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t other Magistrates, remained up all night at the West-
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45th Regiment. At five o'clock this morning informa-
tion was brought in that fifty thousand men from the
works at Caerfilly, Blackwood, Meehan, Risca, and
other places had halted just outside of Sir Charles
Morgan's park, Tredegar. In an hour more it
was currently reported that they had attacked the
mansion, and in another hour they were seen marching
towards this town. They reached here at between
eight and nine o'clock, and entered the town in two
bodies, the one coming through the principal streets,
and the other marching round by way of Stowe-hill.
After proceeding through the principal streets they
marched to the Westgate Inn, which they immediately
attacked, firing upon it with their fire-arms, and demo•
lishing the windows and doors with their pikes and axes.
The soldiers, who were stationed in the house, imme-
diately came to the windows, and after a little time fired
upon the insurgents, doing much execution. The
rioters returned the fire, and wounded the Mayor, some
of the soldiers, and several special constables ; but in a
short time, perceiving that a number of their compa-
nions had been killed, they retreated, and retired to a
short distance from the town, where they are now sta-
tioned, with the avowed object of returningin larger
numbers to-morrow."
In addition to the foregoing, I am informed that
about fifteen or twenty Chartists have been killed,
and twice as many dangerously wounded. The Mayor
was shot through the arm and in the groin. A ser-
geant of the 45th was shot in the head, and several of
the constables have received wounds from fire-arms and
sabres. It is also said that an attack was made this
afternoon on Brecon, where a similar scene of bloodshed
took place, but I have been unable trace this informa-
tion to any authentic source.
Despatches have been received at our Council
House, and a detachment of the 10th Hussars has
marched this evening for Newport. All accounts con-
cur in the expectation that the town will be fired to-
night. I have just seen a gentleman who left this
afternoon, and whose remark to me was, " I have
seen many things in my life, but never anything which
looked to me more dreadful."
The following extracts from letters have been posted
and read in our Commercial Rooms. They will be
read with interest by our readers ; they are both from
respectable persons, and may he relied on :
" Newport, Monday, Nov. 4.
" There is sad work here ; the Chartists are coming
down from the bills in great numbers, and all of them
are armed. Several stragglers have been taken : one
had a sword, pistol, and ammunition, and a large iron
hammer about his person ; and some of the others had
pikes, A gentleman from this town was sent on horse
back last night to Risca, to reconnoitre, and was at-
tacked. He has a wound in the groin six or eight
inches long ; he was also fired at. We are all con-
stables. I have been up all night. The soldiers have
been under arms since yesterday, and an express was
sent last night to Bristol for more. The Chartists say
they intend to break open the gunmakers' shops, and
march to Monmouth to liberate Vincent. Business is
at a stand-still. In great haste.
" I have just learnt that 5,000 or 6,000 are march-
ing upon Sir C. Morgan's seat, at Tredegar."
Extract from a letter received by Mr. Fisher, wine
merchant, Bristol :

TORY DISLOYALTY AT CAN
TERBURY-PUBLIC MEETING.

CANTERBURY, TUESDAT, Nov. 5.
The treasonable language reported to have been used
by Mr. Bradshaw, the Tory Member for this city, has,
I find, excited the strongest feeling of indignation amid
all classes here, excepting those who are well known as
the shameless and audacious partisans of a desperate
faction. As soon as the sentiments of Mr. Bradshaw
were published, it was resolved to hold a public meeting.
I find, amongst the other measures adopted for giving
expression to the public sentiments, was a placard, in
which the writer thus expresses himself :
" To THE BURGESSES AND INHABITANTS OF CAN-

TERBURY.
" Gentlemen,—Our ancient eity has again become a
spectacle for the rest of England. By the Tory speches
made at the late registration dinner, we, as a body, ap-
pear to the world as the most bigoted and intolerant,
as well as the most disloyal people in the whole of her
Majesty's dominions."
The writer having remarked upon the conduct of
Mr. Bradshaw, and of the Rev. Doctor Russell as his
supporter thus concludes :—" It is time we repudiate
these feelings, and let the world know that they belong
not to Canterbury generally, hut only to a few ultra
Tories in the city, a few country gentlemen from the
neighbourhood, and nearly the whole of the clergy of
this Metropolitan See."
The hour fixed for the public meeting was twelve
o'clock, and in a few minutes afterwards the Guildhall
was completely filled. Shortly afterwards Lord Albert
Conyngham appeared upon the bench, and was received
with enthusiastic cheers from all parts of the meeting.
These cheers were frequently renewed.
The Mayor, Cooper, Esq., upon taking the chair,
was received with loud cheers.
Amongst those present we noticed Lord A. Conyng-
ham, Sir William Somerville, the Mayor, Aldermen
Henry Conyngham, Brent, Massers, Neame, Flint,
Major James, Rev. J. James, Rev. A. M. Walker, and
J. Brent, jun. Town-Council—Mr.W.Plummer, James
Roberts, Wm. Golden, W. Bowman, Joseph Mathews,
J. Halliday, Thomas Wilkinson, J. Minter, &c.
The MAYOR then said, I can assure you that I I

