The Express. — London, England, 1868-02-07 00:00:00

1 1Ptr r ...z t . .........., , i THif EXPRIKSO; FIAIRTTING; , '' ,RIJAI -4•7 vs , - 4 6.- ma w ido co ol . r . nt2 . s a t seeded, are Imp* consigeed* eta . W fikTEST INTELLIGENCE 1,4jal and ctd..l a— Wgzo sap, tow is • good .go disooveser! ' at casiffloates are Wirth an 4, ualy cherished the certifiers are hullos as ignorant as the pupils, THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDr he felt bound most effectual blow that has yet been struck against m a romancer. deplorable system has been the institution of the Omn- NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENI Alone a man 1 bridge examinations for girl'. The oorrespondenoe of our morning ors . . ~_____:..... —..4... +., +ha 20th 1 Orr - L~ EXPRESS FROM PARIS. LIFEBOAT SERVICES. —firing the dorms • of the put year the Natl.:met Lifeboat Institution son.. tributes' to the saying of LON lives from various shipwrecks ana iti vessels from destruction. The Institution also espended L 31.916 ir. the same period on its Lifeboat Establishments, in addition to sweating £3,199 for rewards. The Committee of the institution earnestly appeal to the public for assistance to enable them to meet the continued bear> demands on their 196 Lifeboat Establishments. Contributions will be thank fally received by the London and country hankers, and by the Secretary, Richard Lew* Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-street, Adolph', London. ------- biography of MARY Queen of Scots because judgment of her conflicted with the lcipl valrous sentiment which he capriciously to her memory. The illusion which he f to dispel as a historian he fostered as a romancer. This error on the part of so conscientious a man is strong argument in favour of the severe doc trine that historic romance should be confined and to I the general desc ri p tion of periods states of society, and that if real charac ; tars are introduced into works of fiction, they should be describ ed as doing only the acts which history records, and saying only words which they are known to have uttered. But whatever the deductions which require to be made from Mr. GrAneroires eulogy of Scorr, or whatever the corrections needed in his criticism, he has done a service to pure and healthy liters ' i tnre, by striving to rekindle the half-extinguished 1 flame on a nearly deserted altar of genius. 10, as ibr as IWI Judge. 411 regiaMmtal officers have might be do bet he on their backs Oder smoking " coven disk " snA inffikag °opines dnisghts of condensed water liberally qualified with rum or brandy, if they are lucky enough to poems it. The soldiers are equally idle. I mend help thinking this to be • mistake ; we are taking too much care of our troops, or rather" coddling" them too much, and when the time comes for action we shall expo riesoe the effects of this prolonged period of sloth. The same correspondent tells a story of a certain' gallant captain craving for game, who met with an elephant which had strayed from the transport', lines, and taking it in his ardour to be a wild one, followed up the track, and shot it, when to his horror he was summoned in the evening to an in terview by the head of the commissariat depart ment and informed that his prey was government property—in fact one of the 19 tame elephants which had only arrived from Bombay a fortnight previously. The Herald correspondent says that a native was I speaking the other day to an officer, who is tho roughly acquainted with Arabic. " Yon say you are Christians," the Shoho said, " this cannot be, for you wear no blue cords round your necks. You are sons of Shelton. You are more powerful than the afrita of old. They could move mountains, and fly across the air, but they could never drink from the sea—they could never change salt water into fresh. You must be sons of Sheitan." The Star correspondent supplies a few figures as " a very slight clue to the cost of the expedition, and the length to which Mr. Disraeli's two mil lions will go in defraying it." Between 30,000 and 40,000 gallons of water have to be provided daily from condensers for the supply of men and animals at Zoula, each man being allowed a gallon and a half I per diem., and each animal six gallons. The re- quirements more often approach the higher number stated ; but, taking the supply at 30,000 gallons, for the sake of illustration, the cost of one day's water is the sum of 4,0001., or 120,0001. a month. And water is not by any means the most ex pensive item against which provision will have to be made in the next budget. deplorable bridge ex BREAKFAST.-EPPB'S COCOA. Irks Court. osmium Fes. 6. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, scoompanied by Princess Christina, and her Ideieaty drove out this morning accompanied by Princess Louise. gite erpreiSfS• TG CORRZAPONDINTA. advezthoemente intended for The Upresa," L011(1011 Weelang , 111Utt be at the Mee, 10, heaverle4treet. T lOO 7 4 :1t on the day of pahiteatket. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Trea sury, in Downing-street. The Ministers present were the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Marl borough, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Right Hon. Oathorue Hardy, Lord Stanley, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Sir John Peking ton, Sir S. Northoote, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, the Duke of Richmond , Lor d John Manners, the Earl of Mayo, and the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole. HAYMARKET. Tits THE BROKILN-HEARTED CLUB.A WIPE WELL WoN. Mown. Sothern, Buckslone, 1100 . e, Kerala], RNen, Braid. Weathersby, &a. • end MIN Robertson —After which AN UTTER PEE-VERSION Olr THE BRIGAND. db t ii ion c I retl d• PRINCESS'S THIS Evincria, THE COLUMN: DAWN. Mr. and Mrs. Dion Bandeauit.