The Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette and Merthyr Guardian

THE COALITION What dreamed the King of Babylon*—we saw. A cmlitim image was et up Its head was gold-silver its arms and breast, Belly and tiiiglis-afroilt of shining brass Its calves were iron—iron cast, not wrought, And part of irult-part of c'uy—its feet. Tal-gest its name and o'er the land was thrown The mighty shadow of this Pagod thing." But it was srnit en—and the summer wind That idly plays, and scatters in its play The chatf-alone may typify its fall. Tell us what ineaneth this-if linger yet Prophetic mind ?-Danicl interpret this, How coalition—could not coalesce ? Dan. 2. "1' On Thursday last Dr Salmon, ofPenllvnc Court, in this countv, g-ave a dinner at Lantrissant to all his tenants in Penllvne, Langan, Llanblothian, St. Marv lIill, Newton Nottage, Wcnvoe, Lantwit Vardre, and Pentvrch, todrink "the health ot Lord Adare, and of the 2,0()J Conservatives who so gloriously placed his Lordship at the Head of the Poll for the county of Glamorgan." If any of our readers will take a ride as far as Biaenpennar, they will have ocular proof of the friendship existing between animals not hitherto remarkable for their attachment.—In a field as you descend the lane on the Idt halld side, belonging to the brothers rtioiti;is-iii.,t..rk well the spot—may be seen three calves and a goose, not only upon the very best terms, but exhibiting every symptom of fondness for each other. The alliance is offensive and defensive; they make war on the neighbouring pasture, allll repel all aggression oil tiieir own. In a state of repose they keep each other warm by the dosest contact. The calves eujoyin the privilege of afeather-bed-the goose reposing in a shirt of hair. We pointed out the confederate powers to two friends as we were riding; the one, with his usual antiquarian taste—pronounced what he saw to be symbolical of our early I' Iteritut-e-*the vellum and the qu/ll. Not so our other friend. He watches narrowly the the signs of the times." All great events, he says, have been typified by beasts and birds —and when he sees three calves,\nd a goose laying their heads together, as if in grave deliberation, he is pursuaded that the illustration is not far off- Who, h says, are the three leading characters of Merthyr id %Ijo is tljcii- tool ?-It wis ill vaill to re,,Ioll strate or reply.—YVe refer the matter to less ell- thusiastic readers thau our friend, and nave been happy to furnish a new chapter to Bingley's Animal Biography. The Radicals were so certain of success that they can hardly believe the evidence of their senses. The Globe, with its usual veracity, announced Mr Guest as elected before the polling had begun, and the coalition wore the laurel! as their badge. An attack was made by the Radicals of Neath, stimu- lated by beer distributed by a lady, upon Mr Edwards Vaughan when entering the town at the head of his tenantry, and lie was severely hurt by stones. He, however, forced his way, and inflicted upon his prin- cipal assailant a chastisement with the but end of a hunting whip, which he will not soon forget. A slight attempt of the same kind waS made at Bridgend, upon the Rev. R. Knight, but that gentle- man charged and dispersed the Radical rabble. With these exceptions, no disturbance occurred. Tlie Right Hon. Sir J. Nicholl polled a plump('r 'ol Adare, amidst tremendous cheering; and many out- voters came from almost incredible distances, amoqgst them the Rev. YV. D. Conybeare, wiio crossed tie Channel at night in an open boat. Lord Adare Was drawn about in his carriage, and carried on the shoulders of the populace. Wilt", the news of the final close of the poll arrived at nine o'clock, P-,n > the people were almost frantic with delight.—Times. THE COR-1 HARVEST.-Tije sickle is once more at work in this county. On Tuesday last we saw a field of wheat and another of oats cut on the early bank facing the channel, in Margam parish; and we have also heard that wheat has been cut near Barry, at Gileston, and other early parts of the vale of Gla- morgan.

MERTHYR. ■> The following Copy of a Notice has been left at our Office, with a request that we would publish it (COPY.) TO DAVID DERBYSHIRE. T hereby give you notice to quit the employ of William Crawshay, Esq. in one month from this day. ROBERT CRAWSHAY. August 5th, 1S37. We understand that David Derbyshire votedfor Mr Bruce at the last Election, and that his four sons have also received similar notices. Now we have nothing on earth to do with masters ill the choice ot their labourers, or with landlords in the selection of their tetialit, but this we will say, in the face of any master or any landlord, that if, for no other reason than the exercise of a constitutional trust, in any way the owner pleased, lie has received the slightest injury of any description for so doing,—he who inflicts it, what- ever name he bears, is a tyrant and an oppressor. We care not what party name he may assume—Liberal or Conservative, Radical, Whig, or Tory, he is not an honest man! But we have no measure whereby to restrain our abomination of him, who hold ill" a post of honour, be it Chairman or Deputy-Chairman of a public Board, exercises the power thus given him to bully a salaried official connected with the esta- utishmentout of his promise to one candidate, and threatens him with the loss of his situation if he refuse to vote with the other. This is base beyond all names of baseness; it is prostituting a post of honour to the gratification of private malice anil party pique, and is only worthy of those hunibitys- the Liberals, in their atrocious working out of their vaunted Reform. Bill.