never undertook a task of a more agreeable nature,
than that of giving the inhabitants of Canterbury an
opportunity of repudiating the stigma which has been
cast upon them.—(Cheers.) I trust you will give every
one an opportunity of being heard, for you must
know that the greatest stain which attaches
to our city was cast on us, in consequence
of the clamorous conduct imputed to the friends
of the people. You must recollect that this
was the ground of excuse which the Tories took fbr
putting in nomination, as a fit person to represent
you in Parliament, a maniac and a murderer. It was
not likely that we should suffer ourselves to be dis-
graced by having such a person thrust upon our choice.
Nor can we suffer the same Tories, with Mr. Bradshaw
at their head, to affix to our town the stain of disloyalty
which his observations, if left uncontradicted, would go
to justify.--(Cheers.) We cannot prevent the Tories
from dedicating a tower on one of the highest mounds of
our county to ignorance and superstition, in the shape
of a monument to Courtenay, and thus perpetuating the
disgrace which that wretched person has cast upon our
neighbourhood. But we will never suffer them to an-
swer for our loyalty to our Sovereign, to support whose
prerogative we would all cheerfully lay down our lives.
—(Tremendous cheering.) I shall not open this meet-
ing by any piece of cant or hypocrisy ; but I propose
that we commence it by giving three cheers for the
Queen.—(This proposal of the Mayor was responded
to by one of the most soul-stirring bursts of applause
we have ever heard in any public assembly.)
Alderman BRENT rose to move the first resolution,
and said—The public press has nobly done its duty.—
(Cheers.) It has almost relieved the people of Can-
terbury from the necessity of vindicating our gracious
Sovereign from the reproach cast upon her, and repu-
diating the doctrines addressed to a large and respect-
able audience, amongst which I am sorry to say they
found a ready echo. We were, however, persuaded
that the liberal portion of the people of Canterbury
were not altogether absolved by the exertions of the
press from the duty of coming boldly forward, and
saying, in the language held in another place, " we will
put on a fearless front, and may God defend the right."
—(Cheers.) And here I may be allowed, I hope, to
say that, if there be in this assembly one more indebted

" Newport, Nov. 4.
" Our town is in a state of alarm. We have had a
most dreadful riot ; in fact it is not over yet, as we
fully expect the Chartists will set fire to the town to-
night. Dead bodies are lying in the streets. There
are about twelve killed, and 3 great many wounded.
They came down in a body of about 20,000 from the
ironworks. We expect about 200 soldiers by the packet
immediately. No person is allowed to go out of his
house. Nearly all the families have left the town."
I shall be in Newport in four hours from this, and
will lose no time in communicating every particular.
(From our Second Edition of yesterday.)
BRISTOL, Monday Evening.
This morning 10,000 Chartists marched into New-
port, and commenced an attack with fire-arms on the
place where the Magistrates' meeting is held. They
were headed by Frost. The 45th Regiment was called
out, and behaved with gallantry, putting them to flight
in all directions. The Mayor was shot through the
arm with a bullet, two special constables were danger-
ously and others slightly wounded, and a sergeant of the
line is also shot in the head, but not killed.
Eleven Chartists are killed, and several others mor-
tally wounded. A large body of them marched from
Merthyr this morning to attack Brecon.
We are just informed that the Chartists are re-
organising, and it is expected will attack the town to-
night, 15,000 strong. All the respectable families are
leaving.

to the efforts of the press than another, I am that per-
son. Although it is a topic irrelevant to the object of
this meeting, I cannot help referring to the noble and
triumphant advocacy with which the press supported
the cause of an oppressed individual in my person, and
inflicted a punishment on the offenders which, though
perhaps but condign, really excited my commiseration
for them, as too severe for their offences.—(Hear,
hear.) I shall now pass to the resolution which I wish
to bring under yotir notice. Before I come to the speech
of Mr. Bradshaw, I would remark upon one phrase
made use of by a Reverend Gentleman, in proposing
the resolutiou to which Mr. Bradshaw addressed him-
self. One of the most serious maladies which can
afflict humanity, their truly honourable and independent
Member (Lord A. Conyngham) was visited with. I
could never think that Toryism was so debasing in its
character, even under the prospect of a Hanoverian
rule in this country—so subversive of all right feeling
and humanizing tendencies in the breasts of its votaries
—that a man could be found amongst that party, pro-
fessing the holy character of a clergyman of the Church,
who did not hesitate to make a mocking allusion to one
of the most sacred dispensations of Providence.—( Hear,
and cheers.) Gentlemen, I did not turn upon the word ;
but the Reverend Gentleman's allusion to the " affec-
tion of the heart" of a public adversary, shows his heart
not to be in the right place.—(Cheers.), Mr. Bradshaw
must stand or fall by the report of his speech in the
Kentish Gazette. He had sufficient opportunities to
question its accuracy. He has never done so. We have
a right, then, to consider it as the speech which he
delivered, and it has gone out to the world as such.
Never had we a more constitutional Monarch on the

(From the Morning lie, ald.)
Bristol, Nov. 5, Seven o'Clock, Aar;
I sent you yesterday a necessarily hurried account of
the alarming Chartist outbreak at Newport, and I now
hasten to communicate a more detailed and accurate
statement of the riot, together with such further par-
ticulars as I have been enabled to collect from quarters
which may be relied on :

