... The Belgians, under the command of General Daine, amounting to about 10,0:0 men. and composing the army of the Meuse, were totally defeated on Monday morning near Hasselt. The Dutch troops took them by surprise. The Belgian horses are said to have been so frightened at the sound of the Dutch artillery that they fled precipitately, anid in their retreat broke through the infantry, so that a ...

... On Saturday evening a number of Yachts arrived and came. to anchor off Cultra, among which were- The ship Princess Charlotte Royal Yacht. The Iris, belonging to Thomas Greg, Esq. Caroline ?? Marquis Donegall. Zoe ?? Do. Vampyre . ?? Rev. D. George, Thetis . ?? De Courcy O'Grady, Esq. ?? Colonel Cayler. ?? Ju u MCracken, Esq. Adelaide ?? Robert Batt, Esq. Frolic ?? Henry Joy, Esq.l All of the ...

... DLSTRESS IN TtiE WEST OF IRELAND. Monday a Meeting was convened, pursuant to requisitioD, by the Lord Mayor, irk Morrison's Great Room, Iwnso- .s8treet, publin, for the purpose 'of taking into considulrton the wretched state of the peasantry itt the West of Ireland, -and of adopting such resolutions as seemed best calculated to lead to theirelief of those districts.; the Lord Mayor, M. P. took ...

... TO HENRY M'CORMAC, ESQ. M.D. MY DEAlS SIR-I know no stronger mark of a contract- ed mind than an unwillingness to confess all error, or a faalt-I therefore admnit that in my letter to you I did use a word too strong for tihe occasion; but with the Pxception of that one word, I will not retiact a tittle of what I ad- vanced, and I hope to prove every syllable of it to be true. I will lay before ...

... TO THE REV. HENRY COOKE, D. D. MY DEAit FaIEND-I have just received your letter ad- dressed to me ill the Belfast News-Letler. f feel very un- willing to enter into correspondence on the suhject of it with iidividuals, Rs such qorrespondence is apt to degenerate into anis'y contriversy. And I confess, that on the present or- casiorn I feel more thaw ordinary reluctance in doing so, I have ...

... - .Teothe Ballast Corporation of their Deputation to tondon, appointed to obtain an Act of Parliament for further im- provi ng the Port and Harbour. GTLEaeiMEX,.Agreeably to your instrUctions, we returned to London for the purpose of having the Bill which you have approved of passed through a Committee of the House of Commons, and finally into law. We were accompanied by Mr. Lewis, the Ballast ...

... WAR-OFEtCE, JULY 12. 31 Dragoon Guards: Cornet J. F. Dyson to be I ieut. vice. Sheppard, retires; E. Evans to be Ensign, vice Dyson. 3d Foot Guards: Captain H. Bathurst, from Oih Foot, tlo be Lieut. noi Captain, vice Douglas, exach.-9th Foot: Lieut. and Captain C. Douglas, from 3d Foot Gl ards, to he Captain, vice Bathurst, exch.-14th: Lieut.-Crl. M. Everartl, from half-pay unattached. to hb ...

... TO THIE 'EDJTOR OF THE NEWS-LETTER. SR,-The M1anageis of the Fisherwick-Place Sunday School have seen, with surprise andi regret, tile following statement in the Northern Whig of this day :- A young girl, aged probably 16 or 17 years, has been attending for some weeks past a Sunday School in the Vestry.roomt of the Rev. James Morgan's Meeting-house, in Fisherwick-Place. She informs us that. ...

... The steam-ship Clliefiirl Owens, for Liverpool, sails thlis uity, at sfent o'il, oi in the ltorninig. Sinaek Hoero, Smyth, has sailed for' London. Saitiak Il jB, M;I Greavy, Iir Lon~lon, clears o1n Sattllday. Tlw statnm-traierl Finiz il, for Gree'tork antd Glasgov, ?? this day', ;it nite o'eluck ton l rning-.it d the 13lidast, on Fr'i- (lay. it ott, tt'clotit aftlerion. 'I'hc stettiner Erin, ...

... THE CHOLERIA IN ENGLAND. 'COUNCIL OFFTCE, LONDON, Nov. 12. Lieut.Colaonel -Crpagh, in his dispatch from Suniderland of the 10th Nov. states that he has pleasure in reporthig for the inforination-of the Lords of the Privy Council, that I only one slight case of Chi,1era has occurred in that tow, since-his cotmmunication of the 9th. !DA}LY EtEPORr OF DLALRHMA AND CHO'LERA CASES. SUjNeRLAND, Noa. ...

... PARTY SPIRIT-THE WHIG. IN our last'number we felt ourselves under the necessity of exposing the firebrand'violence of our contemporary, the Northern7 Whi,, ose Iabits of. exaggeration are prover_ bially so furious, that even those *who agree with him in principle are. often compelled to regret ~tbe dangerous na. ;tUre of his advocacy. Our contempoirry-hais -returned a :brief, hesitating, and ...

... Thursday lavorning, a small brig. the Lady Mantiomerie of Irvine, Captain Latta, which had left that place the even- liug before, vent down about a mile from the shore, and between two and three miles from Salecoats. The accident having been observed from Saltcoats,. the life-boat was pro- cured from Ardro'san, and succeedled, notwithstanding the heavy iwe1l; 'in ?? the wreck, 'whence they ...