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AUSTRIA AND SARDINIA.
AUSTRIA AND SARDINIA. If there is a foreign country which at the present nnment ought to engage the respect and sympathy of EjlHd, it is Sardinia, threatened by an exercise of Austrian power, upon grounds which are distinctly stated. Ltt-ui for a liioaiciH consider the nature of those grounds. The coiupldi.rit jiroituted uy Count.Baol to the Government of Sardinia is, that although confidence is establishing itself eveiy where in L vjabirdy, there are fe.v spirits who hesitate to join in that confidence without reserve, because their discontent is maintained by a provocative action from without. The Piedmontese press, faithful to its abject habits," misrepresents the true state of things in the Lombardo- V enetian kingdom, and counsels revolution, or even regicide. The Government of King Victor Em- manuel associates itself with that press by its toleration and receives subscriptions, not only for its frontier defences when it is not attacked, bat for a monument commemorative of the action of the Piedmontese army in Loi-nbardy. Such is the statement of Count Buol. The last two points appear to be thrown in as make- weights. They misrepresent the facts The Government has not received subscriptions for a monument to the Piedmontese army; and if it has received contributions toward s its frontier defences, it is precisely because that threat was anticipated which is now conveyed by Count Buol. The gravamen of the dtspatch is, that the press of Pied- mout encourages sedition in Lombardy and that the Government permits it. Now, what are the facts with the Piedmontese press ? We speak not without some know- ledge of it. We can compare it to a press with which our readers are familiar—the press of this country. It is true that we have not in Piedmont any journal resembling the t'imes'in size or in universal completeness of its reports; but there are journals that pretty closely resemble a very high model—the Journal des Debats in the best days of Louis Philippe; conveying information in ali departments, domestic and foreign, with very able political articles. From that standard we have many varieties, down to humorous prints of a cheap kind, and democratic sheets intended for circulation among the working classes—still like our own. Among other varieties, we have High Church papers of the most absolutist and conservative opinions. In short, so far as substantial information goes, with representation of all opinions, ability of discussion, true reflex of public opinion, the press of Piedmont may be compare d to our own, and will not lose by the comparison. Perhaps its succinet dimensions are not an unmixed evil. It necessarily follows from the very nature of such a press that the conduct of the Government is canvassed with great freedom. There is a Republican party, which believes the Government not to go far enough; a Reactionist party, which believes the reverse; but between these, those journals which have the largest circulation give currency to a strictly constitutional view, fairly explaining to the public the conduct of the King and Parliament. Foreign news falls under the same criticism. It is, we are con- vinced, untrue that the press of Piedmont counsels revolu- tion or regicide. There have been such suggestions in extreme organs like those that we have in our own press; but it is the effect of a completely free discussion, and of the strength given by the constitution in its free working to the combination of the highest classes with the middle and the better portion of the working classes, that swamps all such excesses with the weight of a steady common sense. You could not have out that manly and unreserved utter- ance of common sense without a press free even for the utterance of folly. What is the effect of that freedom ? Prosperity and tranquillity are seen in every part of the Sardinian domini- ons. Republicanism, like Absolutism, is dying out for Want of sufficient support. Law is supreme, without arbitrary dictation. The Government of Austria, profess- ing to cultivate improvement, cannot be injured by the criticism of a press. Count Buol says that it is not injured, because confidence is restored in the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom save among a very few. Now, either that state- ment is false, or the suggestions of some Piedmontese journals are devoid of effect. Either Count Buol is making a baseless complaint, or Austria trembles before the free press of Piedmont. The Piedmontese Government and Legislature have provided for neighbourly relations. By a special law, not only the Government or natives of Sardinian states may prosecute a Sardinian journal, but foreign govern- ments may do so. Austria indeed knows that faot ex- perimentally, having prosecuted a journal called the Espero; but so long after the offence, that the jury awarded rather low damages; and the Emperor now finds prosecutions inconsistent with his dignity." So Count Buol demands that the Sardinian Government shall establish on behalf of Austria a censorship of the press incompatible with the very nature of Sardinian institutions. In other words, Austria demands that Sardinia should give up her constitutional regime and her free press, because Austria finds that she cannot exist in proximity with them; and Count Buol threatens that if Sardinia does not comply, Austria will take the law into her own hands. What has our own Government had to say to this extra- ordinary claim made by its ally ?—Spectator.
SOCIAL TENDENCIES.
SOCIAL TENDENCIES. Edmund Burke, like most master minds, had something of the prophetic faculty. He spoke of things not seen as yet, as well as of things which were being transacted around him, when he proclaimed the death of the age of chivalry. He felt that he was standing in the midst of ruins. The old world was shattered by the shock of the French Revolution; vague and shapeless even to his eagle vision was the form and force of the world which was to succeed. An embroy is rarely beautiful. The first stages of development in any creature have interest to him only who can regard them in the light of their final forms. A butterfly struggling out of his wintry tomb, is for the first moments a most sorry spectacle, and doubtless the law would hold good, could we watch the process of the genesis of a world. Most marked in this fact in relation to the rise and growth of new eras of society, the breaking up of old social states, and the slow consolidation of the new. It has been so through all past ages; it is so in our own day. The dark periods of history, the years in which even the best men despaired of the world's prospects, and believed that the end was near, have been these agee of transition, -when all which men had been wont to trust to was breaking down around them, and He whose glory it is to conceal a matter" seemed to afford no glimpse of the work of his reconstructive hand. SucTi an age was the tenth century, when feudalism was forming such an age was the end of the thirteenth, when feudalism was passing away. Such an age, emphatically, is that which stretches from the first French Revolution down to our own times. It is an age of wonderful national prosperity and even splendour, of which we often boast, as if the Utopian dream were on the eve of complete realisation but also, let us understand, of a deep moral unsettling, a falling of ancient landmarks, a dying out of ancient nervous centres of society, which leaves this wealthy-atid powerful age socially as dissolute as a disbanded army, less compact perhaps in moral orders, and almost as vague of moral purposes as any previous age of human history. Napoleon helped largely to open that free career of individual talent and energy which has resulted iii the .immense material progress of society. La carriere ouverte aux talents I" was his proclamation. Well he demonstrated his thesis, and lifted the stumbling blocks which the litter of ages had accumulated, out of the progress of mankind. Since then the race has been to the swift, and the spoil to the strong. The people, long op- posed by "tyrannyj or bound by ties