Star. — London, England, 1831-06-23 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS. TIMES.—The Paris papers for some days past contain ;idle important and striking addresses to the Electoral Col ,eges by candidates for the approaching Chamber. Among .lie rest, we find one from General Lafayette, which may be egarded not only as the expression of his individual opinion, Jilt as the manifesto of his political party. The old General 'las been the type of revolutionary patriots for the last forty ;ears. He has never deserted the banner which he at first siscd. He and his party are quite decided that here shall be no privilege bu: that of Majesty—nothing iereditary but the Crown. They all pronounce against he transmissible honours of the Peerage, pledge them elves to exert all their might to abolish such distinctions, :nd consider the revolution of July as incomplete, while what ;:cry regard as a monument of feudal barbarism or legislative .bsurdity is allowed to remain. In looking at the numerous ist of candidates who have already declared against the here- Thary nature of the upper Chamber,—in reading the ad lresses of the most popular men in France, intended and cal :ulated to impress the electoral colleges with these ideas—in observing the very general demand of pledges hostile tiom the deputies on that subject—in seing that the Bar of Paris, with M. klauguin at its head, have, after a solemn deliberation, pronounced by a great majo rity the same opinion as the Republican electors,—and in counting the very small number of votes which have dared to acquit the peerage,—we are led to believe that the doom of this institution is already sealed. The approaching Chamber of Deputies will most likely again resolve itself into a constituent assembly, as it did last year when it made the charter, and will vote the abolition of the here. ditary honours of the whole peerage by the same autho rity as it voted the expulsion of all the peers made in the late reign. It cannot be denied that this measure (which we are sorry, in the present state of popular feel. ing in France, to consider inevitable) is of a revolutionary character, and must lead to some important results ; but a little reflection or explanation will show that it is of far lets moment than a similar change would be in this country, or than a person acquainted only with English institutions would suppose. In France there is no great landed aristo cracy—no dornini terra fartidiati—combining extensive possessions, ancient descent, and great local influence, with the power and privilege of hereditary legislation. In England the aristocratic order exists independent of its legislative privileges, and the English nobility would still be powerful by their immense estates, though they were never to meet or deliberate in their house at iVestrninstrr. Political power is only added to a body,—the growth of ages,—who would enjoy great influence and consideration though Parliament were abo lished to-morrow. While in France, on the other hand, the Peers are nothing out of the Palace of the Luxembourg, —they are nothing in fortuue,--nothing in the saloons,--no thing in public pageants,—nothing even at Court The French never object to personal honours or distinctions, how. ever high, which are the rewards of merit, or the remunera tion of services. The are ready to pay homage to the baton of a 31arshal of France, and delight to see the cross of the Legion of Honour on the breast of an eminent member of the Institute; but they object to those distinctions which come by birth, which appear an exclusive privilege—exalt ing the parties to a rank which they never merited, and as signing them the performance of duties which they are una ble to discharge. A body of senators, elected for life from among the persons most eminent for talents, eloquence, poll. tical capacity, and administrative experience, would, we are persuaded, have more influence among our neighbours, than such a hereditary Chamber of Peers as that against the existence of which the French liberal party now pro test. POST.—The Ministers have contrived to elude the Wow which would probably have deprived them at once of the power they are incapable of wielding, by cautiously divest. iug the King's Speech of every feature that might by possi bility have furnished occasion or opportunity for moving in either House an Amendment to the usual Address, in verbal echo of the sentiments contained in the Royal Speech. The language in which the forthcoming pro ject of Reform is described, or in which, to speak more accurately, the subject of Reform is recommended to the attention of th e legislature by his Majesty, is precisely such as the most moderate Refo r mer wo u ld have wished to re.echo—precisely such as the least rash even of the conser. radix party, who admits the expediency of entertaining the subject at all, would have desired to employ. The truth is, that in order to avoid certain defeat in at least one House of Parliament on the very first day of the session, his Majesty's ministers have thought It expedient to knock under to their opponents. The aspect of the House of Lords on Tuesday was such as must have convinced every spectator that the opposition constituted a very decided majority, and that mi nisters were already condemned to a very signal discomfiture had they not averted it in the only possible way ; to wit, by the adoption of the language and sentiments of a large di. dision of their adversaries. HERALD.