MR ALDERMAN THOMPSON. The election of Mr Alderman Thompson for Sunder- land, was a splendid triumph. "Vo have copipd from the Newcastle Journal the speech of the Hon. Member on the day of nomination, and the following extract e' will serve to shew his deserved popul:iritv Mr Alderman Thompson was escorted to the hust- ings by about 300 of the most influential gentlemen in Sunderland, and a splendid procession, which was joined by thousands of the inhabitants, who cheered all the way, the band playing the air of lie sure you be ofT with the old love, before you take on with the new." The procession was, aitoget))er,the most brilliant affair of this description we ever remember :A> havi witnessed. About 50 splendid silk banners waved in the air, including a magnificent one pre- sented to the worthy Alderman by the ladies of Sunderland, and on which was emblazoned, in a very superior style of art, several appropriate devices, in- cluding the Hon. Alderman's coat of arms. At the meeting Mr Alderman Thompson spoke as follows:- Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen—Electors of the Borough of Sunderland,-You have now had proposed for your choice three candidates, each aspiring to the honour of representing your interests in the Common's House of Parliament. Being one of the candidates, your worthy and excellent Mayor has decided, that the precedence of addressing you should he given to me. Before I advert to other topics, permit me to return thanks, thus publicly, to the friends—one on my left, the other on my right-—who have spoken of me so handsomely to day. (Cheers.) I will not, gentlemen, detain you, by dilating on the importance of the occasion on which we have met; and why —Because you know it, and are deter- mined to do your duty at the poll, by confiding to my charge your interests at this peculiar conjuncture of affairs. (Cheers—"We will.") Gentlemen, I have not had the advantage of hearing the observations which fell from the gentlemen who have put in nomination my ho- nourable competitors, with the exception of a sentence or two which escaped from Sir Hedworth Williamson, in proposing Mr Barclay. The Honourable Baronet appear- ed to express great indignation, amounting to abhor- rence, at an observation which fell from my friend and proposer Dr. Miller, The worthy Doctor, in the excite- ment of the moment, and with that kind-heartedness and warmth of feeling and of friendship which distin- guish all he does, was induced to make reference to the subject of my charities.—Gentlemen, as regards this great contest, I am as willing to et aside, as sincerely as the Honourable Baronet himself, any advantage that could be derived from those acts of charity, be they great or small, which can he found in the history of my life. (Cheers.) Sir Hedworth Williamson did not, so far as 1 heard, mention my tiaiiie but it is impossible to doubt that he wished to fix upon me an imputation that I desired to make advantages conferred, even when my private purse did not suffer, a stalking-horse for my own credit. That imputation I utterly repudiate and des- pise and my only answer is, if the Honourable Baronet is yet unacquainted with my character, let him go to London (cheers) or into Glamorganshire, and make inquiries there, for I shrink not, but rather court, the most rigid scruffy into my deeds and motives. (Tre- mendous cheers.) Tkc y.gtgui'al,de Baronet has als0 thought proper to indulge in an insinuation, that indi- viduals were ready to make promises-different from those publicly avowed—at nice little tete-a-tete parties, collected for the purpose of canvassing. Now, I ask, did Sir Hcdworth Williamson mean to imply that such an observation would apply to me ? If so, why did he not, in a manner at once bold and manly, and in a tan- gible shape, make some specific charge. If there be the slightest ground for such a charge, why deal in vague iflsiniiiitions ? (Loud cheers.) But what is the fact as regards the Hon. Baronet himself ? He has had a suc- cession of nice little tete-a-tete parties for nearly a month. (Hear and laughter.) These parties have been brought together at early hours in the morning, and at unscasonahlc hours in t he evening, (cheers and bughter) and if the Honourable Baronet's experience leads him to believe that hollow promises were made at the snug canvassing parties convened by him, why, the fault is not mi TIP. (Peals of laughter.) "Oh, but (exclaims the Hon. Baronet) those moderate reformers are the very worst people in the world." (Laughter.) Sir Hedworth YY illiamson—and, mark his consistency, for he is a loudly professing liberal—would rather have an out-and-out Tory, who would oppose any change at all, than return a man whose principles approximate nearer to his own. (Laughter.) Now, if the Hon. Baronet will have the goociiies., to review my political life, not only as regards the period since I became your repre- sentative, but for many years previously, he will find that I was a strenuous advocate of many of Lord John Russell's good measures of reform, and for the intro- duction of which the Ministers now claim, and obtain from their adherents, so much "overstrained praise. You have been told that you ought to return to Parlia- ment members who have pledged themselves to support the present government, and an attempt is made to delude you into a belief that the government is the only one which the Queen is anxious to retain. Never was there a greater delusion. In accordance with all previous precedents, the ministers in power are only retained until an appeal can be made to the electors of the Kingdom, and to you as part of them. Any other course it must be obvious would, under any circumstances, lead to public incon-. venience; but how much more was the difficulty of a premature change increased, when the sceptre is wielded hy a youthful Sovereign, intelligent and discerning be- yond her years but still one also who can have had no opportunity of acquiring political experience. Our gra- cious and beloved Queen, then, has not thrown herself unreservedly (to use the slang of the day) into the hands of a liberal ministry," but has merely, and as a matter of course, retained in their places the Ministers whom she found in possession, and with the Electors of the Kingdom, I repeat, the Queen leaves the decision of the great question, as to whether their official existence shall he perpetuated or not. (Cheers.) Now, gentle- men, this argument, even if it were less hollow and in- defensible, coming from the Whigs, would surprise me not a little. Why, if these gentlemen would refer back for only the short space of thirty years, they would dis- cover that the great leader of the Whig party—a noble- man whose name will ever be immortalized—submitted to Parliament a resolution, to the effect that the influ- ence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished." Such was the loyalty of Whigs at that day. (Cheers and laughter.) So far from sending to Parliament men pledged to give an unscrupulous support to the present Ministry, you ought to return those only who will be watchful guardians of your rights—loyal and patriotic men, who, while they would refrain from any undue interference with the prerogatives of the Crown, are determined to watch, with a jealous eye to their preservation, the liberties of the people, and to keep a strict guard over the public expenditure. (Cheers.) By such a course only, rigidly adhered to on behalf of the representatives of the peo- ple, is any barrier opposed to encroachments upon public liberty. The conduct of the ancient Barons was differ- ent from the degenerate race who lay claim to the appellation of "Whig" in the present day for those Barons, by interposing between the Crown and the people, wrung Magna Charta from an obstinate So- vereign. If a Ministry could succeed in obtaining a Parliamentary majority, pledged to support them in all their measures, a beneficial Constitutional check upon their proceedings would be removed, and the dearest interests of the country would be at the mercy of only a few men. (Cheers.) Than, again, even if it were wise and politic—which it is not—to unhesitatingly confide in a Ministry under any circumstances, we should inquire into the political character of the men who presume to claim our unbounded confidence. (Hear, hear.) On this subject you are not to be deluded by any sophistry, for you know that the present Administra- tion differs widely indeed, in all that relates to talent, strength and integrity, from that which effected the Reform of Parliament. (Loud cheers.) The Adminis- tration of Lord Grey—and his name alone was a tower of strength—deservedly possessed the confidence of the country but can the same be saiJ of the men in office ? (Laughter, and cries of No !) I agree with that respon- sive No,"—for they are tossed about by a man who, for his own bad purposes, keeps alive the wildest and most mischievous political agitation in Ireland. (Tre- mendous cheers.) Gentlemen, I never would consent to go to Parliament as the pledged supporter of any such Government. Free and unshackled in my Parliament- ary career I have ever been, and free and unshackled I will remain. (Loud cheers.) I will, if sent to the House of