The Sun. — London, England, 1839-11-13 00:00:00

7 0 ' EVEN ING LanTioN • RIOTS AT NEWPORT NEWPORT, MIDNIGHT, MONDAY. EXPOSURE OF THE PLANE OF' THE Cl/ ARTISTS—COMMITTAL OF FOURTEEN RIOTERS AT PONT-Y-POOL. The case of Solomon Britten, another of the ring leaders, occupied the greater part of the day. He is fully committed on the charge of high treason. The follorvink has been published so-day : " NOTICE. " All persons who have arms or other offensive wea pons in their possession are ordered to send in imme diately a list thereof to the Superintendent of Police, Edward Hopkins, at the Westgate inn ; and to deliver p all arms of which they may have improperly possessed themselves ; as in case arms shall be found for which a good account cannot be given, on search being made for the same, the parties having such unlawful possession will be prosecuted.—By o r d e r o f the Mayor. D a t e d Newport, Nov. 9, 1839." Th e artillery which had been despatched from Wool wich arrived here yesterday. It cons i sts of two field pieces and fifty men, under the command of Captain Bromfield. The Jury who were summoned by the Co roner to hold an inquest on the bodies of the ten rioters who were buried on Friday met this morning ; but the holdi ng of the inquest was again adjourned for a week, to enable the C oroner t o a t ten d to hi s d ut i es as a Ma gistrate, and to give time for the production of further evidence. THE EXAMINATIONS. —MONDAY, Nov. 1 1 . Magistrates present—Thomas Hawkins, Esq., Mayor ; Rev. Mr. Coles, Octavius Morgan, Esq., (son of Sir Charles Morgan), George Hall, Esq., Lewis Ed war ds, E sq ., W. B rewer, E sq , and Thomas Jones Phil liK Esq., S o li c i tor . Th e C ourt assem bl ed at ten o'clock. r. Maule, Solicitor to the Treasury, was present with the Magistrates during the day. Previous to the open ' ingot' the business of the day, a wretched woman, with an infant in her arms, came into the room, her face bathed in tears. ; She said—" Your worship, I hope You'll excuse me ; I ask your pardon, but I hear my husband, your worship, is killed in the late riots ; I kno w it is him by his coat. All that I have to ask your a orship s is, that you will give me a line or two under Your hands." The Rev. Mr. Coles (interrupting)—Alt! my good wo man, I see what it is, you want to get your husband's Property. Ido net want to hurt your feelings ; but it is 0 • wing to the ad v i ce o f a great many o f you women thatt, v.e owe a l t hi s . Y ou h a d b etter go home, and tell the 'other women what I say, " that if they had given t mtir husbands better advice this would not have hap- Per.ied." On being interrogated, she stated her hus ;',and's name was Farraday. The Magistrates then banded the woman over to Mr. Hopkins, the inspector, and requested him to transfer her to Mr. Phelps to re ceive her evidence. _ The fi rs t pr i sone Nb roug h t i n was Charles Groves, Secretary to the BoglaChartist Society, eighteen years of age, remanded for further evidence. John Oli ver sworn —l am a pr i nter an d stat i oner. 1 know the prisoner. He worked for me as a printer's a pprentice last summer. I saw a large body of men come into the town on Monday last. The principal Part were armed with all sorts of weapons. I saw them form up. My house is about 100 yards from this house. I knew of a body called Chartists in this tow n . I have several times had conversations with t he prisoner on the subject of the Chartists. When n e worked fo r me , he sometimes left his work earlier In the evening than .I wished him to do. This was after Vincent was taken ; I believe in the summer time, in the very long days ; I offered to pay the prisoner any s um to continue to work longer in the evenin gs , as I wanted to ge t th e wor k forward. The prisoner said he would go to attend the Chartist meetings. He said so more than two or three times. I said I wondered at such a lad as him wanting to interfere with the Chartists, for he could know but very little about it ; and as to grievances, he could have none. He said he attended their meetings, and would attend them. He said they were determined to have the Charter, and if they could not get it one way they would have it another. The witness, in correction of a previous part of his evidence, said, I should have stated that when I made the prisoner an offer of any sum to remain longer at his work, he said, " No, not if you would give me 51." I told him more than once that I thought he had seen enough of the Chartists when Vin cent was here, to satisfy any reasonable man what their aim w as - ; and I went so far as to say it was the destruc tion of property, and I feared bloodshed. His answer Was, " I hope it will be got without that." Stephen Rogers sworn, examined by the Rev. J. Coles.—l know the prisoner at the bar. I was on duty on Sunday night, Nov. 3, as a special constable. I had a number of special constables under my command. MY directions were to take my men to the poor-house, and keep a good look-out between the Cross Hands and the Turnpike-gate. I took the prisoner in charge at the Friars. He was taken about five o'clock on Mon day morning. I asked where he was going ? He said, 4 What's that to you ?" I took him into the Turnpike gate. He had a black velvet jacket on. I then said I must insist upon knowing where he had been. He said be had been to St. Bride's. I did not examine him for arms. I then took hint into custody. The next witness called was Henry Hazel], who th e as c h a i rman, an d was the pr i nc i pa l spea k er at i n , i e Juvenile Ch ar ti sts ' S oc i e t y , an d w h o was i n eus ,-,'Y ; Ent the Magistrates declined to take his evidence "`' Present, and be was remanded. Charles Jones, the prisoner's master and uncle, agreed to become bail in the sum of .50/. for his appearance at the Assizes. The prisoner was then committed. Morgan James, taken up on suspicion of aiding in the escape of Wright Betty, one of the rioters, was discharged, there being no evidence to prove his con nection with the rioters, and was then sworn to give his evidence in the case of Thomas Aurelius, the next Prisoner placed at the bar. Morgan James sworn, and cross-examined by Mr. P. rotheroe—l know the prisoner. On Saturday last I ilved at Pillgwelly. Some time ago I enrolled myself n Chartist at Newport. Attended a public meeting at Blackwood on Whitsun Monday. I know John i f ‘ r ost, and Jone s , th e wa t c h ma k er . o f P on t-y-P oo l. I t ee them w e ll. Th ose two persons were presen t a t Lee meeting'at the Fleur-de-Lis colliery, about sixteen mil es from Newport. They both addressed the people there on the subject of the Charter. I saw them after wards at a no th er pu bli c meet i ng at D u k e ' s T own, till ye Sirho w y. Th ey urge d t h e peop l e to persevere they got the Charter. They spoke of moral force and Physical force. I heard them say, " Have it in a quiet way if we can ; but if not, we will have it." They al Town the meet i ng t h ere were men enoug h i n D uke ' s to t a k e t h e Ch arter b y f orce, an d p h ys i ca l f orce. T ll re were many persons i n D u k e ' s T own ; t h ousan d s, f e Y said, were com i ng , some f rom T re d egar , some i, c o to Sirh owy, some f rom D u k e ' s T own, some f rom rn m "Y-Pool, Elb er V a l e , Bl ac k ar d, Merthyr, and w rY othe r p l aces . Th e men h a d gone f rom t h e i r „ t ilt at the fu rnaces on that d a y. I heard F r o s t wile Jones say t h e men were t o l en d th e i r h an d s win 4 they were called upon. The men replied, "We 'we will," and made motions with their hands. I Ztennot say exactly what Frost and Jones said, but I It i 4 td som e of them say the men had a right to carry 4; 14 ' I heard them say every man had a right to have 4 8 . Fro s t an d J ones were b ot h t h ere w h en t h a t was , 1 ' I was a t h ome a b ou t fi ve o ' c l oc k on S a turday M t -en 'cg. In consequence of something I heard I left Y b orne and my work on last Saturday night, about i,;elee o'clock. After I got to Pillgwelly I went on to k "'Port. I saw Jenkins Morgan and a cowman. I tl ,°% , Jenkins Morgan to have been a Chartist. He n n s i lv ,,ed me, how do the Chartists get on about you ? I s h "'" they were more quiet than they had been. He said e wondered at that. I then asked him if there was anything going forward ? He said there was, but he reti "ed to tell me what. He told me that things were ve ry uneasy on the hills, and I said, for God's sake do tell mehow it is with them. He said it was no use for Me to g o upon the hills again, as there would be no work done there, I saw Jenkins Morgan again the next to ay•• It W about e l even o ' c l oc k at n i g ht. H e came iny house - as I was not in bed. He said he was captain of a gang of ten men. He told me I was his man. He then said Frost w as en the hills, and he was coming down that night with thou soldiers. They wer e coming downsands of , men, to attack the o'clo c k, before daylight. , to iNewport at two Inc Charter would be the law of the land. He told me I should be in danger if I did not join ; but if I did I should be in no daner because Frost's men would a ttack the soldiers. . g Ot; that I wen t with them to the outskirts • of thi; town, with several other men. He told m e there waswde; at Cr oss fi e ld' s war ehouse. I did n o t fi nd any Powder, nor any of my party. He said that