The Cambrian

SCENES AT THE OLD BAILEY. As I entered the court, a case of some importance had just terminated, and the judge just concluded his summing up; when the clerk of the arraigns put the customary question to the jury, •How sa V ye, gentleman, is the prisoner at the bar guilty or not fiilty V Uptm which the jurymen laid their heads together, and heard something in a whisper from their foreman, who immedi- ately pronounced the agreeable veTdict 'not guilty.' The prisoner bowed gracefully, he was a pickpocket, and retired. The prompt decision of the jury convinced me that it must have been a clear case and I rejoiced at the departure of the now exonerated suf- ferec. •That's a regular rascal,' said the Sheriff to me in a whisper; • never was such a case heard on, to be snre seventeen watches, thirty-two pocket-handkerchiefs, four pair of spectacles, and five snuff boxes, all foand upon his person 'Yet,' said I, 'the evidence could not have been very strong against him the jury acquitted him after aniinute's consultation.' Evidence! Mr. GurDey, said the Sheriff; 'how little do you know of the Old Bailey 'Why, if these London juries were to wait to consider evidence, we never should get through the busi- ness the way we do here is to make a zigzag of it.' 1 did not exactly comprehend the term as it was now applied, although Dalv had ofaenmed it in my society with reference to a pin and card aniveMalty employed- at the interesting game of rough et noir: and I therefore made so scrapie of expressing my ignorance. Don't yoa understand, sir?' said the Sheriff, 'why the next prisoner" ill be found guilty—the last was acquitted the one after the next will be acguitted too, it comes alternate like save half, convict half, that's what we call a zigzag and taking the f haggregate, it comes to the same pint, and I think jastice is done as fair here as in any coart in Christendom.' This explanation rendered the next prisoner who made his ap- pearance an object of considerable interest to me. He was a dirty little boy, who stood charged with having stolen a pound of bacon and a peg-top from a boy somewhat bis junior. The young pro- secutor produced a witness, who, as far as appearances wept, might without any great injustice have taken the place of the prisoner, and who gave his evidence with considerable fluency and flippancy. His manner attracted the notice of one of the leading barrister* of the court, Mr. Flappertrap who, in cross-examining him, re- quired whether be knew the nature of an oath. Yes I does,' said the boy. Explain it,' said Flappertrap. 'Yoa may bed d, replied the lad that's a hoatb.am't it?' What does he say,' said the judge; who, as I about this period discovered, was as deaf as a post. He tay, "you may be d d," my lord: said Flappertrap; who appeared particularly gl,d of an opportunity to borrow a phrase which he might use for the occasion. What does he mean by that r said the judge. That is the way, my lord, in which he exhibits his knowledge of the natare of an oath.' Pah, pah!' said thejadge: Boy, d'ye hear me?' • Yes,' said the boy, I hears.' • Hive you ever been to school?' Yes,' said the boy, in St. Giles's parish, for three years.' • Do you know your catechism?' The boy muttered something which was not audible to the court generally, and was utterly lost upon tbe judge personally. What doe* he say r said bis lordship. Speak up, sir,' said Mr. Flappertrap. The boy muttered again, looking down, and seeming embar- rassed. Speak louder, sir,' said another barrister, whose name I did not know, but who was remarkable for a most unequivocal obli- quity of vision; speak to his lordship; look at bÏln-look as I do, sir.' I can't,' said the boy, von squints.' A laugh followed this bft of naivette: which greatly abashed the councillor, and somewhat puzzled the judge. What does he say?' said his lordship. He says he knows his catechism, my lord.' Oh, does not know his catechism; why then what—' Does know^my lord,' whispered the Lord Mayor, who was in the chair Oh—ah—does know-I know—here boy,' said bis lordship, • • you know your catechism, do you V 'Yes,' replied he, sullenly. We'll see, then. What is your name?' said his lordship. My name?' said the intelligent lad, what, in the catechism ?' 'Yes, what is your Dime V • IU. or N. as the case may be,' said the boy. Go down, go down,'said thejadge angrily; and down be went. Gentlemen of the jury,' said his lordship, this case will re- quire very little of your attention: the onlv evidence against the prisoner at the bar which goes to fasten the crime upon him, is that which has been offered by the last witness, who evidently is ignorant of the nature and obligation of an oath. With respect to the pig's toes which the prisoner stands éhargectwith stealing— • A peg-top, my lord said Flappertrap, standing up, turning round, and speaking over the bench into the judge's ear. Pei; top,' said his lordship; oh — ah—I see—very bad pen it looks iri my notealike pig's toes. Well- peg-top-oftbe peg-top which it is alleged betook from the provecntor, there bas not been one syllable mentioned by the prosecutor himself; nor do I see that the charge of taking the bacon is by any means proved. There is no point for me to direct your attention to and you will say whether the prisoner at the bar is guilty or not. And a very trumpery case it is altogether, that I mast admit.' His lordship ceased, and the jury again laid their heads together; again the foreman give the little hem' of conscious readiness for decision again did the clerk of the arraigns ask the important question, < How say ye, gentlemen, is tbeprisonerat the bar gnilty or not guilty?' 'Guilty, said the foreman to the clerk of the ar- raigns; I told you so,' said the Sheriff to me.—Gilbert Owrmy.

_oJ EXPATRIATED POLES. On Tuesday last the dinner in aid of the Fund for the relief of the expatriated Poles took place in the large Assembly Room, Edinburgh. About 300 Gentlemen were present, the Marquis of Breatfalbane in the chair, supported on the right by Prince Czartoryski, the Earl of Buchan, the Lord Advocate, Sir George Warrender, Mr. Barber Beaumont, Sir J. Gibson Craig, Count Zaluski, Sir Wm. Hamilton, the Solicitor-General, Col. Mayne, Mr. Mellis Nairne and on the left by the Right Hon. the Lord Pro- vost, Lord Dudley Stuart, Count Zamoyski, SirT.D. Lander, Marshal Gadon, Major Urbancwicz, Mr. P. M. Stewart, M. P., Sir Thomas Gibson Carmichael, Bart., and Mr. Fer- gusson of Raitb, M.P.,&c. The Chairman, in giving the toast of the evening, said they were all met there to perform a humane—he might say sacred duty, to evince their deep sympathies for the distress ot a brave and gallant people-tor the inhabitants of a country who were now exiles from it because they loved it too well-because they loved it better than themselves. The hopes of Poland have been often raised, but were as often blasted. In vain did her sons evince their bravery and valour In fighting in the armies of France. Wherever those armies went the men of Poland were foremost in the field. Bnt nothing, he might say, was obtained for Poland. The Noble Marquis then alluded to the efforts which both Lord Castlereagh and Prince Talleyrand, as the respective Representatives of their nations, had made in 1814, to re- instate Poland in her rights, and to her condition between that period and 1830, when, roused by the example of the French, they revolted, and at once shook off the oppression and tyranny of the Grand Dnke Constantine and the Rus- sians. In that struggte they had been remarkable for signal acts of courage and devotion to their country against such a toe as Russia, superior to them in nnmbers and in the whole organisation of its military power. He might say that tot a time these., brave people successfully contended, but they were overborne by numbers, and succumbed only whfn the Russian Eagle had been humbled to the dust. Since that time the conqueror had exercised a series of cru- elties, oppressions, and unmitigated atrocities towards that ill-fated nation, scarcely to be paralleled in the annals of human infamy, and which should inspire the disgust and indignation of every civilized State in Europe. And yet have these States and this country looked on, he might almost say, with indifference. The Noble Chairman then adverted to the ambitious views of Russia, and the grasping policy which she was exhibiting on all sides of her extensive dominions, and concluded by giving The cause of Poland," which was drunk amidst great cheering. Prince Czartoryski rose to return thanks, and said, when they drank to the cause of Poland they drank to its inde- pendence. The Poles had always and in almost all parts of Great Britain met with the kindest reception, and with the sincerest interest for their sufferings and rights; but he thought nowhere was so much sympathy evinced, or the manifestations anywhere more cordial and kind, than in Scotland. They would be glad to hear that their hopes were well grounded, and had had of late an extraordinary confirmation from a quarter from which it was least ex- pected.—The Noble guest concluded by giving the health of Lord Dudley Stuart, the friend of Poland, which toast was drank amidst loud cheering. Lord Dudley Stuart returned thanks, and said he should always esteem it as one of the most memorable occasions of his life that his health had been proposed by so great and so illustrious a man as Prince Czartoryski. They were come here for the benevolent object of relieving the distresses of the sons of that heroic country, and to record their detes. j tation of the oppression by which that country was visited. He concluded by giving The gallant Poles, who, in excile and privation, keep alive the natural existence of their country." Count Zamoyski, who was received with loud cheers, re- turned thanks. The Lord Advocate gave an eloquent description of the disinterested and fervent devotion which Prince Czartoryski had all along shewn for his country, and for which he had abandoned power, wealth, lofty station, and all those en- joyments which man could prize, and concluded by pro- posing his health, which was received with long and loud cheering. The Prince returned thanks, and gave The Lord Pro- vost and Magistrates of the City." Which the Lord Provost acknowledged, and stated that the Town Council had that day unanimously conferred the freedom of the City upon Prince Czartoryski and Count Zamoyski. He, therefore, would beg to propose their healths as the youngest burgesses and freemen of the city of Edinburgh. Many other excellent toasts were given, and speeches mady, before the meeting closed.

