The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-03-06 00:00:00

PROSPECTUS.

This Society has been formed for the purpose of tran-
scribing and printing the numerous unpublished Bardic and
Historical Remains, still extant in the Principality and other
parts of the world, which have hitherto been allowed to con-
tinue in a state of obscurity, without any effective measures
having been adopted to lay their contents before the public,
and secure such valuable literary treasures from the various
accidents to which they are liable. In addition to the gene-
ral decay, which from their perishable nature these venerable
relics have been for ages undergoing, within a short space of
time whole collections have been destroyed by fire, and of
those copies distributed throughout the country, numbers
which are known to have existed a few years ago are no
where to be found.
Besides the interest which these ancient documents pos-
sess, as objects of antiquarian curiosity, and as corributicg
to the elucidation of British History, they have claims to at-
tention of a far more general character, as being intimately
connected with the origin and progress of modern European
Literature; for it is among the legends and traditions of the
Welsh that those materials are to be found, which supplied
the nations of the Continent with the earliest subjects of
composition, and produced those highly imaginative works,
which continue to exercise so powerful an influence to the
present day.

A great body of Historical knowledge, from the thirteenth
to the fifteenth centuries, is contained in the unpublished
Writings of Wales during the wars of the Rival Roses, and
at least as far down as the year 1500. From these documents,
a very intimate acquaintance with the state of society during
the above period may be gained. The Welsh Bards were the
Chroniclers of the times in which they lived, and their Poems
are chiefly addressed to the leading men of the day. Besides
Poetry there is still existing an immense collection of Prose,
both Historical and Legendary.
The mode of proceeding adopted by the Society is, so far
as its pecuniary means admit, to procure Copies of the most
important Ancient MSS. relating to Wales, and to publish
the same with Notes and Illustrations, accompanied by Eng-
lish Translations. The Publications are to appear at such
intervals as may be convenient, in Parts not exceeding One
Guinea each Volume to Subscribers' to he paid for on de-
livery ; such Volumes to be sold to Non-Subscribers at an
advanced Price.
The Society began to make known its views in 1837, under
the patronage of His late Majesty, William the Fourth,
wbose death for a time caused a delay in its progress, but
Her present Majesty Queen V ictoria, having graciously ap_
proved of its object, and become it, Patroness, it once more
appealed in 1838, to the well known patriotism and gene-
rosity of the British Public, for the aid necessary to accom-
plish. its undertakings. As soon as adequate funds were pro-
commenced its labours in January, 1539,vided, the Society
from the Library of Jesus College, Oxford, a
by procuring
transcript of that valuable Manuscript relating to Welsh
History, called Ll..rifr Lla.ndaY, or Liber Landavensis, which
has since been collated with another MS. Copy of the same
Work in the Hengsvrt Library; it is now in the Press, and
will speedily he published, accompanied by English Trans-
lations and Notes, by the Rev. I,V. J. Rees, M.A. of Casoh,
and illustrated with several Plates and
Fac Similes. The
above Work would have been long since before the Public,
but for the unavoidable delay occasioned by the sudden and
much lamented death of its -former learned Editor, the Rev.
Professor Rees. Transcripts of other valuable MSS. are in
a state of forwardness, which the Society hopes, on collect-
ing sufficient Funds, to publish without delay.
Donations and Annual Subscriptions, together with Orders
for Copies of the Works, are respectfully
requested to be
forwarded to the Honorary. Secretary, the Rev. J. Evans,
Llanover Vicarage, Abergavenny. Subscribers! Names and
Orders for Copies of the Works will also be received by the
Publisher, W. Rees, Llandovery.

DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS ALREADY
ANNOUNCED.
DECEMBER 30TH, 1839.
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Sir B. Hall, Bart., M.P..
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thanisfully mimic 041 by thi Uev, .Jam Kirkdole, unr.
pool.

The recent dry and fine weather has considerably raised
the hopes of the farmers throughout the country generally.
In consequence of the great mortality among the troops in
garrison at Senegal, owing to the excessive use of spirituous
liquors, the governor has issued an order limiting the num-
ber of military cantines, and prohibiting the sale of spirits,
except at certain hours, and in moderate quantities.

