... EASTERN BENGA RAILWAY. I The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders was held yesterday at the London Tavern, Mr. J. F. LimTH in the chair. The report having been taken as read, The CHAinMmA moved its adoption. He said it showed if not a large a steady increase in the traffic of the railway, the receipts being 6,0001. in ex- cess of those of the corresponding half-year of 1865, and 68,0001. ...

... JROM LAST NIWI3YS -AZITTE. [NA3ES OFi S3OLTOITOR1S AND FURTHER PAILTIOOLIAW TO 11IIB OBTAIITED. AT TIL. OFF'ICE of THE CRIES REGISTRAB, B COIURT OF BANXfItUPTOY, WAINGUALL.STRMETI BIANKRUP111TS. FREDERICK WALKER, King :gdward-street, ?? New-to' BU beer retailer, to Surrender June 12, at 11. LEWIS HARRIS, BlillOV 11ost~n~rog~e,,ue~ai. I WILLIAM IIENRY WVATERS,1 Vine-court, Moor-lane, City, ...

... T R )Intae Dolf rs KS'1 JDA Yt .YATE 1. ji0 people stippose that the subject of Trades Unions I-is beinlg disposed and settled, they are likely to filn themiselves exceedingly mistaken. (n the can- irarv, the subll) is new fhr the fint thno coming promliniently beforo P'arliamoent aud the country. In other words, the orvanisation and the principlos it eulbodies haveO acquired such a magnitude ...

... ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN Mdlle. Paulhie Lucca and S r Mari P ?? 1), FAUST E MA ITA. Mdle. Pauline Mario. C'onductor. Inr. Costa. Comenco at half-past eight. Pit tickets, 7s., amphitheatre staUs. 10s. od, 7s., and s.; am- phitheatre, 2s. id Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had at the oliice, under the portico of the theatre, which is open from ten till ive; and at the principal ...

... The Tailors' Strike is acquiring serious dimensions. At a Imeeting of masters, on Saturday, the determination not to give way was expressed in the strongest manner. On Wed. nesday the men replied with a great meeting at the Alhambra Palace, Leicester Square, convened by the Central Committee of the London Tailors' Protective Association. The meeting was composed of in and out-door workers, ...

... THE House of Commons has just given a reluctant assent to the principle of a creation of pre-preference stock in the cases of the North British Railway and the Great North of Scotland. When the bill of the North British Railway gces to the House of Lords the question at issue will then, no doubt, undergo a more thorough and critical examination than an unopposed bill can obtain in the ...

... A Juror writes to the Atkzenennz: The way in which France has contrived to get the lion's share of all the prizes for herself-so that the eight French artists who serve on the Jury have managed to obtain for themselves four of the eight medals of honour and four of the first-class medals-is one of the pleasantries over which the great nation chuckles and grins at a hundred dining-tables ...

... Imptrx In the HOUSE OF LORDS, on MONDAY, the Earl of DERBY, in reply to the Earl of CLA.EENDON, stated that, looking to the general public feeling on the subject, the Government had advised her Majesty to exercise her prero- gative of mercy on the Fenian Convict Burke, and his life would be spared. At the same time, he remarked, there were no palliating circumstances in the case. It was not ...

... MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR NEAR SLZGO.- I !TlWO MEN SaOT. 1, ?? - --Z - -r v it SLIGO, Set-qteday-4 most mysterious affair has iC ocourednear the 0oastguard Station n[ $heodaghs, within ,, eight or nine miles of Sligo. B trly on Saturday morning, as Joseph Clark, ono of the coastguards of that P station, proceeded towards the beach, he found d ~two meni pawed J mes Nolau, aged 25 years, and John Smnyth ...

... 9'OURATALISk[ AND RELIGIOUS CONTRO VERSY. WHAT with the recent very High Church charge of the Bishop of Oxford, the extravagantly High Church charge of the Bishop of Salisbury, the Low CLurch prosecution of Mr. Mackonochie of St. Alban's, and the Dry Church Archdeacon Sinclair's anti-papistical charge in London, to say nothing of' the ecclesiastical Wednesday proceedings of the House of ...

... The affair between the military and the populace at MitohelstowD, serious enough in its way, was not, how- ever, so alarming as it appeared in its telegraphic form, given by the daily papers. A correspondent of the Cork Ex3a550er thus dscribes it: - M itobelstown, Finlay. ' Much excitement prevailed here last night, in con- sequence of a pretty smart row. The fair of yesterday was attended ...

... GNAS A ACCOUCnISOTE.T OF TILE PRINCESS MA1tY oR Tacit.- KENSINGTON PALCOc, MAY 27, ONEi A)I,-Ber Royal Highness the Princess Mary Adelaide was safely de- livered of a Princess at one minute before midnight on the 26th inst. Her Royal Highness and the infant Princess are doing perfectly well.-ARTnHUR FPARRE, M.D., EDWARD E. HcELLS, Chir. SHOCKING SUICIDE BY A7CLERGYRAN.-A painful gen- sation ...