sutton, »m' 46 Johnson, Joh. 99 Greaves, Emm- 46 Johnson, Joh. 99 Creavcs, Finin. 47 Dunn, Queen 100 Sharp, 1<:gd. 48 Harper, Trin. S 101 Arrowsmith, Inn. 49 Smyth, Jesus 102 Ison, Joh. 50 Wright, Trin. 103 Downing, Cath. 51 Despard, Mag. 104 Smith, Caius. 52 Cerjat, Triii. 53 lleadly, Caius 5

The death of Dr. Hurton, which took place at Ewelme, in Oxfordshire, on Tuesday se'nnight, causes a valuable preferment in the gift of the Crown to become vacant. Dr. Burton was Regius Professor of Divinity, and one of the eight Canons of Christ Church, Oxford. lIe was appointed in 1829, on the demise of the then Bishop of Oxford, Dr. Lloyrt. Tiie Professorship goes with the Canonrv, which latter is worth about tl,,500 per annum the former onlv about t40. Tiie Rectory of Ewelme is a so attached to the Professorship of Divinity. Lady Campbell's title is taken from the river Eden, in the county of Fife, on the banks of which Sir John Campbell (son of the Rev. Dr Campbell, of Cupar) was born, and his elder brother, Sir George, has a seat called Eden-wood. The dale or strati) of the Eden is famous for its beauty and fertility, and is celebrated by J. Johnson, the Scottisu poet, who lived in the reign of Charles the First-- Am inter, ncmori«qi»c umbras, et pascua læa, licne Aliens vitrcis I.ibittir Eden aquis. The marriage of Lord Ramsay and Lady Susan Hay took place on Thursday last, the 21st instant, at Yester House, the seat of the Marquis of Tweeddale, the Noble father of the lovely bride. The occasion was celebrated by various rejoicings, and in the evening there was a general illumination. The arches, which were erected along the avenue from Gifford to Yester, under the superintendence of Mr. Brown, architect, Edinburgh, were some of them twenty seven feet in height: they were beau- tifully decorated with evergreens, bore suitable trans- parent devices, and were brilliantly lighted up with variegated lamps. The effect was novel and imposing in a high degree. Bonfires blazed on the surrounding hills, and thus communicated the tidings far and near. Berwick Warder. We are informed by a passenger in a Green- wich Railway carriage yesterday, that in one of the experimental trips, the train of six carriages was con- veyed at the rate of a mile per minute, or sixty miles per hour! Our correspondent adds, that the sensa- tion experienced was that of flying, rather than that which is felt in the most rapid of the ordinary modes of travelling. There were two numerous parties of ladies in the carriages, who seemed highly delighted. RAILROADS IN HOLLANI).—,SLmsterdam,Jan. 28. —We have several times mentioned the probability that the preliminary operations for a railroad betwojn this city and llaarlem would commence in the spring. We now learn that the greatest difficulty lies in tile opposition of the owners of the land over which the road would pass, who are not inclined to part with it. Loss OF THE BRIDE. —We feel unfeigned sor- row in communicating to our readers the following affecting statement of the loss of the ship Bride, Capt. Bennett on her passage from Miramichi to this port, as well as of most of the crew. It has been received by Messi-s. Wilson, Hudson, and Co. in a postscript to a letter received from Captain Wharton, of the Swift, of this port, dated Rotterdam, Jan. 19, 1 S36 I have opened my letter to announce the appalling in- telligence of the loss of the Bride, of Ilull, with twelve of the crew. The survivors are the carpenter and James Russel. Captain Bennett died fifteen days previous to the vessel being fallen in with. The suf- ferers on board were then in such a state as not to be able to take hold of a rope thrown to them. had been twenty-one days, on the wreck, and had sus- tained life by gnawing from time to time the dead bodies of their shipmates, and drinking salt ^lter. I he vessel, with survivors, has arrived in the J-exel, from Cuba,—Huli Gazette-

