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LUDGATE-HILL THEATRE ItOYAL, COVENT GARDEN. First appearance of the ORIENTAL TRW 'PK—TO-NIGHT (Monday, Feb. 17;, and during the week the performances will emionein eat; o'clock, with the lunchable farce TH1:600(41: W IT II Tilkin OLDEN EIJW. A fti.r which the Oriental Troupe will sunke their fir,t appcnr.inee in England. The Troupe consists of twelve males and six (monks. They ure of thitt cui lons class of iii India by the title of l'aneitics, Nutto, awl The principal performers wero fomierly attnehi b. the court of the King of Dude lit Ltekow, ul.l are conAilercd as the pied wonderful porformers of the.r elns, in Indio. To conehide with Ito (tric...) Comic l'antntalmo, 111 F. IN THE OR ItAIII.EttLIN AND HIS AI KED t V. EN ti railnutln.4 olsint It o'clock. Gd. ; , ti ID, :is. 1/111.1 2.5.. Galls iy, ls. Eite etatreoo• ADVERTISEMENTS for the EXPRESS received after 12 o'clock cannot be insixted on the same day. II tYIIARKF.T.. TITIS EVENINO, THE EN.IIEAI TED eirs.—DAVID GAERICK. Alum. 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Newham. and the I.:Lhasee F.nntly Stephan and Mine Itnee Nathan. At the outset of the expedition it was confidently asserted by independent witnesses that a military embassy of a thousand or two thousand men, of all arms, would suffice to bring , the Emperor THEODORE to reason, and to liberate; Consul CAMERON and his fellow captives, sup posing (a somewhat important supposition) that , the Emperor THEODORE had not cut off their . heads or crucified them as soon as he heard that they were " sent for." It might be supposed that when Parliament was summoned in November , to vote supplies for the expedition and the CHAR CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER asked for no more than a couple of millions sterling, " a mere fleabite," as he would say, nothing more than a military em bassy wasincontemplation ; yet before Mr. DISRAELI ! rose to solicitthat trifle, three millions or thereabouts bad already been expended on freight and transport from Bombay to the Abyssinian coast, not to men tion the item of mules dying like flies on ship board, or as soon as landed, for the greater glory of the British taxpayer. Whatever may become, then, of our prestige in Abyssinia when Sir Rona NAPIER has reached the headquarters of THEO DORE, and found his captives alive or dead, we must really bewara of losing our prestige nearer home by pretending to be taken by surprise by the little bills of five millions more or ! less, which are only just beginning to accu- ' mulate, or by this awkward co•operation of the Egyptian Contingent. To have lost tho alliance of that egregious runaway rebel NIENELEH is perhaps a disappointment that may be borne. Had Munnha stood fight or intercepted THEO. DORE and obtained possession of our captives, is it certain or probable that he would have given I them up like a good Christian, to spite THEODORE or to please the English t From the moment when it was publicly dm I dared that our expedition was to be strictly limited to the release of the captives, it was absurd to count upon any sort of " alliance " , in Abyssinia. Nor can we be surprised if the Viceroy of Bovrr—under advice, perhaps, from some European ally and patron—saw his way to doing a little business on his own account. When Sir ROBERT Names has set the captives free or exacted satisfaction for their sa crifice, are we to remain in Abyssinia until the Egyptians have evacuated the country in order to prevent the conquest of a Christian people by a Mussulman government ! If this is to be the development of the expedition, the question of our prestige in those parts will become enlarged to dimensions we forbear at present to imagine. The soli tary fact in the latoat intelligence from Abyssinia which maytend to allay the uneasiness of the British public is the advance of the Commander in-Chief as far as Addegraht on his march to Magdala, where the Emperor THEODORE, having put a rebel army to flight, has rejoined_hiscap lives and awaits their liberators. THE great county game of " Pull lawyer, pull doctor," is being played with all its wonted vigour for the coronership of Western Middlesex. There must be something abnormally fascinating in these appointments. Directly one is vacant, Law and Physic each select their champion, endow him with the full weight of their professional influence, and watch the result with an eagerness which • is apparently out of all proportion to the value of the prize. It seems but the other day that our thoroughfares and newspapers teemed with the advertisements of rival can didates for a Middlesex coronersktp. Physic won the contest on that occasion, and our medical contemporaries were demurely exultant at their professional victory. For the present vacancy, which is in a different division of the county, several gentlemen were originally put in nomination. But as the election day draws near these have fallen off, much as a race-course is cleared of outsiders and stragglers at the final struggle for the winning-post ; and the prize will fall to one of the two gentlemen—a lawyer and a doctor—whose names are now prominently before the public. Both committees are working well. " The priority of the claim of the legal pro " fession " is boldly put forward on the one hand, and "generous and overwhelming promises of sup " port" triumphantly alluded to onthe other. Taverns and central committee-rooms