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SONG.-BASS'S PALE ALE. I
SONG.-BASS'S PALE ALE. I A few friend s (says the Derby Reporter) having lately been on a contmental tour and delighted with the splendid buildings, monuments, gardens, statues. &< with which the continent abounds, but disgusted with the nauseous beverages generally found there, and longing for a draught or their own native homebrewed, they agreed for a smail friendly wager, that each should on returning to England, produce something written on the subject of English beverages. None of the parties consider themselves ca- pable of setting Parnassus on fire, cr disturbing the equanimity of Apollo, hut we give below the bagatelle that was considered to have won the wager. Fair Yen us, the Goddess of beauty and love, Arose from the foam of the storm-troubled sea Minerva I 't out of the Cranium of Jove, A coy, sullen slut, as most Authors agree And Bacchus, they tell us, the Prince of good fellows, Was his natural Son-but attend to my tale, For those who thus chatter, know nought of the matter- lie sprung from a barrel of BASS'S PALE ALE. Then having survey'd well the cask whence he sprung, And found no companion- disconsolate grew, Until VEX us arose from the FKUTII AT THE IJFXG, And with her to Olympus he instantly flew But when they look'd down, and saw Burton Tewn To pay them due honors, not likely to fail, They swore, of all Earth, that the place of their birth "as the best and no liquor like BASS'S PALE ALE. Ye Bishops, and Deacons, Priests, Curates, and Vicars, Come taste, and you'll certainly find it is true, That BASS'S PALE ALE is the best of all liquors, (And who understands the dear creature" like you ?) It dispels every vapour, saves pen, ink, and paper, For when you're disposed from the pulpit to rail, It will open your throats, you may preach without notes, If inspired by full bumpers of BASS'S PALE ALE. Ye doctors who more execution have done With bolus, and potion, and powder, and pill, Than hangman with halter, or soldier with gun, Or miser with famine, or lawyer with quill; To dispatch us the quicker, you stop our malt liquor 'Till our bodies are thin, and our faces are pale. Obey you who pleases,—what cures all diseases Are comforting doses of BASS'S PALE ALE. The Soldier who fights for Home, Freedom, and Glory, Leaving England's fair shores for the plains of the Czar; Or in battle's rude strife, with his sword red and gory, He rushes to fight in the front of the war On returning to camp, tir'd, and weary with slaughter, And with bleeding, and pain from his wounds looking pale, Tho' cool and refreshing's a draught of pure water, May he ne'er lack a bumper of BAss's PALE ALE. Give" Sandy" and Paddy" their dew of the mountain," Grim Tartars their Bouza, the Chinese their Tea, Peruvians Mascado, Teetot'lers the fountain, Arabians their JTurica, the Russians Raki, The Feegees the Ava, the Kalmuks Ai-i-accat May each drink his fill, and his stock never fail But give ME a Friend and a Pipe of Tobacco, And a ne'er failing Barrel of BASS'S PALE ALE! a—■ iiTII II 111 —I— MIXED ENGLISH RACE IN TURKEY. The children of Englishmen who hate married Armenian or Greek wives are very interesting specimens of humanity. They are generally pretty, and very quick and intelligent. Thdeed, to English people they appear remarkably clever, from the extraordinary number of languages they can all speak. Their nurses are chiefly Greek, and they, of course, talk to their nurslings in their own beautiful language; daily intercourse with the natives around in- structs them in Turkish the father speaks to them in Eng- lish, and the mother probably in Armenian every visitor teaches them in French, and Italian is learned as easily; 80 that by the time our children at home begin going to school, these little things are conversationairy perfect in five or six different languages; and have thus already mustered a great deal of that knowledge our school children toil so painfully after, and so seldom attain. Another characteristic of this class that struck us was the wonderfully large appetite they are blest with fortunately the necessaries of life are cheap out here, or the house- keeping bills would be something frightful.—Chamber's Journal. HIGHLAND FEELING.-IVATERFALLS, I The delight of the Highlands is in the Highland feel- ing. That feeling is entirely destroyed by stages and regular progression. The waterfalls do not tell upon sober parties-it is tedious in the extreme to be drenched to the skin along high roads—the rattle of wheels blends meanly with thunder-and lightning is contemptible, seen from the window oi a glass coach. To enjoy mist, you must be in the heart of it as a solitary hunter, shooter, or angler. Lightning is nothing unless a thousand feet below you, and the life thunder must be heard leaping, as Byron says, from mountain to mountain, otherwise you might as well listen to a mock peal from the pit of a thea- tre. The falls of the Clyde are majestic. Over Corra Linn the river rolls exultingly; and recovering itself from the headlong plunge, after some troubled struggles among the shattered cliffs, away it floats in stately pomp, dallying with the noble banks, and subsiding into a deep bright foaming current. Then what woods and groves crowning the noble rocks How cheerful laughs the cottage pester- ed by the spray and how vivid the verdure on each ivied ruin The cooing of the cushats is a solemn accompani- ment to the cataract, and aloft in heaven the choughs reply to that voice of the forE'st.- Wilson's Noctes Am- brosiance. DELICATE ATTENTIONS IN THE GOOD OLD TIMES. William the Norman was a mirror of knighthood, and he is known to have knocked down the gentle Matilda of Flanders, even in the days of their courtship. The blow did not put a stop to their wooing, nor did it delay a merry wedding, which, one would think, could hardly have been merry under such auspices. Then there was that paragon of chivalry, the elder Aymon, sire of the Quatre fils Aymon of the romantic legend. That gallant gentleman was not only accustomed to matreat his lady-wife, by thumping her into insensibility, but when his eldest s n, lleinold, once ventured to comment upon one of those pleasant little domestic scenes, to the effect that they interrupted conviviality, and that his respected sire should etther chastise the speaker's mother more gently, or else- where, the knightly father was so enraged at this approach to interference on the part of a son, in behalf of a mother who was lying senseless at his feet, that, taking him with one hand by the hair, he beat his face with the other and mailed hand into that pulpy consistency which Professor Whewell says, distinguishes the interesting inhabitants of the wide and desolate plane of the planet Jupiter. From this contest, however, the old knight came out as little re- cognizable as his son, so chivalrously had they mauled each other. So much for precedent. The example has been followed in Germany since the days of George Louis. Louis XVIII. informs ua in his memoirs, that when the daughter of Louis XVI. found a refuge at Vienna, after her liberation from the Temple, she was urged by the Empress to consent to a marriage with one of the Imperial Archdukes, and that the Empress at last became so enraszed by the firm and repeated refusal of madame royal" to acquiesce in the proposal, that on one occasion her Im- perial Majesty seized the royal orphan by the arm, and descended to voies de fait, in other words, visited the young and destitute Princess with a shower of hard blows. THE LEOPARD'S ATTACK. The power of a leopard is wonderful in proportion to his weight. I have seen a full-grown bullock with his neck broken by the leopard that attacked it. It is the popular belief that the effect is produced by a blow of the paw this is not the case; it is not simply the blow, but it is the combination of the weight, the power, and the momentum of the spring, which renders the effect of a leopard's attack so surprising. Few Jeopards rush boldly to the attack like a dog; they stalk their game, and advance crouchingly, making use of every object that will afford them cover, until they are within a few bounds of their prey. Then the immense power cf muscle is displayed in the concentrated energy of the spring he flies through the air and settles on the throat, usually throwing his own body over the animal, while his teeth and claws are fixed on the neck this is the manner in which the spine of the animal is broken, by a sudden twist, and not by a blow. The blow from the paw is, nevertheless, immensely powerful, and at one stroke will rip open a bullock like a knife but the after effects of the wound are still more to be dreaded than the force of the blow. There is a peculiar poison in the claw, which is highly dangerous. This is caused by the putrid flesh which they are constantly tearing, and which is apt to cause gangrene by inoculation.