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The Express.
London, England, 1868-02-28

(By the Cunard steamer Java.)

NEW YORK, Firs, 19, Nom
The Senate has passed a bill for effecting the
gradual reduction of the army.
The House of Representatives has voted an
appropriation of 50,000 do's. for the relief of
American citizens imprisoned in foreign countries
and subsequently discharged.
The house has passed a bill authorising the sur-
render of foreign convicts, who escape from justice
and seek asylum in this country.
The bill declaring Alabama restored to the union
was referred by the house to the Reconstruction
Committee.

The Judiciary Committee of the Senate has re-
ported, declaring that a simple majority of votes
shall decide all elections under the Reconstruction

Act, also a bill declaring that the jurisdiction of
the nation 4 civil courts does not extend to poli-
tical questions.
Mr. Sumner has presented a memorial from the
citizens of Boston to the Senate, praying the aboli-
tion of the presidency.
Chief Justice Chase has delivered an opinion
in the Supreme Court overruling a motion to dis-
miss the Mecardle test for want of jurisdiction.
Mr. Seward has issued a circular advising all
American citizens visiting Great Britain and Ire-
land during the suspension of the Habeas Corpus
in Ireland to procure passports from the State
Department.

The official returns of the Alabama election have
been withheld from publication by General Meade.
The Florida Convention has been reorganised
through the mediation of General Meade.

General Online has ordered the Arkansas elec-
tion to commence on the 15th March and continue
for five days.
The South Carolina Convention has asked Con-
gress to vote the State a loan of 1,000,000 dollars
in aid of the poor.
A resolution to prohibit the marriage between
blacks and whites has been defeated in the North
Carolina Convention.
The Tennessee Conservative Convention has
adopted a resolution recommending the nomina-
tion of Mr. Johnson for the Presidency.
The Ohio Senate, by astrict party vote, has passed
a resolution in favour of the repeal of the recon-
struction laws.

A democratic mass meeting, to endorse the
policy of President Johnson, was held at New
Orleans on Saturday.
Democratic dubs are being organised in Georgia.
The Kentucky Legislature have elected Mr.
Thomas M'Creery, democrat, as the senator to
succeed Mr. Guthrie, resigned.
London, England, 1868-02-28

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—TIRIESDAY, Tsp. 27.
Their lordships met to-day at two o'elock.
The Habeas Corpus Suspension (Ireland) Just Coition•
ante Intl was read a third time and passed, and
Their lordships immediately adjourned.
London, England, 1868-02-28

THE CASE OF BURKE, SHAW, AND CASEY.

As some misapprehension appears to prevail upon the
unkind, it may be as well to stale that there is ad the
alighted chance of the ease against these prisoners easing
on for trial at the present sessions of the Central Criminal
Court. A formal order has been made by the Court of
Qollllle. Beach that the indictment against them &mad be
removed from the Warwick mama to the Onatall Orksdnal
Court, sad that will be done at once, bat the Vial esanot
possibly oome on until the April sestina whisk will (10W
moat a■ the 6th of that month.
London, England, 1868-02-17

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MALTA, FEB. 16.
Her Majesty's Indian troopship Crocodile has
arrived here from Alexandrip, which she left upon
the 12th. Shebrings reports that the main bodyof the
Abyssinian expedition cannot advance until the
depots have been formed at Sensid, which ;nll
require considerable time, as each mule's burden
upon reaching its destination is reduced to an
average weight of 10113 s. Nineteen miles of piping
for the conveyance of water was passing through
Egypt for Abyssinia.
London, England, 1868-02-17

THE INSURRECTIONARY BANDS IN
ROUMANIA.

The report of the assembling of armed bands in
Roumania has been made the subject of an in-
terpellation in the Chamber of Deputies at
Bucharest. M. Carpen, who raised the ques-
tion, strongly condemned the existence of these
bands ; accused M. Bratiano and the ministry
of compromising the interests of Roumania and
abandoning the French alliance for that
of Russia. M. Bratiano characterised the
charge as a " perfidious accusation," denied the
existence of armed bands, said that if they existed
the government could suppress them ; and that
Roumania had been, was, and would be grateful
to the French government for tho support it
had given to the establishment of Roumanian in-
dependence. The policy of Roumania, he added,
was at present purely national, but it required a
powerful organisation in order to make its neutrality
respected.
London, England, 1868-02-17

urNomg-4.z!E.—(THIS DA?.)

Scoan.—The market is firm at last week's prices, but
the sales reported are not important, except a parcel of
beetroot, which sold at 31s. 10Id. Refined is firmer for
dried goods. Pisces steady at last week's currency.
Corms.—No sales of importance reported.
Tea.—Business continues to be done at fully previous
prices. The public sales of China team to take place this
week are limited to about 10,000 packages.
CorroY.—The market has again became active, and the
recent decline has been fully recovered.
Rtes.—There are buyers of Ball= at late rates, but few
sellers. . _ . . .