For some time past the miners and men 'employed in
the numerous iron-works with which South Wales
abounds, nearly the whole of whom are Chartists,
have been known to hold secret meetings, and it has
been declared upon several occasions by those who have
been supposed to he their ringleaders, that the sth of
November should see no slaves in England ; and that
upon that day Vincent, the Chartist delegate (who,
as you are aware, is now undergoing a term of im-
prisonment to which he was sentenced at the last
Monmouth Assizes, for sedition), should be 4. King
of the Hills." Information of these circumstances
were conveyed from time to time to the Magistrates,
and a day or two since they were informed, upon
authority which it was thought could be relied on, that
the 4th of November had been fixed upon as the period
for simultaneous attacks on Newport, Brecon, and
Monmouth. This information has proved to be too
correct, for on the 3d the general rising commenced—
the mines and levels in the mountains were deserted—
the furnaces were blown out, and the deluded advocates
of Chartism commenced their threatened march upon
Newport. They first made for Cae-filly iron-works,
where they insisted upon blowing out the furnaces, and
compelled, using the most dreadful menaces and threats,
nearly all the male inhabitants of the place to join
with them ; they then proceeded on the road
shouting " The Charter 'or death," and compelling
all the persons whom they met with in their route
to attach themselves to their forces —their num-
bers having been increased by this means to from
40,000 to 50,000—(two accounts which I have seen
state 100,000, but lam inciined to think they must be-
somewhat exaggerated)—they proceeded towards New-
port, and at about five o'clock in- the morning halted
about two and a half miles out of the town, near Tre-
degar Park, the seat of Sir Charles Morgan, Bart. It
is understood that the plan, as originally agreed upon
was, that a body of about 8,000 from Pontypool and
its neighbourhood should join the main body at this
place, that they should then march upon Newport,
plunder it of ammunition and provisions, fire it, and then
proceed to Monmouth, where, being joined by a third
detachment, they were to break open the gaol, release
Vincent and the other prisoners, and pillage and burn
the town ; and in confirmation of this statement, it was
observed that a halt was made near Tredegar for
nearly three hours, during which time several scouts
were despatched towards Pontypool ; the additional
force, however, did not arrive at the expected
time, and the order was given to " march," in obe-
dience to which command the mass hurried on-
wards towards the town. When they arrived at the
outskirts they again halted, and the pikes, guns, pistols,
sabres, and other weapons with which they were armed,
and which till that time had been in some measure con-
cealed, were generally displayed, and the body divided
itself into two columns, one of which marched into
Newport by way of Stowe-hill, and the other by the main
entrance to the town, Charles-street. The Magistrates,
to whom intelligence of the contemplated attack had
been communicated, had, in the mean time, taken the
precaution to call out the military, about sixty soldiers
of the 45th Regiment of Infantry, and to swear in a
number of special constables, all of whom were drawn
up in the yard attached to the Westgate Hotel, where
also the Magistrates had assembled. It would seem
that this circumstance had been with equal care im-
parted to the leaders of the Chartists, for they imme-
diately proceeded in the direction of the hotel, and having
arrived before it, again halted. They then gave three
cheers for the Peoples Charter, and with'numerotts yells
and execrations commenced a fire on the hotel. The
windows were soon demolished, and the bullets and
slugs were flying about in all directions, and several
persons, including the Mayor, having been wounded, it
was deemed expedient to call the military into action.
They were accordingly stationed in the upper apart-
ments of the hotel, and the Riot Act having been read,
and the mob becoming momentarily more furious, the
order was given and they fired. As might be expected,
from the position in which they stood. every shot pro-
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several others dangerously
and
fear, mortally wounded. Findingin too
themselves
instances,
worsted,
and that from the position occupied by the military, the
consequences were almost certain death, the Chartists
retreated and took to the fields, •
when they divided them-
selves into regularly organised parties.
In my communication of yesterday I stated the par-
ticulars of several who were wounded, and I have only
to add the name of Mr. Jones, of Pingwerillvba out a
mile from Newport, who was shockingly mangled.
I have just seen the guard of the Cardiff mail, who
states that at about three o'clock yesterday he saw thou-
sands of men, armed with guns. piekaxes, marching
down the railroad from the Risen ironworks with the
avowed object of joining the Chartists at Newport. It
is feared that the worst is yet to come ; and you will
see, from the letters which I subjoin (which correspond
with the information I otherwise received), that a re-
newed attack was meditated last night.

throne. Because she did not choose to proclaim a lie
and declare herself favourable to the Tory party—
because she would not identify herself with their foul
purposes, she is to be branded as an absolute Sove-
reign, governing the country by her own caprice, and
as being herself swayed by the King of Belgium, the
serf of France.—(Cheers.) I want to know who is to
sway the councils of these realms, if the example of the
forced abdication of the Second James, so significantly
referred to, were followed? I want to know who is
the presumptive heir that is to fill up the vacancy so
unblushingly contemplated by the Tories? Why, who
but the darling of the party, the Grand Orange Master
of Ireland !—(Loud cheers.) It is impossible to place
in too strong a light the fact that, if any accident hap-
pened to the Queen, the Tories look with delight to
the succession of the King of Hanover ; and I hope we
shall give up our lives to the determination never to allow
that man to be Sovereign of this realm who would an-
nihilate our Constitution with as much readiness as he
struck off that of Hanover; or who, when backed by the
clerical garb of this country, would secretly undermine,
if he did not openly overturn, the liberties of the people.
—(Cheers.) The Tories affect to be deeply concerned
for the fate of the Queen in being directed by her pre-
sent Ministers. We have all heard the story of the
crocodile rising out of the slime of the Nile, and feel-
ingly bemoaning the lot of the prey subjected to its cu-
pidity. I think I can fairly say that if the Tories shed
any tears on the occasion to which I have referred, they
were crocodile's tears. I do hope that on the present
occasion you will pass this resolution unanimously. It
is as follows :—" That the speech lately delivered byf
Mr. Bradshaw, and reported in the Kentish Gazette o.
the 29th ultimo, is of a highly dangerous and seditious cha
ratter, and, if acted upon, would tend to the subversion
of the throne, now happily established on the liberties of
the people."
Alderman NEAME seconded the resolution, which was
then put, and every man in the meeting held up his hand
in its favour.
Lord ALBERT CONYNGHAM moved the next resolu-
tion. He was received with loud cheers, and pro-
ceeded to say—Gentlemen, deeply do I lament that a
single person could be found in this city who could talk
of disturbing the constitutional Monarch of this country
in her possession of the throne—of removing that So-
vereign, to screen-whom from insult or injury there is
not one here present that would not shed the last drop
of his blood.—(lmmense cheering.) Gentlemen, it is
shocking to see a clergyman of the Established Church
join in such a cry ; it is shocking, I repeat, to contem-
plate the hypocrisy of a man, part of whose sacred
duty it was to offer up prayers for that Sovereign's
welfare, whom he talked of dethroning a few hours
after his performance of service.—(Cheers.) And
what is the reason of this outbreak ? The cry, for-
sooth, of " the Church in danger !" Who credits that
cuckoo cry ?—(Cheers.) It means that the odious sys-
tem of tithes has been shaken ; that the equally odious
impost of Church-rates has received a blow ; that plurali-
ties are to be diminished, whilst the remuneration of the
estimable and worthy but inferior clergy is to be increased.
—(Cheers.) It implies a fear, too, of a system of national
education by which, without reference to particular
dogmas, the poor might be so schimled as to form a
judgment for themselves on public matters.—(Cheers.)
Gentlemen, we know the Tories have at all times set
themselves against the progress of civil and religious li-
berty. For this reason they wish the King of Han-
over to be considered as their head. But, Gentlemen,
" forewarned, forearmed." We all know now what
Tory tactics aim at ; but as long as there is a drop of
blood in our veins, or a spark of life in our bodies, they
shall never accomplish their object.—(Great cheer-
ing.) I shall now propose the second resolution :
" That the sentiments contained in that speech were
received by a large body of the clergy, who attended the
dinner, clearly shows that however staunch may be their
loyalty when they are the sole objects of Royal favour,
they are too apt to sound the tocsin of resistance, and
to clamour for an exclusive Government, when the full

