The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-08-15 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Madrid journals and correspondence of the 30th
ult. state, that the Duke of Baylen assumed, on the 30th,
the functions of guardian of the Queew and the Princess
her sister. M. Arguelles had expressed a desire to be
allowed to deliver up himself his august wards to his suc-
cessor, but that course was considered contrary to eti-
quette, and the instalment of the Duke of Baylen accord-
ingly took place i❑ the presence of the Minister for Foreign
Affairs, the Count de Santa Colonna, and the Duke of
Hijar.
Private letters from Paris, dated Monday last, say that
the greatest activity prevails at the hotel of Queen Chris-
tina; that messengers are despatched almost daily to
Spain ; and that a constant communication is kept up
between the ex-Regent and General Narvaez and other
heads of the Christina party at Madrid.
The Journal des Debats states, that General Seoane,
who was arrested and detained at Burgos, notwithstanding
the passport which had been granted to him by the Madrid
government, still remains a prisoner on his parole. In
answer to his remonstrance on the subject, he was told
that he would be held as a hostage for the safety of such
patriots as might fall into the hands of Espartero and Van
Halen.

Letters from Barcelona of the 2d instant appear to
promise further contests between the Moderados and
Exaltados. Saragossa was perfectly quiet on the 3d. the
best understanding subsisting between the civil authorities
and Brigadier Ametller.
The Madrid Gazette of the 2d contains a circular of
the Minister of the Interior, ordering that in each pro-
vince only one superior junta shall remain, and dissolving
all the others. The juntas thus maintained are to act as
auxiliaries to the government, and their duties will be to
" procure resources of which the treasury has so much
need, and shall discharge provisionally the functions of
the provincial deputations wherever these are wanting."
A strong protest against the usurpation by the provisional
government of the authority of the provincial juntas had
13reen received from Gallicia. That document so seriously
Marmed the government, that General Serrano instantly
gave an order for twenty battalions and four batteries of
artillery to march against that province. Three battalions
left Madrid for that destination on the 2d. The Mar-
chioness de Santa Cruz had been appointed governess to
the Queen.

The Constitucional of Barcelona of the 3d instant an-
nounces that the province of Lerida had elected two com-
missioners to the central junta.

It appears that there are upwards of 500 journals in
China consecrated exclusively to the musical art, and that
almost all the considerable capitals contain two or three
theatres for operas.

A baker, at Boraas, in Sweden, has received the gold
medal, " for civic merit," for his invention of a process
to bake perfectly sweet and wholesome bread of corn, or
flour, damaged by sea-water or dampness : the process
will shortly be made known for general use.
When Narvaez and Concha left France for Spain, they
were furnished with letters of credit on the different bank-
ers of Valencia, Barcelona, and Madrid, to the amount of
£2-10,000. The parties whose names appear to the said
letters of credit are Messrs. De Rothschild and Messrs.
Ardouin, both of Paris.—Globe.

The Lisbon correspondent of the Times, in speaking of
the Queen of Portugal's daughter, says—" The new-born
princess is a beautiful infant ; and, in high circles here,
it is held to be more than probable that she is destined,
if she survives, to become the future Queen of the French.
tue t,outn, ut rails, near apparent to Lus,
is now three years old ; and the alliance, therefore, in
point of age, will be very suitable."

WALES

STRIKE OF THE SWANSEA COPPER-MEN.

(From the Swansea Journal.)

