POSTSCRIPT.
SATURDAY NIGHT.
The accounts front South Wales are unpleasant. Our private letters, confirmed by the statements of a second edition of the Times, assert that the Chartists have not laid aside the insane project of a rescue of the prisoners in Monmouth. The nightly drillings in the hills and in the mines arc said to be persevered in, and the spirit of disaffection to be becoming more angry and violent. Nobody can entertain any ap- prehension that the insurgents will succeed in rescuing their unhappy accomplices ; but if any outrageous attempt shall be made, a frightful sacrifice of life is to be apprehended, and the wretched prisoners may be placed in a condition beyond the reach of pardon, by the madness of their friends. Under these circumstances, we cannot help thinking that it might be prudent to remove the indictments against the pri- soners into the Queen's Bench, and to bring them for trial to West- minster. This would put an end to all expectation of an opportunity of rescue, and leave the mercy of the Crown free for that large dispen- sation of it which will, we trust, be thought just and prudent. We throw out this hint, in the conviction that there is danger of great mis- chief if the prisoners remain in the neighbourhood of South Wales.— Standard.
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