The Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette and Merthyr Guardian

MAR V LE BON E~ SEIZURE OF GOODS FOR ASSF.SED TAXES, SUBSEQUENT RECOVERY OF THEM BY THE MOD, AND DESTRUC- TION OF TilE VAN. OU Thursday morning, about half-past nine o'clock, a van was seen to drive up to the door of the Mechanics' Institution, Circus-street, New road. of which a Mr. Sav- age is the proprietor It soon became known that the persons who came with the vehicle were a Sheriff s officer named Kemp, and his men, who, in execution of an Exchequer writ, were about to make a seizure on the premises for assessed taxes, amounting to £ 33 2s. 9J. The Officer and his ['arty having entered the house with- out opposition, tliey couveveo away a sma, tames, chairs, and gther household furniture, and they deposited them safely in the van which they had brought with them for the purpose. A great crowd of people soon assembled, who gave vent to their feelings of indignation at the pro- ceedings adopted. The van, however, drove oil with the goods amidst the defending hisses and shouts of the cruwd. 011 arriving at the corner of Baker street, the crowd being considerably augmented, a woman, who ap- peared to possess the most masculine courage, boldly stepped out from the throng, and, seizing the horses' heads, turned the van towards the Institution. The crowd, ani- mated by her example,now took courage, ami, surrounding the van, took the horse out, and drew it in triumph back to Mr. Savage's,shouting, as they went along, '• No assessed taxes." The Snerift and his men having made their escape, the mob proceeded, without molestation, to unpack the goods, which they deposited safely again in )1r Savage's house. At this period the populace next turned their attelition to the empty van, and a cry was instantly set up, ••Break it to pieces." The work of demolition then com- menced, and 10 a. short space of time the vehicle was broken to pieces, with hammers and sticks, n spite of the efforts of the police to prevent it. About the same time a leizure was made at the house of Mr. Brown, picture- dealer, &c.» No. 128, Crawford-street, (who is a member of the institution.) for assessed taxes, amounting to 121. 12;. 8d. when goods toouble that amount were carried a vay by the Sheriffs officer and his subordinates, who refused to give any inventory of what they had taken, or to stare where they intended to deposit them. At this place, the broker, Mr. Alklns, of No. 139, St. John -street, was saluted with I execrations by some hundreds of persons who had as- CXC sembled, on the object of the visit being made known. The piopcity seized was thrust with all possible expcdi tion into the van, without any regard whatever being paid to the safe conveyance of the paintings, some of which weie very choice and valuable, and which, no doubt, must have sustained considerable injury in the removal. At two o lock a meeting was held in the large room at Mrs. SavMge t., upon the subject of the above seizure, and the place was greatly crowded. Some strong comments were made on the conduct of the present ministry, and the speakers concluded by exhorting their hearers to act peace- ably, hut urinly, and their object would be accomplished. Later in the afternoon a strong detachment of the police, under the direction of Mr. Mayne, one of the Police Com- missioner s, assembled at the neighbouring station-house where also Mr. Sheriff Harmer and his deputy attended, and had an interview with Mr. Savage, who (as we are I informed) piouiised that the goods seized, and which had been rescued by the mob, should be forthwith restored to the custody ot the Saeriff's officers.

ACQUITTAL OF T.C.SAVORY.—At the Old Bailey on Monday, Thomas Cox Savory was tried before 31r. Baron Vaughan, on a charge of exposing to sale piate and silver spoous with the mark of the leopard's head, purporting to be that of the Goldsmith's Company, knowing it to be forged. A second count charged him with selling articles of plate with the King's head on, knowing, &e. Mr. Alley appeared on the part of the prosecution, and Sir James Scarlett was specially retained for the defence. The Warden of the Com- pany proved the purchase of plate at Mr. Savory's shop, the marks on which were forged. Subsequently about thirty ounces of plate with forged marks were seized at the shop, but the other plate (upwards of 650 ounces) bad the legal marks. The defence was, that the plate with forged marks was sold during Mr. Savory's absence at Hastings, and that he was not aware that goods with a forged mark were sold at his shop-in fact, that he was quite ignorant both of the forgery and sale. The evidence for the prisoner went to show that the marks were forged by a man named Treen (who has been tried and acquitted on that charge) and that as this man worked for Mr. Suvory, he had an opportunity of disposing ot goods to him with forged marks, wich were so well executed, that they might have deceived any one. Several respect. able witnesses were called to character; and more were about to appear, when the Jury said it was un- necessary as their minds were made up. Mr. Baron vaughau,'in his summing up, observed that there was a total absence of any proof of a guilty knowledge on the part of the defendant; though at the same time he was of opinion that the prosecution had been properly instituted. the Jury, without retiring, pronounced a verdict of not guilty. Mr. Alley said that there was a second indictment against the defendant, but after the full investigation which had just terminated, he should not think of pressing it. The trial occupied from ten o'clock in the morning until five, and the court was crowded to excess during the whole of the proceedings. BURGLARS IN HIGH Lirc.-We find the fol- low ng in the newspapers of Friday We regret to hear that Ashburnham-house, the residence of the Russian Embassy, was broken open the night before last, when a cabinet belonging to Prince Paul Leiven was wrenched open, and Bank notes and cash to up- wards of 1501. in value were stolen. Information was given at Marlborough-street Office, when Goddard and Seofield, two active officers, were sent to enquire into the circumstances under which the robbery was committed, and ire refrain, for the present, noticing anyfurther the particulars of suspicion attending it." We know nothing about this; but we do know that several of his Majesty's Ministers have dined with Prince Lieven twice during the wec-k. We name no names-but really, in these days, when a cabinet is palled to pieces for the sake of getting whatever is to be got, it is impossible not to have one's doubts.— John Bull.

-iIn "1.. J).-1!lH:j Some of our contemporaries have fallen into the surprising error of supposing that this excellent Institution, so honourable to the Principality, and so highly conducive to the provision of learned a n(i devout ministers for the Church, has fallen into j difficulties." The best refutation of such an error, the most decided proof of attachment which the gen- tlemenot Wales feel to an Establishment which does honour to the Principality, is found in the following letter Irom the learned Principal of the College, the Rev. Dr. Lewellin, to our contemporary the < 7narthen Journal. We consider the abatement of charge, by which the College have rendered the advantages of academical studies more accessible, highly judicious as well as liberal. "TO TTIF, EDITUR OF THE CARMARTHEN JOURNAL. r,l—A^ paragraph appeared in your paper of last week, and in the Cambriayi ot the preceding week, in which it was stated that Lampeter College had fallen into difficulties.71 I beg to assure the writer of the paragraph that we are fully sensible of his good intentions and his kind feeling towards the Coll ege, and we are no less s. usible of your kindness in inserting it but a knowledge of the word being liable to misconstruction (and that it has been misconstrued [ have aniplg proof in a host of letters on the subject from private friends), is the reason why I have been induced to appear, for the first time in my life, in a character so uncon- genial with Illy fastes and habits and which nothing but a sense of dnty to myself and to the estab ishment to which I belong, could have overcome my reluctance to assume. I am quite sure from the tone of the paragraph that the writer of it intended to refer merely to those difficul- ties, the existence of which the Vice-Principal has throughout the whole of his correspondence with our as- sailants admitted and deplored '• difficulties" arising from our want of specific funds for rewarding with exhibitions and Scholarships such of our pupils as by their talents and industry entitle themselves to such distinctions; and to some or whom, from the inadequacy of their means, such rewards would be of essential se. vicc. But if the word be understood, (as many, I have reason to know, have understood it ) in its usual accepta- tion, and in the sense in which, I believe, it is generally taken, that is to say, I I)ei I)Iexity in affairs,' I beg leave most distinctly and unequivocally to deny that such is the case. On the contrary, the College, so far from having fallen into difficulties of tin, t nature, is in a prosperous con- (iition and I see no reason to fear but that we shall be ahle to conduct our arrangements for the future on the same scale as heretofore, i his term has brought an accession of no fewer than ten new men, rather a practical commentary, you will admit, on Sinking' establishments. I avail myself of ibis opportunity to announce thus pub- licly the adoption of a measure of relief and benefit to our pupils, which we have for some time h"d in contemplation and which, from the operation of causes which I need not any further explain, I rejoice to say we feel ourselves in a condition forthwith to carry into effect. Let it not be sup- posed to be a concession to clamour, nor to the uninanlv anonymous abuse of men hostile to the College, and evidently anxious for its downfal; but the effect of a con- viction in our own minds that the circumstances of the country require this sacrifice, with which, with a sinole eye to the good of the lnstitntiou, and to the objects for the promotion of which the College was established, that is to say, to afford on easy and unexpensive access to the advantages of a College education, suited to the wants and intended to fall within the means of the country, we can- not but cheerfully comply. Instead then of twentv pounds per annum being charged towards the tuition fund, we intend that, for the futuie, the charge shall be twelve guineas. Your re-i lers will, I trust, pardon my extravagant vanity, if I presume to consider tnis sum as not too magnificent for a tripartite division among our Profes ois. The total in College expenditure will, after this proposed reduction, amount to about 451. per anunm. Let those who have experience in such mat- ters, the parents of those of your readers who have enjoyed a classical education, testity how much below that sum would be sufficient to meet the necessary expenses of many of the most respectable Grammar Schools, which Wales can boa-t of. I will only add that when I consider the amount of subscriptions alreatly promised for the purpose of establish- ing Exhibitions and Scholarships, to the value of 1S00/ I cannot yet persuade myself that I am connected with a Co Sinking e tablishment. 0 I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, L.LKWELLY.N LEWELI.IN, D.C.L. Principal. St. David's College, Oct. 22, 1S33. I