—After which TUB DESERTS OF LONDON. Mr. Vining, Ileum Murray, lebore, Neville. Forrester, Mellon. Dc.. Misses nieworthy, E. Barnett. Rachel Sanger. and etre. Addis. Tax letters published this morning from the correspondents in Abyssinia present a view of the situation of our army in that country which must be described as on the whole satisfactory, after what we have been accustomed to hear. The pre parations for an advance were proceeding rapidly, and the earlier mistakes of the campaign were being repaired, the heavy accumulations of stores of all kinds upon the coast having been for the e moat part cleared off. The troops from Bombay were sent to Abyssinia long b e f o re adequate preparations had been made for their recep tion, a course which led to a complete block which, in the middle of last month, was tax ing the energy of the whole establishment. All now depends apparently on the Transport Train, which is at length working well. Had it been in its present state of efficiency two months ago, the head-quarters of the army would have been nearer Magdala than Zoula at the date of these letters. The corps seems never to have had fair play at Bombay, the C OM MISSARY G ENERA L restricting too much the power of Major WARDEN to organise his depart ment. The Train is now, however, in very good order, and it is believed that the progress of the army into the interior will be very rapid. At present the health of the troops is good, but it has to be tried by the rainy season, which in Abyssinia is also one of fever and dysentery. Complaints aro made of the quality of the clothing of the Bengal and Madras coolies, which is made by contract. The stories which reach 'Louis respecting the movements of THEODORE are, as usual, inconsistent with one another, and hardly deserve attention. The lords present at yesterday's sitting of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council were Lord Westbury, Lord Komi Sir James W. Weds, and Sir R. T. STRAND. Isos Evnivin. OLD SALT. Mr. Draery and Miss Nay Moore. —after which 'MS CALIPH 01 1 BAGDAD. Messrs. Thorne and James ; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, Johnstone, Harland, Holt, dr.—And CoAL AND COHN. ROLBOILN. Trite EriverSO, TEM FLYINO SCUD. Mows Atkin% Frio', Owlen, Arthur. Westland, and WUmott Meedanws Henrade, Doodall, Lennox, and Swandees.owelade with VALIINTLNI D Math,. Mouterro, Little Bowellk BR ITA N NIA. III! Errrnro, V NUNN DOWN. —DON QUITOTN. Mrs. S. Lane, is aliases Edwin and Booth ; Pantomlndsta Messrs. Doane, Louis, Newham, and Vlctorrill ; Hdlk e. Stephan and Was Roos Nat/wt.—To conclnde with IHt PRAIRIS A'LOWSIL up, HIGH WATER AT UWIDON BRIDOR. TRW DAY —1101.011,11. OIL Von........Afternom. lh. Vas. Su- itoi.soir—homing, lb. 4Oca—....Afternoon, lb. 7/M. LOVDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7. WI:ILE PArnorrrs and the lesser Greeks are in the field, ACHILLES is tuning his lyre in his tent, and singing the songs which CHIRON taught him. In his own person Mr. GLADSTONR has introduced a Saxon gleeman among the Welsh bards. His musical performances have already acquired more than provincial celebrity. Perhaps we may hear of him some day among the " Wandering Min " strels." Our great statesman's ideas of a holiday differ from those of his most illustrious predeces sor in the leadership of the Liberal party. The late SAMLEL Roozam once dilated to Mr. Fox on the happiness of reclining all a summer's day with a book under the shade of a tree. Mr. Fox as sented, barring the book. Mr. Giaosroree's relaxations are as little those of PITT as of Fox. He does not retire to Hawarden to rehearse Parliament, to - _ . THE FRENCH PRESS BILL. AN "AFFECTING SCENE." According to a correspondent of the luslipendance 13(dge, a scene took place between the Em peror and M. Ronher when the former informed his minister that come what would ho should uphold the law. The Emperor, it is said embraced his minister, and the minister shed tears. This was not the only occasion of emotion to M. Rouher during a day which has been compared to tnother that is notorious in French history La Jouriiie des Dupes. Theminister exhibited strong emotion on his success inthe Corps Legislatif. He wascongratulated not only by the members of the moderate majority but by the deputies of the Left, especially by MM. Fevre, Thiers, Magnin, and Bethmont. When the debate was dread the Emperor again sent for the minister, and warmly congratulated him on the result of the vote. During the dis cussion in the Chamber his Majesty rode through the city, which produced the remark, " It is Napoleon the First on his return from Egypt after having conquered the Mamelukes." The Empress was vehemently opposed to the bill, and the Duke de Persigny, and, it is also said, M. Drouyn de Lhuys were for the withdrawal of the bill. On the other hand it was supported by -nt Walewaki. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE NEW LEGAL APPOINTNIENTS. Observing that the good fortune of tory lawyers has lately been overwhelm in g , the Timer proceeds to say of Sir Charles Selwyn that hie fitness for the office of appeal judge cannot be determined by an examination of his political career ; but that the opinion of Lincoln's-inn does not place him in the first rank of legvl authority. It is doubly unfortunate that a doubt on such a point should follow the late enlargement of the powers of the Lords Justices ; and that the impression should be that neither his natural abilities nor his training qoalify him to discharge such functions as those involved in bearing appeals from the decisions of the Master of the Rolls and the V ioe•Chancellors. Mr. Brett, who seemed* him as solicitor-general. has yet to show that the government will gain debating power by this selection, but the reputation he enjoys at the common-law bar gives promise that the Attorney-General will be satiated by him in the unequal contest he has hitherto been called upon to wage in the House of Commons. As to the University of Cambridge, which has now to choose another representa tive, the Titian thinks it doubtful whether it will be pos sible to discover a candidate so far unlike those who have of late been se favoured by the electors as to confer honour on the university, instead of deriving his principal claim to