Monmouthshire Merlin

THE LAST FAREWELL. THS bloom hath fled thy cheek, Mary, As spring's rath blossoms die, A ndsadoess hath o'ershadowed now Thy once bright eye Bat look on me, the prints of grief still deeper lie. Farewell Thy gladness hath gone by J, too, am changed like thee, and weep wlmMrmnred »iSl» and joyom tear., Discoursed my love, and told how loved I was again. finCld BBd measured phrase *Twas not in ion name We ga rh tedious eloquence, Scorning snch tedious eloquence, Scorning snch tediOflame Our hearts 01 .1 feelings fast A,ud long ilDPrig'D"e In deep sobs caDle. r>reWeLb.<ll»ei.th<>low Would that our lo™ haa That merest wordings meA lips When passion's draught to our aooiu » Turns utter woe, vorminess And our poor dream of h pp Vanishes so I Farewell! But in the wreck (If all our hopes, There's yet some tcbedJiess Since fate robs not our wret Of this last kiss; maJne8a meet Despair, and love, and madness xu In this, in this Farewell -j-,——

SQUANDERING MONEY IN LA W. PREROGATIVE COURT, FRIDAY, NOV, 6. (Before Sir J. DODSON.) DAVIES v. EVANS.-This was a business of granting letters of administration of the effects of Morgan Mor- gan, who died iutestate and a bachelor on the 4th of August, 1856. The suit was promoted by Ann Davies, one of the sisters of the deceased, against another sister, Eleanor Evans, who had taken out letters of administra- tion in the diocesan court of St. David's, and the question was whether those letters of administration were valid, or whether the diocesan court had no jurisdiction to grant them in consequence of the deceased having died possessed of bona notubilia out of the diocess. The de- oeasodwas a mariner, and owned shares in various vessels registered at the port of Cardigan, in the diooess of St. David's, his death having taken place at Newport, in Monmouthshire, in the diocess of Llandaff, and it was alleged on the part of the promoter of the suit that at the time of his death a sum of jC6 was due to him from one Elinor Jones, of Newport, a washerwoman. The shares and other property of the deceased having been sold by the administratrix, it became important to the purchasers to ascertain whether she had acted under proper authority, or whether letters of administration Ion ought to have been taken out in this court. A large body of evidence was laid before the Court in support and in contradiction of the allegation that the debt of 26 was owing to the deceased at the time of his death. The property of the deceased had been sworn under jESOO. The case was argued by Dr. Deane on behalf of the promoter of the suit, and by Dr. Spinks for the adminis- tratrix. The learned Judge, after expressing his regret that so much money should have been expended in litigation re- specting this small amount of property, said that the de- ceased died in the diocese of Llandaff, and it was alleged that at the time of his death he was possessed of bona notabilia in that diocess. The evidence upon that point was very conflicting, but even if the £ 6 in question was in the possession of Elinor Jones at the time of the death of the deceased, it appeared that it had merely been confided to her for sate custody for a night. Under these circumstances the money could not be treated as a debt in considering the question of the jurisdiction of the diocesan court, but must be treated as money in the possession of the deceased. Then, as the deceased died in itinere, and the ship of which he was master and part owner belonged to the diocess of St. David's, this Court would not interfere with the letters of administration which had been granted by the Court of that diocess. With regard to costs, as in his opinion there^ had been an unnecessary expenditure in bringing various matters of minute detail before the Court, the promoter of the suit would notbe condemned in full costs, but would pay thirty guineas nomine ex- pensurum.

LA W OF LIBEL. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, WESTMINSTER, Nov. 6. (Sitting in tSanco, before Lord CAMPBELL and Justices COLERIDGE, WIGHTMAN, and ERLB.) MARTIN v. HODGSON.- Mr. Edward James, Q. C., moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict which had been found in this case for the defendant should not be set aside, and a new trial granted, upon the ground that the verdict was against the evidence. The plaintiff was a barrister, and he had sued the defendant. a gentleman at Beverley, in Yorkshire, to recover damages for slander, imputing to the plaintiff that he had committed felony At the trial, which took place before Mr. Baron Watpon at the last Yorkshire assizes, it appeared that the plaintiff had taken some part in the late Beverley election, in op- position to one of the candidates, Mr. Glover, against whose return a petition was presented. A meeting of Mr Glover's friends was held to consider what should be done in reference to this petition, and at that meeting the dp fendant made use of the slanderous words complained nf He referred to the plaintiff as connected with tl.»\ newspaper, and described him as 6 feet hiffh !u felon stanmed in his font,lima A ft P » With J Lord Campbell said there was no ground for the inter- ference of the Court. The learned baron had left it to the jury to say whether the words did impute a felony, according to the innuendo in the declaration, and the jury thought they did not. He (Lord Campbell) thought they had put a reasonable construction on the words, aud that there was no ground for disturbing the Yerdiot, The other judgoa concurred.. „ Role refused. j i •' si The other judgoa concurred.. v Role refused. j i •' si ,j

