The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-18 00:00:00

THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION.

(stoma's exemse.)
ADEN. Dee. 9Y. runzrant. Jan.
15.
The Dalhousie arrived this morning from Anne.- Yaiterdav, Count Menace% as Minister of
ley Bay, bringing intelligence of the captives at Foreign Affairs, pre a great dinner at hie official
Magdala up to the 11th of November, when all were apartment in the Palau° Vecchio, In honour of the
well. The communication between them and the English and Danish ministers, Sir Augustus Paget
King's camp is still cut off. i and Count Bills Brahe. But I know not with
A reconnaissance in force has been made to the what appetite he and his colleagues went to dinner,
front (Senate), where Brigadier-General Mere-Ike they had just witnessed in the Chamber of
wether awaits the Commander-in-Chief. He had , Deputies the first signs of another Psrliemanter7
called up all the European troops, as several natives ' storm—brewing for them by that untiring tactician,
were prowling about for loot. At night half the the Commendatory Rattarei That statesman has
force was kept continually under arms. legally more political lives than a cat is mid to have
The 33rd Regiment had up to that time been natural ones ; for here he is again in his
kept on board the ships, as they had not warm !place in the Chamber radiant, defiant, just as if
clothing to proceed, and a company of sappers; no mistakes had ever been committed, no French
from England were, it is said, in the same plight. !intervention had ever taken Piaui, no comProinia-
The mortality among the horses and other animals mg documents had ever bees published, no dangers
had decreased. I and aomplications for which he is in a great met,
The Egyptialm appeared determined to send a sure responsible, were menacing his country. What
mission to King Theedoesounehegeinsailmedeilia Ina aaatat at that politician's inks)" and
of Brigadieeasneral Merewether. This, it is sup. more ‘sneoiallj of his unfiegginA neff'cl4deure,
posed, will'be a gnat dmarbsisit. ear'plans, as up which RON so large an element in the source' •01
to that time the proilaisatien conks eianmander. that influence l No doubt it is to ,be . found, first,
in-Chief had made everything oneeth, is the constant personal favour and friendship of
Steamers had experienced very rough weather in the King. It is very curious that King Victor
tie Red Sea, precluding the possibility of comma- Emmanuel, who, on the original formation of the
nesting with Jibbel Teer. famous coalition between Cavour and Rattazzi, bad
The second Bombay brigade, consisting of the 1 inch an antipathy to the latter, that the greaten
4th Regiment of the line and the Ist, 3rd, and • difficulty in bringing about that coalition lay in
25th regiments of Bombay native infantry has the royal ill-will, should have come to regard the
nearly all passed through here for Annesley Bay. I Commendatore with the affection which for the last
Her Majesty's ship Daphne, with the condensing • seven years he has felt and shown. And the expla-
hulk Semiramis in tow, is overdue. nation is very simple. The change dates from the
Captain Tryon and his transport staff, as also B•attazzi ministry after the peace of Villafranea.
Major Wardle and his staff, have just passed ilturing that ministry the Commendatore Rattasri
through in the last two batches of transports. I sever ceased impressing on his sovereign that he,
Twenty lace of rupees left for Annealey Bay the monarch, and not Count Cavour, had been
yesterday, money being wanted there. the cause of Italy's greatness ; that Csvonr's repu-
tation was made at the expense of his King's ;
and that he (Itatsui) was deeply sensible of this
national injustice. When the Commendatore
Battazzi had then persuaded his sovereign that he
(11.11:1TIUN TZLZGRAIL) was a very great, wise, far-seeing monarch,
The Royal Mail steamship Scotia, from New it was not very difficult to infuse the further con-
York on the Bth bud., arrived at Queenstown at i victim that Rattazzi himself was a very great,
7.50 p.m. yesterday, with 66 cabin passengers and wise, and far seeing minister. But that is nut the
1,430,584 dots. in specie. She landed 125 sacks I only secret of his influence. He possesses in a de-
nt mails and three passengers, and proceeded imme-1 pee almost equal to Lord Palmerston the habit of
diately for Liverpool. All well. sticking by his friends under all difficulties, and
(Per the Scotia, via Roche'a Point.) they only show their gratitude in sticking by him
NEW YORK, Jan. 8. in the thickest of his troubles. It were greatly to
The Senate has passed a bill exempting the be wished that this characteristic were more
cotton crop of 1868 from taxation, providing for. common amongst other leading Italian statesmen,
the resumption of the tax after 11468, and removing 1 far party government would be carried on much
the duty upon foreign cotton for the year ending more steadily than it now is.
April, 1869. You need not, therefore, be surprised to learn
The House of Representatives has laid upon thel
that yesterday the Commendatore Rattazzi again
table the vote of thanks to General Hancock, and returned to the charge on the subject of the Geri-
passed resolutions of thanks to General Sheridan, I baldian expedition and French intervention, about
censuring President Johnson for removing him, I which one might have supposed that for the pre-
and thanking General Grant for disapproving the the would have preferred keeping quiet. He
removal of General Sheridan and Mr. Stanton. I on the table a supplementary bundle of papers
The house has instructed the reconstruction i nded to complete, or rather correct, the
committee to to imgteir•Ailo°' tioraszlodieng7 04 to in those presented by the ministry, and be
authorising the Southern State Conventions to sP- I obtained from the latter the promise that all
point all civil officers in their respective States. I the other documents on the subject still unpub-
General Hancock has issued an order disclaiming liahed shall see the light.
arbitrary authority over civil controversies, declar-
ing that such authority is not to be found in the
laws of Louisiana and Texas, and cannot be de-
rived from the acts of Congress. General Hancock
further informs disputants that the administration
of civil justice appertains to the regular courts,
and forbids forcible resistance to the execution of
civil processes.
It is reported that the Freedmen's Bureau has
authorised its agents to issue supplies to destitute
planters, and to take a lien on their crops for pay-
ment.
A resolution has been introduced into the Vir-
ginia Convention providing that a payment of 25
per cent. shall be a legal settlement of all debts
contracted in Virginia during the rebellion.
It is reported that the Virginia Convention is in
favour of Chief Justice Chase for the Presidency.
The New York papers publish intelligence from
San Domingo, stating that General Cabral had fled
to Urk's Island, and that General Baez had been
proclaimed President of San Domingo. Sigror
Pujal, Cabral's envoy, had arrived at Washington
for the purpose of negotiating the sale of Samaria
Bay to the United States.
Intelligence from Mexico announces that J-iarez
was inaugurated president at Christmas. It was
reported that a general outbreak against him was
imminent.

