The Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette

MANCHESTER AND MILFORD HAVEN RAILWAY.—The Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction Railway having been projected to traverse the same line of country as the northern part of this line, the committee have considered it to be for the benefit of the shareholders to avoid any parliamentary contest; and have, accordingly, entered into an arrangement for the entire amalgamation of the two companies, on equal terms. In pursuance of this arrangement, the line of the Manchester and Milford Haven Railway will commence by a junction with the other line, near Llangerrig, instead of at Crewe. The Capital is reduced to f 1,600,000; and a portion of the shares have been granted to the other Company. It has become necessary, therefore, to close the list of applications; and no application for shares will be received after Wednesday next, the 5th day of November, except from landowners and gentlemen lo- cally interested. GREAT WELSH CENTRAL RAILWAY Connecting the whole of the Principality of Wales including the great iron districts of Merthyr Tydvil, and the ports of Cardiff and Newport, with Liverpool, Manchester, and the Northern and Midland Counties, by a direct line from the Ports of Swansea, Neath, and Llanelly, via Llandovery to Oswestry, and con- tinuing to Runcorn; with a branch line to Brecon (in conjunction with other railways,) connecting Merthyr Tydvil, Cardiff, and Newport. (PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.) CAPITAL, £ 2,500,000, in 125,000 SHARES of JE20 each, DEPOSIT, £2 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Lord Rossmore, The Dell, Windsor The Lord Edward Chichester, Ormeau Lord Stephen Chichester, Ormeau The Right Hon. George Lionel Dawson Damer, M.P., chairman of the Great Munster Railway The Honourable Cecil Lawless, Lyons Castle, Kildare, and 63, St. James's-street. Wynn Ellis, Esq., M.P., Cadogan-place, chairman of the Leicester and Bedford Railway Edmund Turner, Esq., M.P., Victoria-square, Gros- venor-place, and Truro Thomas Colpitts Granger, Esq., M.P., director of the Sovereign Insurance Company, King's Bench- walk, Temple Lieut. Col. the Hon. J. C. Westenra, M.P. George Augustus Hamilton Chichester, Esq., Chesham Place, Belgrave Square, and Oakfield, Donegal William Thomas David Lhoyd, EsqtLhoydiarth, An- glesea, Director of the Direct London and Exeter Railway John Rawson, Esq., Stoney Rhoyd, Halifax, one of Her Majesty's deputy lieutenants, and justice of the peace for the West Riding, county of York John Barnes, Esq., Chorley Wood House, late high- sheriff of the county of Bucks, and director of the Louvain, Jemeppe, and of the Cork, Mallow, and Killarney Railways Frederick Clarkson, Esq., Doctors' Commons, and Hanger-lane, Tottenham, director of the Great Man- chester Railway The Rev. J. H. Ashworth, Burlyns, near Newbury, magistrate for Hants Lieut.-Col. Burslem, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Magis- trate for Hants Henry Jones, Esq., Heathfield House, Swansea, Direc- tor of the Vale of Neath Railway Frederick Ximenes Gwynne, Esq., Glanbran Park, Carmarthenshire David Pritchard, Esq., Glanwrafon, Breconshire Sankey Gardner, Esq., Eagle's Bush, Neath George Willes, Esq., Hungerford Park, Berks J. Nicholl Came, Esq., LL.D., Dimlands House, Gla- morganshire Henry Wright, Esq., director of the Warwick and Wor- cester, and South Midland Junction Railways James Reeves, Esq.. Leyton, Essex, director of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railways E. F. Dayrell, Esq., Lillingstone Dayrell, high sheriff of Buckinghamshire, chairman of the Minehead and Bridgewater Railway The Hon. Henry Alexander Savile, Methley Park, Leeds Sir William Young, Bart., Westbourne-street, Hyde Park, Director of the East India Company The Rev. Edwin Byron, vicar, Lympne, Hythe, Kent Charles Fitzgerald, Esq., Jermyn-street, director of the Oxford and Southampton Railway John Inglis Jerdein, Esq., 150, Piccadilly, director of the Great Manchester Railway "bTThe^frecH&frmmgTiam, and Brighton, and Great e r Welsh Junction, the Bognor, and London, and Brighton Junction Railways Miles Dormer, Esq., 51, Hans-place, Chelsea John James Cavan, Esq., Charles-street, St. James's- square, Director of the Eastern Counties Junction, and Southend Railway Henry Brown, Esq., Harleford-place, Kennington E. Howard, Esq., 18, Edward-street, Portman-square Gilbert Scott, Esq., Cockram House, South Molton, di- rector of the North Devon Railway Frederick William Billings, Esq., Broad-street-buildings William Morley, Esq., deputy chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation Railway Charles Roger Dodd, Esq., North Brixton John Wright, Esq., Argyle-street John Anderson, Esq., Euston-place, director of the South Midlands Junction Railway William Lee, Esq., Satts House, Rochester, director of the Essex and Suffolk Railway John Matthew Mason. Esq., Canonbury Park Walter Shairpe, Esq., Sussex Gardens, Hyde Park, di- rector of the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth, Manchester and Rugby Direct, and London and Exeter Direct Railways, and Cobre Mining Company Thomas Jones, Esq., Vanog, Breconshire William Fitzgibbon, Esq.. director of the Cork and Bandon, Great Munster, and Bantry Railways Captain William Gabbett Beare, Porchester place. Con- naught-square, director of the Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Railways Frederick Seymour, Esq., St. James's-square Henry D. Erskine, Esq., Mount-street, Grosvenor-square James Gernon, Esq., Conduit-street, director of the London and Nottingham Railway The Rev. T. Gronow, Court Herbert, Neath, director of the Vale of Neath Railway Thomas Haughton Hardinge, Esq., 23, Park-lane, direc- tor of the Birmingham and Brighton Railways John Campbell Dicker, Esq., New Hall, near Neston, Cheshire, director of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Railway, &c. Henry Peach Buckler, Esq., Camberwell and Basinghall- etreet Thomas Stevens, Esq., Highbury Park, director of the Western Gas Company Edward Swan, Esq., St. Paul's Churchyard Wm Richardson, Esq., Director of the Wexford, Water- ford, and Valentia Railway Alexander Prince, Esq., Lincoln's Inn Fields Mark Beresford Whyte, Esq., Temple Francis Ewart, Esq., Temple, Director of the Great Leeds, and London Direct Railway Edward Hoare, Esq., Percy-street, Bedford-square, Director of the Cork and Fermoy Railway Broome Pinniger, Esq., Newbury James Burness, Esq., Stratford Grove, Essex, and Corn- hill, London, director of the Worcester Extension Railway, and of the York and Leeds Junction Rail- way J. Hughes Rees, Esq., Killymaenllwyd, Llanelly, magis- trate for Carmarthenshire The Hon. William Dawson Damer, London William Nash, Esq., Clapham Common, Chairman of the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway William Leyshon, Esq., Neath John Dunbar Cother, Esq., Llandrinio Hall, Director of the Brecon and Merthyr Railway Howel Gwyn, Esq., Baglan House, Neath, a deputy lieutenant and magistrate of the county of Glamorgan John