< .}" ¥Dtf5 Corner. NOW AND THEN. BY JOHN ORITCHLEY PRINCE. {For the Merlin.) NoW is a constant warning stroke Beat by the ceaseless cloak of time, A voice our wisdom to evoke, A mandate solemnly sublime. It bids me keep the soul awake, To do the best our means allow, To toil for truth's and virtue's sake, And make the effort now. Now is the watchword of the wise, U." And often wins its wondrous way Through hosts of dangers in disguise, That wait to baffle and betray. The specious then doth oft deceive, Brings pain of heart and gloom of brow, But would we some good work achieve. Let's make the effort now. Now gilds the banner of the brave, t And Prudence wears it on her breast; That talisman has power to save From vain remorse and sad unrest. Then leads us by an easy rein, And breaks our well intended vow, But would we earn some sterling gain, Let's make the effort now. Then may not come, but now is here, All ready at our own right hand, Perchance with aspect half severe, Yelprompt to help, if we command. Strive with it, and its blessings fall Like sweet fruit from a laden bough, But these will turn to husks of gall If we neglect the now. In youth, if just ambition fires, And seems to lift the soul on wings, If the heart glow with pure desires For worthy and exalted things, Wait not, but rouse your latent power, Nor shrink your wishes to avow; The only safe, propitious hour Is the iresh, foremost now. In manhood, with our passions strong, Oft hard to conquer or to guide, If some insidious power of wrong, Has drawn our faltering feet aside, Sorrows will come regrets and fears Will make the humbled spirit bow, But to atone for wasted years Let's seek the right, and now. If 'mid the world's rude shock and strife Thou hast no sense of things divine, No yearning for the holier life, Oh what a boundless loss is thine If thou would'st hope, strength, comfort find, God's oracle will teach thee how Go with a meek inquiring mind, And hear its voices now. Procrastination, foe to bliss, Curse far more baneful than it seems, What treasure we have lost by this, In vain and unsubstantial dreams From this dear moment let us start With bravo endeavour, righteous vow Up, drooping soul, up, languid heart, And seize the golden now!

VAEIETIES^^o^ ui THB FIBBT TBiNaMTO" |ifcd 'io tta fooitemtli ibted to Leontius ^ylat" • 0f the works ofHomer, rntury, for the first t^^Scb about him..If had 4 nobody seems to know ted ^im in this transla- t been for Boecace, wj\° t h been enabled to trace niZ Latin, we the literary world » en the name of a ma He wft3 ft Greek-a native der so much obhgaUon^ QWn iangUage at Flo- Thecsalomoa, who tauguthor the Decameron has ice, and of wbomnnr,raitHis look was frightful, •en^the following portm imffiensely long » counter .nce lndeou^^ di turbed by a ard «• olackWir> ,ont meditation, he neglected in! \bsorbed in t- },e wag rude, churlish, with- t l -.r.nt forms of society > i but to make some urbanity, and without m 8kil]ed .Q the Greek ) ,vU» ior this, he was piotou j Latin hig koow. i.^e and Greek literature. « ft pi0phet hath It ,VM but superficial. Aware that a Greek rh, Hehadp«s.rff«»! Italy, and an Ita » Labyrinth of Crete. ™ are among the i. sUbsequent death to Boccaoe, irch, in describing ha8 left the world in a more d—" This unhappy ma intQ j do not belieVe serable manner t happy day. His physiog- experienced m it a p j knQW. not bQW any arks of poetic genius found their way into so gloomy a Aloibiades had a dog of cu* >1 (which was one ot Us p ^-j-ached him for acting £ One of his acquaintances p ^t^en3 rang with unaccountably, and told i Alcibiades story of his strange treament of h s clog- x 6plied-—" This is the ^ry ^ing that JL a { Qn- 'ished the Athenians to dwell uPon blame uct, lest they should find something else FBIENDSHIP.—Friendship ^G^^may as well bs »wed by heat, or violence, or accide^y The more roken at once; it can ^eTer thfi ropre clearly do we faceful and ornamental it w*s». ;t to :«a former state. Sscem the hopelessness may be cexnepted Joarse atones, if they are fra^U^v3r. gain; pr«ciQua ones, never.—»• "wn" —— What is the dog barking at ?" asked a fop, whose boots were more polished than his ideas. Why," re- plied a bystander, because he sees another puppy in your boots." An Irishman being asked on a late trial for a certifi- cate of his marriage, bared his head, and exhibited a huge scar, which looked as though it. might have been made with a fire-shovel. The evidence was satisfactory. The importance of a single error is illustrated in the following notice in a Western paper:—" The Court of Fleas and Quarter Sessions is held this week." Under suits in this court it is thought much backbiting -would be carried on. j A Sheridan, soholar, wit, and spendthrift, being dunned by a tailor to pay at least the interest on his bill, an- swered that it was not his interest to pay the principaly nor his principal to pay the interest. Dl1 TT;U A gentleman once introduced his son to Rowland Hxll hv letter, as a youth of great promise, and aa liKeiy to Of wbiob hi » but he is shy," added the father, and idle, and i tear buries his talents in a napkin." A the parent anxious for the reverend gentleman^ inouired what he thought of his son. the napkin?' aaid Rowland Hill, "at all corners, and ^THE*ORIGIN8OF SORROWS.—We fancy that all our afflictions are Bent us directly from above; think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in morose- nees and discontent. It would be well, however, if we attempted to trace the causes of them; we should proba- bly find their origin in some region of the heart which we never had well explored, ;or in which we had secretly deposited our worst indulgenciea. The clouds that inter- cept the heavens from us come not from the heavens, but from the earth.— W. S. Landor. COURTSHIP OVER THE COUNTER.—A young and pretty girl stepped into a store, where a spruce young man, who had long been enamoured, but dared not speak, stood behind the counter, selling dry goods. In order to remain as loug as possible, she cheapened everything. At last she said, I believe you think I'm oheating you." Oh, no," said the youngster, to me you are always fair." Well," whispered the lady, blushing as she laid an emphasis on the word, I would not stay so long bargaining if you were not so dear." A PULPIT HABIT.—A correspondent of the American Christian Reflector says:—"I notice in some cases a handkerchief habit in the pulpit, which has led me to inquire if the use of that very necessary article is a part of theological training. I notice some ministers take it out of their pockets, as they do their sermon, and lay it on the pulpit. Some spread it out lengthwise through the middle of the Bible; some roll it up and tuck it un- der the Bible some shake it every few moments over their heads; some clench it in their hand, as if they were going to throw it at the audience; and some keep crowding it into their pockets, and pulling it out again, with a nervous movement, as if they did not know what other use to make of their hands. I went once to hear a popular young preacher, and as much as h&lf his sermon was made up of pocket-handkerchief; and the most of the other half was gold watch and scraps of poetry." FAME.