are hired, bills printed, advertisements drawn up, and noble names and pro fessional status all invoked in the struggle to confer upon one of two amiable gentlemen certain unplea sant duties and a few hundreds a year. A borough election does not produce more excitement, and in some instances does not coat so much. We sup pose everybody concerned has decided that the game is worth the candle, but it seems certain that the salary of the post must be consider►bly discounted before it is attained. However, Friday next will decide the great question whether a lawyer or a doctor is to practise " Crowner's quest law" for Western Middlesex ; and in the mean time one or other of the candidates is throwing away the substance of solid hundreds for the shadow of a possible appointment. A LONDON bank between the hours of 9 and 10 in the morning is a type of that solitude amid a crowd which BYRON ,dwelt upon item the poet's The Daily News cannot congratulate Earl Ramon on having, in the letter which he recently ad dressed to Mr. Chichester Forteseue, discovered the key to the Irish difficulty. The greater part of this letter relates to church questions. It also advocates the passing of such a measure as that proposed by Lord Mayo and Mr. Chichester 'Forteseue, which would give a security to tenants that the duties of property will not be violated by the landlord with impunity, and that a tenant who improves, if ejected while be pays his rent, shall have compensation for his outlay ; bat his lordship appears to be averse from measures in excess of that reform as either violating the rights of property or founded on a miscon ceplion of the character of the Irish tenant. With re spect to the Irish established church Earl Russell says be has felt for the last quarter of a century that if he were to try to introduce religious equality into Ireland he should be opposed bx the whole tory party as a solid phalanx, and that they would be assisted by a considerable defection from his own party. Bus Mr. Disraeli, who is the great educator of him party, is in a different position, and his pupils must be supposed to have mastered so easy a lesson as that of ecclesiastical I equality in Ireland. But whether they have or not, the country cannot wait another year, as Lord Stanley Bug. gents, for further instruction from the great pro , fessor. Earl Russell proposes to realise ecclesiastical equality in Ireland, not under the form of impartial disendowment, but by the endowment of Roman Catholics, presbyterians, and protestant episcopalians, after the latter body has been disestablished. Ho would deprive the archbishops and bishops of their seats in the House of Lords, awl empower Parliament to provide the number of bishops to be maintained, and the method of their appointment; but they should be known only by their names and not by their jurisdictions. Earl Russell contends that a mere abolition of the present establishment would be an injury to Ireland, and he is the same opinion with respect to the withdrawal of the Maynooth grant and of the Regiam clonirta to the ;meshy terians of the north, and the refusal of all subsidies by Ithe state towards the building of Roman catholic churches and the support of the clergy. Earl Russell makes an appeal to Mr. Gladstone to come forward and attempt to carry a scheme such as his lordship proposes. Two steps only are required—the first a resolution of the Howie of Commons affirming tbo ecclesiastical equality asked for as a boon to Ireland; the second, an address to the crown praying for measures to give effect to that resolution. But for the sake of Ireland ,as well as for the sake of the liberal party, the Daily News trusts there is no chance of such an appeal being listened to. The noble lord can have taken little pains to ascertain the sentiment of the liberal party throughout the country if he does not well know that the adoption of this proposal by its heads would issue either in a revolt or the utter disruption of the party. The Timm thinks the prospects of the British taxpayer, on account of the Abyssinian expedition, are decidedly unsatisfactory. We are only at this moment preparing to discover what it may mean or cost. Our enemy, King Theodore, appears to be stronger than was represented ; our probable allies, such as Benelek, appear to be weaker. That our force will enable us to dispense with such auxili aries, and to deal with Theodore wherever we may find him, is doubtless to be assumed ; but the way to Ilagdala is long, the road is unknown, and the movements of the Egyptians may deprive us of the support we have hitherto experienced at the hands of the native population. In the meantime s fabulous expenditure of money is going mi— -1 an expenditure which the Times estimates at five millions a year for freight alone between the Indian and Abyssinian mute. HIGH WATER AT LONDON RAMIE TES DAt —Morning. 811. 450..—..A1tem00m. MI. 23a. TOaIORIOII-11anlag, 1011. 2m.......A1tera00n,1011. 43; LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17. THE ABYSSINI IN DIFFICULTY. WITUOUT professing to contemplate the pro gress of the Abyssinian expedition in a very cheery or hopeful spirit, we may be permitted to call to mind the objects in pursuit of which Sir RoDer.r NAPIER and his gallant forces are at this moment on the march from Smith; to Magdala. Never were the causes and conditions of a military enter prise more definitely or precisely understood by its responsible originators. There have been many political wars in our history undertaken apparently upon the strength of little better than a phrase. But the phrase has often represented interests and purposes which could :not fairly be stated in plain words. To amid the ambition of an aggressive power, to prevent a dynastic conjunc tion of two neighbouring States, to preserve or to restore the balance of power—these have been the motives of what may be called diplo matic wars. Annexation, conquest, plunder, domination have sometimes been the dissembled ends, sometimes the inevitable, the fatal results of a campaign or a series of campaigns begun under the smoothest and politest pretexts of a high international morality. There is no need to dissemble, and no pos sibility of mistaking the character of a war avowedly and expressly undertaken to set captives free from the grasp of a barbarous potentate, to demand satisfaction for their cruel sufferings, or, at the worst, to avenge their fate. To inflict punishment for injuries beyond redress is a sufficiently clear and cogent purpose. But when a great nation sets fleets and armies in motion, not simply to liberate a captive or to punish a murderer, but to recover or to increase its own prestige, the scope of the un dertaking becomes indefinitely enlarged, and a difficult, laborious, and costly operation becomes involved in considerations of extreme delicacy and anxiety. The prestige of a nation is like a man's personal honour, and to save it from harm may demand as much wariness and vigilance at every step as to keep a firm footing on the borders of a precipice. It is well for the British public to remember this when the Abys sinian expedition is discussed. There is much virtue, no doubt, in our national habit of grumbling. What would have become of our second army In the Crimea if we had not grumbled with all our might at the wanton and wasteful sacrifice of the drat by a bewildered and incapable administra tors I Only let us beware of getting flurried. That is a very undignified temper for a great nation in pursuit of lost prestige. The British public, aided by some of its most ; nfluential in structors, is already showing symptoms of most unseemly fretfulness and flurry about an expedition which was certainly not midertaken without deliberation and fore- _ THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 17, 1868. thought, or without timely opportunities of appre ciating its probable embarrassments and its certain cost. It cannot be pretended that Abyssinia was an unknown and undiscovered country when it was resolved by our government to make a grand experiment in corport rili of the brilliant capacity of our double mili tary administration at home—complicated by the joint but imperfect responsibility of the military administration of an Indian presidency—for making every mistake and inventing every difficulty that our boundless tax-paying resources can pay for. All this can hardly have been among the unfore seen contingencies of an Abyssinian campaign. Tra vellers had explored that country, and described it. Was the want of water, the mortality of Spanish mules, the necessity of passing over or through a mcuntain chain, an unforeseen contingency? Was the calculation that the larger the expedi tionary force the greater would be the cost and the difficulty of provisioning and moving it, one that could only occur after the event to idle and snappish critics sitting in their easy chairs in England Was even the embarrassment of this uncalled for co-operation of an Egyptian army altogether beyond the previsions of the Foreign office and its diplomatic and consular agents ? Such questions as these should answer themselves. It is perhaps wrong to take for granted that the one predominant and almost exclusive pre-occupation of our responsible Govern ment was and is to get rid of as much of the responsibility as possible by throwing it on Bombay. But why or how the policy of the Viceroy of EGYPT, his relations with other European Powers, his own designs in Abys sinia, sliduld not have been as accessible to the divination of the Foreign-office as to the Bombay Government it is not very easy for the ignorant and impatient British public to under stand. view. The house is swept and garnished, the heavy' ledgers are open, the cash is counted, and the counter stocked with clerks. But clients there are none. The busy hum outside proceeds from men going to their warehouses and shops and not leaving them on business. Railways, the growth of London, the enormous increase of suburban life, the difference between our forefathers and ourselves in social habits and business dealings, have all tended to delay the commencement of the City day. But the banks have for some' , reason remained steadfast to the old hours, long after the necessity for keeping to them has ceased. The clerks, or, as the late author of the " Treatise " on Banking" insisted upon terming them, " the "officers," are dragged from their homes a full hour earlier than is needful, and having reached their several poets of duty find themselves with out employment. We are glad to note that a meeting is an nounced for this week to consider the pro priety of assimilating banking hours to modem requirements, and of commencing each day's business at 10 instead of 9. The work of a banker's clerk is both arduous and exhaustive. It demands close attention and concentrated energy, and is but moderately