The Welshman

ON THE GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL FEA- TURES OF CERTAIN DISTRICTS OF NORTH V» ALE-3.—NO. I.-By ST. Pi EHRE FOLEY. ( From the Mining Journal.) The Snowicmi&a mountains, and their beautiful val- have been a. a times the first and most attractive of.j-cts of the tourist, as tio matter what his taste may he, wk»»Ch«r rcraautie, artistic, or a P. 'cious to gratify his sjeqlngseat laagisgs, tki see some of Nature's majestic seet:«as ut siiu, kere lie has all that could minister to his •ie.sires—to poetise, to sketch s-jbiime and enchant- i«sC ws af Nature in hec best a dornmer.t, and tn Le- h'«w «; rt11.tca.:y she arranges evc-ry division of ber nsi^'hty eta pi ret eve a the slime and dust of creation 7a<mH\Č. into regularity a ad arranged in order, each in its <iste pia-re, and giving the evidence of ail times and a^es « i ttce the creation, in ineffaceab l e c h aracters, that Order is Heavec's first law." The roan-antic and F.)ter..did teen cry of North Wales the awsi ruter.cst¿lg outlines of the cr.,neril wealth of its mines; ani the vast capabilities of its innumerable vc'.aUe wins aad fodes, as well as its almost inter- Jii.ir.ea.b5e beds and <ieposit&¡;cs of ceal, iron, and manu- facturing earths, have bee a already graphically sketched in 3.. series nf letters .1f a most attractive and instructive character, which appeared lately in the pages of vour *ery «sefal snd scientific Journal— a Journal, indeed, interesting alike to the iaaa of "¡1?r:<ti.e and inte1\pctad arsiits-by Joseph Koldsworth, Esq., member of the (;e(!;qii?i Sacietv of Paris. The letters which I pro- pose to give may be useful ia addition to these, though ia a much humbler way, by drawing more practical attention to this division of the principality than seems to hare heea done hitherto, as regards its metallic capabilities. I therefor?, with your permission, shall enter t once en. the subject, confining myself to cer- "-V.3 dirisions. and placing before your readers an un- ad»rc«d, but correct state:aent, of what ii, and what can be, stxtt fay those who may take an interest in visiting these localities. Should I, in the course of these sketches, advance any opinions on the, even yet, occult causes in geological inquiries, let it he understood that they are not introduce d through any spirit of dogmatism whatever; and, therefore, it is req uested that they will, if not consistent with the views of the reader, be re- ceived in coartesy, and classed by him, if he likes, amongst the many other visionary ideas composing the theoretical divisions of geology. After spending the necessary time in viewing the busy scenes continuously acting on the wharf, and the several divisions along the quay of the rising and pretty town of Portmadoc—seeing, perhaps, with surprise, the never- ceasing railway trains bearing down numerous waggons laden with roof slate and slabs for common use, and for every species of adornment, from the rich suid never-failing veins of the celebrated slate and slab divisions, known under the name of the Fes. tituog Quctrrie, and satifying yourself that, however as- tonishing the t»i-pouring of the millions of slates thus deposited may be, the oul-pouriag of the same is equally constant, by the activity observed in the loading of the numerous vessels along the quay, and their departures, on getting their bills of lading, to every quarter of the globe: after this exciting scene, you pass northward through the romantically situated and neat town of Tre- madoc, on the coach road to Carnarvon, and arrive un- mediately at an iron smelting establishment of some note in that neighbourhood, but now rather silent in its operations. New arrangements, however, are in pro- gress, which, when completed, will once more put these works into a state of active employment, and remunerate, it is hoped, the enterprising gentleman to whom this pro- perty belongs. Four mile9 further on, you leave the coach road, and pass to the right through and by the demesne of Brynkir, the estate of George Augustus Huddart, Esq and enter at once on mineral properties of vast extent, of proved capabilities, and of high inter- est to the lover of geological and mineralogical inquiries. The ever-flowing river, Penant—the waters of which are noted to be always as "clear as crystal"-flows southward, after taking; its rise in the amphitheatric mountains almost surrounding Bhien-y- Penant, about four miles from the mansion of the above estate, and continues its course to the sea a few miles south-west- ward. This river flows through the centre of a winding valley, on both sides of which arise mountains of no inconsiderable importance, but particularly remarkable for their different formations and productive mineral .deposits. Just opposite Brynkir, to the west of the river Penant, lie the sulphur mines of Hendreddu. which ,extend along the Blaen-y-Garn Mountain due north nearly a mile. These mines form part of the estate of "William Ormsby Gore, Esq., and have been worked to some produce by country miners in open surface work along the lod..s-the usual system of working observed in several other places in Merioneth, as well as Carnar- vonshire, even on some copper and lead veins of good promise. The rock of this mountain is chiefly clay- slate but saturated with granular sulphuret of iron to a considerable distance on each side of the veins of ore. These veins, or lodes, are chiefly formed of mnndic (the sulphur ores of these mines), in massive ribs of from 6 inches to G feet, and more, in breadth, with some quartz, and a peculiar mineral, having the ap- perance of white cotton, of the amiinthine character. Its filaments are soft, flexible and short. Where the mundic is found in seperate crystals, or in small lumps, mixed through the rock, this mineral abounds plentifully. Along the ranee of the lodes, either running itnmedi- ately in contact with these vast ribs of mundic, or near and parallel thereto, are found veins of quartz, mixed with yellow copper ore, which in places have swelled out into bunches, from whence sr.mp tons of ore were taken. The average assay of the mundic, mixed with the latter ore, taken from the produce of a certain extent of work, gave two per cent, of copper. The sulphuret of iron in mas, whrn prepared properly for market, gives 40 per cent. of sulphur; but the u-ual mode practised here was to send it off just as it was quarried out of the mountain, sometimes in large rocks, but more generally in stones of from 1 to 7lbs in wpiht, and mixed with the slate, so as to have reduced the per centage of sulphur under 20 per cent. It is from this reckless mode of management in shipping sulphur ores from the Welsh mines, that their character has been so reduced in the market as to have rendered their sdps, latterly, almost impracticable. Distinct from the sulphur lodes and masses of mundic found on Hen- dreddu, there are small veins of copper ore free from sulphuret of iron, and some roof slate veins — the con- sideration cf winch shall form the commencement of my next letter. Mining Ccmpany of Wales, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields.

THE ISOLATION GF WALKS.—In a review of the new work entitled Recollections and Anecdotes of Edwr/I'd Williams, the Bard of Glamorgan, or Tola the able Editor of the Atlas thus curiously comments upon that isolation of the Welsh people, which we are happy in being able to hope, is rapidly becoming num- bered amongst the things that have been Amidst the bustle, turbulence, and worldlymindedness of this "reat country of ours, the principality exhibits a strange phe- nomenon. Folding its arms quietly amidst its moun- tains, we doubt if it ever is conscious of the great stir which is going on on all sides of it. At -i!l events, wrap- ping itself up in its own simplicity and prejudices, it clings to the recollection of old times, and considers the Bardic glories of old as worth a thousand Waterloos and Great Western Railroads. You may go through Wales, and seeing a splendid mansion on a commanding site, ask the first Taffy that you meet at work to whom it belongs. He does not know it is some Englishman who built the huge place a few years back, and who keeps a great many people there, but he does not recol- lect his name. But if you point to a picturesque old cot- tage under the brow of the hill, and ask whom that place boasts for a master-the astonished Welshman is actu- ally petriifed by your ignorance. That place, sir!—not kuow who lives there ? why, it belolls to Mr. Griffith ap Siienkin ap Jones, the oldest family in the country That a people connected with England now for six hun- dred years, subject to the same laws, professing the same religion, sharing iu the same privileges, should yet pertinaciously retain their antiquity, and stand the re- presentatives of the old wodd.in the very midst of the new, k one of the strangest ethnical problems of the day. The \\oncler is all the more increased, in that modern projects have been per force imported into many of the Welch districts, without touching the rest The development of the industry and population of the mining districts of South Wales has been almost with- out precedent in the history of modern civilisation. And yet, while Xewpoi t and Me.-thyr establish works and engines on the grandest scale that our present knowledge will admit, the mountaineer-a few miles off -remaii-,s just as he was, in all the primitive lac: of en- terprise and simple bonhommie of ch ;racter. Of two nations pretending to be civilised, perhaps the woiid no- where a,rurd, so strong a contrast. HOWL-EN (Yin;KSHIi:i;) Gvr IIOF.SK ic oosimss of ttlis annual bors fair, the l:1rgcst in the kingdom, commenced lJV pre-arrangeinjv.t amongst the prinnptl dealers anJ purchasers on Thurso'iy last. At no fair of bite years has there beer. a larger sho's of horses or a Ll tier attendance of fore ign and of home buyers. Some of the best hunters have been purchased in the stables at prices varying from ;EIOO, to £200.; carnage horses were easterly sought for, and have gone oil at from £80 to £ 100. good nags, £ 70 to ESO. each. This important mart is the grand depot for the supply of the atmv, and, as usual, several officers from the various cavalry regiments have been present, amongst whom were Lord Cardigan (11th Hussars), Colonel Shewell, Major Irwin, Captain Shaw, &c. Messrs. Dyson, Dickinson, and Cullins, the troop-harse buyers, have purchased extensively, and the presence of eminent dealers from Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Herefordshire, Warwickshire, Essex, Suffolk, the mid- land and western counties, has created more than the usual amount of compctition for the Possession of really first-rate animals. The German, Prussian, French, and Danish dealers have also purchased largely. SINGULAR DEATH OF A R\CI:R IN A RAILWAY TKAIN.— Mr. Hornby's Queen of Trumps was destroyed t T)-?i??2ps r.esti-o y c d in a horse-box coming up from Waliingford station on Thursday night. A cart horse had been put into the next compartment of the box and not properly secured, and on the arrival of the train at the Paddinaton sta- ion the next morning, it was found that the hoi.se had by some means got into the mare's compartment, was standing on her body, and the poor animal quite dead. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, Ocr. 2, 18-30.—There has continued since this day week an inquiry for sugar, both for scale and pan purposes, but the trans ictirms are very limited, owing to the very sfin'y supply; prices must be quoted 6d. h;3hf'r ,lg:¡i¡¡ for the "YN.k-- P"i.(,;l Gazette.