—"We make a great noise," said B6ranger, about our own small merit, and we receive sometimes singular confirmations of it, which gives us the measure of the value one may attach to a certain popularity. We were expecting several persons to dinner. Judith had ordered a tart. At the proper time arrived the pastry- cook, a young man some twenty-five years old. Sir,' said he, when he put the tart on the table, You are a song-writer ?'—' Yes, my lad. You do not make your little songs badly, and as a proof I, know some of them by heart.'—' I am much flattered.'—4 Sir, I am going to be married in a few days could you not compose some verses for the occasion ? I am sure you wouUturn. *». ,■ • do not make wedding vra Excuse me, Sir, you did make them for M. Wilhem's wedding. Perhaps you are afraid that I should not pay you. Will you have ten francs or fifteen ?'—' Thanks for your generosity, my friend, but I have lost the inspiration.'—'Ah it is a pity; as that is the pase I must go and look up big Fleury, who sings in the Champs Ely sees. For ten francs he will make me ten verses.. Good bye, Sir.' "—Lapointe's Memoirs of Beranger. POE, THE AMERICAN POET.-In person Edgar Poe was slight, and hardly of the medium height; his motions were quick and nervous, hia air waa abstracted, and his countenance generally serious and pale. He never laughed, and rarely smiled; but in conversation he was vivacious, earnest, and respectful; and though he ap- peared generally under restraint, as though guarding against a half-subdued passion, yet his manners were en- gaging, and he never failed to win the confidence and kind feelings of those with whom he conversed for the first time; and there were few who knew him long and intimately, who could never believe that he was ever otherwise than the pleasant, intelligent, respectful, and earnest companion he appeared to them. Though he was at times so reckless and profligate in his conduct, and BO indifferent to external properties, he was generally scrupulously exact in everything he did. fie dressed with extreme neatness and perfectly good taste, avoiding all ornaments and everything of a bizarre appearance. He was painfully alive to all imperfections of art; and a false rhyme, an ambiguous sentence, or even a typogra- phical error, threw him into an ecstacy of passion. It was this sensitiveness to all artistic imperfections, rather than any malignity of feeling, which made his criticisms so severe, and procured him a host of enemies among persons towards whom he never entertained any personal ill-will- He criticised his own productions with the same severity that he exercised towards the writings of others; and all his poemp,though he sometimes represented them as offsprings of a sudden inspiration, were the work of elaborate study. His hand-writing was always nettt d singularly uniform; and his manuscripts n ere in- °ariably on long slips of paper about four inches wide, Tfaich he never folded, but always made into a roll. No- thing he ever did had the appearance of haste or sloven- 1'ness a11^ be preserved with religious care every scrap he had ever written, and every letter he ever received; that he left behind him the amplest materials for the composition of his literary life.—Foe's Life and Works. BEAU BRUMMELL.—During the height of his prospe- tity I remember him coming in one night after the opera to Watier's, and finding the Maooa table full, one place at which-was occupied by Tom Sheridan, who was never in the habit of playing, but having dined freely had dropped into the club, and was trying to catch the smiles of for- tune by risking a few pounds which he could ill afford to lose. Brummell proposed to him to give up his place, and go shares in his deal; and, adding to the JE10 in counters which Tom had before him j6200 for himself, took the rds He dealt with his usual success, and in less than fL minutes won £ 1,500. He then stopped, made a fair division, and, giving £ 750 to Sheridan, said to him- There Tom, go home and give your wife and brats a Runner, 'and never play again." I mention the anecdote characteristic of the times,the set,and of a spirit of libe- rality in Brummell, which with all his faults he pos- ILsed and which was shewn towards an old friend in a way that left no pretext for refusal. -.Railce's Journal,

Mr Justice Cresswell will be the Judge of the Court nf Probate and Divorce, but, inasmuch as the Acts by which the new Court is created do not come into opera- before the commencement of the next year, no actual appointment can take place immediately. As yet, therefore, there is no vacancy among the judges of the Court of Common Pleas, and the statements made by some journals as to the probable successor of Mr. Justice n ".swell in that Court are, to Bay the least, premature THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.-The long and most tedious process of winding this enormous length of cable Som out the holds of the Agamemnon and Niagara has £ ^nmDleted, and the Atlantic telegraph, like a mon- comp ,.ybernate for the w,nter at Piy- ster snake, (.yLam-yard. A large shed has here been moutb, in 11 tbi;ilg reception; it is 120 feet by 50 wide, specially0"1 water.tight compartments; so that and divided int t lfi lengtll caa be tesle(j the perfect insulat on ox advigable> Tfae under water whenever! and thfl Xlagar;l has Agamemnon will g various alterations suggested returned to America, where Wi S&SK5-.A » »id; r may be wanting to the proper accommodation, and pay- ing out of her portion of the coil. It 13 expected that she will return to this country in the early part of next year, again to bear her part in the great undertaking under better auspices, and, we most sincerely trust, with better results. In the meantime, during the whole of the winter, Mr. Whitehouse, the chief electrician of the company, will be engaged in a variety of experiments ol the moat interesting nature upon the cable.