of ancient obligation, have thrown themselves into the scramble for wealth and power. "Every man fur his own hand," has been the battle cry; and an era of singular activity and production, but of singular and moral disorganisation, has been the result. Under the old rtgime, the relations of society had a simpilcity and definiteness, which fixed for every man, to a great extent, his lot and work. A man was born into certain relations with- their attendant duties; he had neither to seek nor to make them. Ancient forms re- mained in force, and these, while crippling freedom to an extent which became intolerable on the one hand, main- tained the moral nexus of society on the other. The cap- tains of the army were conspicuous, and the soldier knew his place. But who are the captains now ? Where are the men who occupy the same moral position as the old seig- neur or spiritual lord ? Now, God forbid that we should have either seigneur or abbot back again but the age cries out for leaders—the arches need the key stone; and it is not easy to say-iftwhat form they will be supplied. The principle, of loyalty is the cement of the socia order, and the tendencies of modern society seem to im- peril its very existence. The principle of association—the voluntary co-operation of individuals, purely for material interest—is the most powerful secular principle at work in our times. For the last half century it has been widening its range nor has it reached its full growth in our day. Thoughtful men liave long watched its growth with anxious forebodings and have seen with dread societies of all sorts multiplying, and attracting to themselves all the isolated units, in which the one bond of cohesion is interest, and the community is under heavy temptation to shirk the moral responsibilities which press wholesomely on indivi- dual men. A committee of any sort, commercial, political, or even religious, is capable of acts which any individual member would spurn. Now we live in an age in which all the powers of commerce, and no little of the higher power of the world, is passing into the hands of companies, societies, or committees; units impalpable to the higher, vision, having a local habitation and a name, but, alas! no personality, such as may carry a heart or a conscience be- hind. These are but radiata in the scale of structure— suckers and tentacles enough, but no nerve system tending to a brain in which a reason and moral judgment may abide. And w this form of social structure our age has singular propensity. Let all who care for human welfare and moral progress mark it; for It hM already borne strange fruits to us, and is destined to bear yet stranger in years to come. In the average of moral conduct, especially as concerns the grosser vices, we have risen to a higher level than our Tuiefathcis but it is quite possible at the' same time, that* l the mmk 01 gwietf may two beta towwd. The ties of I I society are less personal, and more transparently those of interest; the consequence is, that intellect and energy have had immense development, while the deeper moral nature of man has had less to help it in the calls of the times. The old homely connexion of master and appren- tice.is well-nigh superseded by the growth of the great houses, in which the head of the firm comes but slightly into contact with his subordinates. In great public com- panies an invisible board or a paid secretary takes the place of the senior partner, who commanded the reveren- tial obedience of the clerks while a very large part of the land of the country, especially in the North, is passing into the hands of mercantile men or public companies, whose relations to the old tenantry present a complete contrast to those of the former lords. Now no man can love, fear, or desire to please an abstraction. Loyalty to a public company, represented by a paid officer, is a senti- ment, to say the least, difficult to acquire. In commerce this setting of an abstraction in the place of a person soon avenges itself. The crimes of Robson and Redpath have a speciality in them which connects them closely with our present subject. But what shall check and cure the tendency, of the principle of association which is spreading its network through our whole social system ? What but the faith of a Christian ? Were it not fool the Gospel we should feel that the prospects of humanity were darker than they ever were before, for intellect and freedom add fresh perils to a man or to a state ungoverned from on high. But, believing in the power of the Gospel, we believe in progress and accept the present perils as marking a stage of a development which will be conducted to a successful issue by the Lord. But let all Christian men be alive to the danger, and conscious of this radical tendency of modern society and let them give full play to Christian principle in connexion with the companies, societies, and other bodies with which they may have to work. We have to make these companies and societies persons-to endow them with conscience and heart, or men will have no conscience in dealing with them, and they will sap the very foundations of the order of society. Here is work for our Christian men of business, our political, municipal, or ecclesiastical leaders. Christianity brings out personality into full glow, which the spirit of a socialist age weakens and destroys. Every week presents some new call to us to reinforce the public morals. Parliament is called upon to provide fresh safeguards against the crimes which the present condition of things engenders, or at least nourishes; but the remedy lies deeper. They must bear theit moral convictions and determinations with them into all confederations, and make companies as rich ia all moral nobleness and influence as ever were men. -Chi-is- tian Times. —————
TELEGRAPH INTRIGUES IN THE…
TELEGRAPH INTRIGUES IN THE EAST. Why is a telegraphic line of communication to be at- tempted along the Euphrates Valley route, when one was already arranged for the Red Sea route ? The question is raised by a circular which we have received, and which certainly demands an answer. The Red Sea route was suggested in the spring of 1855 and in the interval con- siderable progress has been made with it. The Ottoman and Egyptian Governments have granted lands and powers for a term of 99 years, on conditions securing the freedom and neutrality of the line; the whole course has been surveyed and mapped; it secures communication with Aden the stations have been marked down at distances of not more than 490 statute miles all is ready for the line to be laid next summer. The East India Company bad intimated its willlingness to give a subvention towards the funds. But suddenly a rival project is put forth by the Chairman of the Scinde Railway-to go by the Eu- phrates route amd this rival is said to be supported by the Treasury and the East India Disectors. What is in the wind ? It was supposed that the Red Sea line was supported by the Foreign Office and Lord Stratford de Redcliffe. The Euphrates line is more broken, more expensive for engineering purposes it passes through a territory less accessible, more at the mercy of barbarous tribes it is further from British protection, nearer to the influence, machinations, and even attack of, Persia and Russia. All this might be understood if the Euphrates were the natural highway; but the fact appears at present to be the very reverse. The Red Sea is the short route to India. Being so, it is acquiring much of the advantage proper to a great thoroughfare: standing in a main road of the world's commerce, it enjoys the protection of a vast and increasing traffic Should the Suez Canal pro- ject be carried out, all these characteristic will be propor- tionately strengthened. The facts on the Red Sea side are stated what are the facts on the other side ? We are in the dark. We ob- serve some collateral circumstances. The French Govern- ment is known to patronise the Suez Canal project so is the Austrian, through Baron Bruck, the founder of the Austrian Lloyd's; so are the Turkish and Egyptian Go- vernments. Are there any offic ia I jealousies at the bottom of the mystery ?-Spectator.
