The Welshman

A DEPOSED PRINCE. I Amongst other persons whom I saw at Benares, was the deposed Rajah at Curg, of whose atrocities and cruelties to British subjects, as well as to his own, I heard such ac- counts whilst in his country some years ago; but here the man appears well-disposed, perfectly quiet; and he drives < about the station with a high-trotting horse in his buggy, and appears much liked in the English society. He gets 5000 rupees a-month, and dresses one of his two daughters in English style, and is anxious to send her home as a pre- sent to the Queen.-Sii- Erskine Perry's Bird's-Eye View of India. HINDU RELIGION. I What a beneficent religion this Hindu is for those who profess it, and even those who laugh at it often profit greatly by its ordinances. To the poorest Hindu in every village there is an hotel, in the shape of a temple, where he will find lodgings, good company, water, and, no doubt, if he is in actual want, food. The religion, entering as it does into every institution of life, is a perpetual source of amusement to its votaries in their different festivals and processions (and where happiness can be produced on easy and innocent terms, it is difficult to witness it with regret !) and the mo- rality it inculcates covers the country with wells and tanks.— Ibid. STABILITY OF WATER. We cannot any longer sustain the ancient faith in the stability of the "terra firma," as contrasted with the ever- changing nature of the sea. Recent discoveries have proved, on the contrary, that the land changes and the waters are stable. The ocean maintains always the same level; but, as on the great continents, table lands rise and prairies sink, so does the bottom of the rea rise and fall. In the Sooth Sea this takes place alternately, at stated times. To such sinking portions of oar earth belongs, among others, New Holland. So far from being a new young land, it is, on the contrary, with its strange flora, so unlike that of the rest of the world, and its odd and marvellous animals, an aged dying island, which the ocean is slowly burying inch by inch.-Stray Leaves from the Book of Nature. NATURE WILL HAVE HER WAY. I It seems at first sight inconsistent with the rational mode of relief by abstinence, to find practically that stimulants will also give relief, not only to the nervous depression which follotcs excess, but also to the gastric symptoms. A hair of the dog that bit him" is as comforting to the stomach of a debauchee as it is steadying to his trembling hand. The explanation probably iol, that these agents deaden the morbid sensibility of the nerves of the part, and perhaps resuscitate the motion of the peristaltic muscles. They postpone the concentration of the whole of the natural reaction of the system on the period imme- diately following that which originated it they dilute the punishment for the offence over many hours, instead of letting it be endured during a few in its full intensity. This doubtless is a relief to a weak-minded man, who is intolerant of the consequences of his indulgence; but it is probable that the whole effects are in the end greater when thus spun out than when they take a natural course. -Digestion and its Derangements. AN IDEAL FAMRLY. I Life a sacred thing. Every child a Divine promise. Every family beginning the race anew from a higher point. Brothers and sisters ministering to each other's purity and beneficence. Every addition a new element of hap- piness. Education the roaring of a living temple. Con- jugal love a central fountain in warm, fragrant, perpetual play. The father the representative of God, feeding them as a prophet with more than angel's food,—as a priest standing at the portico of the temple, to guard it from pollution, or ministering at its holy altar, and finding his spirit purified and refreshed by the service; swaying, like a king, a Divine sceptre, and tasting the God-like blessed- ness of seeing his subjects find hapiness and freedom in obedience. The mother the earliest to enter the infant heart, and to take possession in the name of God, ra- diating on her children the light and life of her own in- tense affection, and invested, in addition with the delegated and solemn reverence of paternal authority. Hence, the home of the affections law is superseded by love where the lowliest act is consecrated and ennobled by the highest motive; and where separate individual interests are for- gotten in the aim of each for the good of all. The family sending forth its useful members, each with a heritage of happy recollections, and holy habits, impressed with the sanctity and high responsibilities of the domestic con stifution, trained and qualified to enter on them, and determined to raise it still higher, if possible, in his own new circle, the standard of his own early home. The aged patriarch, happy in the consciousness of having linked his mind for good with all his immediate offspring, and cheered by the prospect of transmitting, through them, the happiest influences to others through an ever enlarging circle. The generation, conscious of rising, and aspiring to rise still higher, recognising in its present blessednes the proof that God is its Pater familias; and valuing the future chiefly as the means of perpetual ap- proximation to the only perfect home in the bosom of God. Such are the capabilities of the family, and the sunny visions at which it hints.-Dr. Harris. GREECE, ITS POPULATION, INDUSTRY, PROGRESS, I AND SIMILAR MATTERS. The country, without being very fertile, might sustain two millions of inhabitants—it contains 950,000, and does not feed them There is one observation, suggested to me by the ex- amination of the different budgets from 1833 to 1853; it is that the resources of the state have made no perceptible increase in twenty years. Lastly, and this observation is of greater importance than all the others, the population is stationary, and has received no perceptible increase in twenty-five years. All the Greeks are equally free from money and glory. There are not a hundred families in the kingdom that are certain of their daily bread: so much for their riches. They have all borne the weight of the Turkish rule up to the moment when we delivered them from it-all alike have been beaten with the same stick there is the glory It is not a rare thing to hear a Greek prince's name announced in the salons of Paris, and Greek counts are common enough in lodging-houses. The counts may be .itf good coinage, but then they come from the Ionian Islands, and do not belong to the kingdom of Greece; as to the princes, they drr-wot belong to any aristocracy, but they have made themselves what they are. All Greeks who under the Turkish rule have filled the temporary functions of hospodar or bey, that is to say, of administrator, have exchanged the title they no longer had for the more pompous one of prince. Their children and grandchildren of both sexes, to make sure of inheriting something, take in their turn the title of prince or princess, and if all his children made themselves princes after him, we should laugh heartily. This is what the Greeks do, and they have never believed in earnest in the Fanariot prince- doms with which Athens is inundated. Thirty leagues of roads, in seven pieces, that is all that the Government has done for the country from 1832 till 1854, in a kingdom where the state is the owner of more than half the land, where evictions are effected without difficulty, where the peasants are always ready to sell their lands, an even to lend their hands for works of public utility. There is no road between Athens and Sparta, no road between Athens and Corinth, no road between the capital of the kingdom and Patras, which, thanks to .the currants, is becorr.ing the capital of commerce. With the exception of the bad road which joins Athens to Thebes, passing through Eleusis, all the reads which leave Athens are only drives for the Queen's horses. Two years ago they amused themselves by laying down a road two leagues long, and lined with pepper-tress, which leads to the solitary rocks of Phalerum, because the Queen goes to bathe at Phalerum but the internal trade, the working of the forests and the security of the country, will cry out for a long time to come for four or five roads of primary im- portance. If ever it could be said that a country was not ripe for liberty, it has been in speaking of Greece. Not that men's minds are closed to political ideas; far from it. All Greeks, without exception, are apt to discuss public affairs -all talk of them, if not wisely, at least, with a know- ledge of them-all take a passionate interest in the smal- lest debates of the session. I will say more: all know thoroughly the public men who are quarrelling over the public interests, and, if balloting for a list could be applied in any country, it would be in Greece. But they want the two first virtues of a citileu-probity and moderation.