... UNIR'.'D STATRS, 6'c. | 3v the New York packet ship Sheffield, Captain Allen, we have reccived Nnw York ptpers to thf fth ult Thc Shefficed fell in vtilt the City of Wexford stearner off Hoilyhead, and our Liverpool agent was indebted to th0 promptitude with which Captain Allen forwarded tih papers by the steamer, tie Sheffield having been bc- calmed. Thc boost intcresting item of intelligenco ...

... PROTJ'BST'ANT Sb'SOCIAT1ON. The fifth annual meeting of this association took place yesterday at Exeter-hall. . The Earl of WINCHtL1EnA, on ?? tile chair, said he felt delighted to preside over a ?? assemblage of his coluatryinet. He should exert all his energies to arouse them to a sense of the perilous position of thoechorch to which they hilonge 1, assailed as it was on every liand by its ...

... POST-O1FTICE LABELS. -0- To Tlrr EDITOR oF THlE MORNIN1 CHRONICLE. Slit-In to-da)'a Times I see a letter signod A.,, statihi that he sends his lett 'r free of postage, using n Pert office labol, which had been nsed before, and whirlh he lii selt hald received on a letter Irom Machester. The editor iay, that the lettir camefreeof OS~l'p, but this arose, 1 hive no douht, from the laWWI no ...

... [MPEIAL 1)ARL1AM-p '.17 H1oUSE OF COMMONS' ?? bfoeou The Speaker teok the chair a few minutes ?? 'clock. 1 5f co ge Mr. BAINES presented a ?? frotn a several gation in Leeds, acainst the traffic I and from. Alderman- petitions from parishes in Yorkshir)c, a xtnd in&i oury chape, In London, against ehur~hetnin n petition tor the repeal of the cornilawe. fr a agricill Mr. ~ ~ 'Rpresented a ...

... IRELAIVD. DUBLIN, M&Y 11. LFIR1M OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION. The meeting of this society, Iiutnded to have been held this day, has been postponed until to-morrow. The adver- tisimverit states that tkis change has been made by order of the committee, and at the request of Mr. O'Connell, to en ble the cmomittee to prnpars further Important reports, to be submitted to the ...

... OCURCH OF SCOTLAND-THE EARL of I AIBRDREN'S BILL. A BILL INTITULEI) AN ACT TO REMOVE DOUBTS IuEsrECTING THE ADMISSION OF MINISTEBS TO BENEFICES IN THAT PART OF THE UNI1TED KINGDOM CALLED SCOTLAND. Wbereas certain acts of the Parliament of 8Cothilld and of the Ualted Kingdom of Great Britain have hdclared that the right of collatijn in regard to the settlement Ef vaiaiitert' in the parishes to ...

... COURT ClRlCULAR. The royal dinner party at Buckinvham-palace on Wed- ?? evenieg included her Royal Hliginess the l)uebesa of Kent, Mlarquess of Nnrmanby, E-rl arnd Countess of Jroy and Lady (e rgiann Grey, Earl of Errol, Earl of Liverpool, CountesR of Lielbtield and Lqdy Anne Anson, Earl of Car digen, Earl ot UxbridiLe, Earl of Morley, Lady Anne Maria Dawaon, Viscount Melbourne, Lord Holland, ...

... IMPERIAL PARLIAMENrI j HOUSE OF LORDS-TUMSDAY. The Newcastle-ulponTyne IwVater-worls Ilill was brought up from tbe Hlonge of Commons aend real a first tirne. LIord KENYON presenrted pititions from several plaee; in Wiles, In favour oJ church extension ; alao petitions agnin8t tile coatinuanae of the grpot to the C.9llege of ?? Ths larl of 1IANDON presented ?? gigaluot ally alt,-ration of I hl ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS-MONDAY. The Lord Chancellor took his seat on the vioolsack at five o'clock. A message from the House of Commons brought up the Exchequer Bills (El,00OO000) Bill. The Earl of WINCHILSEA presented petitions from places In Ely (as we understood) against the grant to the College of Maynooth; and several petitions from places in Cornwall, in favoor of'cburch extension. The Bishop of ...

... The Queen and Prince Albert took an airing in a pony phaeton yesterday morning, in the Parks. The Marquess of Norannnby and Viscount Melbourne had auiances yesterday of her Mdajesty. lier Mpjesty the Queen Dowager, the Dachese of Kent, the Duchecs of Cambridge, Prince George, and the Princess Augusta of Canbridge, and Prince Ernest ot lesse Philipps- that, vizited the PriuceLs Augusta ...

... Accounts received from Sydney to the middle of De. comtber state that wool-shearing and harvest had corn. menced; the former under very favourable circumstances, the latter promising little more than an average crop. The demand for labour was most urgent, and the colo- nists loudly complained that, by the misappropriation Of their landfund, by orders from thchomegoveritment, nunm. bers had ...

... MADRID, MAY $. [rFoM OUR OWN COiI.ESPONDENT.1 The successful progress of military operations hlis sup. plied the only facts of pu'jlic interest here since I wrote last. The important forts of Arcs, in Valencia,Iand ol Morn tic Ebro, in the southern angle of Catalonia, are now to be added to the long list of Carlist strongholds in which, within a very short space of time, the Constitu- tional ...