The Merthyr Telegraph and General Advertiser for the Iron Districts of South Wales

RBFOXM IN BIRM.INGHAM.-The Birmingham Reformers' Union is going to work in earnest. )n Saturday a meeting of the provisional execu- ive met and determined that they would found he society on the widest possible basis, and that, herefore, a subscription of six-pence per annum ihould constitute membership. Not the least .nteresting feature of the meeting was the fact chat the veteran Reformer, George Edmonds, was in the chair, and is determined to recommence the great work of his youth. A public meeting is called for Tuesday, at the Public Office, which will, doubtless, be well attended.- Birming- AOM ITI.'J J

THE TAFF VALE RAILWAY DISPUTE. I The Taff Vale Railway Company are just now going through a process which falls to the lot of most individuals at one time or another to ex- perience it ifit in the order of Providence, and no doubt they will come out of the conflict a better Company, and more disposed to carry out that feeling of reciprocity which hitherto has not existed between them and the public. The Taff Vale Railway Bompany has, ere this, experienced the vicissitudes of fortune; some years ago this concern bore the stamp of abject poverty 'year after year passed yet no,dividend was declared upon the original shares. Darker and yet darker the cloud became, until it was said that at one period this corporation was within 24 hours of bankruptcy ultimately, how- ever, a brighter ray shone through the gloom, and the week's receipts, ending September 10, 1842, had attained the princely sum of £666 3s. 3d. Fron this point, year after year the weekly re- ceipts have, till within a recent period, reached JB4000, which has very naturally led this once poor railway Company to become self-destructive, absolute, and despotic—we say self-destructive inasmuch as the week's receipts ending Decem- ber 26th, just past, only reached £1810 14s. 7d. whereas the corresponding week last year was £3680, a falling off amounting to just one-half! What will the shareholders say ? This unsatis- factory state of things has arisen in consequence of a dispute between the freighters and the directors, for which the latter have nobody to blame but themselves. In 1856, the directors of this Company decided upon applying to Parlia- ment to obtain powers for certain purposes. Then their tolls on coal and ore were one penny and one-sixth per ton, including locomotive power. They proposed to reduce them to Id. per ton, but the freighters required a reduction to id. in committee the freighters succeeded in bringing down the toll to this amount, when the directors with unseemly haste withdrew the bill. In similar haste the directors subsepuently ob- tained permission to re-commit the Bill, and it was passed on the 7th August, 1857. The directors have clearly been beaten by the freighters, and that upon their own ground. The committee of the House of Commons had de- cided against them, and to make things square they have made up their minds to oppose the freighters in every way, and as, we think, much to their own cost, as proved by the great falling off in the traffic already. When the tolls stood at one penny and one-sixth per ton, including locomotive power, therewere no additional char- ges whatever, but no sooner is the Act of Par- liament passed than the following circular was issued to the freighters. "TaffVale Railway, Cardiff, Aug. 22, 1857. The Royal assent was given to the Company's Bill on the 17th instant, by which the tolls on the line are greatly reduced. I am therefore desired to inform you that we shall be no longer able to render the gratuitous services which in so many ways we did under the old tolls; but that from the 17th instant we shall make a charge for all services rendered that are not required by the Company's Act of Parliament." The charge for services referred to in the above was determined upon by the Company as fol- lows :-One penny per ton at each end for special services, sidings, and other accommodation. The average run at the reduced rates was 16 miles, being equivalent to the amount inserted in the Company's Bill when first presented to Palria- ment, viz., Id. per ton. Sharp practice this, exclaims the reader but wait, there is something sharper still to come, or perhaps it would be more correct to say suicidal. The Taff Vale Railway at the terminus have sidings, and we ask what railway company is without such a convenience? For the use of these, instead of Is., it was determined to charge 2s. per ton on all that went into them, up to 48 hours, and for a longer period Is. per waggon per day. And then was issued another formal but formidable circular to the luckless freighters. Taff Vale Railway Office, Cardiff, Sept. 17th, 1857.-1 am instructed by the Board of Directors of this Company to give you notice, that on and from Monday the 21st, all coal and coke not shipped, direct as soon as brought down on the East branch, or taken directly off the Company's main road, to the East Dock or the Tidal Har- bour, will be subject to the following charges, viz.: For occupation of the Company's sidings, if occupying them for a shorter period than 48 hours after passing the East Branch junction, 2d. per ton. For any coal or coke occupying the said sidings, after 48 hours after passing the East Branch junction, Is. per waggon per day. I am directed further to state that these charges are applicable. to the East Branch only. Further information as to other charges may be obtained on application to me at this office. I am your obedient servant, E. KENWAY, Secretary." Thirteen of the largest freighters at once raised an objection to this imposition, and not only objected to the charge but refused to pay, -when upon the heels of the former out came another circular the very personification of red tape. Taff Tale Railway Office, Cardiff. The Board of Directors of this Company have un their notice the large amount of arrears from you for tolls, and I am instructed to inform you that on and from- you will be required to pay the tolls on all coal, coke, iron, or other article, conveyed on the Company's railways be- fore the same is shipped, or removed from the Company's premises." Yet still they came thick and fast; and at the devoted heads of the thirteen dissentients the implacable Directors hurl another missile It is as follows:— Taff Vale Railway Office, Cardiff.