The Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette and Merthyr Guardian

MERTHYR 7YDVIL, SATURDAY, Nov. 23, 1833 From the commencement of our labours, our readers will do us the justice to remember that we have kept a careful watch over the appear- ances of the times that we have eagerly availed ourselves of every occasion for sustaining the sinking hopes and reanimating the drooping spirits of the inhabitants of the three important Counties whose interests we are more peculiarly charged with guardiiig that we have hastened to commu- nicate glad tidings to our friends when our own faith was sufficiently satisfied of their correctness i and therefore it is with the greater satisfaction that we revert to the general tenor of our local notices this day and for some time past, in proof that mining, manufacturing, and trading concerns are assuming a more healthy appearance. Would that we were enabled to afford the same consoling assurance to our agricultural friends; neverthe- less although yet unable to pronounce any decided improvement in their condition, we are disposed to entertain a confident expectation that the increased well-being of their neighbours will ere long react upon themselves, and that the climax —the Rubicon—of their misfortunes may in any case be regarded as passed. When present appearances are contrasted with the gloom and despondency whicb pervaded the whole of Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon at this precise period of the past year that we commenced our labours, it will not perhaps be imputed as vain glorious in us to assert, that whatever and however humble its merit or its pretensions, the GAZETTE AND GUARDIAN has ap- proved itself far other than a bird of evil omen Slightly to allude to the state of one portion only of our influential constituency—one district only of the three counties—such as we found it in the last really gloomy November; Merthyr was a prey to all the ills with which paralized indtistry) aggravated if not absolutely caused by political convulsion, can afflict a community. Emigration became a consequence of rioting, and thousands abandoned the place in despair in search of peaceful spots where their industry might be more advantageously exercised, or their property better respected and less in danger. Merthyr presented, in truth, a sorrowful spectacle. care on the brow and anxiety in the heart of all who had any thing to lose, whilst the former hale, honest and cheerful countenances of our operative brethren were but too generally ex- changed for lowering looks of discontent and the signs too visible of political and party fury. The operations of trade were suspended among the Shop-keeping interest; works were blown out by the Ironmasters; workmen were cast upon the parish for bread. Amidst the universal deso- lation political Onions and political Pretenders seemed alone to flourish whilst local Journals, which should have been first and foremost in aid of the law of the land and the institutions of the brian," from the principles which had before honourably distinguished them, to run riot with the disaffected, to prate about reform with all the vehemence of old age conscious alike of impo- tence and imbecility, and not of mind sound enough to distinguish between Reform and Revo- lution. Such was the November 1832. Even amidst lite gloomy perspective we detected indications of a more prosperous future, faint perhaps in the outline as the fires of Mcrthyr reflected a hun- dred times from hill to hill and cloud to cloud afar off, but not less sure signs than these to the traveller of his nearing the great Vulcanian forge of the world. This conviction we ex- pressed in the Prospectus which preceded our appearance this conviction we boldly justified by planting the banner of the GAZETTE and GVARDIAN even in the centre of dreary Mertiryr, and at once linking our own fortunes with the future weal or woe of Glamorgan, Monmouth and Brecon. If, on our own account, we rejoice in the pros- perous issue of our adventure—if, with a pardon- able exultation, we may be allowed to advert to the unparalleled success of the GAZETTE and GUARDIAN now diffused far and wide, and in one short year overtopping and superseding Journals of twenty or thirty years standing—not the less unfeignedly and fervently do we hail the chang- ing appearances of the three Counties, and of Merthyr, which we have assumed as the basis and point of our comparison. Now, we have the grateful task of recording in our columns weekly, an advance in the values of his mineral manufac- tures to the master, or in wages of his labour to the workman works are again blown in that had been thrown out of blast—others whose completion had been long stayed and entire abandonment contemplated,are oncemore in course of preparation; Rail-roads and other enter- prises on a mighty scale are in contemplation immigration has succeeded to emigration—our operative brethren return in search of employ- ment which is not long to seek the retail trader finds his wares more readily to disappear and his money returns more surely to pour in from cheer- ful customers, whilst the Bristol and Manchester riders, with their Groceries and Cottons, receive their share of the benefit in increased orders, and more punctual payment. Such is a picture, not overcharged, of the present appearance of Merthyr; hope has succeeded to despondency, and the amelioration has been so gradual and progressive as to aftord the best guarantees for its durability. We may not