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ONE
HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SEVEN
Destitute Orphans are being maintained in the Albert
Orphan Asylum, Collingwood Court, Bagshot, Eurrey. Funds
greatly needed for their support.

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ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate Of :Wily of tho Great Northern Railway
Terminus, King's-cross.
Patron—Her Most Gracious MAJESTY the QUEEN.
Tice-Patron--His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G.

President—His arace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G.

This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to establish
the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without the de-
lay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly dependent for
support on voluntary contributions and legacies.
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in adcn-
tion to this, the average number of attendance of the destitute
sick has for a considerable period averaged between 3,000 and
4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the assistance of the benevo-
lent, as the premises of this hospital are capable of containing
several hundred more beds had the Committee the requisite funds
to maintain thorn.

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GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL,
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Supported by V 011001), ry Contributions.
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kins died on board the steamer Costa Rica on her
passage from Yokohama to Shanghai, from injuries
received from the falling down a hatchway. Yoko-
hama is approaching its former size as seen before
the fire which took place last, winter. In the mar-
kets the prices for imports are the same as in the
last report—nominal. The demand for arms and
ammunition has been good since the receipt of the
news of the abdication of the Tycoon. Woollen
mills goods, yarns, and millets are dull, and the
quotations nominal. Sheet hum and bar iron have
been sold for exportation. The Swanley takes
135 piculs of tin, and the Crisolite 133 piculs to
New York.
" HONG KoNG, Nov. 26 (via San Francisco, Dec.
in), 1867.—The death is announced of Mr. L. R.
Calfield, Consol of the United States at Foo-Chow
which event took place on the 28th of October.'
The banks of the Yellow River, in the Shati-tung
province, have burst at some point—and the entire
country in the neighbourhood is submerged to an
extent of 30 miles. A party of gentlemen have
explored the island of North Formosa. In Han-
kow fears are entertained that the city will be sub-
merged, the water in the river Han being very high.
Mr. E. Drew has been appointed Government
Secretary at Pekin. The United States' Minister
at Pekin was to leave in a short time to in-
spect all the ports open to foreign trade. Advices
from the northern portions of the empire state that
the Imperial troops have sustained a severe repulse
from the Nienfei, who took six camps
and captured
a battery organised and placed in the Nanking
arsenal. The Prussian corvette Vineta grounded
on an unknown rock in Spex Strait, but has been
got off safely. Steps have been taken to erect a
church at Hankow,
a grant from the Home Go-
vernment having been obtained in aid of the enter-
prise. Owing to the failure of the crops, great dis-
tress prevails in the extreme north. The country
around Trenskin is now flooded with rain. A mis-
sion school and chapel have been opened by
the
Casle Missionary Society. The Bishop of Victoria
was present at the exercises and took part in the
services. Exposure of
squeezing,' or taking bribes,
on the part of the police force have lately been made,
and it is said that the bribes are more readily taken
'

