... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... I '?zesday, Decemiber 15, 1846. The late discovery that out-door relief is by so much cheaper than workhouse main.. tentince, is anything but favourable to the e sagacity of the now assailants of the poor law, who should have calculated the cost a before giving their assistance to saddle the expensive and obnoxious worklhouses upon. the rate-payers, against their wishes and judgment ; and ...

... 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 ...

... Mr. Caiver's letter is unavoidably omitted this week for want of room as well as the communication referred to by C. of Cowbridge. J. D.—Full reports of the local meetings at Swansea on the subject of dock accommodation will be found in our fourth page. ...

... PRICES OF SHAKES AT BRISTOL. WNDNMDAY, Dec. 16. PAIS. JRZR SNAUS. Hriatoland 76 1 a pm. Do New 5 ji 21 pm. Birming.A Gloucester, 100 128 130 Do. i Shares (issued 74 dis.) 111 311 Do. j Shares. 3 Bristol and S. Wales Junction 4 24 21 dis. Bristol and Gloucester 30 19 II pm. Cornwall 5 3f 51 dis. Direct Northern Ii t t dia. Eastern aver. 14.16.0. 22, 221 Do. Perpetual 5 per cents, 1 6.13.4 | j ...

... AlFAMILY POISONED. On Monday last, at the Spread Eagle, Lime-street Groves, Hull, Mr. Thorney held an inquest on the body of Lawrence Waites, aged H years, son ot Joseph Waites, of that port, master mariner. The father of the deceased deposed 1 he deceased lived with me on board my vessel, the Cpnduct, lying in the river Hull, near Mr. Gibson's, Greves-yard. He was very ill yesterday, as were ...

... Second Call, £ 5 per Share, making £ 10 paid. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to a Resolution of the Board of Directors, flie Pro- prietors of Shares in this Company are required to pay the third instalment of 15 per share, on or before the 15th day of January next, to any of the undermentioned Bankers. LONDON Messss. Glyn, Hallifax, Mills & Co. LiYEnrooL—The Bank of Liverpool. ...

... DILA'II OF SlIt CHARLES MIORGAN, OF I'RU')EGARl,, BART. Tihe ?? Sir Charles Gould Mlorgan, of n. T'rcd ;Ir IP'ark, it, thli COrnt V Oi -I Anrinuth, ob baronet, died (ilo Satiturday last, in th c 86th year ha ot hise uge. Ile had lung s-c lead fiom the naturalii (Alc(rts of extiure age L but the immedia te iause n of'de I Ci vas rn- evrc ?? IOt' influenIza, 1i1cuMin- y 111iiied l- vt-Vt-e, ...