The Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette and Merthyr Guardian

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. We a?,aiit respectful^ entrect v-ur redden to enter tliernselvc' as regular Subscriber*, to prevent disappointmentx com- plained of in the receipts oj their papers. Vie print only • the number neecssnry to the established consumption, and cannot, from circumstances, undertake for one more, unless subscribed for beforehand. There is no Journal in our neighbour/iood, we may be Mowed to add, that can boast .1,08teady and constant a progress, or of a more extensive and respectable circulation. In order, a* much as possible, 10 save us trouble and expence, we venture to request of our subscribers and advertising frisnds to pay over their accounts to the regularly appointed agents of the GAZETTE GIld GIIA RDIA N, through whom they receive their papers, by whom the same will be handed I oner tJ us. We beg to return our most sincere thanks for the valuable communication of" D." ivhibh we have commencced insert- ing. The Inquest" is not suited to our columns. O. P. Q." II e hare ascertained the name of the person sent us the foolish advertisement O. P. Q., and u feeling who cf compassion for his dependent situatiun alone restrahisus from currying our former threat into execution. But let him take nvtice, this is the last instance in which such lenity will be shewn. He will be pleated to pay the p.'htave of his letter. ERRATUM.— In our last number was inserted the death of Bird, the wife of Air- Jumes Bird. We under- stand that the laity was the wife of Mr. Robert Bird.

G LA MORGA If SHIRE. CARDIFF.—"A e are happy fo learn that Ihe Mascuess of Bute has reached London in good health. VVe un- derstand that Mr. Green is to wait upon his Lordship iu the course o! a few days with his working plans for the improvement of our port. The necessary contracts will then be j roceeded with. The Spring Show of the Glamorgan and Monmouth- shire Horticultural Society takes place at Cardiff, on Wednesday the hot of May next, when prizes will be awarded for flowers, fruit, and vegetables, as enu- merated in the advertisement in our first page. Returns have lately been called for by the Secretary of State for the Home Department (pursuant to a re- solution of the House of Commons) from the county treasurers in England and Wales, for an account of county-rates received during the years 1821 to 1832 inclusive, with a statement of the application of such rates under 32 distinct heads. From the return made tVom this county it appears that t he sum of 4.931 5 s. Id. has been expended during the last seven years in 137 prosecutions of felons at the assizes and the sum of '2,9271. 9s. 1 d. during the like period in 2^4 prosecu- tions at the quarter sessions, being an. average of 36/. for each prosecution at the assizes, aud of )31. at the quarter sessions. The average yearly expence, forihe like period, of conveying: prisoners to the Gaol and House of Correction has been 1421. It also appears, that 6251. 4t. lUri. was in 1831 paid on account of damage done during the Merthyr riots (which sum was last year refunded by the hundred of Caerphilly.) The average amount of ratea received for seven years hai been 5JOU. COMMITMENTS TO CARDIFF GAOL AND HOUSE ot Conr.FCTION.-April 17th, 1833, Wm. Wa'ters, by the Rev. W. Hewson Clerk, and W.J.Jones, Esqr. charged with having feloniously stabbed, cut, and wounded John Davies of Swansea, upon the left side cfthe neck, with intent in so doing feloniously to kill and murder.— Conviction April 15th, 1833, James Davies, by W.Thomas, Esq. charged with unlawfully absenting himself from the employ of the Penydarran Iron Company, one month bard labour. THE VERXAI. VISITATION OF THE DIOCESE OF LLANDAFF was yesterday held at the Cathedral, on which occasion the Rev. William Bruce Knight, Chancellor, delivered an admirable charge to the Clergy, of which it would be great injustice to give such an outline as alone our present limits would comprise. He adverted with great judgment to the proposed alterations contemplated by the Ecclesias- tical Commission, and gave a most luminous exposi- tion of the duties of a parish minister, and of the constitution of the Church of England. LANTWIT MAJOR-—-On Wednesday, the 17th of April instant, was married at Lantwit Major, Robert Kearsley Dawson, Esq., First Lieutenant of the Royal Engineers, to Anna Maria, second daughter of the Revd. Robert Nicholl, A.M., Rector of Lanmaes, and cf Dimland House, in the county of Glamorgan. The happy couple were drawn back from the church to Dimland House, nearly a mile off (the horses being taken from their carriage), by sixty parishioners of the young lady's father, who testified their good will on the occasion and the day was spent in festive hila- rity in the neighbouring villages, with bell-ringing, firing of cannon, and other demonstrations of kind auction. •»That truly Christian and munificcnt lady, Mr«. Davies, of Tregrose, has caused to be placed in the parish Church of Coychurch, a very handsome mural monument in honor of the memory of the late Revd. John Llewellyn, once the excellent and much beloved Curate of that parish. The tablet bears the following simple and expressive inscription, from the pen of the Revd. Mr. Conybeare, Rector of Sully:- Sacred to the memory of the Revd. JOHN LLEWELLYN, Hector of Jlarcross, and for five years the pious, faithful, and inde- fatigable Curate of this Parish. Eminently distinguished for strength and consistency of religious rharacter, for genuine Christian simplicity, andsmgleness of heart. His constitution, never strong, sunk beneath the earnest activity of his ministerial labours, And tie was called to nn early reward in his Master's Heavenly Kingdom, m the 37th year of his age, December 26, 1832. Neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus to testify the Gospel of the Grace of God. And now, • behold I know that ye all among whom I have gone preaching the Kingdom of God hall see my face no more. Wherefore, I take you to record this day that I am pure from the blood of all men." The Rev. John Llewellyn, when quite a stranger in this county, was noticed and patronised by Bishop Sumner (now of Winchester), who, knowing his zeal and piety, presented him (unsolicited) to the Rectory of Marcross. A BODY FOUND,-On Friday evening last, a body was seen floating up the river at Britton-ferry, near Neath, and, when brought on shore, appeared to have been in the water some time on searching the pockets, a small black bag was found, containing thirteen shil- tings and three halfpence, with a pair of spectaclew comb, a short pipe, and a small tobacco box. On the upper part of the head were two cuts, one above the other, the hair was dark, with sandy-coloured whis- kers. The body was dressed in a black coat and waist- coat, a drill trowsers, striped shirt, and grey woollen stockings, and had on strong shoes. A cotnn was pro- cured, and the body placed therein, which, after a proper examination of the parties who had taken the tianie from the river, was iuterred in Britton-ferry churchyard. MERTHYR,—On Sunday last, the day appointed for a general thanksgiving for the divine mercy in removing the Cholera, the parish church was filled with a most respectable and devout congregation, and the Rev. Mr. Jones delivered an excellent discourse from Revelations xxi. 3, 4. (ItON TELADr.Our contemporaries have dealt in flourishing statements of the price of iron, but the following will be found to be the true state of the case. The price of bar iron delivered at Cardiff, is 5I. 1;)$. to fJl. M. (id. for bill at six months dl. are sometimes nominally obtained but only by tacitly allowing the ts. 6d. back. The price of pig iron at Cardiff is 3J. 15J. to 41. and the demand not quite so brisk as a month ago. THE WEATHER.