the whole of the king dom would rise at the same hour. He said the Charter would be the law of the land. There was a secret word by which the Chartists were to know each other that 'light. If a Chartist met another on that night he was to teY " Beans." The reply of the Chartists was to b e - Well." If a person did not answer to the catch word ''',e kne w h e was not a Chartist. If the Chartists took tni S Place there was to be a signal given to the Chartists ou tside the town. The signal was to be by sending Squibs or rockets up into the air. I did not hear the firi ng on Monday morning last. I was at the Court-y -bel,la Weighing Machine that morning. A b o ut ten ° l . ' ,c'oek I saw Frost ; he had about 60 to 100 men wi th ' 4l a l - and was coming from the town. He appeared to "me from the Salutation going up the hill. That is the direct road from this house to the Weighing Ma thine. I t is about a mile from t hi s h ouse t o th e Weigh jag Ma c hi ne b y the Sa l utat i on f rom this house, I heard the men say they were going to take the whole king tictn, and to make the Charter the law of the land. I he ard Jenkins Morgan say those words—he said it out ,aloud so that every body could hear him. I have also be ard it from others. I considered that to be their tbiect. I know the prisoner 'Thomas Aurelius. He as . not one of th e men t h at was w i t h our party on that w blilt• I have no t seen the pr i soner f or t wo months .c!." xuan • I saw him now. c. , . nen by the Re v . M r . C o l e— l iie peison in the Duke's-town had very owl. st the m ee ti ng at Duke'ry long black ....._ TUE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NO hair. I believe his name was Price. I heard the people all round call him Dr. Price. They said " There is Dr. Price in the chair there." Have not seen Price since. It was about the time they talked of keeping the " sacred month." I am not sure that it was about the Ist of August, but there was a good deal of talk about stopping the work a month ; but the men did not know how to get victuals to stop a month. I never knew of Dr. Price's attending any other meeting. Dr. Price was dressed in a round jacket. Sarah Edmunds sworn, and examined by Mr. Prothe. roe—l am the wife of William Edmunds. He keeps the Greyhound public-house at Pont-y-braith. The Chart ists sometimes used a room in our house for their meet ings. There were a great number of members. When William Edwards was there I saw Frost at the lodge once. I have seen Vincent there more than once or twice. I have seen Jones the watchmaker there. I have seen Edwards there. I saw Jones there last Sun day week, before it was dark. He was met there by a great many persons. There were not many when Jones came. I saw him on Saturday week, just before it was dark. There were a great many Chartists there on the Saturday night. Jones did not go up to the lodge on either night. He was there when the people were as sembled there. Jones was there on Tuesday night week last. Every one who went into the room was obliged to pay on those nights. Jones told me the Char tists were going to Newport to show their strength to the Newport people. There were a great many people at my house on the Sunday night. There was so much uoise in the house I could not hear about me. The people left my house about seven o'clock at night. It was a very wet night. They said they were going down to Newport. I understand but very little about the Chartists. I never subscribed to them. Ido not know that they went to Newport to obtain the Charter. The prisoner was then reprimanded by the Magistrates and discharged, the evidence not affecting him. Thomas Saunders, a respectable looking young man, was then placed at the bar, charged with being one of the rioters. There being no evidence against the pri soner he was discharged on a pledge to appear on being called on. Solomon Britten was placed at the bar, charged with high treason. William Watkins sworn, and examined by Mr. Pro theroe—l know Solomon Britten. I saw him on Mon day morning, the 4th of this month. I saw 11;,m oppo site Dr. Price's new house, at new Pont-y-pool. I heard a noise at Mr. Water's stable-door ; heard a knocking at the door. I said " Who's there ?" They said "We want to see you." I then opened the door. A man named John collared me. He said " Come along." He had a gun in his hand. I did not wish to go, and pulled back, and the person called John struck me on the back of the neck with the gun. It wns a severe blow. I fell down from the effect of it. There were about fifteen men in the party. They then took me to the road near the Clarence Inn. There were a great many people there. 1 saw the prisoner Solomon Britten there. lam quite certain he was there. They would not let me go back again, though I wished to go. The prisoner prevented me. He said, " bring him along." He said, " take care of him." I had neither hat nor jacket on. All the people were standing still. The prisoner said, "Go along ;" and we then proceeded from the Clarence Hotel to Pont-y-moyle. I then saw a man going to wards Pont-ypool. The mob said, " Here is another," and they said " Take him." He was taken. Before we came to the turnpike on the road, we met a boy about sixteen or seventeen. They said, " Here is an other." The boy showed the prisoner a card. The prisoner said, " Pooh !" and pushed the boy along with them. There were men set over the boy to guard him. I was watched by " John" with a gun. We then came towards Newport. The prisoner said in going along the road, " Some one has run away." He on that commanded the mob to halt or stop, and they did so. He then directed some of the mob to go in pursuit, and the man was brought back. There were about 500 men there about that time. Many of them were armed with guns—about fifty. About 200 armed with pikes. Many had short knives which they carried in their pockets. After the person was brought back, the prisoner directed the mob to proceed. The prisoner carried a spear in his pocket within a pocket, with a wooden handle. The prisoner was dressed then as he is now. [The prisoner had on a rough bear-skin coat.) The prisoner was the man who directed the proceedings all the way. When he said " halt," they did so ; and heard the prisoner say at different times " Go on, or we shall be too late," or something like it. I heard the prisoner say they were going to Newport. I heard him say something about taking Newport. I heard the others say they were going to Newport to take it. They said it in the prisoner's hearing. All the orders given by the prisoner were immediately obeyed by the mob. After proceeding a little further we met a cart and two horses. The prisoner ordered them to stop, which they did. He said he would have one of the men, and leave the other to take care of the horses. He said he would leave it to to the two men to say which should go. He said he was determined to have one of them. One man was young, and the other old ; and the young man said, " As long as one of us must go, I'll go." The young man then went on and left the old one behind. I heard the young man ask where they were going. They said, " We'll tell you by and by." I heard a conversation after that be tween the prisoner and his party. They said it was their intention to take Newport. They said theyshould turn back to Pont-y-pool, after they had taken New port. They said they should go there, pull down the station-house, and release the prisoners. They said they should then go to the Squire's—meaning the Lord- Lieutenant of the county. The next day they said they would go to Monmouth, and that they would take down the gaol and relieve Vincent and the other prisoners. We then went on towards the New Inn. There was a man taken away from his pack of mules. The pri soner then gave the word to " go on," and they did go • on. - .Ve saw somi more men, and the prisoner di rected some of his men to take them. He said " Ten men go and take them." These men were taken by force, and the others were set to watch that they did notigo away. We then proceeded on to Cros-y-cylog, to a public-house. The prisoner then said they could not go on. He said the men had remained behind too long drinking, and they were too late to get into Newport. After that I contrived to make my escape. I went through the river ; they followed me, but I escaped. When we were near the Pine-tree public-house, the pri soner asked if many came out of the house. He said, " Not many." He said Newport had been taken by the Chartists. They seemed very much joyed at that piece of news. I heard them say they were Chartists. They said they expected to meet Frost at Newport. I heard them say they expected to meet ix great many men going to Newport from Blackwood. I heard one man say he had not heard what was to happen till Saturday night. One man said he had heard it before. They said it was agreed to have started from Pont-y-pool at one o'clock. They said ;they had not started before because it was such a wet night. That was said in the presence of the prisoner. I heard them say, in the presence of the prisoner, it was intended to be at Newport at three o'clock that morning. I heard something said about Jones, the watchwaker. I know Jones. 