The Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette

SUMMER THOUGHTS. This is the time of shadow and of floiver;, When roads gleam white for many a winding mile When gentle breezes fan the lazy hours, And balmy rest o'erpays the time of toil; W hen purple hues and shifting beams beguile The tedious sameness of the heath-grown moor; When the old grandsire sees with placid smile The sun-burnt children frolic round his door, And trellised roses deck the cottage of the poor. The time of pleasant evenings when the moon Riseth companioned by a single star, And rivals e'en the brilliant summer noon In the clear radiance which she pours afar No stonny winds her hour of peace to mar, Or stir the fleecy clouds which melt away Beneath the wheels of her illumined car; While many a river trembles in her ray, And silver gleam the sands round many an ocean bay Oh, then the heart lies hushed, afraid to beat, In the deep absence of all other sound; And home is sought with loth and lingering feet, As though that shining tract of fairy ground, Once left and lost might never more be found And happy seems the life that gipsies lead, Who make their rest where mossy banks abound, In nooks where unplucked wild-flowers shed their seed; A canvass-spreading tent the only roof they need! » COURTSHIP AND MATRIMONY. A Poem, in Two Cantos. CANTO THE FIPST-COURTSIII-P, Fairest of earth! if thou wilt hear my vow. Lo! at thy feet, I swear to love thee ever; And, by this kiss upon thy radiant brow, Promise affection which no time shall sever; And love which e'er shall burn as bright as now, To be extinguished-never, dearest-never! Wilt thou that naughty, fluttering heart resign ? Catherine my own sweet Kate wilt thou be mine ? Thou shalt have pearls to deck thy raven hair- Thou shalt have all this world of ours can bring; And we will live in solitude, nor care For aught save for each other. We will fling Away all sorrow—Eden shall be there And thou shalt be my queen, and I thy king! Still coy, and still reluctant ? Sweetheart, say, When shall we monarchs be? and which the day ? CANTO THE SECOND—MATRIMONY. Now, Mrs. Pringle, once for all, I say I will not such extravagance allow! Bills upon bills, and larger every day, Enough to drive a man to drink, I vow! Bonnets, gloves, frippery and trash -nay, nay, Tears, Mrs. Pringle, will not guli me now. I say I won't allow ten pounds a week I can't afford it; Madam, do not speak! In wedding you I thought I had a treasure; I find myself most miserably mistaken! You rise at ten, then spend the day in pleasure;- In fact, my confidence is slightly shaken. Ha what's that uproar? This ma'am, is my leisure Sufficient noise the slumbering dead to waken I seek retirement and I find-a riot: Confound those children, but I'll make them quiet! -Punch.

MRS, CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES. MES. CAUDLE WISHES TO KNOW IF THEY'RE GOING TO THE SEA-SIDE, OR NOT, THIS SUMMER—THAT'S ALL." Hot ? Yes it is hot. I'm sure one might as well be in an oven as in town this weather. You seem to forget it's July, Mr. Caudle. I've been waiting quietly-have never spoken; yet not a word you said of the sea-side yet. Not that I care for it myself-oh, no: my health isn't of the slightest conse- quence. And, indeed, I was going to say— but I won't-that the sooner, perhaps, I'm out of this world, the better. Oh, yes; I dare say you think so-of course you do, else you wouldn't lie there saying nothing. You're enough to aggravate a saint, C'audle but you vex me. No; I've made up my mind, and never intend to let you vex me again. Why should I worry myself. Kut all I want to ask you is this do you intend to go to the sea-side this summer? Yes ? you'll go to Gravesend? Then go alone, that's all I know. Gravesend ? You might ns well empty a salt-cellar into the New River, and call that the sea-side. What? Jt's handy for business 1 There you are again I can never speak of taking a little enjoyment, but you fling business in my teeth. I'm sure you never let business stand. in the way of your own pleasure, Sir. Caudle- not yon. It would be all the better for your family if you did. You know that Matilda wants sea-bathing; you know it, or ought to know it, by the looks of the child and yet-I know you, Cauclle--you'll have let the summer pass over, and never said a word about the matter. What do you say? Margate's so expensive ? Not at all. I'm sure it will be cheaper for us in the end for if we don't {io, we shall all be ill—every one of us—.n the winter. Not that my health is of any consequence I know well enough. It never was yet. You know Margate's the only place I can eat a breakfast at, and yet you talk of < Jravesend But what's my eating to you ? You wouldn't care il I never eat at all. You never watch my appetite like any other husband, otherwise you'd have seen what it's come to. hat do vou say ? IIow much will it cost? There you are, Mr. Caudle, with your meanness again. When you want to go yourself to Blackwall or to Greenwich, you never ask how much it will cost ? What? You never go to Blackwall ? Ila I don't know that and if you don't, that's nothing at all to do with it. Y ps, you can give a guinea a plate for whitebait for yourself. No, sir; I'm not a foolish woman; and I know very well what I'm talking about-nobody better. A guinea for whitebait for yourself, when you grudge a pint of shrimps for your poor family. Eh? You don't grudye'em anything 1 Yes, it's ve;y well for you to lie there and say so. What will it cost ? It's no matter what it will cost, for we won't go at all now. No; we'll stay at home. We shall all he il1 in the winter- every one of us, all but you and nothing ever makes you ill. i'vo no doubt we shall all be laid up, and there'll be a doctor's Mil as long as a railroad but never mind that. It's better- much better—to pay for nasty physic than for fresh air and wholesome salt water. Don't call me woman,' and ask what it will cost.' I tell you, if you were to lay the money down me on that quilt, I wouldn't go now-certaiiti- not. It's belter we should all be sick yes, then you'll be pleased. That's right, Mr. Caudle go to sleep. It's like your un- feeling self! I'm talking of our all being laid up; and you, like any stone, turn round and begin to go to sleep. Well, I think that's a pretty insult How can Nott sleep with such a splinter in ywir Jiesh > I suppose you mean to call me the splinter ?—and after the wife I've been to you But no, Mr. C;,udle, you may call me what you please you'll not make me cry now. No, no I don't throw away my tears upon any such person now. What.' Don't' Ha! that's your ingratitude! Hllt none of you men deserve that any woman should love you. INI v poor heart! Everybody else can go out of town except us. Ha! if I'd only married Simmons—What ? Why didn't I ? Yes, that's all the thanks I get. Who's Simmons ? Oh, you know very well who Simmons is. He'd have treated me a little better, I think. He icas a gentleman. lolt ca,t't fell? May be not hut I can. With such weather as this, to stay melting in London! and when the painters are coming in! You won't have the painters in ? But you must; and if they once come in, I'm determined that none of us shall stir then. Painting in July, with a family in the house We shall all be poisoned of course; but what do you care for that ? Why can't I tell you what it will cost 1 How can I or any woman ten exactly what it will cost ? Of course lodgings—and at Margate, too—are a little dearer than living in your own house. Pooh! You know that ? Well, if you did, Mr. Caudle, I suppose there's no treason in naming it. Still, if you take 'em for two months, they're cheaper than for one. No, Mr. Caudle, I shan't be quite tired of it in one month. No: and it isn't true that I no sooner get out than I want to get home again. To be sure, I was tired of Margate three years ago, when you used to leave me to walk about the beach by myself, to be stared at through all sorts of telescopes. But you don't do that again, Mr. Caudle, I can tell you. What will I do at Margate ? Why isn't there bathing, and picking shells and arn't there the packets, with the donk'evs and the last new novel—whatever it is, to read-for the o'nlv place where I really relish a book is at the sea-side. No it isn't that I like salt with my reading, Mr. Caudle! I suppose you ca!! that a joke ? You might keep your jokes for the day- time, I think. But as I was saying—only you always will interrupt me—the ocean always seems to me to open the mind. [ see nothing to laugh at; but you always laugh when I say anything. Sometimes at the sea-side-specially when the tide's down-l feel so happy quite as if I could cry. "When shall I get the things ready? For next Sunday? What will it cost > Oh, there—don't talk of it. No we won't go. I shall send for the painters, to-morrow. What ? I can go and take the children, and you'll stay? No, sir you go with me, or I don't stir. I'm not going to be turned loose like a hen with her chickens, and nobody to protect me. So we'll go on Monday ? Eh ? "JYhat will it cost ? What a man you are Why, Caudle, I've been reckoning that, with buff slippers and all, we can't well do it under seventy pounds. No I won't take away the slipper- and say fifty; it's seventy pounds, and no less. Of course, what's over will be so much saved. Caudle, what a man you are Well, shall we go on Monday? What do vou say— You'll see There's a dear. Then, Monday." "Anything for a chance of peace," writes Caudle. "I con- sented to the trip, for I thought I might sleep better in a change of bed." Q READERS.