in Canton use the fact of the
because of losses at the gambling table. The natives
granting of the Hong-
Kong gambling-house licence by the Christian
authorities as the argument with the missionaries of
their superiority over the foreigners and their sys-
tem. The latest market review states the import
trade in cotton fabrics is very dull. Yarn active,
but low. Grey shirtings limited. Sans, nominal.
White shirtiugs and fancy cottons no improve-
ments. Raw cotton very quiet. Woollen goods
nominal. Metal railroad iron, to arrive, at a
decline of 15c. to 20c. a picul. Lead firm.
Malacca tin high. Freights for New York, $l3 to
$l4 per ton.
" SHANGHAI, Nov. 27, 1867 (via San Fran-
cisco, Jan. I,lB6B.)—The ratification of the Italian
commercial treaty with China
was exchanged here
on the 12th inst., his Excellency Count de la Tour,
plenipotentiary for Italy, acting for the Ring, and
langi one of the few
Hetifig Fauti on behalf of the Chinese Imperial
remainingGovernment.chi
Thef
rebellion, has been arrested by the Chinese
Government in the Hongque district of the foreign
e chieftains ns Si-Wang,
of e old Nanking
settlement. A destructive fire broke out in the Oil
Banck godowns, situate in the Chinese suburbs, on
the night of the 15th inst. It was extinguished
through the exertions of the foreign fire brigade.
The estiinatad loss of property runs up close on
$lOO,OOO. Another fire broke out in the Kin-Le-
Youen godowns, the property of the Shanghai Steam
Navigation Company, on the 17th, but it was
promptly suppressed by the exertions of the officers
and crew of the company's steamers Urade and
Myune. A fearful explosion of a powder magazine
took place at Wychung, a Chinese city opposite
Hankow, on the 20th inst. It was attended with
great loss of life and property. The Viceroy's palace
was blown into the air. The French Consul at
Hankow, having had a difficulty with some villagers
about 20 miles distant from there, has taken a force
from the Lebrethon, a French gunboat, with a
large detachment of Franco-Chinese troops, to as-
sist a Chinese magistrate who has been deputed by
the Hankow Dapota to adjust matters. General
Le Gendre, United States' Consul at Amoy, has
made a treaty with the pirate savages on the coast
of Formosa, under which shipwrecked seamen are
to be protected. The body of Mrs. Hunt, wife of
the captain of the bark Rover, who was killed by
the savages, has teen recovered. The body of Lieu-
tenant M'Kenzie, of the United States' ship Hart-
ford, who was killed by the savages, has been re-
moved from Tai Wing to Hong Kong, and will be
sent home to America. The latest market review

Some time ago we gave the abstracts of several
projects for improving the watter supply of the
metropolis. Another has been added to the already
lengthy list by Mr. Bateman, C.E., which is worthy
of attention, though there are a great- many diffi-
culties in the way of its adoption. That gentleman
suggests that no scheme having reference to the
water supply is worthy of consideration which
would not be calculated to bring in 200,000,000
gallons per day to the metropolis. The quantity
should supply the whole, or nearly the whole of the
metropolitan district by gravitation without pump-
ing. The nearest district from which such a quan-
tity of water could be obtained under such con-
ditions is that lying on the flanks of the mountain
ranges of Cader Idris and Plinlimroon, in North
Wales, and forming the upper basin of the main tribu-
taries of theißiver Severn. Here Mr. Bateman sug-
gests a large fall of rain may be expected on ac-
count of the direction of .the mountain chains, the
heights of the summits, their proximity to the
sea, their geographical position, and their physical
peculiarities. Then assuming by means of various
data drawn from other similar districts what would
be the amount of rainfall, Mr. Bateman proceeds to
compute the area of drainage ground required to
supply the necessary quantity of water, and he
selects two districts, one of 66,000 acres in area,
forming the drainage ground of the rivers Banw and
Vyrnwy, which join the Severn about halfway be-
tween Welshpool and Shrewsbury, and the other dis-
trict of about equal area, forming the drainage
ground of the upper portion of the River Severn pro-
per. The discharge pipes of the lowest reservoir in
each of these districts would be placed at an elevation
of about 450 feet above the level of Trinity high-
water mark. The water would be conducted by se-
parate aqueducts of 19 and 21k miles in length re-
spectively to the point of juncture near Martin
Mere, a little to the north-east of the town of Mont-
gomery, whence the joint volume of the water
would be conducted by a common aqueduct, cross-
ing the river Severn close to the town of Bridge-
north, and passing near to Stourbridge, Bromsgrove
Henley-in -Arden, Warwick,Bantury, Buckingham,
Aylesbury, Tring, Berkhampstead, and Watford,
to the high land near Stanmore, where extensive
service reservoirs must be constructed, which would
be at an elevation of at least 250 feet above Trinity
high water mark. From these reservoirs the water
would be delivered to the metropolis at high
pressure," and under the constant supply system.
The entire length of aqueducts necessary would be
183 miles, and would be capable of conveying
220 million gallons of water per day. Mr. Bateman
observes that the works would be exceedingly simple
in their construction, presenting no difficulties of an
engineering character, and the total outlay he esti-
mates at a sum of £8,600,000, and when we are
told by the same authority that the present water
companies have recently expended nearly £4,000,000
sterling in merely extending their works in order to
meet the increased demand upon them, it really
does appear an astonishing thing and quite incredi-
ble to the uninitiated that an outlay of little more
than double should be sufficient for carrying out
so prodigious an undertaking. He also suggests
the advisability of buying up the existing water-
works in London, and in that case £22,000,000
would approximately represent the necessary esti-
mates. With regard to the present condition of the
London water supply, it appears that an average
daily quantity of about 100,000,000 gallons of wa-
ter is now required for the three millions of popula-
tion. Half of this quantity is abstracted from
the river Thames, and the other half from the river
Lea and from deep wells on the easterly and northerly
sides of London. Upon the present gross popula-
tion, therefore, the average supply is about 30
gallons per head per day, and if the increase of the
water supplied were to keep pace with the increase
of population, the daily supply required 20 years
hence would be about 150,000,000 gallons. It ap-
pears that by the various Acts of Parliament which
were passed in 1852, authorising the withdrawal of
water from the River Thames, the maximum quan-
tity which the water companies are empowered to
take is 100,000,000 gallons per day, and Mr. Bate-
man assures us that there is no adequate source
within the means of any of these companies to
which they can resort, and therefore it becomes a
matter of urgent necessity that the question should
be liberally considered while there is yet time to
execute the requisite works for obtaining a more
ample supply from other distant sources. He sug-
gests, therefore, that no narrow considerations of
parsimonious economy ought to interfere with the
execution of any large and comprehensive scheme
which would give us for many years an abundant
supply, and there is no doubt that the present sys-
tem of supplying the metropolis with water urgently
demands prompt and energetic reform.

