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mn. DR4RA ELI AS "CHORUS."

IT has fallen to the otleisl lot of Mr. DISRAELI
to take a leading part ou more than one occasion in
those gracious or solemn orat.ri.:a! ceremonies with
which Parliament, as an eAtate of the realm, seta
its seal upon remarkable events of the national his-
tory. It might be supposed that in giving alt and
felicitous expression to pu bl ie sentiment on these rare
occasions a veteran literary craftsman, trained to all
the uses of the rhetorical art, wunid display his quali-
fications to signal advantage. It seems that this
supposition is a mistake. Mr. Disrectot has not
been happy in these formal and complimentary
exhibitions of his parts of speech. There
is something in the literary temperament that
makes a task of this kind, comparatively so
easy to a plain speaker, exceptionally difficult ;
whether it be its fastidieleiness, its self-con-
sciouaneas, its familiarity with great models of style,
or its habitual pursuit of a striking or a captivat-
ing phrase. Mr. Dittaseta's written style, it is
true, has never been distinguished so much by its
severity or its simplicity as by its tawdriness and
its smartness. Nor, hided, is the chastest and
simplest written style any guarantee for soberness
and modesty of phrase in a speaker. The writer
in the leisure and +guilty—iv of his study
gives the best of thoughts the best of words ;
the speaker face to face with a mixed
audience, degenerates into a r cents painter and
courts the pit. It is not that Mr. Dia-
ItAtELI'S literary faculty deserts him at these
motr.euts ; it betrays him r.od leads hint astray.
He rrays himself a little too conspicuously in his
singing-robes. Doubtless it is difficult to strike
the precise note ; to be neither trivial
nor pompous ; neither common nor excessive.
A minister, speaking in the name of Parliament
and of people must force his tone a little.
Does not the present Paastisr. force it somewhat
too much in his horror of the conventional and the
commonplace 7 He did not copy a page from
TRIERS, however, last evening, in speaking of the
victorious end of the Abyssinian expedition and
of the admirable General who conducted the opera-
tions. It was rather in proposing the address of
sympathy to her Mantery on the lamentable
Fenian crime in Australia that the ambitious
fallacy, as we may take leave to call it, marred the
effect of his composition. Take this passage as an
instance of what we mean by the ambitions
fallacy
We live in an age of prop u, or we sometimes flatter
ourselves that this is our happy fate. But there appear
to he cycles of our progress in which the worst passions
sad habits of distant ages are revived. Some distant cen-
turies age the world was tortured with the conviction thit
there yrs some mysterious power in existence which
could command in every camp, and court, and capital of
the world, a poniard at its flispoml and devotion. It
seems at this time, too, that some dark7eonfederacy of the
kind is Spreading over empires. (ammo
Did not every one who wait present and who
heard this sentence, does not every one who reads
it to-day, feel instinctively that the speaker's
rhetorical ambition has betrayed him into melo-
drama. and almost into burlesque ? It has
the fudge ring of an extract from the " Revolu-
" tionizy Epick," translated into prose. If this
were simply a rhetorical fantasy it
would be hypercritical to notice it. But
it is a Prime Minister who gives this
portentous importance to the fact that among
the large Irish population in our Australian
colon* there are a few racing ruffians and
madam* who call themselves Feniaaa, and whose

isolated crimes bring infamy upon
country and their race.

