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LITERARY NOTICES. I The Greek Romances of Heliodorus, Long its, and Achillcs TaUm. Comprising the Ethiopics; or, Adventures of Theagenes and Gharkko; the Pastoral Amours of Daphius and Chloe; and the Love, of Clithopo and leucippe. Translated from the Greek, with Notes, by the Rev. Rowland Smith.—Henry G. Bohn, York-street, Covent Garden, London. Thpse Greek Romances require no explanation from us, as they are known to the general reader, who will be glad to have a translation of them so perfect as that now issued by Jlr, Bohn, who has spared no expense or trouble to obtain for this, as well as the other volumes of his Clas- sical Library, a really good translation from the original. We have critically examined this version, and admire it for its accuracy and fulness. It is well done into English, and will be highly valued by those who are not proficients in Greek. The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, Vol. V. -Henry George Buhn, York-street, Covent Garden, London. This volume contains the conclusion of the charge against Warren Hastings, and several political letters, in- cluding that addressed to a Member of the present Parlia- ment on the Proposals of Peace with the Regicide Direc- tory of France. The splendid edition, of which this i3 the fifth volume, proceeds most satisfactorily, being prepared with evident care and attention. No library should be without it. The Museum of Science and Art. Edited by Dionysius Lardner, B.C.L. Vol. VIII.-Walton and Maberly, Upper Gower-strect, and Ivy-lane, Paternoster Row, London. Attempts have at various times been made to diffuse the teachings of science and art widely among the people of this country, but never in a more easy, simple, and pleas- ing manner than by Dr. Lardner in these volumes. There is only one opinion of these works, and it is everywhere expressed in their favour. Science is stripped of technica- lities and the difficulties which ordinarily beset the path of inquiry are either removed or made easy of conquest. The illustrations are very numerous and finely executed. This volume contains-The Stellar Universe, Man, Magnifying Glasses, Instinct and Intelligence, the Solar Micoroscope, the Camera Lucida, the Magic Lantern, and the Camera Obscura. Brambletye House. By Horace Smith, The Queen's Necklace. By Alexander Dumas. (Parlour Library.) Thomas Hodgson, 13, Paternoster Row, London. These volumes are the latest additions to the Parlour Library, and they certainly rank among the best of the very many good works which have been issued in this form by Mr. Hodgson. Brambletye House" has long been fa- vourably known to the public, and the present neat edition will find a place in most libraries. The Queen's Necklace" is a work recently written by M. Dumas, whose name is a guarantee of its excellence. It is intended as a sequel to the Memoirs of a Physi- cian," but is in every respact complete in itself. Those who have read "Monte Christo" will entertain high ex- ectations of this. work, but not greater than a perusal will warrant. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine commences with an oppor- tune article on The Monopoly of Money," and is fol- lowed by the conclusion of Mary Sutherland," a tale which has found many admirers. The Reading Raids" are concluded in this number by "A gossip over the win- ter fire,a gossip, pleasant, pointed, and pungent. Dur- ing the progress of these papers we have frequently di- rected particular attention to them, from a conviction, in nowise shaken by reminiscence, that they possessed more than the ordinary merit of magazine articles, and our rea. ders will be glad to learn that the writer will continue his services, and meet them again in a new series of papers on the First of January." "Grievances of the Public Service" is a sensible paper, directed against the Super- annuation Act of 1834, which an effort is now being made to repeal. Many have long thought the tax of 5 per cent, levied on salaries over £100, and two and a half on those below that sum, notwithstanding its object—" to reduce prospectively the charge for superannuation" -is, to give it the most qualified term, a great hardship upon a portion of Her Majesty's servants, who are not over paid for the labour "iacted from them. Probably these efforts will bring about the desired change. The critique on Pres cott's History of the Reign of Philip II. is discriminat- ing and worth perusal, especially to those who have not had access to the original work. There are several cha- racteristic extracts given. We quote largely from Kin- bnrn and the Cossack." Those Cossacks were a singular people and in their manners and customs, ere they became one with the great Russian empire, offered characteristics of a very peculiar nature. Mixed up of all nations who successively invaded Eastern Europe-Goths, Russians, Bosniaks, and Tartars, fugitive serfs and outlawed noblemen of the neighbouring Palatinates, and even German, French, and Spanish ad- venturers-they formed a sort of independent republic of armed agriculturists, under the Polish lords who possessed the land and the Polish crown which held the fortresses. Although under arms, they at one and the same time ha- rassed the Russians in the north, and the Tartars in the south. As a place of safety against the probable of Khan, Czar, or Sultan, they selected a district contiguous to the falls of the Dnieper. Here that river forms a magnificent series oj cataracts, which continue for forty miles, but are not dangerous; except after heavy rains. The waters launched over these tucceissive descents spread out over the adjacent plain into a sort of. inland sea, covered with innumerable islands, which afford at once the richest pas- tures, the fairest gardens, and the strongest citadels of na- ture. It was here the Cossacks formed their camp, and lay concealed beneath the shadow of countless rocks, called Parohi, or the Ladder-steps, on which the Dnieper was ever rolling its weight of waters. From this natural for- tress they were ready at any time to pour hordes of de- stroying warriors into the heart of Russia or Poland, Bes- sarabia or the Crimea. From Poland they had now seceded, after a successful war of rebellion against their masters. But not alone on land were the Cossacks terrible; the sea was equally their battle-field. Descending the Dnieper in boats,.apparently too fragile to buffet with the waves, they smote fear and terror into the hearts of all dwellers on the borders of the Black Sea. The slumbers of the Lord of Stamboul were broken even in the vicinity of his own capital. The suburbs of Constantinople were p)uudered— the sacred Serai of the omnipotent Padishah," as Koch calls it, was menaced. TrebUond and Sinope were more than once given up to massacre and pillage. The Suitins, Lords of Morning and of Evening Land, whose frown turned the cheek of Western Europe pale, were impotent before a band of robber Cossacks. The whole of Christendom trembles at my nod," ex- claimed Sultan Murad, when he heard of an unusually daring incursion of his enemies, and yet a band of Cos- sacks causes me sleepless nights." In the beginning of the seventeenth century the Crimea and the northern coast of the Black Sea, including the mouth of the Dnieper, fully recognised the suzerainty of the Porte. Bur, in spite of this, the Cossacks persisted in their depredations, andit was vain to chase their boats of Hght draught with vessels of war, since the former were soon rescued from pursuit in the channels of the smaller rivers, or the swampy canks of the larger ones. The Turks now set to work in earnest. But to under- stand what they did, we must first cast our eyes over the map of Southern Russia. We shall there see that the river Bug flows into the Dnieper, and the Dnieper into an estuary, properly called the Liman. This name of Liman is applied to all the swampy estuaries, from the Danube to the Dnieper. It is of Turkish