-S. W. Baker's Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon. THE BISHOP OF SYDNEY. The following extract of a letter written by one of the merchants of Sidney, and a dissenter, to his sister, will give much satisfaction to the numerous and warmly attached friends of the former incumbent of St. Mary's, Edge Ifill -11 His Lordship is a very loveable person, a genuine earnest Christian man, although he is very lordly and dig- nified in his appearance, being six feet four inches high. He is so kind and gentle in his manners you feel at your ease with him at once-he will be a great blessing to the Colony, for he is sound and true on all points, and has no sympathy with Puseyism or Formalism. The poor Pusey- ites who have so long held sway among the Episcopalians here, and held all other denominations of Christian in great contempt, now feel that their reign is over, and are in great dismay that the bishop should so far degrade himself as to hold intercourse with other sects. Some of them have taken to bed in consequence, and are wishing themselves in the neighbourhoood of the Pope's toe, We had a glorious meeting of the Bible Soctety the other day, the governor in the chair. The bishop was on the platform along with all the ministers of the other denominations The largest hall in the town was crowded to overflowing long before the time of meeting, and nearly two thousand persons went away unable to obtain admittance. You would see by the papers the full account of it. Such a sound, interesting, overflowing meeting has never been held on this side of the world before. It was acknowledged that the two best speeches of the evening were those of the bishop and my brother-in-law, the Rev. But I must conclude with telling you something of his lordship's wife. She is extremely frank, affable, and agreeable, and admirably qualified for the important station she will have to occupy in this community. She has very pleasant ladylike man- aeia, and is qtnte a p&ttcru uf love anil good wokka. They mahoct, tMNtde&glhtfel pur."—Awppoof Qwicr. PARISIAN MARRIED LADIES. < In the various trades of Paris there are very few, ex- cepting those exclusively devoted to men, such as tailors, saddlers, and so forth, where the wife and husband are not together, in the shop and couuting-house, from morn- ing till night. They have their home above their shop, and there they repair together, leaving the shop in the care of the premiere demoiselle, to take their meals with their children-enjoying this family meeting as a moment's respite from the daily toils, and talking of their future plans, or the amusements which next Sunday is to bring forth. Now the husband has no need of a confidential friend to whom to confide his perplexities or embarrass- men's his v-ife knows all his liabilities, all his resources. She will advise with him, devising the best means to meet them, or with the ready wit and quickness of a woman, find some resource or expedient which he has never thought of. Then he has no anxiety as to his cash, for his wife is cashier, and makes up the books; all fear of being cheated or robbed is, therefore, removed from his mind. Their interests are mutual, so he can attend to the an d selling in the wholesale outside trade, the buying and selling in the wholesale maiket, in perfect security that no one is taking advantage of his absence. Madame, however, though she is a woman of business, does not forget that she is a woman, and does her best to be an attractive one, both in her dress and in her manners. In this class a dereliction from virtue is almost unheard of. The change in society which has taken away the pomp of circumstance from the nobility. and reformed its morals, has taken away the only danger to which this class of women was exposed. The seduction of a marchande by one of her own class has, perhaps, never occurred-and were it to happen, the justice of society would fall as severely on the man as on the woman. A merchande, therefore, desires to please universally all that come into her shop. She is amiable, cheerful, agree- able, polite, and graceful to all-making no distinction of sex, though perhaps taking a little more pains to please the women than the men, because it is a more difficult task. Flirtation, intrigue, or passion, never enters her well-regulated head-she has no time for them-she has no moments in which she feels that life is a burden, that her husband is not so elegant as Monsieur that she is an unfortunate woman, misplaced 011 earth, understood by none. She never sets her grief to desponding rhymes for she has her double entries to make. She has very little time, too, to give to literature in general but after the shop is closed, and her children have said their prayers, kneeling at her feet, she just reads a page or two of the feuilletons which her careful husband cuts out of the papers and pins together for her especial use. She is fond of music, too, but then it is only of a certain kind, and we are afraid to say it is not of the best, and certainly not of the most scientific kind. Her idea of music con- sists in those wonderful little tunes introduced into the French vaudevilles at the most critical and exciting moments. These, words and all, she catches up with the most extraordinary rapidity, and carolling them about in the most joyous manner, with a tiny little canary bird voice, to the delight of her children and her husband—the former loving the air, and the latter the little epigram at the end of each verse.- Bentley's Miscellany. SIR ROBERT HARRY INGLIS. I The following is a portion of an interesting letter from the late Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Bart.: Ad- dington Park, November 15, 1854. Thinking of you so often as I do, I am surprised at mvself for having so long intermitted the practice of letting you see that I did so think of you. My silence has been the rather common effect of the question. What can I say worth sending half round the globe." But I have begnn and will go on. We are now staying on a short visit with one of the most valuable of men-living or dead-whom I have ever known, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who gives—ex- tempore to his family and friends—in his chapel every morning such expositions as, happily for the rest of the world, he has printed in his eight volumes. He is him- self as active, as well, as upright as ever, and not only retains all his early love of out-door and country life, but resumed the exercise of one art connected with it- that of landscape drawing, to which the scenes of his own park furnish perpetual objects and attractions. We may well thank God for preserving to us his meekness of wisdom in the discharge of the immediate duties of his high office. By getting up very early, and often lighting his own fire, he has done half a day's work before public prayers; and has therefore and thereby gained time for the social cntertainmeuts of his hospitality. His house at this season is daily full. We have :eason, I am told, to be thankful also for the way in which some of the later church appointments in church patronage have been filled up, particularly the sees of Sydney ar.d the Mauriti- us. The appointment of Dr. Jackson to the see of Lin coin is now an old affair; but the importance of it and its blessing are felt perhaps increasingly. lie has lately printed a very remarkable volume of seimons preached before the University of Oxford. That word reminds me of my own long and happy connection with the Univer- sity, and of the deep regret with which I relinquished it, but Dr. Watson, who attended me, and from whom I re- quired directions in writing before I would take the step, told me that I could not discharge my duties as before and I felt that I could not be content to undertake the nominal discharge of the whole, knowing that I could not fairly fulfil one half. My friends in and out of Ox- ford have loaded me with kindness-one mark of which is their desire to have my portrait for the gallery in the Bodleian. It is now nearly finished by Mr. Richmond. Enough of myself, except to add that the death of my last surviving and beloved sister Louisa has placed me as a country gentleman in Bedfordshire. She had discharged my duties of property there for many years and now, when my public duties have diminished in London I have the occupations-and leisure for them-of a county. Lady Inglis-I ought to be thankful to say it-enjoys fair health and the greatest energy, both for work in London -where she is quietly invaluable-and for her schools at Milton Bryan. And now to some of your other friends. Lord Glenelg dined with us in Bedford-square on Monday last, having breakfasted with us on Saturday. It is the meal which, if men can afford time for it, is the most agreeable reunion of all. No bore is ever asked to break- fast, as Macaulay said at Lady Trevelyan's (in the scene described by Mrs. H. B. Stowe in "SunDY Memories") You ask a man to dinner because you cannot help it. He is your colleague in Parliament, your partner in business, or your grandfather's friend; but a man is asked for his own sake only to breakfast. Certainly no man paid ever so much for a meal as Macau'tay pays to whatever you ask him. He was one of our party with Lord Glenelg on the llth, and he is more than ever re- markable. One thing especially distinguishes him-he never leads a subject, but is always content to follow ano- ther, certain to overtake him and to beat him, whether he introduces comets, lotteries, Greek tragedians, English ballads, nonsense of the old world, nonsense of the new. His two next volumes will bring down his history to the peace of Ryswick, and will go to the press in May and be published in November, 1855. Marianne Thornton was also of our party on that day, as, of course, she is often. She has undertaken the charge of the two orphans of her sister Henrietta, the widow of the late Richard Walter Synad a boy, Robert Harry Inglis Synad—a girl a won- derful yonng woman of a girl's age, Henrietta. They will, I trust, be worthy of her care. Our eatly friend John Thornton has his house full of grandchildren. There were, I think, ten under his roof when Lady Inglis and I called there last week. He dined with us the day before yesterday in full force. One day I went to the Committee where you were so long and so faithfully our guide, -the London Church Education Society. None of its original members survive. Your loved and honoured co- secretary Haldane Stewart was called to his rest about a month ago, and was in the spirit on the Lord's Day, dying on Sunday morning; but the Committee contains many admirable and trustworthy men. We meet at Mr. Auriol's at Mecklenbugh-square. The list addition is Mr. Fenn, of Blackheath; another, not long before him, Mr. Barber, the son of the good man long connected with the Jew' Society—I mean the London Society for their conversion. Henry Venn remains the inclefatigable and invaluable Se- cretary of the Church Missionary Society-unlike any other man ia the combination of piety, judgment, and labour in the mixed spiritual and quasi secular interests which he has largely to direct. The Puseyite system is checked, but, alas not so much by the increased develop- ment and power of the evangelical principle—though, thank God, it has grown and strengthened but by the introduction of the more fearful evil, N eulogianism. Six or seven years ago Archbishop Whateley said to me, Your danger at Oxford, believe me, is not now trac- tarianism, but Neologianism And yesterday, at the Committee, I asked, But why cannot we send our young men to such a College" (naming one of the best). The last of places-their great tutor is a Neologian." I must not conclude without adding Lady Inglis's and my own af- fectionate respects. Ever your's, ROBERT II. INGLIS.