—Coleridge divided readers into four classes. The first he compared to an hour-glass, their reading to be as the sand it I uns in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second class, he said, resembled a spcnge, which imbibes everything, and returns it nearly in the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class he likened to a jelly-bag, which allows all tlat is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and the dregs. The fourth class he compared to the diamond miners in Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserved only the pure gem. LORD BROUGHAM AND MR. HUDSON.—Lately the above noble lord seeing Mr. Hudson in conversation with some peers, stepped up to the place and said, Make way, my lords, that I may be introduced to the king of railways," then addressing Mr. Hudson, he observed" Ladj" has written to me to say, that I have done her a great deal of mischief by my chattering in the House, what would you advise me to do in that case, Mr. Hudson 1" "Cease vour 'chattering. was the pithy reply. Knowing how impossible that is, the noble lord looked very blank, and, mirabile dictu, was silent for once. A "CASUS BELLI."—There was a huntsman who hunted the wild beasts in the desert, and one dav he entered a cave in a mountain and found in it a hollow which was filled with honey. So he collected some of that honey in a water-skin that he had with him then he carried it upon his shoulder, and conveyed it to the city haying with him a hound that was dear unto him. And the huntsman stopped at the shop of an oilman to whom he offered the honey for sale and, the*shopman agreeing to buy it, opened the water-skin, and emptied from it thp hnnpv to see it. But there dropped from the skin a drop of honev and a bird pounced down upon it; and the oilman had a c t' and it sprang upon the bird and the huntsman's dog Saw it and sprang upon the cat and killed it; and the oilman spran" upon the huntsman's dog and killed it; and the huntsman sprang upon the oilman and killed him and the oilman was of one village, and the huntsman of another, and the people of these two villages heard of this event; so they took their weapons and arms, and rose against each other in anger; the two ranks met, and the swords ceased not to be brandished about among them until there died of them a great multitude, the number of whom none knoweth but God, whose name be '■xuited.—Knight$weekty Volume (Lane's Arabian Tales find Anecdotes,)

JUtgcfUatteottg* YERY NEAT LADIES.—A handsome girl, in the bloom of youth, lately died at Hincktey, in consequence of tight- lacing. An American paper mentions, by way of caution against the inhalation of the laughing gas, the death of a girl and the lunacy of a man occasioned by it. TEETOTALISM. — Arrah, Teddy dear, will you tell me what is the meaning of tee^wotalism ? Isitrepale! Teddy took his pipe out of his mouth, and deliberately said, It's not repate, Dennis, hut it's like it. Repale is dividing a sister from her mother. Teetwotalism is cutting the heart (.ut of a man, and sticking a lump of cold water in its place." Among the adveriispmenta of the last week, we find the remarkable announcement that there may be had "An airy bed-room for a gentleman twenty-two feet long bv fourteen wide." The bed-rootn ought, indeed, to be airy to accommodate a gentleman of those dimensions. — Punch. CONTINENTAL RAILROADS. — In few parts of Europe does there appear more activity in the construction of railroads than in the Sardinian States. In a very short time the lines which will run from Genoa to Switzerland, through Lombardy and to France, and that which will connect Turin with Chambery, will he finished. The Swiss Government has acquiesced in the request of that of Bavaria for permission to continue a railroad across the cantons of Schatrhausen, Zurich, and Thurgovia, to the Lake of Constance. THE OLDEST SOLDIER OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY.—Iwan Saporsschsky died it Kerlsch at the latter end of May. He was born in 1?25, the year of the death of Peter the Great; entered the army in the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth, served under the celebrated Russian Generals R'nnianzofr, Potemkin, and Suwaroff remained 18 jears a prisoner among the Turks, and ultimately settled in Crimea, where he cued. REASONABLY MAD !—The authorities of the town of Greenwich have issued a proclamation to the local police to destroy all wandering- dogs who may he "suspected reasonably mad" The matter heing left to the judgment of the policeman on duty, and there being moreover so many strange dogs about Greenwich and the suburbs, the question of being reasonably mad becomes rather difficult of solution. The late rains have occasioned some fears among the agriculturists in all parts of the United Kingdom but as yet no serious mischief appparg to have been done. The grass crop has turned out well, and the wheat crop is very promising. Mr. Harvey, the Mayor of Walsall, was drowned on Wednesday morning week, while bathing; and by a sin- gular fatality, one of the persons, a tradesman, who volunteered to drag tor the body, was drowned in the attempt. The guards who ride outside on the express trains have some difficulty in preserving their sittings, so strong is the rush of air they experience. Last Tuesday several of the guards complained of the danger they were exposed to from the side-wind. Liverpool Courier. One of the counsel in the London and York Group of Railways, now before a Committee in the House of Com- mons, stated that the expense of the inquiry to the various projectors whose schemes were submitted to discussion in that room amounted to £ 3.000 a-day. OATHS IN BANKRUPTCY CASKS.—By a bill now before the House of Commons (having passed the Lords.) it is provided that bankrupts may be examined after making a prescribed declaration, instead of taking an oath but that a ffitse statement, after making such declaration, will be punishable the same as perjury now is, and the commissioners are still to have the power'of committal for unsatisfactory answers. The report made by Major-General Pasley, the Inspec- tor-General of Railways respecting the accident which oc- curred on the 17th June near Slough, has just been pub- lished. It contains no information or suggestion which has not been forestalled by the press. öö A woman named M'Culloch, in her thirtieth year, has been committed to Bridewell fora week, from the Guildhall r-oiice-ottice, tor auempung to kill her child, while urunK. The prisoner tried to throw the child, which is six years old, into the Thames, over the balustrade of Blackfriais Bridge; and when a policeman interfe,red, endea- voured to thrust the child under the wheels of waggons which were passing her reason, she said, was that she could not teach it mannersLondon Paper. TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF Two INDIAMEN AND A LARGE COTTON SIIIP BY FIRE.—During the past week intelli- gence of several heavy losses by fire to the extent, it is supposed, of upwards of f90,000, has been received at Lloyd's, announcing the destruction of three fine ships, namely, the Uruquay, belonging to Liverpool (an India- man of 400 tons burthen), the Virginia (another Indiaman), belonging to Boston, and the American ship Ten Brothers, between 400 and 500 tons burthen, from Galveston, the whole of which, we regret to state, were laden with rich and valuable cargoes. The respective crews were saved. GREYHOUNDS..—The speed of the greyhound has been said to he equal to that of the fleetest horse. Asingutar circumstance which occurred at Doncaster proved that it was not much interior. A mare cantering over the Don- caster course, her competitor having been withdrawn, was joined by a greyhound bitch when she had proceeded about a mile. She seemed determined to race with the mare, which the jockey humoured and gradually increased his pace, iintil at the distance they put themselves at their tuli speed. The tnare beat her antagonist only by a head. The race-horse is, perhaps, generally superior to the grey- hound on level ground, but the greyhound would have the advantage in a hilly country.— From the Dofi, by W. Youutt." DRESS OF THE ENGLISH LADIES.—The desire for display. which has increased with the still increasing wealth of the middle classes, has so greatly stimulated numbers who are ambitious to be held "ladylike," and who live in the belief that they are the more so in propor- tion as they are splendidly and expensively dressed, and has so largely added to the masi of tasteless vulgar finery in vogue, that it cannot fail to excite the surprise of every foreigner. Often have I looked with the most regretful pity upon many pretty women disfigured by pearls in their hair, heavy gold chains about their necks, flowers I behind their ears, tasteless silk gowns with colours striving to eclipse the rainhow, and whose natural beauty is thus entirely destroyed by the artificial means for its display.— Kuhl's English Shetphsa. To LADIES—"Avcc de mauvais dents jamais femme n'etoit belle avec de jolis dents jamais n'etoit laide."— J. J. ROLISSEAU.VAJ.UE AND IMPORTANCE OF ARTIFI- CIAL TEETII.