... I - - -. A I Tue Great Southern and Western Railway Company held their hblf-yearly neeting on Saturday. The re- port was an unfavourable one, there being a decrease of £7,621 in the traffic receipts, with an increase of more than £2,000 in the working expenses. The falling off must be most largely attribnted to the de- structive opposition carried on between this company and the Midland, there ...

... DUBLIN AND BELFAST JUNCTION RAILWAY, I (FROM OUR SPMCIAL REPORTLR.) Tiln 1alf-yearly meeting of this Company was held yesterday nt their Office, Talbot Street, Dublin, at 12 o'clock, JouN BARLOW, Esq., in the chair, MIr. iIUMpiRiEY M. BoURINE, tile Secretary, having read the report of tho directors and engineer, vhich have been already published in the NewA-Letter, the company's scal was ...

... Tie following is the report of the Directors to be pre- sented at the forty-third half-yearly general meeting of proprietols, to be held on Wcdeesday next, 10th Fcbruary:- III rendering to their constituents the usual half- yearly account of' their proceedligs, the directors are gratified to be able to lay before them a satisfactory statement of their afftirs. The following are the ...

... WE have to direct the attention of our readers and the public to an important letter upon the state of Donegal, which appears in our columns. Living in the midst of the district about vhlich so much has recently been written, the writer has undoubted means of knowing the facts whichl ho certifies; and in further confirmation of which' convincing dcu- ments are appended to his letter. For some ...

... [aY MAGNETIC TELEGRIPH.] The Overland mail has arrived, with advices from Calcutta to Jan. 23; and long-Kong, Jan. 15. The Chinese news is seventeen days later. The Bengal HIurkara, of Jan. 23, gives a summary as follows of the events of the preceding fortnight:-, Our letters from Bombay and the North West ar- rived in duo course, and there is every sign of an early restoration of peace and ...

... WIND AND WEATHER REPORT-FEB. 7. BLeblAT, S., (11111. JAN. O. [BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPHL. Armagh, S, flne. Kircudbright, S., diu Ardrossan, S.W., stormy. ecds, S.E., dull. Ayr, S., fine. ielnc;, ?? fl Birmingham, S.W., tine. Londoond rry, S., sto Coleraine, S.E, flne, London, S. dull. Carlisle. S., dull. Liverpool, S.SE, filn C.Douglas, W., dull. fiddlesbro', E., dull Chatham, S.W., Newry, S.W., ...

... (tQf Pt.so. THE CONSTITUENT PARTS OF THE CABTNLT. (FRoM Trt 3MOltt'Ii HERALD.) SIR GEORGIE GREY is lnotling but a partisan, and throughout his eluer has displayed neither intlopen. dence nor abilit.. The satite may be said of Sir Charles Wood, viiose mistakes in almost 'everv de. partiomont of tlt Governime'nt wvotlil fill a volune. When Chancelblo of the Exchequer Ills ?? pro- jects ...

... 9?t Ndfut (ESTABLISHED AANO 1737.) BELFAST: TUESDAY, FEB. 9, 1858. TH'i latest Prliarqentar y and foreign news will be found in our telegraphic columns A vote of thanks to the Indian armies was passed in both Houses. The terms of the vote will be found in the letter of our London Corres. pondent. The affairs of Montenegro are again somewhat threatening; Turks and Alistriar~s seeming to be ...

... (FROM THiE EXAMINER.) Tills following arc, we understand, a fow of the noticesi of motion and questions to be proposed in the course or the preseit week, on matters of considerable in- terest to the British public:- I Mr. Pry, member for Whyhorougb, to move for a i return of tho civiL or other services of the lol. Chas. Beaumont P'hipps, constituting the claims of that gentleman to the honoirs ...

... (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.} LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING. EVENTS follow each other in such rapid succession now-a-days that one has scarcely time to recordtheni. It was but this day week that the Premier, jaunty and deflant, 'dismissed with contempt the deputation that waited upon him to protest against the Chan- cellor's Letter; and, to-day he is the fallen Minister, defeated by his own friends ...

... THu half-yearly meeting of the Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor Railway Company will be held on Sa- turday next, in Liverpool, The report of the directors to be presented thereat is almost wholly taken up with a lengthened statement as to the differences existing between them and the Board of the Newry and Ar- maggh Company, Into which the Newry and Enniskillen Company has been merged. ...

... CATTLE SHOWS FORL 1858. Tuim principal cattle shows during the current year have been arranged as follows: - .1 The Spring Show the Royal Dublin Society, to be held at Unblin, on April 27th, and following days. 2. The Chester Meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, on July 1)th, and following days. 3. The Show of the Yorkshire Society, on Aug. 4th and 5th. 4. The Londonderry ...