The Welshman

TIME AND TIME TELLERS.' I We have heard it stated that surrounded as we are by nature in all her glorious infinitude, men should not be such hard pedants, magnify- ing a few forms, taking account of time and of figure. Now this beautiful transcendentalism is all very weil in purely philosophic regions, but to ordinary men and in the world at large, different, very different principles are found to be abso- lutely necessary. In fact, the measurement of time has been always in civilized communities looked upon as a science or, at all events, a very important branch of mechanics. And it may be retorted also, that surrounded as we are by nature, faithful and diligent students of her mysteries find that she teaches men the value of time, the • necessity of taking account thereof, and the im- portance of exactitude. The work before us is from the pen of Mr James W. Benson, who is We need hardly sav anxious that all men should be aware of the flight of time. And in order that it should be properly understood how the science of Horology has arrived at its present perfect state, he h;is put together in this volume interesting facts and data in a most readable and instructive way. His subject does not offer opportunity for brilliant diction, and his pen, which is of the staid order, does not lead him astray. Not only has he a thorough command of his subject, but he seems also to be the possessor of very considerable literary tact. In other words, he shows that he is aware his present contribution is not to a trade circular, but is intended for the unskilful multitude, who although anxious to be the possessors of really good watches, are content to remain in semi- ignorance as to how such are constructed. And in addition to this, Mr Benson is kind enough not to inflict upon his readers a very great amount of detail as to how bad or inferior watches were constructed in less fortunate times. The book is divided into different sections, of which the principal are Ancient modes of mea- suring time, Modern watches, House clocks and Turret clocks. It opens with some general remarks on time, a something which cannot be properly defined, nor properly comprehended. No man, however, can retrace his steps, and an act once done can never be recalled. What wonder then Mr Benson asks, that the most thoughtful of men are particularly careful of their time, or that they regulate the use of it, with the utmost precision, and weigh it out as scrupulously as a miser would his gold. The poets, he thinks, are our best interpreters of time, and he sites Rosalind's explanation of "who time ambles withal," "who time trots withal," and who he "stands still withal," as an instance of this. In response to Orlando, she savs "Marry, he trots hard with a young maid between the contract of her marriage and the day it is solemnized if the interim be but a se'nnight, Times pace is so hard that it seems the length of seven years," and who ambles time withal? asks Orlando. "With a priest that lacks Latin and a rich man that hath not the gout; for the one sleeps easily because he cannot study; and the other lives merrily because he feels no pain; the one lacking the burthen of lean and wasteful learning, the other knowing no burden of heavy tedious penury." And who doth he gallop withal asks Orlando, with a thief to the gallows; for though he go as softly as foot can fall, he thinks himself too soon there." And as to "who stays time withal" she says-" with lawyers in the vacation; for they sleep between term and term and then they perceive not how time wags." Mr Benson duly chronicles the important fact that the Gregorian time (otherwise that set by Pope Gregory XIII.) was not introduced into England until the year 1752, when the 3rd September, was made the 14th of that month. Russia is the only country which now retains the old style. Sun dials were in use a considerable time before the birth of Christ, and the clepsydra followed. The latter, it would appear, was first used to limit the time during which persons were allowed to speak in the Athenian Courts of Justice. Sand glasses, we have our author's authority for saying, were used in the year 200 B.C. The date of the invention of the clock is unknown, but from our author's researches, he has been enabled to say that in the year 1288, a stone clock-tower was erected opposite West- minster Hall, with a clock which cost 800 marks. In 1292, a clock was placed in Canterbury Cathedral, which, according to a statement in a Cottonian MS, cost JE30. Mr Benson says:— From the evidence adduced respecting the origin and iaventors of the clock, it is not unreasonable to con- clude with Ferdinand Berthoud (a Frenchman who wrote much, and was a great authority upon the Bubject), that such a clocic as the Strasbourg one was not the invention of one man, but was the result of a series of inventions made at different times by various persons, each of which is worthy to be considered a separate invention. It was the simple employment of the natural force of gravity as to the fall of bodies in free space that paved the way to the extreme accuracy and constancy of rate which belongs to the clocks of modern times. One of the earliest places of watch manufacture seems to have been Nuremberg, for soon after the year 1500 Peter Hele of that town made 1 pocket- clocks' with small wheels of steel. The art soon extended over Europe for in the year 1544, our author says, that Francis 1. enacted a statute in favour of the corporation of master clockmakers of Paris to the effect that no one should be permitted to make horologes unless he should have been previously admitted into that society. From this Mr Benson goes on to narrate how that in the year 1631 Charles I. granted to the Company of Clockmakers a charter prohibiting the importation of clocks, watches, and alarms. This company consisted of a master, three wardens, and ten or more assistants who had power "to make bye-laws for the Govern- ment of all persons using the trade in or within ten miles of London." Mr Benson describes minutely, yet not to weariness, many old watches of this and succeeding periods. Among these are two remarkable ones, that belonging to Oliver Cromwell and that to Mary Queen of Scots. The former bears on it marks which are believed to prove it genuine. It is made for the pocket, but Mary's is for the table the case being in the form of death's head. With reference to this our author says It was not an unusual thing for religious persons who used rosaries at their devotions to add to their beads a minature skull, with a view it may be to remind them- selves of the frailty of life by way of stimulus to the prepartion for a future state. When watches were invented the memento mori death's head was made into a watch-case. The Lauder family of Grange and Fountain Hall possess this memento mori watch, they having inherited it from their ancestors, the Setoun family. It was given by Queen Mary to Mary Setoun of the house of Wintoun, one of her Maids of Honour The wntch is of the form of a skull; on the forehead is the figure of death standing between a palace and a cottage on the hind part of the skull is a figure of Time. The upper part of the skull bears representations of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden and of the Crucifixion, each (as well as the former) with a Latin legend, and between these scenes is open work to let out the sound when the watch strikes the hours upon a small silver bell, which fills the hollow of the skull and receives the works within it, when the watch is shut. Particulars of the invention of the pendulum clock are given, and coming to the time when I the use of jewels was first invented and applied, Mr Benson writes :— About the year 1700, Nicolas Facio, a native of Geneva, having invented the use of jewels in watches and failed in his attempt to persuade the Parisian watchmakers into the adoption of his notions, came to London. In May, 1705. he and two other watchmakers obtained a patent for his invention to extend over 14 years. When in the month of December of the same year, he petitioned for a more extended patent, he was refused as a watch was produced which had a large amethyst mounted upon the cock or pivot of the balance-wheel. Strange to say, however, as Mr Benson mentions, it was Tmt recently discovered that this watch produced to the Committee of the House of Commons, was an imposture, the jewel having been merely stuck on for ornament, while Facio had a very different idea. The reader will find in this volume an account of the progress which was gradually attained in keeping time on board ship, until chronometers were invented, and in this connection the names of Harrison, Sully, Arnold, Earnshaw, and Mudge are mentioned by Mr Benson as having been associated with the greatest improvements in chronometry. He enters into a description of modern watches, and of the principles of their construction, and in the next chapter devotes his attention to house clocks. Under the latter healing appears the very useful Tell-Tale Clock. The next portion of his subject is the Turret Clock, that at Wells Cathedral, St. Paul's Cathedral, St. James's Palace, and St. Dunstan's Church are specially mentioned, and the volume concludes with a few dates and details for almanack readers." From the sketch we have given it will be at once seen that the book is worth buying, is complete in itself and yet not too detailed, and we ought to mention that it is accompanied by numerous and well executed drawings.

