The Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette and Merthyr Guardian

The Chancellor's Visitation at TAmdaff, on Friday the 21st instant, wns must tiumerous'ir ntteodcJ. An exeellent sermon was pnwhcd by the Rev. L. A. Nicholls, Rector of St. BrideVsnper Ivy. The Rev Preacher took for his text the 34th verreof the Iltij chapter of the Proverbs, "righteousness exalteth a nation; bat sin is a repronclt to any people"; and shewed from it, with great simplicity and truth, the principles upoa which a necessary connection has ever been found to exist between the recognition and maintenance e''religion and the welfare and prosperity of nations; and traced those principles as they ope- rated in mankind in a positive, relative, and personal or individual point of view; he feelingly alluded to the present danger that threatens our nation of a departure from that riijhteousnoss, which he defined with evangelical correctness, and proved to lie the basis of all our past and still ivmntMing exaltation. He concluded his appropriate ;>;>d ;u li;i:>u> discourse with an appeal to the h'r>H and <•oiiJcietv.es or pro- fessiug Christians, remiudhg them tli-it nations as such cannot he called into the judgment of tlie fireat Day, but that individuals, of wiiom nations are comprised, will, according to t.hat they have done, 1)(' judged every man in his own person and he compelled every man to bear his own burden, and find in the most awful sense that sin is a reproach to any and to every people. On the conclusion of the sermon, the Worshipful Chancellor proceeded to address the churchwardens on the duties, and on the facilities at present existing by law for discharging the duties, of their very responsible office, in the words of that most admirable charge, of which we gave a faint outline in our last number. We might feel it a duty to the community at large, no less than to the Reverend (Tentleinan from whom proceeded this invaluable pro- duction, to endeavour to render our former report of it more worthy of the occasion and of the acceptance of our readers, but we have reason to hope that the suggestion thrown out bv us, and reiterated again and again, both by the clergy and cluire./iwardens, who met the Chancellor at dinner in lie evening, that it should be given as a manual to the public, through the medium of tile press, will ere long he adopted. We arc not aware, indeed, of any promise or pledge given for its appearance, but we are not without grounds for hoping that any existing scruples may vanish before the prospect of such exi. nsive Denefit as is likely to result from the publication of this important and most seasonable charge. The Riglit Worshipful and Gallant Mayor of Swan- sea, is a respectable and conscientious man, but lie certainly is rather out of his element at public meet- ings. He was called to order bv the Chairman of the Pyle meeting, and being Chairman of that at Swansea, could not call himself to order, or he certainly would have done so on both occasions he seems to have differed from every body else, and to have opposed both Conservatives and Liberals with a condstent im- partiality. Wo should think him deeply versed in the theory and practice of the differential calculus, and well qualified for a Fellowship at a certain Col- lege, where it beitiz necessary to elect a Principal, every Fellow voted for himself. It is, we believe, be- tween two of the clan Cameron that the following conversation took place, Wiier' are ve going this evening, Sandy ?" Sandy—" Wen to the cloob, nion, to contradic a wee." The Committee appointed at the Easter Quarter Sessions for taking into consideration the expediency of building a Lunatic Asylum, or otherwise providing for the proper care of insane persons, met at Pyle, on Tuesday last, the Rev. J. M. Traherne, in the chair. •Ihey entered into some preliminary resolutions, and adjourned to the 13th of June, to make their report to the ensuing Midsummer Quarter Sessions. It has been proposed to erect a Lunatic Asylum in Glamorganshire; but with an unliquidated claim of £6000 lor Cardiff jjaol, there seems to be but little pro- bability ofbuilding such an establishment attiie county expense. It has