—iii,—;sirrar.—About 1,000 bags Bengal sold at 19s. 40.
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PEPPII4-400 bags common Penang sold at 31d.
Caw.-100 oases China sold at Ms,

TALLOW MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
The market he quiet. Town tallow, 41s. 3d. ; Peter.
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October to December, 43e. 6d.
PARTICULARS OP TALLOW.
London, England, 1868-02-17

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LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17.

THE ABYSSINI IN DIFFICULTY.

WITUOUT professing to contemplate the pro-
gress of the Abyssinian expedition in a very
cheery or hopeful spirit, we may be permitted
to call to mind the objects in pursuit of which
Sir RoDer.r NAPIER and his gallant forces
are at this moment on the march
from Smith; to Magdala. Never were
the causes and conditions of a military enter-
prise more definitely or precisely understood by
its responsible originators. There have been many
political wars in our history undertaken apparently
upon the strength of little better than a phrase.
But the phrase has often represented interests
and purposes which could :not fairly be stated in
plain words. To amid the ambition of an
aggressive power, to prevent a dynastic conjunc-
tion of two neighbouring States, to preserve or to
restore the balance of power—these have been
the motives of what may be called diplo-
matic wars. Annexation, conquest, plunder,
domination have sometimes been the dissembled
ends, sometimes the inevitable, the fatal results of
a campaign or a series of campaigns begun under
the smoothest and politest pretexts of a high
international morality.

There is no need to dissemble, and no pos-
sibility of mistaking the character of a war
avowedly and expressly undertaken to set
captives free from the grasp of a barbarous
potentate, to demand satisfaction for their cruel
sufferings, or, at the worst, to avenge their fate.
To inflict punishment for injuries beyond redress is
a sufficiently clear and cogent purpose. But
when a great nation sets fleets and armies in
motion, not simply to liberate a captive or to
punish a murderer, but to recover or to
increase its own prestige, the scope of the un-
dertaking becomes indefinitely enlarged, and
a difficult, laborious, and costly operation
becomes involved in considerations of extreme
delicacy and anxiety. The prestige of a nation is
like a man's personal honour, and to save it from
harm may demand as much wariness and vigilance
at every step as to keep a firm footing on the
borders of a precipice. It is well for the
British public to remember this when the Abys-
sinian expedition is discussed. There is much
virtue, no doubt, in our national habit of grumbling.
What would have become of our second army
In the Crimea if we had not grumbled with all our
might at the wanton and wasteful sacrifice of the
drat by a bewildered and incapable administra-
tors I Only let us beware of getting flurried.
That is a very undignified temper for a great
nation in pursuit of lost prestige. The British
public, aided by some of its most ;nfluential in-
structors, is already showing symptoms of
most unseemly fretfulness and flurry about
an expedition which was certainly not
midertaken without deliberation and fore-
London, England, 1868-02-17

AGRICULTURAL RETURNS.

The report of Mr. A. W. Fonblanque, of the
Statistical Department of the Board of Trade, addressed to
the Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council for Trade,
was issued this morning. It is necesuary to remark with
respect to this report, that the returns cf both acreage and
live stock are collected from all occupiers of land, whereas
II in 1866 the acreage returns were only collected in Great
Britain from occupiers of and above fire acres. The
number of persons in Great Britain occupying land,
and from whom returns have been obtained, is
469,452, and the average of acreage returned by
each occupier in 1887 was 63'5. The total area in statute
acres was 86,80080, and the total acreage under all kinds
of trope,—ban, fallow, and grass—was 29,841,078; the
proportions being as follows :—Under corn mom 9,284,780
under green crops, 3,498,163; under clover sad Hu,
fieiel and other grasses in rotation, 3,984,974; pee.
mutat pasture, meadow, or grass, not broken up in rota.
time (exclusive of heath or mountain land), 12,071,319 ;
and the per tentage of corn crops to total acreage under aIS
kinds of crops, bare, fallow, and grass, was 31'1. The total
number of cattle returned on the 25th June, 1867, was
4,993,034, which was an increase of 207,198 over the number
returned on the sth Starch of the previous year. Of sheep
time total number returned was 28,919,101,being an increase
of 6,870,620 on the number returned on the sth '.l l arch of the
previous year ; and of pigs there was also an increase ort
the number returned in March, 1866, the number at that
date being 2,477,619, whereas on the 25th June, 1867, it
was 2,95C,979. The following i, a table slowing the
changes which have taken place during the last ten years
in the cultivation of the principal crops and
the number of livestock in Scotland and Irelan.l :
London, England, 1868-02-17

Alum.

SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.

Mendelaaohn'a St. Paul (which had been an-
nounced some weeks since, but was postponed owing to Mr.
Costa's indisposition) was given on Friday night, when Mr.
Oasts resumed his accustomed post as conductor for the
first time since his recently-renewed illness ; and Madlie.
Carols made her first appearance in the soprano boles of
the oratorio.

