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1,will try to do it—if you will only gis-e me written directions on my tablets about the gee-woh. t It's of no use I can read it all well enough, but the devil of a bit can they understand the accent.' > in the 'ouse,' said the host, a wealthy but illiterate person. I've some good claret,' obserred one of the guests. And I have some Bologna sausage,' added another. Well, what will you bring ?' asked one of the party of the man of horsehair and humour. 'Why, let me see; sup- pose I bring the h's, then, for Mr. -'s 'ams.Ibid. THE LITERATURE OF THE BOTTLE. ( In Sydney and its immediate neighbourhood, there are no less than five hundred public-houses, many of them is great and garish as the gin-palaces of London. Here is a mission already cut out for Mr. Gough At present these drinking habits are ruining a large class of the population. Nothing is done without the nobbier. Merchants keep the bottle in their offices and the first question put to you, even by respectable men, is What are you going to drink ?' In fact, not to drink is considered a crime. Aut bibat, aut abeat-whicb means, in Australia, if you will not 'stand,' you may walk. Here, too, as in America, the Bottle has its literature. To pay for liquor for another is to I stand,' or to I shout,' or to 'sacrifice' The mea- sure is called a I nobbler.' or a 'break-down,' and the following are a few of the names of the favourite beve- rages A Stone Fence Ginger-beer and brandy. A Spider Lemonade and brandy. A Sensation Half-a-glass of sherry. A Constitutional.. Glass of gin and bitters. A Cocktail Brandy, bittera, and sugar. A Smash. Ice, brandy, and water. A Julip Brandy, sugar, and peppermint. A Maiden. Peppermint or cloves. A Catherine Hayes. Claret, sugar, and orange. A Madame Bishop Port, sugar, and nutmeg. A Lola Montez Old Tom, ginger, lemon, and hot water. A Band of Hope. Lemon syrup. At some of the taverns they serve bread-and-cheese, salads, and sandwiches for luncheon. The vernacular for these stands thuI Bread and cheese Roll and rind. Salad Nebuchadnezzar. —Ibid. I INDIAN ELOQUENCE. I At the western end of Sculleville lies a small warehouse (with a somewhat raised corridor), which is the rostrum of the Choctaw orator, and the open sky the ceiling of his hall. The Indian orator," I was told, finds his speech flow freely when his eye falls on the swallow shooting through the air; when he sees before him the tree with its beautiful green leaves, his words grow together like the fresh leaves, and form one who)e, for there are many leaves on one branch and many branches pn one tree the tree throws a shade so that many men can stand in it, and his speech falls like a shade upon the hearers, and every one says the speech is good. The wild bee goes murmuring past with her honey, and the speaker takes the honey and mingles it with his words. Honey is sweet; the Red- akin likes to eat it and the hearers of his words suck them in like honey, and every one can understand the words, and listen to them sharp-eyed and motionless, like the antelope in the prairies and the stag in the thicket." On a magnificent summer evening, the whole masculine population of Sculleville was assembled before this rostrum, and of the camp of Lieutenant Whipple very few were wanting. The Indians had mostly brought their wives with them, but the ladies were too modest to approach the Council, and remained at a distance; for although tho wives of the Choctaws have now assumed something like their rightful place, and are no longer slaves to their hus- bands, as among most uncivilized nations, they are them- selves reasonable enough to see that the interference of a single woman in political affairs would sometimes do more than the men of the whole tribe could make good again. It will probably be a long time before the emancipation of the sex is to be looked for amongst the Choctaws. The first orator who presented himself, though a great chief, was no painted an I plumed warrior. He wore a cotton hunting-shirt of rather fantastic cut, a brown low. crowned hat shaded his copper-coloured physiognomy, ho looked dusty, as if from a long ride, and his horse, still saddled and bridled, stood a little way off. From his first word the most breathless stillness reigned, and every one listened with profound attention, even those among his auditors who were entirely ignorant of the language in which he spoke. He had no time for pre- paration, but he knew what he wished to say; there were no theatrical gestures or attempts to excite the passions of his hearers, but merely a light movement of the hand occasionally accompanying the most emphatic words, which although uttered in deep guttural tones, were distinctly audible to the most distant of the aseembly. He spoke with ease and freedom, and was interrupted neither by applause nor contradiction; only a unanimous Hau! followed on certain questions that he asked, and when he had ended there was a abort murmur of remarks among his auditory, and then another orator took his place The questions in discussion were, first, a proposal for running the railroad across a part of the Choctaw Land, to which it is probable that the circumstance of our party being encamped on the spot had given rise and, secondly, a change in the form of government, as it had been pro- posed that the power now distributed among several chiefs should be delegated to one. The judicial business is conducted in the same manner; and the Choctaws are strict and inflexible in the adminis- tration of justice. The punishment of death is sometimes inflicted, in which case the delinquent is seated opposite his judge, cross-legged on the same blanket, and when he is condemned receives his death by a bullet on the spot. The sitting on the present