The Express.
London, England, 1868-05-21 00:00:00

AMERICA.

(Dll ATLANTIC TELRGRA2II THROUGH MR. RECTICR'S AGENCY.)
NEW YOItK, MAY 'JO,

The Cunard steamship Russia arrivel out at 7
p.m. yreterday. Tne 11.,mburg and AmeticAn steamship
ti.tsqui.t strrive.l out at 2 p.m. to-day. Tho o-taam•.re
leas iwg to-day for Europe take out WA) dui,. in

specie.
Priont ..-11oid, 13%; 0t01it....; F-cchange on Lon-
don, 1 Itt ; Unitca St4tes 1419;' ;
Ditto. 10-11.1 Ilmflo, 141; ; !Vino:4, I 17 ; Erie,
Kv Cotton. Alidimg Upland, 31. Petroleum, stand,ad
wl.ite, Flour, extra state, t' dolt. :!".e. Corn, old
mined, 1 dnL

ABYSSINIA

A private c"rrevorlent, writing from Zoulla,
April :to, remarks : .

People out here have bum greatly amesed at one or two
statements :mule in the linuse of Commons anent the pro-
bable expenditure. For instance, one hon. gentleman in
office, when replying to a question put to him by moth er Lon.
gentleman as to the number of ships employed by govern-
ment as transports for the Abyssinian Expedition, stated
that th,, nlmber we. eighteen, while the Secretary of
State for India informed the house that the probable ex•
penditure to the en.l of May would be three millions. I
am at this moment g:✓.iog over the harbour, and I can see
a number of very fine looking ships. I am informed on
very credible authority that the number 1 ani looking at
is between 100 and 130, and that all of these are
under the employment of government, and I am
further 'Wormed that these are not all that
have b. 4•71. !u; :sled by government, but that the total
number is more likely 200 or even 2.-0, and that govern-
ment has lien paying, And is now paying, and will cnnti•
nue to pay, until their services are no loner required,
P ims of money varying from I:is. to 1/. or :if. per ton per
month as the hire for each of these ships, and that most
of them have been employed since last October. 1 may as
well here siy that the greater part of these ships are
of more than one thousand tots register, many of them
far larger, and that there are but very few ships
for which less than It. per ton per month is paid. How•
ever, taking the number of ships employed as 200, their
average tonnage at 1,000 tons, and the average amount
paid per ton a month at 11., it will be seen that the
amount expended in eight months that ia, hour October
to May inclusive—would be 1,1i00,000/.; and the coat of
the shipping is by no means the only large rand important
item in the total expenditure ; the purchase of transport
animate, and the enormous sums paid for grass, grain, and
food of all kinds,will swell the numbers far over:;, 000,000 f.
I busigine that those officers serving in Abyssini r who are
in positions in which they are able to give a fair estinvte
of the amount expend:l would in all prelia'Ality lay the
sum already expended asbet veen seven and eight miiliens.
The nation should be taught to rejoice at our succeases in
Abyssinia, but it is hardly fair to misrepresent the cost of
those sure- sacs.

TIIL DAN4:EItS fir TIIESTRZFTS.-- Yesterday Mr.
Iledford, the coroner for Westminster, held an inquest at
the Vestry-hall, St. Martin'sin-the.FiehlA, ou the body
of Eizatii th Mary Lindsay, a maiden lady, aged 75, who
met her death under shocking sircimistonces. 'rho
deceased, ahu dept a school in Stanhope-etmeet, Clare-
market, war, with her sister, rowing along Coventrr
street, when she was knocked down by a falling ladder in
the course of removal against a house which was being
painted. Roth lees and one of hn arms were broken, and
other seriens injuries were inflicted, from the effects of
which the poor creature died at Charing-cross Hospital
on Sunday. It was admitted that the one man who had
charge of the upper portion of the ladder was not suf-
ficient to control it, there being a high wind at the time,
and that 1,1401 the canoe of its fall. The jury returned a
verdict of ac,identil ticiith, but added " that there had
not been sntticient care taken in shifting the ladder, as
there ought to have been two men at the top instead of
only one."

brtrn PROM SWALLOWING A I'IN.-14flt even-
ing Dr. Loikester held an inquest, near Fitzroy-square,
into the circumstances attending the death of a little
Dutch girl, aged 11 yearn, named Marie Sophie .Jong. She
had fur some time past been subject to fits She had one of
these on Sanaa), night, and riming it fell oil the bed, sad ;
soon afterwards died. Mr. Watson, a surgeon, deposed to
the results of a post-mortem examination. In remo, lug
the liver he found it millet eat, and something pricked bin
finger. On further search he found a pin, which had
penetrated the liver, the head being still in the stomach.
The pin had been swallowed at least two yearn before,
and had taken an inward course, producing the tits, the
concomitant pains, and subsequent death.
UNKNOWN wipes. -Yesterday morniw; the
body of a man was taken from the Serpentine, Hyde-park.
A shell was procured, and it was conveyed to the deal
house, Mount-street. The following is a description of
the deceased :—Age about 65, bright 5 feet ii inches, com-
plexion fair ; dressed in black coat, blue cloth waiatooat,
and cotton shirt. Yesterday morning a woman, about 10
years of age, height 5 feet, dressed in black, white petti-
coats, white stockings, spring-side boots, committed self-
destruction by jumping into the Regent's Canal, near
Bettye-bridge. Boats and drags were immediately called
into requisition, and the body recovered, but life was quite
extinct. The body was removed to Shoreditch Workhouse.
Tae CONVICT limuterr.— Our London corre-
spondent mentions a rumour current in the metropolis
last (Tuesday) night to the effect that Barrett's sentenoe
may eventually be commuted to penal servitude for life.
Such is believed to have been the suggestion made at a re-
oent cabinet council, though the opinion of the legal
authorities nevertheless seems to be that Barrett is
doubtedly guilty.—North Braila Mail.
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