- I am in- structed by the Directors of the Railway to in- form you that for the future convenient working of this railway, you will be required in all cases, to furnish me with an exact account in writing signed by you, of the number or quantity of goods conveyed or intended to be conveyed by or in any carriage for you, and of the point on the railway from which such carriage or goods have set out, and at what point the same are in- tended to be unloaded or taken off the Company's railway." And such is the history and progress of this unfortunate dispute. As many of the freighters have put down weighing machines, and of course now weigh their own coal, much to the loss of the Railway Company, who have hitherto rea- lized a handsome sum from this source-the 13 freighters have for the present dispensed with the services of the Company's men, so that coal is only sent down when there is a vessel ready to receive it, paying only the id. toll for the miles travelled. Now what has the Taff Vale Railway got by this unreasonable and unheard of movement? let figures answer the question—the receipts for the month of December, 1856 and 1857, have been as follows :— 1856 £ s. d. 1857 £ s. d. Dec. 6th, 4323 14 0 Dec. 5th 2498 0 0 13th, 3919 3 3 12th 2180 0 0 20th, 4953 18 4 19th 2254 7 6 27th, 3687 10 8 26th 1870 14 7 £ 16004 6 3 £8803 2 1 And for the week ending "January 2nd, 1857, when onlv 38 miles were open, the receipts were JE3864, whereas the corresponding week this year, with 53 miles open ti is only £2153. This vexded & disputed question will doubtless soon be brought before a legal tribunal, and it is understood the freighters will apply to the ensu- ing Session of Parliament, so that the charges upon this Railway may be clearly expressed and understood. In the meantime shareholders will have to be content with moderate dividends, and capitalists will find such things as Taff Yale Railway shares d in the market. Merthyr. T. R.

PABLIAMENTARY REFORM MANIFESTO. — The Parliamentary Reform Manifesto, which we quoted some weeks since, as originating from a committee sitting on the subject, has now been formally published with the signatures.

NOTES BY A RAMBLER, No. V. A RUN THROUGH THE HILL. Filled with a sort of insane desire to see how a town looked during a strike, and naturally ex- pecting every shop to be shut, and the tradesmen thereof, if sober men, reading to their wives by the fireside; if otherwise, getting intensely political in tap-rooms and bars, we made a run through the hill the other night, happily for this town, and most especially for the readers of the TELEGRAPH, being neither seized as the author of all the anti-strike effusions. nor waylaid and as- saulted by men, who did not care who we were so much as what we might have had in the pockets. Entering the vale of Neath station we placed ourselves in that Caudine Fork arrange- ment, whereby, after a process of paying cash, one becomes for the time being the property of the Company; thence into a carriage along with a few other worthies, and very shortly after a pre- liminary whistle, were carried very rapidly to- wards the tunnel. The motion was pleasant but the view we must confess, was disagreeable: a kind of Rembrandt tinge hung around the landscape, and on the glasses of our carriage the damp made a complicated map of islands, conti- nents and peninsulas, at which, with the other occupants, we stared with uncommon interest. The flash of a light, a quicker motion, a scream, a dash, and with a roar we dived beneath so many cubic feet of earth and sandstone grit, whereon grass grew sternly, and mild sheep grazed totally unconscious of the affair going on below. Dis- agreeable was that tunnel; the man holes seen dimly, offering a surprised workman an escape in the hour of peril; the curve, when the carriage heeled up slightly and, we thought all was over, and with active imagination pictured shattered heaps, torches, inanimate bodies, coroner's inquests, and newspaper paragraphs, till, another scream, and another more rapid motion, and the Rembrandt tinge of landscape, islands, &c., on the glass, again met our view, and allayed our anxiety. Then came the run over Werfa viaduct, at which point we invariably make it a rule to hold the breath and become nervous; then the stop- page, the leap out, and the momentary halt by the station, for the master thereof is a man worthy of being introduced. We have thought that as trains were often late at this station it was a de- sign to place an obliging servant there whose conversational powers, and kind attention should atone for the remisness and dilatoriness of others. He is at-home on every subject, from Mormon- ism, which he dislikes, to the last telegram. He has a fluent manner of uttering .long words that is quite