The Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette and Merthyr Guardian

THE LATEST LONDON INTELLIGENCE. General Valdes has arrived at Bilboa and su- perseded Saarsfield in the command of the army. General Quesada has issued a report, in which he says that Merino has been deserted by the whole of his infantry, and retreated with only 200 partizans into the Sierra- Saarsfield has been created a Grandee of Spain and Viceroy of Navarre. The private correspondent of the" Albion" states that Doin Miguel has positively refused to come to any terms of accommodation with Doni Pedro. Intelligence from Constantinople represents, that incendiary fires are constantly taking place at that city. The accounts from Quebec mention that the weather has been so severe, that petitions have been got up for the relief of the agriculturist. r, 11 We are happy to learn the safety of the African expedition. The three ships have arrived in safety at Fernando Po.—(Albion.) A meeting of the Subscribers to Lloyd's was held on Wednesday to take into consideration the resignation of Mr. Alderman Thompson, at which the thanks of that body were unanimously voted to him for his valuable and efficient services during seven years that lie has held the office of Chairman. Mr. Hammond then moved that Mr. Thompson be requested to withdraw his resigna- tion, and to continue Chairman. This was sup- ported by several gentlemen, but opposed princi- pally by Mr. Sleap and Mr. Carruthers, only on the ground that it was incompatible with the regu- lations of Lloyd's, that any member of that body should be a member of any other Insurance Com- ,pany; and that members of Lloyd's had been ejected for connecting themselves with other similar Companies. On the question being put to the vote, Mr. Hammond's motion was lost by a majority of 105 to 82. A leading London paper says'on this subject, Agents of Mischief and Correspondents of tile Times" have been actively at work. We are of opinion that the appeal to the subscribers will defeat the combination; we defer therefore (jlll" fll rtber remarks until the result be ascertained.

-AGRICULTURE, COMMERCE, AND LONDON MARKETS. LONDON COR? EXCHANGE. LOlSOON CORN EXCHANGE. DEC. 10.—The arrival of wheat and flour last week was very moderate, owing to the boisterous state (,f the weather. This morning also the supply of wheat was short, chiefly from Essex and Kent, and fine parcels met a ready sale on full as good terms as this day se'nnight.-Barley is steady in value,Beaus of both sorts met a particularly dull sale, and aile full Is. per quarter lower.—Grey peas also have equally fallen in value; but boilers are Bot cheaper.—The oat trade is dull, though we do not consider it cheaper than this day se'miight.—Flout as last stated. S. S. S. 6. Wheat,Essex Red. 48 a 50 White 3H a 42 fine 50 a 52 Boilers 44 a 40 Old — a — Beaus, Small 34 a 36 White 50 a 52 Ticks 29 a 31 Fine 53 a 54 Harrow 36 a 38 Superfine 55 a '6 Oats, Feed 18 a 20 New — a— Fine 21 a 22 Bye 30 a 35 Poland 13 a S!1 Barley 26 a 30 Fine 22 a 23 Malt 54 a 58 Potatoe 23 a 24 Fme 58 a 60 Fine 25 a 26 Peas, liog 35 a 34 Bran 9 a 10 Man'e 37 a 38 Pollard,flue 14 a 16 Peas, liog 35 a 34 Bran 9 a 10 Maille 37 a 38 Pollard, fine. 14a16 PRICE OF HOPS IN LONDON PER CVVT. New Pockets. £ s £ s New Bags. £ s £ s FarnUara It 11 al2 12 Kent 0 0 a 0 0 Kent 5 5 a 6 10 East Kent 0 rt a 0 0 East Kent 7 OaS 0 Yearlings o OaO 0 Sussex 5 0 a 5 10 Old Hops 0 OaO 0 Yearlings 0 OaO — The Hop maet is very steady. Pit ICE OF TALLOW AND C A N D L KsTinTlo N L> O N_ s. d 3. d Town Tallow, per cwt. 48 0 Greaves 14 0 Russia ditto, Candle 4S 0 Good Dregs 5 0 White ditto 0 0 Curd Soap 72 0 iWetted Stuff 37 0 Mottled ditto 70 o Hough ditto 21 0 Yellow ditto 62 0 Hough ditto 21 0 Yellow ditto 620 CAN DLES.