The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-17 00:00:00

(From our Third Edition of Tuesday last.)

The usual weekly meeting took place yesterday, the 9th,
in Calvert's Theatre, Abbey-street, the Corn Exchange
being insufficient to accommodate the numbers expected
to attend, including some hundreds of the Liverpool re-
pealers, who arrived on Saturday and Sunday. The theatre
was crowded to excess in every part. Shortly after twelve
o'clock the chair was taken by John O'Connell, M.P.
Addresses of congratulation were then presented to Mr.
O'Connell, from the repealers of Manchester and Staley
Bridge, congratulating him on the progress of the repeal
agitation. He briefly thanked the deputation for the
compliment paid to him.
Letters were read from various parts of the country,
enclosing subscriptions, and many of which were denomi-
nated " proclamation money".
Mr. O'CONNELL, in reference to a phrase in one of
these letters, said that nothing could excruciate him more
than the occurrence of anything tending to a breach of
the peace, and he would be moat unhappy if he were not
certain that repealers gave him credit for entertaining
these sentiments. He would conduct them through the
present crisis safe and sound, unattacked and uninjured,
in person or property. They should give their enemies
no occasion for triumph ; and they would come out of the
present crisis with the certainty of obtaining legislative
independence—that to which their lives were devoted, and
the struggle for which they -never would give up, ex-
cept with their last breaths. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. GREENE, of Liverpool, handed in £45 from that
locality, and read the names of the contributors, many of
whom, he said, were then present in the pit, and were
ready to do or die if necessary. (Great cheering.)
Mr. NUGENT, of Kingstown, handed in £7 10s., which,
he said, he had collected on the previous (lay at the door
of his own house, by hoisting Mr. O'Connell's proclama-
tion as a standard. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) The peo-
ple flocked around it immediately, and in a few minutes
the snm he had handed in was collected. He was de-
lighted to see the soldiers who landed in Kingstown yes-
terday sharing their bread with the poor creatures who
were asking alms on the bench.
Mr. O'CONNELL handed in what he termed his own
"proclamation" money—Xs from himself—Xl from each

