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

L MISCELLANEOUS. 4' 5 f .—— Ecdes, educated at the Qaeen's College, tTrtnidad, is the first lad on the list of successful can. didatea at the recent Cambridge Local Examinations. Lieutenant Lillicrap, of the Royal Marine Artil- lerY, tried Portsmouth by Court-martial on a charge of fallowing f," cheque to remain dishonoured, has been acquitted. v, Lord Stanley of Alderley has been ordered to -par £5 damages at the MacclcBfleld County Court for ■hooting a dog, which his lordship alleged pad killed one of Lis har^^{^ Since the appointment of a Roval Commission on Friendly Societies the Cotnaierrfal World- Bays e. rumour has got abroad th$t it is the intentioa of the Gorernment to take the jaatxagemeotjpf Eiieadly ^ocietica into ita own bands. We understand$that /on Saturday Mr. John Albert Bright, .eldest > eonVjeA the> Eight Hon. J. Bright, accompanied by Mr, Biohard Heape, of Rochdale, sailed from Liverpool for New York, in the steamer Calabria, .with.the Intentionjaaking a tour through the United Stata. The foreign consuls ^residing at Bucharest have sent the Roumanian Government a collective note to thank It for the measures which it has, adopted to stop the persecution^ of^ which the Jews are the victims, and to encqprage it to fiontinue its efforts in that direction. A telegraiti-^Erom Halifax announces that the opinion prevaik-ihera that the Dominion Government will accept the Treaty of Washington, and that a large majority of the Dominion Parliament is known to be in favour of it, 80 that the passage of the Acts necessary to put it in force Is regarded as a foregone conclusion. Her Majesty, who had a high appreciation of the late Lord Mayo's administrative ability, and who received the intelligence of his lordship's, assassination with deep sorrow, wiU, it id' said, 00 advised by Mr. Gladstone to confer the peerage of the United Kingdom on the Countess of Mayo, with remainder to her heirs male. It is announced at Norwich on the authority of Sir Samuel Bignold, t"he local Conservative leader, that the Conservatives of the city propose to start two candidates at the dissolution' of Parliament. It is also announced, on the sarhe authority, that the Conservative candidates will in all probability be Mr. Huddleaton, Q.O., and Sir H. i. Stracey. v.. (. The Buenos Ayres Standard of January 14 says _1& The whole River Plate public has bee* horrified at the atrocities comtaitted in the South by the Gaucho assassins, who in T)ne day killed some fifty foreigners. The latest adviees from the interior of the Republic are cheering as regards he material progress. The wheat harvest will be the largest this country has ever produced." T&o New Code of Regulations" has been tanud by the Education Department. Its articles relate to the administration of Government grants to elementary schools for children, and training schools for teachers; the official inspection of elementary schools; and the certifica- tion of teachers. Special provisions are made in the case of evening schools. A bill making further provision for the educa- tion of blind and deaf-mute children has been issued; a bill to provide that jurors in criminal trials shall be chosen by ballot; a bill to amend the Public Parks (Ireland) Act; a bill to improve the administration of justice at petty sessions, by providing for payment of clerks to justices by talajy; and a bill to amend the law respecting the invest- ment of money paid into the Court of Chancery and to abolish the office of Accountant-General of the Court, have also been printed. Thai. Bank of England has issued the following notioft stockholders in the Public Funds :—India £5 per Cent. Stock, India £4 per Cent. Stock, Metropolitan Con- •olidaied Stock, and Bank Stock.—" Any holder of the aBove Stocks residing within the United Kingdom may have his Dividend Warrant sent to his address by post, on filling np and sending to the Chief Accountant of the Bank of England a form of application, which may be ob- tained at the Bank of England, or at any of its branches; also, for the Publio Funds, at any Money Order Office. Applications for the transmission of Dividend Warrants, Eyabla in April, 1872, should be lodged at the Bank on or fore 1st of March next." Tjm FIKEBRACE DIVORCB CASE.—The public have not heard the last of the very remarkable case Firebrace v. Firebrace and others," which, it will be remembered, occupied the Divorce Court fcr twelve days, resulting in favour of the respondent. The husband has, as it is understood, left tho country, taking with him the ehildren; and the wife has filed her petition for a restitution of conjugal rights. It is expected that the Intervention of Lord Penzance will be sought at an early day to permit the substituted service of the citation in the lady's petition, on the allegation that Mr. Firebrace is not to be-foand within the jurisdiction of the Divorce Court. IMPORTANT DECISION ON THB LAW OF SHORTHAKD WBITOW.—At the Stowmarket County Court, before Mr. :1. Woolledge, the juJge, a case of considerable interest was heard. The claim was to recover a sum of money for taking shorthand notes at the inquest on the gun- cottoft aeciilent. The shorthand-writer who had the order gave part df the business to a local reporter, as it was too heavy to do^Single-haisded, and he claimed the full price of 8d. a folio far that portion he transcribed. The judge heard r»iddtoce on both sides, and held that the price paid to the origififtl shorthand-writer being 8d. a folio, it would be fair that the party doing a portion should receive two-thirds. Juilgiheht passed accordingly. FRENCH NAVIGATION ACT.—An English mer- chant in France does not think the public have fully realised ho.w much the shipping interest of England will be affected by the new mercantile navy in France. The Eng- lish vessels will be placed at a disadvantage compared with those of other nations that have navigation treaties with France, and will be compelled te abandon the car- rying trade to them. He thinks our Government should not consent to a revision of the Treaty of 1860, unless the French Government manifest a desire to shew fair play to the English shipowners, who are the chief sufferers by this new arrangement. THI PROSPECTS OF THE SURPLUS.—The Econo- mist takes a very sanguine view of the prospects of the surplus. In the sh: weeks already elapsed Mr. Lowe has got more of the quarter's taxes than what he has to receive, and tbere are still seven weeks to spare. The Customs, Excise, and Stamps are coming in at a rate which ensures larM aurphls. TEe average receipts in stamps is from £150,000 to £ 200,000 a week, and only £350,000 is needed to complete the estimate, so that a large excess may be expected. The miscellaneous revenue is always ancertain. but there are only £290,000 to be re- ceived out of £400,000 estimate. Everything in the accounts, says the Economist, tends to confirm the sanguine anticipations formed at the beginxing of the quarter; and we see little cause, to doubt that at the end of the year Mr. Lowe will have at least about JE3,000,000 more money than he thought safe to estimate. £ CLEARING HorSB FOR THE STOCK EXCHANGE. —It has been suggested, in order to remove the difficulties attending settlements on the Stock Exchange, that a clear- ing house should be established, but the difficulties in the way are formidable. The numbers to be admitted to the clearing are one ground of objection. The Bankers'' Clearing House would be almost unworkable, If several1 tiundred banks wore admitted.. The difference of position occupied by jobbers and brokers is another ob- stacle, aS any arrangement for clearing would be apt to throw the work on one class which properly belongs to the other. But the fundamental difficulty is that of credit, any system of clearing being impossible which compels* brokers to take the cheques of people they do not know. The Economist suggests that any clear- ing to be established should be confined to jobbers only, and that for the settlement they should arrange some mode of consolidating their transactions. Brokers would then pay into'the clearing house and receive from it, instead of from individual jobbers, the latter balancing their transac- tions among themselves. Tue 8*7RREYDER OF METZ.—A rumourhas been current that the Due de Broglie has found at the French Embassy in London some documents which tend to shew that an understanding existed between Marshal Bazaine and Prince' Bismarck during the siege of Metz. It originated, doubtless, in the following fact, mentioned in the Republique Franraise:—■" General Boyer proposed, On the part of the Marshal, to Prince Frederick Charles and Bismarck a military convention, by virtue of which ihQ French army might retire with the honours of war to any neutral part of the French territory on the understanding that it should not fight against Prussia for a certain period of time. The Marshal, remaining at tho head of big troops, proposed to summon the Corps Legislatif, Which had been dissolved on the fourth of September, into their midst, and its first act would have been to reconstitute the regency. This account is taken from the.report furnished by General Boyer himself to M. Tlnot, French Minister in London, and is embodied in a despatch sent by this charge <P'affaires to the Tours delega- tion on the 27th of October, 1871." THE MAORIES.—" A Traveller," writing to the Spectator, makes some extraordinary revelations respecting New Zealand. He believed until visiting the country that the Northern island was a possession of the British Crown. He finds that three-fourths of it is owned by Maories, who sometimes acknowledge the Queen's supremacy, for money payments, but who often claim, and maintain absolute independenee. Between Auckland and Wellington, the New York and "Washington of the Northern Island, there is no high road, no mail, no telegraph, no free communication. The natives stopped the mail, forbid the making of roads, ana turn back messengers or travellers. A large district wwj ^aken$rott the rebels, but the surveyor who went to layout of it. was murdered, and the Colonial Go- vernnwni fir "powerless to exact vengeance. Tho natives object to m* increase of political strength which the English WMf" gains by improved communications. Thftt" wished to go a journey of sixty miles, but in* told ft WOttld take five days, as he must stay two or thrw dayf TO a Maori pa on the way, to conciliate tho hatfree ùi4 obtain leave. It is always a chance if one is allowed K* Jjafls on, or be turned back, and the fact that the writer obtained Iea-ve to go by land from the Thames to Tamarga. was thought important enough to be sent to the Auckland papers. Meanwhile there is a strong feeling among the colonists, who think that alluvial gold in large quantities is to be foimd ia the ground shut up by the Maories. Another Maori war seems to him to be a not remote possibility. The odds of numbers, science, and wealth are terribly against the Maories, but they will die hard, and a fresh war will retard the fortunes of the island for years to come. The death is announced at Montpelier College, Grenada, West Indies, of Archibald Pignenitt Burt, Attor- ney-General of the Colony. Mrs. Burt died 3 days after her husband, both of diptheria. It was stated a few days since that the Commissioners of the International Exhibitions had come to an arrange- ment with regard to sales in the buildings at South Ken- sington, which it was believed would satisfy all British and Foreign exhibitors alike. This statement has since been announced officially. It has been resolved that as the French and Belgian Commissioners had liberally relinquished the rights accorded to them with reference to the sale of articles, the rules laid down for the Exhibitions of 1851 18rt2 will in future be adhered to.n This means tWf exhibitors will be permitted to take orders for Jheir gftflja, but will not l>e allowed to remove any articles JhajJFe actually in the Eajubjtjga luiUl its clm\ -) ,:1.- _I.') c.