-)Iiiul(ls, 9s 6d—Stores, 8s—Inferior, 7s perdoz. LONDON COAL MARKET] Price of Coal per ton at the close of business. Friday's Prices, Wednesday s Prices. s. d. s. d. Ailairs 16 6 16' Beatunotit 1G0 Chester 15 3 14 6 West Hartley 17 15 ti East Percy 10 9 Kenton West •• Orde's Redlieugh •• 19 9 Holywell 16 G 15 9 Pontop 17 —— 16 6 Tanfield 18 186 Hebburn 15 Townley •• la 9 15 6 Shipcote IS 136 Wylam 0 -—— 16 WALL'S END. Clarke & Co. 16 0 17 Heaton Iti Dixon's Butterknowl —" ——. Oosfortb 19 3 19 6 Blake — 0 Bewicke and Co' 19 6 Hilda 17 9 —— 180 Ui-peth .—— 0 Killiiiffworth 18 I) -——. Perkins 18 0 .—— 13 3 Northumberland .] 17 9 16 Hetton 203 —— 19 0 Peareth Stewart's 206- 20 9 Tees 13 6 19 0 Newntarch «.. 18 .» 16 3 Brown RiddeU* lil 3 —— 19 3 PlUCE OF WOOL, IN XONDON. Blanket. 13d to 17d perlb. Flannel J6d. 21d Combing 17d — 191 PR IC li OF M ET A LS IN LONDON. BRITISti IIION. pjerg 500to 5100 Bars ftoti).. 8 0 0 (o 8 5 0 Bolts and llods 9 0 0 to 9 5 0 Hoops 11 0 0 to 11 10 0 Plate 12 0 0 to 16 0 0 Cargo at Cardiff 7 0 0 to 0 0 0 ..For bd.,CjC. N. D..18 10 to 19 0 0 All V. S. I. 14 0 0 to 14 10 0 I Swedit.h. Jl 15 0 to 12 0 O Archangel 0 0 OtoO 0 0 COPPER- British Cakc,3 (tou)- 10 0 0 to 0 0 0 Sheets, per lb 0 0 II to 0 0 0 Bottoms (lb.) O 1 0 to 0 0 0 STEEL. English 0 0 0 to 000 Swedish, bd, (ton) .15 50to 16 10 Q LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE. ( From the Liverpool Standard.) Dec 9. The business done in Wheat during the week was to a small extent; the Wakefield Market being I s. per quarter lower. The few sales of Irish Wheat in Manchester were at a reduction of Id. to 2d. on parcels; inferior being quite neglected. Prime Oats were in fair request, and some fresh Oat- meal brought -23s. 9d. per load. Flour continues in a depressed state, a decline of tid. to Is. per sack was submitted to. PEC* 10*—At this morning's market the sales of heat were limited the above noted decline was submitted to for inferior parcels; prime samples • ought the quotations of this day week. Oats were 1 ^°° request; some fine samples brought more Oatmeal supported the above advance, •ack °n lnUes dull at the reduction of 6d. to Is. per l-OSUi/A MAHj%rji\ CITY, THURSDAY, FOUR O'CLOCK.. Consols which were in the early part of the morning at 8S I for the Account, may be quoted at 881 ittiyers. In the Foreign Market, Spanish, 23j i Portuguese, 5(ij 7 Dutch, 50 to J. PRICES OF BRITISH STOCKS. Bank Stock *211. per cent. Reduced 961 India Stock 3-J per cent New 3 per celit. Consols,»# m>— 4 por cent. 1826 103-1 consols for Account .88 India Bonds 2*2 2-t 3 per cent. Reduced .87i Exchequer Bill PRICES OF FOREIGN STOCKS. Brazilian Blind, 5 per ct. 67 Greek Ang.Bds 5prct. 1 H Chilian Bonds, 5 per ct. — Mex. Bonds, 6 per ct. 37 Colombian Bonds, 6 pr rt 23j Portuguese Bds. 5 per ct. 57 j Danish Bonds, 3 per ct. 7:Vj Portuguese Res. Bonds 57 Dutch 2.J per cent. 50} Russian Bonds.5 per ct. 103^ Ditto 5 per cent 9Vi Spanish (1822), 5 per ct. "23i French Rentes 5 per ct. BelgianB inds, 5 per ct. 95j SIIARI':S.-Alten Miues,par.; Anglo Mexican. 89; Bola- nos 137J U2; Brazilian. Brazilian Imp. 61 2; Dt), tional, ■— Dmo St. John Del Rev. 6 7; Ditto Cocaes, 42 6; Cata Branca, 5 6; British Iron, 2S29 Mexican C unpany 81 91; Real Del Monte, 52^3^; United Mexican. 121; Ditto New Scrip, H115i; Alliance Fire and Life, Hi 12; Protector lire, 25 2G; Australian Agricult. 19; Canada Company, 48 9; General Steam Nav. 12 13.

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. In reference to a letter which we have received, sij(ned" A Father.If the parents of the child alluded to have any complaint to muke, let them apply to Jfr. Bruce, and we will insure them ample justice without respect of pe, surs. A communication, accompanying an American Pamphlet, shall receive our early attention. I From the cromded state of OIlY columns we are constrained to postpone Hard re." E- R R A TLI N -It# I/# r third column of the third page of our last, in thefirst line of the fourth paragraph for Charles Phillips, read Charles Pilling. Our Advertising friends are respectfully requested to send their Advertisements as early as possible, so that they may be properly displayed. We are sometimes prevented from doing this by the great accumulation of matter at the last moment.

