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RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LONDONDERRY AND COLERAINE.

The half-yearly meeting of Os company Naas held
yesterday, at the offices, in Coleman-street-buildings,
Captain Warren, R.N., took the chair.
The SECRETARY read the following report :
" Your directors have the gratification to report that
the portion of your railway from Londonderry to New-
town Limavady, 18f miles in length,
was opened for
goods traffic on the Ist inst. Mr. Render. the consultoog
engineer of the company, has recently made a personal
inspection of the line. and was quite satisfied that the
passenger traffic might et once be commenced. Bat be
considers it important that tho stone pitching on the
portions of the railway exposed to the sea should be com-
pleted while the weather continues fine; and as the pas-
senger traffic would seriously interfere with the opera-
tions of the contractor, ho advised that it was more pru-
dent for two or three weeks to carry goods only, by which
means the work would be consolidated, and the com-
pany will reap the advantage of the goods trade with-
out impeding the progress of the contractor in com-
pleting the pitching. Your directors, fully concurring
in the prudence of the course thus suggested by Mr.
Rendel, have followed his recommendation, and, fur the
present, limited the tratlie operations to the carriage of
goods. In the last report it was stated to you that the
proceeding with the railway from Newton Limavady to
Coleraine had been made dependent upon obtaining an
advance from the Public Loan Commissioners. Yotir
directors have the satisfaction to inform you that the
Government loan applied for has been granted; the
works upon that portion of the line have for some time
been in course of vigorous prosecution by the contractor,
Mr. M'Cormick, and are now so forward that by your
next half-yearly meeting it is hoped the day may be
fixed for the through opening from Londoncierry to
Coleraine. Your directors, knowing the imporaance of
securing full and early through communication be-
tween Londonderry, Coleraine, and Belfast, are now
negotiating arrangements by which they hope this
object may be completed, and the traffic thoroughly
developed. The Bill, promoted by the corporation
of Londonderry, for the construction of a joint
public road and railway bridge over the River Foyle has
passed into law; and your directors have to report that
the Bill authorising this company to contribute to the
erection of this bridge has also received the Royal as-
sent. By this means a junction advantageous to both
will be effected between your railway and the London-
derry and Enniskillen; and arrangements have been
made with the other parties interested, by which your
directors hope that this most desirable object will be at-
tained without in the end making any addition to the
capital of the company. The chairman and two other
directors, Mr. Clay and Mr. Cross, have recently visited
the works, and examined for themselves the traffic re-
sources of the country. They feel assured that, with a
through communication completed with Belfast on the
one side, and with the Londonderry and Enniskillen
Railway on the other, there will be from commercial
and agricultural resources, a large and remunerative
traffic; while the natural beauty of the country,
the facilities offered on the coast for sea-bathing, and
the vicinity of such an acknowledged attraction
as the Giant's Causeway, only seven miles from Cole-
raine, must ensure a very great amount of pleasure
traffic. The experience acquired by your directors in
conducting the traffic on the Londonderry and Ennis-
killen Railway has enabled them to prepare for the
working of your line with the utmost economy as regards
plant; and they believe that your rolling stock will be
found to combine smallness of cost to the company with
complete satisfaction to the public. The time having
now arrived for settling the questions mentioned in the
last report, as referred for the arbitration of Mr. Rendel, '
your directors are taking the necessary steps for pro-
curing his award thereon. Three of your directors, viz.,
James Clay, Esq., M.P., John Cross, Esq., and John
Munn, Esq., and one of your auditors, S. J. Waley, Esq.,
go out of office by rotation. Those gentlemen are all
eligible, and offer themselves for re-election. For the
financial position of the company your directors beg re-
ference to the accounts which have already been circu-
lated amongst you; and they have merely to add as re-
gards the liabilities, that (independent of the current
accounts for the supply of rails, sleepers, and contrac-
tor's work in progress) the only liability now existing
is that for the balance (s,sooZ):previously stated to:you
as due on the purchase of ' Robertson's interest in re-
clamation.' "

The Casznr.teri said before moving the adoption of
the report he would make a few observations. There
was an old proverb, that it was a long lane that had no
turning. Circumstances still fresh in the memory of
the proprietors, namely, the panics of 1446 and 1847,
bad contributed to depress this company and many
others, and had caused the directors to wait and rely
on better times. This delay was for the time looked
upon with some dissatisfaction, but it had turned out
in the end to be advantageous. It had given them the
means of looking into railway works, the expense of the
plant, and the result has been the successful opening of
nineteen miles of their line from Londonderry to New-
town Limavady. When the railway should be com-
pleted to Coleraine, which he hoped would not be later
than the Ist of May, a large traffic might be expected. '
Since they last met three of the directors, Mr.