occasion was prolonged to a late hour of the night, one speaker following another without any iuterruption, and the same attention being paid to the last as to the first; even those who did not understand a word were not tired, and the effect of mere tone and gesture upon them was such, that an Amencan exclaimed, I used to think English was the finest lan- guage in the world, but now I doubt whether Choctaw does not equal it.Diary of a Journey from the jJusis- sippi to the Coasts of the Pacific. CATCHING THE WILD HORSE. Another way by which the prairie Indians increase their herds, is by catching the mustangs, or wild horses of the American steppes; small but powerfully built animals, and unquestionably the descendants of those brought into the country by the Spaniards at the time of the conquest of Mexico, which, having eacaped into the desert, and become wild, have since increased to herds of thousands, and animate the prairies from the borders of Texas and Mexico to the Yellow Stone, a confluent of the Northern Missouri. The Indiana soon learned to eatimate the useful pro. perties of the new animal in bearing burdens, and they also bad recourse to them for food in seasous when the buffalo was difficult to obtain at present the catching the wild mustang is an occupation or a sport, to which they give themselves up with all the wild passion of which these untamed children's nature are capable. With a lasso forty feet long, they follow the flying hed, and having, by the most unmerciful use of th" Whip, brought up the hore they are mounted on near enough to use it, they aend it whirling and flying out of their hands, and with unerring aim right over the head of the victim selected. After a short struggle, the mustang falls half- suffocated; a leathern thong is quickly passed round his fore legs, and then the lasso round his throat all far re- laxed as to avoid quite choking him. The Indian then fastens a rein to the lower jaw of his prisoner, breathes several times into his open nostrils, takes the fetters from his neck and feet, and jumps upon his back. Then follows a ride for life and death, but a last the creature is mostly brought in tamed, and placed among the herd and wildly and cruelly as the Indian appears to go to work on such occasions, he is extremely cautious not to break the spirit of the mustang in taming him, for in that case the flesh would be all be would get by his dangerous and exhausting labour.— Ibid. I THE OYSTERS AT HOME. Oysters are interesting creatures, whose natural history had not escaped Monsieur Coste's professional observation, although it is utterly despised by the vulgar. Few persons known even what is the favourite and natural position of an oyster at the bottom of the sea they fancy that it lies with the flat shell upwards, because they see it so packed in fishmonger's tubs, to keep the liquor in. But the oyster itself wants to leave the liquor out, and to renew it as often as it can and so it prefers to lie with the flat shell down- wards, the hollow shell uppermost serving for a house or dome to resist the pressure of the water. An oyster has a will of its own for if not attached to a stone or to another shell, and the angle at which it lies inclined be not too unfavourable, it will exercise the power of locomotion, and change to the side it likes best by a sudden spring or snapping of the valves. An oyster pit, in genial weather, when the tide is out, is anything but an inanimate object to visit. The inmates give unmistakable signs of life by spittings and spurtings and suckings-in of fluid, by gentle openings or sharp shuttings-to- Monsieur Coste was cog- nisant of two important facts in the oyster's biography. Every oyster produces not less than from one to two mil- lions of young ones annually. They are visible to the naked eye, at the time of their birth, only as the turbid liquor which constitutes the milkiuess of oysters when they are going out of season. Under the microscope, young oysters are seen to be furnished each with a bivalve shell, like their parent; they are exceedingly interesting objects, and especially beautiful when viewed with polarised light. Prepared specimens are to be had of Amadio, of Throgmorion-sireet, and other first-class opticians. These myriads of tiny embryos issue in crowds from the valves of every mother oyster-and every oyster is a mother-like swarms of bees rushing from their hives. But, unlike the bees, they have no queen to direct their course and decide upon their final home. Swimming freely, they are carried away by the tide to unfavourable spots, are smothered in sediment, or become tbepicy of polypi and other marine animalcule-eaters. Only a very small proportion, indeed, find a suitable resting-place, and grow to the size which fits them for human food. But, surely, if we can arrest and harbour the young fry before their perilous dispersion through the wide wide sea, we can sohe the problem of obtaining an almost indefinite increase of shell fish and M. Coste became awitte of a means of fixing this micros. copic population at the moment of making its adventurous exodus. The roola and branches of certain tropical trees (110 doubt the origiuals which Barou Munchausen's oyster- trees and cockle-trees were intended to caricature) are often loaded with shell fish, in the case when they dip and droop into saltwater creeks. This might have suggested the idea (though it is not stated) that by sinking branches of trees over oyster-beds and their neighbourhood, a little before the spawning season, it would be possible to retain these legious of living dust at the outset of their journey. Accordingly, in the month of February, 1858, Mr. Caste, in a report to the Emperor, suggested that such a plan should be adopted.-Dickr-¡¡'s Household Words.