About 12 o'clock on Saturday last, it was known
throughout the town, [Swansea] that a large body of the
copper-men, in uumber about 4,000, who had struck work
on the previous day in consequence of the reduction of
wages, were advancing through the High-street, with the
intention of parading the town.
The worthy Mayor having met the procession at the
end of High-street, was proceeding to address them, when
Mr. Vivian and Mr. Benson came up. These gentlemen
pointed out to them the inconvenience of their parading
the streets, and proposed that they should adjourn to the
bank above Hafod Works. The procession immediately
faced to the right-about, and followed these gentlemen,
who rode forward to the above-named rendezvous. Mr.
Vivian then addressed them on the proposed reduction,
and entered into a comparative statement of the wages
ohtained by copper•men, and by the best hands in the
iron and other trades, expresting his desire to hear any
parties in reply. Many of the men in turn spoke as to
the amount of wages, and we gathered from their state-
ments, that the average wages hitherto obtained by the
lowest class, or ore furnace-men, was 255. per week ; the
proposed abatement of 12 per cent. will theretofore re-
duce this to about to 225.

Mr. Benson stated his assent to all that had been said
by Mr. Vivian, and Dr. Bird, the Mayor, then addressed
them, expressing his approval of their orderly conduct in
leaving the town, and after some further conversation
among the men, the meeting quietly dispersed.
The copper men still express their determination "to
hold out to the last ;" but we suspect, from the system of
surveillance pursued towards some of their number, espe-
cially among the Forest men, that there already exists a
great difference of opinion between them. They held
another meeting on Tuesday, in the neighbourhood of
Llansamlet Church, but it was not so numerously attended
as the one held on Saturday last, not more than 11 or
1200 men being present. Resolutions were passed, con-
demnatory of the proposed reduction of wages, and pledg-
ing the members of the meeting not to accept and work
at the reduced scale. We joined several groups succes-
sively, from whom we obtained the following information:
The workmen are all out, except a few employed at the
Middle Bank Works ; and upon whom the men had called
and exacted a promise that they would leave work on Wed-
nesday. All expressed themselves to be resolutely deter-
mined to continue the "strike," and seem well aware of
the importance of union amongst themselves. Our own
impression, however, is, that they are far from being con-
fident that all the workmen will adhere to the resolutions
agreed upon.
The men all complain of the impossibility of living on
the reduced wages. The reductions are stated to be as
follows :—Slaemen, from 30s. to 225. Gd. ; metal smelters,
from 30s. to 265. 3d. ore smelters, from 265. to 225. Gd. :
roasters, from 31s. Gd. to 275. Gd. ; metal calciner, from
£2 4s. to £2 2s. per watch of 12 hours ; ore calciner, from
£2 2s. to £2 per watch of 12 hours.
It is, we are sorry to say, now currently reported that
Messrs. Williams, Foster and Co. intend to embrace this
opportunity of ceasing to smelt ore at the Rose and Lan-
dore Works ; if this report is true, and we much fear it is,
there will be 500 men, who, with their families, will be
thrown out of employment.

TURNPIKE TRUSTS IN WALES.—We glean the fol-
lowing facts from a recent parliamentary return :—There
was only one turnpike trust in Wales that had no bonded
debt, in 1840. There were in that year four trusts,
whose revenue was insufficient to pay £5 per cent. on their
bonded debt ; their aggregate tolls being £473, and their
bonded debt £13,977. There were five Welsh trusts
unable to pay £5 her cent. on their bonded debt and ar-
rears of interest accruing within six years. Their aggre-
gate tolls in 1840 were £693, their bonded debt £17,580;
arrears of interest within six years, £3,658 ; total,
£21,238. There were seven Welsh trusts, whose revenues
were insufficient to pay £5 per cent. on their bonded debt
and total arrears of interest. Their aggregate tolls in
1840 were £1,015 ; bonded debt £20,968, arrears of in-
terest, £B,BBl ; total, £29,849. In 1810, there were 41
Welsh trusts, having arrears of interest not exceeding six
years, amounting in the aggregate to £24,334;—and six
other trusts, with arrears of interest, exceeding six years,
amounting in the aggr:.gate to £25,576. There are 17
Welsh trusts that can discharge their debts within 30
years, viz.—one within five years; two within 10 years;
six within 15 years; three within 20 years; three within
25 years, and two within 30 years. Since 1836 there has
been borrowed the sum of £19,470 on the Anglesey,
Caernarvon, Caermarthen, Flint, Glamorgan, Merionetb,
Mongornery, and Radnor trusts, whilst in 1840 the aggre-
gate toll income was £31,739. It thus appears that the
sum in these few trusts is equal to two-thirds of their
annual income from tolls. But this amount borrowed
does not include arrears of interest, &c. Altogether the
state of the Welsh turnpike trusts, as exhibited by this
return, is one which calls loudly for legislative interference.

