The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-09-05 00:00:00

WALES.

THE WELSH OUTRAGES.—Friday's Police Gazelle
contains the offer of a reward of £5OO for the discovery
of the persons who, on the night of the 23rd ult., at-
tacked the house of Mr. John Edwards, of Gallywernen,
in the parish of Llanon, in the county of Carmarthen,
and maliciously fired therein, and also did much damage
to the house and premises adjoining.

THE BRIDPORT THEATRE BURNT DOWN.—This acci-
dent occurred early on Tuesday morning; but by what
means it is utterly impossible to ascertain. The theatre
was erected by the present proprietor and manager, Mr.
Edward Dean Davis, but a few years back, and was much
admired for its neatness ; but now, alas ! not one vestige
of its former beauties is left, and only a heap of shapeless
ruins mark out the spot where the drama's temple once
stood. Everything is destroyed,—scenery, dresses, ap-
pointments, and even the performers' private property ;
while they, to add to their loss, are by the destructive ele-
ment suddenly thrown out of employ. The whole of the
property, we fear, was uninsured.
STATE OF SOUTH WALES.—The larmers during the
past week have held several meetings, at which they have
declaimed against tithes, turnpike trusts, and the new poor
law. On Friday week the Irebeccaites - destroyed the
Glangwilly gate, near Carmarthen, and levelled the house
to the ground, the walls and roof falling upon and destroy-
ing the little stock-in-trade of Daniel Joshua, a book-
binder. Four of the rioters were identified by Joshua at
a subsequent examination before the magistrates, and the
were committed for trial at the next assizes, on a charge
of felony. A temporary shed was erected for the pur-
p'ses of the collector, but the Rebeccaites set to work
and chopped up the remaining fragment, which they then
burnt on the Sunday after their previous depredation.
The mayor and magistrates having received information
that the rioters intended to attack Prendergast gate, near
Havefordwest, determined to defend the gate with consta-
bles, having cavalry and marines in reserve in case of
need. The following description of the scene which took
place we take from the Carmarthen Journal of Saturday.
last :—" Onward they came, " Becca" leading the Van,
some fifty yards in advance, with a twice-barrel gun in
her hand, and dressed in a fantastic style, having reached
the gate the object of their intended demolition. The
mayor deeming it prudent to prevent the main body coming
up, gave instructions for an immediate attack, and the gun
of this modern Jezebel, like the gates of Somuauth, be.
came the object of capture. Williams, the police-officer,
instantly laid hold of the murderous weapon, for which
Becca struggled manfully, keeping her seat steadily on
horseback all the time, but the officer being the stronger
man succeeded in wresting the gun from her grasp, in
doing which, one of the barrels was discharged by acci-
dent, and which it afterwards proved, had killed a horse
of one of the daughters, the animal being found a short
distance from the scene of action in a dying state. The
courageous matron scampered with her motley group,
both on foot and on horseback, amounting to nearly three
hundred men ; however, not so quick, but that two of her