BUOXA PARTE AND THE WHiGS. ———-<Bt-——— It is a curious speculation, now that the event is over, what would have been the fate of England if Napoleon, with olla hUlldl'ed and fift)' thousi.llId we'J, had, in consequence of the success of these combina- tions, lauded on the shores of Sussex. We are now compelled, with shame and sorrow, to abandon the doctrine which. till the last three years, we he'd on this subject. We are decidedly sf opinion, that he would have achieved the overthrow of the British Empire. Not that the mere force of Napoleon's army, great as it was, could have in the end subjugated the descendants of the conquerors of Cressy and Azin- cour. The examples of Vimiera, Maida, Alexandria, Corunna, and Waterloo, where English troops who had never seen a shot fired in anger, at once defeated the veterans of Franc. even when commanded by the ablest officers, is sutficient to prove the reverse, Engand was invincible if she remained faithful to herself. But would she have remained faithful to her- -if? That is the question. The events of the last three years have awakened us to the mournful convic- tion that she would not. It is now proved by sad ex- perience, that we possess within ourselves a numerous powerful and energetic faction, iiisatiable in ambition, dne^tingUis|)ab!e in resources, deaf to every call of patriotism, dead to every feeling of hereditary glory. lo them national triumph is an object of regret, be- cause it was achieved under the banners of their opponents; national humiliation an object of indiffer- ence, provided they are elevated by it to the reins of power. With burning hearts and longing eyes they watched the career of the French Revolution, ever eulogizing its principles, pallitating its ex- cesses, vituperating its adversaries. Mr. pronounced in Parliament the Constitution framed by the Cunstituent Assembly, to be the most as- tonishing fabric of wisdom and virtue which pa- triotism had reared in any age or country, on the ruins of ignorance and superstition.' And when this as- tonishing fabric produced Danton and llobespierre, and hatched the Reign of Terror, he showed no dis- position to retract the opinion. Two hundred and tifty thousand Irishmen, we are told'by Wolfe Tone, were united, drilled, regimented, and organised, to effect the separation of Ireland from Great Britain; and if we may believe Mr. Moore in his life of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Mr. Fox was no stranger to their treasonable intentions at the very time when he earnestly supported their demand for Parliamentary Reform. During the last three years we have seen this party systematically undo every thing which their predecessors had effected during half a century of unexampled glory, abandon, one by one, till the objects of our continental policy, the Dutch barrier, the protection of Portugal, the independence of Hol- land, the integrity of Turkey; unite the leopard and the tricolour in an inglorious crusade against the in- dependeace of the surrounding States; beat down Holland by open force, and subvert Portugal by fe-igtied neutrality and real hostility; force the des- pots of Northern Europe into a dangerous defensive combination, and unite the arms of constitutional freedom with those of democratic ambition in the south aud to gain a deceitful popularity for a few years sacrificed the Constitution which had lor two hundred years conferred unexampled pros- perity on their country. The men who could do these things, were not the men who could have beeu relied on in a contest with Napoleon. They were proof against his warlike hosiility, but not aga:nst his specious professions and treacherous promises and least of all, "gainst thierown selfish ambition.' Napoleon has told us, in his Memoirs, how he pro posed to have subjugated England he would have overcome it as he overcame Switzerland, Venice, and all the States which did not meet hitn with uncompro- mising hostility. He would instantly, and landhitr have published a proclamation, in which he declared that he came to deliver the English from the Oligarchy under which they had groaned for three centuries and for this end he would have promised annual par- liaments, universal suffrage, vote by ballot, the con- fiscation of the Church property, the abolition of the corn laws, and all the objects of Whig or Radical ambition. By these offers he would have thrown the apple of eternal discord and division into Great Bri tain. The Republican transports which broke out with such vehemence on the announcement of the Reform Bi'l in ISaI, would have been instantly heard on the lauding of the tricolour-flag on the throne of England and the divisions now so irrecoverably established amongst us, would have at once arisen in presence ofa gigantic and enterprising enemy. There can be little doubt, we fear, what a large portion of the Movement party in England, and the whole of it in Ireland, would have done. They would, heart and hand, have joined the enemy of their country, estab- lished a Republic iu close alliance with France and directed the whole lesourcesof England to support the cause of democracy all over the world. Mean- while, Napoleon, little solicitous about their political dogmas, would have steadily fixed his iron grasp ou the great warlike establishments of the country Portsmouth, Plymouth, Woolwich, Chatham, Sheer- uess, Peptford, and Carron, would have fallen into II » f¡- 'band; die army would have Oeen t xreti ur itishaoded if his new democratical allies proved at all troublesome tn the House of Commons, he would have dispersed ham with as little ceremony, by a file of grenadiers, as he did the Council of Five Hundred in the O.-augery of St. Cloud. It is with pain and humiliation that we make this confession. Five years ago we should have held any "J3'! a foul libeller ou the English character who *>uou!d have declared such conduct as probable in any part of the English Opposition; and we should have relied with as much confidence on the whole Liberal party to resist the aggressions of France, as we should Ou tiie warmest adherents of Government. It is their 0-it conduct since they came into power which has undeceived its, and opened our eyes to the immensity of the danger to which the country was exposed, when her firm patriots at the helm nailed her colours to the niast.- Ilia chwood's Magazine.