^B^ITGBANTNLLE'S "MESSAGE TO AMERICA. (Hie American papers of tho 7th continue the discussion of the Alabama question, The Washington correspondent of the JVcM* York Times, writing on the 6th, refers M- follows to .Lord Granville's communication :—" The friendly com- munication to the Government of the United States, regarding the interpretation of the Treaty of Washington, alluded to in the Quoon's Speech, consists, so far as this government is yet advisfcd, of a note from Earl Granville to en. Schenck, the substance of which the latter communicates by telegraph. This note ill not in the nature of a demand, por eyen a request that there shall be any withdrawal tf .the clalmS for indirect damages. It alludes totheex- cjitemeat in the public mind and in the Press on the sub- je?V and. juscribes it to the different interpretation put upbii the Treaty by the United .States from "that ^hich'lt receivecr at the hands of the English Govern- ment. This simply gives this Government an opportunity, if it desireS, of making an explanation, or even of with- drawing that part of the case which is the subject of mis- .interyretation; but thfire is no demand on the part of the English Government that such action should be taken. No reply has yet been made. The subject was informally talked over in the Cabinet meeting to-day, and the expres- sion of the members of the Cabinet was quite unanimous that the reference of all claims and questions to the Geneva Tribunal was absolute, and that to that body must be left the question of rejecting or allowing the claims known as indirect losses.' When a reply is made this will be the posi- tion taken. The President is very firm on this point, andheis unanimously supported by his Cabinet, and by all the Re- publican strength in Congress, including Mr. Sumner and General Banks. Tlie opinion is nowhere entertained here that the British Government will insist upon such a thing as a withdrawal of this part of the case of the United States. The feeling is quiet and firm, and there is pro- bably less excitement here over the situation than anywhere else. Mr. Edmunds to-day offered in the Senate a resolution calling on the President to communicate any information not incompatible with the public interests, which he might have relative to the intention of Great Britain to revoke the Treaty of Washington. The introduction of this resolution gave Mr. Edmunds an opportunity to make a brief speech relative to the rumours of the action of the British Government, in which the text of the Treaty, the protocols of the Joint Commission, a speech of Mr. Cobden, and Mr. Beamis' book were quoted from to shew that we had a right to make the claim for consequential damages about which England is so sen- sitive, and that it was well understood that we had that idght. He expressed the belief that no such demand as the reports represent had been made, and said in case it bad, the responsibility for the consequences must rest upon Great Britain. Mr. Trumbull took exceptions to the word- ing of & part of the resolution a8 assuming too much, and they we're stricken off. In a leader of the samepll.per it is argued that the whole matter should be left to arbitration. If the claims on either side are 'preposterous'—to use Mr. Gladstone's phrase—the arbitrators will so decide, and both parties will be bound to submit to the decision. It is useless to refer the case to arbitration unless we consent to refer the whole case-ancrhaving so consented, it seems a foolish cottrse to withdraw from it. General Grant has resolved to make no modification in our case as it was originally presented, and in doing so he will be supported by the country. As for talk of war, it is too absurd for serious discussion. The people of England do not want td go to war with this country—this country does not want to go to war with them. Probably such an issue has never been seriously discussed, even in the most intemperate of the English journals—the cable messages are very apt to misrepresent and exaggerate comments on such subjects, It suits some hair-brained writers to get up a war cry, but the bulk of the- people in the United States and England know that war between two such nations would be a disgrace to civilization, and they are not likely to be hounded into it by passionate journal- ists. If the Geneva Conference should fail, we shall only be where we were before—but the position of England will be worse than it was before, and it is to be hoped that Mr. Gladstone and his Government will perceive this, if his advisers in the Press do not."

THE BRITISH CASE. In the blue-book containing the British Case," pre- pared in accordance with the provisions of the Treaty of Washington, the following significant and definite passage occurs :— But the Government of the United States insists that it is entitled to satisfaction in money for claims which it asserts have arisen out of acts of these vessels—that is, out of operations of war carried on by means of them, by the persons in possession of them for the time being." It is manifest that this contention is one which her Britannic Majesty's Government, although animated by the most friendly feelings towards the United States, could not, with due regard to its own rights and those of neutral nations in general, consent to acknowledge, not believing it to be just. It is a claim of strict right, and can be supported only by clearly establishing that an international duty owed by Great Britain to the United States has been violated by Great Britain, and by shewing further that an appreciable injury has accrued directly fFom this cause to the LTnited States, for which Great Britain Ought in justice to make reparation in money. It is for the Government of the United States, then, to substantiate these positions, to specify clearly the international duty or duties on which it relies, and to prove the violation of which it complains.

THE ARMY ESTIMATES. The Army Estimates for 1872-73 have been printed, and comparing the total amount of the estimates for 1871-72 (£15,851,700), and the .total amount of thoso for the current year (£14,824,500) we find there is now a net decrease of £1,027,200. The net amount of the vote for 1872-73, after deducting the estimated Exchequer extra receipts, is £13,582,000, or JE840,732 less than the net amount of the Vote (£14,422,732), after deducting the estimated Exchequer extra receipts, asked for in 1871-72. Glancing over the items for which grants are asked, wo find that tho estimate of the sum required in tho coming financial year to defray the expense of the general staff and regimental pay allow- ances, and other charges coming under Vote 1 for the whole Army, is £ 5,238,000, shewing a net decrease of jEl 73,965, compared with the vote of the previous year. Y ote 2 to meet the expense of Divine Service shews a net decrease of £1,164. Vote 3 for the administration of martial law shews a net decrease of £2,488..A net decrease of £ 515 is perceptible also in Vote 4, for the medical establishment services. The first net increase (£6,050) occurs under head Vote 5, for Militia Pay and Allowances." The estimated expenses (Vote 6) of the Yeomanry Cavalry promise a net decrease of £1,!)86. Y ote 7, for the maintenance of the volunteer corps, is decreased in the net estimate by £12,450. A net decrease of £4,700 is also apparent under Vote 8, for the Army Reserve Force (including enrolled pensioners). .Under Vote 9, control establishment, wages, &c. there is Q, net increase of £5,441. The most noticeable of all tbeTiems which shew net increases is Vote 10, an estimate bf i>be sum required in the ensuing year to defray-the ex- pense of provisions, forage, fuel, light transport, &c. Here the net increase over the money asked for in 1871-72 is £48,744. Under these heads the "Cost of Provisions "will be by far the heaviest. In the Vote (12) for the supply, manu- facture, and repair of warlike and other stores for land and sea service, a net decrease of JE620,000 is visible. The Establishments for Military Education" will, it is esti- mated, cost JE292 less than in the previous financial year. The expenses of the War Office, on the other hand, will, it is thbught, amount to £ 2,790-more than in 1871-72. Under the head of Miscellaneous Services (Vote 15), we find that the expenses of carrying out the provisions of the Contagious Diseases Acts will probably be less in the ensuing than in the past year by £562. The grant for noneffective services, including rewards to dis- tinguished officers, Victoria Cross pensions, &c., shews a net decrease of £16(). The total of all ranks of the regular forces provided for the Army is 133,649, as against 135,047 last year, thus shewing a reduction of 1,398 men.