- Atout's Greece. THE HIGHLAND CHIEFS. Those very institutions which made a tribe of High- landers, all bearing the same name and all subject to the same ruler, so formidable in battle, disqualified the nation for war on a large scale. Nothing was easier than to turn clans into efficient regiments; but nothing was more diffi- cult than to combine these regiments in such a manner as to form an efficient army. Frorr. the shepherds and herds- men who fought in the ranks up to the chiefs all was harmony and order. Every man looked up to his immedi- ate superior, and all looked up to the common head. But with the chief this chain of subordination ended. He knew only how to govern, and had never learnt to obey. Even to royal proclamations, even to acts of parliaments, he was accustomed to yield obedience only when they were in perfect accordance with his own inclinations It was not to be expected that he would pay to any delegated authority a respect which he was in the habit of refusing to the supreme authority. He thought himself entitled to judge of the propriety of every order which he received. Of his brother chiefs some were his enemies, and some his rivals. It was hardly possible to keep him from affronting them. All his followers sympathised with all his animosities, con- sidered his honour as their own, and were ready at his whistle to array themselves round him in arms against the commander-in.chief. There was, therefore, very little chance that by any contrivance any five clans could be induced to co-operate heartily with one another during a long campaign. The best chance, however, was when they were led by a Saxon. It is remarkable that none of the great actions performed by the Highlanders during our civil wars was performed under the command of a High- lander. Some writers have mentioued it is as a proof of the extraordinary genius of Montrose and Dundee that those captains, though not themselves of Gaelic race or speech, should have been able to form and direct confedera- cies of Gaelic tribes. But, in truth, jt was precisely because Montrose and Dundee were not Higlanders that they were able to lead aAnies composed of Highland clans. Had Montrose been chief of the Camerons the Macdonalds would never have submitted to his authority. Had Dundee been chief of Clanronald he would never have been obeyed by Glengarry. Haughty and punctilious men, who scarcely acknowledged the king to be their superior, would not have endured the superiority of a neighbour, an equal, a competitor. They could far more easily bear tbq. pre- eminence of a distinguished stranger. Yet even to such a stranger they would allow only a very limited and a very precarious authority. To bring a chief before a court- martial, to shoot him, to cashier him, to degrade him, to reprimand him publicly, was impossible. Macdonald of Keppoch or Maclean of Duart would have struck dead any officer who had demanded his sword and told him to con- aider himself as under arrest; and hundreds of claymores would instantly have been drawn to protect the murderer. All that was left to the commander whom these potentates condescended to serve was to argue with them, to supplicate them, to flatter them, to bribe them and it was only dur- ing a short time that any human skill could preserve harmony by these means. For every chief thought himself entitled to peculiar observance; and it was, therefore, impossible to pay marked court to any one without dis- obliging the rest. The general found himself merely the president of a congress of petty kings. He was perpetually called upon to bear and to compose disputes about pedi- grees, about precedence, about the division of spoil. His decision, be it what it might, must offend somebody. At any moment he might hear that his right wing had fired on his centre in pursuance of some quarrel 200 years old, or that a whole battalion had marched back to its native glen because another battalion had been put in the post of honour. A Highland bard might easily have found in the history of the year 1689 subjects very similar to those with which the war of Troy furnished the great poets of antiquity. One day Achilles is sullen, keeps his tent, and announces his intention to depart with all his men. The next day Ajax is storming about the camp, and threatening to cut the throat of Ulysses. Hence it was that, though the Highlands achieved some great exploits in the civil wars of the 17th century, those exploits left no trace which could be discerned after the lapse of a few weeks. Vic- tories of strange and almost portentous splendour produced all the consequences of defeat. Veteran soldiers and statesmen were bewildered by those sudden turns of fortune. It was incredible that undisciplined men should have performed such feats of arms. It was incredible that such feats of arms, having been performed, should be immediately followed by the triumph of the conquered and the submission of the conquerers. Montrose, having passed rapidly from victory to victoty, was, in the full career of success, suddenly abandoned by his followers. Local jealousies and local interests had brought his army together. Local jealousies and local interests dissolved it. The Gordons left him because they fancied that he neglected them for the Macdonalds. ihe Macdonalds left him because they wanted to plunder the Campbells. The force which had once seemed sufficient to decide the fate of a kingdom melted away in a few days; and the victories of Tippermuir and Kilsyth were followed by the disaster of Philiphaugh. Dundee did not live long enough to experi- ence a similar reverse of forjune but there is every reason to believe that, had his life been prolonged one fortnight, his history would have been the history of Montrose retold. -Jlacaulay's History of England. RESULTS OF THE REIGN OF WILLIAM III. England had passed through several severe trials, and had come forth renewed in health and vigour. Ten years before, it seemed that both her liberty and independence were no more. Her liberty she had vindicated by a just and necessary revolution. Her independence she had re- conquered by a not less just and necessary war. She had successfully defended the order of things established by the bill of rights against the mighty monarchy of France, against the:aboriginal population of Ireland, against the avowed hostility of the nonjurors, against the more dan- gerous hostility of traitors who were ready to take any oath, and whom no oath could bind. Her open enemies had been victorious on many fields of battle. Her secret enemies had commanded her fleets and armies, had been in charge of her arsenals, had ministered at her altars, had taught at her universities, had swarmed in her pub- lic ofifces, had sate in her parliament, had bowed and fawned in the bedchamber of her king. More than once it had seemed impossible that anything could avert a re- storation which would inevitably have been followed, first by proscriptions and confiscations, by the violation of fun- damental laws, and then by a third rising up of the nation against that house which two depositions and two banish- ments had only made more obstinate in evil. To the dan- ger's of war and the dangers of treason had been added the dangers of a terrible financial and commercial crisis. But all those dangers were over. There was a peace abroad and at home. The kingdom, after many years of ignominious vassalage, had resumed its ancient place in the first rank of European powers. Many signs justified the hope that the revolution of 1688 would be our last revolution. The ancient constitution was adapting itself, by a natural, a gradual, a peaceful development, to the wants of a modern society Already freedom of con- science and freedom of discussion existed to an extent unknown in any age. The currency had been restored. Public credit had been re-established. Trade had revived. The exchequer wal overflowing. There was a sense of relief everywhere, from the Royal Exchange to the most secluded hamlets among the mountains of Wales and the fens of Lincolnshire. The ploughmen, the shepherds, the miners of the Northumbrian coalpits, the artisans who toiled at the looms of Norwich and the anvils of Birming- ham, felt the change, without understanding it; and the cheerful bustle in every seaport and every market town indicated, not obscurely, the commencement of a happier age.