Commons again—and I know you will send me there (loud cheers)—keep in view not the stability of this or that Ministry, but the general good. I will oppose the measures of Government when I deem them to be pernicious, and I will cordially support them if calculated to promote the public welfare, (Loud and continued cheers.) Gentlemen, I admit that the Go- vernment have brought forward several measures of unmitigated good. (General cheering.) At the head of those excellent measures I class the Municipal Cor- porations Bill, and to the essential principles of which, in all its stages, I gave a consistent and undeviating support. (Tremendous and general cheering.) It was quite right that in great and intelligent communities like this, the principle of popular election should be adopted in the choice of your Magistrates, your Town I Councillors, and others upon whom devolve the admi- nistration of your local affairs. (Cheers.) I have I assisted, too, in the passing of the recent act for legal- izing your Corporation and for the zealous services I have rendered in regard to your Corporation I will yield to no man. Then, again, I rejoice that the Government succeeded in passing a bill for the relief of the Dis- senters, with reference to Marriages. The bill when before Parliament had my most unqualified support for I think it was only just that Dissenters should have the privilege of going before the Clergy of their respective congregations to solemnise the marriage rite- (clicers.) and also that those who prefer it, should go before a secular officer. There are, however, other points in the domestic policy of the Government in which I cannot coincide; and much less can I give a cordial assent to their foreign policy. Without going into detail, I would refer you to their con- duct as regards the war in Spain. (Iltar, hear.) By the manner in which they interfered in that contest, our military renown—one of the brightest jewels in the national character—has been tarnished. (Cheers.) Of the Englishmen who, under the auspices of the Govern- ment, engaged in the contest now waged in Spain, ten thousand have been either struck down with the sword, or perished from the horrors of famine and the lack of necessary clothing, (shame,) and that, gentlemen, I think you will agree with me, is not the way to sustain the honour of Old England. (Cheers, and cries of" It is not.") Neither, gentlemen, do 1 think the present Ministers have properly exercised the influence which this great empire possesses, in suffering Russia to grasp additional territory, and increase her boundaries on I early all sides of her frontier line. (Hear, hear.) The time may come, and that at no distant period, when the nation will make this discovery to her cost; for it is impossible to calculate the mischiefs that may eventu- ally spring from this prolific source. (Loud cheers.) There are many other points to which, was this a reasonable opportunity for doing so, I might advert. Of these I onlyhcg you to call to recollection, for I will not detain you by going into details, the conduct of Govern- ment in permitting a British merchant ship, the Vixen, to be seized and confiscated by tha Russian authorities, when on the CjrcHsian coast, (hear, hear,) «Jnd also to beg of you tp bear in mind the policy the Gove"iment as regards the ^ulyugatiou of Polish independence, and the utter destruction of Polish liberty, under the influ- ence of Russian despotism. (I_oud cheers.) Now, gentlemen, I will again refer to the domestic policy of Government, and to the carrying of a measuie which I disapprove. Gentlemen, I cannot give credit to the Government for the Poor Law Dill. (Loud cheers.) In the southerh parts „f the eOllntrv [ am ready to ad- mit abuses had grown up. b1. to carry so sweeping a change into effect where no abuses exist, was highly- impolitic and unwise. But what I most object to is, the cruel and harsh regulations, adopted in many Unions, in regard to the Poor. (Loud cheers.) The separation of man and wife especially, I denounce as harsh, cruel, and un-English. (Tremendous applause.) Nor, in my opinion, is it less reprehensible, to confine within the high walls of a Union Workhouse, almost excluded from the respiration of free air and the light of heaven, the most humble and afflicted of our fellow beings. (Loud and long continued cheers.) Gentlemen, I will nq detain you longer but I should do violence to my feelings, and act unjustly towards you, if I did not declare here, and which 1 can do with great sincerity and satisfaction, that I have acted with my late col- league in the most cordial manner. Nothing should ever induce me to say one word in disparagementof him, for his conduct has been that of an able and an honourable man. ( Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, I beg of you to bear in mind that the contest in which we are engaged, is the fourth within live years. All of those contests are directly- identified with the independence of Sunderland and I tell my opponents—begging their especial attention to it—that so long as the spirit of independence which has grown up continues to animate the Electors, I will, even if future contests occur twice in a year instead of four times in five years, come forward manfully upon every occasion, and give them fair and honourable battle. (Cheers for several minutes.) I thank you for your attention. Permit me to assure you, that I never went to a Poll with more confidence than on the present occasion. (Cheers.) I know that I shall come out of it triumphantly, (reiterated cheers,) and to an extent unprecedented in any previous Election for the Borough of Sunderland. (Tremendous cheers.) One word in conclusion. I agree in the sentiment that has been previously expressed, viz. that our young, virtuous, and gracious Queen may have length of days, and may ho- nour and happiness attend her reign. (Thundering shouts.)

Jttoumotttftgiure. —♦ Dr. Musgrave, Dean of .Bristol, and formerly Arabic Professor at Cambridge, lias been appointed Bishop of Hereford. The Duke of Beaufort, accompanied by the Earl of o Chesterfield, Count D'Orsay, Vicount Jocelvn, Hon. Colonel Anson, Lord Alfred Paget, and several other noble friends, left town on Wednesday last for Brigh- ton, to be present at the races. The amiahle Duchess also left town on the same day for Hampton Court Palace, on a visit to her mother, Lady Ann Culling Smith. At a meeting of the shareholders of the Monmouth- shire and Glamorganshire Banking Company on Monday, a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. was declared; at the same time Mr Blewitt, M.P., was appointed Managing Director, at a sniarv of J?5d0 a year. How he will attend to the affairs of the bank and his parliamentary duties, the shareholders will hereafter discover. Report says, the" sighing of the political storm"— the heaving and swelling of the past tempest arc yet felt in the Boroughs within the influence of this com- pany. The rejection of Mr Jones, of Chepstow, than whom no man was more competent for a Director, is one of the bitter fruits of political enmity acting on vulgar minds. Mr Blewitt himself, as a man and as a gentleman, would be ashamed to injure any one in his person or property, for the honest discharge of a trust conferred on him by the Constitution; but Directors are an irresponsible and often a tyrannical body, and are not ashamed to do that in a corporate capacity which as individuals they would blush to think of. Mr Blewitt knows full well that by climbing a high bank he gained his present position—and it is too bad to be throwing down stones on the heads of those who refused to help him up. There is a great want of magnanimity in punishing any man for his political opinions; but to convert freemen into slaves-to make that which is his heritage by birth, or that which he has honestly gained by the sweat of his brow, the badge of his degradation or the instrument of his suffering, is odious and disgusting tyranny; and so long as we have a voice to cry out we will openly denounce the wrong, inflict it who may. FATAL ACCIDENT.—As the Welsh mail was coming into Monmouth, "On Wednesday afternoon, a girl about 10 or. 11 years of age, came in contact with the horses and was knocked down, and before the coachman (FJetcher), with all his efforts, could stop the mail, accelcrated as it was by its descent from Monnow Bridge, the poor child was run over and, although no bones were broken, the shock occasioned her death in ten minutes after the accident. Not the slightest blame is attributable to Fletcher, than whom there is not a safer and more steady driver on the road. .