RETROSPECTIVE LITERATUUE.—NO. 3. THE ANCIENT NFNVSPAPEII. Dr. Johnson has somewhere recorded ins respect for newspapers. He says, that he never took one into his baud without finning something he would not have missed wnhom regret-nor laid it down without consciousness of some instruction as well as delight." This from the great J61kiisoii is no mean tribute to the value of those import- ant though ephemeral works, which everybody reads today nobody tÙllIorro\ ble,t work that not even critics criticise!" But though a last week's Newspaper be a despised thing, there is a degree of age that redeems its interest, (to me at least) and a last century's Newspaper is a feast for a retruspective reader. We may resemble them .0 a female beauty who grows truly "stale, flat, and uu- proiitable" at the age of 15, recovers our respect at 75, and grows completely interesting again at 95. Let wha wllltae new news—give me old news! that paradoxical treasure—some Newspaper that hath lain 70 or 100 years among old and dusty parchments, till it is grown yellow as the autumn leaí-yea. as the mummy features (could we peep into the family vault) of some blooming toast of its date—paragraphed and idolized in it coiiiums How solemn is it to think of the eagerness with which hands- whose very dust is gone," seized and spread that heavy- typed blackish-lookiiig sheet, then wet from the I ".Css,- for perusal and then to peruse ourselves—by our loue selves, some winter night while the cricket chirps in a house without another sound, and a clock is tolling one," those then exciting paragraphs, that ucwa then of real fearful interest, now as unreal as a talry iuie and as uninteresting as an ill-written one, except to the idly curious antiquary What scriiioLi-wilat catastrophe can s¡,edk more tuuchingly to the heart, to the mind, of the vacuity of human pursuits, than the announcement, for instance, of some Brilliant Festival" promised in one of those once gay aud flattering, though now sad and solemn pictures of human hfe < Accustomed as we all are to regard these light pa^es as the tre»h impress of the very liay that is fluting past, the form and pressure of the times that be, the mind per- petually forgets the lontjjm ititeivalluin that has cut us off, sees the happy coupie" just begin the "honey moon" he bridegroom enjoying the brave wedding portion," which the old Newspaper never faded to precisely specify to all the worid—shares the anxiety of the family 01 some sufferer by a dreadful accident"—yet all the while lurks, a half consciousness of what it forgets, and ever and anon rushes back the whole grim reality the age-the generations that have rolled over the bhss and the suf- lering, rolled with all their ruin, dust, dark, ana utter obliteration — Festival of heart, and festival of folly- honey moon and masquerade, all fade and vanish into that not. which is, or is to soon be the lot of all things and all feelings beneath the throne itself of God, and the sensations of the life unknown. A reader of an ancient Newspaper (for the date of their existence now ranks them witn antiques) shares in some degree the tine melancholic pleasure ot a thoughtful wan- derer in the exhumed streets of Herculaneum or Pompeii. Iheiethe trader's name over his door still set forth as if to invite Custool-the apothecary's pills which were found in preparation, half moulded, half iu mass, the olives pre- paied for a Roman palate—all forcibly drasv back thought through seventeen centuries, till the city traffic seems ac- t "ittly only suspended, nut at an end-tile city at all end- yet, continually the dumbness, the deadly solitude, the piled ruiui of the lava, of its broken open grave, resist the uelusiun. Between past and present, revelry and rottenness, in like manner, the mind vacillates awtu. ly, as in a sleep of fever while musing over those oid records, whose whole busy motley uaroir.anic picture of life's Joj, lime has rolled with as deep, as reidess, as blotting, and petrifying a wave, and sealed in as eternal a tomb, as has over that reallifethe river of lava. •Yellow, rude-typed,—.vith letters much crowded from their thickness, giving a black letter look to the pages of quarto size, with considerable explicitness, informing ItS readers what capitals belong to what kingdoms, as thus: Berlin (Prussia)" one of these old Journals lies before me. Shall I read its Cui bono? Ye1 let us disport ourselves with mortality Here I read The young and lovely heiress of the noble house of has just been led to the hymeneal ",l..u- by What matters whom.' We know too well the whole; time has told us all the Editor could not—we know that another and far other rite has been long long since performed over that 11 happy p"ir" -not III that church above ground, not with bells ringing, tenants merry-making, the sun shining, and white favours floating like lillies in its noon light, but down by torches under the hollow stones of that aisle she walked up beautifully in her satin and among the damps and the dismal ticking of drops of slime on the lids of coffins amid the horrors of the foal vault and piles of dead men's bones- After the cc:'e- mony," 1 read that "they set off for" wherever to, we know that one they little thought of then, mounted oil his pale horse, was invisibly behind them all the way, to soon bring them back to that place of God and a scull -whose very burial ground looked gay with the concourse of gazers at the grand wedding, that May morning! We know where to