-Ibid. THE BATTLE OF THE BOYNE. I During near half an hour the battle continued to rage along the southern shores of the river. All was smoke, dust, and din. Old soldiers were heard to say that they had had seldom seen sharper work in the low countries. But, just at this conjecture, William came up with the left wing. He had found much difficulty uncrossing. The tide was running fast. His charger haoueen forced to swim, and had been almost lost in the mud. As soon as the king was on firm ground he took his sword in his left hand-for his right arm was stiff with his wound and his bandage-and led his men to the place where the fight was the hottest. His arrival decided the fate of the day. Yet the Irish horse-retired fighting obstinately. It was long remembered among the protestants of Ulster that, in the midst of the tumult, William rode to the head of the Enniskilleners. What will you do for me ?" he cried. He was not immediately recognized; and one trooper, taking him for an enemy, was about to Are. William gently put aside the carbine. What," said he, "do you not know your friends ?" It is his Majesty," said the colonel. The ranks of sturdy protestant yeomen set up a shout of joy. Gentlemen," said William, you shall be my guards to-div. I have heard much of you. Lt t ine see something of you." One of the most remarkable peculiarities of this man, ordinarily so saturnine and re- served, was that danger acted on him like wine, opened his heart, loosened his tongue, and took away all appearance of constraint from his manner. On this memorable day he was seen wherever the peril was the greatest. One ball struck the cap of his pistol; another carried off the heel of his jackboot; but his lieutenants in vain implored him to retire to some station from which lie could give his orders without exposing a life so valuable to Europe. His troops, animated by his example, gained ground fast. The Irish cavalry made their last stand at a house called Plottin Castle, about a mile and a half south of Oldbridge. There the Enniskilleners were repelled with the loss of fifty men, and were hotly pursued, till William rallied them and turned the chase back. In this encounter Richard Hamilton, who had done all that could be done by valour to retrieve a reputation forfeited by perfidy, was severely wounded, taken prisoner, and instantly brought, through the smoke and over the carnage, before the prince whom he had fully wronged. Oa no occasion did the character of William show itself in a more striking man- ner. Is this business over ?" he said, or will your house make more fight ?" On my honour, sir," answered Hamilton. I believe that they will." Your honour 1" muttered William, your honour!" That half-suppressed exclamation was the only revenge which he condescended to take for an injury for which many sovereigns, far more affable and gracious in their ordinary deportment, would have exactcd a terrible retribution. Then, restraining himself, he ordered his own surgeon to look to the hurts of the capti've. -Di d. I A HINT AT LORD RAGLAN'S DIFFICULTIES. I The time is not arrived when anything like justice can be done to the history of his late command. The friend who undertakes that task should have before him Lord Raglan's correspondence with the Government at home, and every record of his communications with his suc- cessive French colleagues in command. These materials would be absolutely indispensable for arriving at any conclusion as to any question of the skill and judgment with which he from time to time met the various and growing exigencies of one of the greatest military under- takings it ever fell to the lot of man to direct. Ldt no man forget, meanwhile, that he went forth to exer- cise a divided command; a circumstance which immensely increased the difficulties of his position. It was one which in itself afforded an additional reason for his selection for the post. No man was better fitted to meet its special difficulties. The serenity of his temper, the nobility of his nature, that loyalty of character which M. St. Arnaud so soon detected and recognised, his discretion and for- bearance, were guarantees for that good understanding which he maintained to the last with his gallant French colleagues. Still, division of command is a great hazard and a great eviL-Lord Ellesmere's War in the Crimea. I INSTABILITY OF TIlE EARTII. I Not far from Naples, near Puzzuoli, there are parts of an ancient temple of the Egyptian god Serapis still standing, three beautiful columns especially speak of its former splendour. At a considerable height they present the curious sight of being worm-eaten; and recent careful researches leave no doubt that the waters of the Mediter- ranean once covered them so high as to bring these their upper parts within reach of the sea-worms. Since then, the land has risen high but, stranger still, they are, by a mys- terious force, once more to be submerged already the floor of the temple is again covered with water; and a century hence new generations of molluscs may dwell in the same abandoned homes of their fathers, which are now beyond the reach of the highest waves. An old Capuchin monk, who lives near by, is fond of telling visitors how he him. self, in his youth, had gathered grapes in the vineyards of his convent, over which now fisher boats pass in deep water. Venice also, the venerable city of the Doges, sinks, year after year, deeper into the arms of her be- trothed bride, as if to hide her shame and her disgrace ih the bosom of the Adriatic. Already in 1722, when the pavement of the beautiful place of S. Marco was. taken up, the workmen found, at a considerable depth below, an ancient pavement, which was then far below water-mark now the Adriatic has again encroached upon the twice- raised square at high-water, magazines and churches are flooded and if proper measures are not taken in time, serious injury must inevitably follow.-Stray Leaves from- tlte Book of Nature. I FASCINATION OF PRIVATE LETTERS. I No one is insensible to the fascinations of private letters. In them, more than in any other kind of compositions, is felt the presence of that common humanity which links together the whole family of man. It is indeed true that some letter-writers, even in their most familiar effusions, keep in mind a circle of readers beside their immediate correspondent, and think more of the world's praise than of their own emotions or their friend's esteem. But fortunately, these are exceptional cases, and where they occur the vanity is generalfy justified by the wit, and the letters are scarcely the less charming for being affected or artificial. Indeed, no more convincing proof could be found of the attractiveness of letters, than the fact that they have been so extensively used by the writers of fiction, the imaginary exposition of each correspondent's feelings under his or her own hand being supposed to do more than compensate for the want of action in the narrative. The charactcrs paint themselves. Lovelace unfolds his own villany, Clarissa betrays her own passion. The mingled cynicism and kindness of Matthew Bramble fall more humourously from his own pen than they could from any other and no hand but Miss Tabitha's might venture to express the peculiar distresses of that venerable spinster. I CONSTANTINOPLE IN WINTER. Going on deck on a bitter cold morning (the 15th of January), I saw close before me the city, dreamlike as ever, but of a character altogether changed. Every dome and roof was coveied with snow, the grey shadows melting into the grey background of sky. An icy purity had taken the place of the brilliant glow,—the minaret points sparkled with a cold glitter, the mosques rose like huge twelfth-cakes, frosted and' fretted, above the snow-clad roofs, and the buildings on the Stamboul side of the Golden Horn looked faint and sketchy against the sky.* Keen squalls whistled dowu the Bosphorus, casting sha- dows like stains on the slaty water, and making the caiques reel and dance, while the whitened waves marked the hasty footsteps of the blast. Upward and downward cold shores stretched whitely and mistily out between the dull sky and dark water, the black stripes of cypresses giving solidity to the else vapoury landscape. The boat- men had exchanged their white tunics for warm brown jackets, and had wound shawls round their skull-caps; the caiques, faded and dim in colour, sremed to think it no longer worth while to look at themselves in the water, and floated shadowless. Going on shore, the change from poetry to prose was sudden as ever. Constantinople is like the well-painted drop-scene of a theatre. Beautiful and imposing at the right distance, a closer views reveals the coarse texture of the canvass, and the rudeness of the daubing which has produced so excellent an effect. The sun, struggling forth at noonday, sent the dissolving snow in floods from the spouts of the houses, which mingling with that already blackened by the tread of the passing throng, poured down the steeper streets and settled in pools along the level ones and every projecting stone that offered a friendly means of transit was disputed by elbow- ing Turks, Greeks, Armenians, Jews, and English and French soldiers and sailors. These latter had become somewhat noisy and troublesome in their visits ashore, and some frays had ensued, in which lives were lost, between them and the inhabitants. I saw a drunken English merchant seaman persist in an attempt to fight a French officer, because the latter had declined to join him in singing Cheer, boys, cheer." The Frenchman showed much dignified good-nature, and the rascal was dragged away by his comrades. The same day I saw a French soldier, very drunk, holding in his left hand a drawn sword, which he flourished in the faces of the passengers, proclaiming vociferously his devoted friendship for the English and his disapprobation of the Russians. This respectable ally also was disarmed and quieted by his comrades. -liam ley's Story of the Campaign of Sebas- topol.