—The weather had been unusually cold for the last ten days. The wind has been mostly in the North. The Beacons of Brecon, and that bold abrupt hill Craig y Van hiraud the other high hill", of Blaen Cwm Tawy are white with snow; as we have generally suffered in this country from premature springs and May frosts, we may reasonably anticipate a prolific frnit season from this not unseasonable cliffk. MYSTERIOUS COINCIDENCE.- Yesterday moruing-I between seven and eight o'clock, a fine little girl, about seven years old, and who had been hitherto in perfect health,suddenly awoke with every appearance of extreme terror, and making a most appalling inarti- culate scream. To every enquiry as to the cause of this alarm, the child could onlv reply by gestures, and the continuance of the indistinct scream, which was the only kind of voice that she retained. In the afternoon, intelligence arrived that her father, who was at Kantyglo, twelve miles distant, had suddenly expired at the moment at which she was thus fearfully at tacked

MON3IO UTHSHIRE. MONMOUTHSHIRE EASTER SESSIONS. These Sessions were held at Vsk, on Monday and Tuesday week, before the Rev J B. Davies, Chairman; Sir T. R. Salusbury, Bart.. W. A. Williams, Esq. M P., Benjamin Hall, Esq. M.P., T. Lewis, Esq., J. H. Prit- chard, Esq., John Jenkins, Esq., Major Mackworth, Rev. J. Coles, Rev. T. R. Williams, Wm Hoili-, Esq., and Rev. George Gabb the two last geetn baneum-iH fied at these Sessions. Thei e were 19 appeals entered for trial, 13 of which had been adjourned from the previous Sessions. Richard Lewis, Rsq, and others, appellants; Church wardens and Overseers of Lantillio Cressenny, respondents his was an appeal against a poor rate, on the ground of inequality and unfairness. Mr. Talbot, for respondents, cblleil Mr. William Metcalfe, surveyor, of Monmouth, who proved that he had been employed by the parish to survey and value it forthe purpose of rating, and that the entry in the parish books authorising his survey was signed by Mr. Lewis and others of the appellants. He had seen the. lands since, and was still of opinion that his valuation was correct. Mr. Greaves, for theappcliants, called Mr. James White, of Coieford, who stated that he had recently sur- veyed and valued certain farms lands in the parish of Llantillio Cress^nnv, and was of opinion that those in the occupation of appellants were over rated, and those of Mr. David Jones. Mr. William Jones, Mr. James Morgan, and Mr*. Ann Morgan, were rated much beiow their value. The learned gentleman called several other witnesses to si-l i ar effect. The Court,, after a short consideration, con Mimed the rate. Tangunrttder, appellants Bedwelty respondents. This was an appeal agasinst an order of removal. The pauper was Ann Lewis, whose husband,. Wil iam Lewis, had left her about 12 months since, and was supposed to have gone to America. It was contended that Wm Lewis had been apprenticed to Win. Watkins a carpenter, at Laniunnider, that he bad afterwards given a paper, which be said was his indentures, to his mother, who when he married gave this paper to his wi;e; that his wife had given this paper to her husband in May last, since which it was believed he had gone to America. Neither Lewis, nor his mother, nor his wife could read. On cross examination of Watkins it appeared, that the indentures, if any, were left in the bands of Mr. Wilde of the Stamp Office Brecon, who was not called as a witness and it was remarked that inden- tures must have been on parchment, not on paper. The Court quashed the order, with the usual costs, and the co,ts of two adjournments. Eglwysillan, Glamorganshire, appellants; Bedwelty, re ;ponde.ts.-A,t)peal ngainsl all order of removal. Mr. Greaves for respondents, attempted to prove a settlement gained by the pauper's grandfather in the appellant parish, 73 years a ;o, but the evidence was too a i^ht, and the C<urt quet'ied the order. • Tidenham, al-pellants Chepstow, respondents.— The patner was Esther Thomas; and Mr. Talbot, for re- spondents, proved a prima facie settlement by birth of the pauper's husband, William Thomas, in the appellant parish.—Mr. Greaves, for appellants, called Thomas Edwards, who proved that he and William Thomas went, about 21 years ago, to the office of Messrs. Bowcher and Co., Chepstow, for the purpose of being apprenticed to the lea service in the brig ellington, then fitting out; that Thomas was apprenticed, and had frequently shewn witness his indentures; that these indentures had been three times produced as a protection ngainsumpressment.and found to be correct. It was proved however that Wm. Thomas, being above the a»e of 18 at the time he went to Messrs. Bowcher & Co., could not be apprenticed, but that he was engaged three years a covenant ser* ant, and that the deed, supposed to he his indentures, was the covenant. It also appeared that the Wellington being engaged tocarry navy stores had an admiralty protection Ogalubt pressing on board. Order quashed. Langibby, ajopellants; Trevethm respondents. Tlt e pau- per in this case was the daughter of Richard Lewis, at present alive, but very ill, and unable to be moved. It was shown that on one occasion the wife of Richard Lewis being at Pontypool, while he was at Neath, sent a friend to obtain relief from the overseer of Langibby, who gave it without demur. The court baing divided in opinion as to how far this was proof of a settlement, the case was ad- journed. St. Paul's. Bristol, appellants; St. Woollos, respondents. —Mr. Talbot took objection to the notice of appeal on the ground that in it the Rev. James Coles was designated James Coles, Esq. After some discussion the case was adjourned. Talgarth, Brecon, appellants; Aberystruth, respondents. Mr. Talbot appeared for appellants, Mr. "Nicholl for re. spondents. The pauper was Mary Winter, whose husband, John Winter, had left her and was gone to America. The question before court was whether the value of some premises rented by the father of John Winter, in the parish of Talgarth, was sufficient to confer a settlement. Order confirmed. Oldland, Bitton, Gloucestershire, appellants; Monythus. loyne respondents.—Mr. Nicholl slated that this case depended entirely upon a question of law, and the appel- lants were willing to submit the case to the Court of King » Kench. Mr. Talbot, for respondents, would agree to this arrangement upon condition that the order be confirmed, subject to a case- Order confirmed, subject to the decision of the Court of King's liencb. Penally, PembrOheshire, appellants; Bedwelty, respond- ents—Order quashed, respondents not appearing. The remainder of the appeals were either respited or settled out of court. There were six prisoners for trial at these sessions, against one of whom, Eliza Powell, charged with a Iarccny, no true bill was returned. Edicard Russell was charged with stealing four brass castings, and other articles, the property of John Richards. This trial excited great interest, the cause of the prisoner being evidently popular. Prosecutor is a blacksmith; on the night of the 1st April he had some brass castings which he left when he went to bed on the ledge of the of window. In the morning they were gone, and lie traced some foot- marks of a singular impression to the house of prisoner's mother about 150 yard's distant, and beyond that into the town of Usk, when he went to prisoner's workshop. He there found prisoner with what lie swore to be one of his castings in the vice and another, the corner of which had been filed off, was in the shop. He knew this casting by a punchmark which bad been made in it before it was stolen. For the defence, a witness swore that he had em- ployed prisoner to make some brass castings, and had given him an old brass kettle to melt down for the purpose. Several swore that they had seen the brass casting, when prisoner was apprehended, and that it had not the punch- mark then. Some swore that prosecutor had said he would do his best to get prisoner transported, (these witnesses supposed, for the purpose of getting some property belong- ing to prisoner), Iltyd Nicholl, Esq., and three other witnesses, gave the prisoner an excellent character.