The morning papers supply additional intelligence front South Wales. Frost's
son, and his uncle, now mentioned for the first time, have been • apprehended. The examination of James Aust terminated in a committal for high treason. His defence, which was but feebly supported by the witnesses he called, is that he had endeavoured to avoid the rioters, but had been "pressed" by them.
Partridge, the printer, was brought before the Magistrates on 'Thursday. He was proved to have been in constant communication with Frost; and Mr. Thomas Jones Phillips, the solicitor who apprehended him, said that he was the printer of a libel for which Frost was fined and imprisoned, some years ago. Partridge declared that he had no knowledge of the Chartist conspiracy, and that he was too poor to refuse any printing business which was offered him. He was in bed when Frost came to his house on Monday night, and got up to get sonic bread and cheese for him. In contradiction to this statement, a witness deposed that at seven o'clock on Monday morning, when all was quiet, Partridge went into n public-house, swearing, and saying that "there would be such work in Newport that day as was never known." The conclusion of the examination is not given.
More arrests have taken place. The number of dead bodies now discovered is twenty-five. It is said that six wounded Chartists died at Caerleon. A letter was received in Newport on Wednesday night from Mr. Marsh, managing director of the Monmouthshire Iron and Coalworks, stating that large meetings were held on the hills on Tuesday ; that generally the men are well-disposed, and would return to their work it' they were not afraid of the more violent Chartists; but that "at Dowlais the men appear very ill-disposed, appearances being very threatening." Two companies of foot soldiers have been despatched to Nant-y-Glo, where many arrests are to be made. Many of the peaceable inhabitants of Tredesttr, Blackwood, and other places, spent Sunday night in the woods, to escape the rioters, who broke open houses to 'obtain arms and force the men to join them. Among others, they forced an entrance into the residence of Mr. Lewellin, Sir Benjamin Hall's agent ; who, with his two sons, was front home. His man-servant was compelled to join them.
A reward of IOU was offered for the apprehension of Zephaniah Williams, of the Royal Oak inn, in the parish of Aberystwith ; and he was taken on Thursday.
It was stated in Newport, on Thursday, that n Special Commission would he immediately sent down for the trial of the prisoners; also that a communication had been received from Lord Normanby, that eight companies of the Forty-fifth Regiment, with two pieces of artillery, had been ordered front Winchester to Newport. The correspondent of the Morning Chronicle supplies an article from .an.unstamped newspaper, hearing the title of " The Western Vindicator, -edited. and conducted for Henry Vincent, now a resident in Monmouth Ga. ol." This paper, which has reached the thirty-eighth number, and is said to be the chief medium of communication among the Chartists throughout the West of England and Wales, frequently -containa letters written by Frost and Vincent. The article selected by the Chronicle's correspondent describes the attack upon the inn at Newport ; and, admitting that nine Chartists were killed, it says that the number of wounded soldiers was kept very quiet. He mentions the report that Frost was at the head of the rioters, but says he believes it to be false. • The following extract from a letter in the Vindicator, signed G. M., indicates that Vincent's harsh treatment in gaol had considerable effect in exasperating the Welsh Chartists; and we observe that the editor of the Morning Chronicle to-day gives some weight to this opinion " By this time, I doubt not, Brecon is besieged; for rumours are fast coming in that an immense number have marched into that place. "But Monmouth Gaol, it would seem, is the principal object they have in view. The extraordinary influence Vincent had over them, and the determination which has been expressed, (ever since the intelligence of the harsh and cruel treatment he and his fellow prisoners have experienced,) that the' should not remain in prison, limy account in a great measure for the whole of the pre/medium In flat-A, were 1 to give you my honest opinion as respects this outbreak, I should say that the Govermnent must have been mad to have thus continued the ill-treatment of the prisoners' knowing the millions who were sympathizing with them ; and when we rellect on the career of the Whigs since they got into power—the arming the police—the attack on the people of Birmingham—the arming the middle dosses for the avowed purpose of putting
down a
.public meetings—the establishment of rural police—and the whole list villames perpetrated ho the Whigs—little short of a physical revolution on the part of' the people could hove been expected. In any tither country than ours it would have commenced much sooner ; but the English are a forbearing people; yet when once aroused, let history testify to what lengths they will go, and what they are capable of performing. "Mr. Min Frost is arrested, and is undergoing examination on a charge of treason. The virtues of this great man—his noble and disinterested patriotism—his love of country—his whole patriotic career—hiss so endeared hint to me, and 1 believe to all who know him, that I am decidedly of opinion his capture will he the signal to make 'Wales a scene of most terrible devastation."
The Western Vindicator also contains various leading articles front the Northern Political Union, Trowbridge, Bradford, Stroud, and other Places.
The Times this morning, alluding to Frost's political history, says " Mr. John Frost has for many years been a linendraper at Newport in Momnouthshire. For twenty years or more he has professed himself a furious Radical; mid during the Reliant Bill fever, and up to a late period, supported the Whig rulical Government; by which, in return, he was mawkishly fondled and caressed.
" Some fourteen or fifteen years ago, this exemplary personage was tried for grossly libelling Mr. Prothero, the present spirited Mayor of Newport, or his brother ; was ibund guilty, and amerced in damages, or heavily fined, after, we believe, a reprehension for his conduct from the Bench. Being unable to pay the fines or damages, he was sent to gaol, where he remained sonic months. "To show the beneficial working of the Whig Municipal Bill, and the congenial spirit of a thoroughgoing Whig Secretary, this respectable person, somewhat to the astonishment Of all the better portion of his fellow-citizens and of his brethren of the Town-Council, was not elected indeed by the Corporation, but selected by Lord John Russell to be a Magistrate of the Borough I Some of the most reputable and esteemed amongst the inhabitants of Newport are said to have remonstrated against this unworthy choice—this factious abuse of Ministerial patronage on the part of Lord John Russell ; neither the known character nor the pecuniary circumstances of this worshipful gentleman being such as to justify his elevation to the Magisterial bench. He was, however, a partisan, and that was sufficient in the eyes of any member of the house of Bus-e11."
[We have been informed that electioneering services rendered to a. 'Whig Baronet constituted Mr. Frost's claim on Ministers.]
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