WISDOM'S PROPERTIES.—The chief properties of wisdom are-to be mindful of things past, careful of things present, and provident for things to come. Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners as flattery If you flatter all the company you please none; if you flatter only one or two you affront the rest.-Sicift. An Italian, who was very poor, and much addicted to play, used to apostrophise Fortune thus:—"Treacherous goddess thou canst make me lose, but thou canst not make me pay." A preacher says:—"When I was young I thought it was the thunder that killed people, but when I grew wise I found it was the lightning so I determined to thuuder less and lighten more in future." RULES FOR STUDY.—The other evening Professor Davis, the eminent mathematician, in converation with a young friend of his upon the importance of system in studying as well as in everything else, took a piece of paper, and wrote off for him the following important rules :—1. -Learn one thing at a time. 2. Learn that thing well. 3. Learn its connections, as far as possible, with all other things 4. Believe that to know everything of something is better than to know something of everything. OKIGIN OF CHRISTMAS BOXES.—The following is said to have been the origin of Christmas Boxes :— When a ship went on a voyage, the priests had a box in her under the protection of some saint, and the poor were desired to contribute to the box that masses might be said for them. After the ship's return at Christmas, the treasury was opened, and every such box was, therefore, called a Christmas box, the money it contained having been laid by, that the priests might say masses to the saints, and entreat pardon for the excesses of the people at this season. It followed, upon this that servants had the liberty to get box money, in order that they, too, might be able to pay the priests and get their masses. Iloteseliold I Fords Almanack. THE ROO)I WHERE NAPOLEON DIED.—Immediately after Napoleon's death Longwood became once more the East India Company's farm. The o!d house and buildings, sacred as they ought to have been, were ruthlessly turned into stables, pigsties, barns, cowhouses, and muck- yards. The paper was torn from the walls of his bedroom the floor was replaced by a rouah stone pavement; the win- dow looking on the garden was blocked up his cabinet and his bathroom were treated with the same "due delicacy;" and then they made of the whole a poor stable for the hon. Company's farm horses. They tore down the paper and the hangings, and ripped to pieces the room in which the great Napoleon had just breathed his last, and out of it they made unto themselves a miserable barn. As to the garden which Napoleon loved, they knocked down the turf walls, they pulled up the beautiful flowers, they pulled down the beautiful trees, and they paved the whole and drained it, built sheds upon it, and made out of it a stockyard for the hon. Company their pigs, their poultry, and their horned beasts, which were the pride and the glory of the Company's farm, and which were deemed the worthy occu- pants of a spot venerated by millions of men and destined to be a shrine of pilgrimage for ages yet to come. In the year 1833 the Company's charter expired, and in 1836 the British Government took possession of the island. Longwood was immediately put up to public competition as a farm, and led to the highest bidder, and left in tho miser- able state in which it was handed over to them by the Com- pany, and no restriction was put upon the tenant, who naturally, under such circumstances, was led to look for- ward to a charge for admission to this old house as a source of considerable profit, and paid a higher rent to the Govern- ment accordingly. Herein we see the origin of the 2s. which every visitor is now forced to pay. Speaking of the Prince de Joinville the young Bertrand says" Bientot Long- wood so presento a nos veux tristo et abandonnee! Les Jardins degrades le salon ou il est mort devenu un moulin a nioudre do 1'orge; sa chambre a coucher une coure Quelle profanation ? Au tombeau o'etait de 1'emotion, ici de la stupeur.(From a Pamphlet just published at St. Helena. )

THE CANROBERT TREATY.—BY KOSSUTH. I So much has been reported and re-reported about the perfect success of General Canrobert's mission to Stock- holm, that the world was actually led to believe a treaty of alliance had been concluded, pledging Sweden to an active participation in the war. To hear the all-knowing and all-reporting own correspondents of the best inspired papers, everything was settled, signed, and sealed-only, they were not quite certain whether .39,999 oc 40,000 were to be the exact number of troops King Oscar will send to Finland on board the English fleet next spring should Russia not yield in the meantime. There will be then a Finnish campaign. Everything settled on that point. General Canrobert has been seen displaying his maps on the table of his reception room in a hotel, and the omni- present busybodies actually succeeded to descry the red- headed pins, marking the places where those 99,999 or 40,000 will land, and the etapes they will take on their march direct to St. Petersburg. Such were the reports, and great were the expectations accordingly. Men said 11 Glory to Bonaparte Now peace is certain." With this new danger overclouding his prospects, the Czar must yield and the prestige of his arms restored by the fall of Kars, he can yield. Yes, even the fall of that town, ill-fated, but glorious by the super- human exertions of its heroic defenders, even the fall of Kars, this heart-revolting stain on the escutcheon of the allies, entered together with Canrobert's mission for a share in the speculations on an inglorious peace. But great though the expectations have been, the result of the Stockholm negociations is greater still. What is alliance ? What is the participation of Sweden in the war, in comparison with the result attained ? Such small game could not satisfy the provident ambition of the master spirit of modern policy. He had pledged his honour to history, and his word to the world that he will break the aggressive power of Russia, and secure the freedom and independence of Europe by impassable barriers checking for ever Russia's aggressive designs. And it is done. lie, at least, in this our fickle age is always as good as his word—always. Let us register, and let the world rejoice We have great pleasure in announcing that all the schemes of Russia's grasping ambition have, so far as human foresight can effect it, been completely frustrated and an impassable barrier interposed to the aggressive de- signs of Russia." Now, this is glad tidings indeed, if that is really achieved then, in spite of Concordat and winter quarters, and not- withstanding the blood-chilling tale of Kars, a merry one is this Christmas of the year of our Lord 1855, the happy year of an impassable barrier opposed to the aggressive designs of Russia. The weight has fallen at last from the breast of Europe she breathes freely,—let Europe rejoice But where is the" turris ahenea" of this impassable barrier that bids Europe take her rest henceforward in peace and security ? Where is it ? Is Poland, the martyr of the morality of kings, restored to national independence? Is Finland and Bomarsund with the Aland Islands, restored to the gallant Swedes ? or at least Cronstadt transformed into a British naval station, and the Baltic made a mere commercial sea ? (" neutralisation" is the word for it)—or what else is it ? Nothing of that kind no such trifles; it is far more, far more Ilear the glad tidings Europe hear the great pleasure announcement," and rejoice at thy perfect security A treaty has been entered into between the Western Powers and the united kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, by which Sweden and Norway undertake on the one hand" —(undertake ivhat ?)