-The teeth influence the form and expres- sion of the countenance much more than is gerieially imagined, and the finest face is disfigured if any of the teeth are lost, and a disagreeable impression is produced. Where the teeth are g,)"od, there is, when speaking or smiling especially, a fascination present, which prevents further examination of the countenance. The new In- corrodible Teeth introduced by Mr. Thomas, Surgeon Dentist, 64, Berners-street, Oxford-street, London, are fixed without extIaclÏng any roots or teeth, or giving any pain whatever. They will also be found much more jcoiiomical than any others. INCREASE OF BANKING BUSINESS FROM RAILWAYS — The immense influence which the investment of capital in raihvays has had upon the banking business of the country may be judged from the f-Jet that one firm in LombHrd- stteef, sent to the clearing house £ 2,500,000, which, sup- posing what is probable, that they were drawn upon for the s.ime amount, gives the extraordinary amount of £ 5,000,000 for one house in one day. Under the usual run of busiiiess, previous to the present railway specula- tion, the lanre banking houses used to return about JE1,000,000 daily. A man was recently tried at Tubingen, in Germany, for the murder of his five, children He cut their throals with a razor as they lay in bed. When arrested, he confessed that, being driven to despair by the state of misery he had tons; been in from want of work, he had long been from want of work. he had first determined on suicide but re- fleeting that that would expose his wife and children to greater distress, he had resolved to send them to Heaven first. So, iu his wife's absence, he destroyed the children. He was found gui ty of simp! murdpr," and was sen- tenced to eighteen years imprisonment. The wife hs- came insane o:i beholding her slaughtered children. CONTRIBUTIONS TO RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES.—An unu- sually large amount has been placed to the credit of the religious societies by the last May meetings. The fol- lowing are the principal sums raised :—Church Mission- ary, £ 10.3,2-10; British and Foreign Bible, £ H5,817; London Missionary, £ 82,870; London (the Jubilee Fund), £ 21,000; Religious Tract, £ .54,104; Wesieyan Missionary, £ 100,188; Colonial Missionary, £ 3,388 Irish Evangelical, £ 2i>41 Foreign Bible, £,)483 British Reformation, £1,51-1; HomeMissionaiy, £ 8,600; Primitive Methodist Missionary, £2,5G7; London City Mission, £ 9,579; London School Union, £9,:1IH and British and Foreign Sailors, £ 2,072: amounting, alto- gether to more than half a million sterling IIAILWAYS AND CANALS.— I he plan of converting canals into railways seems just now to be generally enter- tained. It having been proposed to make a railway from Worcester to Birmingham on the site of the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, or of constructing one on the sides. The Canal Company have already given notice to Parliament of their intention, and have applied to the necessary persons, to enable them to do so. THE Inox TRADE.—BIRMINGHAM, JULY 10.—The usual quarterly meeting of the iron and coal-masters of South Staffordshire and South Shropshire took place in our Town Hall this day. Since the last quarterly meet- ing, it is needless to say, the price has been very con- .1 Ilt siderably reduced. Every description of manufactured iron, within 13 weeks, has been reduced 20 or 25 per cent. The great hope of the ironmasters is, now the price has, as they conceive, got to the lowest ebb, that the present price will remain stationary. I do not, from all accounts, believe that it will. The prices settled at Dudley, on Saturday, will he most important to the pubic. THE IRON TRADE-REDUCTION OF PRICES.—DUDLEY, Sunday morning.—Last evening a numerous meeting of iron and coal masters of this district was held at the hotel, for the purpose of transacting the usual quarterly business of the trade, or more properly speaking, of con- firming the prices which have been agreed upon at the meeting of the body held at Birmingham on Thursday last. At the close of the business the prices were de- clared as follows: Bar iron, £8 per ton; Pigs, from £ 3 10s. to £ 4 per ton. The fluctuations which have latterly taken place, have been of considerable embarass- ment to the trade, and rendered it very difficult for the manufacturers to know how to purchase. The general impression is, that ES per ton is a remunerating price, and that the masters being well aware that the manufacturers cannot compete with the foreign market if they have to pay a higher price for the raw material, will see the im- policy of again advancing the prices, unless under some very extraordinary circumstances. The stocks at present hardly amount to the average quantity at the works, but there have not been any large orders announced after either of the two meetings which have been held. It is, however, generally believed that the late reduction £ 2, or rather the equalisation of the prices, will have the effect of creating a brisk foreign demand. Some of the pro- jected railways are also fruitful sources of anticipation, and there is little prospect of our prosperity being inter- rupted for some time. In some parts of this district the workmen have been, and are, almost daily turning out, but without improving their condition to any great extent. They seldom succeed by a strike, and where they do, the advances they gain by such means are previously swal- lowed up by the loss and expense incurred in gaining it. The war-brig Rapid has arrived at Plymouth, with part of the crew of a captured slaver, charged with murderirnr .1 Mr. Palmer, a midshipman, and eight of the crew of the Queen's sloop Wasp. The prisoners are ten in number, eight Portuguese and two Spaniards. An examination has been conducted before the Mayor and Magistrates of Plymouth. A native of Bahia, master of a slave-schooner captured by the Wasp, who was present at the massacre, said he tried to dissuade the murderers from it. According to his evidence, the Englishmen were put on board the schooner; and the accused, who formed part of the crew of the Echo brigantine, which had been captured, were placed under their charge. They resolved to murder the Englishmen and, seizing an ungarded moment, killed them all, though not without receiving some wounds them- selves and they threw the bodies into the sea. They then Jired upon the briuantine, which was in company, and sailed away. A short time after, however, the vessel was captured by the sloop Star; and the prisoners were sent to Kngland for trial. On Saturday they were committed. Among the papers read at the late meeting of the British Association, was one read by M. Coulnier Gravier. He has ascertained that there are between 6,000 and 7,000 shooting stars to he seen in the course of a year; and that six o'clock in the evening is the hour when the smallest number are observed, and six in the morning is the maximum time. He distinguishes shooting stars into "globes" and stars of different magnitudes; the globes are larger than ordinary stars, and about twenty-four of them are observable in the course of the year; by far the greater majority of shootirif stars consisting of those of the smallest magnitude. These stars move in curves and he had succeeded in trnnivg and figuring their paths. RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—We have now made up from our official returns the amount of the railway traffic for the past six months. It appears that on 39 railways, amount- ing to nearly 1S00 miles, the aggregate traffic is, in round numbers, £ 2,850,000, being £ 550,000 more than for the corresponding six months of last year. This increase of revenue amounts to 20 per cent. oil the total receipts of the half year; and if we take the value of the money at 4 per cent. per annum, this will give above £ 20,000,000 as the increase in the real value of the railway property of the country since last July. Of this increase of half- yearly revenue, we find that the London and Birmingham Company has f.)2,000 on the half-year, being an increase of exactly £ 2000 a-week. The Great Western has an increase of £ 41,000; the Grand Junction of £ 30,000; the Midlands of ti7 000 the Brighton, E14,000 and the South-Western, fSOOO. Some of these lines have made extensions but the greater part of the traffic is due to the increasing prosperity of the country, and the in- crease of revenue has been in some cases in spite of large reductions in the rates of the fareg,-Railway Chronicle. SPEED ON RAILWAYS.—A return has just been pub- lished of the weight and speed of the express trains on several lines, from which we select the following :— Brighton averages 30 tons, performs 50 miles in t h. and 2/ m., or 34 miles per hour, including stoppages; the Northern and Eastern, 27 tons, 321 miles, 45 miles per hour South-Western, 33 tons, 7S mitc.sinlh-ar.d57 m., or 40 miles per hour; the Birmingham, 27:1; tons, 1121 miles 2 h. 55 m., or 38 miles per hour; South- Eastern, 35 tons, 67 miles in 2 h. 28 m., or 28 miles per hour; the Great Western, 76 tons, 191 miles in 4j h., or 42 miles per hour, and one train has kept the same time with 94 tons. This calculation, deducting slacking speed and stoppages, gives to the Birmingham and South- western 43 miles per hour, and to the Great Western 50 miles per hour, averaging 76 tons, "OUR OWN."—"Our own reporter" has long enjoyed a fair share of the dainties of this life. He IS tree to "Sit at good men's feasts." He partakes of the lord mayor's turtle and the corporation's custard a cover is kept for him at every public dinner, where his abscnce would be more regretted than that of the crack orator of the even- ing. He has followed majesty in its progresses, and had, like Dr. O. Toole, the run of the kitchen." But it was reserved for the present auspicious year to see hiin invited to join the circle of the Court. From a provincial journal we learn that, by Her Majesty's express direction, the company of the "own" of the leading morning journals was commanded at the bal costume, By some awkward accident, intimation of the honour designed them did not reach "our own" in time to admit of their providing them- selves with appropriate costumes. In consequence of this contre-temps, they were confined to the ante-chamber, instead of being free to roam from ha I i to hall. But this will be amended next year. The monopoly of the Court newsman, like, most monopolies in this free-trade age, has come to an end. Henceforth each leading journal is to have its accredited representative at Court. In the army of "our own" a brigade is to be enrolled as the Queen's own." The uniform may be black and white—foolscap turned up with ink," and a goose^quill embroidered On the collar. The time seems approaching when a paper go- vernment will be as familiar to John Bull as a paper cur- rency. The newspapers have assumed the functions of the Church, in reproving vice and combating the heresies of geology; they nave assumed the functions of executive government, in sending forth commissions of "oyer" if not of "terminer;" and now they are invited, like Mal- volio, "to take state upon them." Ere long, King, Fiords, and Commons—the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Church, and Jack Ketch- will be superseded by the journals. Every function of government will be suffici ntly discharged by the daily compilation and issue of news- papers. -Spectator. INTERESTING TO LADIF.S.