find them after all their travel—perhaps to- gethcr-Just by dust coffin on coirli-perliaps far apart, and further still divided by hatred before death; but whichever and wlierever-still dnst! The lover possesses his angelic idol, a grinning sktlll-Lhe heiress her inherit- alAceLa vault, a coffin, and a sheet of lead. Ah Wnat is this glorious news from the seat of war in enormous letters ? It crowds two columns with dispatches ■—it stirs one's old iinglish heart, for a moment, even yet- what country, what hero? Truly a question worth asking, when that country whichever it be—aas been the -1 seat of some score of" wars" since then—that triumph has been reversed in many a fight the doings of the then ascendant party have been undone so long, t..at they are become as the memory of a dream—as the wonaerous revolution wrought on the face of nature by a night's sudden haze and fusli of cutting wind frost, which presents to the waking eye a new world clothed in flocculent down as of tne swan s breast, and rattling, armed in a panoply of diamond, every giant tree, and sheathed in crystal every blade of grass- as that great beautiful change, which a few hours and the climbing sun wilt show to have changed nothing! the old winter world reappearing through its weeping evamsh- inent. This melancholy event has plunged in inconsolable grief"- -no one. The pathos too is perishable as the pride and the interest That event is no longer melan- tholy the mourners have long ceased to mourn The sufferer hath found such companionship in that" eveut" that he is no more pitiable than every man born—the whole human family on the globe have shared ins fate. The happiest of Ihehappy then alive have long been made even as lie.-Deatli, the great equalizer has alike dashed all smiles from ail lips-all tears from all eyes-of that gen- eration, for ever. Another startling announcement "It is now certain that the vast army of the French Monarch is on the march towards"-wbat kingdom ? I forgot to look what kingdom. This was a Napoleon of old-another uni- versal Empire-bugbear to a world Let him march. We know that a grander Monarque than he has long since commenced Ins march, without a foot-fall, iu t.tc deep dust of empires with his army of worms. Time the great spoiler, has made spoil of his empire and him. We know that he and his whole host of hireling murderers are now and long have been (by God's mercy) less potent to make mischief than the poorest single rOLJ- ber stealing forth to despoil a hen roost, aud surprise a few fowls asleep His dreaded universal empire" is shrunk into a few feet of earth. The obscurest hie jacet over ui village grave, more truly glorious than his bloody memory- Enough then, of thy silent solemn eloquence, thou heart withering moralist, long departed editor of the mildewed page before me, mine ancient Newspaper Fancy sees the ghost of a departed world Hit by, In that page, teebly enacting the fierce part it acted in life Oil its brief voyage of a few revolutions of this globe. Tne triumphs alli the tramplings of conquests, and the terrors of conquerors, the fears of millions that hung upon their wile "eitt)uut"-ti, c rise and the overthrow of thrones and dynasties—the tears that flowed, and the hearts that leaped tor the sorrows and the hopes of a single pulse of time's eternal SysLeiii-liel-e they are all and here is their sepulchre We laugh at their Iittleness,shudder at the foulness, wonder at the dim- med splendour of them. I could imagine, while 1 look into this small time-stained sheet, that) pass into some grand but mouldering tomb where vast labour and sculpture demand reverence for its enshrined contents. But time having broken into it with his ponderous tread, I peep within, and behold I cannot distinguish the ancient hero, or bring its tenant from the black dust of his coffin I fold it with us da,up and worms, and inscribe Hie jacet. Builth D.

TRUE TimE.-i-lle Ijords of tile Admiralty ha\e given notice that, for the diffusion of correct know- ledge as to time, a ball will henceforward be dropped every day, from the top of a pole on the eastern turret of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, at the moment of one o'clock, P.M., mean solar time. By observing the first instant of its downward movement, all vessels in the adjacent Reaches in the river, as well as in most of the docks, will hereby have an opportunity of regulating and rating their chronometers. The ball will be hoisted half- way up the pole at five minutes before one o'clock, as a preparatory signal and close up at two tnin- utes before one,

FASUlUNABLES, &c. PRINCE GEORGE OF CUMBERLAND.—A private letter arrived in town from his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, we rejoice to state, holds out some prospect of the restoration of the sight of Prince George. His medical attendant had reported to his Royal Highness that the applications he had made to the eyes of the young Prince were operating to the extent of his most favourable expectations, and he w.as far from being without hope, that eventu- ally a cure might be effected. CREATION OF NEW t-EERS.-Aniong several other persons of distinction, the Earl of Dunraven, and C. K. K. Tynte, Esq. M. P. are mentioned as likely to be raised very shortly to the Peerage. EARL OR NO EARL !-fhe Observer" says the claim of Earl Fitzwilliani to the title and estates of his father is likely to be disputed. It is said that sus. picions have long been entertained upon the subject.