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. .QTAIEI ACCIDENT.—A in the death of ,t the quarries of others, occurred on *n J „ bout mne miles Cloddfa'r Son, in the 'Vale ^of from Carnarvon. A e J t0 the piston-ro4 of the taken place, owing to an ac fourteen in number, engine, and the quarrymen the deep hoN had congregated togethe They had not been low to pass the tunerin ci weii_knovvn and dreaded ,0nS ? f^r-^onwhioh they ioatoUy r.» <» the cry of Beware. v gafety 0f those at work when cabin constructed thj3 proved the worst danger is expected. Unhappuy «> about 30tons iTiStM, frfI i one mass from a height of 50 yards and strikinfagainst the ledges of stone m its descent, broke into a thousand pieces, which bounded with tremendous force to the ground, killing three of the men onthespot, and mortally injuring three others. One of the latter died almost immediately, another while being carried home and the third in about three hours after the ca- tastrophe. The names of the deceased are William Ro- berts John Parry, Hugh Prichard, Joseph Williams, and two men named Jones. The bodies presented an awful spectacle, being fearfully crushed and lacerated. Wm. Robeits, under the impression that the rock above his head was falling, rushed headlong into the danger, trying to drag another man with him, who only escaped by leaving part of his waiscoat in his hands. The injured men, though severely hurt, are progressing favourably. The accident is supposed to have arisen from the adhe- siveness of the rock being affected by the lodgment of water in a level joint, which runs to an angular point at the bottom, thus makinsr the mass top-heavy. The rock had been minutely examined only the day before. A POPULAR PREACHEB.—The Rev. J. M. Bellew, a popular preacher at a church in Regent-street, has been delivering lectures on India, at Exeter-hall, to what the newspapers describe as exceedingly numerous and fa- shionable audiences." He seems to use some very strong language. Referring to the reported escape of Nana Sahib, that "Royal beast," he asked, should Canning's clemency preserve that debauched mass of imperial infamy ? No l (Loud and repeated cheers.) No let him hang on the nearest tree with his royal robes around him. (Renewed cheering.)-The great novelty of the proceedings is no- ticed in the following paragraph:—" On his retirement he was recalled, and honoured with a renewed burst of applause of the most hearty and unanimous character." —Is not this like reducing a favourite preacher to the level of a favourite singer or actor ? In reference to this lecture the Illustrated Times says:—" It is not true that the Archbishop of Canterbury has engaged the Polygra. phic Hall for the purpose of giving a monologue enter- tainment to be called Mitres and Minstrelsy but it it perfectly true that the Rev. J. M. Bellew, who delivered a lecture on India at Exeter-hall on Monday evening, is farmed by Mr. Mitchell, the librarian of Bond-street. Never was prototype of man so cleverly pourtrayed as whpn Mr. Thackeray drew Charles Honeyman; in his powers of attracting large audiences, in the sympathy he raised among ladies, in the ring business,' and the 4 pocket-handkerchief business and now in the fact of his being farmed for lecturing by an enterprising specu- lator, dots Mr. Bellew exactly resemble his shadowy pre- cursor.The folllowing description of Mr. Bellew, who comes before the County Court judge at Canterbury on the 13Lh inst., is published in the Times, and will, we should think, tend to spoil the rev. gentleman's popula- rity—"John Chippindall Montesquieu Higgin (from the year 1846 having assumed his maternal name of Bellew, also sued, committed, and detained as John Chippendall Montesquieu Bellew), formerly of St. Mary Hall, Oxford, j*i common, near Slough, Bucks, gentleman, in no profession or employ, then of Southgate, Middlesex, then of East- bourne, Sussex, then of Worcester, Worcestershire, clerk in holv orders, theu of Presoot, Lancashire, clerk as afore- said, then of Albert-terrace, Bayswater, Middlesex, then for three months living on board the Hotspur ship, en route for the East Indies, then of St. John's Cathedral, Calcutta, East Indies, chaplain in the service of the Hon. East India Company, and for a few days while there having an exhibition descriptive of Nineveh, and lectur- ing thereon, then for three months living on board, first, the Hindostan, and then the Vectis ship, proceeding from Calcutta to England, then of Glenaoe-house, St. John's- wood, and afterwards of 2, Marlborough-terrace, St. John's-wood, then of 25, Thurloe-square, Brompton, all in Middlesex, assistant-minister of St. Philip's Church, Regent-street, Middlesex aforesaid, also author of two volumes of sermons, and next and late of the Rose Inn, Canterbury, Kent, same calling, a prisoner in the gaol of Canterbury, in the county of Kent. FINE ART ORNAMENTATION OF WATCHES.