alluring, and ought to have made him a barrister, had the law been confined to honour- able men. But wit is his strong point. Bilious men who have long bills to meet, and many bills, perhaps, to feed, roar again, and travellers with bad books," and tidings of failures in the Vale, leave the station with a smile and a lightened heart. Leaving our friend, who we hope will climb up to the notice of the directors, we tramped down a road never fortunate enough to have bad a surveyor, and totally ignorant of gas lamps. Then the Abernant crossing, where, after a few demure attempts to pass with clean boots, we took a philosophic view of the matter, and made a "bee line" right through mud and puddles, over rails, by trams, till the haven of a newly macadamised road was reached, plodding down which said road we grumbled mightily that Aberdarc people could exist throughout long dark winter nights, and agitate not the necessity of a lamp being placed there. Entertaining this idea, and meditating thereon, we passed the Vicarage, resting in gloom and quietness, entered the Trap, a fit name, for here local tradition states a Company's shop exists; past colliers and miners' houses, wherein models from the antique might be taken, for in them we have seen nude figures practising a part of the hydro- pathic system with a bucket, square of soap and a hard towel; over a river that went downward with a moan, the veritable "Bridge of Sighs," past a druggist shop where the red, white, and blue" bottles shone out in starling contrast to the dirt and the darkness over another railroad fenced by gates through which peered two im- pertinent red signals, and we were in Aberdare, with, as Byron does not say— A cook shop and a beer house on each hand." and a very good arrangement many have found this to be for the hill is an excellent improver of the appetite, Our impressions of this trip are vague-Mrs. Hemans, one of the sweetest minstrels we ever had, will have it that "night is the time for sleep," and Dr. Young endorses this truth with reflective additions. At all events we found it a bad time for observation: the beauties of the place were invisible; sometimes we thought ourselves in a new colony, and, had it been daylight, would na- turally have looked about for sturdy emigrants felling trees, burning stumps," and erecting those neat little tenements whicjfemost of us would like to possess, with a good little wife, crowing daughters, and sons inquisitively mischievous; furthermore, as lawyers say, a plot of ground, some cash, a good rifle, and no fear of baars" or Indians. But no. Glimpses now and then we had of well built houses, gay shops too came in sight, with such "dears" of things; looking so en- ticing, and such loves of bonnets with ribbons- ah! many a tip girl gets the heart-ache before those windows and those ribbons Past and present! Before us rose a stately bank which, when finished, will eclipse any building in Merthyr by it grew an old tree stri- ving hard to grow away from such an intruder, for, but a few years ago, the site of our Bank" was a meadow! On every side were the indications of progress, but it was such progress as we see when impro- ving our own homes, and find everything awry, trowels on staircases, and mortar in passage, lad- ders here, there, and everywhere, white jacketed men driving one another about, and all the ser- vants interested in looking at them. Bales and boxes thronged pavements, hand trucks came along them with evil designs against our under- standings, and the points of umbrellas made energetic attempts to assail our features, while the treacherous contrivance, in Cardiff-street, we think, pathway half pitched, half payed, threatened our very gravity. It was a bad night for observation: a misty outline of things and beings active and passive defied our endeavour to seize a sharp trait in order to make a note of it"; a time when cheerful firesides and fireside companions make "within" happy and without undesirable. We visited Aberdare to see the effects of the strike, and sure enough if silent streets and cus- tomerless shops are indications—we saw enough of them. Even from public-houses there came no merry song; outside there were no loungers shops were decorated well, but the winning smile and the "anything else" remained unused;—police- men walked about with a vacant air, and people brushed by occasionally, but not with the listless air of old. For it was a cold and a dark and a winter's night; and feeling that whatever obser- vations we might make daylight possibly would correct, we hastened away—promising ourselves another trip when Aberdare people are merry again, and setting us old Englanders olice more the way to go ahead and be happy.

THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON'S BAZAAR.—The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon's bazaar at Surry Hall closed on Friday last. It realized, after paying all expenses, 900Z. towards the erection of a suitable tabernacle for Mr. Spurgeon and the members of his church and congregation. The Dutches of Sutherland, says The Court Circular, has taken great interest in the bazaar. Through the exertions of her grace more articles of taste and art, the work of fashionable fingers, found their way into the recesses of the stalls, than was ever known to be collected for such a pur- pose before. Dr. Mackay, who is now in America, has a new work in the press upon the Mormons-their present condition and future prospects. Very interesting letters from him arrive by every mail. Mademoiselle Rachel died on Monday week at residence near Cannes.