Kymer, Esq., Pontardulais, Carmarthenshire Martin West, Esq., Preston Hall, near Leeds, Yorkshire, Landed Proprietor in Carmarthenshire, Recorder of Lynn, director of the Cambridge and Lincoln Exten- sion Railway, and Magistrate for Middlesex P. H. Morgan, Esq., Devynnock, Brecknockshire W. H. Buckland, Esq., Cadoxton Place, Glamorgan- shire, director of the Glamorgan Mineral Railway Engineer-John A. Galloway, Esq. Surveyors-Messrs. Hadden and Browne Bankers-Messrs. Masterman, Peters, Mildred and Co., Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street; Union Bank of Lon- don, Princess-street, Pall-mall East, and Argyle-place, London. Liverpool.Messrs. Leyland and Bullins Birmingham..Messrs. Attwood, Spooner & Co, Manchester .Sir B. Heywood, Bart., & Co. Leeds. The Union Bank Bristol Messrs. Miles, Harford, & Co. Glasgow The Western Bank of Scotland S>Neath *nd } The Glam0r8an8hire Banking Co. wuki»° & co. Newport.Messrs. William Williams, & Co. Welshpool.Messrs. Beck & Co. NChe°s7er an^ J North and South Wales Bank Llandovery Messrs. Jones, Son, and Foster Agents—Messrs. Harris, W nyting, ana Co., 29p Lombard- street Joint Solicitors to the Company Thomas Parker, Esq., 18, St. Paul's Churchyard, and 25, Spring-gardens Messrs. Dickson and Overberry, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry Local Solicitors-Oliver Lloyd, Esquire, Cardigan; Edward E, D. Grove, Esq., Llanelly; David Lloyd Rhayader; Robert Lanning, Esq., Pembroke; John Gwyn Jeffreys, Esq., Swansea John Budden Jeffries, Esq., Carmarthen; A.Cuthbertson, Esq., Neath; Messrs. Vaughan and Bevan, Brecon; John Jenkins, Esq., Newtown; Alfred Meredith, Esq., Welshpool; Messrs. Roberts and Thomas, Oswestry Thomas Edgeworth, Esq., Wrexham Saml. Brittain, Esq., Chester; Messrs. Beaumont and Wimson, Warrtngton; William Irlaui, Esq., Liverpool. Parliamentary Agerit-T. H. Baker, Esq., 29, Spring- gardens Secretary-H. Herbert Downman, Esq. Offices-9, Clement's Lane, Lombard-street. PROSPECTUS. THIS line ofRailroad will form the shortest possible route to Liverpool, Manchester, and the northern counties from the populous and important portion of South Wales included in the counties of Glamorgan, Carmarthen and Pembroke, in which are situated several important sea- ports, and extensive copper, iron, tin plate, chemical, and other works, also potteries, collieries, &e. and the Go- vernment Dock-jar i of Pembroke and will afford nearly the same advantages to the whole Principality. It will pass through the centre of an extensive country famous for the breeding of cattle for the supply of the English markets, and through districts containing many lead, eopper and other mines, which, owing to the want of ouuet, have hitherto been neglected and it will afford to the whole country great convenience and facility of com- munication, well calculated to increase its importance. The easy and direct communication by this route with the south of Ireland will be evident, and prove the means of considerable traffic for goods, cattle, corn, and passengers. Whether taken as an expeditious mode of conveying the valuable manufactures of South Wales, and its large supplies of cattle and corn, as well as those from the south of Ireland, to Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, and the central and northern parts of England and Scot- land, or as the ready means of supplying the various manufactures of the north, foreign imports, and shop goods to the various towns and districts partaking of the advantages of the line, or as au easy and agreeable transit for the tourist to the far famed beauties of North and South Wales, and the new field open to the trading com- munity, it must, in a commercial, agricultural, and national point of view, be considered one of the most important railways in the kingdom, compared with which all other railway schemes for Wales, however useful they may be in their several localities, are but of secondary importance. The line will be taken in a direct course, with scarcely any deviation. The country presents few engineering difficulties. The importance of the undertaking, would, however, justify a more than average expenditure if it were necessary and, when the great saving of distance is considered which will be effected from the towns of Swansea, Neath, Llanelly, Tenby, Pembroke, Haverford- west, Carmarthen, Newport, Cardigan, Aberystwith, and the wl8!tltof these districts, and the important manufac- turing" Wiility of Merthyr Tydvil, in the journey to Liverpool, to Birmingham, and the midland counties, it will be obvious that no narrow views as to expenditure ought to stand in the way of maki ng this railroad as direct and efficient as possible. As the line will traverse a part of the country not hitherto possessing the same facilities of commerce as other portions of the kingdom, a continually increasing trade far beyond the usual multiplication of traffic shown ordinarily to be the effect of railway communication may be calculated upon. The committee rely on the strenuous aid and cooperation of those railway companies whose line of rail forms part of this undertaking but to avoid all uncertainty on this head, it is intended to take ample powers for the completion of the whole line by the pre- sent as an independent company. It is proposed to construct a branch to Brecon and the several towns in the vicinity of the line, where required, and to take power to increase the capital sufficient for that purpose. Looking at the magnitude and importance of the line, and .the benefits it will confer to the whole country, but to the principality of Wales in particular, it is expected that the nobility, gentry, and trading community will, by their cordial cooperation, enable the Company to make this railway one of the best, the most prosperous, and useful in the kingdom. The late successful demonstration of the atmospheric principle on the Croydon Railway have led the Committee to have the line surveyed, with a view to the adoption of either system of traction, when it shall have been fully ascertained which is the best adapted to this line. Until an act of Parliament shall be obtained, the affairs of the company shall be under the control of the Com- mittee of Management, who are empowered to enter into such arrangements as shall best serve the interests of this company. Power will be taken under the act to limit the respon- sibility of shareholders to the amount of their subscription, and to allow interest at 4 per cent. upon the calls. Preference in the allotment of shares will be given to those locally interested and to the shareholders of con- necting lines. The Parliamentary contract and subscribers' agreement will be ready for signature on payment of the deposits. G1REAT WELSH CENTRAL RAILWAY — r NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the PAR- LIAMENTARY CONTRACT and SUBSCRIBERS' AGREEMENT will LIE for EXECUTION by the Subscribers, at the places, on the dav*. and at fka — J— -Cu ifiut, ai filename time, the scrip will be delivered in exchange for the letters of allotment or bankers' receipts. All deposits must, therefore, be previously paid to the bankers:— Swansea. —Monday, Nov. 3, at the MackwortitaAttns Hotel, from 2 till 5. Newtown.