##1' MONMOUTHSHIRE & GLAMORGANSHIRE BANKING COMPANY. The first Annual General Meeting of the Pro- prietors of this Company was held at the King's Head Inn, in the Town of Newport, on Monday, the 7th of August, 1837. Phillip Jones, Esq., of Llanarth Court, High Sheriff of Monmouthshire, in the chair. The Chairman introduced the report of the Directors, by a few prefatory remarks, claiming the confidence of the Shareholders in that document, on account of the character of the gentlemen constituting the Board of Directors who stood pledged to its veracity. By the report, it appeared that for the first five months of the Company's operations, comprising the period botween the 1st of August and the 3lst of December 1S36, the capital consisted of a first instal- ment of £5 per share, upon which a dividend had been made, at the half-yearly meeting, of £ o Pt r cent, for five months, being at the rate of 12 per cent. per annum. That, from the period comprised between the 1st of January and 30th of June last, the capital had consisted of the before-mentioned X,5 per share, and a further instal ment of Xi5 per share, which did not become payable until the 1st of February, and which therefore had been in employment for five months only. That. upon the whole amount of capital thus constituted, for the period between the 1st of January and the 30th of June, the Directors had been able to declare a further dividend of 5 per ceut, being at the average rate of 11 per cent, per annum, on the whole amount paid up. That, after providing for tiie pay- ment of the said respective dividends, there remained to the credit of the reserved surplus fund account, the sum ofX3605 17s. 10d., being the balance of undi- vided profits for the eleven months from the 1st of August 1836, to the 30th of June last. The report, after taking a review of the com- mercial embarrassments of the last year, and recom- mending that the future privacy of tbe customers' accounts should be secured, by confining the inspec- tion of them to a small committee of the Directorial body, concluded by congratulating the Shareholders on the promising aspect of their affairs and which, under judicious and prudent management, the Direc- tors had no doubt would continue to flourish and prove an excellent investment for those who had em- barked their money in the concern. The report was received with universal satisfaction by a very numerous and respectable body of the pro- prietors present. The following resolutions were then moved, so. conded, and unanimously ao-med to- I St.-Ttiat the report now read be received, adopted, and confirmed. 2nd. Ihat Henry Wyborne Jones, Esq. (who had retired by airangenient, pursuant to a provision con- tained m the deed of settlement) be re-elected a Director of the Company. 3rd. That John Francis Vaughan, Esq. of Court- field, be elected a Director in the place and stead of John ones, Esq. Chepstow, (who had disqualified.) ir l'1U 1 't of inspecting, regulating, and controlling the accounts of the customers, and the dis- count transactions of the Bank, for the ensuing year, be confined, as heretofore, to Philip Jones, Esq. and Reginald James Blewitt, Esq. M. P., and that those geliticincti be requested to undertake the duties in question, with liberty to çOlHiUlt the General Board of u directors, upon any matter of doubt or difficulty. 1- 'lat tlie best thanks of this meeting be given ° t° P11 ^r their able and efficient manage- meiit of the Company's affairs during the past year. '"T"' the thanks of the meeting be also given to the Managers and Officers of the Head Office and ranches, for their assiduous and devoted attention to the different duties confided to them. Mr P. JONES called the attention of the meeting to the extraordinary services which had been rendered to the company by Mr Blewitt, who, without fee or reward, had acted during the past year, as general superintendant of the transactions at the head office and branches, as financier, secretary and legal adviser and who, in fact, had devoted almost the whole of his time and attention to the company's affairs, during a period when great discretion, judgment, and ability were requisite to conduct them properly and success- fully. Although Mr Blewitt had been returned to Parliament, it was understqod by that part of the constituency which had solicited him to come forward, that he was not to be in constant attendance there, but that, on the contrary, be should be at liberty to continue the management of the bank in which he held a very large interest. This, Mr Blewitt would be well able to do, as his occasional visits to London would enable him more efficiently to transact the fi"anci:tl operations of the bank, and he of serviee i" Various other ways. So much indeed was this the ease, that some banking establishments were under the necessity of keeping an agent in London. He (Mr Jones) felt that the Company could not expect Mr Blewitt's very valuable services for nothing; but as an advocate for economy in every branch of the establishment, and knowing Mr B"s liberality and disinterestedness, he sliou'd not tllink of proposing- a large remuneration. The sum he had fixed in his own mind was for the ensuing year, which, although a verv inadequate compensation for Mr B's services, would convince the proprietors and the public, that in this concern at least, there was no design or wish oil the part of the projectors to appropriate the lion's sliiro" of He (Sir Jones) and his familv had upwards of £ 50,000 invested in the bank, and he should of course continue to watch-over its operations. He would not, however, biii(I hitilself to anv particular attendance, and therefore he was not entitled to, nor would he receive any remuneration. Mr Fothergill and Mr Protheroboth bore testimony to Mr B.'s efl'cctiveservices, and the inadequacy of the remuneration proposed by Mr Jones, particularly to a gentleman of Mr Blewitt's high station and character. Mr Prothero, in the course of a very able and eloquent speech, adverted to the great difference between a company founded on the basis of an established con- cern like that at Newport, which was commenced so long ago as the year 1805, and those ephemeral insti- tutions which had their origin in stock-jobbing. Mr Blewitt. on being requested to accept the remuneration offered, said he certainly should not decline it, though he would have been quite willing to continue his service gratuitously as he had done for the past year Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the meeting separated, highly gratified with the resul of the day's proceedings.

BRECON, Saturday, August 12, 1S37. No Of all the defeated Candidates, we know of not one less entitled to sympathy or respect than Major Gwynne Holford. His perseverance in a hopeless contest, after the admonition of friends and the candid exposure of his weakness by opponents, can only be referred to the feeble- ness of his judgment in trusting the hot Radical heads and the interested persons who surrounded him—or to an inordinate vanity, which rendered him blind to the plainest demonstrations of truth, and insensible to the most wise and disin- terested counsel. Among his oppouents might be found men whom not a common cause could induce to lend their support thjs did not open his eyes to his unpopularity,—nor could the array of the gentlemen most influential by their wealth and respectability ou the side of Colonel Wood induce the Major to pause it his purpose and retrace his steps. The consequence has been that at the close of the poll the Major has been found in a minority of 650, the largest number (taking into consideration the consti. tuency) in the records of defeat during the pre- sent reign. What consolation he can find in the pages of the "Silurian," or what comfort is in store for him among the Rev. Nehemiahs, Jedediahs, and a whole host of the oily men" who bestowed their extreme unction on his cause, we know not. A better beaten Candidate we never saw. One word in sober seriousness to the gallant Major. We would meekly ask him if it was worthy his name and station, without any pre- viously acquired politics, to throw himself at once into the arms of reckless Jacobinism, lend himself to all its extravagancies, and assent to all its revolutionary requirements? It must have been this, aided by his general unpopularity, which made men even of liberal politics distrust his sincerity and refuse him their support. Whatever is exaggerated in profession," said Canning, in one of his Liverpool speeches, whatever pretends to be peculiarly disinter- ested,or peculiarly devoted to the popular cause, is to be watched with peculiar caution;" and the chances are very great that some opportu- nity will arise when temper or policy will betray the worthlessness of such professions and pretences. Should the Major's ambition of a seat in Par- liament he unscathed by his late defeat, we would respectfully entreat him to spare the County of Brecon the honour of his addresses, and devote himself and his blandishments to a place where he is utterly unknown. The County of Brecon has nobly performed its duty, and exhibited in a way not to be mis- taken its opinion of Colonel Wood. We will not be guilty of the "wasteful and ridiculous excess" of gilding refined gold" by our praise. Long may he live to enjoy the honours which his Sovereign and his country, both in his public and private character, have conferred upon him. Breconshire is proud of her Representative, and we are sure that the House of Commons does not possess a more manly and intelligent mem- ber than this county has sent to assist in its deliberations at one of the most important pe- riods of England's history, when all her manli- ness and intelligence, all her private virtue and public talent are required for her safe pilotage through the dangers by which she is beset.

