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Lake-street, LiverpooL GOC'r and RHEUMATIS M. —The exc ruc iating pain of goat or rheumatism ie quickly relieved and 'wed la a few days by that oelebrated medicine, LAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILL& They require no restraint of diet or confinement daring their ire ant are certain to prevent the disease attacking any vital lurt sol 4 by all medicine vendors at la. led. and in Pd. per box, tr obtained Humeri any chemist STATE of the CROPS, 1867.—The GARDEN ERN CHRONICLE and AGRICULTURAL OAZILTTI of Aagnxt 17 will contain a detailed account of the CONDITION of tie 4ROPs throughout the country. A Copy of Ms Number lent on receipt of alx stamps, or may he ordered of any news agent.—ollim for Adrertisementa, 41, Wellington-street, istraod, loutinn. UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.—The following is a list Of the candidates who passed the recent first M.B. exami station :—First Division.—William Field Flowers, Guy's Hospital; William Richard Cowers, University College ; Frederick Pollard, St. Thomas's Hospital ; Edwin Raynor, EA., University College ; Richard Lawton Roberts, UM vanity College ; John Davies Thomas, University College. Second Division.—Albert Henry Baines, Guy's Hospital ; Evan Buchanan Baxter, King's College ; John Gordon Black, College of Medicine, Newcastle-on-Tyne; Ethelrid Dena, University College ; Clement Dukes, St. Thomas's Hospital ; Francis Be Havilland Hall, St. Bartholo. mew's Hospital ; Charles Edward Hoar, King's College ; Arthur Fevre-soon M'Cill, King's College ; William Price, University College ; Richard Samuel, St. Bar tholomew's Hospital ; Herbert Lumley Snow, University College, and Queen's, Birmingham. Excluding Physio lasy.—First Division.—James Reginald Stocker, Guy's &spited. Second Division.—Edward Colson, Guy 's Hos pital ; Charles Henry Joubert de la Forte, St. Mary's Hos pital ; William Joseph Scott University College ; Charles Tantield Vachell, King's Collet Physiology only.—First Divisio n . — Ch ar l es T a yl or A ve g, St. Thomas's Hospital ; Adam Payton Hurlstone, University College ; Isaac Bur t*, Teo, King's College. LONDON AND BLACKWALL RAILWAY.—The direc tors report that the rent for the half-year ending :10th June last has been received, and that • dividend for that Period, at the rate of 4/. 10a. per cent. per annum, may be declared and made payable on and after the 14th instant. The dividend warrants have accordingly been prepared for that purpose. For the reasons sniped in the last= the directors are still unable to deal with the standing to the credit of profit and loss account. The directors also report that, in consequence of the Great !Eastern Railway Company baring declined to insert clauses in their Finance Bill for the protection of this company, they Were compelled to appear in opposition to that mes tere. Ly that hill the Great Eastern Railway Company , sought to obtain parliamentary sanction to set apart • por tion of their revenue to meet the interest on the deben tures and debenture stock of the company, to the prejudice K the rights and interests of this company. The bill was In the first instance rejected by tho committee of the Rouse of Commons ; but it has since been re-committed in a modified form, and a clause saving the rights of this tempany has been inserted. CROORRATEN, AtOtai 9, 1.15 A.74,—The Cunard Werner rubs, from Boston anal Halifax, is now passing browhead Signal Station. She will probably arrive at Queenstown at 5 a.m., and letters will reach London on Saturday, at G. 45 a.m. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (Raurn'e TeLzoasma) FRANCE. PARIS, AUGUST 8. The Emperor Napoleon left at 12.40 p.m. to day fur the camp at Chalons. There is said to be a question of M. Fould's returning to the Ministry of Finance. CARLSBAD, Arcusrr 8. M. Rouher has arrived here, It is said that he will go to Salzburg during the visit of the Emperor Napoleon. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Amon 8. The Minister of Agriculture and Commerce will visit the north of Hanover as well as Schleswig- Holstein. The department is occupied with the establishment of a general commission for the pro vince of Hanover. The second number of the Official Gazette for the North German Confederation will shortly be published, containing the decree convoking the Federal Council and the nomination of its members. Prince Dolgorouki, the governor general of Moscow, has arrived here. The conferences between the King and Count von Bismarck at Ems continue. The Minister of the Interior will assembleconfidential persons from Cassel, Wiesbaden, and Schleswig-Holstein to submit some of the questions that are to come under examination to preliminary detailed discus sion. Herr von Zastrow, from Schleswig, has already arrived. BERLIN, AVGUST 8, EVENING. The semi-official North German Gazatt of this evening says :—" The report contained in a letter dated Paris , the 211th ult., and published by the General Augaburg Gazette of the Ist inst., respecting some alleged negotiations between the cabinets 9f Paris and Berlin relative to Schleswig, is, we are in a position to say, nothing but a pure invention from beginning to end. NV e may express a hope that attempts like the above to deceive the public as to the relations existing between the two cabinets will not be su cces sful. Those relations continue to be of the most friendly character. The same holds good with regard to such anecdotes as that published in No. 210 of the Vienna Presse, respecting a conversation between the Mar quis de Moustier and the Prussian minister in Paris. Such inventions need no contradition. We all the more regret to see a journal like the Weser Gazette give publicity to such erroneous representations. No such instructions exist as those which that journal recently alleged to have been issued by Count Bismarck. The Prussian government has not taken nor heeded to take steps of the kind alluded to, simply because there has been no cause for any. The communications of the French go vernment to iterepresentative relative to Schleswig were not, either in form or substance, of a character to call for any subsequent diplomatic communica tions. The Prussian government has neither re ceived nor given any cause for peace to be looked upon as menaced. We entertain no doubt that the pacific sentiments by which Prussia isanimated will be shared and reciprocated by France." THE NORTH GERMAN PARLIAMENT. ALTONA, Auoust 8. Meetings of voters have been held at which the subject of Prince Frederick of Angustenburg's can didature for election to the North German Parlia ment has been brought forward. It was decided to reserve action in the matter until further in quiries had been made. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, AVOVST 8. A semi-official denial has been given to-day to a report current here that the United States sena tor, Mr. Doolittle, who visited Copenhagen two months ago on his way to St. Petersburg, had car ried on negotiations with the Danish government for the cession of the island of St. Thomas to the United States. Mr. Doolittle, it is added, had no communication whatever with the president of the Danish ministry. THE CANDL&N INSURRECTION. TRIESTE, Aucusr 8. Intelligence received here from Athens, dated the 3rd inst., asserts that the Sublime Porte has protested against the conveyance of Candiote families from Crete in French vessels, the Turkish government declaring the despatch of the foreign Consuls relative to massacres by the Turks to be inaccurate. A Russian vessel arrived at Athens on the 2nd with several Cretan families. INDIA. CALCUTTA, Aucw G. The Bank of Bengal has withdrawn from the proposed scheme for amalgamation with the Bank of Bombay. THE BANK OF FRANCE. FARIS, Auccen. 8. The Bank of France return for the week ending to-day shows the following changes compared with the last account : 'Nati:Asa. Cash in hand . . . fr. 17,500,000 Private accounts . . . 12,000,000 Advances Dames' Notes Treasury balance . . Bills discounted . . VISIT OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON TO of the ground to avoid the fire of the enemy's artillery. The skirmishers open fire at 1,000 metres. It Is still un decided as to the exact distance at which the battalions ought to commence their combined fire ; but in a few days the exercises in combined firing will put an end to thi s uncertainty ; meanwhile it is thought that their effect is very great at 800 metres, and that they may communes at that distance against troop. in line; at 600 or at 500 metres it is impossible for any troops whatever to stand against the fire of a battalion armed with Chassepots. On a plain no cavalry could approach even at charging dis tance, that is at 200 metres, a battalion firing at will ; this is se thoroughly understood that now in oar mancsuvres during all the action the cavalry is held in reserve ; it has not entered into line, and has only charged when the enemy's troops have clearly indicated their retreating TILE CAMP AT CHALONS. It will be seen by a telegram in another column that the Emperor Napoleon left Paris yesterday for the camp at Chalons. A letter from the camp, dated the 6th inst., and published in the Paris Temps of yesterday, says : A despatch received this morning at head.quarten fixes Thursday, the Bth inst., for the arrival of the Emperor at the camp. His Majesty will remain until the 16th. He wishes, indeed, to see for himself the import ance of the modifications to be introduced into actual tactics in consequence of the new armament of the French infantry. Ever since the 24th June we have had grand manoeuvres every week on Monday and Friday ; we were, therefore, much astonished a few days ago to read in the little Moaiteur that the troops at the Chalons camp would soon commence the grand masueuvres they execute every season. A month and a half in arrear is a little too much ; however, from the very beginning of our manoeuvres certain changes have been regarded as established principles, others are still on trial ; repeated experiments can alone demonatate the expediency, more or less, of their adoption. As before, the artillery commences battle ; it opens fire at 2,500 metres ; at I,noo metres its fire is very accurate and effec tive. During the fire of the artillery the infantry advances, covered by a dense mass of skirmishers, and endeavouring to profit by all the accidents - .... ,•• sum AUSUI cause saving sun rig Ula us sum saner, au ev beenC"lCP:o7i bas ertaV.:Ara UST 9, 1.15 A. m. —The Cunard Grantley he/ " p0PPea . ,7 "..0 ; means the "ry. commence■ battle ;it opens fi re at 2,500 my better rudiment. The tyrant, baled In his hope ■ of 1/10Cana - -_. . . _ rer steamer f•nha , e major himself , affectionate, m y, aul " knd ; o " bati- motte ■ ;at 1,500 me Its fire is ' very accurate and eflec• inveigling a fresh number of **pelves into kis meshes, may, Henry Cloy, M.A., incumbent of Kirkby, Lancashire, He .. tr_e_•f_•!i•e , an ar d e th a : e silr_e! . ,onneente, • brd.of from Roston and Halifax, is now passingha resent his disappointment on those in his power. I and the Rev. William Pollock, M.A., vicar of wdon, n " ° " n Y ■ ■ . 