The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-11-22 00:00:00

THE NEWPORT RIOTS.

COMMITTALS OF ETHERIDGE AND LLEWELLIN.—.LORD
JOHN RUSSELL'S SPEECH.
NEWPORT, Wednesday Morning, one o'clock.—Several
other leaders of the insurrection have been taken, and two
committed to-day.
Intelligence of an unfavourable description has been re-
ceived from Hirwaine, near Merthyr. Some accounts say
the men had put out the blast, whilst all concur in stating
that the chartists have turned out, and refuse to work.
This day the whole of the military here underwent an in-
spection by Colonel Considine, in Tredegar Park.
The court sat at half-past ten this morning, and proceeded
with the examination of the prisoners.
The magistrates present were, the Mayor, Rev. J. Coles,
S. Homfray, 0. Morgan, Geo. Hall, and W. Brewer, Esqrs.
The first prisoner examined was Samuel Etheridge, who
was charged with high treason and sedition.
The evidence against the prisoner was then entered into.
It presented no new feature. He was committed to take his
trial for high treason and sedition.
John Llewellin was then charged with high treason and
sedition.
Having been placed at the bar, Mr. Phillips proceeded to
call his witnesses. Their examination elicited several addi-
tional particulars respecting the organization of the chartist
conspiracy.
alt will be seen from the following extract from
the prisoners defence, that the chartists considered Lord
John Russell's speech in this town a sufficient justification of
their proceedings :—" With respect to those public meetings
which I am charged with having held in my house, and with
myself attending at otherplaces, it is not my intention to deny
the facts ; for they all havebeen public, and no secret at all is
encouraged in those meetings so far as I have understood. If
I had found out any secrets I should immediately have aban-
doned them. It appears to me, to-night, that I was chiefly
blamed owing to the existence of those associations. I was only
one single individual myself, and with respect to that meeting
held the Ist January, 1839, it was not I who called it—it was
not held on my premises. Evan Emanuel, the turner, you just
spoke of, he hired the field, where the meeting was held, of
James Bevan, of Pontypool, and he came and asked me if he
should erect part of the hustings against my wall, which was
in this field. I certainly gave him liberty, so that no injury
was done to the wall. He erected the hustings himself, so
did not consider that meetings of that kind were illegal; no
one ever told me they were. Two months, or a little more
previous to that,. Lord John Russell, secretary of state, said
at a public dinner, at Liverpool, that public meetings were
not only lawful but commendable, for public discussion lie
thought was the best means to elicit the truth ; upon these
considerations myself with many others thought that these
meetings were perfectly legal ; so, under such considerations,
I thought we were perfectly right in attending those meet-
ings. If any one had told me these meetings must be stop-
ped or put down, I certainly would have been the first to stop
it ; but with respect to the language described by the witness
here, to-night, as having been used in those meetings, I ab-
hor it; but at the same time I do not believe that one-half of
it is correct as stated by the witness.

THE ESTABLISHED Cannel,' v. DISSENT.—Last evening
a most able and eloquent sermon was preached in St. Mi-
chael's Church, Upper Pitt-street, on behalf of the Young
Men's Established Church Society, by the Rev. J. Baylee,
secretary to the Irish Mission Society, and the same gentle-
man who signally-Overcame the champion of On-enism, as re-
corded in another column. The discourse was called for in
consequence of some proceedings on the part of certain pro-
moters of the voluntary system: The church was filled with
a most respectable congregation. The reverend gentleman
selected as his text the 4th chapter of the Ist Epistle to
Timothy, verse ii.—" These things command and teach."
His purpose, he stated, was to examine " the accordance of
the Church of England with the Church of Christ, and the
discordance of independent and other forms of dissent
from the Scriptures.' Having defined the term " Church,"
the rev. gentleman entered upon a lengthened investigation
of the nature and purpose of Christ, the connection between
the church and state, the officers of the Church of Christ,
the extent of the aulhority of the church, the ordinances of
the church, the doctrines of the church, and the unlawful-
ness of dissent. In the consideration -and support of these
points, scripture only was referred to .'and a mass of quota-
tions made which testified vast research6s into the historical
as well as the practical portions of holy writ. We
have not room, or time, at this late 'hour to give even
an outline of the enlarged views taken by the preachers ,•
it must suffice, therefore, to state that he -established
most exclusively the fact, that a hational religion is
ordained and required in the sacred writings. The dis-
course, which occupied two hours and a half in its deli-
very, was listened to with intense interest throughout.
We are authorised to state that the Rev. J. H. Stafford,
A. 8., minister of St. Paul's, and the Rev. Win. Hesketh,
M.A., incumbent of St. Michael's, Toxteth-park, have been
appointed, by the Chancellor of the Diocese, surrogates for
proving wills and granting marriage licenses.
We understand that, in consequence of the lamented death
of the late John Eden, Esq., one of the trustees of the Ma-
riner's Church, Charles Stewart Parker, Esq. has been
elected to fill up the vacancy.
RoDNEYWARD.—It will be perceived from the proceedings
in the Town Council, that Mr. Harvey does not meant() defend
his seat as the representative of this ward. A new election
will speedily take place, when we trust the conservatives of
Rodney Ward will be found ready once more to take the
field against any opponent.
" OUR GOOD OLD TOWN, AND THE TRADE THEREOF."
—ln eight working days, from the 11th to the 18th instant,
"our hundred and thirty-six vessels have reported inwards at
our Custom-house, namely, 125 from foreign ports, and 311
Irish and coastwise. The details of their cargoes, as given
in the official organ, the Bill of Entry, occupy upwards of
27 columns, and measure about twenty-eight feet in length !
The outward entries in the same period were 273 vessels ; the
clearances 240. Total for the eight days nine hundred and
forty-nine vessels !
SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—There is at this time grow-
ing in a garden in the occupation of Mr. John Clarkson,
tailor, Poulton-le-Fylde, an apple-tree in full bloom ; and
what is more remarkable, this tree was during the past sum-
mer quite leafless and barren.—Blackburn Standard.
STATE OF TRADE.—A little impulse has been given to the
market since our last, through the advance which has taken
place in the cotton market ; and on some descriptions of yarn
and goods a slight increase in price has been realized. Fears.
,
however, are entertained as to the permanency of the advance
—lbid.

Pottup.

LINES.

I mourn with a heart deep laden with sadness,
I sigh in deep sorrow for joys that have fled ;
No more on my brow is the semblance of gladness,
For hopes that once raised it are withered and dead.
I stray 'neath the boughs of the spreading oak tree,
And listen at night to the nightingale's song;
Her swelling high note yields a balm unto me,
As it echoes in sweetness the branches among.
I fly from the world, its joys, and false pleasures,
That I in deep solitude solace may find,
To feast at the banquet of memory's treasures,
And sooth the deep anguish that's stamp'd on my mind
But joy ne'er returns to the heart that's imbued
With sadness for false hopes once eberish'd and bright ;
And bliss no more yields to the soul that's subdued
By the withering aspect of sorrow's black night.
November 18th, 1839. C. C.