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

MISCELLANEOUS. Xord Tini»rd«i will suc?e^ tho RU'ht ITin. fM- imuart Sacunoad ft* Panur-nont Un«i<;r-bu;r.jtary of 8i&i for r"or?'an A.TsIrr, Ths r»jH)rt of tha Sultan's visit to Rome ;s denied. Hy*ointh* tZM be-*n elactsd C.'urd of Geneva. Sfe, Oaswrod, author of the History of Cha- Bhlre.* baa died at the age of 87. Ths iate heavy rains have swollen moat of our Eng- lish nv«r«. The London GM Company propose declaring a 10 per cent. dividend. It iz dmiad that the Bishop of Nancy has joined the Old Catholics. A pilgrimage to Rome by English Roman Catho- lics ia projected. A heavy gala on Sunday at Laeda blew out one of the large window* of the Town Hall. A severe engagement has taken plue ia Cuba, but j of course that ia nothing n«w. The cotton crop of America has recently suffered much damage from drought and womM. A new edition, of the works of Molfere ia in prepara- tion, which promises to be a most complete one. The Evangelical Allianoe at yew York closed on Sunday n^ght. The attendance was immense. M. Rouher, the Bonapartist leader, proposes that it meeting be held to facilitate an appeal to the people. A Chinese newspaper has beeo started by a spi- rited native at Hankow, price one cent, per copy. iScvere (bought has prevailed in several parts of Chins and Japan. A Shanghai carnage coaapany to finish cabs for the public has been started. It is not thought probable we shall hoar much more of the cholera this year. A one hundred yards' swimming mAtch,with clothes on, has come off at Hiajo, Japan, Bishop Harris of the American Episcopal mission an the Rev, J. p, Newman, D.D., are now in Japan. Two I!ldI1 wore crushed to d^ath on Saturday, near Hartlepool, white digging out clay. The Timet speaks vsry hopefully of the present Spa- nish Government. The French Governnunt has abandoned tho idea of taxing textile fabrics. Mr, Holman Hunt's new picture, The Shadow of the CroM," will be shortly exhibited in Bond Htreot. Th« yellow fever is abating at yhrev«port. About 600 persons have dieri. The "Red Cross" Conferenoc coatfanoa its sittings at VUana. The Hull people are of opinion that the election in that town will take plaos on the 22nd. Th. dairymen ef Penge and Norwood have raised ths prios of milk to fivepenoe per quart. ffrom America we learn that Mr. James Parton proposes to write a life of Charles Diokans. Professor Henry MorUy's ITirst Sketch of Eng- lish Literature has run into a second edition. A swimming match between two dogs at Kichmond h;< 'ifceiy excited some interest. The winner WM su seconds before his competitor. Tui Southern University of America has conferred th* degree of D.C.L. on Canon Leighton, Dr. Edgar Shepp^fd, and J. A. Shaw Stewart. Marshal MacMahon is to decide a question be- tween this country and Portugal as to a bay on the XM* Coast of Africa. M. Thiers deiiija he is engaged in caba's, and "5 fce is preparing "to defend the threatened liberties and toTereigntyof thf people." JBarnslay Michaelmas Cattle Fair was field on Saturday. It was moderately wtll attended, "u,l there was a very fair show of horned and other cattle. Oa Sunday a yrsat mass meeting of railway ser- vants was held at Perth to consider the course to be taken to have their hours reduced to 10 per day. The Emperor of Russia ha-s presented to Maior de "Winton a diamond ring, with the Imperial initials, for Services in connection with International exhibitions. Some apprehension is fait at Constantinople as to theftte of the French steamer Anient, which left L ertch on the let of September, and hag not since been heard of. It has been determined to honour tha memory of the late Vicar of Shetii»id by building a church—to bt calltd the Sale Memorial Church—in the district of Dyer's-hill. A jxdysf'ot journal is to be published at Florence with the title of Aryo. It will be printed in Italian, French, German, and Russian. Tho only effect in Montreal of the panic in New York has been to make tha bankers more cautious, less willing to let out their funds. A mass of valuabla property, it appear*, lie's un- claimed at ths Court of Chancery, M well as in the Bask of England. Her Majesty the Queen h*s forwarded £ 2-"> to the fund for the mamorial to the late Rar. S. B. Gobat, vio.tr i f- 5oaf< >rth. At the Bristol Coufer»ace of Minsrs a resolution in r¡¡,our of weakly, wagss, without'any stoppages, was yasa^d. The hwrLcir fishery is remarkably good at present. 61$lasts, sach compriainj 13,2')0 tiøh, wero delivered at Loweitoft isut week. The rice" crop of Louisianla in the present season will., says the N'.xo Vrl*aiu» Picnyunt, De tho lar^eot e»cr produced. "hiV Ahoy!" a narrativa of shipping nmadven- fcur«.a haaed on tho Plirusoii inquiries, ii tv b6 the title of the Christmas Annual of Once a W (ek, Tha International Committee of the Suez Canal held a stormy meeting at Constantinople on Saturuay, but came to no decision. Ou raising th" Shanghai submarine cable recently for repairs, it was found coated with oyeters to the thickness of a man's lody. The Baroness Burdett Contts has contributed £.;0 tc>w»rus a slip at Botfin Inland, to erable fishermen to haiÙ tii«ir-Loat« out of the rsach of tho wild sea thsra. The Shoreham Chamber of Commerce has memo- rialised the Privy tn place restrictions upon the importation of cattle from t rance. The trunk system of railways is now completed in India by tae opening of tne Kristna Viaduct. Bombay and Madras are within 1,270 mile. of each other. The supposed Rye murder bras out to be a hosm a large dog having been the victim that creatod the leusation. The Jfémorull Itiplomaiique, a journal of weighs iu Paris, says that the Comte da Chambord will not fee king unless he agrees to the political programme sketched out by the National Assembly. In the late Atlantic storm the Missouri was wrecked off the Bahamas. The loss incurred ia reckoned at 5o0,000 dollars. The Spaniah steamer Maisi was also wrecked, and twenty-four lives lost. On Saturday, the headless body of a man was fouud on the sands of Moreeambe Bay, near Bolton-le- Bitvids. From the dress the body is supposed to be that of a sailor. Cab-hunting hall commsncsd In most of the shires, wad foxss are plentiful; so, if the season proves pro- pitious, good sport may be expected. In C louco^ter- shiie, Lord FvUhardmge's hounds have killed a large number of cubs. A Berlin correspondent says there Is hardly a Ro- man Catholic bishop in Germany who would not s"«ud the rest of his lifetime in gaol to iea Don Carlos on the t' ne of Spain. The ci, ia discussing Bismarck's ecclesiastical policy., u.faith in national interests and influences triumphing in the end, but thinks it imay be only after a period of grievous disorganization and of reli- gions anarchy. The Veo. "WYu. Pollock, D.D., viear of Bowdon, Canou and late Archdeacon of Chester, died on Sa- turday night at Claoghton, Birkenhead. An op«n-air harvest musical festival took place on Saturday afternoon on the sit« of the new Inde- pendent Church, Clapham-road, under the presidency oi Mr. J. Curwen, the leader of the TonicScl-Faists. j Mr. Lowe's secretary has acknowledged the receipt cf a memorial from the Sheffield Licensed Victuallers in respect to fees charged on the renewal uf their licences, and baa declared such charges to be irregular. A serious collision occurred on Saturday afternoon at Swansea, between a passenger train and soma mineral waggons, through the points being wrongly turned. No hvoo were lost, but 15 or 16 people were much shaken. Oa Sunday a thief secured a great part of the collec- tion after a Harvest F33ti"?*l in a church in the east end of London. He was captured, but rescued on his T.i-y to nUl puliee station. Cuba has been visited by A destructive rain- storm, 'whi'jh caused the sea to break over vessels leaving the harbour, and to drive some of them ashore. A lighthouse was overthrown, and great damage dona to telegraph linea on the inland. Mr. Henry Graves baa arranged for exhibition in hi*$ailarias an exceedingly interesting collection of tb Aii^i-aved works of Mi* Uts Sir Edwin Landseer. '(V v.- are ■ Is oi -b>; >r, yi oiilier, and are now on I -v. • • C-. iorthcou.ing Clas- j •. j.. :v s.:tured, tne e-xp9n»es v o .i suOetcripti^ms. Ai s*- Latfl- rt .Ms.. s:u•*• Siiy rrriU^n tor tho I'tistival, U<*3 beth uu. ing Uie pasc week. Placards emanating from the Ultramontane party have bean posta.i at Genera, vidently protesting arainst the popular collectiont of a Catholic Cure, and recommending Catholics absolutely to abstain from noting. The Journal de &enb>e publish. a letter from tha Abbe MJorCJhal, ex Chaplain to the Armies of Italy and the .Rhine, announcing that the Bishop of Nancy h&a decode tPJui the xioiuan Catholic Church. It is aaid that g.îQ.ttl members of the Royal Academy propose the erec;io'.i hi St. Paui.s Cathedral of a armorial to Sir Edwlil Landseer and the other great artists buried there. Mr. Go«chen, M.Pf) writes to tha Time* to correct the qnotat-ion of 8om« Sg^jpes frous his t sport on bx:al tMation, and explains that in ra-publishing nis raport t he ciid aoi avail himnalf ol any nsw in?«tsrial3 op l»tor returns tiiAU those already kaown. Twc, .Tiost aD8:1 p-°po»itiOM have bean rr.ado by ib-i .Japan^so and gr.iSOlj answered by the cue being that ths "K^p.ror sbr aid have his hair flr*«s.