The Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette and Merthyr Guardian

Occurrences of an aaftil chrwaoier nave, during; the course of IS3.j, added interest to the study of chemistry in one of its branches, fey their tendency to draw discredit on science, to detract from the merit of an invaluable discovery, and to derogate from the name of a chemist, whose memory England will long cherish—Sir Humphrey Davy. The efficacy of tlu4 "Davy lamp" has been ques- tioned by ignorance, which attempts to cover the consequences of its own neglect by aspersing the deduclions of science. It is clear to the unpreju- diced mind that the frightful accidents occurring in coal mines, even where the ''Davy lainp'( is in ordinary use, are traceable to the neglect of the "putter" or" hewer," who is in the constant habit of breaking the wire-guard of his lamp for the sake of a greater momentary light. Thc grounds on which the efficacy of the "Davy lamp" has been denied, are lamentable proofs of a great halt in the march of useful knowledge. Cue wise authority gravely asserts that the air is decomposed, and the oxygen accumulates in the interior of the lamp, forming all explosive mixture! and that when the maiter in the lamp explodes, the explosive air in the mine inflames! and goes off," by ympalhy, we suppose. Such are the absurdities littered on this important subject in the present day, when the common principles of science might well be sup- posed to be universally familiar, when the import- ance of scientific research on every boy's lips, and the diffusion of knowledge is the ordinary theme of all classes of the community. RUSSIA-Z FAIRS.—The fairs of Russia are upon a scale so gigantic, as to eclipse the wonders even of Leipsic and Frankfort. Tiie great annual meeting t ishni Novogorod, is sufficiently well known for ItS transaction in merchandise by scores of millions of roubles, and its congregated hosts of attendant strangers. The following was the movement of the fair, called Korennaia, held some years since at Kouisk, the capital of the southern department of that name: it is thc last return we are in possession of. Brought to the amount Sold for of Roubles. Roubles. Russia goods. 32,050 189 20,974,058 European goods and Colonial Merchandise 1,760,600.. 701,500 Asiatic goods 1.336,000 486000 And horses for the value of 600,000 roubles more.- Tuere were about 50,000 foreigners at the fair I The receipts, in taxation for the crown and the town, amounted to 61,468 roubles.*—Foreign Policy and Foreign Commerce. Blackwood, Feb., 1836. • The Russian rouble is equal to 4-1. 6d. English money. PRIMITIVE WOLF TRAP.—Captain Lyon describes as follows a trap made of ice by the Esquimaux, to capture wolves: The trap is made of strong slabs of ice, long and narrow, so that the animal cannot turn round in it. The door is a heavy portcullis of ice, slid- in two well secured grooves of the same substance, and is kept up by a line, which, passing over the top of the trap, is carried through a hole at the furthest extremity of the top to the end of the line is fastened a small hoop of whalebone, to which any blit of meat is attached. From the slab which forms the end of the trap, a peg of ice, wood, or bone, points inwards, near the bottom; under this the hoop is lightly hooked, so that the slightest pull at the bait liberates tnehoop. The door falls, and the wolf is speared where it lies." It appears bv letters received on Saturday at Lloyd's, that the Netherlands ship Eliza, Staal bound from Rotterdam to Batavia, with a cargo of bricks, got on the Godwin Sands early on the pre- vious morning, and it was feared that unless the weather should presently moderate she would become a total wreck. Captain Staal, the chief mate, and two of the crew attempted to come on shore in the boat, but were alinost immediately swamped. The second-mate and the rest of the crew were more fortunate, having been rescued from their perilous situation through the intrepidity 0f the Deal boatmen. e We have to register in the tatal catalogue of the losses at sea in the recent desperate gales another appalling catastrophe, at Bishop s Island, near Kilkee, where the Intrinsic, merchant vessel, Quirk master, late Chambers of and from Liverpool to New Orleans, was driven in totally unmanagea- ble, by the tempest, on .Saturday morning, and dashed to pieces in the tremendous surf whch breaks uponthe mighty cliffs along that iron-bound coast. The master and crew lout teen persons are reported to have perished within view and hearing of the few natives who co lected on the i-tigged heights of that wild region, but without the least possibility of affording succour or relief. The Intrinsic was laden with a general cargo, and appears to have sailed on the 14th of January from Liverpool.—Limerick Chronicle.

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON. We have pleasure in recording the following instance of good feeling on the part of the newlv- elected town council of the borough of Stratford- upon-Avon. Tlie Earl Delawarr, the former High Steward of the borough, having written to the town clerk to take his leave of the Corporation, which had heen remodelled under the Municipal Act, received for answer the subjoined resolution of the new town council, unanimously passed :— "Stratford-upon-Avon, Jan. 20, 1836. My lord- -1 laid your letter to me, of the 29th December, before tde Corporation of Stratford-upon- Avon, at a meeting of the Council, held yesterday, and the very gratifying task has been imposed apon me by the body corporate of conveying to your Lordship the unanimous wish of the council that you will dotiiem the honour of continuing in the office of High Steward. Tlle council is composed of sixteen members, of whom fourteen were present at the meeting; and I ain requested by the remaining two, who were unavoidably absent, to add taeir names, as fully concurring in the accompanying resolution.— With the greatest respect, I have the honour to remain, your Lordship's most obedient humble servant. VV. O. HUNT. "To the Enrl Delawarr," &c. Resolved unanimously—That the hyor Alder- men, and Burgesses of the borough of Stratford- upon-Avon, recollecting the ancient and honourable connection which has existed between the Noble house of Dorset and that borough, and which has been so satisfactorily continued during the time 111 which the Earl of Delawarr has held the office of High steward of the said borough, beg to request that he will do them tiie honour of re-accepting the High Stewardship under the new constitution of the corporation, of which his Lordship's resignation would otherwise occasion them the deepest regret.— By order of the council, WM. O. HUNT, Town Clerk." The Earl, in a letter of grateful acknowledgments to the town clerk, has accepted the office. Earl Delawarr and the late Earl of Plymouth married two sisters, co-heiresses and sisters of the late Duke of Dorset.