AMERICA.

THE LATE/3T GREEK FIRE OUTRAGE
AT CORE.

OPOOK OCR

CORE. TIKUISDLT Enema.
An outrage of a startling, and in this city quite
unprecedented character, is reported to have
been committed last night upon a respectable
citizen, and has been the subject of a private in-
quiry by the magistrates to-day. If the state-
ments made in relation to the affair are to be relied
on, they explain the purposes fur which the Greek
fire, which exploded a few days ago in Petrick-
street, had been procured. The story told is this
—A man named Jones, foreman leather cutter in
the shop of Mr. Kingston, North Main-street, was
the victim of the alleged outrage. This man states
that for some time back he has had reason to be-
lieve himself to be obnoxious to the. disaffected
classes in this city, by whom he was
suspected of having given information to
the police in regard to some members of their
body. He says that it was even reported, to his
knowledge, that he was employed by the police as
an amateur detective ; bat it does not appear
wbokroritriak wry wasme-ter-appeelasseikat vie—
leneseavald be offtill ihelkillYtioetrilliffbles 'II
these rumours. Homer, last_ilight about half-
past
nine o'clock, as he was paining through the
North Main-street, he was struck on the head with
a bottle, thrown at him from behind. The bottle,
though thrown with considerable force, did not
break in the collision, but rebounded and fell on
the pavement, where it was smashed into pieces.
The contents, he alleges, instantly ignited, giving
out a sheet of vivid flame. Jones lookedabout
for his assailant, but could not ere any one, save
the ordinary pedestrians. He is unable to afford
the slightest clue by which the perpetrators of the
outrage might be traced. Immediately after the
strange occurrence he went to the Tuckey-street
police-station, not far from where he was struck,
and reported the affair. A considerable force of
constabulary repairedtO the spot, and made a
minute search of the street and the 'adjacent lanes,
but saw nothing to arouse suspicion. They then
searched some houses about the place in which the
persons who might have thrown the bottle at Jones
might have been suspected to takerefuge, but not
the slightest discovery rewardedtheir inquiries. The
examination was renewed after a short interval,and
prolonged until two o'clock in the morning, but
was again unsuccessful. Jones, however, adhered
to his statement, that he had been assaulted in
the manner described, and made an affirmation
of the matter on oath before Mr. Hamilton, R.M.
, ' These several and successive outrages—the
plunder of Richardson's and Alport's shops, the
burglary at Murray's, and this latest and most
desperate venture, all perpetrated without leaving
a trace of the authors—have produced not so much
alarm as amazement. People think that the
Fenian must be very wonderful fellows indeed,
if they have been able to. do all this
mischief in the moat frequented localities,
and in the face of a large and generally
efficient police force, without having exposed
themselves to the slightest danger. In fact, the
all but universal conviction here is, that if the
Fenians do nut possess the fabled cloak of darkness
the sensational stories to which. we have been re-
cently treated are Very like fictkin.
There are several circumstances in connection
with the affair of last night sleek should make
people cautious in giving creilence to it. The
North Main-street is one of theses' thorougbiares
of the city. It is pierced by nuidis filthy lanes,
the inhabitants of-which, not having air to breathe
in their domiciles, spend their leisure hours up to
11 o'clock at least in the street. At half-past
J the street is tolerably full of these
people, as well as others passing through. Now it
is very strange both that such a lomlity should
have been selected fer an outrage the very nature
of which was certain to draw immediate attention,
and also that none of the persons in the neighbour-
hood should have seen either the authors of the
outrage or even the explosion which is alleged to
have taken place.
A very unpleasant occurrence happened lest night
in Guileen Bay, where the wreck of the Chicago
lies. A party of marines had been stationed on
the shore to protect the property cast ashore, which
the country people wore, as invariably occurs, dis-
posed to plunder. One of the marines seeing a
fellow bearing off some of the wreck called on him to
stand. The man paid no heed to the order, which
was several times repeated, and the marine fired. The
ball struck the wrecker on the shoulder, and passed
through, inflicting a serious, though not a mortal
wound. The injured man fell, and was removed
to a neighbouring cabin, whore surgical aid was
procured. The affair has been investigated to-day
by Mr. Donnely, R.M.
The disaster to the Chicago has been the indirect
cause of another wreck. A large barque called the
Vanda, from Iquique, with a cargo of saltpetre,
approaching the harbour in the rain and storm of
last night, mistook for the Roche's Point light the
watch fires lighted by the marines upon the shore
near where the Clicago lies. The barque shaped her
course accordin,gly, and ran ashore under Port-
head, about a mile from Guileen Bay. The Roche's%
Point light is intermittent, and the flickering of the
watch fires probably deceived the officers of the
barque. The crew were saved, but the vessel is
sure to go to pieces, as the weather is still very
stormy.