*>i'j after the style of £ urwps*a ledlea (which the t'-i Hed waa ?-'0 c") and Mio otb-er that the Government fiuuld turn iw attsatioa to tho FUFOREOTIOQ of Sin iMA ZIZCIQUITOEA) The city of Carlisle has has applied for, and obtained a separate Court of Quarter Sessions, and Mr. Herachfell, Q.C., of the Northern Circuit, has been appointed tho first Recor. ler. ¡I ijord Wilton ha.3 arrived at Malta, all well. The iand tax last year produced Bl,103,000. Thirty candidatas have applied for Mallow Rectory. The Crown Prince of Saxony has been thrown from his carriage a.nd severely injured. Thtl deficit of fthe Vienna. Exhibition amounts to nearly thirteen million florins. The report that General La Marmora is likely to lose his sight is contradicted. Two Klu-Klux mon have been sentenced to be hanged for whipping a nogro to death. The Public Works Loan Commissioners have lent School Boards nearly £ 300,000. The Grant Western Railway of Canada is able to pay a *1 por cent dividend. There hM been a great destruction of huusea and shipping iu 8.mtll\¡ra Hayti. M. Rane hM been condemned to death at Paris in contunviciaui by a Council of War. Two new School Board schools, costing &1S,00"), have boon opened at Sheffield, and 600 scholar.) enrolled- At the Bristol Miners' Conference a prop yl to found a mining BC!KK>1 was discussed with approval. Mr. Go"dwir, of Preston, has been run over by a spring cart and killed in Manchester. Mr. Behbngham, son of Sir II. BelMugham, hae joined the Roman Catholic Church. The Turin papers state that the inauguration of the monument to Cavour will take place early in November. Efforts are being made to improve the observance ef Sunday in Switzerland. A seriou3 accident has happened in Dundee while repairing an elovator. One man was killed on the spot. Ten sailors have been sentenced to seven days' im- prisonment at Southampton for refusing to work on Sunday. Several leading Liberals, who had previously held aloof, have given in their name3 to Mr. Reed's com- aloof, have given in their name3 to Mr. Reed's com- mittee. A ship chandler's stores at Penryn were burnt down on Tuesday by a fire, which broke out at one O'clock. A lady has placed a window in Bath Abbey in oommemoration of the re.-iboralion to health of the Prince of Wales. The Exeter School Board has laid the foundation etouM of four large schools in the poor and populous districtt of that city. Republicans have boen returned in all the four De- partment* in M. Thieraia said to be greatly delighted. The arbitrator haa decided against the ironmaster^ and the reduction of 12i per cent, will not take place at present. The new English pilgrimage is to be to the Holy Land, vii Rome, and will leave next Lent, headed by Monsignor Capel and the Mai^qui# of Bute. The United Preshyteriau Synod met at Sunder- land on Monday. The RvY, George Ball, of New- outlr, is Moderator. At the Durham Quarter Sessions, on Monday, John Brown, agricultural labourer, WAS sentenced to five years' penal servitude for a murderous attack on his wife. Tho Gurman Ministers have ordered the expulsion from Germany of all emigration agents and recruiting emissaries who do not belong to that country. Dublin Exhibition had a narrow escape from fits on Saturday, in consequence of flags having been placed too near the gas. The day before the failure of Jay Cooke he enter- tained President Grant at his palatial residence at Chelton Hill, near Philadelphia. The parish of Kues*nachfc, Switzerland, has voted the sum of l,000fr. for the embellishment of William Teil's chapel And the surrounding wood. The Warden of Sing Sing Prison, U.S., says that during hilt service of twenty years he has never known of the attempt of a lite prisoner to escape. Last year there were 473 causes in the Admiralty Court, which was an increase on the previous year. The amount for which the causes was entered was £ 718,510. Damage to tho extent of about £400 was on Mon- day caused by a fire which broke out in the Wellington Mill, Oldham. The cases of drunkenness heard by Mr. C. Aspinall on Monday at Liverpool numbered 165, an increase of 10 over the previous Monday. Sir Richard Wallace, M.P. for Lisburn, ha* been struck off the voter's list on that borough on a technical objection. It is said that great efforts have been made to obtain the expulsion of Prince Napoleon, but tii.it Marshal MacMahon has put a decided negative on the suggestion. Mr. Spurgeon has laid the foundation stono of a "Pontons' College" at the rear of his Taber- naele in Newington. It ia said that the Vatican purpose adopting towards Switzerland the measures wliicn Pius VI. followed towards trance in the Revolution of 1793. Tho fact of Prince Bismarck's accompanying the Emperor to Vienna will, its is believed, furnish a con- tradiction to the reports of his waning influence. The dispute in the Manchester engineering trade ha* been settled in favour of the masters. It is ex- pected that a 51 hours' movement will at once be com- menced by the men. A report i. said to have reached Vienna from St. Petersburg that the Czar has issued a uka"a con- fiscating all endowments of Greek schools invented ia land* situated in Russia. It is shewn by a Parliamentary book published on Wednesday that in the year ended the 31st of March last the gross Customs' duty on tobacoo and snuff WM iJ7,104,010 -V 2d., and the net produce £ 7,046,930 5s. M. In and about Pfaeffers, Switzerland, the squirrels are doing so much damage to the larch-trees that the Council has been obliged, as in 1805, to appoint a special hunter to chaia them. He gets a certain sum per head. The Society Suisse pour la. Sanctification du Di- manche" offers a prixa for the best essay upon the im- portance, in point of view of health, of rest on Sun- day for all, but especially for those engaged in arduous bLuur. Un Monday afternoon, while Mr. Charles Paget and his wife and her linur were sitting on the rocks near Fiiey Brigg, an extraordinary wave swept them into the sea. The sister alone was saved. Juries, in every Terdict where ar man is suspected of homicide, record their disapproval of the departure from the ancient constitutional rule of having the pri- soner when in custody present. A very noisy meeting, held at Plympton on Mon- day, resolved not to adopt a resolution in favour of a school board for the parish, which the Nonconformiet8 strongly urged. A poll is demanded. The Mimorial Diplomatique says that in the event of the failure of the Monarchical scheme the different fractions of the Bight will continue united and sup- port oh* prolongation of Marshal MacMahon's power. M. Thiers is also likely to favour this policy. Rear-Admiral Winalow, who oommanded the United States war steamer K ear sage during the msmorable fight between that vessel and the famous Southern privateer Alabama, in which the Alabama was sunk, has just died at his residence, Kearsage Avenue, Boston. Countess Berritorff, the widow of the late German Ambassador to the Jiritish Court, has been presented by her friends injEnglan 1 with a valuable bracelet, as a souvenir of her long sojourn in this country. They include some of the most influential members of both political parties. The funded debt of the United Kingdom amounts to £ 726,000,000. The charge for interest and manage- ment is rather more than £ 122,000,Oi 0 per annum. In addition there ia an annual payment of 4i millions as Terminable Annuities. The Magdalena, of Hull, from Buenos Ayres, and the Jane, of Ipswich, han been in collision off the Humber. At first it was feared the latter had foundered with all hands, but captain, vessel, and crew have, however, got into Grimsby. Navigating Sub-Lieutenant William Renwick. Wha was sentenced by court martial to ten years' penal servitude for asiaults upon boys, on Monday es- caped from the fiagship at Devonport, by lowering him- 'rielf down the side of the vessel into a. boat waiting to recelu him, Dr. Fryer, formerly Missionary Bishop of Zanzibar, has written a remonstrance against the Dean of Can- terbury participating in the communion service in a Presbyterian church. He will bring the matter un- der the notice of the Archbishop of Canterbury. It appears that the Due d' Aumale desired to visit the battle iields of Metz, but the German Hovem- ment objected to his doing so. The French War Minis- ter communicated with the Berlin Minister of Foreign Affairs, and promised that the visit should be made incognito, but to no purpose. An alarming tire broke out on Monday the pre- mises of Messrs. Waterlow and Sons, near J.ondon v\ all, but owing to the energy of the Fire Brigade it was contmedto the ground floor. Fourteen engines wr,re employed. The Lord Mayor of London, Sir Sydney \Vatcriow, was present. An inqneat was held at St. Austell on Monday rela- tive to the death of a woman, and as a man with whom she had been intimate, and ngainst whom she had brought a charge of theft, had bie^n heard to threaten to give her a dORe," the inquiry was ad- journed for 2>o$i-mortem examination. Ten days ago a boy was shot at Camborne by a shopmate, and the wounded lad died from exhaus- tion, At the inquest on Monday it was elicited that only blank cartridges were kept in the shop, but that oii3 loaded cartridge had been placed on a shelf, and that deceased had himself placed tins in the gun fired at him. A punt attached to her Majesty's ship Resistance was oapsizod