—The Rev. Chairman ably and impartially summed up the evidence, and the jury returned a Verdict of of Not Guilty, which was received by the spectators in court with loud huzzas, which were, however, quickly suppressed. The cheering was renewed outside the court, and Russell was escorted from durance amidst the acclamations of great numbers of his friends. Richard Ingram was found guilty of stealing an ass, the property of Richard James, of Abergavenny, on the night of Friday, the 5th instaut. The detection of the prisoner was singular. He bad appropriated the animal about a a couple of miles from Abergavenny, but in going through that town, had to pass the house of Richard James, where it had no sooner arrived, than it made a dead halt, and disputed with so much vehemence the right of its new possessor to take it any further, as to excite the suspicions of a night" watchman. The prisoner made an ingenious but unavailing defence, and was sentenced to si* months' imprisonment and hard labour. Thomas Watts, charged with stealing a pig. the property of Lewis Lewis, of the hamlet of Glasgoed, was acquitted. There was no business at the Monmouth borough sessions on Monday last, a circumstance very credit- able to that town, such a thing not having occurred for some years.. I Monmouth April fasr on the 18th, was well supplied with live stock, which was generally disposed of at advanced prices. There was a great demand for fat beasts, the general opinion being, that this description of cattle will be dearer. The alteration of this fair from the Wednesday before the 20th to the 18th, has proved a judicious one.

GLOUCESTER ASSIZES. DVRSLEY BANK ROBBERY.- Thomas Nichols and Geo. Organ Parsons were charged with robbing Mr. H. L. Stephens of property to the amount of 7000Z- and Sarah Parsons, aged 55, the mother of the latter prisoner, with having knowingly harboured him after the felony was committed. It appeared in evidence, that Mr. Stephens, the clerk, was carrying the bag, containing, in value, about 8000/. from the bank of Messrs. Bloxsome to the residence of Mr. Player, one of the partners, for safe custody, on the evening of the 13th February, when a person seized hold of the bag in the passage, near the' bank, and forcibly dragged him towards the church-yard. Mr. Stephens retained possession of the bag, when he received from another per- son a blow on the head, which caused the blood to flow profusely, and, shortly after, a severe blow on the hand, which caused him to loosen his hold, and has deprived him of the use of one of his fingers ever since this was followed by a blow on the eye which laid open his forehead. A hat belonging to the prisoner Parsons was picked up near the spot. Ann Mercer saw the two male prisoners lurking near the bank on the night of the robbery and the previous night. John Smith, a King's evidence, said that he saw, from behind a tombstone, the prisoner Nichols knock down Mr. Stephens, and 'the prisoner Parsons take away the bag. The cross-examination of this witness proved him to be a. very suspicious character. Mr. Alfred Jackson, clerk to Messers. Bloxsome, went to Sarah Parsons's house, saw G. 0. Parsons, asked where was the property, was answered, if you look sharp you will find it;" afterwards found 11701. in notes, and other parts of the stolen pro- perty concealed in the house. Mr. Justice J. Parke directed the acquittal of Mrs. Parsons. t The jury, after a very short consultation, found Nichols, Not Guilty, and Parsons, Guilty. Mr. Justice Parke passed sentence of Death upon Parsons, without leaving him the slightest hope of mercy. The man did not appear moved in the slightest degree. At the con- clusion of the sentence, he shook his fist at the learned Judge, and exclaimed, 'rj»ank ye, my Lord—I'll die like London." He then shook hands with his fellow-prisoner, who seemed to be much affected, and turning again to the learned Judge, he exclaimed," I am as innocent as the child unborn." Irs whole demeanour evinced great hardi- hood throughout the trial. CHARGE OF MURDER, tiester Powell was indicted for the murder of Elizabeth Hawkms, her mother-in-law. It appears that the deceased, an old woman nearly 80, lived in a cottage near Bristol, nnd the prisoner was the wife of her oldest son. She had been for some time ill with a dropsy, and on the 1st March died. Ix was shown that the prisoner had been with her. and had made some broth for her, which she took, and died about a week after. She was very ill after it, and a young woman and a cat who had tasted it were very ill. The [prisoner, on being charged with having given the deceased something wrong, said she had only given her a dose of jalap. The surgeon who examined the body of the deceased expressed a belief that she died by poison, and thought by the admission of corrosive sublimate. The old woman was possessed of a cottage, and there had been some ill-feeling between her and the prisoner. There was no evidence of the prisoner's having purchased any poison, and it appeared in her defence that the old woman had taken some medicine before Christmas, and for some time before, which she mixed up herself, and from one bottle took oil of vitriol. It was proved, too, that she often complained of pain and illness and of her approaching death. The Jury, on the direction of the Judge, acquitted the praontr.

O BEING CALLED "A SAINT." A Saint oh, would that I could claim The privileg'd, the honour* d name, And confidently Uke my stand, Though lowest itfuie saintly band Would, though it were in scorn applied, That term the test of truth could bide Like kindly salutations given, In mockery to the King of Heaven. A Saint and what imports the name, Thus banded in derision's game Holy, and separate from sin ■; To good, nay, e'en to God, akin." Is such the meaning of a name, From which a Christian shrinks with shame ? Yrs, dazzled by the glorious sight, He owns his crown is all too bright. t And ill might son of Adam dare, > Alone such honour's weight to bear j. But fearlessly he takes the load, United to the Son of God. A Saint! oh scorner, give some sign, Some seal to prove the title mine, Aud warmer thanks thou shalt command. Than bringing kingdoms in thy hand. Oh for an interest in that name, When hell shall ope its jaws of flame, And sinners to their doom he hurl'd, I While scorned Saints H shall judge the world.' How shall the name of Saint be prized, Tho' now neglected and despised, When truth shall witness to the Lord, That none but" Saints shall judge the world." MARRIOTT.

