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The Annuity Tables, offering special advantages to Annuitants, and full particulars of the popular Principles of this Society, will be found in the New Prospectus, which will be forwarded to applicants post free, RENILY LAKE, General Manager. 316, Itegent-street, and 17, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 22, 1868. Ix has more than once been noticed that the Abyssinian expedition has met with much greater favour in India than in England. It is easy to explain the sanguine enthusiasm on the one side of the Red Sea, which contrasts so strongly with the somewhat sulky sense of compulsion that prevails on the other. India will enjoy all the prestige of success ; England will endure all the burden of payment. It is the consciousness of this unequal division which has made our Indian policy so peace ful since its administration passed entirely into )ur liands. We have avoided the romantic and perilous expeditions which the Iridian army loves. 'The present invasion is exactly what the venturesome spirits of the East, wearied by the monotony of Indian military life, have been longing for. It has, however, rather whetted than satisfied their appetite. The conduct of it has been entrusted almost entirely to the Bombay army. Disappoint' of their expected share in the African enterprise, the armies of the other Presidencies are once more endeavouring to get up new undertakings in Asia. There is one aztument which never fails them. They can always point to ,the steady advance of Russia towards our frontier, especially during the last fifteen years. They are once more pointing to it, and warning us that it must be checked, or the very existence of our Indian empire will be imperilled. They say that whenever the great and inevitable struggle for the possession of Constantinople comes off, England will be paralysed . in her efforts to stop Russian aggrandisement by the presence of a Russian army within 300 miles of the Indus. Even now, in time of peace, we are compelled to keep' 80,000 European troops in India ; and in time of war, if Russia were our enemy, we should be not only unable to draw upon this force for service in Europe, as we did in the Crimean campaign, but we should have to increase it, and so put a further strain upon the military resources of the country, already tried to the uttermost. They who argue thus would have us forestall future encroach ments on the part of Russia by establishing English garrisons in Candahar and Herat, " the Malakoff and the Mamelon of our position in the East." Or, if we cannot make up our minds to advance thus far from our base, they would have us take possession of Quetta, so as to overawe Afghanistan, and be ready to march upon its two strongholds at the first sign of a Russian advance. These schemes and the arguments for them are a standing topic of discussion in every Indian news paper. Anglo-Indians and native Indians alike see their importance. The first are impatient, the second surprised, at the indifference with which the Government appears to treat the matter. Wero this indifference real there woulel be reason for both emotions. Russian conquest in Central Asia is an • undeniable fact. Scarcely was the ink dry with which Prince GORTSCHAKOFF wrote his circular explaining away the invasion of Kho kand when hostilities were renewed upon the Jaxartes, and the important city of Tashkand was captured by treachery. Later still, Khujand was carried by storm and its garrison put to the sword. Since then Oratippa has shared the same fate. Provinces have recently been annexed by which the line of the Syr Dania is united with that of Siberia. At the present time the invaders are pushing their conquests to the Turkoman steppes of Merv, which lie on the road to, and are separated by only a short distance from, Herat. The possession of this last-named place. would enable Russia to hold Afghanistan in subjection. That country is now a prey to civil war. Rival Amcers fight for the throne which five years ago was filled by the powerful Doss MAHOMED. All the rivals in turn request our friendship, and seem to offer us the desired oppor tunity of counteracting Russian designs. That opportunity the Indian Government is urged to seize, and, by giving our support to pne of the rivals, establish a ruler in Afghanistan who would be bound to us by the double ties of interest and gratitude. The Government is warned that already the approach of Russia has rendered the frontier tribes insolent, and that their insolence is likely to spread among our native troops. With these Russia's movements are a theme of constant discussion. They firmly believe that our sovereignty is im perilled, and that we shall shortly have to fight over again, with a European Power, the battles which we have won over Indian kings. Even the adverse critics of our policy, who are not prepared for important military measures, advise an active diplomacy. At the present moment the various kingdoms and tribes on the North-west of India arc seeking for alliance and commercial relations with us. Of late months the Chinese have been driven out of that portion of their empire which adjoined ours, and the Mussulman rule has been established in the important cities Kashgar, Yarkand, and Koten. The new rulers would gladly be our friends and customers. To grant this wish seems even to non-bellicose Anglo- Indians a wise and prudent policy. To all these representations, warlike or peaceful, the Indian Government returns the same unvary ing reply. We will enter into no fresh alliances ; we will not anticipate war by commencing hosti lities ; we will not promote commerce by diplomacy. Russia may treat Afghanistan as she has treated Khokand and Bokhara, and we shall see without regret a stable government substituted for constant civil war, and the odious slave traffic which now prevails in Central Asia abolished. Holding Peshawur and commanding the mouths of the passes which lead into India, we can contemplate with indifference the phantom of a Russian inva sion. As for commerce