The porformance wu • very fine one. Mdlle.
Carole (a native of Austria, we believe, and pupil of
Madame Viardot) gave the soprano solos of the oratorio
with such excellent effect as to secure a most unequivocal
success. Her voice is pure and bright in quality, capable
both of brilliant execution and of sympathetic ex-
pression. The noble choruses of this oratorio, scarcely
yielding in sublimity and beauty to those in the more po-
pular Elijah, were most impressively sung throughout ;
sad the performance altogether was worthy of the work.
It is scarcely necessary to say that Mr. Costawas warmly
greeted on his reappearance in • post whore his value and
importance are so especially manifest. At the next can.
oert, on February 28, Mozart's Requiem and Mendelasoha's
Lebgensng (Hymn of Praise) are to be given.
London, England, 1868-02-17

THZ SCOTCH RZTORM BILL.

The Tdegraph thinks the objections to the portion of
Mr. Disraeli's reform scheme for Scotland, which raises
the number of members from G:k to GGS so serious that
Mr. Gladstone is fully justified in giving it his determined
opposition. The number of members has been creeping up.
wards and upwards for centuries past. If there is to be an
addition of seven now, why not seven mare a few years
hence, when we have another disturbance of the political
balance? The assembly is already too numerous. Six
hundred and fifty-eight people can never deliberate toge-
ther. In opposing the ministerial scheme, Mr. Gladstone
is renewing the battle for constitutional principles which
he has fought manfully and resolutely for the last two
years, in spite of incessant misrepresentation and
obloquy.

Eire Court.

OSBORNE, Fn. 14.

The Queen drove out in the afternoon, accom-
panied by Princess Christian and Princess Henrietta of
Schleswig-Holstein.
Prince and Princess Christian, Prinoeu Louise, and
Princess Henriette, attended by Lady Susan Melville and
Colonel and Mrs. Ponsonby, visited the dockyard at
Portsmouth in the morning.

F. 15.

The Queen went out in the morning, accompanied by
Princess Louise, and her Majesty drove out in the after.
noon, accompanied by Prince and Princess Christian, and
Princess Henrietta of Schleswig-Holstein.

Colonel Cavendish was in attendance on horseback.
Lieutenant• Colonel Moncreiff, Soots Fusilier Guards, had
the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal
Family.

FEB. 16.

The Queen, Prince and Princess Christian, Princess
Louise, and Princess Henrietta attended divine service in
the parish church, Whippingham.
The Duchess of Athole and Lord Alfred Paget were in
attendance.

The service wu performed by the Rev. R. IL Clime.

The Prince of Wales presided, on Saturday, at a meet.
log of the Council of hie Royal Highness, held at the
Office of the Duchy of Cornwall, Buckingham-gate, St.
James's-park.
The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the
Countess of Morton and Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel, went
to Drury-lane Theatre on Saturday evening.
The Prince and Princess of Wales, with the Countess
of Morton and Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel in Waiting,
attended divine service at the Chapel Royal, St. James's,
yesterday.
The Communion Service was read by the Lord Bishop
of London, Dean of Her Majesty's Chapels Royal, the
Rev. the Sub-Dean, and the 11ev. W. IL Brookiold.
Anthem—" 0 where shall wisdom be fonnd."—Boyce.

Sung by Masters Coward and Carmichael, and Messrs.
B. Barnby, Cummings, and Lawler.
Mr. Cooper presided at the organ.

The sermon was preached by the Rev. W. H. Brook.
field from Genesis, ch. 3, v. 17.
London, England, 1868-02-17

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London, England, 1868-02-17

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day this week from 10 a in. to 5 p.m , at Mr. Bcreatwy Hope's
Committee Zoom, British Hotel, Cockspur-strest.
London, England, 1868-02-17

THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION.

The following telegram from tho special corre-
spondent of the Times was forwarded from Suez on
the 11th inst., at 9.20 a.m. :

SENAFE, FEE. I.
" The British troops yesterday occupied Addi-
graht.
" The Deral and Talanta peasantry are reported
to have submitted to Theodore."
London, England, 1868-02-17

OUR PARIS LETTER.

(nom ova owx coluitsroxnErr.)
PARIS, Sultrier Evntwo.
The Patrie has the following leading paragraph
on the affairs of Servia •
According to private despatches from the Berrien fron-
tier there is at this moment a very marked diminution of
agitation in the principality. Prince Michael is said to
have acted with a certain amount of energy against a
section of his entourage, and it is rumoured that the
principal conspirators have backed out of the business.
Our correspondents ascribe this situation to the firm re-
monstrances of the great powers. These representations,
while revealing the mysterious preparations which have
been going on for some months, produced confusion in
the ranks of the conspiracy, and thereby favoured the
efforts of the party hostile to any adventurous enterprise
against Turkey.
The Patric confirms the news that Prince Abbe
Bonaparte and M. Duvergier will shortly be made
senators, but thirks there is no truth in the rumour
of M. Emile Augier's elevation to a seat in the
Luxembourg Palace. It has been incorrectly ob-
served that when the Emperor's clerical cousin
gets his cardinal's hat he will be entitled to sit in
the Senate as of right. This is not so because he
will be not a French but a Roman cardinal.
London, England, 1868-08-19

♦ SHABBY DISAVOWAL.