—The im- provement in the style of the designs engraved on the dials and backs of watches is becoming remarkable. The engine-turned ornaments, heretofore so much resorted to for the embellishment of the watch-case, have become nearly obsolete; and the strides which public taste has made towards a higher order of art are also manifested by the rejection of the greater portion of the mass of merely ingenious scrolls and rectilineal figures with which manufactures have of late so profusely embellished their productions. The public now demand that an educated taste shall be shown in the ornamentation of the watch. These remarks have been suggested to us by some recent visits we have made to some of our metropolitan manu- facturers' show-rooms. Amongst those visited we found none more deserving a special mention than the products of Mr. J. W. Benson, of 33 and 34, Ludgate Hill. The beauty and novelty of his designs, engraved on the cases of his watches, which he now appears to give especial attention to, certainly surpass anything of the kind which has heretofore come under our inspection. The variety of his stock is something enormous. Not only may the connoisseur here meet with the most exquisite designs, but the utilitarian will find ample choice of plain watches, while each will find, in the high standing of Mr. Benson as a City manufacturer, ample guarantee of the intrinsic value of the mechanism. The very spacious show-rooms contain a complete exposition of modern manufactures in gold and silver, and are one of the strik- ing features of Ludgate Hill.-Horning Chronicle. MORE THAN HIS RIB.-The interesting operation of transfusing blood from one person to another has again been successfully performed in Staffordshire. The patient was a Mrs. Benton, of Cannock, and the operator Mr. J. Wheatcroft. The patient seemed to be expiring from loss of blood, when two pounds were transfused lotoherveinsfromthoseof her husband with the hap- piest results. In a few minutes after the operation was performed the current of blood began to flow, the ebbing of life was checked," and the circulation being re-established, deliverance from death, which seemed to be near, was secured. The trial of this operation is suggested by Mr. Wheatcroft in the last stage of low typhus and the collapse of Asiatic cholera, if all other means should fail. EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.—A suicide of a very de- termined character was commited on Thursday, on the Bristol and Glocester branch of the Midland Railway. Between two and three o'clock in the afternoon, during the passage of one of the up goods trains, a woman and her little boy were accosted near the Crossways- bridge by a man with a foreign accent, who asked the way to some place in the neighbourhood. From the peculiarity of his manner and appearance the woman and boy were induced to watch the stranger, and they ob- served that after getting a little distance from them he made Ms way on to the railway embankment, and upon reaching it, took his hat from his head and waved it aloft, as if in the act of cheering. They then saw him descend and go along the line until the whistle of the goods train denoted its approach. The man then reascen- ded the embankment and laid his hat upon the ground, after which he descended the slope and coneeahd him- self in a crouching position behind some furze bushes. In this position he watched the approach of the train, and upon the engine arriving nearly opposite the bushes he threw himself under the wheels, and the whole train passed over him, literally cutting him to pieces. The body is said to have been identified as that of a French doctor named Briot, who left his home on Monday, in a desponding state. The engine driver states that he saw the man on the line about a quarter of a mile above the spot, and that on sjunding the signal-whistle, and ob- serving that he m 'ved off the line, he concluded that all the danger was over. Finding that the engine jerked considerably on passing the spot where the deceased had concealed himself, the engine-driver stopped the train, and on going back found the mangled remains scattered about the line. The hat was afterwards found at the spot where the woman and hoy saw it placed.

