The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-24 00:00:00

The anti-repeal agitation declaration, published in our
last, has already received the signatures of individuals in
this county and city, representing in the aggregate pro-
perty to the amount of £200.000 a-year, and before the
lapse of another week it is confidently expected to exhibit
the names of every man of station and fortune in the dis-
trict.—Limerick Chronicle.

A MATRIMONIAL. BROKER.-At the Clonmel Quarter
Sessions, on Saturday week, a very extraordinary case
was tried, in which the plaintiff, John Reynolds, who
earns his livelihood by playing the fiddle at balls and par-
ties, sought to recover from a medical practitioner, resi-
ding in the district, the sum of £2O, for " care and dili-
gence, and labour undergone by him in negotiating cer-
tain matrimonial transactions for the defendant." He
had been engaged in four affairs, three of which had been
to no purpose. The first involved a journey to Cork ; the
second to Kilkenny'; the third to Waterford ; and the
fourth, which proved successful, to Clonmel, where the
plaintiff, after bringing the negotiations to a close, enact-
ed the parts of minstrel and valet for the individual whose
happiness he had taken so much pains to secure. A ver-
dict for 20s. was returned.

THE GOVERNMENT PROSECUTIONS.—The informa-
tion upon which Mr. Justice Burton issued his war-
rant for the arrest of the nine repeaters now under
recognizances is extremely lengthy. The information
is sworn by Mr. Frederick Bond Hughes, one of the short-
hand writers connected with Mr. Gurney's establishment,
in London. The document is of great length ; but it is
not to be supposed that it contains the whole, or even any
considerable portion of the evidence that will be adduced
on the approaching trials. The purpose of such informa-
tion is merely to lay before the magistrate to whom it is
presented sufficient grounds for the issuing of a warrant,
and it is with a view to enabling him to dispute the valid-
ity of the warrant that a late act entitles a party arrested
to a copy of the information. All this, however, has
nothing to do with the issue upon the trial in court, which
trial might indeed be had after an indictment found, with-
out any of these preliminary forms.
" MANY A TRUE WORD SAID IN JEST."—The follow-
ing appears in a prominent part of the Dublin Freeman's
Journal, with all the collateral advantages derivable from
large types, double leads, and the various other resources
of the printing-office, which it were vain to attempt de-
scribing to the uninitiated, to whom it would appear as
" Heathen Greek" :

" (ADVERTISEMENT.)

" THE NEXT MONI6I ER MEETING

" The next monster meeting is to be held at Newgate.
The head pacificator will take the chair. Gentlemen
anxious to be present will please apply for tickets of ad-
mission at the Council-chamber, Dublin Castle, or to the
office of the Crown Solicitor, 40, Kildare-street. Early
application will be neces:,ary, the number of tickets being
limited. " T. D—GRAY, Secretary."

There cannot be a doubt of Mr. O'Connell's being accom-
modated with lodgings in Newgate, for two years at the
least ; and therefore it is not at all improbable that the
hopes held out in the foregoing advertisement may be
realised to the full extent, and the adage of " many a true
word said in jest " be verified to the letter.

WALES

STATE OF SOUTH WALES

On Thursday night week a party of persons calling
themselves Rebeccaites p:oceeded to a cottage at St.
Clear's, eight miles from Swansea, knocked up the man,
named James Thomas, who resided in it, who has but one
arm, told him he had lived for a long time in a poor cot-
tage, and he should have a better residence. They then,
to the great terror of his wife, compelled her to assist in
packing up all her furniture, which they placed in a cart
at the door, and then carried the man, his wife, and furni-
ture, to a tollhouse of a gate called Pwiltrapgate, which
was demolished a few days ago, the toll-house being un-
occupied. They unloaded the man's furniture, and put it
into the house, and told him to remain there, and not go
away at his peril, and that he was not to take any toll.
The mob of people then proceeded to the house of Mr.
Bevnon, the magistrate, fired a number of shots through
his windows, and stuck the following notice on the door-
post of his house :
" Rebecca hereby gives you notice, that if you attempt
to dismiss James Thomas, now in possession of the house
that formerly belonged to the Pwlltrap turnpike-gate, you
will be remembered in future time; and any one doing so
will be dragged to pieces between four horses."
This notice was sent with 4d. to the clerk of Bethany
Chapel there, with an order to him to publish it in the
chapel on Sunday. Mr. Beynon was not at home at the
time, but on his return he found eleven sings, which had
been fired through his bedroom windows, lying on his bed.
What makes this act appear more daring is the fact that a
strong party of the 4th Light Dragoons are stationed in
the town of St. Clear's. Since this transaction some of
the Metropolitan Police have been sent there.
The same night two wheat ricks were set on fire to in
the neighbourhood of Llangendeirne.
On Sunday night a threatening notice, signed by " Re-
becca," was sent to Mr. Kynaston, of Blaen Corse, near
St. Clear's, by post, stating that if he did not return some
pigs, a calf, and other things, which he had taken as a
composition for a debt which a tenant owed him for the
rent of some cows, let out by Mr. Kynaston at so much
per head by the year, " Rebecca would in a few nights
come and visit him, and lie might depend upon it that this
was not words only." In consequence of this notice the
police have instructions to he on the alert.
On Tuesday night two more prisoners were brought
from the neighbourhood of Llanelly to the county gaol,
Carmarthen, charged with having committed burglaries in
connexion with the Rebecca outrages. The effect of the
dispersion of the London police about the country is be-
ginning to show itself in numerous apprehensions, which
are taking place every day.
On Wednesday a young farmer from the neighbour-
hood of Llandovery was brought to the county gaol in
custody of the dragoons. An auctioneer, named Williams,
of Llandovery, bought an estate, which was to be sold
cheap ; and this farmer, thinking he had got it unfairly,
sent him a threatening letter to give up the title deeds, or
beware of the consequences. The hand-writing of this
farmer Mr. Williams has recognised, and sworn to, and
be has in consequence been apprehended.