—If the Peers of Great Britain believed the Reform Bill to be that dangerous and dreadful thing which some of the professed organs of aristocratic sentiments in the Peess describe it to be—if their Lordships thought that this bill, if once admitted among the statutes of the realm,would have the effect intended to be produced by the revolutionary gunpowder which Guy Fawkes deposited in the vaults of the Parliament-house, and would blow up the Monarchy, and Scatter the House of Lords to the winds, whenever the hand of Democracy applied the match—it is not possible they could have exhausted their energies and wasted the greater part of their time, on the night of the opening of the new Parlia ment, in a discussion upon a point of order. There are per sons who might inferfrom this proceeding, indeed, that some of their Lordships were more anxious to find a Parliamen tary method of " killing time" than of saving what some writers call the " expiring Constitution." We were indeed glad to find, after hearing the " din of battle bray," as we did in those Journals which had long preluded with brazen trumpets, the approaching conflict be tween the Lords and the Country upon the Reform Bill, that so innocent a subject of discussion as a point of technical form bad been the principal cause of disagreement between the anti-reformers and their antagonists in the House of Peers. This most strongly proves that the sentiments of the majority of the House, touching the Reform Bill, have been moat grossly misrepresented. Surely, if they believed that all the glorious institutions of our ancestors were to be levelled with the dust—if they thought that the Throne was on the edge of a precipice, and the Constitution in danger— we think too highly of their patriotism to suppose they would have acted like those theologians of Antioch, whose minds were as minute as their dispositions were pugnacious, and who doomed themselves to a ludicrous celebrity by fiercely discussing shadowy distinctions while the battering rants of the enemy shook their walls. HERALD.—The Papers announce officially the death of the Commander.in-Chief of the Russian forces in Poland— the General Diebitsch Sabalkansky. The event occurred on the 10th instant, at the head-quarters at Kleinewo, near Pul tusk, and about 30 miles North of Warsaw. The Field- Marshal is stated to have fallen a victim to the cholera morbus ; but, from the manner in which his demise is an nounced, it is not impossible that his fate had been hastened by disappointed ambition and a broken spirit, if not ac r t: rt tlz precipitated by his own hand, as was at first re It is singular, however, that he was the only Wirt dual at head-quarters who was thus visited by the plague. The late Generalissimo was a man unfitted by bodily in. firmity and sluggish habits for discharging the duties of an efficient head of an army opposing so active and indefatigable an enemy as the Poles. He was never capable, we are told, of appearing on horseback through the campaign, and was oblig to be carried, even to the field of battle, in an easy carriage, and in this unmilitary position was seen at the first attack upon Prags. There are instances of some of the most renowned generals directing the shock of armies from a litter upon the ground; but the Russian General did not pos sess the commanding talent which could indemnify for the want of personal activity. Count Diebitsch had already lost every thing but his life in the campaign. Little seems to be known of Diebitsch before the Turkish campaign. He was by birth a German, and after trying his fortune in several services, entered that of Russia. He was employed by Alex ander, but was never a favourite with him. He served against Napoleon in his invasion of Russia, and in the sub sequent campaign of the Allies in France ; and is said to have made souse suggestions as to the plan of operations which determined the armies to march directly upon Paris. His successes on the comet of the Black Sea can never be seriously mentioned by any military judge as a test of merit, for against the Poles he has shown the greaten incapacity. The brief notice which we have received of his death, natures to praise him fur his humanity —a volunteer offering to his memory, perhaps of private friendship, but a hazardous experiment upon the credulity of the civilized world. Diebitsch was the unrea soning tool of s tyrant in the most unholy of causes, and his associates a pack of savages but one degree removed from cannibals. History, perhaps, will deduce his character more from the evidences which the wasted fields and slaugh tered population of Poland furnish, than from the matter of-course eulogy of an official document, or the warmer pa negyric