THE INDIAN MUTINIES. THE CAWNPORE MASSACRE. The following interesting passages are extract88 from a detailed account of the outbreak at Cawnpore, the long siege which the European garrison underwent, and the final massacre, and is probably the most complete and authentic record of this protracted series of horrors which, we shall ever obtain. We fear, however, from the scenes described by the first of General Havelock's force which entered the cantonments that, terrible as this account is, it falls far short of the reality, and that much more revolting excesses than are described by Mr. Sheppard were perpetrated by the monsters who are the subjects of Mr. Grant's clemency:— For the first four or five days of the outbreak our artillery kept up a brisk firing, but after that it was con- sidered unadvisable to exhaust our magazine, tor the rebels took great care to always keep well under cover, and we eould not do much execution among them. The heat was .very great, and what with the fright, want of room, want of proper food and care, several ladies and soldiers' wives, as also children, died with great distress. Many officers and soldiers also were sun- struck from exposure to the hot winds. The dead bodies of our people had to be thrown into a well outside the intrenohment, near the new unfinished barracks, and this work was generally done at the close of each day, as nobody could venturo out during the day on account of the shots and shells flying in all directions like a hail storm our intrenchment was strewed with them. The distress was so great that none could offer a word of consolation to his friend, or attempt to administer to the wants of each other. I have seen the dead bodies of officers and tenderly-brought-up young ladies of rank (colonels' and captains' daughters) put outside in the veranda among the rain, to await the time when the fatigue party usually went round to carry the dead to the well, aa above, for there was scarcely room to shelter the living; the buildings were so sadly riddled that every safe corner available was considered a great object. "The enemy now commenced firing live shells well heated, with the intention of setting fire to the tents of officers in the compound, as also to the thatched barrack, which, though hastily covered over with tiles, was not proof against fire. The tents therefore had all to be struck, as several had thus been burnt, and at last, on the 13th of June, the barrack also took fire it was about 5 p.m., and that evening was one of unspeakable dis- tress and trial, for all the wounded and sick were in it, also the families of the soldiers and drummers. The fire took on the south side of it, and the breeze being very strong, the flames spread out so quickly that it was a hard matter to remove the women and children, who were all in great confusion, so that the helpless wounded and sick could not be removed, and were all burnt down to ashes (about 40 or upwards in number.) The whole of the medicines were also there, and shared the same fate. All that the doctors could save was a box or two of surgical instruments and a small chest of medicines, so that after that was expended the sick could get no medicine. It was perfectly impracticable to save any of the wounded or the medicines in consequence of the insurgents collecting in very large bodies in the adja- cent compounds and buildings, with their muskets and swords, ready every moment to pounce down upon us, and the men were compelled to keep their places under the walls of the intrenchment, and could not bear a help- ing hand to those in the barracks. This day I saw a very daring and brave act done in our camp. About mid-day one of our ammunition wag- gons in the north-east corner was blown up by the I enemy's shot, and while it was blazing the batteries from the Artillery Barracks aMth^l'a^ directed all their „ ii».nii Imm nnn^tr our soldiers being mnefc Mtairttw with the morning's work, and almost every artilleryman being either killed or wounded, it was a difficult matter to put out the fire, which endangered the other waggons near it. However, in the midst of all this cannonading a young officer of the 53rd Native Infantry (Lieutenant Delafosse), with unusual courage, went up, and, laying himself down under the burning waggon, pulled away from it what loose splinters, &c., he ceuld get hold of, all the while throwing earth upon the flames. He was soon joined by two soldiers, who brought with them a couple of buckets of water, which were very dexterously thrown about by the Lieutenant; and while the buckets were taken to be replenished from the drinking water of the men close by, the process of pitching earth was carried on amid a fearful cannonading of about six guns, all firing upon the burning waggon. Thus, at last, the fire was put out, and the officer and men escaped uohurt. On the morning of the 27th a number of carts, doolies, and elephants were sent to the intrenchment by the Nana, to enable the women and children and sick to proceed to the river-side. It is reported that the per- sons who came out that morning from the intrenchment amounted to about 450, and a general plunder took place of what property the officers and others were obliged to abandon in the intrenchment. The men and officers were allowed to take their arms and ammunition with them, aud were escorted by nearly the whole of the rebel army. It was about eight o'clock a.m., when nil reached the river-side,—a distance of about a mile and a half; those who embarked first managed to let their boats go thus three or four boats got off a short distance, though deseited by their crews, but the rest found diffi- culty in pushing them off the banks, as the rebels had previously had them placed as high in the mud as pos- sible, on purpose to cause delay. In the meantime the report of three guns was heard from the Nana's camp, which was the signal (as previously arranged) for the mutineers to fire upon and kill all the English, and accordingly the work of destruction commenced. The boats' crews and others were ordered to get away, some of the boats were set on fire, and volley upon volley of musketry was fired upon the poor fugitives, numbers of whom were killed on the spot, some fell oveiboard, and attempted to escape by swimming, but were picked off by the bullets of the Sepoys, who followed them on shore, and in breast-deep water. A few boats crossed over to the opposite bank, but there a regiment of native infantry (the 17th), just arrived from Azimghur, had placed itself in such a manner as to prevent their escape. The boats were then seized upon on both banks, the river not being very broad, and every man who survived was put to the sword. The women and children, most of whom were wounded, some with three or four bullet shots in them, were spared and brought to the Nana's camp, and placed in a pukká. building called Subada Ke-Kothee,' and for the first three days no attention was paid to them, be- yond giving them a small quantity of parched grain each daily for food ani water to drink, leaving them to lie on the hard ground, without any sort of bedding, mats, &c. One young lady, however, was seized upon (reported to be General