... THE MYSTERIOUS TRUNK.-FEMALE CURIOSITY. An officer who has just done the Indian campaign, arrived at a west-end hotel last week with his luggage, amongst which was a box of peculiar proportions, about which he expressed great anxiety, and his repeated coun- sellings with regard to the trunk gave rise to the feeling that there was something mysterious attached to it. One of the girls, during ...

... LONDON CATTLE-MARKET.—MONDAY. The imports of foreign live stock into the port of London during the past week have been moderate. The official Custom-house return gives an entry of 611 oleo and cow., 215 calves, 1,330 sheep, and 22 horses, making a total of 2,17S, against 737 at the corresponding period of last year. There was rather a larger supply of beasts at market to. day than on Monday ...

... lirobtiTCial RAILWAY OFFICIALS.-At the end of June 1858, there was a total force, or army, of railway employes in the whole of the United Kingdom of 147,422 persons, against 153,697 in 1857-viz., 112,623 in England and Wales, 18,980 in Scotland, and 15,819 in Ireland. The list included 359 secretaries and managers, 47 treasurers, 331 engineers, 532 superintendents, 283 storekeepers, 290 ...

... NEWPORT TOWN COUNCIL. The ordinary meeting of the watch committee and board of health was held on Tuesday. Present: The Mayor, in the chair; Messrs. Homfray, Latch, Edwards, Townsend, Hyndman, Williams, Harrhv, T. F. Lewis, Jones, H. J. Davis, Lyne, Burton, Knapp, and Graham. The Superintendent of Police read his usual re- port, out of which no discussion arose. The minutes of the last meeting ...

... iSpitome ox Ketos. The cuckoo, according to the Wiltshire Mirror, was heard in the neighbourhood of Rmgwo/xl so early as the 15th instant. That reliable witness, the oldest in- habitant there, never heard one earlier. Miss Balfe, we perceive, has appeared, at the great opera-house at Turin, as Amino, in La Somnambula, with complete success. 16.546 paupers, in 1857, were removed from parishes ...

... PATENT OFFtCF. SEAL oF GREAT BRITAIN. DirLOME UE ECOLK DE PIMItMACIE PHARMACIliN DE PARIS IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, VIENNA. Till? Tatentee may be consulted daily according to the rules laid down in the work Human Frailty, sent free by Host, Is, By J. Allen, 20, Warwick Lane, faternoster Row, London. He considers it necessary that every expedient should be adopted to Secure the l'ublic ...

... TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, •»»» BY MR. LYNDON, Cqj^ the 9th inst., at the GOODS SHED of the NAVIOATXOH COMPANY, near the BASIS of J Fatk 40 FATHOM of H Inch CABLE, and about 60 N i°h i« New Cable. Also, a capital LONG-BOAT, a otl the Quay, at the top of the West Bute « tt 'JJODEL YATCH, with Masts, Sails, Ac., complete; H> QwTy Ne* WHALE BOAT, 20ft. long, with 4 new t?11* iBow Powell's Dock, west ...

... THE ASSIZES for this county commence on Thursday next at Swansea. Lord James Stuart and the Right Hon. James Stuart Wortley, and Mr. H. A. Bruce, were present at the Speaker's parliamentary full dress dinner on Saturday. CHURCH HATES.-On Friday, Mr. Talbot presented a peti- tion in the House of Commons, from the incumbent, church- warden and inhabitants of Merthyr Mawr against the uncon- ...

... THE METAL (SON—Barn, Welsh, in London ..ton 7 5 0— 0 0 0 Ditto,to arrive. 6 17 C 0 0 0 7 10 0-0 0 0 Bars, Staffordshire, in Londou 8 0 0- 9 10 0 Nail ltods ditto- 8 0 0- 9 0 0 lloops ditto 9 0 0— 9 15 0 Sheets (single) 9 10 0-10 10 0 Pig, No. I, in Wales 3 15 -0— 4 l.> 0 ReUnedmetit),ditto. 4 10 0— 5 ft Bars common, ditto 6 0 0 7 0 0 Ditto, railway, ditto 6 5 0— 6 10 Ditto, Swedish, in London ...

... 0 Gentlemen having expressed their desire to pre* SJrf WILLIAM WATSON with a TESTIMONIAL, thei.r appreciation of his high character, and of 'jJ^Pjtfhy with him in the late attack made upon him by ^iJ1 Willett. Subscriptions will be received by Mr- Joux Treasurer, Rummer Hotel, Duke-street, Cardiff. V^ebroary, 1859. ...

... FRIDAY. Before R. O. Jones and J. H. Insole, Esqrs. DKtrifKENSSSS.—Timothy Hurley, alias Cane, a labourer, of Stanley-street, charged with being drunk and assaulting P.C. Attwell, of the S. W. It Co.'s force, and and also with assaulting P.C.'sBuHer and Glass, while in the execution of their duty, was committed for trial at the assizes.—Patrick Carden, labourer, of Adam-street, was fined os. ...

... HOUSE OF Lord Itrougham brought in a Bill, the object of which was to extt ud to defendants in criminal actions the pri. vil-ge now granted to those in civil suits, of being ex- amined if they chose, and the Bill was read a first time. FRIDAY. Lord Grey moved for a Select Committee to inquire whether the Act 13 and 14 Victoria, cap. 99, for collect- ing the Poor-rates and Highway-rates in ...