... SPAI1.V. MADRID, Avnai. 7. [IFIOM OUR OWN COlRES5PONDFNT.] The relorts are still quite contiadictory reSpecinl0g the intcntions of the government w:s tO raiShig the state ot siege, and ralling the chambers toge!her. The feeling gains ground, hpwever, that the preesnt 'exciptiolol stats w ill not bn continued much louger, and that it wili be raised by decree, after certain preliminary ...

... Morning Chronicle Office, 10 lmin.past Six. UNITED STATES. THREE DAYS LATER FROM NEW YORK. (BY EXPRESS.) LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY MORNING. A very remarkably quick passage fronm Newv York hUS just been completed by the packet ship Europe, ('uptaiin Furber. She left that city on the 3d inst., aitm has performed the entire voyage in somewhat less than sixteen days. lXe have received our usual tilex of ...

... TIlE LAT'E FA Y'AL Ai 'CID)I'YNT AT THE' I 1J)VS BR.IA IL VA 1 7YE TAMMN US. to - e INQUEST ON ONE OF ll SUFlERERS. a Last evennluv, at six o'cluck, al in(luiry wite opened be- d fore Mr. W. Payne, coroner fir the city ,t losndon and 3t borough of Southwairk, at tie Green IMan, ()1 Keit-routt, L. to inqtilre into thedetth of Edward May,naged 3lyearn, who t, was killtd by the falling in of thu ...

... SP~AIN. 11ADMID, APRiL',21. [vFROMo OUR OWi CoRREsPONsDIPNT. Some doubt appears now to exiit reepec in( the 1wried of thb oyal journey to the Baths. Toe fCastello annouacrs, that it will take phlac fn the 8t ot nUVt moutb, aund that the Qivenu and Royal family will be accompanied by all the nirnisterso but tbat the intention of visiting Catalonia 16 given up, and the toculty have ...

... HOUSE OF COMMONS-WEDNESDAY. At four o'clock there were on1l 38 members pre'sent, and the house was consequently adjourned. ...

... DUBLIN, AntaIL 17. (PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.1 SENTENCE ON MIR. O'CONNELL. I limse reason to believe that the Government have (leternminRLA not to enforce the sentence against Mr. q'Connell and the other traversers, pending the wvrit of error. T11E SlPY SYiTEMv-DISMISSAL OF A STIPEN- DIARY MAGISTRATE. At lengtb, afteir constant exposures, and repeated remon- stranues from the Liberal press, ...

... I PORTUGAL. +a (BY EXPRESS.) Our information from Portugal is up to 17th in- stant, Almeida continues in the possession of Bom- fim, and no serious impression evidently has been male on it by bombardment, as orders appear to have been issued to proeeedl immediately to the storming of the place. The result of any attempt by assault is very doubtful. The Portuguese, like the Turks, though not ...

... TUE MORNING CHRONICLE. LONDON: IVEDNBSDAY, APRIL 17, 1844. T'le IlOUSE of LORDS re-assenibled last night, after the Easter recess, and sat for a short time. Nothing of importance was transacted. InI the IlousR of COMM[ONS, the first regular motion on the notice paper was one by Mr. WySE, for a return of the iniaies, offices, plares of lbijth, salaries, aiid ages of all persrns holding offices ...

... DUBLIN, APRIL 14. [PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] NATIONAL EDUCATION-THE MINISTRY. I have learned from a well-informed source, that a letter, the import of which has been correctly described by the .Bening jMail, had been forwarded to Earl De Grey Bug- getting that, in future, those clergymen who eupported the national system of education should alone be selected for promotion in the church, The ...

... CQURT CIRCULAR. ted Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, accom- on paied by the Princess Mary, arrived in town yesterday de- acm ber reeldence at Kev, and visited her Majesty and the , ieen of the Belgians, at Buckingbam Palace. we Thie Anerleal, dwarf, General Tom Thumb, accompsuieni tho by Mr. Barnum, his guardian, atteaded at Buckingham mug Palace yesterday, and bad the bhnoar of ...

... DREADFUL FIRE IN OXFORD-STREET Last night, shortly before twelve o'clock, a fire, attended with great destruction of property, and, it Is feared, with lics of' life, broke out in the extensive range of pr',mise. Illdonging to Mr. Williams, situate at 2d7, Oxtord-etreet, thse orner of Gilbert- street, and known as the Crown end Cushion Wine-vaults. Thle premises Were four floOts high, lnad had ...

... SEATATE OF GREECYE. 'OPtltlWI Dl? M. TRICOUiPI (LATR MINISTBI Tol TIIP. COURT'' Ot li'T. JAIe'S, ANID NOW MiTHlltR OP THE11 NATIONIT. A8Slt.41tY POR MOSHSOLON01III), ON TH'f1 SUBJtfl'T COP' 'rilE ElACTION ANDI MIATI(N OP TiltE SENATE, ON TIlMt 28'rit oF' vEio., 1844. Mr. I'resident-Thesubject we are to examino this day is by whom and under what limitations the Senate is to be elected. ...