The Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette and Merthyr Guardian

HEREFORD AssIZES.-There are at present about 16 prisoners for trial at the ensuing Assizes, which commence on the 2<rd instant. Among them are, one (a female) charged with child murder, and' three with manslaughter. At Nisi Prius there are, we understand, twotspecial jury causes. PEMBROKESHIRE LENT ASSIZES were opened on Saturday last by Sir J. T. Coleridge, Knight, one of the Justices of her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench at Westminster. His Lordship arrived at Haverfordwest, escorted by Gilbert Warren Davis, Esq., the High Sheriff, about eight o'clock in the evening, and proceeded to the Town Hall, when the commission being opened "pro forma," the court was adjourned till ten o'clock on Monday following. On Sunday his Lordship attended Divine Service at St. Mary's Church. On Monday morning his Lordship pro- ceeded to the Town Hall, and the Court was opened with the usual formalities. LONDON MARKETS.—CORN EXCHANGE, MONDAY, MARCH I I.- We are most abundantly supplied with Foreign Wheat as well as a considerable quantity of Flour in barrels and sacks. The arrivals also of Foreign Barley and Oats are large. The English supplies continue moderate of all kinds of Grain. The Wheat trade has been depressed to-day at a de- cline of 5s. to 6s. per qr from this day week. Barlev is Is. to 2s. cheaper, unless for the better description of malting. Oats are Is. lower. New and Old Beans are the turn cheaper. In Pease of either sort there is no variation. Flour is unaltered, but the trade very slow. Grass Seeds of all kinds move off slowly on last week's terms. WOOL.—The Public sales of Colonial Wool were brought to a close on Monday night. The attendance of buyers was very good. The catalogues contained 3,000 bales Australian, Tasmanian, &c. the qualities of which were generally indifferent, and rather out of condition; the biddings, however, were- aoti ve, and the whole quantity was disposed of at prices quite equal to those obtained at the last sales in December. The result of these sales has established a very firm market.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. NORTH AMERICAN W-,R—ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT WESTERN. It is an inconvenience inseparable from the condition of newspapers, that when we have most to tell we have least opportunity of communicating the, information as we could wish. We must, therefore, hasten to lay before our readers the important intelligence received by the Great Western in the crude shape in which we receive it, merely supplying such preliminary as may seem to render it more easily understood. On Tuesday evening the Great Western arrived at Bris- tol, having completed her voyage from New York in 14 days and about 11 or 12 hours. She accordingly brings American papers down to the 26th ult. these papers announce the commencement of a war upon the British empire, if not as yet by the whole of the United States Confederation, at least by the state of Maine adjoining to the British provinces of New Burnswick and Lower Canada. It is 'generally known that the adjustment of a boun- dary line, between Maine and New Brunswick, has been a subject of dispute between the British and United States governments since the acknowledgment of the independence of the States in 1783 various attempts at accommodation have been made by the appointment of commissioners and arbitrators but, owing to the perverseness of the Republicans, hitherto without success —the British government having, in every case, readily agreed to the award made. The tract in dispute is of no value to either claimant generally as territory, for it is wild and unsettled, zild little promising of being ever profitable to a cultivator but it, or at least some part of it, is necessary to Great Britain to supply a means of communication betweec New Brunswick and the Cana- das, and thus through all the British colonies. Great Britain has, moreover, since 1783, remained in de facto possession of the desert, as far as a desert can be occu- pied, and her right of de facto possession, subject to some final arrangement to be made when the parties can agree, has been solemnly recognised in all the negoci- ations that have taken place. It appears, however, that some adventurers have lately established themselves on the debateable land for the pur- pose of cutting timber, generally the most useful service that can be rendered to an American wilderness; and that in consequence of this the government and legislature of Maine, in perfect contempt of the de facto occupation by Great Britain, sent a land-agent with 150 armed men, provided with at least one piece of artillery, to dispossess the intruders, and to seize their cattle, vehi- cles, and tools, and this without deigning to make any complaint or the slightest intimation of their purpose to Sir John Harvey, the British Governor of New Bruns- wick, and as such, by the acknowledgment of both nations, the proper guardian of the disputed tract. The Republican invaders made some prisoners from among the woodcutters, and were proceeding with their hostile operations, when the party attacked mustered courage, and in their turn made a prisoner of the land-agint commanding the invading expedition. The Governor of Maine, Fairfield,has in consequence reinforced the invading army, and Sir John Harvey has made corres- ponding preparations on the side of New Brunswick Meanwhile Sir John has addressed a firm but mild protest to the Maine authorities, but apparently without any effect upon Mr Fairfield, who says he sees no rea- son to doubt the entire correctness of the course that he pursued." Fairfield has not, he observes, yet applied to the central Government for support. MrM'LaughKn, the British land-agent, who attempted pacifically to warn the Maine invaders of the illegality of their pro- ceeding, has been arrested in reprisal for the arrest of the Republican land-agent, M'lntyre. This is an out- line of the affair as we have been able to collect it from the American papers. The war has thus begun as far as the States of Maine is concerned, and the legislature of the neighbouring state has adopted resolutions that proves a readiness to co-operate in it. Hostilities, indeed, may be prevented if the central government should have the will-or rather the power-to interpose but this we much doubt. The encouragement offered by the Canada rebellion has pretty generally inspired the Republicans with the con- viction that the time has arrived when the British power may be expelled from North America. We shall now have to pay the price of 9 or 10 years of economy. We shall no N know the consequence of de. spising the satiric poet's advice- I apace ut sapiens aptarit idonea bello." The Great Western does not bring any important news from Canada. The whole number of traitors and pirates executed has been 34. FRANCE. The death of Miss Judith Grisi, sister of Giulia Grisi as announced in the French papers is not true; she i still living. RESIGNATION OF THE FRENCH MINISTRY.-The Paris journals of Friday and Saturday, state the unfavourable tendency of the elections, which have given a majority of 20 to the coalition, has caused the ministry to resian. Marshal Soult was in consequence sent for by the King, and had a long audience,of his Majesty. The esult of the interview is of course unknown, but the Paris journals are filled with speculations upon it, and conjectural Cabinet lists. The coalitionists, in anticipation of the possession of office, are making preparations to ease their position by throwing the Belgian grievance over- board. The affairs of Belgium, they ay, have been settled, though in a manner of which they highly dis- approve, and the question cannot be opened again. BELGIUM. MELANCHOLY DEATH OF THIRTEEN CHILDREN.—A melancholy accident happened on the 16th ult., at Beeringen, near Beverloo, on the Dutch frontier of Belgium, where the steeple of the church, which had long been in a tottering condition, fell on the school- house attached to that edifice, and killed thirteen children who happened to be within it. The major part of the scholars had quitted the school-room only a few minutes previously. The debate in the Brussels Chamber, on the accept- ance or non-acceptance of the treaty, still continues to dragon; but it excites no interest. It is not expected to finish before the end of the present week, when it is generally believed, that tha affirmative of the question will be carried by about a dozen votes. Several members who have expressed themselves decidedly opposed to the treaty, have declared their intention to vote for its acceptance, upon the ground that any further resistance would be worse than useless. INDIA. The intelligence which reached London last Saturday by Mr Wagborn's overland mail from India, is calculated to excite the most serious apprehensions as to the issue of the hostilities in which the Indian Government has engaged. The letters from Tatta, the head quarters of the Bombay division of the expedition in support of Shah Soojah, agree in stating that a great change has taken place in the disposition of the Affghan chiefs. Even Kam Ram, the defender of Herat, though rescued from Persian aggression by the intercession of England, has joined Dost Mahommed and the rest of the chiefs. It appears also, that a Mr Campbell, formerly of the Madras army, has entered the service of Dost Mahom med, and is doing everything in his power to place the passes leading to Candahar in such a condition of defence as may make them, if properly defended, nearly im- pregnable to our troops.