TO Tit E EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE AND GUARDIAN. A CHRISTMAS RAMBLE. SIR.— The following specimen is copied exactly, verbatim et literatim, from the Welsh translation described in my former communications. It contains the first chapter, and three verses of the second chapter, of Genesis, together with an explanatory remark at the end, and appears to constitute a distinct chapter in the old manuscript. It is not divided in o veres, and has no punctuations, except single lines and parallel lines, occasionally, which are here repre- sented by single and double commas. The orthography, in all its singularities and inconsistencies, is carclullv preserved. From several peculiar idioms and expressions, from the unusual position of the verbs generally, some of which may charatterised-rtiflective verbs, (almost unknown to the English language) and the frequent omission of Duw, the peculiar name of the ALMIGHTY, contrary to the received version, I was induced to conclude that the translation was made from the original Hebrew and my inference has been subsequently confirmed bv the Rev. John Jones, our pre- sent worthy Curate, whose good knowledge of Welsh and Hebrew qualifies him to judge critically. It will be noticed as, perhaps, an unparalleled singularity, that the expression' prenafall (apple tre) is here used,by akind ofsynechdoche, instead of the word prennau (trees), which appears in the received version. The following excellent englyn, prefixed by Mr. Morgan Llewelyn (already mentioned,) of Ntitb, to his Latin Bible, may not be deemed an inclevant prelude to the translation Llyfr yw hwnn, coeliwn CEI.I,—lleferydd Holl fwriad Prophwvdi; Llyfr glan,— lleufcr goleuni, Llyfary NEF yw'n LIyfr ni. LLyma vel y dechreuir y haihil ynghymraec Yu gyntaf y kreawdd duw nef a llawr,, y ddayar oedd heb [ffrwyth vn wac.athvwvllwch ar wyneb y dwfyn,acysbrydoliaeth yr ar gl wyd a ddygid ary dyfroedd, acy dy wad diiwbid olayni ac y ,s gwnaethbwyt golayni, ac a welas diiw y golayni y vod yn (Ida, ac a wahanawdd y golayni oy wrth y ty wyllwch,ac aenwawdd y Hauler yn ddydd ar tywyllwch yn uos, ac awnacthhwyd [brynawn ar horay yn un dydd,, ac y dywad diiw bit ffyrvafenn yn. [hervedd y dyfroedd a gwahaned y dyfroedd y wrth y dyfroedd, ac [awnaeth diiw y.flvrvafenn ac a wahanodd y dyfroed a oeddynty ar y fly r■vafeiin y wrth y rai oeddvnt i dan y ffyrvafenn, ac velly y gwuaethbwyd, ac a enwis fiiiw y ffyrvafenn yn nef, ac a w uiethbwyd byrnawn ar boray yn ail dydd, ac y dywad diiw, ymgy nuliynt y dyfroedd sydd dan y ucf yn un lie, ac ymgyndrycholetsychtwr, ac velly i gwnaethbwyt, ac a enwis [düw Y sychtwr yn ddayar, ar kynulleitvay dwfr yn voroedd, ac a ( [welas y od ya dda, ac addywad gwraiddiet y ddayar lysewyn [gwyrdd a wnel had aphrcnn afall awnel ffrwyth herwydd ell natur eu [hun yr hwnn bit had yndaw y hnn ar y ddayar, ac velly y gwna etbbwyt, ac addyc y ddayar lesewyn affrenn awnelai tfrwyth [ac y hob un eu had yn ol darpor, ac a welas (lUw y dod yn dda ac awnaethbwyd y brynawn arboray yn drydydd dydd,, ac y dywad diiw bint lcifer yny ffyrvafenn y nef a gwaha nent y dydd ar nos a bint yn arwyddion ac amseroedd a bly jnyddoedd a dvddiay a llywychent yn ffyrvafenn y nef a go lauhayut y ddayar, ac velly y gwnaethbwyt, ac awnaeth [diiw dday laifervawryllaifcrmwyaf i ragori ydydd ar llaifer lleiat y ragori y nos, ar ser awnaeth ef ae ay roddeshwynt yn [ffyrvafenn Y nef mal y liewychynt ar y ddayar ac y ragorynt y dydd ary nos ac i gwehenynt y golayni ar tywyllwch, ac a welasduw y bod yn dda,, ac awnaethbwyd y brynawn ar boray yny [pedwyr ydd dydd, ac addywat tüw, arweddynt y dyfroedd | [ymddaithydd o en aidiawl byw, ac ehediaid ar y ddayar dan ffyrvafenn y nef, [ac a greawdd diiw vorvayrch mawr ar boll enaitiawl byw ac ym ddeithys a veddant y dyfroedd yn cii darpar, affob ryw [ehcdydd yn ol eu nntvr, ac awelas diiw y hot yn dda ac ay bendi gawdd ac addywad tyfwch ac amlhewch a chyflenwch J [dyfroedd Ihaent yr adar ar y ddayar,, ac a wnaethbwyt [brynhawn ar y bymed tydd,,ac addywad tiiw dyged y ddayar [eneitiawl yw yny natyr e hun anifailaid ac ymddeithydd ac ysgrybyl y ddayar ynol y natyr, ac velly y gwnaethbwyd, ac awnaeth [diiw anivailiaid y ddayar yn eu darpar,, affob ymddeithydd y [ddayar yn ol eu y natyr, aca welas y bod yu dda,, ac addywad gwnawn ddyn ar yn !lyn, an delw ni, aragored bysgawd y mor ac adar y nef ac anefailiait y ddayar, ar holl greadyriaid, achwbl [or ym ddaithydd a gyffry ary ddayar,, ac y kreawdd diiw ddyn ar [ylyn ay osgedd y hun wrth lun diiw y kreawdd ef gwrw a veniw y kreawdd hwynt ac a vendigawdd diiw hwynt, ac addywat [tyfwch ac amlhewch a chyflenwch y ddayar achymerwch hi ac [arglwyddi aethwch bysgawd y mor ac adar y nef ar holl enaitiawl a gy ffroant ar y ddayar ac addywad tiiw syllwch mi a roddais [ywch pob ryw lysewyn yn dwyn had ar y ddayar, ar holl brenay ay had yndynt eu hunain wrth y natyr, a bint ywch yn vwyt ac y holl eneidiawl y ddayar ac y bob ehedydd y nef ac i bawb a gyffroant ar y ddayar ynyr hwn y bo enaid bywiawl yndaw megis y kaffont y bwyta, ac velly y gwnaethpwyt ac a welas [diiw boh peth ar awnaeth a da oeddynt, ac a wnaethpwyt y [brynhawn ar boray yny chweched tydd,, ac velly perffaith oeddynt uef [a dayar ac an boll drefnad, ac a eyflenwis duw y saithved tydd y [gwaith awnaethoedd ac a orffhwysawdd duw y saithvet dydd or [holl waith addarp^rysai ac a vendigawdd diiw y saithfet dydd ac ay [kysegra vrdd,, ar dydd hwnw y paidiewdd diiw affob gwaith ar a [greawdd sefyw hwnwy syl„ achyntbeynt yr ymddiddanay hyn nocynt rai eraill eisoes ymchoeler at yr hynn a ddarparwyd am by [mp oes y byd The above specimen presents the same number of lines as the corresponding portion in the old manuscript, the longer lines being terminated beneath. Words divided without hyphens in the original are here carefully preserved. The following englyn to the Bible, by Bishop Morgan, is here introduced as an appropriate conclusion. Nef war a'r ddaear, da'i ddeall-der,ydd A daw eurfydd arall; A GAIR Duw, y Gwir diwall, A berg byth, heb awr ball. Had such distinguished Welsh scholars as Bishop Morgan, Bishop Davies, Archdeacon Edmund Prys, and Dr. John Davies, been generally preferred to clerical dignities, the churches in Wales would have been much better filled those who have the interest of the establishment at heart, should consider that its Ministers and Dignitaries cannot communicate successfully with the Welsh population, but through the medium of their vernacular tongue. I remain, iu conclusion, Sir, voursobediently. AB LOLO (TALIESlN WILLIAMS). Glebe Land, Mcrthyr Tydfil, April 17, 1833. This part ill defectir* in the maJIuecript.

