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It might be supposed that in giving alt and felicitous expression to pu bl ie sentiment on these rare occasions a veteran literary craftsman, trained to all the uses of the rhetorical art, wunid display his quali fications to signal advantage. It seems that this supposition is a mistake. Mr. Disrectot has not been happy in these formal and complimentary exhibitions of his parts of speech. There is something in the literary temperament that makes a task of this kind, comparatively so easy to a plain speaker, exceptionally difficult ; whether it be its fastidieleiness, its self-con sciouaneas, its familiarity with great models of style, or its habitual pursuit of a striking or a captivat ing phrase. Mr. Dittaseta's written style, it is true, has never been distinguished so much by its severity or its simplicity as by its tawdriness and its smartness. Nor, hided, is the chastest and simplest written style any guarantee for soberness and modesty of phrase in a speaker. The writer in the leisure and +guilty—iv of his study gives the best of thoughts the best of words ; the speaker face to face with a mixed audience, degenerates into a r cents painter and courts the pit. It is not that Mr. Dia- ItAtELI'S literary faculty deserts him at these motr.euts ; it betrays him r.od leads hint astray. He rrays himself a little too conspicuously in his singing-robes. Doubtless it is difficult to strike the precise note ; to be neither trivial nor pompous ; neither common nor excessive. A minister, speaking in the name of Parliament and of people must force his tone a little. Does not the present Paastisr. force it somewhat too much in his horror of the conventional and the commonplace 7 He did not copy a page from TRIERS, however, last evening, in speaking of the victorious end of the Abyssinian expedition and of the admirable General who conducted the opera tions. It was rather in proposing the address of sympathy to her Mantery on the lamentable Fenian crime in Australia that the ambitious fallacy, as we may take leave to call it, marred the effect of his composition. Take this passage as an instance of what we mean by the ambitions fallacy We live in an age of prop u, or we sometimes flatter ourselves that this is our happy fate. But there appear to he cycles of our progress in which the worst passions sad habits of distant ages are revived. Some distant cen turies age the world was tortured with the conviction thit there yrs some mysterious power in existence which could command in every camp, and court, and capital of the world, a poniard at its flispoml and devotion. It seems at this time, too, that some dark7eonfederacy of the kind is Spreading over empires. (ammo Did not every one who wait present and who heard this sentence, does not every one who reads it to-day, feel instinctively that the speaker's rhetorical ambition has betrayed him into melo drama. and almost into burlesque ? It has the fudge ring of an extract from the " Revolu " tionizy Epick," translated into prose. If this were simply a rhetorical fantasy it would be hypercritical to notice it. But it is a Prime Minister who gives this portentous importance to the fact that among the large Irish population in our Australian colon* there are a few racing ruffians and madam* who call themselves Feniaaa, and whose isolated crimes bring infamy upon country and their race. In his brief remarks on the British Abyssinia Mr. Miasma was more in with his audience and with the mention of the troops and of their be paid just homage, without splendid iervieee which are not to tiaciacility of the final triumph, but by entities, the labours, the privations undergone and overcome on that mountain march of four hundred miles in as unknown country. But here again the ambitions fallacy led Mr. Diagram into temptation, and in likening the march of Sir ROBERT NAPIER'S army to Magdala to the conquest of Mexico by CORTES, he must have calculated on the indulgence or the ignorance of his hearers. The landing of the British army on the coast of Abyssinia, the march to Magda* will deserve to count among the most remarkable feats of skill, endurance, discipline, and hardihood, in the whole range of military history. Mit what is there in this expedition, organised and equipped with all the resources of a great European Power (and of a great European Power in India), with a boundless treasury at its back. and hundreds of transoorts at its basis on the sea, to be fitly compared with the expedition of COItTES setting out from Santiago in spite of discouragement and disap proval, and actually in the teeth of a dismissal from oommand. with a force of leas than six hundred Spaniards, and some three hundred Indians, twelve or thirteen norses and ten brass guns, burning his ships to cut himself off from return, defeating the overwhelming army of an enemy by no means con temptibly armed and disciplined, in four pitched battles, with only a handful of his own meagre force, taking Mosrszl73lA captive in his own palace in his capital, and when NARVAEZ was sent to displace him, leaving 200 men behind him in Mexico, and with the same number routing