The Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette

ALMANACK FOR 1853. The use of the subjoined Tabular View of the Months, Weeks, and Days, for the year 1853, will be at once apparent for instance, the 12th of January falls on a Wednesday; hence the table not only presents in the vertical line under that head the date of every Wed. liesday in that and succeeding months, Lut also, at one glance, in other columns, the figures corresponding with every day throughout the year. J ■* I"3 «* ? if "5 S ) 'i' «* ? 1853. 4 "2 | t g ■ 5 1853. -S "S « -SI § « 5 g 3 § £ | -H| «S §Ui= S 5 cc 'r !'• H rn Jan. 1 (July.. 12 2 3 4 5 6 7l 8 3l 4 5] 6 7 8 9 9 10 ll!l'-> 13| 14 15 lO'll 12jl3i 14 15 16 16jl7 18 19 20 2li22 17118 19 20;21 22 23 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 30 31 31 Feb. 12 3 4 5 Aug.. 1 2 3 4 5 6 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 13114 15 16 17 18 19 14 15 1(5 17 18 19 20 2o!21 22 23 24 25 26 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 27 28 28 29 30 31 March 1 2 3 4 5 Sept.. 1 2 3 6! 7 8 9 10 11 125 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 j 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 20;2I 22 23 24 25 26$18 19 20^21 22 23 24 27128 29 30 31 25 26 27 28 29 30 April 12' Oct. 1 3 4 5| 6 7 8 9) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 lojll 12 13 14 15 16 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 17jIS 19^20 21 22 23 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 24 25 26j'27 28 29 30 23 24 '25|26 27 28 29 30 31 May.. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7jNov.. 1 2 3 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 6 7 8 9 10 II 12 15 16 17 18 19 20 2l) 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 22 23 24 25 26 27 285 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 29 30 31 27 28 29 30 29 30 31 27 28 29 30 June.. 1 2 3 4 Dec. 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 456789 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 18> 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 19 20 21 22 23 24125 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 26 27 28 29 30 j 25 2fi 27 28 29 30 31 ECLIPSES. In the year 1853 there will be two Eclipses of the Sun, and one of the Moon. I. An Annular Eclipse of the Sun, June 6, invisible at Greenwich. II. A Partial Elipse of the Moon, June 20, invisible at Greenwich. III. A total Elipse of the Sun, November 30, invisible at Greenwich.

PORT OF CARDIFF. VESSELS LOADING FOREIGN. I VESSELS FOREIGN. 26th November to 2nd December, 1852, inclusive. I Ships and Masters. Tons. Cargo. Where Bound. Rome, Gross 900 iron New Orleans Mozambique, Bonman 900 coal Panama Adironach, Taylor 902 coal New York Kate Home, N urcross 948 iron New Orleans Republica, Matches 1200 coal San Francisco Atalanta, Colby 1051 iron New York Cambria, Shaddick 600 coal Simon's Hay, Cape Good Hope Charles Kerr, Davidson 600 coal San Francisco Sewall, Merrow 800 iron New Orleans Express, Turner 530 coal Valparaiso Maceilouia, Prebble 600 iron New Orleans Helena, Burman 500 coal Rio de Janeiro Intrinsic, M'Farlane 5U3 iron Savannah Blanche, Stevens 400 coal Madeira Charles, Drew .13[) coal San Francisco William, Tefser 500 coal Alexandria Carlotta, Capantich 530 coal Trieste Ilydra, Giau 250 coal Rio de Janeiro Altar, Sorderlund 4tH coal Barcelona Sybil, Sim 252 coal Naples Seune Buptiste, Marcrinan 313 coal Toulon Jan Francisco, Scotto 360 coal Barcelona Ciuzier, Porrett 4j3 coal Cape Good Hope Sea Bird, Fisher 400 Coal Gibraltar Maria, Uoi techer 363 coal Barcelona liomano, Caro 2;)0 coal Cette Joune Francois, Reni 300 coal Toulon Sarah, Couch 140 coal Santa Cruz Ettelle, Latl'ore 150 coal Rio de Janeiro Margaret, Itichard 155 coal Charenle Astreus, Lenierle 1ü3 coal Nantes E iiilie, Chi»n»elon 130 coal Names Aljihonse ii<telle, Perron 120 coal N.uUes Maria Anyele, Riordel 104 coal Nantes Eier, Schadc 18J coal Lisbon Heber, Diuescli 120 iron Oporto Marie, Ft'rret 126 coal Charente Idea, Mcnti 201 irou Genoa Moderne, Thomas 80 coal Brest Unity, Koubillurd 80 coal Jersey 1 oni and Mary, tiacquet 61 coal Hoiitleur Pctfi Minde, Mogensen 50 iron Copenhagen c FREIGHTS AT CARDIFF, DEC. 2, 1852. s. d. 8. d. Dungarvan 4 9 Plymouth 7 6 Southampton 9 0 Falmouth 5 9 Cork 6 4 London lit Waterford 6 0 Liverpool 7 0 Newry 6 Sil| Sligo 10 0 Kinsale 5 3 j Dundalk 5 V Qufelin 7 0 I Porttuadoo & b yanelly '< J • M M 4 G I WM! ? m «. M1 9 8 I

