... OPENING OF THoE BELGIAN CHAMR E.RRS. I SPhECH OF THE KING. On Tuesday the King ofr the Belgians openeitbe. Parlia- mentary session of 1844-4', with the following speech:- GBaNTE BN, I have anticipated the ordinary epoch of your sepsiou. I was desirous ofenablingyou to vote thebudgete before the com'en1 omeinet of the year to which they apply, and to complite the examination of several bills ...

... THE FEDERAL MOVEMENT. Mr, Duffy, the editor of the Nation, has addressed a letter to Mr. O'Connell, condemning as dangerous and inexpedient any junction of the Repeal Association with the Federal movement. The following is the letter:- TO DANIEL o'CONINEI MO.r MY DnEAntSiR,-As you state in your late important letter to the association that you are at present balancing the respectivd merits ...

... The Ministerof Foreign Affairs, in the Portuguese Chamber of Deputies, on the 2d Inst., moved that the Legislative Com- I mittee should be recommended, with the greatest urgency and zeal, to report on the project of a law previously pre- i eented by him for the abolition of the conservatorial jurisri-. I tions, the abolition of whichbnot only had been established t by treaties, but concerning ...

... v *MADI~t~, Oti. 1i4. itt'OM OVR OWN CORREBPoND~r T.] About sixty deputies mnet at Senor Salamanca.'s yester- day, and it wee decided, amtong othet tbingse, thst Senor Caetro y Orozoo should be their candidato for Preeident. The Hcraltdo eoouts the notion of there being any sysetm- atio oppoaltiou to the government-defining systemnatin opposition to be one of principle, founded on difference ...

... On referring to a list of newly-projected lines of rail- way, the promoters of which are actively preparing them- selves for the earliest possible application to Parliament, it will be found the number of schemes amount to forty, extending over a distance of 2,178 miles, and involving an aggregate estimated expenditure of 39,695,0001. Of this number, five of the projected lines are in Ireland, ...

... REPEAL ASSOCIATION. At the usual weekly meeting the chair was taken by Counsellor Mackey. The Chairman briefly addressed the meeting, confining his observations to the registry, and congratulated the association on the success which tad attended its exertions. Dr Ndgle read a letter from Mr Henry Grattan, M. P., which accompanied a presentation of one hundred copies of the memoirs of his ...

... Imperfectly d -2 SYJ1 WEEKLY NEWSPAPEa. E'T0ro% ins to notice the allegation, that tr;e-ltrclu l under cultivation is but 000 do lkd ow d that a much larger Wtl!Ctb' tavy,0 therefore, be absorbed Ofea land in the Uie y clltivated there can be ad0OO0 le doubt ; an that its more perfect 1it1gould at once absorb unemployed !or,00 gient the quantity of food now acI, Andd f t pport of the ...

... WINDSOR, THuRSDAY. TbeQueen and Prince Albert took their accustomed lyI exercise, and in the cotrse of their morning w6lk pij- vieit to the Duchess of Kent, at Frogmore-house. In 1 afternoon her Majesty, accompanied by his Roval ffigbhfnc went in a pony phaeton to the Riding School) attended Colonml Bouverie. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wealns and M Prinoces Royal were taken for an ...

... 7TE 4'A.NIhS CO1S T17lZTVIOX. As REPORT O`P T.IE MINISTERS TO THE QUEEN. d Madame-When your ministerg had the homnur of pro- )f posing to your liajesty the 6ooavocationWof thb Corte; which rs are atbout to meet in the capital of the kingdom, they to thought it propsrand fitting to express, In the decree of coD- evocation, ths intention which the government -lad that a d reform of the ...

... I This influential bodv, after an apparent repose for a few weeks, caused by its undivided attention to the registries, commenced what may fitly be termed its winter campaign on Thursday evening, in the Free- trade Hall, - Manchester. The attendance was very large, the immense place being filled in every corner; the estimated numbers present being 4,500 persons. Mr G. Wilson, Chairman of the ...

... HISTLORICAL NOTIC` OF 2'HE R OA LI I ~ EXCHANG.R. I A neat little volums, under theabeve title, hns jad been publl7hed by Efsiiagham WisOn, whict appears very ,,ppcr- tunely to gratify public curiosity respecting the annals of the palace of London mercbauts6 It contains not only ample desoriptions of the three buildinigs whio have sue- e(ded one another on the site purchased bv the munifi- ...

... MADRID, OCT. 18. YROZI OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] The co-muoh talked of project for reforming the con- stilutioD, was read in the Chamber of Deputies to-day by General Narvaez, and it certainly does reform the constitu . tion with a vengeance. The changes proposed to hs made by the government embrace all the principal articles, destroy- Ing the guarantees which the constitution was intended to ...