The Welshman

SIR HUMPHREY DAVY'S LOVE AND ITS REALISATION. The Spectator, in noticing the Fragmentary Remains of Sir H. Davy," says To love and be wise is not given to man," and love letters, we are sorry to think, are with more or less justice regarded as proverbially foolish. In Davy's case this view would be altogether unjust. He t'rred but little in allj*ing his imagination to colour th, be-Iostd uijject with qualities she did not possess, for Mrs. Apreece av^earu La have been clever and captivating His love letters are by no means foolish, they are, on the con- tiary, philosophical. A vein of gallantry, compliment, and affection, runs through them undoubtedly, (at least we fancy so,) but they are vastly learned and analytical. Here are two examples written during a tour to Ireland in 1811- I- Undcr such circumstances I might have been melan- choly and listless, but thoughts and feelings, of which you are the source, and the consolations of science, have kept my inind cheerful and active. I do not admit the truth of the iiues of Anacreon, which may be translated It is hard to love, it is hard not to love, but the hardest of all is to be absent from the beloved object.' I should rather say affection is necessary to the moral and intellectual being ;-when present, the beloved object is a constant source of happiness; when absent, an eternal spring of hope. It would be easy to show metaphysically that this must be the case. Hope, as Hartley has shown (and the analysis of the passions is, perhaps, the only truly logical part of his book,) is reflected pleasure, i.e., it bears the same relation to pleasure, that an idea bears to an impres- sion, and consequently the object that has produced most pleasure must be remembered with most delight. I cannot describe to you the gratitude that I feel for the very happy days and hours I have passed in your society. I am con vinced with you, that pleasure is always useful to a well organized mind. You have refined many of my sentiments, given me more correct principles of taste, and raised very much my opinion of the standard of human excellence, by displaying a character which appeared more exalted the more it was studied. I hope you will not think this acknowledgment of benefits obtrusive." < < I experience every kind of civility and attention from my acquaintance here, yet I sigh deeply for your society. You have given me a distaste for the common intercourse of the world; this is some harm amongst all the good I acknowledged in my last letter. There is a law of sensa- tion, which may be called the law of continuity and con- trast, of which you may read in Darwin's Zonomia." An example is-look long on a spot of pink and close your your eyes, the impression will continue for some time, and will then be succeeded by green light. For some days after I left you I had the pink light in my eyes, and the rosy feelings in my heart, but now the green hue and feelings-not of jealousy, but of regret-are come." A widely subdued delight characterizes his acceptance but it rather condenses than expands his style. The notification is addressed to his brother, the present Dr. Davy, epitor of the volume. « March, 1812. Many thanks for your last letter. I have been very miserable the lady whom I love best of any human being has been very ill. She is now well, and I am happy. Mrs. Apreece has consented to marry me, and when this event takes place, I shall not envy kings, princes, or potentates. Do not fall in love. It is very dangerous My case is a fortunate one. I do not believe there exists another being possessed of such high intellectual powers, just views and refined taste, as the object of my admiration. I am, my dear brother, Ever most affectionately yours, H. DAVY." Before the honeymoon was half over, he could mingle medical advice with his raptures. II Beechwood, April 22, 1822. My dear John—My wife desires her kind love to you. She will now for my sake have the kindest regard for you, and when she knows you, for your own sake. I have heard of some experiments you have made on the action of digitalis and other poisons on yourself. I hope you will not indulge in trials of this kind. I cannot see any useful results that can arise from them it is in states of disease, and not of health, that they are to be used, and you may injure your constitution, without gain- ing any important result; besides, were I in your place, I should avoid being talked of for anything extraordinary of this kind, as you have already fame of a better kind, and the power of gaining fame of the noblest kind." I have every prospect of happiness in my new rela- tions. A most exalted and charming intellectual woman, full of good feelings, refined taste, and having a mind stored with various knowledge. My usefulness will be her happiness, and her happiness my glory. I am, dear John, Ever your most affectionate brother, H. DAVY." If these anticipations were not completely realized, it is difficult to perceive the precise kind of failure in Sir Hum. phrey Davy's case. It seems to have been thoughtlessness mingled of course with selfishness, on Lady Davy's part, which led to domestic and household neglect. In 1823, he writes to his brother, on coming to London en garcon- I find my house as usual, after the arrangements made by the mistress of it, without female servants; but in this I world we have to suffer and bear, and from Socrates down to humble mortals, domestic discomfort seems a sort of philosophical fate." The last two years of his life were chiefly passed in, for the most part, solitary travel on the continent in search of that health which was never to come. His letters to his wife were frequent, frank, & affectionate her letter in reply to his last dictation expressing his last wishes, was feeling and loving but all which Dr. Davey intimates as to the actual infelicity of the union, seems confirmed by the close of a letter, written when Sir Hum- phrey WM about to return to England, from his first tour. I still hope that I shall return freer than I once ex- pected from paralytic affection, and I do not despair of perfect re-establishment. I think you will find me altered in many things-with a heart still alive to value and reply to kindness, and a disposition to recur to the brighter moments of my existence of fifteen years ago, and with n feeling that though a burnt out flame can never be re- kindled, a smothered one may be. God bless you From your affectionate, II H. DAVY. I hope it is a good omen that my paper by accident is couleur de rose."