distinction from the fact that he represents it. The Standard hints that if Sir Bounden Palmer bad been allowed his own way he would have accepted the Lord Jurticeship when it was offered to him ; but the leader of the liberal opposition could not afford to lose an able poll. itinal ally and feat personal friend. Under these circum- Menace, there was no one who could come into competition with the Solicitor-General, Sir Charles Jasper Selwyn. Mr. Brett the Standard regards as eminently qualified to perform his new duties. (astrrn's Tvionms.) AUSTRIA. l'ass muffins in committee of supply, And " buttered toast" amend by adding " dry." His idea of rest is not so much repose as change of labour. Among the trifles of his hours of idleness has been a theological disqui sition on the work called " Ecce Homo ;" and now we find him, on the eve of the Session, lecturing OH the tales and poems of Sir \\ - ALTER ScOTT. So TAILLEYEIt ad vanced to the combat, singing and throwing up his sword. We should have thought that Mr. GLA LsT4 N E would have been busy training for the encounter which is presently to come Of between himself and eight Trades Unionists, one up and one down. The preliminaries have long since been arranged ; the day is fixed. lint instead of burying himself in Blue books, we find him inuitereed in the Waverloy Novels, conversing with Oilcan' Durward, and Monkbanis, and Caleb lialderstone, instead of with ADAM SMITH, and MeCt:bbovii, and MILL. In Mr.l; LA DSToN E'S moral eulogy of SvoTT every one will coincide. His estimate of his rank in the literature of the world will fill almost everyone with amazement. In Mr. (ILansrosee view SCOTT occu pies the third place in imaginative literature, being only inferior to SHAKESPEARE and HOMER. This praise is as extravagant as Mr. CARLYLE'S dispa ragement of " the pretty tale-telling Sir WALTER." T.. mention the names of DANTE, CERVANTES, MIL TON, fIOuTHE, of the men who have summed up in themselves the character of their age, who have been the bright consummate flower in which the intellect of their nation has blossomed, is to refute this astonishing criticism. The perpetuity of an influence is the best proof of its force and range. Who can rank ticorr among the mighty dead who rule men's spirits from their urns ? Mr. GLAD STONE confesses and complains that he is not now read. In Scotland itself half-a-dozen songs of BI lINS have had and still have an influence out weighing all the poetry and prose of Sewn. The innocent, though not very exalted, ambition of his life, to fount a family and transmit a landed estate, unlocks the secret of his genius, which WAS in strict unison with his character. He was a worshipper of feudalism; but feudalism surely cannot supply the highest inspiration of modern genius. His extraordinary power of reviving an tiquity, and even of drawing character, was seldom exercised with brilliant success outside the feudal limit. The arts of Caleb Balderstone represent its side of faithful servitude, as the chivalry of Ivanhoe and the pride of the Master of Ravens wood represent its side of authority. Mr. I GLADSTONE throws himself so completely into the cause for which he is at the moment pleading that it might be unfair to pin him down to his declara tion that Se orr alone, or almost alone, among imaginative writers, has succeeded in placing broad humour side by aide with the intense darkness of calamity, without any disturbance of MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS. artistic effect, Sit AN usrRARE's broad humour The conservative journals are greatly pleased with the being chiefly found in his historic plays, and speech of Mr. Bright on the province of the government in hardly at all in his deepest tragedies. What respect of national education. The Herald says it is the does Mr. GLADSTONE say to the porters' scene in most valuable contribution that has such pram made to the di% 3feebe as, to the scene with the grave-diggers in h nies s as in" don M e r t . ll l4 , country fr a ; e s it se Moe n' which itspeech tralmost /lam Id, to the scenes with the nurse in Rome() am/ impossible to over value. The question of education ought J.•'; et, to the scenes with the fool in Lear ? It is not to have been made a party one ; hut it was being ex to do an injustice to SCOTT to claim for him ' plotted for party purposes. Mr. Bright has knocked that audience from all the ages, or the highest i pretty little scheme en the head, and for that service place in tho interpretation of human nature. I future generations, however they may differ in their judg- H v sang for boys an d virgins, and meats of his political career, will thank him heartily, and forgive him much. But Mr. Bright has done more. He country gentlemen, whose tastes and admiralions ter, ; has not only dep rived the controversy of its party charm were his. The healthy animal life of the Middle but ha s ex pressed the principles upon which it should Ages, deeds of physical prowess in war and the b e se ttl e d, chase, knightly chivalry, and feminine devotion, I The Standard describes the honourable member as are his themes. His mastery of theta makes him throwing off the slough of mere noisy radicalism, and a healthy, as well as • brilliant and fascinating ,abnnd°lling the arts of the demagogue. He looks at writer, and justifies Mr. GLADSTONE'S appeal great questions from the statesman's point of view, aims against the mutations of fashion which have to deal with them in the mode which he deems possible , rather than in chat which he considers desirable, and eclipsed his fame. But with the greatest names, states his views with a degree of eximness and moderation fashion has nothing to do. which leaves little room for improvement. Another praise belongs to him. Lord Macau- The Star sees in the late meeting at the Dublin LAY has said that a better knowledge of Puritanism Rotunda the old spirit of ascendancy which has been so may be gained front " Old Morality" than from disastrous to Ireland. The plan there advanced amid tort includes as daring NEAL, and of