origin, and means a port. However this may be, it is now principally used to desig- nate the species of 13guniY into which the Dnieper falls ere it merges into the sea. This lagune is some thirty to forty miles long, and five or six broad, and is of a some- what oval shape. It terminates towards the sea in a nar- row channel formed by two projecting promontories-a channel of rather less than a mile in width, and very shal- low; for at the promontories it is nowhere more than four fathoms deep, and higher up it shoals off to three. On these promontories the Turks determined to build two for- tresses— one on the east side, called Kinburn or Kil- bourn the other on the west side, called Oczakoff or Ochakoff. The latter was near the site of a Genoese fort whose ruins still gleam over the waters. This fort stood on a low point projecting from the cliff, of moderate height, on whose summit Oczakoff was built. On the left bank, how- ever, on the tongue of sand formed by the alluvial deposits of the Dnieper, the principal citadel, that of Kinburn, was erected. In both directions, both up and down the estuary, it has now a complete superiority of command. Besides these strongholds, the Turks threw a large iron chain over the Dnieper some distance higher up, and sta- tioned bodies of troops on either bank to watch and guard the passage with cannon, whose cross volleys, it was thought, would thenceforth be sufficient to stop the Cos- sack boats in their descent to the Black Sea. Not so, however for in the depth of night, when the wuiUg were high and the heaVens were clouded, the watch- men were often deceived. They noticed, as they thought the approach of the enemy toward the great chain, and pointed their cannon toward the impeiilled spot. Hoarse and angry boomed the thunder of those terrible instru- ments of war. But it was not the Tchaika, or Cossack Oats, that had shaken the chain, it was large trunks of trees, which the bold adventurers had allowed to drift in front of them, and receive the whole broadside. In their rear, the Cossacks approached gently and cautiously, and so succeeded in crossing the dangerous passage. By day, they concealed themselves in the ozier beds on the marshy banks, or covered their boats with reeds, that they might escape the notice of their enemies. The return was still more difficult, and, through the watchfulness of the Turkish videttes, the passage of the Dnieper was rendered fearfully dangerous. In order to avoid it the Cossacks generally went through the Straits of Kertch into the Sea of Azov, and thence up the Don to the confluence of the Donctz. It depended on the state of the water how far they proceeded up this tributary stream. As soon as the navigation was found impossible, the Cos- sacks carried their light boats, which only consisted of a hollow willow or poplar tree, on their shoulders to the Samara, and thus reached their homes, perhaps after three, four, or six months delay. Soon, however, the restraint which the Turks thus vainly endeavoured to put upon the Cossacks was incurred by themselves, in their voluntary recognition of the Czar as their suzerain, in the year 1654. They for some time, indeed, still continued their free and easy method of deal- ing with their neighbours' property; but by and by Peter the Great ascended the throne, and brought them to a stricter submission. Fort St. Elizabeth was built on the Dnieper to hold them somewhat in check. They gradually became merged in the uniformity of the Russian Empire, till, ultimately, in 1804, their privileges as an independent race were all but taken away. When the Cossacks disappeared in the vortex of Mus- covite dominion, the Turks found they had only exchanged a band of republican freebooters for an empire of system- atic aggressors. The estuary of the Dnieper again became the scene of conflicts. In 1747 Munich led his serried hosts against Oczakoff-then a fortress whose walls were twenty-five feet high. The Turks fought like madmen, and 18,000 Russian corpses bore record to their prowess in defence. But the Spread Eagle waved over the dismantled walls, and that was all Munich cared for. Soon, however, the Turks approached with an army of 70,000 strong, and the Russians were in turn assaulted. They fought then as they fight now at Sebastopol, and drove the Osmanlies away with the loss of 20,000 men-at least, according to their own accounts. When the peace of Belgrade was signed, in 1739, Oczakoff was again ceded to Turkey but with all its more important works destroyed. The Turks, however, fortified it anew in 1743, and held it until 1788, when, after a siege of six months, Potemkin decided on a general assault. Suwaroff was his lieutenant on the occa- sion. In the night of the 17th of December, he took the works by storm, though they had only been slightly breached. Yet the attempt would have failed, had it not been for the explosion of a powder magazine in the enemy's stronghold. Suwaroff was wounded; the slaughter was terrible; the city was plundered for three days more than 30,000 human beings perished on both sides ;—but such is glory, and Potemkin, as a reward for his achievement, received the great riband of St. George, a present of 100 roubles, the title of Hetman of the Cossacks, and a baton set with diamonds and encircled with branches of laurel. In 1791, Oczakoff was definitely ceded to Russia. Its lister fortress, Kinburn, had been earlier attacked and easier won. Demolished by the Russians in 1736, it had been again restored to Turkey, and rebuilt. When Catha- rine gained the Crimea in 1774, she also gained the left bank of the Dnieper as far as the sea. Oczakoff on the one side, and Kinburn on the other, thus became the out- posts of Ottoman and Muscovite dominion. In 1787, the Turks endeavoured to regain their lost stronghold. They besieged it both by sea and land; but Suwaroff, after considerable loss, succeeded in repulsing them. We have no sympathy with those who attempt to interpret what is denominated prophecy. Who has any right to enter within the sacred domain of the ancient seer ? Surely this age is not favoured with another Daniel to tell the dream and the interpretation thereof." The world has had enough of those who from the Book of the Revelation of St. John in Patmos pretend to tear away the veil from the future-to trace a seeming resemblance be- tween the mystical writings of prophets and the events of the times in which they live. Out upon such impotent assumptions We have only glanced through the paper Who are the Kings of the East ?" which aims at an in- terpretation of the text "And the Sixth Angel poured out his phial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the Kings of the East might be prepared" and must confess that it is no to our liking, with every allowance for a deep-rooted pre- judice. We are all more or less curious, but why should the propensity to pry into futurity lead to absurdities ? There are several other papers in this number, which is altogether a good one. During the year Tait has certainly improved, and bids fair to regain the reputation of old lang syne." The best things in Punch are made familiar to our rea- ders through these columns, and in noticing this monthly part we have only to add that its high character is fully sustained. The Family Friend for 1855. The hackneyed phrase multum in parvo is the fittest description of this little serial, which is literally filled to repletion with the useful and amusing. It merits at our bauds unqualified appro- val, and we readily accord it. The Editor tells us that the great aim has been to raise the standard of comfort, to inculcate a knowledge of useful things, and to combine with truthful facts those lighter features which recreate the mind and encourage home amusements, as well as occu- pations." This is no easy task, but it has been most suc- cessfully accomplished. We know of no cheap serial which we would place on our domestic table in preference to the Family Friend.
