... The Lord-Lieutenant and his lady are on a visit to Lime- rick, where they have been received with the most flattering demonstrations. Arrreciation or subscriptions to- wards the * Dargan Industrial Lustitute” amount to the mo- dest fix re of L.3500, In times gone by, when the “ Tribute Sund vo its annual course, the Roman chapels 1 the ot Dublin alone contributed in one day a sum little, ii ...

... - STATE OF THE C(t O TRr.-WlTith the opening spring, the ag- ricultural prospects of the countrY are improing, even in the distrie's herctofore most remarkable for destitution. The project of Lord John Russell for the relief of the distressed unions has excited hopes otgralual cecoverv in quarters where deep despondency had prevailed. Ace EXTaesreNATION Scittsa-The following statement tep- ...

... i? 1? i - In military circles it is stated the 4^h dtagcon guatds are to be added to the 16th lancers, and 7th dragoon guards to the 17th lascers. The 2d or queen's move from Dublin to Newry, the first week of April. BaRAcos.-Tho new barracks now being erected at Sheffield, and capable of accommodating 37 officers arid 910 msren, will not be ready for nccupatinn until the year 1852. KILKFN.ra ...

... T aktbolia'n 1Uctcarp. EDINBURGH. NOPNDAY, APRIL 210. A conference has been held in London under the ans- pices of the National Parliamentary and Financial l'e- form Association, which extended over two days, and was aattended by upwards of 200 delegates fromn various parts fof the kingdom. Messrs Hume, Cobden, Bright, Fox, 'I1'Gregor, Colonel Thompson, Lord Dudley Stuart, Sir ...

... On Friday the half-yearly meeting of the shareholders cf the Scottish Central Railwav was held in the General Station. Perth, at one o'clock ?? Hon. J. C. Dundas oc- copied the chair. zr Kerr. the secretary, read the repert by the directors, which stated that, according to the resolution agreed to at the special general meeting of the shareholders on the 22d of Ja- muarv last, the chairman and ...

... PAQr(r .OATS. GENERAL TE.PT OFFICE, Alir: 25. De-b- -- ?? Miitl .La- Packets Niext Packet . 'i(UTU ?? ; le- npat -d_ Sailed. De.. S j OI. iroa: Ltnidon. De (1 DaV lid.. pri17. Ap r. lS t ?? ?? . .1 L Gil ralta CQlit 1 t 1 eemc lotiotac? 2. 2 I, Ditto, 8 ?? . pt, t..y-i e:cil lMUl. , .1! l). 3ayS I i\ *r k w 'Y CIci'.ui i- u . N~sau. v & Bd a.unlu, I 24 and .17t1h Dee. Ditvo. 1 i Fre,'i tX.o. ? ...

... LATrgESTM NEW SC BYW ELECTRC tEEGRAP9 i~ ¶xC~s OF ?? mnate (Fienmic GBRM1AI'T before th2e Rn A ?? letter of the 31st nlt., inB the Cologn~e Gazette, trials on the states that the Emperor of Austria is thirstiug frgetdeuce, and deeds of wtar asid conquest. Austrian officers tell, wsith a ofthei reckicto good deal of enthiusiasmn, that wtheu Prince Charles of ad No pa Prussia wielcomed .the ...

... BRITISH ASSOCILTION. The twentieth meeting of this Association is to take place here next week. The sittings wvill commence on Wednesday, and extend over probably Ihe %%bole of the following week. The meeting is expected to be ?? attended, and the topics discussed of much irnrfrtanco to the interests of science. The sections will assemble in the College. the various class- rooms of which have ...

... EDINRUOOTI AN D GLASGOW, AND CALEDONITAN RAILWAYS. (Scottish Reformners' Gazette.) The alarum we sounded has had its effect. The Caledo- nian Company, at their meeting in London, unanimously re- J solved to oppose MIr Blaclkburn's scheme for saving the in: Edinburgh and Glasgow at thc exsnee of the Caledonian and ISt its guaranteed lines. We do not wonder at this rcsoluticw. An examination of ...

... EDINBURll!u GAZETTE, MEETING. Creditors of'JoHN INGRAM, 2rason and merchant, lately resid- ing in Mffacduff, now deceased, meet in the chambers of George Bannerman, solicitor in Banff, 16th August, ten o'clock. DbVIDENDS, Ac. Creditors of JABi7s TuRNER; taker, lately residing in Dum- fries, now deceased, -will receive au equalitoing dividend at the chambers of Messrs W. a T. H. 'G~owan, ...

... aiateonian ?? EDINBUREGH THURSDAY, JUNT 20. It is our painful duty to record one of those desolating catastrophes in the wreck of the Orion steamer, on her passage from Liverpool to Glasgow, which, in the destruc- tion of human life, we believe has had no parallel in this end of the island since the loss of the Comet in 1825. We refer our readers to the latest particulars of this ap- l palling ...

... T a I c Z) 0 1.11an, 13,11acurp. EDINBURG H. mo.IIAt. mIRCL-1, 150. We do not thiel; the budget of the Chancellor of the Exchequer ought to disappoint any reasonable expecta- tion, apart from the clamorous competitors for the suirplus. The Cliance-lor of the Exchequer calculated on a surplus of L.I,500,000 for the year ending 5ah April 1851, and lhe was beset by applications. which, if they ...