-To Messrs. Rowland and Son, 20, Hatton Garden, London.—Percy Place, Land- port, Portsmouth, April 4ih, 1844.—Gentlemen,—I think it but an act of justice to inform you of the benefit I have derived from the use of your admirable Macassar Oil. About six n.onths ago I found my hair getting daily more weak and thin, and much discoloured from a practice I had adopted of wetting it continually fearing that I should lose it entirely, and hearing of the efficacy of your Macassar Oil, I have for some time past constantly used it, and the result is, that my hair is now perfectly restored and much improved in appearance and colour, having become thick, dark, and glossy; it also curls freely without the use of paper, which it never did before. To all my friends I have warmly recommended your Macassar Oil as an excellent restorative and preseivative for the hair. As I have an objection to see my name in print, I beg you will not publish it, but you are at liberty to show this letter, or make any other use you please of it, and refer applicants to me, if necessary, in proof of the efficacy of your Macassar Oil.—Your obedient servant, < ot [See Advertisement.] UNCLAIMED DIVIDENDS.—The Bill "to make further provisions as to stock and dividends unclaimed," ju;t prepared and brought into the IIcuse of Commons by the Chancellor of Exchequer and Mr. C'lrd wel1, proposes to enact that when any dividends or stock shall have remained 1, unclaimed for ten years, the same shall he paid to the commissioners for the reduction of the national debt. The payments of such dividends to claimants is to he directed as in other cases. Notice is to be given In advertismcnt before re-transfer, or payment of any stock or dividend to any claimant and any person may apply to the court of Chancery to rescind or vary any order be- fore the actual re-transfer and payment and when any stock, &c., is once retransferre 1 or paid, no further order is to be made for the transfer or nymcnt of the same. The sum of £ 3663 13s. 8d., arising from the unclaimed dividends on East India annuities, is to he paid to the commisioncrs for the reduction of this debt and the Lords of the Treasury arc empowered to direct inquiries into the circumstances of any unclaimed stocks and divi- dends, &(.. ANOIIII-.R MURDER.—The inhabitants of Penzance, Cornwall, were horrified on Tuesday week, by a most ap- palling murder. The unfortunate victim was Elizabeth Seaman, aged 47, who had cohabited for two years with a man named Benjamin Ellison, aged 60. 0:1 Monday fore- j noon they were seen together, looking at a procession formed to lay the foundation of a new peir at Penzance. In the evening, Ellison, who was a teetotaller (as was also the deceased), went to the Temperance Hotel, in Prince's- street, and asked Mr. Thomas, the landlord, if he could have a bed there (which he had never done before), giving as his reason for his desire to sleep there, that Mrs. Seaman was putting some things together, to remove,'and it being then late, he did not like to go home. He then asked to see Air. William Eddy, who was in the house, and alter some conversation with him went to bed. On the following morning about nine o'clock, it appears he was at his residence in Rosevean-road; about that time he went to a neighbour, Mrs. Hill, and asked her to go with him into his house. She complied with this request; and proceeding through the back entrance to Ellison's house, lie said he had been out all night, and 011 coming home he found that poor Mrs. Seaman was killed. They went into the house, and Mrs. Hill paw the body of Mrs. Seaman lying- on the kitchen floor, on her back, her flice being covered with a piece of black gauze. On leaving the house at the back, Ellison called Mrs. Hill's attention to a broken pane in the window of the back kitchen, and said some person must have broken the window and got in and killed Mrs. Seaman. He then said he would go for a policeman. He went back to the Temperance Hotel, and said to the landlord, Poor Mrs. Seaman is murdered; some one, last night, broke into the house and murdered her." I le added, I am ruined in consequence for I had some expectations, as you know." He then asked the landlord to go with him to Mr. Carne's, a magistrate, and get the to take the person who committed the act. They went to Mr. Carne's, and afterwards to the mayor's, whence it appears, the policeman followed them back to the Temperance Hotel, and afterwards felt it his duty to apprehend Ellison on suspicion of being the mur- derer; and at an inquest held the same day, a verdict of Wilful iiiui-cler" against Ellison was returned and he was committed. The unfortunate woman's bust was almost one mass of livid bruises; while there was a terri- ble fracture of the back part of her head. She had been the second wife. and was the widow 01 a solicitor who died in Swansea, in 1842, aged about 7Ci years, leaving her his property. Her will, has been found. It gives all her property to Ellison. She had flOO in the Three-and- a-IIalf per Cents., and about JE:50 or L60 in one of the Carmarthen Banks. The will was in Ellison s possession. THUNDER STORMS.Yery disastrous effects have re- sulted in this and adjoining counties, from the severe storms of thunder and litrhtninff, accompanied with wind and rain, which prevailed during the past week, but parti- cularly on the afternoon of Sunday last. We subjoin the following details from our own and other sourcesOn Thursday afternoon, the rain, accompanied by heavy thun- der, came down in torrents at Cheltenham, the High-street and other thoroughfares being rendered impassable by the flood. The same storm was lelt even more severely in all the surrounding districts. At the village of Prestbury a horse was struck dead by the lightning, and on the hill behind Hewlett's the hailstones were of such a large size as to strike quite painfully on all parts of the person not closely covered. The same storm passed over Winch- comb, and the haiistones were so large as to break eight thousand squares of glass in the conservatories of Lord Sudeiey, at Toddington, At Worinington Grange, the seat of S. Gist Gist, EHJ., much damage was done tc the glass, both in the green-houses and dwelling-houses, seve- ral hundred squares were destroyed. At Frampton Farm several fields of beans and wheat were entirely destroyed, and the produce of the farms of Mr. Paul Martin and Mr. Totter so much cut up that the damage done is incalcula- ble. At Pershore also much damage was done, and in the neighbourhood of Elkington we are inloruied that the wheat and bean crops were laid prostrate as though they had been passed over by a roller. At Wincanton, Somer- set, a man was struck dead under a tree. On Sunday evening a thunder storm, accompanied by torrents of rain, passed over this county, hut the vale c luntry generally escaped with only a slight visitation on the hills, however, the rain fell in torrents, hot there was but little wind. The appearance of the horizon, to the north and east, was remarkably striding; we hardly remember anything so magniticent as the appearance of the heavens since the memorable storm of July, 1830. The accounts that have since come to band have fully confirmed the anticipations that were excited by the almost continual flashes of light- ning which fit up the sky for hour, We have assembled some interesting details amongst our domestic news, and subjoin a tew additional particulars. In Worcestershire and Herefordshire the consequence.! are distressing; the wheat, barley, and other crops, are completely laid flat. The fruit trces have been terribly shattered. The cele- brated llibbeslnrd oak, which has braved the storms of nearly eight centuries, split in two, and a part only left standing. SOllie IJUwlrerls of apple and other trees have been blown down. A private correspondent, who writes from the north-west of Worcestershire, informs us that in the park at Gaines, nearly the whole of the great avenue was almost destroyed. Hops with their poles were in lIIany places washed away altogether." One of the ellVcts of the storm at Hereford was somewhat curious: at the south end of the shire-hall stand some trees, in one of which, near to the wall, were a flock of sparrows. A sudden gust of wind forced the whole of the birds with great violence against the wall, and eight were found killed on the spot; 40 were capture; and only escaped death in one shape to meet it in another —as ingredients for a pie. At Birming- ham two inches of rain fell hy the rain gauge, and the tempest was most terrific. In many of the streeis the water was middle deep; life was endangered; and some tradesmen (particularly grocers) are said to have lost hun- dreds of pounds.—(,■'loinu'ster Chronicle.

