... 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. ?? ...

... 1 PUBLIC DINNER TO J6RN REYNOLDS. ESQ., P.L.G. That highly talented and patriotic gentleman, John Rey- noldp, Esq., was entertained on yesterday evening by his friends and: admirers at'apublic dinner 'at the Rotundo, in token of their admiration of, his great public services, and valuable and untiring .exertions as a guardian of the poor for ?? Dubiin Uniop., The dinner consisted of a ...

... * a (FROUe A COBRESPoNDENT.)I g On Wednesday evening, the 6th instant, one of the most 1 a numerous and respectable meetings which has for a length I * of time been held In Manchester, took place inthe Car- l penters' Hall,; In ordeo to give the friends 'of civil and reli- gious liberty an opportunity of testifying their ardent at- Itaohment to the person of Ireland's Liberator, and to show I ...

... MORNING CHRONICLE.-It is impossible to form anything approaching to a proper estimate of many of the scenes which are continually represented as occurring in Ireland, without some kn-owledge of the antecedent condition of society in that unhappy country. When the people of Englacd peruse the details of the shocking outrages which are committed in the sister country, and when they hear ...

... BRISTOL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The tleventb ot hibaion of live stock, &c. took place on Wednesday ning last at the new cattle market. The show w»* than usually well supplied with choice stock of a'* .fe# scriptions; bloated bolls, capacious cows, capital c* huge heifers, obese oxen, superior sheep, plethoric and rare rams, were in abundance, whilst lrei»e° ft» turnips and magnificent mangle ...

... MEETING Or PARIIAMENT.-At a Council held at Windsor Castle, on Wednesday, a further prorogation from Tuesday next to Thursday, the 1st of February, was determined on, and a proclamation was ordered,suxnuion- ing both houses on that day for the dispatch of business. POST-OFFIcE NOTICE.-On and afterthe 5th of January next, all letters passing between the United Kgingdom and any place in Jamaica, ...

... The Thies of late has published many excellent arti- Ics relativc to the condition of the People of Ireland.- 13 its publieation of Thursday 1ast an ar'ticle appears in rferolice to the Lnnd Commission now sitting, which we must quote at length, for it is important to find the real state of the counitry so powerfully dwelt oni by such an organ:- *i Tse grand subject of Lord Devon's cares, the ...

... LI Tuesday, December 19, 1843. UNITED STATES, &c.-The steam-ship Caledonia, arrived at Liverpool on Thursday morning, in ten days, six hours, from Hali- fax, with news from New York, Boston, and Halifax, six days later than was brought by the Roscius. The reported resignation of Sir Charles Metcalfe, the Governor-General of Canada has not been confirmed, and the Montreal Times reports his ...

... 'CEUJBlIEN Yl ELLYRL, Ot T'ILE BRIDE 0F 1' N\NI' (3WRTILEYRN. (C'omliiried],'j o~ei ocmi last.) Settled dcsivpair, which sealed his tonigue, even ptrtially restoredl hisi to his home; in bitter nights he woul(d sleep on ;a bag of wool, or fern, or a sIlvepslills, ill tile cottagt; but though for ever ulutterin'g to l himsclf, he siolto nonIeio. W no 'the agcd bed riddeltn mal wvas bouin out ...

... I| r S ' SIAILWAY DmPARTuR!S. NORTH UNION. Fiynnl'Cest~l to-Live- jio, ,nneliniter, MMI prom ?? ool gan Wigana Preston. 5Vlgar andPrestor, 8 20 AM.a Mixed ' 8 45 A.H., Mixed 9 9 AM., Mixed 9 4 ?? tCl85 11 OA'm Ist Cl 1 15 A.M. it class 2 20 P.M., 2d Class 2 30 P.M. 2d Clasl 28 45 P.M., 2d Class 6 OPM,3 Mixed 5 1P.M., Mixed 5 P.M., Mixed 6 27 PrM., Mixed 7 30 P.M., Mixed 7 30 P.M., Mixed ON ...

... v , , ?? * upon tI The great Yeomanry Ball, at Doncaster, is Peopie postponedl to the 28th instant, in consequence of York Assizes arlverli being fixed for the l5th,. the bio Sir Joseph Copley, the High Sheriff of this higbwE county, arrived at Sprotbro' Hall, on Friday, and left that piece WV for york, yesterday. A - Mr. J. Crawshaw has been appointed clerk to the ar the West Riding ...

... THE IMPROVEMENT RATE. We have to Qb- serve, in reply to some enquiries, with reference to the shilling ordered by the Newport Improvement Commissioners, that this increase of three pence on last year'. rate is indispensibly called for in consequence of the insufficiencv 0 the the 9d. rate to meet the expenses consequent upon lighting the town, and other necessary expenses 1 n common wuh our ...