SELF^TIUNTING OF SOUNDS. ) SELF.PIUNTING OF SOUNDS. While officials and soldiers are pursuing their contests, men of science are peacefully carrying on the investiga- tions which increase the power of mankind, without de- priving their fellow creatures of aught, but, on the con trary, effecting conquests without leaving any vanquished. The distinctness of the vocations has too often suggested the prejudice-and it is really of a superficial kind, although it has lasted for ages—that science and the pro- gress of the intellect are independent of political agen- cies yet, an instant's reflection will dissipate the hallu- cination. What interrupted the career of Archimede. but soldiery ? What restrains the intellect of. Central Italy, but that administration which assumes, as one of the basis of wisdom, that the sun goes round the world ? In this respect, Rome and England stand nearly-not quite-at the antipodes of each other and the conse quence is, that in England we have a freedom in the investigations of science, and in the application of it, even to the details of commerce, denied in other countries; though in some other regions of Eurcpe and America, the conquests in this peaceful domain are assuming an import- ance, a practical, and even a monetary commercial value, which, begin to forbid the idea that such questions will much longer be dependent upon the sufferance of politico- military authority. The present day is remarkable in comparison with others, not simply for the number of novel discoveries or applications, but even more for the promptitude with which they are introduced to society at large, and for the pains which philosophic men are taking to endow society with the power of following scientific progress, at least in its intellectual conceptions and its moral deductions. A Herschel is at the pains to come back to the accidence of his vast and profound science, to the very A B C of it;, machinery, in order that that once contemned individual, the general reader, may share the leading ideas of astronomy, and may participate in the conclusions of the scientific philosopher; and both gain by the participation. For after all, while special minds will seek special departments of activity, it is by the collective intellect of mankind that the grand totals of science, are most profitably treated and turned to the greatest account in advancing the object of all science-the enlargement of human wisdom and human happiness. It matters little to us to know, even proximately, the construction of those solar systems which lie at countless distances from our own, unless through the knowledge we arrive at grander conceptions of the universe and its structure, attain more distinctly to a perception of the laws by which it is regula- ted, and apply that knowledge in our own lives, with a more dutiful obedience to the power that rules the universe. In this aspect, as well as in the more commonly intelligi- ble view of immediate material results, every fresh dis- covery is now recognized to possess at least a constructive importance. One such discovery is announced in the current number of the Photographic lvews; It is the discovery which appears, at least in its preliminary stages, to be substantia- ted by M. Leon Scott,—that sounds, like the light from visual objects, can be collected by means of scientific apparatus, and printed off. it is soine five years since M. Scott reflected that if the vibrations, or whatever else they may be, of light can be reduced to a permanent record, the vibrations of sound might be susceptible of analogous treatment. As a guide towards the means, he reflected upon the structure of the human ear and he planned his apparatus in imitation of that model. It consists of a non- vibrating tube, contracted at the end, so as to concentrate the sound, and it terminates in a highly vibratory memb- rane. This is the sound-collecting machine, analogous to the darkened chamber and glass of the photographic apparatus. In place of the sensitized paper, he uses a second membrane, covered with a film of semi-fluid lamp- black; and under the impulsion of sound, the second membrane takes off from the first the print of the vibra- tions, according to their varying number, intensity, and form. All know that vibrations of different notes vary in their form of action. If a plate of glass be firmly fixed, lightly strewn with sand, and vibrated by means of a violin bow, so as to produce a musical sound, the sand will arrange itself in symmetrical forms whereas, if the sound be non-musical and discordant, the sand scatters itself in a chaotic confusion. The new apparatus gives to such records much greater variety, nicety, and permanency. In the ordinary pitch of the human voice, which will reach to a considerable distance, it is found that the vibrations will not sensibly disturb the motes of dust floating in a beam of light let into a darkened chamber yet the vibra- tions average about six hundred in a second of time. Musical vibrations vary in their celerity with the height or depth of the pitch. As we have seen, they produce vibra- tions which effect easily-moved substances, so as to arrange them in different forms and in this way M. Scott has already recorded the characteristic sounds distinguishing various musical instruments, the human voice, discordant screams, a shout, a howl, or an explosion. Perhaps the nicety of the record will be better understood by an experi- ment not relating to sound. A steel spinning-top is spun upon a gently inclined plane and a blackened membrane so completely records every revolution and libration of the top, that the number of revolutions and balancings can be counted. M. Scott has not yet accomplished any recorded character derived from articulate sounds, such as those of speech, but he has made the first step he has an auto- graphic printed record of sound, distinguishing its in- tensity, tone, pitch, and character. And what he has already accomplished compels us to recelve with some faith the statement of his opinion, that he shall probably be able to work out a record of articulate sounds. At this day undoubtedly the philosopher has a right to say that he shall be excused from replying to the common- place objection, what is the use of it When the musing philosopher first noted the explosive effect of evaporated steam in an old wine flask, he could not possi- bly have foreseen the apparatus, or the applications of the apparatus, which have been developed by many a Watt and Stephensou intellect; but from the first he recognized the new discovery which they have made to be an engine, not only for creating wealth-that is but the auxiliary question -but for increasing the means of human life, and thus even for increasing the numbers, and aggregate volume, of human life-distinct things. When Franklin began to experiment on electricity, it is more than probable that his dreams were dimly haunted with some of the uses that have now become familiar to us. And we now begin to learn that instead of mistrusting or ridiculing the first evidences of a newly perceived force in nature, we should accept the discovery, in the certainty that it will add to our means of life, although we may not from the first be able to predict the method in which we shall apply it. With regard to this new discovery, however, there are so many reasons for supposing that direct uses may be derived from it, corroborated by so many analogies from the progress of photography, that few will read M. Scott's memoir without sharing in his hopes of bnngmg it, even within our own lifetime, to a more complete development and a practical utility. Indeed, already a practical use for the discovery is seen. Aided by M. Rudolphe Koenig, M Scott 18 able to register the vibrations of a diapason of the number of a thousand a second. The apparatus has been applied to one of M. Redier's chronometers, in such a manner that the number of the vibrations can be rigorously determined. Thus, by a process more scientific and precise than any yet suggested, is solved the problem for which the trench Go- vernment, as we have already noticed, issued a commission -that of fixing a standard of musical pitch. This success with reference to an almost uni versal art is, we are convinced, only an earnest, though an important earnest, of the achievements in which M. Scott has made the first practical beginning. -,Spectator.