Clay, Mr. Cross, and himself, bad visited 'he
works, and were happy to say that the contractor
had done his work in a most substantial manner.—
(Hear, hear.) It was as well built as any line in the
kingdom. In addition to the ordinary traffic they
might expect a very great revenue from the various
sources of amusement, such as the extensive salmon
leaps of the river Bann, the Giant's Causeway, and
other sources of attraction. The diroctors looked for-
ward with the greatest interest to the completion of
the new bridge over the river Foyle for the junction
of this line with the Londonderry and Enniskillen
Railway.
The report was adopted.
Mr. Lavin, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Frith, Dr. Conquest,
and Mr. Waley spoke of the untiring exertions of the
directors during the bad times of the company.
A resolution voting 1,0001. to the directors was
passed by a large majority, and another for increasing
the salary of the secretary.
The meeting then adjourned.

IRELAND.
MR, JOHN BRIGHT IN BELFAST.
DUBLIN, TUESDAY.-The Liberals of Belfast en-
tertained Mr. John Bright at a public dinner last
night in the Music-hall of that city, with a view of
marking their respect for his high public character,
and their appreciation of the many valuable and ian-
portant services he has rendered during his political
career to the great cause of reform, as well as for his
eloquent advocacy and untiriag support of the prin-
ciples of free trade. Mr. Robert Grimshaw; D.L.,
I presided, and the company comprised 250 of the lend-
ing Liberal gentry, merchants, and professional men
of the city and its vicinity.
ALLINASLOE CCTOHER FAIR.
The great fair of Ballinasice commenced yesterday,
being what is called the " show day." The supply of
sheep fell short of the number exhibited la,t yeer ;
and, as a consequence, there was an advance in prices,
particularly for brood stock, at from
is, to 3s. over
the rates obtained in October list. For ewes the im-
provement was still greater, varying from 4s. to ss. a
head, and in several instances even higher rates were
obtained. Upon the whole, and notwithstanding the
unfavourable state of the weether, the fair appears, so
far, not to have disappointed the expectations of the
stockmasters. The Freeman s Journal supplies the
subjoined-succinct account of the days. proceedings :-
" Ballmaslee, Oct. 4.
" The fair commenced to-day with the show of sheep,
but, though it is termed the show day,' it is yet that on
which by far the weightier and more important portion
of business in this department is transacted. Th supply
of stock on the ground this morning was generally cal-
culated as being under that on the same day last year,
when the numbers amounted to 50,449. From my own
observation lam of the same opinion. Among others,
the principal cause of the falling off is attributed to the
fact of numerous and extensive purchases of sheep
haling been recently made both in Clare, Mayo, and
Roscommon, on the farms of the proprietors, instead of
waiting, as hitherto, for their being sent to this mart.
The general condition and quality of the stock on this
occasion appeared on an average to be very fair. The
foot distemper was by no means as prevalent as was
observable at Banagher last month ; in fact it was
only perceptible in an odd animal here. The attend-
ance of Leinster buyers was very considerable, and
this, with the apparent scarcity of sheep at most
of the previous fairs of the season, particularly
at that of Banagher, on the 14th ult., led to the an-
ticipation that short work would be made on this
occasion. Such, however, did not prove to be the case;
it turned out, in fact, a very slow and a very late fair.
At 7 o'clock in the morning, the weather being regu-
larly broken, the rain continued without intermission to
pour in torrents down to 5 o'clock in the afternoon.
This served, to a material extent, to delay the driving in
of stock, and it was long past 10 o'clock before the last
of the lot had been got into the park. There was also
an evident backwardness on tho part of purchasers and
sellers, particularly the former, to enter regularly on
business. Thus the hour approached, 12 o'clock, when
transactions regularly commenced. It then soon became
evident that prices were decidedly in favour of the wes-
tern stockmasters and breeders, though not perhaps quite