his rival, then returning to Mexico, quelling a revolt and taking the city by storm, after a siege of seventy-five days? Surely had Mr. DISRALLI been content to contrast the British expedition to Abyssinia with that of CoRTIS to Mexico, he would have been better inspired. Sir ROBERT NAPIER will scarcely thank him for doing CORTES an injustice at his expense. THE LAST SCENE AT THE OLD BAILEY. Tna scene in court yesterday at the Old Bailey was pronounced remarkable even by those most accustomed to criminal proceedings. During the summing op, WILLIAM DeemOND sat immoveable as a statue. The florid complexion noted at the begin ning of the week had all gone, and left a deadly pallor. No marble could be whiter than his face, and his long straight nose looked pinched and cold and rigid, as if it belonged to • corpse. The massive beard, which entirely buries his month and chin, remained as motionless as if it were stuck on some wax figure. His head stood fixed at one angle in a corner of the dock as if concentrated anxiety had deprived him of power of motion. All four prisoners were seated so that their heads and shoulders were alone visible from the bench. But of WILLIAM DESMOND, sitting in the left hand corner of the dock he has occupied since the trial began, you saw nothing tut face and a profusion of coarse red hair below it. He never moved, and in his ghastly whiteness might have been a human head cut off and placed there to keep its blinking eyes upon the Judge. The eyelids alone showed him to be alive, and these quivered and rose and fell while the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE dealt with the facts relating to their owner, much as if they were gazing on a bright and shining flame. Intense, absorbed anxiety, kept down by self command and cunning, were represented by this pri soner, who never glanced into the court, or among the counsel, or at the jury, until his case was passed, and the summing up as affecting Emmen began. Then, with a mighty sigh, as U his vast load of fear and dread were lessened by the evi dently favourable tone of the Judge, the rigid attitude of listening was relaxed for a moment and the long, lithe, white fingers, corpse-like in their clamminess—were pushed rapidly over brow, and through the beard and hair. This done, the air of patient waiting was resumed, and the still blinking eyes roved from the bench to the jury-box and back again, as if to read in their faces whether he was to die. Nicitozes ENGLISH, who came next in the judge's summing up, but who sat next to BARRETT in the dock, kept his face hidden the greater part of the day. Once he took a pen and piece of paper from the shelf before him, and wrote something on his knee, which his neighbours read over his shoulder. But by far the greater part of the time you only I saw the back of his head ; though when the face came to the surface it was utterly emotionless. The tears he was supposed to be hiding had never I come, and his small eyes, low forehead, and sunken cheeks were stolid and expressionless as a blank wall. TIMOTHY Desmorrn might have fur nished a second LAVATER a head and face for FRAN and Beeszrr one for DESPAIR. The former was restless, hungry, eager. Keenly alive to the slightest movement or whisper in court, he turned to right and left, and even gazed up into the gallery as if pitifully pray ing for an encouraging smile or a sympathizing look. When, however, the Judge passed from his case to that of Baaazrr, this DESMOND broke into a smile of thankfulness. He saw hope-of escape now, and eat through the rest of the proceedings with a palpably lightened heart. BARRETT looked wretched. All the dash and fire had faded out, and instead of the reckless buccaneer of a few days ago you saw a careworn, miserable man, whose weary dejected face seemed like a forecast of his doom. Nothing could add to his profound wretchedness, and he listened with a look of dogged, hardy endurance to words which drew the sure rope tighter and tighter about his neck. Once only was he roused. When the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE pointed out the improbability of the alibi, and reminded the jury that ataaerr had had abundant opportunities of producing his Glasgow witnesses before, the pri soner jumped up hastily from his seat, and dashing off a few lines in pencil with a freedom and rapi dity which showed him to be at least educated up to ready-writing point, handed them to a police man for his solicitor. A moment's conference between the latter and counsel, an interchange of nods with Baluterr, and Mr. BARER Gamma rises to advance a plea which is not allowed by the Bench. All four prisoners are removed from the dock. while the jury retire to consider their verdict, and during the two hours and a half they keep sway the court remains crowded as ever. Some few members of Parliament leave the bench, and hurry down to the House to be in time for Mr. DIBIL/All'S motion for an address ; but the ma jority of the ladies present, the whole of the hug and the occupants of galleries, and seats, and door—dl Ems* paoltel--kapt their plush 4 _- dock, pa its sudden checks whenever the least move mint takes plaae in