with Central Asia, this, if it is of any value, will come of itself, and is cer tainly not worth the diplomatic complications in which we are asked to entangle ourselves. By friendship the Asiatics mean something more than good wishes, something more even than the " moral support " which we are so ready to give in Europe ; they mean armed assistance. This we cannot give. Neither will we send agents to countries where the la's of nations is little known and less respected. Wo do not desire another Abyssinian expedition in the heart of Asia. This is the policy which Sir JOHN LAWRENCE has consistently pursued in spite of all the pressure which has been used to move him from it. In accordance with this policy he has, while welcoming the Ambassadors of the various Central States, and loading them with presents, especially specimens of British manufactures, refused to send them a British - representative, or to enter into any diplomatic relations with them. In this "masterly inactivity" the Viceroy is thoroughly supported by the Secretary of State. Sir STAFFORD NowrneoTr. and the majority of the India Council, while fully alive to the importance of maintaining British prestige among our Indian subjects, hold that this is to be done by far other means than the measures which ardent Anglo , Indians desire. Instead of showing alarm at the approach of Russia, the Government rather desires to let it be known that Russia is the friend of Eng land. 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We cannot coincide with Mr. BUTLER-JOHNSTON in his denunciations about the war in Abyssinia. He said it was a most unfortunate expedition, and that there was something ludicrous in a country like England measuring its strength with a half-frantic savage like King THEODORE. This sounds very fine in argument, but then we must consider that the war was none of oar seeking, but forced upon us by circumstances, and that to have left those l unfortunate captives to suffer death either by slow imprisonment or by more violent means would have been most inconsistent with the dignity of our country, and also conduct most unworthy of a Christian country. It is true that there was at the outset of this awkward business some neglect and imprudence on the part of our Government, but the present advisers of the Crown could not possi bly have done otherwise than they have, and it is very certain that any dereliction on their part would have been censured by Parliament, and that the general opinion of the public would have rati- fled the decision of the Legislature. As to its being an expedition unworthy of the mighty strength of England, it may be said that the power and in fluence of the great and important are never so justly displayed as when they protect the weak and oppressed ; and, besides this, one of the first duties of a country is to take care of its subjects, near and distant, and whether the office be easy or difficult. Regarding Fenianism, Mr. JOHNSTONE thinks that great exaggeration prevails, as every accident around is attributed to that cause. It is true, as he remarked, that with a vigilant Government, and good citizens combined, Fenianism was sure to disap pear, but then it will not do to shut our eyes to its most dangerous tendency and insidious devices. Mr. JOHNSTONE thinks that the state of Ireland is enough to cause great anxiety, which is true enough for that matter, but we doubt if his remedy will be an efficacious one, that the Irish members should legislate themselves for Ireland, after the fashion of the Scotch members. The feelings en tertained towards England by the Scotch are very different from those evinced by Ireland; and another thing, it is impossible to get the Irish to agree among themselves as to the nature of the requisite changes. Mr. JOHNSTONE concluded by expressing his dissatis faction at the manner in which the defences of England were managed, and was afraid that some day we should discover that we had sunk from a first-rate Power. We never can expect to keep up with the continental nations in point of numbers, for their armies are far more than we can ever re quire; but, of course, due attention should be paid to necessary defence and preparation for emer gencies. As for Mr. JOHNSTONE'S ideal party to be composed of Mr. GLADSTONE, Lord CRANEORNE, and Lord STANLEY, he would not find it a very easy task to follow his leaders ; at any rate he could not do so at the same time, for their opinions are diametrically op posed to each other. Mr. HUDDLESTON'S speech was not so extreme a one as that of his colleague. After dilating upon the Merits of the Reform Act just passed, he pro ceeded to discuss a topic of great interest—the Master and Servants' Act, introduced by Lord ELciro, which has been of considerable service to the working man, and placed him in a better position than any which he had previously occupied. Some opposition was made to this bill by the " Manchester men," who are invariably against anything that really tends to the improvement of the condi tion of the working classes by curtailing the power of -their employers. Mr. HUDDLESTON has just returned from a visit to the Continent, and he is of opinion that the state of affairs there is most threat ening. The conscription of Prussia is enforced with merciless severity, and tells in all ranks, and in France also the army is very highly organised. 