been suggested, we believe, timt private speculators might be found to engage in the Vrork, with the prospect of receiving parish patients, ln addition to their own private practice. Upoli tile, probable success of such a scheme we offer no opinion, out the proper attention to pauper lunatics is a subject of Immense and immediate importance, both as re- gards the sufferersthemselvesand the general interests of humanity. Ithasbeenstated.thatbytimclyaid and judicious treatment, nine cases of insanity out of ten could be reI ieved or cured. The medical and moral treatment of this desease is now so well understood, and the success which has followed tlie practice adopted in county asylums, timt of llanwel! (Middle- sex) in particular, has been so unequivocal that we earnestly hope some me am may he devised bv which such a budding may be erected here-even if it were by public subscription. Why could not three small counties unite Perhaps a less ten ifving name than a Lunatic Asylum" might be adopted, a name that Suggests to poetical fancies the thought of the m.ui- solcum of milid," and to all, notions of hopeless con- nement and incurable disease. Whether crowding all such patients into one establishment be desirable, is Worthy the attention of the committee. -The funeral of the Rev. William "Thomas, of St. agans, whose'death we recorded in our last paper, Was attclIdell by sixteen Clergymen, and a large eon- course of his parishioners and neighbours a gratifying proof to his surviving relations and friends, of the esteem and affection in which lie was held. An^liE ^CLI1'SE-—l '!U o'°on was partially eclipsed at 0 minutes past 6, on Thursday evening week, attained s greatest obscurity at forty-two minutes past eight, a|1(' ciltne into the last contact with the dark shadow a thirty-three minutes past ten, having been totally obscured one hour and a half. As, to til", laws of nature, it is imperative that the earth should be between the sun and the moon in order to occasion j10 eclipse, the sun ought then to have been below the "ortzoo, but in consequence of the refraction of the atmosphere, the remarkable phenomenon of be sun remaining in the western horizon while the on rose eclipsed in the eastern, was oil flsttnctly seen.—[We think this statement, which we laVe copied from the Standard, liable to mislead the youthful reader. The sun did not remain in the western Izo vrizori, but' by atmospheric refraction, was pre- sented to the eye of the spectator. The power of refraction, although varying with the states of le atmosphere, is sufficient to raise the positive deo^ 01 a cc'ost,;i- body rather more than half a •t>ree at the horizon—less than a minute mid- ay between tlw horizon and the zenith—and at the zellitil e'nth nothing, under any state of atmosphere. It is Y tnls power of atmospheric refraction that all the bodies, except those in the zenith, appear "'■er than they really are.] ii EWbr,D(!k-—A labourer lately employed in open- a stone quarry, in Cwm-Ithondda, when four feet e ow the surface, came unexpectedly to a portion «° 'Jr^l> about six feet in length anil a foot and a la "r°ad, (the depth very trifling) of a totally diifer- n appearance to the other soil—it appeared exactly s if a human body had mouldered tlIere-dose to the Tl ? of this impress he found an old brass battle axe. »s ancient weapon had a groove on paeh sid, as if for ie purposed fastening the handle. It is in the posses- ion of Mr Price, surgeon, Porth-v-glo. The quarry is rented by a son of Gwilym Morganwg, who has a uHilar weapon in his possession, which his father lound niany years ago in a limestone quarry. From its appearance, it was probably one of those for the manufacturing of which Abergavenny was celebrated, n le reign of Richard 3rd. In the British Museum ere JS an entry of a warrant granted to Nicholas piccr, authorising him to impress smiths for making st'iving two thousand Welsh glaives. These were probably-of iron but t.ie use of brass in weapons was 8 '11 more ancient, for Lucretius says, Ilrt prior ceris eratquarn ferri cognitus n-n> ^irose, in his "Treatise on Ancient Armour and capons," published in 17H.3, describes a battle axe ° ilnilar shape, ill the