CORK. FRIDAY NIGHT:

The marine who shot the countryman at the
wreck of the Chicago has been arrested, and handed
over to the civil authorities after an investigation.
The wounded man denies that he was plundering
the wreck ; but considerable plunder has taken
place, and seizure of suspicious firearms has been
made at the wreck.

For the convenience of the subscribers, the corn.
mittee of the London Library, St. James'swinare, have
resolved to keep the roiding-room sad library open till
8 p.m. during the coining rummer months.
BILTROIPOLITAN BOARD 07 WORKS. —The weekly
meeting of the board wee held yesterday in the Board-
room, Spring-garciens. A oommueioation was banded in
from the Wirtrumater Board of Works by Mr. White, ex-
pressing the opinion of that body that they should be fur-
nished with copies of the evident* taken before the com-
mittee during their investlipition respecting Mr. Furness's
duration in the Court of Bankruptcy, and the transac-
tions between him and members of the Metzopolitan
Board. The letter was altered as the minable. Counna.
ideation eddreased to the chairman wore reed by the clerk,
In cionsequ.suce of the notice gives by Mr. Shaw Lit=
on the part of Mr. Fumes and other persons
Mr.
the publiestpublicationof the evidence as proposed by
tr.t Mr. Shaw, puissant to notice, moved that all
Inhere inquiries regarding the matter of severity gives
by Mr. Fumes, the contractor, be held es as epee
board, and that copies of all proesedinge 'bogy prinesd
by the board be forwarded to the several wade Mr.
Talansmenecoded the motion. Mr. Waterton slowed ea
t to the effect that as the inquiry kW the
etatemeate of Mr. Fames by a em eaMen at the whole
homes had been hitberteenesimied by the tithe 1W
tbat
committee,. as all other baleen et the board use taw
and as the inqubp is sal in mow, it Is seed-
=to take the course respond ET Sir w. Mr.
Lebrolen swards& Ihe siessiesint. After some dieseasioo
• &risks ow liken ea the assosibasot with the follow-
lag results—For thasinewbesat, 21; Majority,
11.- Tit • efliliald sodas wits escionliagly lost. Mr.
Book% see of the asseslawselly. iaboes votedMP. for tand
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L sredo' for isehili Mr. ,
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bodiNtkin is to take slam et Be. Jaaesewhe4l, en
the erenlas of Thursday. IU nrd =.ll=l the
sedate sisearawal. orbs bare will • low
girls their rideable 'tarries@ petelineslia:
Madame Rudirsdorif, Mr. W. E. Omaodallor
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