of a professional partisan. The late Commander. in chief is succeeded by General Toll, another German, and who is said to be a man of enterprise and skill. But we trust the triumph of the Poles is already secure. THE KING'S LEVEE. The King held a Court yesterday at St. James's Palace. A numerous assemblage of Peers, headed by the Lord Chancellor in his state robes, preceded by Mr. Butt, the Mace-bearer, Mr. Putnam, Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod. Mr. W. Courtenay, Clerk of the House of Lords, and other attendants, ar rived at the Palace about a quarter before two o'clock, to present au Address from the House of Peers. Shortly afterwards the Duke of Devonshire, as Chamberlain, announced that his Majesty was ready to receive the Address. The Deputation were ushered into the royal presence by Mr. Mash, the Gentleman Usher. His Majesty was seated on the Throne, habited in a Field-Marshal's uniform. •On the right of the Throne were the Duke of Sussex, the First Lord of the Treasury, and the Captain of the Ho nourable Corps of Gentlemen Pensioners. On the left of the Throne were the Lord Steward of the Household, the Treasurer and Comptroller of the Household, the First Lord of the Admiralty, and the Page of Honour. To the right of the King, below the Throne, were the Duke of Brunswick and Prince Leopold. The Honourable Corps of Gentlemen Pensioners surrounded and formed an avenue to the Throne. The Lord Chancellor then read the Address of the House of Peers to the King, in reply to his speech from the throne on opening the session of Parlia ment ; to which his Majesty made a most gracious reply. . . The deputation then withdrew, making their obeisances. The following Peers attended the presentation of the Address: Dukes Norfolk and Richmond ; Marquises Cleveland, Wellesley, and Lansdowne ; Earls Shaftesbury, Charlemoot, Grey, Gosford, Fife, Radnor, and Alulgrave ; Viscount Go. ddich ; Lords Plunket, Belhaven, Dude, Suffield, Craven, Auckland, Lilford, and Rossie.. His Majesty afterwards held a Levee. .... At the Entree Levee, le Chevalier Salvador de Zea Bermudez, First Secretary to the Spanish Em busy at Paris, was presented to the King by his Excellency the Spanish Minister. Mr. Washington Irving, Charge d'Affaires of the United States of America, was introduced to the King by Viscount Palmerston, and conducted by Sir Robert Cheater, the Master of the Cere monies. There were also present at the entree levee, the Austrian and Netherlands ambassadors ; the Spa nish, Prussian, Bavarian, Neapolitan, Swedish, Hanoverian, exican, and Wirtemburg ministers ; the Grand Master of the court of Hanover, the Archbishop of Canterbury, most of the Cabinet Ministers, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, the Lord Steward, the Captain of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen Pensioners, the Vice Cham berlain, the Master-General of the Ordnance,Vis count Combermere, Gold Stick in Waiting, the Judge-Advocate General, the Nl:kilter of the Cere monies, Garter King of Arms, and the Master of the King's Hunt. His Majesty gave audiences to his Royal High ness Prince Leopold, Earl Grey, the Duke of De vonshire, Viscount Palmerston, Viscount Granville, Lord Erskine, Viscount Combermere, Viscount Melbourne, Sir James Graham, and Mr. Stanley. The Judge Advocate-General laid before the King the proceedings of some Courts Martial, and re ceived his Majesty's commands respecting them. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent en tertained a large and distinguished party at dinner yesterday. The Duchess of Cumberland sent a handsome donation by her Chamberlain, the Baron Leinen gen, on Monday, to the Bazaar in the Regent's Park, for the Royal Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear. The Baron also made excuses to the other Ladies Patronesses, for her Royal Highness's absence. A Cabinet Council was held at twelve o'clock yesterday, at the Foreign-Office, which sat during an hour and a half in deliberation. All the Cabinet Ministers were present. The Marquis of Douro, it is said, is shortly to be united to one of the amiable and accomplished daughters of the Earl of Liverpool. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when Mr. Serjeant Spankie was appointed the Company's standing Counsel, in the room of William George Adam, Esq. who has resigned. The first stone of the new Hungerford Market was laid on Saturday. Yesterday evening, PAGAw rw I gave what has been announced as his final Concert, at the King's Theatre. His very singular and almost inexplica ble performances hare already been fully described in our columns. The Theatre was last night as full as it could hold—even including the Stage—every vacant space of which was occupied by those who could not find room in the other parts of the house. We cannot state any fact to prove the general at tention which the unique talent of PAGAN rwr has occasioned, than that we saw present last night in the Theatre three characters so dissimilar in pur -1 suits and sentiment, as the venerable JEREMY BENTHAM, the venerable Lord ELDON, and the CHAIRMAN of the BANK of ENGLAND. Tin GIGANTIC WIIALE.