The Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette and Merthyr Guardian

The DUKE of WELLINGTON'S DISINTEREST- EDNESS, and LORD GREY'S RAPACITY. We have already noticed the extent of the national obligations to the Grey family for the number and variety of channels through which it aids and assists in its government. It has been represented to us that the benevolent feeling which Lord Grey has exhibited in thus sacrificing the ease and quiet of his amiable relations to the good of the country, arises from an hereditary disposition that way, derived from his Lordship's eminent father, whose name and memory are intimately associated in the West Indies with numerous acts of similar disinterestedness; the only difference being, that Sir Charles had fewer relations, and therefore concentrated in himself more profit than his eminent son has been enabled personally to secure. But we ought to do Lord Grey justice there are in- stances in which his family feeling-ol' failillg-has been corrected, and where a grateful recollection of eminent political services has stayed his proverbial voracity, and dispensed the bounty of Government to dear and worthy supporters. We need only allude to the office of 400l a-year given to the Siamese double unit, Master John Kingsmill Grove Key, the son of the Contractor—Lord Grey's patron and friend in the Penny Cup affair—whose Effigies, as a patriotic Re- former, and honest Member of Parliament, conferring honour, like Sir Something Harty, of Dublin, on the Baronetage—is to be handed down to immortality be- tween the two Whig worthies of the day, Lord Grey and Lord Brougham. Mr Haydon has admirably succeeded in the portraiture of this eminent triumvi- rate. Lord Grey and Lord Broughem are represented holding their penny enps in their hands, and the glance of sordid delight with which the lofty Premier eyes his piece of plate is truly characteristic. But then we are told that his Lordship's Ministerial gluttony is merely an imitation of Tory rapacity, and a whole string of names are brought forward as examples justificatory of his Lordship's voraciousness. Now let the Grey list be compared with the Duke of Welling- ton's dispensation of the Crown patronage; or rather compare-we humbly beg the Duke's pardon—the personal coridtict of the two men, where patronage is concerned. This comparison may be aptly illustrated by small examples as well as great. We will call the attention of the reader to one, which is highly and nobly characteristic of the illustrious man to whom it relates. At page 255, of the evidence before the Military Committee, we find the following questions and ansvers.-1ajor Elrington, Fort-Major of the Tower of London, is examined :— '» Q• Who makes the appointment of Wardens? A. The Constable, the Duke of Wellington. II Q. Were not those appointments formerly sold 7 II A. They were. ? I Q. What was usually given for the situation of VVarden ? H A. I think about 3001. Q- When was that practice abolished ? A. Since the Duke of Wellington became Constable. („). Then his income as constable is diminished iu con- sequence of the abolition of these purchases ? A. No doubt of it. Q. What description of persons have been lately ap- pointed to the situation of Warden? A. Non-commissioned Officers and deserving soldiers. Q. So that the patronage is appropriated, as you state, to the most deserving soldiers? ".A. To the most deserving men ofthe Brigade of Guards, and other regiments that are most deserving." The Duke of Wellington, we believe was appointed Constable in 1826 and we are informed that ten va- cancies have been filled up by his Grace, by which his emoluments have been diminished by a sum of three thousand pounds The sum is unimportant—but the abolition of the system, while it gives to deserving merit what formerly money could purchase for ineffi- ciency or incompetence, exhibits the consistency of principle which characterizes all the actions ol the Duke, be the occasion great or small, and which, while it commands the respect and admiration of the people, is in fact the chief cause of the impotent hatred ttof Lord Grey and his extensive family. At this moment Lord Grey is less popular than the illustrious opponent of pa,.|iaineutary Reform, in the proportion ot ninety-uine out of every hundred of the population of England. The reason is obvious the Duke has never meanly truckled to popular feeling, or excited it as a means to obtain power for jobbing purposes. The difference between the men is as perceptible as that which exists between black and white, or fire and water, or honesty and roguery.—John Bull.