777; ar k./,_. /, _ In ...head Signal Station. She will probably arri • o not espair. Often as I have drained the Crawley, though she only 16, and tire During the fire of the artillery the infantry S er Ps j pp ° of Ch es hi re h at nate ;f or Jane . b itter cup are retell tl been listed b the lord bi hop to the remuval.f th e .7""- nn ys and mark preparing the • d thwnnighly for saalsallatlnn. ren- Q u eensto vs. has as vet read nothing but Latin and Greek, the advances, covered by a dense mass of skinnichers,. s a g • and letters will reach London on d • ed th t lt t tHe of the diocese to honorary canonries in the cathedral of dense each tributary organ I+••fit to Ile function and ■iimu4- an ex perienc e mos crue rea men , y, at 6.45 a.m. twelve bookn of Zuclid, and Wood's Algebra ; and endeavouring to pro fi t by all the accidents who then supported, otrengtheued, and shielded me does Chester. I ting the kidneys. X iterature. The Last Chronicle of Barset. By ArrtroNv TROLLOPE. Two vols. Smith, Elder, and Co. We shall hear no more of Barchester. The men and women in whose society we have spent so many pleasan hours, whose foibles we havelaughed over, and whose virtues have charmed us, retire from the stage in this " last Chronicle." We con fess our grief at parting with them. They have been our companions so long that we like them better than new personages. Is it possible that Archdeacon Grantley will never more stand with his back to the lire and exclaim " Good Heavens t" Shall we see no more of Mr. Arabin, who , as Eleanor Bold, inflicted such condign p unishment on the unctuous Mrs. Slope ? Has Lily Dale de parted for ever with the two fatal letters inscribed after her name? Shall we hear no more of the indomitable Mrs. Proudie, and of the bishop's domestic sufferings I Is there an end to Johnny Eames and his long love story, to dear Grace Crawley, to Mr. Thumble, and Dr. Tempest ? Mr. Trollop° inforMs us that he has left the dio cese of Bsrchester for ever, and on taking leave he says :—" To me Barret has been a real county, and its city a real city, and the spires and towers have been before my eyes, and the voices of the people are known to my cars, and the pavement of the city ways are familiar to my footsteps ;" and then he asks to be forgiven, because from his love of old friendships and the sweetness of old faces he has been induced to wander among them too long, none of Mr. Trollope's readers--and this means the whole novel-reading public—will think that this apology is necessary. They will, on the con trary, regret with us that the familiar record is I closed. " The Last Chronicle of Barnet " is, we think, the best novel Mr. Trollope has written, the most I interesting es a narrative, the most felicitous as a work of art. Like almost all his tales it abounds with dramatis persomr whose characters stand out .as distinctly before us as if in very truth we had known them in the flesh. A novelist who is so prodi ' gal of his materials must have wonderful resources. There is nothing nebulous about the people who talk and act for us in his pages. They have human affections, human frailties, and seem to be living just the every-day life to which we are accustomed ourselves. Some critics, indeed, complain that Mr. Trollope is too realistic, and when not very ' long ago he concluded a tale with a nocturnal conversation between his hero and heroine about Ia lady's red nose, ho was laughed at for his terrible realism, as if forsooth art would suffer if nature were so closely followed. Mr. Trollope can afford to laugh in his turn at the critics, for he manages, despite his propensity, or rather by the exercise of it, to retain his reader's interest unimpaired. Grant that the men and women wheel he summons before us have ordinary faces and familiar dresses, that their aims are seldom lefty, that they speak on common subjects in ordinary language, that they seldom think like heroes 9r act like heroes, and you must grant at the same time that if they are human being whose doings are unfitted for an epic poem, they are human beings whom we are forced to love and hate, to laugh at or with, whose fortunes we follow with keen anxiety, and who have afterwards at least as distinct a hold upon the memory as the creations of poetical romance writers. Mr. Trollope tells the tale of familiar life with exquiaite ease and skill. What he does is always a success, because he knows so well his own powers, and never oversteps them ; but the author of ' The Warden," of " Orley Farm," and of this " Laat Chronicle of Barret," has shown that his range is not always and necessarily thus limited. We scarcely know a character in fiction more delicately drawn or more finely conceived than that of the Warden, to whose peaceful deathbed we are here summoned ' • and perhaps the chief interest of the story will be found in the psychological study afforded by Mr. Crawley. His character is a con ception of which the most idealistic artist of the day might be proud. His morbid nature, his sensi tive conscientiousness, his profound humility, which was, after all, but a veil for his pride, his high intellectual strength, combined with a strange and almost childlike weakness, the fierce independ ence and impracticability of the man, and the quaint humours inseparable from such a nature, are de scribed in the Chroniclewithgreat force and distinct ness. In the depth of his degradation, when a heavy charge hangs over him and his bar ren subsistence is threatened, he does not forget that his wealthy brethren are his intellectual inferiors, that he can make Greek iambics as he walks along the lanes, and that there is not one of the prosperous clergy men around him whom he could not instruct in Hebrew. It was always a gratification to him to remember that his old friend the dean was weak in that language. "He pitied himself with a com miseration that was sickly in spite of its truth. It was the fault of the man that he was imbued too strongly with self-consciousness. He could do a great thing or two. He could keep up his courage in positions which would wash all courage out of most men. He could tell the truth, though truth should ruin him. He could sacrifice all that ho had to duty. He could do justice though the heavens should fall, but he could not forget to pay a tribute to himself for the greatness of his own actions ; nor, when accepting with an effort of meekness the small pay- ment made by the world to him in return for his' great works, could he forget the great payments made to others for small work. It was not suffi cient for him to remember that he knew Hebrew, but he must remember also that the dean did not." Poor Crawley was