HOOD'S POEMS.1 All lovers of Hood, and who is not ? will wel- come the appearance of this volume. Mr Rossetti, the Editor, himself a poet, has here collected together and re-arranged the poems which did not appear in the first series. We have no such songster as Hood now, and his legacy to literature is therefore prized. The present volume contains some of his latest compositions, such as the Elm Tree," a weird fancy and in his very best vein. Not only is Hood's poetic talent here well represented, on all sides, but his endless ingenuity in songs, sonnets, and epigrams. "Hero and Leander," which is modelled upon the style of Elizabethan narrative poems, will be found in the volume, and Lamia" a romance originally published in 1852; "A Public Dinner;" the Sweep's Complaint;" "Rural Felicity;" The Forge" an example of Hood's turn for the horrible and ghastly and in which he confesses that he is unable to describe a scene because "it beats the very Walpurges' night, displayed in the story of 'Doctor Faustus. Among the less important pieces we may mention An Open Question;" the Desert Born," founded on a dream; lines On pawning a Watch," full of light hearted gaiety; and the Forlorn Shep- herd's Complaint. We cordially recommend the work to our readers. It is got up admirably, is illustrated by Gustave Dore and Alfred Thompson, and is a very suitable Christmas Book."

1 The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Second Series). Edited by Mr W. R tssetti. London Messrs Aloxon and Co., Paternoster Row.

PRIMARY EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES. From the annual report of the United States Com- missioner of Education for last year, which has juut appeared, we learn that the total number of children in the several States and Territories comprising the Union, and among the Cherokee and Choctaw Indians, between the ages of six and sixteen, was estimated at 10,536,647. The Cherokees and Cboctaws are the two principal tribes of those civilised Indians who inhabit the so- called Indian Territory, which lies immediately north of Texas and south of Kansas. They are the only Indianss included in the report. The total number of names enrolled on the school registars amounted to 8,C90,981, while the average daily attendance did not exceed 4,521,564 The names enrolled thus comprised about 16-21th of the children betwaen six and sixteen, bat the average attendance was only 9-21ths. More- over, the average daily attendance was only 9-16tbs of the number on the rolls. It will thus be seen that very little more than balf the children on the rolls habitually attend school, which is a very much worse result than our own country shows. Ic must be borne in mind, however, that the United States have no sxetem of national education. Each State and pach Territory provides for education in its own way. Furthermore, it is to be borne in mind that in the South before the war the negroes were by law forbidden instruction, and even for the whites there were few schools. Education, therefore, in the South is only in its infancy, and in the new and thinly settled States and territories of the West it is also necessarily very backward. The figures given above include both South and West, and conse- quently do not fairly represent the educational condition of the old Eastern States. Still, even in these the problem which puzzles us here—namely, how to get the children into the schools has certainly not been solved. The total number of teachers in all the States and territories is 247.3000, being nearly one to every nine children in constant attendance, and of the teachers about one-half were women. Here we must again remark that the proportion differs for different parts or the country. In the older States, where women are already in excess of men, where women's education is tolerably forward, and where men's labour is far more valuable, women teachers far outnumber the men. But in the newer States, and still more in the newer terri. tories, women are few, and they are in too great de- mand for wives to be numerously employed as teachers. With regard to pay, it is curious to find that the Indian Cherokees are the most liberal. The average salary they allow teachers is 225 dols. a month for men and 200 dols for women. being, at the rate of 5 dols. to the pound, A540 per annum for men and X480 for women. If Irish national school teachers were aware of these facts, they might soon compel a settlement of their demands. The district of Columbia, of the American territories, pays highest-nirnely, X331 per annum for men and JE180 for women. Then comes Nevada, then Arizona, and Massachusetts is fourth. The lowest, rate is in New Mexico, which affords only 463 per annum, or not much more than half what Scotland pays. The total expenditure on the salaries of teachers and super- intendents was but a trifle over £ 9, £ 00,000 last year and the total expenditure on all accounts is little under £ 15,000,000. The total income exceeded the expendi- ture by nearly £ 1,500.000; while the total estimated value of buildings, sites, &c., was over £ 33,000,000. Taking the children of school age as our measure, the expenditure on education in Massachusetts was far the highest. For every such child that State laid out nearly £ 3 sterling. Almost the whole school population of Massachusetts is enrolled in the schools but even in Massachusetts the attendance is so irregular that, while the expenditure per head of enrolled children is only 14.48 dois., it amounts to W.40 (Jots, per Dead or those in average daily attendance. Only 70 per cent, of the children enrolled are therefore in daily attendance even I in Masschusetts, the birthplace of tbe common school system, and beyond question tbe best educated of the States. In Virginia the expenditure per head of the I school population is 2.02 dols. per head of the children ) enrolled, 5.08 dols.; and per head of those in daily I attendance, 8.93 dols. Only about two-fifths of the school population were therefore enrolled in the schools, and little more than two-nintbs were in daily atten- dance. In 127 cities of largest population we find, further, that the school population amounts to 1,344,028 the accommodation in public schools was capable of holding less than half, or 621,498 while the average daily attendance was 604,639. In addition there were estimated to be 251,078 pupils at private schools, being not far short of half a million, or considerably more than one-third of all the children growing up without any instruction.