TO THE REFORMERS OF IRELAND. Darrynane Abbey, 4th December, 1835. Hereditary bondsmen, know you not, Who would he FREE themselves must strike the blow ? My Lords and Gentlemen,—1 admit, I Caiuiiuh a<linii., that there has been a want of unanimity, nay much discord between us. The Repealers, of whom I am one of the leaders-the Radicals, of whom I am decidedly one—have been severed from the more moderate Reformers of Whig principles by a wall of separation erected chiefly by the party to which I belonged. But why were we thus sepa- rated? Simply because we were for the Repeal and you were not; and we were more violent and yon were more moderate than perhaps either ought to be. But these causes are removed; the Repealers are now fixed upon giving the experiment of the possibility of obtaining good government, without a domestic legislature, a full and fair trial. I do appeal to you all, whether I, not only as an individual, but as representing a party, am not strain ng every nerve to give that experiment all possible efficacy. We, Irish Radicals, too, are now content to place the pre- sent Ministry at the head of the movement: to go on with them cautiously and deliberately not to be so unreasonable as to expect them to overthrow at once obstacles which require time and repeated exertions to remove—and we are ready to accept with cheerful gratitude every instalment of the national debt of amelioration in our public institutions which the Ministry can wring from their enemies and ours. With these dispositions, what is there to prevent a cordial co-operation between Reformers of every class and shade of opinion in Ireland ? We Repealers do not ask you to join in looking for the Repeal—on the contrary, we are not now looking for it ourselves. We Radicals do not press yon to go beyond your own deliberate opinions on the road to salutary reforms in the state. Nay more, so far from ob- truding on your opinions, we only desire to give you strength to work them out into practical effect. We cheerfully place yon at the head of the Reformers, and give yon the guidance and the control of all the measures necessary to make our co-operation effectual. Thus, therefore, it must at least be admitted, that we Radicals and Repealers are now in the right—that we take away every cause—yes, and every pretence—for dissension and division amongst Reformers—and that we leave the neglect or the apathy of other classes of Reformers without excuse or palliation. There never was a period in which the duty was so in- cumbent-so imperatively incumbent on the Reformers of Ireland to be active and energetic as the present:—mark its features. In the first place, the hopes of Ireland are bound np with the stability of the present government. It is the first that ever acted on the principle of equal justice to, and perfect impartiality between all classes and persuasions of Irishmen. For the first time for near seven centuries we have a ministry giving practical proofs of the sincerity of its professions of abolishing all political distinctions in Ireland, and of ground- ing its preferences and selections on the individual merits of the persons preferred and selected—and not on the creed, class, or party to which such persons belong. Besides, the government of Ireland is delegated to persons who have so much of excellent judgment and exquisite good sense, that their conduct enhances the valne of every act of conciliation, and produces a conviction, that when they fail in any useful measure, such failure is to be attributed to the want of sufficient means, or of sufficient power, and not to the want of inclination or exertion. Lord Mulgrave has acted with a temper, a tact, and a wisdom of policy, which stamps him as possessing that superiority of mind most suited to pacify Ireland, and make her substantially and really a portion of the British Empire, by means of the enjoyment of equal benefits and privileges with Great Britain. Lord Morpeth has given the greatest satisfaction by his conduct and intel- ligence. In short, the great experiment of the effect of fair play and of justice in Ireland is in favourable progress amidst thousands upon thousands of obstacles and difficulties. I ask the Reformers of Ireland whether the entire ad- ministration of affairs in this country, as at present conduct- ed, is not in itself a great and most valuable reform, requiring nothing but permanency to render it perfectly salutary, and nearly sufficientfor every purpose of good government? If, indeed, it were coupled with an extension of the franchise, It would give us neatly all the reform necessary to develope the incalculable resources of this fine but abused land. But let it be recollected, in the second place, that at present all these advantages are precarious, depending altogether on the existence of the present Ministry. They have been created by this Ministry—they depend for duration on this Ministry—and with this Ministry they would assu- redly terminate. This is no exaggeration of danger, nor is It any vain fear. We all witnessed the horrid experiment of last yiar—we saw this country consigned to the weakness and Tory malignity of Lord Haddington-to the active and inveterate partisanship of Sir Henry Hardinge, one of the most un- scrupulous of partisans in or out of Parliament. The truculent Shaw—the sincere bigot Lefroy, and old Gregory in the Castle, in their dignity of Privy Councillors, threaten- ed the country with all the horrors of sectarian dominion. Nor was the threat an idle one—their very appointment to the Privy Council was a wilful and studied insult to the people of Ireland. The No-Popery flag waved in the pre- sence of, and, indeed, over the head of Lord Haddington, betokening in no doubtful words the destruction of six millions and, a half of the King's subjects in Ireland; for until they annihilate that number of Irishmen, the flag of No.Popery" will not announce a truth. It was, there- fore, a flag of extermination, raised iu the presence of Lord Haddington and his Secretary, the brave but ill-conditioned Sir Henry Hardinge. Nor was the war proclaimed in vain. The judicial offices were about to be filled. Shaw was to have been made a judge—Jackson had iris foot ea the steps of the bench. You saw the activity and the glee with which the ancient ferocity of Orangeism exhibited itself. Blood—torrents of bleod would have followed, and if the late Administration had continued in office, Ireland would have been a desert, or a precarious and sanguinary republic. I do ask you, my Lords and Gentlemen, whether you can contemplate any thing more horrible to Ireland than the restoration to power of Peel or Wellington. The exaspera- tion of the Orangemen is at its height; they are irritated to madness, simply because an undue preference is no longer given to that faction, and perhaps their insanity is the more outrageous because they cannot allege auy one reasonable complaint. But the worst feature in the present state of the Orange faction is, that many Protestants who were here- tofore considered as rather liberal, and who certainly were not Orangemen, have committed themselves so thoroughly with that party, that acrimony and virulence have been extended and increased to a degree which only requires the stimulant of a Tory Government to produce the most terrific mischief. I do not exaggerate in the least—we are on the verge of a volcano—nothing can preserve the country from a dread- ful explosion, but the continuance in office of his Majesty's present advisers, and their being encouraged and strength- ened in their exertions to preserve peace and tranquillity. If Peel or Wellington regain power, that third conquest of Ireland with which Wellington once threatened us, will be, I doubt not, attempted. I do not hesitate to say, that the safety of the Throne itself is involved in, and identified with, the stability of the present Administration—and that not only as regards the people of Ireland, but as results from the disposition and determination of the Reformers of Eng- land and Scotland. It is, therefore, manifestly a duty we owe in point of alle- giance to our Sovereign, in point of affection to our country, in point of prudence for our own security, to exert all our faculties, so as to strengthen the hands of the present Ministry against all their enemies and ours. On the other hand, the Orange faction are incessant in their activity—they are combined—they are united as one man—they are ever vigilant—they are neglecting no advan- tages—they are stopped by no obstacles—they are utterly regardless of the means they employ. They cajole—they oppress—they corrupt. They employ bribery and intimida- tion—force and fraud. They pervert the law. They pro- cure aid from peijury. They render the Bench itself an- cillary to their purposes. In short, there never was a more wicked or a more active party. They have with them the magistracy—most of our sheriff, and of the list of candidates for that office presented by the judges !—They have with them in feeling perhaps some of the judges themselves. They have with them the Lodger Assistant-Barristers." The county officers, clerks of the peace and of the crown, secretaries of grand juries—many police officers, and multi- tudes of the privates of poUee are with them. In sbort, the Orange conspiracy has its ramifications far and wide, ex- tending every where, and powerful exactly in the proportion in which it is yielded to, or not directly resisted. Still that faction which, whilst yielded to, is powerful and predominant, is weak and insignificant if properly resisted. That this truth is certain is demonstrated by the success of the late election. But the agitators were then abroad—the agitators in whom the people were accustomed to confide. We were able against all the force and weight of the Go- vernment to beat down our Orange adversaries. The peo- ple, the honest, energetic, I would say, heroic people, assisted us, and the result was the overthrow of the late base Administration. But we agitators have withdrawn from active exertions. We have no longer any centre of unity. We have no com- bination—no association—no machinery whatever to oppose improper claims to register—no arrangement to bring forward the claims of Reformers. In short, we have made way for the Whig Reformers. The ground is unoccupied,—and the cause of Reform is abandoned. But this is not all .