The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-10 00:00:00

ANOTHER MONSTER MEETING

On Sunday week a demonstration took place at Mul-
laghmast, in Leinster. The account of the meeting and
the evening banquet occupies only thirteen columns of the
Freeman's Journal of Monday morning. The reporter
proceeds at great length, but with considerable viva-

city, to detial all that he saw and witnessed until the
„Liberator took the chair. Mr. O'Connell, after the
usual common places, proceeds thus plainly to arraign
the legislative union. We take the following extract from
the Freeman :

`• At Tara I protested against the union—l repeat the
protest at Mullaghroast. (Cheers.) I declare solemnly

my thorough conviction, as a constitutional lawyer, that
the union is totally void in point of principle and of con-
stitutional force. I tell you that no portion of the em-
pire had the power to traffic on the rights and liberties of
the Irish people. The Irish people nominated them to
make laws and not legislatures. They were appointed to
act under the constitution, and not annihilate it. Their
delegation from the people was confined within the limits
of the constitution, and the moment the Irish parliament
went beyond those limits, and destroyed the constitution,
that moment it annihilated its own powers, but could not
annihilate the immortal spirit of liberty which belonged
as a rightful inheritance to the people of Ireland. (Cheers.)
Talz- f— '-at th' I. (Hear.) I

..e it then from me tha, .e union is volt,
admit there is the force of a law, because it has been sup-
ported by the policeman's truncheon—by the soldier's
bayonet—and by the horseman's sword ; because it is sup-
ported by the courts of law, and those who have power to
adjudicate in them ; but, I say solemnly, it is not sup-
ported by constitutional right. (Cheers.) The union,
therefore, in my thorough conviction, is totally void, and
I avail myself of this opportunity to announce to several
hundreds of thousands of my fellow-subjects that the
union is an unconstitutional law, and that it is not fated
to last long—its hour is approaching."

There is-no possibility of mistaking this language. This
is not discussion, but denunciation. Mr. O'Connell does
not affect to argue against the union as a bad law, and
call upon the people to petition.lfor the repeal of it, but
he goes immeasurably further : he tells his congregated
thousands, as a constitutional lawyer, and as their leader,
that the union is totally roid—not voidable, but void ;
and his arguments in the above extract powerfully demon-
strate his meaning, as if it were not in itself sufficiently
transparent.
The Liberator made use also of the following treasona-
ble remarks .

" I want nothing but Ireland for the Irish, and in look-
ing for that I expect the sympathy of every good man
everywhere; but I want not armed support or physical
strength from any country. In the same way I thanked
the republican party in France for their sympathy, but I
refused their support. I have physical force enough about
me to attain any end. But that is not my plan. I will
not risk one of you, for I could not afford to lose one of
you. I'll protect you all (` And we'll protect you'), until
I gain a repeal. Yes, I know that there is not a man
here, if unjustly or illegally attacked, that would not be
ready to stand in open field by my side. (Cheers.) But

ly will attack us, and we will attack nobody. There
is not a man in his senses in Europe or America that does
not now admit that the repeal of the union is inevitable.

