... Ihe following speeih was delivered by Mr. Sheil, on the suhject of Poor Laws for Ireland, at the meeting of the As. sociation in Dublin on Thursday the 22d inst. Mr. Sheil-l have not come here to-day for the purpose of expressing any opinion upon the mode in which the frightful lilt ery under which a large ma-s of the population labour, is to be alleviated. The question is one of great ...

... NEWPORT. List of Arrivals and Sailings for the week ending the 14th of July. INWARDS.—From Quebec—The Recovery, Banks, with timber and deals, 6cc., for Messrs. Batchelor and Co. Prince Regent, Moon, with timber and deals, for Messrs. Harry. From Jersey-Bee Hive, Fauvel, with 64 casks cider, for G. Nicoll Virginia, Sullivan, with 85 casks cider, for J. Richards. From Cherbourg—L'Aimable, ...

... The sounds—the songs of other years— THINE eyes are veiled in tears Thy heart with love is laden And, in thy brain, a spirit hears The sounds-the songs of other years (Songs of passion—thoughts of woe, Drawn from poets long ago!) Ah, me I bear a thousand fears, For thy sake, bright maiden Who doth bid thee, maiden proud, Such wild dreamings cherish 1 Better thy bright head were bowed For a ...

... COURT OF REQUESTS, LONDON. A DEUT OF HONOUR !-A chimney-sweeper, known well about Gray's Inn-lane as Bandy Tom, was summoned by another equally ill-looking member of the same fraternity, for the sum of 7s 6d. The case was heard before Mr. Sergeant Heath. How will you pay it ? asked Mr. Heath.—Defendant I knows I hows it 'im, but I contends he karnt rekiver a half- penny on it, not in this ...

... The Milford Regatta, which, from some cause or other, has lain dormant for some three years last past, is in progres- sion of being revived this year, a few spirited individuals having come forward handsomely, and are taking means to obtain subscriptions. It will take place on the 1st of August next, as usual, in commemoration of the immortal Nelson, who was present at the first Regatta at ...

... MANSION HOUSE.—Mary Donovan, an aged Irishwoman, was brought before Alderman Yenables, charged under the following circumstances:- On Satuiday evening, for the purpose of exciting com- miseration, she walked into Billingsgate-dock, to make peo- ple suppose she intended to drown herself. The Dock hap- pened tcr have but little water in it, and she stuck in the mud, when she began ta roar out to ...

... SIR,— It is quite a treat to catch your good Scrutator in print again. You recollect my fear of disappointment in the hope of crossing swords fvith him some time ago: but with your kind permission, here 1 have him at last. Mr. Scru- tator will perhaps be much scandalized at a round with a ragged antagonist of our side. He has, he conceives, knocked us down a hundred times, and may have some ...

... This Gazette contains a proclamation to the effect, that his Majesty had thought fit to order that certain pieces of silver money shall be coined, to be called groats or fourpences, and to be of the value each of one-third of a shilling, and that the same shall pass and be received as current and lawful money of the United Kingdom. i# Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the'Counly of ...

... Is THE NICK Ot. TIME. luesday morning, eleven shep- herds from Lochaber, with twelve women, and a due propor- tion of collies or shepheids' dogs, left Inverness for Van Diemsn's Land. One of the Highlanders learning iu Loch- aber that Government had offered a bounty .£20. to all mar- ried men, and not being provided with a helpmate, set about supplying this denciency. He had only three days to ...

... SPAIN. The Legion will not commence operations on the offensive till General Esparterd has placed himself at the head of the Army of the North. General Rodil has already addressed a most friendly tetter to General Evans, in which he blames General Cordova for not affording him the necessary succours, and assures him that when he shall have joined the army, the British troops shall find in him ...

... NEWPORT TOWN COUNCIL. A meeting of the Council was held on Tuesday evening, the 13th instant, at the Carpenter's Arms—present, the Mayor, in the chair; Joseph Corsbie, Daniel Tombs, Thos. Morris, J. Johns, Thomas Turner, T. J. Phillips, G. Oliver,' L. Edwards, Wm. Townsend, Joseph Latch, Thos. Wells] and S. Iggulden. After the notice for the evening had been read, and other preliminaries ...

... LATEST INTEI/LXO-ENCE. LONDON, TIICHSDAY EVENING. The mails which have been delayed by the stoimy state of the weather, have arrived this morning, and the Paris papers of Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, are brought together. Amongst the congratulatory addreises presented to the King, as usual, on the first of May, was one from R-I. Dupin, as President of the Chamber of Deputies, which has created ...