DJ' F \r', 'IY'l'D""l' or.' Cr L'I)r'¡ DREADFUL OF A CLERGYMAN AT FRIMLKY-GROV E. T! e ("i ? ? ?, ?- e (- f ?, ?. II a:pt:s I:'}(;'l¡ i ,¡ "l:r' 's:,càa ¡l; i,' the occurrence of a daring bulgarv, which has unfor- tunately tr-nn;:ia'p< l in the violent death of a venerab e and much-re-peioed clergyman, the Rev. George Edward Holiest, who has held the perpetual curae, of that hamlet during the past 17 years. The village of Frimley-grc;e ¡.j situat0 about one ns'le and a half from the Farn!¡nrn1¡gh station of the South- Western Railway, in the centre of the hop country. It j consists (f 1!')t mare ;Il 40 e.r />0 >t ra-- j ling houses, and the parsonage house is at the western extremity of the hamlet. It i;; all old-fashioned brick residence, standing or. i's own. grounds, but not more than 100 yards remove.! trotn other houses on either side. The lLev. Mr. Holiest was a matried man, hi" houch"ld I consisting of hi-nsidf, h;s wife, a nilln servant, and two j maid servants an d on I' ri d av last, his two sous, youths j :¡:\n I:Ù ;1 ¡;1::1 ¡:i, ,t i¡(j(': 'a i :I'I from school the same afternoon, to pass the Michaelmas j vacation with their parents. On Friday n!«ht the family retired to rest at their lIsnal hour, shortly ur.fore eleven o'clock. Mr. and Mrs. Holiest slept on the first fl >or in a room ovetlooking the lawn. The two hoys oceup-ed an apartment e.rt the same floor. The man-servant slept at the top of the house, and a roam adjoining formed the sleeping apartment of the two maid-servants. It peared that it was Mr. Holle.st's custom, when his dren were at home, to leave the door of his bedroom ajar, in order that lie mntht overhear them in the event of their requiring a;tl1¡n, and he seems to have donr so on Friday last, when the villains broke into 12is house and murdered him. The subjoined proceedings at the coronei's inquest win give our readers the bet informatiot1 that bits beell elicited on tliig affair, Mr. C. Woods, coroner for the eastern division of the county of Surrey, arrived (at Frimley shortly after mid- day, and as soon as a magisterial inquiry had concluded, a jury was impannelled at the White Ilart Inn. After a short address from the Coroner, the jury accompanied him to the deceased's late residence, where, having first viewed the body of the unfortunate gentleman, which was lying on a mattress in the room where he received his death-wound, they were conducted to the dining-room. I :'IIrs. fI"llp"t h"vil\ been led into the room by her brother-in-law, sank into a chair in a fainting state, and was only revived by the application of powerful smel- iing-salts. On recoverin g herself, she stated-Oii Friday nialit last, I retired to rest about five minutes to eleven o'clock, my husband having gone to bed previously. I was disturbed, I think about three o'clock Oil Saturday mornil1. I heard footsteps in our bed-room. We both jumped lip ill bed at the same time. I saIY two men at the foot of our bed. One of them put his left hand on my feet, and iu his right hand he held a pistol, which appeared to be levelled at my head. One of the men was a little taller than the other. The tallest seized Mr. Holiest in the same wav and levelled a pistol at him. As nearly as I can recollect, both of them said together that if we made any noise they would blow our brains out." That expression was repeated several times. Mr. Holiest at first thought it was our boys playing a trick upon him, and he told them to go to bed. I saw at once the terrible reality, and sprang out of bed on the le-z lian(I side to ring a bill, the rope of which hung down at the head of the bed. On my doing so, one of the men rushed towards me and pushed me down with so much force that the bell rope broke in my hand. The man continued to press ine down on the floor, and held a pistol close to my eyes. Wilitein this position I heard my husband, who had also got out of bed, scuffling with another man on the other side of the room, and presently afterwards I heard the report of a pistol. I struggled hud with my as- sailant in order to get round to help my husband. I think the man fancied his comrade was shot, as he gave way a little, and I at length succeeded in getting round to the fire-place, and taking hold of a large haThl bell, which I rung as lnud as I cnuld. The men at this time left the room, followed by my husband. I ran to the window, and throwing up the sash, tang the hand- bell again While doing so I heard a gun fired from the lawcr part of the honse, and at the same time ob- served two men run across the lawn. One of the men turnEd back and looked at me, and I shut down the win- dow immediately. I only saw two myself, but Mr. Holiest told me he had seen three distinctly. After I had closed my bedroom-window I went to my children's rootii, aiid on the bndin I saw Mr. Holiest coming up- stairs. lIe said to me, 11 The fellov has shot iie," an] at the same time showing the wound. The men appeared to me to be dressed in light clothes, and to have their hair stuck out at the sides of their heads for the purpose of disguise. Toeir faces appeared to be covered s with linen masks, as I could ee holes for their pyes. I heard no rustling of paper, and therefore I tiiink the ma-:k s were linen. I ';l1Ct two of the men who have been placed before me for identification. I had fastened í. '4 .0 .l. co., 'Lt. all tne doors before retiring to rest, with the exception of the door leading from the kitchen to the staircase, which I had kft open for two or taree nights previously. After other witnesses had been examined, and a few minutes' consuUati-'U with th2 jury, the Coroner an- nounced that the inquiry had bL,? adjourned for a week. In a', litinn to the above the reporter 5ap the c)?)i de- ;ti of r-, r-i ilv l; :llJereJ (r.J:¡ thl' hct, hat "ith¡n half^guile of the spot a and meat, with ^B^>r three naif-empty bot'tles of wine, stolen from the parsonage house, and evidently firming the dÓris of a meal made by th" miscreants, have been discovered. During Saturday tLc unfortunate gentle- man continued tr)?ro?wors{',an! on Sunday, at noon, all hope of saving his life being at. an cnJ, the f-et was commue.ieated'to him. He reeeiw-d the melenciedv in- telligence with Christian resignation, and, having taken an affectionate leave of his family (his two brothers having been sent for) and servants, he declared that he freely forgave his murderer, and that he hoped God would forgive him. lie ad-led that he died in pcace with all mankind, and trusted in his Saviour f..r re- demption. lIe I::e:) expressed a desire to partake of the Sacrament, which was administered to him by a clerical friend and neighbour; and after lingering in great suffering he expired, in a state of almost uncon- scious exhaustion, at twenty minutes after eight o'clock on Sunday evening. The apprehension of the prisoners took place on Sun- day evening at tiie Rose and Crown beer-shop, in Guildford. They are YIJUfJg men of bad character, two of whom at least are known to have been at Frimley during the past week, an,1 one of them is known to have had some conversation with the deceased while I endeavouring to dispose of same earthenware dishes, [hie reputed names of these men are Hiram Smith, James Jones, and Le\i Ilarwood. Each of them has been several times in custody. They were brought over to Frimley next morning and taken to the residence of the deceased, where they were severally submitted to examination with closed doors before Captain Mangles, I 'I.P (if P?,)Ie Ho,w, G,iildf,?rd, ?i c?),inty During the magisterial inquiry, the prisoners were taken into the rootti where the deceased was attacked, and where his dead body was lying. The conduct of Smith oil being submitted to this ordeal is said to have been very remai kable. All th!ee prisoners are very small men, and two of them are scarcely five feet high.

