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which induced the Government to try peaceable
measur 3s were numerous. They were fully con-
vinced of the certainty that an expedition to
rescue these men would be expensive, and attended
with heavy loss of life by climate, even if not by
military operations, and it might lead to a massacre
of the prisoners. Besides the imprisonment from
which they suffer being an act of caprice, that
caprice :might at any time as suddenly release
them, so -that all these risks might be run, and these
losses inenrred for no result. We think that the
Foreign Office was quite right in its policy in de-
clining the offers of those who sought to
lead new emissaries into the Abyssinian territory,
for, as the noble lord observed, it was evidently the
policy of Ring THEODORE to get as many Euro-
peans as Possible into his hands, no matter what
had been his first idea in detaining these men.
Great care was taken in sending out the artisans
that were required by the KING, and as it was found
out that he was treating the captives worse, and
wished to get hold of the presents and the artisans
at once, it was wisely determined not to let him
have them until he released the prisoners.
Lord STANLEY afterwards wrote, without using
any menace, but reminding the KING that be must
not rely upon the friendship of the British Govern-
ment if he failed to comply with their demand for
the liberation of the prisoners. The noble lord now
admits, however, that the policy of conciliation has
been fairly tried, and has failed. He said that he
agreed with those who had spoken on the subject that
nothing could be " more repugnant to our feel-
ings as a nation, nothing less creditable to us as
a matter of honour," than to leave in the hands
of a half savage those who are our fellow-coun-
trymen, and also envoys who have been commis-
sioned by the head of the Executive. Still the
difficulties are great in the way of obtaining a re-
lease by force. Inquiries are being made into
the matter. The Secretary for India has tele-
graphed to the Indian Government to send all
officers they can rely upon to meet Colonel
MEREWETIIER, at Aden, and to examine into these
points which it was important to ascertain. While
the noble lord declared, on the part of the Govern-
ment, that they could not leave these men to their
fate without attempting a means of rescue, they
could not act with precipitation. All things consi-
dered, we think the House may follow the advice of
Lord STANLEY, and leave the decision where the
responsibility rests, for the Government seem quite
in earnest about the matter.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
Pan's, Friday Evening.

The following is IX the news of to-day's
Illoniteur :—" The Italian Chamber of Deputies
has approved up to article 15 of the project of law
relative to the liquidation of Ecclesiastical patri-

mony."
Yesterday there was an anniversary service in the
Church of Napoleon St. Leu, for the repose of the
soul of the King of Holland, the Emperor's father.
The Mayor, the Municipal authorities, the Minister
of the Emperor's Household, and most of the
inhabitants of the town, attended the pious and
interesting ceremony.
The Constitutionne/ states that M. Bismark will
shortly proceed to Ems to confer with the King of
Prussia upon several important questions before. he
takes a longer leave of absence.
The Legislative Session was commenced on the
14th of February, and lasted five months and two
days. During that time the Legislative Body had
89 sittings, appointed 131 committees, met 38
times in its bureaux, and examined 151 projects of
law-117 of local interest, and 34 of general im-
portance. The projects of law which were adopted
referred to the following essential subjects :
Primary instruction, imprisonment for debt, the
repression of frauds in the sale of manures, the re-
vision of criminal and correctional proceedings,
naturalisation, municipal councils, societies, the
regulation of the commerce of Algeria, the
guarantee of inventions (exceptible of being
patented, and the designs of fabrics destined for the
Exhibition), the Victor Emmanuel Railway, the
Customs, a national recompense to M. Lamartine
the company of the Thermes of Plombiers, the por-
tion of the annual expense to be contributed by the
State towards the maintenance of the police. The
canalisation of the Moselle, the regulation of the
accounts of 1863, the supplementary credits of
1866, the rectificatory budget of 1867, the new
credits of 1867, and the ordinary and extraordinary
budgets of 1868. Among the important projects
of laws, the further consideration of which was
postponed till next session, are the three following :
The project relative to the Army and the National
Mobile Guard. The law for the regulation of
public meetings, the law relative to the Press.
During the progress of the session the number of
amendments made in various proposed laws was
400. Several projects of law having for object
embellishments and improvements in the city of
Paris stand for consideration next session.
A banquet is talked of on a scale more extensive
and with characteristics more peculiar than any of
modern or even ancient times. A plan is under
organisation for the banquet of the Exhibition, and
the day proposed for it is the 30th of this month.
It is to be a dinner for the exhibtors, and, as there
are 45,000, of course that number will partake of it.
The Hippodrome is the locality proposed for this
grand celebration. As even a Paris restaurateur
would not undertake to provide a hot dinner for
45,000 customers the viands will be cold. One
innovation is seriously proposed—that each exhibi-
bitor should bring his dish. Should this be so, the
various dishes would form another Exhibition—a
kind of gastronomical competition. The banquet
promises to be a spectacle as charming as it is
novel. The exhibitors will be at tables classed in
groups according to their countries, and over the
tables will float banners in the same style as at
the distribution of prizes at the Palace of Industry.
The ladies will not be forgotten. Each exhibitor
will be allowed to bring a lady. The ladies, how-
ever, will not be introduced until after the banquet.
Thus nothing will be wanting to give eclat to the
fete, for it has been always said that a repast with-
out women is a garden without flowers. It is even
intended that there shall be various amusements
and a sort of fancy fair on the race course of the
Hippodrome, which is well calculated for the
purpose.
The Imperial Commission have reduced the price
of a ticket to the Exhibition for the remainder of
the season from 60f. to 40f.
There is now in the reserved garden of the Ex-
hibition the most splendid mass of flowers ever
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trees.se n, consistingT his b ouorifu
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present
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of Rose Growers of Brie-Comte Robert to the
Empress. Her Majesty has deigned to become the
the most important branches of French horticul-
ture, of this society, which represents one of
asture,
of thercoasen-ttorneeos of variousfßriecultivspactecsicas.b out three
millions
jour-
nal l' Union, has just died in Paris , aged 84. He
Mr. M'Sheehy, managing proprietor of the
l‘ed Junes
was of Irish origin. Under Louis XIV. his family
followed
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.
e lli lee servedwhen
Monarch came
under the first Republic, was wounded at Leipsic,
and promoted to the rank of lieut.-colonel for his
services at the battle of 'Wagram. Mr. M‘Sheehy
was an officer of the Legion of Honour.
According to a parochial record respecting the
arrondissement of Fresnay le Grand, near St.
Quentin, a man named Savigny and his wife are
now living there who have no less than 219 nephews
or grand nephews.
The weather to-day has been more like one in
April than July—very showery, very stormy, and
rather disagreeable. But the Parisians nevertheless,
like Mark Tapley, :seem determined to be jolly, and