sorely tried, but he found these alleviations to his sorrow ; and it is probable, such was the nature of the man, that in a smoother ca reer ho would have suffered from the lack of suf fering. Archdeacon Grantley is a very conspicuous per sonage in the series of tales which terminate with the Last Chronicle of Barset, and we must con fess to a great partiality for him, notwithstanding his worldly ambition and other clerical deficiencies. Mr. Trollope has seldom conceived any scene more 'charming than the interview between the Arch deacon and Grace Crawley narrated in the second volume. In " Barchester Towers," Mr. Trollope expressed a hope that Mrs. Proudie would live for ever, but he has thought fit to bring about her death in the present story. This important event will not be such a relief to the novelist's readers all it must have proved to the poor bishop, who we may hope, after passing through the troublesome waves of his married life, is now resting in a peaceful harbour. Mr. Septimus Harding, too, the dear old friend we have met with so often, yields up the ghost cheerfully at a serene old age. We can allow ourselves but a word for the minor portraits thatfigure on this crowded canvas : for that vain and feeble woman, Mrs. Dobbs Broughton, who is theoretically in lore with the artist, Conway Dalrymple, and would like him to declare his passion every day, that she might enjoy the pleasure of telling him how wrong it was to do so ; for Mr. Croabie, who plays so conspicuous a part in the " Small House at Allinf;ton," but falls into the background in the present story ; for kind-hearted Mr. Toogood, the lawyer, who remembers that blood is thicker than water, and although " long in family "—the lovely Thais having borne him twelve children, " who go in and out, boy and girl, boy and girl, like the I cogs of a wheel "—is ready to work for love for the sake of his cousin Crawley ; for Grace's zealous friend, Miss Prettyman, and her " inquisitive" sister, who is so eager to know whether Major Grantley has " popped," or means to " pop ;" for the major himself, affectionate, manly, and obsti nate ; for Jane Crawley, though she is only 16, and has as vet read nothing but Latin and Greek, the twelve books of Zuclid, and Wood's Algebra ; and for Disdains Demolines, who wishes to be a finger-post to John Eames, and may assuredly serve as one to all impulsive and inconsiderate ycung gentlemen. These and other characters equally noteworthy appear, some of them for the first and all for the last time, in the " Last Chronicle of 'target." We are sorry to part with them, and should be more so if we did not hope to receive from the hand of the artist who has called them into being fresh groups of men and women and fair English maidens, worthy of the gallery which con tains the Grantleys and Crawley., the Robarts's and Arabina, and the refined, sensitive, pure minded gentleman who was once warden of Hiram's Hospital in the city of I3archester. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. mom ova owls croaassrowmurr.) PARIS, THURSDAY EVERDICI. The Emperor left the Tuileries for the ChAlorui camp at noon this day, and was expected to arrive there at sin the evening. He was accompanied by General Fleury, his grand ecuyer, Generals de Failly, Ldbceuf, and Pajol, MM. Stoffel, de Las salle, and Caataigne, his orderly officers, M. Reim beaux, the ecuyer, and M. Pietri, his private secretary. The Moniteur reproduces an article of the St. Petersburg Journal explaining the " step taken" (which, by the way, the semi-official French press affirmed as long as theycould never was taken)bythe French charge d'affaires at Berlin on the Schleswig question. The Russian organ thinks it quite natu ral that the cabinet of the Tuileries should have sent instructions to M. Lefevre de Behaine for his government in " diplomatic conversations ;" and also that the use he made of these instructions in communicating them officially, or at least, allowing the purport of them to be known, is to be regretted. This reproduction by the Monitear is clearly an in direotoensure upon M. Lefevre de Behaine, and tends to confirm the rumour that he is to be sacrificed. The government, without giving any reason, has refused to authorise the meeting this year of the Co-operative International Congress, for whose objects it last year professed the greatest sym pathy. M. Horn, the well-known economist, now a rifelacteur of the Avenir National, who sent in the application, assumes that the refusal can only be based upon a repugnance to his name, and he has resigned his official connexion with the committee of the Congress, in the hope that some other pre sident may find more favour in the eyes of authority. An assault case, interesting to the theatrical world, came before the Correctional Court yester day. M. Dautresme, a young gentleman brought up at the Polytechnic School, and who served for a short time in the army, left the service to follow the more congenial pursuit of a musical composer. He offered to the Thatre Lyrique an opera called Cordillac, which (for reasons, as will presently be seen, irrespective of its merits) was accepted by Carvalho, the manager. There being a great delay in bringing the opera out, M. Dautresme sent a challenge to M. Carvalho, and when the latter refused to fight, saying he had offered the ckailenger no affront, and that the only difference befiereen them was a matter of business to be settled, if necessary, in a court of law, M. Dautresme had recourse to the provocation for which the Caaaagnac family have set s precedent of spitting in his face. M. Carvalho then endea voured to strike him, but was prevented by by standers, in spite of whose interference, however, M. Dautresme succeeded in following up his spit ting by poking his umbrella into Carvalho's eye and hurting him considerably. The only defence to the charge was that M. Dautresme had procured a loan for M. Carvalho of 50,000 fr. that the interest had never