—the Tories in England"are expressing their most virulent hostility to the Irish people who are at present thns deserted by their natural leaders, Whigs and Radicals. Nay, I may be accused of exaggeration when I state my conviction, that a change of Administration would plunge Ireland in blood. But such an accusation against me is unfounded—my assertion is literally true. The return to power of Peel or Wellington would be the signal for every act of cruelty which could stimulate a population driven to despair of any legal remedy—to resort to the "wild justice" of sanguinary revenge, and each crime committed at either side would provoke and appear to justify a cruel retaliation. That the Tory faction in England is ready to co-operate in the perpetration of every cruelty and crime which the Orangeists would desire to commit against the Catholic clergy and laity of Ireland is now as plain as demonstration can make it. Look at their great literary organs—the indicators of theintentions of the party. You will find in them a scur- rility, a virulence, and a truculent atrocity of language, ad- dressed to the Catholics of Ireland, which have not been used in England since the days of Cromwell—since those days when a bigotted soldiery slaughtered the parent and the youth—the mother and the babe—and strewed the green fields of Ireland with the frequent corpses of her children, and made the entire nation one blood-red Rathcormac. From that day to the present such language has not been used as is now familiar with the creedless, conscienceless wretches who conduct the leading organs of the Tories—the Times and the Standard. The abuse which those authorized miscreants pour upon the Catholic people of Ireland is so virulent as to exceed description, and to be calculated as the prelude to massacre. Let me extract the epithets bestowed on my unfortunate countrymen. I take them from a few, very few publications. The people of Ireland are called an idle, poor, untaught, unprincipled, fierce, savage, barbarian RABBLE." Recollect that the miscreants who use this language are the great oracles, the leading supporters of the Peel-Wel- tington party. In fact, they are the mouth-pieces" of the Tories. I ask any candid person whether this abuse be not, in truth and in fact, a cry tor extermination ? What a patient, what a forbearing people we are Is there on the face of the earth any other people who would endure this vilification ? Yet we are so patient and for- bearing, that the prime traducer—Barnes, of the Times- goes on from day to day expressing the contumely and ran- cour of his party for the Catholic people of Ireland, in the most ferocious language, without the least apprehension of punishment. But the atrocity of the Peel-Wellington party towards the Catholic Clergy of Ireland exceeds all bounds. Never were the lowest and vilest of mankind so assailed with foul and filthy language, as are the laborious, intelligent, learned, faithful, exemplary, and pious Catholic Clergy of Ireland— assailed by the most strenuous supporters of the Tory oppo- sition. Let me present you with a few specimens of the manner in which the Tories treat the Catholic Clergy of Ireland. These are the specimens of Tory virulence selected from the papers I have mentioned, but particularly from the Times. Our Clergy are called, a disgrace to the name of Christian Ministers"—"absolute, selfish, coarse find hateful tyrants"—"vulgar-minded, shallow, and unprincipled quacks" — "spiritual tyrants"—" brutal autocrats"—"surpliced ruf- fians"—" wretched impostors"—Popish ruffians"—"pious terrorists"—" atrocious hypocrites"—" a brutal Priesthood." When misery presses bard upon the Irish peasant, he has one friend, one only friend—the priest. When distress wrings his soul, he has one comforter, one only comforter— the priest. When crime covers him with disgrace and con- signs him to punishment, when his heart sinks within him at the apprehension of man's vengeance and with the terror of God's wrath, he has one consoler, one only consoler—the priest. When famine stalks abroad, and that his children wail in starvation, there is one incessant in collecting the means of relief, one—only one—incessant collector—the priest. When pestilence invades the land and brings de- sertion of friends, and agony, and death, there is-tbere is still one who does not forsake him living, nor desert him dying—who stretches npon his straw, impregnated with infection, and pours the last words of Christian comfort upon that dying breath, from which in return be inhales disease, and perishes the martyr of duty, of charity, and of God— THE PRIEST, THE PRIEST. Yet it is on that priest, who lives in a constant martyr- dom, that the authorised and pampered fiends of the Tory press exhaust all the resources of the most malignant minds, and of the most practised and vulgar scurrility of language. There is no class of that priesthood too exalted—there is no virtue too dignified—there is no piety too sacred to escape this Tory persecution. Behold the appellations which these Tory minions bestow upon our Archbishops. Dr. MacHale, a model of the highest order of classic litera- ture, who dignifies his high station by his patriotism, his piety, and his charity, still more thau by his learning, is de. nominated by one of these wretches, a wolfish fiend! Dr. Murtay, the mildest and meekest of living gentlemen— he who never meddled in politics, but to mitigate asperities and temper our violences, and to paint out the mode of merging political strife in Christian charity—he, even he is called—what?—"a disgusting demagogue.1" But are these all idle words? No! one thousand times, No. They are the whetting of the knife—the sharpening of the dagger—the cocking of the pistol—the full and fell preparation for slaughter—the readiness for the burst of Orange persecution over universal Ireland. Let the Tories regain power, and those infernal passions, which at present find vent only in the audacious atrocity of vituperation, will, in the musket and bayonet, the pistol or the stiletto, exhibit still more congenial weapons. There is an incident of the last week which illustrates the state of suppressed excitement which festers in the minds of the Orangeist3 of Ireland. It is, in one view of its nature, trivial; but, soundly considered, it is of great vital importance. I allude to the rejection of the Most Rev. Dr. Murray by the Dublin Society. Straws show how the tempest is preparing to set in—and this is one of the evi- dences of the coming storm. For, surely, never did there live a man so suited for a literary society a man more free from party spirit—from rancour, or any taint of passion— never breathed. There is, there can be, but one reason why he was rejected—it was because he is a Catholic Arch- bishop. It was to insult, not him, but the Catholic body. It was to express hate and contempt for their countrymen of the Catholic persuasion. I could not have believed that so meanly malignant a being conld bear the human form as be who, in the security of privacy, offered such an indignity to so venerable—in every sense of the word—so truly venerable a person. Yet, there were, in one and the same room, no less than sixty-five of them. What a state do we live in! And surely every liberal man who belongs to that Society will disclaim all connexion with it, by resigning. I declare solemnly, that a worse spirit appears in this insult than in any public declaration of hostility which Orangemen could possibly display. Meanness of the basest kind— malignity of the most atrocious nature—stimulated these persons to that insult. All such persons want is the power to carry into effect their hideous propensities, and to deluge the country with blood. I dwell on these subjects, my Lords and Gentlemen, that we all may understand the exact situation of this unhappy country, and comprehend precisely what is necessary to be done to promote improvement and peace on the one hand, and to avoid bigotted oppression and civil strife on the other. The fate of Ireland, Reformers, is in yopr hands. The Irish people are ready, to act with you—to obey you-to submit to your guidance—to co-operate with you in support of the King's government—and to do every thing necessary to continue the exelaskm of the Orange Tory faction from all opportunity of convulsing the realm. It is desirable that the Protestant nobility and gentry who support the present Ministry should commence and' lead this movement. They should begin to .form that which, since the commencement of a Whig Government under Lord Grey, has been hitherto wanting—namely, a government party—a party acting in unison with the Irish Government. The Tories have such a party in Ireland, and as long as a Tory Ministry hand over the country to be a spoil and a prey to the Orange faction, so long will that faction countenance and support a Tory Administration. But the Whigs have had hitherto no party in Ireland. Since the late accession of Lord Melbourne to office, the Irish nation has gone along with his Ministry; but the upper and wealthier classes never cither opposed him or stood a'oof. It is time to terminate this species of inter- regnum. It is time that the Whigs of rank and fortune should take that prominent station in aid of the Govern- ment which would prepare, in the best mode, the popular triumph in the next elections. The North could be re- deemed from much of its thraldom. In Ulster the Whigs have much to gain—in Leinster, Mnnster, and Connaught, much to preserve. Let there be no longer any apathy or any further delay. Every man is interested in rescuing Ireland from the horrors of an Orange restoration. The registry too long neglected—the protection of the voters too long omitted—the organization of the counties, towns, and boroughs, too long postponed;—in the face of an active enemy, all these delays omissions, and neglects take place, whilst the Whig Reformers are inactive. But this cannot be. Once more I sound the alarm—once again I respectfully implore all classes of Reformers to combine. Let there be but a beginning, and the necessity for exertion will appear to every person engaged so manifest, that the Association will of itself increase, and multiply, and ensure success. We lose the representation of may places unless active, energetic measures be taken. The enemy is awake. Why should the friends of Ireland be torpid !—Whig Reformers, I call upon yon for the second time-Begin J I have the honour to be, Your very obedient, faithful servant, DANIEL O'CONNELL.

