permission,under the, customary, pains and penalties awarded'to trespassers; the ! tqwn -was filled with soldier 3> policemen, ■ andspecial constables, andthedTeadedhour approached. Then did Mr Walpole falter, announcing that he was, "advised; no legal power existed to prevent the meet ing, and it would not be opposed." King Mob was, therefore, master of the situa tion ; the parks were occupied without let or hindrance; Beales and Co, the herpes of the night. There were about 40,000 people assembled, all well behaved ; the Leaguers said their say ;' the Tories were defeated on this matter of right, and de nounced accordingly ; and, after some really-temperate discourse of tw;o hours the multitudes flocked homewards in the very best of tempers—the fearful day de parting minus disturbance of any kind. J In Ireland the gloomy month has been .devoted to conspirators, several of whom are convicted of high treason; and the afflicted Judges have no alternativebut to pass the barbarous sentence fixed by .statute as the traitor's doom. To be ;"• hanged, drawn, and quartered" is ter rible reading, and its, a relief to know that nothing bo hideous will occur. Thomas Burke was the first prisoner left for exe cution, and was to have expiated his crimes 29th inst. ; but memorials and petitions poured in from all corners of the United Kingdom, on the 27th the capital punishment was remitted. Since Burkes conviction, John M'Afferty and eight others have been similarly sentenced, and will, of course, experience the same merciful consideration. Most of these convicts were officers in the late American war; they now boastingly admit their ■treasonable^ deeds in the cause of op pressed nationality, and plainly say that if free they would re-enact them. They object to having been tried on the evidence of perjured informers, whilst they glory in a martyr's death—a glorification now denied them ; but penal servitude for life has its horrors, even should it have no terror,, and that is the commutation an nexed to the Queen's clemency.. Men have recently been arrested armed with revolvers, the constables being nearly murdered. 