in Plymouth Sound whilst the vessel was shifting her moorings, and a seaman in it was drowned. At the inquest held on Monday, a verdict of accidental death was returned, but the officer of the watch was censured for not taking the punt on board previous to moving the ship under steam. The Waybill hop and cheese fair was held on Mon- df-.y, It venaa that hops were gathered and cured thi? s-j«c?ou on fJ{.fl(JO acres of land, the produce vary- ing from 6cwt. to lclcjvt., and the prices from four spiine '.s to £9. Somerset and Wilts cheese realised womOos, to 70s., .nd prime Cheddars from 70s. to is.. Several BJ itish war vessels are cruising along tha Spanish coast. The reported bad health of Mr. Bright is contra- dicted. The City of Carlisle has obtained a separate Court of Quarter Sessions. The movements of the Comte de Chambord are 'becoming very mysterious. M. Guizot denies having written anything about the Fusion. It is expected that specie payments will be resumed in the United States at an early date. There r.rj only 68 peers alive out of 5S0 who con- stituted the peerage on the accession of her Majesty. It is said that the proclamation of the Monarchy in France is assured by a large majority iu the Assem bly. Mr. Reed denies that the shipowners of Hull are to oppose him. One hundred and ten lieutenants are to be allowed to retire from the Navy. Lord Romilly will commence sittings in the Euro- pean Arbitration case on the 27th inst. The Spanish paper, the Impartial, denies the re- port that differences exist in the Spanish Ministry, Lizarra^ra, the Carlist General, has shot three Car- lists belonging to the party of Santa Cruz. The ship Colombo from Rangoon to Queenstown was burned on the 12th of May. Mr. Cole, C.B., is to make a provincial tour to e*- Elain the working of the new Training School oI lusic. t The foundation-stone of a new Congregational Church has been laid at Clapham-rise. In the last financial year the malt duty was gross £7,7S:3,2GV 12s. 21d. and net £ 7,544,173 DS, 7d. All railroads running out of Philadelphia carry the daily papers free for a distance of fifty miles. Our exports to our West African possessions reach £ 1,500,000 per year. The imports are ;Sl,OOO,OOO. The National Reform League has passed a. resolu- tion recommending Government to bring the coal mines under Government control. The Archbishop of 'Canterbury has promised to write a paper called God's Message," for the Sunday Mayizine. A "People's Commentary on the Old Testament" is in preparation by the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge. It is said that one-third of the present Parliament of Canada, consisting of two hundred members, are now or have been editors of newspapers. There is no country in the world, with double the population of Canada, that gives to any newspaper ft circulation equal to that of the Toronto G{,)Óe. The Leicester October fair had the largest stock ever shewn in that town. The cattle numbered over 2,000. Milch cows brought high rates. American female newspaper reporters are now to be found in all parts of the world. Sixteen went to the Vienna Exposition, The Law Tiina thinks that in view of the approach- ing elections solicitors, as a body, should endeavour to secure more direct representation. The three dramatic stars, Phelps, Matthews, and Toole, will appear together at the Gaiety Theatre during the nine nights immediately preceding Christ- mas Day. It appears that the wages of labourers in the Bom- bay Presidency is from 3d. to 6d, per day. Skilled workmen receive from 8d. to 2s. The grouse shooting on the Yorkshire moors con- tinues very poor. Hares and rabbits are plentiful, and the partridge shooting is good. There has been another fight between the Carlists and the Republican troops. The losses on both sides have Deell serious. Captain Geortce Tryon, R.N., C.B., has resigned his post of Private Secretary to Mr. Goschen, and report gives him tiie command of H.M.S. Monarch, &VOl1t to ue cOillmissiu1!cd. From all oiiidal dvcument just printed, it appears that in the year ended the 31st March last, the fines and penalties received at the metropolitan police-courts amounted to .1;i,3;)tj bs. ::>d, Colonel Wilson Patten, M.P., calls attention to Professor Leone Levi's statement as to the increase ot pOVl" rates, and the de. rease of imperial taxation. He says it is remarkable. The high price of eoal is sadly frightening the chief manufacturing firms. John Brown and Co., of Sheffield, have purchased a colliery for 1:13ï,()QO. Several other large firm3 have made similar purchases. The Paris correspondent of the Independance Belge says the general opinion is that the Bazaine trial is as- suming a serious aspect not only for the accused, but also for the witnesses. A Naples journal says that on the re-opening of the Chambers the Mini-ler of ,J a-lice will bring in a law to enforce the celebration of marriages by civil as well as religious ceremonials. A music and dancing licence has been refused to Cremorne Gardens, and also to the Criterion, Messrs. Spiers and Pond's new place in Piccadilly. The building will cost £ .^5,000. The Saturday Review thinks that the real Ï3sue of the Bazaine trial is whether the Marshal left the Re- publican armies to their fate in order to secure with foreign assistance the return of Napoleon, During a terrible gale on Friday morning, the schooner Tulip, from Sunderland, went ashore on Saunton Sands, North Devon. The master, mate, and one seaman were lost, The Spectator disapproves of the extreme measures propol!ed by the German Government with respect to the Roman Catholics of Posen, and asks what would be thought if we attempted the same sort of thing in Ireland. Arrangements are now being made to transfer to the General Post Othee the custody and maintenance of all the Government telegraph wires in the Royal Arsenal, Royal Dockyards, and the military and naval stations throughout the country. Nothing has been settled with reference to the removal of the 1st West India Regiment from the West Indies to the West Coast of Africa, for parti- cipation in the operations against the Asliantees, the matter being still under consideration. A new Children's Hospital is about to be built in Vienna. Towards the cost of itR erection Herr Mauthner, Ritter von Markhof, has paid over the mu- nificent sum of 110,000 florins (£11,000), to the city authorities, and has also contributed 60,000 florins (U;,UW) towards its fittings, friends providing the site. A Paris journal publishes the following curious paragraph "The oldest newspaper in the world is published at Pekim It is priuted on a large sheet of yellow silk, and appears in the same form, with the same characters, and on the same kind of j-tuif as took place a thousand years ago. The only thing changed is the writers." La CorrcsponcUncia of Madrid says Castelar refuses to modify his programme, although some deputies of the majority threaten to withdraw their support. He lias expressed him- self freely to these deputies assuring them that ha would regard those as his best personal frienda who woud relieve him from the tremendous responsibility of power. But at the same time that he did not deaire; power he would not abandon one of the bases of his programme for censure, and would continue to employ in the civil war and in the army all those measures which he believed to be neces- sary without regard to any party. THE POTATO CROP.—Mr. Thos. Scott writea to the Field :—From a detailed inspection of the cropfl in some of thp great potato districts, and from tho crop on my own farm in Surrey, I am quite satisfied that the amount of produce is double that of last year and I estimate that, while we did not save 3,000,000 tons in the United Kingdom in 1S72, we shall this year secure at least 7,000,000 tons of sound tubers, thus'compensating for the reduced aroas, checking the price of wheat, and affording nearly l £ lb. of potatoes per day for each head of the population throughout the year, which is as much as we usually care to con- sume." A BISHOPRIC or ST. ALBAN'S.—It is proposed, by a memorial now in circulation throughout Essex and Herts, to form a separate diocese tor those counties, with the Abbey Church of St. Alban as its cathedral. A requisition signed by a large number of in- fluential persons has been prepared for presentation to Mr. Gladstone. The chief points on which it relies are as follows :—1. St. Alban's was one of the See* which it was proposed to create at the time of the Re- formation. 2. Its magnificent church, of Royal foun- dation, is now being restored by means of public con- tribution, and is eminently suited to be used as a cathedral. 3. The northern part of the diocese, comprising the counties of Herts and Essex, is naturally divided by the river Thames from the county of Kent, its southern portion. 4. The area of the counties of Herts ana Essex amounts to 1,868 square miles, with a rapidly-increaa- ing population. 5. The diocese of Wincitester includes now the densely-populated district of Southwark. which may, with benefit to that diocese, be separated therefrom, and added to the diocese of Rochester, thereby confining the limits of the latter to the coun- ties south of the River Thames. G. The present time is, in the opinion of your memorialists, a favourable ■m port unity for the formation of a new diocese.