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LEGAL ADVIGE. Sir," said a barber to an attorney who was passing his door, will you tell me if this is a good seven shilling piece ?" The lawyer pronounced the money good, depositing it in his pocket, adding, with great gravity, if you'll send your lad to my office I'll return the fourpence." It is a blessed thing for a man to have a contented wife one who will not wish to live in a style beyond her hus- band's income, just because her next door neighbour does one who can be happy in the love of her husband, her home, and its beautiful duties, without asking the world for its smiles or its favour. The late Colonel- so well known for his Patagonian size and burly deportment, being ouce importuned by a di- minutive tailor for payment of a bill, contemptuously ex- claimed, If you were not such a little reptile. Little reptile remonstrated the dun and what if I am ? Re- collect, colonel, that we can't be all great brutes ?" FIRST SPELLING.—In tracing the genealogy of the Field- ings, it is observable that the name was originally spell Feilding. The elder branch of the family have preserved up to this day the same orthography. It is related of the novelist, that being once in the company of the Earl of Denbigh, his lordship was pleased to observe that they were both of the same family, and asked the reason why they spelt their names differently. I cannot tell, my lord," replied the wit, unless it be that my branch of the Liiailj were the Eibt ilia.1. knew how to sitell.Law- rmct* 1* qf Fidding.
PRINCE ALBERT IN BIRMINGHAM,…
PRINCE ALBERT IN BIRMINGHAM, I The ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of a new building at Birmingham, for the use of the Members of the" Birmingham and Midland Counties Institute, was performed on Thursday by Prince Albert. The Prince arrived at the railway station of the Great Western Rail- way a little after nine in the morning. He was received by the Mayor and Corporation, with an address of welcome to which he made a brief and suitable reply. From Ihe station the Prince went in procession to the site of the new building stopping opposite King Edward's Grammar School to receive three addresses-one from the Governors, a second from the masters, and a third from the pupils of the school. On the site of the building where a great company had assembled. Lord Calthorpe presented an addrrss from the Council of the Institution, setting forth its objects which are pretty extensive, combining the general features of a literary and scientific institution with those of a school of industrial science." In his reply, the Prince expressed his entire concurrence in these objects, adding- And most heartily do I join with you in congratulating the country, that not even such a war as that in which we are now engaged, calculated as it is to enlist our warmest syinpathies, and to engage our more immediate interest, can divert Englishmen from the noble work of fostering the arts of peace and endeavouring to give a wider scope to the blessinas of freedom and civilization." The Reverend Grantham Yorke offered up a prayer for the blessing of God on the work undertaken and with the customary ceremonies the stone was well and truly fixed," Two other addresses—making altogether seven—one from the clergy, and one from the Council and officers of the Queen's Hospital were presented to the Prince and the performance of the national anthem closed the proceedings. The next ceremony was a luncheon in the Town-hall; Lord Calthorpe in the chair, and a host of conspicuous country gentlemen supporting him,—including Earl Stan- hope, Lord Stanley, of Alderley, Lord Lyttelton, Lord Hatherton, Sir Robert Peel, Sir Harry Smith, Lord Ash- burton, Mr. Spooner, Mr. Muntz, Sir Roderick Murchison, Sir John Pakington, the Bishop of Manchester, and Lord Wrottesley. The proceedings after the luncheon were of the ordinary kind-toasts and speeches two of the latter challenging notice. Prince Albert delivered a speech, the object of which was to show the influence of science on the progress of human affairs joined with art, and the impor- tance of studying the law of nature. He commented on the exclusion of certain branches of knowledge-such as logic and metaphysics, physiology, and psychology, politics, jurisprudence, and political economy—from our great aca- demies and seats of learning. The most salient passage in his address was the following. In all our operations, whether agricultural or manu- facturing, it is not we who operate, but the laws of Nature, which we have set in operation. It is, then of the highest importance that we should know these laws, in order to know what we are about, and the reason why certain things are which occur daily under our hands, and what course we are to pursue with regard to them. Without such know- ledge, we are condemned to one of three states,—either we merely go on to do things just as our fathers did, and for no better reason than because they did them so or, trust- ing to some personal authority, we adopt at random the recommendation of some specific, in a speculative hope that it may answer; or, lastly—and this is the most favour- able case-we ourselves Improve upon certain processes but this can only be the result of an experience hardly earned, and dearly bought, and which, after all, can only embrace a comparatively short space of time and a small number of experiments. From none of these causes can we hope for much progress; for the mind, however in- 1 genious, has no materials to work with, and remains in presence of phenomena the causes of which are hidden fiomit. But these laws of Nature—these Divine laws- are capable of being discovered and understood, and of being taught, and made our own. This is the task of science; and whilst science discovers and teaches these laws, art teaches their application. No pursuit, is, there- fore, too insignificant not to be capable of becoming the subject both of a science and an art." The other speech of mal k was delivered by Lord Ash- burton, in proposing "Success to the Birmingham and Midland Institute." Amidst their festivities he raised a note of warning. The object of that institution was not to appeal only to the reasoning powers, but to enlist all the faculties of the workman, so that, instead of making fruit- less efforts to raise himself abo-, e his mechanical calling, he might raise that calling into an art. And what would be the penalty if the boon be neglected ? "We seem to have forgotten, that by adopting absolute freedom of trade we have cast down the gauntlet of defi- ance to all nations that we are fighting for superiority in our own markets, in those of the Colonies, in every house throughout the habitable globe, where there exists money or credit wherewith to pay. We expect to hold our ground- have we up to this time held our ground ? At the close of the war in 1815 we were superior to all in the arts of peace, are we so now r lias not the tortoise crept up to us while we were slumbering upon our assumed superiority ? Let us take nearer dates. You have amcng you jurors of 1851 and jurors of 1855. Do they tell you that we have kept our place ? They do not tell me so. It would be strange indeed if we dd keep our place, inferior as we all are in that scientific knowledge which cheapens and facilitates the application of labour, unless, indeed, knowledge be weakness and science a farce. We were ready enough to twit with ignorance our suffering army in the Crimea-arc we, nobles, manufacturers, farmers, workmen, a whit less ignorant in our several capacities than they are?" We must not look to Government but to ourselves for a remedy. But if we do remain with folded arms, and take no heed, or if we go on, feeding the people only with desultory in- formation, diverting their minds from the serious work of preparation for the real business of life, treating them as the nurses of your towns are said to treat the infants committed to their care, quieting them with cordials, at the same time that they cloy their appetites and stunt their progress, why, then, the result is clear-our manufactures must sink, the employment of our people must, go; and then this England, of which you are so justly pixrnd, this storehouse of nations, this pattern land of order, this refuge of the oppressed, Oh it will be a wilderness again, Peopled with worse than wolves peopled with starving, desperate outlaws." Prince Albert left the party, for Windsor, at four o'clock; but the proceedings did not terminate until six.