I now am obliged to the minister

for abusing us

accusing us o(disaffection, in the Royal speech. They
lie. There is no disaffection in Ireland, but there is a full
determination to obtain justice and liberty. My advice
to you is to confide in no false hopes that may be held out
to you—to confide in nothing until you hear me say, ' J
am satisfied.' (Shouts of We never will.') And I'll tell
you where I'll say that—near the statue of King William
in College-green. (Cheers.) We have come here to
express our determination to die to a man, if necessary,
in the cause of Ireland. (Loud cheers.) We have come
here to take the advice of each other, and, above all, I
believe, you have come to take my advice. (Cheers, and
cries of 'We have.') If you obey my voice, repeal is
certain. I'll go slow—you must allow me do that, but
I'll go sure. (Hear, hear. No man shall be fined, im-
prisoned or prosecuted who takes my advice. I have led
you thus far in safety : I have swelled the ranks of the
Repealers until they are identified with almost the entire
population of Ireland. I have seven-eighths of the people
enrolling themselves as associates. (` More power.') I
don't want more power. I have enough, and only ask that
you should allow me to use it. The arbitrators are begin-
ning to sit, and the people to submit to them their differ-
ences. You will have in those courts friends who will do
justice to all parties alike, and without costing you one
farthing. 11l go on with that plan until all disputes are
decided. (` Long may you live.') I wish to live until I
see justice to Ireland and liberty proclaimed througout the
land. It will take me some time to arrange my plan for
the new House of Commons—a plan which will be one
day submitted to her Majesty when the present miserable
Administration shall be supplanted by one that can be re-
garded as friendly to Ireland. The Conciliation-hall, in
Dublin, will be soon finished, and when it is I'll call
together 300 bogtrotters, as The Times calls them, al-
though better men never stepped the pavement. But,
until I ascertain the form of the new House of Commons,
Ido not wish to go further." Mr. O'Connell then ex-
pressed his anxiety to see the Irish tenant protected in
his labour without doing injustice to the landlord, and
proceeded—" But to effect this I must get some time."
Mr. O'Connell, on ascending the platfo, in, inquired if
there was not a Goverment reporter present. The ques-
tion was immediately answered by Mr. F. B. Hughes (of
Mr. Gurney's corps), who said that he attended for the
Government. Mr. O'Connell then assured him that he
should have every possible accommodation afforded him.

REPEAL MASSES.—Throughout the entire colliery
district, in the Queen's County and county Kilkenny, the
priests celebrated mass at five o'clock on Sunday morn-
ing, in order to enable the people to proceed early to
Mullaghmast.
The Hon. and Rev. William Plunket, brother of the
Bishop of Tuam, was summoned to Ballinasloe petty ses-
sions for an assault on Martin Lally, by knocking him
down with a blow in the eye. The charge originated in
a dispute about right of passage, and was dismissed for
want of evidence.—Limerick Chronicle.
TOLLS AND CUSTOMS.—Allocation of the Tuam tolls
and customs of this year by the local corporation.—most
Rev. Dr. M'Hale, for St. Jarlath's College, £2OO ; races,
£7O; repeal temperance band, £2O. Dr. M' Hale is one
of the corporation, and was present at the meeting, which
broke up with three cheers for repeal.
BALLINASLOE FAlR.—This celebrated fair was held
last week. The number of sheep sold was 62,726, and
there was an advance on ewes of three shillings from the
previous fair. Wedders were not so much in demand,
and those scarcely obtained last years prices. The beef
trade was also much improved. One lot of 200 Wedders
sold at 455. each, and another lot of 200 at 40s each.
The prices offering for horses was good.
REPEAL ENTERPRISE.—The Repealers of Manchester
and Liver pool engaged two steamers to carry the members of
their associations to Dublin, in order that they mightattend
the great repeal meeting at Clontarf, which was to be held
on Sunday last. About 800 were expected to proceed
there from Manchester, and about the same number from
Liverpool. The entire cost would be 3s. 6d. for each
person.

HAVE WE A GOVERNMENT IN IRELAND ?—Extract
from the proceedings at the Corn Exchange on Tuesday :
" Dr. Grey read a report from the arbitration committee
recommending Mr. O'Connell as an arbitrator for the
city of Dublin. (Hear, and loud cheers.) Mr. O'Con-
nell returned thanks for the honour conferred upon him,
nd said he would devote one day in each week to assist,
oh cases as came before

with others

in arbitrations on

them. (Cheers.) He concluded by saying that he soon
hoped to see tho hall of the Four Courts empty. (Great

cheering

WARLIKE PRIEST AT FRESIIFORD.—On Sunday last,
after mass, the repeal meeting was held in Freshford.
The Rev. T. O'Shee said, " If the day should arrive in
which England should attempt hostilities against this
country, the priests of the people would be found stand-
ing by their gory bed on the battle plain."—Kilkenny
Moderator.