OVERCOMING A DIFFICULTY.—During the hunting season the Laird of Logan was favoured with miny visi- tors. On one occasion a party assembled at his house more numerous than usual, and such as to excite the fears of his housekeeper for accommodation during the night. In this quandary slue applied to her master d.-ar me, laird, what am I to do wi' a' tliae folks ? I wonder they h ie nae mair sense than come troopin here in di zens iher's no beds in the house for half o' them!" Kefp yourself easy, my woman," said the laird I'll just fill them a' fou. and for themselves." A CONTENTED IRI.-II LANDLORD.—The Earl of Erne, at the exhibition of green crops of Lisnaskea, Fermanagh, last week, delivered an address to his te- I nantry on the result of a personal inspection of the farms on his estate:—" I feel proud and happy," said the noble lord, "to have it in my power to tell yon that I found all the tenants whom I visited comfortable and improving in their ?'ystein of farming, a!d, as far as I could judge, better in thcr t:ic,,s no running away not one acre of untenanted land, and no discon- tent; but ali vying nith each U:2f an t,) ;v.W \1-1 pro- duce lh" best crops." A NOVEL MODE OF STEALING TURXU'S.—On Sun- day afternoon last as Nlr. George Cole, switchman on the Eastern Union line, who, stationed at the north end j of the tunnel, was looking atOl; the line of railway in the direction of Handford Hall, his attention was ar- rc-sted by the actions of a dog in a turnip-Field belonging to the railway company. Seeing the d >g hunting about the field in a rather peculiar way, Mr. Cde walked some little way down the line to enable him the more closely to watch the dog's movements. Having walked to within 150 yards of where the dog was, Ir. Cole distinctly saw him put his nose down and draw a turnip from the field and carry it immediately into the lane adjoining, where he noticed three persons standing. The dog having left the turnip with these men, he was again sent over into the field, and drew another turnip, which he conveyed to the men stationed in the lane in the same way as he did the former one the dog having repeated the same act three or four times successively, each time conveying a turnip to his supposed master and companions, and suspecting Cole was making his way to the place where they were located, with an intention to take them into custody, they ran away as fast as they could, followed by the sagacious animal.-Ipswich Express EMIGRATION.—The progress of the Port of Bristol as an emigration port has so rapidly increased that its na- tural advantages seem to be thoroughly understood. The fine ship Zaretan is to sail on Friday morning: (this day) for New York with nearly 200 emigrants. This vessel has boen chartered by Mr. Dobbin, the emigration agent. On Wednesday the vessel was visited by his Worship, the Mayor, accompanied by the Mayoress and other ladies, when they were received by the charterer and the other authorities of the ship. After inspecting the berths of all the emigrants, the ladies and his Worship were pleased to express the sa- tisfaction they felt at the excellent manner in which she j, fitted up, and the attention paid to the comforts of the emigrants. fX f..re leaving, his Worship expressed his warmest v\ islies f'r :,11 Dobbin's prosperity in his en- deavours to promote ana conduct emigration from this port, I Ir. George Gondeh?s desired us to repeat tht the Advertisement addressed to WINK MERCHANTS AND !OTH ;it.s," which appeared in our paper of the 20th ult., \\a insertcd xvitht)iit Iiis or sanction. "The Leaders,' Misleaders, and Ringleaders of thc Press Reviewed," in )?,r next. I

Railway Companies have yet to le:ll.!l tli:it liberality i toward their scrvau's, and completeness of arrange- ments so as to insure comfort to the public arc also the I most prr.fiahla mode of conducting their business. It has become a maxim that an under-paid toiler is a very | uncertain aid. Men may pledge themselves to a work, even though the recompense offered be far below what the state of the market may declare to be filir and re- quisite. But the pledge does nut destroy the feeling wj'Lin the 'orkcr that he is not properly paid. Dis- 'wl!!unt h G?orkfrt!theisn'):pr:?-T''r'!y;?!d. D?- resignation. We may cnsme him as a machine, but c???r??? :? i.t-ibos-xn n.)".v!t').stn.nr):r.2; h!s treat him as something other than a machine. The error committed by Railway Companies in regard to their engine-drivers is that they have looked upon them merely as a part of the iron-horse which has no will but that which is itilpit-teti to it-no pover of reflection or of discrimination. And in their treatment of the public, railway com- panies have been equally unwise. They refuse to learn the art, so well practised on the continent, of making all who travel on their lines comfortable while so doing. In many of our English railways a second carriage is a mere den-.i tl ir(I cla;;s ticket introd uces the purchaser to filth, exposes him to an unfair battle with the ele- ments, and leaves him in uncertainty, if he will ever end a journey begun amid so many sources of unpleasant- ness and discomfort. We may faTrly ask, why'Riihvay Directors, enjoying which they do, a monopoly which the Legislature pro- tects, should Ion,or be allowed to slight and insult the public, whose servants they are, and whose necessities are their only source of existence ? Lavish outlays in public schemes are not now tolt-rated-why should stinginess, where a decided advantage may be gained by avoiding it, be longer tale rated ? It is altogether a fallacy to suppose that shareholders have any part in the illiberality with which the public is treated. Their influence is, really, subsidiary to a packed meeting, or to an agitation such as that which has been successful in the matter of the Caledonian.

The recpnt just appreciation of the value of the Sonth Wales Railway Shares, as indicated by the rapid rise in their price in the Share Market, has opened up a new field of speculation for those who delight to dabble in stieli inalteri. r ?ie fo l !f)?v i ii?- such matters. Tile following letter, developing what may be denominated a new speculation, will, we have no doubt, be read with much interest :—■ SOUTH WALES AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAYS. To the Editor of the Railway Times. SIR,—The relative prices of the shares in these rail- ways il1,lucc mo to call the attention of the sharelllJlders in the 1,-tlter to the prospects of the former. It must be confessed that the traffic receipts of the South Wales up to the present period offer no inducement to purchasers, even at the current qtiot,,ttiois b it t!ie i-),ated position of the line is taken into account,itisperfectly manifest that the present receipts do n,)t, or at least ought not, to be considered as any criterion of its tilti- mite value. D > lbtle :s the p isseng >r trafHo will be materially i:n,),.vcl s,) SODII as the line is brC>!1:;1It in connection with t:10 other i,iil>vavs but tfie increase in the passenger traffic, be it ever s ) gre it, is as nothing, in comparison with the impulse that will be given to the goods an l mineral traTie by its union \vit11 th Birming- h:l.ll a:l n!t)l ,1111 :J'ct \V"0rn :t tih"lY by means of the Deaa Farest. A glmeeat the traffic receipts of tli U line, tiie Tad Vale, which miy be termed, a branch of the South "Wales, will sarv what the shareholders in the'latter m iv antinipite fron the mineral tra.iic, so soon as t11.ir line i; c1ptbl of f¡)r\'lr1:¡} the S'lnc to the various markets. A few short months will either prove or disprove the correctness of these expectations. There remains, however, another point of weighty-con- sideration for the sharc hol lcrs of the Great Western Company. This consideration has induced me to take advantage of the lite advuice in Great Western shares to exchange a portion thereof for those of the South W ales, there being every probability, from the easy state of the money market, awl the present unwillingness of the Directors of the Great Western Company to accede to the terms offered by the Directors of the South Wales, that the lattei line will be completed in its integrity, by which the guarantee of o per cent, will be secured to the South W ales Company. As a shareholder in the Great Western, I believed the most prudent course to pursue was to guard myself against any such contingency. Having thus stated my views of this subject, without calling in question the policy of the Directors of the Great Western in not coming to terms with the Direc- tors of the South Wales, I now leave my fellow share- holders in the Great Western to act as their own opinions may direct; but should any of them feel disposed to follow the advice given, it is mv firm conviction they will have no reason to repent of its adoption hereafter.