ITHE CHINESE COMMISSION. _*I
I THE CHINESE COMMISSION. I The Government is not disposed to delay for a moment active measures for the settlement of the Chinese dispute. The Opposition will be gratified to a certain extent, inas- much as a Plenipotentiary will shortly proceed to China with full powers to conclude a peace. This person, whoever he may be, will not, indeed, supersede Sir J. Bowring, or in any way dispense with the assistance of the men who are at present conducting the affairs of the country in the Eastern Seas. He will, however, have the advantage of knowing the wishes of the Cabinet from the mouths of the ministers themselves, and he will be ac- quainted with what has been said and done at home, while Sir J. Bowring, Sir M. Seymour, and Mr. Paikes will be able to supply him with the necessary local know- ledge. A military commander, with 5,000 men, will also at once be despatched to the scene of the disturbance. Of course, if the area of hostilities widen this force will be increased. The Plenipotentiary will, we believe, seek to establish direct communication not with Yeh, but with the Emperor. The Opposition which holds Lord Palmerston responsible for the acts of officials at the other side of the globe can hardly deny that the Court of Pekin should be held accountable for the acts of one of its greatest satraps, a potentate disposing of the lives and fortunes of ten millions of its people. From Lord Palmerston's statement on Thursday night we learn that an attempt to bring the civilised world into closer communication with the Celestial Empire had been under consideration by his Government long before the outrage on the Arrow. In fact, the relations between our merchants and the native authorities had been for a long time in an uneasy state, especially at Canton. It will require a mind singularly philanthropical to believe that the offer of rewards for the heads of Englishmen by Yeh, the mutilation and murder of the orew of the Thistle and sundry European stragglers by the same personage, the burning of the factories, the poisoning of the Hongkong bread, and the threatening notices of the Chinese mob in places so wide apart as Hongkong and Singapore, were merely the effects produced on untutored minds by our own cruel treatment. A governor and people so ready and so skilful in the perpetration of the vilest outrages must have had some little experience in crime and insult, and some little previous ill-will towards the objects of their vengeance. How true this is we find from the re- turn of the outrages suffered by British subjects during the last few years, outrages which were latterly tending to become more frequent, and which were only avoided by the unceasing precautions of the English residents. A clearer understanding with the Chinese Government and opportunities of more frequent intercourse were therefore probably thought necessary by the Home Government. The position of the empire also demanded some such step. Rebel armies held some of the most important cities, and the tottering dynasty of the Tartars was unable to hold its position against these domestic enemies or to oppose the aggressions of the Russian empire, which has lately advanced its frontier some hundreds of miles further south, and taken possession of the valley of the Amour. To endeavour therefore to open communications with the Central Government in conjunction with other nations, such as France and America, was a natural course. So far from desiring to embroil the country in a local dispute at Canton, it was the desire of English politicians to relieve our trade from the insolence of the Canton autho- rities by drawing closer the relations between us and the monarchy itself. The conduct of the barbarian Yeh, however, precipitated and localised the question We are now at war with the governor of an important province, and at the time we are writing the flame may have spread to every part of the empire. It is useless therefore to talk of a merely peaceful mission. Whenever the Plenipotentiary is sent to negotiate with the Court of Pekin, he must be preceded or accompanied by such a force as will convince that barbarous monarchy that treaties cannot be evaded with impunity, nor the demands of civilised intercourse re- pulsed without the certainty of retribution. The conduct of Lord Palmerston in the matter is perfectly reasonable. The Government did not begin the war, and, though they recognise the necessity of strong measures, they are ready to send out a Plenipotentiary with full powers to carry on hostilities or to conclude peace. We cannot think, how- ever, that the despatch of a professed pacificator is the most important step at the present moment. The first point is to see means taken to assert the rights of this country and to protect its interests. We may be assured that in the present temper of the Chinese, a temper to which they have been brought by years of inertness and over-conciliation on our part, any diplomatic advances will be considered as a sign of failing courage. Peace will come in due time, and the best way to hasten its arrival is to increase the force in the Chinese Seas, and to act with vigour and promptitude. We are glad to find by the last advices that troops were about to be despatched from Bengal to Singapore and Hongkong. The naval reinforcements, particularly of small craft, sent out from home will be in time to do excellent service in support of the land forces. But the conclusion of the war with Persia is the most opportune occurrence of the hour. By the peace signed three days since two fine bodies of troops, that which garrisons Bushire and that which has probably by this time sailed from Bombay to join the former, will soon be free for service in China. Further- more, the whole of the Indian navy, with a large fleet of transports, will soon be available. We trust that the best use will be made of these appliances, and that in a few months we may be able to announce the conclusion of the Chinese difficulty, with guarantees for more easy inter- course with the country, and for the suppression of such iusolence as liii" hitherto distinguished the lprovincial [ GoTttraneat of Canton. J
i A WARNING VOICE TO LIBERALS.…
i A WARNING VOICE TO LIBERALS. I The election upon which will depend the future of the Reform party dawns upon us. Long have we urged action, committees, consultations, energy, unity, and preparation. We have sought to secure unity in our ranks, and how does the army of reform present itself on the eve of a contest ? The great suffrage question,—the lever by which the elevation of the masses is to be effected, by which Tory Insolence and feudal tyranny, and unjust taxation, and bad laws, and corruption were to be trampled down,-has been studiously neglected. The public are apathetic—no great question can move-the English mind is not capable of attending to two things at once—such were the excuses of recanting politicians. In a prolonged apathy is danger—new men grow into power —the truths floated on. each political breeze End some ready to take them up, and nurture, and bring them forth in good time. All our Ministers have mistaken this apathy. The Manchester, men, who held the platform of reform, turned their attention exclusively to peace, and more recently to education and other great social questions. The Liberals sank into knots of crotchety politicians, and no man trusted his fellow. What now ? Who is to issue the manifesto of party ? Who shall assume the functions of our departed champion ? Who shall mould and knit these discordant elements into a solid band of faithful and earnest politicians ? The cry of O'Connell was, England's weakness is Ireland's opportunity." Palmerston's weakness and Russell's disgrace were the opportunities of the Liberal party. Why did they not on Monday last tell Palmerston-some fifty unanimous voices —that so long as he stopped reform they would not support him. It is.an earnest band like this, by its very sincerity, that staggers the political trickster of the hour. Will they now go to Lord John ? Will Cobden, from his grand pedestal of the victorious champion, go and tell him that he and those who act with him will pledge their aid on his agreeing to the basis, of a residential suffrage ? We would have no quibbles, but a broad platform on Hume's basis. Can this be extracted from Lord John ?—if so, he is the man. We dare not ask it from any other party chief-all else are Tories. In what position are our combinations of Liberals? How will the Administrative Reformers, the Ballot men. show at the hustings? Are they prepared—have they foreseen the crisis we have so often pointed out ? The last election was under Derby auspices; three Prime Ministers, in four years, have told the tale of the chaos of the House-of the influence of the people out of doors— and now we are to go to the country on the miserable pretext of a Chinese squabble. We must change the battle cry. It is not confidence in Palmerston-it is not that we will trust a gigantic combination of Tories, taking advantage of the split in the Liberal ranks. We want a leader who will unfurl a banner, on which shall be inscribed the cry of Residential Suffrage, Ballot, Retrench- ment, and no Foreign Intervention. On these points we urge upon all Liberals to be united in one grand phalanx. Sink all other thoughts, the rest will work out right enough. Get these, and we are on our way to good measures. Be not mislead by a clap-trap cry for an old man, fast waning to his end-a Tory amongst Tories-a hollow and insincere Liberal-a traitor to one party, always holding good his retreat to another. Were Bright amongst us, there would be a grand post for him to occupy, for there is much in his character that resembles the grand fellows of the Cromwellian days. The age is similar in many phases. The hour may bring forth the man. A great Protestant cry will be raised-a good cry enough when it means liberty of thought and speech, and an active protest against the soul-debasing tyranny of priest and Pope but a hollow and detestable sham when made a party shield, to bring in the veriest Tories and jobbers that ever disgraced St. Stephen's. Beware of that cry. Beware of the men who seek youc suffrages, laden with gold from the Reform, or Brookes's or the Carlton Club—out with them all. They are the pests of a free state-the state cowards, who hold out false lights to delude, meaning only Treasury-place, power, and corrup- tion. Their presence must be shunned as a plague haunt Elect a local man when possible-the man who, of the people, feels and knows each want, thinks from and of the commonalty. We can do no good with Lords. Rely on the people-on men from the counting-house and the desk, they and they only will do our work.-Allag.
POLITICAL PROSPECTS.