The Daily Sews chides the ministerial organs for their
disavowal of the Crystal Palace demonstration, simply
because it proved to be a conspicuous failure. To draw
distinctions between the "protestant" and conservative
mores, to blame the indiscretion of the speakers, and to
deplore their references to ritualism, is shabby. Not only
is it not English, but it is not even tory; for toryinn used
to be straightforward and not ashamed to be on the
losing side. But whether the ministerial organs choose
to acknowledge or disown a movement organised to sup-
port the government at the next elections, it is not in
their power to saddle the cause of proteetantism with the
failure of Monday's meeting.
London, England, 1868-08-19

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London, England, 1868-08-19

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 19.

POPULAR FELLING IN FRANCE.

A CONTEMPORARY, who unites devotion to the
British Constitution as it is personified in Mr.
DISRAELI with devotion to France as it is per-
sonified in the Emperor NAPOLEON, and who,
writing—let us charitably suppose, to order—
seems particularly sensitive on the subject of
foreign loans, has lately been surpassing in lyrical
rapture and virulent enthusiasm the most brilliant
performances of those highly trustworthy and in-
dependent journals, the Pays and the Petit Matti-
!cur. Listen for a moment to the exordium of a
recent lucubration of a Disraelite-Impegialist
contemporary :

The past week has been an eventful one for the Napo-
leonic dynasty. The French Ensperor has had an un-
Ily favourable opportunity for ascertaining the state
of popular feeling, and the results of his investigations are
eminently satisfaetory : a review of citizen soldiers, a
fi to associated so closely with his name and prestige that
it affords unmistakable indications of the 'tits of feeling
towards his person and family, and an appeal to the
people for a public loan so put that the response must
necessarily show the condition of their confidence and the
estimation. in which they hold the institutions of their
country.
Then, rising to the height of the occasion, our
contemporary contemplates the " 30,000 National
" Guards acting with 40,000 regular troops" of the
array of Paris, and reflecting how these national
London, England, 1868-08-19

LIBERAL ZEAL.

The Daily Jews points out that one of the greatdangera
of the liberal party arises from the excessive desire of eo
many of its members to de good service to the public ; and
this superfluous zeal is indicated by the fact that in many
English boroughs there are twice as many liberal candi-
dates as there are seats to fill. Of course, there can be no
objection to this, where liberal divisions do not give
chances of which the tones may successfully avail them-
selves. The Daily Yews suggests whether some means
could not be adopted by which such candidates should
fight out their battle between thenuielvee before they come
to the decisive conflict. The defeated candidate in ouch a
case would merely antedate his defeat by a few weeks,
and by so doing would save the cause, and his honour
with it.
London, England, 1868-08-19

/HE NEW LEGAL APPOI

Referring to the nomination of the Solicitor-Gene-
sal, Mr. Serjeant Hayes, and Hr. Cleasby t the ad-
ditional judgeships authorised by the Bribery Act of last
semen, the Thaw remarks that the appointments will,
probably, on the•whole give satbdaetion. Neverthelees the
nomination of three judges at the same time is au event so
rare, and the affluence of legal appointments enjoyed by
the prevent ministry has been so excessive, that it was
thought the powers which determine the fate of a'pirants
to the bench might, without any great stretch of mag-
nanimity, have chosen one judge from among their poli-
tical opponents.
London, England, 1868-08-19

WANI ED -A rOLICY.

The absence of all indication of a settled policy on the
gicat questions of the day, is, says the root, one of the
most remarkable features in the addresses of the minis-
terial candidates and government supportent. This fact
is act only patent with regard to the Irish church
question, but, in relation to flounce, education, and the
administration of our civil and military departments
these is a similar absence of unanimous and definite
opinion. On one point only they appear to be united,
and that is in their desire for political quiet at any
coot.
London, England, 1868-08-19

OUR PARIS LETTER,

(THOU 0171 OWN 001

PARIS, 'ruseDlT EVILNINO.

It would be difficult to say whether the govern-
ment or the opposition is most astonished by the
result of the election for the Jura. The most the
opposition dared to hope for was a measuring can
majority. Only yesterday the Slide, exhorting
the liberal electors not to abstain, and having
small confidence indeed that it was playing a
winning game said :—" Recollect that one vote
may make the difference between victory and
defeat." Well, the momentous fact admitted and
recorded by the Afoniteur of this evening is that
M. Chivy, the biltounier of the Paris bar, the
candidate of the democratic opposition, is returned
by a majority of more than two to one. He
polled 22,428 votes against 11,133 given to the
government candidate, M. Huot. As a symptom
of the revival of independent opinion in the
country, it is impossible to exaggerate the im-
portance of this event. Universal suffrage is
manifestly escaping from the hands which in-
vented manacles thought to be everlasting. The
Jura is the first department to follow the example
of Paris and the large towns; and I can fancy
the consternation which the consciousness that the
example will be infectious must have produced at the
ministerial council held at Fontainebleau. For the
Jura was a department in the hands of the prefect,
just like any other. Ever since the coup d'etat till
now, it did as it was bid just like any other. At
the last election in 1863, the government nominee
was elected by 29,000 votes against only 1,488
given to the independent candidate. The last re-
turns, therefore, are no guide to the government
at all ; and it must be haunted by the idea of a
terrible surprise in store for it at the next general
elections. All the usual means to emus Goo-
London, England, 1868-08-19

OXFORD t'XIVERSITY.