SCRIPTURE ILLUSTRATION. ECCLESIASTES, iii. I. To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven," There is a time for every thin" but the business of our salvation. We delay—we°put off-we always expect its arrival, and it never arrives-we put off to a future day when more at leisure; when affairs of a certain nature will be terminated—when particular embarrassment shall be at an end; when certain cir- cumstances no longer exist, and the business of eternity shall become your principal occupation. But cannot you carry your religion into yonr present cir- cumstances, into the business of life, and even into its bustle, continually giving to God a thousand secret and invisible offerings, and affording to your fellow- creatures a salutary and praiseworthy example. Re- member Joseph with the charge of a kingdom. It is not by renouncing your cares, or waiting until you get a fortune and grow oLi-blt by sanctifying these cares. In vain we would forsake business and retire from the world if we retired with unchanged hearts. Like the King of J lldea, in the Book of Kings, who in vain abdicated the throne, delivered up the insignia of royalty into the hands of his son, and retired into the heart of his palace, the leprosy with which God had struck him, pursued him even to his retreat. MASS I LOW.

■J BIRTHS. On Monday, at High-street, Haverfordwest, the lady ot \V. Evans, Esq. of a son. April 13, the Lady Caroline Maxse, of a son. April 13, the Lady of Sir Codrington E. Carrington, of daughter. Yesterday week. the wife of Mr. George Bird, draper, Cardiff, of a daughter. On Wednesday last, at Llandovery, Mrs. Havard, the wife of Mr. James Havard, maltster, and daughter of the late Mr. William D.wies, whose death is recorded in another part of this paper, of a son and heir. MARRIED. On the 9th instant, at Carmarthen, Mr. John S. Pear, ironmonger, of Neath, to Eliza Sarah, daughter of the late Rev. John Watson, Wesleyan minister. On Thursday, the 11th instant, George Phillips, Esq. surgeon, of Haverfordwest, to Miss White, of Popehill. On Thursday week, at Kentchurch, by the Rev. W- Sewell, Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, and Chaplain of Carisbrook Castle, Isle of Wight, Bentham, Esq. to Miss Brydges, daughter of Sir Harford Jones Brydgei;, and sister of Mrs. Scudamore, of Kentchurch Park, Here- fordshire. On Monday week, at Llanfoist, by the Rev. W. Jones, Mr. Thomas Deakin, ten. of Blaenavon, to,Miss Smith, of the same place. On the 9th instant, at St. Peter's Church, Hereford, Mr. Thomas Bullock, of Credenbill, to Miss Mary Trumper, of Hereford. On Thursday week, at St. George's Church, London, by the Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, Thomas Charlton Whitmore, Esq. of Aplcy Park,Shropshire, tothe Ladv Louisa Anne Douglas, eldest daughter of the Marquis of Queensberry. At Tralee, William Sandys Dillon, Esq. son of the Rev- William Edward Dillon, of the county of Cornwall, to Catherine Jane, eldest daughter of the late Wm. Jeffcott, Esq. of Tralee, and sister to the Hon. John Wm. Jeffeott, Chief Justice of Sierra Leone. On Sunday, April 7, at Liverpool, by the Rev. J. II. Stewart, M. A M r. George Prescott Ditchficld, grocer, tO Miss Ann Holt, both of that place. DlED. At Swansea, on Sunday night last, aged 24, Mr. Johu J. Darby, son of Elias Darby, Esq. Receiver General of the Assessed Taxes for South Wales. At Swansea, on Monday night, aged 77, Mrs. Mary Allen, widow, of Castle street. At the same place, on the same day, aged 70, Mr*- Rachel Walters, widow. On Saturday last, Susannah Davies, at Darren Felen. Clydacb Llanelly, aged 103. She was the mother of 19 Children, four of which are now alive. She saw the offspring of her great grandson. She adorned a Christian profession for mahy years with the Welsh Wesleyan Methodists, and died in hope. A sermon, in her funeraL by the Rev. R. Owen, from 1 Cor. 15 31. April 14.at Langham Place, Sir James Langham, Bart. At Blackwood, Monmouthshire, Mr. Jackson, of that place, surgeon, late of Chewton Mendip. At Builth, Mr. John Pritchard, who for many years was master of the Irree School of that town. On Sunday week, after a short illness, aged 48, Mr. John On Sunday week, after a short illness, aged 48, Mr. John Rees, butler to D. J. Edwardes, Esq. of Rhydygorse, near Carmarthen. His remains were followed to the grave by about four hundred respectable persons, in testimony Of their respect for his worth. On Sunday week, in the 35th year of her age, Margaret, wife of Mr. John Evans, of the New Inn, Mydrim, Carmar- thenshire, leaving a husband and four children to deplore the loss of an affectionate wife and tender mother. At Llandovery, on the 5th instant, aged G3, Mr. W|B- Davies, draper and mercer, of that town. His univers*' good character caused hiin much respected. At Aberpedwan, near Ljjj^overy, on the 8th instant, the advanced age of 72, 5ii*s Elizabeth Margarita Wil" liams, sister to the late Rev. John Williams, of Pantycelyn and daughter of the celebrated Welsh poet, the Rev. Wø. Williams. At Llandovery, on the 8th instant, sincerely and deser- vedly regretted, Mary, the wife of Mr. David Morgan, carpenter, of that town. On Saturday week, Mr. Richard Owen, landlord of the Falcon Inn, Haverfordwest. On Thursday, the 11th instant, Mrs. Bowen, wife ° £ Mr. John Bowen, postmaster, Haverfordwest. On Saturday week, after a lingering illness, borne with resignation to the divine will, in the 61st year of her age, Sarah Cox, wife of Mr. William Cox, maltster, of Here- ford. Same day, aged 80, Mrs. Beavan, of Berrington streetf Hereford. On Monday week, at Willersley Court, Herefordshir" in his 26th year, Mr. John Maybrey, eldest son of 1t r, John Maybrey, of Letton, Herefordshire. At Helstone, Cornwall, aged 68, Samuel Drew, author of severalmetaphysical works, and editor of" I" Imperial Magazine." MERTHYR TYDVIL Printed and Published by WILLIAM MALLALIEU, at the Office, High Street i where Orders, Advertisements, Communications, are requested to be addressed.