-I' that they will not cede any por- tion of their terrilory to Russia" —(alas, for the cessions of yore !)—" and the Wastern Powers promise on the other that they will guarantee the Scandinavian kingdoms their present boundaries." (Alas for the treaty of Frederik- sham, 1809). Theft you have it. Such is the proud structure of impassable barrier that completely frustrates the grasp ing ambition of Austria, and defies her aggressive designs. And such is the treaty Canrobert. Europe rest in peace. I beg the reader's pardon for this involuntary ebulliton of irony. It is not my habit, but really the sublime art of diplomacy is occasionally so ludicrous that it would make Heraclitus laugh and Democritus weep. The treaty in question is, in fact, neither good nor bad, it neither deserves praise nor reproach. The earth has bubbles." Were Shakspeare now living he would write, "diplomacy has bubbles, and these are of them." It .would absolutely not deserve any notice at all. Messrs. Murhard and Pinhas would have registered it in their new 'collection of treaties, as their predecessors Martens and Saalfield have registered before them many similar treaties of guarantee, which still born and good only for the cheesemongers, never have guaranteed anything; and there it would lie unnoticed and unknown, where it not that the organs of the powers that he thought it proper to usher in the indifferent diplomatic toy with the high- sounding title of a most important transaction, com- pletely frustrating the aggressive designs of Russia, and constituting an impassable barrier to her grasping ambition. This unwarrantable pretension will excuse these remarks. The English public should especially be on its guard against allowing itself to be puzzled by the paltry allega- tion that the treaty in question is particularly beneficent to Great Britain, inasmuch a* it prevents Russia from ac- quiring a lodgment in the Waranger Bay, situated within the polar circle in the farthest north, but always free from ice, where, without this treaty, Russia might have ac- quired from Sweden a modest fishing station, which might have grown into a naval station, this into a fortified har- bour, this again into a fortress of the first class, and this in due turn into a military and naval arsenal, something like a Sebastopol of the North Pole-a standing menace to England-from which arsenal some new Rolfganger of Russia might have sailed in a few days to England, and played over again the game of William the Conqueror, to the infinite delight of lexicographers, who thus would have got plenty of work to graft the Ilussian-Fin-Lap- land on the Anglo-Roman-Saxe-Dane-Norman stock. To meet it' would appear that if such be really the danger from Waranger Bay to England, then this poor treaty is a very poor security against it. Is the present war not to result in more substantially impassable barriers to the grasping ambition of Russia-are the Western Powers to persist in not pressing Russia too hard, not re- ducing her material power, and not aiming at any humilat- ing condition then England may rest assured of thus much, that if Russia will be willing to have the Waranger Bay, this little rag of Canrobert treaty will not prevent her getting it. I, however, believe that she will not be so silly as to wait the long process of developing a future problematic fishing-station within the North Pole circle, into a mighty naval and military arsenal to invade England from she will know of a shorter process, and a shorter road and that is—the heading of a vast European (and perhaps an American) coalition against England. I do not expect to see this word heeded no. England's Government has lost the power of controling events. by having lost their spontaneity. They may sometimes feel some pang at the necessity; and the presentiment of coming events may sometime impart a flash passing re- sistance to their nerves (such is, or rather has been, the Case just this last time); however, glide they must, and glide they will on the glossy slope; they have no power more to stop or to revert by their own strength. One great national exertion on the part of the people might give them the wanting strength the people might save them, in spite of themselves; but the people is powerless in poli- tics. Powerless ? No; it is worse than this; the people has despaired of its being able to regulate its own destinies therefore, I repeat, do not expect to see the word heeded I now speak but let this word be put on record, as the word of a man who does not pretend to know how to read the stars, but whom the vicissitudes of an eventful life have taught to read the inexorable logic of history, and descry the concatenation of cause and effect. My word is this if at the end of this war Russia is left in the pos- session of Poland, Finland, and of the shores of the Black Sea (but of Poland especially,) and continental Europe is left in the grasp of despotism; within a very few years, long before the second secular anniversary of the second English revolution—may be already within the second se- cular anniversary of Cromwell's Icall, England will have to fight her supreme struggle alone, against a mighty con- tinental coalition, leagued with some of her own dominions besides, which struggle in all probability will leave the mighty British empire vulnerable on a hudred points, re- duced to this island alone, with London the capital of this island still, but the metropolis of the world no more. I have said it. « | The Stockholm-Canrobert treaty could teach a good lesson, if the English people were in the habit of taking advice. By showing what is the sense in which the rulers use the words, Impassable barrier- complete frustration of Russia's grasping ambition"—it showeth in what sense the words, Safe and satisfactory peace" are used in diplomatic phraseology. But a strange country is this England-wondrously strange. In every other country the people in warlike times knows, and has always known, to exercise some influence on the policy of its Government, and even to acquire some if they had none before. In England the people abdicates during a war the little influence they had in peaceful times. This may be generous. Whether it be wise, I leave Englishmen to judge. I say what in conscience I think to be the truth. But I have heard the answer, 11 We don't want to be told the truth-least by a foreigner." Be it so.-Atlas. AN "OBJECT OF INTEREST."—A girl whose income is three thousand a year. DEAR LINING.-The robes oflaxvyers are lined with the obstinacy of suitors. All beginnings are easy and it is the last steps that are climbed most rarely, and with the greatest difficulty.— Goethe. When religion is made a science, there is nothing more intricate when made a dnty, there is nothing more easy. Lovers conceal their faults from one another, and deceiv, themselves—friends confess their faults to one another and pardon them mutually.

MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. I The Queen has sent 6 easy chairs to Fort Pitt, Chatham, for the use of wounded soldiers. Exeter Hall is to be opened for public preaching on Sunday evening, all the sittings to be free. Mr. George Cruikshank sailed from Liverpool for America, in the Asia, on Saturday. Rents of farms are rising in Scotland being in some cases now nearly double the sums formerly paid. The wages of farm labourers have also advanced. Mr. Wood, Crimean reporter to the Morning Herald, in a work just published exposes, for the first time, that it was by Sir Colin Campbell's disobeying orders that the English army escaped annihilation at the battle of Balak- lava! Border Piufifan is the name of a paper about to be published in the town of Richfield, Clay county, Missouri. At the particular request of her Majesty, Sir Collin Campbell has sat for a photograph likeness, being the first occasion on which he consented to have his portrait taken. He is represented in undress uniform, with round cap, and in the position of giving some routine order. Cardinal Wiseman contradicts the report of his appoint- ment as librarian at the Vatican. Twenty-five counties have established reformatory schools. The Basle Gazette states that a new treaty of commerce between Great Britain and Switzerland has been concluded. A provincial contemporary says that there are more than seventy butchers in the village of Syston, Leicester- shire, nearly half of whom are named Adcock. The Manchester Examiner announces that a pamplet from the pen of Mr. Cobden, M.P., will make its appear- ance in a few days. The subject of the pamplet is not stated. Don Domingo Martinez, a palm oil merchant, residing on the coast of Africa, has had made at Bristol, at a cost EI,800, a silver vessel in the shape of an urn, three feet high, to contain water for cooling his apartment in the tropics. The Hon. Edward Everett, LL.D., of Boston, United States, has become connected editorially with the North American lleview. The name of the Persian extraordinary envoy who has just arrived at St. Petersburg is rather lengthy. It is Seif-oul-Moulk-Miri-Pindj-Abbas-Kouli-Khan. His son, a youth of 17, met with an accident at Moscow which proved fatal. Mr. D. B. Hall, florist, has succeeded in raising the Dioscorcw. Japonic#, or Dioscorcce balatus, a substitute for the potatoe, in his garden, near New York. The roots grow long, similar in shape to the sweet potatoe, but much larger. A band of 448 Mormons—Swedes, Danes, and Norwf- gians-including 1240 women and children, have embarked at Gluckstadt, under the direction of a Norwegian named Peterson, for Grimsby, whence they are to proceed to New York. Count Wielhorsky, who was lately sent into the Crimea by the Empress of Russia to distribute gifts of money, &c., to the wounded, has just died at Simferopol, from typhus fever. Up to the commencement of the war the deceased count was chief secretary to the Russian embassy at London. On New Year's-day, the oratorio of Joseph, by Mehul, will be performed at Windsor Castle on an exceedingly grand scale. The Times is to be excluded from places of public resort in Austria, for speaking out on the Concordat. A marvellous account comes from California of the dis- covery of gold at Table Mountain it is said that the metal is found there in greater abundance than in any place hitherto discovered. One of the writers of a satirical paper at Seville has been stabbed dead by the tenor-singer of the chief theatre in the city. In consequence of a representation from the Norwich Town-Council, the Board of Trade have directed Lieut.- Colonel Wynne, R.E., to inspect the Eastern Counties line between London and Norwich. The African mail-steamer Candace, just arrived, has brought amongst her cargo twenty bundles of monkeys' skins." A society is in course of formation at Paris to promote the consumption of horse-flesh as human food. The Rome and Frascati railway is progressing well; it is expected to be opened early next year. Mr. Justice Crompton was prevented from opening the Maidstone Assizes with punctuality—because the train in which the Queen's Judge travelled from Croydon was j shunted" on its route to make way for a special' train conveying gentlemen of the prize-ring to a fight! The late Samuel Rogers has bequeathed to the nation three well-known pictures from his collection,—the Titian, Noli me Tangere"; the Giorgeone, a Small Picture of a Knight in Armour"; and the Guido, Head of Christ Crowned with Thorns." The remainder of the eollection will, it is presumed, be sold in the course of the ensuing spring. A skating society, composed of young people of both sexes, belonging to the first families, has been formed at Madrid. The fair members of this society have adopted a very picturesque costume for the occasion consisting of a Polish pelisse, trimmed with rich braid, a short kersey- mere petticoat, plaid trousers, small beaver hat, with a plume of leathers, and coloured morocco boats. Mr. George Stacey, late secretary to the Church of England Building Society, has recovered from the directors, by action in the Court of Common Pleas, £ 125 damages for dismissal without just,.cause. There are now upwards 6f 1,000 families who can claim the distinction of a baronetage. There are 5 dukes, 16 marquises, 16 earls, 16 viscounts, and about 150 barons who are baronets. In addition to these eight