Lord Castlereagh has arrived in town from Paris.

hen, fits of religious freedom and general education are
attempted to be extended to all her Majesty's subjects."
Alderman FLINT rose with much pleasure to second
the resolution. Why was there such an outcry now

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made by them, who had upon a former occasion been
qui•,eent ? could find the cause for it in the
course pursued with respect to national education, with
the opposition to Church-rates, and many similar sub-
jects.—(Hear, hear.) And yet they now saw what
was the moving principle ; it was a 'clamour against
Popery, and it was an outcry against the Court and the
Cabinet.—(Cheers.) He certainly was one who was
not dead to the signs of the times ; and this he must say,
that if Popery were to be diffused, it was much more
likely to be diffused by the doctrines which were now
fashionable at Oxford.—(Cheers.) He concluded by
again seconding the resolution, which passed unani-
mously.
Alderman MASTERS came forward amid loud cheer-
ing to propose the third resolution. There was, he
said, one point with respect to the Tories which always
excited the greatest disgust in his mind, and that was the
inveterate hatred which the Tories bore to their Irish
brethren.—(Cheers.) They were all men under the
same Government, and ought to be governed by
precisely the self-same laws.—(Hear, hear.) All
th Irishmen required was fair dealing ; all that
they asked for was that they might be governed by the
self same laws.—(Hear, hear.) Let this be done, and
let not men talk of any danger to their religion. Let
this be done, and he hoped to see the Irish gradually
become Protestants. He hoped he might be allowed
to remind them of the old fable, which he was sure
they all remembered—it was that of the " Traveller
and his Cloak," respecting which there was a dispute
between the sun and the wind as to which should first
induce or compel him to lay it aside. The rude Bareas
began with his persecuting north-east blast ; but the
more that it blew, the tighter did the traveller grasp
his cloak. The sun then began with its warm rays
and grateful kindness, and instantly the man laid aside
his cloak. Let the same thing be done with respect
Ireland ; let justice be done to her.—(Cheers.) The
Tories wished to raise a cry against Ireland ; the people
of England would not allow them to do so.—(Cheers.)
In concurrence with that sentiment, he proposed the
following resolution :—" That we solemnly protest
against language addressed to our fellow-citizens in Ire-
land, denouncing them as aliens in blood, language, and
religion, believing that the tendency of such expressions
must be to inflame their minds, and bring about a crisis
at which all good men shudder."
Mr. JOHN BRENT seconded the resolution in an able
speech.
Sir W. SOMERVILLE then came forward, and was
loudly cheered. I thank you for the opportunity which
your kindness has afforded me of adding my voice to
yours, in condemning language which conveyed an insult
to private feeling, an insult to the Crown, and an insult
to millions of her Majesty's loyal and devoted subjects.—
(Loud cheers.) Of the individual who could indulge in a
heartless joke when speaking of the infirmities with which
it has pleased Providence to afflict a political opponent,
I shall say no more. Men of all parties, no matter what
their difference on religious topics might be, as members
of a Christian community, must join in condemning
such language. I came to this town to enjoy a little
ease and retirement, after a most fatiguing Session of
Parliament. Great was my surprise at having my at-
tention aroused by language in this city exceeding in
violence anything within my experience. I did not
believe it possible that any individual could be found,
a subject of the British Crown, to deliver sentiments
with regard to the Sovereign such as those which have
been promulgated. The recklessness of it was beyond
anything that had ever come under my notice.—
(Cheers.) Listen, gentlemen, to some of this language.
In one sentence the Prime Minister is said to be " the
boon companion of the Sovereign." The " boon com-
panion !"—what think you of such a pot-house imputa-
tion ?—i,Cheers.) Such language I never heard uttered
respecting a Sovereign. Again, the Minister is said to
govern by yielding to " the follies and caprices of
the Queen." What are "the follies and caprices" of
Her Majesty, Queen Victoria ? Why, the manner in
which she has discharged the duties of her lofty sta-
tion since she ascended the throne has drawn on
her the wonder and admiration of the world.—(Cheers.)
I hear her Majesty is told that she is " the Queen of
a faction only." And why? Because the Protestant
religion is endangered by the elevation of three Roman
Catholics to subordinate situations under the Crown !
—(Laughter and cheers.) Why, what a very slippery
foundation must the Protestant religion stand upon.—
(Laughter and cheers again.) What must we think of
that religion which its Divine Master founded on a rock
if it is to be upset because three Roman Catholics
have been called to the service of their Sovereign ?
( Hear. hear.) I for one rejoice that they have
been so called. I say the Roman Catholics of
Ireland have not, and never had a fair share of

the patronage of the empire.—(Hear, hear.) The
time has arrived, I hope, when all moderate, good, and
wise men of all parties have become convinced of the
necessity of pursuing a different line of policy towards
Ireland.—(Cheers.) They have found persecution and
cruelties to be of no avail. They are proved useless as a
means of conversion. It is preposterous to expect grafi-