THE EDUCATIONAL POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT. A conference of the Nonconformists of the Metropolis was held on Monday at the Cannon-street Hotel, to con- sider the propriety of establishing a London Nonconform committee. Mr. James Haywood was voted to the chair. The Chairman, after explaining why the meeting was summoned, said the principal question which must interest them at the present time was that of education, which had been considered at the Manchester meeting. He thought the meeting would agree with the resolution passed at Manchester, that School Boards and the State should make provision solely for secular education. He believed that nobody at the present time wished the Government to go out of power, for there were many matters which they (the Government) would have to deal with which were of the utmost importance to the countiy, and it was necessary to educate tho people to the great principle of religious equality. The Rev. Dr. Landell said he had been asked to move the first resolution, as follows:—"In any system of national education the School Board and the State should mak8 provision solely for the secubr instruction which all children may receive in common, and the responsibility of the religious education of each district should be thrown upon voluntary effort." He thought some Noncon- formists had given up the great principle of their body in accepting State pay for religious instruction. This com- promise had been effected for the general good, but the Nonconformists had been mistaken in doing so, and it was not too late to retrace their steps. The Rev. Dr. Edmunds seconded the motion. Mr. Carter and the Rev. Mr. Rogers also supported the motion, the latter stating that if it were agreed that the Bible shoulrl be :tdmitte(l1ts a school book they must agree to the introduction of religious education. (Hear, hear, and dissent.) The motion was then put and carried nem cchk Mr. Alexander Hannay moved-" That with the view of securing his amendment of the Education Act in the sense of the foregoing resolution of watching the education policy of the Government, and of taking such action as may from time to time appear desirable to promote the interests of religious equality, a London Nonconformist Com- mittee be now formed." The motion was put to the meeting, and carried unani- mously. The Rev. Mr. Tucker moved, and Mr. Patteson seconded the appointment of a committee, which included the names of Mr. Richards, M.P., Mr. Gilpin, M.P., and Mr. Miall, M.P., together with a host of representative men. The committee having been approved, a cordial vote of thanks was passed to the Chairman for presiding, and the proceedings closed.

The Melbourne Argus, of January 1st, says Mr. Childers has been permanently appointed agent-general for the colony. THE UNIVERSITY TESTS AcT. — In a Con- vocation, holden at Oxford a new form of statute was passed, amending various statutes respecting the duty of conforming to the doctrine and dis- cipline of the Church of England, and the statute prescrib- ing the forms of admission to degrees at that University, in accordance with the University Tests Act of ISi1. Not- withstanding the passing of the bill last year, the new I University Calendar ( page 89 ) just published, states that before admission to the degree of Master of Arts, every person is required to make and subscribe a declaration or assent to the 39 Articles, and the Book of Common I'liiyej ■^aktn from the 36th CiUion/j

THE ALLEGED LIBEL ON COLONEL" DAWKINS. Friday being the last day of the sitting of the Court of Ivror at Westminster, their lordships mot for the purpose of delivering judgment upon the appeal of Colonel Dawkins against the Court of Queen's Bench, declaring thatnoactino could lie against I/O id Rokeby for libel for an alleged malicious and false statement made by him beforo a mili- tary court of in(lUiry, in eunsequence of the communication b ing privileged. On the assembling of the Court, the L-jrd Chief Baron snirl that their lordships were unani- mnusly of opinion that the exceptions taken by Colonel Dawkins must be disallowed, buton account of the extreme importance of the case in its reference to constitutional usage, their judgment must be deferred until the resump- tion of the Court in Easter Term.

WILLS AND BEQUESTS. > The will of the Right Rev. George Smith, D.D., late Lord Bishop of Victoria, in China, who died at Blackheath on December 14 last, in his fifty-seventh year, was proved in London on tho 26tli ult., by Lydia Smith, the relict and sole executrix, to whom his lordship has left the whole of his property, real and porsonal, absolutely. The per- sonalty wus sworn under £0,000. The will bears date November 10, 1866, and is attested by John Carr, Chief Jus- tice, Sierra Leone, and A. Russell, B.A., missionary for China. —Tho will of Admiral Sir John Kingeome, K.C.B., who died at Plymouth on August 5th, 1871, aged 77, was proved in Lowlon on the 6th inst., hy his son-in-law, Ellis Frederick Thorold, 3I.D., and William Langdon Martin, Esq., the acting executors, power being reserved to Charles Kingeome, Esq., his brother, also an executor, to prove hereafter. The personalty was sworn under £1,500. The will is dated May 23, 1871. He bequeaths his plate and furniture to his daughter, Ellen Clara Thorold, for her life, and afterwards to her children the wines, spirits, and con- sumable stores he leaves to his sister absolutely. He leaves his house in Athenjeum-street, Plymouth, to the children of his late daughter, Louisa Teresa Williams. His real estate and the residue of the personal estate he leaves to his daughter Ellen, and then to her children.— The will of General Sir Edmund Finucane Morris, K.C.B., Colonel of the 49th Regiment, formerly residing in Imperial-square, Cheltenham, and late of St. George's Lodge, Ryde, was proved in London, on the 3rd inst., under £14,000 personalty. — The will of Miss Mary Ann Herrick, of Beaumanor Park, Leicester, dated January 13, 1871, was proved in London, oa the 31st ult., under £ïO,OOO, by which she has left the following bequests to charitable institutions, namely:—To the Wolverhampton Orphan Asylum, £1,000; Lpughbo- rough Dispensary, £800; the Infirmary, Lunatic Asylum, Home for Penitent Females, Female Asylum for Training Girls, and Infant Orphan Asylum, all in Leicester, JE100 each to the Old Blue Coat, Wolverhampton, and the Pro- vident Benefit Society for Beaumanor, £50 each, all free. The will of Mr. Thomas Millard, of Ivy Bower, Gloucester, dated July 21,1863, was proved at Bristol, on the 12th ult., under £18,000 personalty, and contains the following bequests :-£8,000 to the President and Fellows of Trinity College, Oxford, for the advancement of mathematical and general science; to the South Kensington Museum he leaves all his old coins and medals to the Bible Society, Church Missionary Society, Bristol Royal Infirmary and General Hospital, each £50, free of duty.—The will of Miss Catherine Prosser, of Park-lane Villas, Stoke Newington, who died December 17 last, in her 85th year, was proved in London under £18,000, by Lydia Ann Mansfield;"1 her greart- niece, and Henry Curtis Nisbet. The testatrix* has <. be- queathed to the Seamen's Hospital, the Dreadnought, Sailors' Orphan Girls' School and Home at Hampstead, and the Society for Missions to Sailors Afloat, £100 each; and leaves the sum of £.500, the interest to keep in repair the family marble tomb at Llanvihangel-Crucorney, and the surplus for the poor of the parish. The residue of her property she leaves to her great-niece Lydia :Ann Mans- field absolutely.—The will of Mr. "William Frederick Dixon, of Page Hall, Ecclesfield, Yorkshire, D.L. and J.P for the West Riding, who died December '27 last, has been proved in the Wakefield 1 District: Registry. The personalty was sworn under £ 70,000.—The will of Mr. Henry Manning, late of 251,' High Holborn, merchant, has been proved by his nephew, Mr. Charles James Wainwright, who is appointed sole executor and residuary legatee. The personalty has been Sworn under £100,000..After numerous legacies to members of the family, friends, and persons in his employ, he bequeaths the sum of £500 each to rthe following charities:—British Orphan Asylum; Infant Orphan Asylum, Wanstead Earlswood Asylum for Idiots; Asylum for Fatherless Children, Reedham; Royal Hospital for Incurables Royal Asylum of St. Ann's Society; Refuge for Homeless and Destitute Children; London Orphan Asylum; Merchant Seamen's Orphan Asylum; Home, for Little Boys, norton Kirby National Orphan Home; Royal Sea- Bathing Infirmary, Margate; National Benevolent Institu- tion Bloomsbury Dispensary; Builders' Benevolent In- stitution Great Northern Hospital; Royal' Agricultural Benevolent Institution National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic King's College Hospital; Female Aid Society; London Hospital; Female Lock Hospital and Asylum; Male Lock Hospital; Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, City-road; Royal Free Hospital, Gray's inn road Central London Ophthalmic Hospital, Gray's inn road Ophthalmic Hospital, St. George's-circus; National jHospital for'Con- sumption, Ventnor; City of London Truss Society, Fins- bury-square; and the London Female i Preventive;, and Reformatory Institution and directs that 'the apnual sub- scription to each shall be continued for ten years after his death.—Tlie will of Dr. Greenwood, M.D., of Blackheath, was proved in London under £12,000; that of Mr. Richard Veasey, Esq., under £60,000; and that of Mr. Henry Charlton, merchant and manufacturer, of the Priory House, Dudley, under £.10,000 personalty.—Illustrated London JVc'rs.