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Home Tooke was the son of a poulterer, which he al- luded to when called upon by the proud striplings of Eton to describe hiwself-" I am," said young Home, the son of an eminent Turkey merchant." A REAL HONEY-BEE.—A lady last week sent to every police-box for the poor a cheque for £.50. The donor is only known as Lady C. B." But what a Honey-B! The very best possible Honey-B! for does not the B. impart the sweets of charity when most wanted-in a time of winter ? May the best of flowers never fail such a B —Punch. ADVICE TO BARRISTERS.—During a trial in the Court of Common Pleas, on Monday, Mr. Hawkins, counsel for the defendant, having commenced his address to the jury with the words, I regret to say my client insists upon going into the witness box," Mr. Justice Cresswell said, Ob, don't say a word about what your client insists upon. I used, when I was at the bar, to say to my client, 'Either let me manage your case for you or conduct it yourself.' It is becoming too much the fashion to say, My client insists and it looks as if you were going to do something wrong. At all events, keep your own counsel, whatever pressure you may be subjected to." Sentence of transportation is sometimes received with exultation by hardened criminals. The Scotsman says- The late Lord Cockburn's sense of humour sometimes tempted him to a gentle and quaint expression of its ex- uberance. On a very brisk and emphatic Thank you, my lord," he would say, in his grave sarcastic manner, "You're very welcome." On one occasion, when a little vixen clapped her hands and cried out, I'll get a black man, now," there was an irresistible mixture of the sad and ludicrous in his face when he said, "I sincerely pity the black man." The Empress Catherine of Russia was a zealous col- lector, and cherished the memory of her predecessor, the Czar Peter, with almost a fervid veneration. She had read or been informed, that while in London, when he landed from Deptford at the Tower Stairs, there was a public-house in Great Tower-streeet at which he used to stop and refresh himself, and that, in compliment to his visits there, the Czar's Head w?s set up as a sign. Learning it was still there she directed her ambassador, Count Woronzow, to obtain the sign-board for her; but the Count on application found that Boniface was simply a tenant, and in the disposition or removal of the sign- board he had not the slightest control; on applying to the owner of the house, there was no desire to part with the Czar's Head, till the Empress's representative pro- posed, in lieu of the old sign, to replace it by a new one, paying all the charges, and a further sum of £ 500. The old Czar's Head was soon shipped to St. Petersburg.— Willis's Current Notes. THE PKOXIMATE CAUSE or CONSUMPTION.—We do not, after a due consideration of the Greek, Roman, and Arabic medical recordp, I conceive, find that phthisis, by them indeed often confounded with othpr diseases of the theracic organs, occupied that place in their attention which had it been equally frequent in their times as in ours, it must needs have done. The ordinary habit of the ancients Greeks, Romans, and Arabs alike-was not only to spend a great deal of their lives in the open air by day, but also to pass the night in chambers communicating by an open door with an open door. Modern usuages are very different. fhe shut up bedroom, with closed doors and windows, its curtains, carpets, blinds, and hangings; in short its every apparent expedient for promoting the stagnation, and impurity of the atmosphere is now the rule, as in former times it was the exception. If we admit, as we must needs admit, that air was given to be respired, and the lungs to respire it withal, how shall we explain our management of the atmosphere, which we treat as if air, pure and unalloyed, were not day and night, ever and always, the most absolute and unconditional of all require- ments, impossible short of disease and death to be done without ? The habits and usages of daily life, the palliation sought in, if not yielded by our climate, the requirements, real or artificial, of trade, commerce, industry, combined with the utmost incredible ignorance ahd indifference as to organic necessities.of the masses, all unite to create and aggravate the disastrous results flowing from the respiration of an atmosphere loaded with human excretions, and almost utterly unfit for human jequirements.—M'Cormac on Qomumption..
NEGOTIATIONS BY GERMAN INTERFERENCE…
NEGOTIATIONS BY GERMAN INTERFERENCE I AGAIN.-By KOSSUTH. I I desire but to establish two facts: the one is that some- thing is undoubtedly stirring in secret diplomatic quarters; the second is, that German hands are conspicuously busy in knotting the plot. This latter circumstance should arouse the English public to take care of the Commonwealth provided any- thing in the world could arouse them—a point on which I entertain very strong misgivings. The hallucination does still prevail that, by one trick or another, Germany" might still be brought round to do good service to England, whether for peace or war against Russia. This hallucination has its origin in a strange misconcep- tion (not to say deliberate ignorance) of the true nature of the political relations existing between the German Go- vernments and Russia. To elucidate the matter, I will let Russia speak for her- self; and quote some passages from a Russian circular note confidentially communicated to the German Governments in 1834, a document casting such light upon their char- acter and political condition, that I regret its length does not allow of its full reproduction :— The confederation of the numerous German Governments (says Russia,) by no means can ever be so accurately ad- justed as not to be exposed to attempts at a distutbance of their reciprocal tquilibrium in favour of the more powerful anongst them. It is, therefore, fortunate if a great foreign counterpoise can be found, with the aid of which a successful resistance may be offered by the weaker to the ambition of the more powerful in the Confederation. We say, deliberately, foreign counterpoise," because in the conflict between Austria and Prussia for supremacy in the German Confederation, the league of all the other German Governments as resumed in the Federal Assembly cannot constitute a counterpoise, unless the Assembly assumes the position of an independent great Power in the North-European State-complex, or else associates itself to a foreign great European power. Now, without Austria and Prussia the minor German Governments cannot aspire to the position of an independ- ent European power with Austria and Prussia, they themselves, if Idt alone, are subject to a tutorship ineon- sisteut with the position of sovereigns. Atid yet, however the minor German States may differ between themselves, in that one point all of them agree, that they do not like to sink down either to Austrian or Prussian pro- vinces. Therefore, it is only the alliance and protection of a great foreign power which can atford security to the German Confederation. The choice does but lie between France and Russia; England is out of the