POLITICAL PROSPECTS. The fitness of any body of men to undertake the govern- ment of this country depends on a variety of qualifi- cations. The chief of those is undoubtedly that they should be a fair reflex of the British people—that, in other words, their policy should be a national policy. But when we come to consider all that the word "national" means when applied to the inhabitants of these islands we shall easily see that a national Administration is not likely to be one of every-day occurrence that, owing to a variety of intervenient causes, we are often governed instead by a semi-national section of politicians, but that, whenever an opportunity shall present to itself for the accession to office of a really national party, it will probably form an Admi- nistration of great strength and considerable duration. There are foreigners who tell us that England, after all, is the most aristocratic country in Europe. There are others who nickname us a people of shopkeepers. We are alternately taunted with a respect for rank amounting almost to servility, and with a love of independence amount- ing almost to factiousness. But all this only points to the singularly heterogeneous elements of which English so- ciety is composed, and the freedom with which all conflict- ing interests are allowed to express themselves. The character of the people is neither inconsistent nor unstable. It is, on the contrary, more' than commonly single-minded and conservative. A Government, therefore, which shall command the per- manent support of this country, must, we are confident, rest upon a truly broad basis. It must be a Government of gentlemen; it must be a Government of economists it must be a Government with common and defined objects. It must represent those old aristocratic and chivalrous tra- ditions which we have been permitted to preserve through so many surrounding perils, and which are now the envy of the highest political philosophers. It must represent, moreover, that portion of English society which has re- solved that self-government shall not be a farce, but a reality-which has determined that our national expendi- diture shall not form the only exception to our habits of commercial regularity, and that the people shall not be taxed to support the demands of nepotism and sinecurists. It must represent, also, that love of fixedness, of law, of long-settled habits and institutions for which Englishmen are pre-eminently conspicuous; and this it must combine with such attention to existing wants as shall render im- possible the perpetuation of abuses. Could such a policy be defined better than by the name of Conservative Progress? It is clearly, however, not sufficient that a party should only represent these principles: it must possess also the men who can carry them into effect. To descend to parti- culars, let us consider a little how far the leading states- men of this country, on either side the House, answer to the character we have drawn. If we are looking for a statesman imbued with a sincere love for the ancient institutions of Great Britain, with elo- quence to defend them when, attacked, and truthfulness to make them all the more respected for the defence of such a man—a statesman whose foreign policy, if his past life can be trusted, would never be deficient in spirit, nor, if present conduct proves anything, be ever devoid of moderation whose actions would never belie his words, because he is not such a slave to popularity as to be always promising impossibilities—if, we say, the country is looking for such a man as this, let them place Lord Palmerston and Lord Derby side by side, and make their own election. If, again we are seeking for a Minister to whom the con- trol of our disordered finances may be safely trusted—who to a knowledge of business unites that native talent and power of addressing public assemblies which a Parlia- mentary leader must possess-would the choice of the country fall on Sir George Cornewall Lewis ? Sir George is a gentleman and a scholar, and that is high praise. But a gentleman may possibly be dull, and a scholar may possi- bly be heavy. The pages of a once popular Review are, we fear, sad evidence against the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, whose Liberal friends would have smiled but a short time ago at the bare mention of his elevation to such a post. The country demands a variety of domestic reforms. Among the most prominent subjects are law, education, and secondary punishments. We need not employ many words in painting the contrast between Lord Cranworth and Lord St. Leonards, nor between Sir Richard Bethell and the most eminent juridical reformer of our day, Sir Fitzroy Kelly. The people now know well that no practical mea- sure of Law Reform is to be expected from the present Lord Chaucellor or Attorney-General. After the Education Bill of Lord John Russell last year, and the proposals of Sir John Pakington in the present session, few people, we imagine, can entertain auy doubt which is the fitter man to carry through this great national requirement. Of the actual party iu office, there is positively no one who even professes any acquaintance with the subject; and the only man, out of the Conservative ranks, who would have any pretensions to bring in another Education Bill would be that very statesman whose lamentations over his own failure still seem ringing in our ears. In regard to secon- dary punishments, that Sir George Grey may have brought in a decently sensible measure we do not deny but his Bill is characterized by one or two defects, of which the chief is that it destroys the element of certainty in the award of punishment, and leaves a wide scope for the convict's imagination to revel in, which is sure to prevent his feeling that terror which the prospect of a positive and determined punishment is sure to inspire. To say that Sir George Grey is the only man who would deal properly with the convict system is an outrage upon common sense. If we turn to the colonies we see stiongly the necessity for young blood and new ideas. Questions are there rising up which statesmen of the old regime are incompetent to solve. Incomparably the most promising young man of the present day is the eldest son of Lord Derby. And it so happens that he is, even at this early age, so eminent for his acquaintance with the colonial question, that even the Whigs did not scruple to seek the aid of his services In 1852, Lord Derby's Admiralty appointments were the theme of general eulogy and it might have been well for the country had these, at all events, been permitted to re- tain their offices. We have as yet said nothing of the Church. The Con- servative party has on this question performed its duty so well, that her enemies have lately begun to despair of undermining her. Thoroughly secured from assault by the ascendancy of a national party, she might probably be enabled to enter on the consideration of questions which, as long as the conduct of them must devolve upon Liberal hands, it is dangerous to agitate. We have now glaneed briefly at the leading requirements of the period, and we cannot help thinking that the ques- tion which has recently been asked should have been con- versely stated, and that, instead of saying does the country know the style of men it must fall back upon if it rejects Lord Palmerston, we should ask, does it fully appreciate the character of tile men it will have to fall back upon should it reject Lord Derby J—Press.
MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.…
MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. I The Duke of Brunswick attracted great attention at a ball at the Tuileries, by the extravagance of his dress; he was literally covered from head to foot with gold lace, embroidery, decorations, and diamonds. There is a negro in Memphis who is said to possess an estate worth 50,000 dollars. This negro belongs to his wife, a free coloured woman, in whose name the property is held. It appears from a report presented to the Poor Law Board, that the frauds committed on the City of London Union by Manini, the collector, and Paul, the assistant clerk, amount to £ 22,407. M. Salies, of Paris, has invented a post-office automa- ton, which takes up every letter as it is thrown into the box, places it under the stamp, where it receives the post- mark and date, and throws it out again for delivery to its destination. It is said that no less than 200 letters may be stamped by this machine in one minute. A singular will-suit has been for some time in progress at New York. A man and his wife were drowned when the Arctic steamer was lost at sea; and the whole quei tion of the disposal of the large property turns on which died first A similar case was tried not long ago in our courts, in the case of a vessel wrecked off the southern coast. It is intended to lay down a submarine electric telegraph between Suez and Kurrachee, and thence the messages will be despatched to the Indian capitals. The line will start from Cagliari, in Sardinia, and pass through Malta to Alexandria then from Suez to Aden, down the Red Sea and from Aden along the south coast of Arabia to Kur- rachee in Scinde. The Frankfort Journal has learnt that a priest would not permit the body of an Austrian staff-officer an Englishman, of the Protestant faith-to be buried in a family vault which he had constructed in a churchyard that is near some property which he possessed in Moravia. As Count Shaffgotsch, the diocesan of Brunn, fully ap- proved the conduct of the priest, the remains of the officer were interred outside the churchyard. ANOTHER PERVERT.—The Weekly Register mentions the secession to the Roman Church of the Rev. Jabez Watson, M.A., Cambridge, and late curate of St. Veep, near Lostwithiel, Cornwall. At. Halstead, Essex, there is, amongst other societies, a Maternal Association. The local papers duly record a tea-meeting of the association, attended by eighty mothers after tea the evening was profitably spent in conversation on the training of children." Mr. John Hoyle and Dr. Ralph Holden, two magistrates for the county of Lancaster, residing at Ilaslingden, who were plaintiff and defendant in an action for assault at the late Lancaster assizes, have been removed from the com- mission of the peace by the chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster. The celebrated collection of musical instruments formed by the late Mr. Coding, of Belgrave-square, London, was disposed of on Friday, by order of the executors, by Messrs. Christy and Manson. Many of the instruments fetched enormous prices, especially the violins, one of which realised E260, and several others fetching from £ 100 to E200. While the workmen of the metropolis are complaining of destitution for want of work, we hear from Birkenhead of a strike. Six hundred men employed in deepening the Great Float have turned out" for 3s. a day instead of 2s. 9d. A party of the military have been sent down, under whose protection the new hands are obliged to work. A number of men employed at Dover on some Govern- ment works struck last week because their employer would not concede them the liberty of choosing their own foreman. The consequence was that Mr. Moxon, their master, discharged the whole, tc-leg raphed to London for men to fill their places and the misguided men are now hanging about the market-place clamouring for em- ployment. Recently, a Mr. Decimus Prothero wa3 fiued £10 or 10 days' imprisonment, for having plucked out the beard of a Mr. Hutchinson, whom he met in the street and discovered to be the writer of a letter reflecting on the character of the defendant. At the police court the accused drew from his pocket the plaintiff's beard wrapped in paper, and sug- gested that a noted professor would stick it on again for eightpence! At the Chester county court, last week, Mr. Humphrey Roberts, timber merchant, of Liverpool, recovered from the Chester and Holybead Railway Comp my the sum of E45, the value of a horse which had fractured its skull against a cross-beam in a horse-box whilst being conveyed along the company's line. Between 70,000 and 80,000 habitual offenders-burglars, felons, thieves, and malefactors of every denomilla lion- annually pass through our gaols, and come cut to pursue their calling and renew their outrages and depredations. Our felons probably outnumber our soldiers, and cost the nation on an average twice as much. A correspondent of the Banff Journal says-" The student of most mark this session at King's College, Old Aberdeen, is a Mr. Donald Robertson, a farm servant from Speyside-a man who holds the plough during sum- mer, and with his earnings in the fields keeps and edu- cates himself at college in the winter. All honour to him may his success be equal to his deserts! As a mathe- matician he is said to display wonderful power and quick- ness. The King of the Belgians (says the Emancipation of Brussels) has ordered M. Dufour, jeweller in this city, to re-set a diamond necklace for the Princess Charlotte, at a cost of 100,000 francs. The necklace is to be formed of part of the brilliants which belonged to the Princess Charlotte of England, his Majesty's first wife, and which the King has preserved" with religious respect." Dr. Hind, of Birmingham, having been seized with severe depression, nausea, abdominal pain and prostration, when sitting, on several occasions, in a room newly de- corated with a bright green wall paper, was led to inquire hitb the cause of these symptoms, and found that the paper was coloured with arsenite of copper (Scheele's green.) The use of this pigment in wall papers has proved injurious in previous cases. Its presence may be dis- covered by its brilliant hue, and by a little running of the colour at the edges of the pattern. The Queen and the Prince of Wales have appeared as applicants in a case for arbitration before Sir John Pat- teson, at the Privy Council Office. A dispute has arisen between the representatives of her Majesty the Queen, on the one hand, and the representatives of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, as Duke of Cornwall, on the other, in reference to the revenues of the under sea-fisheries off the coast of Cornwall. The arguments, which are of a technical and abstruse character, will last some time, after which the whole of the documents connected with the question will be handed to Sir John Patteson. When the right, hon. gentleman has duly considered the matter he will make his award, which it has been agreed on both sides shall be final. At a recent review the Czar was displeased with the be- haviour of the military scholars, and spoke about it to the commander of all the military schools, General Rostow- zow. The latter rode immediately to General M-z, and scholded him vehemently. M-z remained silent; but the next day, being the meeting of all the directors, he did not come. Rostowzow, knowing that M-z was a fa- vourite of the Emperor, sent a messenger to his house requesting his presence but M-z refused to appear. Rostowzow then invited all the directors to a meeting for the following day but M—z was again absent. Ros- towzow said to all the directors that he regretted very much the mistake" by which he had blamed M-z, and having now apologised he hoped M-z would forgive him. But M—z, feeling his strength, was not yet satisfied, and Rostowzow was obliged to publish an ordre de jour, in which he expressed his regret for what had taken place. This order was read before all the pupils of M-z. A General-en-Chief being obliged to apologise to his subor- dinate because he happens to be a favourite of the Em- peror, is, even in Russia, something extraordinary. ORDERS OF REMOVAL.