collection of Captain Robson, Of Chelsea. The ,5th,jth, and 7th parts of Rescue's Wander- ings and Excursions in South Wales'" (including the Scenery of the Wye) are before us and are every way Worthy of those that preceded them. Wehaveti.e salue truth and beauty in the design and execution of the engravings, and the same fidelity in the narrative portion of the work. The 5th part contains Goodrich Court and Castle, Pembroke Castle, and Abcrvstwith; ftjid amongst the most beautiful, where all are beau- tiful, of the 7th and 8th parts, we would puint out Coldwell Rocks by Moonlight, and the Vale of lowey. The plates are executed from drawings by our first living artists. For a drawing-room table we Would especially recommend this very elegant work of ilir Roscoe. THE BITER BIT.—The following ludicrous acci- ent, so says a Correspondent, occurred in one of the ron Works, in this neigbourhood, very lately. A countryman, who came to visit a friend engaged in the works, expressed a desire to see them. The first tiling that caught his eve, was the enormous shears used for cutting iron into different lengths. A person Who had been employed in the works, feam a boy, '-ante to the stranger, and the following conversation o°k place :—" How do you do I suppose you never Was in an iron work before !'—"No indeed; it's a Wonderful place; what is that there big thing that is Working back and fore V "Oh that is what we use lor iis." cutting our nails." What nails" Why our finger n<uls to be sure." I low do you doit T' This way and the workmanaetually put his finger further than lie eXpeeted, wheli the shears el:t the poor fellow's linger fiie country man laughed heartily at witnessing Clice, Mu PAltRY'S FAREWELL ('o.NcFit,r. Nlr Parry having announced his intention of g-iving a Farewpil Concert, at the Hanover Square Rooms, on Saturday Morning, June 17, 1837,—the following resolutions were past by the Cambrian Societies: "That Mr Parrv having devoted much of his time to promote the interest of the Welsh Cbarifv Beh and h iving given ins professional services f >r thirty rears, at the annual celebration of St. David's Day, this, meeting fee! bound to testify t ieir deep sense of tlx1 valuable services gratuitously afforded to the establishment by him, during so many years of his constant attention to its interest and they trust that he will receive the best support of the Govenors and Subscribers, at his ensuing Farewell Concert." The Committee of the Royal Cambrian Institu- tion bCg" to recommend Mr Parry's Concert to the most cordial support of the Members of the Cvm- mrodorion, as a small acknowledgement ofthe valuable services rendered by him to the Society for seventeen years, Mr Parrv having conducted all the Kistedd- vodau held under the auspices of the [nstitlltion, gratuitously; and he has filled the office of Honorary Secretary for a long period, with credit to himself, and advantage to t'i- Society." CRUELTY TO AN; MA US.—On Tii-.rsday, tlie 20 th of April inst., John Rees, labourer, was convicted before the inavor of the borough of Cardiff, for having wanton'v and cruelly ill-treated an ox, the property of ICdward David, butcher, and was ordered to pay the sum of five shillings and costs of conviction, or be committed to the House of Correction for three days, A large tumour, weighing nearly three pounds, has been removed, by Mr Roberts, from the head of a man employed iu the Aberdard' works, and the patient is doing well. .# The bell in the old Town Hall, at Lantwit Major is generally thought to be one of the. most aneient in Britain. The following note to the poem of Colyn Dolphvn," lately published by Taliesin Williams, throws considerable light upon its history. "Tne bell of lltutus is, perhaps, the oldest now in the kingdom. It attracted particular notice in the time of Edgar. llollingdied thus speaks of it: Towards the latter end of King Edgar's daies, the Welshmen moved some rebellion against him. Where- upon he assembled an armie,and entering the eountrie of Glamorgan, did much hurt to the same, chastising the inhabitants vcrie sharplie for their rebellious attempts. Amongst other spoils taken oil those par- ties at that time by the men of war, the