—Wednesday, Nov.'5, at the Beall^^Hi Hotel, from 12 till 2. Welshpool.—Thursday, Nov. 6, at the Ro^HRk Hotel, from 3 till 4. /-«««• Chester.-Friday, Nov. 7, at the Wynnstay Arms Hotel, from 1 till 4. Leeds.-Friday, Nov. 7, at Scarborough's Hotel, from 11 till 4. Glasgow.Tuesday, Nov. 4, from 2 till 4 Wednes- day, Nov. 5, from 10 till 4 and Thursday, Nov. 6, from 10 till 4, at the Tontine Hotel. Liverpool.-—Wednesday, Nov. 5, at the Adelphi Hotel, from 11 till 4. Birmingham.—Monday, Nov. 3, at the Royal Hotel, from 1 till 5. Manchester.-Tuesday, Nov. 4, at the Albion Hotel, from 11 till 4. GREAT WESTERS RAILWAY. On and after Saturday, the 1st November, 1845, the following alterations will take place in the Goods Trains on this Railway:- THE 4.30 A.M. Down Goods Trains will start fromPad- dington at 4 o'clock A.M. the intermediate Traffic of the Stations between London, Bristol, Gloucester, and Oxford, will be carried on by means of this Train, in order to relieve the other Trains of the numerous delays at the minor stations. There will be an additional Goods Train from London to Exeter at 2.15 P.M., daily, except Sundays. The Nio-ht Train starting from Paddiugton at 9.30 P.M" will°be devoted to the Long Traffic of the Line. The 6.30 A.M. Third Class Train will be continued direct from Bristol to Exeter. Third Class Passengers, Private Carriages, and Horses, at the reduced rates, will be conveyed only by this last Train and the 2.15 P.M. Goods Train. An additional Up Goods Train will start from Exeter at 7.5 A.M. in conjunction with that arriving at Padding- ton at 12 o'clock at night. A Train will start from Bristol at 3 o'clock A.M. daily, except Sundays, for the intermediate Traffic of the Line. The present 2 o'clock Up Goods Train being devoted to the Long Traffic. TheThird Class Passenger Train will start from Exeter at 6 o'clock A.M., and from Bristol at 11.30 A.M., instead of 10.10 A.M., as at present. Third Class Passengers, Private Carriages tod Horses, at the reduced rates, will be conveyed only by this last Train, and that from Exeter at 2 o'clock P.M. On and after Saturday, the 1st November, the 7.15 A.M. Third Class Train from Taunton to Exeter, that at 9 o'clock A.M. from Exeter to Wellington, and that at 4.30 A.M., from Bath to Bristol, will be discontinued. The 1.45 P.M. Passenger Train from Maidenhead to London, will start at 1.30 P.M. The Train from Gloucester at 10.20 A.M., will start at 10.45 A.M. Time Bills, giving particulars of these Alterations, may be obtained at the Railway Stations, on and after Thurs- day. By order of the Directors, CHAS. A. SAUNDERS, Sec. Paddington, Oct. 28, 1845. Glamorgan Central Mineral Railway (PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.) FORMED for converting the Railway called the Duffryn Llynvi and Porth Cawl Railway, belonging to the company of that name, incorporated by Act of Parliament in 1825, into a locomotive railway, and adding branches thereto, for carrying the minerals and manufactures of the surrounding district, which abounds in coal and black band, and argillaceous iron ores, to the harbour of Porth Cawl, or to the ports on the coast of Glamorganshire, by means of the South Wales Railway, improvements required by the increased trade and manu- factures which now produce a large revenue to the present company. Also for improving the harbour of Porth Cawl, the tolls of which are vested in the Company by the Act of 1825. Capital JE:500,000, in 25,000 shares of JE20 each. Deposit 1;2 2s. per share. BANKERS. London: Messrs. Jones, Loyd, and Co. Cardiff: Messrs. Towgood and Co. Neath and Swansea: The Glamorganshire Banking Company. Bridgend, Bristol, Bath The National Provincial Bank of England. Consulting Engineer-Joseph Locke, Esq., F.R.S. Engineers-J. Scott Russell, Esq., F.R.S., &c.; Messrs. George and William Lawford. Solicitors-Loncton: Messrs. Rowland, Hacon, and Rowland, 38, Tbreadneedle-street. Bridgend: Mr. William Lewis. Secretary pro tem.—Mr. John Henry Rowland. Temporary Offices, No. 38, Threaaneedle-street. Prospectuses of this company, explaining in detail the tourees of the present and expected revenue, describing the district with which the railway is connected, and wntaiqipg (b? garnet the pcrriswaai fpmouttee (amongst which are a large number of landowners and gentlemen of influence in the district), can be obtained from, and applications for shares in the usual form may be made to the secretary, the solicitors, Mr. W. S. Bradley, clerk to the Dutfryn Llynvi and Porth Cawl Railway Company, Porth Cawl, near Bridgend, Glamor. ganshire, and the following sharebrokers :—London Messrs. Capel, Cuerton, and Lawford, Pope's Head-alley, Cornhiil. Liverpool: Mr. E. Bayliffe, 14, Exchange- chambers Mr. H. W. Lucas, Royal Bank.buildings. Manchester: Messrs. Cardwell and Sons; Messrs. Haynes and Tyndall. Birmingham Mr. J. R. Lane, Bristol; Messrs. Edwards and Son; Messrs. Sohmes and Tripp. Bath: Mr. R. P. Lemon, North Parade. Swansea: Mr. George Turtou Stroud. Leeds: Messrs. Watson and Son. Plymouth: Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer. Exeter: Mr. S. Sandford. Taunton: Messrs. Lemon and Griffith. Southampton: Mr. Joseph Clark, jun. Cheltenham: Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co. Glouces- ter: Mr. J. N. Balme.' Glasgow: Messrs. Black and Lorimer. Edinburgh Messrs. Robertson and Co. Dub- lin Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford. CONSECRATION OF ST. MARYS CHLRCR, CARDIFF. This Church will (D.V.) be Consecrated ON THURSDAY, THE Gtlt NOVEMBER, 1815, BY THE RIGHT REVEREND THE LORD BISHOP OF LLANDAFF. The Service will commence at 11 o'clock, A.M., and the Sermon is intended to be preached by the Lord Bishop. THE attendance of the Subscribers, and of the Clergy, JL Gentry, and others, inhabitants generally of the Town and Neighbourhood, is respectfully requested. Such of the Clergy, Gentry, and others, as desire to take part in the PROCESSION, are hereby invited to meet the Committee at the Town-Hall, punctually at Ten o'clock in the Morning of that day. A Collection towards defraying the Debt still remain. ing upon this Church will be made at the close of the Service. Cardiff, 18th Oct., 1845. Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. DISTRICT COMMITTEE FOR THAT PART OF TIIB DIOCESB OF LLiNDAFF, JITUATB WITHIN THE COUNTY OF GLAMORGAN. THE ANNIVERSARY MEETING, will be held JL in the TOWN-HALL, COWBKIDGE, on FRIDAY, the SEVENTH day of NOVEMBER, at Twelve o'Clock, when the accounts of the Treasurer will be audited, and the usual business of the day transacted. JOHN MONTGOMERY TRAHERNE, Treasurer Coedriglan, Cardiff, Oct. 22, 1845. GLAMORGANSHIRE. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, rpHE ANNIVERSARY MEETING of the COW- X BRIDGE DISTRICT COMMITTEE of the above Society, will be held in the TOWN-HALL, at COW- BRIDGE, on FRIDAY, the 7th day of NOVEMBER next, at One o'clock in the Afternoon, when a Statement of the Accounts and Proceedings of the Committee for the past Year will be made, and other Business transacted. DIVINE SERVICE will commence in COWBRIDGE CHURCH, at 11 o'clock in the Forenoon, and the SERMON will be preached by the Rev. LEWIS ANTHONY NICHOLLS, Rector of St. Brides-super-Ely. T. STACEY, Secretary and Treasurer. Cardiff Vicarage, Oct. 20th, 1845. GLAMORGANSHIRE. CLERGY CII4KIXY. THE SUBSCRIBERS to the above CHARITY are JL respectfully requested to meet at the Tows-HALL, COWBRIDGE, on FRIDAY, the 7th day of NOVEMBER next. at One o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of proceeding to the Election of a TREASURER to the Charity, instead of the late revered and lamented Dean of Llandaff. JOHN M. TRAHERNE, J. BRUCE PRYCE, R. T. TYLER, J. C. CAMPBELL, WM. BRUCE, HUGH WILLIAMS, H. LYNCH BLOSSE, ROBERT KNIGHT, J. WILLIAMS, E. P. RICHARDS, T. STACEY. LEWIS A. NICHOLLS. October 21st, 1845. #A,$MALL Svo.PRICE, IS., THE PROPETSTXGjSZ OFFICE OF THE CSSRISTZAM MINISTER A SERMON, PREACHED IN THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF LLANDAFF, ON OCTOBER loth, 1845, at the Triennial Visitation, of the LopD BISHOP OF THE DIOCESE, and Published at the united request of his Lordship and the Clergy of the Deanery. By TaoMAS WILLIAMS, M.A., Arch- deacon of Llandaff, and Examining Chaplain to the Lord Bishop. London: Rivington's, St. Paul's Churchyard, and Waterloo Place; Wehber, Cardiff; Lister, Cowbridge; Heath, Monmouth; French,Neath; Rees, Abergavenny; Humpage, Brecon. Notice is hereby given, THAT application is intended to be made to Parliament, JL in the ensuing Session, for leave to bring in a Bill for constructing a PIER, or LANDING PLACE, and other Works connected therewith, in the parish of WESTON-SUPER-MARE, in the county of Somerset, for the embarking and disembarking of Passengers, Goods, and Merchandize, on and from Steam-Packets and other Vessels, and Boats, resorting thereto, and using the same Pier or Landing Place and for forming neces- sary approaches to such Pier or Landing Place, in the said parish, by means of a Bridge and other Works; and also that it is intended, by the said Bill, to obtain au- thority to levy and collect Tolls, Rates, and Duties on Passengers using the said Pier or Landing Place, and on Goods and Merchandize landed or embarked thereat or therefrom. And in the said Bill it is intended to apply for power to deviate from the lines laid down on the Plan hereinafter mentioned, to the extent thereon defined and also for the powers usually conferred for the compul- sory purchase of the Lands and Houses to be described upon the said Flan; and also for power to vary and extinguish all rights and privileges which may in any manner interfere with the objects aforesaid, and to confer other rights and privileges. And further Notice is hereby given, that Duplicate Plans thereof, describing the line or situation of the said Pier or Landing Place, Approaches, Bridge, and other Works, and the Land to be taken for the purposes thereof, together with Books of Reference to such Plans, containing the names of the owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees, and occupiers of such Lands, will, on or before the 30th day of NOVEMBER next,pe deposited for public inspection at the Office of the Clerk of the Peace for the said County of Somerset, at TAUNTON and on or before the 31st day of DECEMBER next, a copy of such Plan and Book of Reference will be deposited with the Parish Clerk of the said Parish of Weston-Super-Mare. Dated this 24th day of October, 1845. JOSEPH EDGAR,? w „ c HENRY DAVIES.l Weston"SuPer"^are » EDWARDS, MASON, & EDWARDS, Moor- gate-street, London, Solicitors for the Bill. CONTRACT FOR British Oak Timber4 Thickstuff, Plank, and Treenails. Department of the Storekeeper General of the Nav. Somerset Place, 23rd October, 1845. THE Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do hereby give Notice, that on FRIDAY, the 16th January next, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to CONTRACT for supplying 20,000 Loads of BRITISH OAK TIMBER (rough contents, but to be delivered in a rough or sided state as the said Commissioners shall direct). 7,400 Loads of BRlTISH OAK THICKSTUFF and PLANK, and 400,000 BRITISH OAK TREENAILS. To be delivered at Her Majesty's several Dockyards by the 31st December, 1847, at prices including all carriage and other expenses. A Tender may be made for the whole Contract, or for the quantities required for any one or more of the yards, but not for less than the full quantities of Timber, Thick- stuff, Plank, and Treenails required for any one yard. A Form of the Tender, showing the distribution, sidings, and dimensions of the limber, Thickstuff, Plank, and Treenails, and all other necessary particulars, may be had on application to this office, by letter or otherwise. No Tender will be received after One o'clock on the day of treaty, nor any noticed, unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly authorised in writing. Every Teuder must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left hand corner the words Tender for British Oak," and must also be delivered at Somerset Place, accompan'e^ by a letter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering, in the sum of £ 25,000 tor the due per- formance of the whole Contract, or in a due proportion for » part only. # ALBION HOUSE, as, T. HERNE, IN returning his most grateful thanks for the very liberal support he has received sincc commencing Business in the above Establishment, begs leave most respectfully to iuform the Inhabitants of CARDIFF and its Vicinity, that he has just returned from the London, Manchester, and Glasgow Markets, where he has purchased a splendid Assortment of WINTER GOODS, &c., consisting of Woollen Cloths, Pilots and Flushings, Woollen Cords, Kerseymeres, Plushes, Buckskins, Waistcoatings, Velveteens, Moleskins, Cotton Cords, Peplaveens, Murk and Coloured Satinette, Figured Gros de Naples, Lama and Cashmere Dresses, Tyrolean Robes, Spanish Cloths, Austrian Do., Shaded Merinoes, Royal Plaidj, Ottoman Dresses. N.B.—A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF GENTLEMEN'S FANCY SATIN HANDKERCHIEFS AND SCARFS. Cardiff, Oct. 30th, 1845. Sbalrg bv fluctum. To be SOLD by AUCTION, BY MR. THOMAS EVANS, At the WVNDHAM ARMS INN, in Bridgend, on SATURDAY, the 8th day of NOVEMBER next, A FIELD of excellent FREEHOLD LAND. situate A in Langan, in this County, called METSYDD ISHA, containing by estimation about Six Acres, and now in the occupation of Mr. Thomas Leyshon. There is a Quarry of excellent Lime-Stone in this Field, and Lead-Ore has also been worked in it. Also, a good DWELLING-HOUSE, Barn, Garden, and Croft, situate at Langan aforesaid, and now in the occupation of Mr. John Jenkins. The above Property will be Sold either in one Lot or in separate Lots, as may be then determined, and the Sale will take place at Two o'clock in the afternoon. IMPORTANT SALE OF PIlRE- MEl) JIEREFORDS, DRAUGHT HORSES, SHEEP, AND IMPLEMENTS. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, TO? 2?<s>sm3{> ON THE PREMISES. AT BRYNLLICY, in the Parish of LLANASTY TALYLLYN, on WED- NESDAY, 12TH NOVEMBER, 1845, PART of the VALUABLE FARMING STOCK of Mr. SAMUEL PRITCHARD, leaving the said Farm Consisting of 10 Cows in Calf; 1 two-years old Bull (from the Stock of Mr. Williams, of Aberyskir) 1 three- years old Heifer in Calf; 10 Yearling Cattle, and 10 Calves. 6 powerful young Cart Horses; 3 two-years old Cart Colts; Pony Mare; 1 Sucking Colt; 1 one year and a half old do., of the Saddle breed. 35 Ewe Sheep (fit for the butcher,) and 2 Rams. Implements consist of I Broad-wheel Waggon; J Narrow do.; 1 Broad-wheel Cart; 1 Narrow do.; Ploughs, Harrows, and Rollers, with a great variety of small Implements of Husbandry. Three Months' Credit on approved Security TIIE SALE WILL COMMENCE AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK. The Auctioneer begs to call the attention of Agricul. turists to the above very valuable Stock, being well worthy of notice the cattle are of good breed and in excellent con- dition, the Horses are young and strong, and the Sheep are in good condition, being tit for the butcher. TOWN OF CARDIFF. For Sale, by Private Contract, OR TO BE LET, on a Building or Repairing Lease, .4. FREEHOLD DWELLING-HOUSE, situate in 11- Queen-Street, Cardiff, with Three Cottages and Gaiden attached, in the several occupations of Messrs. Evan Thomas, David Hopkins, Evan Evans, and James Aisle, at rents amounting together to X30 12s. per annum. Further particulars may be obtained at the Office of Mr. E. P. Richards, Solicitor, Cardiff. Cardiff, 29th October, 1845. FREEHOLD. rpO BE S3LD BY PRIVATE CONTRACT, One- X third of an Interest in the Dwelling-House occupied by Captain Morgan, in Saint Mary-street and in four Dwelling-Houses on the Tunnel, in Cardiff. Apply to Mr. Thomas H. Morgan, Solicitor, Llandaff, or Church Street, Cardiff. CARROTS FOR SALE. FIFTY TONS of White Belgian Carrots, and TWENTY TONS of Red Alteringham Carrots for Sale, up, and ready for delivery. Inquire of JOHN WiLLiAMs, Malbro' Grange, Cowbridge. VJCi. i B.ie. GUANO (Genuine PERUVIAN and BOLIVIAN) CONSTANTLY ON SALE. A Cargo, of prime quality, just landed. Apply to the Importers, GIBBS, BRIGHT, & Co., 28, Orchard-street; or at GEORGE & JAMES BUSH's Warehouse, Baldwin-street, Bristol, where it may be seen. TO BE LET, AND ENTERED UPON AT CANDLEMAS NEXT, THE LECHMERE FARM, situated in the parish of Lantwit-Major, containing 102A. Oit. lp. of Arable, Meadow, and Pasture Land, now in the possession of Mr. John Williams. For further particulars enquire at Mr. Bradley's Office, in Cowbridge. Cowbridge, 28th Oct., 1845. Britannia Life Assurance Company, No. 1, PR1 NCR'S STItRBT, B \N,K LONDON. Empowered by Special Act of Parliament IV. Vict. cap. IX. DIRECTORS. William Hard^ett, Esq I Kobcrt F.glintoo, Esq Samuel Hevington, L'Nq Erasmus Uoht. Koster, Esq Wni. Fectiney Black, Rsq I'eter Morrison Esq. George Cohen, Rsq Henry Lewis Sinale, Esq Millis Coventry. Jisu John Dri.'wen, Esq AUDITORS. J. B. Bevington, Esq.—F. P- Oockerill, Esq.—J. D. Dow, Esq. MEDICAl. OFFICER. John Cleudirining, M.D., F. it S., 16, Wiaipole St., Cavendish Square. STANDING COUNSEL. The Hon. John Ashley. New Square, Lincoln's Inn.—Mr. Serjeant Murphy, >1.1' Temple. SOLICITOR. William Bevau, Esq., Old Jewry. BANKERS- Messrs. Drewett and Fowler. Princes Street, Bank. This Institution is empowered by a special Act of Parlia- ment, and is so constituted as to afford the benehts of Life Assurance in their fullest extent to Policy-Holders, and to present greater facilities and accommodation than are usually offered by any other Companies. Among others, the following Important Advantages may be numerated:— Increasing Kates of Premium, on a new and remarkable plan for securing Loans or Debts a leu immediate payment being required on a policy for the whole term of life than in any other office. CREDIT rABLE.-By this Table, the Prermums may remain unpaid for live years, upon satisfactory security being given or the liquidation of the same, at the expiration of that period. HALF CREDIT RATES OF FREMILM. Persons assured according to these rules, are allowed credit (without security) for half the amount of the first seven Annual Premiums, paying interest thereon, at the rate of Five per Cent. per Annum, with the option of paying off the Principal at any tilDII, or having the amount deducted from the sum assured when the Policy becomes a claim. Policies may thus be effected at lower rates than are gene- rally required for the term of seven years only i whilst the holders have the same security for the payment of their Iclaims, whenever death may happen, as if they paid double the amount of premiums, which would be charged for assurance effected in the same way. Policies revived without the exaction of a fine, at any time within twelve months. Extract from Increasing Rates of Premium, for an Assu- rance of £ 100, for Whole Term of Life. Age of the Assured in every case admitted in the Policy. Medical Attendants remunerated in all cases for their reports. A Board of Directors in attendance daily at 2 o'clock. | jLnnuol Premiums payable during } j First II Second Third Fourth I Remain I Five Five Five Five der of I Years. Years. Years. Years. Life. £ s. d.l £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 1 1 4| 1 5 10 1 10 11 1 16 9 2 3 8 1 6 4 1 12 2 1 19 1 2 7 4 2 17 6 1 16 12 4 4 2 14 6 3 7 3| 4 3 4' 2 16 7] 3 9 4 4 5 5 5 6 3 6 13 7 I H H I Extrr" from the Half Credit Hates of Premium. Annual Freoiiam required for an' Assurance of EIOO. for the whole Terin of Life. Half Premium for Whoie Premium Age. seven years. after seven years £ ■• it. d. s, d. 10 119 236 35 1 4 11 2 9 10 40 19 2 2 18 4 45 1 14 10 3 9 8 50 226 450 55 2 12 9 5 5 6 60 3 6 8 6 13 4 Phi I- K MOliltlSON Resident Director. Detailed Prospectuses, and every requisite information as tothe mode of eifectin, Assurances, may be obtained upon application to the following I AGENTS- NEWPORT Mr. R. Jenkins, merchant. CHEPSTOW ;Mr. J. L. Baldwyn, solicitor BRISTOL.. Mr. John Moiham, Bank-court, Corn-street, CARDIFF Mr, W. D« Horwood. ^ottreg* TO liAND-SURVEYOBS. THREE or FOUR competent SURVEYORS may have an immediate engagement, and on very liberal terms.—N.B. The engagement will not necessarily ter- minate on the 30th of November. Apply to Mr. George Taylor, Bulwark, Brecon. TO BE LENT, in convenient Sums, on Freehold Security. Being Trust Money, it will not be dis- turbed, except on non-payment of Interest. Apply to the Proprietor of the CARDIFF & MERTHYR GUAHDIAN. WHEREAS a Fiat in Bankruptcy, bearing date the loth day of October, 1845, has been awarded and issued against DAVID SMITH, late of the Yenallt Iron and Coal Works, in the Parish of Lantwit-juxta-Neath, in the County of Glamorgan, Iron-master, but now or lately residing in the Parish of King's Swinford, in the County of Stafford, and he being declared Bankrupt, is required to surrender to Richard Stevenson, Esquire, a Commissioner of the Court of Bankruptcy for the Bristol District, on Tuesday, the 4th day of November instant, at One o'clock in the aftern<jon,»nd on Tuesday,the 2nd day of December next, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, at the said Court of Bankruptcy, for the Bristol district, and make a full discovery and disclosure of his estate and effects; when and where the creditors are to come prepared to prove their debts, and at the first sitting to choose as- signees, and at the last sitting the said bankrupt is re- quired to finish his examination. All persons indebted to the said bankrupt, or that have any of his effects, are not to pay or deliver the same but to whom the Commis- sioner shall appoint, but they are to give notice thereof to Mr. Wm. Davies, Solicitor, Merthyr Tydvil. WM. DAVIES.