the reign of JAMES I. from "The only endanger the union. " Fortunes of Nigel" than from Wits. SCOTT'S theorY d of or religions peruses y r . follower of Tor in ever novels are, in some respects, a good introduction ' lu m en :4 Neve s peaks sreagly of the defects of female to history. In another respect, they are education i s Em u 's & Per th e mos t rar e girls' s a ss y treason to it. As Mr. GLADSTONE confesses, the vary only in the degree el perfection with which they picture drawn by him in " Kenilworth " of MART teach what, if not offensive, is as useless in after life as Queen of Scots is historically false. A very bad the making of Latin verses. Music which drives every and profligate woman was depicted as a heroine good ear out of the room ; French which no to body in Frames and martyr. But he says Soon did this in ignu- se ese biect ee ‘ thee te thedn; drawing wiVe. ' weeds e " e the p tea to he written under it—these are the ranee. He was nut aware of the truth. He was .. accomplishments" in th! soeuidtios of which the isms so far aware of it that he declined to write the of girlhood are parsed, and which, as esea es an seiskilsk- OITION. ICE. , contempora ries from Abyssinia reaches to the 20th ult. The Italy News has communications from a " special " correspondent at Annesley Bay and another from " our own correspondent " at the headquarters at Zonis. The road to Senafd has been greatly im proved, so much so that it was said that wheeled artillery would soon be able to make the ascent. At Annesley Bay almost everything is done for the soldier by camp followers and others, but as the troops ascend towards the plateau they have to dispense with many luxuries and conveniences. Three hos pital ships were off the shore, to which all officers and men who become seriously ill are transferred. Some little anxiety had been caused by the break ing out of typhus fever amongst a party of Dhooly bearers from Bengal. The death rate among the latter was seven per day. Captain Pattinger had been stopped while exploring some thirty miles from Senafd, and obliged to return. Twenty-four elephants had been landed, and had rather added to the forage difficulties. _ _----. _—_—_____ In appears that Magdala had been all but in the THE QUEEN'S HEALTH. —Although her Majesty, hands of Theodorus once more ; and the hope that yielding to the wishes of her subjects, has consented to a part of the expeditionary force would reach there face the fatigue of personally holding a limited number of before him was almost extinguished. The road drawing-rooms during the ensuing sewn, and is,we Suet, be tween . b..enat _o , and Ategerat presented no serious justified in making the e ff ort by t he state of her health, yet we understand that the Queen is still far from having obstacles. The next station of imp ortance be y ond entirely recovered her strength. The effort which the ' that is Antal°. The strength of all the departments Queen has made to renewalse extended personal relations, was being expended on the provisioning of the with her people will la.mredlybegratefully acknowledged ; various depots, particularly Senafd. and, if her strength should not be equal to the complete The following general order hail been issued by fulfilment of these laborious ceremonials, • just and TO the Commander-in-Cluef on assuming personal spectful appreciation will not be wanting of the gracious command of the forces : ness with which the sovereign has endeavoured to re-enter upon the task. —British Medical Journal. Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Napier sesames personal THE PRINCE OF WaLas.—The visit of his Royal command of the troops in Abyssinia this day. Sir Robert Highness the Prince • of Wales to the Duke and Duchess Napier congratulates the advanoed force on the progress made in the expedition, by the es tablishment, in spite of of Manchester, at Kimbolton Castle, is expected to ter great difficulties, of a firm footing at Senate , on th e hi g h there to-morrow (Saturday). This (Friday) evening land of Abyssinia. The Commander-in-Chief has already the Duke and Duchess give a volunteer ball—that is • acknowledged the services of the reconnoitering party, ball in which the volunteers of the district will take part • which have been marked by the greatest energy and Intel- The ball announced forWedneeday evening was a brilliant ligence. Two years' experience of the command of the entertainment, the circle at the castle comprising, in Bombay army, and of the high military spirit which addition to county families invited on the occasion , the Sir Robert Napier to ex- Duke of Sutherland, the Marquis of Fiartington, M.P., altimaas ° is, prepared peck the excellent example set by the advanced Mr. Chaplin, of Blankney, the Earl and Countess of West - force under Colonel Field. From the moment of morland, the Earl and Countess of Listowil, Colonel and their landing they have been indefatigable in promoting Lady Emily Kingseote, several members of the House of the operations, by their good conduct and zealous labour in Montagu, &c. The Prince has had two good days with the Oakley and Fitzwilliam hounds, and must have opening roads and preparing the way for the army. Sir Robert Napier is confident that every soldier in the force experienced much g rati fic a tion from his reception gene appreciates the honour of having been selected to carry rally. out the commands of her Majesty the Queen of England , P RIN CE LEOPOLD.—His Royal Highness Prince and that neither hardship nor dangers will arrest him in Leopold, who had previously been in full health and se- the pursuit of the objects of the expedition—the release tivity, hasbeen suffering during the last week from severe of our countrymen detained In a painful captivity, and accidental hemorrhage. The prince was reduced to a state the vindication of the dignity of her Majesty ' s empire. of extreme and dangerous exhaustion by the loss of blood, but has since greatly recovered, and has regained strength The labours of individual office rs, who have so far that Dr. Jenner and Mr. Paget, who were sum- worked hard and successfully against great obstacles moned to Osborne, and remained for some days in per- ever since the pioneer force landed, aro well manent attendance, have returned to town.