MANUFACTURE OF IRON. THE HOT BLAST. Having expressed an opinion in a former paper, that information was much wanted in England as to the effect of the hot blast, now generally in use in Scot- land, on the quality of the manufactured iron, a cor- respondent obligingly directed our attention to the articles 'Glasgow1 and' Iron making,' in the new edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. NVe are not sorry to have a test suggested by which we might ascertain whether the editor of that work was active in securing the latest and best information relating to the state of trie arts and manufactures of the country, and the result has been g-rcativ in his favour. In the former article Dr. Cleiaud o,)serves :riie air, at first raised to 250 of Fahrenheit, produced a saving of three-sevenths in evei, v ton of pig-iron made, and the heating apparatus having since been enlarged so as to increase the temperature of the blast to 600 of Fah- renheit and upwards, a proportionate saving of fuel is effected, and an immense additional saving is also acquired by the use of raw coal instead of coke, which may now be adopted by thus increasing the heat of the blast, the whole waste incurred in burning the coal into coke being thus also avoided in the pro- cess of iron making. By the use of this invention, with three-sevenths of the fuel which he formerly em- ployed in the cold air process, the iron-maker is now en- abled to make one-third more iron of a superior quality. Were the hot blast generally adopted, tne saving to the country would be immense. In Britain about 70;),000 tons of iron is made annually, of which 55,500 tons oniy are produced in Scotland. On these 55,500 tons, his invention would save, in the process of manu- facture 222,01)0 tons of coal annually. In England, the saving would be in proportion to tiie strength and quality of the coal, and cannot be computed at less than 1,320,080 tons annually and taking the price of coals at the Jow rate of 4s. per ton, a yearly saving of <S £ '3J8,100. sterling would be affected." The writer of the artiele 4 Iron-making' published in the last number of the Encyclopedia, speaks less confi- dently as to its effects on the quality of the iron: "Whether the metal produced bv the' hot blast be equal to that made in the usual way, admits of some doubt. The general opinion seems to be, that the iron is weaker, both in the pig and in the wrought bar." But he proceeds to observe :—There appears to be no possible reason why this should be the case, provided that coke only be employed in the blast- furnace. If the coal be used in a raw state, as it most commonly is, when he furnace is blown by hot air, then tuere certainly is room for suspicion, that deleterious substances may come in contact witli the iron, which, had tue coal1 been coked, would, during that operation have been in great part if not wholly reiiioved.-Fro),it tlte At hence wn.

GLEANINGS- THE HUMMING BIRDS OF THE SEA.-Beautiful, indeed, arc terns of every kind, but the roseate excels the rest, it not in form, yet in the lovely hue of its breast. I had never seen a bird of this species before, and as the unscathed hundreds arose and danced as it were in the air, I thougnt them the humming-birds of the air, so light and graceful were their movements.— Light as a sylpli, the arctic tern dances through the air above and around you. The graces, one might imagine, had taught it to perform those beautiful gambols which you see it display the moment you approach the spot which it has cliosen for its nest. Over many a league of ocean has it passed, regardless of the dangers and difficulties that might deter a more considerate traveller. Now over some solitary green isle, a creek, or an extensive bay, it sweeps, now over the expanse of the boundless sea; at length it has reached tile distant regions ot the north, and amidst the floating icebergs stoops to pick up a shrimp. It betakes itself to the borders of a lonely-sand bank, or a low rocky island there side by side the males ami females alight, and congratulate each other on tile happy termination of tneir long journey.—Audubon. The whooping crane is a dangerous enemy; even when he is not beaten I left my rifle unloaded, and in great haste pursued the wounded bird, which doubtless would have escaped had it not made towards a pile of drift wood, wnere I overtook it. As I approached it, panting and almost exhausted, it im- mediately raised itself to the full stretch of its body, legs, and neck, milled its feathers, shook them, and advanced towards me with open bill, and eyes glanc- Ing wltll ang-pr. I cannot tell vou whether it was from feeling almost exhausted with the fatigue of the chase; but, however it was, I felt unwilling to en- counter my antagonist, and keeping my eye on him, moved backwardSi;- The farther [ removed, the more he advanced, until at length I fairly turned my back to him, and took to my heels, retreating with fully more speed than I had pursued. lie followed, and I was glad to reach the river, into which I plunged up to the neck, calling out to my boatmen, who came up as fast as they could. The crane stood looking an- grily on me all the while, immersed up to his belly in the water, and only a few yards distant, now and then making thrusts at me with his bill.—Ibid. THE AIICTIC J AGER.