MEltTHYR 1YDVIL, SATURDAY, Dec. 14, 1833 The aspect of the foreign relations of the country becomes day by day more cloudy, and from the East something like the avant couriers of storm and trouble are discernible in the poli- tical horizon. The Paris and other continental journals have for several days been sounding the alarm of war; they have dilated on the insolent conduct and mighty preparations of Russia, with the no less arrogant tone and warlike armaments of the Whig cabinet. Insults and injuries, such as the English nation never endured since the days when, under the Cabal Ministry of Charles II. it was before sold to France, and Van Tromp sailed up the Thames with a broom at his mast head, have been inflicted upon us during the Administration of Earl GREY; and, what is worse still, greatly do we question whether they have exceeded our deserts or can afford us just grounds for complaint. If a State be the artificer of its own degradation: if it have invited injuries and justified insult, the action for damages can lie only against the rulers who have abused its con- fidence, or wantonly sported with its honour, If Turkey have injured and Russia bullied us, it behoves us, before we complain of the one or retaliate upon the other, to examine how far we may have given cause of offence and invited re- prisals. The tale is, soon toldo for unhappily in these days the foreign policy of England—rather of the Whigs—is but one undeviating career of follies committed and shame achieved. t, Our readers will remember the successful rebel- lion of the Pasha of Egypt against his liege lord —his invasion of Syria-Ids victories of Konieh— his march upon Constantinople. The last of the Othmans trembled upon his throne—the empire of Mahomet tottered to its fall—another day, and the Arab of the desert, led by French renegades and excited by French intrigue, would have-j planted his banner on the topmost minaret of St. Sophia. In this crisis, and months before this crisis arrived, the Sultan prayed-not the armed in tervention which atAntwerp shed the blood of an all} all array of freebooters from St. Giles's andW apping like to those who under the sanction of Palinerstot, had laid waste the peaceful shores of the Douro anti the Tagus—-but a friendly me- diation which should, at whatever sacrifice, induce the invader to retire and restore tranquillity to his ravaged dominions. Every motive of pru- dence and policy urgently claimed compliance with this moderate requisition with Turkey we had relations of ancient friendship—a beneficial and yearly extending commerce—she was still a barrier against the ambition and the designs of the North—the Muscovite eayle was even then hovering over the perishing empire, as vultures scent afar off the putrid wreck of battle—the honour and the interest of England were alike involved—\)tit all in vain; Egypt was the sworn friend and zealous ally of Lotis PHILIPPE-by him her enterprises were abetted-and so once and again the hononr and the interests of Eng- land were prostrated to the purposes of France. Nay we h»ve it from the very, lips of Lord PADIERSTON,; in the House of Commons, for the truth of which we appeal to our Honourable Member, who must have beard him, that the Autocrat himself had urged us to mediate be- tween the. Sultan and his vassal; that the Rus- sian LegatigOtty in Loudon, had ever and again pressed it upón the Foreign Office, with an offer of all the co-operation and secondary influence of Russia Jierself in the wise and benevolent undertaking; but all were of no avail—Lord PALMBRSTON was blockading the Scheldt aud enveloped in the fogs of Holland-Turkey Was abandoned to its fate. In this his hour of agony the Sultan ap- pealed to the Muscovite—his last and sole re- source. How his fleets anchored in the Bosphorus --how his armies took possession of the forts of the Dardanelles—how Constantinople beheld at its gates and for its protection a countless an ay of Russian bayonets-how the Egyptian was stayed in his career and found it convenient to grant a peace to his panting victim at the price of his best provinces, leaving him little else than the shadow of empire—these, all these are ntai- ters of history too recent to need detail or illus- tration. The worst remains to tell. The armaments of Russia were costly, and, being for her behoof, Turkey was in justice called upon to discharge her obligation. The treasury of the-Seraglio was penury itsblf, but those who cannot in money may pay in kind. There could be no higgling about terms, for the Sultan was without a friend to aid or an ally to consult- there was not in that critical moment, there had not been for months,an English Ambassador near him—ourEnvoy to the Porte bein I)etter c ii (,,age, in gaily expending his £ 14,000 a year in the I feasts, the operas, the carnivals of Naples-tile Russian was in the poor Moslem's crlpital-the execution in his house; so he signed away his own birthright, his own independence—'twas his misfortune, but our loss and dishonour. THE DARDANELLES, by solemn treaty, WERE AGREED TO BE CLOSED, WHENEVER RUSSIA so WILLED IT, against ALL OTHEH POWERS. As no state save England has a special interest in their freedom of naviga- tion, so against England oikly was this damning clause enacted. When on the one side we cast our eyes on the French usurpation of Algiers, with its long line of Mediterranean coast—on an- other side Greece, now in reality as e're long she will be openly, a province of Russia—and lastly this arbitrary stoppage of the Bosphorus against US-it Is no difficult matter to foresee the total destruction of all our trade and best interests in the Black. Sea and the Levant. These are the blessings of Whig rule. At the date of this chapter of England's history—a page in her annals that must burn the cheek and bleitr, the eyes of every Briton to read—the Whig Lord GREY was Prime Minister; the Whigliug Lord PONSOXBY, brollier-iii-law to the Premier, was Ambassador to Turkey, receiving his pay and i quadrillion it away at Naples, as Nero fiddled whilst Rome was blazing—and Viscount PALMER- STON, the gay, the graceful, the liberal" par excellence," was Secretary fur Foreign Affairs to his Britannic Majesty. This gallant person is now, we learn, blustering and vapouring, as if Turkey heeded or K issia cared. It is not gene- rally considered of much profit to fasten the stable-door after the steed has been stolen.

