... - ., I MEETING OF SAEIRHOWDHRS AT LEEDS. Yesterday a meeting of the shareholders of the idland Railway Company was held at the Quqeu'a Hotel, 3eeds, to consider what stops shall be taken to protect the interests of the company at the meeting. to be hold at Derby, on the 15th January. Mr. BA=%ES, M.P., occupied the ohair. The attendance wva large and ina fuential. The CHAIRMAN stated that he ...

... | The week opened with a very wet day and a very boisterous night. Monday morning was thick and foggy after slight frost; wind ?? barometer 30.10 inches. Tuesday was finer but soft and rather humid for the time of the year. Our advioes from Northumberland state- The weather continued fine and frosty up to Saturday morning, when rain set in. Sunday and 7esterday were again fair and slightly ...

... EPITOME OF OPINION IN THE. MORNING JOURNALS. RUSSIA. The Post declares it is utterly impossible that Russia should seriously contemplate war at this time. She has no money, she has no troops, she has no administration, she has no generals, she has no credit, but what may be found upon paper. What is the use of a million stolid starvelings in uniform if the poor creatures have neither officers, ...

... I We learn from Rome, says the Paris Libaff,; that the Count de Sartiges l recently had a 0long c1onversation with ,Oazdiuil Antonelli, and. exp ined to him that the good' omes of Franceh : in thi.'opinion of the Emperor would produce no efficacious result 'for the Holy iee unless the latter should consent to immediately introduce into the, IPoms .legislation and administration'.all the ...

... A correspondent expresses his opinion that the two telegrams recently published respecting the position of the captives in Abyssinia are not easily reconcilable. The first contained a report that the King of the Shohoes (Shoans) had surrounded Magdala, and the latterthat a rumour had reached Massowah that the captives had had their chains removed, and that there was a chance of their ...

... I FRANCE AND GERMANY. I PARIS, 7a;s. I.-In the audience given to him by the Emperor Napoleon yestcrday, Count von der Goltz, the newly accredited representative of the North German Confederation, spoke as follows:- Called upon by the Federal Constitution to represent the Confederation in its inter- national relations, the King of Prussia eagerly desires to maintain and develop more and more ...

... __ - . , H e ' A , v S 1ADDRESS OF' MIr IBMI a I T: iQ T.H.PBOP OF DGLY. 1 . . .. . . ?? I orin~rersto EAsqhe'tlelivs f the 'me late7 ens-' ,,,ouited'in Manchesteri,ad o'hwtot ugi' ~oplethat~the hotility, cof Irish. natioalwists is, ~ 4r~4d lot gaistthem, 4ict againat the tran s~i~er hic tis popl ofenglad AnUl ielsoucl Le bohsfer h eneadptdd' #nned ad., ADDEwsS nY ¶flhl P- =-I amS Mr MEAVE ...

... .Af, ON JE EZDU , I * 1 Rg 2C. P. VILI~I~rS at~ ~~ubl de celebrsation of the th Omany, inoludn M.P.Xt'Xhnl,^ eir 6 5.Lieutenant.COlo ue agh Sheri ?? o conttj ~and the Ron. and . Mr. ?? deiverad~an. address,..in t ze-course of which h-e taid-subh inttitwti'cbs-ifd ithere wais a large family \of them aul oaeseing a fa %%lh'ze Bhe re- garded as powerfu ?? the diffusipg of information and making ...

... I 2iE;UrnAA. *z It appeiI ?? weely ,retur5 issued by s,; alitfsority oftesba~~l86i thio veek that 'tiedo bse iSgt&idaTy, Dbe 28. 3b79 births ad Idr! Qith'* *ttlia ief ?? unl rte martality wa 26 per hvtolislivng. il a Xblri'f~iaiortitg'y SW*s'24 per 1~001) '9 in London, 30iFEd* hlgh, nd2 in DublinV 2lih I' T iha th, Isn0alf rd1,29 Lin, ShbefIrl,)5in Iied, 2S i'f ?? get, ?? 2P I1 in Hull, 27 in ...

... I IT ;; easier than usual to form some sort of rational con- ture as to the prospects with which the new year opens. It is the last of a series of thirty-six which will hereafter be recloned as comprising one of the most characteristic periods of English history-the era of the first Reform Bill. This period, when it is concluded, will have lasted a little -more than half as long as a normal ...

... I General Menabrea still finds it impossible to form a Cabinet. Count Ponza di San Martino, on behalf of the Piedmontese party, declines to act with him, but the King insists upon his continuing his endeavours to establish a new Ministry. The Vienna Gazette of last evening publishes a series of autograph letters addressed by the Emperor to the new Ministers. Prince Auersperg is appointed ...

... BX3:ZA0BDINARYMANIF&MT OF BOMAR X eI I for CAHRLEG. The Very Rev. Dean O'Brien and a number v Roman catholic clergymen of the diocese of Limerick havi issued a remarkable declaration, which opens thus: ,We have a ived at an epoch of great trial and somn- danger, and it 'is due to' the people, the'governmei and our own position frankly to express some of the e'vil under which Ireland labours, ...