-Few birds surpass it in power or length of flight. It generally passes through the air at a height of fifty or sixty yards, flying 111 an easy manner, ranging over the broad bays, oil which gulls of various kinds are engaged in procuiing their food. No sooner has it observed that one of them of has secured a fish, than it immediately flies towards it and gives chase. It is almost impossible for the gull to escape, for the warrior with repeated jer ings o his firm pinions sweeps towards it, with the rapic 1 y o a peregrine falcon pouncing ou a duck. ac icu anc turn of the gull onlv irritates him the more and whets his keen appetite, until by two or three sudden as u s, ut he forces it to disgorge the food it had so lately swallowed. When on wing, its beautiful long tail-feathers seem at times to afford tiiis bii-d great assistance in executing short sudden. turns, which have often brought to my mind t e ino ions of a grevhound while pursuing a hare. y su U1 as I- ings of its tail it can instantly turn, or arrest its flight. When it is on the water, it keeps t.iat part upright, but when 011 a rock or a oa nig piece o timber, it allows it to fall in a graceful iriaiinei,Ibid r, A gentleman of Lichfield meeting the Doctor returning from a walk, enquire d how far lie had been ? The Doctor replied, he had gone round Mi Levet s field (the place where the scholars p ay) in si arc 1 o a rail that he used to jump over when a toy, and, savs the Doctor in a transport of joy, I have been so fortunate as to find it: I stood," said he, "gazing upon it some time with a degree 01 rapture, for it brought to my mind all my juvenile sports and pas- times, and at length I determined to try my skill and dexterity 1 laid aside my hat and wig pulled off my coat, and leapt over it twice.17 ,1|U.S &rea^ Pr- Johnson, only three years before his death, was, with- out a hat, wig, or coat, jumping ovcJ A rail he used to fly over when a school-boy.—Boswell s Life of John- son. As AMERICAN AUTUMN.'—I sat down by the com- panion-ladder, and opened soul and eye to the glorious scenery we were gliding through. Ine first severe frost had come, and the miraculous change had passed upon the leaves which is known only in America. The blood-red sugar maple, with a leaf brighter and more delicate than a Circassian lip, stood here and there in the forest like the Sultan's standard in a host—the solitary and far-seen aristocrat of the wilderness; the birch, with its spirit-like and amber leaves, ghosts of the departed summer, turned out along the edges of the woods like a lining of the palest gold the broad sycamore and the fan-like catalpa flaunted tlteirsaffron foliage in the sun, spotted with gold, like the wings of the ladv-bird; the kingly oak with its summit shaken bare, still hid its majestic, trunk in a drapery of sump- tuous dves, like a stricken monarch, gathering his robes of state about him to die royally in his purple; the tall poplar, with its minaret of silver leaves, stood blanched like a coward in tne dying foiest, burthening everv breeze with its complainings; the hickory, paled through its enduring green; the bright berries of the mountain-ash^flushed with a more sanguine glory in the unobstructed sun the gundy tulip-tree, the Syba- rite of vegetation, stripped of its golden cups, still drank the intoxicating light of noon-day in leaves than which the lip of all Indian shell was never more deli- cately tinted; the still deeper dyed vines of the lavish wilderness, perishing with the noble things whose summer tllev had shared, outshone them in their de- cline, as woman in her death is heavenlier than the btiii, oil w',Iolll in life she leaned; and alone and un- sympathising in this universal decay, out-laws from Nature, stood thefir and the hemloek, their frowning and sombre heads darker and less lovely than ever, in con- trast with the death-struck glory of their companions. Tne dull colours of English autumnal foliage give you no conception of this marvellous phenomenon. The change here is gradual; in America it is the work of a night—of a single frost! Oh, to have seen the sun set 011 hills bright in the still green and lingering sum- mer, and to awake in the morning to a spectacle like this! It is as if a myriad of rainbows were laced through the tree tops—as if the sun-sets of a summer -gold, purple, and crimson—had been fused in the alembic of the west, and poured back In a new deluge of light and colour over the wilderness. It is as If every leaf ill those countless trees had been painted to outflush the tulip-a.; if, by some electric, miracle, the dyes of the earth's heart had struck upward, and her crystals, and ores, her sapphires, hyacinths, and rubies had Jet forth their imprisoned colours to mount through the roots of the forest, and, like the angels that in olden time entered the bodies of the dying, re-animate the perishing leaves, and revel an hour in their bravery.- New Monthly Magazine.

TATEST INTELLIGENCE LO\;DD'I, THURSDAY EVF.VIVG. The trial of Ficsdli still drags its slow length along, and is more remarkable for its tedious mi- nutite than for its developement of anv very important facts. WE have only been enabled to give a eon- dcnced view of the evidence, anu that not up to a late period, in consequence of the Parliamentary debates and other matter which more immediately concerns us. lYe will endeavour next week to give a synopsis of the main features of the evidence. In consequence of illness in his domestic; circle, Mr Otway Cave paired oil" with Sir Francis Molyoke C ooilricke, for ten days. Lord IJroughani is better, but not yet returned to tovvn.