How beautiful," said a lady who rouged, does the face of nature look after a shower," lites," replied a fair friend, "but you could not say the same of all faces." THE RETORT UNCOURTEOUS.—" The discordant spirit which recently prevailed in your party," said one politician to another, seems to be passing to ours." "Oh, yes when the devils were cast out of the man they went into the herd of swine." ECONOMICAL DRINKINo.-Lord Eldon was celebrated as a bon vivant. How many bottles," said hit late Majesty to Lord Stowell, can your brother take at a sitting i" Way, I really can't say but I should think your Majesty, any given quantity." AVERTING A STORM.—A few nights ago, Mr. Jones, who had been out taking his glass and pipe, on going home borrowed an umbrella, and when his wife's tongue was loosened, he sat up in bed and suddenly spread out the parapluie What are you going to do with that thing ?" said she. Why, dear, I expected a very heavy storm to night, and came prepared." In less than two minutes Mrs. Jones was fast asleep. SLOW AND Sung.-The following story is current in the Exchequer Court; the scene is given as the robing room of the judges :—Baron Martin, who is considered an expert judge, asked Baron Bramwell, who takes great pains in trying his cases, how he proceeded with his day's list." Oh said Bramwell, I am nearly half way through them-" "Bless my soul," said Martin, why, I have done mine this half hour." But brother Martin," said his learned brother, I try mine." THE EVILS OF MRNTAL PRECOCITY.-Dr. Roberston, In his work on Diet and Regimen, says that many of the diseases which cut off clever men in early life may be traced to an undue use of the faculties of the mind, without reference to the development and condition of the nervous organism, or to the powers and requirements of the system at large. It has been well noticed in illustra- tion of the effects of an unwise or a premature exeroite of the intellect, that Tasso, at the age of 22, was the author of the greatest epic poem of modern times, but was always melancholy or else devoured by passion, and died at the age of 51; that Pascal who bad enjoyed a pre- mature celebrity as an author, was always bypochondriaul ever imagining that he saw a gulf open at bis side and died at the age of 39; that Byron, who wrote so early and so n.uch, and so greatly as to originality and high desert, and in part as unhealthily and unwholesomely, was the victim of dyvpepsia and hypochondriasis, and died of diseased brain, in his 37th year That Pope, who notoriously began to write poetry at 12 years old, and be- came famous at 16, was the victim of extreme feebleness, morbid sentiveness to cold, dyspepsia, headache, and even- tual dropsy, whose life is well characterised as having been one long disease and that be died in his fifty-eighth year. And an early precocity is no necessary condition of genius orintellectuttl eminence in after life for the youth of Sheridan was pronounced to be "dull," and that of Gold- smith unpromising." In his boyhood, Sir Isaac Newton was inattentive to study, and ranked very low in school until the age of twelve. In his boyhood Napoleon was in no way distinguised from other boys. In his boyhood Sir Walter Scott gave no indications of Of his future eminence. In their boyhoods, neither Shak- spere, nor GibUou, nor Davy, appear to have exhibited even the common elements of future success. Such lists may be easily extended by reference to the biographies of eminent men and it will be found that, to restrain pre. cocity, instead of encouraging it, should he the continual endeavour that the more feeble, delicate and cachectic the child's constitution, the longer should the intellectual or scholastic education be deferred; and that the mere cir- cumstances of a slow and tardy developement of the in- tellectual puwers afford no certain indication of the future capabilities of the mind. During the last year or two of the school time, more is often gained, as to progress and capability, thau dating aU the prsceedlof loan 01 lift.

I BITS FROM SAM SLICK. I SAM ON A KISS. Squire, you are older than I be. and I suppose you will think all this sort of thing is clear sheer nonsense, but depcnd upon it a kiss is a great mystery. There is many a thing we know that we can't explain, still we are sure it is a fact for all that. Why should there be a sort of magic in shaking hands, which seems only a mere form, and sume'iines a painful one too, for some folks wring your fingers off almost, and make you fairly dance with pain, they hurt you go. It don't give much pleasure at any time. What the magic of it is we can't tell, but so it is for all that. It seems only a custom, like bowing, and nothing else, still there is more in it than meets the eye. But a kiss fairly electrifies you, it warms your blood and sets your heart a beatin' like a brass drum, and make, your eyes twinkle like stars in a frosty night. It tante a thing ever to be forgot. No language can express it, no letters will give the sound. Then what in natur is equal tu the auour of it? What an aroma it has! How spi- ritual it is It ain't gross, for you can't feed on it; it don't cloy, for the palate ain't required to test its taste. It is neither visible, nor tangible, nor portable, n r trans- ferable. It is not a substance, nor a liquid, nor a vapour. It has neither colour nor form. Imagination can't con- ceive it. I can't be imitated or forged. It is no tconfined to clime or country, but is ubiquitous. It is disembodied when completed, but is instantly reproduced, and so is immortal. It is as old as tiie creation, and yet is as young and fresh as ever. It pre-existed, still exists, and always will exist It pervades all natur. The breeze as it passes kisses the rose, and the pendant vine stoops down and hides with its tendrils its blushes, as it kisses the limpid stream that waits in an eddy to meet it, and raises its tiny waves, like anxious lips, to receive it. Depend upon it Eve learned it in Paradise, and was taught its beauties, virtues, and varieties by an angel, there is something so transcendent in it. How it is adapted to all circumstances There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long- lingering, loving present one, the stolen or the mutual one, the kiss of love, of joy, and of sorrow, the seal of promise, and the receipt of fulfilment. Is it strange, therefore, that a woman is invincible whose armoury con- sists of kisses, smiles, sighs, and tears ? Is it any wonder that poor old Adam was first tempted and then ruined ? It is very easy for preachers to get up with long faces and tell us he ought to have been more of a man. My opinion is, if he had been less of a man it would have been better for him. But I am not again' to preach so I will get back to my story but, Squire, I shall always maintain, to my dying day, that kissing is a sublime mys- tery. TBMALB BDUCATION. j Mr. Slick," said a young lady of about twelve years of age to me wunst, do you know what gray wackey is ? for I do." Don't I," sais I; I know it to my cost. Lord! how my old master used to lay it on Lay it on she said, I thought it reposed on a pri. mitive bed." No it don't," said 1. 11 And if anybody knows what gray wackey ia, I ought; but I don't find it so easy to repose after it as you may. Gray means -the gray birch rod, dear, and wackey means laying it on. We always called it gray waokey in school, when a feller was catching particular Moses." Why, how ignorant you are! said she..1 Do you know what them mining tarms, clinch, parting, and black bat means ?" "Why, in course I do!" sais I; clinch is marrying, parting is getting divorced, and black bat is where a feller beats his wife black and blue." .1 Pooh!" said she, you don't know nothing." Well," sais I, what do you know ?" "Why," said she, I know Spanish and mathematics, ichthyology and oonchology, astronomy and dancing, miner- alogy and animal magnetism, and German and chemistry, and French and botany. Yes, and the use of the glo&e? too. Can you tell me what attraction and repulsion is ?" To be sure I can," said I, and I drew her on my knee and kissed her. That's attraction, dear." And when she kicked and screamed as cross as two cats, that, my pretty one," I said, is repulsion. Now I know a great many things you don't. Can you hem a pocket handker- chief ?" No." Nor make a pudding ?" No." Nor make Kentucky butter ?" "No." Well, do you know any useful thing in life ?" Yes, I do; I can sing, and play on the piano, and write valentines," said she, so get out." And she walked away quite dignified, muttering to herself, "Make a pud- ding, eh well, I want to know." Thinks I to myself, my pretty little may-flower, in this everlastin' progressive nation of ourn, where the wheel of fortune never stops turning day or night, and them that's at the top one minute are down in the dirt the next, you may say, I want to know before you die, and be very glad to change your tune, and say, Thank heaven, I do know I"