I CAR M A R T II E N SHIRE. PKKFERMEXT.—On the 21st ult., the Rev. Richat-d Bovvcott, Clerk, master of the Lampeter Grammar School, was dulv licensed by the Lord Bishop of St. David's to the Perpetual Curacy of Bettvvs, in the County of Carmarthen, vacant by the death of John Williams, Clerk, value E90 per annum. Patron-the Bishop of St. David's. CRANE AND QUAY DUES.—On Saturday last these dues were let by auction, in the Sliirehall, by Mr. Mor- ris Evans, the Corporation auctioneer. Thre Was not much competition on the occasion, and they were eventually let to Mr. William North Rees, the former :? l 'Fiiis is less than harbour master, for the sum of C.. This is less than the last ) ear's iettiii, by £ 3, but the lessee is in future to pay the rates, which is more than an equivalent for the suppositious loss. CARMARTHEN POLICE.—On Friday last, before W. Morris, J G. Philipps, E. H. Stacey, Esquires, and Major Bowen, Mrs. Morgan, of the Britannia Inn, Blue Street, was charged with having allowed gambling in her house. P.S. Miles Davies proved that some soldiers were playing at cards on the night in question and a penalty of i: I and costs was at once inflicted. A case of assault between two lads was dismissed, and seve- ral summonses fur nonpayment of rates were dis- posed of. On Tuesday, before Dr. Lawrence, and Major Bowen, Thomas Da vies, a tailor, of White Mill, Aber- gwilly, was charged with shoplifting. P.C. Thomas Buckley proved that having received information that defendant had stolen from the shop of Mr. Puddicombe, in Guildhall-square, some bone and metal studs, he apprehended him in the Half Moon public house, and found the articles alleged to han beeH stolen in his possession.11'. l-I;L]icom¡e iclentif::er! the several articles of which he had beer, so unceremoniously dis- possessed, and the prisoner was committed for trial at the ensuing Quarter Sessions for the Borough. COMMITTED TO THE COUNTY GAOL. — Jamas Sedysr was committed for 14 days to the House of Correction, for non-payment of 10s. and 7s. Cd. costs imposed upon him on the Kith of August, for assaulting William Jones, a police c:mstable of this borough. Ci.vious ACCIDF.NT ON THE LI.ANKLI.Y AND LLAN- DILFI RAILWAY.—On Saturday last, as the I'rincess Royal engine was oil its way from Garnant to Cross Inl; staiion, and when near the latter place, a little boy, about 18 inon'hs old, in attempting to cross the "line at the tiz,,e, the ra;l,, ,irifl the engine pi--sed without doing him the least inquiry, but the child in endeavouri ng to CC1 pP was caught in the tel¡d('f !1ÎP] by the foot, ind at tL: moment was res- cue d bv \Vi!?mCad??Uad''r,t:.e(ir i ver, lca\ i n?, 1),,iit (,,v ati,l or,,t,, oil li?c, rail. Three other to-s were amputated, and the little sutferr r is l?." in a (,ir way of recovery Much praise is dt;;to Cadwalladei', who on this, as well as on for- mer occasions, has risk»d his o.vn i.fe to save those of i,'s fe'.low-ei eai oi es. It is hon-'d that this hair- breadth escape ?i:ir.?t fX a warning to pre<fnt parents allowing eh.l iren of such tendei age to wander at 1 irge in such dangerous places. Lt.ANRT.LY PT'.TI Y SESSIONS.—[Held 'm S1 tlnday last, before \V. Ch?m?ers, Esq.]—James D.nies, a native of I. mg .)"'11, was committed for trial on the c:iarc of having stolen a shirt, the property of John Hugh, Coor ido, Llase'ii ¡'I Ti.c.tri!? ?as mi?ed from a hedge on w'.ju-h it had U-c n placed <<> dry, an d foun d

THE POlSO^iMGS AT LA'JGrJAS&E. RESUMED INQUEST UPON THE BODY OF MRS. SEVERXE. The resumed in'1'J,H;t. upon view (If the body of Mrs. M iry Ann Seven ie, whose melancholy and premature demise has occasioned such ;111 intense sensation throughout the locality, took [dace on Tuesday last, at the Globe 11111, Laugharne; the popular excitement not having in the slightest <1e:rcc diminished, but rather being on the increase. The jurv re-assembled at eleven o'clock, and the fol- lowing evidence was adduccù before them, which as i' promises to develope features that were not at all anti- cipatQd in the first instance, we publish at greater hmgth than we otherwise should. It will be seen that there is great reason to fear that ;\11 accomplice yet remains undiscover(>ù, but as the p.nlice il1\,( now obtained a clue, it is more than likely that they will ultimately succeed in unravelling the mystery. We may here men- tion that throughout the investigation P.C. Saer has dis- played Ihe reatest possible tact in procllring evidence and marshalling the array of facts, which we now proceed to give. Mr. John Hughes,surgeon, examined :—I live and practice at Carmarthen. I made a post mortem exami- nation cd tlie body of Mary Ann Severne on the 23rd instant, which had been disinterred in In)" presence in Laugharne Churchyard. I found the face very much decayed, but the trunk was not so much decomposed as would be expected from a body which had been buiied ahout nine weeks, f opened the abdomen and examin- ed the stomach and intestines. I found on opening the stomach that the inner coat was covered ,ith a thin layer of a brown kind of sediment deposit. Mr. Hera- path was present at the post mortem examination. In the large curvature we found traces of infLlInmation upon scraping the sediment off. There was no fitlid in the stomach. There were also marks of inflammation on the rectum. I did not open the small intestines because I wished Mr. IIerapath to have them as perfect as possible, but we saw through them patches of redness which appeared like traces of inflammation. The viscera were delivered to Mr. Herapath. The brown sediment was put with the rest of the viscera, the stomach being pnt separately in a small uoule. Mr. Herapath re- moved them into the vestry. I saw part of the liver and stomach analysed by MA Herapath judging from the result of his analysis in injunction with the marks of inflammation which I saw Ibelieve the cause of death was arsenic. I saw the body when it was divested of the shroud, and I observed some ring on the fingers, which I saw taken off and delivered to Police Serjeant Edwards. I alw observed on the coffin phte the name of "Mary Ann Severne, died 21st July, 18-50, aged 30 years. P.S. David Edwards examined :—I was present when the body of lIrs. Sever!1e vvas disinterred. I saw her name on the coffin plate, and some rings were taken off her finger in my presence. I now produce them. I saw Mr. Hughes and Mr. LIerapath engaged in opening the body. Mr. Hamilton was there also. I saw the viscera carried in a washhand basin to the Vestry- room. Thomas Herbert Severne, Esq., of Brixton, husband of the deceased, examined :—The rings now produced by Serjeant Edwards were those of my deceased wife, and I helieve they were left on her finger when she was buried, and are the rings she usually wore when in life I have lived at Brixton three years or rather more. The first servant women I had when I came to reside there, were Rachel David, a single woman, Martha Williams, and the first housemaid was Mary Gibbs, a sister of Elizabeth Gibbs. I was married either in 1812 or 1S13, I forget the exact year. Rachel David lived with me about six months, Martha Williams not so long as that, but Mary Gibbs about a year. I think they had warning to leave. Elizabeth Gibbs came into my service just before her sister left, about two years and a half ago. Shewasengagedascookanddairymaid.A girl whose name I forget, came there as housemaid, but only remained a short time. I think her name was Mary Lloyd. Fanny Bevan, Elizabeth II iwells, Ann Ueynon, and Jane Griffiths, were there in service after her. I think these were all. They lived there at different times. Ann Bevnon came at. the same time as Jane Griffiths, and when Jane Griffiths, (now Jane Lewis, who had been examined) left, Rebecca Uphill came. Whichever happened to be housemaid, attended on Mrs. Severne, but for the last 12 months or there- abouts, of Mrs. Severnc's life, Jane Lewis was housemaid, and Rebecca Uphill after her. Gibbs was cilok at this time. Mrs. Severne died on Sunday, the :21st of July she had been in rather delicate health for some time previously, being subject to bilious attacks. Mr. Hamilton was her medical attendant. She had not been under medical treatment for some weeks previous to her death. She occasionally took medicine, but no regular course. On the Friday and Saturday before her death, she complained of being unwell. She com- plained of biliousness and headache On Saturday she did not get up until twelve or one, possibly two o'clock, when she comphinedof weakness, and a slight gid- diness in the head. She had very seldom been subject to giddiness, and I did not think this was of any import- ance. On Saturday I think she took some rabbit broth. I cannot say who prepared It. According to the usual customs in my household, the cook would have to prcpale the broth, and I have scarcely any doubt sbe prepared this. I cannot say I saw Mrs. Severne take the broth. I believe she took some two or three times in the day, probably about middle day, and again in the evening. Shetpok some in bed I think, but I do not remember who gave it to hef. tic took sotfte in the evening a short time before going to bed. O.i the afternoon of Satur- day, 'Mrs. Severne walked up and down with me in frout of the house, about (j Gr 7 o'clock. I asked her if she thought she could walk as far as the garden, about the distance of a field. She said she felt very weak, and 1 told her that perhaps she had better not try. She said she felt weak in her knees. I fancy we did not go there that evening, but I have heard that Ann Beynon says we did. My impression is that we did not. She spoke cheerfully,and seemed in good spirits generally. Her general health was usually good. I think on Sunday I asked her whether she bad lakcn any vegetables. On Saturday evening we went Illto the dining room, and I partook of some fruit, giving