APOTHECARIES' HALL. Names of gentlemen to whom the Court of Exami- ners granted certificates of qualification onThursday last George Allarton, Birmingham. John llurdon, Highampton. John Foote Coad, Plyitipton. John Coley, Bridgenorth. James George Davey, Portsea. Edward Evans, Cardiff John King Eager, Guilford. Henry Harris, Redruth. William Howitt, Lancaster. Herny James Player, Loughor.. /;», Oliver Sprigge, Brockley. William Wood Wiseman, Wakefield. We are happy to observe in the above list the name of Air. Edward Evans, who will follow the profossion, we doubt not with the full possession of the skill and ability also, of his excellent father, Mr. Evans of Cardiff. .&

C'A RDIFF ROYAL EISTEDDFOD. TO THE ErHTOR OF THE GAZETTE AND GUARD/AN. SIK,—1 read, with infinite pleasure, in your paper of the 26th inst., the amount of subscriptions already promised, and I am persuaded that the grand total will be above, rather than under,a Thousand Founds.' The patriotic and liberal spirit which has been evinced since the announcement of the Eisteddfod, reflects the highest credit on The Men of Gwent and Dyfed" who have stepped forward to promote the cause of the Literature, Poetry, and Music of Cambria, as readily as their forefathers stood forth in defence of her Liberty. Perhaps it will not be uninteresting to your readers, to be informed, what Bardic Festivals have been held since their revival in 1820, when an Eisteddfod was held at Wrexham (in Powis), Sir W.W. Wynn, Bart. M.P., President. In 1821, a meeting was held at Carnarvon (in Gwy- neddi, the Marquis of Anglesey, President. In 1822 an Eisteddfod took place in London, under the special patronage of King George the IVth.; Sir W. W. Wynn, presided another meeting Was held in the same year, at Brecon (in Gwent), Sir Charles Morgan, Bart. President. In 1823 Lord Dynevor presided at an Eisteddfod held in London, also at another which took place at Carmarthen (in Dyfed), being the second held within a few years in that town. In 1824 Lord Kenyon presided at a meeting held in London, and Lord Clive at a very grand festi- val which took place at Welshpool (in Powis); his Lordship and Lady Lucy Clive, gave a most splen- did fete in Powis Castle on that occasion. In 1825 Lord Clive presided at the London festival, also at the meeting in 1826; and Lord Rodney took the chair at Brecon, where a Grand Eisteddfod was held in the autumn of the same year. in 1827 the Hon. George Rice Trevor presided at the London Eistedd- fod; and in 1828 Sir Edward Mostyn, of Talacre, was the President of a very splendid festival, which took place at Denbigh (in Gwynedd) which was honoured with the presence of His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex. In 1829 an Eisteddfod was held in London, Lord Clive presiding, and another in 1831, at which the Hon. G. Rice Trevor, took the Chair. In 1832, a very grand Eisteddfod was held at Beaumaris, (in Mona) President, Sir Rd. Williams Bulkeley, Bart. M. P. wiitch,was honoured with the presence of their Royal Highnesses, the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria, who invested the successful candidates with the various badges of merit, and presented each with a Royal medal, exe- cuted expressly for the occasion by Mr. D. Ellis, medalist to the Royal Cambrian Institution, London. In the present year, a meeting took place in London, Lord Kenyon presiding, an excellent report of which appeared in the GAZETTE AND GUARDIAN, from which, in a great measure, emanated the contem- plated Royal Eisteddfod at Cardiff, which I doubt not will be equal, if not superior, in point of splen- dour and interest to any which have taken place. With the exception of the meetings at Carmar- then and Carnarvon, I have had the honour of con- ducting the whole and I am happy to say, that the cordial and friendly co-operation of my countrymen who composed the various committees, has always rendered ths responsible and anxious duty a plea- surable one to me and from the kind manner in which I was received at Cardiff, during my late visit there, I fully anticipate the best support, which an ardent desire to promote the laudable cause in which we have embarked, can prompt; and while the Cymru thus so nobly uphold the customs of their forefathers, the prophetic englyn of Taliesin, re- I I liL rifi specting our venerable language, will be verified and which has been thus beautifully expressed by Mrs. Hemans, in a song, published in the first volume of the Welsh Melodies A voice from time departed yet floats thy hills among, <<,pambria thus thy prophet bard, thy Taliesin sung. Ihe path of unborn ages is traced upon my soul The clouds that mantle things unseen away before me roll. A light, the depths revealing, hath o'er my spirit pass'd, rushing sound, from days to be, swells fitful in the blast, And tells me that for ever shall live the lofty Tongue 0 which the Harp of Mona's woods, by Freedom's hand, was strung." I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, JOHN PARRY. London, Oct. 28, 1833.