The Morning Advertiser states on the authority of a cor- respondent, that, on the third Sunday in Lent, the Rev. Mr. Gutch, the Senior Curate of St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, in preaching on the Lesson of the day, dwelt in such broad terms on the subject of offences against the seventh com- mandment, that many persons got up and If ft the church We believe (says the Advcitiser) a strong remonstrance was drawn up by eight or ten of the congregation on the follow- ing day, and sent to Mr. Liddell, on the gross impropriety of permitting such an indecent explanation of the text to be given from the pulpit. Mr. Liddell, although he was pre- sent during the sermon, professed not to have heard the parts complained of, but in consequence of the remonstrance, he called on Mr. Gutch to produce the M.S. of the sermon, which was forwarded to the Bishop. The result, we hear, is. that Mr. Gutch is to be dropt quietly out of the parish, the Bishop erroneously thinking that it is wiser not to have any more exposures of the doings of the Confessional party. We understand that the sermon preached at St. Paul's, in the evening, by one of the Curates, was of the same offen- sive character as the one preached in the morning by Mr. Gutch. We do not wonder at hearing that several of the congregation have withdrawn from St. Paul's in consequence of these most objectionable discourses, and taken sittings elsewherf. THE SEASON MOST CONDUCIVE TO CONSUMPTION.—Tho accuracy of modern sanitary statistics has proved that, at all events in England, the spring is the time of the year most inimical to consumptive cases. It is then that the cold north-easterly winds and frequent changes of tempera- turo aggravate the sufferings of the phthisical invalid, and irritate the delicate lungs of those who, without being ac- tually consumptive, may be predisposed to that fearful ma- lady. The extraordinary results which hate attended the adminstration of that far-famed anti-consumption remedy," Dr. de Jongh's Light-Brown Cod Liver Oil, in the thousands of cases of incipient and advanced consumption, fully justify tile faith which is placed in the specific curative power.* which have been proved to exist alone in tiiis peculiar and unrivalled preparation of Cod Liver Oil. The merits of Dr. de Jongh's exceedingly pahtable Oil as a preventive of dis- eases of the lungs and as :1 curative agetit in consumption, cannot be b"tter described than in the words of two learned and eminent foreign physicians. Dr. Pruys van der Hoevcn states I have given it to those who showed a pthisic- al habit, and it has not only improved the delicate appear- ance, but removed the obstinate cough and Dr. Suerman observes I consider that this Oil is the best means by which we can restore those who unfortuneatoly suffer from tubercular consumption." j,

LORD JOHN RUSSELL ON THE ITALIAN I QUESTION. In an address at a Liberal meeting in the City on Satur- day Lord John Russell said :-There were at that moment serious matters for the consideration of the electors of London. Not only had they the great question of reform to occupy their minds, as well as improvements in the internal economy of the country, but they had to look to the ominous words which had lately fallen from Lord Derby in his place in the House of Lords They were all ot them, no doubt, aware of the state of affairs on the Continent in respect to Austria and Sardinia, and that the government had, very much to their credit, recommended that an amicable conference should take place between all the great Powers with a view to a settlement of the ques- tion at issue; but it would seem, from present appearance, that it was hardly possible that this amicable adjustment could take place. The origin of the disturbance which had taken place seemed to be that the Emperor of Austria, instead of confining himself within the limits of the Treaty of Vienna of 1815, as regarded the Austrian pos- sessions in Italy, had taken advantage of it to extend the influence and military power of Austria over the rest of Italy. For instance, if a man went into a cafe in the Roman States, and he was denounced by some miserable spy as a disaffected person, be was at once taken up by the police and cast into prison for two or three days, at the expiration of which time he would, upon depositions ex- hibited against him, but without being able to meet his accuser face to face, be condemned to possibly an equally long, if not longer, period of imprisonment in some prison or dungeon in the place. Well, the people in the Italian States did not like this, and they asked for the right to meet openly and speak freely, and they even went so far as to ask that the press might be free. But, instead of acceding to these requests, Austria sent forward from Milan or Venice troops to put down the rising spirit of freedom in the Italian States, and so from 1816 down to the present moment the Italian States bad been kept down and crushed It was said that oppression