The Duke of Argyll has accepted the Presidency of the Geological Society. It is now arranged that Mr. Sothern will not re- turn to this country for another year at least. Mr. J. S. Renwick has been appointed private secretary to Sir Thomas Fremantle, the chairman of the Board of Customs. We believe that Mr. Blennerhassett, the newly- elected Home Rulo member for Kerry, is at the present time an Oxford undergraduate. We regret to announce the death of Colonel Charles Wyndliam, late of the 2nd Dragoons, Keeper of the Regalia at the Tower. Colonel Wyndliam served at the Battle of Waterloo, where he received two severe wounds. It is generally believed in the Civil Service that there will be .ho official holiday on the day of public thanksgiving, but it may not be out of place to remind the authorities that by the 16th section of 7 and 8 George IV. cap. 53, it is provided that any day proclaimed for a general thanksgiving shall be a holiday in the Excise Offices.—Civilian. The deputation of tradesmen, who, strange to say, have selected an ex-war office clerk as their champion in the crusade against the Civil Service Co-operative Societies, expressed themselves surprised that the Premier had declined to receive them. Had they known that Mr. Gladstone is a member of the Haymarket Society, their surprise would probably have given"place' to a warmer feeling.—Civilian.. It is said that in consequence of the death of her husband, Madame Monbelli-Cremieux (who was married to a son of the Republican Minister Cremieux) will in all probability terminate her engagement with Herr Ullman before the expiration of the term fixed in the contract, as she had promised her hand in' case of the death of her husband to a personage of high distinction"* in Paris.— Musical Standard. > -The Stamford Mercury states that a survey has recently been made at Cleethorpes. of". land which has "gone to Humber," or been devoured by tidal action upon the Cleeness. It is computed that upon the Humber stone foreshore alone, by throwing :.l\p a. substantial sea-bank, 500 to 700 acres may be reclaimed at an 'ex- pense of £ 10 per acre. Lord Caringtoft is the ownor_of the frontage. When Domesday-book was compiled, this land extended to a point near to" the present mid- channel of the Humber. THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ACTS.—Mr. Jacob Bright writes to the Times correcting an error -"which (Oc- curred in the leading article of that journal in referenct1 to his speech. He says —" I am represented (I am sure inadvertently) as objecting to the-cure of disease lest it might lead to an increase of vice. I would like to see everything done to cure disease which is con- sistent with a reasonable degree of personal security. There is no objection from iny point of view to the establishment of hospitals by the Government or by the local authorities where poor persons, who, from Whatever cause, cannot obtain treatment elsewhere, shall have the right to enter. My objection to the system now at work has rested to a large extent upon the knowledge that the powers with which the police are armed in regard to prostitutes put in peril that large class of women who from poverty and helplessness are on the verge of the same condition." SPECIAL LOAN EXHIBITION OF ANCIENT MUSICAT. INSTRUMENTS AT TUH SOUTH KENSINGTON MRSF.CM.—'The arrangements for this Exhibition, which will be opened in June, 1872, are now in active progress, under the direction of his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, who is the chairman of the executive com- mittee appointed to carry out the work. The Exhibition will include instruments noted for their decorative, archaeological, ethnological, or intrinsic technical merits. Possessors of musical instruments have been invited to communicate with the Secretary of the Musical Instru- ments Committee, South Kensington Museum, and either to offer instruments on loan for the Exhibition, or to supnly information regarding ancient musical instruments that may appear to them suited for the Exhibition. THE BISHOP OF CHESTER.—Under the head of the week's talk," the correspondent of the Ipswich Express, after alluding to the fact of a Nonconformist minister having become a bishop of the Established Church, writes as follows of the Bishop of Chester :—" A still more notable instance of a Nonconformist minister rising to high dignity in the Church is afforded in the career of the present Bishop of Chester, Dr. Jacobson, who was born at Gorleston, in Suffolk, was educated at a Dissenting college, and ordained an Independent minister. Becoming a Churchman, lie nobly repaid the college the expenses of his training, and rose from one position to another until, in Earl Russell's Ministry, he was appointed to the see of Chester. The bishop has not forgotten the county of his birth, and within the last month forwarded a donation of £öO towards the restoration of the parish church of Gorles- ton, which during his youth he deserted for the Indepen- dent chapel." The Musical Standard says that the choristers at St. Paul's on the day of the Thanksgiving will not exceed 250, an entirely inadequate number to produce the propel musical effect under Sir C. Wren's gigantic dome." THE LEAMINGTON CLERICAL SCANDAL; The Vicar of Leamington has commenced an action for slandei against Mr. John Stanley, of the Crown Hotel, one of the witncsses examined before the recent Commission. Mr. Stanley deposed that the Vicar was drunk twice—once at his farm and once at tlie hotel, where he drank a bottle oi Moet and then onc of Clicquot, to tell the difference, and had a pint bottle afterwards. The evidence was subse- quently withdrawn, on the ground that the alleged act: were not within the past two years, over which alone the Commission had power to inquire. Mr Stanley has entered all actnearance to the wiit,—Mcuichestei Guardian, • I

THE "TRANSLATION OF SIR R. COLLIER. Copies of the cprrcspondence which has passed between the Lord Chief Justice of tho Queen's Bench and the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas on the one hand, and Mr. Gladstone on the otjher, relative to the appointment of Sir 3R. Collier M a paid member of the Judicial Committee, and also a copy of' a letter from Mr. Justice Willes to the Lord Chancellor, have been published. It will be in the recollection of our readers that Sir Robert Collier was made a judge of the Court of Common Pleas on the 7th of November, »nd appointed a paid member of the Judicial Committed on .the 22nd of that month. We have already printed the letters of the Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench to Mr. Gladstone and to Lord Hatherley, protesting against the appointment of the late Attorney- General sa one open to most serious objection, and as a violation of the spirit of the Act of Parliament, and we have also given the replies of Mr. Gladstone and the Lord Chancellor We find from the correspondence now pub- lished that Lord Chief Justice Bovill,. 'in a letter addressed to the Lord Chancellor, declared that he felt bound as the head of the Common Pleas (a court, which was made use 'of in. the translation of Sir Robert) to state that he entirely agreed with tho pronunciamento of Lord Chief Justice Cockburn. He proceeds :-—" I must also add that when the appoint- ment of Sir R. Collier as a judge of the Common Pleas was made, if, as now appears to have been the case, it was intended that such appointment should not be a real permanent appointment, but merely as a qualification for another office, I think some communication to that effect might and should have been mado to me as the head of that court. I can only express my great regret that a little more confidence does npt exist between the Lord Chan- cellor and the chiefs of the Common Law Courts with res- pect to appointments in those courts, more especially when I remember that on the first day of last term I alluded to the filling up of the vacancy in the Common Pleas, and it now appears that at that very time Sir R. Collier had gone down to Balmoral with a view to his appointment." He adds that his letter has no reference to Sir R. Collierjpersonally, for his merits, and that his claims to high judicial office have never been questioned. Tins letter, Lord Hatherley in a reply says, pained him, because he did not think that Sir W. Bovill would have followed the course of Sir A. Cockburn. He disclaims any wilful dis- courtesy or want of confidence towards all or any of the judges. Another long letter from Lord Chief Justice Bovill followed, in which he expresses an opinion that the manifest and expressed intention of the Legislature was, vthat the new judges of the Privy Council should be men of tried judicial experience, and that this had been clearly indicated not only by the language of the statute itself, but by debates in Parliament. It ap- peared to me, therefore, as it did to the Lord Chief Justice, and to almost everyone in and out of the profession to whom I have spoken-upon the subject, that the appoint- ment of Sir R. Collier, though it might be strietly within the words of the Act, was contrary to its spirit and to the intention of the Legislature, and that it was in that sense, and in that sense only, an evasion of the statute." The last letter in the correspondence is one from the Right Hon. Mr. Justice Willes. He wrote on the 5th of this very month to Lord Hatherley as follows :— My dear Lord Chancellor,—I have no objection to your stating or reading anywhere my views of the appoint- ment of Sir Robert Collier. 1. The appointment was legal and within the terms of the statute. 2. Evasion' of the law, by appointing a fit man according to the law, is a sensational' expression. The appointment may have sur- prised those who had not sufficiently considered the terms of the Act, but it was no evasion of the Act. 3. Whether Parliament w.-ws surprised into passing the Act by any sup- pression, for which its framers are answerable, is a politi- cal question with which I declinG to meddle. Parliament must decide that for itself. 4. I had nothing to do with tho Lord Chief Justice's letter to the newspapers, or the correspondence then published. I do not agree to the legal objections there suggested. I much regret that the judges' opinions should be so advertised. 5. The practical objec- tion is to the Statute itself for not providing a sufficient inducement to the judges to accept the office, because of making no provision or compensation for their existing staff. Upon this ground I thought from. the beginning that the framers of the Act must have contemplated the appointment of Sir Robert Collier, or some other newly- appointed judge, in the event of judges of older standing declining the office. It is now, however, clear that this was not the general impression, though I believe that no lawyer upon an impartial construction of the Act could pronounce the appointment to be other than lawful. Pro- bably you will prefer reading this letter directed to yourself, instead of that written to Sir Robert Collier, which though in effect and substance the same, may con- tain expressions too lively for public reading, an end not thought of at its writing."