bell of St. lltutus was taken awav, and banged about a-fmrse's necke, and (as hath been reported) in the afternoone, it chanced that King Edgar laid him down to rest, whereupon in stoeptherenppeared one unto him, and smote him on the breast with a speare. By reason of which vision he caused all things that had beetle taken Bu tic (Ltys away to be restored againe. t witliiii ni. after, the king died." After having sunk into oblivion for centuries, on repairing the public clock, of Lantwit Major, called in Welsh Llan-Ilityd, (the church of lltutus,) tms betl was discovered, in 1814, by the following in- scription which it bears in very ancient characters: Ora pro nobis Sancte Iltute1 It was noticed by the Rev. Robert Ntcholl, of Dim lands, an excellent antiquarian; whose son ii o. Nicholl, Esq., obligingly copied for ",i; tlie at>ov" extract respecting i t."—ATote to Colyn DotpI"jn< page 73 ""##6" THE MARGAM TIN WORKS, AND M. C. In the Vice Chancellor's Court, on the 14th lust.^ Motley, Smith and Co., of Margam lm Uorks moved for an injunction against Downuian am o o Carmarthen, to prevent tlie defendants stamping then- boxes and plates with the letters M- C. Mr Knight, for the plaintiffs gave the descent and pedigree of these letters for a long series o >'1 a's' ol" the late Mr Morgan, of Carmarthen, to tile tllne of their translation to Mat-gam, bv Mi'Smi Mr Jacob and Mr Hayter, for the defendants,^argued that the letters in question were the property-oj Mr Morgan and his representatives, and that t ley had been so for a veryJong period before >b" Smitn had belonged to the'Carmarthen Tin Works that t.iey signified Morgan, Carmarthen,^ and tnat i ii Smith had often stamped M. C. MAROAM,' contradiction itsc'f.. Mis Honour thought that the plaintiffs having carried on the trade for so long a period where the mark was first used' had obtained the right to use it exclusively, and therefore granted the Injunction. "Strallg-e there should such a diflerence ùe" Between th&ftampers of M- C.! "##, SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION OF ANTHRA- CITE TO THE SMELTING OF TIN. (From a Correspondent in South Wales.) Many of our readers are doubtless aware what a large portion of the South Welsh mineral basin is occupied by that description of coal called anthracite or stone coal. Hitherto this fuel has never been successfully applied to smelting purposes, from tue difiieultie/whieh have arisen in completing its full combustion. Some months since, all of that district, Mr Crane, of the Yniscedwvn Iron-works, near Swansea, took up tile apinion that this obstacle might be overcome by the application of an heated blast, in combination or conjunction witu this coal, for the purposes of smelting ironstone and ore. We arc happy to hear that Mr Ciane has been successful in his efforts, and that one of his blast-furnaces, at the Yniscedwvn Iron-works, has now, for the last eight or ten weeks, been exclusively filied with "anthracite coal, and that the smelting process, both with respect to quantity and the quality of the iron produced, has been attended with the most satisfactory rcsul t.- Mining Journal. "U" COPPER ORES SOLD A,r 26 Mines. 21 ClVtS. Purcliusers. s, d. Knockmahon,4 125 Williams, Foster, and S 15 0 Ditto Ifo Ditto (5 15 (i Ditto 94 )) t to « 9 0 Ditto.SO Ditto s S 61 Ditto OS Ditto. 5 1 i5 (j Ditto 03 Glascott Brothers 7 7 0 Ditto 5J Williams, Foster, and 0 5 14 6 Ditto 38 D'TTO (5 JO (J Ditto 21 to 9 IS 0 Ditto 15 Ditto 8 3 0 Aliihies OS Vivian and Sous 7 8 0 Ditto 94 Ditto s 4 0 Ditto 4)0 Williams, Foster, and ("() R G (j Ditto 8o Vivian and Sons S 1 0 Ditto 73 Glascott Brothers. <3 5 0 Ditto 70 Vivian and Sons 7 Jü 0 Ditto 57 Ditto. 7 it 0 Ditto 43 Ditto. 7 () Ditto 35 Ditto. 8 6 (5 Ballymurtagh 70 Pascoe Greniell and Sons 4 0 0 Ditto 70 Ditto. 4 0 0 Ditto (56 Ditto. I n 0 Ditto 58 Ditto 4 9 0 Ditto 55 Ditto and Williams, Foster, and Co. 4 5 (J )o Ditto. 50 Pascoe Greniell and Sons. 2 9 0 Ditto 49 Vivian and Sons, and Bensoll, Loan, and Co 2 15 0 Ditto 43 Pascoe Greniell and Sens 3 10 0 Ditto 12 Ditto. 1 G G Ditto.3S Ditto 1 t) 0 Ditto 3) Ditto 3 7 0 Ditto 21 Ditto. 