drove wise men mad," and, if this were so, it was no wonder that the Italians should be driven to desperation by the oppression practised towards them. On the other hand, it could not be said that Sardinia had acted exactly right in this matter. All that she was justified in doing was to say that the Austrian troops should not encroach upon the Italian States or upon her territory. The subject was, however, one which might fairly have been submitted to a Congress, consisting of the great Powers of Europe, in the hope of an amicable adjustment respecting it. He (Lord John Russell), however, feared that hostili- ties would break out—that France might assist Sardinia, and the States of Germany might be induced to support Austria. What, then, should be our policy in such an event. Why, this country ought honestly and fairly to observe a strict neutrality. Now, he observed that the Earl of Derby had said, that in the event of hostilities breaking out between Austria and Sardinia this country woulu I observe an "armed neutrality," and that when they saw- (a voice, No, no). He (Lord J. Russell) was stating what Lord Derby said and the noble earl went on to say, that that armed neutrality would be observed with the view of ultimately taking part with the Power which appeared to have right on its side. It was quite clear that from what had been stated by the Earl of Derby and Mr. Disraeli that they thought Austria was in the right, and that, in the event of the armed interference of this country, it would be in favour of Austria. Now he (Lord J. Russell) was totally opposed to such a proceeding, and he was therefore an advocate for a system of strict neutrality. From his reading of history he found that, in the case of continental wars, one side or other came to England to obtain money to enable it to keep up the contest, and this was done in the shape either of a subsidy or a loan, or something of that sort. Now, if we refused to assist either party with money this threatened war would not last very long, and the belligerent Powers would very soon find means of making peace one with another. The people were going to busy themselves with the question of reform and with the improvement of the internal condition of this country, and why, he asked, were they to be driven from their purpose by entering into a Quixotic engagement with one or other of the contending parties in question, and who, after having had the benefit of our aid, would spend the remainder of their lives intilifying and abusing us? He could not say that it would be in the power of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to reduce our taxation just now, but assuredly the only way by which his friend Sir James Duke, and Baron Rothschild, and Mr. Crawford, and himself could oall upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer to reduce taxa- tion was by instructing them to enforce upon the govern- ment aline of policy by which a strict and positive neutrality would be observed by this country to the present position of affairs. A CONSCIENTIOUS WITNESS.—At a recent petty ses. sions at Croston, a witness was called upon, and, on enter- ing the box, he had a Testament presented to him, but he declined to take the oath. Being asked his reasons for refusing to be sworn, he naively replied, I'll tell a lie wi' ony mon i' England, but I'll not swear it." The ex- planation was not deemed satisfactory, and he had to take the oath it happened, however, he could add nothing to the information of the bench on the question.

RAILWAY TIME TABLE. FOR MAY, 1859. I LLANELLY, LLANDILO, LLANDOVERY, AND CWMAMMAN RAILWAY. UP TTRRAAIINNS S. 1,2,3 1,2,3 1,2,3 UP TRAINS. Class Class Class Starting from A.M. P.M. P.M. Llanelly (S. W. R. St.) 8 40 12 10 5 0 Dock 8 45 12 14 5 4 Bynea. 8 50 12 22 512 Llangennech 8 55 12 28 518 Pontardulais 9 5 12 35 5 25 Pdntyffynon. 9 20 12 45 540 Garnant.. de ,pa)-ture. 8 5 05io Cross Inn 9 10 535 Cross Inn arrival, 10 0 550 Garnant.. „ .10 25 615 Llandebie 9 30 12 55 5.50 Derwydd Road 9 40 1 0 5 55 Fairfach :? 9 9 550 5 1 1 110 5 6 5 Llandilo 9 55 1 15 6 10 Glanrhyd 10 5 1 25 6 20 Liangadock.?0 10 1 30 625 Lampeter Road .10 10 1 35 630 Llandovery 110 25 1 45 640 1,2,3 1,2,3 1,2,3 DOWN TRAINS. Class Class Class Starting from A.M. P.M. P.M. Llandovery. 8 55 12 40 640 Lampeter Road 9 5 12 50 6 50 Llangadock 9 10 1 0 6 55 Glanrhyd 9 15 1 5 7 0 Llandilo 9 25 1 15 710 Fairfach 9 30 1 20 715 Derwydd Road. 9 40 1 30 725 Llandebie I. 9 45 1 35 1730 Pantyffynon 10 0 i >45 740 Garnant.departure. 8 50 7 0 Cross Inn 9 10 725 Cross Inn ari-ival 10 0 740 Garriant. 10 25 8 5 Pontardulais 10 15 1 55 755 Llangeunech 10 22 2 2 8 2 Bynea "11028 2 8 8 8 Dock ?,10 36 2 16 816 Llanelly (S. W. R. St.) 10 40 2 20 8 20 Garnant Passengers wlil be set down or taken up at Gellyceidrim or Cross Keys, if required. The Trains will stop at Llangennech, Derwydd Road, and Glanrhyd by Signal only; Passengers wishing to alight must give notice to the Guard at the next Station of their intention.