the crowd at the jury -door, must sound to thorn like so many fake heralds of the end. Every time an usher or a policeman appears a whispered hush runs round, and one thrill of expectation subsides into half-laughter, when a solemn usher comes through the crush into the jury -box, and in the face of an excited court looks slowly round as if in search of some import ant aid to judgment, and at length finds and carries off the snuff-box left on- the ledge. When the verdict is delivered, and the two DR-WORDS hear the welcome "Not Guilty" sono• rously given from the jury-box, WILLIAM again passes his long white hand over his marble brow and through his beard, but moves not otherwise, and is self-contained and statuesque as ever. TIMOTHY gives another deep sigh of relief, and smiles outright, as, clasping his hands tightly over his chest, he murmurs his fervent thanks to the VraolN or his patron saint for his escape. ENOLISH gives a snort of satisfaction, and turns away as if to walk into the street there and then, but his coarse and heavy features remain without play or expression as before. All three men are removed by the policemen in charge, and leave the dock with a silent bow to the bench and jury, but without shaking hands with or noticing their less fortunate companion. All three men seem dazed, and the interest centres on BARRErr, who has heard five out of the six people originally charged with him declared tot guilty, and who now stands alone to bear the consequences of the most frightful crime of modern times. Pale and stern, though cowed, his iron jaw drooping a little from its rigidity ; and the furrows on his brow deepened and made stronger by the tension of the moment, he lets the moment for speaking pass by, and the Loan CHIEF JCSTICE proceeds to pass sen tence almost without an interval after the question " has the prisoner anything to say " from the Clerk of the Arraigns below. But after his preliminary observations are concluded, and before the technical terms of hanging and burial are given out, BARRETT, who has listened patiently so far, and with his eye unfalteringly on the Judge, starts forward and begs to be heard. He had not—which was undoubtedly true for no pause was made for him—liked to inter rupt his lordship before, but he had, indeed, much to say. Then came a remarkable speech. This man, convicted and properly convicted, of a dreadful crime, and looking, as he said, into his own grave, poured out in nervous, forcible lan guage, his contempt for his betrayer and his mis guided hopes for his country. A profound silence was observed. During the half hour he spoke he made many pauses, but rather, as it seemed, to concentrate his points than to conceal emotion. Sarcastic, defiant, and denunciatory in portions of his address, when he painted MELLANT's future in the quotation from Scripture, he assumed an air of lofty contempt. He hissed out, " Men shall " clap their hands at him, and hiss him " out of his place," with a melodramatic intensity sometimes witnessed on the stage ; and laughed scornfully at himself for even mo mentarily assuming that "an unprejudiced man "could find his way into this place," (the court). At the words " the jury cannot in their hearts be " lieve me a murderer," BARRarr turned to the jury box and slowly met the eyes of each of the twelve in turn ; and at another time iterated " This her " MAJESTY'S ATTOS.NRY-GENERAL Calls CO/Tobolll - tiye evidence" with infinite derision. His de nunciations of the police and of the informers were fierce and scathing, and were marked by a perfect command of features. When a smile, or frown, or sneer was appropriate to the words, each was used with as much deliberate effectiveness as if the occasion had been one for display alone; and the avowal " I want no petitions, and no demoustra " Bons to have my life spared," was accompanied by an eloquent action of the hands and arms, as if loftily repudiating life without honour. When once the LORD Came Jusricahad yielded tothe prisoner's desire to speak, he listened to him with great patience. Twice, however, the pauses in the address were so long that the question was put " Have you anything else to say 4 " and on each occasion the calm composure of BARRares reply was very remarkable. "I would next speak of" and " A few words more," were given in the cool, matter-of-fact tone of a man who has set himself a task and is determined to carry it through. The Loan CHIEF JOSTICE himself was not more resolute on this head than the prisoner he was condemning, and indeed laboured under a remark able misapprehension as to one portion of the lat ter's speech. BoßßErea oration consisted mainly of analysis of evidence, denunciation of witnesses, and vague protestations of guiltlessness ; but it included these words : " Here " standing, and looking into the grave, I " most solemnly declare that at the time those people swore I was at that I place, was in " land." To which the Loan Cruz, JUSTICE rather unaccountably answered, " I am glad there " has been no attempt on your part to repeat " that part of your defence which rested on the " alleged fact of your being in Glasgow." But no one in