RAXKR EPTS.-(From the London Gazette.) FRIDAY.—William Parsley, hat maker, Woolwich. Samuel Elphick, victualler, Bermondsey-street William Haward liawe, currier, rotsea.—John Harvard, Brook- street, lamp maker.—William Burleigh, scrivener, Haver- hill, Suffolk.—Forth .Marine Insurance Company, Bish- opsgate-street Within.—John Archer Dow, draper, Rom- ford. — Thomas Eastgood, grocer, Brighton. — John Davenport, wholesale hosier, Little Love-lane, London. James rubev, licensed victualler, Elgham, Surrey.— Joseph Thorii, New Brentford, Middlesex, paper hanger. John Farrow, Stanton. Suffolk, draper.—John Shor- land, grocer, Bristol.—Thomas Lovell, general dealer, Henstridge-marsh, Somersetshire. TUESI)A Y.-Thomas Downes Taylor, oilman, Brooke- street, Holborn.—William Robson, grocer, Chippiue Norton, Hertfordshire. — Henry Cooke, painter, Liver" pool.—John Lea, jun., wine-merchant, Liverpool.—John Robinson, spirit-merchant, Beverley, Yorkshire.-nen-I jamin Haigh, manufacturer, Dob-cross, Yorkshire. -=--

&itiP{)iita EiitrHisjnrrr. r m,TE £ tOCK!—the Rmil, Hahhiis, Hrrdewater, light. Mary I ester, fjurnc1', Chester, bricks. fiidustrv, N(,r,,Il, [low v ir,,Il Gre ..John, l.ewis, Combe, lij.lit.. (Jarnef, Scor-, Urid/wKer. do. u!)ei > (s ). Kosher, linstol Channel, do.. Harm >ny Eodi- n0t- Dar,n[10l"h. limestone.. Eliza, Palmer, Kowev, iron or. IJinas, Mi. s, Bristol Chann. l, light.. Ilhondda, Bowen, Hiis- tol, do. Baudot^ McCarthy, Hris'ol, do. Karl MuUrave Bo(.th, London, ballast.Henry, Andrews, Hayle, do.! Ann' Ni. II, Barrow, iron ore.. Perl, Ihick, Paimho-irf, ballast. Catharine, Mallcy, Swansea, do..Joanna, Itichards, Hayb*. do.Sally, I liomn. St. I ves, 1 ight.. Hy!*cia, G lover, Bidefor do. ,C irnsew, Clark, Hnyle, ballast.Park, Gregory, Hayle! do.Providence, Utissdl. Hayle, do..Kedrmh, Nimes, Swan- sea, iron arid flour.. Doris, Kraeft, Newport, li^lit.. '(eso'ulion A ngel, Waterfo d, ballast, .Taff, Swift, B istol, light..Swift^ Tawton, B:i;tol, do." "aria Eliza, l.lewcthian, Bristol, do Elizabeth, Gudge. Hayle, ballast.. Lark, Bouse, Powey, HOU ore.. Mary and Joseph, Harvey, Dungarvan, ballast..Sir A. iM'Kenzif Davits, Waterford, d", ..Thomas, I layes, Glo'ster, spices., Ann and Klizabcth, Jones, Barrow, iron ore.. Jonge Caroline, Prester, Mdford, ballast.. A Ipha, While, Koss, do. .Hereford, Fryer, Chepstow, pit wood H., Ins, Fortune, Waterford, ballast. Fly, Andrews, flayle, do Beauty, Bowen, Cork, sundries. Clemeirina, Bennett, Waterford, ballast John and Stuan, Brown, Dublin, porter.. Thomas Mahony, Malcarrv, Onngarvau, ballast.. Ayr, Jennings, St. Ives, do .Maria and Martha, Hvanj, Barrow, do. • I ilot, C. ark, Swansea, do..Happy C lr)l" (!Ia,k, flavie, do.. John lloyle, Jones, Wl.i.'> havi n, iron ore.. Pearl, Jones. Barrow, do.. Mary Jane, My'er, Waterford, sundries..Scinda J.me' Itowe, Harrow, iron ore.Martha, Wbelan, Dungarvan, ballast ..Caroline, 1'aynter, St. 1 yp.«, <lo.Sir I'Maitland, Davies, Cork, limestone.. John Mil!<>r, .Sullivan, Dungarvan, ballast.. William. Hockeu, I'ewey, iron ore.Martha, Knox, Water-. ford, fionr and oats.Nancy, Kiely, Dungarvan, ballast. Dinas, Mills, Bristol, light.ihondda, Bowen, Bristol, do. Jessv, VI iro, Bristol, do. Swan, Ilolton, Fowey, iron ore Druid, Howies, Bridgwater, timber.. Vesper, Glasson, Fal- mouth ballast. British Queen, Card, Glo'ster, light.. Quern, Od^ers, Skiily. potatoes.. Ocean, Dusting, Penzance, ballast ..Prince of Wales (s.), Jones, Bristol, general cargo.. Lady Charlotte (s.) Jefferys, Bristol, do. Sailed, the Mountain Maid, l.imerick, coal..Oheron. Cadt, Dantzic, iron.fan, Hooper, Bristol, coal..Swift, Tawton, Bristol, do. Hannah Greyson, Tenrice, Gl.imorganshiie Canal, light. Dinas, Mills, Bristol, coal. Uhoneda, Bowen, B i.,t,,], (i"Niary and Ann, Jon-s, Dublin, iron.. Susan, Ornelia, Gdlway, coal..John Wesley, Saunders, C'ronstadt. iron..South Ca.olina, Owen, Boston, do Lilly, Hichard-, Youghul, coal Castle, Fryer, Gloster, do..best, Moule, Bris-, ot, (to. Mills, Cpliill, do.. Kli?a, Calmer, New. port, do.Success,Sims. Gloucester, do. Garnettj Score, Bridgwater, do. Albion, Willian s, Bristolj do. Hope, Nicholls, Newport, do.Dinas. Mills, Bristol, do,Khoudila, Bowen, 151istol, do..l'ame, Mitchell, Glouces'cr, do.))inas, Mills, Bristol, do. Uhomida, Bowen, Bristol, do.John, Lewis, Barnstoplc, do. Hope, Nicholls, Newport, light. Albion, William-, Bristol, coal Gannett, Score, Bridgwater, do..Success, Sims, Gloucester, do.. Kliza, Palmer, Newport do,Dove, Stevens, Gloucester, do,.Taif, Hooper, Bristol > ;!o..SwMff, Tawton. Bristol, do..f.nrd Byron, Kelly, Chcs"-r, iron. Banden, McCarthy, Kinsale, coal.. Kmeline, Trick. ■V atei f rd, do..Sw irt, Ncill, Belfast do.. Mi.rv El-za, Hr.hvr, lverpool, iron.Dasher, Squires. Newpoit, 1: lit.. I £ lov,r, St. Ives, coal. Mary Ann, Burton, Belfast, do°. ^7 rs' 'atberington, St. Ivrs, do.. Marv Mc'ean. Hrien, aerford, do.Cap'; Backet, Arming. Cronstadt, ir >n. • rimr.-se, Knight, Wa'erford, coal.Terpsi.-hore Hallett, rC) °nJ iron- M»ry Elizabeth, Clark, Jersey coal John and Hannah. Brokenshire, Hadstaw, do \'nn. Peak. I'lym,)a:h, do. Eliza, Clark, Liverpool, do..Western Star, Murphy, Ross, do.Talbot. Stone, Gweek, do. Active Anthony, St. Ives, do.lohn Harvev, Yarnant, Havle. do.. l-avourne Williams, Bideford, do L*dy of the Lake, Wiluarns, Falmouth, do.Jane, Caynter. St. Ives, do. John, Noall, St. Iv s, do.. Westerviig, Dietrietu in, Travrr- munde. do. Village Gil, Wooff. Jamaica, do..Grace, B .11- >.an London, do..Mobert Burns, Moye, Kinsale. <1o.eed. f nt ■' • enzanep. do. Friends' Goodwill, Conch, Cadstow, V'I" 'in 'ce Wales Jones. Bristol, general cargo • Lady Chailotte (s.), Jeffoiv s, B.iisiol,do. 1 essels in Dock loading for Foreign Ports. Ships. Masters. Destination. Car zo. :T„en(! Finorth 23* Dantzic Iron Fott 24.-).. Stettin do. p5"1'1 Major I ll.. Cranstadt do. V u'st 211..Constantinople .do. •p0,crri £ Porritt 241.. Constantinople, do. .s.ex. lingers. 348. Bos'on. do. ocKingham Penhallow. 512..Boston Coal. Walden 19:}.. Dantzic Iron" ;,rciirica Haefeke. 168.. Dantzic do Gez.ena Wilkins.Top 01. Vmsferl. ,d- Biaciness .Anderson.. 2'i«..Cronstadr do. ,ier Nov.ell (5(5.. Hamburg do". I;er!,c Erick 191..Dantzic do. J;mi Bahlrus. "200.. Dantzic do P,>r» ..Kreft 2'0.. Jonge Caroline Cresten. IfiO..Stettin do. J,ar>' Rowland lOfi..Hamburg do. ■fessy Unir 170..Cronstadt do. Brews-.er Limester. 600.. Boston do. i G^:NIOF!GA>)SH,R(,: CaNAI..