The Merthyr Telegraph and General Advertiser for the Iron Districts of South Wales

-11 [MISCELLANEOUS. The Archbishop of Cologne has made known In Ma diocese that all Catholics who take part in a service which is conducted by an anti-Iafallibilist priest will be excluded from the Roman Church. In the matter of the Credit Foncier and Mobi- Company, an application has been made in mbers by the liquicfators for leave to pay off the Crtgajje on the Belgian lands in Brussels. The necessary r« waa granted. Following tho precedent of last year in the conso- lidation of the sanitary departments with that for the administration of the poor in England, it is the intention 40f the Government to create this year in Ireland also a Board of Local Government which will unite the two functions. —British. Medical Journal. We regret to hear of a painful scandal in the Records Office. Some of the documents have been muti- lated yet the offence has been hitherto allowed to pass unpunished. Lord Romilly may have been influenced by feasone of which we know nothing but some explanation Is desirable, as the destruction of public documents is a matter that concerns the nation.—Athenanm. The Law Times is informed that the petitions to Parliament which are in course of signature by solicitors tefcctising in London and in the provinces, in favour of fit* establishment of a School of Law, are being very in- taenttttlly signed, upwards of 2,000 signatures having already been obtained. The last of the real brigands have disappeared from the Neighbourhood of Rome. During the last few weeks the fkmous brigand leader, De Rosa, was killed in a struggle with a carabineer, and his solitary follower made prisoner. De Rosa's band consisted of sixteen men, but they have gradually disappeared from the country, and now the whole tribe has been exterminated. Mr. Isaac Holden writes to the Leeds Mercury to contradict the report that he had subscribed 1,000,000 francs ( £ 40,000) towards paying off the French war in- demnity. He says :—" The rumour may have originated In the fact that I felt it my duty to subscribe largely to- wards the relief of the suffering poor during the war there and at Roubaix." Some well-known Scotch gentlemen have just formed a company, with the view of establishing, in Lon- don, a high class weekly journal, to be devoted to Scottish interests. The new venture will bear the name of The ThittU, and will be under the able management of Mr. Archibald Forbes, the war correspondent of the Daily New*, who is not however to sever his connection with the latter journal. Civilia)i. Mr. Salt's bill to provide for facilities for the parfornnmce of Divine worship according to the rites and a of the Church of England, has been issued. XU chief clauses would enact that a bishop may license, to any parish or district which contains more than 2,000 bhaokants, a clergyman of the Church of England, who tatty perform the offices of the Church in any school- toom or other suitable building or chapel, whether conse- entedor unconsecrated. Similar power is given with respect to outlying hamlets containing more than 20 inhabitants. INDIAN IMMIGRANTS IN MAURITIUS.—The Com- mission to be appointed to inquire into and report on the African immigrants in Mauritius, will consist of Mr. W. E. Frere, who has recently presided over a similar inquiry in the colony of British Guinea and Mr. Victor Wil- liamson, of the Northern Circuit. Mr. R. Darnell Davis, who attends as secretary to the British Guinea Commis- noners. will act in the same capacity to the Mauritius ComniMiunero. Htttr FAILURE. — At the Bankruptcy Court, feefovt. Mr. Registrar Pepy, sitting as Chief Judg% an application was made in the case of Mr. Thowrta Trankish, a hop and seed merchant of the Borough, and who also carries on an extensive business at Kings- ton-ttpon Hull. who has announced his failure, estimating tail liabilities at the large sum of £45,000. Against this amouilf the assets are put down at £ G,620, consisting of ■tock-fc-trade to the value of £ 3,000 book debts, £ 2,000; ▼alue ftf furniture, £ 400; and £ 020 cash at bankers. Mr. If vinenow applied to the Court to restrain proceedings which had Men brought by several creditors against the debtor, including the firms of Steinberg, who were Riling for E333, LawsOns^ of the Borough, for £ 295, and T'hlnian, for £ 143, besides several other creditors. The Court appointed Mr. W. P. Burkinshaw, public accountant, receiver to the estate, and granted the injunction applied for against the creditors. THE SHAKERS" IN LONDON*.—A young man has been summoned at Lambeth Police-court for having dis- turbed a congregation of "Shakers," a sect which con ducts ita religious service in a railway arch in Sutherland- street, Walworth-road. The evidence was, however, contradictory, and the defendant was merely ordered to eotef fato his own recognisances to be of good behaviour Ibf ux months. The defendant was charged with entering the Shakers' chapel with his hat on, and subsequently dnumhing upon that article of dress, to the great annoy- aaoe of the faithful. Two other men, not summoned, were odd to have assisted him in his profane conduct, which ^afterwards became still more objectionable, culmi- natinffin such expussions as "After you with the book, and Houae-bill, a penny." Some very singular evidence waegitwnbyaman "Shaker" and two women "Shakers''in imppm* of the charge. The man, Henry Osborne, said he traveled with the female speaker for the purpose of read- ing the Word of God. The "manifestations" which oc- curred during the service were not dancing" but the waking of the Spirit of God. Emma Weaver gave corro- borative evidence and Mary Ann Gurling, the female flpeako1 in question, said she was the wife of an agricul- tural tiller at Ipswich, and her busband knew of her occu- pation and whereabouts. HonSB RACING AXD BANKRUPTCY.—At the Bank- ruptcy Court, Lincoln's-inn-Fields, the case of Mr. Julius Charles Frederick Angerstein, came again before Mr. Registrar Pepys, in reference to the settle- ment ')f a claim with respect to the two racehorses Salopian and Osprey. It will be remembered that Mr. Angerstein bought these horses of a trainer named Stevedt, and paid for them by a Bill of Exchange WhjcS was dishonoured on arriving at maturity, on which the tftsfner claimed a lien upon them, and refused to give them iip to the trustee. Mr. Brough, who appeared for the tMBtee,. now stated that an arrangement had been Come tb: between the parties, by which the dispute was brought to an end. It was to the effect that Mr. Stevens JbouIiI he declared entitled to retain the horse Salopian, and the trustee was to take possession of and sell the Qaptwy, aubject to Mr. Stevens's lien for the training expeMet, the account to be settled in chambers, and the Ouprey to be sokl at Tattersall's, and in the event of any deficiency in the settlement of Mr. Stevens's claim, he is to be allowed to prove against the estate. Mr. Bagley, who appeared on the part of Mr. Stevens, having stated his concurrence in these terms, the interim injunction which had been obtained was, by consent of all parties, dissolved. EXTENSIVE PREPARATIONS AT WOOLWICH.— —A correspondent writes :-The Hoyal Arsenal at Wool- wich ia full of activity in every department, which is the more remarkable because at this period of the financial ▼ear, when the army estimates are about to be.issued, there are usually reductions more or less extensive. Seeing that large numbers of extra hands were taken on at the outbreak of the late war, and that most of the eiders then given have been fulfilled, reduc- time on a very extensive scale were anticipated this yearj but comparatively few men have been discharged, and It is now expected that in view of possible contin- (endca the establishment will be kept up to its full Strength lor some time longer. Heavy guns for naval ferric* and coast defences are being produced with un- Hrecedantcd rapidity at the Royal gun factories. In the Royal carriage department the manufacture of iron car- riage*'lor the guns is proceeding with corresponding •peecL The men of the shell foundry are working over- time to execute new and extensive orders for Palliser and other »beQs of modern kinds; and in the Royal Labora- tory, though the cartridge-makers have accumulated such a stock of ammunition that there is little left to do, the department is very busy in the preparation of torpedoes, fusees, and the other materiel of war. In reference to torped oes, it is scarcely a secret now that a party of ■killed workmen have been for some time engaged dtuina the flight time only, trying, perfecting, and manufacturing several new descriptions of these sub- marine guns, both aggressive and defensive and that in this reepect, as in some others, the country is better pro- tected from invasion than it has been at any previous period. "The colonies and out-stations will be supplied with the newest designs of guns and other munitions of WAFT WILLS AND BEQUESTS. — The will of the Right Honourable George Arthur Philip, Earl of Chesterfield, who died December 1, 1S71, aged 40, was proved in the Court of Probate, on the 20th ult., under 480,000 personalty. To each of the executors, four in nnxnber, his lordship leaves a legacy of ±.'500, and further legacies to two of them—his uncles Henry and Orlando— of 810,000 and JE5,000 respectively. To his mother he leaves his jewellery, &c., and a life interest in the rents and profits of his estates, falling at her death to his sister, for whose benefit olso sit his real and the remainder of his personal estate »r& left in trust. At the death of his sister these fall to her Son, Lord Porchester. He bequeaths to his cousin Isabella the interest of JE10,000 for life, with power to dispose of the principal at her death. After sundry other legacies, he bequeaths to the Derbyshire and Nottingham Infirmaries, £ 1,000 each.