.THE CASE OF THOMAS COX SAVORY. At tLe request of a respectable Correspondent, we insert the following letter from Mr. Savory to the Editor of the London Guardia?i "RKSPECTED FRIEND,The verdict of a Jury having refuted the accusation brought against ice without the necessity of hearing all the evidence in my defence, I owe it to myself to make a few observations on the difficulties which were studiously thrown in the way of my exculpation, and which nothing but the consciousness of innocence could have led me to iiope that, by meeting them boldly, 1 should be able to surmount. It was this consciousness of innocence which prevented me from taking any notice of the injurious statements made by interested individuals during the prejudiced hearing which my case received at the Mansion House, and which were reported in all or most of the newspapers. With the evidence published on that occasion, the calum- nious insinuations of parties who were not witnesses mixed up even the chief magistrate allowed his mind to ÍJe influenced by the clamour which some of Illy fellow traliesiliell iiid raisedagaiiist me, and made observations which were highly calculated to prejudice me on my trial. The bitterness of feeling wlllcll assailed me at the Mansion House was soon circulated through the kingdom. 1 was represented as one who had sold at priccs which conld nor give me a profit without the evasion of the duty. Advertisements were published and handbills posted in the streets, which, though said to be for the purpose of procuring evidence, had the effect of keeping up the excitement against nie till the day of trial and by these means, before my case was heard by a regular tribunal, I was spoken of as one condemned. Under these cncumstanccs a committee, consisting of members of the Society of Friends, was appointed to inves- tigate my case, as the moral delinquency of the act with which 1 was charged, independently of any legal conse- quences, would, if not disproved, have ensured my expul- sion from that Society, to which my family have belonged for 110 years, 80 of which they have carried on the busi- ness of silversmiths London with unsullied reputations. The decision of 'he committee was, that I was clear of all knowledge of the articles being forged, the sale of which was the ostensible ground of the proceedings against me. Yet, though the publication of that decision might have had some eift:cl III nutigating the prejudice which some of my fellow tradesmen had excited, it was not published, with all the disadvantages under which I laboured, with a powerful body as Illy prosecutors, and many of the shop- keepers in my own trade anxious for my ruin. 1 trusted that the investigation of my case in the ordinary course of justice would be my vitioication, and I have not been disappointed. •' It appears that out of the 650 ounces of silver plate take.n from my shop by the officers of the Go dstiiitlis' Com- pany, only 42 ounces were retained as having forged marks. It is now admitted that the officers seized spoons as forged which had regulary paid the duty, and been marked by themselves at the liedl; for out oi the 20 arti- cles seized, it was drawn from the witnesses for the pro- secution, on cross-oinmination, that 10 articles, though they have never yet been returned to me, had genuine stamps. 11 If the marks in question were so well executed that even the officers of the Goldsmith's Company confounded the torged marks with she genuine ones, it easily ac- counted for my being imposed upon by the maker 01 those articles, whose conuuet while he manufactured and sold to me I had no reason to suspect. For reasons uncon- nected with any suspicious of forgery, I decii jed to have any more dealings with him some time before this charge was made against me, which it is not likely J. should have done if, by bcinf in collusion with him to forge the stamps, 1 must put my character, my liberty, all that was dear to me in the world, ILI his power. At my wholesale house, conducted by Richard Hillain, about 1 500 ounces of plate were examined, and not an onuce of it was charged to have been made. AIIIlIY jewellery wa» fUUnd to be < onect. Not an ounce of silver, made aL my own manufactory, nor by any (save the one in qtleSLioll) or the Stilitil LliasEel-s of wiluill i have purchased was allcdgell tu bave talsb lIIalks. As to Treen, 1 proved my ilay-litit t) of the duty invariably, both by his own receipted invoices, and by the evidence oi my shopmen, who examined his bills aud saw the a!nount discharged. Yet an attempt was made by a legal quibble to exclude the evidence altogether. Tne question whether I could sell at the prices which I (lid white paying the duty, and yet receive a profit, shall be (it-cid-d by my continuing to seli exactly at the same prices as before. •• I have only to add that though my gratitude is first due to the power that protects innocence, 1 cannot bii take this opportunity of warmly acknowledging the obli gallon 1 am under to the Society of Friends for their unchanging good opinion and for the endeavour to afford JUe all opportunity of vindicating my principles and my character while assailed by prejudice and detraction. "To Sir James Scarlet, Sergeant Andrews, Sidney Taylor, and J. Adulphus, tor their taient and zeal as my counsel on tne trial, my acknowledgements are also due. The foregoing remaiks being called for by the mis. statements winch ha"e appeared in the newspapers, I triist thou wilt do me the juslIce to give them insertion. Remaining thine respectfully, THOMAS COX SAVORY. *>4, Cornhill, 2«Jrd 10th month, 1833.