TAFF VALE RAILWAY. | UP. WEEK DAYS. SUNDAYS. 2,3!1, 2,31, 3 3 Starting /row i?g ? 2, 3'1, 2, 3 1, 2, 3?1, 2, 3 Ii a.m. I p.m. p.m. a.m. I p.m. 'CardffDoCk8 '19,15 2 40 8 45 3 45 Cardiff 9 30 2 55 6 30 9 04 0 Llandaff 9 39 34 6 39 9 9)4 9 Pentyrch 9 47 3 12 6 47 9 17 4 17 Ta?'sWeU 952317 652 9 22 4 22 Treforest 10 3 3 28 7 4 9 33 4 33 Nowbridge 10 8 3 33 7 9 938 438 Aberdare Junction 10 19 3 43 7 20 9 48 4 48 Quaker's Yard Junction 10 32 3 56 7 35 10 1 5 1 for N. A. & II. Railway. Troedyrhiew 10 43 4 7 7 47 10 12 5 12 Merthyr j 10 50 4 15 7 55 10 20 5 20 Aberdare Junction 10 22 3 46 7 21 9 51 4 51 Mountain Asii 10 35 3 59 7 37 10 4 5 4 Treaman .1043 4 7 74;j 10 12 5 12 Aberdare L0 47 4 U 7 49 10 16 5 16 DOWN. WEEK DAYS. SUNDAYS. Starting from 1, 2, ^3 1, 2, 3 3 j ?) ?) ? ?) ?) ? 2,3\ -1_1_1 a.m. I p.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. Merthyr 8 20 1 45 6 30 9 0; 4 0 Troedyrhiew 8 28 1 53 6 38 98 48 Hiker's Yard Juuet ion 8 39 2 4 6 50 9 19 4 19 for N. A. & 11. Railway. Abprdare Junc!ion. 8 52 '? 177 5 9 31 4 32 Newbridge 9 2 I 2 27 7 IG 9 42 4 42 Treforest 9 7 | 2 32 7 21 94:i:447 Ta?'.sWeII 9 18 I 2 43 733 958 ? 458 I,rityrch 9231'2) 48 738 10 3 5 3 Llandaff 9 31 2 56 7 46 10 11 5 11 LlaDda.ff .o. :l tl ,to 755 10 20? 520 Cardiff Docks 9 50 3 15 10 30 •• Aberdare  8 22 1 47 6 35 9242 Treaman 8 26 1 51 6 39 9 646 .1\louutl1in Ash. 8:H 1 5 () 47 14 4 U ¡ Aberdare Juno t i 847212 7 0 9 27 1 442I7t J

RAILWAY TIME TABLE, FOR APRIL, 1859. SOUTH WALES RAILWAY. The Mail Trains run the same on Sundays as week days. DOWN TRAINS. WEEK DAYS. Starting ,Mail 1,2,3 1 2<!?&2,l&<i?23? & 2, Exp from jl & J class class class j Exp. class. class 1M Ii! rn !p.m a.m. ia.m.1a.M. a.m a.ni. P.fn Paddington 8.10 6.101 9.30 7.15?11.30 4.,Ko Reading 9.15 7.15! 10.20 9.10 12.37 5.40 Swindon ..ar 10.35 j 9.5 i 11.25 11.16. 1.55 6.40 Swindon ..?10.47 9.20,11.40 2.30 6.? Glo'ster ..arjl2.15 11.0 1.0 4.10 8.30 1,2,3 Glo'ster..?!2.15 6.4.511.101.5 4.20 8.30 Newnham. 2.38 7.17?11.40i 4.50 8.50 Gatcombe.. 7.27'11.50i 5.0' Lydney 2 56 7.37,11.58 5.10 9.4 Chepatow 3.12 7.55jl2.17 1.55 5.33 9.2 Portskewet '.7 1'27i 5.44 Magor 8.17?12:37:: 5.55 Newport..? 8.35 12.55 2.20 .15.. Newport ..? 3.40 8.40! 1.0 2.30 6.20 9.41 Marshfield 8.49?1.10 j 6.34 Cardiff 4.4 9.5 1.25 2.46 6.50 10.7 Ely 9.10 1.30 | 6.5o St. FaganR 9 *115 ? 1 35? 0 Peterston 9221 1:421 7.8, Llantrissant.. 4.27 9.34?1.54 7.1810.21 Pencoed 9.521 2.12 7.36 Bridgend 4.46 10.0 2.22? 3.15 7.46 10.4 Pyle 10.15 2.37 g.? Port Talbot.. 5.12 110 29 2.51 3.33 8.20 11.0 Briton Ferry 1():37? 2.59 8.30 8 Neath .?- 5.23 10.44 3.4 3.41 83611.? Ditto.?5.25 10.47?3.8 3.45 Liansamlet 3.18 851 Landore n.13 3.26 4.5 9 2 •• Swansea ..? 5.?o 11.23\ 3.35 4.15 9.12 ? a m. I Ditto .? 