—In the year ending the 25th of March, 1856, there were 14,860 persons removed from parishes in England and Wales under orders of removal, against 12,745 in 1854 55. The amount of the expenses incurred in the removal, including the cost of obtaining the orders, the service of the same, and the travelling expenses of the paupers removed (but not the cost of the relief before removal), was £18,365 against £15,579 in the preceding year. ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. The following pre- ferments and appointments have been recently made Rectories Rev. T. C. Childs to the rectory of George Nymton, Devon Rev. D. H. Elrington to the rectory aud vicarage of Swords, diocese of Dabliti Rev. C. W. Hay- ter to the rectory of East Mersea, Eisex. Curacies, &c. Rev. H. Alford, of Quebec Chapel, to the deanery of Canterbury; Rev. B. J. Binns to be one of her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools for Wales; Rev. J. II. Carr to the curacy of Hurworth, Durham; Rev. J. H. Dakins to the curacy of Mossley, Lancashire Rev. C. Gljnn to the curacy of Grimley, Worcestershire Itev. J. A Greaves to an incumbency in the diocese of Newcastle, N.S. W. Rev. E. B. Hutchinson, to be chaplain of the Keyham yard and factory Rev. W. Ilolderness, to be chaplain to the Convict Establishment, Dartmoor Rev. J. Hughes, to the perpetual curacy of Aislaby; Rev. J. Reith, to the curacy of Kinvarra, in the diocese of Kilniaehdaugh Rev. T. W. Sharpe, to be one of her Majesty's inspectors of schools; Rev. A. Taylor, to the curacy of illacclesfield, Cheshire Rev. J. S, Wilkins, late curate of St. Paul's, Ball's-pond, to the incumbency of St. Jude's district Church, St. Paiicras Rev. H. Woodward, to the perpe- tual curacy of St. Clement, Toxteth park, Liverpool. HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS, unrivalled Reme- dies for the Cure of Skin Diseases. Mr. Wm. Walker, boot and shoe maker, Hayfield, suffered for more than two years from scorbutic humours of a very severe description in both his legs, extending from the knee to the foot, and formed one complete sore, the pain also was most excru- ciating and, notwithstanding he tried various remedies, yet he became worse until mortification was expected to take place. At this critical juncture he commenced using Holloway's Ointment and Pills, which speedily cured his legs, and his health has since become far better than ever it was before. THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. — The Commons, we have reason to believe, are about to lose the services of their able and excellent Speaker. Though this announcement will be received with regret by his numerous personal friends, and by all who have come within the wide range of Lis influence, yet his retirement could scarcely have been postponed beyond the close of the. now expiring Parliament. He has served for eighteen years-a longer period than any previous Speaker, if wtf except the well-known Arthur Onslow, who occupied the chair for the enexampled space of 33 years. But we have lived faster since the days of Onslow, and have learned, perhaps with scant wisdom, to compress into one modern session the labours, the night watchings, and the wear and tear of at least two sessions of the olden time. In years of service Mr. Speaker Shaw Lefevre has already exceeded the late Viscount Canterbury and if the labours of a Speaker could be computed in days and midnight hours, our distinguished contemporary would not be second even to Arthur Onslow. Elected to the chair in four Parlia- ments, he has witnessed the fall of four Administrations, and the recent crisis of a fifth: he has enjoyed the confi- fidence of Conservative as well as Liberal majorities and whether the House of Commons has been led by Lord John Russell or Sir Robert Peel, by Mr. Disraeli or Vis- count Palmerston, the ascendancy of his high office and his own personal popularity have ever been the same. His dignity, free from pomp or affectation, is natural to him; his judicial clearness, his quick sagacity and tact, are never at fault; while his admirable temper is proof against all the wearisome trials and exhaustion to which he is ex- posed. Meanwhile, the valuable improvements which he has introduced into every department of Parliamentary business are evidence of his great administrative ability. Nobly has he won the rewards which now await him. His talents, his high character, and eminent public services entitle him to a distinguished place in the House of Peers and the public will cordially approve of any pecuniary acknowledgement which Parliament may offer to a public servant, at once so worthy and so justly popular.-lost. THE LORD-LIEUTENANCY OF THE WEST RIDING.— We have reason to believe that the office of Lord-Lieutenant of the West Riding, vacant by the death of the late Earl of Harewood, has been offered to and accepted by Earl Fitzwilliam. Should this be indeed the case, the mag- nanimity of Lord Palmerston can hardly be sufficiently applauded, as the noble Earl voted for Lord Derby's motion in the debate on the Chinese question in the House of Lords.-Lec(li Mercury. PROGRESS OF FACTORIES.—Between 1838 and 1850 the increase in the number of factories in the United Kingdom -cotton, woollen, worsted, flax, and silk-was such as, if equally spread over that period, would have been 32 per annum but from 1850 to 1856 it has been at the rate of 86 per annum. But the mere numerical increase of facto- ries does not adequately indicate the actual increase of production. Between 1838 and 1856 the number of facto- ries increased 21 per cent., but the amount of horse-power employed increased no less than 58 per cent, THE BRITISH Loss IN THE ARMY DURING TIIE LATE WAR.—An official return relative to the strength and losses of the late army in the East has just been pub- lished, in reply to an address of the House of Commons. From this return we learn that the total number of British troops which originally lauded in the East was 55,350 to these, during the progress of the war, were added 27,371, making a total of 82,901. The number killed was 2,598, and 1,848 died of wounds received. The whole number of those who were killed or died" was, however, 18,927, so that above three-fourths of the men lost, perished from sickness, want, and other causes, inevitable or preventible. The number of men disabled by sickness was 11,374, so that the total loss of the British army was 30,301 for a period of eighteen months, only twelve of which were passed in the presence of the enemy. In round numbers, we lost during the war 30,000, out of 80,000 men. Of the officers, 157 were killed and 579 wounded. ATTEMPT TO POISON A FARMER.