PROCEEDINGS FOR LIBEL AGAINST THE PALL MALL GAZETTE." Vice-Chancellor Wickens gave judgment on Saturday morning in the case of Dixon v. Enoch. The plaintiff, Mr. William Hepworth Dixon, is the author of "Free Russia," and other works, and the defendant; Mr. Frederick Enoch, is the printer and publisher of the Pall Mall Gazette and the Fall Mall Budget. The plaintiff filed a bill for the purpose of compelling the defendant to discover the names and addresses of the persons who on the dates on which certain articles were published were the proprietors of the Pall Mall Gazette and the Pall Mall Budget, to enable him to bring an action against them for damages alleged to be sus- tained by reason of libellous matter contained in the said articles. The articles were published on the 18th of May, 1870, and the 7th and 9th of August, 1871, and in the number of the Pall Mall Budget published on tho 12th of August, 1871. On the 23rd of October Mr. Dixon instructed his solicitors to write to Mr. George Smith to inform him that he intended to commence an action for libel against the proprietors of tho papers, and inquiring whether ho was at the before-mentioned dates and still was the proprietor of the papers. The letter was forwarded to Mr. Smith's solicitor, who said the publisher was Mr. Enoch, and that it was usual and proper in cases of alleged libel to sue not tho proprietor but the publisher. He requested, on Mr. Enoch's behalf, to be informed what articles were complained of. In reply, Mr. Dixon's soli- citor furnished a list of the articles, and again inquired whether Sir. Smith was the proprietor. The name of tho proprietor not being furnished, the plaintiff's bill was filed. The case came before the court in December on a general demurrer, when Mr. Davey, on behalf of the defendant, contended that he could not be compelled to give the name of the proprietor, and that if such a bill were allowed to bo filed a bill might be filed against anybody who a plaintiff thought might be a witness in his case. Mr. Greene and Mr. Jolliffe supported the bill, and judgment was reserved. The Vice-Chancellor now said that this was a general demurrer to a bill of discovery purporting to be filed under the provisions of the Act 6 and 7 William IV., cap. 76, sec. 19, or more accurately under the provisions of the 32 and 33 Vict., cap. 24, which repealed and re-enacted the clause in question. He had come not without considerable hesitation to the conclusion that there was a sufficient allegation in the bill to save it from a general demurrer. The Aot seemed to assume that the bill to be authorized by it would be demurrable if not protected by enactment, and the very object of it must have been to enable the plaintiff to extract from the defendant tho name or names of some person or persons other than himself, who might be sued at law. The court, therefore, overruled the demurrer, but allowed a month to the defen- dant to answer the bilL W

MR. RUSKIN AND HIS JPUBLISIIEIIS. — Mr. Ruskin is the strangest of mortals. He has managed to quarrel with the publishers because they will not sell his books without getting a commission. That a political economist, such as Mr.|Ruskin lays special claim to be, should suppose that book-sellers can afford to pay rates, taxes, rent, and assistants, and yet to sell books for authors without charging the authors is certainly a curious circumstance. In the last issue of Fors Clavi- Stera Mr. Ruskin says I finit, in the present state of trade, that when the retail price is printed on books, all sorts of commissions and abatements take place, to the discredit of the author', and, I am convinced, in the end, to every one else's disadvantage. I mean, therefore, to sell my own books, at a price from which there shall be no abatement—namely, 9s. 6d. the plain volumes, and 19s. the illustrated ones. My publishers, Messrs Smith, Elder and Co., will sell all my books at that price over their counter: and my general agent, Mr. G Allen, Heathfield, Cottage, Keston, will supply them at the same price, without abatement, carriage paid, to any per- son in town or country, on remittance of the price of the number of volumes required. This absolute refusal of credit or dJatemcut is only the carrying out of a part of my general method of political economy; and I adopt this system of sale, because I think authors ought not to be too proud to sell their own books, any more than painters to sell their own pictures." Under these circum- stances Messrs Parker and Co., of Oxford have refused to have anything to do with Mr. Ruskin's books. A STRANGE TELEGRAM.—Our readers will not have forgotten the outcry which was raised when Mr. Scudamore kept back certain telegrams, and how Mr. Monsell has since given instructions that no telegrams are to be detained in future. This mandate has given rise to a. very amusing incident. A gentleman who is on the editorial stall o.c or- of tli- London papers, and who also acts as London correspondent to some of our con- temporaries, and is noted for the highly Irish and romantic character of his communications, a few nights ago sent a quantity of "copy" to be telegraphed to his clients. When the clerk came to examine the copy he found a tailor's bill, somewhat lengthy, and somewhat antiquated as to the dates at which the articles were supplied, and with a request to Mr. more peremptory than polite, that he would make immediate payment. The clerk was puzzled. Clearly Mr. 's tailor's bill was not intended to be pub- lished in papers at Bristol, Dublin, and elsewhere. On the other hand, Mr. Monsell's orders were explicit-all messages were to be sent on as delivered. Thereupon the clerk "wired" the whole of Mr. # 's coats, vests, and inexpressibles, not forgetting the demand for payment. It may be readily imagined that the editors were somewhat puzzled when they received this very voluminous document. They had be en accustomed to wild flights of fancy on the part of their correspondent, and had found these on the whole as telling as they were imaginative. But this bill was so terribly matter-of-fact that they could not see any prospect of "sensation" in it. So they decided not to print it, and Mr. 's tailoring arrangements are still withheld from the public. • £ :?, <-• u. The High Sheriff has convened "a Yorkshire county meeting to be held in the Castle Yard, York, on tho 21st inst., to congratulate the Queen and tho Princess of Wales on the convalescence of his Royal Highess the Princo of Wales. It is said that the Lord-Advocate's Scotch Edu- cation Bill will recommend the establishment of a Scotch Board of Education at Edinburgh, and the appointment of a. paid secretary. The bill will contain commissory clauses. V • V Cardinal Antonelli has informed the German Empire that he denounces the Concordat of 1801, so far as regards those parts of the French territory which have become German by virtue of the Frankfort Treaty. The validity of this objection, so far as the rights of nations are concerned, is disputed at Berlin, but some compromise will probably be made with the Holy See respecting the I'

THE MERTHYR POST OFFICE ARRIVALS OF MAILS. The London, South arU Kjisf of England, Scotland, Irelaiia, Bristol, Glo'stcr, Newport Mon.), Cardiff, Pontypridd, South Wales, and Foreign Parts 5.15 morn NORTH MAIL. From.Nodil of England, Scotland, Ireland, North Wales, Glo'nter, Bristol, West of Eng-Jand, Newport (Mori.), Pontypridd, Cardiff, and South Wales 12.50 after. From Tredegar 10.30 morn. „ LOIFBON DAT MAIL. -from London, South and East of England, Ireland, Bris- tol, Glo'stcr, Newport (Moil), Pontypridd, Cardiff, South Wale*, and Foreign Parts 4.15 after. DESPATCH OF MAILS. T Box closes at AO iredegar, Ehymney, Brrnmawr, and neighbour- hood 4.45 mom rp -*y KORTH MAIL. 0 North of England, North Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Gios ter, Bristol, Newport (Mon), Cardiff, West of England, and Pontypridd 3.10 after. T > T 7 r, AJfD GENERAL DAY MAIL. 10 London, Scotland, Ireland, North, East, and South ot England Glo'ster, Bristol, Newport (Mon.),Cardiff, 1 ontypndd, South Wales, and Foroign Parts 10.30 morn: All Letters are despatched in the evening, with the little cxcephon ot Tredegar. Letters are registered up to 5 in the evening at a fee of 4d., and up to a.30 at ISd. It is best to post early; the officials are more likely to despatch correctly; the work of two hours ought not to be crowded into one hour. The Office for Money Order and Savings' Bank business is open from t) in the morning to 6 in the evening, and till 8 on Saturdays DELIVERIES BY LETTER CARRIERS. There are three deliveries by Letter Carriers, 1st. 7.0 a.m., 7.30 a.m., Winter) • 2nd, 1. 30 p.m.; 3rd, 5.15 p.m. SUNDAY ARKALFGELFEIRRS. The Office is open from 7.0 a.m. (7.30 a.m. Winter) to 10.0 a.m. when it is closed linally. There is but one delivery by Letter Car- riers, which takes place at 7.0 a.m. (7.30 a.m. Winter). LONDON AND GENERAL NIGHT MAIL. To London, Scotland, Ireland, North, East, West and South of England, Bristol, Glo'ster Newport (Mon.), Cardiff, Pontypridd, South Wales and Foreign Parts 5.30 after. THE PILLAR LETTElt BOXES Are cleared daily fit 3and 4.40 p.m.—Tydfil's Well;3and4.50p.m.— GcorgeTown; 3 and 4.45 p.m.-High Street. Oil Sunday, ono Clearing, at 2.15 p.m. The London and Gen. Day Mail despatched at 10.40 morn. Ditto ditto due at 4.30 after. The Bag for Tredegar and neighbourhood is made up at 5.0 morn. For Return,Box sloses at 2.0 after. On Sunday-One delivery, One despatch. Box closes at 2.45 after. COIN LESFFEHS. The public are earnestly advised not to send coin, or other valu- ables, in letters without being registered. Letters observed to eon- tain coin, will be treated as registered letters, and charged with double registration fee. Apply for Money Orders on a slip of paper thus: £ 2, Cardiff, to John Jonss, By James Prico, Merthyr,"