THE LATESTLONDON INTELLIGENCE. The French have concentrated an army of ob- servation (?) on the frontiers of Spain. It supposed that Don Carlos has entered that coun- try from Portugal A commotion is reported to have taken place at Vic i:t favour of Don Carlos, in which M. Sailles, the governor, and 100 men forming the garrison, have been killed in fighting for the Queen. In Holland, the speech of the Minister of Finance to the States General evinces a surplus of revenue of about 300,000 florins over the esti- mates. The "Madrid Gazette" states that tile Queen Regent has appointed Don Xavier de Burgos I I Secretary of State for the Interior on account of his special knowledge of matters of political economy." t, The Augsburg Gazette" speaks of a probable change in the Neapolitan Cabinet, introducing a liberal administration." In Cyprus a rebellion is said to have broken out, in which a band of Albanian soldiers attacked the house of the Austrian Consul, seized his per- son, and impaled him.

-= AGRICULTURE, llOMMERCE, AND LONDON MARKETS. LONDON CORN EXCHANGE. OCT. 29.-During the past week our market was abundantly supplied with every description of grain nearly all the line samples of which were readily disposed of, the inferior qualities, particularly of wheat and barley, remaining over till to day, when the supply from Essex and Kent was plentiful, but from Suffolk and Norfolk very limited. None but the finest samples of wheat have, however, found pur- chasers, and for them the quotation of last week was barely obtained. The inferior sorts are Is. per quarter cheaper. Fine malting barley (particularly the chevalier) is in request, and continues to sell at last Monday's prices. The second-rate samples go off slowly, although offered at lower terms. Oats arc, full Is. per quarter lower, the supply far exceed- illg the demand. White peas are Is. per quarter cheaper. Tick beans sell freely at a decline of Is. per quarter. In other articles there is no altera- tion. 4 J S. S. 8. U Wheat, Essex Red. SO a 52 White 3H a Fine 53 a 55 Boilers 44 a 40 Old — a — Beans, Small 34 a 3S M'hite .j" 52 a 55 Ticks.. 30 a 34 Fine 50 a 57 Harrow 32 a 3t> Superfine" a 59 Oats, Feed 22 a 24 New — a — Fine — a — ^-ve 34 a 30 Poland 20 a 22 Barley 28 a 30 Fine — a — Malt 54 a 58 Potatoe 22 a 21 Fine 58 a 00 Fine — a — PeM.Hog! 34 a 38 Bran 7a 8 Maple 37 a 38 Pollard, fine 14 a 15 PRICE OF HOPS IN LONDON, PER CWT. New Pockets. X s IC 9 New Bags. X 8 X s Farnhmn It H »12 12 Keut "aO 0 K-eut. 5 5 a 7 7 East Kent 0 OaO 0 East Kent" 7 0 a 8 0 Yearlings 0 0 a 0 0 Sussex 5 0 a 6 0 Old Hops 0 0 a 0 0 Yearlings* 0 0 a 0 — The Hop Duty is estimated at £ 155,000, PRLCLI OF TALLOW AND CANDLES, IN LONDON s. d s d Town Tallow, per cwt. 48 0 Greaves 14 0 Kussia ditto, Candle 48 0 Good 1>r(>Ss 5 0 White ditto 0 0 Curd Soap 72 0 Melted Stuft 37 0 Mottled ditto 70 0 Rough ditto 21 0 Yellow ditto 62 0 CANDLIÚi.-}Ioulds, 9s Cld Stores, 8s-tnferior, 7s per "oz, LONDON COAL MARKET. Price of Coal per ton at the close of business. Friday's Prices, Wednesday s Prices. s. d. s. d. Ailairs •• 15 *i West Hartley *• J East Percy 10 — Kenton West • Oi-(Iels RecIl.eugi. 14 0 Holywell "j — Poutop •• •• — Tanfield •• •• lli <> 10 0 Hebburn 17 —— Townley I" 14 6 Shipcote • • • • 11 6 Wylam 10 9 —— 10 3 WALL'S END. Clarke & Co. I (I t; 15 6 Heaton 18 3 18 — Dixon's Butterkuowl Gordon 17 9 Blake 15 0 — —• Bewicke and Co 18 9 is- Hilda 17— "'J 1 Tj rpeth 0 0 Killingwortli 17 0 —— 10 9 Perkins 10 3 —— — ~7 Northumberland 17 — ? Hetton — — 1" 3 Stewart's 19 .—— 19 0 Tees IS —— Ili6 Newmarcli 10 9 Brown R.ddell's is 6 -—— 18 Ships arrived, Friday, 4 Ships arrived, Wednesday, 7. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE. OCT. 29.—The market has ruled dull to-day for all articles. New red Irish Wheats must be noted Id. to 2d. per 701b. cheaper than this day week but in white Wheats, and all sorts of old, there is no re- duction.—Barley, Malt Beans, and Pease, are un- varied in value.—New Oats continue scarce, and, as well, as old, fully support late prices. Flour and Oatmeal have suffered a small decline, having a very limited retail demand for each.