BRITISH INTENTIONS IN THE EAST. I We (the World) stated in last week that, should either of the proposals submitted to oar Foreign Office for the partition of Turkey be put into execution, 11 England would not defend Constantinople," and the coup by which the British Government baa bought the con- trolling interest in the Suez Canal is onlv the first step in the development of that policy. Turkey is aban- doned, and the British protectorate which has for so long been extended over the Ottoman Empire is now transferred or restricted to Egypt. Whatever may become of Constantinople or the European provinces of Turkey, no foreign encroachment upon Eirypt. nor any interference with free passage through the Suez Canal, will be tolerated. Russia has been taken at her word. Her proposal to oar Foreign Office, which we printed in the World last week, was based upon England obtaining Egypt on condition that Russia should take Constantinople." The British Government rejected such an alliance but while not annexing Egypt, England obtains all the advantages it offered by ac- quiring the predominant interest in the Suez Canal. Whether Russia will make this the pretext for seizing Constantinople depends upon the attitude of Germany, whose rival scheme for the partition of Turkey found no countenance in Downing-street. Other startling announcements" may be expected. At the signal of any movements in the East, the next phase of British policy will be developed. It is assumed that the occu- pation of the Euphrates Valley by British troops, sup- ported by a powerful naval force, as we indicated last week, would hold in check the Russian power in the Black and Caspian Seas and in the Caucasus, would amply protect Egypt and Persia, and secure our com- mand of the Suez Canal, the Persian Gulf, and the Red Sea, without in any way interfering with the independence of Eypt or Persia, or impeding the use by friendly or neutral countries of the Suez Canal. In addition, the possession of Cyprus and some other island in the Levant, with the increase of our Medeterranean and Red Sea squadrons, would-so, at least, it if believed at the Foreign Office- absolutely secure all the great lines of our communication with India, present and future. It is significant to note how the present attitude of Russia, and her late proposals to our Foreign Office regarding Egypt, accord with what happened just before the Crimean war. At the beginning of 1853 the Emperor Nicholas had several confidential communications with Sir Hamilton Sevmour, the British Minister at St. Petersburg. No German Empire then stood in the way of Russian aggrandisement, and the Russian Emperor frankly expressed his belief on the dissolution of the Ottomon Empire the redistribution of territory would be a very easy matter. "The Principalities," said his Majesty to tha British Minister, "are, in fact, an independent State under my protection. This might continue. Servia might receive the same form of government;" and Servia has since become a State. So again," added the Czar," with Bulgaria. There seems to be no reason why thid province should not form an independent State. As to Egypt," observed the sagacious Emperor, I quite understand the importance to England of that territory. I can, then, only say that if, in the event of a distribution of the Ottoman succes- sion upon the fall of the empire, you should take possession of Eypt, I should have no objection to offer. I would say the same thing of Candia. That island might suit you, and I do not know why it should not become an English possession." History bas- repeated itself. Lord Aberdeen would not listen to the voice of the charmer but as Orpheus soothed Cerberus with his lyre, Mr Disraeli is more easily beguiled. What Nicholas offered he assumeti Alexander could not oppose.

AMERICAN TROTTING. The most natural of the horse's paces is, perhaps, the trot." Such is the verdict of Buffon in his Natural History of the Horse," and such is also the opinion held by a vast majority of the sporting fra- ternity upon the other side of the Atlantic. In one of the best equine books that was ever written, entitled The Trotting Horse of America," by Hiram Woodruff, it is abundantly substantiated that the original purpose with which English thoroughbred sires were first imported into the United States was in order that they should become the progenitors, not of gallop- ing, but of trotting descendants. "It is recognised, says Mr George Wilkes, in his preface to Hlfiifn Woodruff's work, by those who are versed in the origin and characteristics of the American trotter, that the highest type of that invaluable breed descends from the English thoroughbred horse Messenger, which was imported into this country in the latter part of the last century. Indeed, so widely is this fact acknow- ledged, that breeders of experience, in view of the excellence of which he was the founder, and of the vast extent of moneyed interest which has been in-ested in his progeny, have been heard to declare that when the old grey Messenger came charging down the gang-plank of the ship which brought him over, the value of not less than one hundred millions of dollars struck our soil." Readers of such old-world books as the first series of the Sporting Magazine are familiar with the long lists of winners, extending in some cases over half a dozen pages, which owed their origin to some such famous sire of the past as Eclipse, Highflyer, Sir Peter Teazle, Potatoes, or Waxy but we question if Capt. O'Kelly himself, whose fortune was mainly derived from Eclipse, or the first Mr Tattersall, who built Highflyer Hall, near Ely, from the winnings secured for him by the prowess of his celebrated undefeated horse, ever claimed that his paragon had left descen- dants worth even one-twentieth part of the mighty estimate at which Messenger is here appraised by Mr George Wilkes. It is stated that the services of Messenger as a sire were available for twenty years after his arrival in the United States and Hiram Woodruff believes that he was the direct progenitor of about a thousand horses, from which, in the first or succeeding generations, most of the best trotters of America have sprung. Taking into account," says Hiram Woodruff, that Messenger and bis sons and grandsons had the singular 'f culty of stamping the living image of their line upon their produce, and of infusing into their sons and daughters the less taugible but not less real attributes of pluck, resolution, and endurance, we shall be enabled to make some estimate of the incalculable influence that Messenger has had upon the trotting stock of this country." Our American kinsmen are fond, as we know to our cost, of consequential damages, and it is a pity that, among the English members of the "Joint High Com- mission" which sat at Washington in 1871, there was none to ad vance the moneyed claims that this little island has against her mighty offspring across the Atlantic by reason of the services rendered by one English stallion. In view of Mr Wilkes's stupendous estimate of the value proceeding from Messenger's loins, it cannot be uninteresting to our readers if we briefly trace the history, pedigree, and performances in England of an animal which has endowed our cousins with a present of twenty millions of pounds. We find, then, that Messenger was the property of Mr Bullock, that be was foaled in 1780, and that he won his first race, being then a three-year-old, in a match at Newmarket, A.F., for 300 guineas, against Mr Napier's Spectre, upon Oct 15, 1783. His owner, better known as Tom Bullock," had the reputation, according to Nimrod" of being the most wide-awake man of his