The Times this morning exhibits a novelty in journalism. Several
Carmarthenshire farmers, who bad missed laying their grievances be- fore Mr. Hall, of whose progress they were not informed, requested the reporter of the Times to hear them. He did so on Wednesday last, and duly reports their evidence, under the old heads " Turnpike-tolls," " New Poor-law," " County-rate," " Rents," with a further complaint against " Magistrates and their fees " ; the Magistrates only under- standing English, and despising the Welsh. This is the first time that a newspaper has thus formally been acknowledged as a tribunal for in- vestigation, and its reporter as something like a public commissioner of inquiry. The tolls were more than ever proved to be intolerable ; and the Times likens them to the imposts on the French peasantry before the Revolution.
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