BRECONSHIRE ELECTION. We gave a brief account of the proceedings at the nomination of the candidates for this county in our last. On Monday the polling commenced with vivacity, at tIe different places appointed, but it was soon manifest in whose hands was the game. At the close, on the first day, the •' truth telling" poll stood thus:— 4 AUGUST 8th, 1937.—PINAL STATE OF THE POLL. W. H. Brecon, (Ist. bootii) 105 143 Ditto, (2iid bootli) 148 GO Builth 157 58 Crickhowell 349 58 Devytmock 173 57 Hay g.) 42 Talgarth y5 92 1,122 515, Majority for Wood. 601 This WM mortifying enough, and the symptoms of disappointing^ Were Qn every Radical countenance, Agony that pants for breath, Despair-and would we could add — honourable" death. On Tuesday the polling was resumed, but so slackly, as to givei palpable evidence that the Major had exhausted his friends. The following was the state of the poll, at tin-final close, AS the phrase, with soine: what of surplusage, hasit;! Majority for Wood at each •••• ™ *s> ..n"^ Crickhowell' 350 i"* Wi 3U Devynnock 190 7* 118 Tah'irth" 98 •••• 43 55 lalgarth 9? *220 570 650 Tptal majority for Wood 650 TbewPorThvdlfS»l tbe Radicals on their defeat WerC, J the Ll, he,r ,c:.lder cause. They Para fSlnas''ing the windows of the servatives, on the pri„ciple we suppose oS « hating the light, Iwcause their deeds are dark." Wo hope some o g1 eaders will have to exercise their legs on a machine, admirably calculated to prove the thewsa these sons of freedom, civil and relig.ous-these haters of all imposts, for the sake of peace. On Thursday was the declaration of the Boll. Coil. Wocxl a host of friends and sup- porters d r ''Umbers and respectability by pee anyfornaergathenn ofthekjnd. The High Sheriff then stated the numbers to bo Wood Hoiford 570 Majority for Wood 65() Majority for Wood 650 This declaration was received with the most enthu- siastic cheers: and some portion of quiet having been re- stored,the Colonel proceeded to address the Electors:— Electors of the County of Brecon,—I now stand before you, after thirty years connection with the county, your old ro clccttd Representative—;cheers) —and I return you niv heartfelt thanks for your ex- ertions on my behalf. From tlIL: cOlulTIPnceuleut of the contest I have been of success, being satisfied that, in a great ma jority of the electors, Con- servative principles were deeply rooted, (loud cheers); and I feel quite sure that tijo result of the election will fix those principles firmly in the breasts of a loval and independent and an intelligent body of electors. (Cheer?.) — [The Hon. Member then adverted to the noise on the day of the nomination, which prevented his then answering the charges made against him but he said he would now refrain from doing so, for 1,2^2 electors had already answered those accusations for him.j—Ihev have to the present time (said the Gallant Colonel) closed the account, and I for one will not open it. (Laughter and applause.) Hut there are one or two observations that passed on that occasion which I must be permitted to notice. It is impossible not to recollc-ct that it was then insinuated that the free exercise of the elective franchise of this independent county is fettered by the hundred of Crickhowell. Now, to that hundred, consisting of agricultural and most important manufacturing dis- tricts, important not only to the particular hundred in which those interests are situated, but deeply impor- tant to all the neighbouring counties, I beg to ac- knowledge publicly that I am under the greatest obligations. However, I beg to remind you that the county has lately been divided into polling districts, not by any arrangement of mine, but by the Govern- ment of the country, and in every one of those dis- tricts, a decided majority is recorded in my favour. (Cheers.) Let them talK no more about fettering the electors. (Laughter and cheers.) I now approach a part of the question which I am sure you will see is one of a delicate nature-one upon which I hope there will be no misrepresentation. If you will permit me I will offer a few words upon it. The subject has reference to the Dissenters. (Hear.) I regretbaviug found arrayed against me, in this contest, many per- sons connected with some denominations of Dissenters; and I have been sorry to observe preachers connected with the Dissenting interests, actively canvassing in several parts of the county. Now I declare, in the face of this large and respectable company, that I have ever entertained for the Dissenters of this county the great- est respect. (" No, 110," and loud cries of "yes, yes.") If those gentlemen who now say "No, no" will hear me out, I think they will not be dissatisfied with what I am about to say. I have expressed great regret that I have heard that ministers, connected with the Dissenting interests, have been actively canvassing in the county, during the late contest. I know well that they did so canvass, in consequence of communications that were made to them from Lon- don. (Aeir, hear.) I believe that the parties in London, know nothing about the feelings or the wants <1f the principality; and the next time they receive communications from London, gentlemen the answer I would recommend my friends to make, would be, Dim Saesneg." (Laughter and immense clieers.) [We are sorry we are unable to give the remainder of Colonel Wood's eloquent and unanswerable speech; and, as we should onlv mutilate it by abridging it, we trust our readers will excuse us until next week, when we hope we shall be able to give tae remainder.] Want of time and space prevents us from giving more than the foregoing brief account this week, but we will do justice to Major Holford in our next. The Cuairing followed, and so far as we have been able to learn, without any of the disgraceful dis- turbance of the former day. The friends pf Col. Wood. dined together to the number of at least 150. Nothing could be better than the arrangements. We will give a detailed account of the proceedings of this memorable day in our ensuing publication. It having been erroneously stated by our contem-