paid. To lighten their hours of labour will be to confer a substantial boon upon a meritorious body of men, and one, we believe, which can be granted without injury either to banking efficiency, to commercial interests, or to public convenience. At all events, let the experiment be tried. Tan Queen's Book has the character of nniver- , Belay, and touches feelings that are common to the whole world. No one will be surprised to learn that in the United States the volume has been received with expressions of sympathy and ad miration, for in America her MAJESTY has ever been the object of an almost personal re gard. One might look, perhaps, for leas of such appreciation on the European continent, where difficulties of language are as much an impediment as difference of institutions. But even on the continent the homely and hearty character of the volume has won for it praise where the literary taste is most severe. The jeuiEetonistc of yesterday's Debats in the following observations represents the general sentiment of the French press :—" I intended to enjoy the luxury of criti " cising a Queen's work to-day, having before mo " the two volumes recently published by Queen " Vicrours. I said to myself that I should be " merciful—at once respectful and indulgent. " Who, indeed, could be severe in presence of so " much sincerity and so much frankness 4 Never " were books so truly livres de bonne foi '—to " use the expression of Motrratotta. One must " possess great rudeness—one must have a piti " less idea of literary justice—not to be " disarmed by works where there is so much of " the woman and so little of the author, nay, so " little of the writer. There is much to be said " of these narrations of a Queen to her people ; de simple and touching disclosures which may " cause mockers to smile, but which will captivate " and move the artless." OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) r injustice bemuse the priests are not allowed to convert the state wheels into independent Romanist seminaries is a cooplaint which would be deemed absurd sad frivolous even in some Roman catholic countries. With regard to bald tenure, the laws are the same for Ireland as for the rest of the kingdom ; and the f►ct that the agricultural class has had so small a share in the late Fenian risings goes far to show that a defective sys tem of land tenure is not one of the substantial causes of Irish disaffection. Abstract resolutions as a remedy for the Irish malady are infinitely worse than useless. The Star trusts that when Lord A. Clinton puts his reso lutions to the house, Mr. Disraeli and his followers will be forced, by combined and well-regulated effort on the part of the opposition, to show their colours—to say, once for all, and without equivocation, whether or not they will accede to the very moderate and cautious proposals of the popular Irish members, whether they are ready to abolish the ascendancy of the alien church established by law in Ireland, whether they are prepared to take steps to secure to the Irish peasant a permanent interest in the soil. FOREIGN NEWS. (THIS DAY.) EARL RUSSELL ON IRISH ATPIJES. 'Alin Arms CLINTON'S RESOLUTIONS. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday 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. Gathorno Hardy, Lord Stanley, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Sir John Pakington, Sir S. Northcote, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, the Duke of Richmond, Lord J. Manners, the Earl of Mayo, and the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole. Despatches were sent on Saturday from the Colonial office to the Governors of the West India Islands, British Columbia, the North American Provinces, and Bermuda. We are authorised to state that his Royal High ness the Prince of Wales will hold levies at St. James's Palace, on behalf of the Queen, on Tuesday, March 3rd, and Tuesday, March 17th: Taa Counr. —Her Majesty's departure from Osborne House has been delayed by tho recent serious illness of Prince Leopold, on whom Dr. Hoffmeister is still in comtant attendance, though his royal highness is now quite of danger. As at present arranged we hear that the court will not leave till the 3rd of March, and then only for • short time, her Majesty returning to Osborne to spend Easter.—Hants Advertiser. - Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, attended by the Countess of Morton, paid a visit to her Royal Rieman the Duchess of Cambridge on Friday at St. James's Palace. The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Commons will commence his parliamentary dinners on Saturday next. The Earl and Countess De Grey entertained a select party at dinner on Saturday at their residence in Carlton-gardens. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and Mrs. Gladstone had a dinner party on Saturday at the family residence on Carlton-house-terrace. The Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., and Frances Countess Waldegmvo received at dinner on Saturday, at their residence in Carlton-gardens, his Royal I Highness the Duke d'Aumale, M. and Madame Van de Weyer, the Earl and Counts., Russell, the Earl and Countess of Kimberley, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, M.P., Mr. Goldwin Smith, and Mr. Hayward. Later in the evening her ladyship received a select company. Mr. Henry G. Sturt, M.P., and Lady Augusta Stud have been entertaining the following company during the put fortnight at Critchill House, Wimborne, Dorset : —The Earl and Countess Granville, Viscount and Vis countess Somerton, Viscount and Viscountess Walden, Lord and Lady Ulrica Thynne, Lord and Lady Ashley, Lord Henry Gordon Lennox, Lord Rivers, Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Foley, Hon. Mr. Portman, Colonel Napier Start, Mr. Radcliffe, dm. The Lord Bishop of Salisbury (says the Salisbury Journal) has appointed James Parker Deane, E.q., D.C.L., Q.C., and Admiralty Advocate, chancellor of his lordship's diocese, in the room of the Right Hon. Sir Robert Joseph Phillimore, D.C.L., Dean of the Arches Court of Canterbury, resigned. There has been a borough bread fund raised at Poole, in Doreetshire, for the relief of the poor in that town. It has furnished 4,000 fourpenny loaves during the last six weeks. There was a bachelors' ball given at Winchester on St. Valentine's eve. At 1 a.m. on St. Valentine'a Day • postman gave a rat-tat at the hall-room door, and delivered • handsome valentine to every lady and gentle man in the room. Many of the valentines were very quaint and humorous ones. This additional postal deli- very caused much amusement. _ _ The Standard contends that the series of resolutions to which Lord Arthur Clinton would pledge the House of Commons are of a character, not to allay, but to aggravate the general condition of the malady which is the subject of treatment. As a mere expression of opinion the mein. tons are both too vague and too explicit. The remedies proposed are of the wont kind of quackery, because quackery which, if it fails, must inevitably lead to the death of the patient. Parliament cannot undertake to satisfy every demand which the feelings and wishes of every section of the Irish community may have to dictate. The protestant church is in the ascendant because it ix the church of the richer, the mare powerful, the more thriv ing, and the more loyal portion of the nation. As to the 1 educational arrangements. to charge the government with France has again purchased a largo number of horses in Hungary. It is said that no less than 25,000 will be successively despatched from Pest& to Strasburg._ The subject of debate at the Cambridge Union Society to-morrow evening is, "That this house would approve of the extension of the humbles to women who are otherwise qualified." Proposed by Mr. O. 0. Whiteley, of St. John's College, late president of the moiety. A oonferonoe on the position and prospects of the national education question, attended by school Mothers and others was held on Saturday afternoon in the Social Science Rooms, AdelphL Tim ROYAL Sociarr.—The president will have formerostioute on Saturday, the 7th of the ensuing month, and on Saturday, the 36* April, at Burlington Hoar. M. Auber's new opera, Un Premier Jour de Bon helm, was brought out at the Opera Comique last night. ft is the fortieth work of the composer. His first one, La &jeer Militairc, was produced fifty-five years ago, on Jan. 27, 1613, when ho was thirty-one years old. The litfoniteur's critic will not say that the latest production of the evergreen author of Masttnictto betrays no signs of old age. But ho compares it to a tree in which there are some dead branches, but at the same time beautiful tender buds showing vigorous sap in unexpected places. Most of the fofilletonists are agreed that it is a better work than Auber's last, the Fiend du Bui de (Aube. The principal parts were played by M. Capoul and Madame Cabel. The statement in several papers that the Duchess de Morny was married to the Duke do Sego yester , day can scarcely bo true, because she was seen in a black dress in a box at the Opera Comiquo last night. In historical drama is about to be produced at the Gatetd, with the title of La Famille des Gueux. It is the joint production of Signor Petruoelli della Gattina, lately a deputy in the Italian parliament, and M. Jules Clhretie. The authors of the Dernicrs des Mintagnards and the Mintoires de Judas have chosen as the subject of their labours an episode of the struggle of the Dutch Protestants in the 14th century against Philip 11. The literary lectures authorised for a short time in the Athende of the Rue Scribe, which has now become a minor theatre, are to be resumed to morrow evening at No. 39, Boulevard de Capucines. M. Cremieux promised to deliver the opening lecture, but will be prevented by indisposition. M. Henry Schneider, son of the President of the Corps Legislatif, gave a bad wrench to his leg the other day while getting out of a carriage at the door of his father's house in tho Rue Boudreau. There was very nearly a repetition of the accident to the Princess Baciocchi. Father Hyacinthe leaves Paris for Rome to morrow to preach a series of Lent sermons in the Church of SL Louis des Francais. The famous astronomer, Gassendi, died express ing his regret that he had never had an opportunity of seeing the planet Mercury with the naked eye. If the evening of Monday next, Feb. 17, shall be fine, the rare sight may be seen in Paris under more favourable circumstances than at any time for the last thousand years. Immediately after sunset, at sh. 21m. on that day, Jupiter will ap pear in unusual brilliancy as the evening star, and from that time to the setting of Jupiter, at 7 o'clock, red Mercury, at a distance of a degree and a half, or about the height of three full moons above him, will be observable. There is no moon on that evening, so that Jupiter and Mercury will be the leading lights in the heavens. ..n y%...