tilde from those who are treated with cruelty, baseness,
and I may now say with perfidy ; because if the prin-
ciples ,contained, in the speeches lately delivered are to
be embodied by the Tory party on their accession to
office, it is clear that Catholic emancipation was but a
tub to the whale—a toy to amuse the unfortunate
Papists, whom it was intended to exclude from all fruits
of that measure by an eternal disqualification for enter-
ing upon any of the duties of the State.—(Cheers.)
lam not indifferent to the charge bronght against
the Government of not going far enough ; but I am not
ignorant of the difficulties with which they have to con-
tend. And when I reflect that the present Government is
all that stands between us and the reign of those who, in
power, would carry into force the principles contained in
those speeches, I confess a shudder of horror creeps over
me at the thought—(Cheers)—and I look back with
satisl'action and delight at every opportunity afforded me
of maintaining the present Ministers in power. The
Hon. Baronet resumed his seat amid several rounds of
applause.)
Mr. WEIR, in moving the fourth resolution, said,
it was too bad to remark the clergymen of Canterbury,
who talked of the superstition of Irishmen, when those
entrusted to their care for instruction—those who might
be called their pupils—were the only individuals in the
three kingdoms who could be found the followers of a
Sir William Courtenay.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.)
He concluded by moving the following resolution :
" That the inhuman and mocking allusion to the serious
malady of a political opponent, on the part of Dr. Rus-
sell, can excite nothing but unmitigated disgust among
Christians and right feeling men of all parties, and that
such coarseness stands out in rude contrast with the
divine precepts of our Heavenly Master."
Air. BROWNE, in seconding the resolution, said he had

thought before he came to that meeting that it was a very
strange thing that they should be there met to celebrate
Guy Fawkes.—(Laughter.) And who was their Guy
Fawkes? Why, he had come all the way from Berwick,
and had arrived in that city.—(Laughter.) Ho could
tell them what the Gazette of that morning said of their
Guy—that he " had kindled a flame, which never would
be extinguished until it spread to every part of the coun-
try."—( Laughter.) " Jemmy Bradshaw," as he was
commonly called, or " James Bradshaw, Esquire"—
( Laughter)—was the Guy Fawkes ; he was the man who
carried " the holy fire," and the dark lanthorn in which
he placed it was their Kentish Gazette—(Laughter)—
and thus were the Queen and their liberties to be blown
up. What a fine "-Canterbury tale" that was.—
(Laughter.)
The fourth Resolution then passed unanimously.
Mr. BRENT proposed the following address :
" We, the Mayor, Burgesses, snd inhabitants of the
city of Canterbury, highly disapproving of the intolerant
and disloyal language which has recently been addressed
to an assembly of persons in this city, calling themselves
Conservatives, and which found a ready echo among

the persons addressed, approach your Majesty with the
dutiful assurance that our attachment to your Royal
person is undiminished, and our confidence in your
Majesty's wisdom is strengthened by witnessing, in your
Majesty'S acts, that the welfare and happiness of your
people is your Majesty's highest delight.
" We see with deep regret that clergymen of the
Established Church should, by their presence and ac-

quiescence in the sentiments expressed on the above
occasion, give countenance to such a miserable display
of the ravings of a disappointed faction—a display con-
temptible, although rancorous ; impotent, but intended
to diminish the respect due to your Majesty, or to drive
your Majesty into such a course of Government as
would promote the benefit alone of a section, and not
the good of the whole community.
" That when such a term as alien in blood, language,
and religion, is deliberately applied to a large portion of
your Majesty's Irish subjects, and made use of in an as-
sembly supposed to possess some influence in this coun-
try, meeting with no rebuke from any person present, we
dread the consequences which may result from the use
of such flagrant and libellous language towards a loyal
portion of our fellow-citizens, its tendency being to in-
flame their minds with feelings of hostility, and to bring
about a: crisis at which all good men would shudder.
" We think it due to the credit of our ancient city
humbly to address your Majesty, and to express our
loyalty and our firm determination to support your Ma-
jesty in all acts of your Majesty's Government which
tend to promote the prosperity, mental improvement,
and consequent happiness of all your Majesty's sub-
jects."

Mr. HOLLADAY seconded the adoption of the ad-
dress, which was carried unanimously.
Alderman MASTERS proposed, and Mr. BRENT, jun.
seconded, that the presentation of the address should be
entrusted to the Mayor.
W. PLUDIMER, Esq., proposed a vote of thanks to
the Mayor.
The Rev. Mr. JAMES said he believed that there
were many gentlemen who entertained a strong feeling
against persons of his persuasion taking part in a pub-
lic assembly. He was glad that such a feeling ex-
isted ; for it was one in which he himself warmly par-
ticipated ; and he regretted that circumstances at pre-
sent compelled him to depart from that rule. There
had been some things spoken by members of the Church,
of which he was a minister, which he only regretted had

been merited ; while other things had been said which
he knew were undeserved.—(Hear, hear.) He con-
cluded by seconding the vote of thanks to the Mayor.
Sir WILLIAM SOMERVILLE, in support of the mo-
tion, could not avoid remarking that Mr. Bradshaw had
accused some of the Peers, that they never had any
grandfathers. Such Peers, e thought, must be very
great curiosities.—(Laughter.) Of the name of Brad-
shaw, it might be remarkal in reply, that it was not
unknown to fame, for a Bradshaw had sat in judgment
upon his Sovereign. Perhaps, then, the disposition to
insult a Sovereign was hereditary in a Bradshaw.
Thanks were then given to Lord Albert Conyngham
for his attendance, and also to the Mayor.
Lord Albert and the Mayor severally returned thanks,
and the meeting separated amid loud cheers.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

MONEY MARE ET and CITY NEWS,

TUESDAY EVENING.
HERALD.—The non-arrival of any further advices
from the United States, in consequence of the late
adverse winds, still continues to cause great anxiety
amongt the commercial interests and others, who,
directly or indirectly, have property at stake in that
portion of the American continent. It is true that a
temporary calm prevails in our Money Market, so far
as regards general credit, but discounts still are com-
paratively high, and will remain so until the arrival
of further intelligence from New York, the nature of
which will materially tend to govern future rates of
interest ; but we have some reason to believe that the
remarks which appeared under this head yesterday,
have tended to allay much of the apprehension that
prevailed during the early part of that day.
The real state of our Discount Market may be fully
estimated by the value of Exchequer Bills and India
Bonds, which still continue at a very heavy discount.
Exchequer Bills, at the mean rate being as low as 5 a
8 dis., and India Bonds at .5 dis.