MERTHYR POLICE COURT. MONDAY.—{Before J. C. Fowler, Win. Thomas, and David Evans, JEsqrs.) WINDOW BREAKING.- Ann Lewis was charged by Martha Lewis with breaking three squares of glass. The parties live in Bridge Field Terrace, and the'prosecutrix, who sometime since was dis- charged from a Lunatic Asylum, said that de. fendant cohabited with her husband during her absence, and that on the day she committed the offence, she came into her house and insisted upon cooking her husbands dinner for him. Complainant :denied this and said she was not in the house that day. Defendant was ordered to pay Is. damage and costs. CHARGE OF OBTAINING GOODS UNDER FALSE PRETENCES.—James Gabe was charged with :ob- taining a sack of apples by false pretences, under the following circumstances. Mary, wife ofWm. Jones, said she lived in Cross Keys Street. Sometime since she bought nine sacks of apples of Mr. Edward Parry, farmer, of Glangwyem, Radnorshire. She paid for one sack, and defen- dant who was with her as her haulier, brought it home for her. She afterwards went with a cart for the remaining nine sacks, when Mr. Parry told her the defendant had taken away five sacks of the apples and paid for four of them, leaving the one sack of apples to pay for. She paid for that sack and the three others, and brought them away. She had never authorised defendant to go for the apples, nor had she re- ceived them of him. The case was dismissed, the Bench remarking that in order to bring the -case home to jthe defendant the farmer must be present. A CURIOUS CASE.—On Saturday last, Mr. Simons's, clerk applied to the Bench for a sum- mons against Janet Powell for detaining about £17 or jE18 worth of goods, purchased by Richard Owen, an'ostler, residing in George Town. He stated that she had agreed to be married to him, when he purchased furniture to the amount in question, and placed the articles in her posses- sion. She afterwards refused to marry him or to give up possession of the furniture. The Court said they could not interfere, it was rather a case for the County Court. To-day Mr. James applied on behalf of the woman. It appeared that Mr. Simons advised Owen to go and get possession of the goods, if possible, and to take with him a police constable to prevent a breach of the peace. Mr. James said that Owen had actually given Janet Powell the goods, ant e bill was made out in her name. After the goods were taken to her house he proposed that they should live together as man and lwife, without marriage, a proposition which the young lady, very properly, indignantly refused, and the con- nection between them was broken. He came and aided by the police, took the furniture away by force. Mr. James thought that the police had no [right to interfere in such a sase and as- sist in such an act. Superintendent Wrenn said the constable only stood by to see no breach of the peace was committed. Mr. James said the presence of the policeman enabled Owen to get the goods away, which would not have been per- mitted had he not been there. The Bench re- fused to interfere, and Mr. James said he would bring an action in the county court, both against Owen and the policeman for the value of the furniture taken away. FRADULENT REMOVAL OF GOODS. — William Mahoney, a sinker, was charged by William Calamore with :having fraudulently removed his furniture to avoid the payment of 91 6s. rent. The goods were removed in the day time and a portion of the amount offered and refused. Defendant said he would guarantee to pay the amount by instalments of 8s. per month. ASSAULTING A POLICE CONSTABLE. David Davies, collier, was charged with assaulting P.C. Sweeney. Mr. James was for the complainant. and Mr. Owen for the defendant. The case had been adjourned from Saturday week, on which occasion, it will be remembered, a little scene was got up in court. Complainant said that it was his especial duty to watch the Dowlais moun- tain, and also the property of the Dowlais Iron Company. There had been a vast amount of timber and other property stolen from the com- mon, and about the patches. On the 28th De- cember he saw defendant doing something to the roof of his house, on the outside. He is one of the squatters on the common. Witness had pre- viously had notice of timber being lost from the common, and of poles being lost from the plan- tation. Seeing the defendant doing something to his roof he went to him and told him he was not allowed to build, and desired him to come down. Defendant said something in Welsh, and came down shortly afterwards. When he came off the ladder complainant started to go up, and when he had got up three or four steps defendant turned the ladder over, and threw him off. They had a scuffle. When complainant replaced the ladder and made a second attempt to go up, then defendant picked up a hatchet and held it in a threatening attitude. William Bevan, a Mon- mouthshire police constable who was standing in the road, then came to his assistance, and they between them took the hatchet away, and brought defendant to the Bute police- station.