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THE MEETING OF PARLIAMENT —We have every rea son to believe that Parliament will meet about the usua time, viz., the end of January or the beginning of Fcb ruary.-Post. PAINFUL SCENE IN A SCOTCH CHAPEL.—On Sunday the minister of one of our Freechurch congregations plainly intimated, in the course of his discourse, that there were many then before him who would never see God. Whether or not the congregation is more than usually wicked, or "hethEr the preacher sees further into futurity than his neighbours, we cannot say but the intimation came upon the people like a thunderbolt, and not a few of the women set up most lamentable screams and yells as their fears pointed to the fiery gulf which was opening be- fore them. A number left the church altogether, but, whether overcome by their sense of guilt or moved by dis. gust or resentment at the horrible intimation, which the preacher had no warrant for making, we have no means of knowing, Truly, there is queer preaching nowadays.- Glasgow Herald. EFFECTS OF RAPID PROMOTION'.—It will be seen from the following article that our oft repeated remonstrances have at last obtained tl;e assent of this professional journal —always the last to advocate any reform It has been written that war makes soldiers. Peace may give us the men, and we may clothe and drill them but it ir only in the tilee that their mettle is tried and that experience obtained which makes them serviceable to their country. No doubt a seasoned officer is worth a score who have had no experi- ence of the rugged edge of service. The Duke of Welling- ton always naturally preferred the man of one campaign to the mere recruit. It may be, however, that war may carry awaw the greater part of the good and tried soldiers, and to neutralize all the benefits arising out of a little hardship and a few combats. Some regiments may be all the better for service, and many more may be completely decimated. Looking at the state of the regiments in the Crimea, no man in his senses ctil come to any other conclusion than that they are gradually reacliitig an alarming point of de- moralization, from which there is no escape under the system of the rapid promotion sanctioned from a mistaken sense of justice. There are now upwards of 400 line lieu- tenants in the Crimea who have had but year of full pay service! Very many of them are within two or three of the top of the regimental list, and must, in the circumstances in which they are placed, beeome captains in less than a year. There are very many captains of only three, four, five and six )-ears' full pay service, and some of two years. Now, it is very right to let gentlemen reap [some of the fruits of warfare in a rapid promotion, resulting in the casualties in the ranks above them; aud, if their good fortune were not pregnant with danger to the service, no one would grudge them the attainment of the highest positions. We ask, however, in all soberness, whether the crowding many regiments with boys is not a certain method of uprooting discipline, of destroying character, and creat- ing a world of dissatisfaction in the numerous corps which have not been employed in the Crimea, and which, conse- quently, are filled with officers whose full pay service is in the proportion of five years to one of the lucky survivors of the conflict before Sebastopol ? The main argument against promotion by purchase that it enables the young to leap over the heads of the old, superseding experience and service by incompetency. But of what avail would be the abolition of the system if every youth, whose regiment happens to be nearly cut up, while he, perhaps, was away on leave or still at the depot, is to run up the ladder of pre- ferment to the supercession of much older and more useful men in other corps ? While the fortunate regiments (as they facetiously call the greatest sufferers from the fire of an enemy) are all encamped together, the mischief is not im- mediately apparent, excepting in the looseness of discipline. How will it be when a regiment, returned from the Crimea, is in the same garrison with one that has but just returned from the Cape or India ? Why, that lieutenants of 13 or 14 years' standing will find themselves subordinate to boys of three and four years' service. Put the case that the 87th were quartered with the 231, 62d, or the G3d; no fewer than 15 lieutenants of the 87th would find themselves junior in rank to men who have not half of their full pay service; and so with other regiments. Place the 59th in juxta position with the 57th or the 64th in the same cantonment with the 77th—nothing but heartburning and mortification would result from the contrast. We repeat: give a fair share of recompense to the gallantry which has confronted the enemy and endured the trying effects of trench duty in a hostile climate and under privation but for the sake of common justice and discipline, let us have a few transfers from unlucky regiments to the corps which have been deprived of so many of their best officers. Lord Hardinge will be able to find many excellent excuses for the promo- tion of officers out of their regiments in the colonies and India, into Crimean corps. To some of them the step will be a proper compliment to the memory of a relative slain in action to others it will be twice blessed-a compensation for tardy promotion, and a benefit to a regiment needing the 1 piecifcuc*: uf a few more experienced soldiets.- United Ser- "M GOMM.
I MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.…
I MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. I MISCELLANEOUS lNTELLIGENCE. I Lord Chief Justice Jeivis has been so much indisposed that he has been prevented from attending to his judicial duties. Count Mole, died at his residence at Champlatreux, on Saturday, from an attack of apoplexy, which seized him when at dinner. The Count was in his 75th year. The Gazette Militaire, of Switzerland, states that the Federal army numbers 115,000 men, with 476 guns. The organised militia consists of 10,000 to 20,000 men. Amongst other improvements, the Great North of Scot- land Railway Company have placed 011 the lfoor of each compartment of their first class carriages fiat jars of warm water-very pleasant comforters to the feet of travellers in thfse cold mornings. A truly "monster" concert was recently given in the Exposition building at Paris. There were 1,250 perfor- mers, led by Berlioz and five assistants; and the audience numbered 20,000. The structure is not suited for musical per formances; the piano passages were heard the most distinctly. Large quantities of sulphur, saltpetre, and other contra. hand of war, are forwarded from Memel to Russia. The Prussian merchants charge but a small insurance for its passage over the frontier. A Bread Inspector" has been appointed at Stockport, to check the fraudulent and cruel practice of selling short- weight bread to the poor. Simpheropol, Nicolaief, and St. Petersburg, are now united by the electric telegraph. The mill of Alphen, on the Rhine, said by tradition to have been the birth-place of Rembrandt, has been destroyed by fire. Russia has made a seasonable discovery of strata of sulphur on both sides of the Wolga near Samara. The mineral is to be vigorously worked. The street sweepers employed by the Halifax corpora- tion are now dressed in uniform, and each man has a number. On Monday, Mr. Robert Percivall, riding master, of Ship-street, Brighton, trotted a chesnut mare 16 miles in 53 minutes 58 seconds. The match was for E,,50, the dis- tance being 16 miles within the hour. The non-commissioned officers and men of the 57th regiment have subscribed their working pay from October, 1854, to February, 1855, to create a fund for the benefit of widows and orphans of soldiers who died in the Crimea. The Sunderland Times says The directors of the Nor- thumberland and Durham District Bank have, we under- stand, ordered all the employes who adorned their faces with a moustache to shave or resign." The Paris Exposition, this season, has largely swelled the number of English passing through Boulogne. During last month the total was 17,600, against 10,661 in 1854 for the year the number has been 123,251, against 89 071 in 1854. The manuscripts of Bernardin de St. Pierre, which have been purchased by the Municipal Council of Havre, have arrived in that town. They are so numerous as to form 12 or lo folio volumes. The Journal de Constantinople says that Ileynadier will open a theatre at Sebastopol in the spring. At Con- stantinople, also, the same director is about to establish a French theatre, where farce, drama, opera, and even the ballat will be produced. A paragraph has appeared in some of the papers, stating that Mr. Frederick Peel has resigned the office of Under Secretary for War. We believe this is not true.-Post. A martello tower on the Spit" of the Isle of Grain, commanding the mouths of the Medway and the Thames, has just been completed. It has been a difficult task, from the low situation (the foundation rests on piles) and the exposure to rough weather. Letters from Rome mention that the Reverend Mr. Talbot, whose name has been repeatedly mentioned as one likely to be raised to high spiritual office in the Roman Catholic Church in England, has been appointed by the Pope to proceed to America, to regulate some affairs be- tween the Transatlantic Bishops and the Holy See. It is said that Colonel Sibthorp, M.P., is in a dangerous condition. It was rumoured in Lincoln on Wednesday that the honourable gentleman was dead but, in reply to a telegraphic message, a contradiction of the statement was sent. The Earl of Listowel had a narrow escape last week. It appears his lordship had a large trap constructed for de- stroying foxes in Convamore this was so well and in- geniously concealed, that, having walked on it unawares, he was very nearly trapped himself. In his efforts to escape from being tumbled into the pit under the trap door, his lordship dislocated his shoulder; but having called in two physicians, he was soon restoled.-Cork Constitution. It is stated that there are 200 iron gun and mortar boats building, or ordered to be built, by contract, for the Crown, by British and Scotch shipbuilders. They will be all I steame s, and the mortar boats will be so built as to form pontoon bridges. About sixty hackney coach proprietors and drivers have presented to the town council of Leeds a memorial praying for the enactment of a bye-law forbidding coaches and cabs to be on the public stands on Sundays. The decision of the council has been postponed. The largest slip in England is the new one in Chatham dockyard. Its dimensions are 300 feet Ion, 114: feet wide, 4 114 feet wide, and 90 feet high. It was commenced in 1851, and has 50 iron pillars and six travellers. The ends are glazed. A 30-gun floating battery is to be built in it immediately, to be ready for launching in March next. In giving evidence in a case of burglary which came be- fore the county magistrates at Ashton-under-Lyne, the other day, Mr. Marland a pawnbroker, who is also a lock- smith, said that a door lock could be much more easily picked with the key in the lock than without. He could pick nearly any lock with a piece of wire, if the key were left in the lock and knowing that, he always took the keys out of the doors. The Birmingham Gazette denies the statement that the manufacture of idols forms part of the trade of the town. The origin of the story, which has gone the round of the papers, is attributed to a acitious 11 price current" originally put out as a good joke by Punch. The joke having been transferred, without acknowledgment of the source from which it was taken, to an American newspaper, found its way back, it seems, in sober seriousness," to the English journals. The trial of the parties at Berlin accused of unlawfully revealing telegraphic intelligence for stock-jobbing pur- poses came to a conclusion on the 12th. Janck, the clerk, was condemned to three years' imprisonment, with loss of social rights as a citizen for five years, for having trans- gressed his official duties Julius Reichenheim, for having bribed an official, to two years' imprisonment, with loss of social rights for two years and Isidor Reichenheim to half this term Meyer, the banker, for being an acconiplice in the said act of bribery, to two and a half years' impri- sonment and three years' social degradation. The public prosecutor of Berlin is rather bothered" at present by an English Jew named Nathens. Nathens formerly gave evidence 111 a law court; he took an oath as a Protestant Christian—he