The modification of the collegiate system at Oxford by
the admission of students unattached to any society, who
are to be members of the university as distinguished from
any particular college, is, says the Telegraph, an inno-
vation which threatens to destroy the distinctive cha-
racter of the university. The obvious result of the change
is to throw Oxford open to a new clans of students,
hitherto excluded from the university by pecuniary or
theological considerations-not unfrequently by both;
and so far the change is good ; but whether
the reform will satisfy the demand by which
it has been 'created is another question. The
new students, being for the most part poor men,
deprived in the luxuries and attractions of college life and
society, are the very men who will be most likely to carry
off the highest academic honours. Yet, not being attached
to any millege, they will, to a very great extent, if not
wholly, be excluded from the rich prizes which the col-
leges confer, and thus between the attached and the un-
attached students will arise an inevitable antagonism,
which may ultimately be fatal to the colleges as they now
exist.

The Hrrald insists that the new class of students will
certainly not be poor youths of any !special ability or in-
dustry. These being provided for already by the existing
endowments of the various colleges, the new type of
undergraduate whom it has been decided as advisable to
usher into existence will figure in the par and not in the
honour schools. Oxford will have gained nothing in point
of talent. She will simply have encumbered herself with
an additional burden of youths, remarkable for nothing in
particular, whose only characteristics are mental capacities
of a very mediocre description and manners probably of
very provincial stamp.
London, England, 1868-08-19

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHERN crecurr.—LIVERPOOL, Atro. 18.
In the Nisi Prins Court, after the despatch of our parcel
yesterday, the jury found for the plaintiffs in the case
of " Sharrocks and others, assignees, r. Zolas and
another," being of opinion that a cotton merchant of
Manchester, Couvelas by name, in making over his furni-
ture, &c., for the benefit of his wife, to Messrs. Zolas and
Souvayoghi (also of Manchester), did so with a view to
defraud his creditons, be (Couvelas) being at the time
insolvent.

Caovrx Courr.—(Before Chief Baron Kelly.)
BRUTAL= ON THE NIGH SW.
A o:Ni LOriON, a sailor, 23 years of age, was indicted for
the murder of Donald 21‘Donald, a seaman on board the
ship Lydia Thompson (of which Larkin was first mate),
on the voyage from Jamaica to Liverpool in April last.
Mr. Peel (with whom appeared Mr. Potter), in statinctbe
ease for theplosecution, madthat the Lydia left Black River,
Jamaica, in rch, with i mixed crewl(white and coloured
men), a number of able seamen. and several boys. She
was commanded by Captain Soovill. Donald M'Donald
was a coloured seaman, and about four weeks after the
vessel sailed he was absent from duty. At midnight, the
• , taking a lantern, went to look for him, and found
I:arktintraill under a boat in the forwardpart of the veaseL
aged him ent, and with an iron belaying pin
struck deceased with such violence that he fell down on
the deck. He then kicked the deceased about the head
and face to such an extent that iii'Doutild was obliged to
go below, being unfit for work. His body was hideously
disfigured, and after lingering for three days in his berth
he died. Before the shank upon the deceased the pri-
soner had been overheard in conversation with the captain
to say, "If Scatty don't jump overboard as we are
Loing back, by
Ike learant watalsol real that Utica was sums ova.
London, England, 1868-08-19

HAMMERSMITH.

Mr. Thomas Hodges, a baker, carrying on business in
Peel-place, Kensington, was summoned by Mr. Super-
intendent Fisher, of the T division, for using a furnace
which was not constructed to consume the smoke.
The defendant stated that the necessary alterations had
been made to the furnace, and produced a receipt dated
the 6th of May for the payment of the work.
Mr. Sandison, the government inspector, proved making
an inspection of the furnace on the 25th of May, when he
found it in a very defective state. He said that he had
made previous inspections, and found the apparatus
nearly destroyed.
The defendant denied that there had been any inspec-
tion since the data on the receipt. As he had made the
alterations he asked the magistrate to tell him what he
was to do.
Mr. Ingham said he would tell him what to do. He
mast pay a penalty of 61. and 2s. costs, and bring an
action against the person for not putting up an effective
apparatus.
The defendant was allowed a week to pay the fine, as
he came unprepared, not thinking that he would require
any money.
London, England, 1868-08-19

THE ABYBSANTAN REWLEDB.

