... MERTHYR LITERARY INSTITUTE.—On Thurs- day se'nnight, this society held the last of their fortnightly meetings, at which Mr. John Thomas presided. This society, founded by Messrs. Thomas, Shellard, Reynolds, Stephens, and Lumby, has been kept up unflaggingly from the com- mencement. On every meeting night they have either a lec- ture or a debate. The lectures delivered have some of them been of ...

... The overland mail from Bombay arrived on Friday, with dates to the 15th September; the following is the summary of the rail- way news:— Railways were proposed at each of the Presidencies, and with the greatest hopes of success. The utility of one from Bombay to Bengal will become manifest, from the fact that the mid. monthly mails of the 24th of July were conveyed in a steamer from Aden to ...

... Worcester and Leominster Railway, Via BROMYARD, Communicating with the Great Eastern and Western Railway. AT a PUBLIC MEETING held at the FALCON HOTEL, in the Town of BROMYARD, on THURSDAY, the 23rd day of OCTOBER instant, JOHN BARNEBY, M.P., in the Chair, Moved by William Barneby, Esq.,Clater Park; seconded by Peter Warburton, Esq., High Bailiff of Bromyard, and carried unaninously, 1st.—That ...

... CAUTIONS TO RAILWAY SPECULATORS. THE power exercised by the Bank of England in raising the rate of discount from two-and-a-half to three per cent,, has caused considerable distrust among speculators, and a depression in the Railway- share Market, particularly of those lines, the termini of which are not very clearly to be ascertained. Its effect may, however, in the end, be salutary. In the ...

... LONDON MARKETS. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES of Coall Quarter computed from the Inspectors' Return*- GENERAL AVERAGE. s. d. «. J( Wheat 55 '2 Rvo 3» J. Barley .*3f 5 Beans 43 ...

... NOTICE is hereby given, that application is intended to be made to Parliament in the ensuing session, for an Act or Acts to authorise the construction and main- tenance of the railway or railways, and branch railways hereinafter mentioned, or some of them, or some part or parts thereof, with all proper piers,basins,break waters,land- ing places, approaches, and other works and conveniences ...

... NOTICE is hereby given, that application is intended to be made to Parliament in the ensuing session, for an A.ct or Acts to authorise the construction and main- tenance of the railway or railways, and branch railways hereinafter mentioned, or some of them, or some part or parts thereof, with all proper plers,basms,break waters;land- ing places, approaches, and other works and conveniences ...

... Present—Henry Morgan, Esq., and the Rev. T. Stacey. RECEIVING STOLEN PROPERTY. Thomas Griffiths, locksmith, Cardiff, was charged with receiving three keys, the properly of Lord Bute, the same being stolen property. Sarah Rushworth, sworn, said I live at Cardiff castle, in the employ of Lord James S:uart, as kitchen-maid. On Saturday last, about three p.m., I left the kitchen for a quarter of ...

... The defence by the Rev. Dr. Townsend at the Sunderland dinner, of clergymen charged with speculating in railways, was one of the features of the festival that deserves to be distinctly brought out. It is manifestly unsuiled to the sacred calling of a clergyman that he should engage io gambling speculations, and be running a race for wealth with his flock, whom he is constantly admonishing ...

... DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—Wednesday morning, between ten and eleven o'clock, as William Hudson, the porter belonging to the Upper Arcade, Bristol, was cleaning some windows in a house at the back of the Arcade, overlooking Jarman's Court, he missed his footing, and fell upon some iron spikes below, which entering his chest, literally impaled him. He was speedily released and conveyed to the infirmary ...

... BIRTHS. Oct. 30, the wife of Mr. Thomas Williams, a.-cut, Bute Ter- race, in this town, of a daughter. Nov. 2. in this town, the wife or Mr. Ward, compositor on this paper, of a son-still born. MARRIAGES. Nor. 4, at St. John's Church. Cardiff, by the Rev. Thomas Stacey, M.A., Mr. Edward Probyn, printer, to Miss Elizabeth Trenouth. Oct. 28. at Aberdare Church, by the Rev. J. J- Williams, Howell ...

... AMERICAN NEWS. ARRIVAL OF THE CAMBRIA IN NINE DAYS FROM HALIFAX. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY EVENING. We have received this evening, by the royal mail steamer Cambria, Capt. Judkins, New York papers to the 15th, Boston, 16th, and Halifax, the 18th instant. The Cambria has made an excellent voyage of eleven days from New York, and nine from Halifax. She met there the Hibernia, which reached that port in ...