—We yesterday were admitted to a private view of—we do not hesitate to say—one of the most interesting natural curiosities which has ever been exhibited in this country—the skeleton of one of the largest whales perhaps ever seen by man. This whale was found floating in the North Sea, Nov. 3, 1827, and I was towed ashore by some fishermen at Ostend.— Some scientific and spirited French naturalists have painfully cleansed and united the bones of this immense specimen of animal organi sation ; and it is now to be seen in a conve nient Pavilion erected for the purpose, opposite the King's Mews. A table is placed in the entrance of the whale, and those who like to act Jonah may have the opportunity. The length of the animal is 95 feet; of the he'd 22; and its weight was 480,000 lbs. Baron Cuvier has con jectured, by the state of the bones, that it bad ex isted 9 or 10 centuries. HORRIBLE CARNAGE AT NE WTO FTNEtA RR T. From the Morning Register, June 22. The following details regarding the frightful massacre at Newtownbarry, some account of which we supplied in yesterday's Register, from a hasty communication, are from correspondents residing in the neighbourhood. We do not wish to trust our setves to an expression of our feelings respecting so monstrous and inhuman an attack upon a defence less multitude—and the only remark we shall add here is, that this atrocity affords the most lamenta ble instance on record of the withering and de structive effects of the tithe system—for it ap pears that the calamity, which has brought death and desolation to the homes of hundreds of dis tracted families in the peaceable county of Wex ford, had its origin in the unnatural and cruel tithe system, the prolific source of misery and misfor tune to this devoted land. It is not the least re markable feature in this detail of butchery, that in the tissue of gross and heartless misrepresenta tion which has appeared in the Evening Mail, nor in any other account that we have seen, is there even an allegation that the Riot Act was read before the order for slaughter was fulminated. It is not even pretended that the peaceable people —women and children included —had re ceived the slightest intimation of their perilous con dition, if they remained under the muzzles of the loaded muskets of " the gallant and chivalrous yeo manry." And it should not be forgotten, that the miserable pretence of a disposition to effect a rescue of the cattle, is rendered totally incredible by the fact that the large body of yeomanry and police congre gated upon the occasion were armed and well pre pared for battle, whilst the people were unarmed and defenceless. The following are the letters to which we have alluded : Bomar', SUNDAY. —One of the most sanguinary and brutal butchering, that ever gave pain to the eye, or sadness to the heart, took place at Newtownbarry yesterday. There were three little heifers to be canted for tithe—they were set up to auction, and no bidders appearing, they remained in II the street. It was a market day, and the town was filled with country people, who gathered around the cattle, ' and some persons having cried out that they would be suffocated by the heat, the people opened a passage, and the heifers ran down the street. A Captain Graham, from Enniscorthy, with all the police and yeomen from many miles around, immediately followed the cattle, which were brought back. The people, the yeomanry, and the police, were passing together by an old ruin, from which a few stones were thrown by some boys inside, not intending them for the yeomen or police, as they might as well hit the people. Im mediately the police and yeomanry were ordered to fire, and oh ! how the heart sickens at the consequence. The people not expecting any such thing, fled in all directions; every shot left a mother, father, or child a corpse on the street. The people ran to some plantations and endeavoured to hide them selves; but here the slaughter baffles descriptior --every person seen was immediately a corpse ! Wherever the people were seen running away, they were fired upon. The num ber killed could not be known last night, but an eye-witness of the indiscriminate carnage informed me this day, that be counted 17 dead in the streets, and they were bringing the dead and wounded every moment from the field. The report at six o'clock was, that there were 35 found dead or mor tally wounded. A fine young woman, making away from the bloody scene, was shot dead ; another woman, the mo ther of nine children, shared the same fate. Newtownbarry, Sunday, Two o'clock, tat. There have been thirty six men, women, and children killed or mortally wounded. The number who have received severe, but not dangerous wounds, is estimated at sixty; but many unfortuate beings, particularly women and children, are known to have perished in the river Slaney. Only two of their bodies have yet been found. A poor woman, the wife of a small farmer, who bad at tended the market to sell some flannel, on her return home was fired at and mortally wounded ! She died in half