COMMENCEMENT OF HOSTILITIES !I ! We were rather
astonished, on coming out of Audoen's Church this day
at half-past one o'clock, to find a crowd surrounding three
police constables, two of whom were carefully cutting
from the wall the placard announcing the Clontarf Repeal
meeting. It is an inflammatory document, terminating
with the following very intelligible summons to the battle.
field :—" Irishmen ! remember the glories of Brian the
Brave.”—Dublin Statesman of Friday.
SHIP NEWS.—The Kathleen, late master Donovan,
put into Cove on Friday short of provisions, with only
three hands on board, and they in so disabled and sickly
a state that they had to be immediately removed on shore.
She was bound from the coast of Africa with oil for Liver-
pool. She left Sierra Leone on the 13th of July, and
was consequently seventy-nine days at sea. She had
lost her sails, &c., in a gale, and during the voyage the
crew became sick, and had all died but three. Captain
Donovan expired when off the coast, after experiencing
dreadful fatigue and anxiety.—Cork Constitution.
EXECUTION OF MOYLAN.—This unhappy and wretched
convict suffered the last penalty of the law on Tuesday
last at the front of our county gaol. His grandfather suf-
fered an ignominious death, and the father of Moylan—
after transportation twice, the first time for seven years,
and the second time for life—forfeited that life for a gross
criminal offence in our antipodes. This man exhibited
all the characteristics of a reckless being. With the

hardness of iniquity, and the doggedness Of extreme ig-
norance, he appeared to think that the few minutes of
punishment in this life would terminate his sufferings for
ever. " What matter," was the wretched being's excla-
mation, " two moments, and it is all over!" Moylan
made no declaration of his guilt.—Nenagh Guardian.

THE COUNCIL OF THREE HUNDRED.—At a tagrag
meeting of repeal wardens held last week in the " city of
the violated treaty," the following bombastic resolution
was carried nem. con. :—" Resolved, that inasmuch as
Limerick—glorious in historic page, for successfully re-
sisting the furious and sanguinary onslaught of the ruth-
less invader—Limerick, that has imprinted upon the
name of Ireland the imperishable word ' unconquered'—
Limerick, that has invariably given the fire and
tone to popular national proceedings, even in our
own day, is called upon most imperatively at this critical
juncture of our country's fate to stand forward and rally
round the Liberator, and make the necessary preparations

to nominate four members of the council. of three hun-
dred Irishmen." There has been a vast consumption of
small talk respecting the anxiety of numberless respectable
gentlemen (names unknown) to bid a long farewell to £lOO
for the questionable honour of being enrolled members of
the convention of 300, to be assembled in Dublin Mr.
O'Connell only knows when. With the exception of
Mr. Daniel Callaghan, one of the city of Cork members,
' gentlemen" appear to be in no wonderful hurry to part
with their money.

A PROTESTANT BISHOP AT ROME.—Recent English
travellers in Italy relate that the Hon. Thomas Plunkett,
Bishop of Tuam, Ardagh, Killala, &c., attended high
mass at St. Peter's at Rome, on Easter Sunday, and it is
likewise reported that his lordship had an interview with
the Pope, who addressed him in words to this effect :
" I thank you, my lord, for the kindness you have at all
times shown. to my Irish subjects." It were as well,
perhaps, that a bishop, and especially an Irish bishop,
should not absent himself from his diocesan duties and
travel for his pleasure in foreign countries at a moment
like this ; but to attend high mass at Rome, and to desert
the Protestant service of Easter Sunday, as it is well per-
formed there by an English clergyman, is a matter that
has surprised the Italians, and grieved the English. If
the words ascribed to the Pope be true, and he claimed
Queen Victoria's subjects as his own, surely it becomes
us to ask, whether the reply was such as it ought to have
been ? Did the bishop tell his holiness that no " Italian
priest shall tithe or toll in our dominions ?" Did he deny,
as he ought to have done, the pope's usurped authority ?
—Correspondent of a Weekly Paper.