—Arrived —William, Hill, Bu|- low I ill.. Active, Cope, Builo v Pill.. James, Jfeed, Minchoad ..Sisters, Knapp, Bui'.ow Pill.. Nottingham, Knapp, Builo* Cill.. Newnham, Smilh, Bullow Pill-all with iron ore. lamar, Grovicr, Plymouth.. Daniel, Ham ^n, Brixh-tm Ocean, Harding, Ilfracomfce..Harriet, S.vaffin, Dartrnou h.. Diligence, Evaus, London.. Ebenezar, Bovev, Dartmont.. Maria Joseph, Labour, Nantes.. Mary, Hopwood, Bridg- water..Cleopatre, Extand. Nan es..Joseph Carne, Wright, 1 London.William Clinton, Dotglas.. Mary, Richards, Pad- r stow Queen, Beer, Plymouth.. Tredegar, Crockford, Mine- head..Gem, l?dwards, Barnstaple.. Bed Diamond, Carthv, Ulverston.. Gem, How, Bridgwatfr.Hannah Grayson. Beri- ric, Urts-o)..Gratitude, Evans, Waterford.. Brothers, p' Bideford ..Maria, Quickly, Teazanfe. • Ocraa Queen, Shaddock, W atcrford.. Argo, Smallbridge, London—all w.th ballast Bute, Walters. Bristol..Merthyr Packet, Thomas, Bristol.. Amity, Pearson, Bristol.. Elizabeth, Wright, Bris- tol I hetis, Williams, Falmouth.Henry, Bil!in<r, Bridg- Waptr""o,a'f,len' Bowen» Cardigan.. Ann, Davies, Bristol My, Chill,ps, Gloucester.George, A viand, Gloucester.. John ocorae, Gnllilord, Bridgwa'er.One and All, Wil;U.r,st I adstow.. Boconnoc, Mann, Penzance..Chester, Peers, Clies ter.. Gleaner Thomas, Bristol.. Mar'ha, Jones, Aheriha* Robert, Mendus, Ab.rthaw..St. Piene, Jours, Neath., Brothers, Bryant, BndKwater.St. George, Coyle, Drogheda Hope, Billing, BriJgwater.. Chester, Carter, London. bKcett nt, W liners, Gloucester-all with sundries. Deptirtures. Celerity, Williams, London.Venus. Gulli- ford, Bridgwater.. Ellen, Hawker, Lymington.. Hed Diamond, Carihey, fieneister..Swifiy, Mercy. Maryport.. Ilcnrv, Bil- ling, Bridgw'a er.Lbeuezer, Bovey, Hamburg. Mary, Rowlands, Bangor.. Elizabeth, Wright, Bristol.. Mary, Lancaster.. Kitty, Derr.son, Hoaen.Anna Maria, Morgan. C.r,nanhen.Ches-er, Peers, Carlilc.Oneand All, William., Cork.St. Piene, Jones, Neath.Hannah Grayson. Benrice, Lancaster Mary, llopwood, Bridgwater..Gleaner, Newport .Hope Balling, Bridgwater..Tamer, Bovey, London Gem, Edwards, Cronstadt.. Magdallen. Bowen, Cronltadt- all vvith iron.Gem, Howe, Bridgwater.. Belle, Knight, ruro.. Ann, Davies, Bristol.George, Ayland, Gloucener ..John George, Gulliford, Bridgwater.. Amity, Pearson, Uris'ol.. Diligence, Evans, Limerick..Swallow, Boyd, Ne*ry l'aocy, Gartskell, Liverpool.. Boconoc, Mewn, Portreith.. Brothers, Tricks, Gloucester.. Bonneallere, Bodet, Nantes — all with coal.Newnham, Smith. Bullow Pill.Bull. aters, Bristol..Good Hope, Weshbenme, Bullow Pill.. Mary, Kvans, Bristol.. Sisters, Knapp, Bullow Pill ..Bxcel- lent, Wither* Newport-light. 1ORTIICAWL.—Arrived, the Fannv, Parkman, Waterford ..tiiack Diamond, Coombes, Dublin.. Mary, Conolly, Dublin inerva, Rochford, Wexford Victoria, Lewis, Cork j.oinsa, Hocking, Padstow. Dove, Jones. Cork, ballast. i rov,dence, Evans, Barrow..County Cork, Jones, Barrow.. Catherine Bud Ellen. Lewis. Barrow .Re*. It "J' «%?«!•. 1a,rn» ^"vers!o,'e".Economy, Jones, Barrow, iron or,Union, ],,a,;taway, Baliirnacurra, oats..Trial, Clayton, Parker" P KVA,W. Portmadoc, slates.. Providence, I arker, Cort Talbot, biicks. M»°nrtr nAt,LBJT-r''lr't",?,Unio"» Anthony, Devoran,. Janiee cf' ?wa,,Si,a-• Commerce, Tremarne, Devoran sea Marv'A ^hles..Trial. Tiick, Swan- Yh/mb p U alUns> Bri -tol. William and Jane, H .ghes, I ewhor "l? aV7m< Mumbles.. Britannia, Morgan, I nV vl, n 'n11' t;Jowe' Port %«<»"•• "il'seuce, Skil- > M"mbl«s--Devonshire, Whalan, Portsmouth.Kliza, 15. v non, Port hyn n.. Freeman, Veal, Portrieth.. Endeavour, W.liams Mumbles Cha.les, Burt, Mumbles. Emerald, Jjlovd, Mumbles Mary, Ph.llip;, Cort Eynon.. Kldr. d. Matthews, L Orient.. Minerva, Hammett, Mumbles, St, Ag¡¡e,Gul!iver. B,-v;tn. Oxwich..Glamorganshire Lass. Chalk, 1 ort Eynou.. Unity, Owen, Barrow.Karl of Lxbridge, Ihomas, B rrow.. Mary l.audie, Shapman, Mum- Wes.. Happy Return, Thomas, Mumbles.. MelUnear, Greeorv. Hayle,. N or wet ham, Towells, Carmarthen.Linnet, Pluliias v'ay- ,ora,h 'w'ir* *tAith Mod!\ u Card'«an -P'ovidence, Williams, Ahery- Ev. on M rv I 7H :>Py ro,,<,le' Chalk, Port £ >non..M,,ry Josephine, Dark, Padstow.. Union Canal lawe. Eooe.Hero, Griffith, Barrow.Thomas and Marv' Hains, Swansea.. William, Whittan, Truro.. Beryl, Green' De voran.Sir Ihomas. Mansell, Manger, Guernsey .Happy' Kcturn, Thomas. Mumbles. j.nappy

LONDON MARKETS. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES of CORN per Quarter computed from the Inspectors' Returns. GENERAL AVERAGE. s. d.. Wheat 47 II Rve 3, 0 Bailey 2) 10 Beans 10 Oats 22 s] Peas 39 5 DUTY ON FOREIGN CORN. S d.. 8 d Wheat 20 0 Rve 10 6 "ley 9 0 Beans 4 6 s 6 0 Peas 4 6 "ley 9 0 Beans 4 6 s 6 0 1 Peas 4 6

CORN EXCHANGE-MONDAY. WHEAT. !!|S.CS & Kvnt ^ed r; s* While a» ou *>0 52 — 51 Do 56 — ^,8 RYE. 0!d 32 — 31 j New S6 — 0 BARLEY. linS *25 — 28 I Chevalier 3s 0 »0 32 Bcre 25 0 24 — I MALT. s S'j II. 8. s S. S. 8 Suffolk and Norfolk 58 — (j'J Urown 5c 60 KiHuston and Ware tiO — 0 Chevalier. 65 — 0 OATS. Yorkshire and Lin- s. S. 8. 8 colnshire feed 22 — 22 Potato 24 26 Youuhall and Cork ('ork white 21 — 22 black 22 — 2} Westport 0 — 22 • 22 2:i Black 0 22 Waterford while 21 — 22 i Newry .2:\ 24 Galway 20 21 Scott-Ji feed 2 i — 24 Potato 24 25 Clonmel. 21 22 | Limerick 23 2. Londonderry 23 21 S.i-o 0 23 BEANS. s- s. j. g r,ck new — 36 | Old small cQ — 40 PEAS. II. s. s. Grev 38 — 40 Maple 0 38 VV hite 38 — 40 1 Boilers.. 33 — 40

SMII'HFIELD MARIvETS—MONDAY. A Statement and Comparison of the Supplies and Prices of Fat Stnck, exhibited and Sold in Smithlield Cat:le Market, on Monday, July 15, 18VV, anil Monday, July 14. 1845. July 1.5, 1814. July 11, I81!k. r, s. <1 8. d. s. d. s d. Coarse and inferior Beasts. "2 10 to 3 0.2 10 to 3 4 Second quality 3 2 3 4 3 6 3 8 Prime large Oxen 3 6 31;).310 4 0 I rime Scois. 4 0 4 2.4 2 4 4 C..arscand.ferin,Shec, 32 3 S 6 Seeond quality di-lo 36 3 8.3 8 4 4 I rune coarse woolled ditto 3 10 4 0.4 6 4 8 1 rime Southdown ditto. 40 4 2.4 10 5 0 Lambs 4 9 4 10.5 0 f. O p'T^e coarse Calves 3 4 3 8 4 Pirrne small ditto 3 s 4 4._4 g 4 )(J Large Hogs 3 0 3 g 3 0 g Neat small I orkers 3 8 4 0.3 10 4 2 SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1845. Published by the sole Proprietor, IIFNRY "WEP.EER, at his residence Charleg-strejt, in the Parish of Saint John the Baptist, in the Town of Cardiff and County 0 Glamorgan, and Printed by him at his General 1 riming Oiiic-e in Duke-street, in the said Parish of Saint John, in the Town and County aforesaid. AdyertisernCllts and Orders received by the following Agents:— 3 LONDON. Mr. Barker, 33, Fleet-street; Messrs. Newton and Co., 5, Warwick-square Mr. G. Reynell, 42 Miuncery-lane; Mr. Deacon, 3, Walbrook, lieav the 1 ansion-hcmse; Mr. Joseph Thomas, 1, Finch-Jane, Cornhill; Mr. Hammond, 27, Lombard-street; Mr. 12, Birchin-lane W. Dawson and Son, 74, Cannon-street, City'; Messis. Lewis and Lowt, 8, u Castle Court, Biichin Lane. ™1IIYI1 Mr. H. W. White, Stationer, ^RI;C0N Mr. William Evans, Ship-street SWANSEA Mr. John Lewis, G, Nelson Placc* And by all Postmasters and Clerks on the Rja 1. This paper is regularly filed in London at Lloyd's Collee House City.-Peel's Coffee-house. Fleet-street. -The Chapter Coffee-house St. Paul's.—Deacon** Coffee-house, Walbrook, ..t

Glamorganshire Summer Assizes. (Continued from our last.) FRIDAY. His lordship entered the Hall at nine o'clock. MORRIS versus BARNES AND OTHERS. In this action Messrs. Yiughan Williams and Richards appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Evans, Q.C., and Mr. Wilson for the defendants. It was an action in replevin brought to try and determine a right of common. Mr. Vaughan Williams applied to the court for a post- ponement, in consequence of the absence of Mr. Randall, of Oldcastle, Bridgend—a most material witness —who had not arrived at Cardiff, being probably detained at home by ill health. This application was supported by an affidavit put in by Mr. II. Morgan (the plaintiff's attorney), in which he stated that a few days ago he saw Mr. Randall, and that he then appeared extremely ill. He had taken the utmost pains to procure the attendance of Mr. Randall since his (Mr. Morgan's) arrival at Car- diff, and bad sent an express messenger for him, but the messenger had not yet returned. His lordship, after hearing Mr. Evans in opposition to the application, decided that the cause should stand over till