NEW POOR LAW BILL. We have been among the warmest advocates of the amended Poor Law, from a certain conviction that, when it came into full operation, and all its bearings fujly understood, it would produce the most beneficial effects throughout the country. The First Report, just published, has fully justified our expectations. Wherever it has been carried into operation, the al-. most immediate consequences have been a reduction of the rate from 20 to 50 per cent.; an improvement in physical condition of the paupers themselves; a diminution in the catalogue of crime in a still greater ratio than that referred to in the reduction of the rate; an abolition of the entire system of parish jobbing; an improved mode of voting at vestries, and of levying the parochial funds and a clear understanding between rate-payers and rate-receivers of their reciprocal duties, and the real extent of the mutual obligations existing between them. Of the success of the Commissioners, in forming extensive Parochial Unions, the following is the statement contained in the Report:— "We have now to report that at this period the total number of parishes which have been united by as since the 6th of December last, the date of the first union, and sub- jected to the progressive introduction of the new Act, is 2,066, constituting 112 unions. The population of the pa- rishes united and placed under Boards of Guardians, forms one-tenth of the population of England and Wales but in consequence of the most heavily burdened districts being se- lected for our earliest proceedings, the proportion of the rates affected by the change is one-sixth of the total amount of rates in England and Wales. In the county of Kent, eight old incorporations have been dissolved by conseut; 211 parishes have been formed into 13 unions, which include the whole of East Kent. "In the county of Sussex, five old incorporations have been dissolved, and 212 parishes, comprising nearly the whole of the county, have been formed into sixteen unions. "Nearly the whole of Haats has been re-organized into twenty-one unions, comprising 215 parishes. The whole of the county of Berks has now been united in eleven unions, comprising 176 parishes. "In the county of Oxford, 185 parishes have been formed into five unions. The greater proportion of the county of Bucks has been included in seven unions, comprising 162 parishes. "In the county of Suffolk, three of the old incorporations have been dissolved, and 129 parishes have been united in four unions. "In the county of Northampton, 153 parishes have been formed into seven unions. In the county of Cambridge, 61 parishes have been united into three unions. In the county of Essex, 91 parishes have been united into three unions. Nearly the whole of the parishes in the county of Bed- ford have been united in four unions. The whole of the parishes of the county of Hertford have been formed into twelve unions. In the county of Norfolk, where proceedings have been recently commenced, 63 parishes have been included in two unions. "In Wilts, two unions, comprising 45 parishes have been formed. In Middlesex, one union has been formed. "In the county of Gloucester, 37 parishes have been formed into one union. "The following Return shows our progress in the number of parishes united during each month up to this period Number of Number of Months. Unions Parishes formed. united. 1834, December 1. 14 1835, January 2. 44 February 17 2G8 Man-h. 24 443 April 13 217 May 18 31!) June 19 423 July 18 338 112 2,066 "Sutton Courtney placed under a Board of Guardians, 10th December, 1834. "St. Mar tin-iii-tli e-Fields ditto, 29th April, 1835. Battersea ditto, 15th May, 1835. The complete statement of the pecuniary results fairly ascribable to the new Act, or to our proceedings under its authority, could scarcely be made within the time in which it is desirable to present our Report. A considerable number of the present parish officers being unlettered men, their Returns are, as might be expected, extensively defective. In requiring any return from the 15,635 places at present managing their own poor, a considerable proportion of errors must be anticipated." With respect of the effect of the new system on the physical condition of the paupers themselves, the Com- missioners make the following statement—which we would observe is well authenticated by the declarations of the Magistracy and Clergy whose letters to the Board are appended to the General Report:- "We have directed our most anxious attention to the general effects produced by the change upon the condition of the able-bodied paupers, whose allowances in aid of wages have been discontinued. Careful inquiries have been made as to the subsequent condition of those who had refused to accept relief in a workhouse. In the Faringdon union, for example, all out-door relief was discontinued, and relief in the workhouse was offered to 240 able-bodied labourers. Of these, not more than about twenty entered the workhouse, and not one-half remained there more than a few days the diet in the workhouse being at the same time high as com- pared with the diet of large classes of independent labourers. Mr. Gulson found, at the time of his enquiry, that the whole of these labourers had got into independent employment. On inquiry of some of the farmers who had previously re- presented to him that they had then no means of employing any additional labourers, he received for answer, that the additional employment was now given in consequence of the improved character of the labourer." The success of the Bastardy clauses fully bear out the anticipations in which the advocates of the mea- sure indulged, and amply testify the wisdom of those who projected it:— From the Reports of our Assistant-Commissioners, as well as from the communications made to us from all parts of the country, we can state that the testimony as to the operation of the clauses of the Act which relate to cases of bastardy strongly preponderates in favour of the principles adopted on that subject by the Legislature. For some time after the passing of the Act, a popular impression appeared to be extensively prevalent that the law had been changed in the mode proposed by the late Commissioners of Inquiry, and that the mother of a bastard child requiring relief was placed in the same condition as if no father of the child was in existence; but that she was entitled, nevertheless, to relief as for herself, in case of her inability from destitution to maintain the child. The evidence as to the effect of this im- pression leads us to believe that the enactment itself would have produced all the beneficial effects wished and intended by the promoters of the measure. The operation of the mo- dified clauses of the Act, as they now stand, is reported to be proportionately beneficial. The following extracts from the report of Mr. Gulson display the general tenor of the incidental information which we receive on this subject:— The Assistant-Overseer of St. Giles, Oxford, is sure that there are not so many unmarried women pregnant in the parish now as was usual heretofore. He knows no other cause for this but the fear of the new law,' which makes the girls cautions. "'Mr. Clarke, Master of the Union workhouse, Oxford, sta'es that previously to the passing of the Poor Law Amend- ment Act, the average number of the orders of affiliation made in the united parishes annually was fourteen, and there were usually eight or nine cases on the book for relief, with- out an order. Up to the present date, August 5, there have been three orders made, and five cases are relieved without orders. u<AudrewRichardson,Assistant-Overseerof St. Clement's, Oxford, feels certain that there are not now so many un- married women pregnant in that parish as has been usual hitherto. He constantly hears the females of the lower order complaining of the New Law, and proving that they Understand its intention. The Assistant-Overseer of St. Mary's, Reading, says he is certain the New Law has had considerable effect in that town in stopping the progress of bastardy. Fewer cases of pregnant single women have come under his notice than at any tprnaer period.' formation is constantly brought to us, that in the more populous parishes the number of new cases of