SIR JOHN COLERIDGE'S PH.MINISCENcrs.- Sir John Coleridge delivered a lecture to the Ottery Literary So- ciety, a few evenings ago, on "Circuit Reminiscences," and rivetted the attention of his audience for the hour oc- cupied in the delivery of his lecture. He commenced with his experience as a barrister, and amongst other traits of the long-robed gentlemen, he mentioned that in his time they were very particular in their choice of wine, and had their own cellars in different districts. Next he narrated his experience as Recorder of Exeter, and he recollected the first case of cholera which occurred in these parts. The patient was taken ill in & rural town, and was sent in a cart to Exeter for medical attendance. He died, it was said, owing to the removal, and certain persons were charged with causing his death. Many of the faculty" were sworn, but none would say that the man would not have died if he had not been removed, and the accused persons were acquitted. He next spoke of his experience as a judge. He had once to try a young man for murder. The murdered man was found dead, and his watch was stolen, but not bis purse. The crime was traced home to the young man in an extraordinary way. It appeared that he had met the murdered person, who showed his watch to the young man, and the latter was seized with a passion to possess it. He followed the owner, murdered him with an instrument used to bleed calves with, and took the watch, which he hid in a pit. After nine months had elapsed he dug up the watch, which proved defective, and took it to a man to tepair it. He theu exchanged it for another, and the dead man's watch passed away into another person's hands to be repaired. This person identified the watch, and remembered that it had belonged to the murdered man, and by this means the crime was brought home to the murderer, who suffered condign punishment. Sir John also stated some incidents connected with the trial of the Chartists, and remarked how well some of them defended themselves, showing that they had been less students of Tom Paine than Algernon Sydney. With regard to civil suits, one he mentioned connected with this county was of considerable interest. An attorney, not in very flourishing circumstances, had made an offer of matrimony to a young lady, whose friends, however, objected to the suit, and he withdrew. Disappointed in love, he removed to Liverpool, under an assumed name, became a coach proprietor, mar- ried, had children, and died. In the mean time he became heir-at-law to a large property in Devon, but as be had changed his name, he could not be traced, and his pro- perty devolved on his two sisters, who enjoyed it many years. By that time the deceased man's children found an old document in an ancient piece of furniture, which led them to believe that their father's name was assumed; they found his right name in his own handwriting, it was also attested by persons who had letters written by him in his early days, and the result of a law suit was, that the attorney's children succeeded to the disputed property. THE REWARDS OF INDUSTRY AND UPRIGHTNESS — The mayorality of our large towns testifies every year to the facilities in this much abused country, for rising from station to station until wealth and infiueuce are obtained. At this moment signal instances are afforded in Manches- ter and Leeds, The gentleman who has for the second time been chosen Mayor of Manchester was some years ago a wor king mason in Glasgow He left that city with a letter of introduction from a Dissenting minister, for a town in the north of England and where the letter secured him employment. Shortly afterwards he was engaged in the establishment of Findlater's'at Dublin; this was the turning point of his fortunes; ere long it was Findlater Mackie, and Co." He is now one of the wealthiest men in Manchester, and a general favorite. He has always been liberal with his purse, and the quality does not desert him. He attended the other day at a meeting, at which the gentieman who befriendend him in his early days was present and while pleading for a charitable object he said 11 The first sovereign I ever gave away in my life was to the Rev. Mr* for some schools and it was rather a hard pull for me for I had only two in the world." The Mayor of Leeds, who has given Bright such a dressing, was formerly a mechanic, in the employ of an engineer. I have heard the successive stages in his career thus touched npon by an eminent member of his profession The first time I knew him," he said, he acted as my foreman in some works in the north, and he was paid the ordinary wages. The next time I met him was in consultation as a brother engineer upon an important work; the third time as a teUCiw member of a deputation from a scientific society appointed to wait upon Prince Albert; and the fourth, at the British Association at Leeds, a few days ago, just after my friend had been entertaining her Majesty at his country seat." Correspondent of the Cambridge In- dependent Press. Holloway's rills the paragon remedy. Charles Robiusou, Brighton, gratefully informs Professor Hul- ioway tbttt ht-was afflicted for nine years with Asthma. Several physicians pronounced his cUP. hopeless, and being a private in the lioyal Marines, he received his discharge and returned to his native place. Toe difficulty in breath- ing and that choking sensation so peculiar to the com- plaint compelled him to rest at night in an easy chair When every hope and every remedy had failed, by the aid of this inestimable medicine he was restored to perfect health.

THE HOLY MAID" OF LEOMINSTER. I Extract from Cranmer's Confutation of unwritten veri- ties." Published 1547. About thirty years past, on the borders of Wales, within a Priory called Lymster, there was a young woman, called the holy maid of Lymster, which (as the fame was) lived only by angel's food, and was inclosed within a grate of iron unto whom, certain days, when the Prior of the place said mass, the third part of the host went, hanging in the air, (by miracles, as it seemed) from the altar, where tbe Prior massed, intu the maid's mouth. Which things brought people into great opinion of holiness in her, and caused great pilgrimage to be there used. But when the Lord of Burgavenny, with his brother Sir Edward Nivell, and divers other gentlemen and gentlewomen, came to try the truth hereof, they caused the door to be opened, and straightways the dogs fought for bones that were under her bed whereupon they searching farther, found a privy door, where the Prior might resort to her, and she to him, at their pleasures. And theu she confessed that she made, as it were, two fine threads of her own hairs singly tied together with fine knotp; and then made a big hole with a bodkin through a quarter of the host, and fastened one end of the said hair to the corporus where the said Prior said mass, and the other end to her own bed wherein she lay, and tied the other hair fast to the quarter of the host, and wrapped the other end about her own finger. And when the Prior had received his portion of the host, she wound up the thread, whereto the host was tied, upon her fingers, and so conveyed the food into her mouth. This both the Prior and she confessed, and did open penance for the same. I Extract from II Obedience of a Christiau Man." The woman of Lemster was grated within iron gates above in the rood loft in the church, where it was believed she lived without meat or drink, only by angels' food. The narrator proceeds to say that the steps prudently taken by the mother of Henry VIII. led to the detection of this device, and of other wickedness confessed by her two miserable partners in guilt.