her some also, but only one or two raspberries. I then took up a book ancl she went to the kitchen, where I believe she had some more broth,asshesaid she would take some. Neither of us had flnv wine or spirhs. She made no remark as to the rabbit broth. She did no-complain at all during the | night. I thiuk she was asleep when I wpot npstairs to bed. I got up (hst on Sunday morning, between eight and nine o'clock. She asked rne if she should get up also and go to Church with rue. She said she felt very well, and did not complain at all of behig ill. Wetook nothing whatever in the course of the night. I said that as she had complained 01 weakness in the evening, I thought she had better not go in the morning, but if she got uetter, I would take her in the evening. I believe I sent her up a cup of tea. Hebecca waited upon me at breakfast, and probably she took the tea up. I never use tea but coffee, and I think the tea was made in the kitchen. I faney I told Gibbs to make the tea. It is possible that Mrs. Severne took coffee, but she usually had tea. She was never in the habit of taking cocoa or chocolate. I saw Mrs. Severne in the kitchen uefure I went out. I breakfasted at nine o'clock and saw her about a quarter pa-st ten o'c;J¡)ck I had no conversation of importance with her, but she appeared pretty well in hpalth at the time. When I Went to Church, I left Elizabeth Gibbs in the house; old William was about the ground, and also the boy John Lewis. Gibbs had the care of the house. Nothing transpired before I came back from Church which was about half past one o'clock. I forgot by which door I entered the house. Rebecca Uphill was at Church, and Ann BeyVion was at Chapel. Rebecca returned about the same time as I did. I went upstairs within fhe minutes after I came in, and found Airs, Severne worse. She was in bed, ancl I asked her how she vvas. She said, she was ill, I think. She was not apparently very ill at the time. I asked her if she had taken anything that cli- agreed Iith her, ail fruit and vegetables always did. To the best of mv recollection she said she had taken nothing but both, or broth and grud. I think she took gruel !i well a broth, but I knov she had taken the ¡tter while I was in Church. She told me she had t.ikeubroth more than once. I did not ask her who had made it for her. I do not remember that she made any remark about it. I de) not remember that she attributed her sickness to having taken the broth or gruel, but she might have done so. I never carried the keys belonging to thfe house, as Mrs. Severne had them in her basket. Mrs. Severne usually took broth in preference to gruel, if there happened to be any in tlw houe. She lived very much 00 rabbit, mutton, or chicken broth, without sago or any other thickening matter in it. When she complained of bein sick, I did not prescrilJe or suggest that she should take any- thing. I do not think she expressed a wish for anything. She did not get up, and I remained in the room with her probably ten minutes. I vvas not, much surprised at her illness as the symptoms were precisely the same as those of an ordinary slight bilious attack. I dined about two o'clock. Ithiuk Mrs. Severne said that she would not take anything. I went up once or twice •„ see her before three o'clock, but I did not go up to remain before four o'clock. When I first went up she was much the same as before. I think Gibbs had been sitting with her, certainly, she had been frequently in her room. I fouud her there when I went up and saw her occasionally going up and downstairs. She was upstairs almost, all the afternoon. Viien I went up at four o'clock, Elizabeth Gibbs was in the room. Gibbs told me she would, go down and take her tea. Mrs. Seve me complained of being worse and said that, she was sick. Shehadnot.sent for me in the meniiiime. She bad vomited in the basin. The vomit was quite yellow, atid there was a considerable quantity ot it, perhaps nearly half a basin full altogether, but not at first when I went up. Thete was not, rWIre than half a pint at first. Her bowels were affected about that time. Thev might have been before, but I am eeitam t1H')' were then. She asked me to go down stairs, and send up Elizabeth two or three times for that purpose. There was a night-commode in the room. [Mr Severne here bceemc temporarily, but deeply affected ] I went upstairs and down several times between four and fire o'clock. She complained of very great weakness. About half past, four, lacked her if she thought site could take a dose of castor oil. She said she would rather net, but she would try if 1. wished her. Ac- 1 c irdingiy I sent the boy John Lewis, to Mr. David, the Diuggist, for so.ue castor oil. I am not sue whether J did not write the order for it. and give it :1, Gibbs to give to John I/wis Mrs. Severne was m/k several times while I wa in the riJom. She saill once I feel very ilL" I thillk this Wit, f1nt whcn she was vomiting but "ilcn she was lying dowf1 in bed. She complained m >st of 1lCr stomach and hcaù. She said sit" had pain ill her stoln:)e1. I understood her to tl1¡):1.i1 her bowels ti.s IYell. I held her bead one" or twice w hi shc vvas :I:n)fin. Sue became v0ry col 1 about that time. I f"lt her hands and feet, and found them very cold ;¡lo. About, that time she began to assume a dark blue appearance. That, was th first, symptom that alarmed mc. She scarcely rallincl after, but grad¡¡,;11y gut worse. I don't think I bad any conversation with GiblH. I de) llot recollect any remark tint vvas made by either !lIC or her. I told Gibbs I,) gd a toot p.U1 ii'led wirh hot water, and it was used, hilt it was too hte. Mrs. Severne took tJnthin between three and five o'clock. She took nothing that day but what was given her by Gibbs. If llr haJ taken anything frorn any one els, in all prc)1n!,ility I should have known it. ;.[i) one spoke to me and tried to account for Mrs. Severne's illness, for the purpose of quieting 1I1Y milld. As far as I remember, Ihe coldness proceeded from the extremities of the body. I ohscrHrl first coldness of the hands and a blue or dark disco]ouratil1no[ the finer nails, with a prculiar fixe,) appearance of the eyes. She made a remark shortiy after this, and said she could scarcely see. The eye did not lose its brightness, hut had a glossy fixpd appearance. She did not compLlin of pain in the eyes. Shortly after the castor oil came-about 20 Inillutes to six o'elock —I mixed it with some cl1ffee. Gibbs was not iu the room at this time but came up after. Rebecca brought the coffee up and I poured rhe castor oil in. It was a small quantity, about an ounce. I think I sent for a dose" of castor oil it would be rather more than half a wincghss full. I asked Mrs. Severne to take it, and she 8aiLl What are you pre- paring ?" or What is in thc cup:" I asked her again to take it and took it to her. When I got to the bedside, I noticed a sort of ftoth about her mouth and she was cvidently unable to swallow it.' I had lairl her hand on my owu to try tl) warm iu She did not take it from my hanlJ. I noticed her Lice appear to be getting darker. The coldness gradually increased. I then immediately went downstairs, got on horseback and rode down to Mr. Hamilton, thinking to get there before the boy, althouh I had sent him some time hEfore. Tbe dis- colouration extended lip to, the hands. I thought till nearly half-past, 5 th,it it was merely a bilhus attack rather more violent than usual, and I told her she would be better nexl day. I then sent the boy for Mr. Hamil- ton. It was about half-past five or twenty rHillutes to six. The expression of hcr face was rather smiling, and she seemed quite happy. I was not alarmed until the castor oil came. At Ihe time I noticed the froth in her month there was no sign of pain, and she looked puti- cularly happy alld cal i), I ùid not observe any rigidity of limb at all. I went myself for Mr. Hamilton about ten minutes to 6 o'clock. When I went off, Rebecca was there, and tn the best of my knowlede hoth tiie other servants also, as I told Ann Beynon immediately before I left, to make as mnch baste "as pnisihle with the hot water to apply to her mistress's feet. I went to Laugharne for Mr. Hamilton, and when I returned, old William vvas standing at Ir. Morris's gate, and gave mc to undcrtallù that I was too late, for Irs. Severne was dead. We went as fast as we couLl. Mr. Hamil- ton accompanied me back, I havin staid at his house nearly ten minutes. I was not away half-an-hour alto- gether. I asked Mr. Hamilton to o upstairs. 1 did not go immediately into the house, ns I asked Me. lb- milton to qo by himself to see what had happened. The vomit ill the basin was probably emptied away by Gibbs, as I dill not see it when I went lIpstirs about qllartcr to 5 o'clock, after she had been therr. Mrs. Severne had hefcHe suffered fro:1I bilious attacks, slightly hysteri- cal, and Rebecca used to wait npon her more than any other servant. I do not thillk Rebecca carne into the room till about the time the castor oil came. I did not obscne that latterly Gibbs was more a favourite with Mrs. Severne thiin before. To the hest of my belief she never was a favourite with her mistress. I did not no- tice on former occasiolls of bilious attacks the excessive eoldness which prcvCiiled on the last occasion. There has been 110 arsenic IIsed about my farm for the 1,It two months. The last ticlle I saw any there was about a mouth or less after I went to the farm. Tint was th" only time. I then used sonIc to poison rats iil the out- houst's. It came widl a quantity of cattle drugs froll) another farm where I had resided. It was yellow arse- nic, and was the firstvello\V arsenic I had ever seen. The place was infested bj rats before I used it. I never heard of any of my servants gettin or having arsenic for any purpose. I dill nut use any fM any aricultura1 purpose. My impression is that sume of the yellow arsenic was left in the h'nlse and that it was nut an used, I think I used the' arsenic bddrc Mary Gibbs camp to my service. I do not know of any animosity entertained by any of the servants towards Mrs. Severne, aud I should think it next tn impossible that such could be the: cae. I have lIothin on my niinll that I wish to communicate to the jury, nor have I any fllrthn knowledge of anything bearing on this case. I have a vogue recollection that the packet vvas labelled y, l- low ¡\.rscnie, Poison." By th: Rev. J. Harrison ;I had not tle remotest :(lp.1" that Mrs. Severne wis iIt from of her than natural causes until the death of ltpbccca Uphill. Mr. ILt- illilt"1I sail he had no doubt it vvas a ease of cholera. By the C.trooer :—A dog of Mr. Whitaker's partflok of some of the ;>•>on 1dJ be-fore rat boles on the occa- s inn 1 have a1111d 'd !n. th the Rev. J. N. Ilariison —I dq not know whal became () f him. By 1\1. Wood :—The police and 1 have searched fdr Je arsenic, but not found ir.. Some sugar of lea" li-rs been found in the store ro,)mb-v Ann U..ynou. I think Mr. brought it into '1:(' room where I Wil"; sit- ting. I can account for its \n there, b(ea\le some P;iitcrs used i' to put in tint. It has writlen on it Sligar flf Lead." I ¡Jl! ).)