indeed look for the return of what Mr. COBBETT fitly terms prosperity prices;" iron at £16 per ton, may we fear, be regarded as an Utopian dream but there are the fairest grounds for trusting that prices will ultimately settle at that just point which shall remunerate the capitalist and allow the means of comfortable subsistence to the labourer. More slowly, but we trust not less surely, the agricultural interests of South Wales will participate in the advantageous position i f the mining and manufacturing, and the results of several of the late fairs serve to confirm us in our anticipation. Much of the improvement visible is clearly attributable to the subdued tone of party feeling amongst us. People are beginning at length to understand that political agi'ation has been originated and kept up solely that the division of some one hundred and fifty thousand pounds a year of the public money among the GREYS may be masked by it. They are pre- pared therefore to anticipate that some new scheme of reform and confusion is hatching, in order that the DURHAM breed may be fattened at the public charge, or that Lord BROUGHAM may be entitled to remove from the Court of Chancery, where there is work to do which he is too idle or incapable to perform, to the Treasury where less labour is required, all the while pre- serving intact his £ 14,000 a year and his retiring pension of £ 5,000. The battle is really between the GREYS and the DURIIAMS on the one side, and the BROUGHAMS on the other; these are the spoilers who will seek, for the purposes of am- bition and covetousness, to throw the country again into convulsion, that so they may plunder with more impunity. These are the objects for which, and which only, Corn Laws are denounced Church reforms proclaimed—the abolition of Poor Laws and the starvation of the poor pro- jected, and the first openly advocated—jobs in the shape of Corporation Charters concocted. If the people, with their woful experience of the direful consequences of political agitation, again give into the snare, then are they really deserving of all the miseries, past and prospective, endured or in store for them. Whether we are to be pillaged under the quackery of Reform, by the interminable brood of GREYS and DURHAMS, or the less numerous kinsfolk of the BROUGHAM tribe, is a matter of comparative indifference to all, pro- vided the course of our industry and the harmony of our lives be not interrupted by their broils. We care little which of these is minister, we are even disposed for the sake of tranquillity to tolerate the quartering of another bevy of Greylings, so that our industrious pursuits be not interfered with, aud wa be left to repose beneath the shade of the institutions under which our ancestors grew rich, great, and powerful. This we fear is not to be our lot, but there is on that account the more reason for the people to do their duty as we will do ours. We shall be found, as heretofore, in the front of the battle, defending the rights of the poor. and the poor laws; the declared foes of low prices and low wages the earnest advocates of the corn laws and the farming interest; the humble and zealous defenders of those institutions under which we ceased to flourish only as our progenitors before us had done, when the spoiler and the revolutionist were allowed to lay unhallowed hands upon them. In- dustry can only prosper with internal peace content and happiness are never found with Civil broils. We throw out these hints for the use of the public; a deadly struggle is going on in the Ministry—the rogues are falling out, so look to it all-

SPAI.-The accounts continue to be so contra- dictory, that it is scarcely possible to extract any thing more than the melancholy and indis- putable fact that the country is a prey to the most deplorable confusion, and all the horrors of civil war. The cause of Don Carlos, we lament to say, appears to be gaining ground for besides the defeat of the Royal forces under Generals Castanon and El Pastor at Aspeytia, the Carlists have taken possession of Ir»»> the frontier town of the Western Pyrennees and the Bidassoa, and have thus materially impeded the communications between France and Spain. These signal suc- cesses are not counterbalanced in importance by the defeat of the Carlists at Logrono in Aragon by Camp Marshal Lorenzo, as recorded in our last number. Of the movements of Don Carlos himself, nothing appears even yet to be clearly known. He does not seem to have quitted Por- tugal, and it is singular enough that up to this hour he has not asserted his pretensions to the throne of Spain by any authentic act or procla- mation. His partisans are fighting his cause without apparent concert with, or instructions from him. The only indication of his intentions he has yet given, and that known only in the highest quarters, was contained in his answer to the Spanish ambassador in Portugal. As we have the anecdote from a private friend whose high connections and sources of information are known to us, we will give it in his own words:— "When Cordoba, the Ambassador, went to an- nounce to him the death of his brother, King Ferdinand, and to communicate toliim the desires of the Queen Regent, Don Carlos answered I Yo soy el Rey Yo no tengo de re ibir ordenes de iiadie.l am the King; I cannot receive orders from any one. We view the struggle in Spain with the deepest interest; for the real question is, shall the reign of monkery for ever retain that noble country in a state of barbarism ? There are