-The will of the Right Hon. Maria Auguste, Dowager Countess of Listoweif relict of the second Earl of Listowel, was proved in London on the 25th ult. under £ 30,000 per- sonalty. To each of her two executors she leaves a legacy of £500; to her daughter, Lady Alfred Paget, her furniture and plate. She bequeaths £ 4,000 to a lady lon^ resident in her family, and £ 1,^00 to her lady's maid. the Societies fer Promoting Christian Knowledge, and the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.— The will of Thomas George Gardiner, formerly ia £ ^9 Hon. East India Company's Service, Bombay, was inc^d in London, lliider £ 12,000 that of Charles Henry Smith, of Bury St. Edmunds, under £ 8,000 personalty in Eng- land; that of Henry Robert Linnell Cood, merchant, of Clifton, under £ 1,500 personalty in England; and that of Edward Burstall, formerly of Quebec, Canada, under £ 23,000 personalty in England. In reference to the departure from England to- day of. Mr Adams, the United States representative in the Tribunal of Arbitration under the Treaty of Washing- ton, we are authorized to say that Mr. Adams's return to America is occasioned solely by private affairs. The transfer of- the Dutch colony on the Gold Coast to English role, although greatly lamented by the people, is expected to be very beneficial to the settlement in all respects. It is not so much an addition to English power as a consolidation of it. Hitherto, owing to the Gold Coast being broken np into a series of alternate English and Dutch towns and settlements, great difficulties existed in the suppression of many native evils, and it was im- possible to enforce the duty on spirits, tobacco, guns, &c. If England abandoned the Gold coast, there would speedily be a revival of pagan rites and human sacrifices, while legitimate trade would be extinguished. The consolidation pf Lpffligh poyg W41 opeatlieway to a better state of things, In the places of worship in Sheffield on Sunday prayers were offered, both monring and evening, that what appears to be considered a threatened war with America might be averted, and a peaceful settlement of the diffi- culty be secured. A marriage is arranged to take place between Mr. George Stanley Orred, of the Royal Fusiliers, second son of the late Mr. George Orred, of Tinninere, and Miss Edith Grace Portman, second daughter of Mr. H. W. Berkeley Portman, of Langton Lodge, Dorset, and niece of Lord Portman. Among the contemplated changes which are attributed to Mr. Lowe is the revival of last year's scheme for levying the income tax by a percentage instead of by so many pence in the pound. It is also reported as not improbable that the amount of income tax will be reduced upon all incomes of less than £ 300 a-year. The Bolton Chronicle says-" A material altera- tion has, we understand, been made in the arrangements as to Mr. Disraeli's visit to Lancashire in the ensuing Easter week. It is said that the right hon. gentleman will now visit Manchester only, thus abandoning the proposed visits to Liverpool and Preston, as representing the other electoral centres of the county." The following bills have been issued :—The Public Prosecutors Bill, bearing on its back the names of Mr. Spencer AVill)ole, Mr. Russell Gurney, Mr. Eykyn, Mr. Vernon Harcourt. and Mr. Rathbone the Registration of Borough Voters Bill, backed by Mr. Vernon Harcourt, Mr. Whitbread, Sir Charles Dilke, Mr. Collins, Mr. H. R. Brand, and Mr. Rathbone the Deans and Canons Resig- nation Bill, endorsed by Mr. Gladstone iiiid Mr. Bruce. The authorities of the University of Edinburgh have just concluded an inquiry into the disturbance which o -curved in the Music-hall during the recent installation of Sir William Stirling Maxwell as Rector. The result of the inquiry has been that one student has been rustica- ted," and several others have been finerl and put on proba- tion during the remainder of their college career. It has been ascertained that some of the ringleaders in the dis- turbance were not students at all. PRIVATE BILL LEGISLATION-.—On Tuesday the Parliamentary examiners reached the end of the list of private bills, and of the 304 which were originally lodged the promoters of no less than 30 have failed to put in an appearance, and their schemes have thus fallen through, at any rate for this session. This is an unusually large number, the total last year being only 18. LETTER FROM GARIBALDI.—Mazzini, having challenged Garibaldi to give his adhesion to a Republic in Italy, the latter has replied by the following note:— Caprera, January rS.—To my friends and brothers in arms of the Romagna.—The question between Mazzini and my- self belongs to history. On the day when that camel— which is called the people—shall be weary of its burden and cudgellings, ho, I, and our friends will be all at our posts —GARIBALDI." THE ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. GEORGE. -The Queen has been pleased to confer the honour of Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George on Ali. Charles Cowper, C.M.S., who has several times been First Minister of New South Wales, and is now Agent-General in England for that colony; and on Mr. George F. Verdon, C.H., who for some years has been Agent-General for the colony of Victoria, and is now about to relinquish that office. Her Majesty has been further pleased to confer the honour of Companion of the same Order on Mr. William Fitzherbert, who has been a leading member of several administrations in New Zealand on Mr. Julius Vogel, now Colonial Treasurer and Postmaster- General of New Zealand and on Mr. Stephen Walcott, who for many years has served as Secretary and Commis- sioner in the Colonial Land and Emigration Department. THE GREAT WESTERN COMPANY AND THE XAKROWGVAGE.—In connection with the alteration of the Great Western system from the broad to the narrow guage an important bill is now pending in Parliament, promoted by the directors of that company, It seems that a large number of colliery owners, mill owners, and others, have from time to time laid down sidings to connect their works with the Great Western line, and have also provided themselves with roll- ing stock on the broad guago principle. All these sidings will, when the company have carried out their intentions, have to be altered, and the rolling stock will be useless, and it is to provide compensation to those so interested that the bill is promoted. The preliminary stage in Par- liament was passed on Tuesday. THE PRESENT VALl-E OF SHIPS.—IMPORTANT SALK-The recent biddings for ships at Lloyds have been very spirited, and there would appear to be, from the prices realised, no fear of any depreciation in this class of property, either in view of probable war or other influ- ences. Messrs. C. W. Kellock and Co., of Liverpool and London, have just sold three ships at Lloyd's, and the prices realised will give a very fair indication of the state of matters in the shipping world. The ship Geologist, built by Messrs. Challoner, Hart, and Sinnott, in 1S59, 854 tons register, fetched £ 5,700; the Cassandra, 711 tons register, and built in Sunderland in IS0S, went for £;300; and the ship Racehorse, built in Tei-sey in 1853 (which could not be said to be a first-class vessel), was purchased for £ 2,200. The Cassandra was bought as she is now lying at Portsmouth dock. It may be remembered that this vessel was recently stranded in Compton Bay, Isle of Wight. THE TRANSLATION OF SIR ROBERT COLLIER.— E, Iiiity," writing to the Time.* on the translation of Sir R. Collier, think-s the wonderful letter" of Mr. Justice Willes, in which he says" evasion of the law by appointing a fit man, according to the law, is a sensational expression," must be due to the confusion produced in the mind by a long study of Law, as separated from Equity. How would Equity, he asks, deal with an analogous appointment, and he thereupon supposes a case. xYn Act of Parliament has provided that the trustees of some great institution shall appoint an auditor with a high salary, and shall select a man qualified for the office by having been managing clerk of a bank. The trustees are themselves bankers, and have a nephew who is a wine merchant. Wishing to provide for him, they make him managing- clerk of their bank for one week, and then appoint him auditor of the estates. Any such appointment would be set aside by the Court of Chancery, even after the lapse of years, and the trustees would be ordered to refund every farthing paid to their nephew. No such plea as the man's fitness for the post would be accepted, and the circum- stance of the trustees having alfected to qualify him by a week's appointment would entail against the defendants 3. decree with costs. SHIPPING CASE.—LA ROE SALVAGE AWARDKO.—Judg- ment was on Tuesday delivered by Sir R. J. Phillimorc, at the High Court of Admiralty, in an important cause. The owners, masters, and crews of the steamships Tanfield and Lord Alfred Paget claimed salvage against the steamship Emily, her cargo, and freight, and against William France, James T. Simpson, Samuel Pearson Ashworth, John Rayner, and John Wood, all of Leeds Thomas Partines Silva. of Tooley-street, London Edward Atkinson Greenwood, of Colne, Lancashire; Alfred Small, of Laxton, Yorkshire; Robert B. Burnley and George Duckies, of Goole, and other owners. The Emily was abandoned by her master and her crew in the Shipway, a little to the northward of the South-ship Head, and the. salvors fell in with her when she was derelict. The wind was blowing a hard gale from the southward and westward, and a heavy sea was running. She had seven feet of water in her, and was lurching deeply in the sea, which was breaking over her. The water had extinguished her fires, and the water in the hold was rising rapidly. The Tanfield and the Lord Alfred Paget, after considerable difficulty and hazard had been encountered, managed to take the ship in safety into Gravesend. The values were as follow:— The Emily £ :2,40O, her cargo £ 210, and freight £ 47 0s.; the Tanfield £u.n(),), her cargo £>159, and freight £ 224; and the Lord Alfred Paget, a steamer of 132 tons, of pro- portionately large value. The meritorious nature of the services, and the facts, were admitted, and a tender of £tk<; was made, but was refused by the plaintiffs as being insufficient. His lordship, after hearing counsel, awarded £ 820, and, on being requested to apportion the amount, gave two-thirds to the steamer Tanfield. THIRD CLASS PASSENGER TRAFFIC.