BRECONSHIRE. BRECo?i.Onr advertisement columns present an in- stanceofaffectionate regard evinced by the parishioners of St. John's and St. Mary's, Brecon, towards the Rev Thos. Bevan, lately curate ot that parish, which it is de- lightful to all well colistituted minds to contemplate. The pious and meritorious conduct by which the Rev. Gentleman has thus endeared himse'f to his flock, and the grateful feeling with which their sense of it is expressed, are alike honourable to either party. Mr. Bevan carries with him into his new living at Car- marthen, a high character for the discharge of the highest of human duties, and leaves behind him an example which we confidently hope will be followed by his successor, with honour to bimselfand the greatest of all advantage to his parishioners. A gentleman resident at Brecon, on Monday last, undertook for a wager to walk on the Trecastle road j miles within the hour, which he accomplished with apparent ease, having 21 minutes to r-pare. THANKSGIVING.— On Sunday the churches were completely filled with congregations devoutly offering up thanks to the Almighty for his gracious providence in removing the Cholera. At St. Mary's the Rev. Archdeacon Davies preached aa admirable sermon from Dan, iv. 17. i.liQUEST.-On Tuesday last, the 16th instant, an inquest was held at Velindre, in the parish of Glas- bury, Breconsbire, before Lewis Watkins, Esq. one of the coroners for the county, on the body of Rees Price, who was found dead, on the precediug Sunday, on the black Mountain. There were no marks of violence, aud the jury returned a verdict of" Died by the visitation of God." Yesterday se'nniijbt, James Harding and Edward Williams, sentenced at the last Breconshire Assizes to transportation for life, and Morgan Price sentenced al the adjourned Quarter Sessions held on the 12th of March, to seven years transportation, were removed from the county gaol of Brecon to the Hulks at Wool- wich, and Wm. Rees, sentenced at the last Brecon assizes to seven years transportation, was removed to the Penitentiary at Millbank J

FAIRS.—Grosmoni fair, on Monday, was well sup- plied with stock, almost every kind of which met with a ready sale, at good prices; there were some pens of very excelleent fat wethers, many of which were sold at 7! (\, per lb Store sheep were in great demaud, and every lot was eagerly bought up, at high prices.-At Kington, on Wednesday, there was a good show of cattle; fat animals were in request, and steers and stores sold read lv, at ra'her advanced prices. Fat sheep were scarce, and sold at about 7d. per lb.-At Usk great market and Ragland fair, the attendance was small. and the business done but of little account—Pontypool fair on Tuesday, was cmur. ously attended by graziers and dealers. Horned cattle, of which there was a good supply, fetched good prices, Superior horses were eagerly sought for, at advanced prices. but indifferent ones were dull of sale. DEATH OFTHE REV. ROWLAND HILL.-We regret to state that this distinguished and popular preacher expired on Thursday, the 11th instant, in the 89th year of his age, at his own residence, adjoining his chapel, in Little Charlotte srreet, Blackfriars road. London On the Mon- day previous he preached for the last time to an immense congregation,chiefly boys, belonging to the Sunday School Union. The Rev. gentleman was uncle to Lord Hill, the Commander-in-Chief. MONTGOMERYSHIRE BOROUGFISELKCTION.—The former election for these boroughs having been declared void by a Committee of the House of Commons, a new election took place on Tuesday and Wednesday in last week. The candidates were Col. Edwards and Mr. Panton Corbett, and the numbers at the close of the poll were, Colonel Edwards 331; Mr. Corbett 321. COVENTRY ELECTION.—Mr. Ellice having been appointed Secretary at War, a new election has taken place at Coventry, at which place he was opposed by ;Ur,Thomas, a Conservative, and one of Mr. Cobbett's sons. Air- Ellice has been re-elected, though a considerable number of the former supporters of Whig principles have on this occasion supported Mr. Thomas. At the close of the poll, the numbers were, Ellice, 1500; Thomas, 1208 Cobbett, 89. THE REFORMED HOUSE OF COMMONS.—The saying of the wisest of Kings, there is nothing new under the Sun," it is to be feared, is at last found to be incorrect. A magistrate's warrant was lately issued against an honourable gentleman of the reformed House of Com- mons, on a charge of unlawfully pawning a looking-glass which did not belong to him. Before the warrant v.as granted. the case had been twice postponed for the accom- modation of the honourable "representative of the virtue and intelligence of the age," who took the opportunity, when the warrant was granted, of rusticating during the Easter recess. Another new thing under the' Sun. On Monday last, after the presentation of several petitions from the "intelligence and virtue of the age," Mr. Morri- son brought up the report of the committee on the Mudford Poor Bill, the amendments to which were read a second time and ordered to be engrossed. At the commencement of this "reading" ihere were five members in the house, four of whom went out during the reading, and the remain- ing one immediately afterwards. Sir Francis Burdctt in a short time appeared, and presented several petitions, some of them probably masterly arguments, on very important subjects, to a house in which there was not one member to represent "the virtue and intelligence of the age." We could name many honourable candidates who boasted much of their assiduity (in futuro) and some who said that if their conduct was not satlstactory to their consti- tuents, they would resign their seats. Monday night or early on Tuesday morning, the shop of Mr. Townsend, hosier, &c. in Small street, Bristol, was broken into, and a quantity of articles taken therefrom. The thieves made an entrance from an adjoining passage, as there arc marks of two persons having been in the coal hole, and the passage doors being closed, and no person residing upon the premises, it is supposed they pursued their operations at leisure, and after trying several places, they found a partition of lathe and plaister, through which an aperture was made large enough to admit a hov. The thieves succccedcd in conveying away upwards of 701. worth of kerseymere and other goods. DREADFUL ACCIDEN r,-Early ou Sunday morn- ing as a man named Williams was returning from Glou- cester to Monmouth, he discovered a boy about ten or eleven years old lying in the road, at Brierly, about midway between Mitcheldean and Coleford, almost in a lifeless state, with one knee dreadfully smashed, one of his thighs broken, and his head cut. Mr. Williams carefully carried the unfortunate boy to a house atsome distance, and having aroused the inmates, a fire was lighted and some cordials administered to the poor sufferer, who it was discovered was servant to Mr. Morgan, of the Scowles, to whose residence Williams went and stated the accident, and after wards proceeded to Coleford and procured the attendance of Dr. Jennings. All help was, however, unavailing, the unhappy lad lingered till Wednesday night last, when he expired. It appears that on Saturday last, he and a man servant were sent to Gloucester with a wagon for some goods that the man remained in that city, and most repre- heusibly sent the littie boy home with the wagon without j any other attendant. It is supposed, that feeling tired and sleepy, he got upon the shaft, and fell from thence under the wheels. CHURCH REFORM AND THE CORONATION OITH- -Every Moralist knows that the very heathens judged that an oath should be kept, in the sense not only in which it was intended by the swearer, but also in which he knew it must be understood by those to whom and for whose security it was made. And can any man have the effrontery to affirm that the archbishops and clergy, and members in general of the established church, could understand that the King was at liberty to plunder the church and turn its revenues to state purposes, when he solemnly swears—" to the uttermost of his power, to maintain unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? "-British ilagaxine