the next assizes for this county-the plaintiff to pay the costs of the day. DOE DEM. LORD AND A NR. versus KINGSBURY. [s. J.] This was an action of ejectment, in which Mr. Evans, Q.C., and Mr. Yaughan Williams appeared for the plain- tiff; and Mr. Chilton, Q.C., and Messrs. Wilson and Nicholl Came appeared for the defendant. Mr. Richards held a watching-brief on behalf of certain parties inte- rested. By Mr. Evans's opening speech it appeared that this was an action brought by Mr. Arthur Owen Lord, an officer in the army, and who was descended from a family of the name of Matthew, who had at one time large pos- sessions in this county. His claim was resisted by Mrs. Kingsbury, the defendant, who claimed to be entitled not only to the soil of a farm called Forchammon, near Aberdare, which she possesses, but also to the third of the minerals under that property. This action was limited to recovering the one-third of the minerals which Mrs. Kingsbury claimed the other two-thirds belonging respectively to Colonel Gwynne Holford and Mr. Curre, of Itton Court, Monmouthshire. In order to make this claim clear and intelligible, it was necessary that he (Mr. Evam) should give the history of the family from the year 1747. At that time a lady of the name of Grace Matthew and Edward Matthew her son were in posses- sion of large estates in the counties of Glamorgan and Brecon; and in that year [1747] Edward Matthew was about to be married to Mary Popkin, of Swansea, the daughter of Robert Popkin. Six days previous to the marriage, which took place on the 16th of December, 1747, a marriage settlement was made, comprising these large estates, between Grace Matthew and Edward Mat- thew, her son, on the one part, and Robert Popkin, Howell Gwynne, and John Carne, trustees in that set- tlement, and Mary Popkin, the bride, on the other part. Mr. Evans then stated in detail the provisions of that deed of settlement, which was drawn in the usual man- ner, and provided that it was expedient that a settlement should be made on the bride, and that the estate therein mentioned should be settled in the blood of Matthew. It then proceeded to settle, as far a3 any property in Gla- morganshire and in the parish of Aberdare was con- cerned, to the use of Edward Matthew for his life afterwards it proceeded to preserve contingent remain- ders then to secure a jointure to the wife in case she survived her husband; then to Thomas Popkin and John Matthew for the term of 500 years then to the first and other sons successively of that marriage, and in default of sons to daughters. Should there be more than one daughter they were to hold the property as tenants in common in tail. The issue of the marriage was three daughters—namely, Rebecca, who was born in 1751 Maria Eleonora, who was born in 1753; and Eleanor, who was born in the year 1759. These three children became entitled as tenants in common in tail of the estates. The eldest daughter, Rebecca, married Mr. Curre, of Monmouthshire, who was now represented by her son, William Curre, Esq. the second daughter, Maria Eleonora, married Thynne Howe Gwynne, Esq., ofBuck- land, Breconshire. now represented by Colonel Gwynne Holford and the third daughter, Eleanor, married Mr. Hugh Lord, from whom the present claimant was des- cended. The youngest daughter, who married Mr. Hugh Lord in the year 1778, had five children, the eldest of whom, born in May, 1779, lived only a few days. The second son, Hugh Lord, under whom the plaintiff clai med possession, was boin in 1780. In 1796 he went out to India, and continued in that country till 1829, when he died there. In 1806 he married, and in 1807 his son, Hugh Frederick Lord, was born. He died without issue. His other son, Arthur Owen Lord, is the present claim- ant, and was born in 1809—came to this country in 1825 -and has continued here ever since. In the year 1788 the person who married Mary Popkin died; but six months previous to his death it was agreed that the pro- perty should be divided into thirds between his three daughters. Mr. Gwynne and his wife had a third Mr. Lord and his wife had a third Mr. Curre and his wife had a third. That took place in 1788. Subsequently, the three owners of the estate parted with the possession of the surface, but (Mr. Evans said) reserved to them- selves the right to all the minerals under the property. The defendant, who was in possession of the surface of one of the thirds, claimed that she had bought the minerals also but it would appear by the deed of partition that the right to the minerals under the estate was ex- pressly and entirely reserved: they were within the pro. visions of the marriage settlement. Several witnesses were then called, who were nearly, if not all, members of the family of the plaintiff, and who deposed to facts relating to the life and death of Mr. Hugh Lord, in India. The plaintiff's case havingbeen concluded, Mr. Chilton, Mr. VY ilson, and Mr. Nicholl Carne entered at great length upon arguments of a perfectly technical nature, and then submitted that an action of ejectment would not lie for minerals which had not been opened and that the plaintiff was clearly barred by the statute of limitations, as he had not shown any possession whatever of those mines subsequent to the year 1794. There was conse- quently a prima facie case that the mines belonged to those who were in possession of the surface during that period. The learned judge reserved these points for argument and decision in the court above, stating that the deed pro- duced on behalf of Mrs. Kingsbury, the defendant, by her counsel, showed a clear conveyance, not only of the sur- face, but of Major Lord's third share of the minerals and a verdict for the plaintiff was then taken, subject to the opinion of the judges in the court above. Attorney for the plaintiff, Mr. White for the defendant, Mr. Davies. TAYLOR v. CLAY AND ANOTIIER.-[S. J.] In this case, Mr. Chilton, Q.C., and Mr. Davidson, appeared for the plaintiff; and Messrs. Yaughan Williams and Benson for the defendants. It was an action brought by the plaintiff, Francis Augustus Taylor, to recover compensation by way of damages for non-fulfilment of a contract by the defendants, R. Clay and It. Gillman. The declaration stated that by a charter-party made early in the year 1843, between the plaintiff, who was there described as the owner of the ship Jane, and the defend- ant, it was agreed that the said ship Jane should proceed to Port Talbot, in this county, or so near to it as she possibly could go, and there to take on board a cargo of coal or culm, which she was to deliver at a certain port in Spain on payment of freight;—that the ship Jane, after arriving at Port Talbot, was not loaded within a reason- able time, and was moreover not loaded in her regular turn. The defendants pleaded that they did load her within a reasonable time after her arrival at Port Talbot, and that she was loaded in her regular turn whereupon issue was joined. It was further pleaded by the defendants that during the voyage to Port Talbot the vessel received such damages as rendered her unfit to take the cargo upon her arrival, and that such damages were the result of want of skill and vigilancc Oil the part of the master of the ship, who was also the plaintiff in the action. The plaintiff, in his replication, denied that any accident which took place was attributable to him and that question, with the two former, was