—w———imameetmm^— dtotrigtt intflU'flencc. UNITED STATES.—The Cambrian has arrived at Liverpool, after a rapid passage. There is very little news. The New York Courier, in its usual summary, says-" All apprehensions and indeed all rumours of war with Mexico are now at an end, and as the stated time of the assembly of Congress is now approaching, there will probably be no new executive demonstration in Texas or elsewhere." It is said that a scheme is now projecting to make California independent of Mexico, and it is positively asserted that England and France are to recognize and aid in completing this design, upon the express condition that no connexion or union is to be lorraed with the United States. The advices out by the Great Britain caused I considerable excitement in the food-market, and provisiona of all kinds had rapidly increased in price. The Canadian advices received are not important. he subscriptions and contributions in all parts of the world for the retief of the sufferers by the two late destructive fires in Quebec, received up to the 2fith September,arnounted to the sum ot JE62,136 ]8s. 5d., independently of a grant expected from the provincial treasury of £ ^0,000. Of this large amount only £900 enme from the United States. IN I)IA.-Tlie news of the usual fortnightly Overland Mail, though extending only over a short space of time, is not destitute of interest. The Governor-General was to quit Calcutta on the 23d September, for the north-west provinces, and it was rumoured that Sir Charles Napier would be relieved from the Government of Scinde in order to be present whew his services are likely to be most im- portant. The camp of Sir Henry Hardinge was to be formed at Agra about the 2 itli of October. The com- mencement of the cold season is expected to bring matters to an issue. Either active operations or a pacific arrange- ment will then be decided on. There appears, indeed, to be little doubt that the time for British interference in the affairs of the Punjaub, which continues in as deplorable a state as ever, has arrived. The Government of the Queen- Mother and her brother, Wuzeer, is in a very precarious position. —Private letters announce the death of Colonel Considine and Major Leech, two officers who highly distinguished themselves in Afghanistan. The news from Scinde states that the expedition to Kusmore, on the banks of the Indus, had returned to Hyderabad. Sir C. Napier was at Kurracbee. The interior of India is tranquil. Mr. Montgomery Martin has, it is said, arrived in TCuglttml from Bon)bay, the view of pointing out the errors of the British Plenipotentiary in not having selected the island of Chusan instead of Hong Kong (a most unhealthy spot) as a British settlement. Mr. Martin has, it is said, resigned his situation, but whether coiupul- sorily or not does not appear. The news from China is not important.

FROM THE CONTEMPORARY PRESS. THE GAME LAWS.— Except, where the dictates of re- ligion or morality have decided the point, the test of the goodness of a law is like that applied to all other matters, and gives the preference to the law which offers the small- est number of inconveniences along with the greatest number of advantages. By this plain rule the game laws, it must be admitted, are not only bad, but precisely the reverse of good iaws. The advantages to the body politic (if any) which they give are of the most trifling nature, while the inconveniences," as Mr. Bentham would have said, or positive wrongs and evils, as they might be more properly described, are countless. To find out the disease is said to be half the cure, but yet it is no more than half. and in the case of the game laws the difficulty consists in discovering the remaining half. Even allowing for the exaggeration of party newspapers, there are facts enough to show the evil consequences induced by these taws but how is the remedy to be applied ? The spirit of the English law will not permit any interference with the un- doubted rights of property. We may lament that so many landlords are so inconsiderate and unjust as to preserve game in such numbers as to do material injury to the crops around them. In so far we may anrRe with the de- nunciations uitered by our contemporaries without ques- tion as to their sincerity and disinterestedness but so long as a landlord's pheasant is his property as much as is his sheep, we do not see how laws are to be made curtail- ing or limiting the enjoyment of his property in these birds, further than all property is curtailed and limited by the common law, unless we are to go back again to the days of sumptuary enactments. Indeed, the limitation of the use of property which our laws make--namely, that we are to use that which is ours so that it does not injure our neighbour, would fully warrant such legislation as would make the game preserver liable for the damage which his game might calise his tenantry to suffer. But, unfortunately for this proposition, a covenant in a lease may effect anything not absolutely illegal, and would, doubtless, be used to obviate the effects of such a law. Besides, if such an enactment had even been made law, it would not affect the greatest moral evils which are refer- able to the game laws-those of poaching, with all the de- pravity and suffering of which it is the cause. This is an evil originating very often in the distressed state of the labouring classes, but qgite as often in the covetousness and profligacy of individuals. We do not see that to the game laws can be fairly attributed any appreciable effect in producing the poverty of the peasantry. Poaching is, therefore, not necessarily a consequence of such poverty, and it is highly mischievous to teach to men who are guilty of such an offence, that the taking of game is in itself law- ful and just, and is made criminal merely by the caprice of legislators. Some justification may be set up for the tenant-farmer who destroys or sells the game which is causing him a great annual loss, but nothing whatever in the nature of the game laws palliates the crime ot the poacher, who possesses no grain to be damaged by game. His poverty and distress are palliatives of the crime in so far as they are palliatives of all crime but it is mischievous in the highest degree to allow ignorant men to fancy that the law which commands them to abstain from taking their neighbours' pheasants is of less perfect obligation than that which commauds them to respect his property in his money or his cattle. Everything that can lessen the temptation which the abundance of game now offers to poverty or profligacy should he, indeed must he done; but no good whatever can arise from leaving poachers to suppose that they are the victims of a cruel and oppres- sive system by granting to them that their crimes are not mala in se.