NEW SOUTH WALES WOOL.—One of the brothers M-Arthur, whose Australian wools (marked M'A.) are so justly celebrated, called last week upon SOllIe of the principal manufacturers, at Bradford, where, we believe, these wools, which are particularly well adapted for the finer fabrics of the stuff manufacture^ are chiefly used. The produce of this immense flock is, we understand, accompanied every year by one of the brothers, who make the voyage alternately. The present price of wool in Lincolnshire is 45s. to 48s. per tod. Considerable purchases were made last week III the neighbourhood of Falkingbam, at 4tis. THE IRON TRADE.—At Sheffield the demand for goods is considerable, and besides the conversion 0f Swedish iron into steel, a gradually increasing quan- tity of the best British iron is antiually used for that purpose. The sound and wholesome state of our manufactures is, perhaps, more clearly perceived iu the advancing price of wool, and of iron, which is so lai-gely consumed in machinery and buildings and still more in the great and constant demand, not merely for machinery itself, but for tools with which it is repaired and made.—Evening Mail. STEAM CARRIAGES.—The celebrated mathema- tician Hoene Wronski has lately discovered a new system of steam engines, applicable to carriages on common roads and all other locomotive instruments, such as ploughs, implements of war, &c., so vastly superior to anything before known, that a French company is said to have bought the patent of him for four millions of francs.—French Paper. RAILWAYS.—The French Government have ap- pointed Messrs. Navier, Befontuitie, Vallee, Arnollctt, Kermaiugant, and Bausse, celebrated for their ac- quirements as civil engineers, to visit this country, for the purpose of examining the various Rail-roads already completed and in progress of completion with a view of adopting such of the principles ot the English system as may appear to them to be all im- provement on those already laid down by themselves. Return of the quantity of various articles con- sumed in Great Britain during the last year, and the dutv naid upon them Tobacco 4,342,676 lbs 16-52,056 Tea. lbs. Coffee. 22,053,326 Ibs. 265 Sugar 3,315,836 cwt 3,980,519 Foreign Wines 766,33d galls 189,728 Spirits. 5,089,757 galls 3,368,558 Irish ditto.. 8,657,756 galls 1,442,845 Scotoh ditto.. 4,861,515 galls 813,196

INJIJRED I]tELAND.We said, observes the Dublin Register, that we had personal reason to know that Mr. O'Connell, whose alleged « silence" 011 Re- peal is construed by some London papers into an abjuration of his doctrines on that question, is most busily employed in preparing to open a regular cam- paign upon it, in the eiisuiug session of Parliament." This fact is avowed in a letter, under his own hand and seal, dated from Derrynane Abbey on the 21-t instant. The apostle of disccrd says the first (lis- play in Parliament on the repeal question is one which, to do it justice, would require months of seclusion; and I should wish to remain here until I had made the far greater part of my preparations-because I am one of those whose opinions are daily more fixed, that no solid or substantial good can be done for Ireland until we have a doniestic legislature in Dublin.How long will the fiuest pisantry starve, to pamper their enemies?

LONDON MOSEY MARKET. CITY, THURSDAY, FOUR O'CLOCK. In the Consol market, which closed last night at 88 opened this morning at 88, and after improving a frac- tion, receded the final price was 87^ to J. othcr cause than that of reaction can be assigned for this decline, which is not, indeed, equal to the late advance, and can therefore be only regarded as one of the common fluctua- tions in the Stock market. In the Foreign market there has not been much activity. Some fewJvariations in price will be noticed in the list below. In the share market little of interest can be noticed. ENGLISH STOCKS.—3 per cent. Consols, 871, 1 Consols for Account. 3 per cent. Reduced, 8GJ 7 ;'3 £ per cent. Reduced, 95J f; 3^ per cent Consols 9tj 3* ditto New, 96^J 4 per cent. lOlHj India Stock 210 1; Bank Stod/ —; Exchequer Bills. 35 36 pr; India Bonds, 19 20 nr Long Annuities, to expire Jan. 1SG0, lGj J pr> FOREIGN.—Belgian Loan 96^7J Brazilian Bonds67 ;7i" Chilian 22 4; Colombian Bonds 22 Danish Bonds 73.4' Dutch 2i per cent. 50] f Ditto o per cent. 94 a Frenc}l^ per cent. 101 f.; Greek Bon. Jo2i>, >»o, 5 per cent 216 iYIex. IJonds — i Peruvian Bonds 1S £ 19J Portuguese 5 per cent. 721 }Dhto New Loan —; Russian Bonds 103' Spanish Bonds, 222' s- SFIARE,Alten -Nlines, Anglo Mexican, 8 9; Bola- Dos 12711321; Brazilian, 15 25, Brazilian Imp. 5g> D0. Na- tional,—■; Ditto ST. John Del Rey,5 £ 6 £ Ditto Cocaes 1J • Cata Branca, Si 4J British Iron, 27^ i»Iexicaa Company' 11 12; Ileal Del Monte, 54* United Mexican, 124; Ditto New Scrip, 14115, Alliance tire and Life, 11^ 12- Protector Fire, 2526; Australian Agricuh. 19; Canada Company, 50 51 General Steam Nav. 12113.