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—TUESDAY. The Earl of Derby stated, in reply to Lord Clarendon, that he should consider it a great evil if the existing sys- tem of national education in Ireland were materially altered, and that the Government had no intention of proposing any measure on the subject. The Marquis of Clanricarde gave notice that he would move on an early day a series of resolutions on the com- mercial policy of the country similar to those recently adopted by the House of Commons. The Earl of Derby suggested a resolution acknow- ledging the general prosperity of the country, deprecating the evils of frequent changes in its financial system, and declaring the adhesion of the House to the commercial policy recently established. In some such resolution the Government would willingly join, and those noble Lords who had left London in the expectation that no business of importance would be transacted before Christmas would be spared the inconvenience of a return to town. After some further discussion it was agreed that Lord Clanricarde should postpone his notice of motion till Thursday. HOUSE OF COMMONS—TUESDAY. Mr. Fagan moved a resolution pledging the House to resolve itself into a committee to consider the law re- lating to ministers' money in Ireland, with a view of re- pealing that rate or tax; and, further, to consider the Church Temporalities Act, for the purpose of amending the same, so as to provide thereby a substitute out of the revenues of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. He dwelt upon the comparatively small amount of this tax, its ine- quality, and its pressure upon the Roman Catholics of the towns subject to it. The late First Minister and the present Home Secretary, he said, had pledged themselves respectively to bring in a bill to abolish this grievous tax, and the revenues of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners were in so prosperous a condition—and he showed how they might be still further increased—that they could, without inconvenience, bear this paltry charge, which did not exceed £15,000 a year. Mr. Walpole thought there were inconveniences be- longing to thi# impost which ought to be removed, and inequalities which, if the impost were suffered to remain, should be alleviated. Houses above £60 a year were rated at only £6Q, and where houses had fatten into de- cay the assessment still remained. A stronger reason for getting rid of the present impost was that the clergy who received it objected to it as much as the Roman Catholics who paid it. The question was—first, whether the tax should be abolished altogether; secondly, whether it should be thrown upon the funds in the hands of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. Upon the first point, if put as an abstract question, he should resiøt the abolition of the impost, which was not on the person, but upon property, and which could not be repealed without injustice. The second proposition, to cast this obnoxious tax upon the funds in the hands of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, would be an injury to the clergy interested in these funds. Under these circum- stances, believing that something ought to be done in this matter, and that what was done should be done with great deliberation, he would not move to negative the motion, but if Mr. Fagan would consent to his moving the previous question, the Government would, after the recess, bring the subject under the consideration of the House. Mr. Serjeant Murphy observed that specious promises had been made from time to time and nothing done, and he urged Mr. Fagan not to be content with less than a declaration from Mr. Walpole that the law officers of the Crown were about to prepare a bill, which would be laid upon the table after the recess. Mr. Napier, said that, but for his engagements since the last seesion, he should have had a bill prepared upon this subject with which it was the honest desire of the Government to grapple. He described some ofthedif- ficulties which embarrassed the undertaking. After some observations by Mr. Hume, Lord Bernard, Mr. Maguire, Sir J. Shelley, Captain Jones, Mr. Fortescue, and Mr. Monsell, the House divided upon the previous question, which was carried by 140 against 94. The Bank Notes Bill was read a third time and passed. WEDNESDAY. The House was occupied with the County Elections Polls Bill, which stood for committal. On the order for going into committe, a discussion of some length took place upon the details of the bill, and the various suggestions offered for their amendment. In the course of the discussion. Mr. Packe, with the view of stopping its further progress, moved that the bit! be committed that day six months; but he afterwards with- drew that motion, and the House went into committee, when the clauses of the bill were considered and agreed to after certain amendments. In reply to a question put by Mr. Drummond, Mr. Stafford gave some explanations relative to the Melbourne steamer, and stated that the accounts which had appeared of the damage done to the mail bags were very much exaggerated. The General Committee of Elections reported that they had selected the following five members, namely,—Mr. Goulburn, Lord H. Vane, Lord Barrington, Sir W. Molesworth, and Mr. Deedes, to be the committee to take into consideration the matter of the petition of the inhabi- tant householders of the borough of Derby.

