... 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 ...

... (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 ...

... COURT OF CHANCERY, LINCOLN'S-INN, Nov. o (Before the Lord Chancellor, and the Lords Justices of Appeal.) IN BANKRUPTCY.—EX PARTE NICHOLSON, IN RE NICHOLSON. This was a petition of the bankrupt, Thomas Nichol- son, praying the Court to vary or annul an order of Mr. M. D. Hill, Comn .itsioner of the Court of Bankruptcy at Bristol, entirely refusing the bankrupt's certificate. The bankrupt was ...

... BOROUGH POLICE. [Magistrates THOMAS GRATREX, Esq., Mayor; R. F. WOOLLETT, E. J. PHILLIPS, and W. JENKINS, Esqs.] Ann Parsons was charged with assaulting Ann Web- ber. They were both bound over to keep the peace. James Le-vis, a bill poster, was summoned for destroying a bill, the property of Mr. Henry Mullock. Jane Williams, wife of William Williams, town crier and bill poster, stated that she ...

... NEWPORT TIDE TABLE. HICH WATBR. DEPTH AT MORN. EVEN. JDOCK GATES NJ^CEM^E^, 1859' H. M. H. M. FT. IN. 24, Saturday 6 25 6 44 26 9 25,Sunda.y. 7 4 7 23 27 0 26, Monday 7 42 7 58 26 9 27, Tuesday 8 14 8 31 26 2 28, Wednesday 8 48 9 5 25 2 29, Thursday 9 22 9 87 24 1 30, Friday. 63 10 8 22 10 ...

... .LONDON RAILWAY SHARE LIST. Shares. Railways. |Paid. closing P ices ''Tone8* 13 14 Birm.&StourValleyj All 8 81 Stock Birken.,Lancashire,]1 2 &Chesh Junction 100 76A— 77i Stock. Bristol and Exeter.'100 99 101 Stock. Bristol and Exeter.1100 99 -101- Stock. Chester & Holyhead! All — Stock. Eastern Counties AB 544 55A v, 43 KL Stock East Lancashire .jlOO [ i ? Stock. Great Northern .|100 J01^ ...

... CARDIFF. MUNICIPAL ELECTION.—On Wednesday, considerable excitement was occasioned in the North Ward by a contested election for the vacancy occasioned by the election of Mr. Pride as alderman, in the room of Walter Coffin, Esq., resigned. The candidates were Mr. C. E. Bernard, who had retired from the Council on the 1st instant, and Mr. John Winstone, of the George Hotel, who had been an ...

... [Magistrates The Rev. THOS. POPE, M.A., and TIlos. GRATREX, Esq., Mayor of Newport ] NEWPORT.—Thomas Cooper was charged with being absent from the training of the second batallion of the Royal Warwick Militia. The only evidence against the prisoner was that of the escort, by whom he was brought from the gaol at Birmingham. That was insufficient to warrant his detention, and he was ordered to ...

... EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF BIGAMy.-Considerable ex- citement was occasioned in this locality last week, in consequence of its having come to light that a woman, named Coleman, had been apprehended just prior to set- ting out for America, on a charge of bigamy. The more marvellous did the affair appear when it was known that the woman had been living upon apparently affectionate terms with her ...

... The Cotswold hounds commenced their season last Mon- day, the meet being Dowdeswell Wood. The weather was fine, and above 200 horsemen were presant. Dowdeswell Wood was drawn blank, and the. hounds were taken to Wittiugtoo and Puokhaun coverts with no better saccess. A fox was, however, found in West Wood, and a good run might have.been enjoyed had not a portion of the field driven, the var ...

... THE SHIPPING INTEREST. A large and influential meeting of shipowners, ship- builders, and others interested in British shipping, was held on Tuesday, at the London Tavern, to take into consideration the present ruinous condition of the British shipping interest, and to adopt petitions to Parliament praying for a comprehensive, searcu g, and impartial inquiry into the actual sta e o r ...