\;IHI;V who brought it 011 Ihe premises, or \1)('11 jt canie;-as I was not aware it was thprc. By Mr. Spraner — I do not know whether it had been placed there si1lce Rebecca's death IJr tiot. A packet containing a white 8ubstance "as produced by Police Constable Saer as having been found at Brixton, and the Coroner expressed a wish that, means should lip adnpted to ascertain whether thl's'jbslil!1(; was sugar of lead, or whitp arsenic. Mr. Shield and Mr. Williams, two of the jurors, asserted positively that from lhe smell alone it was su- gH of lead.. The Cnroncr however intinutell that although sugar of lead was there, it miht by possibility be mixed tJp wilh white arsenic, which vvas pcrfpctly consistent with aJl the evidence they Iud heard, and was the very gist they had met to consider. P.C. Saer remarked that Ihe packet Ind been under lock and key while in his possession anù no Person had had acces to it. The Coroner observed th:l1. the very circumstances of this ease led to the inference that different poisons had been used, for while Rebecca had been violently purged, Ann Beynon haJ bcen constipated, and sulfeied only from vomiting. 1\1. Severne, in answer to the Coroner, said that \rrs. Severne's age was about 2S or 29, but he was not quite sure. lr. Henry Hamilton, surgeon, examined :-1 knew Mrs. Severne, and have known hcr ever since she came to Brixton. I h;ne attended her on several ocasions generally when labouring under severe hysterical t1¡,ck; I haye also several times attended her for milll bilious attacks. She then evinced au illclinatilJII to vomit, bnt did not (];¡ S;) until I gave her an emetic, which I was in the habit of doin. I accompanied Mr. Severne to Brixton on the (lay of Mrs. Severne's death, it bein near six o'clock in the evening. Before I went to I3rixton, Mr. Severne's servant toltlus it was too late. We then gallopped to llrixton. I went upstairs, and savv a servant girl. 1 saw Mrs. Severne lying in eJ wIth her night clothl's on. Her chin was hed 1111 wIth a handkerchief or towel. Shc was very livid, and of a purple colour, particularly about the mouth, and round the eyes. The chceks were VNY palc. The hands and nails weTe also purple. There was no froth about the, mouth when I saw ber. I came t1own:itairs and told Mr. Severne that his wife was dpad. He asked me af- terwards to o upstairs to fetch his purse, and I did IiO, when Gibbs gave it me from under the pillow. Mr. Severne was stone cold, but looked very natural, as if: she had died an easy death. She was nry ¡¡!acid, alld there wa, no contraction of the features at all. There was nothing suspicious in what I saw, alld nobody I awaken cd suspicion in my mind, and therefore I came to the eOllc]u1:iion that she died a natural death. They had removed her vomit, &c., and I did not spe it. By Ihe Rev. J N. lIarrifoon :-1 ÙO not remember tellin you that Irs. Severne died of English cholera, but that was my opinion. I heard nothit1 about all inquest, and thought Mr. Severne the proper party to institute an inquiry if thre was any suspicions. The Coronej :—" 1 had no intimation of the death from any one." Rev. J. N. Harrison I have written three times on occasions of sudden death, alld the Coroner hdS in- formed me that hp would not hol(1 an inquest, ,i> the County would not allow him his expenses." Mr. Woods :—" Will you, Mr. Coroner, let liS know how a line is to bc drawn as to all sudden deaths, or occasional sudden deaths Tile Coroner —" The Comller should be informed in all cases, alld then he will exercise his own cliscrctiIJII as tC) holùilq ail inquest." III answer to the Rev. J. N. Harrison, Ir. Hamilton sid that the symptoms of poison and cholNa would be somewhat similar, especially in the collapsed stage. 1\Ir. Hughes, surgeon, hne intimated Ihat the gre.it bulk of what had been found ill the packet hy the policeman was acetate of lead, but he could not. then ascertain whPthcr any thing was mixed with it. Ilc would, however, i\1¡ij]YZt> it at home. Miirgiret Lewis, w idow, was next examined:—She gave her evidence wílh great. volubility, and said: — 1 'lv(> °" Il)? Corporation hllll in Laugharne parish, opposite Cross Inn Gate. I woik occasionally at U,i\- lon, doill all descriptions of work that [ am required to do. I knew all the servants there, Ann Beynon, Elizabeth Gibbs, Jane Griffiths or L""¡, and Rebecca Uphill. Rebeccas father lived ill Ihe neighbourhood, about a nrie frl1m Liixton. Ann Beynon's falher li es at LI a n sad -a men. id .try Gibbs Elizabeth G ihbs's sister, lives somewhei e near Mcrlhyr, as I 11:1 ve been told. The girls Lad quarrels there very often, but I llf) not know Whii1. about,. Nobody ever sent me in my life to fetch any stuff from the druggist's shop. I never fetched anything. I Wai; fetchecl to Brixtoll by my own ehild the night Mrs. Severne died. William sent fcr me and I went up. Toe 111 "I glr, were in the kitchen. 1 was so frighu ned I cculd hardly speak They (111) said mistress n. dea l. They t()1J n1(' I" wash hn an,1 I did. Mrs. Morgans, Mae«gvvrda, earn" there, anù Mrs, Severne's body was hill Oilt The girls told in? that their mistress had broth and gruel, but they did l10t know who made it or gave it her. I have not been ie. the suop of Mrs. David since I purchased some leek in 1 onion seed James John lives in the house with iiie, which I bold under a lease from the Corporation. I never beard of rats being in my house or next door. I never bought any arsenic of anybody to kill rats. I saw a man killing rats once at Pentowin. Mrs. Severne never sent me to buy arsenic of Mrs. David, and I never I)ti of her. did buy any of her. Mrs. Divid knows me verv well. My sou, a little boy, lives with me and works at Brixton. I never fe'ehed anything from Mr. Divid's for Ann Beynon, nor for Elizabeth Gibbs. I think I fetched a pennyworth of oil for Fanny Bevan once. I never worked anywhere else than at Brixton of late years. Mrs. Severne's body felt rather warm, and was not at all stiff. Mrs. Mary David, wife of James David, examined:- ry husband keeps a druggist's shop in Laugharne. I know the last witness, and have known her for some time. Her name is Lewis, but I do not know her Christian name. I knew hpr hy the name of "Benny the blacksmith's widow." She used to CI)!n: with mes- sages to my shop for Mrs. Severne, and also for herself. I attend the shop sometimes. My husband sells sugar of lead and arsenic. When I sell arsenic, I generally put it in two papers, and always write arsenic" and poison" upon the label. I soltl arsenic to Benny the blacksmith's wife. I labelled it in the same way thai I have mentioned. I sold it to her myself. I always ask persons when they corne to buy arsenic what they want it for. I asked this woman that ques- tion. This was in the Spring of this year, it might have been about March, but I am certain it was not later than April. She told me it was to destroy rats, and that they were running about the floor. It was that which puticularly impressed it upon my mind. I do not know where she lives. She told me the r,1.1.S were so nume- rotis that they ran out four and five at a time on the floor. Tiiore was no one in the shop with its at the time. I am slIre that shp did not enquire for it for Mr. or Mrs. Severne. I clearly understood it was for herself. I sold her a pennyworth of white arsenic, about two drachms. I have never had any talk with her about the arsenic since, nor did she ever come for more. She nn-er told me about the rats afterwards. I do not re- member that I mentioned it to any one. It is quite fresh in my recollection, about the rats particularly. I remember it was white arsenic, because we do not keep yellow. We have ha,lnone there during the last year. I do not recollect her hcing in the shop iriore tlian once since, and then I rather think it was something for her daughter. Her daughter lives at the Parsonage with Capt. Mitford. I do not think any person sells arsenic in Laugharne besides us. I bad an iiluess in April and I sold her the arsenic before that. I am quite cer- tain she told me it. vvas to kill tire rats in her own honse. I d,) iii)t know in whose writing the words sugar of lead are, on the brown paper now produced. There are many persons in Laugharne who sell sugar of lead. John Lewis. SOil of Margaret Lewis, was next ques- tioned but was not sworn. lIe gave his testimony with the greatest reluctance and said :-1 used to go on mes- sages for Mrs. Severne, but Ilot for the irls. The girls sent me. I went to fetch Mr. Hamilton. Ann Beynon sent me. Mary) Gibbs lives down near the slaughter- house. I have not