nearly one hundred thousand monks in that unhappy land, more depraved and ignorant than even the Roman parochial priesthood of Ireland. The secular clergy and the higher orders of the Spanish hier- archy are generally men of good lives, pious, and to a great extent enlightened. They wish for such a purification of their Church as would free it from the gross superstitions and ribaldry which the Monks have introduced into it. The secular are in a great degree to the monastic clergy what the Roman Catholic Church of England is to that of Ireland. However we may differ upon points of religious belief from our English Catholic brethren, we shall always be proud to bear our humble testimony to their undoubted respectability of station and conduct as a body to their anxiety to diffuse the blessings of educa- tion among the poor; to the moderation of their deportment as good subjects of the state; to their constant and careful avoidance of mixing them- selves up with the Irish agitators, for which they have always been honoured with the suspicions, the abuse, and the hatred of the O'CONNELL crew. FRANCE.—We have nothing of much interest this week from this country, 11 The combinations of the operative classes continue to excite uneasi- ness. The question of intervention in Spain is said to be decided in the Cabinet in favour of the opinion of Marshal Soult, who supports it. M. Humann, the Finance Minister, was against it, and is thought, according to our own private information, to have been intriguing in order to get Soult out of the Ministry, and his own son- in-law, General Guilleminot, in. By accounts from the Pyrennees, it appears that Gen. Harispe, commanding the army of iatervention, was con- centrating his forces. We, although viewing the cause of the Queen with favour, maintain that France should be dis- tinctly debarred from interference, and the Spanish nation left freely to decide between the infant Queen Isabella and Don Carlos. In med- dling with the Crown of Spain, Louis Philippe may chance to lose his own. PORTUGAL—By dispatches from Admiral Na- pier, who conquered for Don Pedro, we learn that at a battle near St. Ubes the army of Pedro had been defeated by the troops of Don Miguel, with the loss of 800 men. According to the brave Admiral's account the Pedroites displayed the greatest cowardice, many passed over to the Miguelites, crying Viva Don Miguel," and the rest ran away after firing their muskets in the air. Tha English and Portuguese marine brigade under Captain Birt were the only troops that disputed the battle with the Aligiielites. From this action Lord Palmerston may learn how soon the contest in Portugal is likely to be ended, and how much he has achieved by his addle-headed intervention. BELGIUM.—Baron d'Arneim the Prussian, and M. de Dietrichstein the Austrian, Envoys had arrived in Brussels. The negotiations with Hol- land were progressing satisfactorily. We stated in our last that the London GVA DIAN had copied the whole of our report of public meeting on the subject of the MuniC'P Corporation Bill, without acknowledging | source frem which it was derived. We bound, in justice to that respectable Journal? bound, in justice to that respectable Jotlrnat, to quote from it the following article :— j The account of the proceedings at Merthyr vil, relative to the Municipal Corporation Bill, j we yesterday gave from that excellent Journal J Merthyr Guardian, is one of so great importai both as regards the subject itself and the manner io j which it was handled, as to justify our recurre" j to it. We must again express our anxious hope, tbat-tbd I itea example given by the intelligent and public-spi' inhabitants of Merthyr—a town, by the way, J is rising into importance with a r»p>&i<y unexaWP.^ by any other in the empire—will be at once £ and promptly followed by the other burghs with the calamity of the Corporation Bill. Should^ hopes be realised, and the same spirit and unaD^1 be exhibited in them as in Merthyr, there cannot & moment's doubt, that the injurious measure wi" unceremoniously rejected by Parliament."

THE FOG.-We never remember a more deo6 fog than has prevailed on the four first days of the present week, They who have crossed the mo"" I tains in those days must have been struck with tie very curious appearance which the vallies belo" presented. They were completely covered witb II mantle nearly as white as milk, and the line was 50 defined, that the bright sunshine began immediatell where the line ended. In the Aberdare Valley "e observed Werva on one side and Bwllffa on the otber side, as the limits of the obscure curtain. l>o*et down the valley the exhalations which occupied line of the Cynon, and the lower region of the atmoS^ I f phere, were so condensed by the greater coldness 0 the surrounding air, that the bold hill of Twyn-)' Cefn-bychan, with his white mantle up to his centreg and bright sunshine on his brow, strongly reminded us of Goldsmith's beautifnl simile of the VillAge Curate- As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storfflf Though round its breast the rolling clouds are Eternal sunshine settles on its head." The yapour in the Vale of Taff, particularly about tt town of Merthyr, was far less dense, and its extrcøítJe9 less defined, which may probably be attributed to the n111^ rous coke-yards and other fires perpetually burning- of observed the same interesting appearance in the c",m Ie Taf-fawr, near the Blaentaf Gate, and in all the little I vallies abutting out of the Brecon Hills.

