... ARRIVAL OF THE ORBAT WESTERK. LIVERPOOL, Sunday Morning.—The Greet Western reached its at a late hour last night, bringing news from New York to the afternoon of the 26th ult., being nine days later than the lea homeward steamer supplied. Our intelligence by this arrival is of most importance as re- lating to corn and provisions for exportation to this country. Corn and flour continue to fall ...

... FAME. WHEN thinking of the mighty dead, The young from slothful couch will start, And vow, with lifted hands outspiead, Like them to act a noble part! O! who shall lightly say thst fame Is nothing but an empty name, When, bat for those our mighty dead, All ages past a blank would be, Sunk in Oblivion's murky bed— A desert bare—a shiple-s sea? They are the distant objects seen, The lofty marks ...

... PONTYPOOL SAVINGS' BANK. LL STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDING 20TH OF NOVEMBER, 1846. I THE TRUSTEES. CRS. CHARGE. E. s. d. DISCHARGE. E. s. d. le on 20th Nov. 1845, including By sums actually paid to Depositors in money, )er last return, 12,147 0 3 including interest, within the year ending 20th red of Depositors within the year November, 1846 2,169 11 9 4,397 3 7 By sums actually paid ...

... The returns of the leading railways for the second half-year 1846, gives the following comparisons and rt-sufts. In round numbers:—London and North Western. 350 miles, with a capita) orcostofjg)3.UCU,000. ^ross receipts, above £ 1,000,000; dividing to shareholders, £ 543.9-9 paid £ 21,425 for local lates and taxes, and £ 24,.i82 for the government duty of five per cent. on passengers, besides ...

... SMITHFIELD CLUB CAITLB SHOW. We last night, says the Evening Chronicle, of Wednesday, had ihe pleasuie, or at all events, the honour of inspecting the mUliter of quadruped Daniel Ltmbevts aanually assembled bv lheSrnilhfield Cattle Club, at the Hor-e Kaziar,i;i Baker-street As fisual, obesity was the grand featuie, one which (lilerally. ini the case of the pigs), swallowed up all theothe. The ...

... PUBLIC DOCKS AT SWANSEA. [BY OLR OWN REPORTEII.3 On Friday last. the 11th instant, a most important moetinj of the Swansea Town Council took place at the Guildhall, Sivmoen, c. for the purpose of taking into con«i deration a Notice from the Solicitor of the contemplated Swansea Dorks. PRESENT: — T. TI. Esst-ry, in the chair. Mr. RiWiard Aubrey, Mr. Joseph Martin, Starling Benson, M. J Michael ...

... Ru rF. DOCKS.—Arrived, the Ontario, Joues, Barrow.. St. (ieorge, Clusotne, 1' irlsln ail, iron ore.. (lanueit, Dunstan. Bridgwater, li^lit .Laurel, lt. vnol.ls. Ko.vey Kiner.ill, Inuiaiis. Fowev.. I'rovidence, l'lulli|M, (iloitei, itonore.. William, Cullins, Port Kerry, limestones.. Ilea-rice, Alexander, Q tebec. timber.. Dolphin, Gower. Uloster, irn ore. Itejjina Weynolds, Quebec, timber. ...

... DANGER OF USING A QUOTATION. It was lately stated that ihe swindler Wyndham had died and then again it was said to false. The followiog article from our respected contemporary, the Gloucester Journal, definitely sets the matter at rest, and also humourously shows the daoger of using a quotation :— GenHemen of the press, when they are at a loss for an original idea, or when they desire to put ...

... *(, FRIDAY1.—II. Brooker, Hi^h-street, Peckham. grocer. Williams, ilriest-court. Foster-lane, warehouseman. W, Boltie, Dover, grocer. W. llodsoll. South Ash, Kent, farmer. Stuart, Stoekbridge-terraee, l'imlico. baker. T. (raining King-street, Seven Dials, aud J. Mott, Broad-street, chees«j mongers S. Cunningham, Minerva-street, Hackney-f0^' sawyer. It. Ilallam, Newcastle-under-Lyme, grocer. A• ...

... FAMINE LTfttELAND. The deplorable fact is now universally admitted, and unques tionably evidenced by dismal inbtances of daily death from destitution, that famine ha* reached its devastating extremity amonest our unfortunate fellow creatures of the sister kingdom. Independently of the > ccounts which reach us by the public journals, lamentable aa they are, private letters from various parts of ...

... SELECT THOUGHTS. It is usual in Turkey, by way of reproach, to blacken the front of those persons' houses who are notorious for tale- bearing, or propagating falsehood if that were the case with us, what a dismal figure would most of the towns in England make! Nothing can be honourable that is not virtuous among the Romans, the entrance of the temple of honour always lay through the temple of ...

... Nature in her wilder forms, whether exhibited in* vast, mountains, the noiseless desert, or the boundless ocean, is calculated to impress the romd of loan with awe, and make him feel the presence of Deity. The enctent aod far stretching forests of the New Wotld, seldom tiodden by Ihe loot of the white man, produce the same tffect upon the wanderer, who visits those distant regions, and the ...