claims for re- J lief on account of bastardy are greatly diminishing; whilst Ifrom the rural districts we receive similar testimony, accom- panied by statements shewing that as incontinency is a less certain passport to marriage, and the virtuous females of the labouring classes are no longer placed at the same disad- vantage as they were previously to the passing of the law, the improvement of morality amongst this class of females is daily becoming more perceptible. The following is an instance of the testimony as to the operation of the Act, given in a letter from the Overseer of Llanasa, in the county of Flint, in answer to an inquiry from the Board,' Why the bastards in the parish are now so few?' I can only observe, that, in the first place, we never force the putative father to marry the mother, and we compel the mother as well as the father to pay her quota towards the maintenance of the child. This was our simple mode of treating the business. One thing I must observe, and it tells well for the New Poor Law Act: that in our parish we have from fifteen to twenty weddings in the year, and it seldom happened that at the ceremony the bride did not think it decent and re- quiiite-I am now speaking of the lower order of society- to conceal her shape under a cloak. But in the eighteen marriages which we have had since last August, all the ladies, except one, retained their virgin shape, and appeared with- out their mantle.' "In several of the more populour parishes the reduction of the cases of bastardy has been to the extent of one order made now where ten were made before the passing of the Act. H

MI SCELLANEOUS. DISTRESSED IRISH CLERGY.-The efforts in behalf of the distressed Irish Protestant Clergy continue to spread and to prosper. Liverpool has already followed the example of LonJon, by convening a meeting for that purpose, which took place at the Music Hall, on Tnesday. After the pre- paratory resolutions had been passed, a Committee was ap- pointed to receive subscriptions, and the subscription at the doors amounted to 8081. 3s. 5d.—A numerous meeting of the Clergy of Durham was held in that city on the 2d instant. The Bishop of Durham sent 1001. to this collection, and the subscriptions in the room amounted to about 5001.-At a public meeting held in the Mansion House, Done aster, for a. similar purpose, the subscription amounted to 2401.—On Monday a meeting of the Clergy of Southwark was held in the L&dye Chapel," for a similar purpose, when resolu- tions in favour of separate meetings and separate subscrip- tions in all the rural deaneries of Winchester, on the re- commendation of the Bishop of the Diocese, were agreed to. -At a meeting of the inhabitants of the parish of St. Sa- viour, Southwark, on Thursday, the subscription amounted to nearly 2001., and a resolution was agreed upon, nomi- nating several respectable parishioners to wait upon their fellow rate-payers, and solicit further charitable donations. —A meeting of the Clergy of the Archdeaconry and county of Bedford was held at the Swan Inn, Bedford, on Thursday, for the purpose of addressing the Lord Primate of Ireland on the subject of the distress which now unhappily exists among the Irish Clergy, and of 01- -;ng a subscription for their relief. The Venerable the Archdeacon of Bedford presided, and 3201.18s. was raised among the Clergy present, and paid before the meeting dispersed. A resolution was passed for soliciting the co-operation of the laity in this work of charity, and a Committee was appointed for giving effect to such resolution.—On the 2d instant a public meeting took place at the Crown Inn, Rochester, for the relief of the dis- tressed Irish Clergy. The meeting was of a most gratifying nature, and nearly 3001. was collected in the room. Amongst the donations was the liberal offering, of 1001. by the Dean and Chapter, 101. from the Dean of Rochester, and 101. from the Rev. Dr. Irving, &c.—The subscription in the town and county of Cambridge already amounts to 18001.—The Earl of Winchelsea has given 5001. towards the charitable fund. —A very numerous meeting of the Clergy and Gentry of Essex was held on Tuesday in the Shire-Hall, Chelmsford, for the purpose of promoting a subscription. Upwards of 5001. was collected in the Hall, and upwards of 1601. has since been collected.—A numerous meeting was held at the Town Hall, Huntingdon, on Wednesday, the Bishop'of Lin- coln in the Chair, on which occasion 1361. was raised in the room, and lists were opened at the banks of Messrs. Rust and Veasey, at Huntingdon, St. Ives, and St. Neot's.—A meeting was held on Thursday, at Bristol, the Bishop of the diocese presiding. More than 10001. was subscribed.—The Bishop of Gloucester presided on the 8th at a numerous meeting of the Clergy and Gentry of that city and neighbour- hood. Upwards of 2001. was subscribed in the room, and subscriptions are continuing.—At Oxford the contributions amount to nearly 30001.—Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Palmerston, and Lord John Russell, have each subscribed 1001, towards the fund. ORDINATION EXTRAORDINARY.—At the general Or- dination holden at Bishopthorpe, by his Grace the Archbishop of York, on Sunday the 6th inst., the Rev. W. Putsey Master of the Grammer School, Pickering, and Author of a Practical English Grammar, a System of Practical and Speculative Arithmetic, &c. &c., was admitted to the sacred office of a Priest, on the nomination of the Rev. J. Ponsonby, Vicar of Pickering; as was also his son, the iiev. William Putsey, to the curaciesof Ormesby and Eston, in this county, on the nomination of the Rev. James Thompson, Vicar. That the father and the son should be ordained at the same time, is a circumstance, it is presumed, without a parallel in the annals of history; and should we live to the age of Enoch's son, it is more than probable that we should never see the like again.— York]Courant, MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS—The following list oft Boroughs, with the number of Wards and Councillors as- signed to them under the Municipal Act, is compiled from several Supplements to the London Gazette, which have been published within a few days WMtls,Coun-i Wards.Coun- „ cillor., I cillors. Jiarnstaple 2 lb Louth 2 18 Bat'1 7 42 Macclesiield 6 Bedford 2 18 Newport (I. of Wight) 2 18 Berwick-upon-Tweed 3 18 Newport (Monmouth.) 2 18 Beverley 2 18 Northampton 3 18 Boston 2 IS Norwich 8 48 Bri.igewater 2 181 Nottingham 7 42 Bridport 2 181 Oswestry 2 IS Cambridge 5 30 Oxford 5 30 Canterbury 3 18 Pembroke 2 18 Carlisle. 5 30 Penzance 2 18 Carmarthen 2 18 i Plymollth 6 36 Chester 5 30| Poole 2 18 Colchester 3 18 Preston 6 3G Coventry 6 36 Rochester 3 18 Congleton 3 18 Salisbury 3 18 6 36 Scarborough 2 18 Exeter. 6 36 Stafford 2 18 Gloucester 3 18 Stockport. 6 42 travesend 2 18 Stockton. 2 18 Hasting. 2 18 Swansea 2 18 Hereford. 3 18 Tiverton 3 18 Ipswich 5 30 Warwick 2 18 Kidderminster 2 18 Wenlock 3 18 King s Kyun 3 18 Weymouth 2 18 Kingston-on-Thames 3 18 Wigan 5 30 12 48 New Windsor 2 18 Lichfield 2 18 Wisbeach 2 18 Liverpool 16 43 Great Yarmouth 6 36 Liverpool 16 48 Great Yarmouth 6 36 in tile tollowing boroughs, the division and assignment made by the Revising Barristers appearing to be in certain particulars objectionable, have been disproved of by the Privy Council; namely, Bristol, Bury St. Edmund's, Cardiff, Carnarvon, Chichester, Deal, Devizes, Doncaster, Dover, Durham, Gateshead. Kingston-upon-Hull, Kirkby-Kendal, Lancaster, and Leicester. BOTTLES.—It is somewhat extraordinary that the legislature in making laws relative to weights and measures should have excluded any particular size for bottles. The public are daily defrauded, and that to a considerable extent, by wine and other liquors being sold in small picked bottles- six to the gallon, imperial measure. A respectable house- keeper the other day purchased a gallon of spirits, which was sent home in six bottles. The bottles were immediately emptied in one gallon, imperial measure; and a deficiency of one pint was discovered. This species of fraud and loss will be practised until a legislative enactment be passed enforcing bottles of every description to be in uniformity with other standard measures. IMPROVEMENT IN THE SHIPPING INTEREST,—There is a good deal of activity among the principal ship-builders on the river, chiefly confined, however, to steam shipping. Several of this class of vessels, of a very superior description, are now on the stocks, the largest and finest of which are for the East India Company, the General Steam Navigation Company, and the Peninsular trade. The General Steam Navigation Company are said to be preparing vessels also for the river trade of a class and character calculated to excel the surprising performances of some of the present river steam-packets. We also find that many of the leading shipowners are standing out for higher freights.