It is to be presumed that the line about short passengers refers to those who travel short journeys only, though a friend of ours, himself a Welshman, makes several jocular allusions to the conditions that used in the days of travelling by road in and about the Principality to be imposed on people of less than the average height. As these will be some day published in a volume, the title of which is already decided upon--“Cheese and Chuckles; or, Leeks and Laughter”--and which is intended for distribution among the bards at the annual Eisteddfod, we will not discount the sensation then to be derived from their publication, more especially as we have tried in vain and failed to understand them. For those who take such interest in the poet Southey that anything connected with his family is regarded with favour, we present the following, from the same number of the _Bristol Gazette_, which was kindly forwarded by a gentleman on hearing that this work was in progress:-- DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP. THE PARTNERSHIP between ROBERT and THOMAS SOUTHEY, _Linen-drapers_, &c., of this city, was by mutual consent dissolved on the 21st of July last; all persons to whom the said partnership stood indebted, are to send their accounts to ROBERT SOUTHEY, Wine-street, and the persons indebted to them, are respectfully requested to pay the same to the said ROBERT SOUTHEY, who continues the trade as usual. ROBERT SOUTHEY. THOMAS SOUTHEY. BRISTOL, August 8th, 1788. [Illustration] R. SOUTHEY, thanks his friends in particular and the public in general, for the kind support he has hitherto experienced, and begs leave to inform them, that he is just returned from London with a large assortment of goods; particularly fine printed CALLICOES, MUSLINS, and LACE, which he is determined to sell on as low terms as any person in the trade, and solicits the early inspection of his friends. N.B.--Part of the old Stock to be sold very cheap. There is also an advertisement in the paper from Thomas Southey, who has taken up quarters in Close Street, soliciting custom and describing his wares. Our correspondent, who is a gentleman of position at Neath, and whose veracity is undoubted, says: “My father was a correspondent of Southey’s, and in one of his letters Southey says he was very nearly settling in our Vale of Neath, in a country house, the owner of which was a strong Tory, but as Southey at that early period of his life was a great Radical, he was not allowed to rent the property! If this had not been so, he says, ‘my children would have been _Cam_brian instead of _Cum_brian.’”