text:  And even after those disgraceful disorders had continued several weeks and rendered South Wales the scandal of the empire and the astonishment of Europe; still the repugnance to assessment was such that it was only after a severe struggle and by no small exertions that it was at length carried; and the public-spirited member for the county who to his infinite credit brought forward the measure stated at the county meeting on the subject that he was aware he endangered his seat by so doing! The Scotch have shown themselves not a whit behind their southern compatriots in repugnance to a police assessment