been there this good while. I vvas sent there by Elizabeth Gibbs tt) tell her mother that she was very bad. That was about three weeks ago. I went with a message there before then. Elizabeth used to send me every time. I remember bringing up a parcel from there to Brixton, for Elizabeth Gibbs. She used to send me to shops for different things. I was sent to D. Williams's shop, for sugar, tea, and coffee. The things were put down in a book, and I did not pay for them. I do not remember going with any money for Gihbs. I was at Brixton the day Mrs. Severne died. My mother washed the body and liticl it out. Elizabeth Gibbs used to 'come down to my mother's sometimes after six o'clock in the evening. It was about five wecks ago. My mother, myself, and my sister, were there. Gibbs did not stay ten minutes, and I was there the whole lime. She bad no message and I do not know what she came for. Mv sisler went on messages for them I think. She went for two pounds of butter for Mrs, Severne. James John and Jenny Adams lived next door to my mother. There are three gardens there. There is no dog there. I never saw any rats there. The inquest was here adjourned for all hour in otfier that the jury might partake of some refreshment. The disclosure of the contrary evidence elicited from Mar- garet Lewis and Mrs David occasioning the greatest excitement. ¡ On their resuming, the following additional testimony was given :— Ann Beynon, examined :—I was living with Mrs. Se- verne.at Brixton, at the time of her death. Sbe died suddenly. I remember seeing my mistress on Saturday, the day before her death, and I thought she seemed pretty well. When I came back I asked her how she was. She said she was very ill, and added that she had been sick. I did not see her take anything, but when I came home from chapel, a little after one o'clock, I gave her a small drop of camomile tea from the mantel- piece in her bredioom. There was no one there except Elizabeth Gibbs, and the tea vvas made while we were away in chapel. The camomile flowers bad been kept ;it ttil store room. I did not see ber take anything else. I left the room alter siie had taken the tea I next saw ber about, four o'clock in the afternoon, and she told me she bad "come to a pretty pass." I thought fhe meant she was very weak and ill We doubled a sheet under her because she was unable to get up. Her bowels were j "pry relaxed.- 1 h:fL thc room to go to leaving J Reb'-cca in the room, and I .:to t,(J i1)1),? on the stairs. I went up again alter five o'clock, and I think my inis- trcs- was dead then. I was very much surprised at my mi,tr.,s;; being so s¡¡¡defll. a u<1 so sei iously ill, and I t.Vked to Gibbs about it, who S:11:; ti)a> my mistress had broth twice and gruel once, while her master WAS ill Church. I found the paper containing sugar of lead one night after Rebecca's death on the shelf in tiie store- room. I never saw any paper with "poison" written oil it, f,)i- if I did I cannot read. I do not know how the paper came on the shelf. Gibbs always attended on my mistress whell she vvas unwell 1 gave the paper that I found on the shelf to Mr. Webster. I knew Margaret Lewis, the blacksmith's widow. She was, generally working at Brixton. I have seen her aurl Elizibeth Gibbs many times together in the house at Biiston, but nowhere else. By Mr. Ilatrison:—The care of the cows was with Gibbs as wi ll as with me, but as she was with my mis- tress, I went aloBe. By -Nlr. Sitield -I have of ten beard Gibbs say that she would not submit to be ordered about in hei work, and she answered her mistress improperly. By Mr. Harrison :-Gibbs was not very willing for any one to be yitii my mistress'exccpt herself. By Mr. Sh]p[d:—I re(?)tk'ct'nynustrps?)akih?'!)?k from the kitchen about a fortnight before her death. Gibbs said that she had taken the milk without master's knowledge, and swore at her after she had left the room, and said that my mistress had no business to take it, and she would tell her mastnr. Sbe liked 10 wait on mistress herself. It was Rebecca Uphill's pl.i(-e to do this. Elizabeth Gibbs used to say that her Inistless liked her to attend upon her belter than any- one dse. By Alr. :-Site said after I came frum chapel that she had given her mistress some broth. By Mr. Shield :—I remember Gibhs saying that she should not like ltebecca to have the management of everything in the house. By Mr. Severne —When you left for Derby after my mistress's death you gave Rebecca the keys, aud Gibbs was very atikt-y about it. She said she wondered my master gave tfie keys to Rebecca,and not to her. I am almost sure Rebecca did not prepare anything for my mislres ull the day of her death, aud I anI certain I did not. By Mr. Shield :—During the time I was there no poison was given to rats. I washed the saui-coaii that the gruel was made in and obsei veil the sediment ,I,a Mary Howell examined :-1 live with John Lewis' the Smith, at Cross Roads. I was at Brixton during the harvest. I know Ann Ijeynon and Elizabeth Gibbs. I had a conversation with the latter about my mistress one day when we were going to fetch potatoes across the field. This was after breakfast when my mater was away in Derby, about reaping time. It was after my mistress's death. She called William all old devil. Wnhamwasuotwithus. She said he would repent, and the dedls that had come there after Iwr wanted to thrust her out. She said they shall go from here before me in the same way as my mistress did." I said "What makes you think that, Betsy." She said The devil is here every, night pulling me to sleep." I said no more to her. I bad some conversation with Gibbs one night after supper Oil another occasion. She said I have beard from my dear master, and I am glad to hear of him. Sbe said Many a time he wanted me to take bis arm for a walk through the fields to see the corn." No one was present but the accused and myself. I have nothing more to sir. Gibbs spoke entirely in Welsh, excepting the words (lear master." She said a ktter bad arrived addressed to her master s brother, who was then at Brixton. Gibbs never told me about ber <r,,inrr to be married. The reason Gibbs culled an ol(I devil was, because he had not mixed balls" ready for the tire, so that she could not prepare dinner for master. William Connick, examined I live at Brixton,and have been there nine years I have been there with Mr. Severne three years last spring. I remember the time my mistress died. I talked with Gibbs that day. She told file illY mistress wa poorly. I came back to (linller, aud after Icamebaek from chapel in the after- noon, Gihbs told me that nothing would remain on mistress's stomach, but was coming through like water. (The witness here repeated the story about the" corpse candles," and noise in the girls' room—which we pub- lished last week, and which it is unnecessary to re- peat.) Ann Beynon was re called, and stated that Gibbs had informed her in conversation that her mistress had told her several times thai she should have a dress of hers- meaning a plaid gown when she got married to mas- ter. Witness said that she had often thought that Gibbs had been diinking, but she was not in that con- dition when sbe told her about the gown. Margaret Lewis, at. the suggestion of the Coioner, was here recalled. In answer to questions, after re- peated cautions, she said — I have heard that Mrs. David has been examined. I never in my life went to her shop and bought one penny worth of arsenic. I am the widow of Benny the blacksmith. I have not been frii ndlv with Elizabeth Gibbs more than the other giils. I never bought anything with Mary 1>.ivies to kill rat-- I do not remember going to the shop to buy anything m tli" spring of this year. I never had any talk with Mary David nor any one else about rats in my garden or premises. I did not say I wanted arsenic to kill the rats that ran over the floor. I never went to Mary Da- vid's shop to get any other stnff to kill rats. When I b.-ive gone to the shop Mr. David and Mrs. David have each served me. In the spring of last year they both served me. The shop is kept by James David, the hus- band. I never bought a pennyworth of arsenic in James David's shop. I never bought any arsenic or poison in any other shop in or in St. Clears, or in Carmarthen. If Mrs. D ivies said that she sold me a pennyworth of arsenic, I can only say that I never bought it. I have only bought some powders of Mrs. Divies, which I took myself, and I paid three half- pence for them. I bad the powder ordered by Dr. Blakemore and took it myself. It did me good. It was of a greyish colour. Mrs. Davies knows me well. Bv Mr Spranger; \Vhen I bought seeds for myself I paid for them, and Mrs. Davies knew they were not for Mr. Severne. (By the Coroner:—I never saw a paper with" poison" printed on it in my life.) I can read a little of my Testament I am fifty-four years of age. Mrs. Davies was here sent for, for the purpose of confronting her with Margaret Lewis. On her arrival a great sensation was created amongst the crowded as- semblage, and, in answer to the Coroner, she said that the witness was the person she had sold the arsenic to. She had known her before for a length of time, and did not think she could be mistaken. She added I do not recollect that she ever bought aDY grey powders the remark about the rats makes me remem- ber about the poison. She paid me a penny for it I am not sure whether I asked if it was for Brixton, but the impression on my mind is that she told me in an- swer to a question that she wanted to kill the rats in her own house. The coroner here asked the jury whether they were in a condition to deliver a verdict, or whether they would prefer an adjournment for the purpose of enabling the police to trace further evidence. After a brief dis- cussion the latter course was resolved upon, and the inquest was adjourned until the 1 Ith of instant.