—When Mr. Gladstone opened the new Mansion House station of the Metropolitan District Railway, lie, with that profound knowledge of political economy which distinguishes him as a statesman, advised the directors to rely mainly upon the masses for support. The unprecedented success of movements which could not live without the support of very large numbers of persons sufficiently establishes the wisdom of this advice. The penny newspaper Press may be instanced as a notable example of what jve here refer to. How would it be possible to collect, print on paper, and sell all the news that is contained in a daily journal for the insignificant sum of one penny, if the number sold was not very great? This law is of universal application, and in the case to which we wish, on this occasion, to apply it, there are abundance of statistics to support our argument. "We make bold to affirm that the secret of success in rail- way management—the secret of developing the resources of a railway to their very utmost extent—is the cultiva- tion of third-class passenger traffic. Catering, so to speak, for the million. The companies seem totally unconscious of what a mine of wealth there is here. At present, third class passenger traffic is not only sadly neglected, but restrictions are actually placed upon it, and some com- panies plainly endeavour, by churlishly denying to third- class passengers any comforts or conveniences, to force them into the higher priced compartments. Now this system is directly opposed to the true principles of political economy, and the railway companies, in persisting in such a course, shew a lamentable want of that sagacity and foresight with which less gigantic undertakings are con- ducted. Although, as we have previously shewn, the revenues of our railways increased, during the passed year, in a startling manner, there can be little doubt that the advance would have been even greater had a more en- lightened policy been pursued with regard to third-class traffic which may be termed the true basis of their pros- perity. An Act of Parliament provides that two third class trains—one each way—shall be run daily on every line, but the companies so manage their busiuess as to cause great delay and obstruction to poor travellers who are unable to avail themselves of any more expensive means of transit. Such persons are generally compelled to travel at some most unearthly hour of the night, be- cause the "Government train" is booked at that time. Recent experience has, one would think, demonstrated to the railway companies themselves that it would be con- siderably to their benefit to give greater facilities to third class traffic yet, notwithstanding this seemingly self-evi- dent fact, the facilities are, if anything, decreased, and railway official ingenuity is exerted to make first and second class travelling as comfortable as possible instead. When these various points are fully taken into consider- ation, it can scarcely fail to be a matter of supprise that the receipts are as great as they are. But the fact is, the third class traffic is so reliable, and at the same time so imperative, that it is superior to all the obstacles that are placed in its way.—Railway Service Gazette. A football match took place in the Parks, at Oxford, on Saturday, between the representatives of Oxford and Cambridge, which resulted in favour of the "Dark Blue" champions. Intelligence has reached Oxford of the deaths of Mr. J. L. H. Kettle, B.C.L., M.A., and barrister-at-law, the Senior Fellow of Lincoln College, who graduated forty years ago, and Mr. Walter Braithwaite, B.A., of Wadham College, who took his degree in 1869. Mr. Braithwaite was a gentlffman of considerable ability (2nd class in Law's Modern Histoiy), and was well known and highly respected in undergraduate circles at Oxford. Mr. Braithwaite married a short time since, and was studying for the liar in London, where he was attacked by that treacherous malady rheumatic fever, to which he succumbed at the early ago Qf 23,

SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. THE ASSASSINATION OF LORD MAYO. A great calamity, says the Time*, has befallen the State in tho assassination of Lord Mayo. It would be useless to dissemble the painful impression that this act is likely to produce in India and at home. People will at once ask whether it is the offspring of vengeance oi of fanaticism. We fear it will be necessary to take precautions against assassins for some time to come, for one crime of this sort produces another; but that the present murder has any political sig- nificance, or indicates any common movement oi Mussulman fanaticism, we see no reason to believe. The tribute paid to Lord Mayo's merits by the Duke of Argyll and Mr. Gladstone in their respective Houses on Monday evening, will receive a warm assent from every one who has followed his course in India. He has succeeded far beyond the expectations entertained of him even by his own friends. Conquest was over the turn of material improvement and social progress had come. Lord Mayc saw this and acted upon it. In every department of Government his independence of thought, and his habit of examining everything for himself, have begun to produce fruits. In India mere non-interference willnotsuffico. There at least, it is not true that the best Government is that which governs least. The initiative must come from above, and the Government is the real source of all reforms. There has never been a period more fertile than the present in schemes of social improvement, and in these enterprises Lord Mayo has taken not only formally, but actively the leading part. And now he is cut oil on the shores of a convict settlement by the hand of an obscure criminal The Governor-General had just returned from the North- West Provinces, where he had been encircled with all that the world can produce of pomp and display he had en tertained a neighbouring potentate at Calcutta with Vice- egal splendour, and had embarked for the Andamans, a few years since the haunt of pirates, now the dens of ruffians still more ignoble and brutal. But, at least, he died in the service of his country. He is the first in the glorious list of Indian Viceroys who has perished by direct violence but, to say the truth, India has been a fatal field of late for statesmen. The Marquis oi Dalhousie, after ruling for nearly eight years with a vigoui which will long be the subject of controversy, returned home in shattered health, and soon passed away. Lord Canning came home only to die. Lord Elgin died in a little village of Cashmere. Lord Ellcnborough, who ruled thirty years ago, died the other day. Lord Lawrence, the immediate predecessor of Lord Mayo, now alone remains of the Indian Viceroys of our time "IV c believe that Lord Napier, Governor of Madras, takes the post of Governor- General ad interim, and will hold it till Lord Mayo's suc- cessor is appointed. To find a man who will not suffer by the contrast will be no easy task. The Standard declares that the news of the assassination of Lord Mayo will be received with as much sorrow and consternation in England as doubtless it has created throughout all India. In the presence of a calamity so terrible—a calamity which may well be termed a national misfortune—it is difficult to express the feelings which will arise in the hearts of all Englishmen. Profound as will be the sympathy created for the fate of a gallant and noble gentleman, cut off in the prime of life, and in the very flush of a career as honourable to himself as glorious to his countiy, this is something more than a private affliction. Seldom in our time has the death of one individual caused so deep and* general an emotion. It is a tragedy which millions will moum as almost a household disaster. As for England, she is poorer by one brave heart and kindly spirit, at a time when she sorely needs the services of her greatest and best. To India the loss is even more severe, and may be said to be irreparable. Whatever may be the true history of this deplorable deed, we can have no doubt that it will be found unconnected with anything for which Lord Mayo himself was personally responsible. It is impossible that such a man could have personal enemies. The universal grief which his death will cause throughout India will be the best tribute to his memory. In England he has no need of any to extol his many vir- tues. That a career so useful and honourable should have been thus abruptly cut short is the saddest piece of news which for many a day has come to England. It comes at a season when England can least well afford to spare a brave and true man-when we have particular occasion to value those manly and sterling qualities for which Lord Mayo was so eminent—when the hand of iron in the glove of silk is the special want of tho hour. Throughout the civilised world, says the Advertiser, and more especially in its upper circles, the murder of Lord Mayo by a native