NARROW ESCAPE OF THE TOWN OF COVE.—While
her Majesty's Brig the Lynx, a vessel mounting three guns
of formidable calibre, but pierced for ten, was lying off
Cove, her Commander, Captain Burslem, one day gave
the order to clear the decks for action ! the order was
quickly obeyed, the drums beat to quarters, the three
guns were primed and loaded, in fact double shotted, and
the crew waited in breathless silence and astonishment
for what was to follow; but they were not long kept in
suspense, for in a few minutes after Captain Burslem
ordered the guns to be fired upon the Town 1 The officers
next in command were horror struck at hearing such an
order, and though feeling the tremendous risk they would,
under almost any other circumstances, run by interfering
with the order of their Captain, yet in this case they
clearly saw that they would be fully justified in preventing
the execution of an order by which perhaps thousands of
her M ajesty's peaceable and loyal subjects would be hurled
to destruction in the midst of the most profound tran-
quility and peace. Accordingly, the first Lieutenant and
one or two of the other Officers consulted for a moment,
ere the fatal command should be carried into effect, and
having arrived at the conclusion that no such order could
by any possibility have been given by any man in his sen-
ses, and without the least provocation, they contrived to
induce the Captain to go below for a moment, and suspend
the order ; this he complied with, and having been got
into his own cabin every precaution was taken to secure
him, and the whole affair reported to the Admiral. Cap-
tain Burslem was immediately removed, and the Lynx is
now in the Shannon, under the command of her first
lieutenant. It has been stated that on two or three occa-
sions of late Captain Burslem had evinced svmptons im-
intellect, but never before to such an extent.—Cork Re-
porter.—[The Cork Constitution copies the preceding,
but throws a doubt upon its accuracy.]

THE REPEAL ASSOCIATION.-At the weekly meeting
of the Repeal Association in Dublin, on Monday, Ahas-
cragh was restored to the map of Ireland, and its people
to their station in the front ranks of Repeal. The motion
was made by Mr. O'Connell, at the request of Lord
French, which the Liberator considered as a command,
and passed unanimously. Mr. O'Connell then called the
attention of the meeting to a seditious placard that has
been lately posted up at Omagh, calling on the tenantry
of Lord Bellmore, and Sir H. Bruce, to meet on the first
Monday in November next, to consider what amount of
rent the times will enable them to pay, half rent only and
half county cess—no payment of rent till after the meet-
ing. Any tenant who keeps back, is to prepare for a
night visit, first to his haggard, and nest to his person.
Mr. O'Connell condemned this notice as highly criminal,
and stated that its authors deserved punishment. He
complained of the bad accounts he got from Dundalk
about Ribbonism, which he censured strongly, and that
it must end in the destruction of all concerned in it. A
long letter was read from Mr. Sharman Crawford, cor-
recting a mistake of Mr. O'Connell's respecting his, Mr.
Crawford's bill, giving power to the tenant to claim com-
pensation for all buildings and improvements made on
the farm, with or without the consent of the landlord.
Several letters were then read from Halifax, Nova Scotia,
Thorold, Niagara district, Canada West, and New York,
forwarding their respective contributions to the cause of
repeal : but the most startling postion of the correspond-
ence is the following, which, with Mr. O'Connell's com-
ment, we take from the Freeman's Journal:—Mr.
O'Connell—l have got two letters which were trans-
mitted to me through Mr. O'Callaghan, to whom they
were directed. The letters are from Major-General James
Arlington Bennett and George Clinton Beckham, adju-
tant-general, offering me a military organization to assist,
and (tearing the letters into pieces) I trust it will appear
in the newspapers what I have done with them (cheers).
Mr. Mark O'Callaghan said, that although his brother
had received those letteers to deliver to Mr. O'Connell
he did not know anything about the writers of them.
Mr. O'Connell—They certainly know very little of me;
that is the way I treat their military organization. I have
a trick worth two of it (cheers and laughter). The Repeal
rent for the week was £Bl4 7s.

