... NATIONAL ANTI-POOR-LAW PRtOVIDENT AND BENEVOLENT UNION. At apulid ' eat ied to ' Ats-t i b- Jects of this inatjt'W0Qii, was held on Thursday after- noon, in the large room, of the London Tavern, Sishopasgate-street, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor in the chair. Mr. B. B. CABBELL, M.P., one of the chief foun. ders ot the Institution detailed the proposed plan to whichae f not remove the distress ...

... MESSRS. M'GRATH AND CLARKE'S TOUR. mn GREAT MEETING AT BRISTOL. On Wednesday evening, October 28tb, at the hour appointed foar the meeting to take place, the Mecha- h nics' Institute was crowded,.h On the motion of Mr. Rogers, seconded by Mr. c Cooke-, Robert Harris, Esq., was called to the chair. Silence having been restored, he addressed the C meeting in nearly the following words :- b Mly ...

... THE week presents few points for notice or corn- -Ment, As usual, Ireland excites the greatest anxiety and interest-; and, unfortunately, the comparative lull in its troubled condition, which has been ob. servable four the last few weeks, is again disturbed. The approaching completion, in many instances, of the public works voted at the baronial sessions, and the consequent cessation of work ...

... DEATH-3nED SUPERSTITION IN DEVONSHinul.-Thoro is a curious sutperstition in Devonshire, that the doparturo of lire is delaved while any lock is closed in the dwelling or any bolt shot. It is a practice, therofore, whon a dying person is at the last extremity, to open overy door in tbe house. This notion oxtends even to the supposition that a beam over the head of the dying mank impodes the ...

... I! hi Rig Lie heavy on him, earth, for he exo: Laid many a heavy load on thee. to 1 IV 'TE. SOCt2'rY OP MERCHAYT VBENTURERS, BRISTOL. Ps' ano: GENTLEMEN-HOW profoundly applicable this sarcasm on the dre memory of Vanbrugh must be to your smaller sigaifioance and sti Importance, as local builders and itaproeres, time and truth- ,, telling facts will only too plainly proclaim. Meantime, I must ...

... RErPEAL AsSOCIATION, Monday.-The weekly meeting of the association was not so numerously attended as on the precedingi Monday. Mr. O'Connell rose for the purpose of reading his report on the subject of the disunions and dissen- sions that existed in the association. The question was, whe- ther moral force or physical force should be in the ascendant. He (Mr. O'Connell) was therefore in favour ...

... lRELANI. ?? trie Northiernt T' ish;. I)TEIATTilS FR(Nr JIUNOER. We are strrv it ilae to sav, that the tatemt accolilltc. frorn seteral sailrt, Ire'lartid. are of a more ei:lo-rt; character than the-c i hiktl h:1.l rert r'r-crrive' for stine tinme prt?iouSiV. Three ioath-ts a@ re.-ijrtcrd to bvare ta.ien plate. frcnt starva- tiri. io the ttc-i'hiiood of Skibbereen anld it i- statedl. with ?? ...

... THE GREAT NORTIHERN RAILWAY. (CIIALXAWMAhED LONDON AN YORK, AND DIRECT NORTHERSN) (From the Deender A duerdsee.) We are glad to observe, from one of the London papers, that operations have been actively commenced at the London terminus of this most imriportant national line of railway-one in Ai hich Scotland especially is deeply interested, as it will so greatly shorten the distance between ...

... SOUITIL WA1HK. Pf ) ipt Adam, a Vouting nia ildrestd in the uniform of a I pris tite of the 77, th t- i nen ct of l oot, ?? ?? ?? tbe bar before Mr. Seeker cl iargerd with stenlit i half a leg of inut! t ton front the ?? of, 2i r. q tone, a bu ettelr, carryig o buai- , tiens ill Mill-poid-stretet, lilrtntolldsey. ?? said that on tie pr-viotiseventlllg, ?? ?? cloX, lie witi statidintg in tile ...

... TIIE FAMINE IN ILRELAND ?? The imnportations of provisions Into the port of Liver- pool, fromt the lribh por te darihg the week from the 30th ult, V) the 5th inst. inclusive, comprised of the follosing listofarticles:-10,170 firkins, 309 half firkins, 1,078 baskets, casks, &c., and 323 boxes of butter; 312 sacks rnd 602 barrels ofwheat, 1,D6 sacks offlour ; 186 sacks, 800 qrs. and 2,25'3 ...

... runrral tigrlliictc'* COST OF }HE LEEDS POLICE FOucn.-The cost in- fcurred in the maintenace of the force. during the year ending August last, was £0,878 JOs 10d. CAPTAIN WARNeR's LowN RANOG. -The Post says that a trial of this destructive engine has been made. The greatest secrecy as to the locale of the experiment was observed, and none but the inventor, Colonel Chalmer, and two or three ...

... 13111)lir 'ffitrtillgo. FANENn IN IRELAND.-A numerous meeting of tbe working classes was held at the Guy Earlot (arwick, Gray's Inn Lane Mr. D. Brick in the chair, to devise some means, according to their power, ftr the alle- viation of the existing distress in Ireland. Several addresses were made, and a collection was made in the room, the meeting having pledged itself to small l weekly ...