assassin will strike a horror and a chill. Kings, princes, potentates, and their Ministers in every country will sympathise with the lamented victim, stabbed by revenge, fanaticism, or political ruffianism, in the 1 back. When the news came of the assassination of Chief Justice Xorman, nil wondered and speculated as to the next great British functionary who might be marked out for slaughter. Having reference to the state of India, we must own ourselves far more pained and grieved than surprised. We agree with Mr. Disraeli that this is one of those events which saddens nations;" but we do not agree with Colonel Sykes in his apparent sug- gestion that it has no political significance. We have little hesitation in saying that either Earl Mayo has fallen a vic- tim to the cont.empt into which this countryis fast falling, un- derthe dispensation of "magnanimous "tameness and emas- culated chivalry," or that ho has perished through the rashness of offering a temptation to the fanatic throng, which neither native Princes nor English rulers in former days permitted themselves to do. No leading Englishman in India should throw a chance away, and we trust that in future every armed precaution will be taken to prevent the repetition of such melancholy occurrences as the deaths of the late Chief Justice Norman, and Earl Mayo, the lamented Governor-General of our Indian possessions. The appointment of Lord Mayo as Governor-General of India shewed, says the Daily News, that Mr. Disraeli had a truer knowledge of his friend and colleague than the public possessed or could possess. Lord Mayo surprised some of his political allies, as well as all his political opponents, by the general good sense and administrative ability which he displayed in India. Personally, Lord Mayo was liked by all who knew him. His genial good nature was written on his frank and open face, and was one of his most conspicuous attributes in life. He seemed about the last man in politics of any kind likely to be made the victim of an assassin's hatred. It does not, indeed, appear that any motive of personal enmity influenced the murderer's hand. We have not yet heard of anything which suggests that the deed is to be placed in the category to which the murder of Chief Justice Norman belongs. The only obvious and reasonable comment which yet seems fairly invited by the circumstances of the deed is the natural expression of wonder at the lax regulations which allowed the use of a deadly weapon to a fanatic previously convicted of an act of murder. Meanwhile we only know that an honourable and useful public man, an honest and able servant of the Crown, a gentleman of stainless private character, has been made the victim of a hideous act of crime or madness, and passes into history as one of the examples, conspicuous because happily so rare, of a high State functionary done to death by the weapon of an obscure assassin. The Telegraph observes that it was one of the charac- teristics of Lord Mayo's career that he took an obvious and personal part in the Government. Every Viceroy, of course, rules to the best of his strength and ability. But Lord Mayo was visible to all India as a Governor-General. Before he was installed he inspected personally the capa- bilities of Bombay, and to the knowledge then acquired we may trace the resolve of the Government to purchase the great reclamation works of the Elphinstone Company, on the western shore of the port. When the State Railways were begun in the Berars, Lord Mayo visited that rich cotton region, and passed on to complete the railway that unites the western port with the capital of India. His taste for agriculture, and his practical sense led him to promote and sanction undertak- ings having for their object the development of industry and cultivation. And he was actively seen at the work. Nor did lie march in state through the land or see with the eyes of others. His endurance as a horseman became proverbial, and in one of his journeys across the Punjab, when returning from a visit, he can- tered sixty miles before breakfast-an Indian day, be it remembered, begins before the dawn. It was through this personal activity, which seemed to be inexhaustible, that he came to see more of India than any Viceroy, save, perhaps, Lord Lawrence. Climate and work, and mental tension, are desperate enemies. Lord Mayo, though sedulous in business, seemed likely to re- turn home with stores of knowledge and experience, and a mind hardened by the severe trials which attend the Indian rulers of to-day. He has met with another fate. He has been swept off by a rising wave of fanaticism, whose destructive vigour we cannot believe is exhausted; and his name alone, upon the illustrious roll, will be asso- ciated with a violent end. India will sincerely lament her great loss, and the serene and impartial engine of Government will roll on, doing justice, but indulging no foul spirit of revenge. The assassination of the Governor-General of India, says the Post, is a deplorable event, which will cast a gloom wherever its tidings are received throughout the Empire. The amiable nobleman who has been cut off in the prime of life, and in the midst of the exalted duties to which his distinguished services had called him, will be regretted by all who enjoyed his acquaintance. Few public men had ever more endeared themselves to a wide circle of friends. During his Chief Secretaryship of Ireland his courteous and conciliatory manners had won the esteem of even political opponents. Since his appointment to the Viceroyalty of India he had made himself equally popular among all the classes well affected to the British Crown. Struck down by the vengeance or frenzy of a Mussulman fanatic, after four years of an administration which has found fewer critics than almost any other Indian administration on record, his tragic and untimely death will be lamented by the whole Anglo-Indian community, not through personal sympathy alone, but from a deep sense of the detriment which the public service must suffer by the loss of so emi- nent a public servant. No Governor-General of India, said the Duke of Argyll, in communicating the sad in- telligence in the Upper House, had ever been more exact in the performance of his duties. The condolence of the country is due to the family of Lord Mayo, who have thus been unexpectedly plunged into the deepest affliction.

The following Parliamentary papers have been issued :—Tho Roll of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in the present session of Parliament; a Return to an Order of the Lords—on Gas, Wa-ter, and Tramways, 1871; the Improvements made in the Navigation of the Danube since 1S56; and a Return shewing the number of East India Euro- pean Offices in 1855, MGO, 1805, and 1870. The staten.ent that Lieutenant-Colonel F. W. Alison died of diptheria is not correct. The gallant officer was attacked by inflammation of the stomach, the result of the break up of an extraordinarily strong constitution, of which symptoms had been apparent at intervals previously, and after most tender nursing, died without pain, and in full possession of his faculties, surrounded by his brother and friends, and evincing the strength of character and courage which he had ever shewn in life,—Amy and Navu Gazette. .or; --l

LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND THE STAflE. Mr. Walter Montgomerie Neilson has been looted to the chairmanship of the Technical College for Glasgow; and a public meeting has been hold under the presidency of the Lord Provost. JE50,000 will be required to start the insti- tution, and to establish chairs in connexion with the principal industries carried on in and around Glasgow. The Joiners' Company has placed at the disposal of the Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institution threo prizes f 'r the encouragement of technical education. The Admiralty has refused, as contrary to the regula- tions, to allow Lieutenant Dawson his time and full pay while engaged in the Livingstone Expedtion. The publication of the second edition of Mr. Serjeant Cox's Refutation of Spiritualism," is, we are informed, delayed for the introduction of many now experiments. We observe that it has been stated in several daily papers that the article on Marco Polo, in the current num- ber of the Quarterly Review, was written by Sir Henry Rawlinson. This is not the case. The review is from the pen of Mr. R. H. Major, of the British Museum, Hono- rary Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society. A. volume of Essays on Social and Political Subjects, by Professor and Mrs. Fawcett, will be published shortly. The volume will contain an introduction to the course of lectures Professor Fawcett is now delivering at Cambridge On Modern Socialism, and the Economie Programme of the International." The 26th Part of M. Littré's great Dictionnaire de la Langue Franqaise," extending from Scille to Souscrire, has just been issued. The months of June, July, and August are fixed for the re-appearance in London of the Comedie Franç-aisc. The house at which they will appear is as yet uncertain. The Architect says Our readers will learn with pleasure that Mr. Mason, A.R.A., has recovered from his recent severe indisposition, and is at, work upon his Harvest Picture," which lie was unable to finish for last year's Academy, but which he hopes if possible to complete for the next spring exhibition.—Mr. Vicat Cole, the other land- scape Associate, has two large pictures in hand, one some- what similar in subject to "Autumn Gold," his last year's landscape—a foreground of meadow and heathery hill side, with blue distance in the back- ground. The second picture is a bit of flat country, with a good effect of cloud and sky.