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE AND GUARDIAN. ^R>hen so many important Tram and Rail- roads are in contemplation, even in our own imme- diate neighbourhood, it may not be amiss to direct the attention of all parties interested, but more particu- larly the landed proprietors, to a right claimed by the Monmouthshire Canal and Tram-road Company -that of preventing the occuptet of land, situated on. both sides oftheirroad, crossing it from one portion to the other without leave first obtained, or a consider- ation paidfor doing so. To explain the effect of establishing such a claim, it is only necessary to remark, a Tram or Rail-road being made under the sanction of an Act of Parlia- ment, the Company forming it are at liberty to go through any lands they may require, nor can any indi- vidual successfullyprevent his property being divided by a line of road, said to be for public advantage and arcommodatio.i. A quarry may be situated on one side of the road, and the building at which the stones may be used on the other—can it be believed that the Legislature ever contemplated your being pre- vented crossing the road from your own quarry to your own building, without permission of the road Company? When a farm is divided by such road, your barns on one side, and the fields of corn on the other, is it reasonable that you cannot cross the road with corn to your barns without leave ? If an iron work is established, with a considerable tract of mineral property attached, the road passes through that property, placing the furnaces on one side and the coal and mine on the other—is it not a monstrous supposition that you cannot freely take from one portion of your property, that has been forcibly divided to your great annoyance, the coal and mine, to be consumed on the other side ? That appears to be the construction of powers now contended for and claimed by the Monmouthshire Canal and Tram Road Company. If that claim is founded in right, and which the hon. and respectable gentlemen composing that public company nodoubt conceive they are vested with it is quite necessary, that the country may have some protection, by giving the claim publicity, which must have the effect of creating so great and so just an hostility to all such roads, that none other will be sanctioned or permitted, until powers so ex- traordinary and arbitrary are effectually guarded against. Your assistance, in directing attention to a point of great importance, by its insertion in your widely circulated Journal, will oblige, Sir, Your most obedient servant, p,

—■——— GlifiANINGS CONTEMPORARY.—In the celebrated controversy between Bentley and Boyle, the latter had ral'' his opponent with some spirit for having used ce tain words in his writings that were not coulluolly received, and others of Latin origin, alleged to characteristic of a pedantic style. Bentley, whoff far more than a match for Boyle, defends ably from the imputation, and adds, I must fre5j[ declare, I would rather use, not my words only* even these too, if I did it sparingly, than that slg a word of the examiner's cotemporary," which downright barbarism for the Latins never use c° » con, except before a vowel, as" co-equal, cüweterna but, betore a consonant, they either retain the contemporary, constitutionor melt it 0 another letter, as collection, comprehension; j that the examiner's COTEMPORARY is a word j his own coposilion, for which the learned world \flto cogratulate him."—lientley's Preface in ansvoef Boyle.. s MERCANTILE ANOMALIES.—The prires of variots articles in the different markets.t lie Rum Illard ket is by no means lively Bi-andies are flat as there is very little doing in Geneva.-Several parc s of Lisbon have arrived in the river; but M°un*a!\e are generally low.—There have been considerab arrivals in oil Olive is considerably fallen si" last week.—There has been also a great fall up*? Irish Linens, since yesterday; Hemp continues slac. --In sugars there have been some pretty fair speclr mens of brown crush; Low lumps are much hiS" than Monday.—There is no quotation in Malt; ti°P, are in demand.—Quicksilver remains steady, heathers are extremely heavy; there are no S(ties made of Canvas; but Ticking is in request.- ad may be quoted as per last; but Virginia may be ha for 17s. 3d.—Pitch hangs on hand in Deals, Frenje shorts are generally called for.—Red Pine is a better than last week; Horse-hair in tails is loo*e^ after.-Dates cannot be quoted; Isinglass is reviv" ing; Deer-skins are cheap 5 and pavtng-stone begin to look up." í A DEAR JOKE.-Charles Cotton, the author o Virgil Travestied, lost an estate of £ 40.) a year bY a single couplet in that poem, in which he mention ed a particular kind of ruff worn by his grandmotber, who lived in the Peak. The old lady, whose and testy disposition he must have well known, nev forgave the liberty—she altered her will, and gaKt away her whole estate to an absolute stranger.. was either Cotton, or Anstey (the witty author rd the Bath Guide), who on being expelled from 05fo addressed the University Graduates as follows 1, Valete Doctores sine doctrina; Magistri artium sine artibus Baccalaurei, magis baculo quam lauru digni The name of the Commander-in-Chief of th troops of Don Carlos will amuse our Welsh readers, it is Martin Bengoche.—( Red-headed Martin.) MASSACRE OF STONEHENGE BY HENGIST AS9 HIS SOLDIERS.—(Brady Cyllill hirion.J—A.D• IJ at an assembly at Stonehenge, Hengist sudde0^ caught Vortiger by the collar, and at this 460 Earls and Noblemen of Britain fell by the 1° knives of the Saxons.* Eugethusius deriveth word, Saxon, from knives, in the following couple Quippe brevis gladius apad ilios saxa vocatur, Unde sibi Saxo riomen traxisse putatur." tile Nevertheless many Saxons were then slain by f Britons with stones there taken up, where A Idol, Earl 0 Gloucester or Caergloin, got into his haud a stake, his slew therewith 70 Saxons, and then escaped home to, ) own city.