of his seven children, and 255. from his quarter of a hun-
dred of grandchildr,•n. (Cheers and laughter.)
The Hon. and Learned GENTLEMAN then came for-
ward to address the meeting, and was received with great
cheering. lie said he had never addressed a public meet-
ing with a greater feeling of responsibility—with a more
triumphant conviction of the propriety of the conduct of
the people, and of the iniquity of their enemies. (Cheers.)
It was true he had passed a most hideous day yesterday,
because for hours he could not raise his confidence in the
people to such a pitch as not to apprehend that mischief
might occur at Clontarf, and a massacre of the people
ensue as the inevitable result of any disturbance. (Hear,
hear.) He would say it was not the fault of the govern-
ment that a massacre did not take place, and if he were to
go to the scaffold for it, he would not hesitate to assert that
if the government wanted to entrap the people, they just
adopted thecourse calculated to effect their purpose. (Hear)
Had it not been for his interposition a massacre would
have occurred. He now called on the people to obey
every thing having the shape or appearance of legality—
if they wished for safety to themselves and for a repeal
of the union. If they follow this course they must in-
evitably obtain repeal—by keeping themselves out of the
power of their enemies, who would never venture to throw
off the mask and raise the dagger against them—(hear
and cheers.) If they did so, it would, of course, be a
different case altogether; but he wanted to carry repeal
without shedding a drop of blood—without crime or
violence of any kind—in such a way as that lie could meet
his Redeemer without having anything criminal
to answer for, in that struggle for the liberty of his coun•
try—(cheers.) It had been said that if he was arrested
there might be a struggle. They could say nothing that
more grieved him, for it led to the inference that they did
no•. believe him to be sincere, when he told them to keep
the peace. He now told them to obey the law even if he
were to perish in consequence of that obedience. The
course of the government with respect to the Clontarf
meeting was, he repeated, calculated to cause the slaughter
of innocent people. They were in possession of the fact
for three weeks, yet did not announce their attention of
putting'it down till the last moment. Only for the activity
used, and his being in town, the friends of the people
could not have cautioned them from attending, and the
result might have been fearful. For six months the go-
vernment had permitted, nay, he might say, countenanced
these meetings ; they knew the names of those who took
part in them, yet there were no prosecutions—no hint
even of their being illegal—no caution given—in fact, on
the contrary, there was a continual acquiescence and ac-
knowledgment of their legality on the part of the govern-
ment. Up to Friday last such was the state of things,
when suddenly the government thought proper to inter-
fere with the last of their meetings, and one, too, above
all others, characterised by decent tranquillity, for the
requisition by which it was convened was signed exclu-
sively by Catholic clergymen. (Hear, hear.) Why did
they not publish the proclamation in the Gazette of Fri.
day ? The association might then have had time to pre•
vent the people from attending. It was late on Saturday
before it was issued ; and if he had not sent messengers
to the various parts of the country, whence the people
were expected to attend, there was no doubt that three or
four hundred thousand persons from the surrounding
counties would have assembled at Clontarf on yesterday ;
and, if they had done so, it would be next to a miracle if
some riot were not committed or fomented. (Hear, hear.)
Any of the low Dublin Orangemen could have gone there
and done it. (Hear, hear, hear.) He asserted that a set
of men who could act so, were unworthy of being entrust-
ed with the government of Dalkey Island. (Laughter.)
He then took out a copy of the proclamation, and com-
mented on it in a sneering and contemptuous tone, clause
by clause. One clause referred to placards calling on
people to march in military order. Of these placards the
Association knew nothing : they were anonymous. The
charge that their meetings tended to bring the govern-
ment and constitution into contempt, he utterly repu-
diated. He wished only to revive the constitution, and
this charge (to use the term of a friend when a man spoke
nonsense), mere " fudgeography." (Great laughter.) He
denounced the addressing of the proclamation " to all
magistrates, officers," &c., as illegal in language, and of
ferociaus authority, and quite different from the proclam-
ation issued in Wales, in which a complete catalogue of the
crime was set forth, and ended with enjoining all " magis-
trates, sheriffs, under-sheriffs, and all other civil authori-
ties whatsoever to be aiding in the suppression of these
outrages." In Ireland there had been no such outrages,
and the persons who issued the Irish proclamation should
be impeached for the abominable latitude as to the per-
sons to whom it was addressed. If they put such a procla-
mation into the Corn-Exchange Rooms, he would
be the first to go into it, notwithstanding. If they
sent police or soldiers to arrest them, they would
submit at once. The crime would be the govern-
ment's—the legal vindication should be theirs—(cheers.)
Mr. O'Connell then announced that he intended to have
simultaneous meetings on two occasions, but he would
not then fix the days. They would take place before the
meeting of parliament, and would be for the adoption and
signature of petitions to parliament. He concluded by
impressing on the meeting the necessity of an implicit
obedience to the laws, but at the same time never desist-
ing from legally struggling for repeal, and proposed a
resolution to that effect. . _ _

Captain SEAVER, of Newry, seconded it, and it was
adopted.
Mr. O'Connell announced the amount of the week's
rent to be £1,1053x. Id.

Major NicnolsoN, who said it was the proclamation
brought him there, was the second chairman, and the
meeting seperated after giving three cheers for Mr. O'Con-
nell.

The above we have abbreviated from the Dublin Even-
ing Mail of yesterday. In addition to the circumstantial
account given, our Contemporary states that the moment
the paper was going to press, his question of " What will
Mr. O'Connell do next," ' has been answered by n, less a
personage than Mr. O'Connell himself; for his reporter
who has just returned from Calvert's theatre, brought
an account that the Liberator had em.r.i•ed into .a solemn
undertaking
" TO PROSECUTE AT LAW EVERY MAN
WHO SET HIS HAND TO THE PROCLAMATION
PROHIBITING THE CLONTARF MEETING."
Farce after Tragedy is fair and quite in O'Connell's
view ; but he may shortly find other more serious matter
to occupy himself with.

On Tuesday, in Dublin, nothing worthy of observation
occurred, beyond the very general circulation of a rumour
that government, far from having any idea of doing things
by halves were about to follow up their first blow by a
vigorous prosecution of the leading repeaters, and it was
asserted that informations against several parties had al.
ready been sworn. The tone in the entire party in that
locality was represented as very materially lowered, and
there were very evident symptoms of an inclination to
back out of their late position.