SHIPWRECKED SEAMEN & FISHERMEN'S BENEVOLENT FUND. On Friday, the 8tb inst., a public meeting was held in the Vestry Room of the parish of St. Mary, Tenby, for the purpose of forming a Local Association in aid of the Shipwrecked Seamen and Fishermen's Benevolent Fund," recently established in London under the patronage of Sir lahleel Brenton, Baronet, Admiral of the Red, and K. C. B., and others, who feel a deep interest in the sufferings of sailors and their surviving relatives. The Rev. Dr. Humphreys, Rector of Tenby, took the chair, and the meeting was addressed by Captain Jackson, R.N., Superintendent of her Majesty's Dock Yard at Pembroke; Captain Bird Allen, R. N. the Rev. G. N. Smith, Rector of Gumfreston, &c. &c. The attendance was highly respectable, and included several of the neighbouring clergy, as well as many of the principal inhabitants of the town. A committee was formed, and Captain Bird Allen, R.N., and T. Sleeman, Esq., jun appointed secre- taries to the Tenby districts, which will comprehend the town and fourteen of the adjacent parishes. The claim which this institution has on the British public is so strong, that it is confidently hoped every town will shortly have its association; and that not only those whose interests and local situation connect them with the sea, but the inhabitants of our inland districts, where the voice of the ocean storm has never been heard, will come forward to assist the sailor, who, having escaped from a watery grave, finds him- self a penny I ess wanderer in a strange land, as well as the wretched widow and orphans of him whose dying pillow has been the foaming wave, on which he had earned them a honest subsistence. The constitution of the Seamen and Fishermen's Fund is so simple, that it recommends itself to every individual—no one being so situated as to be unable to do something towards extending its efficiency. The clergy seem to be particularly called on to advocate its claims and to promote its objects in their several parishes; and mercantile men, and those whose lot is cast in seaport towns, should forthwith set them- selves to work in its favour. The annual subscription required is only 2s. 6d.; a sum so small as to be within the reach of almost all classes of the community. The proceeds of these aunuai subscriptions will be formed into a disposable fund for the immediate relief of sufferers; and the donations which may be received from the more affluent members of the society, will form a permanent fund for granting such annuities to the survivors of shipwrecks, or their widows and orphans, as the Central Committee in London shall think fit. We trust the towns in the Principality will all come forward in aid of this cause; and in the moan time we refer those of our friends who may be desirous of further information on the objects or constitution of the society, to its patron, Admiral Sir J. Brenton, Bart., Lieut Governor of Greenwich Hospital, or to John Rye, Esq., 60, Pulteney St., Bath, who will readily afford it.

SMASH ERS.-A man and woman, both advanced in years, were committed to Haverfordwest jail a few weeks ago, by W. Richards, Ksq, Mayor of Tenby, for passing base coin in that town. The woman suc- ceeded in getting rid of one of her stock of spurious half crowns in the market, but was soon detected; and both of them have been sentenced at the late Assize to twelve months' imprisonment. GREAT WESTERN STEAM SHIP. -A half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors was held in Princes Street, Bristol, last week. A dividend of five per celit., making, with the former one of four percent., nine per cent. for the year, was announced. The report was unanimously adopted. BANK OF ENGLAND.-At the Quarterly Court on Thursday, a dividend of only three and a half per cent for the half year was declared, instead of four per cent as heretofore.

TO CORRESPONDENTS. We do not for a moment doubt one word of what Jus- TITIA says in his letter from Tredegar; but he ought to know that we can publish no such communication forwarded to us anonymously. Several communications which reached us last night are unavoidably postponed till next week. The Postmaster at Bridgend informs us that there is no regular conveyance from that place to Llwyni, and 'unless parties call for their letters or newspapers, they must necessarily be kept there. It frequently happens that the people for that neighbourhood leave Bridgend before the mail arrives; consequently there is no chance except a casual one. We think, the postmaster ihould have furnished this information to us free of expense.

I a tto r g a n. PAotimoittli, & Brecon (Sajette, AND MERTHYR GUARDIAN.

MERTHVR TYDVIL. AND BRECON, March 16, IS39. The Corn Law question was argued in the House of Commons oil Tuesday night, at con. siderable length, but without affording any novelty whatever. Many of the speeches in- deed were not half so effective as those delivered at some of the Pro-Corn-Law Meetings in the country ;—Brecon, to wit. The leading points of (he debate will be found under the Parlia- mentary head, in our fourth page. The debate, after various notices of motion, was continued at great length on Wednesday night, and was again adjourned.