—Mr. Millais, R.A., has completed his portrait of the Marquis of "Westminster. He is painted in full hunting costume, and has just come down into the entrance hall to mount his horse. As a back- ground to this portrait Mr. Millais has used Stubb's large picture of the hunt, or rather of the meet, which belongs to the Grosvenor collection. It is an original idea, and admirably carried out.—Mr. Watts, R.A., is at work on a portrait of Mr. Val Prinsep, similar in character to his last year's portraits of Millais and Leighton. He is paint- ing besides a large picture, the subject of which is "Cain and Abel." It is 13 feet in height, and it is rumoured that he will present it as his diploma work to the Royal Academy. Abel is lying dead at the foot of his altar, from which a flame is springing straight up to heaven his murderer stands over him aghast at his own deed, and thrown into deep shade by the shadow cast from a company of angels sweeping across the sky,—Mrs. Ward has in hand a rather larger work than is usual, with her, the subject being "Mrs. Delany reading to the daughters of George III." The scene is laid in the palace at Frogmore, and the dresses of that period are well adapted for picturesque effect. Nobody's Fortune," by Mr. Grattan, is proving a success at the Surrey Theatre. Another group, in fine marble, of the four which repre- sent the quarters of the globe, is now placed on the south- east angle of the Prince Consort Memorial in Hyde Park. The subject ia "Asia," and the sculptor Mr. Foley, R.A. The little theatre at Charing Cross has been taken by Mr. Fred. Maccabe, the well-known mimic and ventrilo- quist, and he is obtaining such patronage, as to warrant the belief that his stay in the Metropolis on this occasion will be as prolonged as it was at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, three years since. Miss Lizzie Reinhardt, loading actress of the Sheffield Theatre Royal, died on Friday, of smallpox.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The Army and Nary Gasttte says:—It is considered a very remarkable fact that no single item of the American claims is owing to the action of naval officers. Notwith- standing the innumerable points in which they came in contact, and had relations with the belligerents, there is no reclamation against the service. Mr. Goschen says the Navy is under a clond, but this speaks volumes for the sorvice, and shews how judiciouslt the Admiralty did their work, and how well they were seconded by their subordinates. Throughout Mr. Adams's correspondence the only complaint against a naval officer is against the Captain of' the Cadmus, for, in conjunction with the Governor of Trinidad, treating the Sumter as a man-of-war. The British Government had admitted the Southerners to the rights of a nation during war, and the captain of the Cadmus had no alter- native but to act as he did on the occasion in .question.— We are glad to be enabled to' announce -that the in unmeaning rank of Acting Assistant-Surgeon in the Royal Navy has been abolished, and for the future all officers on entering the service will receive their regular commissions in the same way as do their brethren of the Army .A report has been prevalent during the week that the Phantom Board" has been sufficiently substantial to drive Mr. Vernon Lushington to resigna- tion. We are not in a position to confirm the rumour, but the fact would cause no surprise in or Gut of the Ad- miralty.—We understand that the Lady Wodehouse, after her successful dig at the Hotspur, put into a friendly port to repair damages, and has sent in a little bill for £ 500; so it would seem, after all, that these Irish pig-boats cannot maul her Majesty's iron-clad rams with impunity. The Hotspur is getting ready for sea again, and will, no doubt, keep a bright look out down Channel, particularly off the Irish coast.-It has been decided to bring home one regiment of cavalry and four battalions of infantry from India yearly in future. The corps to come home during the season 1872-73, will, doubt- less, be the 20th Hussars, 3rd battalion 60th Rifles (went out in 1857), 2nd battalion 10th Regiment (went out in 1860), 2nd battalion 24th Regiment (went out to Mauritius in 1860), and 105th Light Infantry: those to go out in the event of none of them being required to embark on other service in the meantime-the 10th Hussars (returned from the Crimea in 1856), 2nd battalion 3rd Buffs ^returned from Barbadoes in 1866), 43rd Light Infantry (returned from New Zealand in 1866), 40th Regiment (returned from New Zealand in 1866), and 67th Regiment (returned from the Cape of Good Hope in 1866). The United Service Gazette says:—A Government Com- mittee, composed of the following officers, viz., Admiral Sir Alexander Milne, G.C.B., President; Rear-Admiral Hugh Dunlop, C.B., and Rear-Admiral G. H. Richards, C.B., F.R.S., with Frederick J. Feghn, R.N., Barrister-at-Law, as Secretary, is sitting at White- hall to investigate certain naval circumstances connected with the Alabama claims.—We under- stand that the whole question of barrack accom- modation and the distribution of the troops is under con- sideration.-A further instalment of medals awarded to the troops who took part in the Bhootan expedition of 1865 has just been distributed.-Captain John Philip Nolan, the recently-elected Member for Galway, on "Home Rule" principles, is on full pay as a second captain of Royal Artillery, being attached to the A battery, 1st Brigade. Captain Nolan has passed through am the advanced Artillery class and the Staff College. He served as adjutant to Colonel Milward, R.A., through the Abyssinian campaign.—We are informed that Mr. Card- well's scheme for the reorganisation of the army is com- plete, and that the right honourable gentleman will take an early opportunity of making » statement of its nature to Parliament.—The appointmont of Quartermaster to the Royal Hibernian Military School, vacant by the resigna- tion of Quartermaster Lewis, will not, we understand, be filled up, as the authorities have determined upon saving the X220 a year allotted to the post. The Broad Arrow says:—It is understood that the 1st Life Guards, with their band, will go to town from Windsor to take part in the state procession on the 27th at St. Paul's Cathedral.—Lieutenant-General Brook J. Taylor will vacate the command of a division of the Bengal army at the close of the present financial year, viz., the 31st March next.- It is expected that the report of the Megaera Commis- sioners will appear almost immediately. It will most pro- bably be very short, and will suggest the appointment of a Commission of Inquiry into the Admiralty Department. This, indeed, was anticipated in the promise made to the House by Mr. Gladstone on Tuesday. Under these circumstances, the rumoured intention of the Govern- ment to return to the Board system must, we should think, he premature.—We hear that Colonel Anson will, if he has not already done so, call upon Mr. Cardwell in the House to explain the delay which is taking place with regard to the filling up of the various regimental vacancies. The Naval and Military Gazette says The Admiralty, we understand, had not the powCr to grant the request that Lieutenant Llewellyn S. Dawson, conducting the Livingstone search expedition, and Lieutenant William Henn,. the second in command, might be borne for full pay and time while absent from England. Such an irregular charge upon the Navy Estimates requires special authority, and the -,ition was one for the decision of the Trrr.sury. We have heard, though v.; C-V~P'T LI'.O to give credence to the report, that disaffection is so rife in the army, that a lieutenant-colonel on half-pay took part in the Dilke demonstration in Trafalgar-square last Monday.—It will be remembered that Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Kellett, K.C.B., late Commander-in-Chief on the China Station, was reported some short time since to have suffered from the effects of sun-stroke. We regret to hear that the health of the gallant. Admiral continues unsatisfactory, and causes his friends some uneasiness.

The Marquis of Townshend writes to the Daily Telegraph, with reference to the coming Thanksgiving service" at St. Paul's. He thinks the present "an oppor- tune moment to consider how the thankofferings of the day may be directed, so as most appropriately and per- manently to keep green the memory' of the solemnity and its cause." He submits that this would be best ac- complished by devoting a portion of such offerings to the succour of the siclf and convalescent in the land. rhis would be giving an interest in the offerings of the day to those who have something in common with the Royal sufferer." His lordship instances the sea-side Convaiescent Hospital at Seaford as an institution conferring immense blessing on the sick poor and recommends an extension of such beneficial homes to the thought and care of the • congregations at the present time." THE LIVINGSTONE EXPEDITION.—The Corpora- tion of London has, on the motion of Mr. Alderman Lawrence, M.P., contributed 100 guineas towards the expenses of the expedition in search of Dr. Livingstone. The names on the back of Sir Selwin Ibbetson's Licensing Bill are (beside that of the hon. baronet) those of Mr. Heacllam, Mr. Goldney, and Mr. W. H. Smith. Father Gratry, who has just died in Switzerland, was born in 1805. He was not at first intended for the Church, but entered it in 1832. He was greatly distin- guished for his attainments, and became Professor in the Sorbonne and a member of the French Academy. During the sitting of the (Ecumenical Council Father Gratry wrote in strong terms against the dogma of. Papal Infalli- bility, but subsequently recanted these opinions, and con- formed to tho Ptcrw of the Vatican.