AN IMPERIAL LOVB-LBTTBR. The subjoined love I epistle, addressed by the First Napoleon to the wife he afterwards repudiated for an Austrian bride, is from the recently-issued collection of The Letters oj Napoleon L My Only Josephine,—Far from thee there is no happi- ness; away front thee world is a desert, where I remain alone and without feeling the soft pleasure of opening my heart. Thou has taken from me more than my soul; thou art the sole thought of my life. If I am wearied with the annoyance of business, if I fear the issue, if war disgust me, if I am ready to curse life, I place my hand upon my heart where thy image beats; I look upon it, and love is for me absolute happiness, and all is radiant, save the time I am absent from my love. By what art hast thou been able to take captive all. my faculties, and concentrate in thyself my moral faculties ? It is magic, my sweetheart, which will only end with me. Life for Josephine is the history of my life. I work to draw unto thee; I die to be near thee, oh, my adorable wife. I know not what fate awaits me, but if it keeps me from thee longer, it will become insupportable to me; my courage will not go so far. There was a time when I prided myself on my courage, and sometimes when I cast my eyes upon the evil men may do me, upon the fate which may be in store for me. I looked upon the most unheard-of misfortunes without a frown, without feeling astonished; but to-day, that my Josephine may be ill, the idea that she may be unwell, and, above all, the cruel and dismal thought that she may love me less, withers my soul, stops my blood, renders me sad and broken down, and does not leave even the courage of furor and despair." TOBACCO MANUFACTURE IN PARIS —Approaching the Pont des Invalides, we see the Imperial Manufacture of Tobacco-a government monopoly, which is said to add to the revenue, annually, E3,200,000. The value of this establishment is set down at E191,000. The plant alone, which includes the machinery and tools, is included in the above estimate, and represents a sum of about E27,000. The tobacco-leaves, purchased by the Regie, and which have previously been dried in the open air by the planters, are brought into the manufactory, where they are first subjected to an operation, which is termed ecotage, and which consists in the removal of the ribs of the leaves. This work is generally performed by women. After the ecotage, the damping of the tobacco is proceeded with. This is done with a solution of sea-salt, a substance which assists the fermentation, but, at the same time, prevents the inas-i from assuming a putrid character. The tobacco is then roughly cut up, and in that state is laid up in vast stores, where it is allowed to ferment. In these vrare- houses, which sometimes contain as much as 400,000 kilo- grammes of tobacco, the fermentation raises the tempera- ture as high as seventy or eighty degrees and there would even be risk of carbonization, if these immense masses were not occasional aired and shaken up. When it is supposed that this fermentation has reached the height required to produce all its useful effects, that is, at the end of five or six months, the portion of tobacco intended to be made into snuff is taken away, and made tff undergo a fresh but milder fermentation. The dressed tobacco passes through mills moved by steam, and, after being ground, is then sifted, passed between large cylindrical brushes, in- tended to break up any small heaps into which the powder may have formed itself in the sifting; and lastly, it is again passed through finer sieves, which it leaves in the state in which it is sold. Tobacco for smoking, after it has left the warehouse where is has undergone the process of fermentation, is first of all placed in a machine which presses it tightly between a couple of boards then, by the aid of another mechanism, it is impelled towards a sort of guillotine which cuts it into extremely thin slices. From that it is transferred to a first drying-machine, composed of a number of brass channels warmed by steam, and arranged something like the pipes of an organ, so as to present the largest possible amount of calorifying surface. During this operation, which lasts about twenty minutes, the tobacco loses about fifteen per cent. of its weight. It is their taken to another room, and placed on a second dryer, formed of a number of linen screens arranged one over another. This second operation only takes about five or six minutes.— Guide to the Northern Railway of France. THE COMTB DE MONTALICKBERT.-Charles Forbes, Comte de Montalembert, was born in London on the 10th of March, 1810. He is the representative of an old family of Poitou, and his father was a peer of France, and Ambassador at Stockholm from the Court of Charles X. His mother was an Englishwoman. At the outset of his career he was an advocate of the union of Catholicism and democracy, of which Lamennais was the apostle, and was one of the editors of a journal founded to advocate that union, called D' Aveni;. He subsequently commenced a sort of crusade against the University, and opened in April, 1831, in conjunction with MM deCoux and Lacord- aire, a school called the Ecole Libre. His opposition to the existing Government brought him at last before the Police Correctionnelle but during the process his father died, and as M. de Montalembert then became a peer of France, he claimed the right of being tried by the Upper Chamber, by which he was condemned to a fine of 100f. His defence pronounced before the chamber may be con- sidered as the beginning of his political career, but he was prevented, by his not having attained the legal age of 30, from taking his seat until 1840. The condemnation of Lamennais by the Pope greatly increased the severity of M. de Montalembert's orthodoxy, and, both by writing and speaking, he made himself thenceforward known as the great champion of Catholicism. He published his famous Life of Elisabeth of Hungary in 1836. In 1842 he strongly opposed the educational measure of M. Ville- main, and in the following year he published his Catholic Manifesto. He married in 1843 the daughter of a Belgian Minister, Mademoiselle de Merode, and after a short ab- sence from France he returned to deliver in the Chamber of Peers, his three celebrated speeches on the liberty of the Churcb, the liberty of education, and the liberty of the monastic ordel8. In 1847 he established a religious association to work in favour of the Sbnderbund. He also made himself notorious for the active part he took on be- half of oppressed nationalities, and on the 10th of February, 1848, he bad a solemn fanernal service celebra- ted at Notre Dame to the memory of O'Connell. After the establishment of the Republic, M. de Montalembert was elected a member of the Constituent Assembly, and there acted sometimes with one and sometimes with another of the parties that divided the Assembly. He was opposed to the measure for again requiring journals to furnish security, to the continuance of the state of siege, and to the admission of Louis Bonaparte. But at the end of the session he supported M. Dufaure in a Bill for the restriction of the press, and was loud in his approval of the French expedition to Rome. He was re-elected by the department of Doubs for the Legislative Assembly. He there distinguished himself principally by the part he took in preparing the law to restrain the suffrage within narrower limits, by his frequent encounters with M. Victor Hugo, his only rival in oratory, and by his defence of the President. When the coup-d'etat came be protested strongly against the imprisonment of the Deputies; but be, nevertheless, was named a member of the Consultative Commission, a distinction he declined, and was elected, in 1852, into the Corps Legislatif. As a French biographer laconically, but happily, expresses it, "il y representait presque scul P Opposition." At the last election, in 1857, he was defeated in the Department of the Doubs by the Government candidate, and had sinee retired from public life until this article in the Corretpondant brought him again before the world. Of course M. de Montalembert is not a Liberal after an English fashion. But we cannot doubt that years and experience have taught him some thing. And especially as regards England, no one can now be a more zealous, discriminating, and firm friend to everything that is English than M. de Montalembert. No one, also, can doubt that he is one of the first men in Europe both as a writer and as a speaker and both by his eminence and his great interest in literature and education he is among the leaders of the French Academy, of which he was elected a member in 1852.-Continental Review. Fsss ON LATB LETTERS, &c.-The late fee on letters posted after the ordinary letter-box has been closed, must not only be prepaid in postage stamps, but the postage stamps must in future be placed on the letters by the senders themselves. Any officer of the Post-office who may hereafter receive money for such fees, will render himself liable to dismission from the lenice.By com. mand of the Postnuster-Oeaeral, ROWLAND RILL, Beal otary.-Onnal lpo"moot NOT. 19, 1868.