was known to have taken part in Christian worship his evidence is alleged to have been false he is prosecuted for perjury and he now turns round and asserts that he is a Jew, that he never was baptized, and that therefore his oath as a Christian was not binding The public prosecutor has to prove, if he can, that Nathens has been baptized. Lord Brougham is about to publish, in his Works," his contributions to the Edinburgh Review. His Lordship, with that manliness of nature so characteristic of his career, will include in the series the far-famed review of the Hours of Idleness"—the review which occasioned the famous satire of English Bards and Scotch Re- viewers." The prevalent feeling seems to be that Brougham only spoke the truth about the volume. In the Hours of Idleness" it is impossible to recognise a true poet. There is no promise in it of Childe Harold," or of the satire itself. Lecturing seems all the fashion. Peers and poets-even antiquaries-are smitten with the disease. Lord Stanhope (Mahon) is lecturing Tennyson, it is said, is about to inform the Isle of Wight about Crashaw and George Herbert (the author of In Memoriam" must be well up in both poets); Colonel Rawlinson has engaged the solemn theatre at Oxford (not at the request of Plumptree) for the purpose of talking about cuneiform inscriptions and Mr. Peter Cunningham, at, it is said, the request of Mr. Mac- ready, the great actor (we have now but few), is advertised to deliver a lecture at Sherborne, in Dorsetshire, on—what does the reader think ?—Temple-bar HANGING IN FORMER DAYS —In 1787 there were ex- ecuted in London 101 convicts, and on the 4th March, 1754, twelve malefactors were executed at Tyburn, v iz., Denis Neale, John Mason, John Welsh, Robert Keys, Grace Grannett, and Joshua Kidden, for diverse highway robberies John Smith and William Ford for horsesteal- itig Richard Hutton, for returning from transportation; Daniel Wood, for sheepstealing Thos. Barnard and William Jenks, for burglaries." SABBATH HARVESTING.-We remember to have heard, some few years ago, of Archdeacon Froude having harvest- ed on the Sabbath-day. Being at Totnes in the beginning of I the week, we inquired the particulars, and learnt that it was in 1848, when the whole parish turned out on the Sunday to harvest, led by the parson, the Ven. Archdeacon Froude. The only man who want to church that day was the clerk, and the parson blew him up, telling him that he ought to have been better employed." The season had been wet, our informant says, and no doubt it was a work of neces- sity.— Western Times. HOLLOWAY'S PILLS stand pre-eminent for the cure of Asthma.—Mr. Griffith, Gardner, of Pellygynau Hall, Den- bighshire, was afflicted for a number of years with a vio- lent asthmatic cough, causing many sleepless nights. In truth the attacks were so severe, that he could scarcely keep any food on his stomach for days tngether; and, notwithstanding he resorted to various reputed medicines for the cure of asthma, yet he obtained no beneficial effect. At last he tried Holloway's Pills, which he persevered in for about five weeks, the result for which was a perfect wore, and k» mow njpp awt octUnt btslUi. SIR COLIN CAMPBELL.-The Globe says We have much pleasure in stating that, at the expiration of his well-earned leave, Sir Colin Campbell will return to the Crimea to resume the command of the Highland Division. Notwithstanding the fact that Sir Colin left the seat of war before General Codrington had been appointed to the Command in-Chief, it has been perseveringly contended that lie threw up his command inspired by professional jealousy at that appointment. In expressing his intention of resuming his position, Sir Colin has given the best answer to those who would seek to fasten such an impu- tation upon him. During his long period of service no soldier has served his country more honourably or usefully. We believe there is not one of the Crimean Generals whose gallant services in this war are more highly appreciated in every quarter and when the season for active operations shall arri ve, Sir Colin and his gallant Highlanders, whether they be again selected to defend an arduous and difficult position, or chosen to lead the forlorn hope of the cam- paign, will do everything that their old prestige warrants their country in expecting." MINISTERIAL ARRANGEMENTS.—Lord Stanley of Al- derley and the Right Hon. Matthew Talbot Baines enter the Cabinet. Lord Stanley holds the office of President of the Board of Trade. Mr. Baines is appointed Chan- cellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, which Lord Harrowby I exchanges for the office of Lord Privy Seal. None of these appointments says the Times except that of the gentleman last named, call fur any serious remark. Mr. Baines is essentially a representative of the middle classes, and his appointment may be accepted as evidence of the disposition of the Minister to import that element into the constitution of his Cabinet. Hitherto, whatever duties Mr. Baines has been intrusted with he has discharged to the satisfaction of the public. As chief officer under the Poor Law i.e had a most troublesome and anxious duty to perform—one which served rather to test his capacity for administration than his fitness for the higher vocation of statesman and orator. He was, however, occasionally compelled tn address the House to defend the acts of his administration, and whenever tried he has acquitted him- self with success. When we have integrity of principle, sound sense, the power of addressing an assembly, if not in a brilliant, at least in a satisfactory manner, what more can be expected from a man to whom as yet the higher opportunities of distinciion have been denied? In these days every man will think for himself, the principle of authority is weakened, and happily so in political affairs, so that mere eloquence carries few votes A modern statesman is powerful in the I-louse and popular in the country in so far as he represents the opinions of the majority, or at least of a large section of the community. Lord Palinerstoii at the present moment is the representa- tive of our determination to continue the war with Russia until terms are obtained which shall preclude the necessity of appealing to arms again, for similar reasons, at least, until another generation has passed away. Hence the popularity of his Administration. With such a cause, and with the full weight of opinion out of doors at his back, the Premier seems inclined to oppose plain common sense to the attacks of the regular gladiators of the House. Mr. Baines has, as he declares in his address, accepted office with the full determination of leuding the whole strength of his ability to this cause, and, with so gl1( d a brief in his hand, he will, we trust, hold his own against the oratorical ability upon the other side. THE SUBSTRUCTURE OF OLD LONDON: FLEET VAL- LEY.