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THE MODOCS BEFORE DEATH. A correspondent of the New York Herald, who was present when the six Modoc culprits condemned to die Wero apprised of their fate, says in his report" Th4 braves tried to preserve a stolid aepeot, bot wre evidently deeply shocked. Cap- tain Jack endeavoured to throw the blame of tho murder on others, and made repeated appeals for his-lif^ proposing fn the end that hia relative, Soar- facod Charley, should be accepted as his substitute, Seonohin alsó claimed credit for having attempted to dissuade the tribe from tho murder, but declared himaeli ready to m"et his fata like a man his only willb Was that bi8 soil should be brought up a Rood man, and should not be eentoutof the country. Boston Charley, the youngest of the convicts, avowed his crime, and spoke contemptuously of his associates, whom he stigmatised as women. When asked the cause of the massacre, ha said they suspected the Peace Commissioners of treachery, and named Bogus Charley, one of the reprieved convicts, as the insti- gator of the whole massacre." Describingthescene when the relatives of the culprits were admit L-d to take leave of them, the correspondent says, I was perfectly un- prepared for the frantic state of grief into which the women worked thmuselves. They howled their weird deifth-song, and threw themselves on their doomed friends, fawning them all over. Jack appeared very much affected at meeting his favourite squaw, Liszie, and the little papoose. His rioter Mary was even more affected, and worked herself into a perfect paroxysm of grief. The little girl even appeared to comprehend the situation, and sobbed bitterly as Jack gave her one last fond embrace."

"AN EXTRAORDINARY MEETING." The London correspondent of the Belfast News Letter writes ;—"I was permitted (in virtue of a very modest stake in the concern) to be present <lot an extraordinary eral meeting of n <••>• >bi colliery coifipany in the Vv est of England. Tne O'ceedings were quite worthy of an extraordinary meeting, as they were 'the most eccentric, and at the same time discreditable, that it has ever been my lot to witness. The chairman commenced by stating that as it was just possible that in the pourse of the discussion aonic unpleasant personal observations might be made on tho conduct of the manager and the secretary, lie had requested those gentlemen to retire into the next room It subse- quently transpired that the object of the meeting waa to obtain the sanction of the shareholders to the pur- chase of some coal rights adjoining their own at the sum of about £ 20,000, which rights had already been acquired by the manager, the secretary, and other parties for about £ 4,000! This proposition was denounced as flagitious and immoral in the highest degree. The discussion was long and animated, and during its progress a note was handed to the chair- man to inform him that if the bargain was not closed at once the vendors would withdraw it! The share- holders then became indignant, and demanded the presence of their manager and secretary. The chair- man sent for them, _but they could not be found. Eventually it was decided by th<» majority to buy rights with a view to the protection of the original property, but to apply to a court of equity to give its opinion upon the validity of the transaction so far as the manager and secretary of the company were concerned. The directors used their proxies to rive effect to this extraordinary proceeding, and before the meeting sep:irated one shareholder ex- pressed a hope that tho same pen which signed the contract to purchase the property would also sign the lismissal of any officers of the company who might M proved to be interested in the sale. This expres- non of opinion was loudly cheered by the meeting, the directors signifying their approval of it."

GKXEKAL LA MARA^OHA.—A correspondent at Vienna says :—La Marmora's allusion to the Tries- tines as Germans," in Ins book, has given great um- brage at Trieste, the Triestines considering them- selves as good Italians as the Venetians or Floren- tines. A vigorous prntc8t has ]Jtjell published by a committee of Trie insisting that they must, in very respect, be looked upon as Italians. SERIOUS ILLNESS or DR. CANDLISH.—Our readers will learn with regret that Dr. Candlish lies it his residence in Edinburgh in a state of prostra- tion, which cause3 the most serious anxiety to his riends. The strain of a laborious life has Oeen telling for some years past on the rev. Doctor's constitution, and in the course of the past summer he found it necessary, in consequence of frowing debility, to withdraw himself for three uonths from active duty. SOMNAMBULISM.—A singular instance of sleep walking has just occurred at Woolwich. Since the Fenian outbreak, » non-commissioned officer guard, belonging to one of the infantry regiments quartered In Woolwich, has regularly been stationed at the Powder Magazine# -in the Abbey M»norway, at the extreme end of tho Eoyal Arson.al, in the Plum- stead Marshes. A few days since this guard was com- posed of men belonging to the 2nd fcattalion of 4th Regiment, who are each ,,> in turn placed on sentry for two hours. In the early morning, when the time arrived to change sentries, the soldier who had com- pleted his two hours WM found to be missing, he hav- ing, it appeared, fallen asleep at his post and walked through the marshes and over Bostol-hill to Bexley- heath, a diitMioo of four miles from his post. When opposite Butier's-buildings, Dover-road, BexJey-heath, he TTM met by a policeman on duty, who iccosted him, found he was ash ep, and awoke him. The somnambulist was very much astonished and tlarmed when he found out where he waa, and at mce asked the policeman to telegraph to Woolwich .0 let the authorities know what had become of him, fcfter which, accompanied by the policeman, he retraced his steps to Woolwich. The soldier, who was in full uniform, and carried his knapsack and .'ifle, and had six rounds of ammunition wich him, on his arrival was placed in the guard-room, pending inquiries, and on his statement being found correct he haa since returned to his duty. LANDSEER'S KINDLINESS OF HEART.—An anecdote of the late Sir Edwin Landseer may not be uninteresting to our readers, it is well known that he was a welcome guest at the houses of the nobility and gentry of this country; indeed, many of his best pictures were pointed when visiting his friends. Upon one occasion, when staying at one of the ancestral homes of England, a little boy, the son of the host and hostess, got into gruat trouble by breaking a large plate-glasn window, which had only recently been up put in the stato drawing-room. Young Lord A waa summarily sent to bed for playing at ball in a room evidently not meant for such games, and when he appeared next morning, told Sir Edwin a most piteous tale, adding that he feared he was not to be allowed to come into dessert that evening. "I'll see what I can do," said the kind-hearted artist. The drawing-room in question had two corresponding windows to the ono that had been broken, and which, until 'another pane of Elate glass could be procured from London, had een closed with a shutter. Landseer, finding him- self alone in the room, took a wax candle, and, smearing it over one of the most pro- minent panes, quickly produced a likeness of a starred glass. So true was it to nature that, when the noble owner of the house entered, he immediately exclaimed, "What! another pane broken? Where's young Lord A ?" The supposed cul- prit made his appearance, and was questioned as to whether he had again made the drawing-room a play- room. "Tell your father," said Sir Edwin, "that as you broke one pane of glass, you will mend this." The youth repeated the saying, when Landseer gave him his handkerchief, and desired him to rub.the pane gently. In a second the star disappeared, Lord A -— was freely forgiven, and again made his appearance after dinner. STEEL AND CAST-IBOKT CANNON.-—Tho Inde- pendance Beige gives an account of experiments tried recently at Ostend and Brasschact to test the relative endurance of Krupp's steel guns and those of.cast-iron strengthened with rings. The steel gun had cost 102,000 francs, and could not be supplied at the pro sent moment for less than 12 LO.X) franc- v. ::ilst the cost of the cast-iron gun strengthened v/itii rings was 17,000 francs, or in round numbers a cost of about £ 700 as against £ 5,000. The cast-iron ringed gun after firing 0G2 rounds was considered to be almost in as good condition as JiCforu a shot had been fired, whilo the steel gun aftpr lot) snots, in- cluding 40 which it was said had been fired at Kiupp s, was not a little injured. The commissioners reported the following defects:—1st. an enlargement of the bore, a serious matter; 2nd, deep scratches along the bore, and this notwithstanding that during the experiments the workmen of M. Ivrupp were from time to time engaged in certain repairs of tho gun. The guns were of the same calibre, and their rilling was precisely similar, the weight of 1 the pro- jectile being 2751b., and tho initial velocity of both was about 400 metres per second. The Indipendance, in reply to an attack upon the cor- rectness of its first report of these experiments, gives the above corrected version, which is stronger and more precise than the account which was challenged, and adds that now all Powers save Prussia and Bel- glum use only ringed cast-iron guns; further, that Prussia, since the bursting of many guns, is looking ion a better material thr.u nisei for her or .inance. It is further stated that if Fxanco, Italy, Sweden, Holland, and Denmark, where numbers of experiments have been made with riuged cast-iron cannon of nine and 11 inchee diameter, without once having burst, theso guns have been adopted for the navy and for the coast *«fe acw,