-Herald. EXTRAORDINARY PRODUCTION.—There has been pro- duced this year from a field of three and a half acres, in the occupation of Mr. James Manley, of Tipton Mills, Ottery St. Mary, the following extraordinary crop :—31 hogsheads of cider, 153 bushels of barley, and 81 bags of potatoes; the bags of these being of eight score weight each. In order to a perfect understanding of this, it should be stated that the apple-trees grown in the border, or contiguous to the inner part of the fence or hedge of the enclosure, and the potatoes underneath and around them the barley grew in the central, or principle part of the field and this (pro- bably) unparalleled instance of successful farming can be authenticated by many gentlemen of Ottery.-Exeter Flying Pust. IRON RAILWAYS ON A NEW PRINCIPLE.As the at- tention of the industrious classes has for a long time past been occupied, and not without just cause, with railway im- provements, a new system is about to be introduced by M. Marchal, a clock-maker residing at Brussels, for which the Government have granted him a patent for ten years, and this uovel discovery will engage the attention of the 10 ingenious part of the community no less than that now in operation. TbQ author of the said improvement has given it the name of The Moving Iron Railway," a name which will not be inappropriate, since the road accompanies the vehicle by which it is borne. The systrm is equally appli- cable to public and private conveyances in a word, to all kinds of vehicles, from the dog-cart to the diligence. The carriages to which this invention shall be applied will travel as they do on ordinary occasions upon the common road. They will traverse the streets, and be capable of being put in motion by all sorts of conductors. In fact, our heavy coaches and our diligences, with their complicated harness, expensive alike in the Manufacture and the use, are about entirely to disappear, to be superseded by carriages of the new construction by M. Marchal, a contrivance which cannot be too highly eulogised, since every one will now be able to have his railway—the gentleman in his elegant chariot, and the tradesman also in his unassuming gig.-Journal du Com- merce of Antwerp. ROBBERY OF PLATE.—James and Thomas Bennett were examined before Mr. Laing, at Hatton Garden Office, on Friday, on a charge of having stolen quan tity of plate and other property, in the house of Gh^rtcs Ridley, Esq., of Bedford-street, Bedford-square. From the evidence given, it appeared that at two o'clock In the afternoon of the 1st instant, the prosecutor's housomaid missed the plate from the spot where it was usually deposited, and having no doubt that it had been stolen, she instantly communicated the circumstance to her master, who, upon further inquiries, discovered that the prisoner, James Bennett, who was his footman, had also disappeared from his premises. The Sn- perintendent of the police of the district being made ac- quainted with the facts, sent two of his most active officers, Collier and Davies, to assist Mr. Ridley in finding the pro- perty, and they very soon ascertained that it had been re- moved by the prosecutor's footman and Thomas Bennett, his brother, who were subsequently traced to various places, and finally taken into custody at Newmarket. The cap- ture of the prisoners was made in the evening, and had it not been sudden and well contrived the lives of the officers would in all human probabiHty have been forfeited. They were found seated in a house with two young females, to whom they had paid their addresses in London, and who, it is said, were induced to abscond from their parents by the prisoners. The officers saw them in the house through a window which overlooked it, and they took the opportunity when the door was ajar to rush in and seize the prisoners. On the person of Thomas Bennett was found a loaded pistol, about ten or twelve bullets, and some gunpowder, with which he "aid he had intended to attempt the destruction of any one who had molested him. The prisoners were, conveyed to the watch-house at Newmarket,.and during the night the most determined attack was made upon it by some men connected with them with a view to set them at liberty, and it required the utmost exertions of a number of consta- bles to prevent the demolishing of the cage, andrtonsequent rescue of the prisoners. Of these attempts the prisoners were privy, and on hearing that they had proved to be fruitless, tbey became Very desponding, and one of them (Thomas) tried to terminate his existence by hanging him- self, and was prevented by Collier, who afterwards found it necessdry to handcuff his hands behind him to prevent his committing suicide. After the evidenee was gone through, both prisoners admitted their guilt, and Thomas agreed to take the officers and point out the person to whom he had disposed of the property. The other prisoner was taken fiom the bar, and in the evening both were again placed in the dock, with a man named Randolph, whom Thomas had described as the purchaser. Collier also produced a great quantity of valuable property, which he had found in Ran- dolph's house. None of Mr. Ridley's plate, however, could be identified, except a silver salt-spoon. Randolph ad- mitted having purchased 19 onnces of plate from Thomas Bennett, for which he paid a good price, but he had melted them down. "Then (said Mr. Laing) I shall remand you with the other prisoners; and I can tell you that you stand a good chance of being committed to trial for receiving the plate knowing it to have been stolen." Collier said that he and his brother officer had, on searching the premises, found some fine gold guard-chains, coral necklaces, an ivory toothpick-case mounted with gold, three rows of fine small pearls, a pin mounted with five diamonds and a ruby in the centre, and watches. This property it was thought had been stolen. The prisoners were then removed from the bar in custody. ————- An Irish doctor advertises in a Dublin paper, that the deaf may hear of him at his house in Liffey-street, where his blind patients may see him from till 3. Among the new female associations in Boston is one to be entitled The Anti-Young-Men's-standing-at-the- cliurch-door-Society." The proprietor of an American paper states, that the articles furnished by his editor are so brilliant, that the printers can see to put them in type in the dark. GOING DOWN IN LIFE.—A pot "boy" (aged 40 at least), employed at a public-house in the neighbourhood of Northumberland-street, was the other day observed "with the dark fit on him," or, less poetically, with a strong touch of the blue devils. On being asked the cause of his dejec- tion, Ah Sir," said he, I can't help thinking of what I once once. Although I am a potboy now, I once was a dust- man REMARKABLE. —"John Park, a seaman," says Sir John Ross, being asked by ine, 'What was the most re- markable event in his life ?' lie answered, that he had shaved the Duke of Devonshire in a gale on board the Glasgow.' I then asked, Were you not on board her at the battle of Navaruto ?' He replied, Oh yes, but that was nothing. AN UNREASONABLE CUSTOMER.—Mr. of Turn- ham-green, complained bitterly a few days since to an itinerant Poissarde who ocsasioually supplies him with fish, that a lobster which he had purchased of her the day before was not quite fresh." Veil, Mister," answered the lady," and whose fault's that, I vonders? I've cried him by your house every day for a fortnight; you might have bought him before if you're so wery petickler." Thus saying she shouldered or rather headed her basket, and walked off, warblitig sutto voce, And it's all round my hat," &c.