ISLE OF MAN FISHERY.—The take of cod fish on Thurs-
day night last was prodigious. Immense quantities were for-
warded by the Queen of Isle to Liverpool, and there was af-
terwards remaining more than sufficient to supply the whole
island. Fine fish were sold as low as Id per lb.—Manx Ad-
vertiser.

A RARE BIRD.—On Wednesday last was captured on the
estate of William Baldwin, Esq. Stede-hill, by the game-
keeper, a beautiful and rare male specimen of the feather
legged buzzard It was taken alive, but by Mr. Baldwin's
wish was killed, for the purpose of being stuffed.—Kentish
Gazette.

The Riseholme estate, belonging to the late Mr. Chaplin,
near to Lincoln, is transferred to the purchaser, Mr. Machin,
of Gptefield Hill, through the instrumentality of Mr. George
Robins, who, it will be remembered, had it to sell last May.
The price is £60,000. The Bishop of Lincoln is to partake
of the purchase to the extent of near.£4o,ooo.—Lincoln paper.
The Beilhy Grange estate, adjoining the town of Wea-
therby, in Yorkshire, and coequal in fame with Ribston,
close by, is announced by Mr. George Robins for public
competition in May, by direction of Lord Wenlock. On the
opposite side of the town is Ribston, which Mr. Robins sold
for £lBO,OOO the other day ; and it is only a few years since
the whole town was alienated, at one fell swoop, by the Duke
of Devonshire. The amount of these three sales approach
six hundred thousand pounds.—Yorkshire Journal.

The suhscriptions at Marseilles for shares in the Medite-
raneo-Transatlantic Steam Navigation Company now amount
to 4,175,000 f. This company is not to be constituted until
its capital amounts to 6,000,000 f. nor until Government shall
have agreed to grant it an annual subsidy of 2,000,000 f. in re-
turn for the money paid for all letters, dispatches, &c. which
would in that case be transferred to the coffers of the state.
-Paris paper.

ROYAL FAMILY OF RUSSIA.—We learn from St. Peters-
burg that the hereditary Grand Duke of Russia will set out
for Germany towards the end of March. After making short
visits to Warsaw, Weimar, and Darmstadt, his imperialhigh-
ness will go to Ems and Baden, where he will he followed by
the Empress. In the meantime the Emperor will go to Mos-
cow, and probably to Odessa, to inspect the troops in the
south.

PAPAL INTRIGUES IN DENMARK.—The King of Den-
mark. according to a correspondent of the Universe, has
forbidden all Roman Catholic priests and missionaries in the
kingdom to hold any correspondence, directly or indirectly,
with M. Laurent, Bishop of Chersonesus, who has been ap-
pointed to reside at Hamburg, as apostolic vicar, by the Holy
See. The King, at the same time, interdicts that prelate
from exercising any spiritual jurisdiction within the State of
Denmark.

Taglioni still remains the star of the ascendant in St. Pe-
tersburg. Her engagement, which was for three years, will
expire at the close of the present season ; but overtures to
renew it, on the same enormous terms as the present, have
been made, which there can, we presume, be no doubt la
sylphide will accept. The sum she receives is the almost
incredible amount of £12,000 sterling per annum, with other
emoluments ; among which the truly imperial present of the
empress, and others of the royal family, figure to an immense
amount.