The Repeal Association met on Wednesday for the
avowed purpose of " taking into consideration a reply to
the pro-slavery manifesto of the repealers of the State of
Ohio; and also an address to the people of Ireland, to
allay the irritation caused by the recent proclamation."
The proceedings were of a very tame character, wanting
in all that braggadocio which has characterised them in
former times. A great portion of Mr. O'Connell's sweet
breath was expended in defending his late remarks on the
character of Louis Philippe and his offer of an Irish bri-
gade, in case of a succssful counter revolution in France,
to defend the throne of Henry V. He next addressed the
meeting on the subject of the late proclamation. He had
to move that it be referred to the committee to prepare the
frame of an address to the Irish people, and to have it
printed and circulated, exhorting them to persevere in
their agitation for repeal; but cautioning them against
any excitement in the present crisis, or, indeed, at all—
(hear, hear.) He was encouraged to adopt this course hv
an address to him from the corporation of Limerick*
which he had received that morning. Having read tl i;
document Mr. O'Connell continued to say that his object
now was to soothe irritation—to calm down the public
mind, and to keep the repeal cause steadily progressing
by adhering to those principles so often inculcated by him,
p-ohibitory of physical force of any kind—(hear, hear.)
The rule now was not only to yield to authority but to
the semblance of authority. So long as the executive
clothed itself with the appearance of legal authority, so
long he (Mr. O'Connell) claimed from the people of Ire-
land submission to the law, and a total abstinence from
violence or outrage—(hear.) He was pleased to find that
from every phrt of the country letters were fast coming up,
stating that the people were universally determined to fol-
low the advice he had given, and that there was no danger
whatever of an outbreak. But it would be necessary to
repeat that advice, and to adopt every means in their
power of reminding the people of their duty. He had
himself intended to draw up an address to the people on
this subject, but he thought it better to make the address
in the shape of a speech to-day, atd refer it to the
committee to draw up the documen with deliberation.
After describing the mode in which the proclamation bad
been got up and issued, Mr. O'Connell proceeded to state
his opinion that it was a military proceedure, dictated by
Lord Lyndhurst and the Duke of Wellington, on which
the rest of the cabinet had not been consulted ; and as-
serted that it was intended to have bean read, as a kind
of riot act, at the meeting, allowing them only a quarter
of an hour to disperse before bringing the troops upon
them. (!) He proceeded then to lay down his plan of fu-
ture operations, which may shortly be described as con-
sisting in the getting up of petitions from every parish in
Ireland, as a mode of amusing his dupes until the present
excitement shall have ceased ; and then he would com-
mence his proposed simultaneous meetings. The whole
proceedings were of a most tame and craven nature, the
only feature worthy of notice being the transfer of the re.
spo,sibility of having uttered the seditious placard, calling
for the mounted repealers to proceed to the meeting at
Clontarf in military order, from the shoulders of O'Con-
nell and the Council to those of a Mr. F. Morgan, de-
scribed as one of the solicitors of the Dublin Corporation
The meeting was adjourned to Monday next.

There will be a general illumination in Cork, this day
(Tuesday), the anniversary of the birth of the distin.
guished Apostle of Temperance.
I iThe firm of Messrs. Gould and M'Namara, owing to
the combination existing amongst the journeymen coop.
ers, was compelled to send 200 firkins of butter on Fri-
day to Liverpool, to be trimmed and coopered.—Cork
Constitution.

DEATH OF THE PRESIDENT OF CARLOW COLLEGE.—
The Carlow S, nlinal announced the death on the 2nd
inst., of the Rev. Dr. Fitzgerald, President of the Ro-
man Catholic college of Carlow for a period of 41 years.
In 1830 he refused to pay the O'Connell tribute, and told
the deputation that waited On him for that purpose, that
Mr. O'Connell was " a knave in politics, and a hypocrite
in religion."