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-1 4 I THE MERTHYR POST OFFICE AURIV ALl; OF MAILS. The London, South aa.t Kist of England, Scotland, Ireland, Bristol, Glo'ster, Newport Mon.), Cardiff, Pontypridd, South Wales, aad Farcijni Parts 5.15 morn NORTH MAIL. From North ef England, Scotland, Ireland, North Wales, (ilo'sler, Bristol, West of Ku-rl-and, Newport (Mon.), I'cntypriJ.j, Cardiff, and South Wales 12.50 after. From Tredegar 10.30 morn. LONDON DAY MAIL. •trom London, South and East of England, Ireland, Bris- tol, filo'stcr, Newport (Mon),Pontypridd,Cardiff, South Wales, and Foreign Parts 4.16 after. DESPATCH OF MAILS. Box closes at To Tredegar, Rhyinney, Brynmawr, and neighbour- ed 4.45 mom ™ „ NOBTH MAIL. r England, North Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Olos ter, Bristol, Newport (Mon), Cardiff, West of England, and Pontypridd 3.10 after. T LONDON AND GENERAL DAT MAIL. Scotland, Ireland, North, East, and South ot England, Glo'ster, Bristol, Newport (Mon.),Cardiff, 0 -Pridd, South Wales, and Foreign Parts 10.S0 morn; All Letters are despatched in the evening, with the little exception of Tredegar. Letters are registered ap to 15 in the evening at a fee of 4d., and up to ;30 at 8d. It is best to post early; the officials are more likely to despatch hour the work of two hours ought not to be crowded into one ham. The Office for Money Order and Savings' Bank business is open from 9 m the morning to 6 in the evening, and till 8 on Saturday? DTSLIVEKIKS BY LETTEB CABBIEBS. There are three deliveries by Letter Can-iero, 1st, 7.0 a.m., 7.30 a.m., M inter); 2nd, 1. 30 p.m.; 3rd, 5.15 p.m. SUKDAY ASBANGEMENTS. The Office is open from 7.0 a.m. (7.30 a.m. Winter) to 10.0 a.m. when it is closed filially. There is but one delivery by Letter Car- riers, which takes place at 7.0 a.m. (7.30 a.m. Winter). LONDON AND GENERAL NIGHT MAIL. To London, Scotland, Ireland, North, East, West and South of England, Bristol, Glo'ster Newport (Mon.), Cardiff, Pontypridd, South Wales and Foreign Parts 5.30 after. THE PILLAR LETTER DOXES Are cleared daily at 3aud 4.40 p.m.—Tydfil's Well;3 and4.60p.m.— Georget own; 3 and 4.45 p.m.—High Street. On Sunday, one Clearing, at 2.15 p.m. The London and Gen. Day Mail despatched at 10.40 morn. Ditto ditto due at 4.30 after. The Bag for Tredegar and neighbourhood is made up at 6.0 morn. For Return, Uox closes at 2.0 after. On Sunday—One delivery, One despatch. Box closes at 2.45 after. COIN LETTERS. The public are earnestly advised not to send coin, or other valu- ables, in letters without being registered. Letters observed to eou- tain coin, will be treated as registered letters, and charged with double registration fee. Apply for Money Orders on a slip of paper thus: £ 2, Cardiff, to John Jones, By James Price, Merthyr,"

LOCAL RAILWAY TIME TABLES. N CTICE. —The Railway Time Tables are published with as much care to ensure correctness as possible; but should they contain any errors, the Publisher does not hold himself responsible for any inconvenience that may arise therefrom, as changes sometime take place in the arrival and departure of trains without the knowledge of the Editor.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. I MEItTIIVR, QUAKER'S YARD, PONTTPOOU, ABERGAVENNY, HEREFORD, AND LIVZRrOGL. UP.—WEEK. DAYS. SUNDAYS 1j2)3. 1.2,3. 1,2,3 1,2,3. 1,2,3. 1,2,3, FllOH a.m. a.m. p. m. p. m. a.m. a.m p.m, Merthyr 91510440 j Troedyvhiow 9 24 1 9 4 40 Yard 9 33 lis 4 68: i 10 14 8 29 Llaiu-aiach 9 54 1 30 5 13: 10 22 8 37 llhjinnpy -Junctn 101139522 .1032844 Tredegar Junct 10 7 1 45 5 28; 10 39 8 H Crumhii 10 16 1 52 5 361. 10 4t) 9 Poncypool Town 10 33 2 12 5 55: 11 S 9 22 I'ontyi ool lioad 10 33 2 17 6 0 i 11 13 9 27 Abergavenny 11 I5j 2 42 G 10 12,; Hereford 12 IS 3 30 7 35, 11 15 Liverpool i 1 DOWN.—WEEK DAYS. SUNDAYS Liverpool. > Ilereford.. 7*20 1! 12 15 3 20 9 40 Abergavenny ..a 820' 1 0 4 4110 40 Pontypooi Koad 910 1 20 5 24: 7 55, 6 5 Pontypool Town 9 17 1 30 5 31! 8 si 6 13 Crumlin 9 1 53 5 49 8 21 6 31 Tredegar Junct 9 43 2 1 5 58 8 29 6 39 iUiymney Junct <j 49 2 7 6 6 8 35 6 45 Llaneaiach 9 57 2 13: 6 12 8 44 6 54 Quaker's Yard d 10 11 2 28: 6 22 8 53 7 3 Trccdyrhiw 10 21 2 3<j| 6 33 Merthyr 10 28 2 4GI C 40' ■■

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—Milforb Haven, Carmarthen, SWANSEA, Cardiff, NEWPORT, CHEPSTOW, CHELTENRAM, GLOUCESTER, AND LONDON. i SIRHOWY RAIL NVAY-NANTYBwca, Tredegar, AND NEWPORT. rc'lAS., 1,2. ~i- °g^Jg»-P^R. **u'?i1A.3i*•"■[• !pj°i-m-11" »■»>i"-L0^ '^wr1. r for Pembroke, 1 .I | Swindon s'io' 9 13 lH li 9iil 9*i 1 o! t i !,? }? 66 Sirhowy 7 30- 8 1* 9 6012 25il2 36j 2 41 4 50 6 31 S 18 8 25 11 25 4 10 7 2» Mlfrd Haven, &c | S 35 5 0 6 20 .V. 11 V 5"o Stroud '.i:! 9 is|l0 12! 2 50 12 9 2 50i j 5 Is 7 54 11 « I 5 41 TREDEGAR^ -| »?', 8 20fl0 012 3012 39' 2 45 | 4 54 6 S5, 8 22 8 SSlll 30 4 13 7 80 Haverfordwest .9 0 5 24 6 4; 11 91 5 14 (arri q io ooi q a: O rt.! io Tc 7 « I (departure i 7 3j> 12 o3 12 40; — 4 50 j 8 30 4 15 ■ Narbeth Road I 19 26 | '7 12 11 49 5 50 GL0 S R {dep." s"is[ 9 5511 10' 3'^ 12 38 3 20i 6 *5 -8 2"? 10 35 1 20' 7 '0 pf8*^ X* i 7 "I >12 49i12 5?J f J! •• I 8 4<3| •• 431 •• Carmarthen June j 6 10; S 3510 21 8 50i | .(3 27 7 51 12 32 8 0 CHELT'NHAM 8 39 10 1511 301 3 30 12 55! 