... FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. r, ,n BANKRUPTS.—FRIDAY, JTOTE 24. f ^church-street, City, licensed victualler. J. LILI.U^AH. blough, Buckinghamshire, clothier. r; V £ AP.KE King's Lynn, Norfolk, victualler. G. WOOD, Rayleigh, Essex, builder. E. PETERS, Bilston, Staffordshire, wine merchant. J. HOLDSWORTH, Horsley Fields, Wolverhampton, timb n-ierchatit. G. SMEDLEY, New Sleaford, Lincolnshire, glass ...

... Frenchman: Ah, my good friend, I have met with one difficulty-one very strange word. What do you call h-o-u-g-hf Tutor: Huff. Frenchman: Tres-bien, htiff; and snuff you spell s-n-o-u-g-h, ha! TutorV 0 no, snuff is s-n-u-ff. The fact is, words end- ing in o-u-g-h are a little irregular. Frenchman: Ah, verv good! 'tis beautiful language. H-o-u-g-h is huff, I will remember; and c-o-u-g-h is cuff. ...

... PARIS, Nov. G. It is stated, on reliable authority, that the Congress will meet in Paris, and not in Brussels. ...

... is, I imagine, a great secret of Sir James's success. He is a boy, and will remain so to the end of the chapter. I know he was born in 1792, that he has been in and out of office times innumerable, that he has sat on ail sides of the House, advocated all sorts of measures, and coalesced with all parties but the enthusiasm with which he does all this, is youthful. He is an artless, simple, ...

... The Paris correspondent of the Literary Gazette writes Apropos to dresses, there is a system estab- lished at Compline that, to English ideas, does seem something positively ivicked. Four toilets a day are about the general requirement, th jugh there duys when only three are necessary; the invitations are for eight days, and no lady is expected ever to be seen twice wearing the same gown. ...

... j tO,if letter lax. (The correspondence published in this column mlI,'in?es ot considered necessarily in contormity with the prii'C'P opinions of our journal.) TAXES, IRREGULARITIES AND COLLECTOR8' [TO THE EDITOR or THE MERI.IN AND LIJLI SIR,—It has been announoed through your J as well as by placards, that irregularities bave covered in tbe collection of the Local Board of m Ilntes of 1858 ...

... At the Mansion-house on Thursday, Lieutenant Francis Higginson, who lately made several applications to the sitting magistrate at Guildhall with reference to some money which he said was wrongfully withheld from him by the Atlantic Telegraph Company, appeared before Sir R. W. Garden, in discharge of his bail, for having com- mitted an assault upon Mr. Alderman Salomons, the magistrate who ...

... The recommendations proposed in the report of the royal commissioners appointed to inquire into the sanitary condition of the British army, presented to parliament last year by command of her Majesty, are gradually being carried into operation by the present Secretary of State for War, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert. This is only what might be expected, as the commission itself s,at under the ...

... (From the Mining Journal.) Comparatively little is known of the mineral wealth and many natural advantages of the western counties of South Wales. They have been completely neglected,—no one has cared for them. Whilst other parts of Britain have made marvellous strides during the last half century, the counties of Carmarthen, Pembroke, and Cardigan, have almost stood still. We cannot account ...

... NUISANCES' REMOVAL COMMITTEE.—A meeting was held on Thursday last, present Mr. J. H. Clark, chairman, G. R. G. Relph, E-q Messrs. J. E'lwards, jun., T. Dunn, C. Stockham, T. Williams, James Parker, and H. Dowell, and Messrs. W. Edmunds and James Jones, surveyors. The report of the Inspector was read, which stated 1. That disease had brokn out at the Walcheren, and it was probable more ...

... fstdMY CITY, WEDNESDAY, itl-r 27. The funds are fl.g aln fiat to-day, owing partly to the ill- natured article in the Paris Patrie. Consols are quoted at a fresh reduction of f per cent. The Paris Bourse is likewise heayv. In the other departments of the Stock Exchange a tendencV to depression is also observable, although the alteration in prices is not of much importance. Very little business ...

... Housebreaking at Monmouth. Richard Perrin, laborer, and Mary Hannah Rogers, were charged with having feloniously broken and entered the dwelling-house of James Watts Peppercorne, and stolen two brass taps and twenty pounds of lead pipe, at Monmouth, on the 21st of March. The two prisoners were alleged to have stolen the articles from the Tump house, which had been for some time unoccupied. A ...