... THE ENGLISH PRISONERS AT NAPLES. I COMMENCEMENT OF THE TRIAL. FRzOM OUI OWN COMEST-ONDENT) was SALERNO, JAN. 30- T The great political cause, commonly called the dt, Sapri cause, came on for trial yesterday morning. in a To Englishmen it wears an especial interest, as two cai ting of our countrymen are amongst the prisoners. to a Their case has been long before the public, and, the rle after ...

... OXFORD, IVO1WESTER, AND WOLVYERBHAAPZO RAIL WAY. (PROM OUR OWN REPORTER.) se WORCESTER, THURSDAY. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held is to-day at the Guildhall here. The meeting was also a special one, for leasing the Worcester and Birmingham Canal. W. aFENTON, Esq., the chairman of the directors, presided. The report of the directors (an abstract of which has already appeared in ...

... ir LONDON 4ND SOUTH-I WSTBRNRArI WAY. ~eThe following is, .the report of the directors to be laid before the half-yearly general meeting of shareholders eton the 12th instant: en~ 3, From the subjoined half-yearly accounts to December 187 t'wl esenta tentrevenue for the half- year afer edutin ineret o lonsand all other preferen- tia chreaout1o1475? 0.ld. ; add surplus at Jun, 167,875. 6. 7.; ...

... The date from Melbourne is December 15. There is not much political or general news, but the com- mercial intelligence is important and unfavourable. The following statement from the .lfebozrne Price Current will explain the situation of affairs : In our last circular, dated the 16th November, we gave a le detail of the causes whose operation had produced the extraor- a- dinary stagnation ...

... OXYOBD, WORCESTER, AND WOL VPRHAMPTON l RAIL WAY. The report of the directors, just issued, shows a total revenue from all sources of 1Z2,7941. 113., and a total expenditure of 53,1801. 10s. Sd., leaving a balance of 69,6141. Cs. 4d.; which, after deducting interest of debenture bonds loans, interest on debenture stock, Stratford Canal fixel charges, Stratford Railway, &c., enables the ...

... AtID-L~d2D B.AIL WA Y. Lrhe The half-yearly meeting of this company was th held yesterday, at Derby; Mr. J owo ELLIS in the chair. 4 The report and statement of accounts, which were taken it as read, have already appeared in the Daeiy News. ho The CnAomxAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said ble he could fairly congratulate the proprietors upon the position he of their affairs. go ...

... DESPATCH FROM HER MAJESTY'S I AMBASSADOR AT PARIS. RtAL COWLXY TO THE EARL OP CLA&RPNXOO (Received Feb. 21.) PARIS, FEB. 20, 1858. My Lora,-Having learnt by telegraph that cer. tain resolutions imputing blame to her TIaiesty's go. vernment for not having made any reply to Coant Walewski's despatch to Count Persigny, dated the 20th of January, had been affirmed by a majority of the House of ...

... THE CONDEMNATION OF SECRET I I . DIPLOMACY. TO THB EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS. o bs StI,-It appears to me that the advantage we he fro~ have gained by the vote of last Friday does not entirely eonro- slist either in the overthrow of an untrustworthy ministry, or I in the defeat of a bill of doubtful, at least unproved necessity, tiol or in the exhibition of our national jealousy upon the ocea- ...

... I - -.xT LAWCASHLR RAIL IVAsY. . *- e ._ I The hgftearl W eeting of the shareholders was held on Friday, at ity ht . T. DU rDALE preidi g. An abstract of thehalf-yearly report and accounts has already appeared in the .Di'e y .ws. The CuiXwAN1ii'mOning the adoption of the report, regretted'thgt the revenue did not admit of as iarge a Civi- dend as in the tWO previo~ufehalf years, but he ...

... NAVAL VLAND MILITARY. I (FRaOM LAST NlIGrT'S dAZHTTII.) WAR-OFFICE. Fza. 28. BRtEVET. Brevet-colonel JTames Hz Grant, ?? of the 9th Light Dragoons, V to be major-general In the army. Bit WAR-OFFICE, Psa1. ss. Ap 2nd Regiment of Life Guardo-Henry P. lHwart, gent., to be cornet and sub-laueeteant, by purchase, vice Bon. Kf. H. Meistyn, who A retires. Ter 6th D~ragoon Guards~-WilliamMIles Nairn ...

... - ASTERN COUNTIES RAILIWAY. I Yesterday thn fnrt.fv-.h;-,1 . PI B_ Yesterday the forty-third half-yearly meeting ,fof the proprietors of the above railway was hedd at the Loi- 1l don Tavern, A-r. HORIATio Lova, chairman oif the board of BI directors, in the chair. The attendance was numnerous. n~ The report has already beent published. The gross a Adreceipts ef the hal-year amounted to 667 ...

... IANOTHBE GOVERNMENT PROSE- I CUTIOT. ALLEGED LIBEL ON THE EMPEROR OF THM FRENCH. Yesterday Mr. Bodkin, counsel to the Treasury, atrodl in atpow-street polioe-offioe to conduct a prosecution against Edward Traelove, a well-dresed, middle-aged man, described as a bookseller, who was charged with having ?? written and published a false, malicious, scan- dalous, and seditious libel of and ...