There has never been a time since the days of Noah, in which great and important improvements, in all branches, were pressed forward with so much energy as at the present time. There is no branch of industry but has received important facilities within the last ten years, especially in the United States. The pressure of the times has not retarded the march of genius, nor of well-aimed enterprise. There is at present more building and constructing of railroads, steamboats, houses, factories, bridges, machinery, carriages, etc, than ever before; and yet a close observer of these things sees stronger indications of the "progress of improvement," in the style of construction, than in the quantity and extent of them. An yet, strange as it may appear, while there are so many thousands of newspapers in the country, devoted to every other subject, there is not one-not one-which purports to be devoted to improvement, nor to the cause of that class of people by whom this great feature of national prosperity is produced or effected. Will any scientific mechanic, or enterprising manufacturer refuse or neglect to patronize such a paper? We shall see.