GENERAL MISCELLANY. It is announced that the Hon. Spencer Cowper is to be married, on the 1st of January next, to Lady Harriet D'Orsay, the widow of the late Count D'Orsay, and daughter of thdEarl of llIessington. John Heywood, a carter at Manchester, aged 63, of drunken habits, having his weekly allowance of Is. 6.1. a week by the Board of Guardians stopped, with the alter- native of going into the house, declared that he would die first, and went and drowned himself. Last week a sparrow was observed chirping on the telegraphic wires near the statiou at Stockport, when suddenly it was observed to fail to the ground, it is supposed struck by the electric fluid conveying a message five minutes afterwards it was picked up quite dead. Two cloth manufactories, and one worsted manufactory have been destroyed by fire during the IURt ten days in Yorkshire, the latter at Legrams, near Bradford the former, one at Ellanri near Halifax, the other at Clayton West, near Hutldersfied, throwing several hundreds of hands out of work, and destroying property to the value of about £10,000 in each case. LIBERAL BEQUESTS.—The executors of the will of the late Mrs. Mary Halford, of Newcourt, near Exeter, have just paid the following munificent charity legacies left by her will: The Deaf and Dumb Institution, £ lOOO ¡the Blind Institution, £1000; the Exeter Dispensary. £1000; the Exeter Eye Infirmary, £1000; and the Governesses Benevolent Institution, London, £1000; and all free of legacy duty. THE BAPTISTS AND THE DIORAMA.—It is currently reported that Mr. Peto, M.P., has purchased the building known at the Diorama, Regent's-park, for the purpose of converting it into a Baptist chapel. The name utare. spected Baptist minister in the provinces has been men- tioned as likely to occupy the pulpit; but at present, for obvious reasons, werelrain from naoiiug the rev. gentleman. The purchase money is said to be about £4,000.-Patriut. GOLD DIGGINGS-—On Saturday six seamen arrived at the Sailors Home, Well-street, bringing with them loose goli> dust amounting in value to £ 2,500, the produce of their labour at the Australian gold diggings. The process of melting and assaying was prepared for them through the j instrumentality oftheomcersofthat institution, and the full value procured from the Bank of England. The men are now returning to their homes, and these large sums will be sent to meet them, without any risk or deduction. LORD BROUGHAM AND THE COUNTY COURTS.—Lord Brougham has laid on the table of the House of Lords two bills, which have just been issued, to give more busi- ness to the County Courts. These bills relate to matters in the Court of Chancery, and both are to take effect from the Ilth of July next. By the County Courts Equitable Jurisdiction Bill it is proposed to enable creditors, admi- nistrators, and otheis, to prosecute their inquiries in the County Courts, instead of the Court of Chancery, at a small expeuse and by the County Courts' Further Ex- tension Bill it is declaied expedient to facilitate pro- ceedings in Chancery, for which purpose it is proposed that the Lord Chancellor shall appoint Judges of the County Courts, officers of the Court of Chancery, in taking accounts, examining witnesses, &c. There are 16 clauses in the first and 11 in the second bill, both of which are waiting discussion in the House of Lords. A REGISTRY OF INSOLVENT DEBTORS.—In one of Lord Brougham's new bills now before the House ot Lords it is proposed that "A record shall be kept, at the court for the relief of insolvent debtors, of the names and descriptions of all persons petitioning the county courts as insolvent debtors, and of the date of the filing of every such petition, and every such petition and every schedule thereto shall be filed in duplicate, and the clerks of the county courts shall forthwith after the filing thereof transmit such duplicate to the chief clerk of the court for the relief of insolvent debtors in Portugal-street, who shall cause the proper entry to be made iu a book to be kept there for that purpose, and shall thereafter file such f duplicate, petition, and schedule as of record all persons j being at liberty to search for and to see such entry and duplicate, petition, and schedule on payment of the usual fee." SUICIDE OF A SOLDIER AT CHATHAM.—Private William 1 Clark, of the 95th Regiment, committed suicide on Friday evening, by shooting himself through the head when on sentry from the lower dock guard, at half-past 5 p.m. He discharged his musket through his mouth, and the whole upper part of his head was blown away. The deceased was 33 years of age, and he had been 12 years in the service. He bore a good character, and had two good conduct badges, with pay. He was a native of Birmingham^ .and returned from India in the course of last summer. Having recovered his health he joined the depÔt. No cause can be assigned for the rash act. It was not through drunkenness; but he was very sullen in bis manners, and subject to giddiness of the head. An inquest was held on the body on Saturday evening, and a verdict returned of "Temporary insanity."— Maidstone Journal. THE PRUSSIAN MILITIA. —It is not too much to say that not one English officer in 10 knows as much of the 1 heory of bis profession as every private soldier in Prussia is obliged to learn. If I had not before been a good pitriot and an admirer of our military system, my three years' servitude would have made me one. I had but to compare the lull blown soldier in his second year with the squads of unman- nerly, ungainly, awkward, sullen recruits which came to us, in due course, every year. These pleasant boys, with dirty faces and dirtier hands, who knew neither how to dress properly nor to keep themselves clean when dressed, were, by a few months' service, converted into wholesome, healthy looking, handy soldiers, 'lhey had their rustic conceit completely taken out of them; and, instead of it, they had some pride and dignity. They were proud of their corps and country, 01 their smart uuilorms, and the formidable weapon which was slung to their side. They seemed to have obtained a freer use 01 their limbs; they looked, talked, and acted differently and, above all, they were trained to punctuality and to a proper division of time.— Dickens's Household Words. A MAN ATTACKED BY A BEAR.—BRISTOL, Nov. 27. —One of those accidents which too frequently arise from the absurd aDd dangerous practice of tampering with savage animals occurred this morning in the neignbour- hood of this city to a labouring man named Fitzgerald, who was ferociously attacked aud severely bitten by a bear, which he was in the act ot feeding. Fitzgerald was employed at a timberyard, the proprietor of which was possessed of a bear, which, having been presented te one of his sons, was kept in the yard as a sort of domestic animal or plaything. One of the offices which Fitzgerald bad to perform was that of giving the brute bis meals, and this he bad so repeatedly done without any evil con- Kequeuces ensuing that he had begun to approach Bruin without any kiud of apprehension. On Saturday he was feeding the beast, when, either from his being more hungry thau usu*l, or from some other cause, he ae.Ztid the unfortunate lDan wilii his muuth, aru) loiced hili tusks through the tleshy part of his arm and severely lacerated the limb. The poor fellow succeeded in escaping before any further violence could he ottered, but he was ao much injured M tu render it qec«|«ary to ta>e bim to 'II, JJri|tol lefl'BWfi THE FLOODS.