—Britisit Me- deserving of the following special recog nition : dical Journal. Camp, Zonis, Jan. 6. The Marquis of Lansdowne is gradually recover- Sir Robert Napier, after • personal inspection of the ing from the effects of his severe accident in the hunting work carried out at Zoula, performs a very grateful duty field. in recording publicly the credit due to the Engineer De- The Earl and Countess of Bradford and family partment, under Lieutenant-Colonel Wilkins, chief engi are expected at their residence in Belgrave-square early in neer ; Captain Goodfellow, field engineer ; and the com the ensuing week from Castle Bromwich. penis of Bombay Sappers, for the progress made in eon- The Earl and Countess of Wilton intend to siting a desert shore, at first view utterly de. old of remain at Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray, till the first resources, into • very convenient port and depot, by the week in April. construction of an excellent stone pier, store-sheds, and Lord Raglan has returned home from Vienna, other works which would have been creditable under very after attending the funeral of the Emperor Maximilian as favourable circumstances. In these labours the most vale. in Waiting to the Queen. able assistance has been afforded by the senior naval officer, Lord Lady John Manners and infant son are pro- Captain Edye, and the officers and men of her Majesty's ships under his command, in maintaining a supply of condensed greasing favourably. water from the shipping under great difficulties, the erection Lord Amberley is to address his constituents on of condensers on shore, and aiding all departments to the Friday, Feb. 21, at the Exchange Ha ll. utmost extent of their resources. The laboursof the sanitary , The Herald puts out the following feeler : officer, Dr. Lurasdaine, and of the commissariat officer "We have reason to believe that if Mr. Forsyth's candi- Major Mignon, have been equally important and praise- I datum for the representation of the University of Cam- worthy. The Commander-in-Chief feels greatly indebted I bridge were likely to prove acceptable to the members of to llajor•General Sir Charles Staveley, second in coin-' convocation, that gentleman would resign the appoint- wand, for having combined and directed the energies of all went of standing counsel to the Secretary of Trade for d epar t me nts so as to produce the present condition of India, and thus free himself from any disqualification for well-regulated order. The general progress made could the vacant seat." only have been accomplished by the hearty and unanimous The newly-appointed Lord Justice (Sir Charles devotion of all officers and their departments, for which Jasper Selwyn) will take his seat on the bench next Mon - his excellency desires to express his warm approbation. day. The " special" correspondent of the Dail y News Poor persons, we (Times) are informed , ha ve a wr it es o f Th eo d or e : very extraordinary idea of this department of the Post- He knows now that he has the coveted captives virtually office, popularly known as the " dead letter office." Letters in his hands once more ; knowing that, why should he are continually being received begging the Secretary not to l ong to re-enter Magdala! At present he is feasting his return any more dead letters, as they bring death into the arm y and followers on the fruits of the fairest provinces house. One person, after complaining that 24 persons of Abysainia—fruits, too, which cost him nothing ; in Magi have died in her immediate neighbourhood since a dead data he cannot maintain an army for any length of time, letter had been returned to her from the Poet-office, begs and without en army his life in the hands of the info the Secretary that, if any more of those dead letters for rated peasantry would not be worth an hour's purchase. her should come back, he should " barn them and never His game is to seize the prisoners just in time to play his send them back to heave to me after that. Our letters get trump card, as previous determination or the impulse of carried, and offered, and done I cannot tell what with, and the moment may influence him. murders is the end of it. I think this shall even be my Dr. Krapf is engaged as interpreter at Sew& ; last. Your obedient —." The idea seems to be that Mr Dufton, another Abyssinian traveller and mis the heed of this department is in actual communication . with the King of Terrors, and forwards letters for andfrom sionary, has been employed opening up roads direct him, and they fear lest by chance they may contain as an from Zoula to Hadoda and Waa, places of some enclosure one of his fatal darts. importance strategically. They are reached at The irregular numbering of streets in London is present by a roundabout road via' Koomaylee. a great cause of delay in delivering the letters. In some The Times correspondent dwells on the marvel eases the four corner houses are sometimes called No. 1. lons good humour and alacrity with which the men, Indeed, in some of the new streets there is no sequence at in spite of great hardships, have worked. An all in the numbers. The inspector of letter-carriers gives • very singular case in point. He says—" On arriving at a - English envoy, Major Grant, the well-known house in the middle of • street lobeerved a brass number— African traveller, had been despatched to Kassa, 95—on the door, the houses on each side being numbered the Tigrd Chief, who has been taking it rather to respectively 14 and 16. A woman came to the door, when heart that this compliment has not been paid him, I requested to be informed why 95 should appear between fearing that he will lose cute in the eyes of his 14 and 16 ; she said it was the number of • house she bar formerly lived at in another street, and it (meaning the barians but has not any en