day, and was often heard to declare that he should wish for nothing more in the world than "to be taken for a fool at Newmarket." The sire of Messenger was Lord Grosvenor's Mambrino, who was descended in direct line from Flying Childers. Messen- ger's last race Wd,S at Newmarket, as a five-year-old, in the Houghton Meeting of 1785, and he ran altogether fourteen times, winning eight and losing six races. Notbing is more certain than that he left many superiors behind him when he was sold to an American firm of horse-breeders in 1786; and it is believed in the United States that Mr Bullock parted with him for a small sum. In his English performances it is noticeable that he was more conspicuous for speed than for stoutness, inasmuch as the races in which he was successful were generally over short distances, whereas he was habitually beaten over long courses. But his "record," to employ a Transatlantic locution, demonstrates that a horse who was himself no stayer could transmit extraordinary powers of endurance to his descendants. It was found that his blood nicked" with almost any other strain or perhaps it would be more correct, in Hiram Wood- ruff's words, to say that the constitution of the Messengers is so good, and their individuality so strongly marked, that in the produce of their crosses with other famillies their blood always predominates." We may be certain that, had Messenger never crossed the Atlantic, his name would never have been written in the ineffaceable letters upon the equine chronicles of mankind. This leads us to remark that the trotter is no less the creation or product of United States than is the thoroughbred racehorse of our own islands. The system of breaking, training, driving, and riding the trotting horse is a peculiar art, in which no nation can compete with our kinsmen of the United States. I look upon the English," says Hiram Woodruff, as a nation of horsemen, and their success with hunters and racers has been very great but, ever since I can remember, we have been as much superior I to them in handling the fast trotter as we are now. They have had the stock all along, just as much as ourselves but it is our method of perseverance that has made the difference between their fast trotter of a mile in three minutes, aud ours of two minutes and twenty-five seconds, or thereabouts. Since these words were written, cultivation and perseverance" have knocked ten or eleven seconds off the perform- ance of the best among the lightening trotters of the United States- Goldsmith Maid, and the present queen of the American trotting turf, Lula by rame, have done their mile in two minutes fifteen spconds, or a fraction of a second less. It may seem extraordinary to English racing men, but it is none the less a fact, that every State in the Union is intoxicated with pride and delight when the uni- versally known time of the best trotter on record is surpassed by half, or even a quarter of a second. It was but the other day that Luli was matched to trot a mile in two minutes and fourteen seconds at Rochester, in the State of New York. The mare was to be allowed three trials of prowess, and, in consequence, as her backers alleged, of the prevalence of a high wind, she narrowly failed to accomplish her difficult task, al- though there is little doubt she will be successful on some futnre occasion. In a country which is not less devoted to horseflesh thao our own, it. is highly creditable to American ingenuity that trotters should have been created who are capable of beating the best of our English perform- ers at this gait by at least one, if not two, hundred yards in a measured mile. The truth is that the light trotting waggons, or buggies, of the United States are specially adapted for the development of the powers which made Flora Temple, Dexter, and Lady Suffolk so famous in the New World. In addition, the harness is made of such slender materials that Queen Mab, the fai ries'mid wife, might borrow it for the team of spiders which she uses to draw her hazel-nut chariot over men's noses as they lie asleep." The vast improvement in the time made by the American trotters which have ascended to the zenith since the death, in 1867, of that incomparable driver, Hiram Woodruff. is due to the amended courses, to the hickory vehicles, the harness, the methods of training and driving, and finally to the increasing cultivation of the trotting horse himself. For ourselves, we entertain no doubt that, if fashion so prescribed, the English trotting horse might soon be brought to an equality with his American brother. Every old trainer of racehorses in these islands can rehearse the names of animals that he has trained which showed more natural partiality for trotting than for galloping. Thus it was not unusual for Fobert to declare that the rider of Van Tromp, the winner of the St. Leger, often had no slight difficulty in inducing the horse to break, when at exercise, out of a fast trot into a canter. In Russia, to which country Van Tromp was transfeired after the close of his racing career, it is said that be big been the pro. genitor of many fast trotters. It, is probable that he would have thrown Messenger into the shade bad it been his fate to go to New York instead of St. Peters- burg. But, although there is little demand fpr Gold- smith Maids and Ltilas within these islands, we are of opinion that it would be an improvement if our hunting men were to substitute some vehicle resembling the American trotting waggon for the old-fashioned .mail phaeton or dog-cart, in which it is now tbeir habit to go to covert. Every traveller who has visited the States lying on either bank of the Mississippi is aware that the American buggy, with waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs," will hold together day after dav up)n roads or forest tracks which would jolt an English vehicle to pieces in forty-eight hours. There is also another lesson which we might advantageously learn from our cousins. The horse is treated throughout the Uni'ed States, with the exception of the lirge towns, more as a human being than a beast of burden. His eyes are not negatived by the use of blinkers, nor is he tortured and irritated by the restraint of tae bearing- rein. The result is that there are fewer \icious hors-s in the rural districts of the United Status than in any other civilised country, and that the noble quadruped often shows an intelligence and sagacity which his European rival has no opportunity to display. In the forest roads of the Far West there are countless woolen bridges (thrown hastily and roughly across ravines and streams), which are full of ho es in spots where planks have rotted and fallen into the abyss below. Nothing is more common than for an American to drive his horse and buggy in the morning across one or more of these honeycombed bridges, and to return at night when darkness has fallen. Undur such circumstances an Englishman would descend from his vehicle, and lead tbe horse across the danger- ous pass. The American, on the other hand, trusts himself wisely to the sagacity of a highly intelligent animal, who threads his way carefully among the holas, and plants his teet as judiciously as a Highlandman when performing the sword dance. We cannot, in conclusion, give a better picture of the American trotter than is conveyed in the following lines, which were often on the lips of the late General Breskenridge, than whom Kentucky seldom produced a greater hippopbilimt An eye like a hawk, a neck like a swan, A foot like a cat, and his back a long span Kind nature gave strength he's as honest as good He's what a horse should be-bone, bottom, and blood. -Field.