—A case which has excited a good deal of interest in the East Riding of Yorkshire has just been heard before the magistrates at Driffield. A charge was preferred against a man named Bell for having attempted to poison his brother Mr. Thomas Bell, farmer, of Grindale, near Bridlington. It is nearly a year since the prosecutor received a hamper which was directed to him, and which contained a stone bottle, in which was about half-a-gallon of sherry wine. The cork having been taken out of the bottle, the prosecutor tasted a little of the wine, but, not liking it, he spat it out again. His servant girl swallowed some of the wine, and she became very ill, though she afterwards recovered. The prisoner, who then resided a few miles distant and was a farmer, was suspected, and about the time in ques- tion he sent his shepherd with a hamper to the nearest railway-station. In a week or two afterwards the accused promised to give the shepherd £50 or E 100 if he would say that he (the shepherd) had sent something. It was ascertained that the wine contained prussic acid, a dose of which quickly destroyed a full-grown cat. The prosecu- tor has a life interest in a farm in the neighbourhood, and if he died without children (he having none at present) it would go to his brother. On a policeman going to the prisoner's house to take him into custody he escaped by leaping out of the bedroom window, and he had kept out of the way until recently, when he was apprehended at Wakefield. The prisoner was again examined on Satur- day, and was committed for trial at the ensuing York Assizes. The supposition is that prussic acid had been put into some wine sent by the prisoner to his brother. WITCHRAFT IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.— llugeley—rendered famous by Palmer's crimes-has been a scene of great excitement for several days past, remind- ing one of the time when the inquests on Palmer's victims were being held, in consequence of a solemu investigation before a large bench of magistrates into the circumstances of a case of alleged witchcraft. The reader on becoming acquainted with the facts of the case will almost fancy that he is reading a history of doings in the dark ages, and not of proceedings which have of a truth taken place in this day of boasted light and knowledge. The history of the case is briefly this :-A young and apparently respect- able farmer, named Thomas Charlesworth, resides on a small farm of his own at Bromley Hurst, near Rugeley. Some 16 months back he married a young woman in his own station of life, but the marriage displeased his widow mother, who had been liring with him, and she left, cautioning him, however, before her departure not to attempt to make cheese, as it would be sure to tumble to pieces. Heedless of the widow's caution, cheese-making was prosecuted, but with little or no success, the milk refusing to turn, or, if a cheese perchance were made, it was certain to fall to pieces. The farmer and his wife were ill, and the dairymaid also was unwell, without any ostensible cause. The farmer coupled these things with his mother's prediction, and came to the conclusion that he was bewitched." Bemoaning his condition to a neigh- bour, Sainmons, a tollgate-keeper, and who at times worked on the farm, Sammons recommended him to go to a wise man, James Tunnicliff, also living in the neighbour- hood, who "could do anything." The farmer and his wife immediately set off to Tunnicliff's house, and fortunately for them, as he said, found him at home. The cause of their journey told, Tunnicliff proffered his services to relieve them of the dire calamity under which they were suffering, and next morning he made his appearance on the farm. Without seeing the cows he pronounced them bewitched, and the cheese kettle he declared to have fallen under the same curse. lie could remove the enchantment, but money would be necesary, and forthwith the simple farmer paid him 5s. for himself, 5s. each for some horses, 5s. for the cheese kettle, and 3s. 6d. each for the cows, in all amounting to about £7 for removing the spell. Things, however, did not mend at the far- on the contrary, the wife was occasionally seized with sickness, the husband suffered from unaccountable aches and pains, especially after Tunnicliff had been on the farm, and at night there were mysterious noises, accompanied by the shaking of the house, bellowing of the cattle, howling of dogs, &c. Ap- plications was again made ro Tunnicliffe, who represented the state of the farmer and his wife, and the extraordinary noises, to have arisen from the widow's curse," and the enchantment put upon them through her instrumentality by wizards living at Longton, Burton-on-Trent, and Derby. More money was required to remove the enchant- ment and to pay the expense of the journeyitigs to the wizards. Charlesworth freely parted with his money to the amount of E30, but the farmer and his wife derived no benefit from the expenditure. Tunnicliff at length went to live on the farm, and resided with the farmer and his wife several months, during, which period he was engaged at intervals in making crosses on all the doors with witch hazel, and in burning blue and other lights to overcome the power of those who had bewitched the farmer and his wife. Things went on in this way from April, last year, until February last, when at length the suspicion arose that Tunnicliff was contributing to their illness by drug- ging them, and that the extraordinary noises were occa- sioned by him. Ultimately Tunnicliff was sent about his, business, and in the end brought before the magistrates on the charge of obtaining money under false pretences. The hearing of the case occupied the attention of the Bench three days, and has just terminated in the committal of the prisoner for trial at the ensuing assizes at Stafford. CURABILITY OF CONSUMPTION.—This insidious disease, sometimes, but incorrectly, described as an English malady produced by the inclemency or sudden changes of our variable climate, was once considered one of the opprobue medicincc, affording little or no hope of relief or cure even in its earliest stage. Now, however, the united opinion of the Faculty, as well as the happy experience of many who have been fortunate enough to meet with Dr. de Jongh's Light Brown Cod Liver Oil, containing some peculiar prin- ciple of great healing power which no other Cold Liver Oil possesses, concur in proving that at all periods, and even in the most unpromising and seemingly desperate cases, the salutary and curative principles of this Oil will arrest the further progress of disease, and revive and restore the sinking patient. Dr. Radclyffe Hall, the eminent Physi- cian to the Hospital for Consumption, Torquay, who has nsed Dr. de Jongh's Cod Liver Oil extensively, both in hospital and private practice, in this celebrated resort of consumptive invalids, bears the following high testimony to its excellence I have no hesitation in saying that I generally prefer your Cod Liver Oil for the following reasons :—I have found it to agree better with the digestive organs, especially in !,those patients who consider them- selves to be bilious; it seldom causes nausea or eructation it is more palatable to most patients than the other kinds of Cod Liver 0,1; it is stronger, and consequently a smaller dose is sufficient." "1 a I
