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| REBECCA AND HER DAUGHTERS.

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REBECCA AND HER DAUGHTERS. In consequence of the continued unsettled state of South W ales, owing to the de ermination of parties known by the de. signation of Rebecca and her daughters to destroy property, and i espeCially turnpike gales, orders were received at an early hour on Sunday morning, at Woolwich, to have in readiness a six- pounder field gun and a twelve-pounder howitzer,lwhich were se- lected from the field tiain department, and at ten o'clock, a.m., they left Woolwich with the usual number of men of the Royal Artillery, required for their seivice in the field, under the corn. mand ot Capt. Taylor, with Lieut. Wodehouse. The orders were to pioceed to Bristol by the Great Western Railway, and fiom Bristol to Carmarthen with the least SIT>le delay, in case their presence migh' be required to put a slop to :he rioting and destruction of prope ty in thai quarter. The following list of gates destroyed appears in the Welsh- man :— The gates destroyed since our last publication, as well as we can ascertain, are the fol'owing :-The Fontnewydd Gate and toll house (to which the dragoons were called out, and, after scouring the country for about fourteen miles, returned without even having seen a suspicious character) the New Inn Gate. near Llandilo; the Gwarallt Gate, near Lampeter, aud a toll. bar near it, on Monday night; two gates near Cardigan the Pont-twely Gate, between Rhydfach and Llandyssil, on Friday night; the Pumpsaint Giie, near Dolecothy, on Thursday and the Bronfeldn Gate, five miles from Llandovery, on the road leading to Llanwrtyd, on Saturday. The magistrates have caused several persons to be apprehended on suspicion of destroying this gate, aud are busily employed in investigating the affair. Such was the difficulty of obtaining a person to receive the tolls at the liionfelen Gale, that fourpence was al- lowed to the collector for every shilling he received. The fol- lowing is a list of the gates, toll-liouses, and toll-bars that have been des'royed in the Three Common's District-New- bridge gate, bar, and toll-house; Troedyrhiwgoch gate, Llan- fihangel house and three gates, Castell-y-ihingil gate and house (twice), Llanedy Forest bar and toll-box, Ystillisycoed bar. Treveniy bars and house, Trefuch bar and house, Wernbongam bar, Kidwelly gate and house (twice), Llanarthney bar, Nan tygath bar, Penrhiwgoch bar, Masybont bar and house. It is a rather singular fact, that not a single turnpike gate has been destroyed on a Sunday." The Welshman contains the following The Rebecca trials excite very great interest. The busi. nesi of our assizes, which commence to-morrow, will be un- usually heavy. There are nearly seventy persons on bad charged with having been concerned in the late riots. Besides these, there are six in the borough gaol charged with rioting at 1 ullog. There are also four prisoners in the county gaol for divers offences. It is not the fact, as has been slated by some of our contemporaries, that Sir William Follett is to conduct the prosecution against the Rebeccaites, at the ensuing Carmar- thenshire Assizes. Messrs. Chilton, Q.C., John Evans, Q.C., and E. V. Williams, have been specially engaged for I the the Crown. The government will pay all the expenses of secullng the prisoners, who are to be tried for participating In 'the workhouse affair, and also those who are imprisoned for. the I a I log rio T. One-half only of the expense in every crimina prosecution has always hitherto been paid by the government.'

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