... RAIL TA Y INTELLiGENCE. NORTH-WESTERN (BRANCu LINB). On Tuesday the half-yearly general meeting of the shlire- I holders in this company was held at the North-lVesterl Hotel, Morecombe; Mir. Pudecy Dawson, the chairman of the board of directors, presiding. Mjr. W. WIIXLON, the secretary, read the report. It stated that the line between Skipton and Lancaster was opened throughout for public ...

... C EPISCOP X aand CA PIT ULA R RE VEN UES. I - The Second Report of the Commissioners is as follows To THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. We, your Majesty's Commnissioners appointed by a Cor-| mission bearing date the 8th day of January, 1849, for the purpose of inquiring into episcopal and capitular estates and incomes in England and Wales, humbly present to your Majesty this our second ...

... THE LEGITIMIST CONGRESS AT WVIE.SBA DEBY. The Unsiono, one of the principal Legitimist organs, contains some additional particulars of the proceedings at Wiesbadev.. After declaring that visitors are arriving there every day to paty their re- spects to the Count de Chambord, it enumerates the representatives of the French Assembly, aud then goes on to say : In addition to political men, ...

... RUSSIA AND) ENGLAND. +0 The Journal des D~ bats of Wednesday Ilast Pub- go! lishes a series of documents addressed by thle RUSSNEmi had Governsmenrt rulative to the claims made by Lord had Palmerston onl Greece, and more recently oil the prii Government of the Grand Duke of Tuscaniy. The ceec first document is a despatch from MI de Nesselrode, 0c'~ the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, to ...

... LONDOS, AUG. 20.-Wind this day at noon V.S. W., fresh breeze and fine. Six p.m., W.S. W., moderate breeze and N fine clear ?? Favourite (whaler), of this port, was wrecked at Navigation Island, previous to the 16th n April; crosv saved. N DEL, AUG. 19.-Wind W.N.W. to N.W. by N.-ArrivedI the Lord Stanley from Honduras (and not from Quebec, as d previously reported), Success from Sydney, John ...

... AE TV SOUTH WALES. The following important communication has re- by cently been received by Lord Monteagle, and was an alluded to by him ill the House of Lords yesterday, O on presenting the petition to which it refers. It is, signed by the Speakers of the Legislative Council of New South Wales TO 'rISE IUnT 5IONOURIADLE THE LORD SONTEAGLE, &C My Lord-We have the honoer to request, on behalf ...

... THIE RIGIIT REK. DR. WISEMAIV. On the 13tih instant a private meeting of the Catholic laity of the London district, convened by the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, was held at the Thatched-house Tavelrn, when an address of congratulation to the Right RIev. Dr. Wiseman, onl his intended elevation to the rank of Cardinal, was agreed to, Rad was numerously siFned. A resolution was also passed for ...

... -4- [FlROM TlHE OVERLAND REGISTER OF JUNE 22.] at Of noticeable events, the last month has been barren. Of 15 barbarous murders and bloody cases of piracies we have is nothing to relate. Ce His Excellency the Governor still remains at Shanghae, Co waiting the return of the Reynard from the mission on whic Iabl she had been sent to the Peiho. Of the nature of the mission I nothing bat as yet ...

... IRELAN' Ii . DUBLIN, SATUIDAY MORNING. [raoM OU0 OWN CMIlREP'NcENT.j SYMTOMS o0r IMlnlt M' NE T-T!e pi.o -rlaw bur- den is daily diuniii is h:1g, on acc -t ut of deo harvest labour and the pro)spect of au: albiundalit Crup of potatoes. The first ot these ct:ses -viil haive but a temporary operation ; hut for so. e mouths past the inmates in the workhouses 11ad beeon gradually decreasing in ...

... The following is the General Report by Mr. Rud- dock, one of her Majesty's Inspector of Schools, on the Schools of Parochial Unions in the southern dis- trict of England, comprising the counties of Corn- wall, Devon, Dorset, hants, Oxford, Somerset, and Wilts, and portions of Berkshire and Buckingham- shire, for the year 1849:- January, 1850. M My Lords-During the greater portion of the past ...

... DIMPEHIAL PARLIAMENT. IIOUSE, OF LOIDS-AVEDNFSDAT. The house lmetat a ?? past one. TIe Rlloyald asedut was: gien, by (!otinmisrion, to forty-six public alnd thirty lprivate bills, in nll seventy-six; nIamely, to the following public bills .-Dtike of Camuibridge's Annuity, Marlborouighee-1o, Conity Courts Extension, Navy Pay, Borough Bridges, Public Libraries and Museums, Elections (I rehiud), ...

... CE Y7 LO N. We have received papers from Ceylon to the 11th of July. e Since the arrival of the last mail from Colombo, PSir G. Anderson has been appointed Governor of Ceylon, and the brief report of the Ceylon Investi- tgating Committee, in Capt. Watson's case, has been 0 published. The intelligence brought by thc present d mail is, consequently, somewhat behind Iiand; it irbrings, however, ...