1 NEW SPECIES OF TIMBER.—We are g aa.,ei hear that the importation of a species of timber, ca' Green Heart, from the West Indies to this country, likely to prove a source of profit to the West India ell I This timber is used for planking ships, and has beed found to be more durable nnd better for this purpo"'b I than the far-famed Teak of the East Indies. Alth°u^ this kind of wood was tried twelve or fifteen ye .( ago by some of the ship-builders in Greenock) from the high price of it, and other things, it i9 t generally used. A vessel, with a considerable P" t I of her cargo, Green Heart planking, arrived ."t& Greenock a short time ago, and not a doubt now eS'"j|j but that the importatian of this kiud of timber^ form a part of West Indian importations in a ve I few years.-Glasgow Courier,. r REVIEW OF THE CORN TRADE.—A general I vey of the late harvest, founded on authentic i" mation, received from the various counties of cannot be but alteudcd with considerable Inter and though the space allotted to the descriptive view of the Corn trade is limited, we shall endeaV through this and the succeeding week, to ofle detailed account of the prodnce of the crops of gr pulse, and seed, conteuting ourselves at present the mention of wheat, barley, oats and rye. A< • commencement of the year a late harvest was pated, owing to the cold aud ungenial state °' weather, and the consequent check which veget0 suffered. A favourable change, however, ensued P f vious to the young wheats bursting into ear, aDcl .j, aspect of the country experienced a rapid and fying change. Reaping was begun uuder the P promising auspices, and at an earlier period than tomary 5 so propitious did the weather continue^ several successive weeks, that in few seasons „ general recollection, had all species of grain stacked aud housed with less interruption or injtjr*(|)g the corn, and consequently with less expense to farmer. Failures in some districts have arisen in the quantity and qualify of the yield, but caicu!a the whole wheat crop together, we believe the ^|| ficiency will uot be found to exceed l-6th of 3 average crop, and in colour and weight, to surpasf#tj,e I average quality. The stock of old wheats J hands of the farmers at the beginning of the baf I and at the present time, was- aud is larger 0it' I many previous years. Merchants and speculators » 0{ ever, hold to a limited extent, and the quantity free foreign corn is very trifling. The eW"1" in Mark-lane is ranging extremely low, and susceptible of improvement than of further depre e< tion. The best new white wheat, of 63lbs^• bushel, is worth about 60s. per qr.; fine red, of iO 65lbs. 55s. to 06s. Barley is deficient in produC .p the extent of about l-5th of an average. V\ ith tial exceptions, the weather was favourable fol*(jot» curing the crop, and less waste and deterio1"3 9, from wet being experienced than for maay sea rc The samples prove in good condition, but a large P,0t portion of them 'Are steely, and mixed with con|S^0 arrived at maturity, owing to there having ^eel>cg0' growths, seed-time haviug been followed by t^e tinued drought; and whea rain eventually fe' seed which had been long embedded in the 0/ germinated, and produced an uuder growth. 1 samples are complained of for malting purp not growing and working irregularly. Fine and Suffolk barley is not worth more at present 34s. to 35s. per qr. The stock of malt has usually large in the hands of maltsters and the P cipal brewers, which ha9 prevented much de hitherto existing for barley,—and in the c'^ercC<^ tricts, the low price of the article, in couseqtteii the superabundant crop of apples, has induced c. of the maltsters to defer for the present the man ture of new malt. The cultivation of oats has, o years, in many parts of England, been supersede that of wheat, and to a considerable extent jn Eastern coast. The crop is below an aver8"j3ii^' quantity, but fully equal in quality. Rye, in is au unimportant artiele. The produce, li0#* j/ rather under an average, and the quality g° Hertford County Press. THE MARVELLOUS OUT-MARVELLED !