~2 w:'.i~L'c:q EARL RUSSELL AND 31/t. GLAuteroxr. —in the course of his letter to the Right lion. Chiebey.er Forkseue on the state of Ireland (published to-dsy), the following mange, in allusion to Mr. Ghils t .ine, oc. curs :—" For the great task of pacifying Del , rii. by I oit and righteous measures, a man is required, • Jt .:IfeLtCl with the weakness of age, but vigorous with tie. ,tren.,th of manhood, having a seat in the House ii; Co nn.. ne, and possessing its confidence. Mr. Canning p -,,e-ril that confidence from the power of his oratory, and the generosity of his foreign policy. Dos! Alt', r p possemed that confidence, not from his e1i... , .....n.:e : .. ;:t1 orator, for he was no orator, bat from his tr miliaria honesty and liberal principles. When Lord t.t. N. tel obtained from the King sufficient security ion s.iiry. lag the Reform Bill, Lord Altho:p said, ' 1 1,1 a full assurance that we can entry rho Ls t' :ai Lill in its integrity. I cannot give you the grim: Is iif that assurance, but I trust the house has sutliiient i ontiiiince in me to accept my word.' When Lord Alth^,p strived at the words • confidence, in me,' there was such a about in the House of Commons ra I LOCI heard before or since. If, then, we can find a n,an with the brilliant oratory of Canning and tl.c liter. Hug honesty of Althorp, it is to such a man that the (Ica. tiny of this country and the prospects of Ireland ought k bo consigned. The University of Oxford, cvertlow ie. with bigotry, might indeed reject such a man, but I tad persuaded the great county of Lancaster would never tai him, nor would the country at large cease to celebrate hit pure and immortal fame." Mr. John Clarke, the comedian, formerly of the Strand and Prince of Welines Theatre., and now playing at Covent-garden, has been engaged by Mr. Ilenj.mir Webster for the Olympic. Mr. Clarke will appesr 'lords in one of the most famous characters created by Mr Cictlairhlteeios k n D lNe o r f tb th l e i aL e n ci F t re ho e l l i i c iai l i ai 's ty Jo n it a rn ip a ,t l t p h t e tbl c i .. s u li L -i b a c s L i e l> lishment. It is signed by twelve peers, bur right honour &hies, fourteen baronets, twenty-six members of parlia meat, fifty-eight deputy lieutenants, and three hunilret and twenty-two magistrates, besides a roamerona array o. the learned professions. I'ItIVATC BILLS IN PARLIAMENT ror. Tnr, lice. SE/PT SEASION.—Of the tr.l.:t pria ate bill. introditzed ink parliament for the present session, the following Lee I eel withdrawn altogether, viz.:—Tye Isiingtou I:..ilway. Newry Waterworks, London Street Tramways. Wroble don end Wandsworth Canal, Lywhigton Ila!!your ant Docks, Dublin Abattoirs, Markets, and Improvement International Communication between lin;land ant the Continent, Great Eastern Railway (Manage ment), Monmouthshire and Great WLst, no dano thin Railways, Chichester Water, Westminster l'ssiit:ard Stockbrokers' Bonds (Dublin), Liverpool and I.:C.:.l.lkead Railways, Ferry Junction, Rosa and Monmouth ;.:Al n red of Dean Railway, Silverdale Improvement, Thi.t l'iritica flan, Birmingham Proof Haw (No. 2), Lnnhon. 'Mantel Raven, and Kent Coast Junction Railway. Kistein Mitre politan Underground Railway, and the Kingston aid EAT disk) , Railway. THE OXFORD AND CANCRIDCE BoAT II At I:.—Wf rnderstind, upon good authority, that in con*e.ineure of this untimely event (the death of the Hen. 31:, i erdal combined with other circumstances, which we ate mit at liberty to mention, tie e. the challenge suit to 0:.: GI il first the Cambridge University will be withdrawn. IVe c.u.not help feeling very sorry should this be true. vs in nun opinion the events wbic:i have occurred can li.,rilly justify such a course. We feel that the position of the i rodeo( in forreie4 a crew is very difficult; but acre is yet plenty of time to do so. If there events had secured within a week or two of the race, there would I are been o very cogent reason for withdrawing the challen; e : as it is. with all deference to the superior judgment of the club. we do not think that it is sufficiently strong, aril we trust that it may not be rashly acted upon and prevail.—Caw bridge Independent THE GREAT VOLUNTEER REVIEW AT EASTER.—SC current was the report yesterday, on the authority of those whoonght to knowsomething of the matter, that thecorning review will he held on Portedown-hill, and not, as formerly. in ou r ltrig h co to lu n m , that nL wceertaivennituyrento. better dtter place c repetition oldby of poaau*bility be selected, looking at the situation in all its bearingsand military aspects.—Hampthire dcliyrriiu. SUICIDE OF LORD DERBY'S VALET.—On Ml* Tae PRESS PROSECUTIONS IN IRELAND.— I day last a distressing suicide was committed at Knowsley! I Immderstand that for some time the second valet of DUBLIN, SATURDAY.