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family physician in the numerous illnesses and accidents
that occur among children and servants. For many of
these cases I have used Davis's Pain Killer, and consider
it an indispensable article in the medicine box. In diar-
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taking it inwardly and applying it outwardly; and before
1 had used one bottle 1 found myself a new man. It was
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bottle of the genuine has the words PAIN KILLER, on
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An important communication has been recently
laid before the Academy of Sciences at Vienna respect-
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Lamy has discovered that by using thallium instead of
potash the density and refractive powers of the glass are
greatly increased.
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The reception of his Royal Highness the Duke of
Edinburgh in the fifth quarter of the globe is the subject
of a leader in the Times. It would have us bear in mind
that in that immense continent and in the other Austral-
asian islands there have now sprung up seven colonies, run-
:ling a race of prosperity, getting on towards two millions
of British subjects, the greater part of whom have only
heard of British Royalty and its surrounding institutions.
But the sentiment is in the blood ; the bond cannot be
broken ; and as a gentle touch will rule the steed which
a hard hand 'only infuriates, the mild policy of these
days proves stronger than the rod of iron was found
in the last century. We may be amused, we must
be delighted, yet with now and then a passing thought
of sadness, at the enthusiasm which has dri- nn the
populous communities of South Australia and Vic-
toria almost beside themselves. Loyalty never
went to such excesses at home, where we are still
numbered among the king-ridden, priest-ridden nations,
and where it is still wise to " fear the King."
Think, exclaims our contemporary, of balls attended by
nine hundred dancers, in magnificent rooms, and with the
most costly decorations, in that huge drea.ry continent we
used to call New Holland, of which the only known
loeality was Botany Bay ! Think of thirteen thousand
school-children here, four thousand there, and a thousand
or two anywhere, being found singing " God save the
Queen," heard well two miler. off, and cheering still
louder ! Think of reviews of volunteer cavalry, infantry,
and artillery in a region where, a few years ago, one
believed a white man could hardly show himself !
There has been no such instance of spontaneous
growth. Convicts can hardly be thought an encourage-
ment to colonisation ; but.-4at Adelaide they never' had
convicts, and at Melbourne the element is quite inap-
preciable. These are not favoured colonies, protected
plantations, commercial monopolies, but simply gather.
ings of British subjects, quietly and peaceably
elbowed out of this island, and making the best of their
case by looking for elbow-room elsewhere. Happily, the
great bulk of them left without a quarrel, and have none
to cherish and transmit to their offspring. Some roots of
bitterness, indeed, remain. At Melbourne, it seems, the
irrepressible Orangeman made an appearance even on this
almost sacred occasion, and the irrepressible native Irish-
man was there to accept the challenge. An Orange trans-
parency in front of the Orange Hall rather naturally pro-
voked attack, met, we grieve to read, with deadly weapons.
Otherwise the whole socne, and the temper everywhere
sliming itself, are as much like the first step to a British
Millennium as one can reasonably expect in our time.
True, they do not seem quite up to ceremonials ; they can-
not be placed or timed by card or clockwork ; their ideas
of precedence are hazy, and, for want of method, they do
a world of work which hardly makei a show, but the
spirit is the same.
The Post also takes up the theme, believing that the
Australians have shewn in a most unmistakable and
acceptable manner the affection they retain for the family
of the sovereign under whose mild and now almost imper-
ceptible rule they have made such enormous progress.
The account of the brilliant reception given to the Duke
of Edinburgh by the people of Melbourne comes to us from
over the sea with a peculiarly touching and cheerful sound
in these times when treason is stalking abroad at home,
and whenaye are all asking ourselwes whether, indeed, the
English GOvernment and people deserve all the evil which
has been said of them. The people of America seem for
the present to hive none but the bitterest feelings for the
land from which they sprung, and there appears but too
great a probability that many generations must elapse
before the mutual jealousy and distrust which have arisen
from the mistakes and selfishness of both countries will
die away. The Australians, whose origin is the same,
have had a very different history, and these manifesta-
tions of feeling with which they have received an English
prince, and which shew that they still remember the old
Country with love, are a proof that we have profited by
the bitter experience afforded by the loss of our first great
,offshoot.