-In making the excavation for the great sewer which will soon convey from view the Fleet-ditch, at a depth of about 13 feet below the surface in Rav-street, near the corner of Little Saffron-hill, the workmen came upon the pavement of an old street, consisting of very large blocks of ragstone of irregular shape. An examination of the paving stones shows that the street had been well used they are worn quite smooth by the footsteps and traffic of a past generation. Below the old street we find another phase of Old London. Thickly covered with slime are piles of oak, hard and black, which have seemingly been portions of a milldam. A few feet below were very old wooden water pipes, nothing but the rough trunks of trees. The course of time and the weight of matter above the old pavement have pressed the gravel, clay, granite, por- tions of tiles, &c., into a hard and almost solid mass, and it is curious to observe that near the old surface are great numbers of pins. Whither have the pins goiie is a query which has puzzled many. The now hard concrete, is a partial reply to the query. The thirteen feet of sewer deposit would zieein to hive accumulated in two or three centuries it is not unlikely that a portion of the rubbish from the city after the great fire was shot here.-The Builder. TilE NEW IRON MOItTAR-BOATS.-The iron mortar- vcssel launched from the building yard of Mr. John Laird, at the south end of the docks, the other (lay, ii so con- structed that when she has mortar, shell, crew, and every nrcessary appliance on board, she will only draw three feet of water. She will present very litLIe bull: above the sur- face, and as she will be painted sea-green it will be im- possible for the enemy to distinguish her from their bat- teries, even when within range of their guns, except by the occasional puffs of smoke from each shell. She is of 100 tons measurement, and is made of the best iron plates manufactured at the Mersey Forge. The expedition with which she was constructed is, we believe, unprecedented, The order was received by Mr. Laird on the 23d of Octo- ber, the keel was laid down on the 25th of the same month, and on the 13th of November, just three weeks after the date of the order bfing received, she was launched in the river Mersey, all complete with mortar- bed, masts, jigging, anchors, cable, sails, shell-room, ac- commodation for crew, &c. She left Liverpool for Ports- mouth, in tow of the steamtug Uncle Sam, on the day after she was launched, and arrived at Portsmouth on Thursday, having been delayed by being obliged to put into three ports, owing to the severity of the easterly winds. The vessel is strongly built of iron, with wooden decks; and the complicated nature of the work would have precluded the possibility of her completion in this short time, had not Mr. Laird had relays of men working night and day. Tile iron plates, &c., were ordered from the Mersey Forge, from time to time, as required, and were generally delivered within 12 hours from the time of the specifications being sent in. The construction of this mortar-boat shows the rapidity with which work can be completed in the Mersey, when all the facilities are pro- perly applied. This is the first English mortar-boat built of iron and, if the experiments immediately to be tried upon her answer the anticipations of the Admiralty offi- cials, we may Expect to hear of a large order being given for the construction of more upon the same principle. Mr. Laird is also constructing 14 wooden steam screw gun- boats, of 240 tons each, and about 60 horse-power. They will be similar in size and armament to the Lynx, Arrow, Viper, Snake, Beagle, and other boats which have become famous in the history of the naval operations of this war. Mr. Laird is building seven of these boats at his margin of the Great Float, at Birkenhead, and seven on the Liver- pool side. Although the order for them was only received from the Admiralty six weeks ago, already about 1,000 feet of building sheds have been erected at these yards and fitted with gas, so that the men can work at the vessels night and day. Four of the boats are well advan- ced in frame, and the whole are to be ready for sea by March next. THE NEW METAL, ALUMINUM.—Most of your readers have perhaps heard of the metal called aluminum, the existence of which had been known, I believe, for the last twenty years and more although hither;o imperfect methods of extraction have prevented its appearing other- wise than in the shape of a few rare specimens. Sad. denly, however, toe mineral has come before us in a comparative abundance, which has given to it almost the eclat cf a new discovery. A beautiful pocket chronometer made to order for the Emperor, the balance of a pair of fine scales, and other objects made of the new metal, are at this moment exhibited at the Exhibition, and the crowd constantly assembled around them proves at once the novelty of the production and the curiosity they have excited. It appears that a young French chemist, M. Deville, has so succeeded in perfecting the process of obtaining aluminum from clay that, from being an article of virtu, it has passed into the domain cf utility, and promises, from its singular quali7ies, to prove of the greatest service to the industrial and scientific world. The chief characteristics of the new metal are thus de- scribed :—It is nearly as white as, and more easily fused than, silver. It is proof against the oxydising influence of the atmosphere, unchangeable in all temperatures, and un- affected by any acid, except chlorohy dryatic acid. It is as pliable as silver, and can be drawn out into a thread, or beaten out into a leaf, equally with that metal its highest value and utility, is its extreme lightness. Com- pared with zinc, the lightest of the metals known in common usage, its weight is found only to be in the ratio of 2 56 to 7 21, water being taken as the unit with respect to both. This aluminum unites in itself the contrary qualities of extreme lightness as a metal, and impunity against atmospheric effects; like gold and pla- tina, it goes scathless through the crucible, while it is wholly free from the discolorisations to which silver is liable. Another contradictory property of aluminum in its power of conveying sound though so light, its tone is pure and its vibrations of surprising duration. It is wholly free from swell, and perfectly innocuous to human I life in all its combinations. As a conductor of electricity, it is found to be unequalled by any other metal; and this quality, joined to its independence of atmospheric effect, may, it is thought, some day render it invalu- able for the purposes of the electric telegraph. As its present price and until still more economical modes of ex- traction arc discovered, aluminum must be classed amongst the precious metals. Its cost, by weight, is at present about four times that of silver but it is not therefore, even under present circumstances, dearer, as is evident by balancing one of the ingots, now lying at the Exhibition, in one hand, and the piece of silver placed beside them in the other. The aluminum is more than four times the silver in bulk, and the difference of price is compensated for by the number of objects which can be manufactured out of it, In the chronometer of the Emperor, lately ex- hibited, the weight of the movement is stated to be one- third that of brass, one. fourth that of silver, and one- fifth that of platina. With their usual energy, the French chemists are busily engaged in the further inves- tigation of the new discovery, and an opinion is confi- dently put forward that, ere long aluminum will be re- duced to a price which shall reader it equivalent in value to brass, and th us at once introduce it into the usages ¡ of common life.—Paris Correspondent of London Guar- dian,