—The trial of Mr. Sullivan for pub-' - - " WS* Darby has been trusted temee-e4-the female domes 11°°6°° of seditious libels in the Weal) . Nevi wee Me- UM at the ball, sad that a marriage between them bad ceeded with to-day. Mr. Pigott attended in court, and peen arranged, and was shortly to have taken pleaa pleaded not guilty to the indictment for *editions libel. Within the last few weeks, however, the deceased hers Be then entered into hieown recognicancein spa to w en d impressed with the delusion that he had been suppl. ed tO another in her affections, and this circumstance prey in court from day to day, and commission to commission, i guch upon his mind. On Thursday afternoon he was until tried. In the ooune of the day the grand juries found found dead in his room, having apparently committed sell: true bills against J. Martin, A. AL Sullivan, J. C. Waters, , destruction by orating his throat. An inquest ve rd ict and the other travereesseharged with unlawful assembly. I co the body at Knowaky , turned. ede on d, F w ri h da o ulazigt r op p e o n Theyears The city grand jury also found a tree bill against Mr. rehieselorduip.s service , wu muc h respec ia—Lireepeel Pigott for seditious libel. The county grand jury handed A w e* , in a recommendation that Constable Wllwaine, who was MIRACULOUS E S CAPE. —A very extraordinary reduced from the rank of sergeant after the attack on incident occurred on the South Leicestershire branch of Stepaaide, should be reinstated in his rank. Mr. Justice the London and North-Western Railway on _ a_t_erde l,. I Ifitegenld said he would forward the recommendation, waa approaching Narborough the driver observed accompanied by his own, to the Inspector-GeneraL thing lying between the metals, and at once took means MR. GOLDWIN SWITH.—This gentleman is an- to cap his train, but was unable to do so until he had morning. As the train which left Nuneston 10.10.0.m.e. smutted to preside at the dinner of the Loyal Wellington proceeded some 300 yards beyond the object which • Lodge of Odd Fellows, which will take place in the Town- tracted his attention. When be had stopped hs ball, Oxford, on Tuesday, Feb. 25. The rector of Lincoln he went down the line, accompanied by th e suFe . College (the Rev. M. Pattison, 8.D.) and the Rev. J. R. i and several of the passengers, when they_ d• Bogs are among those who have accepted invitations. Saturday, at tiro police-office, Birmingham, drunk and fast asleep. It took the united . b.r. Animal , glutei the hearing of an important orgery cue, Mr. I men to reuse him from his p eril ' " m b i w b ei was per- Omar Edmonds, clerk of the peace and formerly a pro-' the whole of the train had over _ . danger mitt member of thePolitioallanion, made hie feetlY etheiureels and was q uit WiltaUtit" of to e bank, stating that his life was in in WU*. and in a load voice claimed the i covered • " navvy" lying between thometa d t u helpl et es t s h ly. Kynnersley, the stipendiary. refaced him to the eaperia. declared that he would not move 1 1 3 1 .. t . ..,,Z: c i . pea annem ef air the . : to which h a d e , xpos an dmi maidne himself a . digita lis abum: e tb. e ~,e 7 tendent of police ; out Mr. BilimendOn a hands INOMar, . inataYle "trolly " which Wag thins an lin --slirfiTuity said, _" I cannot leave this gime; lam ia great ear& i I the foolish fellow was hid spas whit B.••• am hailed about by e t zt el earewhels, Whiten sod' seamed to the teals, and le lisisieWr, where he in Leamington, and use seeddsed tagelhet IR OH 'MU locked up in a Mal at the Pehee 4 teha n, and kept attempt to rob me." limbb whom nisi be. there to mover his Mem We i /month become diseased. was tbea Inbred le leave end in , Three coffins have been dug up near imeellanY with two *Seem bat his air in the tehby end filled with human beam The oeffim cell wen et a u : s ie siza Pem on dm staircase intertapted the proeesdinip of the evert Mon was due north sad meth, after ths lamest for sone thew meted. THE INSURRECTIONARY BANDS IN ROUMANIA. The report of the assembling of armed bands in Roumania has been made the subject of an in terpellation in the Chamber of Deputies at Bucharest. M. Carpen, who raised the ques tion, strongly condemned the existence of these bands ; accused M. Bratiano and the ministry of compromising the interests of Roumania and abandoning the French alliance for that of Russia. M. Bratiano characterised the charge as a " perfidious accusation," denied the existence of armed bands, said that if they existed the government could suppress them ; and that Roumania had been, was, and would be grateful to the French government for tho support it had given to the establishment of Roumanian in dependence. The policy of Roumania, he added, was at present purely national, but it required a powerful organisation in order to make its neutrality respected. THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. The following telegram from tho special corre spondent of the Times was forwarded from Suez on the 11th inst., at 9.20 a.m. : SENAFE, FEE. I. " The British troops yesterday occupied Addi graht. " The Deral and Talanta peasantry are reported to have submitted to Theodore." OUR PARIS LETTER. (nom ova owx coluitsroxnErr.) PARIS, Sultrier Evntwo. The Patrie has the following leading paragraph on the affairs of Servia • According to private despatches from the Berrien fron tier there is at this moment a very marked diminution of agitation in the principality. Prince Michael is said to have acted with a certain amount of energy against a section of his entourage, and it is rumoured that the principal conspirators have backed out of the business. Our correspondents ascribe this situation to the firm re monstrances of the great powers. These representations, while revealing the mysterious preparations which have been going on for some months, produced confusion in the ranks of the conspiracy, and thereby favoured the efforts of the party hostile to any adventurous enterprise against Turkey. The Patric confirms the news that