also brought before the court and jury for decision. From Mr. Chilton's opening, and evidence adduced by him on the part of the plaintiff, it appeared that the Jane, having sailed from London in pursuance of the terms of the charter-party, arrived at Port Talbot on the 10th of March, and went into the floating harbour on the 13th, three days afterwards. At the time the vessel sailed from London, she was perfectly sea-worthy, but on the voyage down channel sustained a very trifling injury. On arri- ving at Port Talbot, the Jane, in accordance with the rules of the port, took on board a pilot, who,'Of course, was in the absolute command of the ship. The harbour- master, in directing the order in which vessels should enter the dock that morning, permitted one or two ves- sels to enter out of their turn, and pnfairly kept the June waiting in the cut. Shortly the order was issued by him for the Jane to enter. A small vessel named the Nautilus entered the lock first; then the Jane followed; and then a vessel called the Thames. "While entering the lock the Thames overtook the Jane, and both vessels got so firmly jammed that all efforts then made to separate them proved ineffectual. By the opinions and statements of the plain- tiff's witnesses, the accident was wholly attributable to the conduct of the harbour-master in ordering the Thames to move on immediately, or nearly so, after he had directed the Jane to enter, and in not interposing to pre- vent the Thames to haul in so fast, especially as, being on the spot superintending every thing, he might easily per- ceive, from the rapidity of the Thames' advance, that a collision was inevitable". When the vessels got jammed they were partly outside the lock gates, which conse- quently could not be closed and, therefore, when the tide receded, they were left without support, resting upon each other and the walls of the lock, and thereby the Jane sustained very considerable damages. On the fol- lowing day they were separated, and entered the float. To recover compensation for such damages this action was brought, as well as to recover compensation for the delay which the accident occasioned. It was brought against the defendants but it appeared, and, indeed, was admitted, that the real defendants were the Port Talbot Harbour Company. Mr. Vaughan Williams, for the defendants, censured the plaintifffor bringing the action against the defendants, when it was evident that the proper course would have been, in case any party, besides the plaintiff and his crew, were to blame, to have brought it against the Port Talbot Company. He then called a host of witnesses namely, the harbour-master, the dock- men, and one or two others, who stated that the accident waa most entirely to be attributed to want of care and energy on the part of the master and crew of the Jane, who behaved in the most unseamanlike manner-who were most sluggish in their mgvcmeuti-aud who, when the accident was about to take place, in direct contraven- tion of orders issued by the harbour master and pilot, con- tinued to haul the vessel instead of heating her in. If the mas-ter and crew of the Jane had acted with alacrity the accident might have been averted. In summing up his lordship said-" There are in this case three issues in an action brought on a charter-party of agreement, by which the defendant undertook, within a reasonable time after the arrival of the vessel at Port Talbot, to load her with a cargo. The vessel having arrived the accident occurred immediately and before they had commenced loading her, and which accident rendcied it necessary that the owners of the ship should get her repaired before anything could be done in the way of loading her. Those repairs necessarily took up some time but as soon as it was reported that the vessel was in a fit state to receive a cargo, the defendant furnished her with one, which was properly put on board. On these two issues the defendant, in my opinion, is entitled to your verdict, because it was impossible to put a cargo on board, when the vessel was not in a condition to receive it. However, to prevent any new trial or unnecessary expense to the parties, it will be well if you assess dama- ges as if the party were entitled to recover in case it should turn out ultimately that the plaintiff was entitled to your verdict upon these two issues. Damages are claimed for the delay at the rate of C3 per day, which will amount to about £ 12G. That sum would be a reasonable amount of damages if the plaintiff were enti- tled to recover at all, because one of the witnesses stated that the ship never received less than C3 a day for delay. But gentlemen, the question which we desire to have your judgment exercised upon is the question of the third issue. The third plea alleges that the vessel was under the care and management of the captain of the ship and of the crew and that they, in the act of bringing her into harbour, mismanaged the vessel—conducted her with want of skill-with want of due care and attention and that the damage occurred from that circumstance. On the evidence adduced you will have to state whether you are of opinion the accident arose from the misconduct of the captain and his crew in not duly performing the orders given to them by the harbour master, or whether the harbour master is to be considered accountable for the accident." His lordship then read the evidence to the jury, and left the three questions to them for decision. The jury, after retiring for some time, re-entered the hall, and said—"We find a verdict for the defendants on the three counts." Attorney for the plaintiff, Mr. Willis; for the defend- ants, Mr. William Llewellyn. The court rose at half-past nine-haying sat twelve hours and a half. SATURDAY. His lordship entered the Hall at nine o'clock. DAVIES versus LUCAS. [S. J.] In this action Mr. Chilton, Q.C., and Mr, Nicholl Carne appeared for the plaintiff; and Messrs. Vaughan Williams and Benson for the defendant. It was an action of ejectment brought by John Lucas against David Davies to recover possession of a few acres of land situ- ated near Swansea, in a locality known generally as The Cockett." The real plaintiff in the case was, Mr. Chilton said, William Chambers, of Llanelly House, Esq. The details of the case are perfectly uninteresting. At the close of a most protracted investigation, it appeared that the defendant, who is a man in humble circumstances, had, during the last 40 years, exercised a greater number of acts of ownership upon the piece of ground than the tenants of Mr. Chambers, and, consequently, the iurv returned a verdict in his favour. Attorney for the plaintiff, Mr. Brown; for the defend- ant, Mr. J. J. Price. The court rose at half-past seven, having been occupied throughout the day with this paltry, tedious, and most uninteresting cause. On Sunday forenoon, the learned judge, high sheriff, and retinue attended Divine service at Saint John's Church. The members of our town council preceded his lordship, in accordance, we understand, with an-ient custom. The sheriff's chaplain read the service, and also preached from 12th chap. Matthew, v. 49 and 50, "And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother." The sermon was a most excellent one, and was ^in- attentively heard by a crowded congregation. After Divine service the learned judge returned in the same state to his lodgings. (To be continued in our third paye.)