Wheeler's daughter), and taken away by a trooper of the 2nd Light Cavalry to his home, where she at night, finding a favourable opportunity, secured the trooper's sword, and with it, after killing him and three others, threw herself into a well and was killed. In the meantime people followed after the advance boats, which had gone adrift at the first setting off, and which contained a good number of officers, soldiers, and their families; they went a few miles, but returned without success. The boats did not, however, escape altogether, but were captured by the Zemindar of Dow- reea Kheyra, named Baboo Rambux, near Futtehpore, and the fugitives, about 115, were all sent back on caits to the Nana. They reached on the-lst July, and on the evening of the same day all the men and officers, about 75 or 80, were killed in cold blood. An officer's lady with her child clung to her husband so that it was impossible to separato them, and they were killed together. The women and children on this occa- sion amounted to about 35 in number, making a total of the prisoners, including the old lady, Mrs. Greenway, her son Edward, and three members of their family, about 150 in all. These were then removed from the Subada Kothee into a small building (near the assembly rooms), out-buildings of the medical depot, lately occu- pied by Sir George Parker, where they remained in close custody, receiving only a small quantity of dall and chuppaties daily for food for the first few days after which a little meat and milk for the children was allowed as also clean clothes were issued from those forcibly taken from the washerwomen at the station, who had them for night and day in a small low pukka*roofed house with but four or six very small rooms, and that in the hottest season of the year, without beds or punkas, for a whole fortnight, watched most carefully on all sides by a set of unmannerly, brutish, rebellious Sepoys. It is reported the lives of the poor women were spared by the Nana from bad motives, and that he ap- pointed a wicked old hag to persuade the helpless crea- tures to yield to his wishes this message, I learn, was conveyed to the women with great art, accompanied by threats and hopes, but it is pleasing to find that it was received with great indignation and a firm resolution to die, or kill each other with their own teeth, if any forcible means were employed to seduce them. Just after the defeat at Futtehpore of the rebels, a few spies (whether real or imaginary it is not known) were brought to the Nana as being the bearers of letters sup- posed to have been written to the British by the helpless women in the prison, and with it some of the Mahaguns and the Bengalees of the city were believed to be impli- cated it was therefore agreed that the said spies, together with all the women and children, as also the few gentle- men whose lives had been spared (said to be six in number out of 17 officers who had been captured about the 10th or 11th of July on their way by water from Futtehghur to this, and whose deaths were also delayed under promise of a ransom), should all be put to death, and that the Baboos of the city and every person who could read or write English should have their right hands and noses cut off. The first order was carried out immediately-i. e., on the evening of the 16th of July, and a decree was issued to apprehend the natives, Baboos, &c., after the Nana's return from the field of battle, where he proceeded, as above described, on the 16th of July, after causing the murder on the 15th of the English prisoners. The natives spiea were first put to the sword, and after them the gentlemen, who were brought out from the outbuildings in which they were confined and shot with bullets; after, the poor ladies were ordered to come out, but neither threats nor persuasions could induce them to do so. They laid hold of each other by dozens, and clung so close that it was impossible to separate or drag them out of the building. The troopers, therefore, brought muskets, and after firing a great many shots from the doors, windows, &c., rushed in with swords and bayonets. Some of the helpless creatures in their agony fell down at the feet of the murderers, clasped their legs, and begged in the most pitiful manner to spare their lives, but to no purpose. The fearful deed was done most deliberately and completely in the midst of the most dreadful shrieks and cries of the victims. There were between 140 and 150 souls, including children, and from a little before sunset till candle light was occupied in completing the dreadful deed. The doors of the buildings were then locked for the night, and the murderers went to their homes. Next morning it was found on opening the doors that some 10 or 15 women with a few of the children had managed to escape from death by falling and hiding under the murdered bodies of their fellow-prisoners. Fresh orders was sent to murder them also but the survivors, not being able to bear the idea of being cut down, rushed out into the compound and, seeing a well there, threw themselves into it without hesitation, thus putting a period to lives which it was impossible for them to save. The dead bodies of those murdered on the preceding evening were then ordered to be thrown into the same well, and 'jullads' were employed to drag them away like dogs. It is too horrible to recount further on this subject; on the night of the 16th of July the station -was deserted by the rebels, as stated above, and early next morning the English troops took possession of it, but not before the wretches had set fire to and blown up the magazine, which was done by tb* imt tho %uu about right W. J. SHEPHERD, Commissariat Department. Cawnpore, Aug. 29."

ENGLISH BISHOPS IN WALES. TI The following intemperate and violent remarks on English Bishops in Welsh Sees" occur in a speech recently delivered at Bethseda, by the Rev. R. W. Morean reported at length in the Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald We presented an extract from a very extraordinary speech by the same Rev. Gentleman some time ago, but m the present passage still stronger language is employed We express no opinion on the cause he advocate's but good or bad we think it would be more effectually advanced by the use of moderate language. Mr. Morgan's remarks are the more singular when taken in connection with the fact, adverted to by a correspondent in the Herald, that he is himself, though a minister in Wales ignorant of the Welsh language. After a few words of introduction, he said.