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. The-" Address to the Inhabitants of Newport is an adver. tisement chargeable with the duty. The order not to insert the advertisement respecting the ship BROTH EllS and. the ship H EN P Y, did not reach us till that part of our paper was printed.

MERTHYR Y YI)VIL, SATURDAY, Nov. 2, 183J. We cannot too warmly congratulate our rea- 1;, ders and the Principality at large, on the sub- stantive shape that that magnificent improvement the Cambrian, Gloucester, and London Railway, has now assumed. It is little more than two months since (on the 24th of August) the columns of the GAZETTE AND GUARDIAN first announced that this incomparable improvement in useful art,this mag- nificent offspring of combined science and per- severance had been conceived and discovered to be practicable. The very grandeur of the un- dertaking, its gigantic superiority over all similar projects yet conceived, naturally excited in many minds, to whom we feel great deference and res- pect, very serious doubts as to the practicability of the design. We pursued, however, our en- quiries on the subject through proper channels we carefully collected all the information that we could obtain respecting it; we listened to and weighed every suggestion and opinion and the result was, that we conceived it to be incumbent 011 us, in every succeeding number of our jour- nal, to bring the subject under notice in such a way as best to elicit the opinions of that highly respectable and intelligent body, the iron trade of the greatest iron district in the kingdom. It was with no ordinary gratification that we perceived that on the lapse of a few weeks o::e of the most respectable and intelligent meetings that we had ever attended, assembled to consider this subject; and that the view which, with great (liflideiiee in our own judgment, we were led to entertain, was there fully confirmed. The spirit with which, at the meeting at Merthyr, the gen- tlemen of the surrounding district engaged in the business, was, as we confidently expected, fully re-echoed by a similar meeting a few days afterwards at Suansea. The interests of all parts of the Principality, but especially of those parts which are seats of all extensive and enter- prizing commerce, are so deeply concerned in the accomplishment of this design, that we antici- pated from Swansea as well as from Merthyr,that intelligent, as well as liberal support and co-ope- ration, which, on all occasions of public imnrove- ment, have so honorably characterised our Swan- sea neighbours. This indeed is an undertaking in which there can be no peculiar, no single in- terest: whatever benefits any one town in the county, must in the way of business benefit every other town in it, from the mere fact of propin- quity, and similarity of trade and productions. Iu this sense we conceive that a very great ad- vantage would be added, if Mr. WOODDESON, whose talents on this occasion have been so emi- nently displayed, could discover a level affording a line of communication even shorter than that which he has pointed out between Merthyr and Swansea. On the line of road east of us we understand that the subject is already taken up in a spirit of earnest and active enquiry, which affords every reason to expect that it will there be adopted and prosecuted with vigour. It is not, however, to the line of road, impor- tant as it is, between Swansea, Merthyr, and the metropolis, that the benefits of this most impor- tant enterprize are confined. Milford is well known to be the most capacious harbour in the United Kingdom, and has hitherto languished in comparative inutility, only from the great diffi- culty of intercourse between it and the metro- polis. When we consider the vast influx of trade from the South, and indeed the whole coast of Ireland, from France and the Western Coasts of Europe, from America, and from the throwing open of the trade to China and the East, which the extension of the line of road to Milford Haven must create, we cannot but be struck with the immensity of the improvement which the completion of this vast undertaking must bring to the whole ot the Principality. Through the science, and boldness of conception, and Un- wearied perseverance of effort of Mr. WOODDESON in this matter, it lies open to the wealthy landed proprietors and iron masters and merchants of the districts in which our Journal principally circu- 1-1 lates, to possess these amazing advantages and make them their own, and we conceive we call- not make a better use of our press than to draw their most serious attention to the subject.