I MODES OF SECURING A TRUE CLASS RE- PRESENTATION. I THE PRUSSIAN AND OTHER SCHEMES. The great principle that the House of Commons ought to represent adequately the various class-interests of the country, not the mere numerical bulk of the population, is sometimes decried as a mere specious sophism invented to cloak selfish and cowardly conservatism, and totally devoid of any substantial worth,—as a logical subtlety, in short, which no one would have thought of, had it not subserved the ends of the ruling classes. No one who maintains this, has the slightest insight into the principle he attacks. That principle. is held, from deep conviction, as the necessary postulate of representa- tive institutions at once free and successful, by almost all true statesmen, who see that it is the violation of this prin- ciple in America and France that has led to the sad and anamolous distortions of republican institutions now visible in those great countries. The ground of this prin- ciple is, indeed, as firm and solid as the rock. There is obvious equity in saying So far as political differences of opinion arise from the determinate bias given to men's politics by their social position and class-interest, such differences of opinion ought to be fairly balanced against each other in the national legislature: so far, on the other hand, as they arise only from the general arguments which weigh equally with equally sound and cultivated intellects, to whatever social position or class-interests they belong,— so far, additional political influences should be given to the most intelligent and educated, and to those who have the highest individual stake in wise government.' This prin- ciple is, we say, impregnable. So far as class interests bias (as they necessarily do bias) political opinion, they ought to be fairly poised so as to cancel or balance each other in the national legislature; otherwise prejudice is deliberately placed in the seat of power. And, therefore, we have always contended for a fair representation of labour in the House of Commons but therefore, also, we resist as the grossest injustice, though an injustice in the opposite direction, the proposal to rob the middle classes of all bona fide representation in the House of Commons, by throwing the constituencies completely into the power of the poorest and most ignorant class a proposal which is, in fact, that of the recent Manchester meeting. Instead of crying out for a fair representation for the working classes,—a cry in which we cordially join—that meeting practically demanded that the whole electoral power should be lodged in their hands, since no appreciable weight would be left to the middle-classes in the borough elections at all; if even the more moderate proposal of household suffrage, without any other modifying principle, were admitted. Let us look a moment at the exact statistics of the question. Even now 165,175 out of the 366,764 borough voters in England belong to the class either of freemen or of householders between E10 and E15 ;—in other words, very nearly half the borough votes in England belong to the holders of the least substantial property qualifications now existing. But what would be the effect if household suffrage were admitted, and members redistri- buted in proportion to population ? There were 334,795 houses of E10 and upwards in the English boroughs on the register of 1851-52, and the total number of houses rated to the poor in the English boroughs at the same period was 1,182,547,—so that the houses already qualified are, therefore, only 28g per cent, of the houses which a complete household suffrage, if introduced into the boroughs would qualify. In other words, the present number of borough votes would be far more than trebled, and not much less than quadrupled, by the admission of the new class of voters living in houses rented under £10. And remembering that the present franchise gives already half the voters to the lowest class of electors,—the class, we mean, which includes the free:nen and those qualified by houses rented under E15,-it is abundantly clear that the proposal to establish household syffrage in the boroughs, and to redristribute the members in proportion the populations, means nothing less than to deprive every class, except the lowest, of its electoral weight in the community. Now, is this what our advanced" Liberals realiy mean ? Is it indeed their wish that all the direct influ- ence of education and property in our representative system should be absorbed by the enormons numerical superiority of the most ignorant aud least thrifty class of our borough-populations ? If that be indeed their wish, it is fit that it should be clearly expressed, and its whole bearing distinctly understood. It should be generally known, for instance, that the most intelligent and sagacious of the artisans would really gain no new electoral weight at all, since their iofluenco would be wholly merged in that of the thriftless and ignorant mass below them. In short, the electoral importance of classes under such a system being determined by num- bers, and numbers alone, only one class could be really important at all, since, though the least educated and most prejudiced of all, it would easily carry all its nomi- nees against the combined voters of all the others. It is useless, however, to urge the obvious justice in the principle of a fair representation of class-interests without suggesting any practical modes of carrying it out. The victory will always lie with those who ask how we are to admit one artisan to vote without conceding equal power to all similarly circumstancea, and how we are to admit all without swamping the influence of the much smaller classes ranking socially above them. This question, however, is not really difficult to answer. Many different solutions may be proposed. One very interesting solution is that furnished by the existing Prussian Constitution. The scheme was explained at length in the Berlin letter of the Times of last Monday. It is, in substance, the same expedient as that engrafted into the old Roman Constitution by Servins Tullus, when he classed the people into centuries according to their income, and gave to the vote of each century equal poli- tical weight. In the Prussian system the election is a double process,—the primary electors choosing a body of men who, in their turn, choose the deputies; but this double process does not affect the principle now in question. The primary elections are thus managed. Every man of 24 years of age, who has not been convicted of crime and does not receive relief as a paiiper, has a vote, but the political importance of his vote varies in proportion to his taxation, as follows:—The constituencies are divided into political sections. The total amount of the direct taxes paid by each section is then estimated and divided into three equal parts. Those who pay the highest taxes are counted together till the amount reaches the third part of the taxation of the section; and these have as much electoral power as either of the other thirds, though, in consequence of their higher taxation, their numbers are much fewer. The second class is made up of all whose taxes (coming next in individual magnitude) make up together another third of the taxation of the section. The third class consists of all the remainder who pay the smallest taxes or even no direct taxes at all. Thus, if the taxation of one section of 3,000 men be £ 3,000, and a hundred wealthy men pay £ 1,000 of this sum, they will have as much electoral power as the next 500 men who contribute (say) the second LI,000, and these again as the remaining 2,400 men who contribute amongst them the last £1,000 worth of taxes. Now, in this case, any single member of the first class has five times as much direct political influence as any single member of the second class, and 24 times as much as any single man of the third class but, though this is true of the political influence of any individual, it is not true of his class. The superior numbers of the lowest and of the second class are permitted to make up for their inferior wealth the class is influential in proportion to its gross property and taxation; and wherever a class should happen to be so large as to counterbalance, or more than counterbalance, its poverty by its vast numbers, it would exert a corresponding influence in the State. Now, this plan, at least, illustrates clearly what is meant by the principle of class-representation. The expedient may be too complex to apply to the English representative system; or there may be other and more serious ob- jections to it. On this we pass no opinion. It is, at least, a living and practical illustration of the principle at issue. The same sort of result might be more roughly and with less complexity compassed by admitting household suffrage in the boroughs, but giving the new voters (rated under E10 only one vote, while all between EIO and E25 should have a double vote, and all above E25 a treble vute Even with this