LONDON MOSEY MARKET. CLOSING PRICES Ol BRITISH STOCKS—THCKSHAV. Bank Stuck 216 1 3A per cent. Redticcil. • 100§ LUNIA SLOCK — J 3I PER CENT NEW 100 3 per CENT. CONSOLS 91I|4 PER CENT. 1826 —I CONSOLS LOR ACCOUNT 91|J INDIA BONDS 4 3 per cent. Reduced 91?i K^chequer Hills 19 PRICES OF FOREIGN STOCKS. Brazilian Bond-; 5 per ct Bai <» reek Ang. Bds 5pr. ct. — Chilian, 5 per cent. 50^ VIex. Bonds, 6 per ct. 37 Colombian bonds,6 pr ct 328 Portuguese Bds.Sperct 83 Danish 15onds, 3 per ct. 77 Portuguese Reg.Bunds 53 Du'ch 2 J per cent 55' Russian Bonds, 5pcr ct 111) Ditto,j per cent 103 £ Soaiiish ( 1834), 5 perct 47^ French Rentes 5 per ct. — B.-d^ian Bonds. 5 per ct 102^

TO CORRESPONDENTS. -.0- The Pit-wood advertised in our last, for sale in the Aberdare Valley, has been disposed of by Private Contract. Some of our Subscribers complain to us that their papers have not rcached them. We have made enquiries, and find that they were, as usual, regularly delivered at the Post Office-the stoppage must, therefore, be occasioned in the transmission of the papers. This irregularity falls heavily upon us, and it is not the first time we have had to complain of it. The loss of the papers is the least of the evils which we have to endure in such cases—offence is given to our Subscri- bers, who, very naturally, attribute the blame to us. 1Ve hope we shall not have occasion to take any further notice of this subject. It is but just to say, that we have not the slightest reason to believe that the stop- page arises in the Merthyr Post Office.

The King's Speech has given exactly the degree of satisfaction and dissatisfaction which was expected. The purport of ail King's Speeches for the last half century has been to S exhibit the dexterity of tlie Cabinet for the time being, i" saying something without mean- ing anything. A few years ago a Radi at orator at some of the public exhibitions of his order, said, that he would find a man who would be King for five hundred a year, and extempo- rize all the King's Speeches for nothing. The former part of the promise was merely impu- dent. but the latter was without point. The deait ideal of a Kind's Speech is to be a negation the very reverse of (lie olil bold maxim, "Nil veri noll a/ldat, nil/alsi audeat dicere-" Yet to accomplish the completeness of the negation is I not always a matter of ease. It is quite clear that the task was beyond the dexterity of his Majesty's present Ministry. In our i( oreign Relations the Speech expresses in one paragraph the most unbounded reliance on the pacific intentions of all Foreign Powers, yet in another professes loftily, that with France for an ally, it can bid (jefittlice to them all. This may be trlle-though we doubt the steadiness of France, the most slippery of all allies in every age since C, sar; and we equally doubt the wisdom of telling Austria and irllssia that we care as little about their help as we care about Russia's hostility. But there follows something still more obnoxious to his Majesty's resolution of peace. Oqr Naval Forces are to -10 10 r be auguieuieu—nv ..unisicrs say u tect our extended commerce. Eut ho^v J'( has our commerce been extended in the laS' I liJ months? or what new horde of Pirates is til" swept the high seas? Tiie true aiisiv r lioll 'a!Ju even Lord Palmerston, in h s various avo<a j ot a more domestic kind, lias been f«rCe 9 last to open his eyes to the fact that i-^nss'1 Turkey within her grasp, and that the At may come to be settled by Uritish last in the mouth of the Dardanelles- !rue that England can have no 0! jei'tio" tof part of the iSpeecli. If ten shilli"?s every man's pound were to be expended °° Sovereignty of the Spas, the money would 10 ,0" well expended- e shall say more, it be cheerfully given. Our name—our honO aye, and our existence are linked \Vlth k Sovereignty. I'lie titan tljat sees itiy reliliqoigl" ment of our naval preeminence, sees the t" procession marshalling that is to lay Etig'8 her grave. lh' The Home Policy of the Speech is The Home Policy of the Speech is eqllaJ '6 II obscure but through the obscurity we their tbel shapes of those changes which shall i" time take the substance of Revolution- slight mention of constructing theMunicip3'^ for Ireland, 011 the same principle with already passed for England and Scotland, as it was, betrays the whole secret of ^aC.ii The principle of the English and Scottish » to erect ( orporatiotis without reference tO 111 ligion or Property. The principle is, stifficie, hazardous here, for it is contrary to the j tution, which adopts both as essential, a' C trary to that still higher constitution of n'' which says that property can be. the only guardian of property, and pure relig10" only defence of public peace and moral holieS t' Still, in Great Britain, the absence of those ie^ might be the less particularly felt ^rOli> £ 0y habits and religion of the country. T',e porations will continue to have some Proper bØ and their Religion will continue chieflly Protestant. But what must be the direct c0" quence of adopting this disregard of Pr°P 1, and Protestantism in Ireland ? The infinite JJ1 0- litude there—have 110 Property and testantism, they are therefore enemies t° j And we thus put the safety of those two g alli, objects of all society into the hands of »c{ tude which can regard them only as prey. And this destruction is the palpablc Pt'" ) pose for which this Irish Bill is forced oV Ministry by ihe Irish Faction. That has two cries—"Protestantism must he j troyed—and Property must be divided. I Corporations in their old state were erect -nioi Ireland for the express purpose of sust3'jji» Protestantism and the influence of Eng'aU J the country- Those purposes they accomp" t'or nearly two hundred years they v>efe: impregnable strongholds of the Constit" i'hev prevented the civil war and the seP lioll of the two islands in tinHs teeming" of 