vo y sent him in return. subjects if he sends env o y s to the British bels§ plate) being a very good one, she thought it would do for her present residence as well as any other." After receiving this embassy, the Tigrd " Chief of The rehearsals of the opera Hamlet at the Opera the Chiefs of Abyssinia" will so far derogate from at Paris take place every Tuesday, Thursday, and War his dignity as to advance to meet Sir Robert day. Napier. A meeting of proprietors of oonstabulary barracks The elephants greatly astonished the natives, was bald at Dublin yesterday, Lard Castlemaine in the chair, and, after a discussion, it was resolved to co-operate but were wholly eclipsed b y the locomotive, cover instalment with government in providing suitable defences ; the Land which left the elephants n owhere in the esti- Improvement Let being extended, and the government leasing barracks at rent malaise* to ts of m o tio n of the Shoho. It was startl in g enou g h, even to an Englishman, to hea r suddenl y within a few yards of his tent, on this African waste, the loan. The Royal Mail steamers now atop at Jamaica shriek of the railway whistle. It was hoped that 1 1 to Koomaylee would instead of St. Thomas. They only jest call at the latter . the railway to Annesley Bay 1 island to drop their inter-colonial mails and fill up with I Coach. one of the Virgin islands, will pro- Ibe completed in the course of two or three weeks. coal. Virgin 1 The telegraph had been carried about 20 miles, but bably be made the rendezvous of the steamers. In the i some of the wire had been stolen. A letter was first instance the steam were made to ca ll at Made' to ooal up, and then go OD to Grenada, one of the safest I carried from Annesley Bay to Senafd in one day. Isla from storms and convulsion ; then they were made I The correspondent of the Post says : to go to Bermuda, because the British admiral was ate- Sins the advent of his Excellency the Commander-in titnne there. This was • disastrous route, on account Chief • little more II•tontlo• aPPottu to WPM!. to &Atom% of the weather experienced on it. At length the and the uncouthly clad figures whirl "Mailhed us on Increased demand for speed compelled the building landing no longer greet the eye ; still, there is no of monster steamers, to run to St. Thomas, • distance attempt at " pipeclay," sad, indeed, if Carlyle's of nearly 4,000 miles, without stopping to coal. St. Thorns 1 " Frederick " himself true to assume command of Is the nearest island to Europe, and is the extreme point 1 the •expedition, I doubt his ability to enforce slu t° which to which any steamer can run, at full speed, from 1 thiag like parade uniform in this climate, and in this at. Southampton without coaling. All spot where gnat aseeptsers of dirt and dust. Every officer appears to have deposits of coal are made are unhealthy, because the de. . a" werfiedne suit of hie torsi varying according to hie 1 1 posits are never clamed o ff . Rain percolates through the 1 teSiar Orr MN" Probably. TelOnrOSSo for h e re we have to I seal heaps, the foundation of which stand in • poisonous 1 wor Willing efe eon get; but th e prevailing drams is , ixture of fluids a ad pce., which Genus the surro und. . black or buff. beets. breeches, or trousers made to do lagn atmosphere. The last Royal Mail steamer took out a 1 duty im•Msdr • • light dash wawa Janis with • little braid large number of wealthy Autipodeans returning to Kerr I and the reghnentel button, and the weal Indian sun la. Zealand sad Eastern Australia. They will get home ! sass. Swards are never seen ;it is impossible for the nearly a fortnight quicker by the Proems route, than if WHOt bweginntioe to realise that we are esmp•aptef In . an enemy's semsky. It is simply Aldershot with • little they had gene by way of the Red S ea : Tits LOCIDOIIN ENlATE.—Pesiding negotiations mom um, • little men desk • geed end hr rumours have hem Masai let soma months that this Ills ailleiPline , and oonaldetabli lan to do. Worn. esimia. Weeds. to the Wards cd Meetings, Lad pawed Use whole harass and haat of the day fall tiiCa••• a" the babas se the Marquis of Bete. We upon the Oesualseariai sad Lead Transport Train. we may now my that them time have been These an. hem the highest te the boweak ar• Uri at week onseladed and that the Bute estelsenr ia thfs county ham mow get this ism and very vslaside extession.—.lyr WOO sad eff ; the arlswills, toe. hillier Gad atiltill% Achierliesr. . with their Saimaa, Mal, ban *skim& in* K. ir , 0 PIVISIAN POLITICS. The Daily News suspects that when the secret history of Count Bismarck's administration comes to be written, it will be found that his most anxious and ►rduous con tests were not with a parliamentary opposition or with foreign powers, but with the sovereign be served. His confident anti somewhat cavalier reply to the opposition the other day relative to the compen• cations given to the King of Hanover and the Duke of Nassau was quite in the count's old manner ; but there were circumstances of the case, probably not unknown to many of the liberal members to whom he was speaking, which may have seemed to justify the minister's impatience. At all events, the manly challenge with which he concluded hie speech was calculated on more legitimate parliamentary and constitutional grounds to give them pause. "If you are in earnest in your disapproval of the treaty," exclaimed Count Bismarck, in sub stance, "have the courage by your votes to refuse to ratify it. You will then find the ministry more constitutionally disposed than you perhaps expected. You will have to mums the responsibilities of office and to resume these negotiations. Six months hence you will be in a position to tell me whether my policy was right." These words surprised the angry opposition into silence, and the con. ventdon with the King of Hanover and the Duke of Nassau was approved. This important debate seems to mark a new epoch in the constitutional life of Bruen'. (now ova owe consumerism.) PARIS, TIII7IIIIIDAT Svzinee. Half-a-dozen of the men arrested