Mr. Hall, chief magistrate of Bow-street police-office, leaves town this
morning, by the direction of Government, for Wales, for the purpose of
instituting a rigid and searching inquiry and examination into all the
circumstances connected with the “Rebecca riots” and disturbance in that part
of the kingdom. We understand Mr. Hall will be accompanied by one or more
legal gentlemen from London to assist in the
inquiry. — Standard. — [We understand that Mr. Hall passed
through Swansea for
Carmarthenshire.]
A dispatch from Spain from , carried in the London Daily News,
reads in part:
It seems that two Barcelona Hampdens, master carpenters, have refused to pay a
certain tax, the collection of which, since the end of June, being
unauthorised by the cortes, has, in fact, become illegal. In consequence,
their tables, chairs, and other wares, were seized and put up to auction in
the Plaza del Palacio, on . There was an immense concourse of
people, but not a single bidder appeared for the confiscated goods. Even the
porters refused, after the unsuccessful attempt at sale, to take back the
furniture to the Custom-house. The tax refused is called “trade-subsidy,” and
perhaps is destined, like our shipmoney, to become famous.