an hour after ! This unfortunate woman was in an advanced state of pregnancy—and in the agonies of death gave birth to a still-born child ! It was rumoured that some of the yeomanry had been killed. Such is not the fact. The only person belonging to the assailing party seriously injured was the son of a yeoman, who happened to be among the crowd, and was shot in the first volley. I have heard it alleged, as an explanation of the readiness of attack by the yeomanry. that two of this body had been pelted with rotten eggs at the late election for the county of Wexford. The people in this neighbourhood warmly espoused the cause of the reform candidates, and voted against Lord Va. leotia, who is a near relative of Lord Farnham. Newtownbarry, June 20th. Oo Saturday a dreadful slaughter took place here about tithe business ; there were fifteen killed, and twenty-four wounded, not expected to recover—all innocent people! and there are a great many more wounded, not yet known. A few stones were thrown at the yeomen, when they were ordered to fire on the multitude. An investigation is to be held this day ; the coroner's inquest is to be held also on this day. Two placards were left at our office last evening, one in. scribed " Selling for Tithe," which the gentleman who left it stated was posted on the cattle to be sold in Nswtownbarry on Saturday; the second is printed in the form and manner that we give it. The introductory paragraph appears to us to be somewhat suspicious, and would almost induce us to believe that it esme not from tithe-payers, but from tithe. owners. If such a placard was posted, it could be the only cause for the yeomanry arming themselves, and attending in such numbers; it is extraordinary, if concocted by the people, that it should have had an opposite effect upon them, and urge them to go unarmed and defenceless among their enemies : REFORM!! CHURCH IN DANGER!! The GovaalirMallT have sent Ci lICUILas LITSIIIII 10 all the INCIIIIIISNTS ix INILAND, requiring then forthWitit to furnish a cornet *mount of ♦LL their mamas, with a view, in order, in future, to pay them out of the Treasury I 1 INHABITANTS OF THE PARISH OF ST. MARY'S, NEWTOWNBARRY, There will be an end to CAvac■ PILUNDZi; your pot, blanket, and pig will not hereafter be SOLD BY AUCTION, To support in LUXU CT, IDLENTSS,IIIId CM, persons who endeavour to make it appear that it is essential to the peace and prosperity of the country, and your internal salvation, while the moat of you are starving. Attend to an AUCTIOX of your neighbour's cattle, on SATURDAY next, the 18th inst. seised for tithe by the Rev. Alexander ill'Clintoek. (Pros Hs Pilot). We have to record a scene of revolting and san guinary massacre—which makes the Castlepollard massacre, with all its black and ferocious features, sink into comparative insignificance. The scene of this bloody affair took place at Newtownbarry, on Saturday, and the following is a summary of the cir cumstances : Three lieifers, belonging t o a rade_ man of the name of Doyle, were seized for tithe, by the Rev. Mr. M'Clintock, brother to Mr. M'Clin tock, of Louth. Mr. D. alleging that the tithe was not due, and, therefore, that the distress was illegal, would not release the cattle ; they were, therefore, to be sold for tithe on Saturday. It was natural that the incident and a market-day should collect a crowd, and some parties chose to anticipate a rescue. The anticipated crowd of men, women and children, met unarmed—some giddy or mischievous boys threw a stone or two. The yeomanry got what they thought sufficient excuse. The word fire was given on the instant, followed by a murderous obedience, and men, women, and children, unsuspectingly at the muzzle of the guns, were devoted to in discriminate slaughter—nearly forty left dead, and numbers badly wounded. Read this, Lord An glesey—read the affecting and simple narrative we subjoin from a witness, and then ask your self, what is to be done ? We shall return to the subject: Nestownbarry, Sunday evening, 19th June. It is with the greatest trouble of mind I communicate to you the details of a most sanguinary slaughter I witnessed on yesterday, (Saturday) at Newtownbarry, about 3 o'clock or thereabouts, but ten times the limits of this paper would not let you know the half of this bloody tragedy. About a fortnight back some cattle of Paddy Doyle's, of Tombrick, having been taken (said illegally) for tithe, by M'Clintock, were under bail till yesterday, when they were brought for ward to the pound of Newtownbarry ; but at the same time an agent to'Lord Farnham, and a magistrate, collected all the orange yeomanry and police from the surrounding towns and country to his own stable yard—screened from the public by a high wall, to the number of about 150 men, well armed, and having 50 rounds of ball cartridge each. The cattle being put to sale, and all these yeomen in battle order on the road at the pound, some incautious little boys began to shout, and one or two of them pitched stones amongst the yeomen, which, without any further provocation, wu the signal for slaughter : upon this the yeomen opened on the people—who, unsuspicious of mischief, were at the muzzles of the guns—a most dreadful, destructive, and galling fire. Oh ! 