in the night of January 5 and 6, in front of the Chateau d'Eau Barracks, were brought to trial yesterday. Ac cording to the evidence of the military and police the affair was even more serious than the original reports inferred. It will be recollected that during the intense frost of the early part of January a number of people were sliding in front of the barracks, and that, being interrupted in their amusement by a sergeant's guard marching through them, they insulted the soldiers. The unlikely story that the men arrested were most of them old convicts, which I discredited at the time, is not confirmed. The six men selected for prosecution out of many others were young mechanics and tradesmen without any " judicial antecedents." The indictment charged them with having uttered sedi tious cries, to wit, "Vive Garibaldi !" " Down with Veuillot !" " Down with the Mobile Guard " Now is the time to try the Chaasepots !" with having sung the Mareeillaise, and with having hooted and assaulted the police. Sergeant Fontana, of the 24th Regiment, who commanded the guard that was coming home to barracks, deposed that. several men who were sliding across the road which they had to pass received them very badly, said disagreeable things, and complained of being dis turbed in their sliding. He seized one individual by the collar, and thrust him as a prisoner into the centre of his men. He was followed by several people who kicked him on the legs. Thereupon he halted his men, and ordered them to fix bayonets. Immediately afterwards an officer came out fri•ni the barracks and ordered him to set his prisoner at liberty. Adjutant-Major Mathiot, of the 24th, said that the barrack doles being mobbed by an angry crowd of some 1,500 people he harangutd the mob, and the greater part yielding to his adviie went home ; but that after he went back a number of men still hung about the door and called for "the sergeant's head." The attitude of the cr owd was very hostile—windows were broken by pieces of ice being thrown at them, and they sung the " blarseillaise." A police-inspector deposed that ho was sent for to disperse the crowd. He heard cries of Vive la Republique !" " Vire Garibaldi:" and was told that the " Marseillaise had been sin:. He had no hesitation in saying that there was the commencement of an eurentc, and it was only owing to his resolution and the efficient aid he reetit,d from his scrgents-de-ville that it was put doe n. The court acquitted the prisoners on the count of sedi ditious cries, but found five of them guilty " word's" exciting to the commission of one or more misdemeanours, and of insulting and assaulting the police, and for these offences sentenced them sete rally to terms of imprisonment varying from pit weeks to fifteen days. The sixth man, agai:ht whom nothing was proved but that he him " a prohibited arm "—namely a pi wket poniard —was only sentenced to pay a fine of lefr. It would appear that the most guilty persons, who stormed the barracks and assaulted the military, were not caught. The annual selection of prize oxen for the pro menade of the Ilieuf-Gras took place at the La Vitiate market yesterday. Out of 17 copetitors, 13 belonged to the Norman breed, and m 4 only to the Nivernais. But the jury gave three out of the four prizes, including the first prize, to Nivernais beasts. This is, I think, the second time only that the Nivernais have carried off the palm from the FE L7 * Normans. The latter have for a long series of years In yesterday's sitting of the Financial Cum- enjoyed a monopoly of the 11,Lit - f Crass prizes. The mittee of the Austrian Delegation, the subject un- " l aurea te "on the present occasion are ver y big, der discussion was the budget of the Minister for gr and -looking animals, admirable for the special Foreign Affairs. purpose for which they are chosen, but probably Herr Roichbauer proposed that the post of an inferior in the eye of a butcher to many of their re- Austrian Minister in Saxony should be abolished, i jected rivals. The na mes chosen for the four are as well as in other small German States, and that Gulliver, La Cagnotte, Illondin, and Rumford. a chargil d'affaires should be appointed instead of I The firmness at the Bourse continues. Rents a Minister Plenipotentiary in Wurtemberg. • roselOc. for cash and Sc. for account, closing at After a long discussion Baron von Beust stated 6sfr. 70c. and 68f r. 65c. There was little change that although the government had quietly accepted in other securities, but the market was active and many circumstances deviating from the stipulations prices well maintained. The money articles of of the treaty of Prague, yet it must be understood moat of the evening papers remark, however, that that the definitive organisation of Germany was the Bank returns argue unmistakably an aggrata not a matter of indifference to Ausiria. In ; tion rather than an improvement in the comma treating of this question the supposition, how- ! cial situation. The re is the great diminution ever, must not be excluded that such an ! 42 millions under the head of " bills in circulati..n," organisation might be effected in consequence and the famous milliard of idle capital has increased of a friendly understanding between Austria and by 21 millions more. Prussia. Looking at the subject from this point of view, it wan necessary to maintain the existing posts of Ministers for the present. Upon pro posals being brought forward for the suppres sion of the post of an ambassador at Rome, - and the replacement of all the ambassadors now representing Austria in foreign countries by Minister Plenipotentiaries Baron von Beust, taking into consideration the pending negotiations on the Concordat, thought it advisable no change should be made that might be interpreted as a po litical demonstration. Herr Shane's amendment for reducing the allow ance for expenses of representation assigned to the Roman mission was subsequently adopted. MINISTERIAL CRISIS IN GREECE. ATHENS, FEB. S. The Ministry have resigned, but it is not yet known to whom the King will entrust the charge of forming a new administration. WZATFIZR REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) FRIG/T, FIBRUAII 7, 8 A X. ----------=L.