Yesterday week was the day appoin'ed for the consideration of that very st-riotis measure, the Bill introduced by Lord BROUGHAM for the con- fering, among other towns, upon Merthyr Tydvil, of a corporation with its usual concomitants. By one of those unfortunate misunderstandings, which too commonly occur, of supposing a notice calling a meeting for 11 o'clock, to mean 11 for 12, nearly all the gentlemen present at the Meet- ing did not attend till a short time after 12. A few, however, (4) arrived about 11, and after wait- ing a considera Ie time without any dIcet, they supposed that the public took 110 interest in the question, and withdrew. In the more extended Meeting which afterwards took place we recog- nised nearly all the most respectable and influen- tial gentlemen of the borough, who waited a con- siderable time in the hope that Mr. GUEST, our respected representative, who had on a former occasion expressed his sense of the very great importance of the subject) would be present and take the Cliair. An opinion seemed to prevail, that not only this mark of respect was due to our worthy Member, but that it was particularly to be wished that he should assist at a meetin", the resolutions of which he would probably be re- quested to support in Parliament. This hope, however, was vaiu Mr. GUEST did not attend and the meeting, with that intuitive politeness, and delicacy of good breeding, which distin- guishes gentlemen, adjourned, to afford him and other gentlemen who would probably be affected by the measure, a convenient time for assisting with their advice. On the merits of this great measure, devised by so great a lawgiver as the Right Hon. Lord BROUGHAM and VAUX, for the diffusion of uni- versal happiness, (and no doubt, of cheap at- 'd speedy justice") far be it from us to presume to offer a criticism. Only if M. MONTESQUIEU be right in saying that those laws are best which are best suited to the requirements and the habits of the people, we should certainly conceive that this law, quoad MerthyrTydvil, was wanting.in this qualification. Never did we hear (with the sin- gular exception of one gentleman present) such unanimous and determined reprobation as was expressed in the conversation that took place on this occasion. The gentlemen from Aberdare, in which place we are informed there was not one dissentient voice," said we don't want it, why are we to be taxed for itOne gentleman, a respectable iron-master, computes his quota of expense by the Bill at three hundred pounds a year; while his loss of time, if the civic gown should fall on him, is worth at least three hun- dred more. It was remarked by several, that the most important of all objects was the fair dispen- sation of justice and that in this we might easily be worse off than we arc, but could not possibly be better. We heard some strong remarks on the tendency of this Bill to swell the patronage of the Ministers, and to raise up 32 recorderships in the gift of the Crown, doubtless to be dispensed without reference to Parliamentary connections. It was also observed, that this feature of the bill was no wise improved by the circumstance, that, in order to constitute these recorderships to be paid out of the pockets of the public, an expensive ap- paratus was coupled with them, which would add two or three times as much to the burdens of the recorder-paying boroughs. A confident hope was expressed, that at any rate care would be taken that in no instance the Recorder appointed should be a person having property or connections in the borough. Very strong censure was excited by the clause which makes Aldtrtnen for life. It was very forcibly remarked, that in almost every town in which a Corporation had existed, it had been a constant source of heartburning and dissension, no less than expense and that the actual state of prosperity to which the towns pro- posed to be incorporated had arrived without any Corporation, was a pretty strong proof that a Corporation was not desirable. Some gentlemen considered it a presumptuous infringement on the prerogative of the Crown, that if His Majesty should hereafter deem it fit to confer a Charter on one or several borolighs, it must be upon such conditions as Lord BROUGHAM, in the very hur- ried consideration which alone his avocations enable him to give, should think proper to pre- scribe. Others remarked that in the various Charters which hare been conferred, there is a great variety of provisions and regulations that this very variety was adopted in order in each place to suit the Charter to the requirements of the people and that one Charter to suit every town was about as reasonable as one mask to suit every countenance. A strong objection alleged was, that this Bill will occasion to the parish an expense of at least Two THOUSAND POUNDS a year. To meet this expense the Bill assigns fines and fees," and if they be insufficient,a rate is to be im- posed on "houses and gardens" to make lip the deficiency. To swell out the fines and fees," every penalty which the law can possibly inflict, and in which the Magistrates hitherto It,, ve given the most humane consideration to the ircum- stances of the parties fined, would be exacted with a rigour to which the inhabitants are little accustomed, and which they would scarcely brook. And even after this there would remain a heavy deficit, to be raised upon houses and gardens." The Recorder would be most probably an English gentleman, not conversant in the Welsh language; and it was very pointedly asked, how much a year must be paid for an interpreter? Many other remarks were made in objection to this sweeping measure of which, with the exception of one gentleman, only one opinion seemed to prevail.