to the extent that they had calculated upon in regard to
wethers, but in brood stock the rise to them must have
been exceedingly satisfactory. Ewes wore the first to
exchange owners, and did so at quite a brisk rate, and
at an improvement over last year's prices varying from
4s. to ss. a-head, and in several instances even exceeding
that rise. After what might be called a very tolerable
clearance had been made of the brood class, wethers be-
gan to be inquired for, and a slow but steady business
at an advance of from ls. or 2s. to 3s. a-piece over
the prices of last October fair was maintained
down to a late hour. The improvement in quotations
just referred to, it is right to observe, was more slightly
participated in by top lots,' or the very primely finished
animals, than by those of medium, and even inferior
sorts. Transactions in wethers did not terminate till
close on five o'clock, an almost unprecedentedly late hour
at this fair, particularly on occasions of a rising market,
or when an apprehension might exist as to a shortness
of supply. At the above period, however, a good many
flocks more than was generally expected, considering
the circumstances, remained unsold, and in reserve for
to-morrow's fair. A few lots, very few, indeed, of ewes,
were driven out undisposed of, not that the demand for
that description appeared by any means to have been
satisfied, but rather that the figure asked struck pur-
chasers as being too exorbitant to matter under what
pressure for the commodity they might happen to be
placed. Some lots of lambs, cleanly fed and fairly con-
ditioned, were in the fair, and commanded, with ready
sale, from 265. to 282. It is rather remarkable that in
no instance, at least that came under the writer's notice,
was what is designated a fancy lot' of ewes to be met
with throughout the day. The subjoined is a list of
quotations taken from the different classes, tops, medium,
and inferior, in order to show the general rates ruling the
fair. The annexed prices were obtained, for
" Ewes-t.t.r. Robert D'Arcy, for a lot of 202 three
years' old, 38s. 6d.; Mr. Waiter M'Donough (Lonall,
county Galway), for a lot of 300 mixed two and three
years old, 385.; Mr. James Smith (Masonbrook), for a
iot of 100 mixed two and three years' old, 415.; ditto for
a lot of 100 ditto, 395.; Mr. Skerrett (Loughrea), for a
let of 108 two years' old, 375. 6(1.; Lord Clonhrock, for
a lot of 180 aged (four and five years), 355. Gd.; Mr. J.
H. Burke (St. Cleran's), fur a lot of 100 two years' old,
395.; Mr. Burton Persse, for a lot of 200 aged, 368.;
ditto, for a lot of 160' culled,' 38s. 6d.; Mr. John Co-
Lolly (Barnaville, county Galway), for a lot of 100 two
years' old, 375.; ditto, for a lot of mixed two and three
years' old, 345.; ditto, for a lot of 100 aged, 315.; Mr.
Walter Burk., (Roscommon), for a lot of 200 three
years' old, 385.; Mr. Lambert (Agar), for a lot of 200
two and three years old, 345.; Mr. Thomas Cullinane
(Janeville, county Galway), for a lot of 200 aged, 335.
" Wethers.-Mr. Robert D'Arcy, for a top lot of 202
two years' old, 495.; ditto, for a second lot ditto, 445. 3d.;
Mr. James Smith (Masonbrook), for a top lot of 100
two years' old, 495.; ditto, for a second lot of 200 ditto,
435.; ditto, ditto, for a third lot of 200 ditto, 425.; Mr.
Burton Persse, Moyodo Castle, for a top lot of 160 two
years' old, 485.; ditto, for second lot of 200 ditto, 465.;
Mr. Thomas Tully, Rathfarnham, for second lot of 100
two years' old, 445.; ditto, for a third lot of 100 ditto,
435.; Mr. Charles Blake, Tnam, for a lot of 200 two
years' old, 425.; Mr. James H. Burke, St. Cleran's, for
a lot of 209 two years' old. 423.; Mr. Walter M`Donttga,
for a lot of 100 two years' old, 405.; ditto, for a lot of
100 ditto, 385.; Mr. Walter Burke, Roscommon, for a
lot of 200 two years' old, 395.; Mr. James Glaucey,
Roscommon, for a lot of 100 two years' old, 455.; Mr.
Francis Glaucey, Willsgrove, Roscommon, for a lot of
140 two years' old, 435.; Mr. Flanagan, Eiphin' for a lot
of 150 two years' old, 465. 6d.; Mr. Conroy,Roscora-
mon, for a lot of 100 two years' old, 455. 6d.; Mr. Shell,
sen., Roscommon, for a lot of 200 two years' old, 428.;
Mr. Sheil, jun., for a lot of 200 two years' old, 465.;
Mr. P. M. Donnell, for a lot of two years' old, 465.
Mr. R. Stafford, Roscommon, for a lot of 150 two years'
old, 435.

