... INFERNAL MACHINERY AT TlHE SIEGE OF BARCELONA. Madrid, Dec. 6. The Espeetador of this morning publishes the following remarkable letter from an officer sta*. tioned at Barcelona, respecting the scientific mode in which thefitmanzciar of that capital car- ried ml the war lately. The principal is said to have been a Belgian engincer officer, who con- ducted the defence during tile siege. ?? ...

... COLONEL STODDART AND CAPTAIN . CONOLLY. Teffls, Nov. 19. We are much interested here in the success of Dr Wolff's mission to Bokbars. Several persons recol' lect to have seen that remarkable person at Teflis on his return from his first journey through Persin. In fact, every person here wishes him success in his mission. The Russian Government had received, about three monh's since, ...

... CHATHAMI, Dec. 13.-A Court Martial was bold in the Royal MaIine Barracks on the 11th, for the trial of Captain W. Clindon, on charges preferred by the Ad- miralty, for irregularities whilst on recruiting service. The Judge-Advocate read the following charges against the prisoner:-lst ?? having unlawfully de- manded from John Gilby, a recruit, rejected at the heail-quarters of the Portsmouth ...

... HORRIBLE EXECUTION OF A NATIvE IN SOUTH AFRICA, Our readersv will peruse with pain the following account of a case of barbarous cruelty which has occuired anong the Kafirs of South Africa. We should gladly leave such a revolting case unnoticed, rather than lacerate the feelings of the humane by its shocking details, (lid leo not conceive it to be a dusty to make known the dreadful effects of ...

... (From, the Times.) Miueb ltas recently been said and written on the smallness of the sum paid to wvomen for the making of men's shirts, but all the filets oil the subject have sot yet, it seems, become public, for no quotation has been made of the price received and paid at the woikhottses of London for the manufacture of those 4frnlents, The following statements nere acs-, lently elicited eit ...

... ea i r. 7,,?,ottiau factrurv. EDINBURGH. MONDAY, DECEMBER IS. Another great meeting of the Anti-Corn Law League has been held at Manchester, at which the most flattering accounts were given of the state of the contributions to the League fund of 1843. Last year L.5o,000 was raised, and this 0 year the leaders have fixed the sum at L.100,000, ti( which has been adjudged necessary to meet the ...

... MELANCHOLY AFFRAY AT AVAIRAU. I The New 7,ealand Colonist of the 30th of June contains the following melancholy details of the late affray at Wairau:- We have been furnished with the following statement of the late disastrous conflict at Wai- rau, which embodies, we believe, all the testi- rnony given by the survivors, and all the infor mation which could be collected on the spot - On the ...

... PRESBYTERY OF DUNFERMLINB. This Reverend Body met at Oratell on the 6tb inst. CASE OF MR WATTr. After the Clerk had read the minutes, a report was made to the Presbytery by Messrs Tannoch and Ferries, to the effect that they bad waited on Mr Watt agreeably to appointment, who told them that be had made up his mind to abide by the determi- ration which he bad intimated in hit letter to the ...

... I SEQUEsTRATIONS. a December 14. ANDnREW OGrL.vIr, merchant in Dun- ?? meet in the British Hotel tbere, 22d rr December and 12th January, two o'clock. d December 14, CHARLES SMtHr, merchant and flax- spinner in Dundee-Credittrs meet in the British Hotel there, 26th December and 16th January, one o'clock. I 2xAMINATIONS, &,C d ROBERT HOEYMAN, merchant in Cgipar-to be ex- o arnined in the ...

... LEITHI. Towards four P.m. on T'ursday, it came on to b'ow one of the heaviest gales from WN W. which we have experienced for many months. A small schooner, of 42 tons register, called the Four Bto- witl thiers, of Sunderlatid, laden with granite, from w.A Nortb Queensferry to Grangemouth, drove from a her anchors off the Carline's Nose, near Inveikeith- par hing, and at last was obliged to ...

... THE 1 HUGE LEVIATHAN. THES 'GREAT BRITAIN' ECLIPSED. A correspondent of the Xining Journal Hsys:-I I1i g to bard you the following particulars of nn in-. *, ntion, of such uncommon preteisionis to originality as cannot fail to be appreciated even by tire most fistidious-if not for its value, at least for its bold- ti' nesr . It is evident that, on tile completion of the Great Britait, we, ...

... The Queen held a Court and Privy Council, at half-past twvo o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, at Windsor Castle. At the Court, Monsieur Ribeiro, on a special mis- sion from the Emperor of the Brazils, was presented to the Queen, at an andience, by the Enrl of Aber- dren, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The Rev. Dr John Lonodale, D.D. was presented to her Majesty, ...