... The schedule intended to be left at every house in Great Britain, to be filled in on the 31st of March next, has been completed and approved by the Se- oretary of State. The following are the general in- etruotionse:l This schedule is to be filled up by the ococupier or person in charge of the house; if the house is let ot-sublet to different persons or families, in stories or apartments, ...

... W- The annual soire 3 of this flourishing, institution took place on Tuesday evening, in the Public-rooims, Low Skelgate, Ripen, when from 300 to 400 membere and friends took tea -together-. The gathering on this occasion wae unusually large, in consequence of the previous announce- ment that the portrait of the Honl. and Very Rev, the Dean (Dr. Erskine) would be publicly presented to him ; ...

... ?? - . ?? - LEEDS MECHANICS' INSTITUTION AND LI FERARY SOCIETY. This flourishing society celebrated its annual soir~e on Thursday last, in the Music-.hall. The attendance was good, no fewer than between four and five hundred ladies and gentlemen being present during the evening. Professor Sedgwick had promised to attend and take the chair, but in consequence of his sudden and serious illness, ...

... UNITED STATES-CALIFORNIA. SUCH freights as are now floated weekly from California to Panama, and thence to the United States and England, put to shame all the boasted argosies which three centuries ago used to convey the wealth of Mexico and Peru to Spain. Within a single day, during the present month, there arrived at New York two steam-ships from Chagres, bringing an aggregate amount of more ...

... TO THE COIARTISTS OF ENGLAND. le My FnIsE.s -We have lived to see the most of momentous crisis that has ever occurred in the ' British democratic movement-a crisis which de- x, mands the deliberate counsel and assistance of a. every good Chartist in the land. For the last two as years your movement has been plunged into a state ir of lethal torpor. You must have witnessed a con- rt juncture of ...

... ..xretgUn tutelltgoter. Iona FRANCE. be A letter frorm Angoulgine states that the Abbe6, Geri Gotbiand, on being taken to the prison. of that town lawi recovered from the' profound discouragement into f-A which his condemnation had throvin him, and on thei~ every &av since hie has smtoked his pipe nearly the but whole of the day. When arrested, his pecuniary the resources were very small, and ...

... F~ ~ ~ --ds- - - - ,TIE CH.ARTlST VICTIM, WILLIAM CUFFAY.a I.. I 8 TO THE EDITOR OF TIlE NORTHERN sTAR. c tr SIs,-Your readers and thc public generally were il E givcn to understand that William Cuffay nnd his a fellow-sufferers otl landing at Van Diemen's Land n received a ticket of leave, and were consequently in e a state of comparative freedom ; we know this to is is be the fact with ...

... ?? 1Xr1tiillgralXr, FRANCE. v The directors of the ' Socialiste' of Dijon has P been sentenced to imprisonment for ihree months and toi pay a fine of 1,000 francs for hitivbqg pub. lished a seditious libel; and the director of the ' People' has been sentenced to imprisonment for n six mouths and to pay n fite of 2,000 francs for a similar offence. The chief editor of the ' Courrier ...

... The response to our appeal last week has so far been of a gratifying nature. The letters received at this office prove that Mr. ,O'Connor's position has excited sincere and wide-spread sym pathy, and that with proper c arrangements, that sympathy will show itself E in deeds commensurate with the occasion. System and organisation, however, are ne-X f cessary in such cases ; and, as this is one ...

... REVIVAL OF CHARTISM IN IRE LAND.-CHALLENGE TO JOHN O'CONNELL, ESQ., m.p. On) lT oad, the 26th u ltimo , being the da after .h e Mjus.-ipal Elections, the usual l weekly meeting , some Shelf dozen hangers r on of the old Repeal Dolusiod, a farthing f a week, a penny a month, and a 58lllg a year,, was held at Conciliation Hall; au which, it appears by the Dublin papers, Mr. John O'Connell made ...

... Zoe i 1 P-raillsireo. me ExpiLtON Aif TiNiamcY.-On the 17th inst., a efearful. explosion took. place at tbe Springfield )ot Colliery,, Hindley, by, which two youths, named ad, William Weston, aged 17, and Thomas Smith, aged. *b 16, loit'their lives. The inquest 'was held on 'the 19th. William talshaw, the utnderlooker, deposed'l Iut hat he was otanding npon the pit brow, waiting'to all go down ...

... XT NOE FU D To T I iT H '5 i *5c STARt' S, I,-It is gratifyinikto learn the progress bilt ff made by the miners of Nottinghamshire and Derby. shire in the organisation of their union, several lodges having be, n opened since the Miners' Con- ference was held in September last. From a letter now before the worthy secretary, Mr. Goulder seems to have but one complaint, viz.-that the harvest is ...