IRE I, AND.

Tuesday was Mr. O'Connell's sixty-eighth birth-day.
A DEXTEROUS SWORDSMAN.-011 Thursday, the 3d
of July, Serjeant Corey, of the 3d Regiment, at Dundalk,
cut a leg of mutton suspended by a cord through with one
cut , for a wager of 60 guineas.—Drogheda Argus.
We understand it is Lord de Grey's intention to leave
Ireland about the end of this month, in order that he may
have the benefit of a few weeks residence at Buxton. pre-
vious to the meeting of his Regiment of Yorkshire Hus-
sars at York, on the sth of October.
INCENDIARISM.—A few nights since a workshop and
dying concern was maliciously set on fire at Abbyfeale,
and totally consumed. A dwelling-house in the same vi •
cinity was also destroyed in a similar manner.—Limerick
paper.

RIOT.—A desperate riot took place, the week before
last, at Turloughmore fair, near Galway. It arose out of
one of the usual local disputes between rival factions.
One man was shot dead, and two others have since died
of their wounds. Sixteen others were also seriously in-
jured.

THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION IN ENNISCORTHT.
—A letter of August 4, dated from Wexford, says :
" Poor W. D. Fayle is still living, but no hope of reco-
very. He is wonderfully collected, and has given a dis-
tinct account of all that happened the night he was shot.
There is a ball lodged in his head, but the doctors cannot
tell exactly where."