1 saw a per son at Cros-y-cyl og , w h o , I think, was Jones. The pri soner had a conversation with him. That person was armed with pistols. The mob asked that person to come out, and after a while he did come out. They said Jones had brought them to a pretty pass, having in duced them to go so far and then deserted them. I do not know what was meant by that. The mob did not then proceed so willingly as before, but I left them at Newbridge, that is about half-way between Ponti-pool and Newport. Cross-examined by the prisoner—l did not see you come to the stable-door.—( The prisoner stood fronting the witness, and looked him boldly in the face.) —I did not see you after the door was opened by the stable. I saw you opposite the Clarence Inn, near Mr. Phillips's hen-house. That is fifty or sixty yards from the stable door. It';was just beginning to break daylight. I can't say whether it was six o'clock exactly to a minute. I saw you, and knew it was you. I know you by your features: lam sure you bad the same dress on then you have on now. " Where do you say this dangerous weapon was ?" "In your pocket." I know it was there because you pulled it out to show it. You showed it to the mob, and me too.—(Mr. Blewitt here said he thought it his duty to tell the prisoner he was doing himself no good, and he would recommend him to desist, bu, the prisoner p e rsisted.) —You used no words, but only turned it round in your hand when you showed it the mob. I did'nt hear you use any expression ; you only pulled it out of your pocket. Re-examined by Mr. Protheroe—l have been nearly four months in Pont-y-pool. I do not know how many persons were there. I came from Abergavenny. I lived with the Rev. Charles Clifton. Before I saw the prisoner I heard a voice say, " Bring him along ;" dou befor e I saw t h e p r i s oner at the Clarence Hotel. I was then near th e prisoner. I was sufficiently near to disting,uish th e p r i son er beyond all doubt. I have no alon "bt theprisoner i s the person who said , " take him i; , • There w as d a ylight—it was nearly open day g .dr",` inguish t whe n We met the man with the wallet. I cou ld object. am sure man who any I the prisoner is the said " take bim." I have no doubt, from the • prisoner's dress and his a man I saw. Moses Card, a constable , examined by Mr. on Monday morning Protheroe—l haveappearance , that he is the se sworn ; .. site the Catholic Ch en the prisoner before. I saw him last.. I saw him in a street oppo site or eleven o'elocka.Peltinivtallisissotmowent.imelasfatewr the me attack on this house by the mob. know saw him in. There was another don'twn e man i n thssh the house. house u These I prironer was sitting down. I toaskt.edhim what he did ask if there were o any arms there. I believ e there. He said he was afraid t o go u the mob. The mob had all disappetttr in the street for Under a table near the prisoner I found an at th a t time. instrument. 'The weapon was hero produced.' I as k ed , t if it was his. He said, No, it NV:I6 110 t. I to:;loeFprisoriCr , posses sion of it. The last witness, on being recalled, had not seen that instrument before. A . man in the crowd was seen by the Rev. Mr. Cole speaking to the witness, and was ordered to be taken into custody. On being interrogated, the man said his name was Morgan : he was a shoemaker, and lived in Victoria-square. On being closely pressed by the Ma gistrates, he said it was not in his house the prisoner was found; but he said the prisoner slept in his house on Monday night (the night of the riot). The prisoner had intended to call that person as a witness in his favour. The Court ordered him into custody. David Jones sworn, and examined by Mr. Protheroe— I was on duty as a special constable at Pont-y-pool on Sunday night and Monday morning. About five o'clock on Monday morning, near the station, there were many people proceeding along the back of the canal. I saw the prisoner that morning about six, about forty yards from the Newport side of the gate, near the station-house gate. He attracted my attention because he ordered his party to keep the other side of the station•house. About fourteen persons were with the prisoner, I have seen him before. I know his person. I have seen him three times at Chartist meet ings. No doubt he is the person. The prisoner was then informed that this was the proper time to enter on his defence. He was duly cautioned, and then proceeded to say—" I was in bed at the time these witnesses say that I was at Pont-y- Pool. I rose at eight o'clock on Monday morning, had my breakfast about half-past eight ; went from Garndiffod to Golynos. My master owed me some money ; I went there to look for it. I did not go directly to the house, because I learnt from a man that was living next door that he was gone from home. I went from there to Abersychan. Met a man named William Jordan, in Woemerke, from Garndiffod. Ha asked me where I was going. I told him to Aber sychan. He told me I had better not ; but I went on. Went into the Black Horse Inn. Went from there to Pont-y-pool, where I met a great many men that I knew, and they knew me. I stood talking with a man named James Carrington, and also with one of the name of Joseph Knight, who lives in the bottom of Garndiffod, near the Six Bells public-house ; this ' was about nine, as near as I can judge. I came from there with a man named Joseph Garland down so far as the Station-house, or a little behind it. Joseph Garland came from Abersychan. I came from Ponty pool in company with Isaac Davis, all along the canal, so far as a public-house, I believe he called it the Royal Oak. lam not certain whether that was the name of the house or not, or sign. I left Isaac Davis at a public-house just beyond that, further from Newport. He requested me to come back with him. I thought proper to go on to Newport. I met some of the boatmen, and they told me that Newport, or that that this house, called the Westgate, I believe, was broken to pieces. I came on. I came to the door, where I met with this young man, who was just taken into custody. I don't know his name. I think his name is Philip. I walked about with him till nine or ten o'clock. Then I went home with him, drank tea with him, went to bed, got up the next morning, and came down to the Westgate about. nine o'clock I believe. Went and saw the dead bodies. While I was there this young man that lost his father since Saturday night saw me. He came to me and asked me if I'd go with him as far as the poor house. I said I would. I asked him where it was. He didn't know. I asked the young man who was along with him, did he know ? He said he did. We went up together. Before we went to the gate, there was a ser geant and a constable standing together. The young man there had lost his father, and asked if there was such a man there. He described his father as near as possible. The sergeant went to the stable-door wherein the prisoners were epelosed. He found, he said, there was no such a man there. The sergeant said to the young man, " Is it possible that your father belonged to that abominable set, the Chartists ?" and the young man said, " No." The sergeant asked us all three if we were Chartists. I spoke up and said, " I was of Chartist principles." The constable said to the ser geant, " I think he is liable to be taken up." " Yes," said the sergeant, " and I could take him up." The con stable took hold of my coat the right-hand side, and at tempted to drag me, but behaved very decent. I first of all tried to explain my meaning, when the sergeant took hold of me and said, " Come, come," and shoved me into the stable among other prisoners, where I re mained that night. Next morning I was brought here, to the Westgate. That was Wednesday. I have nothing else to say, gentlemen. All that I want is jus tice ; and if I have committed anything worthy of death or banishment in what I have related, I am will ing to suffer. I will call a witness that will prove that I was in Garndiffod. I wish to call him now. The prisoner then called Thomas Morgan, who, on being sworn, said—l am a miner. I live at Garndiffod. I saw you coming along the road from your own house this day week, in the morning, as near as possible from eight o'clock to half-past eight. You did not say any• thing to me then. Examined by Mr. Protheroe-L—Were you at Garn diffod on the morning the houses were broken open ? Witness—l don't know. I could hear that there were' men about who did knock at the doors with iron bars. est my: vbes my rrnoeoyert They were taking the men all down to Newport. I was down here on last Friday. I was at Garndiffod last Monday. I was poorly, with a bad back. I have known the prisoner from a boy. He lives in Garndiffod., He . is a miner. He does not work with me. He does not belong to the same Chartist-lodge as I do. lum not a Chartist. I was at home all the last week. I came to Newport last Friday, because his brother sent up to me, and went over to the prisoner's mother. His mother asked me, and I said I could swear I saw him in Garn diffod. I saw the constables about. They came to our house last week. I heard them say there were several other persons saw aim as well as me. He had the same clothes he has on now. It is a rare thing to me to see the prisoner at that time in the morning. I will swear I saw him about half-past eight o'clock that morning. I made a memorandum of having seen him. I told my wife of it. I did not ask him where he was going. There was no stir at all in Garndiffod that morning. All