question. She is but strong as a maritime power; she can afford no protection to Germany, After a lengthened argumentation to the effect that the German Governments have nothing to hope, have rather everything to fear from France, the document thus proceeds I Considerations of internal as well as of external security, unite to show that Russia, and Russia alone, can afford protection to the German Confederation. Past history must teach the German Governments that though they mutually guaranteed to each other their pos- sessions and constitution, it is Russia's protection that gua- rantees them all. Without that protection they sink at once into mere Austrian and Prussian provinces with it, they have nothing to fear from the preponderance of Austria and Prussia. Austria cannot dare to desert Russia and go over to France and England, as Talleyrand had imagined. Austria would easier be coerced by Russia than Prussia can be by England. Such an attempt on the part of Austria would only hasten the moment when the Slavonic Latin and Hungarian elements of her dominions will sufficiently have reasserted their national existence to deprive Austria of any hope to supremacy over Germany. Besides, should Austria ever pass over to the French and English side, it would be but one reason more for the rest of Germany to draw closer to Russia because with her they have nothing to fear from Austria. As to Prusssia, she of herself cannot easily gain a pre- ponderance over Austria in Germany; but what Prussia may be unable to accomplish alone, she may accomplish with the assistance of a great foreign power, should the other German Governments give reason to that foreign power to wish that Prussia shall be preponderant in Germany. Therefore, it is to be expected that the German Govern- ments will always acknowledge not only the advantage, but also the absolute necessity of a close alliance with ltus^a, consequently will always seek it, Sach is the purport of that remarkable document. A little reflection on it might enable any man of ordinary common sense to understand that it is utterly absurd on the part of the Western Powers to imagine that, by what- ever trick they can detach one or the other of the German Governments from their adherence to that Russia by whom they live, move, and exist. They must be Russians, all and every one of them, from the Hapsburgs and Braden- burgs, across the Wittelsbachs, and what's their name, and the king of Reus-Sleicz-Gleitz Lobecsteins, down to the reigning Potentate of Saxe-Coburg-Gosha, all of them are, and must be, Russian partizans, or else resign their present comforts, and future hopes, To Austria, Russia thus speaks :I Mind this, if thou darest to revolt against me, I will assist Prussia to be- come thy better in Germany and if thou provokest me, I tell thee that I can dissolve the unnatural compound of thy empire into its heterogeneous elements." And, in truth, that she could have done before 1848 already; how much more after 1848 Still we meet with English publicists arguing on the interest Austria has in not allowing Russia to encroace on the East, and endeavouring to show that the opportunity has arrived for Austria to make herself independent of Russia But that's absolute nonsense, Do what you like with Russia, burn her fleets, batter her fortresses, slaughter her armies, you cannot deny that, unless you have recourse to a Polish campaign, Russia, in her most prostrate condition, still has it in her power to blow asunder like chaff the unnatural compound of the Austrian Empire, with one word addressed to the heterogeneous elements. And what could you do to help Austria in such a case ? I know perfectly well that my Lord Palmerston is not wanting in affection and wish to assist Austria even against her own nations but where to get the means and power to do it ? With your army in the Crimea ? which one year's campaign "has reduced to something like a garrison at Balaklava, and to a little appendix here and there to the French army ? Besides, my lords and gentlemen oL the Treasury Bench nny go a long way with the passivity of the British people but just try and call on their activity to enlist for the purpose of fighting for Austria against Hungary and Italy; and you may go ad Garamantas et Indos for recruits in England your recruiting sergeants would scarcely get many of them, neither on the European or American continent. You have not the power to save Austria Bonaparte cannot dare to undertake it; but Russia has the power to blow her asunder, ad libitum; then, what man in his senses can doubt that if Austria is allowed to have any influence either in the Cabinet or in the field, that influence must naturally be exerted in favour of Russia ? With regard to Prussia and the minor German Princes, the tale runs thus To the Brandenburge the CzH thus speaks: Without my protection you could not overawe the constitutional aspirations of your subjects, nor could rivalise with Austria for that supremacy in Germany which is the hereditary aspiration of your own house. Neither France nor England can afford you assistance, or hold out to you a like prospect. You have nothing to hope from them, therefore have no fear of them. If they meant to do you any harm by conspiring for Austria, I can do tenfold the harm to Austria, and the balance is over-restored in your favour Prussia may become Ger- many. To the little princes, on the other hand, the Czar thus speaks; Ye little ones, if I do not protect you, to-morrow you are but officers of your two mightier confederates, who tn-iy divide you at pleasure between themselves. Neither France nor still less England can maintain your frail existence I can, through the hold I have over Austria and Prussia. Therefore, either friends to Russia, or else Austrian and Prussian provinces, that is your choice." • Such is the condition in Germany. Draw the inference in what line, the German hands must busy themselves in the negotiations about a Russian peace. But I have heard Englishmen say, and seen Englishmen write, that this is a disgrace for Germany." She should avail herself of the present opportunity for re-asserting the national dignity of Germany, by casting off the shameful yoke of Russia. Great errors sometimes arise from the misapplication of a name. Germany but Germany does not exist It is, what old Metternich said in fieMish mockery of Italy, a geographical denomination the Germans are what the Hungarians, the Italians, the Poles are-a nationality deprived of national existence by princes and kings. Their road towards becoming a nation goes through the field of the revolution which is sure to come. To throw off the Russian yoke they must shake off the satraps of Russia, as registered in the Gotha Almanack up to the dreadful number of nineteen hundred male and female. If England desires Germany to cast off Russia she had to call on the 40 millions of Germans to send their representatives there where now that strange assembly is sitting, which the Germans characterise by the trival proverb deutscher Bund toller hund then you might see a Germany an) thing but Russian. Of this Germany, however, your rulers will not hear, they shudder at the very idea of it. When they say Germany, they mean Hapsburgs, Bradenburgs, and so on, to Mecklenburgs and Ccburgs aud as to these, the endea- vour to bring them round is just so much as if you were addressing them in these terms, 11 Friend it is a disgrace to you that you live by the grace of Russia, therefore, please do us the favour and die." Some months ago England and Bonaparte boasted in the prudent determination not to allow henceforward the German governments to meddle or to interfere in any way between them and Russia. Words! mere words. "The grapes are not ripe," said the fox. Now the leaves have turned. Military operations are suspended for the sake of affording free scope for German interference, of course, preconcerted with Russia. But that may just be the reason why they are listened to anew. Wish you much Christ- mas joy to the compozy.-Ailas,
MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.…
MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. I A statue of the late Duke of Wellington, by Baron Marochetti, is about to be erected in Leeds, near the new Town Hall. An Ultramontane journal, to resemble the Univers of Paris, is about to appear at Vienna. MM. Lorieux and Eugene de Fourey are praparing for publication, in seventeen large maps, an Atlas of subter- ranean Paris. Madame Goldsmidt Lind has been engaged by the Liverpool Philarmonic Society for Grand Concerts on 4th and 7th January. Our Transatlantic friends are persevering in their en- deavours to bring the two sexes to a position of perfect equality. Among their latest innovations are horse races with female riders. A company is about to be formed in Limerick for the distillation of brandy from beet root. By the death of Michael Voorsanry, at Pesth, Ilungirv has lost one of her greatest poets. An epic, entitled "Zalan futasa," is his principal work. A bust of the late James Montgomery, the poet, exe- cu!ed by Mr. William Ellis, has been presented to the Sheffield Infirmary. I Russia is impol ting grain from Prussia; in Courland, Livonia, and Finland, the list harvest was insufficient for the wants of the inhabitants. A deceased Quaker has left £ 100 to each of the Quaker deputation to the late Emperor of Russia, and £ 1,500 each to Mr. Cobden and Mr. Bright. The Emperor of the French has subscribed E50 to the fund for the erection of a monument to the late Marquis of Londonderry. Mrs. Gaskell, of Manchester, has undertaken to write the Life of Charlotte Bronte" (author of Jane Eyre"), having been requested to do so by both father and hus- band. The New York Crystal Palace was offered to the Ame- rican Institute for one-sixth of the sum it cost the offer was declined. T The bexton oi Uuhompton, in Devonshire, who uied a few days since, had buried upwards of 4,000 persons, while the population of the town is only 3,055. It is said that the sextonship had been in his family for a period of 200 years. The sword about to be presented by the people of Glasgow to Sir Colin Campbellwil1 be a Highland basket- hilled dress onr, and will cost X200, of which E140 has been already subscribed in shillings. The Lyons journals speak of a spectacle at once sin- gular and touching. Eight one-handed Zouaves from the Crimea have been seen walking in the streets, in twos, keeping together by the only arm which is left them. Out of 3,400,000 acres of arable land in Scotland, there were last year 22,000 acres in bare fallow, while in a district of Yorkshire, containing 700,000 acres, there weie 22,000 in fallow, a startling and significant fact. The hares which are to be noticed in the London mar- kets are not wholly the productiou of this country. "ihe majority of these creatures arc imported from Holland, and are sold at a cheap rate. A farmer named Nolan, in the county of Carlow, has entered his 114th year he is in full possession of all his faculties, except partial deafness, arid is probably the oldest subject of Her Majesty. Sir Hamilton Seymour arrived at Vienna on Wednes- day night, and took up his quarters at the "Roman Em- peror." Lord Bloomfield has returned to Berlin. The clergy of the diocese of Norwich are about to try the experiment of circulating useful, instructive, and re- ligious books among the labouring classes of the rural districts, by means of licensed hawkers. Messrs. Newall and Co., of Gateshead, the wire rope manufacturers, are engaged in making a telegraphic line of upwards of 800 miles in length, which will unite Con- stantinople and Alexandria. Mr. Charles Bradweil Claydon, barrister-at-law, and re- porter for the Justice of the Peace, has been sent to hard labour for a month for deserting his wife and seven children, while he was cohabiting with another woman. Mr. Robert Stephenson, C.R., has undertaken to dis- charge one-half the debts cf the Literary and Philoso- phical Society of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, which amount to £ 6,200, it his fellow members will subsciibe the other portion. The annual deposit of plans and seetions for new rail- ways and extensions of old ones and for other miscel- laneous public works, was completed on Friday week, the number of plans deposited for railways being 82, and for miscellaneous public works 40—in all 122. Mr. Bates, the eonvict banker, has had drawn up a me- morial to Her Majesty, praying for pardon, mainly on the ground that, though nominally a partner, he was, in fact, but a head clerk in the firm, and was ignorant, to a great extent, of the fraud s carried on by Strahan and Paul. On Sunday afternoon, a meeting of chartists was held in the open air in Stevenson's square, Manchester, for the purpose of considering the important questions of dear bread and justice." The obvious object of the assemblage (says the Manchester Guardian) was to arouse a chartist agitation, based on the present high prices of provi- sions. A rule nisi has been granted against Mr. George Wal- ford, the proprietor of the Banbury Adcertiser. for libel- ling -the magistrates, by saying that the bench had determined to help the churchwardens through the mire," in enforcing the cemetery rate, anil otherwise imputing to them ignorance and personal bias in the matter. The Bavarian Government has just admitted Prussian aud Saxon paper money to free circulation within its territority. This measure is reciprocal among those three states, and may be looked on as the first step towards a general reform in the paper currency of the Confe- deration. Pubilc attention has been called of late to living links that connect us with Dr. Johnson and De Foe. A link of a longer chain has just been broken. The following announcement to be seen in the newspapers on Thursday last takes us back to the time of Cromwell and Charles li. :-Died, on the 17th ult at his residence, Grecian- place, Lincoln," aged 80, Robert Bunyan, Esq,, the last male descendant in a direct line from John Bunyan, the author of the celebrated allegory "Pilgrim' Progress." The last male descendant of John Bunyan died one hun- dred and sixty-seven years after the glorious old dreamer, and the last male descendant of Sir Walter Scott died 20 years after the illustrious novelist! It will be recollected that Mr. Curtis, the British Con- sul at Cologne, was lately sentenced to imprisonment by the Prussian Courts for an offence in connexion with the enlistment of Germans for the British German Legion. We have reason to believe that on the facts of the case being represented to the King of Prussia, his Majesty Was pleased to pardon Mr. Curtis, and order his immediate telease.