ANNIVERSARY OF THB RELIEF OF LONDONDERRY.—.
Preparations are being made by the Apprentice Boys, for
celebrating this ever-memorable day, (which brought re-
lief to the heroic defenders of Derry, wLen hope had al-
most forsaken them,) in the usual manner, viz., by the
hoisting of the crimson banner and No Surrender flags,
on the Testimonial, and the Cathedral—the firing of can-
non, and the ringing of the joy bells, &c.
The Cork Examiner gives the following report of the
Kerry assizes :—The criminal business of the assizes com-
menced on
}:riday morning at ten o'clock, and at three
o'clock Mr. Bennett addressed Baron Richards—" We
have nothing more to do, my Lord." Baron Richards—
" That is very extraordinary, indeed; it is, I am sure,
without a parallel—this is, in truth, matter for sincere
congratulation." There was not a single indictment for
a capital offence, and only seven trials altogether.
INTRODUCTION OF A YANKEE EDITOR AT THE CORN
EXCHANGE.—We have the following in the Times report
of the proceedings at the Corn Exchange :—" The procee-
dings were here interrupted for a moment by the intro-
duction of Mr. James Gordon Bennett, whose card Tom
Steele handed to Mr. O'Connell, intimating that its ow-
ner (who then stood beside Mr. O'Connell) was the pro-
prietor of the New York Herald. Mr. O'Connell.—l
wish he would stay where he came from ; it is a much
fitter place for him than this. We don't want him here.
[Mr. Bennett, a gentleman about 50 years of age, sud-
denly retreated, as he entered, across the table.] He is
one of the conductors of one of the vilest gazettes ever
published by infamous publishers. (Laughter and a par-
tial disposition to hisses. which were suppressed by the
chair and persons around it.)"
REPEAL IN Wicictow.—On Sunday last the "grand
and overwhelming " demonstration in favour of repeal
took place on the very verge of Carlow county, near the
town of Baltinglass ; and if the absence of all the edu-
cated classes and of the gentry to a man may be taken as
evidence of failure, never had Mr. O'Connell more sub-
stantial cause for bitter disappointment. Wicklow county,
as will be seen by a reference to the Dublin di rectory,
can boast of seventy-nine magistrates, all of them, with
very few exceptions, residents on their estates ; and of
these how many were present, at the commencement of
the present week, to sanction the repeal movement, or
welcome the patriotic liberator? Why, not a single man.
Not even could his own son-in-law, Mr. Christopher
Fitzsimons though a native of the county, and holding a
commission of the peace, be prevailed upon to lend any
countenance to the atrocious imposture. Of the utter
worthlessness of Sunday's display, as an exponent of
public opinion in Wicklow, we can desire no better proof
than is afforded by the fact, that the persons who officiated
as chairmen, both before and after dinner, were two
farmers and a Roman catholic priest.—Dublin Packet.
BIBLE BURNING.—A correspondent of the Cork Con-
stitution, who gives his name, makes the following de-
plorable statement with reference to a priest in that neigh-
bourhood :—" His reverence visited lately one of the
houses of his parishioners, and entered into conversation
with a girl of about 14 years of age, inquired about her
attendance at school, and desired her to leave her uncle's
school and go to his, which she of course refused. He
then asked her to read a lesson to him. She replied she
had no book. Some one present remarked she had her
bible. 0 that will do,' said he, bring the bible.' She
brought it, and he took the sacred volume from her hands,
and looking into it he exclaimed, ' it is only fit to be
burned ;' and rising up he proceeded towards the fire.
The poor girl, struck with grief and horror, ran to him
and used her utmost efforts to prevent his accomplishing
his diabolical purpose : but he seized her by the arm and
threw the bible into the fire; and thinking that it did not
burn fast enough, he took the tongs, opened it out and
held it in the blaze, and when be saw it nearly comsumed
he went to the door and said to some persons who were
there, ' come in and warm yourselves at the blaze of the
Protestant bible.' "—[Truly popery is unchanged and un-
changeable.]

GROSS OUTRAGE.—On Monday Mr. Gypson ascended
in his balloon from Portobello Gardens, and succeeded in
making a safe desepnt . i is r-- .--,-
chately the balloon was seized by a mob, who demanded
money from the aeronaut, which he refused to give. A
great struggle then ensued between some few respectable
persons who took Mr nyr.nn'Q hart. and the majority
or cue drown, as to the disposal of the balloon, when the
latter cried out, •` Let it go." Some endeavoured to drag
it over the wall enclosing the field, and others cut the net,
while Mr. Gypson's friends attempted to defeat their pur-
pose, but in vain, for the mob cut the net to such an ex-
tent that the balloon turned literally upsiC..., down and
escaped out of the netting. Mr. Gypson having got out
of the car with great difficulty, seeing the riot, and hear-
ing the cry of " Let it go," thought to seize the valve-
rope, when a huge coal-porter, as if acquainted with its
effect, tied up the bottom of the balloon, and the people
tore off the car with the utmost violence. Mr. Gypson
was thrown down and seriously injured. The balloon
went off towards Howth in a slanting direction, the neck
tending upwards, and the netting hanging down, which
those at a distance supposed to be the car. So soon as it
was seen that it was fairly out of reach, a horrid yell of
delight escaped from the mob. Two of the ringleaders
were taken into custody. Mr. Gypson estimates his loss
at £soo.—Dublin News Letter.—[This is a sad exempli-
fication of the want of civilization amongst the lower or-
ders in Ireland. The loss to Mr. Gypson will be made
good by the county, but the disgrace to the country is in-
delible, and casts a slur upon the perpetrators of the out-
rage degrading to those in the most savage state.]