my neighbours were at home on that day. Ido not know that the constables have two warrants against the pri soner for breaking open houses at Garndiffod. The pri soner was going from Newport.. He was walking his re gular pace. Peter Britton sworn. Examined by the prisoner-1 am a miner. I live at Garndiffod. I left, you at your own house on last Sunday night week. I left you once about eight to nine o'clock at night. I then went home to tea. You then came over to my mother's house, where I live. You remained there till two o'clock, You went home to the best of my knowledge. Examined by the Court—l usually take tea at six or seven o'clock, before Igo to chapel. I did not drink tea at my usual hour because I did not go to chapel. I had fresh intelligence of what was going to happen about two or three o'clock that afternoon. I happened to overhear that the Chartists went to a meetinr , on the race course, about two or three o'clock i❑ the afternoon. It was the alarm prevented me from going to chapel and from taking my tea at the usual time. I had no special business to attend to to put off my tea drinking. lam not a Chartist. I never paid a penny towards it. I never had a card. I knew my brother was a Chartist. I did not bear prior to Monday morning, that one o'clock on Monday mcrning was the hour at which the t reason cfd forced that h ettdhd f y r me o t w i m adol Chartists were to assemble to attack Newport. The nlo e uywttha : n v aipe. e tgee n cetrr t ossho cfamnroNrsotmymi tetlh m adekdt o ,roei t tdn h ol e jenmo r of ' iou s tyntt w ktmoh a hn s feeyoa t wtcr o h he a oi t arn t r e tbti n seh l tdpas beds mother's house. I did not see my brother again till. I saw him here. I had no communication with my brother on the Monday. Mrs. Boulton said she saw my brother on the Guard at eight o'clock. My brother had on the same dress that he has on now when he left ma on Sun day night. Samuel Morgan, called by the prisoner, and examined by him—l live in Victoria-square. lam a shoemaker. I saw you first in the square. You came to my houso to tea. I saw you first at Mr. William's brewery. You spoke to me this night week. I saw you first about four o'clock, in town. You breakfasted with me last Tuesday morning. After breakfast we went into the square. We came to see the dead bodies. A young man came to the front of the house to look for his father. He asked you to go along with him. You said you would, and you asked me to come along. I don't know who spoke to the sergeant first. The ser geant asked the other man first whether he was a Char tist.. The man made no answer. The sergeant had a kind of laugh about the Chartists. I don't remember what be said. You were at no other person's house after you saw me. Ex - amined by the Court—l am not a lodging-house keeper. I have known the prisoner three years before that at Abersychan. I never was a Chartist. Ido not remember Card, the police officer, coming to my house. I asked him particularly five or six times whether he had any concern with the Chartist doings. He said no. I did not venture to believe him till he had denied he was with the Chartists five or six times. I did not know he was a Chartist. We have not been very intimate. It was while we were having our breakfast he expressed a wish to see the dead bodies. He asked me if I had seen the dead bodies. I said I had, and he said he should like to go and see them. He did not give any reason. I never heard before that the corpse of a young man named Shell was amongst them. I did not go in to ex amine the bodies at the same time as the prisoner. He did not tell me he had seen Shell's body. This witness was discharged from custody after a re. primand from the Court. Rev. J. Cole then addressed the prisoner, and he was fully committed for high treason. The Court then rose at nine o'clock, having sat • eleven hours. PONT-Y-POOL, Nov. 11.—This town was thrown into considerable excitement by a report that fourteen of the rioters had been apprehended by th e p amongst whom was the manufacturer of ti.e Chartist pikes. There was a special session held before Mr. Sergeant Middy, the Lord Lieutenant, C. H. Leigh, Esq., and Mr. Needham. The first prisoner placed at the bar was John Charles. Mr. James Price stated that he was the manager of the British iron -works, and that about twelve o'clock on Sunday night, a mob of men, who were armed, made a furious attack on his house. They beat at the door ni:h iron bars, and he (the witness) was in fear of his life. He was obliged to make his escape through another door. William Hazeldine, being sworn, stated that he lodged at the same house with Mr. Price. The witness's sister opened the door, and a number of armed men—should think there were about twenty—rushed in. They seemed determined to have Mr. Price. The witness said he was gone ; but the prisoner called out that if he thought that was false he would run a spear through them.—The prisoner was then committed. Thomas Keys, the Chartist pike-manufacturer, also Amy Meredith and James Meredith, were placed at the bar, on a charge of conspiracy and riot, and with burglariously stealing from the house of John Jones, of Abersychan. Mary Jones, wife of John Jones, deposed that about the middle of the night on Sunday she heard a dreadful riot and noise at the door. She went into her room, and found it full of armed men. The witness saw Keys there, and he was armed with a large stick. One of the men pointed a gun at the witness's husband, and swore that he would shoot him. We begged and implored for our lives. The witness was very much frightened, but the man swore he would kill us on the spot. They afterwards went away, taking witness's husband with them ; and when they were gone witness missed the kitchen poker, and other things. The fe male prisoner cried out, when they were taking witness's husband, " Bring him along, or else finish him." The prisoner James Meredith was present, and assisted. The witness's evidence was fully confirmed by an— other witness, John Wilks. The prisoners, together with George Tomlins, John. Britten, Charles Bucknall, Thomas Davis, Isaac Davis, Henry Harris, William Havard, David Williams, Thos. Bolton, and Frederick Turner, were then fully com— mitted on charges connected with the same disturbances and the riots. MONEY MARE.ET and UITY NEWS. (TUESDAY EVENING.) TIMES.—By the advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 431 per mark, which, at the English Alba price of 3/. 175.101 d. the ounce for standard gold, giv,m an exchange of 13. 8., and the exchange at Hanaburgoai London at short being 13 6, it follows that gold is 0.93 per cent. dearer at Hamburg than in London. The premium on gold at Paris is 8 per mine, which•, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 101 d. the ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25. 35, and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25. 32 k, it follows that gold is 0.10 per cent. dearer at Paris tneirt in London. More animation has been displayed in the English stock market to-day, and prices altogether have been better supported. There — has been no alteration of the least conse quence to-day in the foreign exchanges, but that on Hamburg is rather firmer. Shipments of silver for account of the Bank of England to Hamburg now take place regularly at the rate of about 20,000/. each packet, or 40,0001. weekly, against which bills ace drawn. the exchange on that place was quoted to defy 13 0 to 101- at three months. It is understood that the failure of Mr. Biddle's bank has put an end to the negotiation for raising money in Holland, which had, indeed, but a slender chance of success previous to the arrival of that intelligence. Some transactions which have taken place in the money market now make known the objects to which the money was to be applied. Bills of ex change to a large amount have been presented, it is said, to the London agent, who declined payment, but has been able to make an arrangement with the holders under which the bills arc renewed, and the loss prevented which would ensue had they been re turned under protest to limerica. The terms of re newal, however, are most extravagant, and, in fact, decisive of the opinion entertained here of the degree of solvency of Mr. Biddle's bank : for two months' in terest, at the rate of 6 per cent., aad 2 per cent. per month commission is charged, with the option of a fur ther renewal at the end of that time for six months, and commission at the rate of 1 per cent. per month. The whole operation would thus be at the rate of about 21 per cent per annum. _ By the usual official return published by the Cus toms, the exportation of the precious metals from the port of London to foreign and Coloniai ports for the week ending the 7th of November, is as under : Ounces. Silver coin to Demerara 02,000 Ditto CHRONICLE.