1 tremble, and my eyes drop tears this moment to relate it. In a few minutes the road and fields were bestrewed with dead bodies of men, women, and children ! I myself had been at the market, and went down to the pound ; in a few minutes after my arrival at the pound the fire commenced; several fell at each side of me on the road, and, thanks to Heaven, I escaped amidst tremendous showers of balls, to the town, where I remained till all was tranquil in the evening, when I came and viewed all the dead and wounded ; but, thank GOD, found no one from our neighbourhood, save only one young man, Mick Doyle, only son of Matty Doyle, of Kildalloo, being shot through the upper past of the breast. died in about an hour and a half. Of the remainder of the killed and wounded, I knew about ten or fourteen, the rest are from the far part of the Drafty, Kilrush, and , the surrounding coml. try; but the whole of the killed and wounded that have' been found, is about thirty or forty ; but, besides, many have been drowned in the Slaney, and many shot in It—as it was by the side of the river the slaughter took place—it wu bank high ; and many women and children, to avoid the bullets, rushed in and became a prey to the watery ele.l ment. I saw in the confusion two women who did so, one the mother of seven children. Enough ! enough ! But every praise is due to Mr. King, chief of police, and thel men themselves, for not one of them fired on the people, unless it might be two or three; and great slaughter had like to take place between them and the yeomen, who are all this day locked up in Graham's yard, and last night also. How it may end, I cannot tell: I saw them looking over the walls at us, as we went this day to Newtownberry mass. This is all I can at present say—what I have said is only a sketch, and a small one. The road, for shout fifteen perches, was covered with the blood of the slain, u if a shower of blood bad fallen. DREADFUL ATFRAT.—It is our painful duty to announce, that another disastrous conflict has taken place between the peasantry and the local authorities at Newtown-Barry, in the County of Wexford, in which several lives have been lost. As usual, on such occasions, a great variety of reports have been in circulation—each narrative assuming the party colouring of the narrator. Two accounts of the fatal transaction have been received at the Castle—both bearing the marks of hurried anxiety, and not consistent one with the other in many particulars. All the statements, however, concur in representing the affray to have originated in a distress for tithes made by the parson of the parish—that a rescue was attempted by the peasan try, between whom and the police, accompanied by a detachment of a local yeomanry corps, the fatal skirmish took place. Upon receiving the account, Sir John Byng immediately sent forward an express, ordering the removal of troops from Carlow to the scene of disturbance ; and Mr. Greene, the King's Counsel, was sent down by the Lord Lieutenant, without a moment's delay, to investigate the trans action to the bottom, and who will, of course, faith fully report every circumstance to the government. Until that report is received, we shall abstain from all comment Thirteen of the unfortunate pea- Isantry are said to have lost their lives—and twenty three are dangerously wounded. One yeoman was shot through the head.—Dublin 7 imes. As we understand that Alderman Wood intends bringing forward this evening a motion for the reduction of the salaries of all public offices under the government, we can anticipate a little some of the plans and intentions of government upon the subject of the reductions :—For instance, after the sth July next, each of the Commissioners of the Customs are to be reduced, and 2001. a•year to be taken off from each of their salaries. The Chairman retains the whole of his salary, being 12,0001. a-year, but the Deputy Chairman is to suffer a reduction of 1501. a-year, and his ,salary to be continued at 1,6001. a-year.— Instead of 1,7501. two of the Commissioners of the Excise, and two of the Customs, are to retire from their respective Boards ; and upon any future vacancies, two more from each Board are not to be filled up. The Secretary of one of the Boards is to have his salary reduced to I ,5001. a-year ; and the assistant Secretary, who now receives 1,2001. a year, is to be reduced to 9001. a-year. In the other departments of Government. the same system of curtailment and reduction is going to be acted upon with the strictest economy. No places that now become vacant have any chance of being filled up, unless in cases of absolute necessity for the public service ; and it is generally understood that Mini sters have determined upon immediately reducing their salaries from 15 to 20 per cent. In the metropolis, as well as as in many other parts of the kingdom, the returns under the late census have been very much swelled by the prodi gious number of Irish that are