CHRONICLE.—The Morning Post has an ela-
borate article today on the conduct of the Bank of
England. So far as we are alluded to, the question
lies in a nutshell. We stated that much of the difficulty
in which that establishment was placed originated in
the dilatory policy of the Directors, and expressed an
opin:on that.-they should have adopted in November,
1838, those measures for curtailing the circulation
which they are only now pursuing, because at that
period the drain of bullion had sec in strong against
them ; but instead of taking precautionary measures in
consequence, they continued giving money freely. The
Post, as the organ, we presume, of the Bank parlour,
admits " that it would have been fortunate had the
Bsnk taken earlier measures to arrest the drain of bul-
lion.- Much of the speculative business in corn and
cotton, as well as in Foreign Stock and Shares, might
have been thereby prevented." This is almost exactly
a confession of cur charge, and there can be no doubt
if the Bank had taken earlier measures to arrest the
drain of bullion, that is, if they had taken those mea-
sures in November' 1838, which they are now only
pursuing, that much of the present derangement in the
Money Market would have been avoided.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Morning Chronicle.) ,
The rising of the Chartists of Newport, communi-
cated in a second edition of the Chronicle of ysterday,
to the account of which we add further partieulars,
seems a most inexplicable affair. We regret to find,
however, that many lives have been lost ; and that, be-
sides Chartists, the Mayor and several special con-
stables, and one soldier have been wounded. That the
rising will not be suffered to spread beyond the neigh-
bourhood may be confidently predicted. The notorious
Mr. Frost is said to be the leader ; but what object
he can have had in precipitating a number of
poor ignorant creatures on their ruin is inconceivable.
There can have been no concert between these
Welshmen and the Chartists elsewhere, or we should
by this time have heard of doings of the same kind
in o•her parts of the kingdom, supposing it even
possible that Englishmen can keep intentions of this
kind secret. Frost, it seems, allowed his son, a boy of
fourteen, to head one division of the rioters, while he
headed another himself. It is clear if he be not insane,
he is at all events a wretched guide ; for even on the
supposition that Vincent could be liberated by force
from prison, no man possessed of a grain of sense could
think the Government would suffer matters to remain
there ; so that, unless he could hope to resist the Go-
vernment, he sacrifices lives without an object. Thsre
is something in the disposition of the Welsh to embrace
Chartism in its worst features, and to rush on destruc-
tion, which deserves to be inquired into. We have
heard that there has long been a wide-spread discontent
among the poor people in Wales, on account of their
supposed wrongs in having been driven from the wastes
on Crown estates, on which they had built, by the
lessees.

(From the Morning Herald.)
Wales, where rebellion never reared its head—where
insurrection was unknown since the days of Henry IV.
until the disastrous sway of the Whigs was inflicted
upon England, has become the scene of revolutionary
doctrines, violence, and bloodshed. The horrors of a
Chartist " little war" have fallen upon a portion of the
Queen's dominions, which had been unstained with the
blood of civil slaughter since the days of Owen Glen-
dower. The deplorable carnage, by military executions,
at Merthyr Tidvil, some years ago, arose out of a local
quarrel between some iron masters and their men, and
had uo connection with revolutionary designs. Though
the bayonet and the rifle-ball under Whig auspices were
employed, instead of protocols, to " settle" it, we
thought at the time, and still think, it might have been
settled by other means than those which produced such
a dreadful loss of life. It was the mode of suppressing
it which gave that disturbance the appearance of a po-
i t ical insurrectionary movement, which it certainly
was not. But as to the violence and bloodshed at
Newport, of which we gave an account by express in
a second edition of our paper yesterday morning, it
was unequivocally of political origin. The doctrines of
Chartism have grown out of the atrocious system of po-
pular agitation which the Whigs have encouraged and
cultivated for so many years, now and then shooting and
flanging some of the wretched victims of their own vile
arts, whenWhiggery wants to make a character for vin-
dicating those laws which it has taught " the masses" to
treat with contempt. The incendiary fires of Bristol
and Nottingham, and the bloodshed and hangings that
followed, were the work of Whig excitement, produced
by the furious appeals of Whig Journals to popular
passions, and by the incendiary arts of the travel-
ing emissaries of sedition. It is dangerous, as
Bacon says, to teach the multitude the way of
insurrections, for when once taught they are apt
to walk therein. When the Whigs got up
the Reform excitement for the purpose of crushing
their political opponents, acd establishing themselves
in power,-they resorted to the most unjustifiable means
to accomplish their object. They flattered and encou-
raged the political unions, which were organised in imi-
ratian of the French Jacobin clubs, and promulgated
doctrines subversive of monarchy, of order, of constitu-
tional freedom. They advised the people not to pay taxes
until they got the Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but the
Bill. They assailed the House of Lords with such a shower
of incendiary missiles that it was wonderful how it es-