In his brief remarks on the British
Abyssinia Mr. Miasma was more in

with his audience and with the

mention of the troops and of their

be paid just homage, without
splendid iervieee which are not to

tiaciacility of the final triumph, but by
entities, the labours, the privations undergone
and overcome on that mountain march of
four hundred miles in as unknown country.
But here again the ambitions fallacy led Mr.
Diagram into temptation, and in likening the
march of Sir ROBERT NAPIER'S army to Magdala to
the conquest of Mexico by CORTES, he must have
calculated on the indulgence or the ignorance of
his hearers. The landing of the British army
on the coast of Abyssinia, the march to Magda*
will deserve to count among the most remarkable
feats of skill, endurance, discipline, and hardihood,
in the whole range of military history.
Mit what is there in this expedition, organised
and equipped with all the resources of a great
European Power (and of a great European Power
in India), with a boundless treasury at its
back. and hundreds of transoorts at its
basis on the sea, to be fitly compared with
the expedition of COItTES setting out from
Santiago in spite of discouragement and disap-
proval, and actually in the teeth of a dismissal
from oommand. with a force of leas than six hundred
Spaniards, and some three hundred Indians, twelve
or thirteen norses and ten brass guns, burning his
ships to cut himself off from return, defeating the
overwhelming army of an enemy by no means con-
temptibly armed and disciplined, in four pitched
battles, with only a handful of his own
meagre force, taking Mosrszl73lA captive
in his own palace in his capital, and
when NARVAEZ was sent to displace him,
leaving 200 men behind him in Mexico, and with
the same number routing his rival, then
returning to Mexico, quelling a revolt and
taking the city by storm, after a siege
of seventy-five days? Surely had Mr. DISRALLI
been content to contrast the British expedition to
Abyssinia with that of CoRTIS to Mexico, he
would have been better inspired. Sir ROBERT
NAPIER will scarcely thank him for doing CORTES
an injustice at his expense.

THE LAST SCENE AT THE OLD BAILEY.

Tna scene in court yesterday at the Old Bailey
was pronounced remarkable even by those most
accustomed to criminal proceedings. During the
summing op, WILLIAM DeemOND sat immoveable as a
statue. The florid complexion noted at the begin-
ning of the week had all gone, and left a deadly
pallor. No marble could be whiter than his face,
and his long straight nose looked pinched and
cold and rigid, as if it belonged to • corpse.
The massive beard, which entirely buries his
month and chin, remained as motionless as if it
were stuck on some wax figure. His head stood
fixed at one angle in a corner of the dock as if
concentrated anxiety had deprived him of power
of motion. All four prisoners were seated so
that their heads and shoulders were alone visible
from the bench. But of WILLIAM DESMOND,
sitting in the left hand corner of the dock he
has occupied since the trial began, you saw nothing
tut face and a profusion of coarse red hair below
it. He never moved, and in his ghastly whiteness
might have been a human head cut off and placed
there to keep its blinking eyes upon the Judge.
The eyelids alone showed him to be alive,
and these quivered and rose and fell
while the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE dealt with
the facts relating to their owner, much as
if they were gazing on a bright and shining flame.
Intense, absorbed anxiety, kept down by self-
command and cunning, were represented by this pri-
soner, who never glanced into the court, or among
the counsel, or at the jury, until his case was
passed, and the summing up as affecting Emmen
began. Then, with a mighty sigh, as U his vast
load of fear and dread were lessened by the evi-
dently favourable tone of the Judge, the rigid
attitude of listening was relaxed for a moment and
the long, lithe, white fingers, corpse-like in
their clamminess—were pushed rapidly over
brow, and through the beard and hair. This
done, the air of patient waiting was resumed, and
the still blinking eyes roved from the bench to the
jury-box and back again, as if to read in their
faces whether he was to die. Nicitozes ENGLISH,
who came next in the judge's summing up, but
who sat next to BARRETT in the dock, kept his
face hidden the greater part of the day. Once
he took a pen and piece of paper from the
shelf before him, and wrote something on his
knee, which his neighbours read over his shoulder.
But by far the greater part of the time you only
I saw the back of his head ; though when the face
came to the surface it was utterly emotionless.
The tears he was supposed to be hiding had never
I come, and his small eyes, low forehead, and sunken
cheeks were stolid and expressionless as a blank
wall. TIMOTHY Desmorrn might have fur-
nished a second LAVATER a head and face
for FRAN and Beeszrr one for DESPAIR.
The former was restless, hungry, eager.
Keenly alive to the slightest movement or
whisper in court, he turned to right and left, and
even gazed up into the gallery as if pitifully pray-
ing for an encouraging smile or a sympathizing look.
When, however, the Judge passed from his case to
that of Baaazrr, this DESMOND broke into a smile
of thankfulness. He saw hope-of escape now, and
eat through the rest of the proceedings with a
palpably lightened heart. BARRETT looked
wretched. All the dash and fire had faded out, and
instead of the reckless buccaneer of a few days
ago you saw a careworn, miserable man, whose
weary dejected face seemed like a forecast of his
doom. Nothing could add to his profound
wretchedness, and he listened with a
look of dogged, hardy endurance to words
which drew the sure rope tighter and tighter
about his neck. Once only was he roused.
When the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE pointed out the
improbability of the alibi, and reminded the jury
that ataaerr had had abundant opportunities of
producing his Glasgow witnesses before, the pri-
soner jumped up hastily from his seat, and dashing
off a few lines in pencil with a freedom and rapi-
dity which showed him to be at least educated up
to ready-writing point, handed them to a police-
man for his solicitor. A moment's conference
between the latter and counsel, an interchange of
nods with Baluterr, and Mr. BARER Gamma rises
to advance a plea which is not allowed by the
Bench.