3 30 4*V (S 13 8 30 lo'io 7*25 12 4510 30 6*25' 3 20 7 15 Black,vood yv 6 °! •• 1 S 5 19 8 54 4 37, tferryride •• 6 22! 9 510 35 9 5| 8 7 12 51 8 15 Lydney i 7 2211 3i; 1 15 4 42 i 9 7 HI 1 Tredegar Junction j •• •V t ,"J /vj 1% Q"J ."d9 Llanelly., 0 52; 9 4Q.|lO 57, 9 40' 7 6 8 41 1 23! 8 4S CHEPSTOW 10 3o' 7 45 11 53 1 30 4 40:5 40 8 5 9 21 1 49 9 18 4 38! s'20 Nine Mile End H son "> 1 inl 1 9- "'f« a £ ] 111 SWANSKt iar '• I 7 1010 2011 5010 °' I •• 7 46 9 2(3 •• •• 2 5 9 27 Portskcwet 10 & 7 5512 5 0 5 50, 8 15 7 40 j j .9 35 4 49 8 31 Risea I I y, I i 1 90I 1 lol i 5 5-j 90I 5 T J Id. 17 30,18 0 11 10 10 20 4 30: 7 20j 9 25 1 45' NEWPORT j 8 2512 35, 2 10 5 37 9 54! 8 13 2 21 10 10 5 2^9 5 Newport'Dock4tr'e'et^ "'850 i 1 !oi 1 w G 15 9 45i 530 Landore 7 27 10 15 11 2410 15: 4 37^ 9 30 2 0, 7 34 CARDIFF 8 50 1 7. 2 3S; 6 10- ..I 10 20 8 40> ..12 45 10 39 5 49! 9 30 6" — • 8 50 1 401 1 5M b la ^—9 451 ••—•' 30 NEATH | 7 4610 37 ll 39 19 37 4 56; I .9 50 2 22. Llantrissant 9 14 1 42; .16 45i i 10 44: 1 11 10 6 loj UP.—Week Days. | PrUWn?0t < i n r rJ 'ui? r In' I of o 3«i 'f 37• A '• o Jo I S JJ £ I 3 20 J1 31. 6 43- from a. m.>Tm. a m. a. m. a. m.ja. m. a. ra. ,p. m. p. m. a. m. a. m. a. m. a. m. p.m. p.m. Lridgend j 8 32 11 1— 1411 31 «> 40 .10 3^ 3 3 1; ort l&lbot .• 10 5, 2 35 3 32, 7 43j 1 11 26 o 44 12 0 7 lSi Vewuort (Dock-streets i 1 1 1 r>' *2 30i 6 501 10 01 fl A Llantrissant ■ .[8 56 11 50; 11 57 6 2; j 10 54 3 26' NJOATH 10 26 2 56 3 45; 8 a! 1139' 3 57 12 16j 7 3s' lliZi 9 3S1 "'2 50 7 101 10 20^ 620 CARDIFF 5 45 7 30;9 30 12 2- 12 47 12 31 6 33| j 8 15 11 25 3 56 Landore 10 43 3 14 3 59 8 20 i 4 16 12 35 8 0, Nine Miie Point i "I 9 45! "'3 0 7 o0 20i 3 3fi NEWPORT 6 13 7 57.10 35: 1 40; 1 13 12 55 7 0 | 8 2711 55 4 23 SWANSEA a. j 7 35 1° 5° 3 5; 4 10: 8 30; .12 0- 4 30 .12 401 S ioi J T Va^ri 9 57 i 7 33 ..V. PorUkewet 8 2-5 11 3| 2 10| 2 10 7 30| S 4012 21 4 50 b .VAJSbLA | d 10 35 3 25: 3 45 8 lo! 4 5 9 15 '7 55' Tredegar Junction] ) •• •• °'\ i 36 10 45 8 41 CHEPSTOW 6 30 8 3811 17. 2 25. 1 41 2 35 8 5; | 9 51,12 33 5 6 9 51 Llaiielly 18 14 1118 3 53 4 29 8 55: 4 46 9 51 | 8 33; Blackwood I 10 l4I 1 3 2o' 7 43 10 551 6M Lyt.iiey 6 5o| 8 58 11 37 2 4o 1 57 2 55 j 112 51 5 24 10 9 Ferryside 8 4811 54 4 31! 5 2 9 23' 10 11 I 8 521 Vrgoed "*S lo |»l 3 S7I 7 49 10 69! fl 6ft ChtELT'NHAM 8 3010 15 12 5.5 5 5 2 5 5 5 i 5 30 11 40 12 15 1 2010 0 6 45 12 10 Carmarthen Junca 1 9 5 12 11 5 21 5 21 i 5 25 I 9 90' *r arrival"" I 1 GLO'STEit lijrrl- 7 30j .11 5 12 25; 2 25 7 10 5 45; 12 30 1 35|10 15 6 20 12 25 Narbertli Road j 9 47 1 0 6 10 6 10! | ilO 71 CUEDEGAR{ departure! 6*45 7'ss! 7*40 9~40 lo'ioi l'is' 3*46 fi'is s io 8 1511*17', 4"0 7*i» C.trrt„4 ) dep. ■ 3>j 11 -0 1- ^0 £ on 7 Is | ..11-43 140 6 Z_, U 40 Haverfoivhves,, -.10 lb 1 lo t> 34 (ioi 10 34 <irhowy 6 49; 7 40; 7 46 9 45 10 44; 1203 50.5 20 8 14 1 20,11 20 6 7 20 ••>troud 8 It 11 oO 1 3 0 4u •• 1 2 7 0 52- 1 5 XKW AlILbORD i 1 •• •».> 1 ^-Lntvhwf»h k-J 7 r\\ q ^C\ i 1 Swindon 9 17| I 18 2 4S 3 50 9 10 „ j I 2 20 7 35 S 20 2 20 for Pembroke. | ..I | I .[I ]. j Nantybwch j 6 7 .>.> 9 ,>0 1 2o 5 .5 ^1 1 LONDON 11 15| j 2 45, 5 5 45 10 15 i .I 4 35 3 35 11 10 4 35 Mlfrd Haven, &c l10 40 1 55 7 0 i 7 0 1 ( 6 50 11 5; \U Lv:i is oi iU lltU.vi/ u*3 Ui, ill. vil;>L\l «U^. liuns on Tuesdays only.

VALE OF NEATH RAILWAY. SWANSEA, NEATH, HIBWAIN, ABEKBARB AND MERTHTB POWy.-WEEK DAYS. SVXIDAT -F 1,2,3. 1,2,3. 1,2,3. 1,2,3 l7273TTTyT2~3 Quakers; Y*«l Mountain Ash s 30 10 15, 2 33 6 32 Q T 1 1 Aberdare 8 40 1025 liti S £ t:iS!I? -1«is 0 710 Llwydcoed g T in i u 9 ? 3?i 9 10 7 20 Hirwain arr ,i 1 Uj 2 dbj •• c 41 9 15' 7 26 AberdyIaiS 9 17; 2 27 3*27 i! 7 36 10 ij 3 18 KiAbhey52lgIf !i27 3 32| Briton Ferry Road. 9 49,11 33 2 43 3 «i 7 52 10 14^ 34 g-WaBSea 10 8 10 3fli 4^ Ur-WKEKIUYS. SUNDA\ 8 FROM I'm Swansea js 0 1Y40mJPim« V"' p- m- Briton Ferry Koad. 8 11 II 50 3 25 5 1^ a 10 Neath Abbey. 18 18 11 56 3 H I I ? deP"i 3 24 12 2\ 3 41 5 2? 8 23 S 1 i a, 155 \l ,1»g «"j j j»«55'« SKS •* « SS!■? 5SSS 5 J fS Hirwain dep 914; i. 12'hz 4*33 93 9U 9"J Llwydcoed 9 21 1 0 4 40; 6 8 9 21 9 II ;sj i4 JSJgl!si^ MoSfn; sir:: 9 3c> Jj I 111 iS 6li | ai Quakers Yard 9 45} 124 5 6f .10 1^8 20

TAFF VALE RAILWAY. MERTHYR, ABERDARE, PONTYPRIDD, RIIONDDA VALLEY, COWBRIDqii, AND CARDIFF. QOWN^VGEG DAYG. SUNDAT FROM i2m i1'2,3' 1'2'3-;1>2'3-[ •• 1,2,5.! 1,2,3 ^hyr 7 55 H "o ?3 VG To' 9^5 ?5 SSK-Ld-j:s j» »i3 «"j •• •» i» G. W. Railway 8 13 [11 1^ 3 48 7 9 9 23 4 as £ bcrdara 7 o5 jU 0; 3 29 6 49| 9 4' 2 14 Treaman 7 5S> In 41 3 3S 6 5jj 9 sU 18 Mountain Ash. 8 7 li 19: 41: 7 „ ,3 Aberdare June a 8 17j jn 2 £ 3 5ij 7 13i 9 j Aberdare June, d 2 21: 11 271 3 S6 7 IS o T Trcherbert 7 41| 10 44 3 5! u "j » T 4G! !l0 4S»j 3 10: 6 3^ 1! I 30 4 0 ?,strad I 62j |10 55 3 10; 6 4Jr I 59^ 4 C Llwynpia .» 7 59 m 2 3 2il g 62i 8 41 11 7 3 28 6 57^ 9 I I 11 forth 8 9] Ill 12 3 55 7 » 9 13! 4 « 8 14 1,2,3. Ill 17 3 38i 7 7;1 2 3 9 lsU 38 rontypridd J. a 8 24j a.m. ,11 27 3 48, 7 17' p.m. 9 2«| 4 4I Pontypridd Juncd 8 32 8 38(11 40 4 71 7 36; 7 30 o 4^ 2 to lrTeforest 8 36 8 42'H 44 4 11 7 35 7 41 0 4J\ 1 *7 Llantwit 8 54 7 57 37 Cross Inn 91 q Llantrissant j] •• Cowbridge Walnut Tree J. for • Ehymney Ey. 8 48 U 5( 4 24 7 47 O flj e o 8 57 12 4 4 32 Si Xo ? 5 1? Cardlff 19 •• mg 4 4018 al loisisw UP -WEEK DAYS. 1 6^ r* 1,2,3.11,2,3.11,2,3. 