Our readers will have observed by an adver- tisement in our last paper, that the NAUTILUS, steam-packet, has desisted for the present from sailing between Cardiff and Bristol, in order to re- ceive some improvements. The proprietors enter- tain a hope, that during the interval, a road and a landing place for passengers will be formed, from whieh she may ply at half tide of ebb and flow, and in that case her passage would regularly be in three hours and a half. This must be of very considerable advantage to the town of Cardiff and to the neighbourhood. We conceive the proprietors of the vessel have acted very judiciously in employing that dreary interval of the winter months, which are by nature so un- favourable for sailing, in effecting this useful improvement. Their process hitherto, we are informed, has been highly useful in facilitating the intercourse between Cardiff and Bristol, and has been attended with a degree of success for which they feel and express the most lively obli- gations to the public. We hope on the conclu- sion of the winter weather to see their enterpris- ing vessel again put to sea, with improved capa- bilities and increasing benefits, both to the public aud themselves.

The German Papers mention the arrival of the Duchess of Berry at Lnyhach, with her husband. Several interesting anecdotes are told of Made- moiselle, the sister of the Duke of Bordeaux Not content with parting with a large sum of money to pay the expenses of the poorer class of Frenchmen who came to do homage to her bro- ther, she would also have given her jewels as a testimonial of her gratitude. All the distin- 11 guiahed leaders of tLc Royalist party in France 1 » have come to a resolution no; prescribed to electors and deps I A Dispatch from the Viceri 1 f'1 J i 1 i-fc uenerai uasiauos, uaiea rainpeititi,e,,iztji oct. states, that on the previous day Don Santos Ladron, the Carhst General, with 32 of his ad- herents, fell into the hands of the Queen's troops on the heights of Los Arcos, and the whole party were shot. By Ittters frolll Paftlpelulla, to "the 17th tilt, it appears iiiiit C iiii-les (he Vth has been proclaimed at Tafalla, six leagues to the south of Pampeluna, the young men of which place were rapidly flocking to Tafaila, to join his standard Pampeluna remains in the power of the Queen's troops. The Viceroy of Navarre has declared that province in a state of siege; and another partn,, the Constitutionalist, is increasing in numbers and activity. A Letter from Saragossn, of the loth speaks of a conspiracy to proclaim DOli Carlos in that place, which had been detected and defeated by the vigour of Count Espeleta. A Dispatch from Don T. Comez, Lieutenant of Cavalry, dated the 14th of October, states that he had captured on that day a small band of gentlemen the partizans of Don C trios, at Guada- perales. The names of the prisoners are Dolt Manuel Maria Gouzlez, AdlIlinstrator of tile Posts at Talcivera, and Commander in Caief of the Royalist Volunteers, Don Mariano Ceballos, Lieutenant in the cavalry de la Rejna, Don Sattirniiio del Barco, retired officer, Don J. G. Ximenes, of the Body Guard, Don Miguel Lopez de Salas, Ciptain of the CJvalry regiment of Talavera de la Reyna but Don S. N. Alonzo, Don S. Galeti, and Don F. V. Gonzaleg, escaped. It is stated in the Dutch Papers that Baron Van Zllylcll Van Nyevelt has given up the de- partment of Foreign Affairs, which he had held ad interim, to Baron Verstolk Van Soelen, who who has resumed his former functions. The proofs of attachment which the King of Holland receives from his people are universal, and en- thusiastic. In private letters from Paris of the 24th, it is said that" there is an arti. te in the Berlin papers received to-day, staling that among the articles which Prince Schvvartzenberg was charged to communicate to the King of the Netherlands, was an assurance that the Northern Powers were positively resolved not to assist at any more Con- ferences on the Belgian question, and that they would never again permit France and England to take coercive measures against Holland." The statement made by the Baron Versto'.k to the Dutch Chambers has made a very favourable impression, and has caused the North of Europe Funds to advance considerably. The Swiss Papers contain a proclam ition sta- ting that the affairs of that country are now paci- fically arranged. A spirit of discontent against the dynasty of the King of Greece has broken out in open hosti- lity. A formidable conspiracy, the ramifications of which extended through the whole kingdom, has been discovered, having for its head Coloco- troni. This chieftain has been .;irrested, and is expected to sutler under martial law which has been proclaimed. From Bombay Papers to the 15th of June, we learn that a great reduction was to take place in the Indian navy and a reduction of 30 per cent, in every branch of the civil service was contem- plated. Several otfier reductions of the expendi- ture are alluded to but not specifically stated.