We are given to understand that some remarks which we made in a recent number (Nov. 23d) on the real motives by which the opponents of the corn laws are probably actuated, have excited in some persons, whom, though in no very exalted station, we highly respect for their intrinsic worth, a new view of this important question. The evils however which we then described as result- ing from this suicidal measure, form but a very small part of those which must really flow from it. One, only one, of these manifold evils con- sists in the abstraction, from so many classes as to form nearly the whole, of that great and im- portant body—the community, of the only resour- ces by which they are enabled to subsist. Under the weight of national and local taxation which the agricultural interest at present sustains, it is clear that agricultural produce cannot, in Eng- land, be raised permanently or generally at such a price as to compete with the produce of the cheapest corn countries. The effect of this must be, that if the present corn laws, which are in fact but an inadequate protection to the corn grower, are repealed, the practice of agriculture, as to trade to live by and to employ industrious people, must be at an end. It cannot.be necessary to repeat, what is so well known already, that at least three-fourths of all the manufactures and other trades in the kingdom are supported by the home market and it is clear that if agricultural pro- duction, the bountiful gift of the Almighty for our support, be extinguished, this home market must be extinguished also. It avails nothing for the theorists to say that in that case an equal market will open to us in the countries from which we buy corn. Our position will then be, that perhaps a dozen different nations will try each to undersell the other in the British market in that article. In this competition, whichever country is successful must be so by raising corn at the lowest possible remuneration of the capital and industry employed in the production of it. We have consequently the people of some country, it matters not which, growing corn, at a price at which they must starve rather than live, to be sold in the English market. Now, when the people of that country, whichever it may be, com- pute how much more profit and subsistence may be supplied to their capital and industry by the system of raising up and protecting their OWIÍ manufacturing classes, we shall find that other countries, willing enough to sell us their corn, will by no means receive in exchange the only equivalent that we have to offer; so that this great foreign market is a total fallacy. Besides, there is a counterpart to this. Upon the princi- ples of perfectly free trade, English artizans and English machinery will move to whatever quarter the persons concerned may choose; and in a short time the manufacturing skill of Great Britain will be located in every civilized country in the world. Our own manufacturers, to stand their ground against this competition, must then pro- duce for the lowest minimum of subsistence upon which man in any region can subsist. In this we wage war, not against competitors in skill and industry, but against climate and the elements. By the effects of climate alone, the labourer at Paris can subsist upon much less food than he at London; the labourer in Spain than he in Paris in China than Spain. In this fine free trade, we must see our manufacturing people live in a state of wretchedness, of which those alone who have seeu Canton can form any con- ception. We wish that all the members of all the Political Unions in the kingdom may reåd these observations: and we hope that they wil ask the very eloquent gentlemen who act as Presidents and Secretaries to answerthem. But we have got as yet only to the first mile- stone on our journey. In the destruction of British agriculture, we not only throw the whole agricultural population into competition with the already bnrthened manufacturers, but we obvi- ously withhold, from all those to whom it at present flows, the revenue formed by those taxes which the farmers already pay. Of these, let us take first the fundholder. It is clear that these persons must be fobbed Off with some sort of composition, for the simple reason that the na- tional debtor will not have wherewith to pay their just claim. Gentlemen of Liverpool, and Man- chester, and Birmingham, and Glasgow, we believe you all require at certain periods to dis- count bills ? Gentlemen of the monied interest, where will be your ESTATE when the first Lord o. the Treasury compounds with the public creditor, and consols go down 50 per cent. in a morning? We believe these things rather touch the "pro- dtictive clasfes." Then, the mass of the fund- holders are annuitants of less than £ 150 a year all these persons must be thrown into competi- tion with the "productive classes,"instead of being fleir customers. Besides, we ask the opponents <K the corn laws, with what face do they call themselves the poor man s friend, when they strip the whole mass of the depositors in the Savings' Banks of every shilling that they have laid by iroin tueir hard earned wages ? We think these are business like questions: and to wind up all, we merely observe that the moment that the British crown breaks faith with the public credi- tor, that moment the hordes of the North and the barbarians of the South, the legions of the East and the Navies of the West take possession of every colony that now forms the foreign mar- ket" for British trade. This is part of what will be got by the productive classes." We come now to another item out of many of the branches of revenue which are affected by the repeal of the corn laws. The great burden of pauperism is sustained by the farmers, and here there are. some questions which we very much wish the opponents of the corn laws to answer us. Are tlrese gentlemen prepared to cast out houseless and naked, to perish, in hun- ger and in penury, the hundreds of thousands whom old age, infirmity, misfortune or destitu- tion may have driven to that last asylum of human wretchedness, the Parish workhouse? Arc these fine philanthropists, these restless seekers after "perfectibility," prepared to extir- pate, in all its practical workings, that sublime Monument of wisdom working with charity, in which the legislature of England have declared "that no subject shall be compelled through want to perpetrate crime ?" And lastly, we ask these politicians, these deep-seeing observers of the machine of civil government, in what sort of condition will Le the safety of property, if the tliousands of able-bodied but unhappy nun whom modern legislation has torn front honest and Use- ful labour, and driven into the poor-house, are turned even from that miserable refuge to subsist upon nothing ? Perhaps the philosophical opponents of the corn laws may answer these questions. Next week we will give them something more to answer.