'I he hon. member, however, took a far brighter view of things than did his colleague, and we fully coirxide with him in his moresanguine anticipations of things. "If our army is small it is efficient, and Lord STANLEY, so long as he was at the bead of foreign affairs, would keep us out of war." As for the fuss that is being made about those lately admitted to the franchise not being duly qualified because of their want of education, Mr. HIIDDLESTON very properly asked whose fault was it but ,that of the Liberals, who had been in office so long and done so little. There was a good deal of truth in the observations made by the hon. member, and some of his opponents will not be well pleased when they pause them. A meeting of considerable importance in a social point of view was yesterday held at the Cannon street Railway Hotel, at the invitation of Mr. CORBETT, Poor-Law Inspector. It was attended by a number of the guardians and of the gentlemen connected with the several societies for the relief of the prevailing distress in the East-end of London, and its primary object was to consider the beat means of securing united action in the distribution of their funds. Mr. SCLATER-BOOTH, Parliamen tary Secretary to the Poor-Law Board was unani mously called to the chair, and the meeting ad dressed themselves to the work in hand in the best possible spirit. It was agreed without a dissentient voice that the separate existence of so many indi vidual associations for the relief of distress in one particular part of the metropolis has led to great evils. Owing to the want of concerted action there is manifestly a very great risk of some persons really in need of help being altogether overlooked and unassisted, while the more pushing and cla morous claimants obtain help from two or three sources at once. There is also much room for downright imposition. Each association takes too large an area, and in its researches and exami nations is likely to go over the same ground as ethers have done before, while other districts, per il haps more in need, are passed by or slighted. It is not always in the most wretched-looking courts and alleys that there is most real distress. The cases which all would be most anxious to assist are those of the better class, reduced by severe and tem porary misfortune, and unwilling to apply for parish relief. These are often to be feUnd in rows of houses, whose clean and respectable appearance does not betoken extreme distress, and the real con dition of the inmates is only to be ascertained by diligent search. It was to this class of persons that the Lancashire Committee at the time of the cotton famine confined their aid, leaving the parochial authorities to deal with the absolute paupers. Mr. CORBETT, in a very sensible and practical address, strongly advised, that this example should be followed. He showed that all supplementary relief given in addition to parochial aid tends in the first instance rather to the relief of the ratepayers than to that of the persons for whose benefit the funds were raised. In the long run this system acts to the detriment of the ratepayer by augmenting the number of applicants for relief, and increasing indefinitely the pauperism of the district. The guardians should be left to deal exclusively with such cases as they undertake, and care should be had that the relief which they give should be really sufficient to support the applicants. The responsibility of relief in every case would thus rest upon one or other of the relievers, either on the Board of Guaidians or on the Relief Committee ; and Mr. CORBETT strongly advised that work should be provided in return for the re lief given to all able-bodied persons wholly out of employment. By this means much might be effected to prevent demoralisation and loss of self reliance among the better classes, while imposture would be readily checked. The example and experience of the Lancashire Committee are practically serviceable, having carried the popu lation of the district safely through a time of unparalleled distress. Mr. CORBETT was very anxious that the East-end Central Relief Commit tee should assume the position of the Manchester Central Rlief Committee, and should be assisted by a Central Executive Committee, to whose care the funds should be entrusted, and by local com mittees, who should receive and examine all appli cations for assistance, should organise a house•to house visitation, determine the kind of relief, and the kind of work to be exacted when possible. This plan, if not carried out in its entirety,. will doubtless influence the future action of the gentlemen connected with the administration of the charitable funds. It was thought too late to have all subscriptions paid into one common fund, but a resolution was passed declaring it ex pedient that there should be one executive committee consisting of members of each of the principal com mittees now existing, with the object of uniting all efforts for the relief of the distress in the East-end. The general feeling having been thus clearly expressed, it was agreed that on an early day two or three members from each committee should meet in conference. We may therefore hope that some regular organisation may be set on foot, by means of which the relief so much needed at the East-end shall be administered to the general satisfaction. One great mischief of the present system is that the flow of charitable feeling is likely to be checked by a doubt as to the charac ter of the recipients. We know that there is actu ally a terrible amount of distress and suffering exist ing, an amount inadequately represented by the Union returns. Cases of starvation meet us every week ; and in to-day's impression we read an in quest held at the City Prison on a man committed for 21 days for begging, who died of starvation in the prison from previous want and exposure. The case was a very painful one. The man de scribed himself as a tailor out of work, and said he had lately slept in the unions, but he had caught cold and was starving when taken into custody. He seems to have been treated throughout with some harshness, though no doubt unintentionally. His was manifestly a case for the workhouse or the hospital, as the Coroner observed, rather than for a prison ; but the doctor who saw him after his ad mission did not think he required any special care. However, all parties were soon undeceived, for the poor man died on Sunday evening, a day after his admission, from long-continued want. He might perhaps have been saved had he had some thing more stimulating to his failing powers than bread and gruel, however good of their kind, but the Governor had no power to order him anything else until really dying. The Governor, in giving his evidence, made a startling statement, testify