TIMES.—As usual when any new Bank measure
is on foot, there are all sorts of rumours, and asser-
tions, and contradictions in circulation respecting it,
which have the effect of mystifying the public for a
time, but seldom end otherwise than in a confirmation
in all the essential points of the original story. This is
evidently the case with the " re-discounting" business,
on which some small admissions were at first made, but
these since yesterday have expanded and taken a much
wider range. Operations of more than one kind are now
distinctly adverted to. It is understood, for example, as
a general rule, that any bill broker, who has effected dis-
counts at the Bank,and finds afterwards that he can obtain
money in the open market at a rate lower than that
charged there, may withdraw a portion of his bills, and
receive an allowance of 6 per cent. for the remaining time
they have to run. Then it is added that a similar ac-
commodation is to be extended to the business done
at, and connected with, the branch banks in the coun-
try. This alone is opening a sufficiently wide field for
"re-discounts," since it is obvious that it is quite imma-
terial whether the transactions are for the bill-brokers
themselves or for their customers, and one broker is
said to-day, in fact, to have sold Exchequer bills to a
considerable amount in order to employ the money for
this. purpose. A further concession made, which is of
some importance, is, that parties thus allowed to re-dis-
count aro permitted to select such bills ns they please
from the original set deposited by themselves for dis-
count, and with all these facilities for obtaining the best
bills London can supply, subject to interest at 6 pet
cent., no doubt can remain that the practice of " re-
discounting" is fully recognized, and the two objects of
the Bank attained, of making the rate of money out of
doors as high as their own, and of keeping up a constant
pressure on the money-market.
Besides this measure, some alterations are said to
have been adopted in the arrangements with the
country banks, who by waiving their right to issue notes
ha ✓e acquired the privilege of loans from the Bank of
England up to a fixed amount at the rate of three per
cent., and this without any reference to the value of
money at head-quarters. These advances are now to
be extended to a further amount on payment of a rate
of 6 per cent. It has been stated that an advance to
6 per cent. is to be required for all the loans to the
country banks who issue bank of England paper, but it
is doubted whether the Bank has the power of doing
this under the terms of the original bargain, though it is
very probable that where the power does exist the
change will be introduced.
By the advices from Hamburg the price of gold is
431 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/.
17s. 10id. the ounce for standard gold, gives an ex-
change of 13.8, and the exchange at Hamburg on Lon-
don 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 milk, 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 25.30 ; it
follows that gold is 0.20 per cent. dearer at Paris than
in London.

POST.---The explanations which we ventured to
give in our last City article on various points con-
nected with banking affairs and the money market, have
had the effect of dissipating much of the gloom that
prevailed at the Stock Exchange yesterday. A decidedly
better tone was observable in the house to-day.

c .ped from being utterly consumed from the face of
the earth. Tney conjured up tremendous imtlges of
physical force, among which the spectacle of 1.50,000
hainmermen of Birmingham, ready to march upon
London, and settle the affairs of the kingdom after
the manner of Wet. Tyler's mob, was a favourite
topic. The " masses" have not forgotten the lessons
taught them by the Whigs. It is true that the hypo-
critical tempters of the people, as soon as they had ac-
complished the object of securing themselves in
place, affected some horror of the seditious doctrines
xlsiell they had taught to their many-headed dupe, the
" sovereign people." They issued a proclamation
igainst the " political unions" which they had called
into existence ; they hanged Bristol and Nottingham
rioters, to appease, by bloody sacrifices, the laws which
they had taught theßeform mobs to trample upon. They
brought in a Coercion Bill to curb and punish Irish
,
agitation by proceedings so unconstitutional and tyran-
nical, that we, the enemies of agitation, considered it
our duty to denounce and oppose it. The ordinary
laws, properly administered, were sufficient for the
purpose ; but the Whigs are ever found in the one
extreme or the other—either stimulating the licentious
violence of mobs, or making tyrannical thrusts at the
constitutional liberties of the people. When the treaty
of Lichfield House was ratified with the Popish dema-
gogue of Ireland, the Whigs wheeled about again,
and, instead of coercing Irish agitation encouraged it
once wore. What horrors, what outrages, what crimes,
what systematic assassinations have followed in the
train of that agitation, winding its track of blood
and barbarism through Ireland! Ah ! the Normanby
farce of " tranqt.:illit? will, indeed, appear as a
blood-stained tragedy in the page of impartial history.
And under Whig misrule the barbarism and crimes of
Popish Ireland are reaching Protestant England. Char-
tism, a monstrous production of Whiggery, threatens
the destruction of its profligate parent. Perhaps that
is a loss at which the nation, that has learned by bitter
experience the real value of Whiggery, would not much
grieve ; but Chartism aims also at the uprooting of all
property, the levelling of all orders, and the utter sub-
version of civil society. Certain conspicuous Whig-
Radicals—such as Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Leader,• and
some others—have been publicly charged with having
assisted to draw up what is called " the People's Char-
ter." O'Connell has since denounced the Chartists as
the Whigs denounced the Political Unions. But Chartist
doctrines have taken root among the people. Chartist
violence renewed in Birmingham last summer the dreadful
scenes which Whig Reform agitation produced in Bristol
and Nottingham—Chartist 'violence has stained thesoil of
Wales with the blood of civil slaughter. Thus the
hitherto most peaceful portion of the kingdom has been
rendered by Wbig misrule as volcanic as Ireland, only
the flames buret -out sooner : the Irish haters of the
" Saxons," whether Whiteboys, Whitefeet, or Riband-
men, preferring the work of midnight assassination to
open fighting in the light of day. By their wretched
policy in pampering Papineau and Mackenzie, and pro.
moting to places of trust and profit their insolent tools,
the Whigs succeeded in adding to the embarassments
of the empire two successive rebellions in Canada. We
think it required still more ingenuity to induce insurrec-
tionary movements in Wales. But the thing has been
accomplished. The Welch hills have suddenly
poured down a tumultuous torrent of desperate
men, who, unlike the Irish barbarians, rushed
upon the musket balls and bayonets of the military.
Thanks to Whig foresight, there were very few of the
military in Newport, in which the first attack was made,
to oppose them. But discipline and an advantageous
position enabled a handful of soldiers to repulse the
frantic courage of tumultuary thousands. It is lament-
able to think of the blood that has been shed by British
subjects butchering British subjects, while our fribble
Ministers are acting the part of court danglers—
dancing attendance upon bedchamber women and
maids of honour, and using every low art to
keep up their influence in the palace, while the
interests of the empire are falling into ruin, " Nero
fiddled while Rome was burning," and Melbourne—
the antiquated beau and veteran Sybarite—plays
the pait of a Lord in waiting and " carpet kuight,"
at. Windsor Castle, while the Queen's subjects are
butchering each other in civil conflict. But the day of
retribution is coming—the day which the last regis-
trations have foreshadowed, when the palace volup-
tuary will be roused from his " bed of roses" by the
voice of' public indignation shouting in his car the sen-
tence of ignominious and irrevocable doom ; nor will his
tutelary bedchamber-women, or Popish Privy Coun-
cillors, be able to save him. What a fate for the
Queen's favourite jester, when he shall be thrust out
from the Royal dinner-table, and " thrown upon the
resources" of his own kitchen and larder! We have
been guilty of a bathos, but how can we help it in
speaking of the chief of what the evening organ of the
Whigs calls the " lucky administration," whose eleva-
tion in the State 'seems a burlesque upon ambition.
" Lucky" is Melbourne in keeping his place and pay so
long, without political ability, attention to business, or
personal respectability. " Lucky," we say, is such a
heartless fribble in keeping place and pay so
long ; but still more "lucky" was his friend Mont-
eagle, in taking
roostingtim flight from his dwindling ex-
chequer, and on the perch of the Newport
ely
sinecure. It was only the other day that the "lucky"
Sir John Campbell, while discussing the tnerits of
Whig policy and a Scotch breakfast, boasted that the
Chartists had been put down without any bloodshed, and
without a Peterloo. This was not a very "lucky" hit
of plain John," who, though one of our most acute
lawyers and able advocates, showed that he had not that
gift of " second sight" which belongs to some of his
countrymen. Let the streets of Newport, drenched
with the blood of infatuated I3ritish subjects, answer
the premature boast of Sir John Campbell. Our
readers will see that the accounts of the Welsh in-
surrection which we hare received since yesterday,
make the affair to be of a much more formidable chi:.
Teeter than it at first appeared. Our correspondent, who
stated the number of insurgents at 8,000 in the