porary that Mr Allen, in proposing Col. Wood, said but little of the public character of that Gentleman, we now beg to submit to our readers a fuller report of Mr Allen's speech than our limited space would per- mit us to give at the moment :— Mr. Sheriff,—It has not been my good fortune to be knowji to you; but, Sir, the character you bear in our county makes me anxious that mine should stand well in your favourable opinion. It has occurred to me that when you see a man at my advanced age the first to rise to address you in your crowdea court, you may feel at least surprised at his want of proper diffidence. Allow me, Sir, to remove that impression, (if it has been made) and to assure you that my appearance before you, in the honourable station I now occupy, is not of my own seeking, but the consequence of so- licitations from friends disposed to pay a compliment to age, which may have been better paid to the talent and ability of younger men around me, more able to do justice to the good cause in which I with them am engaged. Brother Freeholders and Electors of the County of Brewti, I have often, on occasions like the present, addressed you, and you have with kind patience listened to me; I hope for that indulgence now when I feel it more necessary. The duty you arc called on to perform, that of electing a fit and proper person to represent us in Parliament, is at all times a very im- portant one, but at no period of time in the number of years to which I can look back, (and few can look farther back,) has that choice been a work of more importance than at the present crisis-awful crisis. A reckless spirit of innovation, that mistakes destruction for improvement, originating in another Kingdom, has spread itself into this,has forced its way into our Senate, and every well-wisher of his country's prosperity should seriously consider the qualifications, as to dis- positions and abilities, of the Candidates who aspire to the honor of representing us in that Senate. What, in my humble judgment, those qualifications are, i have repeatedly declared to you, my older brother electors; 1 will now, with your'pfrnnMion. repeat them to you, and declare them for the first time to the nevy electors. In describing those qualifications, I have always, and ever will base them on private worth, without which, no public character ever was, or can be respectable. The private character of the worthy gentleman I am about to propose to you, needs now no eulogy from me; 011 former occasions when he was less known to you, I have been proud to enlarge upon if; it has now bjen thirty years before you; you know and cannot but approve of it. Calumny has indeed attempted to direct its tainting breath against it, but could not, can not sully it; but who is free from such attempts? The immortal British bard who so well painted the workings of the human heart, tells us that No might or greatness of mortality CAn censure 'scape, back wounding Cftlumny, The whitest virtue strikes," Its enveuomed shaft has been aimed at my worthy friend, but it fell nabelle telum." So much for his private worth, the ground work for other re- quisites; for senators should have others-wii- dom, knowledge of the history and constitution of their own and other countries, industry, business- like habits, disposition to serve their country;—all these our late representative possesses; but their is another essential qualification required in a fit representative of the county of, Brecon; I would rather say of the people of these great kingdoms; for remember, brother electors, that Members of Parliament, though elected by their different counties, or boroughs, must, in Parliament, advocate not only the local interests of those places, but that of the whole ÇOIIQQllWeíâth. They should therefore be perfectly independent men: search the kingdom round, where will you find a man more independent titan be is, who has represented you in ten successive Par- laments ? Place, emolument, honors, rank, have all been offered, and pressed upon him, and he has declined them all; his highest ambition being to represent the respectable electors of the county of Brecon. So much for the fitness of the candidate I support. As to b political principles, he has pub- licly declared them to you; and will again fearlessly de- clare them he is now before you to render his account, and sure I am that those principles which have ruled his votes in Parliament, are those of by far the greater part of his respectable constituents. HQ is, however, to be opposed-a gentleman, I beg his pardon, a champion, an uncounted champion" has come forth who to use bis own words, "will never ceaqe agitating, until this county is rescued fQln the badges of slavery which the Tory pa(ty would fix on us for ever." Fine sounding words but where is this slavery to be found? where the evidence of it ? where has it been hid ? vxhere does it now lurk ? Was it in the minds of those Tories whose lofty spirits and wisdom directed the councils of the natiou, when its fleets and armies, led by heroes im- mortalijed in historv, rescued it from perpetual slavery, preventing the British islands from beyig provinces of France; raising the Briti.sh Empire to a height of greatness which no Otther nation on the earth ever reached was it to) be found in those great cha- racters? Is it npw to be foynd in the characters uf those who with their iires and properties are deter. in toed to, defend and support the OUuroh* tbe Protes- tant Church, the Established Church, the hmited mo- narchy, the throne ctf a youthful, lovely and promis- ing Queen t the hereditary peerage, the freedom of the people in the exercise of their Just liberties and rights, the protection of the poor, and of every order of our blessed and envied Constitution? No, brother electors, the badges of slavery are to be found in other far different quarters,—in those where every step is taking to undermine our Church, our Monar- chy, and Coustitutiou j where attempts are coutiiw allv making to throw more and more power illtO 1 h. hands of Roman Catho'ic rrr-sts. to en;ible them to trample on the ruins of the Protestant, and to crert upon those ruins their own intolerant religion. The Candidate who opposes the re-election of our former Representative, publishes his intention to support the present Administration that Administration which confesses that it has dealt a" heavy How" at the Protestant Church.—Such blows will be again dealt about. We will parry them, brother electors, come from what quarter they may; there is a power for us and for our Church far greater than that which is against us. In this struggle the question is of principle, not of pprsons-'tis not mere1y :t d)Qicc between two individuals, a Colonel or a Major, a \'rood or a Holford ;-no, the Kingdom is divided into two parties—the one consists of those who will defend the Constitution—the other of those whose acts,whatever be their intentions, tend to its over- throw. Who then shall we choose to represent us in this awful struggle 1 If you think the gentleman I have described, as every way qualified for that great trust, wants higher recommendation, I can point ta it. How was he lield in the estimation of that great, good, and gracious Sovereign, for whom we all now mourn—not in sable suits only, but in our hearts.