... AMERWCA. Liverpool, Thursday. 1 By the United States nmil steam-ship Baltic, Comstock, commalldoor we have aduices froam New York to the 2t iDst. She has ,brought 181 passengers, and a small amiount (about $6000) of specie oil freight. TIhe 1altic Whell two days out broke thc crank pin of he engiics, and lad to lie-to for 26 lmnors in conseqsllence. At 1 o'clock this morning she got foul of ...

... SOIREE IN IIONOUR OF MRS. If. B. STOWE. Qoucnmn Lfl AZ.i1flU.f 'J main. SI. 05. 01ru Ut. Onl Friday night Mris. Stowei tile distinguished author of Uncic Tom's Cabin?'' was cutertajised at at soirde ill tile City Hall, when upwards of two thousand of our fellow-citizette, nuilo end feiniae, aissembled to do0 her honour. 'rTe huimense hell was crowded in evcry part, anid mnany hundreds, Ave uul ...

... TOWN4COUNQIIl PROCEEDINGS. .. ?? ?? I . -. .. . -, ?? A meeting of COuncil was held yesterday-the Lord Provost in the chair. Befolre thle approval of, the minutes, 3Mr. Af5Lellan at soens length expressed hsis dissent against the resolutions of Cisc last meeting of Council agreeing to petition in favour of thle University Tests Bill, and the Jewish Disabilities Removal IBill. The dissent was ...

... R STOWE IN LIVERPOOL. Te(From ithe Liverpool Mercury of Mlonday.) T talented authoress of Uncle Torn's Cabin, tite'm~63t' popular work of the preseot day, is at ptresenit in Liverpool.* She arrived on Sunday morning, inl ite Canada, from Boston, accotpnitfied by lior husband, tito Rev. Calvin E. Stowe, and tiar brothers, the Rev. Charles Beecher. We stated in our last that Mrs. Stowe was ...

... s ?? ?? (From the Morning Chronicle's Correspondence.) Paris, 'i'ursday Evening. Tile accounts from Madrid continue to be of an alarming character. The situation of public affairs is becoming daily more and more critical, while the irritation of the two sections of the so-called Conservative palty (for the Liberals have dis- appeared alinost'entirely from the political stage) continues to ...

... SCOTLAN D. The Senatus of the University of St. Andrews, at their meeting on the 9th inst., unanimously conferred the degree of D.D. on the Rev. Robert Nisbet, of West St. Giles', Edinburglh. University Degrees.-Thle Senatus Academicus of the University and King's College of Aberdeen have conferred the degree of 1).D. on the Rev. Horatius Bonar, of the Free Chlurch, Kelso, author of The Night ...

... LI:=ER1'OO, APRIL - 16 1.1VE4RPOOL., APRIL 16. (Frone osr own Correspondent.) b The royal Mitil steani-shilpi Canada, Captain Stone, sailed tl this afternoon for Boston, rica lalifax, carrying out the large te number of 200 passengers, a heavy cargo of goods, and the usual enails for Canada and the United States. Every berth f fore and aft in the ship was taken up, ine 'act, a considerable ti ...

... MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 18. The Jewish Disabilities Bill3 waz redaA third time in the House of Commons on Friday by a majority of ?? ?? 1- 1- . . 1A O QQ -1 Adc z 2 T 1 O .,I, fifty-eight, the numbers being 288 and 230. The sub- OT Sect has been so often and so thoroughly discussed qi that we are sure our readers will thank us for not en- larging upon it here. The assertion that the adoption ...

... E N G LA N D. The Court.-\Xe understand that the progress of her Majeisty towartis Con I ?? ias been so fivour- able thiat the ustial arrageiients have already beei mliadc for tile departune of' her Majesty for tile Isle of \Viglit abolit tile 30t1h inst, ilt, accomipan ied by the vwhole of' the Rtoyal. fatmily. ThlIc ()ueen Will probably rcmaiin att lle ?? va ~l a rihle Villi t 10 it a fortni ...

... IL- -- - - .A Io (From the Times.) Southampton, Friday morning. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's ship Iberia, Capt. JohnBowen, has arrived here with dates from, Gibraltar, April 5, Cadiz 6, Lisbon 9, Oporto and Vig6 10. Shie brings 24 passengers, and ohn freight, specie value £2490, 64 boxes and 28 barrels of dates, 398 boxes of oranges, and sundry mercha,,dize, also a hylena and a wild ...

... IMPROVEMENTS IN GENERArTIN STEAM. Mr. S. Cable, of St. Louis, U.S., has taken out a patent for x a new mnods of generating steam, by whiil be proposes to dis- pense with boilers altogether: His plan is to employ a metal- lie net-work, similar to Ericsson's, upon which, when in a properly heated state, jets of water will be thrown, and being immediately converted into steam, will be conveyed to ...

... -Thc haf-yerly meeting of this reverend Court was held in Ayr o uday. A letter was read from the Clerk, the Rev. Dr. Auld, inti- iusting that ho was unable, from indisposition, to attend the court;- at the 'samne time ainnouncing his resignation of the office of Synod Clerk,' wh~ich res~ignatiosi ho would duly lay before tie court ait next incoting. Thle Rev. Dr. requested that his sol, AM r. ...