All four prisoners are removed from the dock.
while the jury retire to consider their verdict, and
during the two hours and a half they keep sway
the court remains crowded as ever. Some few
members of Parliament leave the bench, and
hurry down to the House to be in time for Mr.
DIBIL/All'S motion for an address ; but the ma-
jority of the ladies present, the whole of the hug
and the occupants of galleries, and seats, and
door—dl Ems* paoltel--kapt their plush 4

_- dock,
pa its sudden checks whenever the least move
mint takes plaae in the crowd at the jury-door,
must sound to thorn like so many fake heralds of
the end. Every time an usher or a policeman
appears a whispered hush runs round, and one
thrill of expectation subsides into half-laughter,
when a solemn usher comes through the crush into
the jury-box, and in the face of an excited court
looks slowly round as if in search of some import-
ant aid to judgment, and at length finds and
carries off the snuff-box left on- the ledge.
When the verdict is delivered, and the two
DR-WORDS hear the welcome "Not Guilty" sono•
rously given from the jury-box, WILLIAM again
passes his long white hand over his marble brow
and through his beard, but moves not otherwise,
and is self-contained and statuesque as ever.
TIMOTHY gives another deep sigh of relief, and
smiles outright, as, clasping his hands tightly over
his chest, he murmurs his fervent thanks to the
VraolN or his patron saint for his escape. ENOLISH
gives a snort of satisfaction, and turns away as
if to walk into the street there and then,
but his coarse and heavy features remain without
play or expression as before. All three men are
removed by the policemen in charge, and leave the
dock with a silent bow to the bench and jury, but
without shaking hands with or noticing their less
fortunate companion. All three men seem
dazed, and the interest centres on BARRErr, who
has heard five out of the six people originally
charged with him declared tot guilty, and who
now stands alone to bear the consequences of the
most frightful crime of modern times. Pale and
stern, though cowed, his iron jaw drooping a little
from its rigidity ; and the furrows on his brow
deepened and made stronger by the tension of the
moment, he lets the moment for speaking pass by,
and the Loan CHIEF JCSTICE proceeds to pass sen-
tence almost without an interval after the
question " has the prisoner anything to say " from
the Clerk of the Arraigns below. But after his
preliminary observations are concluded, and before
the technical terms of hanging and burial are
given out, BARRETT, who has listened patiently so
far, and with his eye unfalteringly on the
Judge, starts forward and begs to be heard.
He had not—which was undoubtedly true
for no pause was made for him—liked to inter-
rupt his lordship before, but he had, indeed, much
to say. Then came a remarkable speech. This
man, convicted and properly convicted, of a
dreadful crime, and looking, as he said, into his
own grave, poured out in nervous, forcible lan-
guage, his contempt for his betrayer and his mis-
guided hopes for his country. A profound silence
was observed. During the half hour he spoke
he made many pauses, but rather, as it seemed, to
concentrate his points than to conceal emotion.
Sarcastic, defiant, and denunciatory in portions of
his address, when he painted MELLANT's future in
the quotation from Scripture, he assumed an air of
lofty contempt. He hissed out, " Men shall
" clap their hands at him, and hiss him
" out of his place," with a melodramatic
intensity sometimes witnessed on the stage ;
and laughed scornfully at himself for even mo-
mentarily assuming that "an unprejudiced man
"could find his way into this place," (the court).
At the words " the jury cannot in their hearts be-
" lieve me a murderer," BARRarr turned to the jury-
box and slowly met the eyes of each of the twelve
in turn ; and at another time iterated " This her
" MAJESTY'S ATTOS.NRY-GENERAL Calls CO/Tobolll-
- tiye evidence" with infinite derision. His de-
nunciations of the police and of the informers were
fierce and scathing, and were marked by a perfect
command of features. When a smile, or frown,
or sneer was appropriate to the words, each was
used with as much deliberate effectiveness as if the
occasion had been one for display alone; and the
avowal " I want no petitions, and no demoustra-
" Bons to have my life spared," was accompanied
by an eloquent action of the hands and arms, as if
loftily repudiating life without honour. When once
the LORD Came Jusricahad yielded tothe prisoner's
desire to speak, he listened to him with great
patience. Twice, however, the pauses in the
address were so long that the question was put
" Have you anything else to say 4 " and on each
occasion the calm composure of BARRares reply
was very remarkable. "I would next speak of"
and " A few words more," were given in the cool,
matter-of-fact tone of a man who has set himself
a task and is determined to carry it through.
The Loan CHIEF JOSTICE himself was not more
resolute on this head than the prisoner he was
condemning, and indeed laboured under a remark-
able misapprehension as to one portion of the lat-
ter's speech. BoßßErea oration consisted mainly
of analysis of evidence, denunciation of witnesses,
and vague protestations of guiltlessness ;
but it included these words : " Here
" standing, and looking into the grave, I
" most solemnly declare that at the time those