J THE JJATE SIR E. LANDSEER. Our greatest animal painter lies by the side of "nir greatest landscape painter. Both rest in St. Paul's cathedral where Reynolds, Lawrence, Barry, West, and I'i. ■ li have slept this many a year. Saturday morning last broke grey and dark, with wild clouds overhead, driven fast by the south-west gale, and the leaves fell fast from the tall trees which encircle Sir Edwin Landseer's house in St. John's Wood-road. Hard by is many another studio—Leslie's, Calderon's, land Thomas Land- seer's among them. In truth, Sir Edwin's late home stands at the entrance of an artists' colony, known as the St. John's Wood School. He himself was one of the earliest to settle there, within a rery few steps of another colony not less famous—a colony of literati, of whom "George Eliot" and [Sir Duffus Hardy are among the chief. Here, on almost classic ground, there assembled a good many spectators to see the great artist borne away from the spacious house in which his greatest works were wrought,to that last narrow house where there is neither work, nor know- ledge, nor device, and the most skilful hand has lost its cunning. Extravagantly showy funerals have gone out of use since Dickens's death and funeral dealt -a. death blow at them. Sir Edwin's was quite plain and simple. When the procession set out from the house there were but a plumed hearse drawn by four horses, and three mourning' coaches, each drawn by two horses, without plumes, and containing Miss Landseer, Mrs. Mackenzie, Mr. Thomas Landseer, Mr. Charles Landseer, two Masters Mackenzie, Master Webb, Mr. Hills, and Mr. Arnold White. The Queon's and Lady Coutts's carriages joined the procession on the road, and the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cam- bridge were also represented, A body of mounted police led the way in two detachments, each separated by about a hundred yards, and a detachment of foot constables closed up and followed close behind the hearse. Slowly this simple pro- cession wended its way through St. John's Wood- road, the Marylebone-road, Portland-place, and Recent-street, to Trafalgar-square, the site of the artist's great work the four bronze lions, guarding the base of Nelson's column. At the National Gallery about a dozen plain black carriages containing the Pre- sident (Sir F. Grant) and the Council of the Royal Academy joined the corttt/e which then moved slowly through the crowded Strand, past Temple Bar, down Fleet-street, and up Ludgate-Hill to the west front of St. Paul's, where the great doors, so rarely open, were thrown wide back to receive the cathedral'# newest inmate. Inside the Cathedral, a large, but by no meanaovernowing congregation had assembled. The places in the choir not wanted for the mourners, the clergy, and the choristers had been reserved for about 500 friends of the late artist. This is a time of the year when few celebrities are in town, our states- men being scattered throughout the country, and our artiscs being for the most part still absent on their sketching tours. Consequently of the first very few were present, and LordGranville was the only Cabinet Minister to be seen. But of the second there was a large attendance, for they had come, many of them from a long distance, to do honour to their late chief, to him who is inscribed on the list of Presidents, though he held the office for only a single day. Among the earliest to appear was the venerable George Cruik- Ihank, looking scarcely more than 60, though he has just entered his 82nd year, and is ten years older than the artist whose funeral rites he was at- tending. Not far from him were Marcus Stone, Peter Graham, G. A. Storey, Winfield, and in other parts of the choir Graves, the engraver, who has made Landseer's works known throughout the world, Field Talfourd, Hardy, Miss Braddon, Mr. Maxwell, Mr. Sliirley Brooks, Mr. Robert Browning, Pro- fessor Owen, and later on, after the procession had entered might have been seen the following artists r*- Messrs Webster, Frith, Lee, Marshall, Ward, Elmore, Millais, Richmond, Frost, Wells, Sant, Ar- mitage, Stocks, l'ettitt, Stephens, Lejeune, Dobson, Leslie, Orchardson, Cole, Walker, Barlow, and Wool- ner. Eugene Yerboeckhoven, the celebrated Dutch painter, was also present. The procession arrived nearly half an hour after time, and it was close upon half-past twelve when the first sound of the choristers' voices at the far west end reached the choir. They had been waiting long, the wind sorely ruffling their snow- white surplices as it blew through the great open doorway. Very forcibly and far away sounded the tolling bell, for the great bell is used only for royalty. Then at last the worda "I am the Resurrection and the Life" could be heard, and a procession of surpliced choris- ters and black mutes and undertaker's men was seen moving forward, and behind them the I coffin, all pacing very slowly past the space I beneath the dome until the lectern was reached. Strange to say, this had not been moved, but com- pletely blocked the way, so that the procession had to break up as it entered the choir. It was then headed by Bishop Claughtou, the Archdeacon, who read the lesson and that part of the service which was not chanted. To right and left filed the choristers, some fifty in number, and the coffin followed, borne by men who staggered beneath its enormous weight. It was covered by n. pall of the richest black velvet with broad white silk border, and with the artist's monogram—E. L.—also in white silk. On tha face of the coffin was a very largo cross of white camel- lias with a wreath of yellow jessamine at the head, and wreaths of violets, red roses, and white flowers at the feet. The pall was borne by Sir Francis Grant, the President,and seven other Royal Academicians. Then" these took their places at the right, and the chief mourners on the left of the coffin, or, to be ecclesiastically correct, to south and north re- spectively, north or left, being the more honourable position in the Church. Bishop Claughton, his white robes and red doctor's hood contrasting strangely with the black expanse of cloth on which he stood, placed himself at the head of the grave, and while the mour- ners and the R.A.'s, and the long following of artists and literati who came after them, were taking their places, the organ sounded forth a sweet and plaintive voluntary. The coffin was, during the interval, placed upon trestles, the wreaths and the pall re- moved, and the ooffin itself then became exposed to view. It was of very rich polished oak, with silver handles aJtd devices, and a silver plate with the plainest and simplest inscription—merely EDWIN LANDSEER, ] Born 7th March, 1802. i Died 1st October, 1873. The service then proceeded, both the 39th and 90th Psalms being sung. At the words ashes to ashes, dust to dust," the black-robed verger who stood by the bishop sprinkled a little sand. Then followed the various anthems, the choicest of all His body is buried in peace, "those words sung with most tender pathos, and then suddenly giving place to the trium- phant burst of gladness, But his soul liveth for ever- more." After the benediction relatives, artists, and literati, gathered round the open grave, ► and looked down upon the coffin now so covered with fragrant flowers that it could hardly be seen. As they gazed Mr. George Copper played that piece without which an English public funeral would be incomplete, Handel's Dead March in Saul," and slowly this great gathering, including many of the men whose names are most known throughout the English speaking world, tdisperaed, and left the great artist alone with the great dead who had preceded him. On Sunday morning a crowded congregation assem- bled under the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral to hear a funeral sermon on the death of Sir Edwin Landseer. The sermon was preached by the Rev. J. A. Hessey, D.D., the preacher of Gray s-iun, who selected for his text the 11th verse of the 3rd chapter of Ecclesiastes— "He hath made everything beautiful in his time." Referring to the spot selected for Landseer's final resting-place, he said:—Where Reynolds lay, great in the delineation of man, happiest artist in seizing and perpetuating the noblest'and best expression of mind in his features, where Turner lay, happiest artist in fixing the sunbeam as it flitted over some glorious land- scape or venerable ruin, there Edwin Landseer had