... I GRAND .eBUK sRAIZWAY oF CANADA. I The adjourned half-yearly meketing was held yesterday afternoon at the London Taverni, Mr. E. W. KWIATrsN, M.P., in the chair. The supplementary report issued by the directors on the 22nd inst., end which has already been given in our, columns, having been read by Ur. J. M. Grant, the secretary, The CHcAnRMAN asked the attention of the meeting for a, short ...

... ,ESTAZEZXCHEANGEREPORT. MAY 28.-By Messrs,, . and H. WRITE.-Freehold residence situate in Poplar-walk, NewY Malden, Surrey, also a plot of land adjoining-sold for £1,360.' . ; Reversionary interest in £1,500, payable to a gentleman aged 24 years in the event of his surviving a lady aged 56 years-sold 'ior £460. ' Leasehold residence, No. 9, Grosvenor-villas, Eoughborbugh. park, Brixton, let at ...

... I ?? ((FOM OUR OWN COWN 5POESPNT.) (The following appeared in our Evening Edition of yesterday:] PARIS , WE DNESDA Y EVENIXN. It is. evident that within the last few days some- thing very important has been going on between France and the Danubian ' Principalities. All the C papers of this evening are instructed to say that E the French military commission, whose departure was suspended, is ...

... LORD STANLEY may do worse things than invest a rouble or so out of the public purse in an annual subscription on account of the Foreign Office to the Little-Russian comic paper called Straco/piud. When Lord Ilchester's bequest of a Slavonic Professorship at Oxford shall have been carried out in the long course of ages to come-which we suppose will take place when the modern Greek Kalends shall ...

... 40 ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Y Extra Night. Ndlle. Adelina Patti and Signor Mario. THlS t EvENING (Friday, May 31), DON GIOVANNI. Md~e. Adelina. Patti, Madame L. Sherrington, Mdle. Fricci, Signori Cotogni, Ciampi, Taglisdco, Capponi, and Mario. Conductor, Mr. V Costa Commence at hall-past eight. Pit tickets, 7a. a amphitheatre stalls, 10s. 6d, 7s., and 5s,; amphitheatre, 2s. sd. ...

... I HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY, MAY 28. The LOUD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at 5 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a third time and passed Welland River Outfall, Witham Drainage, Stookport Corporation Water, Metropolitan Railway, North Metro- politan Railway, and Sheffield Water. NATIONAL DEBT BILL. Upon the motion of the Earl of DEVON this bill was read a third ...

... The Paris letters are taken up with the Imperial and Royal visits which are to enliven the gay capital during the coming summer. The correspondent of the Times, observing that the Crown Prince of Prussia has no reason to, complain of the manner in which he is received by the Parisians whenever he appears in public, and that the Princess has won golden opinions from all, goes on:- It does not ...

... ONV PICKET. A CORRESPONDENT has tested the blockade which is kept up, by the journeymen tailors on strike, at the master tailors' doors, and sends us the following account of the adventure:- Like many others, I was anxious to know what was really likely to occur to any one who, setting himself against the current of journeyman opinion, went to an obnoxious master tailor and carried away work. ...

... ,I GRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. I (REUTER'S TELEGBAMS.) BIVAL OF THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA IN BERLIN.Ye BERLIN, MAY 30. qhe Czar has arrived here. His Majesty was received at the Frankfort railway-station by the F ]1q of Prussia and the Princes, and the illustrious PE ?? continued the journey together to Potsdam. tb The Czar and his suite arrived at Potsdam at IeW 1j,30 p.m. to-day, accompanied by the ...

... CARAT STER BAIL WAY. The committee appointed at the adjourned meeting of shareholders on the 29th of March last, to consult and advise with the board of directors in reference to the financial position of the company and the organisas- tion and management of its affairs, report that they have given considerable attention to the business entrusted to them. At the time of their appointment ...

... i HtA MIMSPBOPOSALSAS TO THE MACHINERY I MIS OF BlEOTOSIO. The following is the form in which Mr. J. Stuart Mill's propositions with regard to the method of voting at elections, now stand'in the order-book of the House Of 3E Commons I n In committee on Representation of the People Bill:-t Mr. Mill-Clause 9, line 27, leave opst ell after 'From and after the,',end insert 'passing of the present ...

... ROME, May 28. I AM now in a position to give you some information respecting the Italian envoy who lately came here incognito, and whose visits to Cardinal Antonelli have been enveloped in such secrecy. He is no less a person than the Marquis Pes de Villamarina, son of the Prefect of Milan, and the most rising diplomatist of young Italy; and he has conducted his mission so adroitly that the ...