-Cross -ex- amined He had no search warrant. He never told defendant that he suspected he had stolen the timber that had been lost. The ladder was outside the house, but there was an inclosure round the house of a small garden. He was going up the ladder to see what timber defendant was using before he made the charge. No one had ever charged defendant with taking the timber, but he did not know where it went if these squatters did not steal it for their houses. He was sure he did not throw defendant off the ladder. He did not see him fall. Poles were lost from the plantation which would serve for the rafters of these houses. He took up a shovel to lift a board from the roof to see what sort of rafters had been put on. A woman ran out and cried murder. She said they would throw the house down and kill the child. He did not remove the board.—P.C. Thomas Philpin, one of the Mon- mouthshire police force, who had been walking with the last witness along the road, and who stood in the road while the proceedings were going on, till defendant took up the hatchet, cor- roborated the statement of the last witness.Mr. Superintendent Wrenn said he had a staff of ten men stationed on the Rhymney common. They were paid by a private company to prevent the depredations that were constantly going on there, but they were under his charge. He had had occasion to notice how these squatters'houses were constructed, and he had seen poles used for the rafters similar to those stolen from the plan- tation. By Mr. Owen: All these persons were suspicious characters, he considered. They en- croach on the land where they had no right. The man was brought down to the Merthyr station the day he was taken into custody. A man, whom he did not know, offered to become bail. He did not say to what amount. Defen- dant was in the lock-up for one night. The cells are warmed by a heating apparatus. The county allowed only a clean deal board to lie down on- no bedding, unless it is sent in by the parties' friends. Mr. Fowler:. This has nothing to do with the case. Mr. Owen: No, but the pro- ceedings when I was here before got into the papers and I wish to put myself right. Super- intendent Wrenn: You charged me with keep- ing defendant here three days without food and fire. Mr. Owen Clothing I said. Mr. Fowler: Come, come, keep to the question. Superinten- dent Wrenn said the general instructions given to the police were to prevent the building of houses on the common. He had never instructed them to pull down houses that were inhabited. William Bevan, in charge of the company's pro- perty, proved having lost timber from the moun- tain' and plantation several times, and given in- formation to the police about it three or four times lately. The Bench did not call upon Mr. Owen to make any defence as they considered there was no case, as the constable had exceeded both his duty and instructions. Mr. Owen said he would brirw air action against the constable. -Dr. Thomas did not sit in this case. William Jetikini, carpenter, Penydarren, was fined 10s. and costs, for assaulting P.C. James in the execution of his duty on Monday night. SATURDAY.-(Before J. C. Fowler, JEsq.) CHRISTMAS FRUITS.—The following parties who partook too bountifully of intoxicating beverages on Christmas day, and were so imprudent as to allow their conduct to be manifest to the police, were :—Wm. Lewis, collier, tramroad-side; J. McArcher, labourer, near the Plough, Dowlais; John Schooley, labourer, Cae Harris; Nicholas Hughes, puddler, New South Wales; Evan Morgan, baller, Horse-street, Dowlais and Ed- ward Morgan, railman, Elizabeth-street, Dowlais. They were severally fined 5s. PUBLICANS' OFFENCEs.-Thomas Williams, the keeper of a public house at Pontylotyn was fined 40s. and costs for permitting drunkenness on his premises. About 40 were drinking Christmas beer," several of them were too drunk to be able to stand. A fight also took place.