— What thought he ol him Why,though he has declined honors pressed upon him, that great King was deter- mined to give his subjects assurance of his esteem, friendship, and love for him, in testimony of which he set his Royal signature and seal; he selected him in whom to place the greatest trust that one man cau cou-. fide to another; he selected him one of three onlv, out of millions of his subjects,to execute his will whenever the King of Kings should call him,from an earthly to a heavenly crown. Surely, brother electors, we may- well be proud that our representative has been so highly honored and surely, a man so honored, honors us by again offering himself to represent us. I there- fore propose the worthy Gentleman so honored, and so honoring us, to be returned by us to an eleventh Parliament. 1 nominate for that purpose Thomas Wood, Esq. # Brecon, August 5, 1837. Colonel Wood presents his compliments to the Editor of the Merthyr Guardian. In his paper of this day's date is a report of a speech delivered by Col. W. on the nomination of Candidates for Breconshire. Colonel Wood is made to say,—" After inflicting some well merited chastisement on the Member for Radnorshire, the Colonel continued." The above is an error of the Reporter. The Member for Radnorshire was not pre- sent and Colonel Wood will esteem it a favour if the Editor will insert this communication in his next paper. It was not the Member for Radnorshire that proposed the Candidate opposed to Colonel Wood, but a relative residing in the county. [The maistake originated with our Reporter--A-hto afterwards corrected his error, with the exception of the words to which the Hon. Member for Breconshire refers.] Captain Wood, the new member for Middlesex, is a captain in the first battalion of the Grenadier Guards, commanded by Colonel Grant, and now quartered in Dublin. The Gallant Officer is nephew to the Marquis of Londonderry and Ladv Emilv Hardinge, and cousin to Sir Walter James, bart], the new member for Hull. The Gallant Officer is the eldest surviving son of Colonel Wood, his elder brother, Captain Charles Henry Wood, of the 1 :itiA Royal Hussars, having died some time ago at the seat of Lord Enniskillen, in Fermanagh. A LESSON 1!Ii GOOD MANNERS, OR THE Poll un- covered.-The Member for Dowlais, in return for the vote of Major Holford, iu Glamorgan, attended at the Town Hall, in Brecon, to give his testimony to the fitness of the Major, as candidate for the repre- sentation of Breconshire. He came up to the polling place, where the Sheriff and every other per- son were uncovered, with his hat on. Mr Crawshay Bailey, the Sheriff, requested him to remove it, with an intimation that he was the only per- son who bad palled that day covered, and lie begged the respect due to the office which he had tho honor to hold. We forbear to mention the petuSaneo of Mr Guest's answer, or the dignity of the Sheriff's rejoinder. The great yoll was ultimately tm- polled, amidst the cheers of the spectators. How is it, that go where be will, this ill-bred man carries his pertness with him.—His manners are all over Doulais, and Are worthy only of the iron-age. TEST OF lwOXICkTION.-A native of "the Emerald Isle" was asked the other day how he could t'„ii that a man was drunk. Faith, (answered Pat,) I'd never be after saying that a map was druuk at all, witiiout I saw him try to light his pipe at a pump." Walter Wilkins, Esq. M. P., with his usual liber- ality, has given it50 towards defraying the expenses of a new Church clock for the town of Presteign. HONOURABLE CQNBUCT.—A dividend of twenty shillings in the pound has just been declared upon the separate estates of the late Thos. Coleman Esq., and Edw. Welling., Esq., of Ludlow, Bankers-a circnm- statice which deserves especial and honourable mention small » almost invariably obtain so small a portion of their just dues. We have the gratification of statill.4 that two Con- ri» followiug „„ tbe state of „lc 1st Day. 2nd Day. Tota, TREVOR 2081 405 JOSES 1S34 340 2174 WILLIAMS. 168a 383 206S Majority for Trevor 418 Minority for Jones 106 II t. ¡..

ANOTHER FICTORYT NORTH WILTS ELECTION. < 1i GROSS POLL, 2ND DAY. BURDETT OGJ., LONG -JITR METHUEN Majority for Burdett over Methuen 4Si

FROM THE LONDON GAIBTTBS- London, Friday, August4. INSOLVENT. Edward Bailv, Belgrave Place, Wandsworth Road, Lambeth, farmer. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. Charles Foster, Kingsbury, bill broker. Edward Beetham, Portsmouth ChamKerc Lircrdn's Ian Fields, bill broker. Samuel Chifney, Wood Ditton, Camoridtrc, livery stable keeper. Jamos Emley, Liverpool, merchant. BANKRUPTS. William Reynolds, juu., Savage Gardens, wine mer- chant. Sir Paul Baghott, Bridgend Mills, Gloucestershire, clothier. Nathaniel Knight, Abbot's Bromley, Staffordshire, drappr. William Franklin, Liverpool, sail maker. Ge Arnold Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, fejilder. George Noyes, Chippenham, W iltshire, iroruvoncrer. George Neville, East Bergholt, Sutolk, blacksmith. James Pickard, Wortley, Yorkshire, clothier. Jacob Jenkins, Birmingham, builder. Samuel Eadson and Ralph Kilvert, Manchester fus- tian manufacturers. James Joule, Ardwick, Manchester, common brewer James Rushy and William Hewde y, Leeds, coach lace manufacturers. London, Tutsduy, August 8. BANKRUPTS Thomas Clark, Dover, master-mariner James Standen, Grosvenor STTLO, N Thomas GeorgePostan. Aldersf Christopher Hill, Clarence Street St T Samuel Blake Berry Greeks L' S' George Ogilvy, Kiddernnntter Turner. Thomas flenhow, CheW, CMl*i-manulacturer. D^dsco,, builden^ Great Malvern, Worcestershire, WmilaiDrT'rCllfc,nsford' Suffolk> blacksmith. eottonsS^ hn Statt6rS' Mefi0r' L:mcas]'lirP' EAans' ^e<idgelert, Carnarvonshire, shopkeeper. Job PWg draper. j 1 n ia Spalding, Lincolnshire, shoemaker. maltster 0 Abbot's Bromley, Slaiiurdshire,

BIRTH. Un the 20th of July, at Pendovlan House, the ladv of the Rev. L. A. Nicholls, of a daughter. MARRIED. June 20th, at Barbadoes, by the Rev. Wiltshire Austin, Vicar of Milford, Captain Martin, n. N., ;)n of Admiral Sir Byam Martin, to Rebecca, third daughter of Sir Reynold Alleyne, Bart., of Alleyne Dale, in that Ialand. On Tuesday last, at St. Mary de Lode's Church, Glou- cester, Mr William Spencer, of Monmouth, to kiss Mary Ann Hurditch, of Bristol. DIED. On Saturday last, at his house in Pall MalL Sir Mark Wood, Bart. On Monday, the 7th instav.t, at the great ape of 106 years, Margaret Porter, of the Buckhold, near Mon- mouth. On Wednesday last, Mr Joseph How, suddenly at St. Mary Church, near Cowhridge, aged 72. On the 7th inst., at Newport, Monmouthshire, J\h lidwiu Griffiths^Solicitor, of that town.