5.55 8.0 11.0 f 3.45 8.50 Landore 8.10i 11.18j 4.8 19.7 Gower Rd." ? 8.22 11:331 4.28 ? 9.27 Loughor 8.27 ll.39i 4.33 9.32 Llanelly 6.25 8.37 11.48! | ?.43 942 ?' Pembrey 8.45 11.58 "3 4.53 953 Kidwelly ..o. j .45 I 8 45 11 581 4.53 9.53 KidweHy. 6.45 8.57 12.7 1, I 5.5 j 10.6 Ferryside 6.58 9.7 12.19 5'161 ilO18 Carmarthen.. 7.15.9.2012.34? 5.3l! 1035 St. Clears 7.28 12.5°)  5.49] Whitland 7.40 1.6 6.4 Narberth Rd. 7.55 ? 1.21 6.19 .f Clarb. Rd. 8.15,1 g 1.35^ I 6.35? Haverfordwest 8.30; o. 1.46 5 I 6.50 Johnston (for M H Milford) 8.45; 2.2 7.5 2.2 7.5 Neyland (for! g Pater 8.55/ 2.15 ? 7.20 .• The Waterford Steamers leave Neyland for Waterford at f 8.0 p.m., on the arrival of the 9.30 a.m. Express. UP TRAINS. WEEK DAYS. Starting ,1,2,3j 1,2,3- j & ,1 & 2 1,2,3?72,3 Maii!t.Z? from Cla.SSjClaSl_\Clas(a88 class I I a.m. a.m. a.m. j a.m. p.m. a.m. P. m.iP.M Neyland. 8.30? 10.4 4.7 Johnston. 8.45 10.55 4.22 Haverfordwest 8.55: l 11.5 4.32 ? Clarb. Rd. 9.7 11.20 4.47 ? Narberth Rd. 9.20?'!? 11.38 5.2 fa, Whitland 9.35j <» 11.50 5.17 S St. Clears. 9.50 I 3. 12.3 5.29 Carmarthen. 6.3010.5 J ? 12.23 5.52 3.30 Ferryside. 6.45 10.20 12.38 6.5 8.43 Kidwelly 6.57j 10.32 12.50 6.20 8.? Pembrey. 7.9 10.44 1.3 9.6 Llanelly 7.20 10.55 1.146409.1? Loughor 7.29 ? 11. 4 1.23 9.24 Gower Rd. 7.35'n.io 1.28 Landore 7.55,11.301 1.45 ? 9.4? Swansea ..a; 8.5 ?11,40? 2.0 710 9.? !Exp.!l&2? — Ditto .de 7.50111.23 10.20 1.40 7.15 Landore 7.58?11:33?10:30  igo Llansamlet 8.6 10.38 ? 1.58' Neath .? 8.15 11.48 10.46 ? 2.7 7.31 Ditto .de •• 8.20111.50 10.48 jg 2.10 7.33 Briton Ferry •• 8.27 10.54 2.17 Briton Ferry 88..3278 ?ii.. 1 11 2 Port Talbot. 8.38 12.1 11.2 g 2.27 745 Pyle •• 8.571.. 11.17 S g 2.40 Bridgend 9.16(12.23 11.32 17q 35 go  Pencoed 9.26 11.40 » 3.15 Llantrissant 9.40 12.0 3.32 8.27 St. Fagans 10.0 12.24 ? 3.49 Ely 10.6 12.31 ? 3.45 Cardiff 7.0 10.13 12.54 12.38 5" 4.2 8 48 Marshfield 7.12,10.. 12.50 ? 4.17 Newport ..ar 7.27 10.45 1.16 1.5 ?p 4.34 Newport ..de 7.3210.50 120 1.25 I 4.39 9.15 Magor 7.47 11.8 1.35 c? 4.58 Portskewet 7.57 1.57 £ 0 510 t# Chepstow 8.8 11.27 1.46 2.9 g. 5.23 9.45 Woolaston 8.18 2.19 g- 5.33 Lidney 8.26 11.44 2.29 S 5.43 10.0 Newnham 8.5012.0 2.47 I 6.5 10.20 Glo'ster. ar 9.15 12.30 2.37 3.16 6.40 10.47 1&2 = 1&2 Glo'ster ..de 9.45 12.40 2.42 3.32 6.55 12.40 Swindon ..?11.18 2.20 4.0 5.15 I ? 326 2.10 Swindon ..c?e 11.30; 2.40, 4,15 5.30; §" 8.35 2.25 Swindon 1-0 4.0 7.25 ? 9.53 3.35   5 ?5.0   Paddington.. 2.25 | 5.0 60 9.0 J 11.0 4.45 The 8.30 a.m. train is thro' 3rd class from Ireland and S.W.R. to G.W.R. SUNDAYS. DOWN TRAINS. SUNDAYS. UP TRAINS. Startg Tfrom  IStartg.11,2'I,. ai. M. m. a. m ,3. m'la. m.?p m. Paddington 8.0 Neyland 9.15? Reading 9.40 Johnston 9:351 Swindon.ar ll.SOi H. West ..? .I 9.45, Ditto..de 1.5 I Narb. Road 10.20s .» Glo'ster ar 2.45. ? Whitland Ditto.. de i 3.0 8.30 jSt. Clears.. ,10.501 Newnham. 