ing to the reality of the distress now existing. He had not, he sa id, th o ught the deceased dan gerously ill, as he was much in the same condition as 34 out of the 51 prisoners who were received during the week for begging. In deed, some of the female prisoners were quite worn out with starvation. The Coroner justly re marked that this disclosed a very sad state'of things, and though begging was illegal, it was natural that they should prefer it to starvation. It is plain that we want a better system of personal inquiry. In the Registrar-General's retu rn for last week we find three other deaths from want of food and privation recorded—one of a widow in Shoreditch, the two others of labouring men in St. Luke's ; and we may be very sure that where we find every week actual deaths from want, they represent a very large class who are only just above starvation point. There is no lack of money or of energy for the relief of the poor of London, and where so much is paid by the ratepayers on the one hand, and subscribed by the charitable on the other, and there are so many who devote their time and labour to the service of the desti tute, it is lamentable that deaths from starvation should be no marvel. We hope that the recent or gmistakes,vers will l l instead only o f stimulate discouraging them either workers to fresh and more vigorous and united effort. There will always be a great deal of suffering which the parish officers cannot reach or adequately relieve, and if the line can be drawn and maintained between the self-reliant and industrious poor temporarily disabled, and those who from thoughtlessness or early habit are indifferent to the shame of begging, a great public service will have been done. It will then be possible to mitigate real distress without encouraging pauperism, and to effect more real good than can be done by casual and needless almsgiving. We are very glad to find that the gentlemen best acquainted with the necessities of the East-end are exerting themselves to put matters on a better footing; and we hope before long to see the same system extended more or less to all the poorer and more populous parts of London. Notwithstanding the prevailing distress the Regis trar-General's return of the public health is favour able, and tha deaths are less by 149 than the estimated number. The Registrar, after giving the rate of mortality in thirteen large towns of the United Kingdom, adds a curious and interesting fact—the issue of a return of the births and deaths in Rome during the first eleven days of the year. This is supplied by desire of the ChAneelier-G6ndral of Rome, and shows that sanitary improvement is making its way even under the most ancient regime. The closing scene in one of the most striking and pathetic tragedies of modern times was on Saturday enacted with all due pomp and ceremony at Vienna. There was no lack of the solemn state and dignity which is customary " When a Prince to the fate of the peasant has yielded," when another relic of one of the most eminent, but at the same time most unfortunate of the Imperial dynasties in Europe, was consigned to his kindred dust. Never theless we have no doubt that there was some thing more than courtly sorrow, something deeper` than the requirements of courtly etiquette among the mourners round the tomb of MAXIMILIAN. Regrets such as are felt for the untimely close of a life full of promise, f or th e f a ilureTof bright hopes and noble aspiratio ns , were expressed in -palace and cottage, while the tears that were called forth by the rupture of cherished ties, the bereavement of a happy home, sympathy such as must be elicited by the incurable misfortunes of the generous, the affectionate, and the devoted were pail as a last tribute to the husband of the mourner at Miratnar. A mother who refused to lay aside her robes of mourning for the splendours of Court costume, a brother whose own reverses have been rendered more painful by the disastrous news from Mexico, old friends and relations who watched with pride and hope the career of the young and gifted scion of his noble house, such were the mourners whom no Ti nperial pomp could blind to the reality- of hum: ln sorrow. And the chief mourner, she whose life has been darkened by her devotion to his cause, tho bitterness of whose affliction has proved too grey t for her physical strength, it is saddest of all to chronicle our uncertainty as to her knowledge of his fate. The tragedy cf Queretalo has, it is sail, b een communicated to her, but its effect is not st: tted. Let us hope that, as has sometimes proved the case, the greatness of the shock may remove the clot ids which have hitherto obscured her faculties, and that she may be restored to that full perception wlx cl 3, while it will show her fresh trials, will also lighten her burden. She will perceive her cherished husband has, in the words of another monarch i‘ lost all but honour," and that she has, at least, the consolation of knowing his name is cherished aad respected, while his and her misfortunes have evoked the sympathy of the civilised world. The dream of mistaken ambition, of delusive hopes, of dangerous illusions, and deceptive frien.ls, is played out ; but with it ends the long anxiety, the fruitless exertion, the bitter disappointments. MAXIMILIAN rests from his troubles, and if his obsequies were not without their moral, so his influence and his memory will not be without their example. LATEST INTELL LCE CE. (R EUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) ITALY. FLORENCE, Jan. 21. A meeting was held this evening of the party of the Right. General Menabrea and the Ministers of Finance and Marine . were present. The Ministers of the Interior and of Finance spoke at some length, and the meeting resolved energetically to urge forward the discussion of the Ministerial Budget for 1868, i❑ order that the Parliament might be at liberty to discuss bills relative to finance and the interior re organization of 'the country. The Committee of the Chamber have approved the Budget of the Interior for 1868. The ordinary expenses are estimated at 43,120,238 lire, and the extraordinary at 2,408,785 lire, thereby effecting a reluction of 4,050,289 lire on the Budget of 1867. CORRESkONDENCE FROM rAms. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, TUESDAY, Jan. 21 People persist in saying that the Emperor is about to issue a pacific manifesto. Some colour is given to this report by the pacific tone which the official press has assumed. The alleged purpose of the Emperor's address is to assuage the alarms created by the new army project, combined with the loan which M. Magne is expected to propose for 400,000,000 f. There is no doubt that the loan has been determined on. The delay in its issue is owing to disagreement between M. Magne and M. Rouher as to the indemnities to be allowed on account of the Mexican Loan. The official press in the provinces have been deducing the moral of these preparations in a bellicose style, and have produced an impression which it is necessary to correct. Meanwhile a confidential circular has, it is said, been sent round to the prefects, inviting them to bring round the language of the journals to an accordance "with the maintenance of the pacific dispoai- Cons which the Emperor and his Ministers have re peatedly affirmed." Of course the said journals will have no difficulty in contradicting what they have said before. In the absence of warlike rumours here, the war of words between the St. Petersburg and Viennese journals attracts attention. All our papers have reproduced the Times' telegram from Vienna, denying that Russia was making warlike preparations on the Pruth. Apropoe of this tele gram, Le. Temps observes that it may be all very well to say that Russia has neither money nor needle-guns, but "no men and no horses" is un peu de trop. It is well known that the Imperial forces sent to protect Rome have recently been increased. The idea that they will be withdrawn at an early date is now abandoned. The latest telegrams from Rome are a sufficient denial of the rumour that the Government of the Pope would con sent to treat with that of Victor Emmanuel for the discovery of some peaceful modus vivendi. Any such prospect is as distant as ever. the Italian Government is not to be felicitated on its tax on the millers. I fear it will prove in every sense a grinding tax. The yield to the revenue is estimated at 76 million lire, hut the cost to the people will be 80 millions. The impost is so unpopular that the correspondent of the Siecle anticipates that the peasants will be again seen crushing their wheat between the stones more antiquo. The news from Naples is by' no means satisfactory. Reactionary manifestoes have appeared, and at the same time coins of the " Italian Confederation," having on the reverse the portrait of " Francis 11., King of Naples." The accident to the Princess Bacciocchi, which resulted in a broken leg, has caused the Emperor and Empress a good deal of anxiety. Her Majesty visited the Princess, who is at Rennes, and frequent telegrams are received from Dr. Naaton. It would be much more convenient for Engnsh residents in Paris if the powers that be would content themselveS with confiscating French papers. This week the Spectator and the Examiner are suppressed—why, we are, of course, not permitted to know. The example of the Austrian railway directors is com mended for imitation in France, and may be useful in England. In view of the dearness of provisions this winter, they have given their employes, without excep tion, a gratuity equivalent to a month's salary. What will they do at Baden and Homburg and Ems when the Prussians have suppressed every vestige of gaming ? The tables are overturned at Aix-la-Chapelle, and the fate of the "hells" in the Duchy of Nassau is de creed. Inreply to M. Virchow, the Prussian Minister of the Interior has declared that all games of chance are, on principle, interdicted on Prussian territory. Those that remain have no lease of life beyond Prussian respect for treaties ; and what a tenure that is ! The political education of the people by means of lectures is being tried at Brussels. The lectures are given at the university ; the subjects include Belgian and French history, the Belgian Constitution, and other topics. Admission is free, and working men attend in consider able numbers. The Libertg contains a letter from Vienna describing the funeral of Maximilian. The ceremony was an imposing one, and the crowd who witnessed it immense. Never within living memory, says this correspondent, was such a crowd seen in the comparatively narrow space of the centre of Vienna. As a prince of the House of Hapsburg, Maximilian enjoyed an immense popularity, and his fate as Emperor of Mexico excited public sympathy and pity. Foremost among the high personages following the hearse was Admiral Tegethoff. Francis Joseph, wearing the uniform of a marshal, and the Grand Cordon of Guada lupe, together with the archdukes and archduchesses, ministers, members of the Court, dignitaries of the Church, and the representatives of foreign Powers, awaited the arrival of the cortege at the Church of the Capuchins. Neither the Empress Charlotte nor the Archduchess Sophia, Maximilian's mother, was present. Everyone of the other members of the Imperial Family was deeply affected. Mass was celebrated with great solemnity by Cardinal Rauscher, the Archbishop of Vienna. Maxi milian is the 102nd member of the House of Hapsburg committed to rest in the vaults of the convent of this church. England was represented on this occasion by Lord Raglan and Lord Seymour on behalf of her Majesty, and by Viscount Hamilton on behalf of the Prince of A report is current in France that M. Louis Blanc will he brought forward at the next election by the Liberals of Marseilles. In view of the great distress existing in Eastern Prussia, the Government have instructed the revenue agents to act with great discretion. Where desirable they are em powered to remit or reduce arrears of taxes. A private letter states that every effort is being made to meet •the distress. Several of the manufacturers have increased