Provincial Occurrences: Monmouthshire, Ireland, fyc. [MAY, 



A meeting has been held at Priesteign of the 

 freeholders of Radnor, when a petition to Parlia- 

 ment was resolved on, for adhering " to the old 

 judicial constitution," with such improvements as 

 may he found absolutely necessary. 



It is with the greatest regret that we have to com- 

 municate the particulars of one of the most fatal 

 shipwrecks that has occurred on the coast of this 

 country for several years. On Friday night, April 

 16, the Newry, captain Crosbie, from the port Of 

 Newry, bound for Quebec, with about 400 passen- 

 gers on board, ran on the rocks at Portinclineon, 

 near Bardsey, in Caernarvon bay, and was dashed 

 to pieces in a few hours, about 70 perishing in the 

 wreck ! A considerable part of them were principally 

 Irish emigrants, and the captain, with the crew, and 

 about half the passengers, succeeded in reaching the 

 shore, and are at Caernarvon, where they have been 

 treated with the greatest kindness by the inhabitants. 



MONMOUTHSHIRE. Sentence of death was 

 recorded against 5 prisoners at these assizes ; 5 were 

 transported, and 8 imprisoned for various periods.* 



IRELAND. Our quays are crowded with emi. 

 grants from this and th adjoining counties. 

 Several ships have obtained their full compliment 

 of passengers, and only wait a favourable wind to 

 leave our shores. At present, Newfoundland seems 

 to be more in favour with the emigrants, as a place 

 of settlement, than the Canadas, the majority em- 

 barking for St. John's, where they expect more im- 

 mediate employment on landing than they would 

 find in Canada, and whence they may afterwards, if 

 disposed, pass over to New Brunswick with great 

 facility. We observe a great number of females 

 amongst the emigrants. 



While on the subject of emigration, we cannot 

 shut our eyes to the fact of the great decline of mer- 

 cantile exports from WaterfoFd to Newfoundland, 

 which previous to the baneful system of Free Trade 

 were considerable, and a source of extensive em- 

 ployment and profit to our tradesmen and mer- 

 chants. Formerly the greater part of the pork, 

 butter, flour, &c. consumed in that island, was the 

 produce of this country, but of late, these articles 

 are obtained from Russia,Hamburgh, America, and 

 elsewhere, on terms so low, that our merchants can- 

 not compete with them ; and the consequence has 

 been that in this city alone, several mercantile 

 houses have given up the trade altogether, whilst 

 those that remain engaged in it, do comparatively 

 nothing. 



The tide of emigration to America from this part 

 of the country is setting in very strong just now, 



and many families are embarking at this port 



Limerick Chronicle, 



A " Society of the Friends of Ireland of all religi- 

 *us Denominations," has been recently established 

 in Dublin, of which Daniel O'Connell is chairman. 

 The Committee have made their Report in 25 arti- 



* At these Assizes, a girl, about ten i/ears of age, 

 was tried fot stealing coals of the value of one far- 

 thing!!! The culprit was of such diminutive 

 stature, that the governor ofths gaol had to hold 

 her up in his arms, that the Court and Jury might 

 have a view of her while she pleaded to the indict- 

 ment ! ! ! Her counsel took an objection to the 

 prosecution, on the gronnd that she was of that 

 tender age from which a want of guilty knowledge 

 was to be inferred; but the Judge was of opinion 

 that the presence or absence of guilty knowledge 

 was a question for the consideration of the Jury. 

 The Jury accordingly exercised their judgment on . 

 the case, and returned a verdict o? " Not 

 Guilty !! ."' 



cles, stating in the first and last, " to terminate party 

 feuds to extinguish religious animosities to bury 

 in perpetual oblivion all past injuries, insults, and 

 offences to extend harmony and conciliation 

 throughout the land, and to combine Irishmen of 

 every class and creed in mutual benevolence and 

 fraternal affection." Mr. Lawless read his petition 

 for the repeal of the Union, which was referred to 

 the committee to report thereon, and Mr. O'Connell 

 moved that persons paying a pound should be mem- 

 bers of the society, and that clergymen of all rcli- 

 gious persuasions should bememberswithoutpaying 

 any subscription. 



SCOTLAND. The Report of the Select Com-' 

 mittee on the Improvement of the Northern Roads 

 has been recently published; it recommends the ap- 

 pointment of a commission to carry this important 

 object into effect. It appears, that Mr. Telford has 

 given it as his opinion, drawn chiefly from surveys 

 already made, that a saving of 30 miles may be 

 made in the road between London and Edinburgh, 

 viz. 10 between London and Newark, (j between 

 Newark and Morpeth, and 14 between Morpeth and 

 Edinburgh ; so that the whole distance would be re- 

 duced from 399 to 369 miles. 



The ships Trusty and Neptune sailed on Thurs- 

 day for Canada; the latter vessel with 150 emigrants, 

 wholly mechanics and agriculturists. Numerous 

 groups of friends and relatives accompanied the 

 ships to the end of the pier, and a long deeply felt 

 farewell was exchanged when the last rope was let 

 go that linked them to Caledonia ! North Briton, 

 April 14. 



The quays of Greenock and Port-Glasgow pre- 

 sented an unusual bustle during the last week, 

 by the arrival and embarkation of emigrants from 

 all parts of the country, to various vessels about to 

 sail for America. The Corsair was to sail this day. 

 Yesterday the Cherub sailed for Montreal , with a 

 few wealthy agricultural and commercial emigrants, 

 who, we hear, have taken a considerable sum of 

 money with them to their adopted country. The 

 Earl of Dalhousie, also bound for Montreal, was 

 to sail this day, and she also takes a few passengers. 

 The Cassandra, from Port Glasgow for New York, 

 is to sail on Tuesday, with, we learn, about 150 pas- 

 sengers. Glasgow Chronicle. 



About 32 families, almost all of the Roman Ca- 

 tholic persuasion, were to sail on Thursday .weather 

 permitting, from Greenock for Prince Edward's 

 Island, under the superintendance of Mr. M'Don- 

 nell, assistant clergyman in the Catholic chapel of 

 Glasgow. The greater part of them belong to Glas- 

 gow and vicinity; but a few of them are natives of 

 Ireland and the Western Isles. Many of them have 

 left very comfortable situationsin this country, allur- 

 ed by the bright prospects held out to them by their 

 spiritual guide. They are by no means the poorest 

 part of our Catholic population, as all of them were 

 able to pay their own passage, and the most needy 

 had a surplus, while many of them have taken con- 

 siderable sums of money. One farmer from Ireland 

 actually sold his patrimony, for which he obtained 

 TOO/., and joined the expedition. Caledonian Mer- 

 cury. 



The fever for emigration is at present raging at 

 its height in the county of Sutherland, and the 

 wilds of Upper Canada are this year the chosen 

 scene for voluntary exile. Vessels have been 

 freighted to sail about the end of May, and no less 

 than three hundred adults (besides children) have 

 already registered their names as passengers. In- 

 verness Courier. 