modification, the fresh power con- ceded to the lowest class would be very substantial indeed. According to Mr. Newmarch's most valuable tables, house- hold suffrage would give (in England only) about 847,752 newly qualified houses under £10 in the boroughs with one vote each, or 847,752 votes. Again, 161,945 houses between £10 and 1;25, with a double vote, would give 323,890 votes and 128,106 houses above E25, with three votes each, would give 384,318 votes; so that even with these modifications the whole political strength of the new class would more than exceed the combined strength of the old. The same thing again might be partially accomplished by the minority principle as it was called-that is, the plan of giving three members to all large constituencies with only two votes to each elector, so that a minority of not less than two fifths could carry the third member. But this expedient would be utterly ineffectual to prevent the worst results of any measure so large as a household suffrage qualification in the borough. Once more, the same thing might be fairly accomplished by affirming the principle of giving a variety or qualifica- tions to different classes of boroughs-one standard of qualification to the large manufacturing boroughs, another standard to the moderate-sized boroughs, a third standard to all boroughs so small as to require grouping in order to constitute them into fair independent constituencies. Any one of these methods it in itself feasible, though we are quite aware of the sort of objections to which most of them are open. But some measure at least of analogous effect must be adopted if we are to extend the representa- tion so as to include, as it ought to include, the labouring classes, without admitting the fatal, and we venture to say the immoral, principle, that any one class has the right to absorb the whole electoral power of a State, though it be greatly in ferior to all the other classes in culture, wealth, and stability, though it be not in any way iess prejudiced, in favour of its own special class interests, and though it be superior in nothing bat numbers alone.-I Economist*

I NEW SUBMARINE CABLE. There is nothing which illustrates so forcibly the com- plete infancy of the science of submarine telegraphy as the important discoveries aud improvements which are daily taking place in all that relates to it Morse's recording telegraph, with its cumbrous modes of sig- nalling, is not long for the present age, and hardly has the printing telegraph been made known ere a code of signals is being arranged which promises to develop to the greatest extent of which it is capable the rapidity of transmitting messages in any language by a few shoit signals. Most of our readers will recollect the objections which have been urged, on mechanical grounds, over and over again, against the principle of having submarine cables covered with wire in spiral folds. The inconven- iences and risks of such a method have been generally admitted—the greatest being the liability of the wire either to become untwisted or to form "kinks." A simple arrangement to obviate all these difficulties has nuw been brought forward in a patent rope by Messrs. Stevenson and Binks, which so adds to the lightness and strength of the cable, and so admirably facilitates the work of sub merging, that it appears astonishing why it was never thought of before, especially as its principle of construc- tion has been known for five or six years at least. The improvement simply consists of plaiting the outer covering of wires in a braiding machine, precisely in the same manner with wire as sash-line or picture-cord is made with cotton. A plaited submarine cable made on this plan, and closely woven, has its outer covering wound round it with the firmness and almost the closeness of a gun-barrel, while by regulating the size of the wire used an ample degree of flexibility is secured, especially as a rope so made cannot possibly form in kinks, as is the case with those enclosed in the spiral strands. The specimen which has been made consists of 12 plaits, each plait being composed of six galvanized wires of No 15 guage. The diameter of the whole wire is an inch, its weight is as slight as that of the Atlantic cable, while its cost is very little more, though by the plan of plaiting the wire its breaking strain is increased to no less than 7! tons. One of the strongest objections which was urged against the Atlantic cable by every engineer of note was the certainty of the outside spiral wires stretching under tension, while the gutta perch a cuuld not. It was contended, therefore, that the effect of any severe strain must break the insula- tion in minute places, and of course expose the conductor to all those electrical derangements which, from ao,L. e cause or other, we have recently seen the Atlantic cable undergo. None ever attempted to deny that this mechani- cal defect in the principle of the outer spiral wires was really of the most serious kind, and it was only met by saying that a cable so covered should not be exposed to severe strain of any kind. In a plaited wire, however, the only effect of the strain would be compress to the very utmost the inner core and conductor without the least possibility of elongating them. In the specimen of which we speak, an inch in diame- ter, the outer wires are plaited so completely round that the section shows them resting as one piece, and thus in the centre, instead of one conductor, ample room is left for four. These are insulated not by gutta percha, as has hitherto always been the case, but with india rubber. This, though electrically speaking a worse insulator, possesses many peculiar and important advantages, the greatest being that it is totally imperviable to water under any pressure. Of course it would be impossible to coil a sub- marine cable made with a plaited outer covering, and it would have to bestowed in a vessel in straight lines, run- ning fore and aft. This, however, would be no disadvan- tage; on the contrary, in many cases it would be decidedly preferable, and the only reason which up to the present time has made it absolutely necessary to coil all subma- rine cables is their extreme liability to kinks" in any other mode of stowage—a liability which even the coiling often fails to overcome. All risk from a foul wire break- ing and stripping the cable would be equally done away with on the new principle. In every point of view, there- fore, as regards strength, lightness, durability, capacity for carrying several conductors, and freedom from almost all the accidents to which past submarine cables have been exposed-the plaited wire covering is the greatest im- provement which has yet been made. Of course, according to the size and strength of the wire required, the number of plaits may be varied from six to twelve, while the size of the wires themselves regulates the amount of flexibility of the whole. Two NEW AND ORIGINAL TALES, ALSO LESSONS ix DRAWING, whereby one may teach himself this beautiful art, in CASSELL'S ILLUSTRATED FAMILY PAPER. -On Thursday, Nov. 25th, will be published, price One Penny, No. 53, being the commencement of a New Volume (the third of the Now Series) of this increasingly-popular Weekly Journal. Its contents will be: I. Entertaining: Chapters 1 and 2 of a new and powerfully-written Tale by J. F. Smith, author of Smiles and Tears," &c., entitled, The Substance and the Shadow," with Illustrations by Alfred Crowquill; also, 1, 2, and 3 of an Original Story of intense interest aud pathos, by Felix Stowe, entitled "Winnie; also, a Short Tale, entitled "Robbery and Mystery," &c. II. 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RAILWAY TIME TABLE. FOR NOVEMBER, 1858. LLANELLY, LLANDILO, LLANDOVERY, AND 1- CWMAMMAN RAILWAY. UP TRUNS 1,23 1, 2, 371-,2,3 Class Class up TRAINS. C1AJ8 C;A;S C1AA Starting from A.M. NOON. P.M. Llanelly (S. W. R. St.) 8 40 12 10 5 0 Dock 8 45 12 14 5 4 Bynea 8 50 12 22 5 12 Llangennech 8 55 12 28 5 18 Pontardulais 9 5 12 35 5 25 Garnant.. departure. 8 50 5 10 Cross Inn 11 9 10 5 35 Cross Inn arrival 10 0 5 50 Garn.-Ant. 10 25 6 15  Llandebie 9 30 12 55 5 50 Derwydd Road 9 50 110 6 5 Fairfach 9 50 1 10 6 5 Llandilo 9 55 1 15 6 10 Glanrhyd 10 5 125 (j 20 Llangadock 10 10 130 6 25 Limpeter Road 10 15 1 35 6 30 Llandovery .1025 145 6 40 DOWN TRAINS. ?'? 1,2,3 1,2,3 DOWN TRAINS Class Class Class  ?a?'?'M?' from A.M. NOON. P.M. Llandovery 8 56 12 45 6 40 Lampeter Road 9 5 12 55 650 Llangadock 9 10 1 0 6 55 Glanrhyd 9 15 15 7 0 Llandilo 9 25 115 7 10 Fairfach 9 30 1 20 7 15 Derwydd Road. 9 40 1 30 7 25 Llandebie 945 135 7 30 Garnant.departure, 8 50 7 0 Cross Inn 1) 9 10 7 25 Cross Inn arrival 10 0 7 40 Garnant. 71 .1025 8 5 Pontardulais 10 15 155 7 55 Hangennech 10 22 2 2 8 2 Bynea 10 28 ? o 8 8 Dock 10 36 2 16 8 Llanelly (S. W. R. St.) 10 40 2 20 8 20 Garnant Passengers wlil be set down or taken up at Gellyceidiim or Cross Keys, if required. Cross Inn Passengers by Middle-day Trains will in like manner be set down or taken up at Pautyffynon.