CAUSE OF IRELAND'S DISCONTENT.—The following
extract from the letter of a lady, residing in the province
of Cannaught, and near the scene of some of the recent
" monster meetings," has been kindly given us by a gen-
tleman now in Liverpool, who has just received it, and
will, we doubt not, he read with interest :—" There was
an immense repeal meeting at L—, but from the heavy
rain that fell, the people in general were not regaled with
much speechifying, nor does there appear as much excite-
ment as upon the former occasion—whether it is, thatthe
people have learnt better to cioke their countenances, or
that the novelty has worn off. The whole matter would
be a mere farce, and would die away of itself, if there was
faithfulness to be found in high places in England. If our
rulers would but declare boldly, that they would uphold a
scriptural ministry and Bible teaching in the land, the
hearts of the religious and loyal would be strengthened,
and the other party would discover that they had got quite
as much as they could expect to get. But as long as they
will not thus maintain God's cause, there is a latent hope
amongst Papists and Radicals that they will be able to
get hold of the Protestant establishment, and to silence
Protestant teaching. Our opponents are well aware that
two maxims are now in fashion, which, if fully worked
out, will soon root out the perfection of truth from the
world. One is, that no man is accountable for his faith ;
the other that the faith of the majority should be endowed
and encouraged. These principles prevail, it is to be
feared, to a great extent in England. There is a joy in
exciting ourselves for the Lord's cause, even in threaten-
ing times, yet, though fully persuaded that nothing hap-
pens without his express permission, nay, ordination—yet
we know also that perilous times are predicted, and that
it is by such trial he makes it manifest who they are that
serve him, and who serve him not. It really appears as
if even now he was sitting as a refiner and purifier of
silver from the dross of outward profession that is amongst
us, and that the wicked are already gathering like the
tares into bundles, each bundle marked with its appro-
priate heresy or defection. When I read your account of
the —of G—s sermon, I could not help thinking there
is teaching that will ere the end lay desolate the rich and
peaceable country. Where there is unfaithful teaching,
immoral principles spring up, and the fruits of these we
see in Wales and other places. Does it not seem as if,
though God has long winked at our unfaithfulness, he has
at length brought about a state of things in which every
plant not of his planting shall make itself manifest by the
bitter and poisonous nature of its fruit—so that already is
the axe laid to the root of the tree. But I trust the
is not a specimen of the G--- clergy in general, though,
alas! we hear of much formality and little life in most
parts of England. I have at length got a master for my
school, and it has been open for two months., The priest

is cursing and threatening, so that the people are quite
afraid to send their children. I have got, nevertheless,
25 on the books, and an attendance of about 18."

O'CONNELL AS AN AUTHOR

It is known to most of our readers that O'Connell has
written a work which he has called " M.tmoirs of Ireland."