1 G G -,Illtl NV ill i!i ills, CO. 2 19 G Ditto 44 Ditto Ditto 2 18 G Croiiebano 57 Benson, Logan, and x Co 4 10 0 Tigrony 5-5 Nevill, Sims, Druee, and Co., and Wil- liams, Foster, and 3 12 0 Connorrec 40 Freeman and Co 2 5 0 Ditto 3G Ditto 1 ls 0 Chili 70 Vivian and Sons .••• 21 \2 G Cuba Go Williams, Foster, and Co 11 II 0 Brvuvfelin 4] Benson, Logan, alld Co. • 3 14 0 Ditto 18 Ditto 4 6 0 Ballvgahan 20 Vivian and Sons -•• 3 6 Ditto. 10 Pascoe Grenfell and Sons 1 15 G 2433 "#"# NEW POOR LAW. TO THE EDITOR OP FIT; OAZKITE & CUAUD'AN. Slit,—W ill any of your readers, sKilled in tne inter- pretation of Acts of Parliament, favour a perplexed guardian with his opinion on the following ease? f 1,. A paris lioner of L. subsequently to the l-lth August, 1 S31, marries a woman ulioisa parishioner ol Ii.. who lias an illegitimate child born betoie tnat period, and upon whom anil the reputed father an order of filiation had been previously made. The husband, of course, is liable to the mainte- nance of this alien ehikl but he falls ill, 's totally J unable to work, and has iio substilice: LIPOII what party then does the maintenance of this chndfal. Oil its mother's maiden parish, or on her husband s parish? The Poor Law Commissioners have decided that tlJP latter is to tiji-, child's support. But with all proper deference for their high mightinesses, I think they have male an illegal, and certainly an unequitable, decision. It is said that Plus lex laudator, qua ml) rationc probalur." If this adage is founded in truth, then is the decision of the Commissioners wrong. The clause was pro- bably meant, not only as a personal punishment 011 tlw man for marrying an unchaste woman, but as a punishment also 011 the woman for increasing the difficulty of her settlement in life, and therefore operating as a cheek upon such misconduct; but what offence has the husband's parish committed, that they are toMie so saddled ? Is it not mo e consonant with justice, that during tile husband's inability, the child should revert to its own parish, and that the order of filiation, which should be. only in abeyance, and not be extinguished, should he revived.and remain in force till the husband s recovery t The. Act contains no specific direction in this case; but the implication, as 1 read it, is at variance with the opinion of the Poor Law COill- missioners, I Your obedient servant, A GUARDIAN. Neath, April, 2(5. "#1" TO THE EDfTOR OF THE GAZETTE & GUARDIAN. SIf! Your readers will be glad to hear that, though Mr Dillwyn Llewelyn attended the Anti Rate Meeting, at Swansea, on the 1 ltb inst., he has dc- 1 dined signing the Anti Church Rate Petition. I can confirm the statement of vour correspondent Latimer, as to the interference of tlie large landed proprietor" with his tena;¡!s in Gower, a body of men extremely well disposed to their mother Church. If lie can reconcile to his profession of "civil and religious freedom" his biassing his tenants in this man- ner, lean only say, he has all unassailable conscience. He was not in Gower at the time: but, Qui faeit per allunt fa, it I)C)l Se, tile I)Iiti.) English of which is, lie did it by George. Your obedient servant, SPECTATOR. Neath, April 2G. P. S. My letter of last week which was written to vou, and dated the eighteenth, was, in vour paper, the 10th. y TO THE EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE & GUARDIAN. SIR, —T Was happy to find in your last paper some ob- servations upon the Anti Cnurch Rate Meeting, lately held at Swansea, both by vourself and your correspond- ent, Spectator. These observations, as far as they go, no one I think can gainsay. I will endea- vour to add some further particulars to those already given. The idea, whether emanating from an indi- vidual, or whether the offspring of sundry heads pro- found, in previous conclave assembled, may, I think, be designated as grand. What, Sir, could have been more admirable than making Churchmen condemn then- Church? What arguments stronger, in favour of abolition, than that even Churchmen tnemselvesshould come forward acknowledging, by solemn resolution, iii) itist to Disseiit( ie resolutions upon which the petition was founded were all moved by Churchmen. Yet, what meant the disagreeables towards the conclusion