court, except, perhaps, the prisoner's counsel, doubted the justice of the verdict, or that Barium deserved to die. His speech, though powerful, and, under the circum stances, surprising, threw no new light upon the case ; and while the general feeling was that further inquiry should be made, there was really no doubt as to the guilt of the doomed man. His address over, BLanirr listened respectfully, and with the same face of unutterable dejection as in the earlier part of the day, to the Judge, and then after making a silent bow, he resigned himself to the warders and walked rapidly from the dock. Tax experience of America in prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors is constantly appealeel to by both sides in what is called the Maine. Law controversy. Thus, the action just taken ~ .)y the two Houses of Massachusetts has a ape O j a i in terest. The prohibitory system which 'h as b een so long in force is about to give wr.y in # Aa most cultivated of the American Str a us, Boa Houses have passed • license bill 'which ra th er loosely regulates instead of forbids the trade in s t rong drinks. Many of the enemies of tie restrictive plan complain that the new Maim. goes too far the other way, and assert that it pm 'ides for the wadi (ally unlimited lionudrig' 15ir divan bars and mere arum .hops. Provision in `made for submitting 1 annually to popular vote, ir.i the various cities and 1 towns, the question of therwile of liquors Whit drunk on the premises, but t 4 :l this the extreme license party did not object, and they dais, in fact, to have completely triumphed over their teetotal en teral*. The Price* and Princess of Wales, attended by the Hos. Mrs. Stonorand Major Grey, arrived at Marlborough house yesterday afternoon from Trentham. Despatches were received yesterday at the Cofoetal /Ake from the Governors of the AttarsLae colonies, Cey lon, Hong Kong, Gibraltar, and Melts. Deribatches were sent to the Governor-Genera of Canada and to the Go vernor of Malts. Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to dimity, through hie Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant, her intention of conferring en honorary distinction upon the chief magistrate of Dublin. The Duke of Cambridge and Prince Teck have arrived from their visit to Dublin during the sojourn of the Prince and Princess of Wales. The Duke of Cam. bridge was in attendance at the none Guards yesterday at an early hour. Rix Exoellency the Count de Rilvas will shortly leave England with his family, to assume the post of Por tuguese Minister at St. Petersburg. The Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon. Sir R. Peet. and a numerous party left town yesterday for New market. The Record is informed that the letter of invita tion from the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to Dr. Cullen to attend the great banquet given in honour of the Prince of Wale., was, by Mr. Disraeli•. desire, addressed " To his Excellency the Cardinal Archbishop of Dublin." ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. BRISTOL. NOMINATION.-(THIS DAY.) (Br TRLZOLLPH.I The nomination of candidates for the representa tion of Bristol took place this morning. The gentlemen proposed were Mr. B. Morley (liberal), and Mr. Miles (conservative). The show of hands was declared to be in favour of Mr. Morley, and a poll was demanded for Mr. Miles. The polling will take plies on Wednesday. There is great excitement in the city. . . Another telegram which we have received states that Mr. Morley was proposed by Mr. G. Thomas, and seconded by Mr. Castle. Mr. Miles was proposed by Mr. It. King, and seconded by Mr. B. Hare. The tone; it is added, hired pogilistoi and 'movie, from the dock works, who used bludgeons, rotten eggs, oranges, &c. GRANTHAM. POLLING THIS DAY. We learn by telegraph that at 12 o'clock to-day the state of the poll was as follows: Turner (Conservative) Cbolmeley (Liberal) ....... 245 STIRLING BURGHS. NOMINATION.-(THIS DAY.) Off TILZOWIL) Messrs. Campbell and Ramsay were nominated to-day for the Stirling Burghs. The show of bands was declared to be in favour of Mr. Campbell, and a poll was demanded for the other candidate. The result will be declared on Thursday. Mr. Thomas Chambers, M.P. for Marylebone, ham been prevented from attending at the HOMO of Com mons during the last week by serious indisposition. _ - The 'rut h Railway Commission held its final sitting yesterday, and agreed to the report. It is en ela borate document ; but the commiasioners do not, it is maid, make any recommendation, bolding such a course to be beyond the scope of their powers, and not contem plated in the terms of their commission. On the 19th of next month, Mr. Acland will call attention to the inconvenience arising from the want of an authority specially charged with the duty of considering questions affecting agriculture and the food of the people ; and move for a committee to examine and report on that subject. Mr. Bagwell intends on Friday to ask the Chief Secretary for Ireland, whether, taking into consideration the present tranquil state of Irebald, he conceives it necer eery to continue the imprisonment of persons confined under