taken his place. Landseer's claims to personal as well as national regard were many. From the first moment that he felt God had given him a talent he determined to cultivate it, He made the moat of every opportunity that was thrown in his way; the guidance of his father, himself no mean artist as an engraver, the lectures of the lioyal Academy, the as- sistance of kindred artists, the instruction of Hay- den, and the very criticism which his works received, all these he turned to account. He was not spoiled by popularity or induced to repose on his fame, or to do his work hastily and negligently, as many would havo been tempted to do— every accessory of the main sub- ject was elaborated with conscientiousness and accuracy. He was exact and truo to nature and to life in small as well as in great things. This, therefore, on Lands;er'» part was a precept to us of thoroughness, which, as it stood good in matters indifferent, was (L fortiori applicable to the very highest. In the next place, the subjects of Landseer's painting were sin- gularly pure and inoffensive. git was impossible to meutiun one against which the most fastidious miud could raise an objection. He was, then, thus far within himself a moral painter. His morality, how- ever, was not merely subjective, and to a certain de- gree negative it preached, as had been well said, a gospel oi kindness to dumb creatures, and it shewed that, limited as were the capacities of that order of beings, they liad'traits of character, such as fidelity, memory of gentle treatment, and even a deep affec- tion for their masters, which ought to call forth from thŒe masters at least the recollection of the maxim— Tha righteous man regardeth the life of his beast." Ho could well conceive an influence exercised by the pathos of the picture of the "Highand Shepherd's Chief Mourner," or the" HIghland Dog rescuing a. sheep from the snow drift," which might second the efforts of the Society for the Protection of Animals, if, indeed, it had not mainly conduced to the esta- blishment of it. But beyond this ho had an appre- ciation of shades of character in animals, which caused him to be compared in his delineation of them by his pencil to Shakspere in his delineation of hu- man character in its minutest shades by his mar- vellous pen; and when they remembered the old apophthegm that a picture is a silent poem, and a. poem a speaking picture, the comparison did not seem so far fetched. In bringing to a "conclusion an Mio- quent and practical discourse, the preacherisaid he had left himself but little room to speak of Landseer's pri- vate character, of his genial tone in society, his un- Mnbitiousness, his lack of self-seeking, aud of his attitude to God and his Saviour. Some of these things were patent to all, some of them were known otaly to his intimate friends, and into this last no stranger < tn ii'lit isttw* WJyrt man knoweth the HlOT AT

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BRECON AND MERTHYR RAILWAY. BRECON, MERTHYlt, DOWLAIB, RHYMNEY, AND NEWPORT. UP.—WEEK DAYS }1,2,3,1,2.3.; 1,^1,2,3. 1,2,3. FROM a.m. a.mj a.m.! p.m. p. m Newport (Dock-st.) depj 8 5; 10 35! 8 0 6 X&! Bassaleg Junction .J 8 17 10 47j 2 12 G 27 Khiwderin 8 22 10 52 2 17 6 32 Church Itoad 8 27 10 57 2 22 6 37 Haclien 8 34 11 4 2 28 6 42 Bedwas 8 44 11 14 2 33 6 51 Maesycwmmer 8 57 11 27 2 40 7 4 Pengam 9 5 n 35 2 50 7 14 Pengam dep. 9 15 11 40 2 51 7 16 White Rose 9 25 11 50 3 11 7 26 Rhymuey arr. 9 35 12 0 3 8 7 36 White Rose 9 25 11 50 3 1 7 26 Rhymuey arr. 935120 3 8 7 36 Bargoed dep. 8 10 11 40 7 21! Darren 8 1611 £ 6 7 27 Focliriw 9 30 12 0 7 41 Dowlais Top 9 40 12 10 7 51 Dowlais 9 3? 12 18 7 58 Merthyr (V.N. Statu) 7 45 9 30 12 0 5 20 7 35 Cefn 9 40 12 10 5 30 7 45I Pontsticill June. arr. 9 52 12 22 5 42 8 0 PontsticlU June,dep. 9 57 12 27 83 Dolygaer 10 2 12 32 8 8 Talybont 10 30 1 0 8 381 Talyllyn 10 40 1 10 8 48 Brecon arr.) 10 55 1 30 9 01 DOWN.—WEEK. DAYS. 1,2,3, .1,2,3..1,2,3. 1,2,3, 1,2,3. FltOH a.m.&.m.p.m.p.m.p.m. Brecon dep. 7 20 1 45 4 40 Talyllyn 7 30 2 5 5 0 Talybont 7 40 211 5 10 Dolygaer 8 10 2 40 5 43 Pontsticill June. arr. 8 15 2 45 5 48- Pontsticill June dep. 8 23 2 55 5 53 7 25 Cefn 8 30 3766 7 37 Merthyr (VNSt.) arr. 8 40 3 17 6 15 7 47 Dowlais 86.. 240 5 42 Dowlais Top. 8 28 3 [. 6 3: Fochriw 8 38 315 6 161 Darren 8 50 327632 Bargoed 8 56 3 32 6 41 Rliymney dep. 8 40 ..6 3! Whiterose 8 48 6 11 Pengam 9 0 6 23i Pengam dep. 9 6 3 37 6 54 Maesycwmmer 9 13 3 45 7 4 Bedwas 9 26 3 58 7 181 Machen 9 35 4 8 7 27' Church Road 9 40 4 13 7 32) Rhiwderin 9 45 4 18 7 37j Bassaleg Junction 9 50 4 23 7 42 Newport (Dock-st.) arr. 10 2 4 35 7 54. 1 — — ■ — — — 4 i..

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—MILFORB HAVEN, CARMARTHEN, SWANSEA, CARDIFF, NEWPORT, OHCPSTOW, CHELTENHAM, GLOOOBSTER, AND LONDON. SIBHOWY RAILWAY—NANTYBWOH, TREDEGAR, AND NEWPORT. UP.-WEEK DAYS. I SUNDAYS. DOWN.—WEEK DAYB. I SUNDAYS. J DOWN.—WEEK DAYS. SUNDAYS. I a.m. a.m. a. m.|l,2,3.i 1,2. 1,2,3. 1,2,3. 1,2,3, 1,2. Mail.tl,2,3. 1,2,3. 1,2. 1.2,3. 1,2,3, 1,2,3. 1,2,3. 1,2,3. il,2,3. Exp. 1,2. |B*P. 1,2. Exp.l 1,2. Exp. 1,2. 1,2,3. 1,2. 1,2. FROAI a. KB. A. m. a. m. a. m. a. mMp. m.p. m. p, m. p. m. p. m. p. m.lp. m p UI p tn, FKOM | 1,2. 1,2,3.1,2,3. a.m. a.m. a.m. am. p.tn p.m.'p.m. -p.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. FROM a. m. a. m. a.m. la. m. a. m. a. m. p. m. a. m. p. m. p. m. p. m. p. m. a. m. p. m. p. m. Nantvbwch i f r *■ *■ r f • p. NEW MILFORD! 2 0 i I LONDON" 6 0 7 20 9 1511 15 2 0 4 50 8 10 15ft SirhoW 7*30 12'W 4"<k r M s'id i'in t'b for Pembroke, 1 I Swindon 8 15 9 13 1 3511 24 1 23 4 30 7 2 11 14 2 „ (arrival 7 33 >12 3$" 4 43 831815 7 M Mlfrd Haven, &c I 8 35 5 0 6 20 11 0 5 0 Stroud 91S10 12 2 5^12 9 2 50 5 58 7 54 11 44 2 5 41 TREDEGAI11 departure 7 351-11 _Ui2 til _1L _V „ ,K 729 Haverfordwest. *9 0 5 24j 6 45 11 23, 5 14 i arri. 9 45,10 33i |l2 33 8 0 «, 8 0,, 12 15 7 45 1 2 Argoed 7 53' '1*2 4Q 5 2 8 d. ^9 Narbeth Eoad 9 26 7 12 11 49: 5 50 UIjU t dep. 8 15 9 55111 10 3 23;12 33 3 20 .,6 5 8 22 12 35 20 7 20 Blackwood 8 0! I12 *>fi! 5 8 S M » Carmarthen June 6 10 S 35 10 21 8 50 6 27 7 54 12 3218 0 CHELT'NHAM. 8 30 10 15:11 30 3 3012 55 3 30 4 5 6 13 8 30.10 10 7 25 12 4510 30 6 25 3 25 7 15 (arri' 00 0 •' 4 S8 Ferryside 6 22| 9 5 10 35 9 5 8 7 12 51! 8 15 Lydney 7 22 11 34 1 15 4 42 .9 6 1 31 9 0 4 18 Tredegar Junction j ,• •• •• j-'J fi"{, •• « Llanelly 6 5219 40 10 57 9 40 7 6 8 41 1 23: 8 4S CHEPSTOW 10 35 7 45111 53 1 30; 4 40 5 40 8 5 9 21 1 49 9 18 4 33 8 20 Nine Mile End 8 -">ol 1 10! 5 25 <> ft 1 WATOi lat •• •• 7 10110 20I11 30 10 0 7 46 9 20 2 5; 9 27 Portskewet 10 45 7 55112 4 5 0 5 50 8 15 7 40 9 35 4 49] 8 31 Kisca 8 30l I 1 20' 5 3i 9 1$" fi fi feWAJN&EA 7 30 10 Oil! 10 10 20 4 30 7 20 9 25 1 45 NEWPORT 8 25:12 35 2 10 5 37 9 54 8 13 2 21 10 10 5 25- 9 5 Newport, Dock-st»et 8 50! 1 Tn « « oW r, Landore 7 27 10 15111 24 10 1514 37 9 30 2 0 7 34 CARDIFF 8 50 1 7 2 35 6 10 10 20 8 40 2 45 10 39! 5 49 9 30 -— — ——- —"1 '—" "i NEATH 7 46110 37 11 39 19 371 4 56 9 50 2 22' Llantrissant 9 14)1 42 6 45 10 44 11 lGj 6 15 UP.—WEEK DAYS. 1 Port Talbot •« •• 8 3il0 5(3.11 50 10 56; 5 12| 10 3 2 34j Bridgend *• d 37j 2 5 3 10 7 12 11 0 3 20 ,♦ 11 31i 6 43 FROM a. m.'&. m. a. in.'a. m/zi, in..p. m n,"ML"a. rri. A, M/JA.'m yn,' on nr^ Bridgend 8 32^11 2512 1411 31| 5 40 10 31 3 3 Port Talbot 10 5 2 35 3 32 7 43 11 26 3 44 12 0 7 15 Newport (Dock-street) ..i «. 9 0 | 2 30 7 0 9,45' 5 41 Llantrissant 8 50 11 50 11 57| 6 2 10 54 3 26; NEATH 10 26j 2 56 3 45 8 2 11 39 3 57 12 16 7 38 Risca j | I 9 20! 2 50 7 20 '1 5 8 « CAHDIFF 5 45 7 30 9 30jl2 27 12 47 12 3ll 6 33 8 15 11 25 3 561 L'tndors 10 43 3 14 3 59j 8 20 4 16 12 35 8 0 Nine Mile Point | i i I y 30, 3 0 7 30 5 6 IS NEWPORT 6 13 7 5710 35! 1 40 1 13 12 55| 7 0 8 27 11 55 4 23! swATJdHA i a' 7 35 10 50| 3 5 4 10 8 30 12 0 4 30 12 40.8 10 m » T (arri, 1 9 3S1 .10 30 6 30 Portskewet 8 25 11 3| 2 10 | 2 10! 7 30 8 4012 21 4 50! ^WANS1 £ A j d_ )10 35 3 25 3 45(8 10 4 5 9 15 7 55 Tredegar Junction■? d •• | ..19 48' 3 13 7 45 V. 10 411 6 S CHEPSTOW 6 40 8 3S|11 17| 2 25 1 41 2 351 8 5 9 51 13 33 5 6! 9 51 Llanelly 8 1411 18 3 53 4 29 8 55 4 46 9 51 8 33 Blackwood T I 1 9 52 3 18' 7 52 10 4=71 6 « Lydney 6 55 8 5811 37| 2 45 1 57 2 551 12 51 5 24.10 9 Ferryside 8 48ill 54 4 31 5 2, 9 28 10 11 8 52 Argoed i 9 53. 3 27 7 69 10 54 6 64 CHELT'NHAM 8 3010 15il2 551 5 5 2 5. 5 5 5 3011 4012 15 1 10 0 6 45 12 10 Carmarthen Juncn 9 5:12 11 5 21. 5 21i 5 25 9 90 arrival 1 arri. 7 33 11 5;i2 2 5 2 25 7 10; 5 45) ,12 30 1 85 10 15 0 20112 35 Narberth Road 9 47)1 0 6 10 6 10 10 7 iK'J!'UJ £ ljrAK/departure! 9"0 10 17' 3 47 8 21 8 ohl 14 4 0 7*14 uljUSiJ!iK i"dep. i 7 38 11 20!12 5 0 2 35 7 18 ..(12 43 1 40 6 25 12 40 Haverfordwest ..10 13.1 25 6 34 6 34 10 34 Sirhowy 9 4> .1 ..10 21 3 51 8 25 3 511 18 18 Stroud 11 501 1 29 3 0 7 46 ..11 5 2 7 6 53) 1 5 NEW MILFORD Naatvbweh 1 I 1 I I Swindon i 9 17 1 18' 2 4Sj 3 50 9 10' 2 20 7 35, 8 20j 2 20 for Pembroke ■ '• 11 'V LONDON 11 15 2 45i 5 5; 5 45 10 15 | I 4 35 3 35 11 10 4 35| Mlfrd Haven, &c '10 40 1 55 7 0 7 0' 6 50 11 5 All LYu'h on thi Railwavare 1st, 2nd, and 3td class. Runs on Tuesdays only.