"SONNET." I Oh! look upon me in my loneliness, Eternal Spirit! for I pour to thee Grief that can find no human sympathy, The sorrowing feelings that my heart oppress I And if their sharpness ever wound me less, 'Tis when in contrite thought I bend the knee Before thy sacred footstool, and confess, And in thyubitter chastisements I see A father'^gracious dealing. Let my prayer Reach thee in Heaven, thy holy dwelling place, That these my sutferings may my soul prepare hw that dread hour when I shall see thy face In all its blaze of glorious light, and soar far from this sinful earth, and feel its grasp no more.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE 4- GUARDIAN .00- MR. EDITOR,—In perusing your valuable paper, a few weeks ago, I saw a letter there under the signature of Nemo, alias, Omen; in which he made some unsparing reflections on the letter of John Elias, on Christian charity, which appeared in your paper the week previous. As no delusion is so dangerous as self delusion, I alll anxious to to trouble you with a few lines, to relate to you, in plain simple terms, the different effects which the perusal of those letters had on me-I hope it will do Nemo good- Let me therefore tell you, that every sentence, as I pro- ceeded in reading the former letter, the mail raised himself higher and higher in the scale of my estimation, till, at last, from the whole, I became convinced, tfiat he well deserved and maintained the high character, in which his .friends in Wales had been invariably atcustomed to look upon him. I could perceive the man and the Christian blended together; the spirit of Christian love, like sweet perfume, rested on every sentence, which afforded the reader delight and satisfaction in the perusal. In fact, John Elias is a man eminently endowed by nature with great and powerful talents, and still more eminently supported by grace, so that he has been peculiarly employed as an instrument in the hand of God, to the conversion of hundreds of souls, who look on his periodical visits amongst them with no common degree of pleasure. But, | alas! alas! when I read rr, Newo's letter, how different were my feelings I could plainly see the man, but not the Christian; I could perceive a feeble, but ineffectual attempt to splutter his gall, and expectorate his bile against the garments of this pious man. As I proceeded with his letter, he sunk lower and lower in my opinion; he became more and more diminished in my sight, till at last, he vanished altogether into thin air, and became as he signifi. cantly termed himself, a Nemo, indeed. Let this ghostly figure never appear a.sain, and he will do well to believe himself to have no existence at all, in character, talent, or writing. There are too many enemies to true religion existing, Mr. Editor, in the world, in the present day, creeping forth out of their disinal dens, in order to frighten the true travellers to Zion. but let Mr. Nemo for ever hide his ghostly head in the impenetrable shades of obscurity, and be contented with the name of his own baptizing—I liite ghosts. But to his other name, Omen, which IS «« Nemo back- ward," as he said I have been puzzling myself to know what he meant by it; I know, that when a ghost appears, it is very ominous; and I would rather at any time see: it going backward, than coming forward; but there is no mystery in the thing after all-he only made a slight mis- take; and 1 wiili to undeceive his fnemls on that subject- what lie meant was, to disprove what John Elias advanced, but the tenor of his letter went to prove the whole and, therefore, at the conclusion, only the letter 0 somehow crept in instead of an A, and instead of Omen, what he meant to say was, Amen, to the letter of this celebrated preacher, and so says your humble servant, Bridgend. AN ENEMY TO GHOSTS.

FOR THE MERTHYR GUARDIAN. THE REVOLUTIONARY PRESS AND ITS IIEA DER S. No. 3. OUR LAWLESS LAWGIVERS, THE POLITICAL UNIONS But a few months have elapsed since we were assured that the grand want of England was a Reformed Parlia ent, To attain this object, the Political Unions long since sprung up; for this alone their dictation was to be endured, as the lesser evil, alternative to losing so great a blessing; and on this ground alone did the boldest of the radical journals dare to defend the existence of such political monstrosities. as mere instruments to an end. to be laid down on the attainment of that end. Behold it fully accomp,istied-a Reformed Parliament! Aud more than that, the prime minister at its head, whose continu- ance at the helm of state was made an equally vital object with that reformation of the Commons itself! Of course now the Unions are no more. The edifice being con. fessedly erected and complete, the unsightly scaffolding is removed. The sooty, sweaty, uproarious parliament at Birmingham, that "carried the Reform Bill, and nothing else," (so said the Times newspaper) surely now will resign its usurped legislative power to that phoenix of a restored and pure Parliament it only existed to foster. No such thing! The very first act attempted by this legitimate one of Westminster,—though the most unA exceptionable one possible,—the protection of life and home from murderous miscreants,—seems to that higher parent Parliament and its perpetual speaker, the banker, an act of presumption. Earl Grey has dared to act alone -no longer in correspondence with prime minister (de facto) Attwood. Up starts the Birmingham Union to denounce its own creation, and the very man it thrust back upon the Monarch, and reinstated in the premiership, by demonstrations confessed by a Lord Chancellor, their friend, to constitute "overt acts of treason." Earl Grey, confessing the supremacy"of Attwood aud Co. and exalting them above the constitution itself, was the pink of minis- ters; but the moment he goes over to the elienly-tliat is to say- forsakes the standard of force, intimidation, agita- tion, and mob-sovereignty, to uphold the almost lost cause of law and order-quick, presto—the heaven born minis- ter becomes the diabolical tyrant !-the pure, the all- desired House of Commons is no better than his gang of executioners!—and thus is the common sense of a great people to be insulted by the presumptuous folly of a single town, most remarkable for dirt and treason Rabelais, it may be remembered, tells us how the two great giants, Garagantua and Pantagruel triumphed over many enemies. Now their mode of alliance and concert was this; Garagantua took Pantagruel by the legs and used him after the fashion of a club, or rather flail, and thus they together slew all their foes. But this done, the giant active threw the giant passive across a ditch, and he too had his single triumph, and boasted his list of killed— for he fell upon two ducks and an old cat. Garagantua was not wrath at this last great victory (that ever 1 heard) of his quondam brother-warrior. Not so our less reason. able giant, Attwood—he grudges his former friend, by whose instrumentality he coerced the King, packed the peers, vanquished their hundreds of Tory foes, and carried Reform, the poor triumph of but coercing barbarians, staying the march of murder at noonday, and executing the behest of law. The parallel will not seem wholly unfit to those who recollect the manner in which the premier, when he fell (before the indomitable spirit of the Peers and the no less noble resistance of his King to the bold, base sacrilege against the ark of the constitution demanded at his royal hands) was snatched up, Pantagruel fashion, by the Unions, swung in the face of the Monarch, buffet- ing every Tory head, and securing the triumph of Mr. Something Attwood, alias "The People and who now see the unceremonious manner in which poor Pantagruel Grey is sent to Coventry" by that great plurality of man -in other words, thrown over the ditch." Who can object? Though Birmingham and Grey might, "with unbounded applause" of-the thoughtless, supersede the estates of the realm, force