the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act ; and whether he will state to the house the number@ at present confined under such act in the different prisons in Ire land. The Journal de Charleroi states that the strike of the miners continues, and is extending from Forchies towards the centre of the district. The operations at four pits are now stopped. The men show no mischievous dis position, and merely go about from one place to another, neither ►ttacking property nor interfering with the 'ti dier& Some say they do not work because the wages are insufficient, whilst others affirm that they abstain on account of the presence of the military, which they look on as a sign of distract and a constraint. The number out on strike at the various coal mines is from 1,800 to 2,000. THE Royer. Visa To TnErrKkw. —The Prince of Wales attended service in Trentham church on Sunday, accompanied by his suite and the Duke of Sutherland. The Rev. R. S. Edwards, rector, preached. A very large number of people went to Trentham on Sunday, from the Potteries and surrounding district, in the hope of seeing the royal visitors, who, however, did not appear in the park. Yesterday at 2.23 p.m. their royal highnesses left Trentham by special train for Stafford, where they joined the 2.40 express train for London. They rode in the Duke of Sutherland's saloon carriage, and were accompanied by his grace and the duchess. There were but few persona at the station, the time of the departure having been kept • secret, and heevy rein fell up to within half an hour of the time of leaving. ME ADDRESS TO THE PRINCE OF WALES PEON Mammon' Couto& —The Very Rev. Dr. Russell, presi. dent of Ilaynooth College, bas received the following from his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to the wldress from klaynooth College :—" Dublin Castle, 24th April. 1868.—Sir William Knollys is desired by the Prince a Wales to thank the President, Rasters, Pro fessors, end Students of the College of St. Patrick's, =b, for their address, and for their on his visiting them. The'llterszy and scientide institutions of Ireland must ever be an object of sincere interest to him ; and It is with feelings of pea satisfac tion that he has availed himself a an opportunity of making himself better acquainted with one of so great in:- the Collage of St. Patrick's. hlaynootb. Sir William°. as Knollye is further dimmed to convey cordial ac knowledgments of the Princess of Wales for the kind sen timent' towards her royal highness expressed in this address."—Duldin Evening Post. THE ROYAL CHARISM •T DIIBLIN.—The follow ing is a list of their Royal Highnesses the Prince Led Prinows of Wales' donation@ to several charitable institu tions in Dublin :—Poor of St. Patrick's, of all denomina tions, ; City of Dublin Hospital, SOL ; Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital, 211. ; Parochial Amosiation for the Relief of the Poor of all denominations, ; &misty for Relief of the Sisk sad Indigent Reoilkeepen, 211. ,• Adelaide Hoepitel. 211. ; Catholic Institution for Deaf and Dumb, 211. ; Claremont Deaf and Dumb Insti tution, 211. ; St. Vincent's Hospital and Diageneary, 211. Charities imbeeribed to by Us Royal H%bneso the Princess of Wolec—lrieb Mora Milano& Ileiteel, 211. ; Convakroont Home, EtWlateon 211.; I Yomelo Orphan House, 101. 100. ; Povidenos Mime fee Teen Females, 101. 10e. ; Sempstremee Relief Armin lin, 101. Ws. ; Mater Xlierioordin Iloapital. 101. ; ;a ltal for Iseurablee, 10a. ; Coombe Lea Her 101. 10e. Her royal highness boa promised vt of books en souvenir of her vista to &‘• C i tl n ollege• PWOCI AND THS POLIOZ.MLN.—A venial dent la Dublin of the Northam Whig, writing on Saturday =amino, my' :—" I ham told you that the dlosppeistmont 000mioned by the Priam and Prinomeo to arrival at Kingstown, and the wheenes of Muminstions till midnight, via 114 Let me give you a remark Ash I woe pitelleslarly tickled with when I was waiting for the prime% toed, oppoemone. I mid to the' bobby' Priam who hod asap of tim gate neer the dotion— awl some ' WWI the moaning " of ids being ite 1.68 r sows tell, sir • Prism am do so he likes, ifs; noiodp to report him, gip.% It was dstightttd." The Railways Ireiend Oamitielionete meet yes- Ayss ter da,ger at It. Viel lipeo oolauktoet, Wesimionitm Prom. : Sir am T. roms. Dart., raira lie/heduid, Kr. J Amiss, Xr. O. R. Seymour llK Cleoloo, and Xs %sir sessitme. The EloorMory, w c n e op z = yes she present. Tbla reran et the no Oesisheleme ftlegentiitiess -11.11684* 4 4:4 . • c d owi, N. N E W S. Y.) INDIA. Sir Stafford Nort&iota has received , telegram from the Governor-Gaaeral of India, dated Calcutta, April 23 : " Sirdar Mahorced Takoob Khan, eon of Ammer Share Ali, has retaken Kandahar and Khelat-i- Ghilzie." -THE FRENCH P 8 1:13E ON THE ABYBBI NIAN EXPEDITION. The Josonal des Debuts says : The object of the expedition has now been attained, and the English have only to return home, mane they now mean to set up • sumessor to the Negus and to regulate Abyssinia, which is not very probable. We per cativo, indeed, that moat of the English journals, and especially the Tines and Daily Rem, strongly insist on the