... T~lr I .1iMNUFACTURtE OF FLAX., At the~~-cl meting, of this body field lasl ee-~ni-i, M\r. 1i. s-s ca-IecLNSoS, 31.P., in ~the chair, ain in-S5 t-r.st5C! fasi r on ree,,nt improvemesnts ii the tiarissftc- bi *-c was relby ?? Wilsona, ?? I-in cil,51 It the lieiultural College at Cirenceester. Atr Ieetan thI appearan'ce of thle growilig plant, its 3C t'i-ut of Iutivirilant thc mode of reaping, ...

... ! We have received by extraordinary express, in anticipation of the Overland Mail, our private correspondence and journals from Bombay to the 1st March; Calcatta, 11)th Feb.; and Hong- Kong, China, 11th Feb. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.1 BOMBAY, MARbU 1. The news from Burmah is up to the 14th Feb. By the last mail, intelligence of an expedition of boats under Captain Loch, of the Winchester, ...

... [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] DUBLIN, FRIDAY MORNING. As the spring advances, complaints of the scarcity of labourers are becoming more frequent in some districts, although in general there appears to be a sufficiency of hands when a small advance on the old and very low rate of wages is offered. But the exodus proceeds with such accelerated force, car- rying off such large numbers of the ...

... TRIAL TRIP ON THE IMERSEY. The Boomerang screw-propeller, invented by Sir Thomas M i'sitohell, and which was so successfully tried, in May last year, at Sydney, was tested on the Mersey on Tuesday after- noon ; the application being made to the Genova, one of Messrs. MNI'Lean and M'Larty's Mediterranean steamer. The type of Sir Thoumes Mitchell's invention is, as our readers are aware, the ...

... MMUIAT9?. ?? a.a1 T Tis Exobus.-The Clnmet l Caronicle states that On Tho'sday week ?? the midst of-the snow, which was then falling heavily oe of lrieuconi'bt cars, capable of holding egteen prso n, and took its departure fally laden wthn Agive ansearn-the initagio hiogoappell tu i lately aueldsobypothe. Celtic poputationfor Waterford, where itsseinferse were tho take shipping. for Liverpool, ...

... In oonsequence of the denunciation of a female on ber death-bed, a publio-house keeper, named Perriohard, of the Faubourg St. Antoine, was arrested some tise ago on suspl- sion of haviag assassinated the Arobbishop of Paris, at a barricade in that faubourg, in the insurrection of June, 1848. This person was brought to trial before a court-martial. The court was 'crowded, and the trial excited ...

... IFEVl ZN dTH NAVY. I The Agamemnon, gays the 7imes of Friday, is in. fected-she is rank with a contagious fever-she is a mere floating coffin-a tender to the graveyard. The wretched crew are cooped up on board her more closely than the citizens of London were cooped up in their town when the death-crm was inscribed on every second door. This is no delasion-no vain imasgination of ours-we have ...

... A long time ago we kept our accounts-not in figures, but by notches, checks and tallies. The bold barons who managed our exchequer might put their mailed hands into the money bag, but they could neither count it correctly nor divide it fairly; and their only way of getting thiough a financial mess was by roasting a Jew or robbingI a citizen. It was something when we changed that in- convenient ...

... MILITAi Y. PoRTS.MouTH, APRIL 6.-The 1Master-Gen-eral of, the Ordnance, Lieut.-General LordRa~Ial , G.C.B.;Lieut.-, General Sir'J: Ti-Birgoyne, ?? ?? of Fortilfiations; Colonel Cator, 'Director-Goneral of Artillery, accompanied by Colonel Sir J. M. F. Smrith, ?? com- mnaing RoyalEngineer of this district,.and other offcers of the Ordnance department, proceeded in the Sprightly, steamer, Master ...

... ' ' I' ' -IRELA-ND. -- - te __ PaUBLI, MARClt l. The Irish tenant league held a meeting yesterday f, for the purpose, as they described it in their placards, of hearing & a -statement ffrom the parliattentary i reprelentatuves as to the workings of the sclees com- mittee on the land bills, and to take counsel zogether for fte ffrther advatncementt of the cause geuerally. e The muster on the ...

... CONSPIRACY TO ROB A LEEDS FL4X- MILL BY A4 FOR'kIGN .1rlXUFArTURER AgyD * O'l'lEP15. *, , p, - ,I* Thji caRe, the partidzicrs- -of which appeared. in Tire il-ot'nitg ?? SatLlrday, was finally examiued bqfore .be boreqglhrmagisiratei at Leeds on that day. There wias a numerous attendance of magistrates. Mr. Bernard 33sen- stue, df Florivale, and Mlri Thomr s Steele (tile manager of -Is flixr ...

... HOUSE OF COIMMONS-WEDINESDAY. The house met to-day at twelve o'clock. PETITIONS. Mr. MOODY presented a petition from solicitors at Crewkerne, for the repeal of the annual certificate tax, and from Sampford Budleigh, against the Jew Bill. Petitions were presenter] by Mr. Lucas, frsm the Navan board of guardians, for the remission of the Consolidated Annuities ; by Mr. Child, fromn inhabitants ...