-( From the Ancient History of Great BritaITl"n SIX ACE.—In the year 1581 were to be see" London, two Dutchmen of strange statures, the o in height seven feet and seven inches, in bre<* betwixt the shoulders three quarters of a yard & an inch, the compass of his breast one yard aU rd half and two inches, and about the waist one ya j one quarter, and one inch the length of his arnl1J the hand, a full yard a comely man of PefS t}| but lame of his legs, (for he had broken them lifting of a barrel of beer.) The other was in hetb but three feet, had never a good foot, nor any at all and yet he could dance a Galliard; he oJj no arm, but a stump to the elbow or little tnore> the right side on the which, singing, he dance a cup, and after, toss it about three or j times, and every time receive the same on the stump he would shoot an arrow near to the noa a flourish with a rapier, throw a bowl, beat wi hammer, hew with an axe,sound a trumpet, and dr> every day ten quarts of the best beer if he coU JLn it. I myself on the 17th July, saw the taller & sitting on a bench bareheaded, and the lesser s'aijat ing on the same bench, and hav ing on his head a wih a feather, and was yet the lower. Also the ta man standing on his feet, and the lesser (with hat and feather on his head) went upright betVe his legs, and touched him not.—atom's chronic^' PROCTORS IN BAD COMPANY.—On the A1'1 House at Rochester, founded by Richard Watts, {■ who was a member of the second Parliament 1(1, Queen Elizabeth, is the following remarkable j scttption Richard Watts, Esq. by his will dallf 22d August, 1579, founded this charity for six p°t travellers, who not being contagiously dise»s Rogues or Proctors, may have lodging and entert3 ment here one night freely, and every one fourpe in the morning." 5 SLEEPING IN CHURCH.—A Cheshire farmer heo lately asked by the Minister how it was that iv bell he preached the farmer always fell asleep, but W/1e a stranger preached, he was all attention- 1 farmer replied, Why, Sir, when ye preaches I tlost aw's right, but when a stranger comes I caniia tr him, and so I keeps a good look out." YANKEE SENATORIAL ELOQUENCE —A York Paper says,—"In a late number oi g., Louisville Journal, the following is given as a SP [ cimen of electioneering eloquence. It is an e* from a stump-speech made by Colonel Boone, sl e- elected to Congress :—' Feller-citizens, my e^ej mies have slandered me in almost every way 0t can invent! They say that I can spile a quaf (o whiskey every day; that the old Gineral is go. give me an appointment to the Court of Black Ha ^e( that 1 voted for the veto, session afore last, a -.y voting lor the Bank that I fell out with Mr. Clay, because he wouldn't take no notice of a I sent him in his room and that I got Colonel » write my letters and circulars. 1 have no# c among you to confut the calumniating charges? P claim to you that they are base fabrications, S° and set afloat to demolish my election.' i5 PEDRO'S BRUTES.—Pedro has contracted, } te. said, for 500 horses here. This is all very appropr of He has already drawn a considerable Jiii' asses" out of the country, of which truth °a*table initable acquaihtauce, Dilly Doyle, will bear ver1 witness.—Age. 9 STRANGE WORLDLY ADVICE.—Erasmus, I ro letter to his friend Audrew Ammonius, gives 11 fat. following advice, as the most effectual method 0 vaucing his fortune, designed to satirize the u, 111 methods that are adopted for this purpose viz.: 9t the first place, throw off all sense of shame; 1 olli yourself iuto every one's business, and el OLI Olle whomsoever you can neither love nor hate any measure everything by your own advantage >e fi0' be the scope and drift of all your actions. be thing but what is to be returned with usury, an jllg9 complaisant to every body. Have always two 1 to your how. Feign that you are solicited by oof from abroad, and get every thing ready for departure. Show letters inviting you elsewhere and with great promises." = the

In our last we copied a paragraph froi" (}J.tll John Bull newspaper, in which it was stated (pe the initials of a former Ministry, containing names of Clifford, Ashley, Buckingham, ton, and Lauderdale, would make the word and that the initials of the present Ministry*^# Grey, Russell, Althorp, and Brougham, w0,gre"' the word Grab.—We are of opinion that if a di position were given to the names,*viz. BroU# Russell, Althorp, and Grey, mak*5^ D.he word it would have a better appearand THE WHIG CHANCELLOR.—Lord Bro« £ never ranked as an accomplished equity—now his proper province—he knows anything and he has not a judicial mind. arriere pensee is, we do not doubt, to be alt Minister; but at all events he is to become iO gether a political Chancellor. An office o England, but well known as one of the most monreate I abuses of the old regime of France, is to be cnd Jlo —the passport to which will be politics, ,,a ft he legal knowledge. The law will be at the fee jj»fi political judge not presiding daily over t Ji and fearing neither its power nor its censU will.in his judicial patronage, forward hisowW which will be purely political. The law 1 stage will be overrun with political at*vehelJe^ The Lord Chancellor will no longer be at t j of the great legal family, upon whose courage, and ability, our lives and fortu even our liberties, must always in somemea pend.—Quarterly Review, just published.