people swore I was at that I
place,
was in

" land." To which the Loan Cruz, JUSTICE
rather unaccountably answered, " I am glad there
" has been no attempt on your part to repeat
" that part of your defence which rested on the
" alleged fact of your being in Glasgow."
But no one in court, except, perhaps, the
prisoner's counsel, doubted the justice of the
verdict, or that Barium deserved to die. His
speech, though powerful, and, under the circum-
stances, surprising, threw no new light upon the
case ; and while the general feeling was that
further inquiry should be made, there was really
no doubt as to the guilt of the doomed man. His
address over, BLanirr listened respectfully, and
with the same face of unutterable dejection as in
the earlier part of the day, to the Judge, and then
after making a silent bow, he resigned himself to
the warders and walked rapidly from the dock.

Tax experience of America in prohibiting the
sale of intoxicating liquors is constantly appealeel to
by both sides in what is called the Maine. Law
controversy. Thus, the action just taken ~.)y the
two Houses of Massachusetts has a ape Ojai in-
terest. The prohibitory system which 'has been
so long in force is about to give wr.y in #Aa
most cultivated of the American Straus, Boa
Houses have passed • license bill 'which rather
loosely regulates instead of forbids the trade in strong
drinks. Many of the enemies of tie restrictive plan
complain that the new Maim. goes too far the
other way, and assert that it pm 'ides for the wadi-
(ally unlimited lionudrig' 15ir divan bars and mere
arum .hops. Provision in `made for submitting
1 annually to popular vote, ir.i the various cities and
1 towns, the question of therwile of liquors Whit drunk
on the premises, but t4:l this the extreme license
party did not object, and they dais, in fact, to
have completely triumphed over their teetotal en-
teral*.

The Price* and Princess of Wales, attended by the
Hos. Mrs. Stonorand Major Grey, arrived at Marlborough-
house yesterday afternoon from Trentham.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Cofoetal-
/Ake from the Governors of the AttarsLae colonies, Cey-
lon, Hong Kong, Gibraltar, and Melts. Deribatches were
sent to the Governor-Genera of Canada and to the Go-
vernor of Malts.

Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to
dimity, through hie Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant, her
intention of conferring en honorary distinction upon the
chief magistrate of Dublin.

The Duke of Cambridge and Prince Teck have
arrived from their visit to Dublin during the sojourn of
the Prince and Princess of Wales. The Duke of Cam.
bridge was in attendance at the none Guards yesterday
at an early hour.

Rix Exoellency the Count de Rilvas will shortly
leave England with his family, to assume the post of Por-
tuguese Minister at St. Petersburg.

The Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon. Sir R.
Peet. and a numerous party left town yesterday for New-
market.