A SCENE AT THE CORN' EXCHANGE.—At the usual
weekly repeal meeting, on Tuesday, Mr. O'Connell re-
plied to a letter which appeared in the Quotidienne of the
28th of July, signed by " Savory, Duke of Rovigo."
This man attacked him and his family in their private re-
lations, and now he would reply to him in similar terms.
That man was, he understood, the son of the man who
shot the Duc D'Enghein for Bonaparte (sensation), but
now he said he took a deep interest in Ireland, being an
Irish proprietor. He (Mr. O'C.) denied that ; the fact
was, he got married to a Miss Starner, of Clare, who had
some landed property, but when her friends found out she
was going to be married to a " foreign adventurer," they
secured her property by making it over to trustees for
her sole and separate use. This foreign adventurer had
not a foot of land in Ireland. He reminded him (Mr.
O'C.,) of a glazier that married a member of the family
of M'Carthy More, and whenever he got drunk-Lwhich
was very often—he refused to work, and would exclaim,
" I am a gentleman born in right of my wife." (Laughter.)
It was so with Savory, Duke of Rovigo. (Continued
laughter.) Mr. Steele : The scamp has the run of her
kitchen and the parlour. (Great laughter.) Mr. O'Con-
nell proceeded to reply to various charges contained in
the duke's letter. He designated as gross lies the allega-
tions that he (Mr. O'C.) was a middleman and a bad
landlord ; that his two sons had £2,000 a year each for
collecting the repeal rent ; that the College of Maynooth
exhibited liberality on the part of the British government
towards the catholics of Ireland, and various other alle-
gations - and he concluded by moving that the letter he
inserted in the minutes. Carried. Mr. Steele then moved
that Mr. O'Conneil's reply to this " lying and fortune-
hunting adventurer" be placed upon the minutes ; which
was also carried.

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—On Monday the usual weekly
meeting took place, in the Corn Exchange-rooms. Mr.
O'Connell opened the proceedings by calling on the
radical ratepayers of Dublin to pay their municipal taxes,
as the tories were making the greatest preparations with
a view to effect that object amongst their party. If this
call were not responded to, they would lose their repeal
corporation, and consequently a very essential ingredient
in their means of obtaining the restoration of their parlia-
ment. (Hear.) Mr. O'Connell then gave a description
of his reception at Baltinglass, where he said that not
less than 12,000 young men alone, from 18 to 50 years of
age—that being what was called in Ireland "the fighting
age," although it might begin four years sooner—had
greeted him with their heartiest cheers. The hon. and
learned gentleman introduced to the meeting Dr. Eager,
of Manchester, who handed in, amidst loud cheers, £125
from the repealers of that town and Salford. Amongst
the subscribers of that sum was the Rev. A. Macartney,
who, Mr. J. O'Connell stated, belonged to an Orange
family, had himself been an Orangeman, and was now a
Roman Catholic priest. The meeting was then adjourned
to Tuesday, when at two o'clock the lord mayor elect was
called to the chair. Mr. Ray then proceeded to read
letters containing remittances; after which Mr. O'Con-
nell handed in £1 from a native of the county of Wicklow,
who did not wish his name to be known; he also banded
in £1 from Edward Coffey, a protestant, in the neigh-
bourhood of Navan, who had become a repealer from a
conviction that nothing else but repeal could serve Ire-
land. Mr. O'Connell said he had received a letter asking
a share of the funds of the association for the Newry
Examiner newspaper, but it was a favour he could by no
means grant. The learned gentleman also announced the
receipt of 25 francs from Paris, being the subscription of
some French ladies and gentlemen, forwarded by a Mr.
Carthy, who requested that the senders might be made
members of the association. The amount of rent for the
week was announced to be £1354 lls. 4d.

A desperate conflict between a gamekeeper and con-
stable and a gang of poachers took place on Friday
morning, in the grounds near Apedale Hall, the residence
of R. E. Heathcote, Esq. James Beech, one of the consta-
bles of Audley, lost his life in the rencontre, and John
Vaughan, the gamekeeper, was dreadfully, it is feared
mortally, wounded.