'e' national hazards—they were the e Property-they formed the foundation of II" IOIt' 1 t'rotestant Ascendancy which was al>80 01 essential to the peace, opulence, and loyalty I .0 Ireland; and for this they have beell 8 IB.11 hated by the Leadeis of the Papist I"aclio"' too was IIOl Ithrollgh them that the breach onstitutiou was ever made. The atrOCI A" Bill of 1829, that fatal, weak, and unholy tf which both islands may rue the longest d^y exist, and w hich must be abolished, or the must be undone, it was the Popish Bi" made the breach, through which the whole Or, ble of Infidelity and revolt of treacherouS, t tizanship and furious liostility liavt- poured ill, US y 'nake havoc of the land. By the atrociot" IhLl the irish l'riesthood were made masters (} Ii" chief representation of Ireland in the CO" By the Municipal Bill, they will add to ,¡¡- I power the mastery of the w hole Repress" of the Towns. By the draught of the U' t|,# posed to the Parliament in the last SeSSlCfiiref1 wLole populatioll for seven Inilt-s round OWIl was to vote III the MUllieipal e &l1 Town was to vote in the Municipal what must the consequence of this svveep be I" the same consequence which has followeJ {0, extending the priv:leges of those wlio I"-IV#" I perty and character, to those who have uij* All the Municipal Elections in Ireland I)Oiff return Papists a d Demagogues. EvØrY tLI will thus strengthen a Faction which scOrr, £ |r British Government, hates the name of b"& ,# • 1 b™ and abhors all Religion but that wllleh poplr down to the stock and the stone, exalts tl'e .l above the King, and justifies the iuiir"e M ho'1 whom it pronounces heretics, claims eS C absolution for the most sanguinary crimeS Of mitted against GOD and man, and makes p and rebellion standing rules of its public m°r VIS Well and truly were the protest of Ihe of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel raised binding Parliament to legislate on this doesi' 111(111 principle well might all sense of og integrity exclaim against thus maxim of public ruin into a m.ixiw o( Government. Well might every man of fe .^9* call upon the remaining wisdom of the -LO4' JiI ture to refuse a concession of which thol fe I must be usurpation, plunder, and blood,

— ocJ The extraordinary eirctiMqtai!t(..e Of t¡.l John Russell's supporting in the Comfri0,lS^il JEJO principle which Lord Melbourne acknowl" thO to be insupportable in the Lords, arose fro(p -i presence of i|ie master of both. The Af! .p* frown might do more than this Lord acted with the freedom of a slave out sight of his task-master. Lord w' (ti' I suomission of a slave in the sight f ti)e Vi formidable personage. How they the matter to each other in the su[)8eQ 1;li ,I Council we neither know, nor very serlcd liP desire to know probably they shrUgg:e",il:; I', their shoulders, regretted the at-kw- r lie toeif of the case, and promised to ascertai" master's opinion more carefully in future" t

-It _<ZioKI .ii IMP Eli IAL PA It 1AAM EXT. (Continued from our last Page.) HOUSE OF LORDS.—TUESDAY. T!ie Marquis of LONDONDERRY deferred .his me'.ion for returns relative to warlike stores sent to Sp ti! I Fridav next The M nrquis of SALISBURY moved for a return of the names and residences of those gentlemen who Lavj been inserted in different commissions of the pe ee, &c.; wnieh, after some debate, was ordered. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY. Many Petitions for private Bills were presented. Mr lTLKE obtained leave to bring in a Bill for Compensation to Mr Rukin^hani, from the East In;! ia Companv for injuries sustained. Mr D. W. HARVEY gave notice that, on Friday next, he should move for a Committee, to whom siiju'd be referred all Petitions for Rills for Railways, terminating" within seven miles of the Royal Ex- cl.uige, to report whether the best line had been named, with reference to public convenience and safety, and with due regard to private property. There was a conference with the Lords, for the purpose of communicating' to their Loreships the C 'minous' resointions, and the second report regarding pi inted papers. Lord J. RL'SSELL then moved for leave to bring in a Hill for the Commutation of Tithes in England ar.d Wales. His Lordship did not go into very minute details of his plan; he avowedly left them to be collected from the Bill. The leading outlines, however, were, that in the first instance there should be a board formed, to consist of three persons, two to be named by the King, and one by the Archbishop of Canterbury; that sucli board should have opportunity to nominate sub-commissioners to act in different p:\rts of the country; and that they should hear and determine the commutations, subject, of course, to the revision of the superior board. That all parties should have the opportunity of effecting voluntary commutations, by each representing the case before the commissioners; but that if they did not volun- tary adjust the commutation, then the commissioners s;lOud have the power of compelling a commutation, and deciding the amount of it. To ascertain what ought to be the amount of the commutation, an average to be taken of the tithes for the last seven years; and 75 pr cciit. of tiiat average to be ttiemarimurn of amount t ) be fixed upon as tiie rate of perpetual commutation. 