ADVANCE IN WAGES.—We are happy to stale that the wages of the miners and colliers at Cytarthla Iron Works were advanced on Monday last. LASTRISSAIST I'AIR.—At Lantriss dnt fa r on Tuesday last there was a pretty good supply of cattle which went generally at good prices. It is con- sidered that the business done at the fair was less than it otherwise would have been, from the Cattle Shew taking place on the same day. MELANCHOLY ARCIM.VT VPAII SNN.-„R. i-I "au .J u:1.I'o'\ -111 Thursday last, an inquest was held before (Jh u les Collins, Esq. Coroner, on view of the body of Gwen- llian Herbert, a servant in the employ of Mr. Win. Davids of Fforehedgel, in the parish of Lamjuke. It appeared in evidence, that on the morning off- 19th of September, the decea-ed was her breakfast in the kitchen of her master's house. There were several persons present, and one of them, Thomas Griffiths, took up a percussion gun aud ex- pressed some curiosity about the lock. Mr. Davids, to show him how it was used, gave him a copper cap, which he put on the nipple of the lock, and told him to snap it which Griffiths did. Mr. Davids then took up another gun, which (unknown to him) was loaded, and performed the like process; when, melancholy to relate, the contents entered the eye of the unfortunate girl, and lodged in her skull. She lingered in great agony till Monday last and then expired. The verdict returned was, The Jury are unanimously of opinion that the death of Gwen. Herbert was only accidental, that it was occasioned by a gun fired off by William Davids, who was unconscious that the gun was loaded, and we assess a deodand of 5s. on the gun. MERTHYR POLICE.—Before J. B. Bruce, and Anthony Hill, Esqrs. Nov. 1st, David Jones, of the Three Pigeons John Price, Rose and Crown Evan Evans, Lamb and Flag; Jeremiah Morgau, Three Horse Shoes William Hopkin, Collier's Arm, David .Jones, Flag and Castle; William Jones, Bc-ar Win. Powell, Blue Bell all beer retailers at Dowlais, were severally cori icted in the penalty of 40s. and costs, for keeping their houses open for the sale of beer, at hours prohibited by the act J. William IV. c. (it.— Thomas Badger, White Hart, Caedraw, was also fined in the like penalty and costs for a similar offence. BILL STAMPS.—Amongst the various alterations of the laws introduced during the last Sessions by the Legislature, it is important to draw the at- tention of commercial men to the new Stamp reg- ulations,and to caution them that after the 30 h of November next, bills drawn on those stamps now in use will not be legal and only those from the new die will be recognized by law. SPANISH (,,ALLAI,TRY.-Not lonq ago, while the Queen of Spain, now Queen Regent, was taking an airing on horseback along with her husband, Fer- dinand, she was suddenly attacked by a bull, and would have been gored on the spot but for the timely interposition of a soldier, who rescued her Majesty from the infuriated animal, and thus saved her life. The uxorious King, tilled with admiration and grati- tude, desired the soldier, who had come so season- ably to the aid of royalty in a moment of extreme peril, to name the favour which he would wish to be conferred upon him, at the same time intimating that no reward could be too high for the signal service he had rendered. Instead of taxing his Majesty's beneficence, however, the soldier, with the true Castilian spirit, r,, plied that all he wished for was another opportunity to risk his life in her Majesty's service. -London Guardian. ASSESSED TAXES.—The Associations in the me- tropolis for obtaining a repeal of the House and Window duties continue their proceedings with un- diminished ardour. At a general meeting of the various associations held at the Yorkshire Stingo, in the New-road, it is calculated that upwards cf 2,000 persons were present, by whom resolutions were passed, pledging the meeting not to buy or sell goods seized for non-payment of the assessed taxes, and to petition the King speedily to assemble Par- liament. The language made use of by some of tl e speakers was most violent. SUICIDE.^— An unfortunate gentleman named Hodgson, formerly, we believe, of the 14th Diagoons, shot himself at the entrance ot a gaining house in Paris, in which he had just suffered heavy losses. The landlady of the hotel in which he lodg, d had, a few days before, very humanely lent him 500 francs to enable him to return to England, and she has since taken upoij herself the expences of his funeral,