—The waters still continue to cover the land for a great distance round Windsor, and much in- convenience to all parties, with a vast amount of positive suffering among the poor, is the natural consequence. Subscriptions to relieve the necessities of the latter have been set on foot at Windsor, Eton. and Datchet, and it is understood that her Majesty, previous to the departure of the Court for Osborne, with considerate benevolence, commanded that the most deserving of.the humble claim- ants should be ascertained and relieved. The bodies of the men drowned last week have not yet been discovered. SHOCKING RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—An accident by which a gentleman lost his life, occurred on the Lan- cashire and Yorkshire Railway, at Pendleton, near Manchester, Tuesday morning. The deceased, Mr. James Longshaw, was rent-collector to Mr. Hugh Hig- son, the manager of the Fitzgerald colliery estates, at Pendleton. He had Crossed the up-line of rails at Wipdsor-bridge station to make some inquiries of the clerk in charge, whose name is William Birch. The latter was standing between a luggage-train and a coal- train on the down-line, both of which were stationary. He had just answered Mr. Longshaw's questions, which had reference to the arrival of some cattle-trains from Skipton, when a shout of "look out" was raised by one of the railway officials, and the express-train from Bolton to Manchester came up almost immediately along the up.line. ^Lr» Longshaw, who was standing on the down- line, unfortunately mistook the caution, & thought it refer- red to one of the trains he was standing between. H e ac. cordingly stepped backwards, almost close to the up- line of rails. Scarcely had he done so, when the engine buffer of the eipress-train, which he had not perceived, struck him on his right side, and dashed him before it, so that he fell across one of the rails, and the train pas- sing over him, cut off his left foot and right hand, at the same time dreadfully fracturing his skull. Death was instantaneous. The unfortunate man has left a widjw and six children. THE CORK PAVEMENT.—In Cork, the stone used for pavements is a variety of the old red sandstone, of which different stratifications differ both in quality and colour. They are generally either of a purplish or brownish red, or of a lighter colour, varying from gray to green. They also differ greatly in hardness and durability; but these qualties can be known at once from their appearance. The stone which breaks in solid masses with in general a right-angled fracture is very hard and durable. I never saw, in the oldest building, a stone of this kind which seemed to have yielded in the smallest degree to the action of the elements. In texture, also, it differs from the softer kinds its surface is rough and gritty—qualities which, together with its hardness, peculiarly fit it for pavements. The other sort seems to have been originally formed of a finer material. It breaks with much more acute angles, Bnd in flalter masses, sometimes in great flags, which are used as foundation stones, covering a large breadth of ground, and thereby preventing the wall raised upon them from sinking. This kind of stone, hbwever" it' much softe* and less durable than the other. and also much smoother in its texture. Hence. it i« much less' fitted for furnishing paving-stones. — Corre- spondent of The Builder. AN IDIOT AND HIS BURIED MOTHER.—One of the most affecting incidents which has recently come under observation has just been communicated to us by a gen- tleman in whose statements we can place the utmost re- liance. It appears that there resides in Castlewellan, in the county Down, a poor idiot, whose mother died and was buried about five weeks ago in Bryansford church- yard. The helpless lad was evidently deeply affected by the lots he had sustained, and last week, conceiving that his fond parent had not been interred as she ought to have been, and that her body was floatiug in water under the soil, he proceeded with wheelbarrow and spade to the grave, disinterred the remains, and carried them away. The operation was witnessed by several neighbours, who, when they attempted to interfere, were obliged to with- draw, the idiot threatening their lives, imagining, it is believed, that they had some interest in the body and were resolved at all hazards to obtain it. The parties in question, finding they were unahle to restrain him gave immediate information to the police, and in a short time the unfortunate idiot, who had the coffin placed on the wheelbarrow, and was on bis way with it to the mountains, was arrested, and was obliged to return. He was sub- sequently allowed, under surveillal/ce, to carry off his wonderful burden, and it is stated three days aud nights he proceeded in the ui-inner described among and over the mountaius,—that he dug three graves which did not seem to satisfy him, and that eventually exhausted by fatigue he reached Rostrevor, where he bad the remains decently and carefully interred. We mention the simple facts without commentary believing that in themselves they con- vey information at once remarkably interesting and powerfully instructive.—Banner of Ulster. STATE OF TRADE. — MANCHESTER, NOV. 30. The India letters by the overland mail, telegraphed on Mon- day, are not yet to hand, and the houses in that trade are rather quiet, but the market here has sympathised to some extent with that for the raw material at Liverpool, where 12.009 bales have been sold, a large portion on speculation. The accounts by the Africa speak of lower prices in the United States, and business people here do not very well understand the sudden activity and excite- ment at Liverpool, except it be attributed to rumoured injury by the frost to the unpicked cotton. The change in the Liverpool market, however, was telegraphed in time to fix spinners who were wavering in favour of offers at lower rates, and has had the effect of steadying prices. More inquiry has been felt also in yarns generally, the change having operated upon buyers, who were holding over their orders for the turn of the market, so as to in. duce them to purchase rather more freely than for some weeks past. Some of the houses in the cloth trade also speak of a firmer market and a decided increase of busi- ness; but these favourable reports are not without ex- ceptions. There is probably little doubt that a larger business has been effected in both yarn and cloth than for some time past on this, the principal market day, at steadier prices, but