11 being notorious that many clergymen have for years received much less tithe than they ought to have re- ceived, that there should be power in those cases to ascertain what ought to have been received, and then L) fix the amount at not lower than 60 per cent. nor 1!bove 75 per cent. The amount of tithe-commutation b be ascertained in consequence of this Bill not to continue to be paid as now, but to be in the nature of a rent-charge, and to be payable by the landlord His Lordship made some exceptions regarding new hop grounds, &e. which afterwards called forth some in- quiries from Mr I fuiiie and others; in reply to whieb, it may be here stated that his Lordship was understood 1osay that those grounds should not be liable to more t'lan L5s. an acre charge, over and above what they Would pay is corti lands. Sir R. i G LIS considered the measure to be of a most injurious tendency, and that eventually it must very materially affect the revenues of the Church. Sir R. PEEL regretted that it had been deemed re- quisite to introduce a compulsory provision he should prefer an attempt, in the first instance, to ascertain vhat could be effected by voluntary commutation. When last in office he had prepared a Bill on this sub- ject, and as it might be of use, he should be happy to let t!P, Noble Lord have it, to assist him in preparing the Bill now proposed. Mr D. W. HARVEY considered that great benefit would be derived, as far as this measure went, in the recognition of tithes as public property; but beyond this, he doubted whether the public would be very materially benefitted by it. Mr HUME thought that it would be a great benefit; that it would encourage the investment of capital in firming speculation, and that it would also tend to bring waste lands into cultivation. After remarks from Sir E. KNATCHBULL, &c. leave was given to bring in the Bill. Mr HUME, after an extended discussion, carried bis resolution for discontinuing gratuities to officers of be House, &<•. and gave notice that on Thursday he e.iouiv. move for a Committee to consider what com- pensations ought to be awarded. Ili- Alderman "rOOD obtained leave to bring in J>ii!s for the better regulation of steam vessels, cabs, &-( Mr HUME brought forward his proposition, that it be an instruction to the Committee to reconsider the propriety of removing the site of the Houses of Par- liament. It was debated at some length, and strongly re- sisted and eventually the House divided on it. The H:ot¡on was lost by—Ayes 42; Noes 141—Majority it 1 he Library Committee was re-appointed, some Bi.is were brought in, and the House adjourned. #1"6>1' HOUSE OF LORDS.—WEDVESDAY. The Ear! of Siiaftesbury presided in the absence of th. Lord Chancellor. UROWNLOW presented a Petition from the Agricultural Association of East Suffolk, praying )))' an inquiry into the causes of the existing agricul- tur" distress. The Noble Earl also presented a Petition from the parts of Lindsay, in the county of Lincoln, praying tlint more adequate provision may be made for the prosecution of offenders. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY brought up the report of the Capital Punishments' Amendment Bill, v,-it'll 'rile uld lil,"l it s.-riiird reading to-morrow.—Adj. ###, HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY. Tiie Speaker took the Chair at a quarter to four. Lord G. LENNOX presented a Petition from -h-i^hton, for a railway from that town to London. Lord A. CONYNGHAM presented a Petition from the Mayor and Corporation of Canterbury, in favour of Mr Buckingham's claim for compensation. ii, G. KVA\S presented a Petition from Swords, in the county of Dublin, for the aJJoJition of tithes. Mr S. LHFEVRE presented a Petition from Alton, in which the petitioners stated, that the condition of the labouring classes, in that neighbourhood, had been improved, and the burdens ou the rate-pavers dimi- nished, by tiie operation of the Poor Law Bill; and ¡¡¡It! they prayed that the period for the payment of The loan for the erection of their workhouses should ) e extended from ten to twenty years. Colonel RUSHBROOKE presented a Petition front the West Suffolk Agricultural Association, complaining of Distress. Mr WILSON supported the Petition. Sir H. PARNKLL brought in a Bill for further Improving the Road between London and Holyhead, by Coventry, Birmingham, and Shrewsbury. Oil the Motion of Mr TULK, the Report of the Committee of last Session on )11" Buckingham's case was ordered to be laid before the Committee, to which the Petition fur the Private Bill had been referred. SUPPLY. On the Motion of Mr F. BARING, the House went into a Committee of Supply. A resolution, that a sum not exceeding £ 16,526,5.50 tie granted to his Majesty, to defray and pay off out- standing Exchequer Bills, was then agreed to, and the House having resumed, the resolution was ordered to be reported ou Friday. Mr EWART moved the nomination of the Com- mittee on Arts of Design. Sir H. HARDING observed, that out of the 15 Members proposed by the Hon. Gentleman, 11 were from his own side of the House, while four only were from his (Sir I I. liardinge's) side. Mr EWART said, that the members bad been FF selected, not on account of their places in trial rioust, but on account of the places they represented. The committee being one on arts and manufactures, it was necessary that the representatives from the large manufacturing towns and districts should be placed -ipon it. It was scarcely necessary for hiin to state tuat this was not in the slightest degree a party question. (Hear.) He would add, that he had sub- mitted the list last night to the right Hon. Baronet the member for Tamworth, to know whether there was any other person whom be would wish to have priced on it, and that he only suggested the name of Mr R. Col borne. }. tion did Sir II. HARDINGE said that his objection did „ l10'' So much apply to this particular instance as it did to the general inequality observable in the numbers selected ir'om the two parties in the house in the lormation of committees. sl'ir/t kWART said, that without intending the "■el' es^ reflection on the members opposite, he beg- ,,° s*ate that it so ha[ pened that a large majority le ^Preventatives of the merchants, manufac- °f the'ho" radCSmCn' sat °" kis (Mr E wart's) side suggested that there should be a neriod a;,l "I P:'tt,crns f°r 12 months, or some fixed d signs °r( r eucourage artists and workers in recommcmlation^of !f'd'f,that ,in Pursuance of the given notice cTL ♦ -Commutee of hist year, he course of the S "Jin a Bill, in the bunal for deridinerr°n' t° a" economical tri- de.lav the T 'T °f coPy»S'>t. I should struet^d as to °' Until he was better in- on the subject opnnons of manufacturers i>ifc 111 ittee was then nominated. 0f, thc d;l>' having been disposed 0/ ■ CJ°Un at fiv e ^mutes past five o'clock. 'K' ,.i; *\0>, '■:0 :• -Mr VV- "I -r- PRIVATE BILLS. HOUSE OF COMMONS.— VENERIS, 5° DJF. FEURCARII, 1S36. Resolved. -Tli -it this House will not receive any Petition for Private Bills after Friday, the 19th day of February. That no Private Bill be read the first time after Monday, the 28th day of llarch next. That this House will not receive any Report of such Private Hill after Monday, the Gth day of June next. "V"