Prince Abbe Bonaparte and M. Duvergier will shortly be made senators, but thirks there is no truth in the rumour of M. Emile Augier's elevation to a seat in the Luxembourg Palace. It has been incorrectly ob served that when the Emperor's clerical cousin gets his cardinal's hat he will be entitled to sit in the Senate as of right. This is not so because he will be not a French but a Roman cardinal. THZ SCOTCH RZTORM BILL. The Tdegraph thinks the objections to the portion of Mr. Disraeli's reform scheme for Scotland, which raises the number of members from G:k to GGS so serious that Mr. Gladstone is fully justified in giving it his determined opposition. The number of members has been creeping up. wards and upwards for centuries past. If there is to be an addition of seven now, why not seven mare a few years hence, when we have another disturbance of the political balance? The assembly is already too numerous. Six hundred and fifty-eight people can never deliberate toge ther. In opposing the ministerial scheme, Mr. Gladstone is renewing the battle for constitutional principles which he has fought manfully and resolutely for the last two years, in spite of incessant misrepresentation and obloquy. Eire Court. OSBORNE, Fn. 14. The Queen drove out in the afternoon, accom panied by Princess Christian and Princess Henrietta of Schleswig-Holstein. Prince and Princess Christian, Prinoeu Louise, and Princess Henriette, attended by Lady Susan Melville and Colonel and Mrs. Ponsonby, visited the dockyard at Portsmouth in the morning. F. 15. The Queen went out in the morning, accompanied by Princess Louise, and her Majesty drove out in the after. noon, accompanied by Prince and Princess Christian, and Princess Henrietta of Schleswig-Holstein. Colonel Cavendish was in attendance on horseback. Lieutenant• Colonel Moncreiff, Soots Fusilier Guards, had the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal Family. FEB. 16. The Queen, Prince and Princess Christian, Princess Louise, and Princess Henrietta attended divine service in the parish church, Whippingham. The Duchess of Athole and Lord Alfred Paget were in attendance. The service wu performed by the Rev. R. IL Clime. The Prince of Wales presided, on Saturday, at a meet. log of the Council of hie Royal Highness, held at the Office of the Duchy of Cornwall, Buckingham-gate, St. James's-park. The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the Countess of Morton and Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel, went to Drury-lane Theatre on Saturday evening. The Prince and Princess of Wales, with the Countess of Morton and Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel in Waiting, attended divine service at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday. The Communion Service was read by the Lord Bishop of London, Dean of Her Majesty's Chapels Royal, the Rev. the Sub-Dean, and the 11ev. W. IL Brookiold. Anthem—" 0 where shall wisdom be fonnd."—Boyce. Sung by Masters Coward and Carmichael, and Messrs. B. Barnby, Cummings, and Lawler. Mr. Cooper presided at the organ. The sermon was preached by the Rev. W. H. Brook. field from Genesis, ch. 3, v. 17. AGRICULTURAL RETURNS. The report of Mr. A. W. Fonblanque, of the Statistical Department of the Board of Trade, addressed to the Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council for Trade, was issued this morning. It is necesuary to remark with respect to this report, that the returns cf both acreage and live stock are collected from all occupiers of land, whereas I I in 1866 the acreage returns were only collected in Great Britain from occupiers of and above fire acres. The number of persons in Great Britain occupying land, and from whom returns have been obtained, is 469,452, and the average of acreage returned by each occupier in 1887 was 63'5. The total area in statute acres was 86 , 80 0 8 0, and the total acreage under all kinds of trope,—ban, fallow, and grass —was 2 9,841,078; the proportions being as follows :—Under corn mom 9,284,780 under green crops, 3,498,163; under clover sad H u, fieiel and other grasses in rotation, 3,984,974 ; pee. mutat pasture, meadow, or grass, not broken up in rota. time (exclusive of heath or mountain land), 1 2,071,319 ; and the per tentage of corn crops to total acreage under aIS kinds of crops, bare, fallow, and grass, was 31'1. The total number of cattle returned on the 25th June, 1867, was 4,993,034, which was an increase of 207,198 over the number returned on the sth Starch of the previous year. Of sheep time total number returned was 28,919,101,being an increase of 6,870,620 on the number returned on the sth '.l l arch of the previous year ; and of pigs there was also an increase ort the number returned in March, 1866, the number at that date being 2,477,619, whereas on the 25th June, 1867, it was 2,95C,979. The following i, a table slowing the changes which have taken place during the last ten years in the cultivation of the principal crops and the number of livestock in Scotland and Irelan.l : SCOTLAND. Average of the Year, Inmate (1 _ _ . Jr 1 8; . A:7,7. 1,9; cf. — Peewee 9 .-- crops : Acres. --- Aare,. Aereli Acres Wheat 243,240 110,coil 1 134,841 Barley Outs Potatoes Turnips Livestock: No. I No. No. Cattle Sheep Pigs IRELAND. Average of the Years increase ,') or 15.41-57. 15..k0t7T. P " r ea , '• • I ' Crone: Acres. Acres. Ares Wheat Kerley 4131$ Potatoes ... Turnips --- live Stock: No. No. N.( Cattle Sheep Pigs