The Daily News replies to the observations of the Stan-
dard on its publishing an appeal for funds for the defence
of Burke. It remarks : The bare mention of a fair trial is
at any time sufficient to throw the Stvndard off his
balance. A fair trial is what he refuses to his enemies,
and deprecates for his friends. Whenwe complained that
Mr. Gordon's life had been taken without a.-fair trial, the
Standard was astonished at the objection ; when we de-

manded that Mr. Eyre should be put upon his trial, we
were told that we were persecutors. But so it is : a court
of justice always seems to us the most august and sacred
thing upon earth.' The point of view from which it is
regarded as a place where magistrates and counsel
Inca to run down an accused person, because he
is accused, is Continental rather than English.
The Standard, nevertheless, thought that Mr.
Eyre was only acting like a prudent, sensible man
when he was regulating his movements so as to avoid
facing the Chief Justice. We entertain no hope of con-
Verting the Standard to views so widely different from his
own, but we have no objection to give him this short
ixplanation. One word more: if any persons, afterreading
Sur contemporary's article, feel inclined to send us a sub-
per]ption for Colonel Burke, we beg them to note that NIT(
'rave not invited, and shall not receive such contribution.
The suggestion that we were ready to do so is not cowl•
tenanted by anything that we have said, but is simply
product of the imagination. It is notorious that Iv(
tuulormly decline to receive subscriptions for any purpose '
As to the Standard's question, with which we started, w,
do 'not feel that our course respecting Fenianism has
been so equivocal as to require explanation at this time of
day. .