of the meeting which led to no result," as your contemporary the Cambrian says. Was it nothing that the chairman, recalled at length, I imagine, to sober reflection, frolll t h; cxtasil's con- sequent upon the applauses of a coalition of Baptists, Methodists, and Unitarians, confessed his sorrow that the resolutions had not been placed in his hands for consideration previous to the meeting, and also the I- 10 impossibility of his subscribing to the words "Unjust to Dissenters?" Was it nothing that the most in- fluential gentleman at the meeting, and indeed in the neighbourhood, finding himself trepanned by those more artful than himself into the support of such a principle, which his inexperience can hardly excuse, leli back on his seat in an agonv of confusion almost !)Ius!kes, atid tlil' laughable loofsS of despair of your sable adversary, of the Cambrian, to be considered as iiothing ? III silorl, confusion got worse confused. Every doctor, (and five or six were on their legs at a time) had iiis specific, -sollie were for administering a panacea to the wounded feelings ol the Cnurchmau and Mr Dillwyn Llewelyn by striking out tlie words altogether. Mr II: Joues, M.A., proposed that nething was meant whir.h should imply a disunion between Church and State." T.iis called up Mr M. Paillips, who said tHat tlh1 lI1.nt prosperous country in the world had no religion supporied by the State; lie would not how- ever like to s'e the Church paIieel down, as they were monuments of antiquity,—sentiments which were most ioudlv responded to. Tlie proposition, however, met a decided negative. Before concluding, L will just remark that tiie gravity of these our Swansea Legislators was rather happily broken in upon. The first gentleman to whom we were indebted for those pleasant interludes, was the Rev. >r Stephen, T) to at tie' Pyle meeting, designating a certain class as gifted with sanctimonious cant, &e.; the happy developement of that little failing in the appearance ofthe Rev. Speaker, came so home to tile fancy of all present, that lie must have been a s*toi ■ indeed who could have resisted tiie impulse of a smile. This gentleman also gave us some food for astonishment, bv declaring that the whole ofthe members for Wales sat bv suiterance of the Dissenters, which, with some other threatening observations, our independent jour- nal has suppressed, judging, perhaps wisely, that'they would not be very palatable at Singleton. Mr J Grove, on this occasion, was a varm friend of the Church yet still he wished to bring it about our ears. His speech was amusing, and has acquired for him a name among the commonalty which Hear will stick to.l,iill Is loll,, its lie lives. I am, Sir, Your humble servant, OBSERVER. R EPA I liS OF CHURCHES. TO Turo ED.TOR OF THE GAZj.;xTE & GUARDIAN. ,-o 1-t Sui, — Jt, is well known, even bv our younger stu- dents, that there is a peculiar fallacy attendant upon arguments derived froai meie questions, It requires little adroitness to assume the whole matter at issue and thus to pretend to have piovcd a point, by a de- ceptive use of queries, which is, alter all, only con- fidently asserted. In illustration o!"t!s' wu put. thejoeu'ar question "Have you got what you never lost, J If vou say, "Fes," I beg to infer, then you have a" pair of horns.—for you never lost tlieni. If you say Ar< then with equal candoui I lejoin, "therefore you have not eyes, for you apparently never lost them." Wc will app!v this tothe !to!)sun'schoice question, which our pamphleteer is pleased to put, Will you have your chuich rep-iircd]"1 It you say Yes, then he replies" the lands of the Bishops and Deans must do if." If vou say no, then lie urges You will be 110 longer required to do it, so give me your vote." But enough of this trifling. The question fairly brought forward, is, to those who consider it the first great Christian duty of a State to promote the rdigious welllwing oftbc people, too deeply momentous to be trifled with. The real drift of the pamphlet is to shuffle off the national charge, cneerfully borne for so many centuries, upon other shoulders —to exempt the State, which has so many new demands from increasing myriads of population, from all