—" Shall we, who boast to ha tha sons of such progenitors, allow our ancient church and patrimony to be plundered before our eyes, not by mailed kings, leading on their chivalry to battle, but by a set of apron bishops, haIf men, half women, and altogether Jew in their rapacity, who are not born among our hills, and are banded together to root out the very language of our race? When the fathers confronted the bear and the lion in defence of their flocks, shall the sons not grapple with the wolves, whose only religion, in the words of Milton is their maw." The church as it should be in Wales' In whose time you would ask was that? Never since a foreigner sat in a Welsh bishopric. If St. Paul and the Twelve Apostles rose from their graves, the first thing they would do would be to denounce modern Christianity -the Christianity of titles, palaces, conservatories wealth, and luxurious professors, with sanctimoniousness on their lips and in their eyes, but the greed of Simon Magus in their hearts-as the curse of God upon us for putting Christ in all our transactions, at home and abroad to be crushed under the heel of Mammon. And if St. David and his blessed coadjutors, the founders of so many of our Cambrian churches, could rise from their tombs- what would they see ? Four strangers in their seats-the Cambrian nation driven from their own sacred edifices, and the men who thus drive them revelling at theif cost in magnificent mansions, and parading in carriages amongst a people to whom they are as dumb animals as their horses. (Hear, hear.) Such are, and for a hundred and fifty j years have been, the English bishops in the Welsh aees. Turn to the probate of the wills of modern English bishops in Wales, and you will read of Lux- moores, Cleavers, Moores, and others who have never visited one Welsh cottage or taught the faith in Christ to either yeoman or native peasant, bequeathing hundreds of thousands of pounds wrung from the Welsh people- and mark you, countrymen, these hundreds of thousands have been hoarded by these bishops whilst the Welsh. people were crying out for Bibles-Bibles found for them. by Charles of Bala and other Cymric ministers driven by these bishops out of the church. Whilst plague and star- vation were strewing Ireland with famished corpses, and whilst millions of heathen souls were sinking into end- less night for lack of funds to preach unto them the Light of the Gentiles," the bishops sat in purple and fine linen, in palaces and king's bouses, adding bags of guineas to their stores and ejecting Welsh native ministers from the church at the very time when children dipd in their famine-thicken mothers' arms for lack of milk in the breast, (sic) and the name of Christ could not, from want of love to Christ, iniho richest establishment in the world, be even mentioned to the worshippers of Juggernaut and Khalya. Wales and the Welsh are alone amongst all nations the exception. They are selected as of set purpose for a spectacle to all Christendom. They are oppressed and plundered to pay prelates, who de- nounce them in return as "barbarians." They are taunted with not having a man among them fit to be a state bishop, fit to shut up the gospel, deny thA sacra • meats, and knock at the door of heaven with £ 100,000 extracted from the sweat of hia victims (sensation), for these are the qualifications of English prelates in the Principality-and then to give such consciences full scope for display, each of these prelates before he outtre his Welsh bishopric swears on the Holy Saorauient, though he knows not a word of Welsh, he is oalled by the Holy Ghost to the office of a bishop in Wales, and will preach the gospel to the Welsh. If that is not per- jury-perjury committed for the sake of money-I know not what the crime of perjury means. A man swears on the body of his Saviour that he will do what he knows he cannot do, and by such swearing he gets his Z4000 a year, a peerage, and exorbitant patronage. Everybody now t-hrough Wales knows this to be the way through which every English bishop has broken into the house of God in Wales. It has been by perjury committed on the body of the Saviour of mankind. They have received, to say nothing of patronage, about five millions from the Welsh people, and what have they done in return for this enormous sum ? Helpless for good their ignorance, their incapacity, their cupidity, their unparalleled selfishness, their brazen impiety in assuming the care of souls, to whom they could not speak, have reduced the establishment to its present most miserable minority. Then let the trumpet of a nation proclaim them what they are through every-valley and peak of Snowdon-false usurpers, no bishops of Christ's church, plunderers of the people under specious pretences enemies of God-and the souls of the Cymry.

G All D EN OPERATION S, &e. (From the Gardeners' Chronicle.) FLOWER GARDEN AND SHRUBBEHIES.—Choice plants in borders intended to be protected for the winter by slightly covering their roots, &c., should seen to at once Moss, where it can be obtained in good thick flakes is by no means a bad protecting material; but unless it can be procured in pieces of considerable thickness it is not so efficient or useful as spent tan, coal-ashes, or half decayed leaves. Also see to getting fuchsias, and such things as are usually protected for the winter by povering, secured against frost before it is too late. Dry fern i* an excel lent material for covering the stems, &c., of plants that require a slight protection in winter, and is, doubtless the least objectionable as regards colour of anything at command but this is not easily procured in many neigh- bourhoods, and probably the best substitute is straw that has been exposed to the weather sufficiently- long to darken its colour. Choice sorts of hollyhocks, of which there is not sufficient stock of well-established young plants in pots, should be taken up, potted and placed un- der glass; these cannot with safety be trusted to the mer- cies of a severe winter, and plants taken up, potted now and wintered in a cool house will be exceedingly useful for furnishing cuttings, and these if got in early in spring will make excellent plants for next season. Where al terations are in hand, push these forward with all possi- ble dispatch while the weather continues favourable for out-door operations. Be very careful to secure trans- planted things against wind, especially We which should never be left until they are Pronerly SE i or otherwise made fast, for when this is put off if quently happens that the roots get iniurfirf e" tops being rocked about the wind. the ^in amongst the roots. The bottom heat should not be allowed to exceed 70 deg., as too much heat is not favour- able to securing strong growth, and, except for the first crop, it may be dispensed with altogether. Take advan- tage of wet days for making fresh mushroom beds and clearing out those that are spent; also collect and ore pare droppings for forming fresh bed., by spreading them in a shed, and turning them every day until they are sufficiently dried to prevent excessive fermentation after putting up. Clear up all decaying leaves, &c., and stir the surface of the soil on dry days among groVvine crops as cabbage, spinach, &c.; also get all vacant ground manured and ridged. Endive is hlanched for satada and kitchen use by various means, but a way we prefer after being tied up when perfectly dry is to cover as much as requires blanching at one time, with leaves procured as dry as possible, throwing a little long litter over to prevent them from being blown about with wind. If not already done, sow a crop of radish in a fiame for winter celery, cardoons, and leeks should be earthed up in dry weather broccoli, borecole, &c., may aim be hoed between, as should alao Winter spinach, thinninK ik out 16weheas^art. w .-a