been paid, and that under those circumstances he naturally felt provoked at his opera being continually put off M, Carvalho's counsel said he did his best to got it played, but that it was essentially bad, and his principal singers would not take the parts assigned to them. M. Dautresme was sentenced to six §itoriths' imprisonment for the assault. The story redounds neither to the credit of the opera of Car ' difttic nor to the catering for the public of the Th&tre Lyrique. • The Bourse barely maintained the rise of yester day. Rents left off 21c. higher for cash and bc. for account, closing at 69fr. 474 c. and 69fr. 42Ac. Comptoir d'Escompte fell 2fr. 50c. ; Italian fell 10c• and Credit Mobilier 2fr. 50c. THE ABYSSINIAN CAPTIVES. There are two parties of Euro n captives in Abyssinia—the smaller one at Msgds l s a which includes Mr. Ressam, Consul Cameron, and Messrs. Stern and Rosenthal ; the other, with or near the King, at Debra Tabor and Csliat, which includes Mrs. Rosenthal and child, Mr. and Mrs. Fled, and three children, with all the German artisans, two missionaries of the Sootoh Church, and others. _ _ _ The abming letter hen been received from the Rev. H. A. Stern : " Magda's, May 20. " My dear Charlotte,—My note of the 2nd inst. no doubt caused you much anxiety. The intelligence we received on that day was indeed gloomy . and dismaL The anticipated storm, it seems, has main been lulled ; and the perils which then encompassed us, if they have not entirely been dissipated, have, for the present at least, only east their dim shadows around our prima walla. Mr. Fled has arrived, and his reception by the King was not very auspicious nor favourable. His Majesty pretended to be greatly enraged that the artisans had not come, and he at tributed it all to the unfriendly feeling of England towards him, of which, be asserted that he had had ample proofs, even in the time of the late Consul Plowden and his adju tant Bell. Mr. Fled intimated to him that he (the King) had powerful enemies around him ; and that it would have been to his interest to have accep ted the hand of friendship which the British government extended to him. This roused his indignation, and, as nasal under such circum stances, he hurled a volley of defiance against the whole universe. 'Let them all come,' he said, 'and if I do not beat them call me a woman.' This obstinate persistence in a way which he well knows, to say the least of it, is opposed to common sense and justice does aot surprise me. An invisible hand is evidently guiding the events in which we are involved; and that invisible hand will, no doubt, also conduct matters to a heaven-appointed termination. Our position and pros . pects are as dreary and cheerless as they can be ; and it is not unlikely that m days roll on our troubles will increase, and the dangers which en viron us assume a more serious aspect. It is true we are already inured to hardship' and accustomed to suffering, still I do not hesitate to confess that I shudder at the idea of having my weary limbs and body again bent double by beavierchitins, and of being once more incarcerated in the crowded putrescent common prison. Do not think that a long career of misery has imparted a gloom to my imaginatirm, which tinges every sentence I write with its sombre and melancholy hues. Believe me my heart is firm and confiding as ever, and my faith brighter and stronger than during the happiest period of my life ; this, however, does not impose upon me the duty of concealing the truth, or of indulging is ephemerallucubratione. My note of the 26th of May, 1866, you, and others may, perhaps, have con sidered a little exaggerated. I knew my oppressor, and the delusions of a miataken charity which once made me trust where I ought to have suspected, then no longer beguiled my better judgment. The tyrant, baffled In his hopes of inveigling a fresh number of saptives into his meshes, may, perhaps, resent his disappointment on those in his power. I do not despair. Often as I have drained the bitter cup of suffering, and experienced the most cruel treatment, He who then supported, strengthened, and shielded me does not falter in His faithfulness, nor will He, when the enemy comes in like a flood, fail to lift up a standard against him. There is a report that all the huropeami at Debra Tabor will be transferred to Magda's. The inse curity of Fkgemeder, the ever increasing strength of the rebels, and the exhausting resources d the King may prompt this measure. Should the tyrant himself follow, we may bid farewell to the mo notony, peace, and quiet of our present prison life. A few weeks more of resignation, faith, and earnest prayer to God may deliver us. I yearn, yearn most intensely to see again your face, hear your vole., and listen to those accents of sincere sympathy which would soon make me forget the corroding cares and mental anguish of my weari some and painful captivity. God, in mercy, grant it speedily.—Your affectionate husband, " RIMY A. Si.w " June 11. " P.3.—A1l communications with Debra Tabor are now interrupted. The rebellious peasantry and soldiers now occupy the country from within eight of the royal camp to the river Djeddah, about 30 miles hence. From the Euro -ans at Gallia we have had no news for many weeks. There is a report, which I fear is only too true, that they are all in chains, not excepting the women. Don't be oast down. God for wise purposes often veils His dealings in profound mystery, but when the curtain is once lifted up all will unfold wisdom, love, and goodness." The King of Abyssinia appears to be fend of scriptural quotations. After Mr. Fled was introduced his Ifajesty salted him, " Where are the workmen!' To which Mr. F. replied, " I would have brought them straight up if your Majesty had not imprisoned Mr. Ilaesam and his compa nions." " For the matter of that, sulkily answered the King, " the artisans would not have comae, even if I bad not chained them." Among the presents which