On Monday week a baker in Dublin placed a large
placard in his window, with the following announcement :
" Notice! !! The five hundred thousand penny bans pre-
pared for the great Clontarf meeting of ye,terday are now
on sale at a half-penny a piece ! We may thank the go-
vernment for this loss. But an action will be brought
fdr the recovery. And may-be they won't be able to
Pay ?"
Mr. Brunel, the celebrated engineer, with other gentle-
men, are at present in town, on an inspection of the coast,
with a view to make a packet station in the most eligible
position, for the purpose of landing English mails destined
for the south and east of Ireland. It is also contemplated
to reclaim the vast submerged lands which now lie tpeless
wastes, within our harbours and lakes.—Wexford Inde-
pendent.
THE YEOMANRY.—The Secretary of State has written
to the Lord-Lieutenants of Counties in the Northern
District of England, directing the Yeomanry Corps to
hold themselves in readiness to assemble at a short notice,
on the requisition of Lieut.-General Sir Thomas Arbuth-
not, the General Commandant of the Northern District of
England. We suppose that this order has been given
merely to provide for any contingency that may arise in
case further troops should be required in Ireland.
Intim SQUADRON.—The ships of war which at present
compose the Irish Squadron are the Volage, 26, Capt. Sir
W. Dickson, Bart., stationed at. Cove, bearing the flag of
Rear Admiral Bowles, C. 8.; the Meteor steamer. Lieu-
tenanant-Commander George Butler ; the Lynx, 3, brig-
antine, Lieutenant-Commander John Thomas Nott, sta-
tioned at Torbert, on the river Shannon ; the Rhadaman-
thus steamer, Master Com. Thomas Laen, in attendance
on the Squadron, and the Snipe Cutter. Lieutenant
George Raymond. The experimental squadron, which
comprises the Caledonia, 120, under the command of
Captain Alexander Milne, the Camperdown, 104, Cap-
tain Francis Brace; the Penelope, 22, Steam-ship, Cap-
tain William Jones, and the St. Vincent, 120, Flag Ship,
under the command of Capt. R. F. Rowley, and bearing
the flag of Admiral Sir C. Rowley, G.C.8., are at present
on a cruise, and are shortly expected in this Harbour.
The Lucifer, steamer, Captain W. F. Beechey, and the
Comet, steamer, Corn. George A. Frazer, have been en-
gaged for some time in surveying the Irish coast.

EXTRAORDINARY RUMOUR.—The Dublin Evening
Mail of Wednesday contains the following paragraph :
" An impression is very generally abroad—and exclusively
amongst Mr. O'Connell's own followers—that the Procla-
mation put forward by the Lord Lieutenant and Council,
was issued at the special request of Mr. O'Connell him-
self ; and that be was furnished with a manuscript copy,
and before the original had been in type, with a view of
having his own ready to promulgate simultaneously with
that from the Castle. We do not undertake to vouch for
the truth of this assertion ; but we can assure our readers
that it is extensively circulated as a rumour; and it is
reasonable to suppose that to it is to be ascribed the ne-
cessity of Mr. Mark Callaghan proposing, at the Abbey-
street meeting, on Monday, a vote of confidence in
O'Connell,' with the addition, that the people were re-
solved to adopt any measure that their great leader might
think fit to propose for the safety and peace of the empire.'
It is not usual, apropos to nothing, to move votes of con-
fidence, unless confidence be shaken."—[Whether this
rumour be correct or not, this much we confidently be-
lieve, viz., that there is not a man in Ireland who rejoiced
more in the course taken by government than Daniel
O'Connell. It gave him a chance of escaping a halter,
which no effort of his own could have brought about.—
ED. L. S.]

WALES.

STATE OF SOUTH WALES.

A daring outrage was committed on the night of the
6th instant, in the neighbourhood of Carmarthen. On
Saturday last, two men named Evans, master and ser-
vant, were apprehended on the information of a farmer
named Thomas, belonging to a parish twelve miles from
Carmarthen, charged with haying, on the night of the
30th September, together with others, with blackened
faces, created a disturbance, assaulted the said Thomas,
and obtained from him 40s. on false pretences. On the
same night (the 6th instant) Thomas, after giving the
information, was afraid of going home till late, and con-
cealed himself behind a hedge. About one o'clock he
heard a blowing of horns, and presently saw his house on
fire. It appears that the house was surrounded by a mob
of about 300 persons, most of them mounted and blowing
horns, hooting and firing guns. They then set fire to the
premises, and remained around, preventing any attempt
to save them, until the whole was consumed. The furni-
ture of the house, and forty cheeses, were destroyed. The
mob then dispersed. The reason assigned for the outrage
is, that Thomas had informed against two of the Rebecca-
ites the day before.
The Calvinistic Methodists of Pembrokeshire (a nume-
rous sect\ have, at their quarterly meeting, strongly de-
nounced the outrages going on, and strictly enjoined the
members of their society to mark and denounce any indi-
vidual found to partake in them.
The Chaplain of the Union Workhouse at Carmarthen,
having expressed an opinion that " the popular feeling is
decidedly hostile to the New Poor Law, and views with
disgust and abhorrence the salaries paid to its various
officers," the Poor Law Commissioners have addressed
to this gentleman a letter, expressing an opinion, that if
such are his views, he had better not " be identified with
the details of its daily administration.". Mr. Rowlands
has addressed a letter in reply to the clerk of the Union
Workhouse, in which he says, that the unpopularity of
the Union Workhouses cannot be denied ;.that thousands
upon thousands have petitioned the Queen to relieve their
wants by other means than bastiles. He adds, that were
it not for the workhouse there being garrisoned by soldiers,
" one stone would not long stand upon another."
Two men were apprehended on the 7th for destroying a
gate near Llandovery.,
On the 9th inst. a large meeting was held at Llechryd,
a fine village near Cardigan, to consider local grievances,
and particularly to take measures for the removal of a
weir that was peculiarly obnoxious to the inhabitants.
The village is beautifully situated on the banks of the
river Tivy, across which the obnoxious weir is planed.
The weir is said to prevent fish ascending the river from
the sea, to the great injury of the poor cottagers who re-
side on its banks, most of whom keep what are called
" coracles," or small wicker boats, for fishing. With
the aid of nets, these poor men are often enabled to sup-
port their families by occasionally taking salmon which
get over the weir du-ring the freshes which come down the
river. The weir having from this cause become Highly
obnoxious, has recently been destroyed by a large party
of men calling themselves Rebeccaites, and again re-
erected. At the meeting there were present many of the
gentry of the country, and Mr. E. I. Williams was called
to the chair. He proposed that, as the weir was legally
constructed, they should legally get it removed. If £4OO
could be collected, he would undertake to subscribe £lOO
himself (hear); but on this footing—that they should wait
until the next spring, the fishing season now being almost
over. On that condition he would use every exertion in
his power to obtain the required subscriptions. (Hear,
hear.)—This announcement was received with great ap-
plause. The meeting finally agreed to a petition to the
Queen for the redress of the grievance stated, and others.
In Carmarthen numerous arrests had been made within
the last day or two, in consequence, as it is said, of Jhon
Yscypwrfawr having turned Queen's evidence and impli-
cated various parties. _ _