immediate return of the army, which is, moreover, announced in the despatch of Sir R. Napier. It is almost certain that no voice will be raised in England to accuse the journals and Sir R. Napier of want of pa triotism because they do not dream of taking advantage of the present opportunity by substituting in the country of klagdala the influence of the Saxon for that of the Abyssi nian race. To be just to everybody, even to small African despots, we must admit that the end of Theodora. is not devoid of &certain grandeur which was hardy to be ex pected from the savage deeds which signalised his reign. The Aveuir National observes : The result of the straggle will be received favourably by public opinion. The organs of French liberalism, with a single exception, have seen in the English expedition an enterprise undertaken with regret, but necessitated by events—the right of a nation to protect its subjects. They believed that England had no desire to pursue the old Tory policy of conquest, sad they had a guarantee for this view in the language of the English journals without ex ception. The event justifies them if, as has been an. nounoed, orders for the departure of the expeditionary forts have been issued. BRISTOL, To MOAT. I. The Temps remarks : The brilliant and dramatic issue of the expedition to Abyssinia has produced a strong sensation in Paris ; it will produce an equally strong one in Europe ; in Eng land the enthusiasm is, naturally, very great. Everything connected with the expedition was calculated to give it an epic character. The object of the expedition, under taken solely to liberate some English citizens held emp ties for some years by a semi-barbarous despot ; the astonishing accounts related of the character of Theodore, —his violence, his cruelty, his cunning, his energy, the superstitious respect he inspired amongst his people ; the fear of not finding the captives alive, the remoteness of the theatre of war, the long distance--about 130 leagues —of an unknown country to be traversed—the necessity of hewing a road, spade and axe in hand, the unavoidable slowness of the operation—then the sudden ness and overwhelming success of the final blow, the un equal combat, the chivalrous conduct of this sanguinary and furious Negus, who after his defeat delivers the pri soners, but refuses to yield, the treason of his officers who delivered to the invaders• formidabieposition, the invincible resolution of the Abyssinian monarch, the assault of Mag dala, the desperate resistance of the last defenders of Theodo rus, the stoical courage with which the Prince had himself killed or shot himself—this series of actions constitutes a picture eminently grar.cliose. The details of this Oriental poem will be eagerly expected. England will now leave the Abyssinians to manage their own affairs as best they can. The expedition will be dear, but England will not have paid too much. The other French journals write in much the same tone. FENIANISM IN NEW ZEALAND. New Zealand advioes to March 8, brought to day by the Atrato, mention that Fenian tendencies were being shown in the colony. The Duke of Edinburgh was at that time expected to reach Auckland on the 2lat of this month. (azurn's TEJO WM.) FRANCE. PAltlfi, Aran. 8. Quarantine has been declared at Marseilles on arrivals from the River Plate on account of cholera. The same precaution has been taken as regards arrivals from Tunis and some other points of Algeria on account of typhus fever. DENMARK_ COPENHAGEN, APRIL 28. It is reported that the Rigadag Committee upon the Free Municipalities Bill, brought in by the government, are about to modify their opposition to the measure, in which case the ministerial crisis would be at an end. THE WEST INDIA, PACIFIC, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. PLYMOUTH, Amu. 28. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Atrato from the West Indies, itc., arrived here at 3 am., this day, bringing 78 adult passengers, 913,043 dole. and 1,607 packages of cargo. The ship's papers were forwarded to London by 5.30 am., special train. The Atrato left Plymouth, at 4.46, am., for Southampton. The Chilian colony in the Straits of Magellan was prospering, and good coal had been found at the settlement. Yellow fever continued at Lima and Callao. The mortality from the disease at the latter place averaged 23 daily. Ecuador was also suffering from yellow fever. A severe monetary crisis and partial insurrection prevailed. Indeavo s ius were being made to settle the revo lution in Tolima by negotiation. The Bishop of Pasto had denounced the inter ference of the executive with church property as a heinous sin. Bolivar and Magdalena were still in an unsettled state. BRAZIL MAIL. , LISBON APRIL 28. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Seine has arrived here from the Brazils, &c., and leaves for Southampton at 3 p.m. to-day, with 36 passengers, 31,852/. in specie, 1,030 bags of cotton, 100 barrels of tapioca, 6 packages of diamonds, and 134 packages of sundries. Ths Shannon, with the outward mails of the 9th April, was at St. Vincent on the 20th inst. it EettES§„ T ak UESD . ' EVE • 14; RIL 28, 1 ~.11 , _ ipon their eagerly . Sl4ehedoor 4yr•• - • ry „ 411 1 " i ' 4 , F , E . 