In remarking on the application made to the Court of
Queen's Bench, to remove Burke's trial from Warwick to '
the Old Bailey, the Herald observes that probably, though
less was said about the pecuniary aspect of the removaito
Warwick, the real reason fur the application is to be
found in the statement that if the prisoners are taken
down there their defence will cost a great deal more than
it would if they were to bs tried at the Old Bailey. But
it really cannot see why this should influence the decision.
The Fenian Brotherhood, which seems able to give whole-
sale cash orders for firearms and munitions of war, can
scarcely be hard up for a hundred or two when their agents
have come to grief through their industry in spending the
brotherhood's funds in the way most accordant with the
brotherhood's wishes and most promotive of the brother-
hood's designs. It would, of course, be sorry to see any one
standing in the dock to answer a serious charge, precluded
by actual poverty from making the best defence he could
under the circumstances. But at present there is no reason
to apprehend this. At each examination Burke especially
has been well represented ; nor• is it believed that a pri-
soner who can fee counsel will be in any difficulty about
securing the attendance of witnesses. Mr. Coleridge,
indeed, said that treason-felony was an imperial crime,
and one which, therefore, ought to be tried in London.
The answer is, that the people of Warwickshire are as
much interested in the preservation of the Constitution as
the dwellers in the metropolis ; that most of the act:
'charged were done in their neighbourhood. •
The Standard maintains that the facts connected with
the dismissal of fourteen volunteer officers must be
thoroughly sifted. Was the commanding officer of the
" Havelocks " asked, first by his noncommissioned and
then by his commiaioned officers, to resign? Did he
agree to resign ? Did he solicit the forbearance of his
Subalterns ? Did they memorialise the War Department
through the lord-lieutenant of the county rather than
through the lieutenant-colonel of the regiment? Was
there any correspondence between the War Office and the
headquarters of the corps before the order for
dismissal
came ? Was that order peremptory, without previous
inquiry or reference to facts outside of the statemvenrt coonsc;
tamed in the memorial? Here. is a topic, whate e
of the utmost impor-
tancemaybe put upon the special in
c'ulentt:s have for a lw, tin
to volunteers. Many regimen
their
selection of officers. They mistook
ua popularity
been
e menconspicuously
pTelanin they
aveeli; -s
regretted, and not unreasm regirnedtild,
i orinal
practical capacity; c.alpnadeiitcyb;o thebayd chose
fisnoornaPtillrayw I movement. It waa a . mista.ke. Ot.ir con-
tempoPary does not now slirnabse Mr. Cruikslaank
or anyone else peculiarly ; bus in proportion as our
rifle force becomes more genuinely military, it
will require in its commanding officers qualities approach
ing at least the military standard.
The Telegraph,, while regretting that such an occurrence
snould have taken place, points out that discipline must be
maintained in volunteer as well as regular regiments, and
it is astonished that fourteen gentlemen, bearing commis-
sions, could be found so ignorant of law and usage as to
forward a round robin to the lord-lieutenant direct, in-
stead of sending it through the commanding officer.
Patience and obedience are essential to any soldier, but
especially to a volunteer, who may resign at any moment ;
and a careful observance of rules is not the less incumbent
on him. Defects in a commandant may justify resigna-
tion, but will not warrant a breach of discipline ; and
althoughin the present case there are extenuating circum-
stances, still good sense will uphold the decision of the
War Office. The painful incident reveals a great defect
in volunteer organisation ; the absence of any means by
which an officer, unfit in consequence of age or manifest
incompetence, can he removed from his command. The
remedy may not be easily discovered, but the evil is
serious, and it detracts from the efficiency of the force. At
the samettime, the duty of volunteer commanding officers
RbviouslY is, to retire when they no longer possess the con-
hence of a corps - and none should await perpetual requests
t 9 bring about their withdrawal.