the wages of their workpeople, and given work to as many of the poor as they can employ. Workshops have been spe cially opened for women and children, where they are fed and sheltered gratis. But these means are inadequate. According to the Cologne Gazette the misery of the poor is Indescribable ; men, women, and children are huddled together in the forest, on litters of straw, completely desti tute. Many are attacked with typhus fever, and the greater part are dying of hunger. The Univers is responsible for the statement that the Powers of Europe maintain under arms 7,500,000 soldiers. Each soldier costs on an average £4O a year. The total cost of armed peace in Europe is, therefore, £300,000,000 sterling per annum. What wonder at scarcity and high prices Throughout the dominions of the Sultan the month of Ramadan is being observed. During this month the faithful abstain from all their old feuds, and, from daylight to sunset every day, from eating, drinking, or smoking. It is proverbially a month of bad humour and political irritation. In the first week of the present Ramadan Fuad Pasha was taken suddenly ill. The cause of hi illness was a quarrel with the Sultan, and the cause of the quarrel the news from Ressim Pasha of his having caught a Russian war steamer infringing the blockade and landing stores at Amyro. The l ommander, with. characteristic cunning, professed that he w as merely assisting Candian refugees to escape the horrors of war, and pretended not to know that ther e had been no war for the last three months, and that the ports of Candia, Retimo, and Canea were open to all Cretans who desired to leave the country. To malee the matter still more ridiculous, the Russian commander saluted the Turkish admiral, and insisted on accompanying him to Suda Bey, where the compliment was returned. On this news the Sultan proposed to address a cate gorical note to the Russian Government, and to punish Ressim Pasha. Fuad Pasha saw that this would bring about a collision, and finally succeeded in dissuading the Sultan from pushing matters to an extreme. Thus, through fear of precipitating the Eastern crisis, Russia is allowed to do as she pleases. The activity of Vesuvius continues. .The Times Naples correspondent, writing on the 10th, states that the towns of Torre del Greco and Resins had been considered in danger, the lava having flowed towards them at the rate of 500 yards a day. For the last three or four days, how ever, the burning stream had advanced with much less rapidity, and the cities appeared safe for a month at lea: t. Two currents of lava flowed down the mountain, forming the sides of an ellipse. At times the whole intervening space was covered, and the mountain presented the most brilliant spectacle. Frequent shocks of earthquake have been felt at Naples. The new Indian furlough regulations are published. They are described as " the greatest boon that has ever been conferred on the Indian military service." H ence forth eight years' service will entitle an officer to two years' furlough, and subsequently a three years' furlougi will be granted for every six years of service. Officer,- may take their furloughs in instalments, or may allow then, to accumulate. ' When absent from duty officers will irk allowed to draw 50 per cent. of their substantive salarie, In the Civil Service the allowance of furlough is one , after the first eight, and subsequently one after every fon; up to a total of six years. A small item of news comes from India which is of very great importance. It is stated that the Great Southerr Railway have effected a junction at Errode wits: the Madras Railway, by means of which the rici and populous districts of Tanjore and Trichinopoh are brought into unbroken communication by railway with Malabar, Mysore, and Madras. In the same pro wince railways are just about finished which will enable the cotton crop of this season to be brought down from the iippoitont district beyond the chittFavuddyliiver, FRANCE. BOURSE, JAN. 21, Three -o'clock.--The market closed as follows :- 4i per Cent. End of month... Its Pan Loan 3 per Cent MEnd of month 6B 65 Mexican Loan ... 17 Credit Mobilier 163 75 Do. Bonds End of month... 170 Spanish Threes Credit Foncier ...1370 Home Debt 331 Ead of m0nth...1376 25 j Deferred 33 RAILWAYS. Account Orleans 'Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern-- ., 5381 Western Eastern . • 535 Sardinian Austrian Lombard 3431 North of Spain 6l Saragossa Roman 47 EXAMINATION OF THE SUPPOSED FENIAN.—(This Day.) To-day James Livermore, the Irishman taken up for discharging a pistol in Martlett-court, close to the Police Station, and who. was supposed to be a Fenian, was again placed at the bar before Mr. Vaughan, at Bow-street. The Magistrate asked the constable in charge of the case whether he had discovered anything fur ther about the prisoner? The constable, F 88, said he had discovered that the prisoner was most re spectably connected. His parents resided at Clapham. His father was an Irish magis trate, and the prisoner's mother was in at tendance. The prisoner had been in the army serving in the 4th Foot, but he left the regi. went with a bad character. However, since his discharge he had lived at South-street, Stockwell. The prisoner's mother, an elderly lady, said the unfortunate man at the bar was her son, and she regretted she could not say anything good of him. The last time he was at his father's a proposal was made to him to go to Australis, but he said that was only a place for thieves and pickpockets, and therefore it was not the spot for him. His father then told him that, as he had rejected his offer, he need not communicate with him any more, as nothing further would be done for him. He left the place in a great rage, and since that they had both been in fear of their lives. On a former occa sion, whilst they were in Dublin, the prisoner acted in such a manner towards her that she was afraid to walk about without the attendance of a constable. Mr. Vaughan asked whether the prisoner had ever actually threatened her, to which she replied that he had not actually done that, but that they went in terror of their lives, and she was quite ready to make any declaration to the effect. The prisoner here said he regretted what he had done ; he had no intention of injuring any person. He had been miserable in his mind since he had left his father's house, in consequence of his refusing to shake hands with him, and as for the pistol he bought that for himself and nobody else. Mr. Vaughan—But what do you say to discharging the weapon in the public streets? Such conduct cannot be tolerated. Prisoner—lt wasn't in the public streets, your honour, it was a court, and I was very drunk. Mr. Vaughan—That is not so, the constable who took you into custody said you were quite sober when in the station-house. Mr. Vaughan —The utmost alarm was occasioned by your doing ;so. The Inspec tor said .