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Clears y 15 11 5ZI7 u! — Whititnd.648.. 9??21?72?630— Clynderwen 9 4^ \i a 7 37 — — H.o,dw," 6.5 1U12 ??l i 3 737- 1.7 )I 1 47 Nrw Milford.. 6 5 '?? ) 2'!8 307 25! 2 5 A local train leaves HI mar turn Jumtiou ai 5.0 p.m, Frrry Side, 5.15, Kiiweiiy, 5 35, Peubrey, 6 20, and reaches Llanellv at 6.3;V UP. -VEEK. a.m.. *.ua, in. p.ro.,p 111.;p.m. Nrw Milford.. 2 5.562,581,5 10 4 6 .0 07 5 Haverfordwest 3 1 £ 6 55 8 40 11 1-5 5 24 \7 j 29 Clynderwen .7 2) III 4.5 !75S Wnitland 7 40 9 17 12 5 5 57^8 10 St. Clears 55 9 30 12 20 823 Carmarthet J. 4 56 20 8 20 9 5"l \l 50 2 40 6 11 8 42 Ferryside 16 ?t 3 3< tU -5 1 5 2 52 955 K)dweHy 16 4ii 8 4tillU 1 b1203295 Prmbrey 6 58 8 5» 10 26 1 35 3 13 9 18 Llauelly 4 417 10 9 1U 10 36 t 5 3 24 7 1 9 28 Swansea 5 07 4u 9 35 10 50 2 15 3 O 7 o 1010 Neath 5 25 s 5 10 lu 11 20, 2 45 4 217 51— Briton Ferry 10 20 | 2 55 4 28 — Port Talbot. 10 30 U 32 ? ?4 3883- Bndgeud .6 0. U 5 11 07! 34?5?08 30 Cardttf. 636 i2 15 12 3j! 286 9 7 Newport 7 0 1 30 l 5: 4 55 6 30 9 30 — Portskewet 2.5-1 5 ii 6 55- Cheltenham 8 15 3 i 2 0; 6 10 8 5 1155 Gloucester. 8 4033.5 2 30? 6 458 25 1220- S?mdon 10)0 ;'j 3 .jJj! 8 3.>/ 211 Paddington 1210.91..1.501 SUIIDAY TitAiN.; I b, Ul.i. on UIlIII)" UIIS .15 iuring the week. The onlv other trains arn from Pa Minion at 10.30 a.m., Gloucester 3.35 Cardiff 6 0, Swansea 7.55, Llnnelly 8 47, Carmar tben 9.42. tiavt-rforaweet 10 but New Milford 11.20. And from New Milforl 945, Htverfordweit 10.12, Carmarthen 11.25, Llmelly 12.IS, Swansea 12.40, Cardiff 3.0. tfl .uces er 5 30, P^d liru'on 10.30 WHIT LAND AND TAF VALE. UP TKAIN8 a.un. a.m. a m p.m. n m. Newport (Pem.) #Coach — 7 Q C??'?a „ 8 20 3 0 Crymmych Arms — 7 25 10 20 t 2" S??c — 7 39 10 34 4 34 — Hauf?nach — 748 10 43442- Rhydowen — 8 1 10 56 4 53 — L'M?tydwen — 8 12 11 5 60 — Login 8 27 H 22 5 13 Lianfalteg .5 30 8 H 11 39 'j 30 Whitland arr 5 4p 8 55 11 50 6 40 DOWN TKAIN9. a.m. H.ui p.m. p.m ————— Wbitland dep 6 o 10 0 12 15 7 35 Llanfalteg .612 10 24 12 -28749- Login 6 26 10 44 12 46 8 6 — LUnglydwen 6 37 11 10 1 2 8 23 — Rhydowen 643 11 19 1 11 8 32 Llaufyroaoh 6 53 11 32 I li 8 45 — Glogue 7 l II 43 1 35 8 56 — Crymmych L Arms 7 10 11 52 1 45 9 5 Cardigan -Coach .835-330- Newport (Pem ) *Coach — — 0 — On rervipt of leltr or telegram. Mr JacKtou of Newport will meet any ,'f the other tra ns at Crymmvch. LLANELLY RAILWAY UP TRAINS. ?? ?? Ajt. P*mpm n ?'?'???'??.3.1.2.3.! 2.3 f Ti :M 11 y J 5 20 8 30 11 0 2 0 6 0 Llanelly Dock 5 25 8 33 H 3 2 & 6 •* Bynea 840 n 10 2 10 6J 0 L?n?nnech 84.5 U 15 215 6 10 Pontardulais arr. 5 55 K 50 11 20 2 20 6 2(1 Pontardulais dep. 6 0 8 53 11 25 2 20 6 38 PantyHynnon .arr. 6 10 9 a 11 3523063,5 ( Pantyffynnondep 910 12 IU640 g g I £ r°88 Inn 9 :5 12 15650 ? £ )Qarnant 9 30 12 3073 Ocq Brynammanarr 9 36 12 35 10 Pantyfiynnon .dep. 6 15 9 10 It 40 23ofi 40 Dutfrta 915 11 45 2 35 6 16 TLl,andebie 9 20 11 50 2 40 fi Derwydd Road 9 25 It 55 2 4) fi « Ff.irf.ch » 32 2 5.5 70 Llandilo arr. 6 45 9 35 12 5 30 75 Llandilo. dep. 7189401578 Talley Boad 7 23 9 45 3 10 7 Jng Glanrhyd 7 27 U 50 7 Liangadock 7 33 9 55 3 is 7 23 Llanwrda 7 38 10 0 3 23 7 28 Llandovery arr 7 46 10 7 3 30 7 35 DOWN TRAINS. ?-'? ? M PM P m l .M ?'?.3.?2,?.1,2.3.1,2.3.1,2.3 LT l* and1 overy dep. 8 0 11 15 5 5 4 7 L an .rda. ?o 11 22 5 13 4 In Langadoek ?. 815 11 28 5 18415 Glanrhyd 8 2u 4 20 Tall, y Road 8 25 5 26 4 L and. o.arr. 830 1140 53t 430 £ lan'?,1° deP S 35 11 42 20 5 35 4 35 F .fach 8 40 ■••• 2 5 6 38 4 40 Derwydd Road 8 bU H55 215 548 450 Llandebie 855 U 0 220 553 455 £ uff/yn 3 0 2 25 6 58 5 0 Pautyffvnnon arr 9 6 12 8 2 3u 6 3 5 5 fljs" [ Brynamman de. 8 30 il 0 5 20 golGarnant 8 35 11 5 5 25 Cr08S Inn 8 50 11 20 5 40 *[*" ?,? ipantyffynnonarr 85.5 11 26 .5 45 FantyHynnoa .dfp 9 lu 12 10 2 28 6 5 5 5 Pontardulais arr. 920 12 20267615515 Pontardulais dep 9 25 12 22 2 47 6 25 § 15 Llangennech 9 30 12 '27 2 56 6 32 5 28 Bynea 9 35 12 35 3 0 6 38 5 33 Llanelly Dock 9 42 12 42 3 10 6 47 5 40 Llanelly arr. t7 12 45 3 1-5 a 50 5 42 CARMARTHEN AND CARDIGAN I UP,~WEBK DAYS. A.M. a.m. P M. p.m. Cardigan (by coach) 8 0 1 16 Newcatle-Ewlyn(do) 9 30 2 30 Llandyssil dep. 7" 30 11 15 4 yj 8 30  7?5113 440 8 50 nonwd 1 1011 50 5 5 9 25 *Bronwydd I  8 ?!??520! 9 !-5 Arms „ 8 26 12 5 5 20 9 35 Carmarthen ?. ?Q 12 15 5 30[ 9 M Mail. '———— DOWN,-WEEK DAYS. .m. a.m. p.m. pm Carmarthen .dep.1 6 0350 2 15 6 45 *Bronwydd Arms 9 5 Conwil .6209252-1:07 5 #Llanpumpsaint 9 40 Pencader arr. 6 45 10 10 3 5 7 40 LlandY8sil. 7 0 10 20 3 20 750 Liandyssil 772?(11 LO 20?33i) ? Llandyssil (by coach) 7 2T 3 3 ) Newca8tleEm11n (ditto) 8301 4 40 .? Cardigan (ditto) arr 10 2o630 Trains will leave Carmarthen tor Carmarthen Junction to meet the Great Western ato.10 a.m., 6.10 a.m., 8.5 a.m., 8.45 a.m., 9.40 a.m., 11.25 a.m., 1235 p in., 2.30 p.m., 5.0 p.m., 5.50 p.m., 6.18 p. 8 25 p.m MANCHESTER AND MILFORD. up.-WEEK DAYS. a.m. I a.m. p.m. j p.m. Aberystwith dep. 8 45 2 10 4 45 Llanrbystyd Road „ I 8 56 j 2 19 1 5 3 Llanilar it195227515 Trawscoed 915236525 Strata-Florida „ I 9 43 Tregaron 955 3 18 648 Pont-Llanio *1iio332670 Derry Ormond. 110 18! 3 41 ?7 15 Derry O r m o n l10 O 28350730 Lampeter 10 28 3 50 7 30 Llanybyther 10 42 4 1 7 50 Maesycrugiau 10 54 | 4 11 8 4 New Quay Road U 4 i 4 19 Pencader arr !1110 DOWN. a.m. p.m. p.m. Pencader dep. 7 0 3 10 7 45 New Quay Road 7 20 318 7 54 Maesycrugiau 7 30 3 24 8 5 Llanyoyther [ 8 15 3 35 8 25 Lampetar. 91850350845 Derry Ormond. 9 3 358 855 Pont-Llanio n 9 30 4 14 9 12 Tregaron 9 53 4 23 9 20 Strata-Florida n 10 15 4 38 9 37 Trawscoed 10 40 5 0 10 0 Llanilar 10 .52510 10 10 Hanrhyatyd Road 11 5 5 20 10 22 Abervstwith .arr H 15 5 10 30 PEMBROKE AND TENBY. UP.-WEEK DAYS. a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. Pembroke Dock..dep. 7 40 a 1; 201 43'308 6 15 Pembroke 7 48 10 28 4 38 6 23 Lamphey 7 52 10 32 4 42 6 27 Manorbier 7 59 10 4,1451 66'7 Penally 8 8 10524 0 647 Tenby arr. 8 12 10 55 5 4 i 6 52 Tenby dep. 8 17 11 0 5 7 70 Sa'ndersfootorMoreton 8 25 11 9? 5 16 7 )5 KHgetty.J8 28 j 11 121 !720 Narberth 8 45 111 3()1 5 35 1740 Whitland .arr. 9 0 11 45 5 5() 17.51) DOWN.-WEEK DAYS. p.,u. p.m Whitlaud dep. 6 5 9 40 12 20 640 Narbertb. 6 20 9 55 12 35 6 5o — Kilgetty 6 37 j 10 12 12 50 710 Saundersfoot orMoretonj 6 41 10 20 12 55 7 15 Tenby arr. 6 51 11027 1 572.5 Tenby dep.! 6 56 10 30 1 1 10 1 7 30 — Penally I 6 59110.3 1 13 7 33 Manorbier 7 8 10 43 1 22 7 2 Lamphey 7 17 10 52 1 30 7 50 Pembroke 7 22 11 0 I 1 35 | 7 56 — Pembroke Dook ..arr., 7 35 11110 1 45 8 5 — Printed and Published by the Proprietors, WILLIAM JAMES MORGAN and HOWELL DAVIES, at their Offices, in Lammas-street, in the Parish of St. Peter, in the County of the Borough of Carmarthen. FRIDAY, Dec. 3, 187FI

