... ImPRmvEmmET. OF IRELAND.-WASTE LANDS. So many plsssore of them foolish, others absurd, 'scd mostof thberm' impracticable, have been habitually put forth under the urame of Improvement of, Ireland, that we have for a long time almost instinctively set down as trash two-thirds of the articles under this title which have fallen in our way. Occasionally, however, this desert is enlivened by an ...

... *EXPRENSA THE foreign news contained in the London Papers of SATunDAY evening, which arrived last night, is of nogene- ral importance; ani, therefore, withoutfurtherobservation, we proceed to iJy hefore our readers the following abstract of the Parliamentary proceedings of Friday:_ HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY, FE]]. 26. ORANGE LODGES. Lord WVINCHELSEA said that, in consequence of the reiolutiois ...

... ENGLISH MUNICIPAL ELECTION6. The English Municipal Elections comm nenced on Satur- day last under the Corporation Reform Act, and the fol- lowing is a summary of the- general results, so far as they have yet been published:- LivEm'ootL.Reformers 44, Tories 4. BRISTOL.-Reforiners 25, Tories 23. LANCASTER._ Reformers all, Tories none. WVr-.N.- Reformers 27, Tories 3. NoawIcH.-Reformers 28, ...

... AIIIIVEDi, April 4 Castd ttle, (st.). D)1i1cran, Gilsgow 5.., aIerotait, flitrhie, Killiough, grdil M1;crqltoi wellitigtoic, Crother.4, Carlisle, alabaster ' 'mi. lilcitsacja, Davis, IDubhini, gecceral cargo 11ilpiti (it.), ullFce, Gi.;lnScccw il'icl-ccl, ,t), Iheidi, Lvrerlcd I owai Cdlstic, (Ft.), DluccccI, Glasgow Ill LOliciS frona Eoiglcc lid froin heftlhcid SAILEO. April l;..lerathl, ...

... SABBATH OBSERVANCE Qul?.sfloN,- (Fron tAh JohL BUll ot ,ly 22. W' Ve last week incerted a hiteer frots eir. Baden Pi)wI, Saillian Professor of Geometrv at Oxford, of whom we have Also sp,,ken elsewhere to-driy. WV wv ie Wvilling to give tir Prolesoir every advatritHi, if the assertti1s 4 tit fetl in titit letter, isitaided by siriy eo ..meiits of orr odii. Hlaving so |done, we feel thrt We ...

... ORDINATION' AT BENP~fP. On die 2d iistanit, tile lies. janies lVullertonr w;lS oi'dailh ii to tile pastoral charge of the Presbyterian Congregatioll (I lBerlibrb, by the Committee of the Synod of Ulster, unadr whose care the Congregation had been placed. 'I'e ecrviccs of tile day were conlilieneel ly the lRev. I'. Shuldo1i1 I lemy . of Armagh. lfe chose fur bis text the scerovrl and cighthl ...

... AN IMiURrAN'r P CBLICO-PRIVATE AFFAIR. To us it is always a disagreeable task to obtrude our own private matters upon the notice of the public, and brief as the present statement may be, it should never have been made at all bad it not been for the more than discourteous conduct of our contemporary, the Ulster Tines. In the number of that journal for Tuesday last, it is asserted that the ...

... LONDON PAPERS OF SATUJRDAY. DEFEAT OF COMIEZ. THZt London Papers of SALTURDLAY evening, Iwhicb reached us last night, contain a striking instance of. the falsified and contradictory statements wbich are periodical- ly transmitted to this country, in relation to the affairs of the Peninsulb ane for which we are, no doubt, indebted to the agents of the French Government. ,Notwithstatidiag the ...

... ))orrrlrttll AI/'eq, 91h Sp't. l:I3G. IT' l)V)A it STr -I thanitlt ou trtelt for yotir srpe titatiiiitt an arevonrt of the retuert of 31:. Jalltres-a lilit wholl 1 o prroud to recklon amongst ity trriends-hecarrset fieis rlre of tht m st rabtional of the friolld.s of freodolil. Ile is ready to work out ids prritciples into practical eiveot. It is a credit to your coriuanty to have elected ...

... BELFAST VEWS CONTINUED. The Synod of Ulster will hold their annual meeting this day, at Omagh, and the Secession Synod this day week, at Beliast. SALE OF TEAS DIRECT FROM CHINA, PER SELMA.`_ MESSRS. Wae. APCLURE & SoNs.-On Thursday last, this sale, which has attracted so much attention amongst the mercantile community of our town qng neighbouihood, and, generally speaking, throughout Ulster, ...

... The importance of Loch Ryan as a port of refuge for tie shipping of the Clyde, and vessels navigating the Irish Channel, will appear from the fact, th;,t during the year just ended rio less than three huidred and twenty-four ves- sels have taken shelter in it, either through stress of wea. ther or frorm adverse winds ; and this number, from the prevalence of southerly winds for the last three ...

... B D&AL TE NE7ISi EMTZTE it. BELFAST, FRhQA'Y, JANUARY 29. MEETING OF PARLIAMENT. TttunsDAY next, the 4th of February, is the day fixed for the assemtbling of Parliamernt, w hen the grand question as to the strength or weakness of the present Administra- tion will be practically determined. Important as the occasion confessedly is, it does not seem to have excited amongst the leading ...