3.25 8.58lCarmarthen "111.201 6.0 Lydney 3.48 9.21 (Ferryside 11.35 6.1^ Chepstow. 4.15 9.48 Kidwelly 11.47 6.27 Magor 4.35 10.8 Pembrey 12.0 6.40 Newport a?- 5'0 iLlanelly j 12.11 6.?1 Cardiff 8.3 55 5 291lv1.i2 i ? Landore 1211 6 61 Newport ? 7.38 6.5 10.3711..&ndOre 12.45 7.2? Cardie. 8.3 5.29 11.2 Swansea ar .1250 7.30 Llantrissant 8.33! 5.55 | Ditto de 8.30 1 10 7.35 Bridgend 8.58 6.28 Landore 8.35: 1.18 7.43 Port Talbot 9.27, 6.56 Neath ..? 8.53 i 1.28 7-5^ Neath ..ar 9.40i 7.12 Ditto..?——? 1.30 8.0 Ditto ..? 9.50 7.17 9.15 !Port Talbot .11.44 8.1? Landore 10-10? 7.42 9.35 Bridgend 1212 8.4? Swansea ar;10.15 7.47 9.40 Llantrissant a M. 2:34 9.1? Ditto ..de 10.20 7.52 [Cardiff li.15! 3.0 9.43 Landore 10.30 7.57 Newport ar '1 3.23 10-10 LDanitdtoo re ?l 0. *5 5? 8.24? Ditto d e 11.491 3.28- Llanelly 10.55 8.24 Ditto ..de 11.49 3.28 Pembrey ..ill.5 8.33 Magor 12.6 3.40 Kidwelly 11.17 8.44 Chepstow.. 12.29; 4.10 Perryside ..111.27 8.54] Lydney 12,49 4.28 Carmarthen ?11.42 9.9 I' Newnham.. 1.9 4.48 St. Clears.. 9.2?, Glo'ster ar 1.38 5.20 Whitland..? 9.461 Ditto de- 5.25 Narb. Rd. 10.0 Swindon.ar 7.8 .» H. West 10:34 Ditto..?e 7.20 1 Johnston 1101:5 o? Reading 9.0 t Neyland "111.0 Paddington 10.20 J £

VALE OF NEATH RAILWAY. UP TRAINS WEEK DAYS. SUNDAYS. Starting From 3 12 3,1 231 2 31231 2 3 claslclaSIlasslclali Class Class SOUTH WALES A.M P.M.¡ p.I.1 P.M AM P* Swansea dep. 7 50] 1 401 7 15 8 30 735 Llansamlet 8 6; 1 58 8 45 7 50 Neath arr. 8 15 2 7 7 31 8 53 7 5S VALE OF NEATH. Neath dep. 8 30! 2 15 7 45 9 0 io Aberdylais 8 35j 2 20 7 50 9 ?S2? Resolven 8 47j 2 30 8 0 9 15 8 30 Glyn-Neath 8 57? 2 38 8 8 9 23 8 38 Hirwain .arr. 9 17, 2 58 8 28 9 43 8 58 Hirwain d. for Aberdare 9 23 3 5; 6 30 8 35 9 50 9 5 Aberdare Arrival 9 35 3 15? 6 45 8 45 LO 0 9 15 Hinvam d. for Merthyr 9 20, 3 l 8 31 9 46 9 1 Llwydcoed 9 27 3 8j 8 38 9 53 9 8 Merhyr Arrival 9 60J 3 o¡ 9 0 1 10 15 9 30 _:OV:I:S. WEEK DAYS. SUND.VYS 13 3 2' 3 1 2 ?23 1-23?? Starting From r Starting From Class?Class Class?Clais Ct?s C??ra VALE OF NEATH. A.M.! P.M. P.M. ?M' ?P. M Merthyr dep. 8 551 1 50, 6 01 830 5 50 Llwydcoed 9 121 2 7 6 17? 847 6 7 Hirwain 9 isj 2 136 23? 853 6 13 Aberdare Departure 9 0! 1 55 6 5\ 8 10 8 35 5 55 Hirwain Arrival 9 13 2 8 6 18 8 23 8 48 6 8 \Iirwain .dep.!9 21 2 15[6 25 8 5) 6 15 Glyn-Neath 9 41 2 34 6 44 1 914 63? Resolven i 9 51 2 43! 6 53j 923 6 43 Aberdylais ?io 5? 2 55 7 5; 9 35 655 | Neath arr. 10 10 3 0 7 10? 9 40 7 <? SOUTH WALES. I j Ne?th dep.\10 47 3 8j 7 37! 9 50 7 17  I.. Hansamtet i i 10 15 747 Swaii,sea.. 7 47

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