-Morning Herald. RAILWAYS AND THEIR DIRECTORS.— When railway schemes were more in their infancy than they are at pre- sent, it was considered absolutely essential that the pro- visional committees should consist of men of character and wealth, and a dozen or twenty names was the usual number in a committee. Now, however, we find the provisional committees reckon their members, not by the dozen or the score, but by hundreds. In point of quality they appear to consider an inverse proportion should be it established, so that the quantity and quality together may make something like an average proportion, and they give in breadth what they want in depth. But, in truth, the matter deserves serious consideration. Are the respect- able portions of these provisional committees, and the general body of the subscribers to the Parliamentary con- tracts, aware of the risks they run by their connections with men of such characters as we have described? Most persons who join in these schemes, either as members of the committee or as subscribers, fancy they are only liable for the deposit upon the shares they take. Many, we fear will find themselses bitterly mistaken in this matter' The deed which they sign does, it is true, stipulate that. the parties thereto shall not be called on for any sums beyond their deposit until the act of incorporation be ob- tained. But this agreement is only binding as among themselves. It has no validity beyond the parties who sign it as partners io the undertaking and every member of the committee, and every shareholder ot the company, is liable individually for the whole oi the debts contracted for engineering, advertising, law, Parliamentary, and otter expenses. The deposits are usually paid to some banker; hut suppose some three or more of these esquires" to lay their heads together and determine that this monef will be safer in their own private custody than at tbs banker's and, as it is generally arranged that three direc- tors, signing a check, may draw out money from the bankers, and companies in their incipient state do not y-uially make the most perfect arrangements, it might not o; difficult for some of these very ingenious gentlemen to devise a plan by which the whole of the deposits might be J carried off on the same day that they discovered a trip: IIpon the continent essential for their health. We should fi"d no difliculty in putting our fingers on some half a dozen or more names in each of several companies now before the public, any one of whom would arrange this little interlude quite artistically. The common law re- gulating joint-stock companies renders every shareholder individually liable for the whole debts of the company: and the new law of last session renders recovery by creditors much easier than before and we cannot but fear that many who now calculate their profits in premiums on shares may, before many months elapse, find themselv-8 placed in very unpleasant circumstances, in having to answer in their own persons some of the very heavy5ex- penses now being incurred on many of the railway schemes r at present competing for the public credulity. Many of ths s homes now before the public are based on fraud. 1 hey are never intended to be prosecuted beyond a certain length; and it remains for the turn of the die to decide whether the concoctors are to be remunerated by the premiums extracted from the public, or by even more questionable means. There are many of the projects, however, which are before the public that are of national importance, and are supported by parties of high character, but the cqually large number which have been concocted in fraud and carried on by knavery, readers it imperative on all who would escape loss, perhaps even utter nun, to discriminate well as to what schemes they may support; for it must be remembered that it is not "because a com- pany may publish a few respectable names among its managers that safety can be secured, for these partirs may themselves be the dupes of designing, met), who only use them as decoys to the unsuspecting. And it should never be forgotten that under the law of joint-stock companies every person who has signed the deed, even for a single share, is liable to the whole extent of his property for the common debts of the company, which liability only ceases when the Act of Parliament for the incorporation of the company has been ohtained.- Times. THE PROGRESS OF CHANGE.— 1 he lap^e of time is scarcely less perceptible than the changes which accom. pany its rapid flight. It is only by looking backward to some fixed point that we can recognise our progress and from retrospection alone can we obtain the elements for calculating the probabilities of the future. Thirtv years of peace, enabling us to concentrate our energies on home affairs, and of those thirty years a majority"adding rapidly to our means of giving efficiency to our energies, have worked, sometimes noisilv, but more often silently, greater changes in the actual state of the nation than the boldest astrologer wcul'l have dared to predict in We need scarcely allude to the change of the currency. The repeal of the Test and Corporation Ac ts, Roman Catholic Emancipation, the Reform Act, the New Poor Law, the Abolition of Slavery, the EcclesiasticalConitnis- mission. the Income-Tax, or the Maynooth Grant. Thest* will occur at once to every one. It'is scarcely necessary either to refer to such (in some respects) minor pieces of legislation, as the alteration of the Game Laws, the Charity Commission, the general Abolition of Capital Punishments, the Banking and Joint Stock Companies Acts, the Church Building Aets, the alteration of the Corn Laws, the prohibition of Women's Labour in Mines, I the Dissenters' Marriage and Registration Acts, the Abo- lition of Imprisonment for Debt, or the new Tariff, to prove that we are engaged, as a nation, in something very like a remodelling of our national and social con- dition. Legislation has but endeavoured to keep pace with other changes, and as they proceed many paijes of the statute-book will be scarcely more than a record of » what the nation has already done for itself. From lucifer matches, which 20 years ago were sold at 3s. Gd. a box as philosophical toys. and have now driven away the tinder-box even from the back woods of North America, to the electric telegraph, which has all but literally anni- hilated time and space—in all our doings, in every cir- cumstance affecting us, we can trace the finger of change and as regards our material condition, it is impossible to deny that on the