TOTHH EDITOR OF THE AZF-TTE ANI-) GUARDIAN. (AND TO MR. W. WILLIAMS, CVFAHTHFA.) o SIR -In your paper of the 23d inst. I observed a long list of patents for various inventions. The sunvmr of the Neath District of Roads has lately been using an useful little macmnefor scraping roads", witii which S, 1 11 one old man does the work of four voullr ones; and an amateur Macadamite of that Distri(-,t lateiv sit, gested, that it would not be difficult to const"ruct"a machine fur breaking stones for roads, by the aid of a small steam engine: for instance, the machine .should be so light that it might be conveyed from one quarry or heap of stones to another, by two cart-horses'- when on the spot it might work hammers, so ne heavy for the ljrge stones, and lighter for the frag- inelits a man and boy to attend and feed it, yvbo might thus perform the work of twenty men. Now that, from the increase of the Iron Trade, the makino- Rail-roads, &c. &c., labour is likely to be in such great demand, an ingenious mechanic might confer important benefit on the public by improving on the above hint, and there is none in Wales more likely to accomplish it than the able engineer whose name I have coupled with yours in the hope that he would turn it over in his thoughts. ANTONINUS CAMBRENSIS.

THE EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE & GUARDIAN. SIR,—As a friend to one of that class of which you have, by your former reports, &c., shewn yourself a. sincere friend—I mean that class which supports the ancient, and as some have thought honourable, A wen of the fair and beauteous land of Cambria I as a friend to one of that order, venture to request that you will allow me to occupy a small portion of your columns in disclosing an act of meanness towards one of the bearers of the old Telyn, which merits exposure. A party—a liberid party be it remarked—some time since, engaged a harper well known in Cambria's vallies, of whom you have, in your critical capacity spoken well, to breathe forth the strains that were to enliven the gay saloon and excite the fantastic top- He was engaged to play for a guinea, on the night of the 20th instant, at the Cardiff Arms Inn, and having deprived himself of auother engagement in order to comply with that, he attended punctually at the time appointed, and was told that he was not required, for that some other person had been engaged for the evening, at half the price for which he had agreed to perform, and although he might have gained a handsome remuneration by playing elsewhere but for this engagement he was obliged to depart without any recompense. P This, Sir, is a sample of what is to be gained from those who call themselves Liberals It • is in van* to hope for any remuneration for the harper's loss of time from those parties, unless they are forced to give it, but if there be any correspondent of yours who can point out to the sufferer III this case bow ho may obtain the recompense he deserves, it would bo an act which would at once oblige a meritorious dis- ciple of the ancient minstrelsy of the Land of the Mountain, and perhaps deter the designing from again practising their paltry tricks upon those who, from the nature of their pursuits, are but ill-adapted to compete with'the artifices of the mere worldling. Ttiere can be no excuse for this evasion of payment because there were funds sufficient for the occasion. Funds, Mr Editor, which were actually spent in feasting on the following day, by those whose duty it was to see the harper paid. It should be particularly noticed, in order to pre- vent mistakes, that the Ball here alluded to, was not that which took place on the 6th instaut, but as before stated oil the 20th January, 1836. I am, Sir, Cardiff, 27th Jan. 1 S3ljUr mQS' obc'1'e"t servant,

-5^, ISS& Perkins James and Aubrey. Tins was an action to recover tolls under the power of the Swansea Canal Act, brought by the lessee of the J r;u ro:l(]- riju defendants, it appeared, tra- velled the road for some yards more than a mile and a quarter, and the plaintiff had always claimed the tolls for a full mile and a half, which for years he had received. The defendants conceiving that the act did not authorise this claim, resisted payment for moro than the distance over which they actually trav. ll^rl With a view to try the right without useless litWation* the parties agreed upon a special case, for the imrpose of obtaining the judgment ol the Court of Exeheauer 011 the construction of the \ct equer, Sir William Follett, with Mr Vaughan Williams for the plaintiff, contended that the foir meaning of the clause of the Act under which the plaintiff claimed was, that fractions less than a quarter of a mile were to be considered as full quarters of a mile, in the quTrt('Forrton,aS,el°Kar t,i,,kt lis iv .11, a of a for,. *'» Uiartere Mr Maule, with whom was W. M. James for defendants, argued that the clause under -vUAl v ° plaiutiff claimed, could not, in the nature of things" be applicable to Rail-roads, and was pi-oceediilo, to shew that even if it were, the defendants had not put themselves within its operation—when lie was stopped by the Court, who gave it as their unanimous opinion that the Act did not bear out the plaintiff's claim, and gave judgment for the defendants. In the course of the proceedings, Lord \bin-r expressed it as his opinion, in which ti,„ Court agreed, that the principle byVl l ft ° to be guided in tbe construction of all thp«sp that if there were any ambiguity in the worH'3 them capable of being construed against the nnf or person demanding toll, and in favor of the JSft they were bonnd so to construe it.