`the prisoner had given, previous to the discovery of the abode of his parents, references to persons and places in Dublin, all of which had turned out false. Prisoner—l meant no harm to any one. Prisoner's mother—l hope you will not allow him to go without some security being taken for the protection of myself and his father. I consider he is a very dangerous person. Mr. Vaughan — The prisoner has never, in fact, threatened you, and therefore I shall impose a fine, which he doubtless will be unable to pay, and therefore he will have to go to prison. It is a most distressing case, and as I consider the prisoner seems wholly destitute of feeling; but during his impri sonment he will have an opportunity of reflecting on his conduct. I shall fine him £2, and if he does not pay, be must go to prison. The prisoner said he had got no money. The inspector of police asked what was to be done with the pistol taken from the prisoner, and Mr. Vaughan ordered it to be re tained' by the police. SHOOTING AT IN ENGINE DRIVER IN THF: GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—A very singular occurrence took place on saturday evening on the Great Northern Railway in connection with the up Edinburgh express, which, arrives in London at 9.30 p.m. Soon after the train left the Grantham Station, and just aft r passing through a bridge which crosses the line hereabouts, the driver, whose name is Fuller, heard a sharp crack against the board which protects them from the weather, and ex claimed to the fireman, " What's that ?" It was soon ascertained, for by the light of the engine fire they per ceived a bullet spinning on the board upon which they stood; it was immediately secured by one of them, who found that the concussion had partially flattened it. Upon examination the weather guard itself was found to be in dented, so that the inference was it Lad been fired from either a gun or a pistol. The trail on this night num bered among its travellers their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Teck, who were returning in a saloon from their visit into Yorkshire. The bullet was drliv,•red to the authorities at King's-cross upon the arrival.of the train, but the affair at present is shrouded in niy:;!ery. 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A signal evidence of which is afforded by the circumstance that the last number (the number, if we remember rightly, inaugurating Dr. William Smith's induction into the Editorial Chair first occupied by William Gifford) has, within the quarter that has but just now run out, passed into a Seventh Edition. An incident, we believe, in the history of any quarterly publica tion, almost, if indeed it be not entirely unprece dented. And it is still to us a matter of uncer tainty whether this brilliant success of No. 246 of the Quarterly Review is attributable to the superior attractions of any one particular contribution among the nine articles constituting its contents. For, there was hardly one among those nine articles but what had a peculiar attraction of its own-- two of them achieving, no doubt, a cer tain degree of celebrity, meaning the paper on " The Talmud," and the political argument entitled, rather daringly, "Political Surrender." Neverthe less in the seven others making up the bulk of that number, there was a hardly less obvious interest for all sorts of readers, ex. gr., Royal Authorship— French Retreat from Moscow—Trades' Unions— Sir Henry Bulwer's Historical Characters—Science in Schools—Portraits of Christ, and the Abyssinian Expedition. Remembering what were the materials of that number, we don't wonder in the least that it has already run into a Seventh Edition. And seeing now what are the contents of the number here following in its wake (No. 247), we are, for a similar reason, almost disposed to anticipate a like success in the way of rapid republication. It is a peculiarity of the Quarterly —and one that we have already frequently taken oc casion to comment upon—that its menu, so to speak, is always appetising. The fare besides this is always seasonable —what is in season in other words is always sure to be "dished up" for us in perfection. Flavoured often enough, too, with a sauce piquante. knd the chef moreover has very wisely an eye to the piece. de resistance.:_ Here, it is—What ? 'Why, with what betterpike de resistance did the Quarterly ever feast its guests, meaning its readers, than the one discoverable here in the first article introducing the current number to us ? That first article being a memorial paper, biographical rather than critical, relating to the most illustrious among the founders, projectors, or originators of the Quarterly Review itself—" Sir Walter Scott." From internal evidence we are disposed to father this paper about Sir - Walter Scott upon a very dis tinguished contemporary. By whomsoever it may have been written, nevertheless, in the charm of it as a whole it is simply irresistible. We open the number at page 1, we cut the leaves, and we read on steadily, glibly, eagerly, to page 54 —at which, to our poignant regret, the article termi nates. There are elipses or elisions, how ever, in it that appear to us by the way very unnecessary, :and that wo cannot but regret as disappointing to the last