TAFF VALE RAILWAY. UP. j WEEK DAYS. SUNDAYS. £' Mail. 31 2 Starting from 2,1, 2, 3 1, 2, 3 1, 2, 3 2,3 _1_ a.m. p.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. Cardiff Docks 9 15 2 40 8 45 E.ni. Cardiff. 930 255 630 9 0 4 0 Llandaff 9 39 3 4 6 39 9 9 4 9 Pentyrch 947 312 647 9 17 4 17 Taff's Well 9 52 3 17 6 52 9 22 4 22 Treforest .10 3 328 7 4 9 33 4 33 Newbridge. 10 8 333 7 9 9 38 4 38 Aberdare Junction 10 19 343 720 9 48 4 48 Quaker's Yard Junction 10 32 3 56 7 35 10 1 5 1 for N. A. & H. Railway. Troedyrhiew 10 43 4 7 7 47 10 12 5 12 Merthyr 10 50 4 15 7 55 10 20 5 20 Aberdare Junction 10 22 3 46 7 24 9 51 4 51 Mountain Ash 10 35 359 7 37 10 4 5 4 Treaman 10 43 4 7 74.5 10 12 5 12 Aberdare 10 47 4 11 7 49 10 16 5 16 DOWN. WEEK DAYS. SUNDAYS. S  1 2 3\ Mail. M.aH 1, 2,3 \},taU ?«? /r? 1, 2, 3 ?g ??g 1, 2, 3 ? 3 a.m. p.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. Merthyr 820 145 630 9 0 4 0 Troedyrhiew 8 28 153 6 38 9 8 4 8 Quaker's Yard Junction 8 39 2 4 650 9 19 4 19 for N. A. & H. Railway. Aberdare Junction 8 52 217 75 9 32 4 32 Newbridge 9 2 2 27 7 16 9 42 4 42 Treforest 9 7 232 721 9 47 4 47 Taff's Well 9 18 2 43 7 33 9 58 4 58 Pentyrch 923 248 7 38 10 3 5 3 Llandaff 9 31 2 56 7 46 10 11 5 11 Cardiff 9 40 3 5 7 55 10 20 5 20 Cardiff Docks 9 50 315 1030.. ? Aberdare 8 22 1 47 6 35 9 2 4 2 Treaman 8 26 1 51 6 39 9 6 4 1 Mountain Ash 8 34 1 59 6 47 9 14 4 14 Aberdare Juuction 847 2 W 70 9 27 4 2174

1 RAILWAY TIME TABLE, FOR NOVEMBER, 1858. I.. m, u SOUTH WALES RAILWAY. 1.. I. ine uaii i rains run the same on Sundays as week day8. DOWN TRAINS. WEEK DAYS. Starting Mail 1,2,3 123123 1&SM33 1&2 Exp trom I & « class class class Exp. class. class 1 & a p. m a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m a.m. p.m. Paddington.. 8.10 6.10 9.30 7 15 11.30 4.50 Reading 9.15 7.15 10.20 9.10 12.37 5.40 S"indon at-!10.35 9.5 11.2511 15 1.55 6.40 Swindon .de'10 '47 9.20 11.40 2.30 6.55 Glo'ster ..a)-?12.20 1LO 10 410 8.10 1 & 2 1.0 4.10 ? 8.10 1&2 1,2,3 Glo'ster ..?!2.1o 6.45 11.10 1.5 4.20 8.30 Newnham. 2.38 7.1711.40 6.5 8.50 Gatcombe 7.27 11.50 5.15 Lydney 2 56 7.3711.58 5.28 9.4 Chepstow 3.12 7.5512.17 1.55 5.55 9.22 Portakewet 8.7 12.27 6.7 Magor 8.17 12.37 6.20 Newport ..ar 8.3512.55 2.20 6.36 Newport ..de 3.40 8.40 1.0 2.25 6.47 9.45 Marshfiell 8.49 1.10 7.0 Cardiff i.4 9.5 1.25 2.41 7.8 10.7 Ely 9.10 1.30 7.20 St. Fagans 9.15 1.35 7.25 Peterston 9.22 1.42 7.32 Llantmsant.. 4.27 9.34 1.54 7.42 10.27 Peiicoed 9.52 2.12 8.0 Bridgend 4.46 10.0 2.22 3.10 8.1510.42 Pyle 10.15 2.37 8.28 Pyle S. 12 1 0 29 2.51 3.28 8.42 ii.? Port Talbot.. 5.12 10,29 2.51 3.28 8.4211.0 Briton Ferry 10.37 2.59 8.54 Neath .ar 5.23 10.44 3.4 3.36 5.2 11.8 Ditto de 5.25 10.47 3.8 3.40 9.5 11.10 Llansamlet. 11.1 3.18 916 Landore 11.13 3.26 4.0 9.27 Swansea ..ar 5.50 11.23 3.35 3.55 9.3711.30 a.m. Ditto .? 5.55 8.0 11.0 f 3.40 9 15 Landore 8.10 11.18 I 4.3 9.32 Gower Rd 8.22 11.33 4.23 9.52 ? Loughor 8.27 11.39 4.38 9.57 Uauelly 6.25 8.37 11.48 | 4.48 !10.7.. Pembrey 8.45 11.58 -3 4.56 1018 Ferryside d. .45 1 88*.4557  ll 58 4.56 ?10.18 Kidwelly 6.45 8.57 12. 7 I 5.6 110.29.. Ferryside 6.58 9.7 12.19? 5.16 110.41 Carmarthen.. 7.15 9.2012.34 -o 5.3°1 10'65 St. Clears. 7.28 12.50 §> 5.48 Whitland 7.40? 1.6 -6.3 .1 Narberth Rd. 7.55 K 1.21? 6.18 Clarb. Rd. 8.15 g 1.35 I 6.38 Haverfordwest 8.30i 5. 1.46 ? 6.53 1 Johnston (for w >5 Milford) 8.45/2- 2.2 7.8\ Neyland (for g Pater. 8.55 ? 2.15 ? 