This iliork, the Standard, having questioned the authenti-
city of a massacre said to have been perpetrated on a body
of defenceless Irish at Mullaghmast, was challenged to
read, and our contemporary has complied with the request,
and the result is the discovery of one of the most auda-
cious efforts to delude a credulous people, by downright
invention, that ever before happened. With regard to
this place of Mullaghmast. for example, what do we find ?
Here is the extract from Mr. O'Connell's " Memoirs" :
" The next instance I shall mention, occurred in the year
1577. It is thus introduced by Morrisson the historian
(folio edition, p. 3) :
" After the 19th year of Queen Elizabeth, videlicit anno
" 1577, the Lords of Connaught and O'Rooke," says
Morrison, "made a composition for their lands with
" Sir Nicholas Malby, governor of that province ;
" wherein they were content to yield the Queen so
" large a rent and such services both of labourers to
" work upon occasion of fortifying, and of horse and
" foot to serve upon occasion of star, that their minds
" seemed not yet to be alienated from their wonted
" awe, and reverence to the Crown of England. Yet,
" in the same year, a horrible MASSACRE Was, corn-
" milted by the English at Mulloghmast on some
" hundreds of the most peaceable of the Irish gen-
" try, invited thither on the public faith and under
" the protection of government."
Reader, will you believe it—even of Dan O'Connell—
that of the sentence printed in italics, (and these italics
are Mr. O'Connell's,) there is not one syllable in Morri-
son ? From " the Lords of Connaught, &c." in the
second line, down to the words " Crown of England," in
the tenth line, the extract is a literal transcript from the
historian, but there the record stops, so far as the matter
of Mullaghmast is concerned. The five concluding lines
of the memoir are therefore.an infamous forgery. Of the
alleged massacre, contemporary writers make no more
mention than Morrison, but Mr. O'Connell has got hold
of some legendary account of a massacre said to have hap-
pened at that place. In referring to his questionable
authority, however, he finds it necessary for his base pur-
pose to resort to mutilation. His authority says the sup-
posed victims were hemmed in between " three and four
lines of English and Irish horse and foot." His " Me-
moirs" give it thus : _ . . . .

" The English published a proclamation, inviting all
" the well-affected Irish to an interview on the Rath-
" more, at Mulloghmaston, engaging at the same
" time for their security, and that no evil was in-
" tended. In consequence of this engagement, the
" well-affected came to Rathmore aforesaid ; and
" soon after they were assembled, they found them-
" selves surrounded by three or four lines of English
" horse and foot completely accoutred, by whom they
" were ungenerously attacked and cut to pieces ; and
" not a single man escaped."
The word " Irish" is here omitted. The reason is obvi-
ous. Mr. O'Connell's vile motive is to impress on the
minds of his deluded victims a belief that " the Saxon" is,
and always has been, their oppressor. It would not do,
therefore, to tell the Irish that if there was any butchery
at all (which is more than doubtful) it was perpetrated in
part at least, by their own countrymen. Thus, you see,
reader, that to carry out his detestable purposes, Mr.
O'Connell first rakes up -a fable in which Mulloghmast is
made to figure as the theatre of some awful tragedy, in
which, of course, the poor Irish were the helpless victims,
and the fell Saxon their oppressors, and then selects this
spot as the scene of his next clap-trap gathering.

WALES

STATE OF SOUTH WALES

On Saturday week two of the ringleaders in the attacks
on private property were captured near ',lanelly. The
circumstances leading to their apprehension were as fol-

low. A few nights previously aWattack was made upon
the Gwenwyth Iron Works at Pont-y-Beren by a num-
b.n- of men; they surrounded the house between 1 and 2
o'clock in the morning, and having fired several shots,
commenced battering at the door, demanding to have the
managing clerk, Mr. Slocombe, brought out to them.
His wife. in the most heroic manner presented herself at
an upstairs window, and demanded who they were, and
what they wanted with her husband? The answer of the
leader was, " I am Rebecca, and we demand to see him
instantly. The wife, however, firmly refused, stating
that her husband was not there. Finding that they could
not gain admission, they said Mr. Newman (the proprie-
tor of the works, in whose house Mr. Slocombe resides)
has behaved well, and we will not hurt him ; but if Mr.
Slocombe is not out of the country within a week, we will
make him a head shorter ; they then fired some more
shots, and made off. It appears that several persons who
were present at this outrage had been forced from their
houses to join them, and consequently information was
given to the magistrates that the ringleaders were two
men of notoriously bad character, named John Jones,
alias John Uyseborfawr, a man of about 30 years of age,
who has:been a prize-fighter, and David Davis, alias Daily
Cantwr, or David the Singer, and through the vigilance
of the police these men were soon taken, and conveyed to
Carmarthen for examination.