-N LOCAL RAILWAY TIME TABLES. NOTICE.—The Railway Time Tables are published with as much care to ensure correctness as possible; but should they contain any errors, the Publisher does not hold himself responsible for any inconvenience that may arise therefrom, as changes sometime take place in the arrival and departure of trains without the knowledge of the Editor.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. MERTUYR, QUAKER'S YARD, PONTYPOOL, ABEMAVENKT, HEREFORD, AND LIVERPOOL. UP.—WEEK. DAYS. SUNDAYS —- 1,2,37 E 2,3. 1,2,3. 1^2^3~1, 2,37 2^3. 1,2,3, FROM a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. a.m. a.m p.m, Merthyr 9 15 1 0 4 40 Troedyrliiew 9 24 1 9 4 49 Quaker's Yard ..a. 9 33 1 18 4 Ci) 10 14 8 29 Llancaiach 9 54 1 30 5 13 10 22 8 37 Rliymncy Junctn 10 1 1 39 5 22 10 32 8 44 Tredegar Junct. 10 7 1 45 5 28 10 39 8 54 Crumliii 10 16 152 5 SG, 10 49 9 Pontypool Town 10 33 212 5 55 i 11 8 9 22 Pon typo01 Itoad 10 381 2 17 6 0 ] 11 13 9 27 Abergavenny 11 lr»j 2 42 6 .10 13, Hereford 12 18 3 30 7 35 11 15 Liverpool I DOWN.—WEEK DAYS. SUNDAYS Liverpool ~~77 ~77 7. ¡. Hereford 7 20 12 15 3 20. 9 40 Abergavenny ..a SSO I 1 0 4441040 Pontypool Road 9 10 1 20 5 24 7 55 C 5 Pontypool Town 9 17 1 30 5 31' 8 ;)1" 6 13 Orumlin 9 35 .153649.821631 Tredegar Junct 9 43: 2 1, 5 58 8 29 6 39 iihymney Junct 9 49 2 7; 6 5- 8 35 6 45 Llancaiach 9 57 2 13! 6 12' 8 44J 6 54 Quaker's Yard d 10 11 2 281 6 22 8 63} 7 3 Troedyrhiw 10 21 2 39j (5 33 Merthyr 10 28 2 40| 6 40'

GREAT "WESTERN RAILWAY.—Milford HAVEN, Carmarthen, Swansea, OARDIFF, NEWPORT, OHEPSTOW, Cheltenham, GLOUCESTER, AND London. j SIRHOWY K A.I L V AY—Xaxt ye wen, TREDEGAR, and NEWPORT. UP—Week Days. | Sundays. jVo^N.Wjckk Days. j Sundays. ~j HOWX— W kkic D* vs I .s„vmv"s I a.m. a. m., a. m..1,2,8., 1,2. 1,2,3. 1,2,3. ,1, 2,3, 1,2. Mail. 1,2,a. 1,2,3. 1,2. 1,2,8. 1,2,3, 1,2,3.1,2,3. 1,2,3. ,1,2,3. Exp., 1.2. Exd ,12 Exn i 1 i Exd i 1 2 1~23~12 i 1 2 1 ——-—: rR0M I 1,2. 1,2,3. 1,2,3, a.m. a.m. a.m. am. |p a 1p.m. rp.m. j p.m. a.m. a.m. a.m.; p.m. from: a. m. a. m. a.m. ja. m. a. m. a. m. ip. m.;a.'m. p. m'. p.m. p. m.p.'m. a! m. p.m. p. m. Nantvbwch V 'i 8*6*9"V' m'*2 35|P' m-jP- ? fST: •• -I I t •• gas? Id 4-l' •?^ •• -iV6 .•*»!. uMarot; ::• u> ljiII t?s i £ }}« 1 =« "JfigLs Haverfordwest. 9 0 5 24 6 45 11 23! 6 14 (jlo'STER 4arri- •• 9 45,10 38 12 33 S 0 8 oi 12 15 7 4512 Argoed taepmure 7 1- ^312 40, j gj | 30. lli' Narbeth Road j 9 2S I 7 12 11 49; 5 59 ULO bi^ dep. 8 15 9 55,11 10 3 2012 38 3 20 6 5 8 22-; -12 35 20 7 10 BUekwood S O1 »« ttf i 5! 5 19 s u t v' Carmarthen June! 6 10 S 35 10 21 8 50j 6 27:154 12 S2| 8 0 CHELT'NHAM 8 30,10 15'11 30j 3 30 12 55l 3 30 4 5 6 13 8 3010 10 7 2512 4510 30 C 2o! 3 25 7 15 „ 00tt V'rV "i I f °°| 1 i I j j 4 A'\ Ferryside I 6 22! 9 510 35 9 5j ,8 7 12 51: S 15 Lydney I 7 2211 Si[ 1 15:4 42' .9 0 i 1 31 9 0' 4 1§; Tredegar Junction •• •• | •• ,'Vft « «,| o'V i"J Llanelly I 6 52; 9 40.10 57 9 40! 7 G 8 41 1 23! 8 48 CHEPSTOW 10 35| 7 45 U 53: 1 30 4 40; 5 40 8 5 9 21' j 1 49 9 18- 4 38; S 20 ^ine Mile End S 4 j 1 in1 o"| 5 45 0 1* iti SWWSF4 •• •' 7 10 10 20 11 30 10 0- | 7 40 9 20 2 5; 9 27 Portskewet 10 45:7 55 12 4 |5 Oi 5 50 8 15 7 40 ..I 9 35 4 49,8 31 Risea I o i ] MI «3 i i I £ 3 oi f6 ?l BWA^HISA J 7 3010 0.11 1010 20 4 30! 7 20 9 25 1 45: NEWPORT 8 2512 35j 2 10; 5 37 9 54 8 13 ..12 21 10 10' 5 2* 9 5 Newport Docfcstwet | «$" i 1 401 1 5^ i « 15 n t5: U Landore | 7 27:10 15 11 2.4 10 15 4 37: 9 30 2 Oj 7 34 CARDIFF 8 50 1 7| 2 35 6 10 10 20 8 40 2 45 10 39 5 4919 30 ;• b M1 4U 1 d01 NEATH I 7 4(3 10 3711 39 19 37 4 56 9 50 2 22| Llantrissant I 9 14 1 421 6 45 10 44,' 11 10 6 15| UP. —Week Days. I Port lalbot j •• | 3,10 56.-J1 50 10 56 5 12 •• •• 3 34 Bridgend j 9 37 2 5: 3 10 7 12 11 0 3 20 11 31; 6 43, from a. m.ra. m. a m. a. m. a. m.la. m.a. m. rp. m. p. m. a. in. a. m.,a. m a. p.m. Bridgend I •• ..8 32 11 2o l_ 14 11 31 5 40 10 32 3 31 lort Talbot 110 5 2 35: 3 32 7 43 11 26: 3 44 12 0, 7 lw! Newport (Dock-street) i 1 9 If)' s 2 30, 1 6 501 10 0 6ft Llantrissant i .8 5611 50; 11 57 6 2. | 10 54 3 29, NEATH 10 26 2 og-: 3 45! 8 2 11 39 3 57 12 16; 7 3S' Risca I I a 3J i 2 50' 7 10 10 "oi 6 2fl CARDIFF 5 45 7 30' 9 39.12 27,12 4712 SI 6 33, i 8 15 11 25 3 56 Landore 10 43 3 14' 3 59 8 20: i 4 16 12 35 S 0, NTiiie Miie Point 1 1 04V is 6 7 o0 »o' 8 SO NEWPORT 6 13 7 5710 35 1 40j 1 13 12 55 7 0, | 8 27111 55 4 23 wtTO. ( a. 7 3510 50 3 5 4 10:8 30', 12 0i 4 30 12 401 8 10 T Varril I 057! I 7 33 "1 Portskewet | 8 2511 3| 2 10; 2 10 7 301 I 8 40 12 21 4 50; 0WAN0LA j d ll0 35 3 25 3 45; 8 101 4 5 9 15 1 7 55: Iredegar Junction •• •• ( 3'i5. 7 || UqaA 6'iB CHEPSTOW i 6 30 8 38 11 17| 2 25! 1 41 2 35 8 5j 9 51 12 33 5 gi 9 51 Llanelly 8 14 1118 3 53 4 29:8 55! 4 46 9 51 8 3 £ 31ackwood .I "1 10 12! 3 20 7 431 ho 55! 6 50 Lydney 1 6 55 8 5811 37; 2 45- 1 57 2 55; I 12 51 5 24 10 9 Ferrysido 8 43 11 54 4 3) 5 2 9 28J 10 11 8 52, Vrgoed "1 j 10 181 3 37 7 49 llO 59 6 55 CHELT'N HAM 8 3010 15 12 55 5 5| 2 5 5 B\ ..I 5 3011 40 12 15 1 20 10 0 6 45 12 10 Carmarthen Juuch 9 5 1 2 11 5 21 5 21, 5 25 9 90! t, f arrivai' i i rrivsiTP^ I™. 7 301 11 5 12 25' 2 25 7 10; 5 45; •12 30 1 35 10 15 0 20 12 25 Narberth Road 9 4.7 1 0 6 10 6 10! ( j 10 7 i departure' 6 45 7 ">5' 7'40 9 4010 49! 1 15: 1 46' s'15 8 10 s lMU 17' 4 j'll GLO bfEti. [d 73Si ;li 2012 50; 2 35, 7 18: ,12 43 1 40 6 25 12 40 Haverfordwest ..10 13 1 25 6 34 6 34' I 10 34 ^rhowy G I9 7 40, 7 46 9 45lo 14 1 4 3 50! 5 ->0 8 14 v 20^11 20! 5' 7 20 Stroud 8 1 ..11 50 1 2013 0' 7 46: ;i r 2 7 0 5* 1 5 NEW MILFORD .I | i Vant^ch'" !1 655! L_' 7 55 9 50 1 251 I S 251 I Swinclon 9 17 j j 1 IS, 2 43' 3 50 9 10 I 2 20 7 35 S 20 2 20 for Pembroke, ..I ..I j — ■ wmmmmmmmm LOXDON 11 151 j 2 451 5 5; 5 45 10 15 4 35 3 Si> 11 10 4 35 MIfrd Haven, to -10 40 1 55 7 0 7 0' G 50 11 5' A.U C i i; >\ r, ih il ulw iv ii'i Lsi, ill, ail 3rd class. Ruas on Tuesdays only.