The time of Parliament, as usual, before the Easter recess, is likely to be spent only in de- bates, or in the transaction of routine business. What may be done in the great work of legisla- tion will stand over till Members return from their spring holidays and if left to the choice of the Cabinet, will then be adjourned sine die. The tone of the debates of the last ten days considered abstractly as debates, are by no means without their value. The speeches on the Con- servative side of both Houses seem to imply, that the prevailing impression is, that the Whig- Radicals have been suffered now sufficiently long to tamper with the best interests of this great empire. Whether designedly or not, we are not yet prepared to say; but somehow or other the materials for a vote of burning censure on the whole impolicy of Ministers, seem to be industriously gathering. Every day brings out some new trace of their wickedness,—some new evidence of their utter incapacity ,—and withal, some new proof that to the Conservatives, albeit, in opposition, we owe all the good which has laterly been effected; that at least the legisla- tion, if not the entire Government, has devolved upon them. It would be curious and useful to trace the varied workings of such a system of irrespon- sibility ;-to shew how the present Cabinet have invariably proceeded on that plan shifting off on select committees, the burden they them- selves should have borne;—appointing commis- sions, partly for the sake of patronage, partly to obtain a little longer delay;—and adopting the amendments of the opposition, as coolly as the pick-pocket abstracts the nearest Bandanna But our space is limited just now and we must confine ourselves to a few practical facts. Let us look for a moment at the Navy. To the question" What have we to oppose to a Russian fleet of 27 sail of the line ?" the answer is—" three not half manned, and for months unserviceable, gnardships." To the question, How long would you be completing for service a sqttadrori of 12 sail of the line, which Sir "GEORGE COCKBURN, when a Lord of the Ad- miralty, had in full readiness before three days "expired?" the answer is "Six Months 1" To the question, "What steps have been already taken to diminish the difficulty of procuring seamell, and what prospect have you of obtain- "iug able seamen for volunteers?" the answer is, No such steps have been taken, and no such prospect exists." It is true some new energy has recently been infused into the operations of the Admiralty ? And to whom are we indebted for that ? Certainly not to those whose duty it was to have maintained that department in an efficient state. No They have had to be driven to their work, like a refractory truant-player to his school; and they will skulk from it like all idle lad from his task, the moment the coercion of Conservatives,—the pressure from without," is withdrawn. As the Duke of WELLINGTON has stated, we are at war in two quarters of the globe,—at war with those whose forces are by no means despicable; and this not merely with peace establishments, but actually with reduced peace establishments! How then can we wonder at the disappointments and insults the British Flag has already experienced «' Justice to Ireland" next demands one word. Baron FORTESCUE has received his commission from O'CONNELL to follow out his design,—to accomplish his expressed wish, to be enabled to make war on the Irish Protestant Church with increased vigour. His best hopes were for the complete establishment of Popery, and the utter extinction of the Reformed Faith, in that be- nighted country and he is now about to infest it with his presence, and towage the war for which according to his own words he has panted. The Conservatives, happily, are alive to the danger and they are taking the most effectual means, if they will but prosecute them fully, to stop the mad career of the O'CONNELLITE fac- tion. Mr SHAW has moved for certain papers on Irish affairs; and we are grievously mis- taken if those papers will not furnish sufficient grounds for the vote of censure we have above alluded to ;-a vote wbichshould hurl from their ( places, and with eternal disgrace, the present set of officials. This will indeed be Juslice to Ireland." Of Earl RODEN'S motion, and the Municipal Corporation Bill, we must speak hereafter. The proceedings of Ministers on all questions regarding the Church of England, are still as tricky and as suspicious as ever. We repeat that a blow at its efficiency will certainly be aimed by the new Educational Board, unless its proceedings be carefully watched. Wherever that Board can favour the Dissenters, they will. The Church has the greatest number of schools and those schools are by far the most efficient. Let her friends look to it, then, that the addi- tional grant which Lord JOHN RUSSELL proposes, be not employed against her. The little Lord has announced, that in deference to Mr T. DUN- COMBE,—the man who argues all questions ol religion mooted in the House of Commons, by cat-calls, imitative cock-crows, &c.ite will shortly introduce a clause which shall set all the Theatres at liberty, during the whole of Lent, to exhibit what profanity their proprietors please. The Church has prospered most in the hour of trial." Let then this attempt to eradicate all remembrance of the solemnities of Lent, and the events which the Church at that period commemorates, awaken her members to a closer observance of its sacred rites, than has obtained in later years. We desire not to throw them back on the absurd and ostenta- tiously austere practices of the Romish Church but, in the words of ROBERT HEKIUCK, which we so lately quoted, To show a heart grief rent; To starve thy sin- Not bin That, that's to keep thy Lent. The irreligious are reminding us of our duty. Let us haste to its performance. The perfidy and wickedness of Ministers will then have worked out good. For other matters relating to the public weal or woe, as may fall out under our present rulers, we refer to our Parliamentary Summary.

REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON POSTAGE. In April last we brought very fully under the consideration of our readers Mr Hill's plan of Post Office Reform, and the evidence taken upon it by a Committee of the House of Commons, which h is at length, after a most sifting and laborious examination, completed its labours. It may be well to remind the reader that, previous to this investigation, a Govern- ment commission, composed of Lord Duncannon Lord Seymour, and Mr Labouchere, had partially gone into the inquiry, and reported as to its appli- cability to the London twopenny and threepenny post, to which the inquiry was exclusively confined i nut their report is comparatively immaterial after t'le more comprehensive and thorough investigation of this committee of the House of Commons and it is only necessary to remark that so far as the Treasury Commissioners above mentioned dechue their opiniou upon the plan, it corresponds with that of the Com- mittee of the House of Commons, which consisted of tie following members:—Mr Wallace, Mr Poulett Thomson, Lord Viscount Lowther, Lord Seymour, Mr Warburton, Sir Thomas Freemantle, Mr Raikes Currie, Mr Morgan John O'Connell, Mr Thornely, Mi Chalmers, Mr Pease, Mr Mahony, Mr Parker (Sheffield), Mr George William Wood, and Mr Villiers. The results of the long and patient labours of the Committee are set forth in the following important resolutions: "If, under the terms of their appointment, which restrict the consideration of the Committee to such reductions of the rates as may be made without injury to the revenue, your Committee felt themselves at liberty to reommend that plan which, of all that have come under their consideration, was the most approved of by the principal part of the witnesses they have examined, and which, according to theii- own judgment, was the better, they would have advised the immediate adoption of Mr Hill's plan as one calculated, in their opiu iOIl, at the risk of some temporary sacrifice of public income, to improve, at no distant period, the Post Oifice revenue itself, and as one certain to afford, at once (not to speak of its important moral and social effects,) the most incal- culable advantages to every branch of trade, manu- facture, and business at home, and consequently to improve, very considerably, the other branches of the general revenue of the country. It appearing however, to the majority of tle members of the Committee, that, under the terms above recited, it was not competent for them to recommend a plan which appeared not improbably to involve the hazard of some temporary saciifice of public income, your Committee have restricted themselves to recommend ing for immediate adoptio,, that plan of the two which, in their opinion, js uot liable to the former objection; and to advise the ultimate adoption of Mr Hill's plan, founded upon a uniforntpenrtii rate, as soon as the state of the public revenue will admit of a considerable sum being risked. The resolutions on this subject, which your Committee have come to, are the following: "That your Committee are of opinion, that, so soon as the stale of the public, revenue will admit of the rinking a larger temporary reduction, it will be e.rpedient to subject all inland letters to an uniform rate of one penny per half ounce, increasing at the rate of one penny for each additional half ounce. "That your Committee are of opinion, that, prior to establishing the Inlform rate of one penny, it would be expedIent, III thenrst instance, to reduce the rates on inland general post letters to an uniform rule of two-peoice per half ounce, increasing at the rate of one penny for each additional half ounce; reserving all the cases 01 prices current, the letters of soldiers and sailors, and others, where a penny only is now charged, and of such short inland rate as is here-in-after RECOMMENDED to be charged on a distance of fifteen miles. "That your Committee are of opinion, that, con- sidering the strength of concurrent evidence, on the evasion of postage between neighbouring towns, and also that the present system of penny posts is partial aud unequal, an uniform rate of one penny per half ounce ought immediately to be established for all distances not exceedin fifteen miles from the post office where the letter it posted, the payment being made in advance, through (he medium of some kind of stamp; and that the charge, when not so paid in advance, should be tivo-Aueiice." We congratulate the country on the utiaijimoa- sanction of the plan by such a Committee—compre- hending the President of the Board of Tradej two Lords of the Treasury, Lord Lowther, whose ability and experience relative to the business and manage- ment of the Post Office, are well known, and Mr Wallace, who has so especially devoted himself to the subject—and which, we are of opinion, the Government cannot fail to carry into effect on their recommendation. The public will naturally expect a practical result from such an elaborate inquiry on a subject so deeply interesting to the whole com- munity, and will rejoice to see that in this case ruen of all parties concur in protnoung it.-Athenmum.

CARLOW ELECTION. ''Run! my wool-gathering flock," cries Lamb, "'tis ruin, Our watch-dog Carlo has been Mauled by Bruin," CARLOW ELECTION.-Ir Thesigeris retained as counsel for Mr Bruen, and Mr Austin for the petitioners against the return. General Sir R. L. Dundas and Miles Staple- ton, Esq., both Reformers, have come forward to offer themselves as M.P. for Richmond, in the room of the Earl of Zetland.— paper. WIGAN ELECTION.—At the final close of the poll the votes stood thus ;-M.. Ewart, 261; Mr Kearsley, 259. A special courier has arrived with letters from Madrid of the 27th. This courier has brought Lord Clarendon's answer to some pressing demand of the Government—a demand which brings Lord Ciaren- don instantly to London. Don Antonio Fano, a captain of Artillery, is on his way to this country receive 30,000 muskets for the Spanish Government'—Government Print. CON. THE LATEST.—Why is Lord Morpeth now considered 11 a gem Because he has a place in the Cabinet." What several of our contemporaries seem to think a clumsy hoax, although managed with what no doubt was fancied great tact, has been played off last week, the object of which seems to have been to make out that somebody wanted to frighten Mrs Charles Mathews to death. The absurdity, we are glad to say, has completely tailed in its effect, and the lady is as well as ever. The Queen has been pleased to confer the honour of knighthood upon Captain George Back, Royal Navy. The Queen has been pleased to confer the honour of knighthood upon llenry Roper, Esq., one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Bombay. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Capt. Sir J,)hti Ros-, lt.N., to be her Majesty's Consul at Stockholm. The Legislative States of Hanover were pro- rogued for an indefinite period on the 2nd inst. The lady of the Governor of Jamaica, Lady Lionel Smith, has arrived with her family in town. INCORPORATION OF MARYLEBONE.—This sub- ject was discussed on Wednesday week at a special meeting of tfie Marylebone and S'. Pancras vestry (the other parish in the borough, Paddington, refus- ing to have anything to do with it). It was said the expence would not exceed £ .500. It was agreed that a deputation of six wait upon the Secretary of State, for the purpose of ascertaining, in tbe eveut of the borough of Marylebone applying for a charter of incorporation, what powers and privileges will be conceded to them, and that Sir B. Hall be requested to accompany such deputation. THE NATIONAL CONVENT]o,,j.