On Thursday night week the house of a poor woman
who had given them some offence, which was situated at
Penhrw-common, near Cross-hands, was attacked by a
party in disguise and razed to the ground.
A royal proclamation was published in Tuesday's
Gazette, offering a reward of five hundred pounds " to
any person or persons who shall discover and apprehend,
or cause to be discovered and apprehended,.the authors,
abettors, and perpetrators of any incendiary fires or of
any outrage upon the person or any of our subjects, by
which life shall have been sacrificed, so that they or any
of them shall be duly convicted thereof, and every person
who shall be so convicted, and shall receive our most gra-
cious pardon for the said offence in case the person mak-
ing such discovery as aforesaid shall be liable to he prose-
cuted for the same, except be be the actual perpetrator of
such outrage or of such incendiary fire,as aforesaid." And
a further reward of fifty pounds is offered to " any person
or persons who shall discover and apprehend, or cause to
be discovered and apprehended, the authors, abettors, and
perpetrators of any such outrages, other than those last
above-mentioned, so that they or any of them may be duly
convicted thereof."

On Friday week, about midnight, Rebecca's sister,
Charlotte, and about 150 followers visited the Turnpike
Gate, Cwmdwr. The old woman who collected the
tolls, in consequence of the threats of these miscre-
ants removed the furniture from her house, during which
time the Rebeccaites chopped up the gates and posts for
firewood which they placed inside the house and set fire
to. The party then set off to the village of Llansadwrn
and surrounded the house of the Rev. J. Jones the vicar,
whose family was disturbed from their peaceful slumbers
by the firing of a volley of guns and demand for Mr.
Jones' appearance. When Mr. Jones came forward, she
gave him the alternative of removing his furniture out of
the vicarage within ten minutes, that the house might be
set on fire, or that he should pledge his word that he
would not take into his possession a few fields which he
had purchased some mcnths since, and which adjoined
the vicarage, as it was contrary to Becca's law that he, as
a clergyman, should hold any lands—either the barn or
the church—but not both was the peremptory fiat of Queen
Becca, and backed as her viceregent was, by some hun-
dreds of well armed attendants, ready to perform her
commands, Mr. Jones was compelled, as a matter of per-
sonal safety, and not w'shing to have his house burnt over
the heads of himself, his wife and family, to comply with
Becca's demands, and to engage that the tenant who had
occupied the fields, should be allowed to retain possession
of the same at a reduced rent, the amount of which was
then stipulated. After having extorted these terms from
the worthy Vicar's just fears, the party left the place.
Two other gates in Carmarthenshire, and one in Brecon-
shire, were also destroyed last week. A farm house and
buildings near Cilycwnr, in Carmarthenshire, were level-
led with the ground on Saturday week, in order, it is said,
to prevent a tenant from taking possession of the same.
A meeting of freeholders, farmers, and others, was held
on Tuesday last, on Pen Crugybalog, near Newcastle-
Erolyn, for the purpose of adopting an address to her
Majesty, expressive of their loyalty—their regret at the
recent outrages which have taken place in this country,
and their determination to repress them, and praying her
Majesty to adopt such measures as she might cieern fit, to
relieve them from their local grievances. About three
thousand persons assembled, and the meeting altogether
was of the most orderly and satisfactory character.
All the side gates in the Breconshire Turnpike Trust,
and some of the gates on the regular mail-roads were dis-
continued on Michaelmas day at twelve o'clock at noon.

'Becca last week nabbed abum-bailiff in the exercise
of his craft upon the chairs and tables of a poor farmer at
Fosgrech, and committed him bound hand and foot to
the parish pound till the next morning. He was then
released on paying 4d., the fee on impounding a quadru-
ped. The Carmarthen Journal says, that the law officer
is now a strenuous advocate against " Cruelty to Animals"
and •'Solitary Imprisonment•"

At the recommendation of Lord Dynevor, the Lord
Lieutenant of the county of Carmarthen, the names of
twenty gentlemen have been added to the commission of
the peace by the Lord Chancellor.