—E » tioned, a short time ago, as a remarkable insta" prolific vegetation, that 3o potatoes had under one stalk; but this will appear a mere P of a wonder, when it is stated, as a fact, that, garden of Mr. S. England, of this town(Chard) a. ^iii^ stalk was found to bear under it the astoo' number of 90, and some of them fine What makes this produce the more extraordi0. l" the circumstauce, that no trouble had been ta hoe the crop, as is usually doue.—Sherborne (e$e INCENDIARISM.—During the last week u0.^ tb than five acts of Incendiarism were committed county of Norfolk on agricultural property al'hri^f' fires took place at the village of Chatteris, Catn" shire, within the same period, all are posed to have been caused by incendiaries. INCENDIARISM—We lament to find | cendiarism is fearfully on the increase in 1 On Monday evening two wheat ricks, a bean jyj J hay rick, a barn, and a stable, the property Samuel Pickett, of Wroughton, near Swindon rfP | consumed by fire—the work of an incendiary*^ tr 1 wretch took care to kindle the fire in that p^rt ty | farm yard where the wind (blowing strong1 1 lime) was likely to-have the greatest ett'ect his object was merely the destruction of Pr0P^e has been fully accomplished Mr. "^>'c^e'!?<)CoVer(j' happy to say, was insured. The fire was ,-jji at about seven in the evening, and raged governable fury, until it could find no furl (fOj Mr. Pickett, at the time, was not return rjCfc Swindon market On the same evening-' f v hay, valued .at nearly 150?. the property ot > Jf Dowling, ofSouth Tidworth, wasset on fire ang0jj)e g. j consumed. Strong suspicion is attached l0^e f the labouers in the parish out of employ- periy was insured.-Gloucester ChroRicle,

THE LATEST LONDON INTELLIGENCE. Intelligence from St. Sebastian, Nov. 13, re- presents the inhabitants in hourly expectation of an attack from the Carlists. It is reported that General Sarstield has received the submission of the celebrated Guerilla Chieftain Cuvilleo and his whole band. The ),Iarqit Is d'Atily,-i, %viio iiiis endeavoured to excite an insurrection in favour of Don Carlos is said to have been arrested at Xeres. Madrid papers 8 Nov. say that the En- glish Am; assador has formally presented his credentials to Queen Isabella. The Newcastle Journal" reports that their Othee was invaded on Wednesday morn ng by J some half-score of ruffianly persons armed with whips, sticks, &c., at the head of whom they re- cognised Mr. John Coul Carr, Lord Durham's coal agent; Mr, J. P. Kidson, Lord Durham's solicitor .Mr. Jonassohn, a Hamburgh Jew a man-servant at the Earl of Durham's coal-fitting office; a person of the name of Galley; and others evidently hired." One of these persons then asked Mr. Hernainan the BaillC of the author of a handbill printed Ly him, which as that gentle- man required some deliberation before he con- sented to give, some of the crew fell upon him and committed a most outrageous and cowardly as- sault upon the unarmed gentleman. Another gentleman belonging to the establishment ran to call assistance of the printers, when these mag- nanimous champions of the tricolor removed themselves with remarkable expedition.

AGRICULTURE, COMMERCE, AND LONDON MARKETS. LONDON COH^ EXCHANGE. LONDON, Nov. IS.-We have had a good supply of wheat and flour siuce this day se'nnight, and this v morning also there was a good arrival of wheat from Essex and Kent, when the trade was exceedinly dull at a decline of at tea-t Is. per quarter on the best, and more on ordinary descriptions. Barley scarcely supports our last quotation, but beans are steady in value, and peas, particularly Grey, are rather dearer than otherwise. Though we have been rather abundantty supplied with oats during the past week, we cannot note any alteration in the trade, fine fresh oats realising quite its much as tfiis day se'niiight. The flour trade is dull, and ship flour somewhat lower. s. s s. s. Wheat,Essex Red 50 a 52 White 38 a "j2 Fine 53 a 54 a Old — a — Beans, Small 3"* a 36 White 52 a 54 Ticks a Fine 55 a £ 6 Harrow 3 Superiins 58 a 60 Oats, Feed i, „ New -a— Fine 21 a 22 Rye 30 a 35 Poland a Barley 27 a 31 Fine f'2 a 23 Malt 54 a 58 Potatoe. a 24 Fine 58 a 60 Fine a 2li Peas,Hog 36 a 37 Bran 9 a in Maple 3!l a 4i) Pollard, fine 14 a • Maple 3!1 a 40 Pollard, fine 14a PRICE OF HOPS IN LONDON, PER CWT. New Pockets. C s X New Bags. £ s £ g Farnham 11 11 al2 12 Kent 0 OaO 0 Kent. 5 5 a 7 7 East Kent 0 OaO 0 East Kent .7 0 a 8 0 Yearlings 0 OaO 0 Sussex 5 0 a 5 15 Oid Hop3 0 OaO 0 Yearlngs 0 OaO — The Hip Duty is estimated,,t PRICE OF TALLOW AND CANJDLKS, IN LONDON s. d s. d Town Tallow, per cwt. 480 I Greaves. 