... | DU1'DALEhAND ENNISKILLENRAILL WAY. The half-yearly report of the directors of this corn- pany states that The traffic returns for the half-year have been natlsfactory; and on thenew portion of the line between Newblies and Ibellaw the re- oelpts have boon as large as, considering the recent opening and the still necessarly imperfect state of part of the works to aecoasmodate traffic, could ...

... 0 THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NETw' SIIt,-While agreeing with a great deal of YOer article on coast defences, I can by no means come to the conclusion that nothing but field artil'ery is avail able for thie defence of the vulnerable seaboai d of our southern coal~t. All the instances you have supplied of the value of lortifications, the checks of armies by even a single fort, tend in my mind to ...

... TEE MIDDL.&OL.ASSKI - ?? The list of those who have sutcesefully paused the examinations which the University of Cambridge has insti- tated for students under sixteen years of ege, not members of the University, hbasjust been published. Itisdivided intofour parts, the first three being classes comprising the names of the students vho have obtained honours; and the fourth, of those who bave ...

... I CONYOCATIQO OF THE Q2;RGOY. 1 The bishops, deans, archdeacons, and proctors for chaptues and the clergy ?? the Convocanton of Can- terbury, asseombled yesterday in the Jerusalem Chamber, puruluant to the Preiidelo's sci edule of prorogotien fioen Thursday last. His grace the President having been rum- mooed to attend her alsj(sty at Windsor, was -Dot present, ' and the proceedings wvere ...

... NA VA L AN D MNIL TA e Y. ADYIURALTY, FEB. 9. - PROMOTIONS. - COM- manders J. Roche (1838), XW. M[llwaiae (1838), W. Speck (1843), T. D. Stewart (1843), and G. Kennico~t (1846), to be captains on the reserved halt'-pay list. Lieutenan's S Strover (1814), A. Grose (1812), T. Cart- wright (1821), T. Blridges (1823), and IV. W. Oks (1826), to be cvmmnndeis on the te-erved half-pay list. ...

... THE, INSURRECTION IN HAYTI. I The followving proclamation has been issued by the Emperor Soulouque to the people and army of Hayti: HaytianB,- On leaving the capital a fortnight ago, to stifle the insurrection that has ju.st broken ou, I hoped the in- habitants of the North and the Arribonite had been seduced ?? by a few seditious persons, the only persons guilty in mn3 eyes. I hoped my calm ...

... THE SALR OF TEE RERTZ COLLEUiCON. ; - I The sale of this remarkable collection of an- tiquities by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson increases in interest as it proceeds. The room in which the sale takes place is daily crowdel by antiquaries, collectors, and others. Among the numerous objects of interest sold during the lest three days were the ?? small Egyptian ob- jects in stone, amulets in ...

... I PA4RILIAM(NTARY REFOBR.J. MANHOOD SUFFRAGE-MEETING AT GUILD- HALL. On Saturday a public meeting, called by the Lord Mayorincompliancewili a requisiton, was held is the Guildball, for the purpose of taking into orn-iderotion tbe propriety ofa reform in Parliament. Although poofessing to be a meeting of the citizens of London, it resolved itseef into a demonstration in favour of manhood ...

... (ROM Os ra OWN cOeazRPONDENT.) PARIS, SITUOIRDA EvENecirG, There are to-day some symptoms, albeit very slight and unreliable, of an impression that war may after all be avoided, or indefinitely postponed. So far from the government journals showing any dis- position to respond angrily to the very firm speeches of Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli, they have evidently received a hint to lower their ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS. SIR,-I should not have trespassed further on your forbearance on the subject of the franchise, were it not that Mr. CobdEn, in a letter to the Ballot SrKcioty, has stated that the programme of parliamentary reform as put forth by Mr. Bright, is almost identical with the proposition of our late revered friend, Mr. Hume; and this statement from such an authority, ...

... FPARzIAMWBNA:z Y. BU SINESS. ?? I HOUSE OF COMMONS..-TBuEODAY, FEDB. 24. Mr. 'MA~iI~O ak te Chef ?? what Is the ?? o. ?? co t'uhe Lrat levicaed offether ?? ofs inten- diore tof Cltodugcael ifre Lastera, a o ithe xtrupoic forc=ze sytatiofe revuaioun Inotctdemd a, d sumonsrato gthe erons tubet taoschia SC1oo'snas~ters, or for either purpeose. General tiooINsyty.TeNT oak she First Lardl of the ...

... The following reply of her Majesty to the peti- t tion of the Legislative Assembly of the Ionian I State, for the union with Greece, was read by Mr. t Gladstone to the Assembly on the 5th inst.: N VICTORIA REGINA. t Her Majesty has taken into her gracious consideration a the prayer of the petition presented by the Legislative As- V sembly of the lonian Islands with reference to the interests n ...