•
A meeting of the inhabitants of the several parishes
round Llangadock was held on the 10th on a hill side
near that place. There were about 1000 persons present,
farmers and farm-labourers, many of the former substan-
tial men. Mr. Morgans, baptist minister of Tallyryn,
was called to the chair, and stated that the meeting was
for the purpose of petitioning for an inquiry into existing
grievances, and of resolving to repress nightly outrages.
He alluded to those burdens on the people which have
been often described as oppressive to them—tolls, tithes,
rents, and the new poor-law, which he designated as a
harsh and oppressive measure. Mr. Lewis, a farmer,
spoke with great animation against the new poor-law, and
the salaries paid to the union officers. The rural police
was wholly unnecessary, and would impose fresh burdens
on the people. The county rate had been most lavishly
and improperly expended without control. He concluded
by moving that a petition expressive of loyalty and attach-
ment to the %peen, and embodying resolutions similar to
those agreed upon at former meetings, to discourage
nightly outrages, should be adopted. The Queen's pro-
clamation was read, and the meeting was called upon to
discourage all nightly and other outrages. He said that
the poor-rates, tithes, and other charges, were much too
high ; but was in favour of the new poor-law. A speaker
said that the proclamation went to teach the people, in
the hope of reward, to become false swearers. Another
speaker said the proclamation amounted, in plain lan-
guage, to this—How are we to catch 'Becca? It would
be well at the same time to ask who she was. Some said
she was the mother of all farmers ; but the truth was, that
poverty was 'Becca (great cheering), and what kept her
up was grievances. She was here one day, and elsewhere
another. The grievances complained of were named in
the petition. Every one would wish to catch 'Becca, and
get rid of her. (Cheers.) The way to get rid of her was
to get plenty of food, in order to give enough to her. The
toll-bars that were oppressive ought to be taken away.
He admired the constitution of England, and thought
there was not a better man in the country than the Prime
Minister, but they would be enabled to judge of him bet-
ter after the meoting of that day. The Bible said, " He
that hath ears to hear, let him hear. If Sir R. Peel
wanted peace, let him listen to what they said. The
Chairman then put the petition to the meeting, and it was
unanimously agreed to, and the meeting separated.
The active reporter of the Times, under the date of
Thursday last, states, that in consequence of the conces-
sions made in various parts by the gentry and others, in
respect to tithes and other burthens, the happiest results
have followed, and that the country is gradually becoming
more settled. The proprietor and the lessee of the
Lle.lhryd Weir (above noticed) had expressed a willing-
ness to abolish it at a low rate of compensation, which,
coupled with the manner in which some of the gentry then
came forward to subscribe towards that compensation,
was immediately followed by expressions of satisfaction
and content by the people.
In the neighbourhood of Carmarthen nightly meetings
were still however held, and the blowing of horns was
heard amongst the hills. Fifty of the metropolitan police
had arrived in the town, and it was supposed would prove
more efficienVthan any hitherto employed. The writer of
these reports attributes much of the discontent to the op-
pression of landlords, and the tyrannous manner in which
some of the lawyers they employ proceed against tenants
by distraint. With respect to the approaching special
commission,
to the effect of the special commission just announced to
he says :—" Many speculations are afloat as
lry the prisoners taken for Rebecca outrages. Some
think that a salutary terror will be created by it in the
minds of the people, and that it will put an end to the
disturbances. This, however, is a matter about which it