whole the progress is one of improve- ment. A dozen years since Dr. Dionysius Lardner proved, upon oath, by mathematical calculations, to a committee of the House of Lords, that it was an absolute impossibility that a steamer could ever cross the Atlantic; the impossibility is now a matter of weekly occurrence. Ten years ago we paid eighteen-penee for the postage of a letter in an envelope carried eighty miles it is now carried four hundred miles for one penny. Fifteen years ago railway locomotives accomplished twenty miles an hour; they can now do seventy-five. We can go to China and back in less time than, twenty years since, it occupied to get to Calcutta. Who is now daring enough to assert that we are more than on the verge of our changes 1 30 years since we spent scores of millions of pounds sterling in a single year to bring the war to a suc- cessful termination we are now proposing to spend about acouple of years' war expenditure in compietiug oursvstem of railways. It must be completed, for the nation wills it. Who dares to say that by the time the Long Annuities expire we shall not have Consolidated £4 per centum per annum railway annuities 1" Fifteen yeais au'O rail- ways were treated as mere private speculations but the Government has already commenced the foundation for laying hands on them for the national benefit. Five years ago we had mere railway si/arcs' we have now railway stock. Joe Willett's advice to his son, Do you leave the moon alone, and the moon will leave you alone," might have been useful to railway directors could they have left Parliament alone but as they could not, they may find that there is a tide in their affairs singu- larly dependent for its flux and reflux on the lower if not lesser orb of our legislative system. As railways are; becoming consolidated, so is railway stock. What sag«e of the money-market can foretel what may not be dctwe 15 years hence with railway consols 1 The shares in the great trunk lines are dealt in for investment. Foi-tha present they seem to be treated as almost too good for speculation. What are we to do when the £3 peretmts. are reduced to £2 10s. 1 Look at the bill for improving the health of towns, and note its "enunciation of the principle" (as the Parliamentary phrase is) that the social wants of all classes, but more especially of tbe- poorer, require great interference with many old interests. But beyond all these matters look at the educational con- dition of the people. For good or for evil, whichever Lt iv'u a rnost iniportant change has there come over us. Who now brings out a first edition in quarto i Of what are people's editions the evidence 1" From art-uniocs and illustrated newspapers, to republications in weekly numbers or monthly parts of Shakespeare and Frois^art, we have every where proofs of an extension oftaste and reading. That the taste is imperfect and the re?tdin<* for mere amusement are, perhaps, more than prqhable and that neither will produce any valuable results may be granted but there they are, facts, and as such valuable. ,the re«ews and magazines, trashy and superficial, mere trunkmaker's stock as most of them are, now enlist the pens of those who in the last century would have de- voted themselves to the production of octavos, as their grandsires did to the composition of folios. The last. generation had one Junius, elaborating an occasional letter to delight or enrage the reading public. Every- day now affords to an infinitely extended reading public food for thought of a kind unknown to the literary eplw*. merides of thirty years ago. In the midst of all this new activity, of all the restless craving for novelty, the uncea- sing striving to surpass whatever has been done before and to eclipse whatever exists, we have one great want. Where is the man among us capable of guiding the na- tion aright, of giving to public opinion that healthful ton* which can alone render it harmonious with eternal truths of deciding for the best the course and character of our- rapid career? Lord Brougham and Mr. Carlyle have made the attempt, each in his own peculiar mode, and each has signally failed. It is in vain that we try to point a single individual, to a clique, or the leaders of a party, as likely to make any permanent valuable im- pression on the character of the people. But we haTe leaders who are availing themselves of the or nortunities within their reach. In Ireland the passiop-s of its people are sedulously cultivated by Mr. Q'Coiv>'el^ and in Great Britain the principle of expediency k'embodied and exhi- bited in action in Sir Robert Peel. Under such leaders. with the examples set by them, v,ith the encouragement they give by precept and practice, who will be bold enough to say that the sjcia) and moral condition of the nation, stimulated by the excitementunder which it labours, andsugermg j>lt the same time from a plethora of wealth in its uppp-, extremities, and the atrophy of poverty in its lower, r.iay not, by one of those accident* to which the body P olitic is at all times liable, be sud- denly brought into a state of the most imminent periH- Times. 1 SALE OF SCRIP AND SHARES. We are -perfectly astonished at the bug-bear which tbe press, *ided, wo must say, by most authoritative legai opinion, has raised upon the subject of the sale of scrip and shares. According to the doctrines laid down, all the ransactions which daily take place to the extent of many thousands of pounds, are manifestly illegal. We, how- eyer, beg distinctly to differ from these learned pundits, notwithstanding the Attorney-General even may ba quoted against us. Now, the whole of these questions may be disposed off very shortly. If the law were as it is eontended it is, it. would be a monstrous absurdity. Its absurdity, how- ever, would be no argument against its being law. The' 2bth section of the act of 7 and 8 Vict., c. 110, certainly: sets forth- And further with regard to subscribers and every peison entitled, or claiming to be entitled to any share in. any joint-stock company, the formation of which shall be- commenced after the 1st day of November, 1844 thatt until such joint-stock company shall have obtained a cer- I ca e of complete registration, aud until any such sub- S*ul ij1" Peison shall have been duly registered as & shareholder in the said registry office, it shall not be law- ful for such person to dispose by sale or mortgage of such S-iave, or of any interest therein, and that every contract for the sale or disposal of such sbare or interest shall be be void and that every person entering into such con- tract shall forfeit a sum not exceeding £10," &c. This taken per se appears to be plain enough and if it stood alone there would be an end of the matter, and no sale or transfer of scrip or shares could be permitted till after complete registration. But as we have already explained in a previous article, the Joint-Stock Compa- nies Act is a compilation of anomalies. The real fact M, that this section applies only to such companies as do not require the authority of Parliament. The words, it if