14 0 Russia ditto, Candle 48 0 Gool Dregs 5 0 Whiteditto. fl 0 Curd Soap 72 0 Meited Stuil 37 0 Mutttedditto. 700 Rough ditto 21 0 Yellow ditto 620 CÅDLES,-JloulllJ¡.s Od-Stores, gs-in ferior, 7s per doz. LONDON COAL MARKET. LONDON COAL MARKET. Price of Coal per ton at the close of business. Friday's Prices, Wednesday s Prices. 8. d. s. d. Adairs 16 3 16 6 West Hartley 166 17 EKST Pei-ey —— Kenton Nv est Orde's Redheugh 16 0 Holywell 16 6 Pontop 16 16- Tanfield Is r) 18 9 Hebburn 18 Townley 15 6 Shipcote 15 15 ti Wvlam 16 9 —— 16 9 WALL'S END. Clarke & Co. 11- Heaton 19 9 Dixon's Butterknowl Gordon 19 3 — — Blake g LL1L. Bewicke and Co 19 9 Hilda 17 9 18 0 Urpeth 0 Killiugworth Is6 —— Perkins 18 0 Northumberland 17 9 —— Hetton 0 Stewart's 213 —— 21 Tees io 3 —— 0 Newraarch 18 6 Brown Riddcll's 196 -111 PRICE OF METALS IN LONDON. BRITISH IRON, Pigs 5 0 Oto 510 0 Ears (ton) 7 5 Oto 710 0 Bolts and Rods 8 5 0 to 8 10 0 Hoops 10 10 0 to J1 0 0 Plate II 10 0 to J5 10 0 Cargo at Catdif f. 6 10 0 to 0 0 0 For bd. C.C. N. D. -.18 10 to 0 0 0 P. S. I. 0 0 0 to 0 0 0 Swedish II 10 0 to 12 10 0 Archangel 0 0 0 to 0 0 0 TIN. ^Blocks (cwt.) 3 12 6 to 0 0 0 ingots 3 13 0 to 0 0 0 1 ug In Bars 3 14 6 to 0 0 0 Plates, boxof 225shts. O 0 0 to 0 0 0 No. 1 C 134 by 10 iu. 1 13 0 to 0 0 0 IX I 19 0 to 0 0 0 COPPER. British Cakes (ton) 0 0 0 to 0 0 0 Sheets, per lb 0 Ollto 0 0 0 Bottoms (lb.) 0 1 Oto 0 0 0 STEEL. English 0 0 Oto 0 0 0 Swedish, bd. (tou). 15 5 0 to 16 10 0 LEAD. British Bars (ton). 14 10 Oto 0 0 0 do 13 15 0 to 14 10 0 Sheet milled.do 15 0 0 to 0 0 0

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE. Nov. 19.— I here was but little animation in the wheat trade at to-day's market, the millers con- tinuing to purchase sparingly; but several further parcels changed hands on speculation, at 6s. 6d. to 6s. 7d. per 70 lb. for good red Irish; the best runs brought in retail 6s. 9d. and very superior qualities rather exceeded that price. Barley and malt may be quoted as before, but the demand for them, as well as for beans, has been limited. We have experienced a fair enquiry for oats, which commanded a small advance, and oatmeal was held for full as much money, though the sale was little, if at all, improved. Flour still in limited request. FAIRS.—At Leohiinster fair, on Friday week, fat cows went from 4id. to 5Jd. per lb. and steers and stores at rather reduced prices. Sheep from 6d. to Cid. per lb. but only the very primest commanded the latter price. In the Salopian fair, Tuesday week, fat sheep averaged 6 £ d. per lb. Fat pigs sold at from 3d. to 3icl. per lb,; and all other descriptions of pigs were lower than at last fair. 'i At Blandford there were about 7000 sheep penned, not so many as usual at this fair. In consequence, -the owners, in the morning, asked higher prices, which the dealers would not submit to. Afterwards the principal part was sold, at about the same prices as at the up-country fairs. One pair of lambs brought 24s. per head. Of horses there were but few, and those of an indifferent description, and not many were aold. The cattle fair was badly'supplied, and not much business was transacted in it. There were a great many rigs, the prices of which were low, and a great many remained unsold. Of cheese a good sup- Piy was pitched skim sold from 28s. to 3Zs. i old Somerset, 50s. 10 56s. there wa^eyi fa'r' near Frome> on Monday week, the inclemency" of the^T XT*' °Wi"g '° and pies wereL weather; and horned cattle eduction. A couple? *aVC so,d.ra^r at Xf1,1couple of "couutry cousins" from eich oih"•he «• °°™ •Tii>pk»^L c. ° c°zen his relation, by picking his -'TStSE&ZTf' a°d*°m.° 1—~Vn been committed for trial at the en- ■" 1 1 >4. Shepton Mallet November fair was held at the usual place in Waterloo-fields, on Monday week. It was tolerably supplied with lean stock; which sold rather briskly. Fat stock w¡S scarce, and fetched from Ss. to 9s. fid. per score; fat sheep from 5d. to 6d. per I, Pigs went rather low!-As Nuntiey fair so often interferes with this, it would be desirable to ho'd Shepton fair on the first, instead of the second Monday in November an alteration which, no doubt, would improve the fair.