It is a fact not generally known to the English people, and
and not at all known to the Irish, that Daniel O'Connell,
Esq. M.P., drew up the abstract of the charter, and, together
with several other members of Parliament, affixed his signa-
ture to the document, O'Connell, upon delivering it to Lovett,
observed, "There now, there is the charter of your liberties,
and be satisfied with nothing short of it." This fellow de-
sired them to arm to the amount of 500,000 fighting men,
and he, with that force, would ensure the accomplishment of
their object—so says Feargus O'Connor in his Northern Star
newspaper.—Hrhitehaven Paper.
On the 21st instant, the Lord Bishop of Peterborough in-
stituted the Rev. John Clarke Jenkins, M.A., to the vicar-
age of Ashley St. Ledger's, Northamptonshire, vacant by
the death of Dr. Benson, on the presentation of Mrs. Gait-
skell and Mrs. Senhouse, the patronesses.
A SOLDIER'S LIFE IN INDIA.—I like this country very
much ; as to the climate I think the reports which you hear
of it in England are greatly exaggerated. In the hot wea-
ther the heat is certainly oppressive, but by means of the
immense punkahs kept continually in motion, and the pecu-
liar construction of the houses, we do not suffer much more
than on a hot day in England. As to the weather now (Dec.
15), it resembles a fine sunshiny day in October, except that
the sun is hotter and the wind cooler. We play at cricket,
and go about all day at this period of the year. You would
be astonished to see the queer houses we live in, some little
bigger than cottages. They look cold and desolate to a per-
son just arrived from England, but one soon gets accustomed
to them. We are all quite quiet in this part of the world,
since the arrangement of affairs in Caubul, and there seems
to he no prospect of a war.—Private Letter from Barrack-
pore.

DEPTRUCTION OF BREAD FOOD BY DISTILLATION.—
Strangely deluded indeed are those legislators who view the
revenue derived from the sale of intoxicating liquors as a
source of national prosperity. The destruction of grain alone
—independently of the serious evils arising from intemper-
ance, doubtless, more than preponderates over any benefit
derived from a system so manifestly immoral in its nature
and tendency. The report of the late parliamentary inquiry
on drunkenness, amongst other injurious effects of the system,
includes " the destruction of an immense amount of whole-
some and nutritious grain, given by a bountiful Providence
for the food of man, which is now converted by distillation
into a poison; " and after looking to the acknowledged fact
that spirituous liquors " are always in every case, and to the
smallest extent, deleterious, pernicious, or destructive, ac-
cording to the proportions in which they are taken into the
system, the report adds, "so that not only an immense
amount of human food is destroyed, whilst thousands are in-
adequately fed, but the food is destroyed in such a manner as
to injure greatly the agricultural producers themselves, for
whose gain, but for this perverted and mistaken use of it,
there would be more than twice the demand for the use of the
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PEAT ExTRAORDINARY.—On Thursday last, a gentleman
of this university backed himself against time, to perform the
following feats,—Kill 12 pigeons, jump over six hurdles on
foot, and leap a horse over six more, scull one mile, and run
one mile, in the short space of half an hour. The place se-
lected for the performance of this undertaking, was a mile
from Baitsbite sluice towards Clayhithe, and it being gene-
rally understood that it would come off about twelve o,clock,
tinamb
I.large concourse of persons assembled at that time, and
~betting_o commenced with great spirit at 3 to 1 against him.
accompanied'nestruckbut half-ast twelve the gentleman made his appearance,
yonhgisstfrtiheendpsigeaonndsh, eansdoon began the work of
for the performance
of this part of the undertaking, five guns, and eight traps
were provided, with 21 '
duwn they came
r, pigeons. The signals being given,
had expired, the: ne
at the time, and before four minutes
the remaining two, Pigeons were killed out of 19 fired at ; of
which 4- of a minuteone escaped, and the other was false, for
Thus this part of thew;esa allowed, according to agreement.
calculation, was expected to
which from the most moderate
was performed in three to have occupied eight minutes,
began well he showed good minutes and three quarters. Having
six hurdles, which were Pluck, and started for the first
placed abort three yards apart ;
steed, took the next six in gidiantaml having mounted his
leaping being completed in two minusttyele ; the whole of the
sthen quietly jumped into the boat, and and a quarter. He
sculled a mile down the stream in nine minutes,
apparent ease,
plaudits of the persons assembled. The next and
amidst the
to be performed was to run a mile, which he co
and last thing
a walk a quarter of the way, and the remainder mwenced by
moderate pace, this took up seven minutes and a halls onlya
accomplishing the undertaking in the incredible short Thusspacea
22 minutes and a half. We understand the wage
only five pounds, but we calculate the knowing ones dropped
.aa
their fives and their fifties upon this occasion.--Cambridge
C ridge
Chronicle.