I HAILvVAY TIME TABLE, I
I HAILvVAY TIME TABLE, I SOUTH WALES RAILWAY. I DOWN* TRAINS. WEEK DAYS. starting 1,2,3 1 2,3 1,2,3 Exp. 1,2,3 Irom class ciass class class 1 &2, class II, a.m, a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. p..p. Pad tington j 6.50 9'40 10.0 12.50? 8.* Glo'ster ..? 6.45 16.?5l? 30 1248 3.0 5.55 2.1 Oakle)-st. 10.40? 3.15 3.15 .• Newnham 7.5 10.58, 3.30 3.30 6.25 2.3 Gatconite 7.13 11.5 ?? 3.40.. 3.40 6.35 •• Lidaey 7.23 11.161 3.52 3.52 6.47 2. Woolaston 7.31 11.2^ 4.2 4.2 6.57 Chepstow 7.41 11.42! 4.18 1.32 4.18 7.10 3, Portskewet 7.50 11.52 4.30 4.30 7.20 •• Magor 7.58 12.2 14.41 4.41 7.30 Newport 8.23 12.22! 5.7 1.55 5.7 7.50 3.' Marshfield 8.3312.341 5.22 5.22 Cardiff 8.47 12.45 5.35 2.16 5.35 8.15 4, Ely 8.53 12.52 ? 5.50 5.50- St. Fagans 8.58 1.2 5.57 5.57 Hantrissant. 9.17 1.13 6.14 6.141.. 4,. Pencoed 9.32 1.24? 6.28 6.28 Briigend 9.401 1.331 6.39 2.50 6.39 4.? Pyle 9.56 1.48 6.53 6.53 Port Talbot. 10.9 2.1 7.9 ?.io 7.9 5, BfitonFerry 10.19 2. 11 7.19 7.19' Neath.?. 10.25 2.16! 7.27 3.18 7.27i 0 Ditto.? 10.30 2.18! 7.32 3.22 7.32! •• 0 Ua?s.untet. 10.4 2.3 7..3: 7.43? Landore 11.2 2.45j 7.54! 3.45 7.54; •• S?'nsea..?- 11.15 2.50? 3.15? 3.55 8.15 5.: Ditto .? ?.25 10.52 7.4-0?3*35-'40 5.' Landore 8.3511.5 7.59' 3.50 7.,59 Go ver Rd. 8.47M.25 8.19 4.3 S. 19; Loughor 8.52 11.30 8.24 4.8 8.24? Llanelly 9.0 11.40 „ 8.34! 4.178.34? 0 Pembrey 9.10 11.50 8.45 4.2o 8.45' Kid?etiy 9.22\12.2')1 8.59 4.35 8.59 0 Fei ryside 3.3212.12 9.11 4.44 9.11 • Carmarthen.. 9.47 12.27 1 9.26 4.56\ 9.26 ? r 7.' St. Clears. 1.0 5.11 7- Whitland 1.20 5.22 i 00 I !•{ Narherth Rd. 1.40 537 ??  Clarb. Rd. 2.0 5.52 ? ?t &■] Haverfo:-dwcst! 2.15 6.4 .?-? gj VP TRAINS. WEEK DAYS. Starting 1,2,3 1,2,3,1,2,3 Exp. 1, 2, 0 1, !i,3j Maii l,i>' from class class ¡ class 1 & 2, class class! 1 &  a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m pm. p.m.' p.m. p.?' Haverfordwcst 9.15,12.30 -= f 4.32 Clarb. Rd 9.27112.45 4.47  Narberth Rd 9.47 1.5 J 57 W,'iitlatid 9.57 1.20 5.22 «• St. Clears 10.11 1.') I 5.34 Carmarthen 6.30 10.35 2.5 ,-T 5.52 8. Ferryside 6.45 10.4612.20 8. ICfh'!ly 6.57 10.55j 2.32 6.1-1S.? Pe inb i-ey 7.10111.4 2.45 8? L?neUy 7.21,11.16? 2.;56d.37 9. Loughor 7.30 11.27 3.5 9" Gower Rd 7.36 3.10 L,,indore 7.56i,. 1.40 3.30 9? Swansea ..ar S.lOi 12.0 3.40 7.7 9.' Ditto .de 7.5011.3.5 3.45 1.30 712-? L?,ndare 8.511.4.5 3.50 1:'?'7 Ditto .de. /.OI',11.3'I.d,) 1.3°, ,,121 Ll.msamlet 8.17 4.2 14? Neath .ar 8.25 12.0 4.10 L53; 7.28 •' Ditto.? 8.30 12.2 4.121.557.30 ? B, iton Ferry 8.38 4.20 2.2 Port Talbot 8.51 12.13 4.28 2.10 7.42 "I Pyle 9.10 4.43 2.25 •') Bi-idgend 9.3012.35 4.56 2.40 8.7 • Pencoed 9.39 5.12 2.50 .') Llantrissant 9.55 6.28 3.5 825' St. Fagans 10.10 5.43 3.20 •' Ely 5.48 3.25 C?rdia' 8.50 10.23 1.9 5.54 3.30 8.48 MarshSetd.. 9.6 6.14 342 Newport .19.24 10.53 1.30 6.28 3.57 9.1.5 Magor. 9.44 11.12 6.49 4.14 Portskewet 9.53 I 7.2 4.26 C iepstow 10.5 11.32 1.53 7.13 4.38 9.45 •'( Woolaston 10.15 7.24 4.49j • Lydney 10.23' 11.49 7.31 4.56:10.0 G?teombe 10.291 7.38 5.3 Newnham 10.45 12.7 7.51 5.16 10 20 !12cl I 2 cl Glo'ster de j 11.28 12.-50 2.37 8.20 1 6. 11.40 •' Pi.Iin2ton 4.0 9.5 6. 10.,)1 4.50 SUNDAYS.] DOWXTKAIXS.  SUNDAYS.] LTTRAI?.j  :Hartg. from! 1,2,311,2,311,, S?artg. from 1,2,3. f,2,3. 1,2,3 Start-, froni? 1,2,3 a. m'la. 111. p. In II la. m.la. m'lp, Paddington 8.0 ii. ivest raddmgton-8.0 H.West.9.1-5  Ditto..?.3.0 Narb. Road 9.35 Chepstow 4.15 Whitland.¡.19.50; .,f! 2,ewport,. 7.38 i 5.0 St. Clears.. 10.5 New p ort. 7.38, 5.0 St. Clears.j1l00..5 35 C?rdiH' 8.3 5.24 Carmarthen 10.:i5 6,1 Lnd,!e:id.. 8.54, 6.9 Frr}:slde.¡1O.50 "vl Neath ..ar 9.38 7.5 1 Kidwelly ill.2 ^3 Ditto ..de 9.50 7.10 Pembrey 11.15 1,,ndo '10.10 7.3.3 HaneUy.H26? Swansea ai-10.15 7.40 Landore. ?o 7'' Ditt,, ..(Ie'10.20i 7.4°j.II Swan sea ar ..?125 7- Lmdore ..10.30 7.55 Ditto de 8.30' 110 7- j   LlanelIy 110.55? 8,2 I""III Landore 8.35! 1 IS 7-j Pembrey .ll.5 8.32. Neath..ar8.53l28 H Kidwelly 11.17 8.44 Ditt ocl e1.3o Purryside..ll.27 8.54 Bridgend ..1. 2.12 & Carmarthen 11.42 9.9 Card:n' a. m. 2.58 9- St. lears.. 9.29 Newport 11.0 j 3^26 l"' Whitland 9.46 Chepstow.. 11.40 4-.10 —1 Narb. Rd 10.0 Glo'ster ,*12.54 5.16 Clarb. Road 10.19 l? CG,lioe'psstetor w. .:1111..0 40 i3.261 Clarb. Road 10.19 Ditto de 15.2,51 l_.mgton .110.0
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I -Ly-kD¡;O iILW —Aj ——————————————————————?_——_  UP TRAINS. j SUN'I>AV .)  Starting From    ],  A.1II.) I. A M I Llanelly (S. W. R. St.) ?0???'?'  Dock 91o41o: ?:.? H)upa.925 4 25j •" Han?enuech 9 3) 4 35! Portardulais 9 5°1 4 50! i -'I Cross Inn 10 10? 5 100? Omnibus to Llandilo 11 40! 6 25 Cross Kevs 10 30i 30  Gelly Ceidrim. 10 311 5 31 ?.' Garuant ?10 35? 5 35 .J DOWN TRAINS. sumA 1 S From 1,2,3 1 2,3 tartmg rom lciass Ciass ]^ -¡-oj A.M P.M. A.M.¡ r? Garyiaiit 9 45 4 50 <j Gelly Ceidrini 9 49 4.54 «! Cross I(eys. 9.s0 4 55 ,< Llandilo, per Omnibus 8 55 4 0  Cros.slna 10 10 5 15 Pontardulais 10 30 5 35 Llanennech 10 45 5 50 .< Dyn? 10 55 6 0 •< ?ock n 5610 Lkuetly (S. W.R.St.) 11 10 6 15 Express to Loudon from Swansea.. 11 20 I The Omnibuses running between Cross Inn and LlanJi are not under the controul of the Company.
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VALE OF NEATH RAILWAY. J UP TRAINS I WEEK DAYS. I SUNDA Starting From 1 2 3 31231231231'^ cl*ss Class Class Class Ciaa? 0? .Nf. P .NI A.Y ]?, -l P.Ï P.M S.?nsca .dep 8 511245 3 45 7 12 8 30 7 Llansamlet I1 0 4 2 8?7' Neath arr. 8 37 1 8 4 10 7 28 8 53 7 YALE OF NEATH. I NcMh dep. 8 50: 1 30 7 45 9 0 8 j| Aberdylais 8 55i 1 35 7 50 9 5 8 Aberdylais 9 1141? 8 0916 8 Resoh'en 9 7 1 45 8 0 9 15 8 | Glvn-Neath 9 17| 1 53 8 8 J 23 8 Hirwain arr. 937? 2 13 8 28 9 43 8 IIirwain d. for Aberdare 9 43, 2 20 6 30 8 35 9 50 9J Aberdare Arrive.9 M! 2 30 6 45 8 45 10 09 Hir?-ain d. forMerthyr 9 40! 2 16 8 31 9 46 9 LhvyJcoed. 947! 223i 8 38 9 53 9 i Merthyr Arri a 10 10' 2 4-5 9 0 I 10 15 1 9j DOWN TRAINS. WEEK DAYS. SUNDAV^ 1^3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 i T 3 T bc tartmg F„ rom ClassIClass Class Class Class CM Starting From .j VALE OF NEATH. A.M.I P.M.; P.lIl'l P.M. A.M. 1" I Merthyr dep. 9 0 1 4oj 6 0 8 30 5 L?ydeoed 917 2 2!617? 8 47 6 Ilirwain arr. 923 2 8, 6 23 8 53 6 Ji Aberdare Dep?irture 9 5 1 50 6 5 8 10 8 35 5 Hirwain Arrival 9 18 2 3 6 18 8 23 8 4S 6 |'{ Ilirwain .dep. 9 26 2 l? 6 25 855G J Glyn-Neath 9 46 2 29 641 14 6 Resolven 9 56 2 38 6 53 9 23 6 Aberdylais 10 2 50 7 5 1 9 35 6 Neath arr. 10 15 255! 7 10 9 40 7 1 & 21 SOUTH WALES. Exp. ) Neuth dep.ilo 7 7 22 9 50 7 'I Llansamlet .l0 3295 7 33 10 0 7? 5 110 15 7 Swansea arr.Sll 10, 1 i 45?8 733 io '5o0 7
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