PEMBROKESHIRE. FATAL GUN ACCIDENT.-On Saturday last, as a gentleman named Chichester, who is staying on a visit at the residence of the Rev. W. W. Thomas, of Dinas Rectory, was inspecting a gun, not knowing it to be loaded, and while talking to a servant girl he jocularly pointed it at her, and threatened to shoot her. To his horror, he found on discharging the trigger, that the weapon contained a full charge, and the unfortunate young woman instantaneously fell a corpse. DISGRACEFUL BrlUTALITY. A favourite old cart horse belonging to James Mark Child, Esq., of Begelly House, had his eye knockcd completely out of the socket in a furious fit of passion, by a labourer in his employ. We regret to say that be has evaded justice by absconding, but a warrant has been obtained against him. It appears by the evidence of Mr. Child's ploughman, that lie has long treated the horses with the greatest cruelty. The name of this inhuman wretch is James Duggau, and he is a native of the parish of Rose Market, in the county of Pembroke. It is supposed that he is gone to the Monmouth or Glamorganshire works. It is sincerely to be hoped that this paragraph will meet the eye of any person who may employ him, and prevent a recurrence of this infamous brute again wreaking his vengeance on an inoffensive dumb animal. HAVERFORDWEST.—BURGLARY.—Housebreaking haa lately been carried on to such an extent in Haverford- west and in its vicinity, that it has indeed assumed s very serious aspect, the property and life of the subject are alike at the mercy of the marauder, and no ordinary prosecutions seem to be of any avail against his rapa- cious desires. Within the past month, a series of burglaries have been committed in the towr, and imme- diate neighbourhood, and property of considerable value has been abstracted, but in neither case has the guilty party been discovered. On Friday night last, a rob- bery was perpetrated in a grocer's shop at Merlin's bridge, kept by the daughters of iNIr. William Mathias, of Hanrittldstoii mill, and a large quantity of tea, tobacco, and other articles was stolen. It appears that 1""< robbers cut out the panel of the shop door, which Was by two iron bars inside, and having dis- placed the bars, effected an entrance. Ilr. Niatiiias's servant boy passed by the shop auout two o'clock in the morning as he was returning from the mill with his master's cart, and seeing the shop door open, at once concluded that the premises bad been robbed, and on entering the shop, he found that his suspicions were correct, everything appearing in disorder and as if the work of pillage had been going on. lIe immediately aroused the neighbours (as no one it appears sleeps on the premises), and with the assistance of constables, endeavoured to discover the burglars. They traced foot marks from the premises through the clay in the lane by Priory mill to the Parade, where they were lost sight of. They then proceeded to a strollers lodging house under the Parade, kept by a man named Cushan, and took into custody a tramp named Hall, whose shoes, which were peculiarly nailed, corresponded precisely with the foot-marks traced by the constable. lie was brought before the magistrates on Saturday last, and remanded until that day week.

CARDIGANSHIRE. LAMPETER AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY The third annual meeting of this useful and improv- ing Society, for the Show of Stock and the Distribution of Premiums to successful competitors, took place oil Saturday last at Lampeter, the weather being extremely favourable for the purpose. The attendance on the oc- casion was not so numerous and influential as might have been expect.nl from the cireumstallce of there being a iiiore than average number of resident gentry in the District to which the Society's operations are limited- (comprising 3.3 parishes)—but still the Show-field was by no means deifcient of a fair sprinkling of those Agricul- tui ints whose names are of most weight in this portion of Cardigansh ire. Ihe Exhibition of Stock took place in a field behind and adjacent to the Black Lion Hotel. It was rather inferior in of quantity, but if anything improved in quality upon last year's stock. The bulls were mag- nificent specimens of the bovine genus; that of Mr. Miller, of Morfamawr, fully deserving the premium which he obtained as the best aged bull, both from his general symmetry of dimension as well as his excellent condition for breeding purposes. The bull of Mr. Ilees, Veliudre, was, however, but little-inferior, and was ap- propriately classed as second in nwrit. The Judges were heard to declare that the best animal in the field was a Castletnaitin yearling belonging to Mr. Davies's, of Noyadd. Geo. Saunders, Esq., of Perthybprllan, gained the premium for the best Black aged Bull, which was likewise a very fine animal. The display of Cows was not so good as could have been wished; but some strong ;¡¡¡Ù lIsl'Í\:1 Horses were exhibited while the Sheep which were penned, were generally in every respect choice and beautiful specimens. It will be seen by the list of premiums, (inserted elsewhere) that John Pugh Pryse, Esq., J. Miller, Esq, Morfamawr, Mr. W. Recs, Veliudre, Mr. Davies, Noyadd, John Boultbee, Esquire, and John Lluyd, Esq., were prominently successful in carrying off prizes for stock. There was not a very large show of Pigs, and cousequenfly the competition was not over and above spirited. A beautiful piebald Poney be- longing to Mr. J. P. Pry se, carried ofF the premium of- fered by Mr. Boultbee, and was universally admired. We did not ohserve any agricultural implements exhibited, unless a glass dairy pan and a glass roof tile may be enumerated in the category. This deficiency, however, Mr. Bright, of Carmarthen, who was present, promised to remedy on a future occasion. Amongst the spectators we noticed :—Major Lewis, Llanayron, J. Boultbee, Esq., Noyadd, J. Pugh Pryse. Esq., Bwlchbychan, Geo Saunders, Esq., Perthyberllan, E. B- Lawrence, Esq., Llangeitho, W. Jones, Esq., Fal- condale, John Lloyd, Esq., Waunivor, Dr. Davies, Frwdvale, Rev. II. Bellairs,, Aberayron, Rev. Hugh Felix, I.lanybytht'fc D. Davhs, Esq., Frwdvale, J. H. Thomas, Esq Q&blaidd, John Miller, Esq., of Morfa- iiiaxvr, 1). Morgan, Esq., Lampcter Bank, Rev. Thomas Jones, Pcncarreg, D. Evans, Esq., LlarthI¡w, Thomas Hughes, Esq., Castelldu, D. 11 HIlhcs, Esq., ditto & c it c. The Judges on the occasion were, — Messrs. John Evans, Alltyeadno, and Thomas Morgans, Maesgwrda for Stock, and for the Grecn C'rops and Drainage, Mr. Jones, of Penpistill The Hon. Secretary, Mr. W. Rees, of Velindre, was throughout the day conspicuous for persevering zeal and energy to ensure the entire success of the day's proceedings, and we have the pleasing duty of tendering him our thanks for the cour- tesy which be evinced throughout towards our rrpre- scuta! ivi.