... THE CHARTIST OUTRAGES AT SHEF.- I1 CATTFIELD. Nothing can more fully show the ignorance and folly of the Chartists than the proceedings at Sheffield; they consti- tute the extreme of cruelty to the prisoners under sentence of death by rendering any attempt to move the royal clemency towards thenm more difficult. The Oastler's, Stephenses, and other Tories who first excited the Chartists to ...

... The Siddo5ns, in 17 days from New York to Liverpool, has brought the President's message, but nothing else of mooment in the way of news. This document extends to a great length. It begins by making allusions to the ravages of fire and disease with which the country had been afflicted during the past year; touches upon the favourable aspect of foreign relations, and the boundary question of ...

... ARREST OF ARMED CHARTISTS IN I ILONDON. A meeting of Chartists was held on Thursday at the Trades Hall, Bethnal green, for the purpose of discussing the present state ot distress of the working classes through. out the country. At-the time appointed for meeting, the room capable of holding about 700, was crowded to excess, and the majority of those present appred to. b f working classes. At ...

... RELIGTOUS PERSECUTION.-A Baronet residing not a hundred miles from Oakley Park, in Suffolk, hired a gardener named Gaunt, with whom he was quite satisfied. Shortly after Gaunt entered the Baronet's employment, a Catholic clergyman addressed a letter to Gaunt, which by some unlucky chance first came into the hands of Sir Ed- ward or his son. Having read the letter, they discovered that Gaunt ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS. Thursday, January 16. This day the Queen opened the parliamentary session with the following speech from the throne:- My Lords and Gentlemen, Since you were last assembled, I have declared my in- tention of allying myself in marriage with the Prince Albert of isae Cobourg and Gotha. I humbly implore that the Di- viue blessing may prosper this union, and render it conducive ...

... I I There was nothing new came out on Saturday in the evidence which was given upon the trial of Z. Williams. Sir Thomas Phillips, E. Hopkins, J. B. Oliver, Captain Grays J. Thomas, J. B. Stockdale, were examined, and Mr Thomas then addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner for upwards of seven hours. Evidence were given in his behalf by T. Lewis and D. Lewis, and the Court adjourned to ...

... POSTSC RIPT. LONDON, Saturday Morning, Jan. 18, l40. The French papers of Thursday state that the budget for 1840 was brought in. The receipts for 1839 were below the estimates. The project of a law for the reduc- tion of the 5 per cents. was presented to the Chamber The discussion on the address terminated on Wednesday a minority of 43 only voting against it, The Eco del Comercio of the 9th ...

... One of the most important meetings of the Liberal gentry of Ireland ever witnessed took place on the 10th inst. in the Theatre Royal, Abbey street. The leading object of the meeting was to make arrangements for the complete and effectual registration of the electors through. out the country, and thus to prepare the surest means of defence against any attempt to re-establish Orange dorni- ...

... Tuesday, Jan7,vayy 14. WOFLICE OF ORDN.I.NCE, JSNUART 13. IROy1 ?? en Cadets to bie second LieuIenaflts -E. M. itoxir, vice the lion. F. Savile, prormoted; C. S. Longden, Vite lfoulrtoeSor, protuoted; MY. A. Wddle(oD, ?? ~iliC, ~~prfomted. Royal Engineers-Gofltlemen Cadets to be Second Lieutenants -W. Coweper, vice Fulton, deceased; C. J. Gibb, vice West. macott, promoted ; C. G. Gray, vice ...

... LONDON, Saturday Morning, Jan. 25, I 40. 'SUCCESSES IN NEWARK, DEVOONPORT, EDINBURGH, AND BIRMINGHAM. To the triumph of Liberal opinions in Southwark we have to add the gratifying intelligence of the return of the Sojicitor-General for Newark by a majority of nine- Wilde, 536; Thesiger, 527-despite the efforts of peers and their tools, and of every aid the fertile genius of Tory animosity ...

... FRANCr.-The Courrier Fran aiZ has the following ap. precatiod of tfie Queen of ELgland's speeci Thee speech of the ERglish Qiteen heqis the irmgress o( recdarhal lei moieration, eiempt from. pride or emp asis iu descriong the suc'ces o f Gieat Britaix abioad,s aid aliket exempt f'rom bitiern'ess or choler ?? ?? donmesji trolibles. In readinae this -dcunient; we are involuntarily made to think ...

... SCHOOL GIANTS.-The National Society has indus- triously circulated a report that the acceptors of school giants, under regulation A, will be liable to have fresh COuditions imposed on them after the expiration of the Present year. This clumsy misrepresentation has, to our toiwledge, induced a clerggyman to declinesa grant offered to bin in aid of thle erection of a national school in a ...