The Norfolk Chronicle states that a difference has arisen between the Prime Minister and Mr C. S. Read, the Parliamentary Secretary of the Local Government Board. The difference relates to the Irish cattle question, with respect to which Mr Read's views are at variance with those entertained by the veterinary department of the Privy Council in England and Ireland. LONGHORNS.-At a meeting of breeders of longhorn cattle, beld at Bingley-hall on Monday, Mr T. L.Princep, of Croxall, in the chair, it was resolved that in conse- quence of the increasing interest manifested in long horns, and with the view of securing for this old estab- lisbed breed its proper position among English .ttl?l, it was desirable to form a longhorn society, and to establish a longhorn herd-book in order that the pedigrees may be duly authenticated. A committee was appointed to report to an adjourned meeting to be held in Birmingham during the week of the Royal Society's Show. An alleged case of delay in holding an inquest by Mr Overton was mentioned at the Merthyr Board of Guardians on Saturday. A man committed suicide at, Aberdare on Sunday, the 7th inst., and the coroner's inquiry did not take place until three days afterwards Mr Overton's explanation was that he did not receive notice of the occurrence until the 9th, when he had five other inquests to attend but Superintendent Thomas sent a letter to the board stating that infor- mation of the suicide was given at the coroner's office about 9 p.m. on the 7'h. The board determined to forward his letter to Mr Overton, and ask for his observations thereon. Prince Bismarck, whose health is quite restored, has made an important speech in the German Parliament, declaring that he never would consent to govern Germany through a "college" of Ministers, whose corporate responsibility reduced the authority of their president, the Chancellor, to nothing. He could do nothing of his own motion. He also expressed his preference for indirect taxation, which the taxpayer could adjust to his means and opportunities, and for a severe income-tax on all persons enjoying more than Y,360 a year. He is in favour also of equal succession- duties on land and personality, and altogether seems to have been reading Mr Gladstone's speeches, or one of Mr Greg's papers upon English finance. A PROPHET OF GOOD. —A severe winter is expected by those who believe in signs and who put their own judgment out of the way in order to listen to what some one" has said. Now, it is possible we may ex- perience the discomforts of a hard winter before we rejoice in another spring, and, of course, it is equally possible that we may get through with only a few light frosts. If any one will take the trouble to make a comparison of predictions and facts as regards the winters of say, the past ten years, it will be seen that all those predictions that are founded on visible signs are absolutely worthless, and yet at this moment the atmosphere resounds with prognostications of terrific weather as the inevitable consequence of the abundance of red berries. Wt, are not without the means of fore- casting the winter in some vague sort of way, What it will be none can say, however strongly disposed to a priori reasoning But the observed periodicity of meteorological phenomena gives us a faint clue to the future, and if the 11-year period we begin to think we have got hold of is a fact, we are to hate a mild win, fer. The heavy rainfall is to some extent favourable to the expectation of a severe winter, but if the sup. posed cycle of the seasons may be relied on as affording a trustworthy hint of th^ future, we shall not have a really severe winter until 1879 or 1880. We beg of the ingenious gentlemen who cook up paragraphs not to fix on us the smallest degree of responsibility in con- nection with these remarks. We see no signs what- ever of a hard winter, and while we do not profess to know what the future may bring forth, we leave those who believe in the prophetic power of scarlet berries and flying geese to enjoy their faith and get all the comfort from it their simple natures deserve and re- quira. — Gardener's Mogazine. Sir M'chael Flicks-Beach, in his reply to an address of the Conservative Working Men's Association at Bel- fast on Saturday, gave a very vigorous exponition of the Ministerial policy in Ireland. The Irish Secretary delivered some well-aimed blows at the Opposition, and if he showed as much freedom and energy in the House of Commons he would quickly prove himself an accession to the debating power of the Ministry. He seized, skilfully enough, upon Lord Hartington's demand for a respectful and reverent examination of the national institutions" as an admission that the country did not wish to see the return to power of a party which it could not entrust with the safety of its institutions." Sir Michael Hicks-Beach was also con- fident that the prospects of the Radical party were never more discouraging, and there never was a time when they had less immediate prospect of a return to the power which in former days they had sought by a more questionable policy." From this view, as well as from Lord Hartington's attitude of respectful and calm contemplation, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach concludes that there is little to be feared from Home Rule. For the Home Rulers avowedly rely less upon a change in public opinion than npon possible dishonesty on the part of politicians in Englond. But the candid, firm, and honourable" language of the leader of the Opposi- tion has, for the time, excluded the discreditable cal- culations in politics. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach struck the true chord which vibrates more strongly and clearly in Ireland than might be supposed from the rhetorical discontent of the patriots, when he appealed to the Imperial spirit. He was ashamed to think that any body of intelligent and educated men could forget their interest, not only in the particular part of the United Kingdom in which they happened to be born, but in the welfare and prosperity of the whole kingdom and the colonial empire, of which they were citizens." The French newspapers not only once more exalt— and with good cause-the energy and skill of M. de Lesseps in making the Suez Canal, but add to this just praise the old fallacy that Englishmen "denounced the scheme as visionary," when their more clear-sighted neighbours were convinced of its practicability. Now, the facts of the case, viewing the canal in its first stage of project only, happen to be, historically, the exact reverse of this picture. The original contribution of Frenchmen to the Suez scheme was the report made by Napoleon's engineers during the French occupation of Egypt, that any project of canalization was imprac- ticable, owing to the difference of levels, which they mistakingly imagined to exist between the seas on either side. A M. Lepere seems to have contemplated a canal with locks at the time; but nothing came of it, and the belief of the engineers employed by Napoleon was impressed on all Europe from the beginning of the century down to the period when the late General (then Captain) Chesney investigated the matter personally. In his report to our Ambassador at Constantinople of September 2,1830 (long ago published in hili" Narrative of the Euphrates Expedition "), he declared that there were no serious natural difficulties," and added that the canal scheme would be a grand and beneficial speculation for the world, as well as a paying one." Ten years after this discovery Captain Vetch, of the Royal Engineers, proposed to follow it out practically and make a canal. That the project then fell through, to become afterwards a success in French hands, shows our diplomatic views to have been as mistaken as oar engineering judgment was correct. But it is hard that we Are to have the discredit nowadays of the blander which General Chesney was the first to detect and expose forty-five years ago. WHAT IS A (I GENTLEMAN." —It is difficult in these days to decide who is and who is not a gentleman." A case which came before the Common Pleas Division the other day on an interpleader turned upon this point. The plaintiff based his title to the goods upon a bill of sale, and the question was whether the attesting wit- ness to the document had properly described himself as a gentleman. The rule which came on for argument was to enter a verdict for the defendant upon the ground that this description was inaccurate, insufficient, or wrong. The witness had been a proctor's clerk, but left that ocenpation some years ago, and had siuce lived mainly upon an allowance from his mother. He occasionally wrote letters for other persons, sometimes colltlcted debts, and had drawn bills of sale at different times. Mr Justice Grove said he was not inclined to extend the use of the word 11 goolleman," bnt no better description of the witness had been suggested. No doubt he term originally meant a person of gentle blood, hut by degrees the signification was extended, and it was now applied to persons down to the lowest verge of the middle-class. If applied to a person in the lower class, the term gentlemau" might be deceptive hut. it could hardly be so wheu applied to a person who had bpen for many years a proctor's clerk. The rule was accordingly discharged. Sir Thomas Smith in the "Comuionweattb of England." thus defines a "gentle- man." "Ordinarily," be says, "the King doth only make knights and create barons or higher degrees. As for gentlemen, they he made good cheap in this king- (iom for whosoever studieth the laws of the realm, who studieth in the universities, who professetb the liberal sciences, and (to be short) who can live idly and without manual labour, and will hear the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called Master, for that is the title which men give to the esquires and other gentlemen, and shall be taken for a gentlmcan." 1 he result of the probate suit of Sugden v. St. Leonards has been to add another to those numerous instances in which eminent lawyers have contrived to exercise an influence on the law of their country from beyond the grave. The frequency of litigation upon the wills of ex-chancellors and other high legal authorities has now passed into ;t proverb, until we almost nxpfct to find that the affairs of those who have added so much to the legal text books of their country in their lifetime will form the groundwork of a new leading case after their death. The case of Lord St. Leonards has been the means of establishing, so far as a court of first instance can establish it, the proposition that the non-appearance of a will known to have been in the possession of the testator at the time of his decease raises no indefeasible presumption that it has been destroyed by him animo revocandi. It raises, indeed, a primd facie presumption of a very powerful kind, but still one capable ot being rebutted by ade- quate evidence to the contrary, and such evidence, in the judgment of Sir James Hannen, the supporters of the will have been able to produce in the present case. This is the more remarkable from the fact that the principal, almost the sole, testimony in favour of the will was that of Miss Sugden, and laboured under the double disadvantage of being the evidence of a witness interested in the dispositions of the will which she sought to establish, and that of a lady reciting from memory the intricate and technical provisions of a missing legal document. The court, however, held that Miss Sugden had successfully surmounted these disadvantages. There was no imputation whatever upon her good faith, while her memory and the know- ledge of law which she had acquired as "the daily companion for many years of one of the greatest lawyers who ever lived," stood firmly the test of cross- examination, and under the circumstances the court held the contents of the missing will to be sufficiently established. WILL THE RINOBONE INCREASE.