... IM1,ERrAL PARLFA MRENT7. --i HOUSE OF LORDS-TuicsDAY, APlrd , On the motion of Lord CAMPBELL, the haill e~c b6Il was read a third time and parsed. - LAND IMPROVEMENT (IRELAND) BILL; Viscouat CANNING, in moving thesecond reading of this bill, said it was a transcript, or nearly so, of a bill passed in 1847. Tne object of both that and the present bill was to facilitate the obtaining of loans ...

... An occurrence took place in this city last night which has created the most general feelings of excitement, and even horror. About a quarter to eleven o'clock last night three or four young men, chiefly belonging to the establishment bf the Messrs. Carmichael,. and with whom was one from Mr. Arnott'e house, were standing at the corner where May- ior-street joins Patrick-street. Three young men ...

... I m I THE DUTIES OF RELIEVING OFFICERS. Relieving officers are a very important class of functionaries in the administration of the poor law. Generally, they discharge their duties with a proper respect for the rights of the poor, for the poor have rights whose infraction the law will panish, though the injustice when committed is rarely subjected to the public tribunals from the inability of ...

... END OF AN ANTI-C&THOLIC DEFAMIE'S CAREER. (From the Catholic Standard)I The readers of the Catholic Standard may remember the statements made by one Robert Gilbert against the Convent of Mercy, Nottingham, and published in the Sunday Times, February, 1851 :-1 A nun had three several times attempted to escape, but failed, and at length the poor thing was sent away to be immured in a French ...

... On Sunday last the new Catholic chapel, Mullabuy, parish if C6oley, viwa consecrated by the Rev. Mr. O'Sullivan, of Tullyallen, to whom authority had been delegated for that purpose by the Most Rev. Doctor Dixon. It is but right to mention that the erection of this neat and commodious build- ing is mainly, if not entirely owing to the exertions of the Rev. Anthony Gossan, the respected parish ...

... I THE KOSSUTir( ) GUNPOWDER PLOT._ l Bow-sTRErT, SATURDAY.-At half-past one o'clock this afternoon Robert Hale and William Hale, father and son, appeared before Mr. Henry, the magistrate at Bow-atreet, to answer a summons cbarging them with having, in a house in their occupation, a certain large quantity orf gunpowder, greater than was allowed by the law to be in the possession of one person. ...

... Sorc.,p KaUlligCorr, AA E RICA. ARtRIVAI, OF TII AFRICA. LiVERPOOLr, Aetir, 3, SIX 1.N.-By the Royal Mlail steam er 4AJ;ica we have advices from New York to the 23rd ult. She br1ought sixty-three pas- s.cngers, but no specie. Tule Africa passed the steatner Askz on the 24th, hence f'or New York, 442 miles from Sandy 1-look, and on the 2Dth passed the steamer Arc1tic, ?? for New York. Tile ...

... ?'Tlr I ?? I P?!, ?? B E 1. F A S T: WEi)DNE SDAY, APR IL 6, 185 3. TILE EDUCATION QUESTION IN ENGLAND. ANoT'Irn rock-a-head in the course of the present Administration-though on0 fi)r which they have themselves deliberately steered-is the measure for the extension and improvemient of the education of the people of England, which Lord John Russell at some length introduced on Monday ...

... IT wvill be observed that, in the House of Lords, on Tuesday evening, Lord Canning was enabled to bring through the ordeal of a second reading a bill empuwer- ing landholders in Ireland to borrow money for irn- provements from private persons upon mortgage, as, by the Act of 1847, they have been enabled to borrow from public sources. We see nothing objectionable in the principle of thisbill, ...

... HI, i~ptv Ale, t-W ?? D - I -- BE TL IF A S T: IMlONDA Y. APR IL 2U, ?? TimE following are the chief items of foreign and co- lonial news received since ouir last:- FRAN C E. A despatch fromt Constantinople of the 12th states . a;t th ?? have ?? riots at BilOUsSa, anid that fiftri't Ch(istians werp tilled. A Ru lssiain war steamer hald lkft for Kendecek to protect the RUSSian subjects anid tbe ...

... F AIRS I N UL L STI .I. C'OUN-pr A Ni ?? CaIstie, 1MowIrla%. Aprill 25. COUNTVY ARNIAu Ii.-CU!lOV;ille, K'I iCSdiZIX i29 i_. l;illj hia, Fri-ll a April 29. M3lgllCr-, NcI3w 0 iv lilamlil tol, Satulrdalv, April ?? CouN-rv (X.v-xK.eIde(hillsl Mondlay, Ap-il 25. I ilgo- la-li, Tuesday, April 26. CouN'irv frl:l.- IlaglIera, Tue-day-, Aprii 2G. .Slaghera- felt. Tllil(iany, April 28. CoNI xv I) ONCI ...

... A CuRIOuS IIJS'JrORY. (lProitt the Penris Cor i' pondenee of the Atlas.) TatE recent marriage of anl English lady to anear relative of' one of' the highest of thle reigning princes in Germany has given rise to inquiry which haos been the source of great amusement to E~nglish society lhtre. It appears that thle sovereigni of thle petty State she has honoured with hier patronage, indignant at ...