laws on the makers of laws, and put down the highest but one of those estates, and coerce the King himself; were Grey and England thence to pre- sume to put down Irish bandits, uphold the laws to guard human life, and coerce King O'Connell? That were an insolence indeed to rouse the patriot blood of all the Political Unions, and it has roused for in the sad fate of the Dublin Volunteers (to view the brave white boys and themselves prostrate before the laws, under the foot of their hoped ally) they clearly enough foresee their own. Seeing then that these bodies, these Unions, which rose on the pretext of ensuring to us an independent legislature, now assume to be (virtually) their proper selves that legislature, and degrade the prime minister into a mere agent and dependent on them, let as take a straight-forward view of these lawless democracies, long since denounced yet still existing. My common sense must utterly have forsaken me if I cannot demonstrate, by merely setting in juxta positions the monstrous character of the connection between Reform and the Unions. During two long years, agitation has been at its height in England, to the ruin of trade, the great injury of our credit; the suspension of all legislative duties, or nearly so; the extreme misery of the famisbiug poor, whose appeals have been wholly unattended to; in short, to the confusion, misery and peril of the empire. What was the object so desperately pursued, so dearly purchased? A purified House of Representatives. To secure to us law. givers really elected according to the letter of the constitu- tion, picked, tried, independent, uninfluenced, clearly responsible men (excluding all but such), this was the object; one sufficiently defined-a clear reformer's creed and it establishes the principle (whether right or wrong) as the very cssence of Reform, that such a character in every lawgiver is demanded for the very salvation of the country for has not that very salvation been risked to attain it ? And through these two stormy years has progressed, aequo passu with reform, another systcm-that of Political Unions, that is to say, the system of self-elcttted, untried, furious incompetent, wholly irresponsible men, coercing by demon* strations of numbers, of brute force, our recognised legil-li" ture thus becoming, to all intents and purposes, the real arbiters of our fate, the primi motores of the machine of government. Is it not notorious that these bodies consist of every one and any one who may be pleased to leave hi* calling, strut in a procession, carry a flag and rant politics • Arc they not, in the mass, warped with conceit and passion, soured by distress, by ignorance, and by that savagecess of discontent equally, the most helplessly dependent being* in the world—mere prev, bodies and minds, to their own passions, and rash judgments, and every artful demagogue ? Now, in the world's great catalogue of human extrava- gances, I ask, is there on record a mad inconsistency more striking than this—that the very same party, the Reform party, upholds both these systems, these pretty antitheses of human pursuits? These gregarious dupes, these out- pourings of Birmingham, free to become Unionists, and to cpase to be, without a question why, or as to what they have done, what laws they have been plesed to impose on us- are not tbese dregs of the dregs of society-thesc least peaceable of the least, taught, exquisite specimens of that pure and beautifully perfect legislator, you insist on alone permitting to enter St. Stephen's, most wise and consistent ultra-reformers ? When the Times Editor, that mighty stickler for the purity of England's legislative body, dared to hoast that a body unknown to her laws, composed of such materials, "carried the Reform Bill," the most perilous of measures, and most influential to all classes of any ever carried, wh;f0j»-as in effect that boast? England, indignant that she s^cmld submit to laws enacted by men not duly elected by herself, will no longer endure even one such character in the Honourable House and to prevent it, has sent one hundred and fifty thousand such to make her laws and carry them on the outside A most logical ground of triumph certainly Why what is this but inviting a whole banditti to come and keep watch and ward in my house against a man who, I shrewdly suspect, has some design on the henroost? It is curiout to imagine what would be the astonishment of a Chatham, or any statesman of former better days, if risen from his grave to witness this spectacle of the igovcmment of a fine and ancient empire tolerating and fearing bodies of men wholly alien to its constitutions, as much unknown to its provisions as hands of foreign invaders. But we may surely predict that his astonishment would rise to tenfold degree, could he h acquainted that the Press—the Prests that boasts of guiding the public mind aright!—the Press itself has approved, has flattered, h as proclaimed neccssary, those nondescript human herds—has recognised the ingane tenet, that every act of our legislature is to be submitted to this mock legislature—that is-to be considered dependent for enforcement on the will and pleasure of such assem. blages! "The Unions are up." The Unions reinstated Lord Grey in office." It was the Birmingham Union that carried the Reform Bill, and nothing else." Such lan- guage meeting the ghostly eye of our imagined resurrection of a statesman, in the columns of our patriotic journals, would acquaint him with our new astounding patriot creed, namely, that this multitude, of our great towns-scum and dregs and ail-barbers. tinkers, tailors—all that love a row, need only" turn out in numbers noisy and great enough to threaten the government and endanger the peace, to become the supreme tribunal before which even the acts of the Parliament itself are to be tried The office modestly assumed by these mobbing legislators from the forge and loom, and conceded to their wisdoms by their friends of the Press, is-to watch the proceedings of the new House of Commons. This office implies the power and design to coerce, of course; the mice are not to be supposed set to mount guard over the cat, but vice versa. I pretend to bring nothing to the discussion of politics but some reading and cr oamon sense. This latter immediately prompts the question, H but who is to watch the watchers- these Unions?" The answer is—"None!" To be supe- rior to such surveillance, to be omnipotent, is the very cssence of their characer. To some silly souls then, quite behind the age," not able to keep up with the double quick time march of intellect, it might seem as well to quietly trust the old fashioned estates of our constitution themselves, and await the awards of some six hundred and odd gentlemen interested in our salvation, and educated to devise the best means of effecting it and that of all the stupendous interests of this kingdom, as to trust to the masses of nobody knows who, claiming that superior trust, God knows why; and for the most part confoundedly deeply interested in our ruin—inasmuch as they are, for the most part (to venture a round truth) needy, desperate. greedy, poor rascals. I know that many a hot.headed thriving shopkeeper, or what not, may be in the ranks of many a Political Union; but if any oue impugn my asser- tion as a general one, let him lay his hand on his heart and answer me this: should he need a servant, an agent, » trustee, which would he prefer of two characters, the man he found by his own fireside, or in his honest calling, or him he should find gaping to catch all the eloquence and all the fire of some spouter in a wagon stuck with banners, in short, a Political Unionist, shouting, Down with the Peers or, Lotus march to Hampstead Heath or, giving three manly groans for a virtuous, blameless. Queen of England ? If he will answer me, that he would prefer the politician in his "fine phrenzy," I have only to wish him joy of his excellent choice but advise, in charity, that he will not chuse such an one for his heir, at least, if he wish bis days to be long in the land." (To be continued.)