- The Birming- ham Delegates have, we believe, all returned home; and one or two of them, in new cloaks, and other- wise attired in spic-span suits of the most modern London cut, appear to have profited, at lea-t as fat- as the outward man is concerned, by their trip to the metropolis. Pierce has started, or is about start- ing, on an agitating tour throughout North Wales alld Collins proceeds on a similar errand throughout the counties of Buckingham, Bedford, and Oxford. Birmingham Advertiser, FOREIGN COItN.-The King of Naples has allowed two-thirds of the wheat purchased on British account previous to his non-exportation decree to be shipped for Sicily and in the event of its not being wanted there, it is to be allowed to reach its original destination; and that after a delay, before it can reach our shores, of six months. Yet it is from these arbitrary and capricious sources that our anti-corn- law patriots expect we are to derive our future sup- plies. No one can blame the King of Naples, or any other foreign government, for taking care of its own subjects first, and all that we require of our own legislature and government is to adopt and per. severe in the same policy, by encouraging and sup- porting the cultivators of our own soil, instead of first ruining them, and then rendering the whole population liable to starvation by the exigencies of the policy of foreign corn-growers. We are glad to perceive that a return has been moved for in the House of Commons of the whole charge brought upon the country by the New Poor Law—including the salaries of the triumviri at Somerset House, their satellites, clerks, &c., cost of workhouses, &c. If filis is honestly fur- nished, the pretended economy of this poor.robbing jobbery will be understood and exposed. We very much rejoice to see that the Bishop of London has called the attention of the House of Lords to the disgnsting results of the new-fangled Marriage Act, under the provisions of which any- body who happens to be appointed a Deputy Regis- trar may, and, as we have seen, does, undertake to marry persons—if the present absurd exhibition can be called marriage—of nearer degrees of consan- guinity than the Canons of the Church permit. The case in point sounds peculiarly absurd- it is one in which a man marries his grandmother—that is to say, the widow of his grandfather. Lord Cot- tenham explained away the bad taste of the affair to the House of Lords by informing them that the bride was not yet twenty years of age. But the fact is not to be gotten over, for the marriage was- we cannot say solemnised, but ridiculed into validity by the Deputy Registrar, after a warning and cau- tion from the Clergyman of the parish.—^John Bull. THE NELSON NIONLTMENT.-Tite Sub-committee have made their election from the designs sent in for the "Nelson Teslimonial;" and the result of a competition open to all the talent of the country, and that has produced nearly 150 designs, and em- ployed the genius of almost as many artists during several months, is a Corinthian column with a statue of Nelson at the top.-The Genera! Committee met on Saturday at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James's Street, to take into consideration the report of the Sub-committee.—The report as to the awarding of the prizes was confirmed. The further consideration of the selection of the model for execution was adjourned to the first Saturday in June. J LITURGY FOR THE BLIND—Mr Alston has just completed, at the Glasgow Institution press, the printing of a beautiful edition of the English Liturgy for the use of the blind. It is printed from a new fount of types, and is the most perfect specimen of Mr Alston's unique typography that has yet ap- peared. It forms a cheap and handsome quarto volume, which will, no doubt, be received as a great boon in England, where, we are glad to learn, Mr Alston's system is making rapid progi-ess.-Scottish Guardian. The committee of the Birmingham "TJII Churches Fund" have given notice that they are prepared to receive designs for the first two Churches proposed to be erected. At her Majesty's lev^e on W ednesday the 7fh, Mr Pakington, M. P., presented a petition from Woodborne, in Northumberland, that her Majesty will be pleased to take into consideration the desti- tute state of the Church in Canada, and sanction measures for its protection. The executors of the late James Woolley, Esq., of this town, have paid to the treasurers of the undermentioned charities, the following sums, di- rected by his wiil to be paid within twelve months after the death of Mrs Woolley, deducting the legacy duty: — Deaf and Dumb Asylum, ^1,000; Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, ^500' Lichfield and Coventry Diocesan Church Building Society, J?500; Warwick County Asylum, ^500• General Hospital, £100; Dispensary, tlO(); Blue Coat School, ^100 Birmingham Advertiser. The late Mr J. Griggs, of Messing, it is stated, left the whole of his property, estimated at Xloo,o()o to the Rev. Robert Eden, lately curate of Peldon and now rector of Leigh. About XIO,000 had, by a former will, been left in legacies to various friends of the deceased; and, although no mention was made of these in his last will, we understand, Mr Eden has, with the greatest liberality, paij them all.-F,ssex Herald. The collections under the Queen's letter, in behalf of the Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts, have been most liberal throughout the kingdom. Sr. BRIDE'S,-On Thursday week the Com- mon Council of the City of Loudon, on the petition of the Rev. Mr Dale, the vicar, the churchwardens; and others, did themselves credit by voting £ 300 in aid of the debt incurred by the erection of the new church in this parish. The Rev. Dr Joseph Wolff, Missionary to the Jews in Palestine and Persia, has been appointed Perpetual Curate at Linthwaite, near Huddersfield in Yorkshire, by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Ripon. AN ORDINATION WAS HELD AT LINCOLN CATHEDRAL by the Lord Bishop of Lincoln, on Sunday, the 24th ult. His Lordship's next ordina. tion will be on Trinity Sunday, the 26th of May. Candidates must send their papers to his Lordship before the 14th of April. The Dean and Chapter of Lincoln have pur- chased the lease of the old work-house in Lincoln, which they are about to repair and make into a diocesan school; this fact has given great offence to Ihe Dissenters and Unitarians of the city and neigh- bourhood, who inveigh against teaching children the Church Catechism. The Rev. WILLIAM CRAWLEY, M.A., has been presented to the perpetual Curacy of Flaxlev in the county of Gloucester, vacant by the cession of the Rev. Charles Crawley. Patron, Sir T. C. Boevy, Bart. Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to accept the office of Patrouess to the Additional Curates' Fund Society for Ireland. ISLE OF MAN.—We stated some time since, that his Excellency the' Governor and the Lord Bishop of the diocese were using their utmost endeavours to obtain from Government a grant of the Crown tithes of the island, for the purpose of promoting education among the lower classes of the community and since his Lordship has beer. in England his ex- ertions have been indefatigable in the cause. Find- ing, however, that that measure would be attended with expense, and that a considerable delay must ensue before it could be effected, his Lordship abandoned it altogether, and has prevailed upon the Government to grant the sum of X500 per annnm for that praise-worthy purpose, to be paid out of the revenue of the island.—Lancaster Gazette. Sir James Clark has attended at Buckingham Palace for the last two or three days, her Majesty having been troubled with a slight cold. Her Ma- jesty's health is completely restored. The Duke of Cambridge is suffering from a severe cold, and has his face very much swollen.