While congratulating the departments upon having in
the aggregate of Abyssinian rewards judiciously hit •
rather difficult mean, or upon having, at least, erred on
the right side, the Times confesses that a critical examina-
tion of the list itself very considerably diminishes our
contemporary's satisfaction. General Russell, for in-
stance. and Colonel Merewether were among the very
few specially mentioned in the vote of thanks to the
Abyssinian army passed by both houses of parliament.
Yet in the list of rewards General Russell does not appear
at all, and Col. Merewether input off with • brevet coloneky.
The Time: remarks, too, upon the omission of the name
of Major Belville, of the Beloochees, and upon the fact
of Captain Holland, the virtual hoed of the quartermas-
ter-general's department, having only got a brevet majo-
rity. With regard to the list of C.B.'s, our eon-
temp•rary has a suspicion that the Horse Guards
has been acting upon what i• well known to be
a favourite, though recent, doctrine at White-
hall, viz., this honour should only be conferred for service
" under Are." The Times, however, insists that, with all
respect for the colonels of regiments, their services are not
to be compared with the services rendered by the heads of
ouch departments as the commissariat, engineering, and
transport supply, who are omitted from the list. It is,
however, not too late to remedy the Mitotic*.

REFORM OF CONVOCATION.—The folio peti-
tion to her Majesty on the subject of • reform in
cation is being extensively signed in the diocese of Lich-
field :—" To the Queen's mod einsellent Majesty, tbe .
humblepgditiosi of the undersigned dew and bag of the
drchdtacer of Stafford, in the didoeas of
showtth,—That petitioners observe with re=
the parochial elegyyour
of the Procinee Of Crinteey sea
not dulv repreamted in the
your
Convoratieeof
the rug province. That your earnedgyt=
that the number of proctors remnant the
clergy in the &evocation of Oseteebsiry may be fa-
rrowed, and that licensed priests may eotivia the elution
of the said proctea Your pentionere, therefore, humbly
.pray that your Majesty will be gracioudy pleased to grant
your loyal went and licence, or tabs such other manna
as the constitution of the country requires, for p=
for • larger Ind freer representation of the p
clergy in the Convocation of the Province of Canterbury.
And your petitioners will ever pray." A similar maw.
I meat it being made in several other dioceses.
•
Large quantities of grey mullet have bean ;IT
(Tully caught at Littlehampton in Sussex.
Dinvil.i.E and CO. Belfast, are the lute*
boldne Whieti is the omit! Weft 01041MahWhfdp lereenne
trended by the medical aronesioo In lb 171.401141M4 1
fa mho and ewe Inv haw notert
time en apulication to Memo. Danville and , Belfast tor 4.
Faudort-butidtage, atom% Lemke. W.C.—(Advlrarrablatl
London, England, 1868-11-03

.CAL6IIIO TEE MATE OP ♦ OMFEME/Cll PENTIONEI.

(,o; AWN aged 39, • twrianercial traveller,-of 7,
S 0,4).410t-toad, DepUord, was charged with causing
tLe Limas of %1 uliatu twasell, an in-pensioner of Orson-
wseL I.copital, by knocking Lira down with a huree
_ _

Item cared true the evidence of the witnesses examined
that at halt-last 6 lust evening the prisoner was driving
a:ong tie ridalgar-road, tirecnwich, with a horse and
L'LL chef, e eta model ate late, wheal the jolting of some
Labels on a brewer's dray proceeding in the same dire*.
au,,d the hone to jib. The deceased, who was proved
to Le under the influence of liquor, was crooning the road
at the time, and in stepping back the shaft of the chaise
in which the prisoner was rested struck him and knocked
him down. The dectee ed was picad up and carried into
a pbblic-hover, but be expired in three bourn.
Mr. Y. J. Ryder, surgeon, said ho was celled to attend
the deceased, whom he found in a state of collapse, sink-
ing fast. Death resulted from some internal injury,
evidently from a wheel ;leasing over him close to the
aldcrneu.

Mr. Maude said he should remand the case until after
the coroner's inquiry, accepting bail in two sureties of
261. each and the prisoner m MM.. for his appearmioe on
Tuesday next.
The required bell was tendered and accepted.

SITTINGS IN EHROIL—The Lord Chief Jugtiee
of the Comu.on Pbses and several baron' of Use Exche-
quer Nit to-day for the purpose oi:p ap
followsting the days for
bearing careserror. The days tad are as follows :
—}or errors hoar the Queen's 26th, 27th, and
28th Nmeml•er ; ,or errors from the Common Pleas, 30th
November and lit and 2nd Dooember ; for errors from the
Exchequer, 3rd Dieonber.
RAILWAY ACLIS.k:NT.—PLYMOUTTI, MONDAY.—
Yesteietty evening, the last carriage of the down mixed
train which leaves here for Falmouth at 3.15 p.m. got yff
the tads just after passing Doublebois, and was dragged
ietp. al mile, over one or more of the viaducts, before it
intone to the engine-driver. It was then de-
tached irom the train, and the Js mongers transferred to
the other carriages. On arriving at the Ito Imin-road
station, an engine and a gang of men were sent back to
clear the obstruction. l'he accident delayed the up night
mail to London about half an hour.
London, England, 1868-11-03

THE EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF

13.10411 I 40.41N5T d LADY.

Mrs. Eliza Lumley, charged with unlawfully
intermarrying with Major William Brownrigg Lumley,
her husband. Y. Alazander Victor, being at the same
time alive, again attended at Marlborough-street Police-
court before Mr. Tyrwhitt, i,w answer to her mogul-