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RAILWAY TIME TABLE, SOUTH WALES RAILWAY. I he Mail Trains run the same on Sundays as week days DOWN TRAINS. WEEK DAYS. Starting 1,2,3 1,2,3 1.2,3 Exp., 1,2,3 Exp.¡ 1,2,31 Ma from class class class 1 &2, class 1 & 2 class. 1 1,12 a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m.; a.m. p.m. p.m. p. m Paddington 6.0 9.40 6.50 4.5012.50 Glo'ster de.. 7.0 10.35 1.0 3.0 8.301 6.5 2.15 NVoolaston 7.46,11.39 14.2 7.7 Chepstow 7.06 11.55 1.47; 4.20 9.30 7.20 3.12 Portskewet. 8.8 112.5 i 4.32 7.30 Magor 8.17112.16¡.. 14.43 7.40 Newport 8.42 12.45) 2.10, 5.12 9.55 8.0 3.40 Marshfield 8.52 12.55 1 5.27 8.10 Cardiff 9.6 1,15 2.31 5.50 10.15 8.35 4.4 Ely 9.12 1.23 5.55 f St. Pagans. 9.17 1.30 6.2 I. Llantrissant. 9.36 1.46 6.17 9.0 4.27 Pencoed 9.51 1.58 6.25 00 Bridgend. 9.56 2.8 3.0 6.40 Cj 1 9.18 4.46 iyle 10.121 2.23 6.53 "d iortTalbot. 10.25 2.35 3.18 7.9 9.43 5.12 Briton Ferry 10.34 2.45 7.19 ns N eth .ar 10.40! 2.50 3.26 7.27 3 9.58 5.23 Ditto .? 10.43 2.53 3.30, 7.32 -g 10.0 5.25 Llans?mlet 10. 57 3.3 7.43 1-1 Landore  11.9 3.11 ?.?O? 7.54 SW¡n5ea ..ar 11.14 3.20 3.55:8.15 1 10.25 5.50 Ditto .? 8.15 11.20 f 3.4 7.0 5.55 Landore 8.2" 11.34 I 3.55 7.59 00 Gower ltd. 8.37 11.49 4.12 8.19 Loughor 8.42 11.54 4.19 8.24 Llanelly 8.50 12*4 4.28' 8.34 6.25 Pembrey 9.0 112.14 ?  4.38 8.45 Kidwelly 9.12 12.261 4.5018.56 6.45 Ferryside 9.22 12.36 5.0 9.8 Carmarthen.. 9.35 12.50 5,15, 1*21 r 7.15 St. Clears.. 1.8 § 4 5.29 S I 7.28 Whitland. 1.23 ? 5.51 ? 7.40 N arberth Rd. 1.35 S"= 6.6 M ¡ 7.55 Clarb. Rd.  6.21, -a j 8.15 Clarb. Rd. 1.55 6.21| 8.30 Haverfordwest 2.5 2 6.36 I Johnston (for Milford) 2.351 6.55; -| 8.45 Nevland (for t^ter 2.451 ? 7.15' l 8. 6 UP TRAINS. WEEK DAYS. Starting 1,2,3 1 1,2,3 Exp. 1,3,3 !,2.3t&2,Maiit,2?3 frum class class t & 2i 1 class class class 1 & 2 clas 3 -1- 'a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. Inoon. p.m'l p.m. p.m. Neyland 8.0 ? 11.30 «■ f 4.7 Johnston. 8.161 11.50 J | 4.22 Eaverfordwest 8.30 12.0 J 4 32 Clarb. Rd 8.50 £ 12.12 n) 4A7 Narberth Rd. 9.10, -?!l2.42' 1 I 5.2 Whitland. 9.23! ? 1.0 5 ^7 St. Clears 9.38| p- 1.16 I 5.29 .i Carmarthen. 6.55-10:0 140 5.52 8.15 Ferryside 7.10il0.15j f a. 1.55 ) 8.28 Kidwelly 7.20:10.26i w 2.7 6.17 8.38 Peinbrey 7.30 10.381 2.20 8.50 Hancny. 7.38,10.48. 2.31 6.37 9.0 Loughor. i?10 ,7? 2.40 9 9 Gower ltd. 7.48 ll:. 2.45 Landore 8.0 ill.25 j 3.7 9.34 Swansea ..ar 8.10; 11.40 j 3:25 7.7 9^1_39 Ditto.? 75511123,10.30 3.0 1'40 7 1"? Landure 8.5 Ill.33jl0.45 3.20 147 Llansamlet 8.15 110.55 3.27 1.5.5* Ne?th ar 8 *2 11148 'I" 3.37 2.3 728 Ditto de825,11:50 11.7 3.42 2.5 7.30 Briton Ferry 8.33 11.16 3.50 2J2 Briton Ferr y 8 436 3 ii '1 11-24 3,58 2.20 7.?2 Port Talbot. 8.46 12.1 11.24 3.58 2^20 ?42 Pyle 9.5 ?H.394.182'35 Bridgend 9.25 12.23 11.58 4.35 2 *50 8 7 Pencoed 9.34 12.13 4.45 30 Llantrissant 9.50 12.29 5.10 3.15 ? 8.25 St. Fagans 10.5 12.44 5.25 3 30 Ely 10.11 12.49 5.32 3 35" Cardiff 7.10 10.23 1.0 1.10 5.44 3.40 8.48 Marshfield 7.26 1.26 6.0 3.50 Newport 7.4410.50 121 1.44 6.20 355 9.15 [' Magor 8.4 11.8 2.5 6.35 4.19 Portskewet 8.13 2.15 6,45 434 Chepstow. 8.25 11.27 1.46 2.29 6,57 4 46 9 *45 Lidney  8.43:11.44 2.47 7.20 5 4 100 Newnham 1 9.5 12.0 3.7 7.40 5 24 10 20 1 2 cl 1 2 cl Glo'ster 9.45:12.50 2.37 3.27 8.10 6.0 111.40 1 Paddington 2.25 5.5 6.0 9.5 10.35 4?50 JJ SUNDAYS. DOWN TRAINS. SUNDAYS. UP TRADíS. St.artgfrom I,2,3?1?2,3?,2,3?Startg.from 1,2,3?1,2,3! 1,2, a. m. a. m. p. m a. m.la. m. p. m. Paddin"ton 8.0_ Xeyland 9,15 3.0 '9.1 5 3 0 Glo'.Le? ai- 2.35 ?l Johnston 9.35 320 Ditto..? 3.0 .H. West 9.45 3.30 Chepstow 4.15 ?arb. Road.1020—— Newport 7,38 5.0 Whitland 10.35 Cardiff 8.3 5.29 St. Clears (10.-50 p.m. Neath ..a?- 9.3 8? ?Carniarthen .111.35 6.15 7.10 Ferryside :?ll. 2 0 6.0 Ditto ..? 9.50? 7.0 St. Clears.. 6.15 L.?ndore 10.10 7.35 Kidwelly jU-47 6.27 Swansea ar 10.15 7.40 .IPembrey '12.0 6.40 Ditto ..de 10.20 7.40 !pembrey .?2.11 6.51 Ditto ..?10.20 7.45 Uanetiy !l245 72.5 Landore ?10.30 7.55 1,d.a 112.45 7.25 Llane])y.. 10.55 8.22.Swansea?- .?2?507?0 Pembrey 11.5 8.32 Ditto ?8.30! 1.10 7.35 Kidwdty 11.17 8.44 Landore 8.35? 1.18 7.43 Perryside 11.27 8.54 Neath ..ar 8.53j 1.28 7.58 Carmarthen 11.42 9.9 Ditto ..?a. M.1 1.30 80 St. Clears.. 9.29 Cardiff j 11.151 3.3 9.41 W hilland. 9.46 Newport 11.491 3.28 10.!10 Narb. Rd. 10.0 Chepstow.. I H. West 10.34 Glo'ster ar 1.38) 5.16 Johnston 10.50 Ditto de 1 5.2al ey ¡H.O Paddington.l00
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I LLANELLY AND LLANDILO RAILW AY. UP TRAINS. ci'fsf Cl'ass ?-?s. "UP TRAINS. Class Class SUNDA Ye. <S'?'?!? from A.M. P.M. A.M. P.M. HaneUy(S.\V.H.St.) 9 10 5 0 Dock .914 5 4 ?: Bynea 9 22 5 12 Llangennech 928 5 18 i Poutardulais 9 35 5 25 ?' a-;¡;p;t-I !) 1 5 0 i Cross Inn 9 55 5 25 ? ?' Cross Inn arrival 10 0 5 55 i Garnant „ |l0 25 6 20 ?  Handeb.e ??O 5 5 55  DcrwyddRoa.d 10 10 6 0 Fairfach 110 20 6 10 Llandilo 10 25 6 15 ?} I, 1, ?', 3 1,2,3 DOWN ???'- Jl'? J?? S?nAYS. Starting from -I- LIand)!o. 9 15 5 5 ii r f,- t c- h 9 20 5 10 DerwyddRoad 9 3 5 1 Llandebie .?9 35 5 25  Garnant.departure. 9 10 5 0 Cross Inn.. 9 35 5 2.5 .?. Cross Inn arrival .10 0 5 55 Garnant .[10 25 6 20 Pontardulais 10 5 1 55 Llangennech 10 12 6 2 Hynea. 10 18 6 8 bock 10 25 6 15 ? Llanelly (S. W. R. St.) 10 30 6 20 10 30 6 20 Garnant Passengers wlil be set down or taken up at Gellyceidrim or Cross Keys, if required. ==-
I VALE OF NEATH RAILWAY"
I VALE OF NEATH RAILWAY" UP TRAINS WEEK DAYS. SUNDAYS. Starting From 12312312312312 3123 Class Class Class Class Class Class SOUTH WALES A.M P.M. P.M. P.M. A.M. P.M. Swansea .dep 7 Mi] 40 3 50 7 12 8 30 7 35 Swansea dep. 8 15j 1 55 4 7 8 45 7 50 Llansamlet  1.51 1 55 4 7 8 45 7 50 Neath ,a8 20? 2 3 4 15 7 28 8 53 7 53 VALE OF NEATH. ) Neath .dep. 40; 2 10 7 45 9 0 8 1 Aberdylais 8 45 2 15 7 50 9 5 8 25 Aberdytais.88455722215 o 8 0 9 15 8 30 Glyn-Neath 9 71 2 33 ? 8 8923 8 30 I Hirwain .arr. 9 27' 2 53 8 28 9 43 8 58 Hh-waind.forAberdarc 9 33 3 0 6 30 8 35 9 50 9 8 Aberdare Arrival 9 45. 3 10 6 45 8 45 10 0 9 15 Hirwain d. for Merthyr 9 30! 2 5(31 8 31 9 46 9 5 LIwydcoed 9 37j 3 3 8 38 9 53 9 1 Merthyr Arrival. 10 0 3 25t 9 0 10  1? ?38 DOWN TRAINS. I-VEE- DATS. SUNDAYS T r3:rf2 3 1 2 3TT3 1 2 3 1 2 3 cS.tati.ng ?From clas?Class Class Class Class Class VALE OF NETTli. A.M.J p.M.1 P.M. P.M. A.M. r.M. Merthyr dep. 9 0 1 35 6 0 8 30 5 50 LI wydcoed 917 152?617 8 47 6 7 Hirwain arr. 9 23| 1 58' 6 23 8 53 6 13 Aberdare Departure 9 5: 1 40 6 5 8 35 5 55 Hirwain Arrival. 9 18 1 53 6 18 8 48 6 8 Hirwain dep. 9 26 2 0 6 25 8 55 6 15 Glyn-Neath 9 46 2 19; 6 44 9 14 6 34 Itesolven 9 56 28; 653 9 23 6 43 Aberdylais 10 10 2 40' 7 5 9 35 6 55 Neath.arr. 10 15 2 45j 7 10 9 40 7 0 SOUTH WALES. Nehth dep. 10 43 253,732 9 50 7 10 Llansamlet 10 571 3 31 7 43 10 0 7 20 Swansea arr.ill 14' 3 20' 8 15 10 15l 7 40
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