A few members of the National Convention remain in town,
and hold meetings ; but their proceedings neither attract nor deserve much attention.
Abele three thousand Chartists assembled in Smithfield on Monday evening, and for upwards of two hours remained on the spot creating dislurbauce. Several were armed -with large knives and sticks; and amongst the motley group flags were exhibited, some bearing inscrip- tions of " Death or Liberty," " Universal Suffrage," " Chartists for ever ;" one was a large black flag with a skull and cross-bones in the centre. A body- of the Police were in the crowd, and were insulted by mobs who paraded round the market.
At a large meeting of the rate-payers of Marylebone, held on Mon- day, the Ildbywing resolution was carried unanimously, after a fruitless resistance on the part of Mr. Hume, who was very ill received—" That this ineet:ng cannot but view with great alarm and regret the two Bills before Parliament purporting to introduce new regulations in reference to the Police and Police Courts of the Metropolis, inumuuch as they have a tendency to abridge the rights and privileges of the subject, conferring exorbitant powers upon a paid and irresponsible Magistracy of an arbitrary and uticonstitutional character ; and that such measures are more obnoxious, inasmuch as they have emanated from a Ministry from whose professions and previous acts the country had. hoped for measures of a more liberal 'moire."
Subscriptions are in progress for the erection of a magnificent Roman Catholic cathedral in the Western part of the Metropolis, in the Gothic style ; to be decorated in the interior with the most finished specimens of' the arts of painting and. sculpture, to contain ten thousaud persons, and to form externally one of the noblest architectural ornaments of the empire. It is said that the Pope is to come over to consecrate the Cathednd )1 ben finished, and it is calculated that the edifice will altogether cost about 150,0001.—.Thiretny Chronicle.
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