Mr.Madey, instructed by Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great
Marlborough-street, appeared for the prosecution, and
Mr. Metcalfe, instructed by Mr. Keane, of Lincoln's-inn-
fields, for the defence.
The first witness called was Mn. Margaret Gray, of
Bethnal, Cornwall, who said that, is 1814, she wont
to St. Helier's, Jersey, with her mother, and lived there
for about 12 years. M. Alexander Victor was her French
master. She became acquainted with the Haines family
through M. Victor. There were Ms sisters in the family
—Caroline, Charlotte, Sarah, Eliza, Georgians, and
Harriett. Eliza was the second daughter. Eliza was in-
troduced to witness as Magner, Victor. She never heard
him speak of her as his wife, but she understood her to be
?Mr. Bexley asked the witness to look round the court
and see whether she could recognise any member of the
Haines family in wart.
The witness did so, and pointed out the risoner and
her sister as two of them.
; [The case was proceeding when our report left.]
London, England, 1868-11-03

THE POLICE COURT&

MANSION-110II8X

Edward Thy, deectibed -a
a —.7 Wetting man." was
charged with being in the unlawful poaessioe of • M. note.
The ciroanntaaess of the ease were of • peculiar
character. It mural that the prosecutor, Mr. Thomas
Shaw, tanner, Iderisk. nor Exeter, via attending some
races in the on Mouthy, the
20th Octobscal=dislteralliViklast race he received
• U. Dna of Meginal nets, sad as his hands wereangsged
be pin the nets tine his neenth. Whale he was the set
of patting scan sethralges him pocket •
rimer head came
over his loft shoulder sadrimart of die mots away.
He inniethately tuned bat the came
between his sal the me who taken the end
pieveaisd bin thivalegbis The thief got
reig,deartlihee primer Woe alert
ot =that
bed bus Moira at the Doak of ir.b-a. sad asked foe
&sage, stating that be sad his with had bees qaarrellag,
sod that the ads lad boss tora in ocessqsanes. Ia die
bewsver, the prosecutor bad written to the
Be•
ak, leelm the other part of the mots, sad am beth
perilous earreigoaded. the pilaw was gins Me the
=l4l Dethetive-sarginat Ball. The psesseefer mow
the rinser as the nisa who prenatal bin frog
the person who bet the not% sad a
mom :Thisher, stated that whoa theiliareral
Weise ea promoter he heard Ike planer say to
mammy 1, Take it." This was dose and the Met
pa , the primer aiding hie escape.
London, England, 1868-11-03

MIDDLESEX SEMION&

Charing Tatman', 3d, wee indicted for &wanking! and
beating now Redford Ilarbdioni, and oeinauttaig
actual bodily harm.
Yr. Cooper prosecuted; the prisoner pleaded guilty to a
OCIIITOOIII

iiiiiiietestrX keeps the Earl of Durham public-bonge
is Havelock-street, Caledonian-road, sad on the 22nd of
September the prisoner, wbo was then aeerly intoxicated,
entered his bones at about 11 o'clock at night and psilel
for liquor, but the prosecutor refamd to serve him. Midis
this be became very abusive, ead threatened to kink his
eye out Boma sitwaliket !Mei WM& and the prisoner
Foust autaid,...!::, Inaba Upon this be began to kick
it the door, and the prosecator went to his private dole to
kook for a policeman. Re had no sooner got nitsidi thmk
the phi Der lulled off his ‘csti, ene; Raying that he
would ise him have it, immediately knocked him
dc.wn with his eat, and he became for some momenta in-
gestible. When he recovered he found his left eye very
much injured, and he had not yet recovered the sight of
it. Be was attended by Dr. Kane, of the °fiord-rout,
who eoneklaed the injury he rwiteined was very severe
indeed.. _ _

sentenced him to be leeprisemel
and kept to hard labour for 12 months.
Job. Eragey, 20, printer, was indicted for stealing a
watch, the property of Henry Baker. from his person.
It applied that on the 21st of Octoberthe prosecutor
was looking at • shop window in Shore Etch, and whilst
there be law Ida watch chain hanging down and a min
walking hastily away. The prieoner then spoke to him.
and raid, "That man has got your watch." and ran off ;
but the prosecutor followed hint and gave him into
custody. A man nested Joliette was near to the prose-
cutor whilst he was looking in at the window, and saw
the primer band something to the man who walkel
away. These two men bad prueously been seen torether.
Edward Taylor, 70 H, pohoe-oonstati a, mid he too'c
the prisoner into custody, and be said if I wo 11,1 let him
go with the prosecutor he would take him to the man who
bad the watch.
The jury found the prisoner Gssuirr.
Herbert Beeves, warder at Coldhath-fields prison,
proved three convictions against the prisoner, and stated
that be be/gaged to a gang of thieves in Cow-crow.
lies prisoner (in an impudent tone)-oh, give me five
years
The Arsistruit4adge—l cannot give you five years, but
I shall he very glad to gat rid of you as a very dsngerois
person to coney. The sentence upon you is, that you be
kept in penal servitude for servenyears.
The prisoner evdently felt dirappointel at the result
I of his unguarded observation, and left the dock in a very
chaplallen state.
London, England, 1868-11-03

AMERICA.