COMPARATIVE PRICKS OF WHEAT, FLOUR, AND BREAD, IN PARIS AND LONDON.—The highest price of wheaten flour, of the first quality, in Paris is 46 fiaucs the 159 killogrammes, which answers to Il, 9s. the English sack of 280 lbs. and the highest price of wheaten flour, of the first quality, in London, is Zl. 10s. the sack. It therefore appears that wheaten flour is 72 2-5ths per cent. dearer in London than in Paris, and that with the sum of iI. 10s. a man may buy 483 lbs. of fine flour at Paris, whereas with the same sum he can only buy 280 lb. in London. The highest price of wheat, of the first quality at Paris is 16 francs the hectolitre, which is equivalent to ll. 16s. 8d. the qr. of 8 bushels iinp. measure, and the highest price of wheat of the first quality in London is 3I. the qr. It therefore appears that wheat is 63 3-5th per cent, dearer in London than in Paris, and that with the sum of 31. a man may buy 13 111th bushels of wheat of the first quality at Paris, whereas with the same sum he can only buy 8 bushels in London.—The price of wheaten bread of the best quality at Paris is 11 sous per 41 bs. and the price of bread, of the second quality, is 8 sous per 4 lbs. which is equal to 3 7-16d. the English loaf of 4 lbs. The price of wheaten bread in Loudon, at the high-priced bakers, is 8d. the loaf of I 4 lbs. and at the low-priced bakers it is 7d. the loaf of 4 lbs.; and, therefore, if we compare the price of bread ot the first quality at Paris with the price of 8Jd. charged by the high-priced bakers in London, then bread is 81 ].3d' percent, dearer in London than in Paris and if we compare it with the price of 7d. charged by the low-priced bakers in London, then bread is 49 l-3d. per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.-In other parts of France the prices of flour and wheat are sliU lower than at Paris thus at Cam- bray, for instance, the price of wheaten flour of the first quality is 26 francs per 101 kilogrammes, which answers to Il. 5s. 9d. theEugUsh sack of 280 lbs. and the price of wheaten'flour of the second quality is 23 francs per 101 kilogrammes, which answers to 11. 2s. 9d. the English sack of 280 lbs. The price of wheat at Cambry ranges from 12 francs to 15 francs 53 cents, the hectolitre, which answers to 11. 7s. 6d. and 1/. 15s. 6d. the English quarter of eight bushels imperial measure.—The price of wheat of the first quality at Rochefort is 15 francs to 15 francs 75 cents, the hectolitre which answers to ll. 15s.and ll. 15s.9d, the English quarter of eight bushels imperial measure.

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The attention of the whole country is becom- ing every day more intently fixed upon that very important subject of consideration the actual state of the agricultural classes. Whatever may have been the impression once produced by the silly pedantry of the economists, and by the laboured attacks of certain persons who only seek to acquire land for nothing, the intelligence of the respectable part of the public in all classes • n of the vital im- portance ot preserving tne agricultural interests from threatened destruction. The whole tenor of the evidence adduced before the late Committee of the House of Commons loudly attests that any change approaching to a system of free trade, in this respect, must consign to immediate ruin a class of men whose usefulness to the country, and whose intrinsic merits entitle them to at least as high a consideration as any other of the many deserving classes of which the country is com- posed. If, by such a step of fatuity, the result be produced that the agriculture of the country can no longer be conducted, it is plain that the whole mass of the population, at least ten millions ill the United Kingdom, who are directly depen- dent upon it, must be without employment, and without means of subsis/ence. The only Provision, which the wild or wicked opponents of the corn laws hold out in this emergency, is, e. that the persons so disabled from living by agri- culture may betake themselves to manufactures Now can any person, however bewildered in the visions of MACCULLOCH, for one moment seriously believe that the manufacturing trade of England will ever afford employment to these people ? Every statement that we from time to time re- ceive of the progress of manufactures in foreign "ations, shows that the vast superiority, by which We once were in advance of all other manufac- turing countries, is daily diminishing. While we have been pursuing in this respect a free trade system, our rivals in every civilized part of the world have been fostering manufacturing in- dustry, raising up extensive establishments, en- creasing in fixed capital, improving in the skill to use it, and gaining ground upon us in all those operations in which the advance is solid and per- manent. If we look at the stupendous improve- ments actually in progress, the frequent discove- ries of new veins of ore and coal, the amazino- facilities shortly to be created, on the continent and in America, by Railway communications, some actually begun and many others in contem- plation, we must foresee that in less than a dozen years the demand now in existence for British manufactures will have dwindled prodigiously. We may be told that a new world is to be opened for us in a free trade to China but we shrewdly guess that the jealousy of the celestial empire will not long tolerate a freedom of trade, which will put about 20 millions of its subjects out of em- ployment. The result then is, that we now find a very scanty subsistence for about five millions of people in manufacturing employments: the demand for their industry has every prospect of decreasing: and the philosophers of modern science tell us to put ten millions more to subsist by the same occupation The absurdity of those opinions, which, by many theorists, are honestly entertained, in favour of a free trade in Corn, might easily be exposed upon every ground on which they rest their