‘ Tho official return gives the number of sheep sold
this day, 30,241. The return of the first day's sale last
year was 34,424. The quantity of purchased stock
driven direct from the fair to the railway terminus here,
and thence, with the utmost facility, conveyed by the
cattle trains to various stations along the lines in the
provin • ces of Leinster, was very considerable, and the
stowing away effected without the slightest confusion.
The number, visitors as well as parties on business,
brought down on this and the previous day by rail has
been such as to crowd the town to overflowing, and to
render lodgings, &C. anything but cheap accommoda-
tion. A visit from ;he Lord• Lieutenant to the fair—to
bo the guest of Lord Clancarty during his Excellency's
stay—had been exp ,ected, but will not it is now under-
stood, take place."

THE 7ERMOY MURDER.
The subjoined curious statement appears in the
Evening Mail:--
" We have heard, from a source which we deem faith •
worthy, that forty men of a regiment quartered in a
midland county, having read the account of the murder
of the soldier of the 31st by certain—as yet u.nknown_
members of the ' Liberal party,' resolved on deliberation
to quit the Church whose teaching led to such a catas-
trophe. Having formed this resolution, they sent a
.de-
putation to their colonel to request that he would alter
r havingilom
the registration of thaelilrretligoiffionce
from anC
ascertained
Catholic
to Protestant. The gallant
the cause of this resolution, advised them to deliberate
more maturely on the subject before they took any final
suggestion they yielded,
step in the business. To this
days informed him that their determine-
but after some
Protestant Church, into which they
tion Was to join the
were received."

lErrrePg.—Having seen some curious epitaphs in
your journal, I send you this, which I copied from a tomb-
stone in Stockbridge churchyard ,. In memory of John Buckett, many years landlord of the
King's Head Inn, in this borough, who
ugh, lvho departed this life
November 25th, 1842, aged 67 years.
" And is, alas f poor Buckett gone?
Farewell, convivial, honest John.
Oft at the well, by fatal stroke,
Buckets, like pitchers, must be broke.
How various have thy fortunes been!
Now lifted high, now sinking low,--
To-day thy brim would overflow :
Thy bounty then would all supply,
To fill and drink and leave thee dry;
To-morrow must, as in a well,
Content unseen with truth to dwell.
But high or low, or wet or dry,
No rotten stave could malice spy.
Then rise, immortal Buckett, rise!
And claim thy station in the skies:
'Twixt Amphora and Pisces shine,
Still guarding Stockbridge with thysigto
—Correspondent of the Builder.
SMUGGLING IN TIIE HIGHLANDS.—On Monday,
the 20th of September, Mr. Otty, accompanied by Mr.
Macfarlane and two preventive men, discovered in the hills
of Dalriach, of Glen-Urquhart, a smuggling bothy, situated
in the bottom of a deep ravine, surrounded with rugged
rocks and waterfalls. There were four men in the hut at the
time, which was very well concealed. Two of the smug-
glers were captured, but one of them, a strong athletic
mountaineer, after a severe struggle of about an hour's
duration, baffled the efforts of the officers to take him along
with them, as he would neither walk nor stand; the other
was taken before General Cameron, of Polmailie, who con-
victed him in the statutory penalty of 304, or three months'
imprisonment. The fine not having been paid, he is
undergoing imprimrant in Inyerliesi GAol.—Edinburgh
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two trains ; but very little delay was experian
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thratz., hours.