Those gentlemen who are desirous to know something of the "workings" of the beer-house system, will do well to peruse our police reports of the present week. We have, for the public good in this respect, given some cases with all their circumstances, and we think any comment upon them quite unnecessary.

FItANCP.-Tlie Citizen King, has addressed remonstrances to the Court of St, Petersburgh on the treaty lately entered into between Russia and Turkey. The "Augsburg Gazette" says that the Emperor has despatched the French courier to the place from which be came, it is added, with an answer that he will listen to no remonstrances. SPAIN.-—The intelligence from Spain, notwith- standing that ill-fated country is the subject of a contest for a crown, is exceedingly meagre. It consists principally in confirming the statement 11 ellt of events which we have already recorded. Every report either confirms, or adds new circumstances relative to, the defeat of the Carlists, and the occupation of Bilboa and Vittoria by Saarsfield. The Indicateur of Bordeaux" of the 2d of December states, under the head Bayonne, that Zea was still in power on the 24th ult., but that the Council and grandees of Spain were endea- vouring, in the interest of the country, to over- throw him. The Memorial Bordelais" states on the authority of a traveller from that place,, that Eraso (a Carlist General) had entered Stella at the head of 6000 men but this report appears to be very improbable, inasmuch as it seems pretty certain that the successes of Saarsfield have com- pletely brought under subjection the Basque provinces. It is strange that Don Carlos, aspir- ing to be a King, should as yet be "non inventus and his personal seclusion in this respect seems likely entirely to damp the ardour even of his most zealous supporters. Merino, a devoted Car- list, is still in force in some quarter, but it is not known where. PORTUGAL.—Reports received by the Confiance, from Lisbon to the 1st, and from Oporto to the 5th, state that no military operations had taken place, but that a negotiation was on foot, which, it was expected, would terminate in Miguel's re- tiring from the contest with a fixed income for life. BELGIUM.—A convention has been signed at Zondhoven on the part of Holland and Belgium, by which foreign troops coming from Maestricht and from Holland are admitted to pass the roads on the left bank of the Meuse. This convention; is in opposition to all article of the Belgic consti- tution, by which no foreign troops can occupy or traverse the territory but by virtue of a law. These high minded Belgians are sorely vexed at the convention, and most abundantly have the Belgic Ministers been catechised about it. Tha o Minister at war represents that the concessions made to Holland are of very trifling importance. TURKEY—The Augsbnrgh Gazette" speaks of a change of the Ministry at the Sublime Porte, the Sultan having been obliged to send the Pacha Chosrew into exile. It is said that this Pacha was implicated in a plot to take the life of the Grand Seignior, but the story appears not entitled to credit. BUBNOS AYRES-Papers- from Bitenos Ayres to 21st Sept. give very unplesant intelligence. Oh the 2d. Jan. in this year, the Clio, Capt. Onslow, took possession of the Falkland Isles, f then part of the Bolivian Republic. The Go- vernment of that country have addressed repeated memorials and remonstrances on the subject to the Whig Cabinet, but have obtained no redress and the papers now received state that the affair is brought before the House of Representatives at Buenos Ayres, for consideration.

MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.—-The proclamation appeared in the Gazette of Tuesday, for the further proroguing the meeting of Parliament to luesday, the 4th of February next, to meet for the despatch of business. Mr. Alderman Thompson has resigned the office Chairman of the Shipping Committee at Lloyd's. Some gentlemen considered that the Insurance Com- pany lately formed at Sunderland, in which the Hon. Alderman has taken an interest, might clash with the Institution at Lloyd's and Mr. Thompson, with a most honourable delicacy of teeling, illitne. diately vacated the Chair. The Bank of England have given notice, that they will advance loans payable on or before the 14th January, at three per cent.; the loans to be for sums not less than 2,0001. each. HANOVBR.—The population of this kingdom amounted, on the 1st of July last, to 1,642,670 souls, independently of the military, whom we may set down at 20,000 more; making a total of 1,662,670. The number of dwelling-houses, at the same period was 2393151. One-sixth part of the inhabitants are Roman Catholics and the Jews do not exceed one in every 140 souls. Since the year 1830 there has, therefore, been an increase of 13,020 in the number of houses, and 113,620 in that of inhabitants; the average yearly increase of the latter having been upwards of four in every hundred souls.