contributions to religion, "a nation's cheap police." Of course there will bo another batch of new eoinmissioners with thriving salaries, should the proposed change take place. This is to be attempted too! at a moment when the subdivisiou of our over- grown parishes is sorely needed, when, if ever— witness the unprecedented number of brutal murders during the last six months—a banner should be raised against ignorance and wretenedncss, against im- morality and irrcligiou. We object then to the proposed plan, I—Because it is unjust to take from the Bishops, Deans, and Chapters, their rfTnds; 2 Because it is a gross evasion of tile national substi- tute which we were promised fast year; 3—And especially, as it tends to stop church building, by cut- ting otf the means of supporting all future fabrics, and even tyiir,, (town the expenses of maintaining the present structures to an inadequate sum. 1 — We are however ready to admit of all equitable commuta- tion, which shall make the payment from property now in being, ahxedsum. 2 —Wc are .not unwilling that the rate should be redeemaole in full, like the laud tax. 3—Nor should we object to the adopt ion of Lord Spenecr's plan conv inepd, wllile numerous grants are made for the sole and separate uses of Scotland, and Ireland, that the often repeated objections to it are specious rather than solid. Any of these methods of continuing the present national aid we consider preferable to seizing private endowments,screwing out the uttermost farthing, at the fiat of a suspicious majority of 23, and leaving the application ol the proceeds to an irresponsible board in London. Another question is asked, which shall have an answer, IVho transferred till the property of the Church, its titles, and endowments, from the Catholics to the Protestants ?" It never was so transferred. There was 110 violent change by which the great body of the parochial clergy were ejected. Listen to facts. After mature debate, the Engiish clergy, assembled "i convocation in 1530, laid the axe to the root of former superstition, by denying- the supremacy of t.be Bishop of Rome in this realm, and by acknowledging, ill things temporal, that of the King. Now, by this decree, they neither lost their orders nor their temporal possessions,—no transfer of either took place. It was agreed to by both Universities. It was followed up by statutes 24 li. Sth c. 12, and 25 If. 8U1, e. 21, prohibiting all appeals to Rome. and by another Act 20 II; 8th, c. 1, dechring tlie King supreme head of the Church of England; "I title MOW slightly modified by the 37th Article A word as to the term Catholc. Until it is shewn that a part is equal to the whole, it cannot be proved that either the Roman, Greek, English, or Scot ;!j national churches are exclusively the Catholic Church-that is, the universal Church of Christ, "of whom the whole body on earth and in Heaven is named." A single branch of the Legisla- ture may indeed engross to itself the whole power of the nation, but a single nation, or its Church can have no right to arrogate to,itsplfo:¡cly ti,, title of Catholic. !)(-itig t'ltt,V ;ire )tie I)o(iv iii Clit-ist." Now, no one will maintain tint the clergy of our National Church, three centuries ago, were bound to resign their benefices the moment that the nation at large enacted the very same thing that they had agreed upon in convocation two or three vears before. Their claim of independence of the Pope was then un- answerable. Unlike the continental clergy, they had not been subject to the Roman la w; they had had not lost their subjection to the national law hv their ordination. They were bound not to submit to tiie Canon law, where the common law and custom of England diflered from it; so that the threefold division of Church revenues (enjoined by the early Popes, Simplicius and Gelasius, iq a totally different state of was nothing to them. Away then with the papistical figment of a transfer. They robbed not their Country, their King, or their God, when they proclaimed their faith national; their King, in temporals, supreme;, their Bible, free and open to all. Tgey ont.,y hcld their own. The sole transfer" oil a large scale, of '■'■property, titles, and