A Coert-martiol was held ;it Newport. on Tuesday ; when
Samuel Munlen, a private in the Forty-fifth Regiment, was charged with de- seriber, on the 2:e1 of November. This nem is said to have beau se- tumid by the Chartists. He was retaken at Newport after making a violent resistanee. Another private was charged with the same offence, but hie case htel 1:o connexion with the Chartist riots. The sentences were not declared.
Coroner's inquests were held on ten bodies of men killed in the attack on the Westgate Hotel, and on every case a verdict returned—" That tile deceased came by his death by an clot ofjustifiable homicide by some persons unknown." The only remarkable fact was stated by a Police- man— " As soon as the firing ceased I came into the 'Westgate and saw five per- sons, three dead and two others not dead ; hat they died soon afterwards. Two were by the back-door, two in the pasisag.e, and one in the pantry. I was gun i,y;n7ned that The Cobli,;.s here sh.711 f/e11111011i1,01, an,/ r MO body of the one cit the pantry will .i,,,W1(11.1'1'ity-fire round:: if ball-, rrt rbigc jab;
poekct, which I lian1;c1. over to Lieutenant Gray, and he immed amongst the soldiers. I also f Quid some powder and ball on others."
William Davis, nephew of the Dissenting, minister at Canterbury, and son of a shopkeeper in Monmouthshire, was examined before the Newport Magistrates on Thursday, and committed, on a charge of conspiracy and sedition."
Mr. Todd, Portuguese Consul at Cardiff, was charged, on Thursday laet, before the Magistrates of that town, with aiding Zephania IVilliatne to eseape ten board the Vintage to Oporto. A card with Mr. Todd's address WaS cUlllla upon Williams, who bad likewise been far- niehed by somebody with Spanish dollars. Mr. Todd was on board the Vintage when Williams was arrested ; but his servant explained to the Maeistrates. that he was waiting to be taken front the vessel, and that he had put off in a boat for his mister, when Williams jumped into the boat and induced him to put him on board. The Captain allowed Wil- liams to remain without Mr. Todd's knowledge. The reason why his ntaster remained on board during the night was, that his boat went aground.
1110 Magistrates thought the circumstances suspicious; and Mr. Todd was- ordered to give hail. himself in :Moe and two sureties of leo/. each. Todd's wife and Zuphania Williame's wife are connected by marriage.
The 3Iorning Pods correspondent describes the state of feeling among the colliers in South Wales-
" 1 visited some of the coal districts of the eeighbourhood, and I regret to find that there are large numbers of the misguided amen who still abstain from their work. 011,, gentleman, the pr.yrielor of a most extensive colliery. informs nit, that at letn.t a third of the men who worked far him the week before the riots have not since set foot urn the works. Tills is also the case with many other cellicries, and the consequences are most severely felt. It is impossille to ob- tain any thing like an adequate :.apply of coal, and sa great is the stagnation of the trade and eommeree of the tow a, tliat there are at ti:,. himacat four hun- dred and forty sail in the river waiting for cargoes. liii fat of the men iF.0 011Stinately abstaining from their employment. is some ascribed to the influ- ence of fear and the dread of being apprebendol lie the affieistrates. This there is no doubt is the coreet view of the m tti cc to a certain extent, but at tlte same tram it cannot he denied that there are many resolute and ill-disposed 111C11 amongst theta, who are intluelwed by motives of a far more dangerous character, and indeed 1 Lave been informed that smile of them have declared that they will never ent.r a level again till l'ro,t and Williams are free. I have heard that '.1.:Neraliel,':eries have been committed by these men ; and there isaemspasto fear that, unless they shall soon be prevailed upon to return to their honest labour, they will, in order to escape starvation, resort to plunder add Violence."
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