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EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Family Notices

- ENLARGEMENT '' OF THE MERTHYR…

'TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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NOT IC E TO OUR READERS! IN consequence of CHRISTMAS DAY this year occurring on Friday, the day on which we publish, and also that business in many places will be suspended over Saturday, our next week's number will^gpear on THURSDAY. REDUCTION. WE must congratulate the working-men of our district in having exhibited much discre- tion, much wisdom, of late. In the Aberdare Valley we seethe* absurd ideas prevalent, and the me" courses pursued. We hear of assertions of the most ridicu! and the mass shewing theu blindly following the will of the ignorauc. But here, from Dowlais to Troedyrhiw, and over the hills, though the reduction has been general, and heavy, there has been no cessa- tion of labour, and but little murmuring. Complaints there have been, for it is in the t few and short lived. Our working-men felfc that to repine was useless, for the master was compelled to reduce-that to strike would be madness, for the master could not yield. Thus situated, would it have been wise to brave the fierce assaults of ihunger them- selves ? or honourable, or just, to allow their wives and children to suffer-allow them to die, or beg the cold charity of the stranger? Happily, this side of the mountain, scenes so much to be regretted, incidents so sadden- ing, have not occurred; and, for enduring decrease of comforts, if not necessities,—for turning a deaf ear to turbulent, dissatisfied men, and acting as their better thoughts aud their higher feelings prompted, they deserve the thanks, hearty and sincere, of every lover of order and his kind. But in the Aberdare Valley what '.nnldiVif- ness has been displayed! what. weakness, shown The master of a colliery, well know- for very many years, tt'lls his men that he c. not yield to their demand that the price I,. coal is lowered, and that, from necessity, they must submit. They hear, but they believe not. They swear he told them falsehoods, for, say they, a captain of a trading vessel came from Cardiff and assured us that instead of being less the price of coals has advanced to 12s. "6à., per ton! The captain was a stranger tq thembut what of that? what he said was iu accordance with their desite, and hence was true # Now it so happens, and we 'have had dis- tinct proof, that this captain" was an idle Mormon-preaching collier, who, in order to excite a revolt, disguised himself in Seaman's garb, false whiskers, &c., and then presented himself amongst a large number of turn- outs" as having come from Cardiff, that they might have the truth, and the whole truth, on his word as a Christian Could we narrate stronger evidences of folly ? Cpuld yre state more lamentable proofs of the want of reason ? Here is the word of a gentleman, never known to de- ceive, slighted and doubted, and the word of a vagabond honoured. Here is the appeal of an old resident and a countryman scouted, and,the invention of a stranger acted upon, though detrimental to their interests and their happiness! I If the arguments of employers, and the inducements andjentreaties of their friends, have not been of afoul, let, the admirable ex- ample given at MeTlhyr and on the hills bring them back to reason. It is not yet too late to retrieve their good name of old, and by future good conduct erase the follies of the past. The course we have taken, the views we have advocated, are censured by them; but it is not the first time real friends have been suspected and maligned. Let them but return to work, and in calmer hours, in coming Lime, we doubt not they will leanl that in advocating the master's views, in the present crisis, others, and ourselves, have endeavoured, un-ambitiously, unselfishly, nay, even to the injury of name and interest, to benefit the working-man. < • ■ INQUBST.—On Saturday last an inquegt was held at he Dowlais Inn, before G. Overton, Esq., on the body of a child named William Johnson, aged 10 months, whose parents liv. at Gellyfaekg. >- It appeared from the evidence that the deceased « died in a nt. It had been poorly some time. Verdict accordingly. •

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