it is yet rather doubtful if we can re- port the market as having seen the lowest point. GLOUCESTERSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. The annual meeting of this society, which has in former years been rather celebrated for its political discussions pro and con free trade measures, was held on Thursday week at Gloucester. There was the usual show of stock, which was allowed to be one of the best ever produced in this county; and in the evening a small party sat down to dinner at the King's Head, all the county mem- bers being absent at the free trade debate. The chair was taken by Mr. C. Hay ward, a county magistrate, and heretofore a staunch Protectionist, but the speeches on this occasion were all the other way. On the health of. the chairman being given, that gentlemen expressed his gratification that at length they were relieved from those uncomfortable feelings which had been experienced in reference to thei^political connexions. He felt that what- ever might be the effect of the great change which had taken place, it was a great relief for them to consider the question settled. He had felt very great difficulty when he had attended their meetings, for the last five or six years, in speaking openly. It was folly to speak words of encouragement when they knew that there was one subject uppermost in the minds of all present which they dared not touch, or which, if they did touch, it would be only to excite angry feelings. He confessed that he was one of those who had conscientiously opposed the bill of lIHn. He felt that the solution of the question depended on the effect which it produced on the great masses of the people. If prosperity followed, then he felt that, whether the result was prosperous or disadvantageous to agriculture, they must submit, and it was hopeless to contend against it. He felt that this was doubtful for some time, but he believed that we were now all ready to admit that the condition of the country was that of prosperity, and such as we should be sorry to see checked. As to the reasons of the present state of prosperity, opinions differed. Some traced it largely to the measure of 1846; others attributed it to other causes—causes which could not have been foreseen. Some might believe that the measure of 1846 was an assistant cause, and others that it was the only cause; but, whatever these opinions, he thought they might all agree that they should assent to the present conmercial policy of the country as a determined fact, and that it was not worth while any longer to contend against it. THE FLOODS are reported to be as extensive and de- structive as at any period of the season. In the neighbourhood of Windsor six persons have been drowned, and a like number round about Oxford. The Cherwell and Isis are moie like seas than rivers, for the width of each could now be measured by miles instead of yards. All desciiptioiis of property are to be seen floating down the waters, and carcases of sheep, pigs, and horses, are seen lying in many parts of tiie country where the water has been drained off. No fewer than seven boats rowed by University-men have been upset. Between Peter- borough and Northampton the rails of the London aud North-Western have been swept away, entailing a cost of several thousand pounds to repar the damages. The lowlands around Bridgwater a: e flooded to a great depth, and in many instances the roads are nta ly impass- able, except by means of boats or on horseback. Cottages at Burrowbridge have been \\ash>d down, but fortunately no liv4¡s lost. In the moors many of the houses are so inundated that the inhabitants are confined to the upper stories, and communication from house to house is by the means of boats, by which also food is convejed. At Lewisham some hundreds of yards of a new sewer have been blown up and destroyed, and the road for the time on one side rendered impassable. In other parts of Kent, Essex, and Surrey, the tale is much the same. From Shrewsbury we are told the waters of the Severn are still rising. In Montgomeryshire they have reached within 2i inches of the height they had attained a fortnight ago, which was the gieatest height they had risen since the year 1795. Salisbury, we are told, is in the centre of an extensive lake, and, viewed from any of the surrounding hills, the spectator would fancy that the city itself had been transformed into a sort of inland Venice: only rows of willows and isolated haystacks lift themselves diearilyout of circumjacent waters, and indicate the existence of meadow-laud Underneath. In the nave of the cathedral the water has oozed up through the pavement and formed large pools, while the south-western portion of the close is in-several*places under water. Agriculturists are every- where complaining the fanners that they can get no seed in, graziers that their pasture lands are ruined but we must conclude with an incident at Gloucester that will raise a smile. It is something novel for a man to demand toll from his bed-room window, when his gate was under water, hut such appears to have been the case in the following instance, related by a farmer of his man, whom he had sent on an errand :— The little muscular blood mare which took him is de- serving the highest praise, he being the tirst man who faced the water into Gloucester, after the flood became so high as to be thought daugerous to pass. He tells me, for a mile and a half Hiere was nothing to guide him but a high hedge on one side of the road, and many times he saw nothing but the mare's head; as he says, it was nothing but the mare's game which saved him, for every time the water went over her back she would snort and press forward with determined vigour. At the toll-gate, which was nearly at the far end 01 the flood going into Gloucester, the toll-keeper was driven up-stairs, who, with a ladder at his window, stepped out with one foot on the gate-post to demand his toll, there being nothing visible but the tops of the two posts. The poor fellow, who is a mo<>t faithful man and dexterous among horses, acknowledged he was frightened for the first time in hit life." CORNWALL. —Owiug to the immense quantity of rain which has recently fallen in this county the river Camel, near Bodmin, has overflowed its banks, flooding the whole of the adjacent meadows and causing a great de- struction of property. The river above Blagley-bridge has also overflowed several acres of land adjoining the reservoirs that feed the canal. The result has been that the bridge at last gave way, and a tremendous rush of water took the inhabitants quite by surprise, it coming round their houses in perfect torrents. Some began re- moving their things to the upper portion of their houses, and others situated in the lower districts were compelled to remove altogether. Boats were in requisition, and a large number of the inhabitants of the neighbourhood were removed from the upper windows of their dwellings and landed at Parr, fortunately without any loss of life. The national schoolrooms were thrown open to the desti, tute, aud every comfoit was provided for them. The boats have since been busily engaged ill removing furni- ture from the various tenements. The force of the inun- dation has overthrown several old houses, the foundations of which have been known for some time to be very ill- secure, ami III 1IIY fdmilies have to deplure the loss of th^ whole of their furniture, which has been swept away. Mr. Weal's foundry was completely flooded, and 71) rneU have thus BEEN temporarily thrown out of employ. AT PRESENT there is no EVIDENCE OF ANY CESSATION OF THE BSD whtofe bus prQitowd "WI"! AMERICAN EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA.—The fine ship Nebraska, Captain Bearse, left port on Saturday, with 191 passengers for Port Philip. The Scargo will sail in a few days for Australia; she has her cargo all on board, and has excellent accommodation for passengers. —New York Express. THE OVBRLAND MAIL.—TRIESTE, NOV. 26—The Austrian Lloyd's steamer, from Egypt, arrived at Trieste, on 26th November, with the following important intelli- gence :—Prome was taken on the 9th of October by Gen- eral Godwin, assisted by Commodore Lambert. The resistance of the enemy was slight, our loss consisting ootI. of one man beihg killed and six wounded. Five thousand Burmese were collected at six miles distance from PrOlOel but General Godwin was unwilling to attack them unt' the arrival of fresh troops. The campaign was considered at an end, and orders were momentarily expected for the annexation of Pegu. -The troops were in perfect health. —Admiral Austen died on the 9th inst. of cholera, at a distance from Promw. ALLEGED FULFILMENT OF A DREAM.—A most singular, instance of the fulfilment of a dream has transpired at Newent, Gloucestershire. AN inquest was held »t 'h*c place on Monday, before Mr. Lovegrove, one of the co roners for Gloucestershire, on the body of a man namc Mark Lane, who had been found drowned under most, remarkable circumstances. The evidence of the de- ceased s brother was to the following effect —He informed oti Friday night his brother Mark was mi»sim?j he immediately replied, "Then he is drowned, f"r 1 dreamt last night that he was drowned, and that I up to my arm pits in water, endeavouring to get him out. That very same night the man dreamt again that his bro- ther was drowned near the locks at Oxenhall, and tn« there was a trout by bim. Next morning he went to Oxenhall with another brother, and there he saw a tr°l?g. in the water. He felt convinced that the body brother was near; and, in fact, the body was found neaf to the epot. The deceased, it appeared, was addicted to drinking, and on attempting to pass home along the ro» » which was flooded, he was carried away by the streak- and drowned. The verdict of the jury was, "Fo1111 drowned." b A COLLISION of a shameful character occurred on the Great Western line, at Heyford, on Friday evening. A passenger-train from Birmingham was fifteen behind time, and the express from London, but whic does not stop at the station, was overdue. Nevertheless, an attempt was made to sbunt the passenger-train on another line for the purpose of attaching a truck; befar it was clear the express was upon them, and, although If another moment or so the engine would have been freeo the line, the express came up and with fearful force t two locomotives tame in contact. The shock of the col- lision may be conceived when the rate of an express 15 taken into consideration. The engine of the Binning'1*81 ine was knocked over, and that of the express was als damaged* The shock sustained by the passengers of bo' trains was necessarily severe. One poor fellow has lost h' life, viz.George Thompson, the driver of the engine of the express tram. He had been in the service many years, and was much respected. His body W#S:. found on the permanent way, about thirty yards from the spot where the accident happened but Whether he "all thrown there by the force of the collision, or, seeing Iheiru- pending danger, jumped off, is not known. His fireman kept on the engine, which was not thrown off the rails. An inquest has been commenced, and since adjourned. ANOTHER WEEK OF STORM AND FLOOD brings chro- nicles of numerous disasters. The east coast of Scotland has been visited with fearful results. At Aberdeen a vessel, the Venus, was seen to come on shore, the crew were seen clinging to the rigging as the sea washed over her. The coast-guard attempted to attach a line of communication to her by means of rockets, but they fell short or went to leeward. The life-boat was manned by carpenters, who readily volunteered their services, an" struggled most manfully to reach the wreck. All their efforts, however, were in vaiu, yet the poor seamen were now almost within speaking distance, and one by one dropped off or were washed away as the vessel broke up. By mid-day the masts were gone, and then the hull parted. Two of the seamen clung to the stern-quarters until two o'clock, when the life-boat made the eighth at- tempt to reach the vessel, and succeeded in getting sO near that one of the men was saved, while the other» clinging to a life-buoy, the lashings of which he couU not get cut, was at length swept away. The scene on the shore was heart-rending. The relatives of the drowning men saw them perish and could render no assistance, and when at length the last mau was gone, the p°0( widows and orphans were frantic with grief. Five men and the master thus perished. While the Venus w*4 struggling, another vessel came in sight, the Armist a coal brig from Sunderland she struck and went to pieces before another life-boat could be obtained. SK of the crew were washed away with the wreck, and the seventh (the captain) only was saved. He came ashore on a spar or stanchion, and was so exhausted that f°r time his life was despaired of, but, by the application 0 the warm bath and stimulants, he recovered. At Perth, the Eduiard, of Aberdeen, foundered, and all hands peushed. The Christina went on the rocks, but the crew escaped. A large black schooner was seen to go down with all hands on board. At Montrose, the schooner Forester, in endeavouring to make the harbfJllr, was cast upon the Armol. She proved too far distant for rockets to be used, and the life-boat was manned \VitO experienced fishermen, and after much exertion succeeded in reaching the vessel, and bringing safe to land the only eurvivor-a boy named Greig, the master and the rest of the crew having been swept overboard during the night. Other vessels are spoken of as having beeu seen to go down, and, indeed, along the whole of the east caasl, from the Tay to Kinnaird Head, wreck is to be found, clearly showing that the extent of the loss is as yet but partially known. At Hityte Bar, the crew of a schooner six in number, having left their vessel, were capsized the boat, and only one managed to save himself by aid ot an oar. At Hull, on Friday, a boat put off to take son»e passengers on board a Scandinavian steamer: she >va8 capsized, and four out of the seven were drowned.