VALE OF NEATH RAIl-WAl. SWANSEA, NEATH HIRWAIN ABERDAIU5 AND JfERTHYR down!—W EEKTDAYS" jSuXMY ~|1,2,3.71,2,3."172,3.T,2,3.7 .7 7l7^I7lX3"i~l~v 3 „ a.m.! a.m.! p.m.'p.m. n'm a'™'L'™ Quakers' Yard J 10 111 2 5y 6 41 s 53 7 a Mountain Ash 8 010 21 3 ill „ 0 52 9 J Aberdare 3 11110 31 .,13 18 7 4| 0 15j 7 25 7 5010 5 1 251 2 55 6 40! 9 0 7 10 3ant; 8 210 16 1 37 3 6 •• 6 51) 9 10 7 20 Llwydeoed 8 7ll0 21 1 42! 3 11 f> G ° 7 f Hirwain arr 8 15ji0 27 1 50 3 17 7 2 g <k 7 o? Hirwaindep 8 20 10 46 1 52 3 331 7 21 9 3(> 7 40 Glyn-Jv eath S 45 n 5 2 10 3 51 7 40 9 50 I 0 fh* 8 53 U 13 2 18 3 59 7 48 9 58 8 8 herd-dais 9 311 23 2 28 4 9 7 5810 8! 3 18 ?,eatl1 9 2011 37 2 42 4 20 8 6 10 10 S PO Llansamiet 9 29-J1 4ti 2 51 4 29 8 15 10 29 S 3a ^d0r° 9 37 11 4& 2 59 4 37 i 25 10 S7 I S ^6a 9 #2 a 3 fil 4 g .J\°n *1 il UP—Wbek DAYS. Sukdai, SwansoJ r^r. a m- P'm P-m-P-m. a.m. p. m. LaXe I « 11 15 2 65 6 0 7 45 8 2(5 0 35 Llansamiet 11 f I 2 6 7 51 8 20 6 41 Neath 8"fi. H ;?■ 9 C 14 7 29 8 34 0 49 Aberdylais' I 19 f 11 0 22 8 7 3 42 8 67 Resolve n s 29 I 9 6 8 11 8 67 7 12 Grlvn Npaih a «a "• 46 6 46 8 33 9 7 7 22 th:B 1 "gg^?ssi.*s?s I £ 111? ? &; gj» J»g d iigjg »»,»», U Quaker's Yard 9 3s| 1 Mj 4 it, .? 10 14 1 29

TAFF VALE RAILWAY. DOWN.—WEEK DAYS. | SUNDAY i>2'3- ..172^1,2,3.1,2,3. r. 1,2,3.1,2,3 from a.m. a.m.1 p.m. p.m. a.m. 0. m Merthyr 7 53 10 55, 3 30 6 40 9 8 15 Troedyrhiw 8 3 11 3 3 38 6 49 9 13 4 2? Quaker sYard J. for G. W. Railway 8 14 pu uj 3 48 7 0 9 24 4 34 Aberdare 7 65 10 55; 3 29 6 39 9 4 4 14 Treaman 7 59 10 69 3 33 6 43 9 » 4 IS Mountain Ash. 8 7 111 7; 3 41 6 5! 9 16 4 2fl Aberdare June a 8 17 11 1715 51 7 3 » 26 4 36 d,.are Junc- d 8 22 11 221 S 57 7 9 9 32 4 48 Sert 7 « •• 10 41 3 15 6 24 8 45 3 55 7 46 10 46! 3 20 6 29 8 50 4 0 Ystrad 7 52 10 63 S 26 6 *5 8 56 4 6 Llwynpia 7 59 10 69 S 38 6 42 9 3 4 13 £ andy 8 6 11 5 3 39 6 4S 9 9 4 19 ^°^th1 8 U 11 11 8 45 6 5# 9 lg 4 26 Hafod g 16 1,2,3. 11 16 5 61 7 0 1,2,3. 9 21 4 SI Pontypridd J. a 8 23 a.m. 11 24 3 69( 7 8 p.m. 9 28 4 88 Pontypridd Junc d 8 34 8 48 ,11 34 4 9 7 22 7 28 9 44 4 54 Xreforest 8 38 3 52 11 3S 4 13 7 27 7 33 9 49J 4 6» .Llantwlt 94 7 49 Cross Inn 9 11 \t 7 gg Llantrissant Cowbridg# 9 19 8 5 Walnut Tree J. tor Rhymney Ry. 8 50 11 50 4 25 7 39 II 10 1 6 11 Llandaff 8 59 11 69 4 34 7 47 10 9 6 19 Vardlff 9 7 12 714 42 7 55 10 17 6 27 VP.—Week DAYS j Soyx,AYK 1,2,3. 1,2,3.11,2,3. 1,2,3.|1,2,3. 1,2,3, 1,2,3. 1,2,3. F*OM a.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. Cardiff 8 2011 0 3 35 35 9 5 4 16 Llandaff 8 29 11 8 3 64 46 9 15 4 25 Walnut Tree J. for Rhymney Ry 8 38 11 18 4 9 6 55 9 25 4 35 Cowbridge .dep „, Llantrissant 8 0 6 30 I. II Cross Inn 8 "» 6 40 Llantwlt 8 Iffl 6 47 I" Treforest 8 30 8 49,11 29 4 14 6 63 7 7 9 3a 4 46 Pontypridd J. arri 8 34 8 56 11 36 4 21 7 7 7 14 9 43 4 63 Pontypridd J. d 8 56 11 41 4 21 7 29 9 60 5 0 Hafod t 3 11 49 4 29 7 37 9 57 5 7 Perth 9 7 11 54 4 35 7 43 10 3 5 13 Pandy 9 12 12 0 4 41 7 4910 9 6 19 Llwynpia 9 18 12 6, 4 47 7 55 10 15\ 5 25 Ystrad 9 25 12 13! 4 54 8 2 10 22 6 32 Treorki 9 3l|l2 I9j 5 0 8 8 10 28 6 38 Treherbert 9 35 12 23 5 4 8 12 10 32 5 42 Aberdare June, ar 9 fllll 48( 4 33 7 26 9 55 6 5 Aberdare Jnc. d. 9 sjll 48 4 33 7 26 9 69 5 6 Mountain Ash 9 1911 59j 4 44 7 38 10 6 5 16 Treaman 9 27 12 7 4 62 7 47 10 14 5 21 Aberdare 9 31 12 11 4 56! 7 51 10 18 6 28 Quaker sYard J. for G. W. Railway. 9 14 11 641 4 39| 7 32 10 1 5 11 Quaker sYard J. for G. W. Railway. 9 14 11 641 4 39| 7 32 10 1 5 11 Troedyrhiw 9 24 12 4| 4 491 7 4a 10 11 5 2L Merthyr 9 3l!l2 Hi 4 56| 7 49110 18 5 28 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 8 29 a.m. and 3.39 p.m., also calling at all intermediate stations, and arriving Pontypridd at 9 8 a.m. and 4.8 p. m