THK RI' PF..LKii'S C. JMl'LAIST. (For the Merthyr Guardian.) "ForccdfomhotneandaU its treasures," Ireland's coast I left for'.orn," To support Lor Melbourne's measures O'er the Irish Channel borne Men in Lngland bought ard sold me," i'ai,i n)y price ill I)aitry old," B,lt tho' their's they hac -nr;llc.l me," Votes "are never to be Still in thought as free as ever," NVII;it are England's rights, 1 ask," s, Nle from iny delights to sever," Me to tax and me to task; Tories talk ahout reaction,— 0,in it alter Ireland's claim? Protestants are hut a faction. Black and white are jlUst the same. Why did all creating nature" Make us praties fit to boil ? Why did Heaven provide" thc crathur" B,,It to ai.e poor Padtlylo, toil ? ThinV, >e Parsons iron hearted, Soitly s.umbering on the hoards. From your wives and children parted, Think what wealth your tithe affords. -1 15 there, as ye ,oiretimes tell Is," One who lives at Dcrrynane, Hav'n't we bid him buy and sell us?" Didn't Carlow prove it plain? Ask him, when a lawyer urges, Ask him, when an agent screws, When a proctor pavinent urges. Eight months bills if h.d refti%e. •'Hark he answeis'—ihundevin* screeches. Echoes such as Paddy Biakes, Letters, pledges, dinners, SI)ecc)ies, Are the voice with which he spakes II He foreseeing what vexation" Tithe defaulters undergo, Pays his own. and tells the nation When t'is asked to" answer — no.— By oil- blood in IVaxfordo wasted, L cr our necys received the chain," Bv the miseries we tasted" Startling all across the main; B th' expense, which since he brought us Here, doth make his pocket smart, All sustained by him that taught us Blarneying, that Irish art. Deein our nation" basIcs" no 10nger" Till some Government you find Worthier of regard, and strotizer," Thiln master iiiiiid Whitebovs, Rockites, and Repealers! Muster all your boasted powers; Whoop! my shew them Peelers, Who are their's and who are ours. At Vinegar Hill, in the Rebellion oi 179S.

Sir Francis Head, the successor of Sir John Col borne in the government of Upper Canada, arrived in the United States from Liverpool t :iis morning.— Ncw York Commercial Advertiser. A petition '° Parliament, signed, we under- stand bv nearly 500 highly respectable individuals in this city, has been forwarded to Sir George Sinclair, Hart. M.P- f°r Caithnessshire, calling for an inquiry into the conduct of Messrs. O'Cotinell and Raphael on the subject of the Cariow election.—Bath Herald. POLITICAL St)(JDfNGS.-A g-enfleman at Roch- dale, supposed to be one of the newly-created Liberal magistrates, has, it is said, this week been honoured with a communication franked by a Cabinet Minister, requesting the favour of his sentiments as to the late registration, and how it is likely to work in case of a dissolution. This simple faet is most ominous, and intimates an approadllng contest. At Rocljdale it will be severe, both parties expressing the utmost confidence of success. DEATH OF ~IR JAMES COLQUHOUN, BART.— It is our melancholy duty to announce the death of Sir James Colquhoun, of Luss, who died on Wednes- day 3d instant, after a lingering illness of some months' duration* ^lr James devoted his time to the pursuits of agriculture, and, residing principally oil his estates, set an example to landlords well worthy of iinitation. Glascow Constitutional. MR the celebrated Chan- cery Barrister, WIlO died on Friday se'nnight, had re- 'is tired some years past. from the Bar; but his habits were so confirmed thV ever since he constantly fre- quented the Courts. His sound legal knowledge, and his "Teat experience and judgment, caused his opinion to be held in hig" estimation, and his practice in the Court was very considerable. Though iie had no pre- tensions to oratory, and was a heavy speaker, yet he spoke always to tne purpose. i lis handwriting was so very bad that it was with much difficulty it could be decyphered, even, in some instances, by himself. Notwithstanding these defects, his business was most extensive, by which he amassed much wealth, and his character, as a Chancery lawyer, stood very high. On W ednesday se "night, the mortal remains of Lord to well were removed from his residence, Early Court, and consigned to the family vault, in Sonning Church, in a manner corresponding with his elevated rank and station in society, followed by the distinguished members of his family, and a numerous company of the resident gentry of the neighbourhood. In this closing scene of his earthly career, the town of Reading manifested its deep-felt sympathy for the loss of a nobleman whose services to his country had been so eminently useful, and who had beeen so long connected with its local interests, and who had inva- riably supported its trade by a liberal expenditure, and relieved the indigent and afflicted, whenever an appeal was made to him, 111 a manner most efficient and kind. The following is an extract from a letter addressed by Colonel Evans to his constituents, received in town on Friday *ou may rely 011 it, I am most anxious to return to resume the duties of the distinguished and most highly prized office which you and my other friends in Westminster raised me to, although those great interests which you all ap- prove of my supporting not permit me to do so for some little time longer. The German papers contain angry articles, evidently written on Russian official authority, de- nouncing the vote of the Prench Chamber in favour of the Poles. One of these articles concludes by saying, that the relations of the rival parties are s > directly opposed, that the swori <i one c<m and must decide." THE LATE DCEL AT POONAH.