-- ------- TB ------- rage MIII .I'r VI. B IT. w. no ~.---•---. w.! 1 . 'l,to __,...1-..-.---.- 12 F 7l-----. D. —,--I -; " Peers -„. 29.511,46. &W. • 1 W.N.W. cob -, 4 Abredemi %.631,40 8. 2 P.W. 1h0; -' , 1 18ith 28.6.r.1 44, &W. 1 S S.W. 1 ..r ,- - Ardreman 2 i.C6I 45. S.W. 7 W.B W. 1 , . 0 igo Groom:sells 186811461 W.&W. ; 1 SW. ore '0.03 - Valanti• t 9 .80 01 &W. . 4 W. W. I ire 10.-+O' 4 Cape Clear 34.831 431 B.W. 6 W.S.W. 'n. 'O.- , . , 6 ltocbe's Pt 2877 f !MI W.S.W. i 6 S.W. mf.:l - 3 Liverpool 12.1cif,44 8.8. P. 1 3 W.O.W. he 1- 1 tiolyboaa 119.86 f ,45 ELS.W. 11 &W. co !,,.., - PUMA. 30.061,47, 8.8. W. . 4 W. suroo.l2 5 Breat ....- 30.101148 ts&f, 1 6 B.W. c I_: 4 Loneut 36.16132. N.E. 0 1 LE. 0 i ; 2 Rochefort ...8816110• &IL 1 2 E.N.F.. 1.1 . -•: 4 Plymouth . RAW. 2 W.S.W. ma Ou t 3 Weymouth *0 . 12f46 1 W. 4 W. 0 ,0.0.. 4 Portsmouth M.l2f 441 B.W. I 3 W. a 0 On . 2 Loudon lO 121143! B. W . , 4 W. l ettr I Yarmouth- 1 73 112 OW 8. , 6 w.\ i i . o' - 4 acan'"wilb 28.88fE38 W.N.W. he 'O.Ol 3 glielela - I 3 Skudesuve 2.0 Irli &E. 8 W. 6.21. . 1- I 3 Holler 3617 131 &B.W. - - b - Brussels 80.20 1 &W. - - -f, - Paris *22 401 IS.W. 21 - - 0 I - - BLyotrabettri - 1 N.W. 3 - - r ..." ._ . __...-4......1 tri 22 deo. at sea lent .--. ---...... an The youthful Prince Salvador Iturbide, grandson of the Emperor Iturbide, shot in Mexico in 18, has just ' , - Barometer affected and reduced to 32 deg at entered them nfil Zeman. He is a young man of 1et ,,,,, r (dreg ) , I tu ni ng ) (steady). iudicat twenty, who the Emperor Maximilian had adopted, and s u otionot the mercury within is:e 14 hours. Therm o the cost of whose education at Sainte-Barbs was defrayed ill . 'hat =re re Weather: b. I D i t t u i Vs t l a q directi ; c.- ° c7.1 `, 1. 1 by the Maxima government. A special decree of the late i fogi Bmperor conferred on him the title of prime. ' (Wu): r. -raln ; ii.-snow boutser. Uri" I h.Lhail ; L!llgbeniug ; in. -misty ;hair. . aim malted) dazing last 24 gea iisturbsi. A liberal banquet, which was an enthusiastic ' ' ROURKE. ~„w t led and suaossdul gathering, was held l as t night at Stith- ! The OM decrease of barmen"' rewn",:; ° ;,,,,i i ej ..nersl waite. Viscount Milton, M.P., attended and addressed gmen,l:4l:::ma;islaerti: bap bee.. ° followe d ;!, a o. 'j t e i . i,.,:h ai the meeting, and a resolution was passed pledging those oreene l aatie, but to • less cutes dine ' the east of ngland. it Nairn and Lyons is 0.9 Inches. The thirst in tempera present to rapport his lordship and his colleague, Helder • rise has OCOMITed. TlN).nwee in pr.se t ir: ,, , et e „, 111 r. Be at the mat election. I islands has been snail in the extreme north a hughcr to THE Naw SOLICITOR GBEERAL.-1/1/. William ture Is reported. The wind during ythterday h w ige:l e ir „..00 . Baliol Brett, Q.C., who has been appointed So licitor- trgtirr ' °'' 1,11=0I,: is stilt P O I A n ,i, e g General in in the room of Sir J. C. Sebrin. now Lord Justice saa , n i, viod hoe set is. Thin , have 1 ,,,,,, o po, f og sod lesS of APPfml, is the eon of the lete Jewrith George Brett, on the western cotta Fog has also 'seminal at O , " °I LL.B., who wall for many years the incumbent of Prance. Hanover Chapel, in th e metropolitan parish of St. I -.-------*---------.-- George's, Huover ears. He was born in 1817, and was educated at Westin School, whence he proceeded Moan DEMOLITIONS FOIL THZ LAW CorßT 6 '7 . to Gicavine mad Caine Collage, __Cambsidge, where he This morning Mews. Horns and Evengeld sold 01 took his B.A. degree in 1830 being 28th senior auction on the site of the proposed new how covet. rf: option in the mathematical tripoL In 1846 ha was Lions of Bell-yard, which runs from Fleet-strut I called to thoter by the Hoe. Socistyof i n 1850 and in Lintels's-ism. and portions of Carelyatreet, tart these •;1 1861, wee made Q.C. He was married in 1850 to Eugenie forthwith be removed. On Wednesday next it is haw' Meyer, oily daughter of Louis Mayer, "s q., and step- that portions of Boswell-court shall be sold. &nigh, ...tar et the late Colonel Giure, C.B. He was dint lIELANOHOLY Occunasagg.- melancholy ctlj reetraen SS s tar e of the Hones el Ocentneas in 1866. of death f rom o oo mind i n t his v icinity last ....,_ as regal of Relabon. In May of that year be A di o .ngod wo man ( u nmarried) , wr iter' f e w* Kr. B. Owsphell. when an Kul co of to , left her home on Wednesday to Wit the votes wow Pawl f•• e•I'• Eandidsis- The Mare i•TO • of • abide* in the outskirts of the town. Owitf_..: suing wen far Mr. Campbell, but on • pittilien and temporary absence or aberration of mind, she west ......r"" smatiay the mayor's vote was declared vdd, and Mr. th e house the i n t en ded t o go t o , e nd called at J e w• e ‘ • diSmslicisa. He had unatanaoha l l andadad further from the town to ask to be directed to her .. 1 • des al wad NM )Q32111-nOhnlaAllff OAP= 01 BADOZZE SHAH thtion.etowuth:sheleaviwngwitthatin hotbuesree,minteaddirecotif direction( m ing d wa t°7 l _. Boma.-Ou Monday het while* • party of tradmmen if afterwards on tho Canick shore road, _ sad on the 1 1%1 wow imaged in rabbit morays cm the bum of leading past Gam& berms Carrick hilL As she dif...17 Ni. ask Plane, at Oalin, ia the parish of Warn haws a diligent search was made for her. wr,.... Hearal. • laige tier of he im was disseeend, sad ea sa was not MU Beinday that her body was found examimillea was found to casein badgers. Anew two and windsock bridge, as the side of Carrick hill. Sh ii • half home merlin el Oki sad shendo L ther menoodad posed to Immo lain clown in • winded enot, aaa tom in I = l . ll h with the Ind of will ens sow tender= died hem the inciessacy el the cream. The big soles. rem* fier splendid Wpm. daily event ham embed &painful feeling in the ak a • shed me \when pouncla-Westere Do il y Nertary. i -Ayrr. Advertiser. levet - eter c‘r t t last 11 howl. irtacbe‘i • east WPM