—The report which we noticed on Saturday, respecting an increase in the rate of interest on Exchequer Bills, has gained support from the con tinued sales of Consols and Reduced (in the latter of which a leading broker disposed of 100,0001. to-day), and from the gradual rise which has taken place in Exchequer Bills. The subject has, in consequence, produced considerable discussion, and the rumour has thus received such an appearance of probability, that much speculation is on loot among the monied interest as to whether the Chancellor of the Exchequer really contemplates such a measure. It is likely that he might bo desirous to do something in the matter to redeem the character of this species of Government Securities, which, from 50 to 60 premium, has fallen within a period of nine months, to a heavy discount. But, on the other hand, the rise that has taken place in Exchequer Bills may be accounted for, in some d eg ree at least, from their having been in great d eman d of late, as present ing a safe investment, in the usettled state of the Mo ney Market. We stated yesterday that appearances were more favourable than we had noticed them for some time past, and we have at length to announce a decided improvement in the state of the Continental Ex changes, occasioned by a good supply of bills in the regular course of business. It will also be noticed, on reference to the list of exports of the precious metals for the week ending Thursday last, that it does not contain a single ounce of gold, and that the small shipments of silver coin are for British colonies. These circumstances prove that the drain for gold has subsided, and induce us to ex pect that the Bank will shortly allow money to be had en more reasonable terms. We begin to look for some return of confidence, and for the appearance of money from numerous private sources where it has been hoarded. The symptoms we have observed are perhaps too slight to warrant us in anticipating those results immediately, and they may perhaps be but temporary. But still they arc the most flattering we have met with for some months past, and cannot but be looked upon as the prelude to a better state of things. The English funds were firm in the morning at yesterday's prices, and soon advanced a shade, but the heavy sales alluded to above produced a flatness, and they closed at the opening prices. HERALD.—The features of the Money Market, either for commercial discounts, or upon the Stock Ex change, have not improved for the better. On the Stock Exchange the value of money for short periods still rules at from 6 a 8 per cent., whilst in the Com mercial Money Market first-rate paper cannot be dis counted under 6 per cent. The anticipation that the interest upon Exchequer Bills would be raised to 2d. per cent. per diem, has ob tained more confidence to-day, and this circumstance has caused many capitalists to change their securities, In fact the heavy discounts under which the floating debt has lately laboured, has opened a new field for speculation, and large sums of stock have been sold out to purchase Exchequer Bills at a discount, which, coupled with the increased rate of interest, will afford a very considerable profit before the respective dividends become due. r THE NEWPORT RIOTS. Whitehall, Nov. 9, 1839. I, Sir,—The Queen has been pleased to command me to express her Majesty's high approval of your conduct, and of the conduct of the Magistrates acting with you, on the occasion of the outrage recently committed in the town of Newport. To the resolution and courage of the Magistrates, and of the small military force which supported them in withstanding the unexpected and daring attack of nu astuffered personal nu merous bodies of armed men from the m i n i ng of the lives and property of the inhabitants. and in defence any one of her her Majesty ascribes in great measure.. the s t a bat any loss pres d e i r s v tr a i t c i t o s n , aggression. Aiaiestte her r was I-1 faithfuler Majestyand loyal is subjects deeply should.have nid th loss at % t v r a i s hu i t io es t ioAnfjnutdrhyewi while le t e h a e e heer o Majesty iat dischargejheest y o fe townal i n i his ae p g.t u a bbi against duty,lawl regrete and by the ot. know life that should i this loss, which,itis a s u a n ti d sf e a r c t t l i ,oento circumstancest es , unavoidable, has been c onfined to those who were fore most in making the attack; and that the t o greater th e j judgment g more me nt evinced indiscriminate , h y the A li l e r . r z is t Majestyra officer in command of the troops, and to t h e exemplary forbea rance , stea di nes s, and good conduct of the soldiers. I have, &c. NORMANBY. The Mayor of Newport, Monmouthshire. In an action lately brought before the Sheriff of Berwickshire for crim. con., a decree in absence was pronounced for 2001. damag es. This decision has raised th e id eas o f the nude wives in Gre en l aw very high in re gar d to their value and importan ce . Th ey are not backward in giving their husbands to understand that if an abandoned woman who could leave her own youngfamily and go off with another man be worth 2001., surely Solomon was below the mark when he said that the price of a virtuous woman is far above rubies.— Edinburgh Observer. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. ( From the 11Iorning Chronicle.) Marshal Sa xe gave good advice to a young ensign who consulted him when he was first challenged, with a view to obtain the sanction of so high an autho rity for declining the contest on account of his tender years. " Young man," said the Marshal, " fight your first challenger, or every coward will set on you, and you will come to an untimely end." It would have been well for the public interests if the House of Commons bad acted on this principle in the case of Stockdale v. Hansard. Every man of common sense and sagacity predicted the consequences of the indefinite and tempo rising course pursued, not by the House of Commons only, but by both branches of the Legislature. The House of Lords is equally interested in the vindicatio n and establishment of its separate right of publication of Parliamentary documents and proceedings : and its turn of prosecution for libel is sure to come soon, as the Lords reprint every important publication of the Commons, and, besides, give publicity to many original inquiries and re ports. The House of Commons unquestionably extends the publication of its proceedings by the valuable regula tion of Lord Dunfermline, which directed the cheap sale of its papers, by which they are rendered more ac cessible to the public, and therefore of greater utility. The Lords must not allow themselves to believe that the not selling of Parliamentary publications is any peculiar protection against the persecution of which the Commons have been the object in the Courts of Westminster-hall, because Lord Denman, in his excessive jealousy for the rights of persons, distinctly ruled, in the first ac tion of Stockdale against Messrs. Hansard, " that the act of selling does not give the plaintiff any addi tional ground of action or right to redress at law, beyond the act of publishing. The injury is precisely the same in its nature, whether the publication be for money or not, though it may be much more extensively injurious when scattered over the land for profit." Sale, there fore, of Parliamentary libels is only an item in the quantum of damages, a circumstance which the Peers will do well to consider before they meet next Session ; for as they have re-published the sane 1 Prison Report which has been the ground of prose cution against the House of Commons by Mr. Stock dale, they will in all probability be placed in the same predicament with the other branch of the Legislature. We do not doubt, therefore, that the Peers, sooner or later, will have to meet the same diffi culties in which the Commons are now involved. Our law report of the proceedings in the Court of the Sheriff of Middlesex yesterday records a second verdict for six hundred pounds damages against Messrs. Hansard, at the suit of Stockdale, for the continued publica tion of the libel which formed the subject of the former action. Parliament and the Courts of Westminster-hall are, therefore, now irrecoverably at issue, The Sheriff, it would be observed, by the motion in the Bail Court determined on Monday, had apprised that Court of the writ of inquiry on the undefended action ; and Mr. Justice Littledale refused to stay the pro ceeding ; and the undefended action has terminated Pin a verdict of 6001., the enormous sum of 30,0001. having been claimed by Stockdale. A premium is, therefore, now advertised on actions against the printers of the House of Commons. This result was predicted by the men of more resolute minds who contended last Session for the instant vindication of Parliamentary authority. We need hardly repeat the unanswerable arguments by which the authority of the House of Commons was then established. Sir John Campbell, in the original cause, " Stockdale v. Hansard," before the Court of Queen's Bench, in April last, exhausted the legal points, and proved unanswerably that both law and reason were in favour of the power claimed by the House of Coinmons. That it is the interest of the public to uphold the authority of Parliament, and that it is better that individuals should be subjected occa sionally to injury than that the proceedings of the House of Commons should be secret and unknown, are points respecting which no two men possessed of common sense can differ in opinion. In fact, the doc trines of the Court of Queen's Bench would deprive the inquisitorial powers of the House of Commons of all their efficacy ; for if impunity be not allowed to the publication of its inquiries and reports, it may as well abandon at once all pretension to grapple with great abuses. In his masterly speech Mr. Sergeant