... PROGRESS OFIMPRO VErMEZVT IN TiE WEST OF IRELAND. The following observations, tending to show the benefits conferred upon Ireland by the Encumbered Estates Com- mission, are extracted from a letter of Mr, J. Locke to the Earl of Lucan The occasion seems opportune in all its eircuinmstancei and I shall select, in illustration, the Western EHighlands, and especially the union of Newpolt-a ...

... (A telegraphic summary of the following appeared in our Second. Edition of yesterday .-1 The United States mail steam-ship Baltic, Cap. tain Comstock, arrived at Liverpool yesterday morn. ing, from New York, with 190 passengers, and specie to the amount of about $4,000. [FROM oeR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 2. We were astounded yesterday morning by an announcement in the Tribune ...

... h1OUSE, OF CONINONS.-WEDMM3IAY. Tbte Speaker took tlie chaxir at twtdie o'celock. Thu East Augliata Railway Bill (Nio.2) toves read the second time. Petitions were presented by )!r. Johnstone from a place in Cisabmannan its favour of thle Urileersity Tests Abolition Bill by r.Blair, in Isvotur of the 1'nblic-boutse (Sixitlond) Bill by Nr V. Evans, from Detrby, fur thle abolitionr of church ...

... 711E VAR-ROCKET FACTORY AT OWTBERIII TNE. Yesterday tile proceedings in this case were resumsed be- fore Mr. Leury, at the Bow-street police court, which was Crowded to excess on the occasion. Mr. B3odkin, with Mr. Creenwood (the solicitor to the Troasuiy). attor.ded as before onl behalf of the Crown, ard Mr. Clarknon weas counsel for tile defendants. The charge against William and Robert Hale ...

... WHE LONDON GAZETTE OF TUESDA Y, APRIL 19. _ LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, AuRIL 11. Notice is hereby given, that his Royal Highness Prince Albert sill, by the desire of her Majesty, hold Levees at St. James's Palace, on behalf of her Majesty, on the following days, at two o'clock:- Wednesday, the 20th instant Wednesday, the 27th instant, It is her Majesty's pleasure that presentations to his ...

... IAELAND. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] ; DIUBLIN, MONDAY MORNING. The exodus is still the engrossing topic in the provincial journals, which give further details re- garding the constant outpouring of the peasantry, to such an extent that the vessels in the Irish sea- ports are insufficient to supply the needful accom- modation, although the great majority of the emigrants proceed to Liverpool ...

... iREPORT ON ,RAIL WAY AMALGAMA- TION. ' - I FOURITH REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON. RAILWAY AND CANAL BILLS. [Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, 8tb April, 1858.j Mr. Cardwell reported from the select committee ap-j pointed to coosider the principle of amalgamation as applied to railway, or railway and esr al bills, about to be brought, under the consideration of Prrliianut, ...

... The authoress of Uncle Tom's Cabin arrived in Glas- gow on Wednesday night, accompanied by her husband, Professor Stowe, the Rev. Charles Beecher (her brother), and Miss Beecier (her sister). Being rather in' a delicate state of health, Mrs. Stowe kept herself pretty much within doors for the two days after her arrival; but on Friday night a grand soirde was held in the City Hall, in lier ...

... IMPERIAL PARLIAME NT HOU SE OP LORDS. Monday, April 4. THE LONDON DEPUTATION AND THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH. Lord CAMPBELL called the attention of the house to the address lately presented by some London merchants to the Emperor of the French. He believed that the presentation of such an address by any one except the authorized agents of the Crown was a violation of the law of nations, and he ...

... FOREIGN GLEAWITGS. Intelligence received from Jamaica announces the discovery of gold by a negro, in the district of Trelawney. An Imperial Austrian commission, under the presidency of Count Bechberg, will shortly proceed to Italy. It is asserted that General lenedek is one of the commissioners. The commission is to abstain ftopm 0bive iuterfetrte; itS duty will be to ?? the state of affairs, ...

... -L * On the 9th-inst. the King of the Belgians laid the first stone of the aqueduct which is to supply Brussels with water. -: Letters from Frankfort and Hesse Darmstadt state that emigration was never so popular in that region. Where last year one train or boat left with emigrants seven are now seen departing. . - A company has been formed to establish a railway from Bayonne to Madrid. The ...

... Rateot SATURDAY MORNING, APRIn 16, 1858. The Paris 'Moniteur ' of yesterday publishes a decree fixing the number of recruits to be raised in each depart- ment to make up the contingent of 80,000 men on the class of 1852. Signor Rossini, the composer, is raised to the rank of Commander of the Legion of Honour, and M. Pousard, the dramatist, to that of officer. In the Senate yesterday the bill ...