BARDIC CHAIR. TO THE EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE AND GUARDIAN. Sitt.-I have lately been extremely gratilied, through the kindness and polite attention of Mr, Alderman Bird, by the inspection of a Bardic Chair of very great antiquity, now in that gentleman's possession at Cardiff. At the present moment, when so much public interest is excited by the approach of our National Festival, any particulars which the worthy Alderman would kindly communicate to your readers, through your valuabie and truly patriotic Journal, in relation to this venerable relic of anti- quity, could hardly fail to prove in the highest degree interesting and gratifying. I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, Dec. 11, 1833. GLENDWR.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE AND GUARDIAN ,r.,}. j¡ Sm, Between 30 and 10 years since an Eisteddfod or Gorsed was held on the Garth Hill near Pentyrch. As an account of such meeting will no doubt be interesting to many of your readers, any particulars through the medium of your paper will oblige Your obedient Servant, Cardiff, Dec. I I, 1833. MEPHY.

CA Li Dill El Si UJJiO Li. TO THE EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE AND GUARDIAN. SIR,Please to insert in your next Guardianf the following Englyn, by a gentleman, who, having Through various stri, y ,d, their customs, laws, and iiiaiint r" weigh'd," is now happily domiciled with us i. having wished with the sweet bard of Auburn, 1 Here to return, and die at home at last," or, thinking, in unison with the fiije couplet of our own gifted Llawdden, that, .No Ii,liiio trei^lo pob tref, Teg cJrych tuag adref." I remain, Sir, Your humble servant, MYNGLWYD. Gymru fad, hardd wlad, bydd lonn Gwent, Gwyncdd, A gant gynnyrch rliicilorl; A Dyfed.Powys, brya hronn, DitLau, Ci,ierdydd, cae'r D,)ethion.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE AND GUARDIAN. SIR,-The increasing circulation of your well- written paper, not only in this neighbourhood and its adjoining parishes, but throughout the county at large, and the valuable local information already afforded through your columns, induce me to hope that the biography of eminent Welshmen (more particularly natives of Glamorganshire or Brecon- shire) will occasionally enrich your paper. Within the last year, two eminent indi* iduals and natives of Glamorganshire, William Morgan, Esq. the actuary of the Equitable Insurance Office, and the Hev. William Howells, the Minister of Long Acre Chapel, have been taken from us but no memorial of either has appeared worthy the individual. In the hope that your insertion of this letter may be the means of obtaining memoirs of both through the Gazette and Guardian, I remain Sir, Your obedient servant, Lantrissent, Dec. 10, 1833. o. O.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE Sf GUARDIAN. SIR;-I was much delighted with the very affect- ino- manner in which one of your correspondents observed upon St. Paul's desiring Timothy to bring him the cloak he had left at Troas. Dr. Shuttle- worth, in his beautiful paraphrastic translation of the Epistles," makes the following reasonable remark upon this passage:- it has been suggested as a not improbable conjecture, that the-cloak and parchments, respecting which the Apostle gives his commission to Timothy, were the Roman toga, and the certificates of his citizenship, which might be of service to him in his approaching trial before the Emperor." Your obedient Servant, Abergavenn y, Dec. 7; P.

To THE EDITQR OF THE UA. JLETTB Sf O UAHDIA IV. -40 SIR,-Your numerous readers, whose amusement, and interest, and instruction, you so kindly and liberally consult and provide for from week to week, will, I think, be pleased to peruse in your columns the inscription on an elegant and classical silver vase, which was presented In the autumn of last year, to the Rev. Dr. Williams, of Cowbridge, by gentlemen who had been educated at his school, as a mark of gratetul attachment and esteem to their worthy master. 1 am not aware that it has appeared in any of the public papers Viro Reverendo Probitate, moribus, diligentii Spectabili Puerorum Informatorl erudito Gulielmo Williams, S. T. P. Alumni quidam ejus sub auspiciis educti Hoc Vas argenteum D. D. MDCCCXXXII. I am the more induced to offer this to your notice from the circumstance of having recently heard some remarks in respect to the word INFORMATOR. This word is of classical formation (" informare aliquem in artibus is adopted by Cicero)—and it has been appropriated by long use to the situation of Master in a Grammar School. The old Roman word is GRAMMATICUS, as may be seen in Quintilian. The term ARCHIDIDASCALUS is more granditoquoiu, but has less authority. INFORMATOR PUERORUM is the title at Eton. It is also the statute name of the HEAD MASTER of Winchestcr Colle 'e the under-master is the PAEDAGOGUS. The epitaph on Dr. Gabell commences with these words M. S. Henrici Dison Gabell, S. T. P. hujusce Collegii Informatoris." ,„r. 1 am, Sir, VV ith every sentiment of esteem, Your faithful servant, CRITO.