Wilde demonstrated that the privilege of publishing reports and other papers of the House of Commons on the matters before them, or the inquiries directed by them, was essentially necessary for the public good ; that Parliament was the great inquest of the nation; that it was its duty to inquire into all gigantic griei.ances and abuses, and to inform the public of the facts ; that the conduct of public officers, of Judges, and others, was constantly brought under the notice of Parlia ment, and that it was necessary to investigate into the truth of public charges, and oftentimes to inform the publig e of the result, otherwise legislation might proceed in ale dark, and punishment be awarded on insufficient grounds ; that when a person was unjustly aggrieved by any suc h pu bli cat i on, a remedy was open to him by petition ; that if the privilege of the Flouso of Commons was to be decided on by the Courts of Law, the judgments of which were subject to the appellate juris diction of the House of Lords, the independent privi leges of the House of Commons might thus be lost. Procrastination and a temporising policy never were more absurdly exercised than by the House of Com mons on this question. In the first discussion Sir Robert Peel boldly advised the right solution, but sub sequently and in his speeches, the Right Honourable Baronet, as is usual with him, "gave way ;" this truck hug with the balanced state of parties in Parlia ment had its influence on Lord John Russell, who was led to follow Sir Robert Peel ; and Mr. Sergeant Wilde, in his admirable speech, fairly admitted that without a large majority of the House, representing the two great parties in the State, the course of re sistance could not be advisedly adopted. We are not advocating an unnecessary collision between the Courts of Law and Parliament. 'We admit that, as the law has been laid down, and in the temper of the Court of Queen's Bench, there are difficulties to be overcome. Lord Denman, by indulging in the ffrst instance in a sally of factitious patriotism, forced on an issue which a more prudent judge, by confining himself to the case before him, would not have provoked. The time for meeting the difficulty with effect has, by the pusillanimity of the House of Commons, been suf fered to pass by. From believing the House of Com mons omnipotent, the people have been taught by its Ancient Pistol-like behaviour to look on it with derision ; and a mischievous spirit seems abroad, indicative of a desire to witness a regular set-to between the Judges and Parliament. It. is in human nature to witness with delight the success of the weaker party in what appears at first an unequal combat ; and hence, in an inconsistent and thoughtless age, the consequences of the humiliation of Parliament are of less force than the immediate gratification which a struggle promises to give. The people would have stood by Parliament in the outset, for men do not at once make up their minds to set at defiance an authority so firmly rooted as that of Parliament ; but when it was seen that the House of Commons dealt only in big words, step by step people became familiarised with the idea of its humiliation. We have no wish to force on a collision between Parliament and the Courts of Law, or to urge any recourse to physical force, if it can be avoided. There is one way by which it may be avoided. Immediately after Parliament as sembles, the two Houses, being in the same predica ment, may agree to pass a declaration act enabling them to publish such papers as each may think necessary. The past is a subject on which it is impossible to dwell with any satisfaction ; but there is yet time to rescue the Parliament from future mortification, and the Judges from a collision which must go far to destroy in the country all respeet for constituted authorities. But though we do not wish to dwell on past errors, we cannot fail to be sensible that the scandal of yesterday would have been avoided, if the Select Committee of the Commons appointed to inquire into the proceedings of the first action in May last had performed their .duties with moral courage. The amendment to their Report, proposed by Mr. Sergeant Wilde and rejected, which is recorded in their printed minutes, predicted distinctly the evil consequence of " shoving off the evil day." We extract two paragraphs from that amendment : " That the present action was brought, and hss been prosecuted throughout, in contempt and defiance of an express resolution of the House, made in consequence of the former action brought against the same defendant by the same plaintiff, in respect of a publication ordered by this House, and is therefore a case of very decided and determined contempt, and should the House permit the plaintiff to enforce the said judgment, and to recover the reward of his contemptuous conduct, it would be difficult to reconcile with justice and impartiality the punishment of any future offender in the like respect. " That an acquiescence in the judgment which has been pronounced, and the permitting the plaintiff to recover the fruits thereof, must have a direct tendency to encourage the commencement of numerous actions and prosecutions of the like nature." This last sagacious prediction has now been realised, and Parliament must meet the difficulty. The She riff of Middlesex may make a special return of the verdict to the Court of Queen's Bench, and will, pro bably, in every stage of the matter, be advised so to cover his own official responsibility. This may delay the execution of the judgment till the meeting of p ar _ liament, and we could wish that the Courts of Law would not unnecessarily precipitate a collision with Parliament. It is most desirable that the privilege should be, once for all, legislatively determined, and no longer left to rest on grounds which Courts of Law dare question. The past is of less moment than the future, though there is not a man in the country pos sessed of a grain of sense but must be now aware that, had not the House of Commons shrunk from the battle last session, the fresh prosecution of its publishers would not have taken place. We trust, however, Parliament will see, at last, the necessity of atoning for the suicidal weakness by which its authority, which is essential to the welfare of the State, has been so unnecessarily ha zarded. (From the 212orninq Past.) It would be doing a great discredit to the common sense of the English public were we to suppose that they are at all satisfied with what they know, and what they do not know, respecting the state of affairs in South Wi;les. Is it reasonable to put any trust in suede a Government as the present, with respect to these matters ? We fear that it is not—the public cannot reasonably trust either to Ministers'informati on of what is really going on, or to their judgment of what if best to be done, supposing their information were accurate and complete, or to their energy and promp titude in acting upon their judgment, supposing it to be sound and skilful. These Ministers are not of a stamp to have good intelligence, or to think about it with sagacity, or to carry their thoughts into action with combined energy and caution. We do not make these assertions unadvisedly, or in any spirit of mere party irritation, though for even that we might stand excused, under the present circumstances of the country, if it ever were ex cusable. We say these Ministers are neither of trust worthiness, nor of capacity, sufficient to deal with such serious circumstances as appear to exist in South \Vales and other parts of the country. Their utmost merit is that of being able to aff o rd agreea bl e conversat i on at Court ; and if there were no other reason for not trust ing them with the management of difficult and danger ous circumstances upon a large scale, this one would be sufficient, that all of them, save the Lord Chancellor and Lord John Russell, are so inconsiderable in them selves, or so engrossed in the business of mere courtier ship, that it is not possible the serious affairs of the country should receive the consideration which is their due. Now, the Lord Chancellor, it is well known, occupies himself almost exclusively with the business of his Court, and, by the union of great diligence to thorough knowledge of his business, affords that satisfaction, and wins that approbation, which the Eng lish public always feel and award in such cases. Tories are we are, we ask only that public men should do honestly and well that which is the duty of their office and position. The Lord Chancellor does his duty honestly and well by suitors in the Court of Chancery, and, because he does so, he has no time, as he has evi dently little taste, for the affairs of political government. Lord John Russell is generally admitted by the public to be a clever man (though we own we never could find out the ground upon which this opinion has been come to), and it is tolerably certain that he minds his busi ness, and leaves courtiership to those of more oily and pliant disposition. But Lord John has now quite enough to do in studying the affairs of the colonies, and moreover he is peevish and a partisan, and totally without that elevation and comprehensiveness of mind needful for great stokes of Government, when the growing tempest of disorder makes the vast populace heave from beneath, and