The Record is informed that the letter of invita-
tion from the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to Dr. Cullen to
attend the great banquet given in honour of the Prince of
Wale., was, by Mr. Disraeli•. desire, addressed " To his
Excellency the Cardinal Archbishop of Dublin."

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

BRISTOL.
NOMINATION.-(THIS DAY.)
(Br TRLZOLLPH.I

The nomination of candidates for the representa-
tion of Bristol took place this morning. The gentlemen
proposed were Mr. B. Morley (liberal), and Mr. Miles
(conservative).
The show of hands was declared to be in favour of Mr.
Morley, and a poll was demanded for Mr. Miles. The
polling will take plies on Wednesday.
There is great excitement in the city.
. .

Another telegram which we have received states that
Mr. Morley was proposed by Mr. G. Thomas, and seconded
by Mr. Castle. Mr. Miles was proposed by Mr. It. King,
and seconded by Mr. B. Hare. The tone; it is added,
hired pogilistoi and 'movie, from the dock works, who
used bludgeons, rotten eggs, oranges, &c.

GRANTHAM.
POLLING THIS DAY.
We learn by telegraph that at 12 o'clock to-day
the state of the poll was as follows:
Turner (Conservative)
Cbolmeley (Liberal)

....... 245

STIRLING BURGHS.
NOMINATION.-(THIS DAY.)
Off TILZOWIL)

Messrs. Campbell and Ramsay were nominated
to-day for the Stirling Burghs. The show of bands was
declared to be in favour of Mr. Campbell, and a poll was
demanded for the other candidate.
The result will be declared on Thursday.

Mr. Thomas Chambers, M.P. for Marylebone,
ham been prevented from attending at the HOMO of Com-
mons during the last week by serious indisposition.

_ -
The 'rut h Railway Commission held its final
sitting yesterday, and agreed to the report. It is en ela-
borate document ; but the commiasioners do not, it is
maid, make any recommendation, bolding such a course
to be beyond the scope of their powers, and not contem-
plated in the terms of their commission.

On the 19th of next month, Mr. Acland will call
attention to the inconvenience arising from the want of an
authority specially charged with the duty of considering
questions affecting agriculture and the food of the people ;
and move for a committee to examine and report on that
subject.

Mr. Bagwell intends on Friday to ask the Chief
Secretary for Ireland, whether, taking into consideration
the present tranquil state of Irebald, he conceives it necer
eery to continue the imprisonment of persons confined
under the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act ; and
whether he will state to the house the number@ at present
confined under such act in the different prisons in Ire-
land.

The Journal de Charleroi states that the strike of
the miners continues, and is extending from Forchies
towards the centre of the district. The operations at four
pits are now stopped. The men show no mischievous dis-
position, and merely go about from one place to another,
neither ►ttacking property nor interfering with the 'ti-
dier& Some say they do not work because the wages are
insufficient, whilst others affirm that they abstain on
account of the presence of the military, which they look
on as a sign of distract and a constraint. The number out
on strike at the various coal mines is from 1,800 to
2,000.

THE Royer. Visa To TnErrKkw. —The Prince
of Wales attended service in Trentham church on Sunday,
accompanied by his suite and the Duke of Sutherland.
The Rev. R. S. Edwards, rector, preached. A very large
number of people went to Trentham on Sunday, from the
Potteries and surrounding district, in the hope of seeing
the royal visitors, who, however, did not appear in the
park. Yesterday at 2.23 p.m. their royal highnesses left
Trentham by special train for Stafford, where they joined
the 2.40 express train for London. They rode in the Duke
of Sutherland's saloon carriage, and were accompanied by
his grace and the duchess. There were but few persona
at the station, the time of the departure having been kept
• secret, and heevy rein fell up to within half an hour of
the time of leaving.
ME ADDRESS TO THE PRINCE OF WALES PEON
Mammon' Couto& —The Very Rev. Dr. Russell, presi.
dent of Ilaynooth College, bas received the following from
his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to the wldress
from klaynooth College :—" Dublin Castle, 24th April.
1868.—Sir William Knollys is desired by the Prince
a Wales to thank the President, Rasters, Pro-
fessors, end Students of the College of St. Patrick's,
=b, for their address, and for their
on his visiting them. The'llterszy and scientide
institutions of Ireland must ever be an object of sincere
interest to him ; and It is with feelings of pea satisfac-
tion that he has availed himself a an opportunity of
making himself better acquainted with one of so great in:-
the Collage of St. Patrick's. hlaynootb. Sir
William°. as
Knollye is further dimmed to convey cordial ac-
knowledgments of the Princess of Wales for the kind sen-
timent' towards her royal highness expressed in this
address."—Duldin Evening Post.
THE ROYAL CHARISM •T DIIBLIN.—The follow-
ing is a list of their Royal Highnesses the Prince Led
Prinows of Wales' donation@ to several charitable institu-
tions in Dublin :—Poor of St. Patrick's, of all denomina-
tions, ; City of Dublin Hospital, SOL ; Sir Patrick
Dun's Hospital, 211. ; Parochial Amosiation for the
Relief of the Poor of all denominations, ; &misty