in- ferences. This, from time to time, in the progress of the discussion, we shall endeavour to do, wherever the absurdity is not so palpable as to carry with it its own exposure. We must how- ever observe, that the more immediate business of the present time is, not to deal with those who honestly err in judgment on this subject, but with a very different c'ass of people. The mereTheor- ists may be convinced by reason; or, if that be not sufficient, shamed by derision. But there is another class of opponents who are to be dealt with in a different manner.. In all popular movements, it is to be remembered that large bodies of men are collected and incited by few and the few who agitate have their own peculiar objects in what they do. All persons who- observed the progress of the Reform Bill were struck with the wonderful improvement which that measure effected in the value of the estates of Lord GREY, Lord DURHAM, Lord MULGRAVE and many' other most disin- terested patriots. If the meditated attempt at the spoliation of the Church of England be suf- fered to succeed, it will be a dear transfer in perpetuity of the nett annual value of the tithes into the pockets of the landlords—not of the tenants. When the question of Catholic Eman- cipation was set at rest, did we not see that it was followed by DAN, and we know no how many more of his hungry kinsmen, being transformed into Parliament-men ? But DAN did not then cease agitating for a good reason—he got thereby his annual O'CON- NELL tribute. If the repeal of the Union be effected, are we not prepared to expect that all the lands which have been confiscated or mortga- ged from the days of STRONGDOW will he legislated back into their ancient line ? These are the real secrets of popular commotions, and we can well comprehend how vastly convenient would be the repeal of the Corn laws to certain persons who now delude the people by the clap-trap of cheap bread." The first effect would be, that a la.rge portion of the land would go ont of cultivation, and the whole of it would yield no rent. The landed interest, even on the approach of this ca- tastrophe, and throughout the duration of the struggle, would crowd into the market to dispose of landed property at whatever price. This crowding into the market of a depreciated article, would reduce the price of it to a merely nominal one and the property of the landed gentry of the Kingdom would pass from their hands, as did that of the French Noblesse in their first Revolution Still the land, for the most part, would lie uncul- tivated, because the price of the produce would not repay the expense of cultivation. By this, the revenue would fall deficient: and the demand for three-fourths of the trading and manufacturing employment in the Kingdom would be extin- guished. The people then, who now so loudly and so foolishly clamour against the Corn Laws, would as loudly and much more wisely ciamour for their restoration. The thing done would be that the ancient gentry of the nation, the landed proprietors, small as well as great, would be doomed to pine in exile and penury, while the least principled, the least feeling, the least pa- triotic portion of the pnblic would lord it over the people on their ruin. This is a result which we defy the whole host of the economists to deny. This is a process which we call upon every man who lives by trade or industry well to consider. This is a conspiracy which we call upon the people of England as one man to repudiate and oppose. I We are much gratified in observing the pro- gress of the subscripion made for the celebration, with suitable splendour, of that grand national festival, the Cardiff Eisteddfod. To the high honor of the liberality of the nobility, gentry, and the public in general of the three counties, the subscriptions already received amount to the sum of £ 965; and we have strong expectations of their reaching a much higher point. This miinificentsup- port of the national music and literature is highly honorable to the liberality and good taste of the Principality, and must afford to the subscribers individually a most gratifying source of future reflection. Besides the pecuniary subscriptions already announced, our neighbours in Brecon have, with their well known kindness and liber- ality, otl'ered the use of their splendid bardic Chair, which was used at the recent celebration of the Eisteddfod in that town. The subscriptions already raised in the town of Merthyr have at- tained the amount of about glio, of which full particulars hav. not yet been published. The gentlemen who have kindly undertaken the col- lection of the subscriptions, only postpone the publication of the names until they have made their collection at Dowlais, Coed-y-cymmar, and Aberdare, which has not yet been done.

It was with great delight that we recorded, about a year ago, the promise of a most munifi- cent donation, by Dr. Edwards, of the sum of 1:500 to that excellent and well conducted Insti- tution, the Swansea Infirmary. It was with sincere pain that we since announced that death had deprived the world of this excellent gentle- man, who was ail ornament alike to his profession and to human nature. We are sorry to perceive, by an advertisement in another page, that the Executors of Dr. Edwards, acting no doubt un- der a conscientious impression of their duty to his heirs, have made some proposals with respect to the payment of this bequest, which have led to a meeting of the subscribers on the subject. We feel satisfied however, that, with that liberal con- sideration, which the pure and honorable motives of the gentlemen acting on each side will incline them to give to the claims of the opposite party, the difference will, with little difficulty, be satis- factorily adjusted. Under the possible contin- gency of any loss being sustained by this noble Institution in the present instance, we earnestly hope that the liberality of the public will be powerfully and effectually excited in its support.