break out at distant points into tumultuous waves. The Premier and the Foreign Secretary appear to be all but wholly occupied in Court frivolities or Court squabbles ; and as for the Home Secretary, he seems to be considered hardly good enough even for that, yet in that sort of trash, if in anything, his abilities lie. At such a time as this the duties of Secretary for the Home Department demand the best exertions of the ablest man in the nation, end he should be as honest and resolute as able. And whom have we in that station ? A mere coxcomb ; fit only to walk in a procession —a man of no more knowledge or judgment in the high affairs of Go vernment than is possessed by any common gentle man in waiting, or groom of the chambers. But to look more closely at the Chartist affairs, by the light of known circumstances. For the pre sent it seems that the insurrection in South Wales is abandoned rather than suppressed. The insur gents seem to have been so little prepared for what was likely to happen, that some ten or twenty thousand of them gave way and dispersed, because they were fired on by thirty soldiers from the windows of an inn. Well, they have had their experience, and it is not very likely that the same ssrt of thing will happen again. The public anxiety, therefore, is di rected to the nature of that exciting cause which led so great a number of p eo pl e to r i se i n i nsurrect i on, and to the probability of that cause ceasing to produce the effect which has been lately produced. It has been remarked before by ourselves, and dwelt upon by several of our Contemporaries, that the Welsh insurgents have enough of work and good wages, and, therefore, their discontent must be held to be political discontent. Is there any good reason to believe that the circumstances from which this political discontent arose are understood, or admitsed, or counte racted, by the policy of the present Government ? That policy has made the people political insurgents; will that policy cure the people of their insurrectionary ma lady ? Common sense, we think, must answer that it will not. But the Ministers perhaps think that all is now safe. Doubtless ; but so they did when the Attorney-General was boasting at Edinburgh that through his advice to the Government, and by his exertions, Chartism had been put down. He, poor gentleman, who represented himself as the Govern ment man of all work, in respect of Chartism—the man who thought and did all that was thought and done in the matter—at leait by the Government— he was under the delusion that Chartism wee r ue down without any violence or bloodshed—he was under that delusion when the country was just upon the eve of beholding the horrible outbreak in South Wales, and the shooting to death of a considerable number of her Majesty's subjects in open conflict in the streets of Newport ! What reliance can be placed upon the information or the preparation of Government after such an exposure of self-satisfied ignorance as this ? None—positively none. It is not until the country has obtained a better Government—a Government more capable and more devoted to its proper business—thet any sensible person will be satisfied concerning the publ:c safety. These are no times for such a carpet Govern ment as the present. The. Ladies of the Bedehambi r ought not to appoint the administration of the affairs of the country at such a time as this. The sooner, there fore, that a change is made the better ; perhaps even Ministers themselves may soon find that it has been postponed too long. FROM TIIE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) The Tories-militant (we distinguish them from the quiet Conservative body) have latterly been tampering with the tools of democracy. They have been seeking to undermine and blow up a Liberal Government with aid from the populace. We include under the name of the populace unreasoning masses of all descriptions. They have been trying to rummage out that Conservative democracy, which their Irish organs have told them was at all times disposable. We will not say they have deserved the doom of treason, and are worse than the Chartists ; for we bate ex aggeration, and leave it to parties who want it But we say that they have coquetted- with the Chartists, and desperadoes of all kinds, and have affected (for it has but been a pitiful affectation) to fraternise with them just so far as might damage the Government. They have also done what, not long back, we predicted they would do, so soon as the prospect of Court favour appeared lost in a hopeless distance. They have as sumed a republican insolence of language towards their Sovereign and her Court. It may be true that this has been equalled in former times by the fiercer adhe rents of Liberalism. As we have said, we will exag gerate nothing—and therefore we will grant our oppo nents whatever they like to ask, in the shape of Radi cal precedent for their p►oceedings. We will grant that Radical oracles insulted the Prince Regent as much as Tory scribblers and praters have insulted the Queen. The difference is, that the Tories clapped Messrs. Hunt into Horsemonger jail, instead of calculating on libels as a passport to office. It is not that there is any thing unprecedented in the tactics of Toryism (for no device of public delusion can possibly be so), but that these tactics are utterly inconsistent with their own pro fessed principles. Now we believe that many mem bers of the party are sincere in those principles, and have no concern whatever in the struggle for office per fas et nefas. We even believe there is not a single lay leader of the Tory party (there is no answering for clergymen when they meddle in politics) who would endure for a moment the imputation of prompt ing the late conduct of their followers. They do not disclaim them ; for politicians seldom disclaim those who espouse their cause. But we acquit the chiefs of the party of the slightest direct share in their sayings or doings. We ask, however, whether these exhibitions of Conservative violence—praised, with the faintest ad mixture of caution, by the prints of the party—ought not to lead all sober and temperate politicians, who may have become enamoured of the above greatly misused name, to doubt if they have not got in the wrong box after all. (From the c ow ier.) W e have received vari ous commun i cat i ons l ate l y f rom influential parties on the subject of the present imper fect state of communication with the East Indies. It must be considered bey on d quest i on , t h at rap id an d cheap communication with our East Indian colonies must conduce to the civilization of the vast population of that portion of the British possessions, to the increase of our trade, to the benefit of social intercourse and the advan cement an d the preservation of European feelings among all classes, and to the general prosperity of this country. This being taken for granted, and we cannot imagine that any one, at this time, would venture to deny the expediency, politically and socially, of taking ad vantage of all the means and resources of this country in science, in experience, and in power, of promoting this im portant object, it cannot but be considered as most ex traordinary that our communications with India have not already been placed on the best and most permanent footing. Some time since an Association of British mer chants, backed most cordially b y the mercantile and other interests at Calcutta,entered into an Association fo r th e furtherance of this object , and negotiations were car ried on between them and the East India Company, for the purpose of coming to some understanding on the mode and extent to which they would lend their aid to wards the accomplishment of rapid and cheap steam com munication with the East Indies. It seems that these negotiations have not led, hitherto, to a successful result. If we are correctly informed, the East India Company has it s not shown that alacrit y w hi c h was ex pected from in aiding the desire of the merchants of London to produce that desirable result ; on the con trary, that the " Company" has not only been slow in EVENING EDITtOIv replying to the communications and nquiries of t he highly respectable Committee which was formed to. f ea carry the plan of cheap and rapid commu 'vatic in. with India into eff ec t, but that it has ino and rather a desire to thwart and obstruct the ope tos': - lf that Committee. It is with much reluctance 1 at tiv . e exhibit the hi g hly h on o ura bl e b o dy o f the Ea. Ti.;' . Company as opponents to improvements, so mu&-de.,.i.. siren by all classes, in our co mmun i ca ti o ns with(Eldia; ~ but our duty to the public compels us to state the fact ( 1 as it has reached us, and which we believe to be t•rue.. (From the Standard.) It is curious and amusing to observe with what :4 1- dustry the :Ministeri a l wr it ers exer t t h emse l ves t o pat e h up their char ge o f" cumu l at i ve treason " aga i nst the Cc in servative body, an d to conceal the clear and unequ i voi Id testimony by which t h at c h arge i s exp l o d e d an d r( :n -dered ridiculous. We yesterday quoted from the E fa , amines a sample of perversion in the case of r /r. Roby's speech—a passage first garbled by the Obserrer, for the p urpose of nc.,;gnant mit ;re - presentation, and then, when th e sp..aker had e l .