Cabinet Ministers, 20 Privy Councillors, and 05 members of Parliament. Two years ago, the inhabitants of Southampton were dependent on sea-borne coal, and during the prevalence of contary winds at that time the price of coal was raised to £ 3 per ton. At the present time, a large quantity of coal for steam packet and housekeeping purposes is brought into the town by railway from South Wales and Derby- shire. The committee of the Stock-Exchange have declared, with reference to the Russian loan, that they will neither permit now, nor after the restoration of peace, any loan to be quoted that was raised by a power while at war with this country. The report of the probable retirement of the present Speaker of the House of Commons and his elevation to the peerage, is again revived. The name of Sir Frederic The- siger is mentioned as likely to command a majority of the suffrages of the Commons; but it is understood that Mr. Fitzroy, the Chairman of Committees, will be *put forward by the old Whig party. The Congress of the United States met on the 3rd inst., and adjourned after several attempts to elect a speaker, The Presidential message was consequently not read. The Russian medals for the defence of Sebastopol are of gold for the oiffcers, and of silver for privates. On one side is this inscription -I' Dedicated to the brave army in eternal memory of the immortal defence of Sebastopol," and on the other, "From the ever-to-be-regretted Emperor Nicholas, and from Alexander." The Catholic. Herald of Philadelphia, lamenting the decrease of their priests, says that they cannot hope at present to supply their ranks from that country, as one of the last pursuits Catholic parents, rich or poor, are likely to desire for their ciiil,lren, is the ministry of Roman Catholicism." It also states, that while the main portion of the supply has been of Irish origin, that is now on the decline, as "every year brings less priests from that country, and less young men desirous of becoming priests, than the preciding year did." When times were bad for the farmers, Mr. George Lane Fox, of Bramham Park, Yorkshire, allowed his tenants 10 per cent off their rents prices are now high, and the tenants have offered to pay 10 per cent extra on their rents. Mr. Fox has declined the gratifying offer; and ad- vised his tenants to -take advantage of their prosperity to improve their farms, so as to meet less easy times. The farmers have requested Mr. Fox to allow his portrait to be painted, to be presented to his wife: he has consented. The Jury who tried the bankers Strahan, Paul, and Bates, have addressed a petition to the Queen, stating, that having carefully considered the petition of Robert Makin Bates, they firmly believe that had its contents been proved at the trial, they would have acquitted Bates. They regret that the statements in the petition were with- held from their consideration; and in order that justice may be done, they pray that the truth of the allegations may be inquired into, and that if they prove correct, her Majesty will grant the prayer of Bates. The Vienna correspondent of the Times, who reported a fortnight ago that the whole of the Austrian army was to be placed on a peace footing, now states that the infor- mation he gave was incorrect. Instead of being reduced, the army in the Danubian Principalities, which is already above 80,000 strong, is about to be strengthened. At present there are 360 guns on the line of operation, which extends from Pancsova through Wallachia up to the Northern extremity of Moldavia, and it has now been re- solved to send other 120 guns, and eight infantry and four cavalry regiments to reinforce the army in the Danubian Principalities. None of the men on furlough have leave of absence beyond the 20th of February." The country will experience much satisfaction, though no surprise, on learning, as we believe we are correct in stating, that her Majesty the Queen has, in a manner as honourable to herself as it must be gratifying to her people, been pleased to mark her warm appreciation of the unpa- ralleled self-devotion of the good Miss Nightingale. The Queen has transmitted to that lady a jewelled ornament of great beauty, which may be worn as a decoration, and has accompanied it with an autograph letter—such a letter as Queen Victoria has ere now proved she can write-a letter not merelyjof graceful acknowledgment, but full of that deep feeling which speaks from heart to heart, and at once ennobles the Sovereign and the liubject.-Moming Post.

RAILWAY TIME TABLE, SOUTH WALES RAILWAY. DOWN TRAINS. WEEK DAYS. Starting 1,2,3 1,2,3 1.2,3,1,2,3 Exp. 1,2,3. 1,3,3. MaR from class class class j class 1 &2, class. &2 a.m. a.m. a.m. j a.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. p. m. Paddington. 6.50 9.40 012.,50 8.10 Glo'ster de 6.4510.25 3.0 12.48 3.0 5.50 2.15 Oakley-st. 10.40: 3.15 3.15 Newnham 7.5 10.58 3.30 3.30 6.25 2.38 Gatcomh 7.1311.5 3.40 3.40 6.35 Lidney 7.23 11.16 3.52 3.52 6.47 2.66 Wo olaston 7.31111.26 4.2 4.2 6.57 Chepstow 7.41 11.42 4.18 1.32 4.18 7.10 3.12 Portskewet .7.50 ? 11:52 4.30 4.30 7.20 Magor 7.58 12.2 4.41 4.41 7.30 Newport 8.23 12.22 5.7 1.55 6.7 7.50 3.40 Marshfield 8.33 12.34 5.22 5.22 Cardiff 8.47112.45 5.35 2.16 5.35 8.15 4.4 Ely 8.53 12.52 5.50 5.50 St. Fagans 8.58 1.2 5.57 5.571 Hanthssant. 9.17? ,1,13 6.14 6.14 4.27 Pencoed 9.32 1241 6.28 6.21" Bridgend 9.40 1:331 6.39 2.50 6.39 4.46 Pyle. 9.56 1.48! 