-A CAMBRIDGE, Dec. 11.—At a Congregaion held yesterday, the Uev. John Maddy, D.D., of Jesus College, Oxford, was ad- mitted cui eundem of this University. OXFORD, Dec. 12.—Oil Thursday last the following De- grees were conferred — Bachelor in Civil Law.—The Rev. W • H. W. B. Wither, Fel- low of New College. Bachelors of Arts.-G. TickeH, Scholar of Baliol College; B. Smith, Demy of Magdalen College; J. T. Ludlow, of Oriel College. In a Convocation liohien the satne day, William Cripps, Esq., M.A., of Trinity College, late Vinerian Scholar, was unanimously elected a Fellow on the Foundation of Charles Viver, Esq., in the room of Dr. Bellamy, of St. John's College. BANKRUPTS from Friday's Gazette. To Surrender in Basinahall-street. I. LEVI, merchant, Old Broad-street, Dec. 22, Jan. 22. Atts. Pearce and Co., St. Swithin's lane. M. CHARLKS and T. BITRROWS, tailors, Duke-street, St. James's, Dec. 22, Jan. 22. Att. Walker, Southampton-street. D. CLARK, merchant, New Broad-street, London, Dec. 18, Jan. 22. Atts. Oliverson and Co., Frederick-place, Old Jewry. J. JOHNSON, bookseller, High-street, Bloomsbury, Dec 18, Jan. 22. Atts. Sangster and Pugh, Bond-court, Walbrook. S. DALBY, boot-maker, Fleet-street, Dec. 17, Jan. 22. Att. Ashley, Old Broad-street. G. JONES, wharfinger, Horsleydown. Dec. 18, Jan. 22. Att. Doughney, Horsleydown-lane, Southwark. To Surrender in the Country. G. LEWIS and W. GARRARD, linen-drapers, Haverfordwest, Dec. IS, Jan. 22, at the Commercial-rooms, Bristol. Atts. Jenkins and Abbott, New Inn, London, or Clarke and Sons, Bristol. D. H. BROWN, woollen-draper, Haverfordwest, Dec. 18, Jan. 22, at the Commercial-rooms, Bristol. Atts. Jenkins and Abbott, New Inn, London, or Clarke and Sons, Bristol. J. ROWLANDS, draper, Hereford, Dec. 31, Jan. 22, at the Com- missioners-rooms, Manchester. Atts. Johnson and Co., Temple, London, Seddon and Mawson, Manchester. J. C. LYONS, commission-merchant, Li. erpool, Dec. 28, Jan.22, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Atts. Blackstock and Co., King's Bench-walk, Temple, London, or Deane and Irlam, Liverpool. T. WALKER, tailor, Darlington, Durham, Dec. 29, Jan. 22, at the house of Mr. John Brodie, innkeeper, Darlington. Atts. Mewburn, Ely-place, Holborn, London, or Mewboru and Coates, Darlington.

COPPER OKE Sold at REDRUTH, Dec. 10, 1835. MINES. 21 CWT. PURCHASERS. PRICE. Benner Downs lot Nevill, Sims, Drnce, and Co 5 16 6 Ditto. 78 P. Gretifell and Sons 4 10 Ditto. 77 Nevill, Sims, Dnice, and Co 5 16 6 Ditto .72 Ditto 5 18 6 Ditto .70 Ditto. 54 P. Grenfelt and Sons 3 12 6 Ditto. 41 Ditto 218 0 Ditto. 37 Nevill, Sims, Druce, and Co., and Free- man and Co 8 11 VVH. Drewollas 47 P. tJrenfell.AMT Sons 4 IS 0 Carn Brea 94 Williams, Foster, AND CO 9 0 6 Ditto. 82 Dilto LT 8 14 6 Ditt0 79 DITTO 6 16 0 Ditt0 74 DITTO 880 Ditto. 72 DiIlO, AND G. WILDES 7 IS 0 Ditto. 40 Ditto and ditto. 17 4 0 Ditto 37 P. GRENFELL and SONS 3 5 0 Ditto 33 Freeman and CO 4 8 0 TRESAVEAN III Mines Royai Co. 5 10 II Ditto. 10S Freeman and Co. 6 15 0 Ditto. 107 P. GRENFELL AND SONS 5 8 6 «»» T *8 Freeman and Co 11 8 6 !L'. •• 86 Williams, Foster, and Co. 9 13 O Ditto 8'l Ditto and George Wildes. 5 11 0 Ditto. 7T Ditto and ditto. 5 6 6 Ditt0. 67 Ditto, ditto, and Benson, Logan, & Co. SCO yiito 41S P. Grenfell and Sons 1 19 6 Wtt. BQttoQ 70 Vivian and Sons ,070 Ditto .36 Benson, Logan, and Co. 5 19 o Ditto. 3I Vivian and SONS 10 5 6 Great W. Fortune 80 BENSON, LOGAN,AND CO. 6 13 0 Ditto 30 DITTO LO 14 A Rospeath b2 Ditto. 5 18 a Ditt0 44 DITTO 80S FOWEY CONS. 99 FREEM?N ROD CO. •• S S 6 Ditto. 98 II nel Co. 4 6 «.R. 1? 8? DILTO AND DITTO 7 12 0 WL). UUITYWOOD 72 FREEMAN AND CO 4 4 0 DITTO 60 VIVIAN AND SONS 9 11 0 Ditto. 1S5 William., Foster, and Co. 0 9 0 Ditto. 32 VIVIANS AND Crown 3 t e Ditto. 31 FREEMAN AND CO 4 0 0 Ditto. 23 Crown CO 2 « 0 Wh. Tolgos S5 P. Grenfell and Sons 8 14 A Ditto 81 Ditto 7 in « Ditto 43 Ditto 4 3 6 Levant LI)3 Vivian and Sons 13 in « Dilto 37 Dilto 27 ,A FI WB. Julia 42 P. Grenfell and Sons 6 1 6 Ditt0. 39 Williams, Foster, and Co 8 0 0 Wh. Mary 56 P. Grenfell and Sous 4 6 6 Ditto .34 Crown Co. 7 15 0 Ditto. 3G Paacoe Grenfell and Sons V. 4 S 6 H. Parent •• I" Mines Royal Co. and Crown Co. 5 12 6 Retallack 41 Crown C0. tt2 6 Hallamaning 33 P. Grenfell and Sons, Williams, Foster, TLLL „ and Co., and Benson and Co- 2 7 8 Who Beauchamp 4S Mines Royal Co 4 6* WLI. Boiler 16 Crown Co. 7 14 6 Herland 30 P. Grenfell and Sons, and Williams, Foster, and Co 8 19 6 Ditto 20 Vivian and Sons .276 Penstmthal 31 Crown Co 2 10 Ditto. 5 Ditt0 4 13 0 Total 3,565 Average Produce, 8|.—-Qaaniiiy of fine Copper, 302 toM, 18 cwt. 0 q', -Amon.it O, Sale, £ 25,017 6s. 6d—Average Standard, ,£114 Igl.

High Water on Swansea Bar and at the Passages, FOR THE ENSUINO WEEK. Dns j SWANSBA BAR. THE PASSAGES^ | Morn. 1 Even. Height*. Morn. Even7 J H. M. H. M. F. I. H. M. H. M- SATURDAY DTC. 19 5 20 5 45 19 I 6 010 75 SUNDAY 20 6 9 6 35 20 1 7 29 7 55 Alonday 21 6 59 7 0 20 6 8 19 8 20 TUESDAY 21 7 23 7 47 21 3 8 43 9 7 WEDNESDAY. 23 8 12 8 as 18 6 9 3t 9 58- THURSDAY 24 9 2 9 28 17 2 10 22 10 4S FRRIDAY 25 9 53 10 19 15 6 11 13 11 39 MOON'S Ao E.-New Moon, 19th day, at 9 even.