1,2,3. 1,2,3. 1,2 3 ,1 2 3 /-» a.m. a.m. !a.m. p.m.! p.in.ip m jn* L*' 8 10,11 0| 3 20, P6 « LlandafT 8 19 11 9| 3 29 6 55 9 » 4 i# Walnut Tree J. fer 0 00 8 19 llhymneylty 8 28 11 1813 38 7 5 9 18 4 9ft Cowbridge .dep •• ™ Llautrissaat 7 50 6*55 Cross Inn 7 59) 6 35 Llantwit 8 6: (542 Treforest § 20j 8 39; 11 29 3 49 0 58 7*17 o'ift 4 Pontypridd J. am 8 24, 8 45 11 35! 3 55, 7 w 7 m « ikt 7 S Pontypridd J. d 8 45,U 47j 4$. 7 37 9 S t "af«d 8 62,11 54! 4 2l! 7 45 9 iS 4 « ortj* .» 8 56'U 58 4 25! 7 50 9$5 5 I>ndy.. 9 M2 3:4 30) 7 6610 i R 9 *12 # 4 3g, g 2 Q J | £ strad 9 is; 12 161 4 43 8 9 10 1? 6 20 Treprki 9 1912 22 4 49- 8 1510 Vf K 97 Treherbert 9 23! 12 261 4 63j 8 18 10 27 5 SS Aberdare June, ar 8 5711 47' 4 r 7 35 q 47 2 S Aberdare Jnc d. 8 57,11 47 4 7 7 35 9 4T 4 m Mountain Ash 9 8 11 58: 4 ISi 7 47 9 5» 6 a 9 16 12 « 4 20j 7 r 56 10 ™ 5 ll Aberdare 9 20 12 10; 4 201 8 0 10 10 s Quaker'sYard J.for 3 U 10 W 6 20 G. W Railway. 9 3:11 §3} 4 13 7 41 9 gj 5 Iroedyrhiw. 9 iz\l2 3! 4 32 7 5110 < k i« Merthyr •. 9 29,12 lei 4 soj 7 5S 10 loi S 20 Trains leave Pontypridd Junction every Sunday at 9 53 a 111 4 49 p.m. far Cowbridge, calling at all intermediate station™' and trains leave Cowbridge for Pontypirdd Junction at 8 29 a m' and 3.^9 p.m. also calling at all intermediate stations, and arriving Pontypridd at 9 8 a.m. and 4.8 p.m "living

LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY MERTHYB, TREDEGAR, AND ABERGAYENNY BRAJfCH. UP—WEEK DAYS "| SUNDAYS" 1,2,3. [1,2,3. 1,2,3, 1,2,3.1,2,3T rsoM a.m. p.m. p. m.l a.w. p.m. Abergavenny Brcc. Ed.) 8 29 1 513 30 4 47 8 35 Brynmawr for Nantyglo 8 5b 1 34 4 8' 6 16 9 2 Brynmawr 8 59 1 36 4 loi 6 19 9 3 Beaufort 9 4 1 41 4 151 6 24 tbbw Vale 4 35 T-vll 9 9 l"*46 4 20 5 29 Nantybwch 9 13 1 61 4 25 5 34 9 14 Slrllowy 9 25 2 6 4 39! 5 43 Iredegar 9 30 2 10 4 44 5 48 Nantybwch 9 14 1 So 4 26 5 35 9 16 Rhymney Bridge 9 19 1 5! 6 40 9 20 Dowlais (by coach) 10 15 2 4f 9 25 Merthyr (by coach) [10 30 2 5f 6 40 E:EK ]JAYS. !"KOM a.m. a.m.ja.m p.m.ip.m. p.mTi Merthyr (by coaeh) 8 3012 25 4 15 Dowlais (by coach) 9 6 12 451 4 35 Rhymney Bridge 6 57 7 16110 15, 1 4°1 5 30 7*20 Nantybwch. 727 1510 19-144,534 7 24 Sirhowy 925 JlO 28 2 6 5 4S Tredegar 9 30 ,13 33 2 Id! 5 48 Nantybwch 7 5 7 2010 20 1 45: 5 35 7 25 Tfevil 7 10 7 25 1 50; 6 40 7 30 tbbwVale 7 io 10 5 1 30: 6 15 Beaufort 7 15 7 30 10 27; 1 65 6 45 7 35 Brynmawr for Nantyglo 7 20 7 3510 32 2 1 5 49 7 40 Brynmawr 7 25 7 40 10 33 2 2 5 50 7 41 Abergavenny ;Brec. Kd; 7 55 8 15 11 6, 2 35] 6 22 8 11 1 Market Train (on Tuesdays only.

RHYMNEY RAILWAY. RHYMNEY, nENGOED, CAERPHILI, AXD CAJIDIIT. DOWN,-WBJEK DAYS. I SUNDAYS. 1,2,3. l,2,3.il,2,3. 1,2,3.1,X3. FB0M a. m. p. m. Ip. m. a .aa. p. m. Rhymney 9 10 2 20| 6 35 8 0 4 Pontlotttyn 9 14 2 24! 6 39 8 4 4 16 Tir 1'Ml 9 22 2 30; 6 46 8 10 4 M Bargoed 9 30 2 38 6 54 8 18 4 32 • Pengam 9 35 2 44 6 59 8 25 4 42 Hensroed i H. ) arr. t. g 1 Junction /dep 9 55 2 50 7 3 8 36 4*60 Vstrad 9 59 2 54 7 9 8 40 4 54 Caerphilly 10 11 3 7 7 21 8$6 6 Walnut Tree Bridge 10 24 3 20 Cardiff (Adam-street Station) 10 45 3 35 7 50 a'jp 5'35 UP.—WEEK DAYS. SUNDATa ;L3,3. L,?,37I,2,3.IL,^3 1,2,S FROM a. m. p. m. p. m.' a. m. p. m Cardiff (Adam-street Station) 9 10 1 0 5 25] 9 50 6 10 Walnut Tree Bridge 9 7 1 3 5 38jl0 0 6 IS Caerphilly 9 30 1 11 6 45j 10 8 6 22 Ystrad 9 42 1 24 5 56110 18 6 35 Heneoed-I V tarr 9 50 1 28 6 «| J unction J dep 10 4j 1 40 110 22 6 40 |10 8 1 44 6 4ll0 26 6 45 £ ?rg°ed !!0 14 1 48 6 9|10 35 « P11 JWT™ I10 21 1 63I 6 ^L0 43 1 8 Pentlottyn I10 20 2 0; 6 23ll0 5Ii 7 11 Bbynney 10 a* 2 51 6 27|lQ fi £ f 15

WESTERN VALLEYS RAILWAY. NEWPORT, EBBW VALE, AND NANTycklilo. DOWN.—WEEK DAYS. [ SUNDAYS. rroii 1'2'3,! 1,2>3\ *'2,3. 1,2,3. | 1,2,3. 1,2,3 Fbhw Vaif a m- p-m- P-m- a.m. p.m. Victoria 8 40 .11 15 2 20 7 25 S10 25 7 10 I ftona I 8 48 111 23 2 28 7 31 10 31 7 IS Aperbeeg June. 9 2 ill 37 2 42 7 45 10 45 7 32 Nantyglo 8 40 111 15 2 20 7 25 10 25 7 10 1*, ln* 8 48 ,11 2a 2 28 7 31 10 33 7 18 Abertillery 8 50 ,11 31 [ 2 7 38 10 41 7 28 Aberbeeg June 9 2 jll 37 2 42 7 50 10 55 Crumlin 9 15 |ll 54 2 55 7 58 11 4 Abercarne 9 25 112 4 3 5 8 8 11 14 Risca 9 38 112 20 3 18 8 23 11 31 8 10 Bassaleg Junct 9 51 12 34 3 31 8 36 11 47 8 82 Risca 9 38 112 20 318 8 23 11 31 8 10 Risca 9 38 112 20 3 18 8 23 11 31 8 10 Bassaleg Junct 9 51 12 34 3 31 8 36 11 47 8 82 Newport 10 0 j!2 45 3 40 8 48 12 0 8 4fi> UP.—WBEK DAYS. | SUNDAY 1,2,8-1 1,2,3. 11,2,3. T,2,3."l.^ST'i 3 FROM a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. a.ir,. pL Newport 7 0 11 0 3 0 5 43 ? 39 6*16 Bassalsg June 7 11 11 11 3 11 5 52 1 s 42 5 23 Risca 7 25 jll 25 3 25 6 f, g 66 5 41 Abercarne 7 40 11 41 S 41 Q 23 9 13 6 68 CrumliH 7 50 II 51 3 51 *6 33 9 23 6 8 Aberbeeg June 8 0 12 0 4 0 6 44 934 6 19 Aberbeeg June 8 0 12 014 0 16401,934 619 Abertillery 8 11 112 11 4 14 6 55 9 48 c 3S~ Blaina 8 19 jl2 IP, 4 22 7 4 j 9 67 6 42 Nantyglo 8 27 jl2 27 4 32 7 12 10 5 6 00 Nantyglo 8 27 jl2 27 4 32 7 12 10 5 6 00 Aberbeeg June 8 5 jl2 5 4 8 6 49 9 42 e Victoria 8 19 12 17 4 22 7 4 9 57 g 07 Ebbw Vale 8 27 [12 2-7 4 32 7 12 10 5 g Printed and Published by PBTEK WILLIAMS, at the TELEGRAPH Oflice, High-street, in the Town and Franchise of Merthvv Tydfil, in the County oi Glamorgan tfaipAY. i'tuauipv 1872,