-WE tin(ler- stand that Dr Mai olinson, lJth Bo. N.J., 13 to be tried, as principal, for the of Capt. Urqut.art, and Major Stalker and Lieut. M Dermot as accessa- ries. From information conveyt in the Bengal Hurkaru, it would appear t1 71 C,0U' 0 ln(lucst had been held by Colonel Wiltshire, which returned a ver- dict that Capt. Urquhart had been killed by a pistol- shot fired by some person unknown and further investigation was likely to be made. 1 he necessaries are admitted mcanWitilc to ball, but Dr. Malcoinson ill has been kept in confinement- To make way for the proceeding of the co ches in the west of England, stopped by the heavy fall and drift of snow 011 Tuesday se ntug it, it was requisite to have hundreds of men to remove the snow from the road between Devizes and Marlborough. For nearly fourteen miles this work had to be done, and in some places the snow was even with the roof of the coach. Five coaches, on Wednesday morning, were stopped on Marlborougti hill, for seven hours. Nothing like such obstruction has been experienced since 1815; there was then a three days' stoppage,

MERTHYR TYDVIL, SA TURD a Y, Pcb, 13, 1836 The situation of the great European Govern- ments gradually becomes more critical. With the most evident general desire to avoid hostili- ties, they all seem approaching like ressels in a calm, to a collision by the mere force gravity, and the more complete the calm, the harder to avoid t he coil is ion. Russia, IV i th the strongest pro- fessions, and the most palpable policy in the maiolcrliwce of peace, is augmenting her fleet- and a rr. it's hy the hour. Ell gla nd, jus Ily hating the very name of war, is adding to her fleet. Franee, apologising for the want of money. Or her unwillingness to pay it to America, is filling her ports with inen-of-war, and is probably on the pcint of despatching a squadron to the West indies. America, living hy the wealth and works of peace, and sure to lose, eventually, by any conflict with so weighty a power as France, is hourly drau 11 more into the general attraction and the Presidents just arrived would in other times, have been regarded as a direct declaration of war. He pronounces as unworthy of agreat nation and insulting, the underhand diplomacy of l1 ranee, to obtain an apology by trick." lie asks, does France want a degrad- ing servile repetition of this act, in terms which she ahull dictate, and which will involve an assumed right to interfere in our domestic con- cerns? No, she never will obtain it, the spirit of the American people, the dignity of their Legislature and the firm resolve of their executive Government, forbid it." He concludes by re- commending the shutting of the American ports against French vessels, and the prohibition of Frenell manufactures. How this bold language will be relished by the natural tetchiness of riilee is the question. France at this moment is exactly ill the condition to take it in the most peevish point of view with all the parlies in full ferment, her old Ministry turned out, every fragment of faction bidding for the people, and all t'qually ready to go to war or to plunge into any other crime or folly for power. The American defiance may fall like a match into a powder ma- gazine. England has already oflered her medi- atioll, but the time for the old forms of diplomacy is gone by. A dozen traitors in the Legislature stimulated by the passion for power, themselves sustained by a few hundred of the rabble stimu- lated by vice, beggary, and bribery, can settle the fate of any Government of France, and with it settle the fate of Europe. This is the blessing of Republicanism this is the new wisdom which makes national councils the slaves of popular caprice this is the public virtue that finds its only root in the mob, erects Democracy into all the wildest force of despotism, substitutes mil- lions of tyrants for a single authority, and, not content with overpowering all that was ancient' honorable, and wise, in the established Govern- ment, it feels its triumph complete only when it has trampled all in the mire. Lous Piiillippee sits on a Throne not to be envied by the beggar at the ,-at,, of the Tuilleries. He is vigorous, politic, and intelligent. Hut the tide is against him. He scarcely keeps his bark off the ground while he lives; but no son of Orleans will ever hold the helm

v estminster, for the last fifty years, no candidate could hope for sue ess. u" brought with him qualifications wbic^ 0 for tel 14' shut him out from rtiatikitid it$I lias now some hope of throwing 1 stigma. The heroic Colonel,, who rep1* the Radicalism of tlO- g^eat Radical f having found that loyalty in Spain is |i?' I so easy to be tvampled o«, as he m'f? pji^ J wi-.hed, finds that he has not time to j the two-fold achievements of radicali2' I1' i land and revolutionizing Spain. *j,y appears to have been very much Pl,zZ'C^|S j sharp-shooting of the Navarrese Peasal'(J,5<J'.j | to have already found out that he very considerable mistake in ^? Of c Vs tactics from pamphlets to practice. j il* j to return and face the people of Eng'an woeful plight would be awkward for a & to i-ettirii ;tn.l face ijilo ))eople of Eill., LIP, a woeful plight would be awkward for a & he fairly enough concludes, that if t ji» laughed at, he bad better be laughed snug recesses of a Biscayan posada. It.. Palace Y ord, Webtminster. Some ¡1I1 i