f'tatkttø. MARK-LANE, LONDON, Monday, Dec. 14.—There has been a good supply of wheat and flour since this day se'nnight, and this mornino the arrival of wheat mat rather large from Essex, Kent and Suffolk; hence the trade is exceedingly dull, and must be noted full la. per qr. cheaper. Barley meets a particularly dull sale, and we consider it at least 2s. per qr. lower. Malt also is some- what cheaper. Beans are steady in value but pease scarcely sup- port our last quotation. In the oat trade there is little variation to notice. Flour as last stated. PRICE OF GRAIN.-Per Imperial Quarter. Wheat, RED 34 TO 30 MAPLE LI/O 33 J[,!E 38 40 WHITE 30 34 X'V.. — BOILERS 33 35 WHITE 38 SMALL BEANS 33 40 FLUE 40 41 DITTO, OLD 88 4S SUPERFINE 43 44 TICKS 28 32 OLD — — HARROW 34 33 34 FEED OATS 18 20 Barley 30 Pine 21 22 Ditto, nntfuatttng.M 34 Poland 21 23 Malt 50 Ci6 Fine. 24 24 Fine.is 60 POTATOE 27 28 HogPeitM 32 34 FINE 28 28 FLOUR, per Sack of28016. Best 334. to aM. I Second 30.. lo aš AVERAGE PRICE OF CORN, per Qr. For the Week ending Nov; 17, 1835, and by which importation is regulated. «. <1. S. D. 1. 4. WHEAT .3!) 2 OATS .21 5 BEANS 37 3 BARLEY. 27 7 RYE 30 2 PEACE 31 II- PRICE OF SEEDS. «• S. S. S. TURNIP, White, per bllSh. 1210]5 CLOVER, RED, per ewt. RED AND GREEN 12 101 WHITE 52 68 MUSTARD, Brown. 8 16 FOREIGN R«-D .06 70 WHITE. 5 6 FOREIGN White.. 1S2 58 CANARY, PER QUARTER. 40 44 TREFOIL 14 IS SAUFOIN 35 49 CARRAWAY 94 1S8 RYE GRASS 20 40 CORIANDER 10 18 PRICE OF HOPS, IN POCKETS, PER Cwt. £ S. £ • «. £ ». KENT S 12 TO 8 4 SUSSEX 4 10 FU 5 8 ESSE* 0 0 0 O| FARNHAM 0 0 U 0 PRICE OF MEAT.—SMITHFIELD, Dec. 14. This is the great Christmas Market, but the supply of beasts on this occasion IS 823 less than last year. In the early pnrt of the morning the salemen asked great prices, higher, indeed, than for se- veral years past; but we see nothing to justify such an exorbitant tk- mand. There is certainly some very good beef, and although the sup- ply is mort, comparatively, there is quite sufficientfor the caM. The top price for Scots, Deoons, and others of CMic. qualities, is 5s. per stone, and for heavy descriptions -b.8d. Mutton and veal have both declined 2d. per stone from last Monday, with a dull trade the top figure of the former being 4", 2d. for the best Downs, and 4s. for polled sheep; and the primest calves of moderate weights, 5s. Pork is also lower. To sink the offal-per stone of 8lbs. lleef. 2s. tid. to al. 10d./ Vul. Oa. Ad. to 4s. 8d. Mutton Os. Od. to 4s. 0<1. Pork. 4s. 4d. to Us. Od. Lamb Os. Od. to Os. Od. Head of Cattle this day. BelUls, 3,8]8; Sheep, 25,000; Calves, 120; Pigs, 452. Head of Cattle on Friday. Beast, 688; Sheep, 3,790; Calves,220; Pigs, 410. NEWGATE and LEA DEN HALL.—By the Carcase. Beef. 2s. tjd. to 3s. 4<1. Veai 2s. 8d. to 4s. 4d. Mutton 2s. 8d. to 3s. 4d. [ Pork. 2s. 8d. to 4s. Od. Lamb 4s. 4d. to 5s. 4d. PRICE~OF TALLOW AND SOAP, per Cwt. s. d. d. (. d. Town Tallow 46 t> Melted Stuff 27 0 Yellow Soap 45 0 Yellow Russia.. 44 0 Rough Ditto 20 0 Mottled ditto 50 O White Ditto — 0 Greaves 15 0 Curd diito 56 0 Town Tallow 46 tl Melted Stuff 27 0 Yellow Soap 4S 0 Yellow Russia.. 44 0 Rough Ditto 20 0 Mottled ditto 50 O White Ditto — II Greaves 15 0 Curd dllto 56 0 CORN AND HAY MARKETS, Dec. 5. «. d. tI. d. 8. d. «. d. Wheat, English 52 0toU2 OI1? Beans. 34 0/»42 0 per qr. Irish and Welsh 42 0 52 0/ 3 Pease 40 0 48 0 Malting Barley 36 0 42 Wh. Flour.. 42 0 45 Opersark Grinding ditto.. 24 0 26 O/.5 Seconds 39 0 41 0 Oats 18 0 24 0\ Hay 40 II 65 0 per ton. Vetches — 1 prewt. | Straw.. 10 1 6perdo. PRICE OF IRON. £ S. D. £ S. d- British Bars, Stallordshire 8 15 0 tot015 0 —————— Welsh 7 15 0 to 9 15 0 Pigs, Welsh (shorl weight) 4 15 0 to 6 5 0 STAFFORDSHIRE (long weight¡ 5 0 0 lo 10 0

BRISTOL PRICE CURRENT.—Dec. 14. The near approach of the Ilolidaya brings with it the uS1lal indispo- sition to purchl1se, still the tendency of prices la. irpicards, and it IS expected that the prices of the iiew year will be higher than they are at present. SUGAR. 8. R. COFFEE. «. f. Muse.veryBrown(percwt.) tiOloGl Fine ditto 86LV90 -Pry Brown 60 62 Very fine 106 Middling 63 64 RUM. S. d. 9. d. Good ditto 65 (iff JalTutica (per gal.) ..263$ Good 60 li7 Leeward 1 ale 2 3 2 4 Fine CS 70 LOGWOOD. £ s jE. s. Molasses 25 26 Jamaica fptr tUII.) Ii 10 5 10 COP JI E 8. Sl. Domingo .6 ó) 6 5 Jamaica, triage (per cwt.) 45 50 Cainpeacliy 7 5 8 5 Ordinary .53 00 Fuslic, Jamaica 0 10 6 15 Good dilto 62 till ———— Cuba 7 10 9 6 Fine ditto 70 74 011,. Middling 75 80 Gallipoll (per tun) 54 0 56 0 Good ditto SO 85 Sicily 48 0 52 0 Average I'rir.e of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for lhe week ending Nov. 30, 36#. 7%d. per cwt. PRICE OF LEATHER. d. d. d. d. CROP HIDES, PER LB LLFIDS CalfSkins.15lo22i ENGLIGH BUTTS I4 £ 20 BEST PATTERN SKINS .21 24 BUIF'AIOES 11 13 COMMON DITTO M 21 MIDDLINGS 12 It Heavy Skim, per lb. Iö 19 Butts 14 17 Calf Skins, Irish 13 15 Extra Strong clilto. 15 19 CURRIED 17 I9 LIEST SADDLERS' HIDES LOJ 15 WILSH .13 22 SHAVED DILTO 13 IS KIPS, ENGLISH AND WELSH J4 17 SHOE HIDES 12 12} SHAVED DIITTO 15 13 COMMON DITTO 11} 13 FOREIGN KIPS 12 IS BULL DITTO 10 12 SMALL SEAT SKINS 17 18 HORSE HIDES (ENGLISH) 10 19 LARGE DITTO 12 15 WELSH HIDES 15 17 BASILS ..10 14 Common DITTO 1I! 13 FOREIGN KIPS 12 IS BULL DITTO 10 12 SMALL SEAT SKINS 17 18 HORSE HIDES (ENGLISH) to 19 LARGE DITTO 12 15 WELSH HIDES 15 17 Ba" Is. 10 14 GERMAN DITTO 15 21 FORTI;;II SHOULDERS 8 10 SPANISH DITTO 17 21 BELLIES 6 U SHAVED DITTO, WITHOUT BUTTS, DRESSING HIDE SHOULDERS 10 11 12S. OD. TO 17S. OD. EACH. BELLIES 9 10 Horse Butts 11 12 I Printed and Published by WILLIAM COURTENAY MURRAY AND DAVID REES, At No 58, WIND-STUEET, SW&NSFA.