—Jeremiah Lewis, White Swan, Dowlais, was fined 21 and costs for refusing to admit a constable at two o'clock in the morning. There were parties in the house. Defendant said he was in bed himself and did not hear any, but the constable said some one came to the door, and on hearing who he was, went away again. TUESDAY.—{Before J. C. Fowler, and David JEvans, Fsqrs.) SHEEP STEALING.- David Morgan, a collier, residing at the Cefn, was charged with stealing a ewe lamb, the property of John Rees, butcher, and dealer in cattle. Prosecutor stated that on the 20th November last he turned eleven sheep into the Big Field at Penydarren, and that a morning or two afterwards he missed one of them. He afterwards saw the skin at Mr. Bryant's. He saw some mutton produced by P.C. Cole, which was very badly butchered, but which fitted the skin. P.C. Cole said he found the mutton in pri- soner's house. Prisoner had absented himself till the present time. There was a whole sheep excepting half a breast. Prisoner was remanded for a week. THE LATE SIR HENRY HAVELOCK. (From the Examiner.) When Parliament was voting inadequate re- wards to this brave and triumphant soldier, his admiring country little dreamed that he was al- ready gone where the voice of honour, though never louder or more universal, will not reach him. The tidings of his sad fate have afflicted the public more intensely than any event of the Indian struggle, if we except the news of its worst tragedies. We doubt if the people of Eng- land in any of their wars ever took a deeper interest in the fortunes and eareer of a general in the field than they took :in Havelock's. In him they admired the union of the greatest qua- lities both of the man and the soldier they saw the achievments of sheer personal merit; an eminence due neither to wealth, patronage, or connections; a man of genius and energy win- ning the highest professional distinction, with nothing but the brave heart and the wise head; proceeding from service to service, and victory to victory, proving his ability and prowess in a hundred Asiatic fields, until he reached the crowning honour of the post in which he fell, covered with as much glory as ever surrounded the name of a British hero. (From the Atlas) That heroic chief, and. bravest and best of soldiers, who had so stoutly borne up against the unspeakable fatigues and anxieties of a five months' campaign, during which every week, and at times, almost every day, saw a battle and a victory-for with him the two were, indeed, the same—succumbed to the reaction that natur- ally set in when he found his glorious mission ful- filled at la?t. His memory will for ever live in the heart of a grateful nation, who will now compel Government to make some slight atone- ment for the injustice intended to the father, by bestowing upon the son the more fitting reward of a peerage, with an adequate grant. (From the John Bull.) Few men worthy of a soldier's name, who would not envy such a soldier's grave as his! The road from Allahbad to Lucknow, tracked by his victorious battle-fields, is such an avenue to his tomb as may well eclipse the jewelled pea- cocks which once lined the approach to Aurung- zebe's throne at Delhi. He lived long enough to see the object accomplished for which he sacrificed his life. That glorious march which was just in time to save the defenders of Luck. now, their wives and children, from a cruel slaughter, was fatal to their noble deliverer but he knew theywere placed in safety before he lay down like a warrior taking his rest. Such a death, we say again, is one to be envied: and not less so because the :hero died before he re- ceived the meed of eulogy which his deeds had secured. Men like Havelock do not fight on the speculation of What will they sayiin England?" They are urged by their own faithfulness to duty, their own instincts of chivalry. Better for them to sleep in the far-off country where their deeds have built them an imperishable sepulchre, than live to be lionised, to:suffer newspaper panegyrics and postprandial speechiifcations. (From the Despatch,) So fall the best as well as the greatest and the bravest. General Sir Henry Havelock is dead. Dysentery, [occasioned by anxiety and hardship, put an end to his honoured life. There are men who quite conscious that they may be spent, fling themselves unsparingly into the work be. fore them are borne through It by the devoted energy that first incites them and then, having