among us. INQUEST AT MERTHYR.TYDVIL. Minutes of evidence taken before Evan Thomas, Esq. at the Castle Inn, Merthyr-Tj (it i!, idly last, one of his Majesty's Justices ot• tht• Peace, acting in and for the county of Glamorgan, on all inquiry concerning the death of John Hughes and others, on Friday, the 3d day of June iitstant : William Thomas, Rsq. Comb, Surgeon—ln about an hour after the mob had dispersed from the front of the Cts• tle Inn, eight bodies were removed by his direction into the coach-house behind the inn, and nearly at the same time W. Roberta came to him and told him there was a woutand 111P11 • in his house, which was close by. He went there instantly, and found a man, whom he knew to be John Ilu . rhe.. in Roberts's house. He examined him, and found a ball had entered at the center of his back, and cone out rather above the naveL He died between ten and tlevcn o'clock that night; he has no doubt his death was nmsed by that gun-shot wound. In about an bout and a hall' before he died, when the poor man knew that he was dying, he asked him how he came to be shot. He said he was running away with a soldier's musket, but Wore he could do so he was shot. He said he had been an old sol dier, anti in six engagements, and never was wounded be fore, and that he ought to have died a better death. Wit ness was present when the firing at the Castle commenced by the soldiers of his Majesty's 911 d regiment. He came to the Castle Inn just as the %Wien halted on their arrival. A large mob accompanied them. A large proportion of the atm were armed with bludgeons, some with the handles of mandrels, others with parts of miners' pickaxes ; a man among.t them had a red flag on a long pole. The soldier.; halted in the middle of the street, rather above the house. The mob got close around them in a dense mass, so that it was almost imeoss ble for them to use their arms. Some bread and cheese were then brought out to them, after which they were moved to the pavement in front of the Castle Inn, and near to the h use. Here they were hemmed in again. Before this movement the Sheriff read the Riot Act. He saw a MID, called Lewis the Huntsman, get up to the lamp-iron, and support hinpeell with the assistance of the mob below. lie addressed them. saying, " We arc met here to have our wages raised, instead gi which the mute's have brought the soldiers against us; now, by boys, it you are of the same mind as I am, let us fall upon thetii, and take theiranne." He then dropped down. His speech was in Welch. In a minute or two, witness observed a movement in the crowd, when a rush was made on the soldiers. Several of them were disarmed. At this mo ment witness came out to the front door of the house, and there saw the mob, three or tour upon a soldier, wrmtling for their muskets. Four or five of the soldiers were upon the ground, and at the same instant a volley of stones, cin ders, sticks, &e. were sent against the windows. No firing I bad taken place at this moment. There was a conflict on 1 the steps, the mob three or four times making their way into the house, and bring as often repulsed by two soldiers in the passage and the special constables behind them. The soldiers in the passage had been able to bring down their muskets to the charge ; a firing com menced from the windows above, but not till several of the soldiers had been struck down ; some one in the passage then gave the alarm that the mob were coming in at thereat of the house ; hearing this, witness led an o ffi cer and three soldiers into the yard behin d; the yard is very narrow ; the mob had then advanced half way up the yard, and were within a very few yards of the back door; they fell back a little. and then assailed the soldiers with a shower of stones and brickbats; the soldiers fired, two or three of the mob feii, and then drew back, and were driven through the stable. yard into the street by the e..d of the howls; it was then said the mob were approaching by the field; witness went round to see; met Lewis, the huntsman, re turning by the river side with a musket in his hand. Heard him call out to the others to stop and stand their ground.— Witness then went home by a circuitous way through Ynis goy. The soldiers were firing in the streets, and the mob were firing front the cinder bank in the rear of the house.— He thinks there was firing from thence before Lewis could have got there. Several other witnesses were examined, and deposed to the mob having attacked and deprived some soldiers of their arms before a single shot was fired by the military. The Major who commanded the detachment was severely cat. Nothing could exceed the exertions of the officers to prevent the unnecessary shedding of blood. They called out to the soldiers to cease firing, even whilst the mob were firing upon them. The Jury brought in the following verdict We una nimously find that John Hughes came to his death by a musket.shot wound, fired by a soldier of his Majesty's 93.1 regiment. whose name is to the Jury unknown, and that it was a justifiable homicide." 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