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. .r_ THE TREDEGAR HOUNDS WLLL MEET ON Thursday. Dec. 9 at Lanarthen. Saturday. — 11 at Cleppa Park. Each day at half-past eleven. ( THE COW8RIDGE HARRIERS WILL MEET ON Monday Dec. (5 at i'urcross Down. ednesday g ut St. Mary Church. Friday — 10 at Ca!!tle-upon-AlIuo. Each day at eleven. THE ELY VALE HOUNDS WILL MEET ON Monday. Dec. 6 at Crossvane. Thursday. — 9 at Wenvoe Cross Roads. At half-past ten.

TAFF VALE RAILWAY. Traffic Account for the Week endiug Nov. 27, 1852 Total £ 2695 10 10 Corresponding week last year. £ 2354 13 7 SOUTH WALES RAILWAY. Week ending Nov.28,1852 (131 miles) i:2318 18 Correspondiug week, 1851 (tOOj do.) £1334 10

SHARES. Paid. Price. Taff Vale Railway £ 126 £ 171 Do. A Shares 25 35^ Do. New 6 3J p«"* Do. Stock 5 percent 10 1 p.ct.p"1. Do. Stock 4 £ per cent 10 J p ct.prn- South Wales Railway 50 41t.. Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford ..10 2^ di* Vale of Neath 17 3! di*

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE letters on Llandaff Fair shall appear next week. We decline to give insertion to letters in reply to the Rev. John Griffith's remarks on II Convocation-Crys- tal Palace-Sunday Trains," unless the respective writers will append their names and addresses to their communications. It is a rule with us not to permit a correspondent, who is fairly and openly in the field, to be assailed anonymously. For the reason above stated we also decline publishing letters in support "of the very senfibte and considerate letter of the Vicar of Aberdare." Stand forward, gentlemen; show your colours and then blaze away as much as you like; but let us have no firing from behind a screen. MECHANICS' INSTITUTIONS, -A correspondent has fa- voured us, on Thursday niyht (! ) with a closely written foolscap sheet on this subject. The writer has not one new idea in his laboured epistle. With him the old, hackneyed, and, we trust, almost exploded notion pre- vails, that it is sufficient to have a reading-room with a few dry bonks, the newspapers and magaziues, and occasionally lectures. An institution upon this prin- ciple never has succeeded and never will. Every day's experience proves the truth of our assertion. The sys'.em hitherto pursued has signally failed. "What course should be taken then?" it may be asked. e allswer,-make mechanics institutions attractive to working-men. Let a reading-room be the secondary object, and do not have lectures, which so much re- semble sermons, too often let an institution be pro- vided with ample means for rational recreation, but with NO refreshments of any kind; and in a town like Cardiff there shoulll be at least halt-a-dozen sell-sup- porting institutions. Public-houses and beer-shops flourish. Why 1..It is because atudy tastes of their customers, and make tap-rooms aud smoking-rooms agreeable to the persons they are anxious to attract. Let the promoters of mechanics' institutions do the same, — let them stoop to conqoer," and success will assuredly follow the labouring man wilt then be gradually allured to brighter paths and a taste for reading and intellectual pursuits may follow. G. F. J. Send your letter somewhere else. It is true we ditfer from the gentlemau against whom your mis- sile is aimed but differences of opinion stiall never, we hope, induce us to be guilty of the pitiful meanness of allowing an anonymous scribbler to malign any one. We are not sufficiently Liberal" for that. —

THE CARDIFF AMI MiiRTHlit OPARDLIX FRIDAY. DECEMBER 3. 1852. WK are sorry to announce the death of Sir JOHN GUEST, Bart., which took place at Dowlais House, on Friday, the 26th ult. His loss will be deeply felt at Merthyr, to which place he had always been a liberal benefactor, not only by acts of general charity, but by largely promoting every under- taking tending to further the education and im- provement of the working classes. Sir JOHN represented Honitoo in the Parliaments of 1826 and 1830; he lost his seat in 1831, and has sat for Merthyr, since it became a Parliamentary Borough, in 1832. He was born in 1785, and married, first, in 1817, Maria, daughter of Charles Ranken, Esq:, of Kensington (sister of Mrs. Thomas, of Sully, and Mrs. Conybeare); and, .secondly, in 1833! Lady Charlotte Bertie, second daughter of the ninth Earl of Lindsay, by whom he leaves a numerous family. He is succeeded in his title and large landed estates in Dorsetshire and Glamorganshire, by his son, IVOR BERTIE. born in 1835. We have heard that Lady CHAR- LOTTE and EDWARD DIVETT, Esq., M.P. for Exeter, are left Executors; and HENRY AUSTIN BRUCE, Ksq., one of the Trustees for the children. A gentleman connected with the trade of Mer- fhyr, and of considerable literary att linments, has, at our request, favoured us with a memoir ot late Baronet, which will be found in another column, and be read with interest.