were offered there was a telescope, which did not at all meet with the approbation of the monarch, although it is said to be excellent of its kind. The King inquired about the future intentions of England in reference to himself, upon which Mr. Flad informed him that he could not expect any more friendship if he did not allow the European at once to depart. " Let them come," replied the King, "and call me a woman if I do not fight them," adding, " Those who have faith, like a grain of mustard seed, shall be able to remove mountains." A postcript to another letter written by Mr. Stern says: —" Whilst writing the above, news arrived here that the King's army is almost entirely dispersed. Some of his most faithful adherents, it is stated, utterly disgusted with the cruelties of their fallen master, have daring the past week left en mum, and be is now regularly hedged in by hostile hordes. I tremble for the primness now in his power, and for the terrific Bosom we may witness if the King makes his escape from Debra Tabor and reaches this Amps (rock fortress), where, by the sheer dread of his pre sence, he will always find tools enough to execute his most atrocious behests." THE SUSPECTED MURDER AT LIMEHOUSE. At the inquest yesterday, after our report left, Elisabeth Johnson said for the bast eight years she had lived with the last witness as his wife. On the IVedner day morning she and Deen were called into the cottage by Wiggins and his father. Mrs. 'Wiggins was standing on the top of the stairs. Witness said, " How bas this happened ?" and she said, " Agnes has out my son's throat andthen her own." Witness went into the room. Agnes was lying on her beck. Her chemise was torn. It looked as if it had been torn in a scuffle. It had more that ap paktum than not. Agnes was stiff. Wiggins had his hands to his throat. He ran out of the room. The knife was on the table. Mrs. Wiggins's bands were dripping with blood. Witness washed her hands and arms in a pail. Inspector Brady said that he had gone to the house of the man stated to be dying, at 83, North-street. He said, "My name is Conrad Long. I was ill in bed, and I did not hear anything or see anything. There is always • noise in this street, but I heard nothing unusual on that night. At half-put five o'clock I beard several persons call out that • young woman had been murdered. I cot up and looked out of the window and I saw Wiggins sitting on • chair in the street. Williamsi and others were with him. Old Mr. Wiggins walked down the street calling out, " Murder, Murder!" The Coroner—l am very glad we have got that state ment. . _ Thomas Allwand, a labourer, proved hearing John Wig gins say, on the morning in question, that is wife had cut his throat and then her own. He said that he was lying on the rug in front of the fire when she cut his throat. Ha said that be went to hie father's apartments, and when he found the blood coming he put the hiuniker chiaf on. The Coroner—Did he say he had the handkerchief on when his throat was cut Witness—No. The Coroner—There la a discrepancy here. Sarah Martina said that her cottage was at the back of Temperance-cottage. At ten minutes to 2 o'clock wit ness heard a cry of " Murder." The first words she heard were, " You old —, you are murdering me !" Witness nexheard, "They are murdering of me ! " The cry of murder was then repeated. The church clock then struck two. The cry of murder seemed to come across the canal. It was a female's voice. It was a woman's voice that said, " You old bitch, you are murdering me !" Coroner—l wish to direct your attention to that word. Witness—lt was bitch. I then heard, " They are mur dering me !" I thought the words were frightful ones. Inspector Brady said that the distance between the two houses was forty-oue yards. The witness said that she had heard frequent cries and quarrels from that direction, but never before heard the cry of murder. She want to her window when she heard it, and looked out. The window was open. The cry came from across the water. Police-constable John Tucker, 4i5 K, said that he eim on duty in Henry-street at two o'cleck on the morning in question. He heard cries of murder coming from the direction across the water. He latened and went along the canal towing path, and there was no light or sound. All became quiet, and witness returned to his best. It was about ten minutes to two o'clock when he heard the first cry of " Murder." A. juror—That confirms Sarah Martha's evidence. Mary Ann Wiltshire said that she did reside neat door to the deceased. She had some up from beyond Gravesend to give evidence. She knew the deosased well. She used to say that she wished Wiggins was kinder. Witness never saw her the worse for drink. She never drank more than a pint of beer. On the Saturday afternoon previous to her death witness heard her screaming. Wiggins said, " I will kick you, I will." 'Witness .went in, and then she saw Wins kicking 'her under the bladebone and on the back of the bead. She had thrown the tea things at him. Witness pulled Wiggins off her, and told him that he would yet be merry for what he did. She said frequently that she had asked Wiggins to marry her. That seemed to work upon her mind. She said that she was unhappy, and that she would go to ser vice and see better days yet. She never spoke or seemed to think of suicide or anything of the kind. There was a bruise under her bladebene, and she said that her head was so sore that she could not comb it. She never was the wane for drink, for if she had been witness must have sees it. By Mr. Young—The cause of the kicking was that the deceased bad delayed out to buy a looking-glass when Wiggins sent her to buy a chop for his dinner. Elizabeth Hampton, 75, Lower Eastfield-street, wife of Wm.Hempton, a lighterman, said that the deceased was a friend of herlodger s. The,day before her death she called at her bowie. She was very low spirited, and said, " I've been after Jack with some bread and meat." See