OLAMOHG\NSHIRE AND MONMOUTHSHIRE INFIRMARY AND DISPENSARY, CARDIFF. Abstract of House Surgeon's Report to the Weekly Board, from March 3rd, to March lith, 1839 inclusive, iN-Doott PATIRNTS -Remained by last Report, 40; Admitted since, I7--57. Discharged—Cured and Re- lbve l, 4; For v, or at their own desire, 2 Died, 1-7. Remaining, 50. OUT-DOOlt PATIENTS.—Remained by last Report 17; Ad mittcd since, 1-18. Discharged—Cured and Relieved, I; For irregularity, or at their own desire, 0-1. Remaining, 17. Medical Officers for the Wek. Physician, Dr. Moore,—Consulting Surgeon, Mr Reeee,—Surgeon, Mr Lewis,—Visitors, Rev. James Evans and Mr D. Evans. THOMAS JACOB, House Surgeon. .# I'#'I'#I' TIIE MARQUIS OF BOTE has presented several petitions from Rothsay, this week, in the House of Lords, praying for church extension in Scotland. The Marquis of Bute in the House of Lords, yes- terday week, presented a great many petitions from places in Dumbartonshire, Argyleshire, Ayrshire, and Buteshire, in favour of church extension in Scotland. ilIR R. U ORE, on Tuesday last, in the House of Commons, presented three petitions from this county in favour of the existing Corn Laws. Mr Ormsby Gore, presented another at the same time from the Central Agricultural Association of Great Britain and Ireland. The letters from Constantinople are chiefly taken up with the disasters occasioned on the coast of Asia by the lategales; among the number of British vessels wrecked was the Mary, Muir, of Cardiff, laden with iron. THE REV. E. MORGAN, Vicar of Lantwit Major, distributed last week, among his poor parishioners, six tons of coal, the gift of Daniel Jones, of Beaupre, Esq. We understand that Mr Jones is endeared to the poor of that parish by many and frequent acts of benevolence, some of which have, at various times, been recorded in our columns; but we think none of his charitable deeds could ever be more seasonable and welcome, than that which helped to alleviate to the "e widow, the aged, and necessitous the hardship of the late severe weather. The Principal and Fellows of Jesus College, Oxford, have presented the Rev. C. H. Watling, of the same College, to the Rectory of Tredington, Worcestershire. BOROUGH OF CA.rdipp _T,je followi|lff Officers were Elected for this Borough on the 1st instant:— Auditors. John Williams, mercer; Arthur Whiteing, gentleman, Assessors for Revising the Burgess Lists with the Mayor.-— Richard Henry Stamlen, tanner; John Blount Hopkins, grocer. Assessorsfor the North Ward.—James Marycburcb, ironmonger; Nicholas Hook, shipbroker. Assessors for the South Ward- John Biggs, liquor merchant; Evan Morgan, stone mason. COMMITTED TO CARDIFF GAOL AND HOUSE OF COR- RECTION.— MAHCH 6tht issg.riomas Edwards, by Henry Williams, Esq.,charged with feloniously stealing one cloak, one coat. one pair of breeches, two waist- coats, and one flannel shirt, out of the dwell ing house of one William Matthews,at Lisvaue,his property.-I Ith, Samuel Marks, by Thos. Edmondes and T. Rhys, Esqrs., for unlawfully assaulting Elizabeth, the wife of Samuel Marks, Senior, at Cowbridge. One calendar month, or pay £1. penalty and costs.— 12th, George John, by William Thomas, Esq., charged with feloniously stealing one silver watcb one seal, chain and key, of the goods and chat- tels of John Thomas, at Gelligaer. THE LAMBING SEASON.—Accounts from the pas- toral districts state, that the lambing season progresses satisfactorily to farmers and extensive proprietors of flocks on the northern moors and mountains. CADAlR MORGANWG. The third anniversay of this Cymreigyddion Society, will be held at Cow- bridge, on Thursday, March 21st. President: William Williams, Esq., Aberpergwm. THE NEW POOR LA.w.-Our DOOR RELIEE,In the course of an inquest held last week, Mr Waklev in referring to the operation of the New Poor Law' said that if the signatures of two magistrates were obtained, a person could compel the guardians of any union, not only to support them out of the house, but give them money also. A juror said the general j impression was that the guardians could refuse all out door relief. Mr Waktey said any guardians who did so would be acting contrary to law after an order for out door reliefsigned by two magistrates. IMPORTANT TO RAILWAY PROPRIETORS In the House of Commons, on Thursday week, Mr Mac- kinnon gave notice of a motion for Thursday, March 21st, for a I. select committee, for the purpose of ascertaining how far the formation of railroads may affect the interests of turnpike trusts, and further, to consider whether some legislative enactment ought to be recommended in the event of railroads becoming, on the chic-f lines of communication, the only means of public conveyance." Gooo RUNS WITH THE LANHAREN AND LANTWIT HOUNDS.-Oll Thursday last, a numerous field met these well-known hounds, at the Sycamore Tree, on the St. Nicholas road. After a pleasant "chit chat" on the anticipated day's sport, trotted off to the Duffryn covers, but not finding pug at home," proceeded to Wenvoe, threw into Craigpenllynog, a large covert belonging to R. Jenner, Esq:, where a celebrated hound soon told that a gallant fox was on foot. Quickly breaking cover Reynard crossed to BonviHe, thence to the large coverts at Cwm- George, where after hanging some little time made straight for Courtyralla, closely followed by his staunch pursuers at the top of their speed, and thence to the extensive covert at Coed Raiinly, but being hardly pressed made a hasty retreat to Courtyr- alla, and crossed the brook where a fresh fox getting up, both hounds and field divided, six couple sticking like wax to the hunted fox (followed only by The Doctor," Mr Ballard, of Cowbrulgp, and a Wiltshire sportsman) who ran through the village of Lcqucth 011 to Lord Bute's farm; and after making a vain attempt to cross the river Ely, being closely pressed, retreated to a thick gorse plantation, which, after frequently traversing, his very gallant pursuers obliged him to quit. He j then went away skirting the extensive Lequeth coverts, and taking at a tremendous racing pace an open country of four miles on to Courtyralla, when he again took to the woods; but finding no rest, bent his way over the hill to Writi- stone, where he was obliged to yield to these perfect hounds, after a run of three hours and three quarters without a check just at this moment, when the whoowoop was echoing round the adjacent co- verts, the other part of the pack, with the rest of the field, brought their fox to Courtyralla, wben, hearing the knell of the hunted vermint, whipped off the dogs, after also enjoying a very sharp run of two hours over a very large tract of country. I ESTIMONIAL To R HIGGs, ESQ.