VALE OF NEATH RAIL WAY. SWANSEA, NEATH, HIRWAIN, ABEliDARE AND MERTHYR DOWK-WEEK DAYS. SUN^ ,1,2,3.1,2,3. 1,2,3. 1,273 ~7. MXTTSTTIM Quakers' Yard J M l>-™-| Mountain Ash ..j 8*30 10 15 .'I 2 33! A 3'' 0 I BEL'TURE [8 4010 25; 2 43J IJ 44J 9 IF; 7 25 IF?! •• F 9 ^10 Llwydcoed 8 4110 «1' 1 44' "R1 R TI 2 10I 7 20 Ilirwainarr 1 44| 2 (- "0 18:7 25 Hirwain dep 8*56'10*40* 1 'INI o"-E- •• ••• Glyn-Neath 9 15T0 59 2 9: T t~ 9 30' 7 40 Resolven 9 23 11 7I 2 I?! I JS 9 5°! 8 0 AB6^LAIS 9 33;11 17| 2 27! 3*27 ? SS 1? 1| | 18 Briton Ferry Road.. 9 49)11 33 2 43J 3*41 52 A JF: G-WABSEA '1Q *1" 48" 2 681 3 66I il l$$*3 f UP. —WEEK DAYS. „ R SUNDA\S 1,2,3. -1,2,3 !~1,23^ 1,273. 1 2~3~7L 2 1 5^ FROM a.m.! lam in 111 'n £ Swansea g 0! IF 40'^ 15FT 0 "V, A"M' lP" M' Briton Ferry Road.I 8 LL! L11 GO: 3 251 5 10 S 10 8 FO « Neath Abbey 8 18! 11 5<^ 3 32^ 5$S 17 I IS ? ^ATH, DEP- § 24 12 2' 3 41 5 211 8 23 8 7 7 Aberdylais 8 30 12 8 3 47' 5 2fv G # I N' L 10 Resolven 8 401 19 10 9 c t\\ Ti ° » 12 Glyn Neath 8 49! A 2S1 I 7- 2 9 7 7 22 Ilirwainarr. ""L: 2 2 4 7, 5 44 S 49 9 IS 7 30 Hirwain dep »"I4 12ral 4*33i E"ST 9 I* O"ii V'BR Hirwain dep »"I4 12ral 4*33i E"ST 9 I* O"ii V'BR Llwydcoed 9 21! X 0 4 40J 6 § 9 21 9 « I » Abernant 9 28i i oi otm J 4/ 8 2 Merthyr 9$" ] 90' 1 6 131 9 28 9 54! 8 •• 1 20J 4 59j 0 2II 9 40 10 01 8 21 4SSB.-X- SS iijtf ••!»«»«!* « Quakor's Yard «, J »] j » g

TAFF VALE RAILWAY. MERTHYR, ABERDARE, PONTYPRIDD, RIIONDDA YALTRV COWBRIDQE, AND CARDIFF. DOWN.-WEEK DAYS. L SUNDAY 1.2,3.1 !L,2,3. 1,2,3. 1,2,3. 1Y3T1 2^ FROM A.M. ;AM DM LIM ,2,V' 7M U 0P3?I:'O™» ¥■&?. SSffiSto;»1 •• f» 1»"I«- »»2$ Treaman 7 59, U 4 3 33 S 53 9^0 Mountain Ash. 8 7J 11 12 3 41 7 -2 9 ll 1 Aberdare: June a 8 17! 11 22 3 .1 7 13 9 20 4 si 7111 fossil It ::M$B LLWYNPIA 7 59| JU 2 3 2SJ 6 62J 9 °SJ 4 & 84 ILL 7 3 28 6 67I 9 8' 4 IS |T0L:TH. 8 9 ILL 12 3 33 7 2S 9 13 4 ™ 8 14.1,2,3.'11 17 3 38 7 7 1 2 3 i ll I H i&v&ss ii;u^ss TL& 8.36|Igu" 4.n!'35i 94' IS Cross Inn 9 LI Q A Llantrissant Cowbridge Walnut Tree J. for RhymneyRy. 8 4S 11 5<V 4 24 7 471 9505 9 "AN/.LAFF 8 57 12 4 4 32 7 55: 10 7! 5 17 CARDLFF 9 12 ID 4 40; 8 3! 10 15' 5 25 UP^-WEKKDAYH 1,2,3. 1,2,3..1,2,3. 1,2,3. ,1,2,STTFRT^TTS ? N FR0M A M. a.m. a.m. IP.M.| p.M. p. M. a M' N'M' 8 1011 0! 3 201 /E 45 9 0; ITO Llandaff 8 19; 11 9 3 29, E 55 9 9! 4 IQ Walnut Tree J. for RhymneyRy 8 28 11 18; 3 3S! 7 5 A LFT A 90 Cowbridge .dep ..I 0 4 28 Llantrissant 7 50\ "l 625 Cross Inn 7 59. "7 6 35) Llantwit 8 6! 0 421 Treforest 8 20| 8 39 11 29; 3 40 0 5S1 717 9~29 4'K Pontypridd J am 8 24 8 45 11 35' 3 55, 7 2" 7 23 9 35 1 1, Pontypridd J. d 8 45,11 471 4 14! 7 37 9 4» 4 « £ AFOD 8 52,11 54; 4 211 7 45 Q if, 1 it 8 5G!ll 5S! T 25 7 50 9 5 I LFNDY-. 9 1 12 3: 4 30 7 56 10 5 "7™ 9 G12 9 4 36 G 210 L# 5 14 YSTRFTD 9 1312 16I 4 43| I 910 i?i 5 20 Treorki 9 LAI2 22' 4 49; S 15 in K £ 7 Trehe?bert 9 23 12 261 4 53] "8 1910 2?L 5 U Abcrdare June, ar 8 57.11 47; 4 7 7 35 0 47I 2 07 Aberdare Jnc. d. 8 57!11 47 47! 7 35 9$1 S Mountain Ash 9 8 11 58 4 1S! 7 47 9 £ 5 Treaman 9 10! 12 6- 4 W 7 5610 FI' Aberdare 9 20 12 10 4 ;;0 0 10 1-0' T 20 Quaker's Yard J.for 10 1UL 6 20 G. W. Railway. 9 Sill 53; 4 13I 7 41 0 K Troeolyrhiw 9 13712 3 4 32: 7 51 Merthyr 9 2012 16 4 30I 7 5&10 10! 5 20 Trains leave Pontypridd Junction every Sunday at 9 53 a M and 4 49 p.m. for Cowbridge calling at all intermediate stations •' and trains leave Cowbridge for Pontypirdd Junction at S 29 A m 3.O9 p.m. also calling at all intermediate stations, and arriving Pontypridd at 9 8 a.m. and 4.8 p.m arriving

