... IALFAAX AND vovENDBN JUNUTION *AXLWAY. TIhe half-yearly meeting of tho sharolholders of this company wns hold yesterday nool, at the Town lall, Halifax, COuonel AxIoOD, the chairmliu of the directory, presding. Among the directore present were Sir P. Crossley, Butt., M.., Mr. Waterhouso, Mr.P, Mr. Samuel FiieldeD (Todenordn), and ir. J. M. Kirk (Ialifax).- The S}aCBSniARY (hfr Wilkinson) ...

... The committee of B and C shareholders of the Metropolitan Extension undertaking of this company state in their report that the first point to which they gave their attention was the actual amount of cash realied out of the various amounts of capital authorised by Parliament to be charged on the Metropolitan section, which was found (including £748,883 lOs. transferred from the com- mon fund ...

... I The follovwing is the report of the directors of this company to be submitted to the sixty-first half-yearly general meeting of proprietors, to be held on the 13th inst. The total receipts irom all sources for the half-year ending Dec. 31st, 1866, were £I,230,866, and the disburse- ments £606,408, which, after payment of interest on de- benture, dc., leaves a balance of revenue applicable ...

... I I (FroM OUs LOnON RzrOnRT41.) a LONDON, Tuesday. h( One might reasonably have sapposed that, after II tho display of last year, and the comparative novelty am which then attached to it, the Royal progress through the it metropolis and the Royal opening of the session of pE Parliament would have excited in a less marked form the ql public curiosity and interest. There was much in the ca ...

... TEE LAW OF TRADES ONSr ?? ?? 'IRorI IMPORTANT DEPUTASTION TO MR, WALPOLE. (PhOi pll Lo1soON RnP'oTMl) LONDON, Friday. This afternoon a deputation waited on the Right Ron. S, R. Walpole, for the purpose of represeut- ing to hea, 'and through him to the Uo flr nxent, the posi- tion in whioh trades unions have been placed by the recent decision of t'ne Court of Queen's Bench in the case of the ...

... CIRCULAR DESPATCH OF THE BAVARIAN GOVERNMENT, The following circular dlespatc has recently been forwnarded by tio flavarialc Uovoes-,caut to its repro- scutatives at Stuttgart, Carlsrulhe, and Darmstadt. Mluxien, Jaun. 9, 1867. The fundamiental treaties of the Germanic Confederation are virtually set aside by the events of last year, and while North Germsoany is constituticig itself anew as a ...

... I PANAMIA AND WVEST nIDIA MAILS. CIIlI. The ?? S1tccr e7?1 4 'sralel of the 8th January pub- lishes the following lr ews from Chili - Tiro rumour that Chili has refused the modiation of Eugland miud France in the Spanish queestioln in conliruned. Thie N1(ere, is of Valpitruiso is disposed to accuse the cabinets of Paris and London of connivance with Spain, in trying to bring about a settlement ...

... -0-- ;SPEE]uiEH s oF, MIL MILL, M.P., AND MIR. GOLDWIN 8MITHI. YEsterday the members of the Mannhester Reform Club'telelted the opening of that establishment by a iusChecO, at 'vbich about a hundred gentlemen were present. The dhai was occupied by Mr. HuolLM soN, of Aslston-under-Lyno, and amongst those present were Mr. J. S. Mill, P.D., Mt. Goldwin Smith, Mr. Cheatham, M.P., Mr. T. 9?. Potter ...

... ~ir- The report of a visit to St. Petersburg, Moscow, [iss and Nijul Novgorod, unidertaken at the request of the ige Association of thec Chambers ci Commerce of the United .or. Kingdom, by, Rsury J1. Atkinso,,, commenced .Tuiy 7th, l it 1860, finished August 21st, 1666 (ordered to ha printed by the the Association) has just been issued, In his report, the which is dated Hull, Nov. 20th, 1866, ...

... LOCAL AND) GENERAL. .a, LEEDS, FEBRUARY 5, 1867. hi B s . ci IEBE LEEDS AseIZZ COURTS.-Acting upon the suggestions offered by members of both the bench and the m bar, the Corporation of Leeds are making important at alterations in the Crown Court at the Town Hall, which it is believed will, when completed, increase the comfort in and convenience of all whose duties necessitate their at- HI ...

... L I I FLorcnc, Feb. 4. To-day, in the Chamber of Deputies, Signor Amalfi gave sonie explanations relative to a bill he had intro- duced, proposiing the issue of one milliard lire in p &per currency. The Minister of Finance opposed the bill, which was subsequently rejected. Signor Semenza explained the provisions of a bill for removing the restrictions upon the establishment of new banks. The ...

... | LEEDS, FEBRUARY 4, 1867. IMPUDENT ROnElRtY IN LEEDS FROM A SiloP Doon.-A ticket-of-leave, named Robert Hopkins, whose sentence of four years' penal servitude expires in March next, and who, although only twenty years of age, has already been in the hands of the police a dozen times was, on Saturday, placed in the dock at the Leeds Town Hall, before J. D. Luccock, Esq., and T. Tennant, Bsq. ...