-Globe. Two actions were decided by the Correctional Tribunal of Paris on Tuesday. M. Goupy, formerly banker, a!- leged that the directors of the Credit Mobilier had frau- dulently caused a rise in their shares, and that they could net pay their dividends. Unable to substantiate his charges, Goupy withdrew them. The directors, how- ever, insisted that the case should come on, and the result was their honourable discharge. Goupy was fined 500 francs with costs. The activity of the Pontifical Government through its subordinates was exemplified recently in a case at Bo- logna. One Dr. Galletti came into collusion with the Police, by whom he was arrested. Father Freletti, a Do- minician Friar, and member of the Holy Office, chimed the surrender of Galleti, apart from the question of his offence, expressly on the fcore that the prisoner" per- tained to the Holy Office." The head of the Police re- fused obedience to this demand Freletti appealed to the Pro-Legate; the appeal was successful; Galletti was sur- rendered by order, and he subsequently went at large. At the Taunton assizes, on Thursday, Thomas Tutton was tried for attempting to poison his father. The case excited great interest, as the chief witnesses were the fa- ther, mother, and four sisters of the accused. The cries and screams of the women when brought into court to give their evidence were appalling." The Jury, after brief consultation, found a verdict of not guilty Sir Itobert Peel has found it necessary to publish a let- ter correcting erroneous interpretations" of his Tam- worth speech. In his address, he says, he stated that, "rightly or wrongly," an impression was alhat that all had not been done by our fleets that might have been expected." He did not discuss whether that impression was correct or erroneous; he showed that energy on the part of the Government had not been vtaiiting he left his auditors "to draw their conclusion." When he said that we formerly gained victories at 200 yards from the muzzle of the guns on the enemy's batteries," he did not blame our commanders. In fact, by his remarks 11 no reflection whatever was intended on the Allied Fleets." Justice Crampton says that the whole body of the law rests upon the oath and if the Bible be burned the su- perstructure of the administration of justice tumbles to pieces, tvith all the obligations of society. Now it is the doctrine of our law that an oath may be administered in a form binding upon the conscience of the witness, and we allow Chinese witnesses to attest their oath by the breaking of a saucer. Will Justice Crampton assert that to treat a saucer with contempt, or to break it, would de- stroy British administration qua Cliiiese ? The answer will be important in Hongkong. Further, we may ask, would the breaking of saucers effect a break-down of the Chinese empire ? The subject is worth the attention of missionaries.—Spectator. IIOLLOWAY'S PII.LS stand pre-eminent for the cure of Asthma.—Mr. Griffith, Gardner, of Pellygynin 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 together; 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 cure and ha now enjoys most excellent health. STORM IN THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND.—The north of Scotland has been visited by a severe snowstorm. It commenced on Wednesday and continued all the week, The snow was lying to a considerable depth in the coun- try, and some of the roads were nearly impassable. The wind being from the N. W., the shipping on the road was not in danger, but a few losses have occurred. ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.—The following pre- ferments and appointments have been recently made Archdeaconry: Rev. II, Moore, to Stafford Prebendary: Rev. T. Hanker, to Henstridge, in Wells Cathedral. Ho- norary Canonries Rev. W. H. Brandreth, to Manchester Cathedral; Rev. J. E. Jackson, to the Cathedral Church of Bristol. Rectories: Rev. G. 0. Mullins, to Chedzoy, Somerset Rev. G. H. Newman, to West Lydford, So- merset Rev. H. J. Walker, to Burythorpe, Yorkshire Rev. E. E. Wilmot, to All Soul's, St. Marylebone. Vi- carage Rev. J. II. Evans, to the vicarage of Meniot, So- merset; Rev. J T. F. Hicks, to Ampleforth, Yorkshire. Curacies, &c. Rev. A. F. Carey, to Moncktou Combe, Somerset; Rev. II. Colby, to Ansford, Somerset Rev. W. C. Evans, to Shdbrooke, YOI kshire; Rev. F. W. Kingsford, to East Dereham, Norfolk Rev. G. Elton, to Windford, Somerset; Rev. R. J. -F. Lambert, to Fresh- ford, Somerset; Rev. W. F. Lanfear, to Christ Church, Weston super msre Rev. It. Mallock, to Barwirk, Somer- set Ilsv. J. W. Ramsey, to Giys Thurrock, Essex Rev. II. T. Salmon, to Twickenham, Middlesex; Rev. G. N. Smith, to Preston and Norton sub Hamdon, Somerset; Itev. J. Taylor, to Lredon, near Tewkesbury Rev. F. P. I Willington, to Trowell, Notts Rev. W. Y. Patchell, curate of St. Mary, Nottingham, to the new district church of Drone-End, Gedney, in the diocese of Lincoln Rev. Dr. M. O'Stsllivfin to be domestic chaplain to the Duke of Manchester; Ilev. E. Richardson to be chaplain of the County Prison, Louth. By letters of request from the Bishop of St. David's, a suit was before the Arches Court on Thursday (before S r John Dodson), promoted by Mr. Burder against the Rev., Richard Puhe, incumbent of the perpetual curacy of Llanddewi-Ystradenny, united with the perpetual curacy of Llanvihangel Rhydithon, both in the county of Radnor and diocese of St. David's. The charge against the rev. gentleman was, that within two years previously to the j commencement of these proceedings he had offended against the laws ecciesiastical by having been an habitual drunkard, and guilty of the crime of drunkenness, and also by having been guilty of profane and indecent lan- guage and conversation, and of conduct and demeano ir unbecoming a clergyman, and by having thereby brought greut scandal on the Church. Articles were brought in, in which it was alleged that on the 20th of February, 1S47, Mr. Pughe was duly admitted to the perpetual curacies in question that in May, 1849, a commission was issued by the Bishop cf St. David's to niuke inqkiiry as to the grounds of a charge of intoxica ion that Mr. Pughe acknowledged the offence, whereupon the bishop suspend- ed him for two years, condemned him in the costs of the proceedings, and directed that at the expiration of the term he should produce a certificate, under the hands of three beneficed clergymen, of good behaviour during the term of suspension that the certificate having been pro- duced, the suspension was taken off, and Mr. Pughe was reinstated in his clcrical office; that he was still a,idicted to the drinking of spirituous and other liquors to excess, so as frequently to be in a s'hte of intoxication; that he repeatedly uttered oaths and imprecations, and made use of profane and indecent