... SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 5. The Indus has arrived with the heavy portion of the East India and China nails, 54 passengers, a small quantity of specie, and 1,500 bales of silk. The principal part of tin Mediterranean fleet was at Gibraltar; there were also seven French ships of war and three Spanish ships of var. Private accounts represent the action between the Spaniards and Moors on the 25th ult. as ...

... 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 ...

... yrobuutaL REMARKABLE LONGEVITY.—A correspondent, Mr. Arthur Bowes, of Upper Clapton, informs us that the following remarkable instances of longevity occurred in the obituary of the Times of the 8th inst.,—viz., nine deaths at the respective ages of 94, 79, 81, 96, 77, 84, 87, 31, and 76, making a grand total of 765, or an average of 85 years each. Similar instances of longevity may fre- ...

... Mr. C. M'Nab, principal coast officer of Torquay, has been promote to be a landing waiter at Cardiff. A SHOULDER oi' MUTTON STOLEN. — About a quarter to eleven, Monday morning, a shoulder of button, weighing about six pounds, was stolen out of the butcher's shop of Mrs. A. Brearly, the Hayes. HORSE RUN AWAY.-As Mr. Stubbs, cordial manu- facturer, and Mr. John Young, were driving through ...

... (SITTINGS IN ERROR.) THE QUEEN V. FOX.—CLERKS TO JUSTICES. The defendant was clerk to the justices at Newport, and his partner was clerk of the peace for Monmouth- sto^e. The question was, whether the defendant wras -within the statute which prevents clerks to justices having an interest in the prosecution of criminals, in consequence of his partner being clerk of the peace. The Court of ...

... ptcraturc. TAIT's EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, for December. Lon- don: Partridge & Co. THERE is a great variety of well written matter in this issue. The political article with which Tait opens is devoted to the forthcoming Reform Bill, and the writer taking up the text which Government has itself supplied by sending to the country for returns on the rating of property, argues forcibly against the ...

... MONMOUTH RIFLE CORPS.—We may now unhesi- tatingly stata that Monmouth will succeed in estab- lishing a volunteer rifle corps, and it may be almost needless for us to state that we wish them every success. A public meeting was held in the Borough Court, at three o'clock on Tuesday evening last, at which his worship the Mayor (Thos. Prosser, Esq ), presided. The meeting passed off extremely well ...

... News received from Palermo to the 27th November, states that the Commander Maniscaleo, Director General of the Sicilian Police, had been stabbed whilst walking with his wife and children in the Place of the Cathedral. The wound inflicted was very serious, but probably not mortal. The assassin, who was well dressed, escaped, hears were entertained that the attempted assassination would be ...

... 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 ...