- posed the fraud, distorted by th e ingeouity of tit c Examiner, to a meaning precisely the opposi. 4 o of tha t which an honest and unprejudiced into.-corete r would assign to it. The "horning Chronicle to-;la; v supplies us with another sample of such perverse i n dustry in a quotation from the speech of the Re v. Mr. Gregg to the Operative Association in Dubli so, in which the Rev. Speaker employed a phrase expn is sive of a doubt as to the genuineness of her Maje s t , r's i Christianity. Mr. Gregg's allusion was, in our opinh In, highly improper. Wh e re a doubt can exist [for of ir selves, we can have none of the sincere religious fe al- • ing of a Princess educated by the Duchess of Ken itl it is at least uncharitable to speak of even that . dou . bt —still more so to speak w ith an unfavourable man. I tion ; and it is unconstitutional to speak at all of whet t personally concerns the Sovereign. But " the fed will quiver where the pincers tear." Mr. Grcgf is an Irish Protestant clergyman, one of a clan ; smarting under the bitter persecution of an no- Christian Government, and he too naturally, thong): unjustly, infers, that the Sovereign, by whose sol e favour that Government boasts to rivet itself on th e country, participates in its character. Besides, Mt Gregg is a zealous and a severely pious man ; and vrie very much doubt whether such a man would allow the praise of genuine Christianity to any one less zealous than himself —we, at least, should be sorry to abide by his decision in this matter as regards ourselves. COURT CIRCULAR. NDsos, TUESDAY.—Her Majesty, accompanied by Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg, rode out on horse back at half-past two o'clock this afternoon through the Long Walk to the Forest drives and the Great Park. A large equestrian party were in attendance, including Lady C. Dundas, Hon. Miss Murray, Baroness Leh zen, Miss Quentin, Marquis of Headfort, Viscount Tor rington, Baron Alvensleben, Sir William Lumley, Hoe. Major Keppel, and Sir George Quentin. Lady Barham has arrived at the Castle, and has s uc ceeded the Dowager Lady Lyttelton as the Lady ,in Waiting on the Queen, Lady Gardiner has succeeden Lady Caroline Barrington as the Bedchamber Woman in Waiting., and the Marquis of Headfort and Sir Wil liam Lumley have relieved Viscount Torrington and the Hon. Major Keppel as the Lord and Groom in Wai!.ing on her Majesty. _ _ The Dowager Lady Lyttelton and Lady Carolk e Barrington have left the Castle. The Royal Dinner party at the Castle this evening is expected to consist of the following guests :—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Serene Highnesses Princes Ernest and Albert of Saxe Coburg, Earl and Countess of Uxbridge, the Ladies Eleanor and Constance Paget, Earl of Albemarle, Earl of Er rol, Viscounts Melbourne, Palmerston, and Torrington, Lord and Lady Ashley, Hon. Major Keppei, Lady Barham, Lady C. Dundas, Hon. Miss Cocks, Hon. Miss Murray, Lady Gardiner, Baroness Lebzen, Marquis of Headfort, Count Kolowcath, Baron Alvens leben, Sir William Lumley, Lord Alfred Paget, and the Hon. C. A. Murray. The Queen will hold a Privy Council on Friday next at Windsor Castle. The Lcrds of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council assembled yesterday the Morrow of St. Martin) in the Court of Exchequer, to nominate the Sheriffs for next year; the Right Hon. F. Baring presiding for the first time in his official robes. The Lords present were the Lord Chancellor, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Lord Denman, the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Picas, the Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Mr. Baron Parke, and Mr. Justice Bo sanquct. The Judges who assisted at the nomination were Judges Alderson, Patteson, Gurney, Williams, Coleridge, Coltman, and Rolfe. Mr. C. Grevillc, Clerk to the Privy Council, was in attendance. The customary oath having been administered to h.;,. uLiges, the names of the gen tlemen nominated last year to serve the office of She.. riff for all the English Counties (except Middlesex and Lancashire) were read over. As each county was named, the Judges who had been on their respective circuits rose, and nominated a gentleman to be placed on the roll in lieu of the present Sheriff, at the same time submitting any excuse or objections to serve, from parties already on the list. In the cases where the excuses were allowed by their Lordships, and the names ordered to be taken from the roll, the Judges nominated other gentlemen to supply the deficiency. The Roll having been settled, three gentlemen hav ing been nominated for each county, the names were again read over, and the Court adjourned. The American Minister and Mrs. Stevenson have been passing some time at Alnwick Castle, and have been since at Auckland Castle, the seat of the Bishop of Durham. They are now at Ashe Hail, the seat of the Earl of Zetland, in 'Yorkshire. Colonel Maberly had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer yesterday in Downing-street. The Earl of Fingal bad an interview with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Home Office. Despatches from C a pt a i n P resco tt, Governor of Newfoundland, were received yesterday at the Colonial Office. FASHIONA BLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Mrs. Jenkinson and family, at the Burlington Hotel; Mr. Sheil, at ditto; the Hon. Chas. Howard; Gen. Sir Robert and Lady Macfarlane ; Hon. Churchill and Wm. Whateley, in Great George-street; Sir Stephen and the Misses Lushington ; Mr. and Mrs. Allison, at the Sack_ vide Hotel, Sackville-street, from Caas Lodge, Lanca. shire ; the Hon. Capt and Mrs. Blackwood, at ditto, from Bookham Lodge, Surrey ; Archdeacon and Mrs. King. at ditto. from Horton Rectory, Faversham; Sir R. and Lady Kearne, at ditto, fsom Waterford, Ireland; Captain and Mrs. Hamilton Ward, at ditto. DEPARTURES. Prinee Mons Soltikoff, from Long's Hotel, for Paris ; Lord Fingal], for Dover; the Hon. and Rev. the Dean of Ossory ; Dr. Bourke and family, from the Cavendish Hotel. Jermyn-street, for Dublin; the Countess of Desart, for Brighton ; the Earl of Yarborough, for Brocklesby Hall ; the Marquis of Hast . ngs, for Castle Donnington ; Lady De Roos, for Kemp -town; Rear-Admiral Sir Ro bert Fitzgerald, for Bath ; Sir Horace Seymour, for Dray ton Manor ; Mr. Fuller Maitland, for Surrey. BLACKWALL RAILWAY.—We are hoppy to find that great progress has been made in the con struction of the line. The whole of the first contract is now finished, and operations are going on for the for mation of engine -houses, &c., near the Minories. There is every reason to believe that the line will be ready for traffic early in the tnsuing Times. All her Majesty's Ministers are expected in town on Monday next, to attend the Cab net Council, on important and urgent business. THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. —The Commis sioners of Woods and Forests have sent a number of workmen into the House of Commons, for the purpose of effecting various improvements and alterations, pre paratory to the meeting of Pbritatnent. The carpenters are employed in enclosing the staircases at each end of the House, in order that Members may be more clearly seen at divisions. The seat of the Sergeant-at-Arms, Sir William Gossett, has been removed two feet farther back, to make room for Members who only are allowed to sit in front of that officer. Two seats of the stran gers' gallery are to be appropriated for the Speaker's orders of admission. The alterations will be completed shortly after Christmas. ANNAN COURSING MEETING. —The annual meeting of the Annan Coursing Club came off on Fri day last. The meeting was at Torthorwald village. were scarce South at ek a first,l froml as th A large company assembled. Sixteen do gs appeare d, and the running throughout the day w as goo d. Th e et property,hev village g o e r sportsmen neared de hares ongone march r of la the Rockall became very abunda n t. O w i ng, however, to the scar ci•N of hares i thoughground the n the early part of the day, the approach of evening left the combat undecided. On Saturday, the three concluding runs were made at Broom, when, after a severe trial, Mr. Maxwell's dog Denman gained the prize. —Edinburgh Courant. FALMOUTH.—Sir Robert Rolfe having been raised to the Bench, the election of a - new Member for this Borough will take place soon after the meeting of Parliament, when a keen contest is expected, at least by about two hundred of the independent electors. Captain Plumridge is a great favourite at Falmouth, and a general belief prevails that if he were to come forward with spirit he would be returned. Much, how ever, would depend on the qualities of his antagonist, or rather on the length and breadth of his purse. About a third of the electors admit that they are bad judge s of the merits of statesmen, and that it would therefore ill become them to point out, by their choice, the fittest person to assist in the Great Council of the nation. They aim at something more tangible, and something that comes nearer home, and the candidate that meets their views in these respecti is the man for them. The election when conducted with the usual formalities and realities costs about 3,0001. SAI ese ,al4 ;al For ors ade d.; d. ;ese d.+ p l ^ 50 0 1 at • s.:• gir of, jro 30t, 01 11 : CO I uaY 0 of or Co e o.lsl