Star. — 1831-06-14 (London, England)

HER A LD.—lf the Merthyr Tidvil dreadful catastrophe has been the result at an endeavour, on the part of one or more of the iron.masters, to lower the rate of wages at the present time, it makes inquiry more requisite. It is too bad that the lives of so many human beings, if that statement be true, should be sacrificed to the cupidity of any man or set of men. There is no doubt the soldiers acted according to orders, but the country ought to know who gave those orders, and under what circumstances they were given. We should like to see a list of the widows and orphans who have to deplore this dreadful transaction. If the magistrates, the masters, and the soldiery, be free from blame, inquiry will exculpate them, and distinguish the innocent from the guilty. If, however, it should be true that the bodies have been interred without a Coroner's inquest, the Coroner is responsible to the law ; and the relatives and friends of the parties are not precluded from presenting bills of indictment for homicide, if they can undertake the expense of legal proceedings,— to the Grand Jury at the ensuing Anises. The (Wren. tape of a Coroner's inquisition is,—that if a bill of in. (liniment, preferred to a Grand Jury, be ignored, the accused party may still be arraigned and tried on the coroner's " inquisition," which is the finding of the coroner's jury drawn up in form, and signed and sealed by the coroner and the jurors. It is particularly important that the most solemn investigation, both in Courts of Justice and in the High Court of Parliament, should take place in such cases, lest military power should, in course of time, become too formidable to be consistent with the preservation of the liber. ties of a free state, or the people should become so familiar with scenes of blood, as to rely more upon the sanguinary exercise of their strength than upon the impartial dispensation of equal laws. We prejudge not this use, but public justice demands that It shall be thoroughly investigated.  Warsaw, the object of so much contemporary interest, is an ancient city, on the Vistula, bich there is nearly the width of the Thames at Deptford. For the last two hundred and tifty years it has been the seat of the Government of Poland. It contains about 100,000 inhabitants, and is a scattered town, extending three or four wiles in length, and consists of an old town and a new town on the banks. It contains noble feudal palaces, mingled with many wretched habitations. Its site is elevated so as to be above the inundations of the Vistula. Praga is a suburb on the opposite or eastern, or right side of the river, and they communicate ou a bridge of boats, which rises and falls with the floods. Warstw is an open town, with an old and extensive rastle, in which the Diet meets, and the Administration resides. Praga is low and flat, and latterly ;,,ts been strongly fortified. It is 300 miles from 500 from Petersburgh, and 160 from the  CATHOLIC PEEllB.—There are in the Peerage of the United Kingdom eighteen Catholics; eight tur England—one Duke, one Earl, and six Barons; tight for Ireland—two Earls, four Viscounts, and t io Barons; and two for Scotland—both Earls.