language in his conversation. The articles then went on to charge specific instances, and alleged that-" 011 the 12th of February, 1854, Mr. Pughe on his way to the parish church, took in his pocket a bottle full of gin, of which he drank a considerable portion, and on his arrival at the church Hinced that he was in a state of intoxication that on reading the prayers and in preaching the sermon he made many mistakes, and repeat- ed words and sentences many times over. Being accused of being drunk, he did not deny it; that on the 8th of December last he was-at an iron drinking spirits until he was in a state of helpless intoxication that in May, 1855, he was found fishing in the river Ithnn, trespassing on the lands of Sir John Walsh, and when requested to desist therefrom by a servant, he swore at him that on the 11th of June he drank to excess at the Llanddewi Inn, and, when in a state of intoxication, having asked persons assembled there to treat him to brandy, challenged them to fight, and struck one of them with a whip, which he broke over his head that on the 15th and 16th of the same month, on the occasion of a sale of his farming stock and furniture, he was intoxicated, and offered to tight divers persons who attended the sale that on the 18th, he was in the same state at the interment of one of his parish- ioners that on the 23rd he hired lodgings at the Llafl- ddewi Inn, where he continued for three week, associat- ing with labourers and others, and was habitually drunk and similar conduct was charged on several subsequent occasions. The result was that for a considerable time past the parishioners had declined to attend the parish church, and the congregation commonly consisted of two or three persons only besides the parish cleik. Mr. Pughe, who appeared by a proctor, admitted the truth of all the charges brought against him. The judge,in passing sentence, said ;-The Court had been very strongly urged to deprive him of his benefice, but the learned counsel, although they had commented upon the case with great ability, yet had been unable to produce a single case in which the Court had considered itself authorised in pursuing that course where the charges were similar to the present. He should be very unwilling to pronounce sentence of deprivation upon grounds which had never been considered sufficient for that purpose. He thought he should adequately punish Mr. Pughe by suspeuding him for a longer period than any clergyman had ever been i suspended before for an offence of this kind-namely, for five years ab officio et benejicio, at the expiration of which he must produce a certificate from three beneficed clergy- men in the neighbourhood as to his conduct during that time. He must condemn Mr. Pughe in the costs of the proceedings, and would direct the sentence to be published on Sunday week." THE BEGINNING OF THE END.-The Imperial Com- mercial Bank of Odessa has suspended cash payments. Its notes are now inconvertible, and those who hesitate to accept them are denounced as enemies of the State. This is exactly what happened during the former wars in Russia, and what we predicted would happen as soon as the Emperor began to decree large additional issues of paper at the beginning of the present war. In former wars the rouble note, which had been originally issued at a value of thirty-eight pence, gradually fell in value till it was worth little more than tenpence; and in the course of time a decree was issued, by which three and a half of those notes, originally issued as roubles, should be re- ceived by the State in exchange for one rouble note of full value. The latter are the notes that are now about to I follow the example of former issues;—and if the war lasts, we shall no doubt find all the paper currency in. convertible, and very much depreciated. An impression prevails in some quarters that Russia requires a little of the precious metals to carry on a war, and that her re- sources of men, provisions, &c are to be found in abun- dance within herself. Nothing can be a greater error. No country in the world has such extensive and expensive foreign agencies to sustain unsupported anywhere by public opinion, she can only purchase influence by extrava- gant payments. Again, her large foreign purchases must be made upon the most expensive plans. In point of fact, the precious metals which Russia must require at the present time, to make her foreign payments must be of very large amount, to say nothing of what she must have to secure the convertibility of her krge paper circuhlion, and for other necessary objects. From information which has reached us, we arc disposed to believe that the suspension of the B mk of Odessa is only a preiude to the other banks taking the same course. For some time past convertibility has been but a name; as no one has ventured, without great danger, to demand specie in exchange for notes. TIIE Disrtrri; WITH THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAIL- WAY.—The adjourned half-yearly meeting of the Eisterii Counties Railway Company to receive the report of the Committee of Investigation was hell on Friday Mr. David Watdinglon in the chair. From beginning to end all was storm, strife, and confusion. The shareholders fiercely resented the appearance of Mr. Waddington in the chair. The Secretary was not allowed to read the minutes of the last 'ncf!ia?. Mr. Box suggested that Mr. Waddington shouid not be permitted to act as chairman. Mr. Wad- b t-con fir!ned dington, grounding himself on his legal right-confirmed by the Company's solicit or-liell his place, but vainly de- manded a hearing. He was allowed to account for the absence of five members of the dtrection: Mr. Smythe was suffering from the effects of a serious accident; Mr. Packe was laid up with the gout Lord Alfred Pdget was in at- tendance oil the Queen and Mr. Fane had addressed to the Secretary a letter explanatory of his absence. Mr. Waddington persisted in spealting pledging himself to answer the charges in the report and concluded by moving an adjournment till the 3d of January. Mr. E. Bill, M P. asked whether one who knew in his conscience that he had clean hands would require seven days or seven hours to answer the accusations ? Mr. Pulley moved that the report should be received and adopted. Mr. M'Lauren moved that the report should be received, and the meeting stand adjourned till the 3d of January. The amendment was negatived by a vast majority, and the original resolution carried. A poll was demanded, and granted; a step on the part of the chairman (ollowed by twenty minutes of uproar, during which nobody heard what anybody said. Mr. Pulley then moved that Mr. Waddington should no longer be chairman of the Company that his pay should cease from that day and that he should be requested to resign. On this Mr. Waddington made a stand. He would answer the charges minutely, explicitly, and deliberately; but he required time he would not abandon his position let their resolution be what it might, he was their legal chairman until next February. The resalution was carried. Next, the Committee of Investigation was ordered to continue its labours until February text tn confer with the Directors, and make suggestions for the administration of the Company's affairs. It was resolved that no order from Mr. Waddington be attended to from the present time." Here again 11r. Waddington made ai, ineffectual opposition. The Directors who are proved not to have watched over the interests of the shareholders were to be requested tDTesign and votes of thanks were passed to Mr. Bruce, Mr. Broadbent, Mr. Margrave, and Mr. Simpson. At the close of the proceedings the demand for a poll on the first resolution was withdrawn, and the meet ing dispersed in noise. ¡