is extremely diffic .1t to prognosticate. With apparent
quiet around for a few days, one is continually startled by
the reports of some fresh ou.rage or other. I am, how-
ever, inclined to think, from the changed aspect of things
here, from the people having began to state their cunt-
plaints in public meetings by day, that the fearful state of
excitement which has prevailed in South Wales is subsi-
ding. and that it will find a harmless vent in speechifying,
instead of in mischief."
On the 12th another turnpike gate in Brecon was broken
down, and the toll-house destroyed. A reward of 1:50
was offered for the discovery of the guilty parties.

SPECIAL COMMISSION.—A special commission, to be
held at Cardiff, in Glarmorganshire, has been issued for
the trial of the Welsh rioters. The judges, named in the
commission are Mr. Baron Parke, Mr. Baron Gurney,
and Mr. Justice Cresswell, and the day fixed for the
first sitting of the commission ia,Saturday, the 21st inst.
The Right Hon. Thomas Frankland Lewis, the Hon.
Robert Henry Clive, and William Cripps, Esq.. have
been appointed her Majesty's Commissioners for enquir-
ing into the present state of the turnpike laws in South
Wales, and also into the circumstances which have led to
the recent acts of outrage in that country. G. K. Rick-
ards, Esq., is to be the Secretary to the said Commission.
CONSECRATION OF LLANFYNYDD CHURCH, FLINT-
SHIRE.—This church is erected on a site generously given
by T. Brook Yates, Esq., by subscription, principally of
the Earl of Derby, Sir Stephen R. Glynne, the Dean and
Chapter of Winchester, and Wilson Jones, Esq., aided
by grants from the Incorporated Society, and the St.
Asaph Diocesan Society. The church contains 427 sit-
tings, of which 329 are to be tree. The ceremony of con-
secration was performed by the Bishop of St. Asaph in
the presence of a large congregation, among whom were
many of the first families in that part of the principality.
The Rev. E. S. Thurlow, the sinecure rector of Hope,
has most liberally endowed the new church with £BO per
annum out of the rectorial tithes.

LLANLLECHYDD CHURCH.—The old church of the
parish of Llanllechydd, in the county of Carnarvon, being
in a dilapidated state, and utterly inadequate to the spiri-
tual wants of the people, it is proposed to erect a new
church, near the site of the present building, at a cost of
about £l2OO. This praiseworthy undertaking has origi-
nated in the pious zeal of the Very Rev. the Dean of
Bangor (the rector of the pariah), who is always ready to
promote every good work for the extension of the church ;
and when we consider that the object of this charitable
project is to make due provision for the ministrations of
religion among a scattered population of 5.000, we hope
the laudable design will be brought to a speedy and suc-
cessful issue. Many of the neighbouring gentry have
subscribed.

DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY NEAR MERTHYR, IN
SOUTH WALES.—The Cardiff Advertiser of Saturday
states that this day se'nnight, as Mr. Gaccon, cashier of
the Aberdare Iron Company, whose works are in the vici-
nity, was returning on horse. back from the bank in Mer-
thyr with £2OOO in cash, to pay wages, he was stoop- d on
the mountain at noon-day between that town and Aber-
dare, by three men, and robbed of the whole amount,
which was in a portmeanteau. One of them held a pistol
to his side, and they all escaped in the first instance. An
alarm was, however, given with all possible celerity, and
the numerous workmen at the iron works, as well as the
inhabitants, immediately turned out, and alter considei able
search on the mountain discovered the three offenders hid
in a hedge—and what was not less gratifying found the
treasure concealed in various parts in the vicinity. The
prisoners were examined before the magistrates at Mer-
thyr, and were all committed for trial at the sessions, at
Cardiff. -

The same paper (in very large type) says that " The Spe-
cial Commission for trying the persons charged with of.
fences on the Borders of Carmarthenshire, is to be held
at Cardiff on the 21st instant, before the eminent judges
Parke, Gurney, and Cresswell."