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. MERTHYR, QUAKER'S YARD, PONTYPOOL, ABERGAVENNY, HEREFORD, AND LIV1!:RPOOL, UP.—WEEK DAYS. I SUNDAYS 1,2,371,2,3. 1,2,3 1,2,3. 1,2,311,2,3717213, FROM a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. a.m. a.m pm Merthyr 9 1512 45 4 25 „ Troedyrhiew 9 24 12 54 4 33 .] Quaker's Yard ..a 9 43 1 14 4 43 11 Llancaiach 9 46 1 20 5 2 io*22! 8*37 Rhymney Junctn 9 44: 1 29 6 11 10 32i 8 47 Tredegar Junct !l0 0 1 35 6 17 1039, 854 Crumlin ,10 7j 1 42 6 26 10 49' 9 Pontypool Town 10 26 2 4 5 44 11 si 9 2o Pontypool Road (10 32 2 9 5 4g 11 13 9 2? Abergavenny 11 IS 2 37 6 31 10 12 6 3i Hereford 12 46 3 42 ..17 45 11 35 Liverpool J Liverpool i DOWN.—WEEK DAYS. [ SUNDAYS Liverpool ,7~ 777 7. i~ Hereford 7 20 9 40 12'l0' 3*35! 9*40 7*50 Abergavenny ..a 8 2010 41 1 30! 4 4410 40i 8 60 Pontypool Road 9 15: 2 5 5 45< 7 65 6 5 Pontypool Town 9 22; 2 12, 5 62 8 3 6 13 Crumlin 9 40) 2 23, 6 9 8 21 6 31 Tredegar Junct 9 48 2 36 6 17 8 29 6 39 Rhymney Junct 19 54 2 42* 6 23 8 35 6 45 Llancaiach ,10 21 2 50, 8 31 8 44 6 54 Quaker'! Yard d |10 20i 3 J5I 6 53 .17 8 Troedyrhiw |10 311 8 271 7 Merthyr 10 38! 3 35 7 13]

LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY MERTHYR, TRBDMAR, AND ABERGAVENNY BRANCH. tTP.—WEEK I)ATS ) SUNDAYS 1,2,3. 1,2,8. 1,2,1, 1,2,3. 1,2,3. PROM a. m. p. In. p, m. a.m. p.m. 1 Abergavenny (Bree, Rio) 8 1610 35:1 26 4 37: 8 29 Brynmawr for Nantyglo 8 58 1 34 4 8 5 16 9 2 Brynmawr 8 69 1 36 4 10 5 IS* 9 3 Beaufort 9 4 1 41 4 15 6 24 Ebbw Vale 4 35 Ebbw Vale 4 35. Trevil 9 9 1 46 4 20 5 29 Nantybwch 9 13 1 61 4 25 6 34 9 14 Sirhowy 9 26 2 6 4 39 5 43 Tredegar 9 30 2 10 4 44 5 4# Nantybwch 9 14 11 84, 2 13 5 43 # 2t Rhymney Bridge 0 25 11 45 2 25 6 53 9 36 Dowlais Top 9 33,11 63 2 S3 6 I 9 43 Dowlais 9 40112 6 2 40 6 10 9 60 Merthyr (by coach; 19 10 12 35' 3 10 6 40 10 20 DOWN.—WEEK VAYII. FROM a.m. a.m.a.m. p.m.p.m. p.m./ Merthyr (by coach) 5 55) t.. 9 15 12 40) 4 35 6 20 Dowlais 6 301 8 60! 1 15 6 10 6 66 Dowlais Top 6 37 9 57! 1 22 5 17 7 2 Rhymney Bridge 6 6ol 7 1610 20 1 36 6 31 7 30 Nantybwch. 7 4 7 15 10 24! 1 40 536724 Sirhowy 7 20 10 2S1 2 5 6 43 Tredegar 7 24 13 33 2 10 6 48 Nantybwch 7 7 7 20 10 20 1 45 6 86 7 26 Trevil 7 11 7 85 1 5Q 5 40 7 30 Ebbw Yale 7 1010 6 1 31 6 16 Beaufort 7 16 7 30 10 27 1 63 6 45 7 35 Brynmawr for Nantyglo 7 21 7 3&10 33 2 1 5 49 7 40 Brynmawr 7 7 40 10 33 2 9 6 60 7 41 Abergavenny (Brec. Rd) 8 0 » 16|ll 16 2 30f 6 80{ 8 1ft Market Train (on Tuesdays only.

RHYMNEY RAILWAY. RIIYMNEY, HENGOED, CAERPHILI, AND CARDIFF. DOWN.—WEEK DAYS. I SUNDAYS ,1,1,3, 1,2,3.11,2,3. 1,2,3., 1,2,3. FROM a. m. p. m. p. m. a m. p. m. Rhymney 9 27! 2 6 6 35 9 36 5 5 Pontlotttyn 9 31 2 9 6 39 9 39 5 9 Tir Phil 9 38 2 16 6 46 9 46s 6 16 Bargoed 0 48 2 21 6 64 9 64 5 24 Pengam i9 63 2 26 6 69 9 68l5 28. „ (N., A., t H. 1 arr Hengoed j Junction dep.10 3 2 31 7 3 0 5 6 35 Ystrad jlO 7 2 85 7 9 10 9 5 39 Caerphilly 10 20 7 45 21 10 20 5 Walnut Tree Bridge Cardiff (Adam-street Station) H 35 0} 7 50|10 351 6 UP.—WEEK DAYS. SUNDAYS 'l,f,S, 1,2,3, !1,2,3, '1,2,3. 1,273 FROM a.m. p. m. p. m. j a. m. p. m Cardiff (Adam-street Station) 9 0 12 30 80 8 30 4 5 Walnut Tree Bridge Caerphilly 9 15 12 45 4 42 8 45 4 10 Ystrad 9 27 12 67 8 67 4 25 ir ,(N.,A.,&H )arr 4 Hengoed| j'UIlc'tion /dep 9 36 1 3 4 66 9 4 4 35 Pengam 9 401 1 7 9 8 4 38 Bargoed 9 461 1 12 5 6 9 12 4 42 Tir Phil 9 5f4 1 20 5 12 9 19 4 49 Pontlottyn 10 S 1 28 9 26 4 66 Rhymney 10^Hj^J16 jE^2fi

WESTERN VALLEYS RAILWAY. NEWPORT, EBBW VALE, AND NANTYGLO. DOWN.—WEEK DAYS. I SUNDAYS. 172737 1,2,3. 1,2,3. 1,2,3. ( 1,2,3. 1,2,3 VTLOM a.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. | a.m. p.m. Wl.hwvLle 8 25 11 15 2 2 0 7 25 JlO 55| 17 10 Victoria 8 33 11 23 2 28 7 33 11 3 /7 18 Iberbetg June 8 47 11^ 7 47 ;U 17 ^IL mntv„l0 8 25 11 15 2 20 7 25 no 53 7 10 8 32 11 23 2 28 7 33 [11 8 7 18 AbertUlery 8 411131 2 36 7 4111111 7_26_ 77~T777rT7^. 8 47 11 37 2 42 7 47 ill 17 7 32 AberbeegJu 9 0 11 54 2 55 8 0 11 30 7 46 CrunuiD. 9 10 12 4 3 5 8 10 11 40 55 58,1110 9 22 12 20 3 17 8 22 11 52 £ 7 l'isstleK* junct 9 31 12 31 3 29 8 34 12 4 8 19 ^vvnort ■ f.. 9 45 12 45 3 40 8 4^ 12 15 8 30 UP. WEEK DAYS. 1 SUNDAYS 1,2,3, 1,2,3. 1,2,3. 1,"2,8. 1,2,3. 1,2,3 WI>AV a.m. a.m. p.M. p.m a.m. p.MI „ 7 0 11 15 3 0 5 45 #15 5 16 Newport 7 11 11 26 8 11 5 56 9 261 5 20j Bassaleg Junc 7 20 11 37 3 25 6 7 9 37 5 871 Risca 7 32 11 60 i 41 6 20 9 50 6 60| Abercarne 7 41 .12 0 3 61 6 SO 110 0 6 0 Crumlin 7 63 12 13 4 8 6 43 110 13 6 18J AberbeegJunc 7 59 12 19 4 14 6 49 0 19 6 19 Abertillery 8 8 12 27 4 22 6 57 10 37 6 27 K^gio". • I' 815 12 35 4^ 7 5 10 35 6jS5_ is siiSgi ii p]tTSR WILLIAMS, at the 'r8EORAP. Printed and Fruc.W.. tII Mertbn ifda'l^Se Count 01 etamorcw :I11m",y.OOIOD17tb.. Tydn ID .0 -'I >873, 3