calculated nothing for themselves in their efforts, when a pause comes, sink, the wreck of body or of mind, or of both, refusing to uphold them longer. Such a man, as it appears to us, was Sir Henry Havelock; and such, to their eternal glory, be it said, have been not a few of the heroes who have died for their country's cause in India. He was evidently a gentle, conscientious, earnestly kind man, as well as a most skilful and courageous soldier; one not to be measured professionally, or only by his public acts they were parts and accidents of his general and loftier existence. (From the Leader.) He was no common conqueror. Upon the march and in the field he exhibited those noble qualities that endear a soldier his comrades of all ranks. It is not too much to say that the nation has literally sorrowed over the announce- of his untimely death. But can we really say that the story of Havelock's career is an encou- ragement to the young? Havelock served a life- time in India at forty-three years of age he ob- tained his company; at sixty-two he was a colo- nel. Then arose the Indian mutiny, and men of genius and valour were summoned by events from comparative obscurity. The gallant colo- nel took Gommand of a column. In eight days he marched a hundred and sixty-five miles, fight- ing eight battles, and within the last three months of his life, he led his troops victoriously into ten severe engagements. Was this encou- raging, to be a captain at forty-three, and a colonel at sixty-two, and then to begin acquiring a public reputation ?

LONDON CORN MARKET. Monday, Jan. 11.— There was not much activity in the demand for wheat in the various local markets held on Saturday nevertheless, all good and fine samples were rather dearer. Barley was in good request, and the quotations had an upward tendency..All other kinds of produce were steady, at previous currencies. In the continental markets only a limited business has been passing in produce. Prices, however, have continued steady, and the supplies on offer are seasonably extensive. In the United States the demand for wheat and flour has been almost wholly confined to home wants. Notwithstanding that the stands were but poorly supplied with samples, the demand for all kinds of home produce was in a sluggish state, the Essex samples were mostly disposed of at prices about equal to that of Monday last, but the Kentish wheats were in favour of buyers by from Is. to 2s. per quarter. There was a full average time of year supply of foreign wheat-on c>P;j> fresh as well as ex-granary. Sales of alllimcls progressed slowly, but we have no quota^c"art?e to notice in prices. We were but moderately supplied with both English and l'oreign barley. The flour trade was by no means active, f rices, however, were well maintained.

RAILWAY TIME TABLES. SOUTH WALES RAJLWAY. UP TRAINS-WEEK DAYS. UP TRAINS. SUNDAYS. STARTING FROM W' Exp" |1 &2.(1,2,3. Mail.11,2,3. l,p: 1,2,3.1,2,3.jMail 1,2,3. STARTING FROM^ m & m a m a m am p m | pm | p>m, p.m. a<m I a.m, p.m. p.m. Milford I 5 0 8 4011 80; 4 7; 7 0 9 15 4 7 £ j Haverfordwest ,J — 5 25 — — 9 1912 0 4 32 7 45 — 9 45 4 32 w) Carmarthen — 6 45 — 10 10 3 0 5 5210 15 8 15 11 20 5 52 6 0 Swansea .dep. — 7 50 10 30 11 23 1 50 1 40 7 15 — 8 30 1 13 7 15 7 35 Neath dep.l — 8 20 11 0 11 50 2 15 3 42 7 33 1 30 7 33 8 0 Cardiff. dep.! 7 1010 18 1 10 1 0 3 55 5 30 8 48 11 15 3 0 8 48 9 56 Newport 7 4410 50 1 44 1 21 4 22[ 6 10 9 15 — — 11 49 3 28 9 45 10 10 l,2cl.|l,2cl. I i Gloucester ..dep. 9 4512 50 3 32 2 42 5 10:11 40( — » — — — Paddington 2 25 j 5 201 9 0 6 010 351 4 50 — — — DOWN TRAINS-WEEK DAYS. DN. TRAINS-SUNDAY. STARTING FROM'1 & 2 W- X'2'3" 1'2>3- nV-P*1- 1»2ml 1 & 2 Exl 2 1,2,3.1,2,3.1,2,3. 1 & 2 STARTING FROM, M A M A M R M A M A M P M. PIIN A M, A.M> A>M. P M- Paddington i 8 10 — — 609 15 7 3Q10 01 0450 8 020 1 2 3 1 2 3 p.m. Gloucester ..depJ 2 15 — 6 4511 0;12 55 — 3 0 6 5 8 0 8 30 3 0 2 15 Newport 3 40 8 3012 55; 2 10 — 5 12 8 0. 9 17 7 38 10 37 5 0 3 40 Cardiff. dep. 4 4 8 58 1 30; 2 31 — 5 50 — 9 42 8 311 2 5 29 4 4 Neath dep. 5 25 — 10 43 3 8 3 30 — 7 32 — 10 43 9 50 9 15 7 10j 5 25 Swansea .dep. 5 55 8 25 11 0 — 3 40 — 7 40 — — 10 20 9 40 7 45. 