for Relief of the Sisk sad Indigent Reoilkeepen,
211. ,• Adelaide Hoepitel. 211. ; Catholic Institution for
Deaf and Dumb, 211. ; Claremont Deaf and Dumb Insti-
tution, 211. ; St. Vincent's Hospital and Diageneary, 211.
Charities imbeeribed to by Us Royal H%bneso
the Princess of Wolec—lrieb Mora Milano&
Ileiteel, 211. ; Convakroont Home, EtWlateon 211.;
I Yomelo Orphan House, 101. 100. ; Povidenos Mime fee
Teen Females, 101. 10e. ; Sempstremee Relief Armin-
lin, 101. Ws. ; Mater Xlierioordin Iloapital. 101. ;
;a ltal for Iseurablee, 10a. ; Coombe Lea Her
101. 10e. Her royal highness boa promised
vt of books en souvenir of her vista to &‘•
Citlnollege•
PWOCI AND THS POLIOZ.MLN.—A venial
dent la Dublin of the Northam Whig, writing
on Saturday =amino, my' :—" I ham told you that
the dlosppeistmont 000mioned by the Priam and
Prinomeo to arrival at Kingstown, and the wheenes
of Muminstions till midnight, via 114 Let me
give you a remark Ash I woe pitelleslarly tickled
with when I was waiting for the prime% toed, oppoemone.
I mid to the' bobby'
Priam who hod asap of tim gate
neer the dotion— awl some '
WWI the moaning" of ids being ite 1.68 r sows tell,
sir • Prism am do so he likes, ifs; noiodp to report him,
gip.% It was dstightttd."
The Railways Ireiend Oamitielionete meet yes-
Ayssterda,ger at It. Viel
lipeo oolauktoet, Wesimionitm Prom. : Sir
am T. roms. Dart., raira lie/heduid, Kr.
J Amiss, Xr. O. R. SeymourllK Cleoloo, and Xs %sir
sessitme. The EloorMory, wc neopz=
yes she present. Tbla reran et the
no Oesisheleme ftlegentiitiess-
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INDIA.

Sir Stafford Nort&iota has received
, telegram from the Governor-Gaaeral
of India, dated Calcutta, April 23 :
" Sirdar Mahorced Takoob Khan, eon of Ammer
Share Ali, has retaken Kandahar and Khelat-i-
Ghilzie."

-THE FRENCH P 8 1:13E ON THE ABYBBI-

NIAN EXPEDITION.

The Josonal des Debuts says :
The object of the expedition has now been attained, and
the English have only to return home, mane they now
mean to set up • sumessor to the Negus and to regulate
Abyssinia, which is not very probable. We per-
cativo, indeed, that moat of the English journals,
and especially the Tines and Daily Rem, strongly
insist on the immediate return of the army, which
is, moreover, announced in the despatch of Sir R. Napier.
It is almost certain that no voice will be raised in England
to accuse the journals and Sir R. Napier of want of pa-
triotism because they do not dream of taking advantage of
the present opportunity by substituting in the country of
klagdala the influence of the Saxon for that of the Abyssi-
nian race. To be just to everybody, even to small African
despots, we must admit that the end of Theodora. is not
devoid of &certain grandeur which was hardy to be ex-
pected from the savage deeds which signalised his reign.
The Aveuir National observes :
The result of the straggle will be received favourably
by public opinion. The organs of French liberalism, with
a single exception, have seen in the English expedition an
enterprise undertaken with regret, but necessitated by
events—the right of a nation to protect its subjects. They
believed that England had no desire to pursue the old
Tory policy of conquest, sad they had a guarantee for this
view in the language of the English journals without ex-
ception. The event justifies them if, as has been an.
nounoed, orders for the departure of the expeditionary
forts have been issued.
BRISTOL, To MOAT. I. The Temps remarks :