-At a half yearly meeting of the Swansea Book Society, held at the Town Hall on the 27th ult., the Members presented Richard fliggs, Esq., their Hon. Secretary, with a handsome Silver Teapot, as an acknowledgment of his attention to the interests of the Society, from the period of its first establishment, 13 years ago. -j,'¡'## GLAMORGANSHIRE SPRING ASSIZES. ( Continued from our last.) David v. Hopkins and anotlier.-Tiiis was an action in replevin, in which a verdict was directed to be entered for the defendant, it, consequetice of a technical objection raised by the defendant's counsel. Counsel for plaintiff, Mr E. V. Williams and M. James; Attorney, Mr Morgan, Bridgend. Couasel for defendant, Mr Chilton, Q. C. and Mr NicboJIs* Attorney, Mr Redwood, Cowbridge. David v. Thomas and anothe-r.,Tliis wn/i afl action brought by the same plaintiff, tii(i a, erdir,t was directed to he returned for the defendant, for, the same reason as in the last case.) Counsel and Attorneys the same as in the preceding case. 0 The Marquis of Bute,plaintiff, and Lewis \yui!ams^ and Felix Gough, defendants.;a| jury.) This was an action of trespass brought by the plaintiff against the defendants, for breaking and entering a close of the plaintiff, situate in the parish of GeUy- gare, such close being parcel of Gellygnre Common. Defendants pleaded the general issue of not guiltv, that such close was not the close of the plaintiff, and that such close was the freehold of one Win. Williams under whom defendants Justified as his servants. j\1r' James opened the pleadings, aud Mr E. V. Williams, having stated the case to the jury, proceeded to ctill his witnesses. Mr Chilton, Q. C., on behalf of the defendants, made a powerful address to the jury, and having examined witnesses in support of their case, I Alr E. V. Williams replied, and after an able charge by Mr Justice Coleridge, to the jury, a verdict was returned for the plaintiff on all the issues, with Is. damages for the trespass, thereby establishing the right of the Marquis of Bute to the land in dispute, as parcel of Gellvgare Common, as one of the wastes. of the manor of Senghennith. rhe trial commenced on Thursday, at ten o'clock, and occupied two days. The verllictlJaving been delivered at nine o'clock ou I Fl.i(I,IY evellitig.-Coutisels for plaintiff, Mr E V' Williams, and Mr for defendants, Mr Chilton, Q C., Mr Wilson, and Mr Nicholl. Doe dem Lewis and another v. Davies.Tijis action of ejectment was postponed on the application of the defendant. Lewis v. Hoplcinr.-Tliis was an action of trespass, and a verdict was found for the plaintiff for the damages laid in the declaration, subject to a reference Ðoe dem Earl of Jersey v. Meredith.['! i is was an action of ejectment brought by the Earl to recover the possession of a farm from his tenant the defendant. The defence set up by the defendant was that he had not received notice to quit On the part of the Earl it was contended that no notice was necessary, as the farm was let for one year certain at the expiration of a leise.-Ver(liet for the lessor of the plaintiff. Counsel for the plaintiff, Messrs. V. Williams and James. Counsel for the defendant, Messrs. Wilson and Nicholts. Doe dem Powell and another v. Richards.-Tliis was an action of ejectment. The defendant did not appear to confess lease entry and ouster, therefore the plaintiff was nonsuited. Counsel for the lessor of plaintiff, Mr Williams. Hopkins v. The Mayor, SfC. of Swansea. -This causo was referred; and with it ended, on Saturday, the Assizes for the County of Glamorgan. Counsel for plaintiff, Mr Williams. Counsel for the defendants, Mr Chilton. In the case of Richard Edwards, alias Richard Woods, alias Liverpool Dick, for highway robbery reported in our last, we omitted to state that a true bill was also found against David Evans, otherwise David Jenkins, who was included in the indictment with Edwards. David Evans, was at Swansea, but being out on bail, absconded previous to the trial. His recognizance was, however, ordered to be estreated by the Judge, and his two sureties will be liable to the payment of X20 each, for his non-appearance at the trial. A bench warrant against David Evans, was also directed to be issued by the Judge, on which he will immediately be apprehended by the Cardiff Police, and lodged in our county gaol, if he again makes his appearance in the county. Baron Spolasco, alias Smith.-Oii more careful consideration we have thought it best to give a ver- batim report of the evidence of Mrs Ei lizabeth Arnold, the aunt of the young woman whose death it was alledged was accelerated by Spolasco alias Smith's want of medical skill. It is true, as our reporter stated last week, that this evidence is nearly to the same effect as that given at the inquest; but even at that time we did not present a very full report. It is as follows Mrs Elizabeth Arnold examined by Mr Nicholl. The deceased, Susan Thomas, was my niece-was a native of Cowbridge, and daughter of Thomas Thomas, a cooper. She was 22 years of age. She died at my house on the 25th of January last. She had not been well^before then. Complained about four months before. The last six weeks before her death she lived with me at Bridgend, and had been attended by Mr John Llewellin, a medical man of Cowbridge. She received medicine from him once after residing with me. She continued to complain in the evenings, after coming to Bridgend. Was ab e to assist in the duties of the house, even to the day before her death. Went to a weddiiig the day before Christmas day, and returned in about a week. Was able to visit Cowbridge the week before her death. She went about seven in the morning, and returned about eight in the evening. Went in a car. Distance about six miles. Went to fetch her clothes from her late service. Staid at her uncle's. She complained of a pain in her side and sickness in her stomach. She used to get up between seven and eight in the morning. She