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE 3f GUARDIAN. & SIR-On the 17th of last October two spots were distinctly seen, through a good refracting telescope, near the edge of the sun's western limb. On the 8th November, and for some days following, this large spot was again observed,cind at the same time traces of considerable disturbance in the portion of the solar atmosphere occupied by the eastern and smaller spot (now. vanished), jwere distinctLy re-- marked. On Monday last, De67 2, at one P.M. the larger and only remaining spot appeared coming again to view on the sun's disk, with small penum- bra, if any, and perfectly black. Perhaps the determining the precise period of the sun's rotation on its axis, commonly stated at 25 days and 10 hours, may be a matter of interest to some of your readers, it so, it may now be advantageously watched. Yours. &c. Neath, Dec. 3, 18S3. VIGIL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE AND GUARDIAN SIR,-The folowing Epitaph upon Rev. Owen Griffiths, who died in the College Church at Brecon while in the act of preaching in the pulpit, under which his tombstone is placed, being inaccurately given in Jones's History of Brecknock, and being in itself so truly elegant, and it, IOY opinio:iiiissical also, I have thought that a more exact copy of it may not be unacceptable to some of your readers. If you think it worthy of a place in your columns, you have my full permission to insert it in your Guardian, with or without this preface. I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, RICHARD DAViES, Brecon, Dec. 7, 1833. Hie jacere cineics Audocni Griths hujlls collegii pre beudarii querentibtis dicat pallatis hoc saxum notis, ne meinoriam ejus cum corpore texerit sepulcbri invida taciturnitas, nam illam nobis reliquit, et exemplum vel opliinis itnitandum nam vixit auior et populi et cleri, vixit dilectus ab omnibus bonis ei honestis, sibi laudi ducens a caeteris non ainari vixit filius ecclesias sincerus, gravis et pius, contemnens æque Roma; fallacis dogmata ac Picti hypochrisin fanatici. Sic firiims et constaus, (tit vixit) obiit; dunique caelum partem ( jus nohiliorem preva- leatibus rapit ibfluentiis, cognata seties pulpiuim cadaver sibi non ingratc vindicat ac tuetur, officiosa protegens uinbrrl sepulcbrum ut gloriae sua; inonumenium. Sic Stella qua; nuper verticem illnstravit, nunc itnos cadit amplexa pedes. Obiit Utio die Octobris, lGSf.

LO THE I EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE AND GUARDlA SIR,-A dispute, which solne.,of the combatant8 I have chosen to call a Controversy," has been 0 I' some weeks carried on in the Cambrian.-The Inos shameless falsehoods as to tithes, ancient so I modern, have been put forth and repeated by an ignorant writer under the name of Mentor, received the encomia of a teacher of re'ligio.n ltt J many pulpits. The main assertion is that were paid under the Jewish dispensation but d1* | in three years, and then shared with the poory I which is brought forward in several taunting l&rinS' Now this fabrication is contrary to the expre^ words of Scripture, Deut. 14, 22, Thou sbalt tfu'J tithe all the increase of thy seed that the bringeth forth year by year." Let those who do"" the meaning of these words, as addressed to Jews, consult the parallel passages in any with references, or any commentator of the sligl1'^ learning or respectability. Thjjr'.dbrication is c.o?" trary to the words of Josephus, (Antiq. lib. 4, c. <V Besides the two tithes.-commanded you to pay eve[J year, one to the Levites and the other to the l'0*' Feasts, there is a third tithe to be paid every tpr, years to the poor, the widow, and the fathelesS 011 what grounds then can Mr. Waring maintain veracity or sagacity of Mentor ? Further, in the ce of the inspired writers, it is denied that the Lelte had any lands or cities or other resource beyond IS share of the third years tithe, and this by the IfO would-be historians of tithes in the Canibria,lj. Peace to the Manes of Selden, of Bishop Andrew's*^ Carleton, Comber, and Heylin. These were g'a?\ in those days." Have neither of our two pi?inieg read in their Bibles of the 48 cities and 53,000 of land assigned to the Levites as the lot- of theI inheritance J If they have, how can they infer th^ our clergy should be stripped of every other sesion but the third of the third years' tithe. ■ they not know that the inheritance of the Levi descended from father to son, and that the pref-er- ments of our clergy do not, but revert to the patron, leaving the orphan destitute unless provided 0, from some other source than ecclesiastical revenues • How cruelly unfair then their inference, andnotleS false. he But a person used to the correspondents of the Cambrian might put the matter in a different \V¡)!. he might safety contend that its three controversy alists, as they are pleased to call themselves, ha\ aimed at three remarkable absurdities, or in own lingo found three mare's nests."—For » I. Mr. David R. Stephen has found out l[ia. what the layman does to convulse" his paflSt may by a Dissenter" be fairly laid to the ac cot1"1 of the clergyman, and that though there be thing as marriage tithe" in return naturu, }> only Easter dues, it is very oppressive, and to he quits his subject with a taste of v, unknown tongue, or it may be scrap of dog ^atlr> enough "to convulse" a scholar,(vide his last 1ett J If he wants to go on in the same vein, let him:iiay what tithes were typical ? II. But to come to a more considerable specIIJl ce of the equm situm, "Mentor," a name °?