The brilliant and dramatic issue of the expedition to
Abyssinia has produced a strong sensation in Paris ; it
will produce an equally strong one in Europe ; in Eng-
land the enthusiasm is, naturally, very great. Everything
connected with the expedition was calculated to give it
an epic character. The object of the expedition, under-
taken solely to liberate some English citizens held emp-
ties for some years by a semi-barbarous despot ; the
astonishing accounts related of the character of Theodore,
—his violence, his cruelty, his cunning, his energy, the
superstitious respect he inspired amongst his people ; the
fear of not finding the captives alive, the remoteness of
the theatre of war, the long distance--about 130 leagues
—of an unknown country to be traversed—the necessity
of hewing a road, spade and axe in hand, the
unavoidable slowness of the operation—then the sudden-
ness and overwhelming success of the final blow, the un-
equal combat, the chivalrous conduct of this sanguinary
and furious Negus, who after his defeat delivers the pri-
soners, but refuses to yield, the treason of his officers who
delivered to the invaders• formidabieposition, the invincible
resolution of the Abyssinian monarch, the assault of Mag-
dala, the desperate resistance of the last defenders of Theodo-
rus, the stoical courage with which the Prince had himself
killed or shot himself—this series of actions constitutes a
picture eminently grar.cliose. The details of this Oriental
poem will be eagerly expected. England will now leave
the Abyssinians to manage their own affairs as best they
can. The expedition will be dear, but England will not
have paid too much.

The other French journals write in much the
same tone.

FENIANISM IN NEW ZEALAND.

New Zealand advioes to March 8, brought to-
day by the Atrato, mention that Fenian tendencies
were being shown in the colony. The Duke of
Edinburgh was at that time expected to reach
Auckland on the 2lat of this month.

(azurn's TEJO WM.)
FRANCE.

PAltlfi, Aran. 8.
Quarantine has been declared at Marseilles on
arrivals from the River Plate on account of cholera.
The same precaution has been taken as regards
arrivals from Tunis and some other points of
Algeria on account of typhus fever.

DENMARK_
COPENHAGEN, APRIL 28.
It is reported that the Rigadag Committee upon
the Free Municipalities Bill, brought in by the
government, are about to modify their opposition
to the measure, in which case the ministerial crisis
would be at an end.

THE WEST INDIA, PACIFIC, AND
AUSTRALIAN MAILS.
PLYMOUTH, Amu. 28.

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship
Atrato from the West Indies, itc., arrived here at
3 am., this day, bringing 78 adult passengers,
913,043 dole. and 1,607 packages of cargo. The
ship's papers were forwarded to London by 5.30
am., special train. The Atrato left Plymouth, at
4.46, am., for Southampton.
The Chilian colony in the Straits of Magellan
was prospering, and good coal had been found at
the settlement.

Yellow fever continued at Lima and Callao. The
mortality from the disease at the latter place
averaged 23 daily.
Ecuador was also suffering from yellow fever. A
severe monetary crisis and partial insurrection
prevailed.

Indeavosius were being made to settle the revo-
lution in Tolima by negotiation.
The Bishop of Pasto had denounced the inter-
ference of the executive with church property as
a heinous sin.

Bolivar and Magdalena were still in an unsettled
state.

BRAZIL MAIL.
, LISBON APRIL 28.

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship
Seine has arrived here from the Brazils, &c., and
leaves for Southampton at 3 p.m. to-day, with
36 passengers, 31,852/. in specie, 1,030
bags of cotton, 100 barrels of tapioca, 6 packages of
diamonds, and 134 packages of sundries.
Ths Shannon, with the outward mails of the 9th
April, was at St. Vincent on the 20th inst.

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