4 - . weed 41V reapiei': An • I a .'r . Iritish triumph in rul flies round/ started * one ' • w _ll, Ns t . . OSBORNff, note in Itattotott& or Alin; • that • they are _n i t s ' 01 11) 9noon • grounds this f - '). occasion. In his Then, that the majority are for soquitti . tgie aloinaPaalPd by Prisms Christian. ap.. - iir ;`groat leader," three and lianging Reamer ; then that the • Prime Leopold and Princess Nutrias also went out. t exaggeration, to Miner is ordered, and the Court is expected t o sit r e PriNe w6i.. Alinr. lift V id°r• Prim"' Geoff*. sad Prism= Looks today for illaassreash-house, at- SocretorY Sil 41 be estimated by late. The eager hum of the people waitlug :suit . beaby . theroO r . " lf.re. Grey. the following t , but by the dial— reach the prisoners in their room below the dock, Sir Stafford Nertheete has left Osborne. of India. dated AMERICA. IN, Arm. 28. The North German Lloyd's steamer Bremen from New York has arrived here with 43 passen gers for this port, Havre, and Bremen, 42 sacks of mails, 90,000 dols. in specie for England, and 4,900 dola. in specie and 2,465 packages of cargo for Bremen. On the 23rd ale spoke the English barque New Zealand, and the ship Marlborough ; 24th, the barque Stella; 26th, the ship Sea Adventure, bound west ; 26th, the barque Edgar, bound to Swansea ; and on the 27th, off the Lizard, the German schooner Maria, bound to Hamburg. Baser, Arta 28.—The Compagnie Trans atlaratique's .*.e ass Bt. Lenrent, from New York, ha. arrived here with 142 passengers and 3,600,0006. in eeseie. Niarrse, Aran 28.—The English ship wrecked eir the woe* at the Loire tarns out to be the Queen of =mth; Captain Beeves, which his Unee on the 11th Alt 1110 WIT a" ) ami Wai elidirt. AI 9u:il PL. L .0: 0J I A:U.4 OUR PARIS LETTER. (►!o' ous ows oosussostmorr.) PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. M. Jule* Fevre, on the day of his reception, gave a dinner to several of his brother academi cians. Among the guests were MM. de Remuzat, Berryer, Thiers, Prdvost-Paradol, and Father Oratry. It is evident that at a table so composed uniformity of opinion was not required. M. de Fidlonx, who was invited, excused himself on the ground of indisposition. The following complimentary letter has been written by Victor Hugo to Madame Judith Mendes, the author of the Lirre de Jade, a wonderful col lection of translations of Chinese stories and poems, one of which I remember attempting render into English a good while ago : Hauteville House. Dladame,—l have received your book, and in the first page I see my name written by you, and thus made an illuminated hieroglyphic from the hand of a goddess. The Lirre de Jade is an exquisite work ; and allow me to tell you that I see France in the China that you depict, and your alabaster in this porcelain. You are the daughter and the wife of a poet ; the dar:her and the wife of a king; and you are a queen yourulf. More than a queen—a muse. Your Aurora smiles at my Thanks, madame, I kiss your feet. VICTOR HCGO. Prince Poniatowski's new opera, announced positively to be brought out at the Italian Theatre to-morrow, has once more, and it may be hoped for the last time, changed its title. It is to be called La amtessina. The plot turns upon a young girl who desires to become a countess and does not succeed, and another, who becomes a countess without ever having thought about it. The French journals express surprise at the speedy and complete victory gained by the English in Abyssinia, and at the same time abstain gene rally from any carping observations at it, which they think would be ungracious. The Kaiteo, which takes it to be a matter of course that the successor of Theodorus will be a " .creature of England, and that Sir R. Napier, before leaving the country, will form a military establishment near the entrance of the lied Sea, says : In this point of view the victory of Al.ttdala gives to England, on the Red Sea and throughout the exit, new elements of preponderance and perhaps domicltion. But it is not for us to be jealous of this—ws should . rather, without loss of time, learn by the example of England what may be dose by foresight in the prepara tion of great national enterprises. The Bourse, encouraged by a rise of I incon sols and favourable reports of the King of Prussia's speech, was very firm. Rents rose uc. for cash and 123 c. for account, closing at G9fr. 45c. in each case ; Italian ruse 37ic., clueing at 49fr. 221 c. Mobilier rose llfr. 25e. ; and Credit Foncier, 3f r. irsc. ATLANTIC TILEORAPH COMPANY. (THIS DAY.) At the adjourned ordinary annual ineetitz, which took place at noon at the London Tavern, the Right Hon. Sir C. LUIMON in the chair, a supplementary report was read by Mr. G. SAWAIIII the maretary , stating that i u consequence of the failure Of the board to secure vote% sufficient at the meeting in March to authorise the issue of the ten per cent. preference stock proposed for the re demption of the cables they pr o p ose t o carry out t h e pro . of the Anglo.Americen Company for an arra ngemen t between the two companies on a basis substantially in ac cordance