BRECON AND MERTHYK RAILWAY BRECON, MERTHYR, DOWXAIS, RHYMNEY, AND NEWPORT. UP.—WEEK DAYS -————————— 1,2,3, i,2.3. 1,2,3. 1,27072,17~~ FROM A. NI. a.m a.m. p.m. p M Newport (Doek-st.) dep. 8 5 12 35 3 30 5 ^0 Bassaleg Junction 8 17 12 47, 3 42 5 35 Rhiwderin 8 22 12 52 3 47 5 40 Church Road S 27 12 59 3 52 5 47 Machen 8 34 1 S 4 2 5 54 Bedwas 8 44 1 15 4 12 6 4 Maesycwmmer g 57; 1 28 4 95 <3 18 PENGAM 9 5; 1 35 4 33) 6 28 ?,NSAN* DEP- •• 9 15. 1 40: 4 35I 6 50 White Tose 9 25 1 5G! 4 4A! 7 0 Rhymuey .a.rr. 9 35 2 0 4 55I 7 10 Bargoed dep. 9 10: 1 40 6 35 Darren 9 I6 1 46 6 41 I ochriw 9 30 2 0 6 65 Dowlais Top 9 40 2 10 7 5 Dowlais or Pant 9 48 2 18 7 12 Dowlais or Pant I 9 48 2 18 7 12 Merthyr (V.N. Statn), 9 30; 1 57 5 20: 6 53 9 40 2 7 5 30 7 3' t ontsticill June, arr.! 9 52 2 20 5 42 7 15' Pontsticill June.dep.i 9 57 2 25 7 20 10 2 2 30 7 25 lalybont 10 30 2 57 7 55! TalyUyn 10 45 3 5 8 3^ TOECON arr.L 10 55 3 15 8 151 DOAVN.—WEEK DAYS. I,2,3.2,3. ] ,77,3, F,2,3. 1,2,^7 FROM a.m. a.M.1 p.m. p.m. p.m. BRECON DEP. 8 55 1 45 4 40 TALYLLYN 9 5 2 0 5 0 TALYBONT 9 15 2 10 5 10 DOLYGAER 9 43 2 40 5 43 Pontsticill June. arr. 9 GO 2 45 5 48 P&ntsticill J unc dep. 10 0 2 50 5 53 7*25 <7REFLV-; 10 12 g 2 6 5 737 Merthyr (VNSt.) an. 10 22 3 12 6 15 7 47 DOWLAIS OR PANT 9 SO 2 52 6 55 DOWLAIS TOP 10 10 3 0 6 3 TOCHRIW 10 20 3 10 6 16' GARREN, 10 32 3 22 6 28! BARGOED !10 38 3 23 6 35 RHYMNEY DEP. 110 20 12 35 3 10 G 3 \V HITEROSE 10 28 12 43J 3 18 6 11 PENGAM ,10 40 12 55 3 30 6 23 LENGAM DEP.;10 45 1 0, 3 33 6 45 MAESYCWMMER ILO 53 1 2 3 40 6 55 Bedwas 11 6 1 15 3 53 7 91 MACHEN 11 15 1 30 4 2. 7 18 CHURCH ROAD 11 26 1 35 4 7 7 231 RHIWUENN 11 26 1 40 4 12 7 28; LIASSALEG JUNCTION 11 30 1 45 4 17 7 33' Newport (Dock-st.) a.rr. 11 42 2 0 4 30 7 45.

LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY Mii/HTHYR, TREDEGAR, AND ABERGATENNT BRANCH. UPT-WEEK DAYS_ SrrxmA II,2,3. 1,2,3. 1,2,3, 1,2,3.1,2,37) I FROM a.m. p.m. p.m.! a.na. p.m. Abergavenny (Brec. Rd.)' 8 29 1 5 J3 30 4 47 8 35 Brynmawr for Nantyglo: 8 5b 1 34 4 81 5 16 9 2 Brynmawr 8 59 1 36 4 10| 5 19 9 3 Leaufort 9 4 1 41 4 15 5 24 EBBW YALE 4 351 TREVIL 9 9 1 46 4 20 5*29 NANTYBWCH 9 13 1 51 4 25 5 34 9 14 SIRHOWY 9 25 2 5 4 39! 5 43 TREDEGAR 9 30 2 10 4 44! 5 48 NANTYBWCH 9 14 15;. 4 26 5 35 9 15 RHYMNEY BRIDGE 9 19 1 5 40 9 20 DOWLAIS (BY COACH) 10 15 2 4; 9 25 MERTHYR ;BY COACH) 10 30 2 5F J 6 40 DOWN.—WEEKDAYS^ PROM A.M. A.M. A.M. IP.M.IP.M. PTM. MERTHYR (BY COAEH) J.. 8 3012 25! 4 IS DOWLAIS (BY COACLI) 19 6 12 46 4 35 RHYMNEY BRIDGE 6 57 7 1610 15 1 40 5 30 7*20 Nantybwch. 7 2! 7 15'10 19 1 44 5 34 7 24 SIRHOWY 9 25 ;10 28 2 5 5 43 TREDEGAR 9 30 :13 33 2 10 5 4S Nantybwch 7 5; 7 20|10 20 1 45! 535 7 25 TREVIL 7 10 7 25 1 50: 5 40 7 30 EBBW YALE 7 10 10 5 1 30; 5 15 BEAUFORT 7 15 7 30!L0 27 1 55J 5 45 7 35 BRYNMAWR FOR NANTYGLO 7 20 7 35 10 32 2 LL 5 49 7 40 BRYNMAWR 7 25 7 40;LO 33 2 2! 5 50 7 41 ABERGAVENNY (BREC. RD) 7 55; 8 15 11 6 2 3SI 6 22 8 11, + Market Train (on Tuesdays only.

KHYMNEY RAILWAY. RHYMNEY, HENGOED, CAERPHILI, AND CARDIFF. DOWN.—WEEK DAYS. J SUNDAYS 1,2,3. 1,-2,3. 172,3.1172,371/2,3. FKOM a. m. p. M P M A .m. p. m. RHYMNEY 9 10 2 20; 6 35 8 0 4 10 PONTLOTTTYN 9 14 2 241 6 39 8 4 4 16 TIR PHIL 9 22 2 30: C 46 8 10 4 14 BARGOED 9 30 2 38! 6 54 8 18 4 32 Pengam 9 35 2 44! 6 59 8 25 4 42 Henzoed I N"' A"> & IL IARR 1 Junction j dep 9 55 2 50. 7 3 8 36 4 50 Ystrad 959 2 54! 7 9 840 454 Caerphilly 10 11 3 7] 7 21 8 2 5 6 Walnut Tree Bridge 10 24 3 20 Cardiff (Adam-street Station) 10 45 3 3.R>L 7 50 9 10 5 3'; UP.—WEEK DAYS. | SUNP i,2,37i,i,W.T,2,3.A727V" J 9 3 FROM a.m. p.m. p. m.I A ITM Cardiff (Adam-street Station) 9 10 1 0 5 25' N A LN Walnut Tree Bridge 19 7 1 3 0 'i.s-IO 0 fi N Caerphilly 9 30 1 11 6 45$G 6 22 Y strad 9 421 1 2^ 5 56!10 18 6 35 „ F N.,A.,&H iarr 9 50 1 2S 6 0 Hengoedj JUNCTION j"dep 10 4J 1 40 10*22 6"40 Pengam 10 8 1 44 6 4 10 26 6 45 5.AR^EM 10 14 1 48 6 9 10 35 6 55 iI0 21 1 63L 6 15 10 43 7 3 Iontlottyn Hq 2C}. 2 0: 6 23 10 51 7 11 Rhymney IL0 3AJ 2 6| 6 27 1Q 55 7 15

WESTERN VALLEYS RAILWAY. NEWPORT, EBBW VALE, AND NANTYGLO. IWWN.—WEEK DAYS. 1 SI;NDAVS. |V43- 1,2,3. 1,2,3. 172,3. J 1,2,3. 172,3 xMi a?) am' P-mli P-ni. p.m. a.m. p.m. Lbbw \ale 8 40 11 15 2 20 7 25 10 25 7 10 V ictoria 8 48 11 23 2 28 7 31 ,10 31 7 18 Aberbeeg June 9 2 11 37 2 42 7 45 ilO 45 7 32 Nantyglo 8 40 111 15 2 20 7 25 10 25 7 10 YFLNA 8 48 ill 23 2 28 7 31 10 33 7 18 Abertillcry 8 FG 11 31 2 30 7 38 10 41 7 26" Aberbeeg June J 9 2 111 37 2 42 7 50 10 55 Crumlin 9 15 11 54 2 55 7 58 11 4 Abercarne 9 25 12 4 3 5 8 8 11 14 Risca 9 38 12 28 3 18 8 23 11 31 8 10 I-Sassaleg Junct 9 51 112 34 3 31 8 36 11 47 8 32 Newport 10 0 12 45 340J848120 8 45 UP.-WEEK DAYS. SUNDAYS 1,2,3. 1,2,3. 1,2,3. 1,2,3. 1,2,37 1,2,3 FROM a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. a.m. p.m: Newport. 7 0 11 0 3 0 5 43 8 30 5 15 Bassalsg JunG 7 11 11 11 3 11 5 52 8 42 5 23 Risca 7 25 11 25 3 25 6 6 8 56 5 41 Abercarne 7 40 11 41 3 41 6 23 9 13 5 58 Crumlin 7 50 11 51 3 51 6 33 9 23 6 8 Aberbeeg June 8 0 12 0 4 0 G44 9 34 6 19 Abertillery 8 11 12 11 4 14 6 65 9 48 6 33 Blaina 8 19 12 19 4 22 7 4 9 67 6 42 Nantyglo 8 '27 12 27 4 32 7 12 :10 5 6 50 Aberbeeg June 8 5 12 5 4 8 6 49 9 42 E Victoria S 19 12 17 4 5.2 7 4 9 57 6 27 Ebbw Vale 8 27 12 27 4 32 7 12 10 5 6 50 Printed and Published by PETER WILLIAMS, at the TELEORAPH Office, High-street, in the Town and franchise of Merthyr lydhl, in the County of Glamorgan FRIDAY, FEBRUAHY 23rd 1872.