NEW YORK. Nov. 2.
TLo Inman royal mail Ammar City of Autwcrp
arrived here to-day. All well.

M. Germa'n Doi uvigno, brother of the poet, has
just did at Moi.trnorency, in the Des may-ninth you of
h a age. T 1 e decear d was a dramatio author, and pro-
eueid the Perris, Or, Asilwrge, and Illaaislt in 1811 and
1813. He wee the friend and co-lab carer of Scribe, with
whim) he brought out the 41114.01. iu 1823, the Radii in
1128, the tiototrainhyle in 18n, the ifsstires Uelelphe in
1852, cod the NO,INC SaftflaPlif in 1864. In conjunction
with Dia brother Casimir, he was the author of Charles
played for the first time in 1843.
A letter from At. Petersburg in the Brussels
Indipseulasoe rays :—" The youngest son of the Grand
Duchess Marla Nieolaisma has justbsenoMobAly affianced
toMdlle.Opotehiaine, lady of honour to the Grand Duchess,

the wife of the heir to the throne. The cemmeseY
took pleas in presence of nearly the whole imperial
fanny: the Emperor himself arrived shortly afterwards
to congratulate the betrothed, and the event has been
announced in all the journals. The fact is unexampled
in Russia. Thus, the publicity given to these prelimina-
ries of mumisge is supposed to be intended to prepare
pubbe for the declaration of other morgaseNe
alliances ed in our imperial faselly—that is to say,
' ibme of Grand Duchies ILerla-Nloolelevna with
Could Sorge Bfsogoncß, of Duke Nicholas of lantobtea-
bag (her eldest ems) with lime. Akindsw (Waco of Priam
Dertmlaskoff), and of Prince Almonds, of Okleuburg with
lUDs. de Delobel."
The sudden death is announoed from oongestion
of the brain N. Lamb% the aetor of the Lesbian-
Condone, who lately made hie debug at that house
in the Seecriang " . He had been for several years attached
to the 31 Theatre.
The diplomatio Yellow Book contains
despatebes the proposed adminton et Cretan
deputies into the Greek Chamblee tram the. Ottoman
weranwat, sad other dopehshes esonseded with the Lis
*even.
London, England, 1868-11-03

MINEB.-(THIS DAY.)

ONB O'CLOCK.
The raining market is moderately active to-
day, with • demand for shares in several
including West Great Work and Tincroft. Great
Vor and Prince of Wales, however, are
lower. Subjoined are the quotations:—Welt
Chiveiton, 61 to 62 ; Great Vor, 131 to 1
Prince of Wales, 425. to 445. ; Trumpet Console.
13 to 14 ; West Groat Work, 21 to I ; East
Trumpet Consols, 2} to ; Chivortona, 4 to 41 ;
Make Valley, 8k to 9 ; Carn Brea. 17 to 19
West Drake Walfi, Ba. 6d. to 10s. ; Drake Walls.
17s. to 195.; South Great Work, 3s. to 7s. 6d. ; sad
Kurth Crafty, 30s. to 325. 6d.
Foreign and colonial mining shares are quoted
as follows :—Taquaril Gold, par to prem. ;
John Del Bey, 17 to IS; Don Pedro, 3 to
prem. ; Anglo-Brazilian, par to k prem.; Pmts.-
rena, 11 to 11 dia.; Chontales, 21 to
1; Boma Grande, 7-16 to 9-16 prem. ; Fro.-
tino and Bolivia, 13s. to 13s. ; Port Phillip.
to 2.
London, England, 1868-11-03

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL COTTON AND CORN MLARERM
CrlllB DAY.)
($T massatra.)
ova OWN oosaassoaaaal.)
Carne.— market steady, sales probably about
12,6141 bales.
comm.—Attendance at market, good; moderate eau-
eumptive business done in an articles at about Fridate
rates. Mixed Indian corn, Us.
London, England, 1868-11-03

12011311117 Or A lIVIIBAND Willi III! lIEWILYT.

Mrs. liebondi Ann Wiight .Fowlek. of No.2l;iieil• Tee
Vii as. seven Sisters-road, app.ied to Mr. Cooke for an
order protecting her property and earnings ac wired
sane the detention of her husband against him and his
cireditoir. _ _

'1 Le applicant said that she was married to her husband,
lkuiGe cwles, in March, 18th, and lived with him up to
the star ISW. He then teat her, and went away with
otie cf tier servants, who had had a child by him. He
kit her without her consent, and at an hour's uoice. He
left her at an hotel, and she had to sell her property to pa!
his debts. He took her watch, and went with her servant
to ABM its, where she believed he now was. She had
never communicated with him since he had eloped, and
having by her own industry acquired a little property she
wi•hed it protected.
Mr. Cooke granted the order, and told the applicant to
have it registered in the county court.