{ assumed by the Goddess of Wisdom—now by owl, has found out by distilling the venom of trash, that the Scripture is false in its assert that tithes were to be paid year by year," ved 14,22. Thence he wanders to Charlemagne, asserts that he first introduced tithes M*t0 Christian Church A.D. 800. Whereas, Aug,lS speaks of them as paid nearly 400 years say nothing of their recognition in the Roma" As to Blackstone's shewing that the clergy, stripP^y as they were by Henry the 8th, are bound -by dictate of justice, honour, and humanity, *9 T [he the churches and support the poor; consul' author's Commentaries and you will find it false it consult your parish rates, and you will fill impossible. erifig III. Lastly why, but with a view of disc<jv'er' the same anomalous production, will Mr. ,Var oi meddle with the strange and haunted seplilehre.th Offa ? The authority by which he is charged murder is uqI good, aud that by which he is jist to have introduced tithes as the verriest sCl°t^ 'A in our Saxon laws must know, is tcorse. -^Uuaot verriest mare's nest of all, which the triuinp11. Claw-Clergies' of the great rebellion never t revealed to them, is, that if the Establish'^ were no longer tolerated, the dissenters would afe in a Family qf Love. 1°in3b

PRUSSIA.—There never was a more n°'sei?Lii accession of territory than that which the PrU has made during the last twelve years. The pletion of the survey of its whole surface, has been in progress since 1821, gives an 10 eort1 upon previous estimates of nearly eight and geographical square miles. At the former Per.\esi it was computed at 5014, 61-100 square it is now ascertained to be 5062 34-100. The « sian dominions at present contain 983 towns, municipal circles, and nine towns which form c*rtjoU ot their own. In 1831, the quadruped popula gd consisted of 1,371,594 horses; 4,446,368 h°r beasts; 11,751,603 sheep 214,072 bucks goats; and 1,736,004 swine.. A FLINTSHIRE EISTEDDFOD.—The Hon. "J Moslyu, M.P. has accepted the office of p,.e_.idel rP the festival, in whose family the identical silver Ito in that was awarded at an Eisteddfod held at Caer^J -jl 1567, under the sanction of Queen Elizabeth, iS preserved. 11 of DREADFUL CALAMITY.—Thursday, the to\ itcd ji;i Haverfordwest and its neighbourhood was with very severe weather, attended with thunder^, lightning. The electric matter, we are sorry 10- attacked three dwelling houses near Keeston, rose parish, and set them on fire. Every artic'e consumed, leaving the bare walls ouly staodi"»yJ,JS poor decrepit old man, who had been an 0 bed for some time, escaped with difficulty. %i,e bafo that injury was done to other places; but we cli not heard the particulars, and cannot therefore y0 for the truth thereof.— Carmarthen Journal, ccot' ROBBERY.—A stranger, and a native of» land, arrived at Swausea, on Monday last, 'r if tour of the different towns in South Wales, W is supposed, that he has levied contribution* ^etg- plenish his exhausted exchequer. During his P)er$' grinations, he assumed different names and charBC flg.6 Hie one he thought proper to appear in Swansea»^e|f that of a mate of an Indiaman, and presented as such to" mine host" of the Lower Lamb, rag" street, who supplied his customer with lots 0 besides other more substantial refreshments, ^t'' ever, when the next moniiug arrived, "roioc pe<J found that his guest of the M long voyage" had s '^re, his cable and sheered off without paying h'st,stooK and at the sarnie time, as a Forget Me Not, with him the landlord's wateh and a silk hall" reo chief. On this being discovered, •* mine hoS1^ solved upon a chase1;- aud Sawney was captur^ same day at Curmar-theiu-ia- the act of. watch at •' Uncle's'' and was forthwith takeii ha^^c Swansea to answer tor his couduct before the P authorities.— Ibid FISHGUARD.—Oil Thursday night morning last, we experienced here a heavy 0C^ wind from the N. W. It commenced about five0 $ itb I oil the former evening, and continued to iarl J;lf extreme violence till about noon on the follo<*i,,» ()fl The mercury in the barometer fell to 28 Friday morning, during the height of the [»a ^$6* brig Joseph, of Cardiff, quitted these roads, al1 sail for Newport (Pembrokeshire), where she s0e> the sands. A small sloop, belonging to Aber was at anchor within less than a quarter from the Castle Point, and, from her leeward 7^ {o> tion, could not either get out of the bay 1101 døbe the harbour without imminent danger of being .blf on the rocks, where every soul must liav cilley' pect, perished. In this critical situation, her creV> e pjf' iug every moment that her slender cables wo* ^^1 0 hoisted the ensign union downwards, as a 6 distress. Their perilous positibti melted ihy of the numerous spectators on the neigh" tee(e clitfs, and ten resolute seamen promptly vol up to to proceed to their rescue. The weather rough for the fishing boats to encounter, the h constructed here, by Lieut. Evans, agent to jj^t^ on a plan of his own invention, was launched. After a severe struggle against the the elements, during which the buoyant, seC°j,)ei'.j, superior qualities of the life boat were eBl>^ei conspicuous, ihe brave fellows in her slicce^er reaching the sloop, and returned wiih the two men, which composed her crew, to 1 j through a very heavy surf, in admirable sty without meeting with the slightest accident,^ fee the upplause of the multitudes whom curiosity ing had attracted to the shores to witness S Fortunately, during the day the gale little vessel rode it out secure; aud on Ju morning, she was towed into the harbour by boat.ibid-