THE FRENCH EMPIRE. SPEECH OF THE EMPEROR. [From Thursday's Sun.] PARIS, WEDNESDAY, NINE P.M. I am enabled to forward, by express, the important Speech which has just been delivered at St. Cloud by the Emperor. Addressing the great bodies of the State, he said— Gentlemen,—The new reign which you, this day, inaugurate, derives not its origin-as so many others re- corded in history have done-from violence, conquest, or from fraud. It is, you have just declared it, the legal result of the will of a whole people, who consolidate in calm that which they had founded in the midst of agita- tions. 11 1 am penetrated with gratitude towards the nation which, three times in four years, has sustained me by its suffrages, and each time has only augmented its majority to increase my power. But the more that power increases I in extent and in vital force, the more does iL need en- lightened men, such as those who every day surround me —independent men, such as those whom I address—to guide me by their counsel, to bring back my authority within just limits, if it could ever quit them. 11 1 take, from this day, with the Crown, the name of Napoleon III., because the logic of the people has be- stowed it upon me in their acclamations; because the Senate has legally proposed it; and because the whole nation has ratified it. "Is it then to be inferred that in accepting this title I fall into the error imputed to the Prince who, return- ing from exile, declared null and void all that had been done in his absencel Far from me be such a wild mis- take. Not only do I recognise the Governments which have preceded me, but I inherit in some manner all that they have accomplished of good and evil; for Govern- ments which succeed one to another are, notwithstand- ing different origin, liable for their predecessors. But the more completely that I accept all that, for fifty years, history transmits to us with her inflexible authority, the less it is permitted to me to pass in silence over the glorious reign of the head of my family, and the regular, though ephemeral, title of his eon, whom the two Chambers proclaimed in the last burst of vanquished patriotism. "Thus, then, the title of Napoleon II., is not one of those dynastic and superannuated pretensions which seem to be an insult to gool sense and to truth. It is the homage of a Government which was legitimate, and to which we owe the brightest pages of our modern history. My reign does not date from 1815- -it dates from their very moment when you have announced to me the suffrages of the nation. "Receive, then, my thanks, Messieurs les Deputes, for the eclat that you have given to the manifestation of the national will by rendering it more evident by your super- vision, more imposing by your declaration. I thank you also, Messieurs les Senateurs, for having been the first to address congratulations to me, as you were the first to give expression to the popular wish. "Aid me, all of you to set firm in this land, upset by so many revolutions, a stable Government, which shall have for its bases religion, probity, and love for the suffering classes. Receive here my oath that no sacrifice shall be wanting on my part to insure the prosperity of my country, and that, whilst I maintain peace, I will yield in nothing which may touch the honour or the dignity of France." The Moniteur contains an official announcement that it is at mid-day on Thursday (yesterday) that the new Em- peror, Louis Napoleon, will make his entry into Paris. All general officers now in Paris are invited to join the cortege. The Cathedral of Notre Dame is beginning to assume indications of the coming Empire. The high altar exhibits an Imperial crown and rich purple velvet hangings, while other decorations may be seen in the aisles, preparatory, as it were, to occupying a place in an approaching ceremony. The last remains of M. de Lamartine's family pro- perty, the Chateau of Monceau, near Macon, is at this moment advertised for sale, whilst at the same moment seizures in execution are being effected in his house, in the Rue de l'University. Thus the head of the last Govern- ment is on his way to a prison, while the chief of the succeeding one has exchanged imprisonment for a throne. The measures which inaugurate the new reign are very like their author. A joint-stock bank—a manifest bubble-is set up to manufacture fictitious credit. Under cover of the numerical reduction of the army, the strength of the picked regiments is increased, and another and another steam line-of-battle ship is fitted out at Cherbourg and Toulon. Disturbed at these unostentatious preparations,, with which our dockyards do not quite keep pace, the British Govern- ment, bestirs itself, and proposes to reintorce our Artillery and add 5,000 men to the Navy. Not too soon. It is calculated that the executions consequent on the late attempt upon the Shah of Persia's life have already amounted to 400, many of whom have been cut in twain, others actually roasted alive, some shod with red-hot horse-shoes, and some stoned to death.