5 55 Carmarthen ( 7 15 9 45 12 27 — 5 11 — 9 23 11 42 — 9 9| 7 15 H.West 8 30 — 1 39 — 6 12 10 44 — — — 10 34; 8 30 Milford. ( 8 55! — 2 5 6 37 — 11 10 — — JH 0] 8 55 NEWPORT, ABERGAYENNY^EREFORD, AND LIVERPOOL RAILWAY. (Including the Taff Vale Junction Railway.) J §lo ^§2 2 h _i a 8 §? n P-Q a a 2 a sfp-3 3-2 2 H cL, ts.p*. Q .p-.S S.I ■ 2. ■ q ,J q p.; 53 p.. S 5 |S5 cococo o ofefe CO ° > B. o £ I 555 FEF1-' 2 g|r'M w w I S I H 05MM — QTQCTIO K>8OCO Q* hs W •- ^5oooo» W oo^to 0 M COK) MMOI CO 3 oci&o; _s° j<oS o- ¥ > H—o>o II fefe H—o>o II fefe II, OCO oo-1 9» <3 g III ggfegPS gjg III H-OO OCO so vi 11 s ofes Ig-Sjg I I I I ags IP-SI TO TO BS C5 O' 0< OI #>- RFK? OB 1 sgjg 11 pgl list ..KaS. jsjL> I 00 00 00 00 12 CD -i-1 >• 8 ggg 1 11,1 1 YALE OF NEATH RAILWAY. DOWN TRAINS.-WEEK DAYS. I SUNDAYS STARTING FROM 1,2,3.1,2,3.1,2,3.1,2,3.1,2,8- „ a-m- P-m. p.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. Merthyr 9 0 1 35 — 6 0 8 30 5 50 Abernant 9 12 1 47 — 6 12 8 42 6 2 Llwydcoed 917 1 52 — 6 17 847 6 7 Hirwain .arr. 9 23 1 58 — 6 23 8 53 6 13 Aberdare.dep. 9 51 40 6 30 6 5835555 Hirwain arr. 9181536456188486 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 Resolven 9 56 2 28 — 6 53 9 23 6 43 Aberdylais 10 10/ 2 40 — 7 5 9 35 6 55 Neath. 10 lgl 2 45l — 7 10 9 40 7 0 UP TRAINS.—WEEK DAYS. |~SUN DAYS STARTING FROM 1,2,3.1,2,3.1,2,3.1,2,3.|1,2.3.1 9,3. a.m. p.m. a.m. p.n a.,«. Neath 8 85 2 25 — 7 4 9 0 Aberdylais B 40 2 30 ♦— 7 50 Q P. R,esolven 8 52 2 40 — 8 0 3 I V d Glyn Neath 9 2 2 48 — 8, ,8. ii » b 3ft Hirwain arr. 9 22 3 8 — 8 "28 9 43 8 58 Hirwain dep. 9 28 3 15 6 30 8 35 9 50 9 5 Aberdare arr 9 40 3 25 6 45 8 4510 0 9 15 Hirwain dep. 9 25 3 11 — 8 31 9 46 9 1 Llwydcoed 9 32 3 18 — 8 38 9 53 9 8 Abernant 9 4S 3 28 — 8 48 10 3 9 18 Merthyr.. 19 56 3 40 — 9 OflO 15 9 30 TAFF VA.LE RAILWAY. DOWN TRAINS.—WEEK DAYS. I SUNDAYS 1,2,3.1,2,3. wrr^37T^3. §f iw a-m- P-m- P'm- a-m- P-m. 8" Merthyr 8 16 1 0 6 0 9 0 4 0 2i Troedyrhiw 8 24 1 8 6 8 9 8 4 8 6J Quaker's Yd. Junctn. for o A?"&kiverpl.RaiIy. 8 35 1 19| 6 18 9 I&l 4 19 S Aberdare Junction 8 48 1 32i 6 31 9 33 4 32 ?iMeTbrid&e 8 58 1 42 6 43 9 42 4 42 Iff 9 3 1 47 6 49 9 47 4 47 162 Taff s Well 9 14 1 58 7 1 9 58 4 58 on fim 9 In 2 3! 7 810 3 5 9 20 £ la"daff 9 27 2 111 7 1610 11 5 11 23f; £ ardiff 9 36 2 20 7 25 10 20 5 20 24 £ Cardiff Docks 9 46 2 33i — 10 30 5 30 ABERDARE BRANCH. Aberdare 8 20 1 4 6 0 9 4 4 4 HjTreaman 8 24 1 8 6 4 9 8 4 8 3||Mountain Ash 8 31 1 15 6 12 9 15 4 15 7fiAberdare Junction 8 43 1 27 6 25 9 27 4 27 UP TRAINS.-WEEK DAYS. I SUNDAYS S STARTING FROM 1,2,3. 1,2,3. 1,2,3. 1,2,3. 1,2,3. S* a-m- P-m. p.m. a.m. p.m. S° Cardiff Docks 9 15 2 40 — 8 45 3 45' li Cardiff 9 30 255 6 45i 9 0 4 Oj 42 Uandaff 9 39 3 4 6 54i 9 9 4 91 65 Pentyrch 9471312 7 2,917 4171 18 Taff's Well 9 52 3 17 7 8^ 9 22 4 22 12 Treforest 10 3 3 28 7 20; 9X33 4 33i 13 Newbridge 10 8 3 33 7 26j 9 38 4 381 16 £ Aberdare Junction 10 18 3 43 7 9; 9 48 4 48; 8 Quaker's Yd. Junction for N.A.H.&Liverpl.Raily.lO 31 3 56 7 5310 1 5 lj 22 Troedyrhiw 10 42 4 7 8 5)10 12 5 12' 24-1 Merthyr .10 50 4 15 8 15jl0 20 5 20j ABERDARE BRANCH. I65 Aberdare Junction 10 21 3 46 7 43 9 61 4 51 20+Mountain Ash 10 33 3 58 7 56)10 3 5 3 22f Treaman 10 40 4 5 8 410 10 5 10 24 Aberdare 10 44 4 9 8 9 10 14 5 14l WESTERN VALLEYS RAILWAY. DOWN TRAINS.—WEEKDAYS. | SUNDAYS STARTING FROM ~WTl,2,3.1,2,3.1,2,3.1,2,3. STARi-lJN t* a m p m p m a m Blaina 8 58 2 20 7 2511 20 7 20 Abertillery 9 5 2 27 7 3211 27 7 27 Aberbeeg Junction 9 15 2 37 7 4211 41 7 41 Ebbw Vale. 8 53 2 15 7 20111 15 7 15 Victoria 8 58 2 20 7 2511 20 7 20 Cwm. 9 5 2 27 — 11 27 7 27 Aberbeeg Junction 9 15 2 37 7 4211 41 7 41 Llanhilleth 9 21 2 44 — 11 49 7 49 Crumlin 9 27 2 51 7 5111 56 7 56 Newbridge 9 32 2 56 7 5612 1 8 1 Abercarn 9 37 3 2 8 212 5 8 5 Chapel Bridge 9 42 3 7 — 12 10 8 10 Ris,ca 9 54 3 20 8 1812 28 8 28 £ ydl 10 4 3 30 8 28|l2 38 8 38 Rhymney Junction 10 11 3 37 8 3512 45 8 45 Newport, Dock-street 10 24 3 50 8 48 1 0 9 0 UP TRAINS.-WEEK DAYS. I SUNDAYS AT a.m. ;noon. p.m. a.m. p.m. STARTING FROM |1,2,3.1,2,3.1,2,3.1,2,3.ii,2,3. Newport, Dock-street 7 012 0 5 20 9 0 5 15 Rhymney Junetion 7 1312 13 5 35 9 15 -V Tydee 7 18112 18 5 40 9 rn Risca 7 27 12 27 5 5P1' Chapel Bridge |12 39 9 50 6 5 Abercarn 7 44l9-j^| 6 17 9 57 6 12 Newbridge 7 5fl2 57 6 2210 2 6 17 Crumlin c> 3! 1 5 6 3010 10 6 25 Llanhilleth 8 11! 1 13 6 3810 18 6 35 Aberbeeg Junction — i— W— 8 11! 1 131 6 381018:$33 Aberbeeg J'" 8 25! 1 271 6 5210 S 6 47 Cwm. 8 32! 1 34! 6 591039 6 54 i^vaiv: 8 381 ? 510 7 0 ITT 8 21 1 23! 6 4810 28; 6 43 Blaina ■ ■ '• • '■ ■ '• • 8 331 1 35 7 °'10 40 6 55 Printed and Published by PETER WILLIAMS, at the TBLE- GRAPH Office, High-Street, in ithe TowiA of Merthyr Tydfil, m the County <rf GiamOrgan.-Saturdav. January 61th, 1858-