—I have a four-year- old harness horse, which a year ago showed a slight enlargement round the middle joint of the hind pastern, but it did not extend down into the coronet. bad him fired, blistered, and turned out for the winter. He was never lame, Will the ringbone now fine off or will it increase. [From your description of the en- largement it seems to be situated rather too high up to constitute ringbone. It is probably a natural bony development, and about the knees, bocks, and other joints a similar roughness or prominence of the ends of the bones may also be ooserved—a condition not only perfectly consistent with soundness, but often an evidence of extra strength and solidity. The fact of there being previously no lamenesss when the enlarge- ment was first noticed, and the tissues being further consolidated by another year's growth, render it un- likely that the animal will now be lamed by the swel- ling. Lameness will be still less likely to occur if the horse is possessed of well-shaped fetlocks, and is only gradually brought into full work and is not unduly rattled upon the hard roads]. THE CAUSE AND CURE OF WARBLES.—I have a use- ful four-year-old half-bred horse rendered almost use- less by warbles on his shoulders lying in or under the skin. and like small marbles Can you kindly inform me of their cause and cure P.-[I'he term of warbles is rather an indefinite one It was wont to be popularly applied to the swellings affecting alike hones and cattle, dependent upon the growth underneath the skin of the larva of the gadfly, and disappearing when during the spring months the matured larva burst its prison and fell to the ground. But ocanring at this late period of the year, the swellings of which you com- plain cannot be ascribed to this cause. From unequal pressure of badly cleaned, ill-fitting harness, tumours or swellings occasionally appear about the shoulders and elsewhere. When rubbed or otherwise irritated, these troublesome swellings become ioflimed and ulcerated, constituting what is tecbnically called a sitfast, which requires to be treated by excision and subsequently by astringent lotions. Gastric derangements produce in horses, as in men, swellings of the skin, sometimes popularly entitled heat bumps," usually sudden in their appearance, and generally readily removed by half a dose of physic, and a few days' laxative diet. Still another description of skin swelling, to which the term .1 warbles" ought in strictness to be reserved, is the inflammation of the sweat glands, especially about the root of the mane and tail, producing an eruption of pimples, which frequently suppurate, and leave circum- scribed swellings. In professional phrase this is called acne. When the parts are much inflamed, fomentations and poultices must be used itching and discharge abated by zinc sulphate solution the constitutional irritation which commonly gives rise to such cases counteracted by laxative medicine and a few doses of some such cool mixture as an ounce each of sulphur, nitre, and Epsom salts, given either as a bolus or drench, and repeated night and morning for two or three days.]

LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN. I VP TRAINS. ?23123?23?23123l23'?2? a 0B a-m- ".m p.m. pm n.mJp-ui- Swansea ( lctona- t. 6 20 "? 9 15 1220 ? ? P?' G. "er Road. g 37 9 37 1240 4 50 Pontardulais 9 55 1254 ..5 fj Pantyffynon 1051 4 .5 14 Duffryn 10101 9 L?ndehte 1015 t 14 Derwydd Road 1020 I 18 Llandilo .arr. 1033 1 28 5 33 c; ?C?armarthen dep. 6 30 ? ?Q§? 0 4 46 £ ber«wllly •••• 6 369 18 4 51 'y?)t?ntgaredig.6?93? 1 lg.?? o'¡:S.! < Llanarthney. 16 509 45 ,? ?.. • 3 I Golden Grove.. 7 0 9 55 1 27 5 15 | Llandilo Bridge 17 10 51033 1 33 ..52.5 c; ^Llandilo .arr. 7 X3 i010 1 35 5 30 Handle .dep.17 18 9 4 1040 1 40 5 387?5 Talley Road '7 23 9 45 5 4?8 0 G?nrhyt 7 2819 50 5468 0 Hang?dock .17 339 6510531 53 5 5218 10 Hanwrda (for Pumpt.) 7 gs?o 01057 1 58 5 588 15 Llandovery 7 48 10 7 11 5 2 6 6 108 ? ''ynghordy 7 55 ? 6 20. ??lanwrtyd ,f? 7 58 6 2? ulanwrtyd Wells 8 11.. 1131 2 31 ..6 4C. Builth Road g 45 12 0 2 5o ..7 16. HaudriododWetl8.g?g? ??3?.732, Knighton 952 1 2 4 0 8 24 Cra,en Arms 1030 1 364 27 ..S 64 Ludio- 1157 2 25 20 ..110 Shrewsbury .an. 1120 2 35 5 10 9 45 Shrewsbury dep. 1130 2 46 5 35 1020 Hajohester(L')n. Road) 1 40 5 207 55 1218 Liverpool (Lime-street) 2 0 5 40 8 0 3 15 1 GIas){ow. 8 30  7 ? Edinburgh .8 25 6 50 London(Euston Square) 5 5 8 309 55 ..6 0 1 DOWN TRAINS. 12 31 2 31 231 2 3123jI a.m. p. m. a. m 4. m. pm a In London (Euston-sq.)dep 9 !5 5 15 9 0 *°'?2 ?6 Edinburgh dep 4 15 7 30 (ilasgow 4 20 9 10 Liverpool ..(Lime-st.) 11 10 7 2011 40 2*30 Manchester (Lond.-rd.) 10 55 7 30 11 30 2 35 Shrewsbury arr 3 6 9 58 2 15 5 10 Shrewsbury dep 7 0 10 20 2 25 1! 530 Ludlow 6 1510 1 12 42 OravenArms 8 5 11 10 3 4 6 15 Knighton 8 36 11 4l 3 24 6 41 Llandrindod Wells 9 28 12 30 4 6 7 30 Builih Koad 9 44 12 45 4 23 7 42 Uanwrtyd Wells 10 10 1 14 4 46 8 12 Uynbordy .¡. 10 26 1 30 8 28 Llandovery 10 41 1 41 5 13 5 5 8 40 H?nwrda (for Pumpt.) 10 49 1 48 5 2?5 13 Llangadock -O 53 153 525518 Glanrhyd .1058 TaH.eyRoad. 11 3 5 26 Llandilo .arr. 5 31 fLIandilo ..dep. 11 8 2 6 5 36 5 50 | Llandilo Bridge 11 19 2 25 5 55 5 65 o S? 1 Qjlden Grove .11 26 2 33 6 5 6 5 cid! < Llanarthney 11 33 2 42 6 156 15 I Nantgaredig U 38 2 47 6 2.56 25 ??? ) Abergwilly H 48 2 53 6 356 35 ? ?Carmarthen.L.H 5? 3 0 6 126 40 Llandilo dep.j. 11 10 2 12 5 4b? 35 9 2 Derwydd Road .ill 20 5 48 Llandebie 11 24 2 2& 6 25 53 9 14 Duffryn 11 28 6 6558 PantySynnon 11 30 2 30 6 116 3 9 21 Pontardulais dep 11 45 ? 2 43 1 6 216 40 9 32 Gower Road |12 2 255 6 õ6 943 Swansea .12 25 3 20 6 507 2010 0