SUN.—The Foreign Exchanges were again heavy this
afternoon, notwithstaning the continuance of operations
by the influential firm of Messrs. Barings for the Di-
rectors of the Bank of England. It was stated on
'Change this afternoon that the credit of 2,000,0001.
opened with the capitalists of Paris by Mr. T. A. Cur-
tis, on his late visit to that capital, has been drawn out,
and without, as was expected, any improvement being
effected in the condition of the exchanges. It is, how-
ever, more than probable, that arrangements have been
made for extending—should the Directors think it ne-
cessary to extend—still further the operations. At the
latest business hours this afternoon the Exchanges were
thus quo:ed—Paris 25f. 60c. to 25f. 62ic. ; Hamburg,
13 9i ; Frankfort, 1501 ; Amsterdam, 12 ; An-
twerp, 12 3.

• - The version we gave of the recent transactions at the
Bank--erroneously stated by some of our Contemporaries
to be a borrowing of money by the Bank—proses per-
fectly correct.
The Dutch mail came in late this afternoon, with
higher prices both of the regular Debt, and of the stock
of the Netherlands Trading Company. The former
had advanced to 513-, and the latter from 160 to 166 k.
It is said that most of the new loan of 56 millions of
guilders will be appropriated to pay off the debt raised
about three years since, upon the security of the East
Indian revenues.

The Commercial Markets arc looking more buoyant.
Wrist India produce is on the rise. Teas at the public
sales went off with much spirit to-day at a further rise
of -.ld. per lb. ; of about 31,000 packages which have
passed the sales, from 12,000 to 12,500 have been sold.
The state of the Foreign Exchanges caused Consols
to close heavily this afternoon ; however, but little busi-
ness was done ; as the juvenile members of themarket, and
many of the seniors too, enjoyed the sports consequent
upon Guy Fawkes's Day, in witnessing a display of fire-
works in the market. Consols were at four o'clock at
for the Account, and 904 4 for Money ; Exche-
quer Bills remain at 6 8 discount ; India Stock, after
touching 250, fell to 2444 ; and Bank Stock to 180.
The news of the rise in Dutch Stock at Amsterdam
came in too late to have any effect on the prices here.
The Two-and-a-Half per Cents closed at 5144, and the
Five per Cents at 981 ; Spanish Stock closed at 274;
Portuguese Five per Cents at 314 ; but Belgian fell to
1004. The market for Foreign Stock looked rather
bettor this afternoon than it did in the morning.
London and Birmingham Railway Shares have ad-
vanced to 51 premium, but all the others are heavy.
Great Western at .5 discount ; North Midland at 41
discount ; Brighton at 13a discount ; and Birmingham
and Gloucester at 274 discount.

HARWICH.—The gales during the present week
have been very strong, and we fear much damage has
been done on this coast. A coal ship was seen from
here to go down near Landguard Fort. The crew
were saved. On Monday night a large vessel is sup-
posed to have been wrecked ; and on Tuesday a large
Hull steam-packet, with many passengers, got into this
harbour.

THE DIVERS AT HOLYHEAD.—During two
days last week Mr. Dean, of the cutter Lalla Rookb,
with the divers under his command, was successful in
recovering ten great guns and other articles in seven
fathoms water, a few miles to the south-east of the
South Stack Lighthouse. The property had been lost
from the Young William, Guineaman, wrecked on her
passage to Liverpool in the year 1804.
VERY PACIFIC.—We have been told that a
house in this town has received an order from the Pacha
of Egypt for 200 tons of bullets to be sent out imme.-
diately.—Glasgow Courier.

_
Sir Edward Codringron's new Flag-Captain has
not yet been appointed. The Hon. Captain Montague
is confidently spoken of, and in the event of his declin-
ing, Captain Berkeley is likely to have the command of
the Britannia, in the room of Captain Ellice, It is
understood that Admiral Fleming's flag will not be
v
hauled down
own until about the 20th inst.--
Devonport
Telegraph.
Lord Caledon is named as a candidate for the
was
fbhoimrn hie
8
vacancy in the Irish Conservative Peerage. Lord
C 1 all e 2) ;from all,
however, don is but a young
thatman
(his
lwe
Lordshipbozie heard
of
would be a valuable accession to the House of Lords;
his Lordship's principles are known to be decidedly Pro-
testant and Conservative.—Standard.