endowments,"1 was that of the possessions of the regular or monastic clergy. Certain gentlemen, favourers of the ministry and the court, struck a shrewd bargain with Henry Sth's commissioners they contrived to-t)bt,-tin not only the landed estates of the monasteries, but the tythes which the regulars kept back, to the injury of the parochial and working clergy; this was t sweepin-, parliamentary transfer, may it never become a prece- dent to us. Yours, &c., DECUMANUS. P. S. A startling charge of dishonesty is brought, page 24th, against our clergy, for not paying first fruits and tenths, aecordingto the improved value of their benefices and Sir Robert Peel is tauntingly told to sweep away the abuse. Now Queen Ann's Bounty Act, 2 and 5 Atiti, t. I I., expressly orders that these charges should be payable" only" according to the old rates and proportions. Surely the distributors of this pamphlet cannot be aware of the knavery of this accusation. <11> '### MERTHYR. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—On Monday last, as I poor woman named Mary Jones, the wife of Ed ward Jones, a miner employed at the Plymouth Works, was attempting to step off one of the locomotive engines, while proceeding at its usual rate, her clothes unfortu- nately became entangled in some part of the ma- chinery, when she was thrown down, and her face and were dreadfully mutilated — one of her jaw bones being broken, and one eye literally forced out. We are, however, happy to state that hopes are entertained of her recovery. FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Monday evening last, as Herbert Davies, a workman in the employ of the Penvdarran Iron Company, was standing on a wheel, in the act of greasing some part of the machinery, the engine was started, when the poor fellow was drawn in be ween the cogs; and, before assistance could be rendered, both his legs were dreadfully shattered. Had it not been far the presence of mi rid of the.en- gineer in stopping the engine immediately, the poor man would have inevitably been crushed to atoms. He was conveyed to his home, Where he received every attention from Mr Russell, the surgeon but we re- gret to say, tint after lingering for two hours, he ex- pired. Ms.iTiivn, Friday.—The supply of mutton for the market to-morrow, is twelve sheep killed. On many occasions four hundred have been slaughtered for Saturday's consumption! .#,## COMPARISON OF A LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE WITH A LIVING BEING. Of all the creations of the Mechanist, the nearest approach to all organized living animal is undoubtedly a Locomotive Eu¡{ine." It is impossible not to be struck with this analogy, \$ien we see the iron limhs of the machine gathering their strength, and hear the suppressed heaving of its -tile huge pulses of its heart—beating quicker and quicker, until the load hooked to it—a burden for a ship—is borne far out of sight with the velocity ofthe wind. On a closer examination, this analog-y which it presents of animal to mechanical lile, becomes yet more apparent. The spark of life giving to the aiiiin-ii its active being, and extinguishing it.in death, has its parallel in the principle of the mechanical life of the macbinc, -tile file iii its furtiat,e,. As the one must be fed, and from its food renews- continually its living energy, so must the other. The only difference is in the diet. The animal is carnivorous or graminivorous, — the machine is carbonivorous. The one lives oil the vegetable productions of the earth in a recent, the other in a fossil state. Thus fed contiuually, the life once given to the auimal continues until its joints, and sinews, and nerves—its organs of digestion, depo- sition and absorption, are accidentally deranged, or, by continual use, worn out. And so of the macinne the fire once lighted, and the fuel, whence the prin- ciple of its active being renovates itself, being sup- plied, it continues its state of mechanical activity until some pipe is accidentally burst, or some w leel or joint broken, or until, by wear and tear, the sides of its furnace or boiler, or the joints and thews of the engine are disabled from performing their respective functions."