... 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 ...

... TIlE CHOLERA D7T SCOTLAND. 1EdinihNrq, Freb. I ?? are still without cholera, which' is ?? owitig, in a gneat mneasure, to the estricteil eon-m niunii tion wvith MTesseld brgh and oth r iafteted laces.- A fst;:l case has occuires itn thle Can`rigo1t.-an ei'lel-ly fe- miale. a eollector of olld oiothes, and Of ihit,'tI Orate habits,. wis tokeu ill on edlnesdasy. snlld die(d in tbe ?? -An at het ...

... YEOMANUY OrnCE, JAN. 13.-The Lord Lieutenant has signed commissionis hppdinting the following Gentlemen to be Officers in the arndeirmentioned Yeomanry corps-Porta- down corps, (county Arinagli,) G. '-Woodhouse, 'Esq. to be Sub.Lieut.; Colebrook corps, (comnty Fermanagh,) John E; Taylor, Esq. to be Sab-Lieut; Bellisle corps, James Moore. Esq. to be First Lieut. yvie' Moore, ?? Moore, Esq. to ...

... l BELFAST- AND CAVE HILL RAILWAY. . .| As the public bave lately heard a good deal- In favour of the proposed Railway from the Cave Hill to Belfast, the j follo wing statement has been forwarded onl the part of the gentlemen whose properties are likely to be affected by it:- The Blfast newspapers have lately contained. repeatedl appeals to the public on the subjeot ofthe prnjeeted Railway Irom ...

... HOUSE OF INDUSTRY-SPECIAL MEETING. 'Yesterday a special meoting of the Committee of the I House of Industry was heid for the purpose of considering the resolutions of the Committeefor the relief of the dis-. tressed weavers, the substanoo-of which resolutions was given in a late number of the News-Leter. The Rev. Dr. Crolly presided at this meeting of the Committee of the House of Industry, ...

... 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 ...

... A REICTOl AIAY BE A LAYMAN. e. Extract from Mr. FINI.As'S New Publication onl Tirire and ?? LaW in IIreland. M Most of the diflifir ltieo ii compreheordilg Ireg'al 1i;gbts, Y result trirn the cii'erimstawi'e that0 terms, otre ?? axplbril ed. u It is cuio urs ?? remairki, curl rtay bh uselul to remalk, flow frequently, s',an hfow iV idel y, it sriord in its general acceptation varieis. arid, ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... flONDON-FRIDAY, JULY 31. The Russians claim another victory over the Turks in Asia, on the 14th of June. The St, Petersburgh Gazette of 15th July says- News has arrived from Tiflis of a new victory gained on the 14th ilt. by the united detachments of Major Generals Murhwicco and Burzow over large bodies of Turks, who had'assembled in the defile of Poztov. The enemy lost their rich camp, ...

... 14OUSE OF LORDS-MONDAY. The ill equtis of LONDONDE RRY said, that when on | Friday last he put some questions to the Noble Earl at the head of his Majesty's government, he had received an an- swer with hlich he expressed himself pertecetly satisfied, that the French goveinmelit had given positive orders to Gen., Gerard to evanuate Belgium. What then was his as- toIIishitent, when he learned ...