with the proposal of the shareholders committee. It further intimates that the directors have considered the constitution of the board of the Atlantic Company with reference to the new arrangement. That Captain Hscuilton has retired, and Mr. G. Peabody is about to do so. Tile di:cetera have elected to the vacant directorships— the Hon. H. Grimston and Captain G. Johnston. The honorary directors retiring by rotation are—Mr. Wilson C. Hunt, of New York ; Mr. Peter Cooper, o f N ew York ; Mr. E. M. Archibald, H.M. Consul, New York ; and Mr. Hugh Allan, of Montreal, all of whom are eligible, and are offered for fe•election. After some remarks from the CHAIRRAN the proposals and this report were agreed to. On the motion of Mr. CRUM.EWINO, seconded by the CHAIRMAN, Mr. Peter Coates, of Glasgow, was added to the boardon was also Mr. L. M. Rate, on the motion of Mr. MORGAN, seconded by Mr. CEREA FIELD. The business of the ordinary meeting having been com. pleted, the meeting was made extraordinary to consider the arrangement with the Anrlo-Anierican Caniminy, which Mr. Btrougft, a director, said was nearly ready for submission to the shareholders, being in substance what had been contemplated, adding that he hoped it would issue in more complete fusion of the interests of the two companies. After some discussion the meeting was adjourned till Tuesday, sth May, at 1 o'clock. In reply to a vote of thanks the CHAIRMAN stated that the traffic in May, 1567, under the old arrangement, averaged 1,094/. a day, and this year the average was 1,213/. a day. POOR LAW IHIUIRY AT LAMBETH WoI:EHOUSE. 7 ( THIS DAY.) This forenoon Mr. Corbett, one of the Metro politan Poor Law Inspector,, opened an inquiry at the Lambeth Workhouse, into certain enlarges affecting the matron of the Wandsworth-road branch of that establish ment, Mrs. Young. Mr. Beaman appeared on behalf of Mrs. Young, who has been suspended by the guardians. The Commissioner said that the charges were that the matron gave inmates improperly permission to absent themselves from the house, and that she used to absent herself from the house when the master was absent, raid that on several 000161(.111 she was intoxicated. The Inspector is now oocupied in hearing the evidenc.: in support of the charges. MUTE= ESPORT.-(THIS DAY.) TURSDAT. AP - 111 S. 8 L.l. I. It , W. 1 tO T. D. O. NpWa Nairn 20.8 b. 46 S.W. T S.W. 'Os 040 1 Aberdeen 29.54r 45 N.W. 6 6.8. W. rb 006 2 WM_ 19.696,40 W. 2 • W. Ic 0 . 19 Ardronsaa 28.9 0 r'47i &LW. 6 N.W. ro 0.04 4 Gressomike 29.535 43 S. 5 ; N.W. rho 093 - Veleada 29.92f 55 W. 7 . W.N.W. Ihrt 0.75 5 Itorthefert 10.861;62 W. 6 ' W.S.W. oe 435 3 = '30.04r47. S. 7 . %%3.W. rho 0.11 I 29.96740 &SW. 6 8.2. W. cc 5.01 - renamee 20.04f 51 W. 7 W.S.W. or 0.50 5 Oren 30.286 61, S.W. 6 N. W. r 0 . 16 4 410.32766 S.W. 2 ; W. or 0 . 16 2 Reelseteei 30.43/14 Z. 2 , W. o; - Plymoseß _30.15742 W.S.W. 7 ; W. or 013 4 Wwwmth 150.21r,47 H.H.W. 6 8. rr d(4 3 rreWdscsails '1:0.10r 43 W. 7 • N.W. r 0.05 Losf.oa _ 150.16r47, W. SW. lho 01'_- • mouth:TßW RI W.N.W. S. re ;0.36 3 liembomagh 22.93r48 W.N.W. 4 • ' W.D.W. err 0.31 3 Meths U. 9th,4,6 S. W. 1 B.W. re 0.17 2 Studesausa 29.76 ,411 11.6.111 6 I 65E. ! - 3 Heider 46 W.N.W. - ' - - - Brumela , 14 e W. Paris F .3I , W. Lyons 43 N. Toulon - N. 7 N. b - 6 HearrsOom 29.8 i6B W. I N. W, ac 0.01 2 Berometer corrected and rednoed to U deg. at me level. The later. r (delag), f s (steady), Indicate directlos of utatiosaf the withka laat 14 Mum Thermometer @Wm" In Mena. Rairerne tore., with Ito direction during Wt 34 boars. 2.--eaba. Weather: b.-blue sly: clouds (detached, : 1.-Rail: 1-4111 1 idng a.-ralety (hazy) c-overmil r-talsti it-mow 6-thunder. RAMMIL gnaw Oe hall Insetted), daring last Id home. Sea ditharbanse. ARKS. Atmosphericel a fi re everywhere lower than the) were yestenlay, ex at the southern Continental stations . 1 on our north and east omits barometrical readings are now higher than were shown lest The decrease at Valenti , Since last night has been 0-U in gresteat nreseeres art in the south-the least in the north of Orwat Britaha : at Nairn the reading Is nearly 0 7 Inch below that at Biarritz. Tempentere is now higher on the southwest 001114 of Ireland, whilst in other Vriof three Winds It is somewhat lower. Mord , O v . vere prevalent on our coasts yesterday, and this seoreaug the diresetion Is still from the westward, bat their force is Ina sad they are backing In Ireland. A high westerly wind b re• ported from fielder and Broasels. Rain has fallen on all comb, sod to heavy amount in the south of Ireland Thunder, light - ghat and hall are reported from several stations, and aurora Ikea observed is London. The sea is high at Cortums. INDIAN AIM CHINA MAILS. - A L 5.1469216, Az= Y7.-The Poonah and Elyria left yesterday. TM farmer may be expected at Mannino@ on the 2d, and the latter at Southampton on the 91b proximo. Quimitsrovrx , APRIL 28. -The Canard extra *sour Cuba, hos New York, arrived ism at 2.45 a.m. to-day. with &meow pamagola iita leaded two pap asegoes sad despatches, and proommied for Liverpool et ' 8.10 6.24. 4,4 wer. The Cu. Who 100.000 &Um is aposis...•• • . me .14 .4 343 t .es • • 4 I •