7.18 The Waterford Steamers leave Milford for Waterford at 8.0 p.m., on the arrival of the 9.30 a.m. Express. UP TRAINS. WEEK DAYS. Starting 1,2,3 1,2,3 1,2,3 1,2,3 Mall II 23 "?'" c'?s. class clas class j class class 1 & 2¡cia;i  a,m- a.m. a.m. j p.m a. m p.m.I- Neyland 8.15 8.1511.0 4.7 \r Johnston 8.30 8.30 11.15 4.2 HaverfordweBt 8.40 8.4011.25 4.32  Clarb. Rd. 8.52 8.5211.40 4.47 L? Narberth Rd. 9.5 9.6 11-58 5.2 fs. Whitland 9.20 9.20 12.10 5.17 f 5 St. Clears. 9.35 9.35 12.23 5.29 C.nn.b. 6.30 10.6 110.5 12.1 5.52 815 ^"yajde 6.45 10.20 10.20 1.0 6.5 8.28 £ ldwelly g.57 10.32 10.32 1.12 6.20 8.38 Pembrey 7.9 10.44 10.44 1.25 8.50 Hanelty 7.2010.55 10.55 1.36 6.40 9.0 Loughor 7.29H.4 11.4 1.45 99 Gower Rd 7.35 n. 10 11.10 1-60 o. Landore. 7.55n.30 11.30 2.7 9.34 Swansea ..ar 8.5 11.40 2.20 7.10 9.39 Exp. 1 & 2 Ditto .de 7.50 11.23 10.20 S? 2.0 7 15 Landore 7.58 11.33 10.30 ? 2.10 Hansamlet. 8.6 1'- 382.20 Neath ar 8.15ili.?8 10.46 2.30 7<U Ditto .de 8.20 11.50 10.48 i 2.37 7?3 Briton Ferry 8.27 10.54 3 2.45 Port Talbot. 8.3812.1 11.2 0 2.53 745 Pyle 8.57 11.17 ? 3.8 Bridgend 9.16 12.23 11.32 1 y 321 .8 Pencoed 9.26 11.40111-d 3.33 Llantrissant 9.40 12.0 ? 3.49 097 St. Fagans •• 10.0 12.24 ?48 Ely 10.6 12.31 =' 4.15 Cardiff 7.0 10.13 12.54 12.38 g- 4.22 8.48 Marshfield 7.1210.28 12.50 D 4 M Newport ..ar 7.2710.45 1.15 1.5 > ?'? Newport ..?c 7.3210.50 1 21 1.25 o- 451 915 Magor 7.47 11.8 1.35 gg Magor 7.4711.8 1.35 S- ?6 Portskewet 7.57 1.57 5'16 Chepstow. 8.8 11.27 1.46 2.9 g' 528 946 Woolaston .8.18 2.19 S 5.38 Lidney 8.2611.44 2.29 2 546l00 Newnham 8.5012.0 2.47 0 61110?20 Glo'ster. ar 9.1512.30 2.37 3.27 3 6.4010.47 1&2 3 ? GIo'ster ..?e 9.42 12.40 2.42 3.32 ? 6.55 12.40 Swindon ..a?ll.18 2.20 3.55 5.15 ? 8.25 2.10 Swindon ..de 11.30 3.0 4.15 5.30 ? 8.35 225 Reading 1.0 6.0 7.25- 9?3 3?5 Paddington.. 2.25 8.0 60 9.0 I J ? n,o 4.4.5  The 8.15 a.m. train is thro' 3rd class from Ireland and S.W.R. to G.W.R. SUNDAYS. DOWN TRAINS. Startg. from 1,2,3 1,2,3 1,2,3 a. m. a. m. a. m. Paddington 8.0 Reading 9.27 Swindon.ar 11.50 Ditto ..de 1.5 Glo'ster ar 2.35 Ditto ..de 3.0 8.30 Newnbam. 3.25 8.58 Lydney 3.48 9.21 Chepstow. 4.15 9.48 Magor 4.35 10.8 Newport ar 5.0 Newport de 7.38 5.5 10.37 Cardiff 8.3 5.29 11.2 Llantrissant 8.33 5.55 .—— Bridgend 8.58 6.28 Port Talbot 9.27 6.56 Neath ..ar 9.40 7.12 Ditto ..de 9.50 7.17 9.15 Landore 10.10 7.42 9.35 Swansea ar 10.15 7.47 9.40 Ditto..de 10.20 7.52- Landore 10.30 7.57 Llaaeliy 10.55 8.24 Pembrey 11.5 8.33 Kidwelly 11.17 8.44 Perryside 11.27 8.54 Carmarthen 11.42 9.9 Whitland. 9.46 Narb. Rd. 10.0 H. West 10.34 J ohnstoD. 10.50 Neyiand. 11.0 SUNDAYS., UP TRAINS. Startg. from 1,2,3 1,2,3 1,2,3 js. m. a. m.lp. in. Neyland -9 .15p. in. Johnston 9.35 H. West 9:45? Narb. Road 10.20 Whit!and..i 10.35.. St. Clears.. 10.50.. Carmarthen .4 11.20 6.0 Ferryside H.35 6.15 KLidweUy. 11.476.27 Pembrey 12.0 6.40 Llm anel y 12.11 6.51 and ore 12.45 7.25 Swansea ar 12.50 7.30 Ditto de 8.30 1.10 7.35 Landore 8.35 1.18 7.43 [Neath..ar 8.5311.28 7.58 Ditto ..de 1.30 8.0 Port Talbot ?' 1.44 8.15 Bridgend 2.12 8.43 Llantrissant a. m.i 2.34 9.15 Cardiff H.15 ? 33..20 310.10 Newport ar f 3.23 10.10 Ditto ..<? 11.49 3.28- Magor 12.6 3.40 "'0 Chepstow.. 12.29 4.10 Lydney ? 12,49 4.28 Nel1bam.19 4.48 "0. Glo'ster ar 1.38 5.20  Ditto do 5.25 Swindon.ar 7.8 Ditto..de 7.20 1 Readirig 9.0 }? ) Paddington .?tj.2u ) I

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