said she felt very miserable. She said she bad got If. on his watch, to buy under -linen and a cotton dress to go to service, and that Wiggins would not forgive her. She said that she felt she could make away with herself, because Wiggins would not forgive her. Witness said, " You love your slater ;" and she replied, " What a stupid thing I am. I do love her—every hair of her he She then laughed, and said, " I'll go into service, and I'll see happy days yet." She had never said Wiggins and she would never want anything much longer. She had bought under-linen and a dress. Thomas Brown, Eastfiehl-street, a lighterman. said that he was with Wiggins on the Tuesday night. He had • " little drain" to drink. That was just as much as a working man ought to take. (Laughter.) Ile was not sober, but he was not drunk. He did not allude to Ames ()ekes. He went home at • quarter to one o'clock on the Wednesday morning. By Mr. Young—Wiggins took a pint of beer home. He said he wee going to take it to his wife. Fanny Wiggins, wife of George Wiggins, a lighterman, and the brother of the prisoner, said she went into the room in which the decemed was, and, in company with her sister-in-law, turned the deceased over en the bml to lay her out. She then tore the chemise in trying to get it from ander her. Dr. Horton (recalled) said that be did not notice whether the chemise was torn when he first saw the de ceased's body. George Banister, 12S K, said that on the morning in question he saw Dean coming up the street, and Deen ▪ " You are wanted there has been murder." Witness went Into decea sed's room, and a policeman went for the doctor. Wiggins had a Guernsey shirt on. The deceased was lying on the rug with a sheet covered over her. Upon turning the sheet down, witness saw the chemise torn to within twelve inches of the bottom of it. It looked as if it had been torn in • struggle. The knife produced was found by witness lying on the table. (It was a blunt table knife.) The inquiry wee further adjourned. THZ DIOCFAZ OF CHESTER. —The Rev. Robert Henry Croy, M.A., incumbent of Kirkby, Lancashire, and the Rev. William Pollock, M.A., vicar of Bowdon, Cheshire, have recently been collated by the lord bishop of the diocese to honorary canoaries in the cathedral of Chester. THE TRADE OUTRA , H4 AT ntiEFFIELD. Mr. Overend Overend and his 00-examiners—Mr. Chance and Mr. Barstow—have just made a report to. the Tr.ales Union Commissioners of their inquiry into the Sheffield on They say : The furl subject which engaged our attention was that of rattening. Battening is a mode of enforcing pay ment of contributions to and of compliance with the rules of the union. The wheelbands, thole, and other ma terials of a workman are taken and held in pledge until be haa satisfied the society by payment of his arrears, or by submitting to the rides which he has infringed. At first it was dm3ed that the unions connived at this practice. but we had not proceeded far with our investigation before it waa admitted on all hands that ratteoing had been for a long time prevalent In the grinding trades and in all trades connected with them. It is fair to the unions to say, that in the majority of asses where the demands of the union have been complied with, and a payment of a small sum for the expenses of rattening has been made, the property taken has been restored. Battening is always done in the interests of the union, and very commonly by the direc tion of the secretary, who negotiates with the party rat tened for the restitution of his property. In some cases a member of the union, without express authority, rat tens another member who is known to have incurred the displeasure of the society, and takes his chance of having his act adopted by the union. Recounts is seldom had to the police to recover property so taken away, but applica tion is almost always aiesk to the esieretary of the union immediately the loss of tools, &a., ie ascertained. The practice of rattening is well known to be illegal, and per ' sons detected in illegally taking away property have fre quently been convicted and punished. The excuse offered by the unions for this system is, that in the absence of legal powers rationing affords the most ready means of enforcing payment of contributions and obedience to the rules (of the 1011011. limy articles of Sheffield manulatiture require for their comple tion the labour of various classes of work men. For example, the manufacture of a saw requires the work of the eaw-grinders, the saw-maker., and the saw-handle makers. All these workmen form separate branches of the saw trade and are in separate unions.. They are, however, all aintreated together for mutual support. In case of default any member of any of tin, branches, or in case of a dispute with the masters, ao the grinders' feels are most easily abstracted, and as • stopping tho grinding stops the whole saw trade, the course commonly adopted is to rattan the grindses. although the &slante may be with the sun:oaken or saw-handle =Aare, and on the matter being arranged the other branches indemnify the ganders for their loss of time and for expenses incurred. An attempt it often successfully made to saddle the whole cost of the rattening, as well as the cost of supporting the men while out of employment, upon tie masters, even where he is no party to the dispute, oc, the ground that her ought to have compelled his workmen to comply with the' rules of the union. The system of rattening generally proved successful in effecting its object. If, however, the' person rattened continues refractory, be commonly re-, ceives an anonymous letter warning him of the conse quences of his obstinacy. If this waning is dirregarded„ recourse has been had to acts of outrage, the nature ot which will be understood from a perusa l of the cases actually investigated by us." A number of cases, as they affect each union, are taken in the order of time of their occurrence. With regard to the Saw-Grinders' Union