RAILWAY TIME TABLE.1
RAILWAY TIME TABLE. 1 SOUTH WALES RAILWAY. I DOWN TItAIXS. WEEK DAYS. I Starting 1,2,3 1,2,3 1.2,41 1,2,3 Exp.,t,?.i,? 1 from class class class class 1  class class. 1 & 2 a.m. a.m., a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. p. Paddington. 6.50 9..40 10.0 12.50 .10 Glo'ster de 6.45 10.25 3.0 12.48 3.0 5.55 2.1? Oaliley-st 110.40? 3.15 3.15 •• Newnh?m 7.5 10.58 3.30 3.30 6.25 2.3 Gatcomle 7.13 11.5 3.40 3.40 6.35 6 Lidney 7.23 11.16! 3.52 3.52 6.47 2.56 Woo!aaton 7.31?11.2-,? 4.2 4.2 6.57 Chepatow 7-4111.42i 4.18 1.32 4.18 7.10 3.12 Portskewet 7.5o'l 1 52 4.30 4.30 7.20 Magor 7.58112,2 i 4.41 4.41 7.30 Newport 8.23\ 12.22! 5.7 1.55 5.7 7.50 3.40 M?-shfictd 8.33112.34 5.22 5.22 Cardiff 8.47112.45 ? 5.35 2.16 5.35 8.15 4.4 E!y 8.53 12.52 5.50 5.50 St. Fa?ns 8.58 1.2 5.57 5.57 Llantrissant.. 9.17 1,13:6.14 6.14) 4.27 Pencoed 9.32 1 24 6.28 6.28 Hndgcud 9.40 1.33 ? 6.39 2.50 6.39j 4.46 Pylc 9.56 1.48 6.53 6.53! Port Talbot. 10.9 2.1 7.9 3.10 7.9 ? 5.12 Briton Ferry 10.19! 2.11? 7.19 7.19' Neath .ar 10.25'1 2.16? 7.27 3.18 7,271.. 5.23 Ditto .? 10.30 2.18' 7.32 3.22 7.32! 5.25 Lhnsamiet 10.44 2,3017.43 7.43?, L?ndore 11.2 2.45) 7.54 3.45 7.541 Svansea ..?- 11.15 2.501 8.15 3.55 8.15?? 5.50 Ditto de 8.25 10.52 7.40 3.35 7.40? 5.55 Landore 8.35111.5 ? 3.50 759? Gower Rd. 8.47 1.251 18:a19 9 1' 4.3 8 :19' Loughor 8.52?11.30i 8.24 4.8 8.241 HaneUy 9.0 Ill 40! 8.341 4.17 8.34? 6.25 Pmbrry 9.10111:50, 8.45 4.25 8.45 Kidwelly. 1).22'12 2 8.591 4.35 8.59?. 6.45 Ferryside 3.32 12.12 9.11?4.44 9.11! ■ Carmarthen.. 9.47 12.27 9.26 4.56 9.26 -I r 7.15 St. Clears.. 1.0 1- 5.11 0 7 20 Whit?nd. 1.20 1 5.22 "J 7.48 Nnrberth Rd. 1.40 5.37 ?? 7.50 Clarb. Rd 2.0 5.52 ?t g'!? I HaYerfordwest 1 2.15 ..1 6.4 ?- t 835 TRAINS. WEEK DAYS. Starting 1,2,3 1,2,3 | 1,2,3 Exp. il, 2,3 1, 2,3 Maii,1,2,3 from (,iass class j class I &2j class class 1 & 2 class a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m.!pm. p.m. p.m. p.m. Haverfordwest 9,15,12.3°16 r 4,32 Clarb. Rd 9.27 12.45 4.47 Narberth Rd 9.47 1.5 J 5.7 Whitland 9.57 1.20 S 5.22 St. Clears 10.11 1.35 5.34 Carmarthen. 6.3010.35 2.5 I 5 52 8.15 Ferryside 6.45 10.46 2.20 8.28 Kidwelly 6.57 10.55 2.32 6.17 8.38 Fernbrey 7.10 11.4 2.45 8.50 Llanelly 7.21 11.16 2.56 6.37 9.0 Loughor 7.30 11.27 3.5 9.9 Gower Rd. 7.36 3:10 Landore 7.56 11.40 3 30 9.34 S%?-ansea ..ar 8.10 12.0 3.4.. 7.7 9.39 Ditto de 7.50!ll.35 3.45 1.30 7.12 Landore 8.5 jll.45 3.50 1.37 Llansamlet 8.17 4.2 1.45\ Neath.?. 8.2ol2.0 4,10 1.53 7.28 Ditto.? 8.30! l-) *2 4.12 1.55 7 30 Briton Ferry 8.38 4.2022 Port Tatbot. 8.5112.134.28210?42 ? 1'yle 9.10 4.43 2.25 Bridgend 9.30 12.35 4.56 2.40 8.7 Pcncocd 9.39 5.12 2.50 ? L!antriss?nt 9.5-3 5.28 3,5 8.25 1 St. Fagans 10.1 0 l 5.43 3.20 ?ly 5.48 3.2.5 Cardiff 8.50 10.23 1.9 5.54 3.30 8.48 MarshHeId.. 9.6 6.14 3.42 Newport 9.24 16.?3 1'. '3 0 6.28 3.57 9.15 !lh",or 9.44 11.12 6.49 4.14 Por*ske?vet 9.53 7.2 4?6 Ctiep.-3tov 10.5 1 11.32 1.53 7.13 4.38 9.45 NVoolaston 10.15 7.24 4.49 Lydncy. 10.23 11.49 7^31 4.5610.0  Gatcombe 10.29 7.335.3 Newnham 10.45 12.7 7?51 5.16 10.20 1 2 cl i ?ei 1 11.40 Glo'ster ? 11.28 12.50 1 2.37 8.20 6.0 11.0 ?I'.?dinKton.. 4.0 9.5 6.0 10.354.50 SUNDAYS.] DOWX TRAINS. SUNDAYS. UP TRAIX8. Startg. frouij 1,2,3 1,2,3 1,2,3 Startg. from 1,2,3 1,2,3 1,2,3 a, m,la. m'IP. m la, m.la. m. p. m. Paddington 8.0 H. West 9 0 Glo'ster?.2.35. Ciarb.Road.. 9'1.5 Ditto..? .13.0 Narb. Road .19,35 ?. Chepstow. 4.15 Whittand. 9.50 e"iP5rt • H8 St. Clears 10.5 C'ldi{f 8.3 5,4. Carmarthen 10.35 6.0 Bnd6end "18.04\6.D Ferryside 10.50 6.15 .Neth ..ar 9.38 7.5 Kidwelly H.2 6.27 Ditto ..?e 9.50 7.10 Pembrey 11.15 6.40 Lindorc..?l0.107.3). Llanelly 11.26 6.51 Swansea «>-jl0.15 7.40 Landore 12.0 7.2-5 Ditto..?10.20 7.45. Swansea ar 12.5 7.30 Landore 10.30 7.55 Ditto de 8.30 1.10 7.35 Llanelly ..10.55 8.22 Landore.. 8.35 1.18 743 Pembrey 11.5 8.32 Neath ..ar 8.53 1.28 7*58 Kidwelly 11.17 8.44 Ditto..?e——-1.308'C Perryside 11.27 8.54 Bnd?end. 2.12 8 43 Carmarthen 11.42 9.9 Cardiff a. m. 2.58 9.41 St. Clears.. 9.29 Newport .11.0 3.261010 Wliitland 9.46 Chepstow..11140 4.10 Narb. Rd 10.0 Glo'ster ar 12.54 5.16 Cl ar b Road 10.19 ? Glo'ster ar  -12.54 5.16 Ciarb. Road .10.19 Ditto ?——-525 H. West. 10.34 Padding ton 10.0
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LLANELLY AND LLANDILO RAILWAY UP TRAINS. ¡ SUNDAYS S' F   -1 Starting From '???'? Llanelly (S. W. R. St.) .A.M.I P,M'I A'M" P'M' LIaneUy(S.W.R. St.) 9 '?6?J"'?' Dock 9 15 4 15? Hynea. 9 25 4 25  L?ngennech. 9 3.?3g II Portardulais 9 50 4 50 Cross Inn 10 10 5 10 Omnibus to Llandilo 11 40 6 25! Cross Keys 10 30 5 3o! Gelly Ceidrim 10 31 5 311 Garnant 10 35 5 35 i ? DOWN TRAINS. I SUNDAYS S From 1,2,3 Class j _tmg Class   A.M P.M. A.M. P.M. Garnant 9 45 4 50 Gelly Cei?rim 9 49 454 Cross Keys 9 50 4 55 Z??.?7o,?r Omnibus 8 55 4 0 Cross Inii 10 to ? 5 4 1.03 Pontardulais 10 30 5 35 L?n?ennech 10 45 5 50 Bynea 10? 6 0 ..1 Dock 11 c o 1n Llanelly (S. W. R. St.) mo6i5 Express to London from Swansea.. 11 20 The Omnibuses running between Cross Inn and Llandilo arc not under the controul of the Company.
VALE OF NEATH RAILWAY,
VALE OF NEATH RAILWAY, UP TRAINS WEEK DATS. I SUNDAYS. Stating From \1 2 311 2 311 2 311 2 :J 1 231 23 jClassjClass Class Class- Clas Class SOTTTII WALES A.M I P,. -P'[; ;[- P.M SIV, 'I n-,ea (lep 2 4;5 3 4 .5 1 7 P.M A.Ii P., f Swansea .dep 8 5; 12 45 3 45 7 12 8 30 7 35 I?ans?mlet 1 0 4 2 8 45 7 50 Nea'h arr. 8 37? 1 8 4 10 7 28 8 53 7 58 VALE OF XEATH. Neath dep. 8 50 1 30 7 45 9 0 8 15 Aberdvlais 8 551 I 35 7 50 9 5 8 20 Kesoi?en 9 7 1 45 8 0 915 8 30 Glvn-Ncath 9 17i 1 53 8 8 1 23 8 38 Hirwain .arr. 9 37. 2 13 8 28 9 43 8 58 Hinvaind, for Abcrdarc 9 43[ 2 20 6 30 8 35 9 50 9 5 Aberdare Arrival 9 552 30 6 45 8 45 10 0 9 15 Hirwaind. for Merthyr 9 40 2 16 8 31 9 46 9 1 Llwydcoed 9 47 2 23 8 38 9 53 9 8 Uerthyr Arrival.10 101 2 45. 9 0 10 15 9 30 DOWN TRAINS. WEEK DAYS. SUNDAYS mTiTai 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 Starting From Class Class Class Class Class Class -1- VALE OF NE?TH. A.M. P.M.! r.M. P.M. A.M. 1\M. Merthyr dep. 9 0 1 45 6 0 8 30 5 50 U?ydcoed 9 17 2 2 6 171 8 47 6 7 Hirwain arr. 9 23 2 8 6 23 8 53 6 13 A)erJre Departure 9 5 1 50' 6 5 8 10 8 35 5 55 Hmv<lIl1Arrival. 9 18 2 3 l?6 18 8 23 8 48 6 8 Hirwain ,dep. 9 26 2 101 6 25 8 55 6 15 Ulyn-Neath 9 46 2 29: 6 Hi 9 14 C 31 Resolven 9 50 2 38 6 53 9 23 6 43 Aberdylais 10 10 2 50 7 5 9 35 6 55 Neath arr. 10 15 2 55 7 10 9 40 7 0 I £ 9 SOUTH WALES. !p1 4th dep. 10 25 3 71 7 22 9 50 7 10 L'ansamtet 10 39 7 33 10 0 7 20 Swansea arr.Ill 10 3 45 8 5 10 15 7 40
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