Night Asylum, Singleton street; _Keeper_, David Francis. Markets and Public Slaughter Houses; _Lessee_, Thomas Bullin. Theatre, Temple street; _Secretary_, J. Lewis, Union street. Union Workhouse, Oystermouth road; _Chaplain_, M. R. Morgan; _Master_, Edward Bevan; _Matron_, Ann Bevan. PUBLIC COMPANIES. Swansea Canal; Office, Strand; _Clerk_, T. A. Marten. Oystermouth Tramroad; Office, High street; _Clerk_, J. G. Jeffreys. Gas Company; Office, Oystermouth road; _Clerk_, T. Glover. South Wales Railway; Office, High street; _Superintendent_, Frederick Clarke. Ditto Parcel Office, Wind street, _Agent_, J. Bland. Swansea Vale Railway; Office, New cut; _Secretary_, George Leeds. Dock Company; Office, Assembly Rooms; _Secretary_, G. G. Francis. Penclawdd Canal and Railway; Office, High street; _Clerk_, J. G. Jeffreys. Swansea Junction Railway; Office, Assembly Rooms; _Secretary_, G. G. Francis. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. Royal Institution of South Wales; _President_, L. W. Dillwyn, F.R.S., F.L.S., &c.; _Honorary Secretaries_, J. G. Jeffreys, F.R.S., and David Nicol, M.D.; _Resident Keeper_, Henry Moore. Swansea Literary and Scientific Society; _Honorary Secretaries_, L. Ll. Dillwyn, F.L.S., and J. Jenkins, F.R.A.S. Royal Institution Book Club; _Honorary Secretary_, George Grant Francis, F.S.A. People’s Institute; _Honorary Secretary_, Henry Thorne. NEWSPAPERS. The _Cambrian_, established 1804, published every Friday morning; office, 58, Wind street. The _Swansea and Glamorgan Herald_, established 1847, published every Wednesday morning; office, Castle square. THE CORPORATION. Meet on the Second Friday in every month, at 11 a.m., in the Council Chamber, Guildhall. Officers. _Town Clerk_, Charles Basil Mansfield; _Treasurers_, The Glamorganshire Banking Company; _Receiver and Surveyor_, James Hall; _Town Crier_, William Shaw; _Serjeants-at-Mace_, J. Luce and T. Murray; _Market Inspector_, William Lodwick; _Public Weigher_, Robert Day; _Re-weigher_, George Bluett; _Corn Meter_, Thomas Phillips. The Assessors and Auditors are elected on the 1st March; twelve Corporation Harbour Trustees on the 1st January, in each year, and six more at Michaelmas every third year; the Mayor’s Churchwardens on Easter Monday in each year; and the Mayor’s Auditor on the 1st March. Police Force. _Superintendent_, Henry Tate; _Inspector_, John Bennett; _Sergeants_, Henry Brice, Daniel Brooks, and Noah Owen; One Detective Officer and Sixteen Constables; _Police Court and Station_, Temple street; _Surgeon_, T. A. Essery. The Fire Brigade. Is under the command of Superintendent Tate and his Officers. Town Porters. _Master Porter_, William Rose French, Thomas Necrwes, Robert Gregory, John Morris, William Morgan, Henry Charles, David Hughes, Richard Morris. _Weighing Machine_, Quay; _Weigher_, Robert Day; _Cranes_, 1 and 2, Quay; _Keeper_, William Rose French. LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTH.