The Express.
London, England, 1868-02-24 00:00:00

THE ABYSSINIAN CAPTIVES

The following letter from Consul Cameron hat
been received by one of his friends:
" Magilala, Abyssinia, Dee.
" Dear see by the papers that you wore ime of
the first to urge the liberation of myself and my f,
prisoner. by force of arms. It is impossible for me not to
thank you. No one could have deprecated war with This
country more than myself up to a certain point. Las
I after I heard, years ago, that the King hod receiseil too
letters from Itassaru and not answered them, I new co
hope, except from troops; and, with the exception of the
tow days when, thanks to the King's extraordinary
city. ltammo's mission seemed a success, my opinios
has been the same ever since. At any rate, we are in for
it now, and there is not much use in writing—facts oil
prove themselves. My own belief is that if our poops
press on without delay to tho high country, there will
be little or no lees from local diseases ; as to tight:cs,
there will be none. Once hemmed in—and we have troops
enough to elect this—the King must take hi• ohmic of
being shelled or slashed to death with his horde of mgt.
muffins, or surrendering at discretion. I Aiwa), iapiKise
that there will be no promises made or parleym:: ou our
account. This would be the height of fully ; t I..et I
think so. The first thing is to know what .• . he
will assume. One way or other be ought to be thrashed
in a very short time. Even if he 1118Ilagt i to slip
through our fingers the result will be the S3I:IY.
His own people will kill him sooner or later.
We don't know what may happen to us in the meantime ;
but it is an inexpressible relief to know, ielmteier tors
things may take, this misery must soon come to an ti..L
Anything better than lingering on in this way— to die at
last of heartbreak or starvation, or both. Theodore,
the king, has been threatening to kill ono of the
Europeans... If one were killed, the rest would i4ll
follow. Remember me kindly to Sir linuy RAW.
liaison ; I see he has acted in the right spirit. see,
I still hope to thank my friends some day in person. The
mail I. closing, so I must finish.—Believe me ever most
gratefully and sincerely yours,
"C. DvNesx l'amEto
" I fear my handwriting, at least, is like the I:i-hop of
Granada's sermon in 'Gil Dias,' which savoured of teby.
The fact is I have been very ill, but am trying to rail),
only to give our red jackets a chance of saving me.-

WIATHER IMPOST.-(THLS DAY.)

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REMARKS.
A very rapid decresae in barometrical pressure occurred so*
rally between satnnlay and Sunday morning. and ditto alh
pregame el J atlll higher this moning this on Saturds t
ooti ,dt, at
nag been a fresh diminution since yesterday &mng
four-tenths of en bleb In Scotland The proonres .r!
stations considerably exceed those in the north; the
Tie'rove 5,
Rochefort Is nearly aloe-tenths higher than at Nairn. *
tuns have become more mantra, and are now high in wore
leisads, whilst on the west coast and interior of France th,y
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The significant statement is made with regal'
to the depression of the American shipping interests, Olt
on the 29th of January there was not single vessel of
any description in the port of New York loading for s
British port. Boons of foreign vessels were ep f°2
According to the last accounts from San
Flrsa
deco the production of gold in California
bat by a Mt, is
keened,likely to
keened, not only by the temptation for an inneseed
cut
vodka of wheat throughout the state, 0101
to lea sterling per month, that bar been imps
Chinesis miners, sad is stated to have " driven thermal
heat tbe planes, sad to have led to • decrease in OW
ato ilatkat at gold as well es to the pablie revenue."

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LiW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

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or Term Nisi Prins Sittings at Gnildhall.—(Before the
Lord Chief Justice and Special Juries.)
GIANT, Y.P. C. HOBART.
Thia wee an action to recover the helium* on a bond of
6,00 N. The defendant pleaded that the bond was ob-
slued by misrepresentation, and further that no *onsidestion had been given for the hood. The Credit Fonder
mad failed to bring out the Anglo-Bussian Iron Company,
oat of whose enlists the money was to be paid. 'The de-
fendant did not appear so substantiate his pleas, and
the jury gave a •
for the plaintiff for 1,3611. 13e. td.
the amount claimed.
Mr. C. Pollock, Q.C., and another learned gentleman &p-
-ressed for the plaintiff.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

(THE DAY.)

The February session of the Central Criminal Court
wa opened this morning by the Right Hon. the Lord
}favor (Alderman Allen), Russell Gurney, Esq., Q.C., the
ee.order, Alderman ,?Alomons, M.P., Alderman Gibbons,
Alderman end Sheriff Stone, Mr. Sheriff -WArthur, the
under sheriffs &a.
The liras edition of the calendar contains the names of
116 prisoners, 98 males and 18 females, and the offences
charged against them are thus described :—Arson 1, as-
sault with attempt to rob 2, bigamy 3, burglary 14, church
breaking and larceny 2, uttering counterfeit coin 16, em-
berelenient2, feloniously casting corrosive fluid 1, forgery 2,
housebreaking and warehouse breaking and larceny, 4 ;
larceny li, larceny from the person b, stealing a poet
letter 1, misdemeanour 16, murder 1, receiving stolen
goods 1, feloniously assaulting • female 1, robbery 14,
feloniously shooting 1, treason felony 3, and feloniously
wounding 2. Some of the prisoners are out on bail.
The Recorder in charging the grand jury said there was
• calm of • very extraordinary character against three
person@ ef the name of Lyttleton, McCarthy, and Richard-
son, such as had not been before the court for • period
of .0 years. It wart brought under as act passed in the
11th and 12th years of the reign of our present sovereign
retitled "An act for the better securing the government
and crown of the United Kingdom." By that net it was
provided that if any person should imagine or intend to
ilepooe our most gramme Queen, her heirs orsuccessors, and
inch intention should be expressed, uttered, or declared,
iv any overt sets or deeds, every such person should be
t.tilty of felony. This was an offence which, previous to
the parsing of that act, would have amounted to high
treason. The charge, as he had said, was not of the mina
:eerie of proceedings in that court, and be was bound to
,ay it was not supported by the evidence he should
t, ye expected in • case of this description. The
1.,t evidence was that of two detective
...;rumen who would state that in the month of December
the prisoner Lyttleton was watched by them, and that he
fiA4 si en on a particular day going in a certain direction
with two or three other persons. The officers followed,
and, concealed behind some brick', beard him make use
(4 the expression, "It is quite time this b—y
govenonent was overthrown ; we want a re.
ohldir. and we will have it," or, "we must
Lore it. The next piece of evidence was that of • penes
hulled Lontall who described himself as having been
America, that he had come here on a visit,
•nti that he was about to return. He stated
that in the month of January he accidentally met
lvitleton in the street, that some conversation took
between them, and that a few days after-
s di, on the 19th of January, he met Lyttleton,
noon named O'Leary, who described hinuelf

Fenian centre, but was not included in the present
t, and the two other prisoners, llTarthy and
I:ahardson. After some conversation they proceeded to
a nther public-house, and went into a private room and
ked the door. There he stated that he was asked to
,o• a Fenian oath, bat said he should wish to hear
first. It was then administered by Lyttleton
to'Leary, and the latter kissed the book. The
.h was next repeated to Boatel], but he refused
take it. The learned Recorder having stated

•i circumstances of the case at some length, ofirhich the I
,Tgiiing is an outline, remarked that it would be meas.
...ry for the establishment of the charge to chow that there
• an intention to depose the Queen, and that that inten-
a.ii should be shown by some overt acts. The overt
to here alleged were the administering of
th, 4iath first of all to O'Leary and subsequently
the endeavour to administer it to Bontall, and
the Recorder directed the grand jury to direct their
otcention principally to the evidence of Bontall, on which
t ease mainly depended. The account Bontall gave of
Clasen' was that he was not in any way employed by the
; at the same time he stated that he was
t 1..• cousin of one of the detectives who over-
t. .ird the conversation in the month of December
ki,d at the time he was living in that detective's
house. IN further rested that some time previous to the
itith of January be had been in communication with the
police, and that on the Wednesday before he gave some
nformation respecting the prisoner Lyttleton. Of
:curse the case mainly depended upon his
evidence. They would then require to ascertain if it was
confirmed in any way, and the only evidence in confirms-
Len, if it could be called confirmation, was that of
landlord and potman of the pudic-house, who
.1. paved to the fact of the prisoners and Bontall
• into the private room on the occasion re-
f, 11.4 to • but their account differed from that
F is.-a by flontell as to the details of the visit. They
*tinal that Lyttleton did not go in at first, and that
ri i...ary went out and persuaded him to gels. He called
Lein attention to this variance, rather because of the de-
,as set up. Richardson and M'Carthy were
cid constables, and their statement was that
they were told that there was an opportunity
if ipprehentling a Fenian, and that in consequence of that
11 y went into this room ; and it was a remarkable fact
tley took Dental into custody on the charge of Fe-
b...M.lli. but the inspector aware that be was in comma-
nic.itiou with the police, discharged him, and then Bon-
tall subsequently returned and made his charge. These
a, re the circumstances, and it would be their duty
to consider whether, on the whole evidence, they should
return a tnie bill or not.

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They Eerorder briefly addressed the jury in reference to
eein, of the other cases, and they then retiree! for delibe-
ration.

THE CLERKENWELL OUTRAGE.
.frron;ni. Alkn, one of the prisoners who was under
( lamination with the Damon& and Anne Justice and
others, charged with the crime of wilful murder,
art-ing out of the Fenian outrage in Clerkenwell, was
I,l,ced at the bar to plead to the coroner's inquisition
wl ,ch charged him with the mane offence.
The prisoner pleaded not guilty. _ _

It sill be remembered that at the last examination at
l'..wvtreet the counsel for the crown abandoned the
against the prisoner; but as the first coroner's
jury bad entered a verdict of wilful murder against him,
It was necessary that this inquisition should be dis•
pos. d of. _ _ _

Air. Poland briefly stated the facts, and said that it was
not intended on the part of the crown to offer anyecidenee
in support of the coroner's inquisition.
The Jury accordingly returned a verdict of Not Guilty,
and the prisoner was ordered to be discharged.