degree. e'or example, when the writer comes to the mention more parti cularly of the Waverley Novels (it is at p. 33)- we find him contenting kimself, but certainly not his readers, with this most tantalising sentence—" How they [that is the Waverley Novels] began and how they forced their way into an amount of popula rity quite without precedent, it would be foreign to the purpose of this sketch—[ Why 'l] —if we paused to give an account." Why, that always is and must be the paramount and central interest of any biography of Sir Walter Scott. And to pass it by thus casually is, as it were, to give us Hamlet with the character of Hamlet omitted. However —let us not be ungrateful. The paper is simply so good that we are hungrily asking for more, and find ourselves quarrelling with the host who feasts us beCause he has not helped us more largely. As a whole this paper on Sir 'Walter Scott is admir able. It is worthy of Scott, and of the Quarterly more than which we simply csuld not say. When mention is made (pp. 20 and 21) of the first ill-advised commencement of Scott's ealarnitious business entanglements with Bal lantyne the printer, a letter of Sir Walter's is here quoted in which he particularises three branches of printing then (1802) quite open, as he conceives in Edinburgh—" The first," Sir Walter Scott writes, " is that of an Editor of a News paper, which shall contain something of an uni form, historical, deduction of events distinct from the farrago of detached and unconnected plagiar isms from the London paragraphs of The Sun." By a curious coincidence in the very next paper in this current number of the Quarterly Review, that is, in Article 2, relating to " The Queen in the Islands and Highlands," mention is again made of this journal, only a few pages further on (p. 80)-- this time, however, not in a quotation from a letter of Sir Walter Scott's in 1802, but in an extract from the recently published diary of her Majesty the Queen, where, under date September 16, 1852, the Sovereign writes—" We were startled this morning at seven o'clock by a letter from Colonel Phipps, enclosing a telegraphic despatch with the report, from the Sixth Edition of The Sun, of the Duke of Wellington's death the day before yesterday." Following immediately upon the Quarterly's loyal tribute 'to the Queen's Journal, eve have here a curious paper enough on Auricular Confession as practised in the Church of England, a review of M. Guizot's-Memoirs, a comprehensive paper on " The British Museum," and a re markable anecdotal chapter on " Longevity and Centenarianism." Articles on Phoenicia and Greece, on Church Progress (so called), and - on England's stow imminent Irish Difficulty, complete the num ber—the last-mentioned contribution being the Poll deal, the sufficiently apropos Political of the Quar terly for this present January. The Edinburgh. No. 259. Longman and Co. To our thinking the most interesting among all the nine articles making up the current number of the Edinburgh is the one relating to the Messrs. Parkes and Merivale's recently published memoirs of Sir Philip Francis —or, otherwise, we are half disposed_ . , to say, of Junius For of Junius we, at any rate, don't hesitate to say, Aut Francis aut Diabolus ! The Letters of Junius being intensely and essentially Philipics, or, let us put it more plainly still, Sir Philipics! To forty-one others the credit (and discredit also it must be said) of being Junius has at different times been imputed. But upon Francis alone the cap fits to perfection. He it was Burke spoke of as the " Prince of Pamphleteers." He it was who answered (as Junius might have answered) a friend's preliminary to the in' inquiry, " Sir Philip [by an absurd misprint it is here put, very Frenchly indeed in the Edin bul gh, page . 202 Sir Francis] give in° leave to ask one question"—" At your Peril, Sir!" lie it was of whom another bai'll=d interrogator exclaimed (as he might alone have exclaimed of Junius) " I don't know whether he is Junius, but I am sure that he is Brutus !" He it was whose handwriting bore such a subtle and intiuiate resemblance to the handwriting of Junius that the &c., always has in each an a placed over it—that the i's are in each not dotted but dashed with an oblique stroke—that the Y of You and Yours is in each always a capital. He it is whose presence in London or absenea front London, always corresponds with the appearance or non-appearance of letters from Junius in the Public Advertiser! Whose departure for India Is narked by the sudden and final cessation Of my correspondence at all from Junius ! And whose eturn to .England from India several years after Is inn - nu/in/di/ followe3 by the publication of the firs t collective issue of thole "Letters of Junius" as 3 separate publication. "The Queen's Highland Journal" is of course reviewed in the Edinburgh as, well as in the Quarterly, and, equally of course, n° ll me jot less loyally. The paper on " Oysters" wen ° lave set Dando's mouth watering. " TWo rer Cent." is the suggestive title of a paper u pon th e Commercial, Monetary, Financial stagnation, dead lock, collapse, or however it may be termed, whi eh has followed the last fearful Panic. The other articl , partic racte or, in chief it hol porar is, as purpo The r speaki is acc precis Count of the we ari empth " T 1 tion, a unselfi chanci him, hi differei error n bishop pream that— if we has evi than tl deed, rial fo: valuab well-w Churn] tution, the s cumstl May 1 Archbi tinct bered ber of the otl latter( half of and 6 6 Ininati Second tric ti of °I of the and Sol ber, th bas ref it but E we said toward ticent, Whose 1 tion Rai couchec It seem part of I to the] ~~ The compa n riette ( walked by Prin Their LeopolC Wont of CABI held y es i of the Ti Were the Earl of ] Lord St e Pakth i chequer, Itichmon Itight 11( THE Gazette E at ktunic has • just henyi, w; OPer, h Partioipa Pararnoui guilt. h usband at Atunic fronted,Chorins aathoriti UTIL da Y, Jai entering ; Is saultin ' l3 3', and Prisoner, ,Navinhavi Pl aister. "'eked ', hel d her _ flocked 411 d mad( Was reins Tit( Ti