used to clean up the par- lour and dust the things. I remember the mornin"- of the 24th of January. She got up between seveii and eight. Was able as usual to assist in the house. On that d.iy she put on her bonnet and sbawl, and went to the stables and garden. My busband is a market-gardener. I knew of her going to the stable in the lower pirt of the garden. Distance about a couple of hundred yards. She sat down as usual to her needle-work, up to the time of her going to see Baron Spolasco, and finished what she bad in hand. I remember her reading an advertisement in the Cambrian newspaper that the Baron would be at the Wyndham Arms on the- 24tli of January. She read through the advertisement to me, which was rather a long one. Said she would go.aud see him when he C?M° Heard of the.arrival of this person at the Wyndham Arms about sue o'clock in the even- ing. The deceased walked with me to the Wyndham Arms, a,distance of about five minutes walk. When we came to the Wyndham Arms, there was a black servant there; he told us we could not go in unless we paid five shillings. We paid five shillings He- opened the door, and letus in. He also went in, and gnve his master, the prisoner, the five shillings. There was a woman within who put chairs for the company to be seated: we waited there till our turn came. The Baron was in the room. He bad a box of medicine on the table, and papers of medicine all ready packed in papers of pink, yellow and white the powder was in the white, the pills in the yellowl Saw him talk with other patients. There were about a dozen, or more. Saw him dress a man's leg, and a woman who complained of her head. I reinemberl, man of the name of John Thomas. lie had a sore, leg. Saw his leg dressed. Heard some argument about money before dressing his legs; the Baron said 110 must li-ive a shilling for the bandage. He told the man he would have new legs in a short time. Fetched the medicine from the same place as for my niece.. VVhen giving the medicine, I heard him give no verbal: directions to any one; but he gave printed directions,. When my niece went up to him, he said, « Well mvr dear are you come to see tho Baron Spolasco?'an5 you feel yourself poorly." She said, "Yes, indeid, Sir He said, •< I see you are: you have a bold eye, with a deadly disorder under it." I thought this was not enough. I said, Sir, she complains of pain in her side and a sickness of the stomach." Ile said, t see it all," He then asked ber what was she Stic- said, I am a servant." I said, She is with me at present, in consequence of her ill health. Hp -.sk.vd: 7f MT-^bV0" be p at -rVice?" She answS; At Miss Bcvan s, in Cowbridge." Vkttasked, '^Xho .s Miss Bevmi? She answered, <^Mr Bev,n, the solicitor, of Cowbridge's sister." He aske(i fier, What is your father?" My niwe answered, "Mv father is a cooper in Cowbridge* "My medicine he said, "is very dear;; I canM* give you anything under a guinea." told htm *1 do not think 1 have- as much. He asked, "H4»\Y much have you t?>1. t put my hand into my purse and reckoned out J7s. Ovl,, I told him I lived quito at hand, and would fetch him. the remainder. Tii(- womall I sp(,ke of, Hann-.ifil Phillips, said I wtl, bet, neighbour, that I had no need* to go back, I eaW- d bring it again. He then fetekpd* the medicine, two pHis and a packet of powder. He put them up and prmted directions wiih thenn and! told my aewe she must take one bolus and half, the powder afc wght and if that should not operate to- remainder the next morning; andl when h Save this in her hand he said, "you bless the- town of Bridgend you will be another person to- morrow. Pray to the Almighty a.ui you wTli be better to morrow." He did not feel her pulse nor ■inv otLr., ^11?' He a8c,ed her h>d she bee" under" any other medical man. She Saklshehad been with. r JT K Co7bnds(X °id not enquire into the state of her bowels, n« of any other part of her stomach. [Here a paper Was shewn.] It is the same paper he gave me with, the medicine. He shook hands ,^hIU,r KS SOOd n,g',t' and °rd°red US tOCOBIO- « VrUPg bciwew 11 a"d 12, that he should be- kavin0 town at two o'clock. We got home about- nine. >,iy ne10e went to bed about 10 or before 11. She slept wUliihen half-sister, Margaret Arnold. Half tlit- mwhcuiti- was. glve„ that night, according to the aron a moction, it was about 11 o'clock, then we retired to. test and in a few minutes to bed. Between thread four in the morning Margaret Arnold came unto said 0 God, Susan is dying. My husbandt I n 2"? f0' 0W' d hnn- my niece, she ? Tlu i > 1 am dy.lns> tbis man's medicine kill me. She appeared m great agony 1 tokMier-- to be patient. I never saw her in that state before,, I' w.e tizik)c her some warB, gruel and applied some-vm.™ flannels. She pointed to us the part where- she was j suffering. She took the gruel as warm as. she- could take it. 11ns did not lesson her pain. Slio was in pain from between three and four untlt about teo minutes before her death. The meikioe did not operate at all. She had taken the seeoud dose before 1 went to the Baron, at the Wy«dt»m Arms. I watted half an hour before I went. 1 went to the- Baron told htm she was in pajn. He asked me had I given the second ttose. I told him I bad about ha fan hour ago; tilev,besa-id "you must wait, because her inside is weaic., it¡ takes a long time to' work." He told me to, gjive her plenty of gruel and; oatmeal tea, and to, r,ub ber bowels well with' warm flannel. I tofd, him. we had done all this, but, that she was very d,. could do nothing to ease her pain. He ttj, there is nothing to be done, you must wait u.oiH the.. medicine operates. I then re- turned back home-again, and told her friends, her father aac. others ,there, there was nothing to be done. About half, an hpur, afterwards, or near one o'clock, I went a.se.qpnd.tiflie to the Baron lie never offered to come and see her. I told him she was very bad, I did not know what to do, that I could not call any other other medical man, as we had given her his medicine. then he went to the table, and told me to give her balfa glass of wine and half a glass of brandy, and mull them together to cheer her spirits, as she was very low, This he told me at the Wyndham Arms. He told me also to rub her bowels. I said she was too bnd; she could not bear to be touched. I said I think-