the examiners say : " The fact of these outrages having been done in the interest of the trade was well known to the union, and although in one or two instances individual members had protested against them, yet nothing like an investigation bad been demanded, nor had there been any general vote of condemnation of these acts until the case of Fume hough occurred, when public indignation was aroused, and then the outrage was denounced, and a reward was offered by the union for the detection of the offenders. The whole of the above offences were coneet ted by Broad head, and sums amounting to nearly 21)01. had been taken by him out of the funds of the union to pay the parties who committed them. Although these acts were not proved to have been directly authorised by the union, there must have been a knowledge, or at all eveuts a well-grounded belief, amongst its members that they were done, not only in the interests of their society, but through the agency of some one or more of their governing body, and we report that all the above outrages were promoted, encouraged, and connived as by the Saw-grinders' Union ; and that the Hereford-street outrage was promoted and encouraged by the Saw grinders', Saw-makers', and Saw-handle Makers' Unions. The following members of the Saw-grinders' Union have been engaged in the concerting or perpetration of out rages :—Broadhead, William ; Clark, Dennis ; Copley, Joseph ; Cr ech es, Samuel ; Dean, Phineas (dead) ; Hal lam, James ; Pearce, George ; Shaw, George ; Smith, Elijah (dead) ; Taylor, John (deed)." In conclusion the examinees say ; " We have now given an outline of all the cases of im portance which were submitted to us for investigation. Mr. Thomas Thorpe, managing clerk to Mr. Albert Smith, clerk to the magistrates for the West Riding of Yorkshire and borough of Sheffield, prepared for us • list of cases supposed to be connected with trade.; unions, and which had been brought before the justices within the last ten years. It comprised, in addition to the outrages men tioned in this report, Ilk cases of ratteniug and 21 cases of sending threatening letters. A very small proportion, however, of the persons rattenel give information either to the police or to the jus tices. Most of the outrages we have investigated were brought before the justices, and although in several cases large rewards bad been offered for the detection of the perpetrators, the offenders have with two or three excep tions remained unknown up to the period of the inquiry. We believe that there are about 60 trades' unions in Shef field, of which 13 have promoted or encouraged outrages within the meaning of the Trades' Union Commission Act, I lOW. We have to report that there has not occurred within& the last ten years any acted intimidation. outrage, , or wrong promoted, encouraged, or connived at by_ any ; association of employers. We point to the year lAA as the one in which outrage was most rife, and we notice with pleaaure that it has diminished since that time. During the course of our investigation matter, con nected with trades' unions (such as the number of , apprentices allowed to each workman, and the class from I which they may be taken, the remuneration of labour, the restrehits exercised upon voluntary action, and the rules and general policy of trades' unions) have frequently been brought before our notice. These, however, are questions for the consideration of the Royal Commialion sitting in London and we purposely avoid making any observation upoe them. At the conieseneetsentrof our inquiry, and free qnently duruag the course of it, we explained the provokes cithe Trtides Union Commission Act, 14.7, wi th ngsrd to . the powers conferred on us id mating certilleates of indem nity to without.' who should by their evident* inculpable themselves. We are convinced that the most mate rial diseloures made to us were so made in reliance on our promise of indemnity made in conformity with the act of parliament. Had no such indemnity • been offered, we are satisfied that we should never have obtained any clear and conclusive evi dence touching the most important subjects of our inquiry, ' and that the system of crime which has now been diszlosed, .ftl v lV ered ell al; we have w gran oul te d d h . ar rt e ifi rein ca na t ed un oallw ii. t. nesse, whom we believe to have made a full and true dis closure of all offences in which they have been implicated." T8.A11710 RETURNS. RAILWAY& =me Pe► Mew- Tntal, Total, epee. eeefere. ehaadlee. 1867. IoOR Week en,nrez J line 1 & & A L Orest Southern et India .. 1T LW ALS RIO 893 Week ending June Y. Greet Indian kennels' Week eudim June K. Madras—South Wert Una 492 Noeik Walla lAse. 114 Week ending Jane !t ablated San Fraoebee .. The Week eat iog Judy 21. 833 6,369 35,261 31,63) 21.649 7.677 6,118 2,276 762 80/ P 37 61° 840 G4O Week ending August S. Dublin and Beath 35 165 137 302 306 Week endln.g August 3. Berth Eastern 1229 27,866 61,7(0 70,661 73,901 Week ending August 4. Belfast end Canty Dues 441 614 27 3 917 820 Bristol and Exeter 1341 5.769 3.oini 8,774 UAW Brest Western 1311 40,164 35,620 83.7E4 b 3,3211 Ilancliester,SeatbJtusctlen, and Altrincbaui North British RAILWAY AND OTHER BILLS REPORIII PAHL'S KENT. —Yesterday the only bill which came under the attention of the parliamentary committees was one in the House of Lords. In the rainted•cliamber their lord ships proceeded with the further consideration of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway (Arrangement) Bill, the preamble of which was declared to have been , and the settlement of the clauses fixed foe this S r ar(Vriday). No business was transacted in the House of Commons' Committees. ADMIRALTY, AUGUST B.—ArrOINTMENT.—AMia tint Surgeon G. Curtis, to the Crooodile. 01IYISTAL PALAO.S.-ONS SD ILLINO DAY. -TII DAY, ACC UST B.—Admissions Cu payment. 3,237 ; ditto by season tickets, 2,108 ; total visitors. 7,343. 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