... IMPORTANT FROM AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY (YESTERDAY), JUNE 17.-The Europa arrived in the Mersey at seven o'clock, from New York and Halifax, after a run of 10 days and 13 hours from the former port, being the quickest passage on record. The political news from the United States is of no im- portance. THE ATTACK ON' CUBA. Havanna letters state that four members of the ...

... GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. I-v is with the Most palinfl feelings that we have to relate the loss oif the Orion, a fine steamer, hithierto plying between Glasgow and Liverpool. The melancholy event occurred at an early hour on Tuesday morning, the I8th instant, and the catastrophe, we lament to say, was attended with a great sa- crifice of human life. Tule ill-fated vessel was, it appears, a steaming ...

... COMMITTEE ON THE BELFAST IMPROVEMENT MILL. IRoame of CGosness, AMonrIQY, litte 17. TUE committee on this bill met, to-day, and the case for the promoters haviig ?? closed, MIr. Joy, on the part of the ratePayrrs, addressed the committee in opposition to the bill. Air. Joy ?? decision the hoel. committee have re. ceantls' come to lias reiluced t lis bill. by a very considerable extent, and I ...

... (Tarmpoflicact. ING IN BELFA,,STr. TO THE EDIaTOR OF TOE BELFAST NrNIVS1.ErTElt. SIR-I pcrceive, by a statement contained inl youir paper of lhe 4ilh intmant, that ain aggregate miceting of the frienids of Tetiati -right, thrioughiout I le districts at joining Belcfast, lias been called for thel~t 2 of thide o6nitl, !it thre Music- Iela]. The gctneral conviction of society now seenis to he, ...

... ST. JO[TN'S DAY IN BELFAST. D)EDICATION 0F TIT I FREEXT'ASONS' HALCL, 116NElGALL-PlAG I ON, -Mondav, 2-f h Jittt, being St. folio's dlay, thea Free- Ilcaseis of ?? Ledorl. N o. IO, odcof Concord, No. 410, aol Priice of Walce~s Lod~e, Nol. 154, met, for thle pur- p~ose of clelihrat ik tie festi hal, codI dedicallihg to Itle per. p~oses of Naora e og-r m, l. i-lv litticil i) in that buinoliii ...

... ffiorcflt 3qutL i?~nr P R A N C E. SETTLEMENT OF THlE GREEl QU1ESTION. PARIS, FRIDAY EVEiNNn,-To-dav Geneicral Lahitte an- nounced to the Asseimble the terminnationi of the dispiite %with Entglatid, til Englisli Govertinient Slaving consented to sub- slittille tile Convention of London for the arrangements come to at Athens.' Ai. )rotniy (lc Linivs has returneti to h is post in London. 'I le ...

... BANB1RIDGE UNIMN WORKIvIUSE.-INDUSTRIAL TI RA I N I NG. Fnowr a rep'srt of a visit paid to the Bianhli,Ilce Worlkiouse nsothe 214t ilt., liv lessrs. A ?? al Dieliiei ?? of wvorkchouses, ev ilence of a most svtisfactory satuare as to tile excllnisit results of indluistrial traillisig in that establish- mtent is afI-foidedi. The i espectors fonid six looms at wvork, maillfacturileg hiaklliets, ...

... YESTERDAY being the anniversary of the colmoeuceroent of thle Total Abstinence t11oveinlot in thlis town, fri-i inl early hinnr thle streets presetited 11tokens of a goodly dla, to the friends of moral] reform. Thn in~te of preparatiaii causedl sit on usual stir on Satnirtcy eveliitg last, in all t Ite leading thoroughfares %%here gay decoratiotis %VCre to lie obltainued and the ...

... ,forriC3l Kitrflig~nrc. F It A N C E. PARTS, MONDAVY EV ?? Globe's correspondent writes that it was stated in the diplornatic circles that the Milister of Foreign Affairs had shoini sonie hesitation to nc- cept the propositions for an arrangement of the differences with England, sulistitetieg for tre colnditiios imposed hy Mr. Wyse the treaty of London, provided the Greakr Government should ...

... COMMUTTEE ON TIIE BELFAST IMPROV EMENT BILL. THE committee on this bill met again on Tuesday-Sir H. Willoughby in the chair. The cross-examination of Mr. Bates, which was commenced on the previous day by Mr. Joy, on behalf of the Mar- quis of Donegall, Sir Edmund Macnaghten, and the seventy three ratepavers who petitioned against the bill, was resurmed. The object of the cross.examination went ...

... MR. CRAWMFORD'S TENANT-RfGIIT BILL. THE followino is an abstract of the bill about to ble intro. duced by Mr. Crawford on the important subject of Tettant- right. Abstract of a bill to provide for thle better securinig and re- guflating the customi of Tenamit-rigit, as practised ib tsite province of Ulster, anti certaii other districts it I ieland, and to make provision for compensations to ...

... OPERA1riON OF THIE ENCUMBERED ESTATES . ACTr-TrE MARQUIS OF WEST'MEATHI'S I O'Ml ION. Ox Mondrav night, in the House of Lordis, the Mlfar- quis of Westmeath suceeded(l in getting afflinned the principle of a nieeasire whielh, when enactedl, will ma- terially affect for the better the operation of the En. cumbered Estates Act. Our realers are aware that we re- cognise to the full the utilitY ...