6.53 6.53 Port Talbot. 10.9 2.1 j 7.9 3.10 7.9 5.12 Briton Ferry 10.! 2,11¡ 7.19 -7.191 Neath.?- 10.25 2.i6? 7.27 3.18 7.27 •• 5.23 Ditto .? 10.30 2.18? 7.32 3.22 7.,321 5.25 Llansamlet 10.44 2.30: 7.43 7.43; •• Landore 11.2 2.45 7.54 3.45 7.54! •• Swansea ..ar 11.15 2.50 8.15 3.55 8.151 5.50 Ditto de 8.25 10.52 7.40 3.35 7.40! 5.55 Landore 8.3511.5 7.59 3.50 7.59? GowerRd. 8.47 11.25 8.19 4.3 8:191 Loughor 8.5211.30 8.24 4.8824' •• Lianelly .9.0 111.40 8.34 4.17 8.341" 6.25 Pembrey 9.10 11.50 8.45 4.25 8.45' Kidwelly 9.22il2.2 8.59 4.35 8.59! •• 6.45 Ferryside 3.3212.12 9.11 4.44 9.11? Carmarthen..9.4712.27i9.26 4.56 9.26, f 7.15 St. Clears. 1.0  5.11 ? 7.20 5.11 ? 7.48 Whitland 1.20 5.22 "I 7.48 N arbcrth Rd. 1.40 5.37 ? 7.50 Clarb. Rd 2.0 5.52 ? 8.15 liaverfordwest12.151t 6.4 .l 8.35 UP TRAINS. WEEK DAYS. Starting 1,2,3 i 1,2,3 1,2,3 Exp. 1,2,3 1,2,3 Maii,l,2,3 from class class |class 1 & 2 class class 1 & 2 class a.m. a.m. ;;I;; p.m. p.m- Haverfordwcst. I.. 9.15112,30 6 r 4.32 Clarb. Rd 9.27 12.45 4.47 NarberthRd 9.471.5 j 5.7 Whitland 9.57 1.20 **} J 5.7 St. Clears 10.11 1.35 N 5.34 Carmarthen 6.3010.35 2.5 I 5.52 8.15 Ferrvside 6.4510.46 2.20 8.28 Kid?velly 6.5710.55 2.32 6.17 8.38 Pembrey 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 GowerRd 7.36 3.10 1 Landore 7.56 11.40 3.30 9.34 Swansea..? 8.10 12.0 3.40 7.7 9.39 Ditto de 7.50 11.35 3.45 1.3 o?7.7 9.34 Landore 8.5 11.45 3.50 1.37 Llansamlet 8.17 4.2 Neath .ar 8.2512.0 4.10 1.53 7.28 Ditto de 8.3012.2 4.12 1.55 7.30 Briton Ferry 8.38 4.20 2.2 PortTalbot. 8.51 12.13 4.28 2.10 7.42 Pyle 9.10 4.43 2.25 Bridgend 9.30 12.35 4.56 2.40 8.7 Pencoed 9.39 5.12 2.50 Llantrissant 9.5? 5.28 3.5 8.25 St. Fagans 10.10 5.43 3.20 Ely  5.48 3.25 CardiS' 8.50 10.23 1.9 5.54 3.30 8.48 Marshfield 9.6 6.14 3.42 Newport 9.24 10.53 1.30 6.28 3.57 9.15 Magor 9.44 11.12 6.49 4.14 i Portskewet.. 9.53. 7.2 4.26 Chepstow. 10.5 11.32 1.53 7.13 4.38 9.4.; Woolastorl 10.15 7.24 4.49 Lydney 10.23 11.49 7.31 4.56,10.0 Gatcombe 10.29 7.38 5.3 Newnham 10.4,5 12.7 7.51 5.1610.20 1 2 cl 12cl? 1 3 20 6,.0 ii.  o Glo'ster ..<? 11.28 12.50 1 2.37 8.20 6.0 111.40 addington 4.0 9.5 6.0 10.354.50..? SUNDAYS. DOWN TRAINS. SUNDAYS. up TRAINS. Startg. from 1,2,3 1,2,3 1,2,3 Startg. from 1,2,311,2,3 1,2,3 a. m. a. m. p. m a. m. a. m. p. m. Paddington 8.0 H. West 9.0 Glo'ster ar 2.35 Clarb. Road 9.15 Ditto.. de .I 3.0 Narb. Road 9.35 Chepstow. 4.151 Whitland. 9.50 Newport 7.38 5.0 St. Clear 10.5 Cardiff. 8,3 I 5.24 Carmarthen .110.35 6.0 Bridgend.. 8.54 6.9 Ferryside 110.50 6.15 Neath ..al" 9.3817..5 KidweMy.?H.2 6.27 Ditto ..<? 9.50 7.10 Pembrey Ill,15 6.40 I:a.ndore 1O.117.3') Llanelly 11.26 6.51 Swansea ar 10.15 7.40 .iL;tndore 12.0 7.25 Ditto ..de 10.20 7.45 Swansea ar 12.5 7.30 Landore 10.30 7.55 Ditto de 8.30 1.10 7.35 Llanelly 10.535 0 7 5.5 Ditto de 1.10 7.35 Llanelly 10.55 8.22 Landore 8.35 1.18 7.43 Pembrey 11.5 8.32 Neath ..ar 8.53 1.28 7.58 Kidwelly 11.17 8.44 Ditto ..de 1.30 8.0 Perryside 11.27 8.54 Bridend. 2.12 8.43 Carmarthen 11.42 9.9 Cardiff a. m. 2.58 9.41 St. Clears.. 9.29 Newport 11.0 3.2610.10 Whitland 9.46 Chepstow.. 11.40 4'10- Narb. Rd 10.0 Glo'ster ar 12.54 5.16 Clarb. Road 10.19 Ditto de 5.25 II. West ?10.34 Paddington 10.0

I LLANELLY AND LLANDILO RAILWAY. UP TRAINS. SUNDAYS Starting From 1,2,3 Class ) rC?tas?s Ci'a?ss A.M. p'MI-}-J: Llanelly (S. W.R.St.) 9 10 4 10 Dock 9 15 4 15 ..»! Bynea 9 25 4 25 Llangennech 9 35 4 35 1'ortardulais 9 50 4 50 Cross Inn 10 10 5 10 Omnibus to Llandilo 11 40 6 25 Cross Keys, 10 30 5 301 Gelly Ceidrim. 10 31 5 311 Garnant 10 35 5 35 DOWN TRAINS. SUNDAYS ?'? 1,2,3 !^tinS From Class ?Ci.ass A.M P.M. A.M. P.M. Garnant 9 45 4 50 Gelly Ceidrim 949 454 Cross 9 50 4 55 Llandilo, per Omnibus 8 55 4 0 Cross Inn 10 10 5 15 Pontardulais 10 30 5 35 Llangennech 10 45 5 50 Bynea 10 55 6 0 Dock 11 5 6 10 Llanelly (S. W. R. St.) 11 10 6 15 Express to London from Swansea.. 11 20 The Omnibuses running between Cross Inn and Llandilo are not under the controul of the Company.

VALE OF NEATH RAILWAY. UP TRAINS WEEK DAYS. I SUNDAYS. Starting From 1 2 311 2 31 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 Class Class Class Class Class Class SOUTH WALES -I r.i -r.M; P,M Swansea .dep 8 5 12 45 3 4o 7 12 8 30 7 3o Llansamlet 1 0 4 2 845 750 Neath .arr. 8 37 1 8 4 10 7 28 8 53 7 58 YALE OF-NEATH. Neath dep. 8 50 1 30 7 45 90 815 Aberdylais 8 55 1 35 7 50 9 5 8 20 Resolven 9 7 1 45 8 0 9 15 8 30 Glyn-Neath 9 17 1 53 8 8 923 838 Hirwain arr. 9 371 2 13 8 28 9 43 8 58 Hirwaind. for Aberdare 9 431 2 20 6 30 8 35 9 50 9 5 Aberdare Arrival 9 551 2 30 6 45 8 45 1O 0 9 lo Hirwaind. forMerthyr 9 40| 2 16 8 31 9 46 9 1 Uwydcoed 947 223 8 38 9 53 98 Merthyr Arrival I 10 10 1 2 45 9 0 10 15 9 3Q DOWN TRAINS. WEEK DAYS. SUNDAYS ~'nnrr^fs"r2TTX3 1 2 3 1 2 3 Startmg From Class Class?Class Class Class Class ;;F-; I¡- A.M. £ .M. 1 Merthyr dep. 9 01 4.516 0 8 30 5 50 rthyr 9 '17 2 21 6 17 8 47 6 7 -i llirwain arr. 9 23 2 8 6 23 8 53 6 13 Aberdare Departure 9 5 1 50! 6 5 8 10 8 35 o 5o Hirwain Arrival 9 18 2 3j 6 18 S 23 8 48 6 8 Ilir%vain a,,9 26 2 10?6 25 855 6 lo Glyn-Neath 9 46 2 29j 6 44 9 14 6 34 Resolven 9 56 2 381 6 53 923 643 Aberdylais 110 10 250 7 5 935 6 55 Neath. arr.i 10 15 2 55| 7 10 9407 I &2 SOUTH WALES. G Xe-uth dep.110 25 3 7 7 22 950 7 10 ,N, e i. t h U?samtct J10 391 o 7 33 10 0 7 20 Swansea arr. U 10 3 45? 8 5 10 15? 7 40

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