10 would ITI:>RTI gladly welcome as Iiis colic;imie, th;\n the SJU of his old friend AN I relation, Lord Dun (Cheers.) Ho had heard his age objected to hut I Ills opinion, 25 was the best possible le for a workin(,, of* l';tr!i;iiyieiit. Hi: hoped that the oas and the laurel wou <1 now be superseded bv the •'live. Had it not been for the precarious stnte of •e health ol his late colleague, Mr Dill wyn, one of ^est Members that ever represented a county, I h and laughter,) they would not have been de- prived ot his services. One word with respect to the c«=»litioii with which he had been chirked. It was not Hit in England would be called a coalition. (0;i!) e had told Mr Guest, and had showed him a cal- 'ul.itiou, proving that he had no chance of success, H'fore lie stood, (hear, hear); but had said that if lie sl°o l he would support him. He felt bound to sup- port tile I,ihet-.ti pirtv in the (-outitv, ;tii(i wt,; i-eii(lv to oso a^ain, and on this occasion there was no other /didate, and it was Hobson's choice. (I.oud auifhter and cheers.) He must say, that Mr Guest "°t obsruded him •self, but had offered £ "1000, to ^ul'port any other Liberal Candidate, and had acted ,l the most d.sintcrested manner throughout the "'itest. In conclusion he would only observe, that Jl' t.iousflit all parties must now be satisfied. The °hlc Lord was uf course well satisfied with being at "t' head of the poll. (Cheers.) He (Mr T.) was well s,|Msfied with having done his duty, (cheers); and he pPposed that Mr Guest was perfectly satisfied that lL' lll;Ver could have anv chance of representing the COunty, (Laughter and cheers.) In allusion to his connection with him, he miglit say with Hudi- Ti^'1mc' perils do environ, he man that meddles with coid iro?t. (Roar;; of laughter -mil cheers.) ^nrd ^\N\IIE proposed, and Mr JENKINS, of Llan- l,,rran, seconded, a vote of thanks to the Sheriff. fhe SiiRitiFF briefly returned thanks IImidsthisses "(I I elis from the laurels, and cheers from the oaks. Colonel CAMF.ROV then spoke for a few minutes, i^idst great uproar and confusion. He was always favour of fair play, and had stood, and would again staiKj forward, in defence even of an enemy, when ^whelmed by 11lllnber He thanked them for 1,t thev had done for Mr Guest, and was ready fight the battle again anil again. The success- 11 candidates were then Ciiiired-ctt-li taking a ùltreellt route, to avoid all dispute as to precedence ''I-- '['-ilbot', chair was of scarlet stuff, decorated j U'1 laurel; Lord Ad a re's, (constructed in,a few VH"8 *r H- v<*rit}') of orange and purple silk, 'til a canopy of flowers, and of unusual splendour, tor f 't'b°t and his supporters afterwards dined b ?''ther in the Town Hall, from which a temporary Yy' had been thrown across the street, to the •Vl'dham Arms Inn. Adare and upwards of 500 of his friends Vy.1*.1' 'n 'he New Market. The gentry (not being \Vl exe,u.;ives) sat promiscuously at the tables, Supplied with plenty of cold meats, ale, fiiv The following were amongst the toasts a::1I bYIits Lordship, drank with due honours, and t|,pl>,nPai,i«d by the Bridgend band.—"Her Majesty Queen."—(God save the Queen )—"Tlie Queen CnJr,,pand thoRoval Family.(Duhe if York's The Army and Navy."—(Rule Britannia.) t|lr'DWELLS returned thanks. He had fought 'he whole of the Peninsular War, in l'icton's e(»n"ent He was iu the regiment when Picton d, lm:">ded it: he was in it when he fell. (Tremen- ,„e|S.C'lt(!r" ,M tlmt C0I'I)S wen> m:U,y GI:lInorS:msl,iro ii»tr'' ^i0.v were second to none in gallantry. (Cheer 111" r(M,ewed.) So highly did their Colonel value lilut he formed them into a company called die liUn(wg:in company. (Loud and continued in He was proud of being a Cilamonganshire a»d the county had marked their sense of his (I lV't by appointing him adjutant of their militia. V 'u,l cheers.) Capt. W AItDE R. N., briefly returned thanks for v ? .Tll« 2009 independent electors, who placed «iu„. A(Jsir« «t the head of the P«»H, tlio largest V, bl>r ever polled by a candidate for this county.' — '"kins, of Llanharran, and the resident country ^inen who have so nobly supported us in our ^g.le lor our independence."—(Of a noble race ''Cnkin.) (Tremendous c heeri ng.) Al Alr iE"XINS returned thanks, but his speech was e0l/>s'' lost in the vociferous acclamations of the •>»y. Farmers."—"The Commercial and Manu- Interest."—•' The Central and District 'tees." (Lord Adare peculiarly complimenting ♦■rlj ^aiisea Committee on their indefatigable ex- iiilr(]"s u"dw every disadvantage.) Sir Francis fn —"Lady Adare and the Ladies" followed. le COURSE of the afternoon Mr JON ES, of Fonmon Sn(.| e' Proposed the health of I^ord AIJAHK, amidst I | cheeriti«r as w;ls ,K.ver before lieard in the town Ai)AKE returned thanks in an admirable 'usij^' •> much regret that a scene ol con ,,f>r the cellar door prevented our reporting "evt'r forget their kindness. The Glamor- It Soldiers and sailors had done their duty, and his "'J hi morgan had done its duty. His time and j'ftious he had already given them, lie now gave >artl (Cheers.) It should be his study tiV bi: t,|l° their interests iu every possible way, and to '"fin -0 rrieil(1, not merely the acquaintance, of every Ah" ^ai,,organshire. ii, (but four o'clock the company left the Market, 6 Ited with the days proceedings. ()r¡ S .IIIIUI..III* »^'?^Urday, Bridgend presented an unusually Pti appearance, "out utprs were continually '<VIII\I" I preceded bv flags and a band of inu^ic, and ,i()tit5,l'I,e^ enthusiastic cheers. Amongst them we '"on7 .tlle Riglit Hon. Sir John Nicholl, who drove Afl;i 's Way from London, to poll a plumper for tlii-LV lhe" Rev. VV. O. Coneybeare, who passed s|iire for Neath, hav/ing after voting in Devon- >u or^i ('l()ssed the channel at night, in an open boat, I'll t0 nir'vo timi1, and many others. bot Ie result of the poll has read a lesson to Mr Tal- we hope may have u salutary effect. 1'bo t'on jIU:e °f tone between his speech on the nomina- v, n,u^ that at the declaration of the numbers, l'ry striking; and when he saw such men as I'ftw 'ns» of Llanharran, Mr Williams, of Aber- Jo||„ Mr M. P. Traherne, of Coytrahenc, Sir and others of his oldest and most W Ad 'rien(ls and connections, giving "plumpers '"to }Jjare*" we think that the iron must have e.itercd Gi^ 8°u'- His witty and well applied sarcasms on rvHit'S'S failure were highly admired by the Con- MesVeS' weappreliend, not exactly to the taste l0tlipr s,'s-Coffin, Cameron, James, Waring, and the ^<ciqI'P^ters of what tlie Times calls the Srtub- heij ^'fwber for Merthyr would have acted wisely r tl¡l.evllI bis frill1d. wilO told him" Iw had 110 sort ¡It 'Ince T^]iCe'" wo c:l" assure our readers, that v-tiniv* ot seemed cordially to participate in the t Qutsal satisf.letion" which the county feels at st s presumption being duly appreciated. "1"##