In his paper, which is published in New York, Mr. John
Mitchel gives the following account of an interview between
himself and James Stephens, relative to the Fenian orga-
nisation :—" Exactly nine.years ago James Stephens came
to this country to organise the American branch of his
Irish revolutionary organisation. He came to me in East
Tennessee, stated his plans and resources, and required
rather than proposed that Meagher and myself should
place ourselves at the head of the organisation in the
United States, appeal to our countrymen here for money,
and plenty of money, and remit all to him. This was
cool. I questioned him closely upon the progress he had
=We in Ireland, and he assured me that he had then
(nine years ago) fifteen thousand sworn confederates (they
were not called Fenians) all armed with rifles. I did not
believe him. A few days later Meagher and myself met
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influence which he supposed us to possess amongst the Irish
citizens of the United States, in order to procure money
for the purposes of that conspiracy. It was a startling
proposal. Unfortunately for him, we could not believe his
statements, and speedily arrived at the conclusion at which
many others have since arrived, that he was a humbug.
It was in vain he told us that our antecedents and the
position we held (as he said) amongst Irish patriots im.
posed on us the duty to place ourselves in the hands of him,
James Stephens, as the only representative and standard-
tearer of the Irish national cause, and with full confidence
in him, his promises, and pretentions, ask our countrymen
settled here for their hard-earned dollars, and plenty of
them. Now, Meagher and I knew very well that the Irish-
born citizens of the United States would be free enough
with their dollars, if they only felt some confidence that
their contributions would he honestly and intelligently used
for the purpose of freeing their native land ; but we had
more than scruples in this case. It will always be a source
of gratification to me that my friend and myself felt and
acted alike on the proposition made to us by that most
plausible gentleman. I told Mr. Stephens that, although
fully bent upon taking advantage of any legitimate occa-
sion and opportunity for liberating our country and
destroying British power, we had never yet asked our
countrymen to contribute to a revolutionary fund, because
we had not any assurance that it would be properly and
effectively used ; that we believed no opportunity whatso-
ever then existed for a revolutionary movement in Ireland,
England being at peace with all the world ; that we de-
clined, therefore, to make ourselves responsible in the eyes
.of the whole Irish race at home and abroad by calling on
them to pour into our hands the savings of years—as we
know they would—on the mere faith of his assurance that
he was going to overturn the British Empire. Thereupon
Mr. Stephens attempted to assume a rather lofty and
peremptory style of discourse ; told us of our duties, and
of the responsibilities to which we would one day be held.
This tone did not answer. We declined to be informed of
our duties by him ; and he very soon took un his hat and
left the house."

CHANGE OF NATIONALITY.

At the weekly meeting of the Jurisprudence Department
of the Society for the Promotion of Social Science, a paper
was read by Mr. John Westlake, "On Naturalisation
and Expatriation, or a Change of Nationality." After a
discussion, in which Mr. Moseley, Mr. V. Harcourt, and
Mr. C. Anstey joined,

The Chairman, the Right Hon. Sir ROBERT PHILLIMORE,
D.C.L., Dean of Arches, &c., said : A subject so im-
portant must sooner or later be pressed upon the attention
of our Government and the Government of the United
States, and probably must be pressed upon the attention
of every civilised Government. If I entered the room
with a strong conviction of the necessity for some
definite change, and of the difficulty of effecting it,
both these convictions are strengthened. The matter
requires most ample discussion, and is to be viewed
from many different positions, I entirely agree that
the true international law is that when a foreigner enters
the dominions of another State he is in all respects to
be amenable to the laws of that State. But the real
difficulty is to say when one of our subjects definitely
leaves us, for no one can say that a person travelling
abroad for, his pleasure has definitely left the country.
Such a person ought to travel with the protection
of his own country, but that does not extend, of
course, to his violation of the municipal law of the
foreign country at all. But he should not be placed
in a worse position than the citizen of the foreign country
guilty of a similar offence ; he should have fair play.
I should be sorry to countenance the idea that when a
citizen left England he ceased to have any care over him,
or that he ceased to have any claim upon the State. I
think the domicile itself would not be a discreet or sufficient
test of the expatriation of a person, for many circum-
stances may occur to protract it, constraining him to remain
abroad. Though the domicile might be an element, it
could not be the only criterion of expatriation. (Hear,
hear.) The rule of law to be introduced must be one on
which the two States—the one he left and the one to
which he has gone—must agree. Very early during the
civil war in America was forced upon our attention the
absolute necessity of coming to some. definite resolution
that should be adhered to as to the circumstances in which
the: British Government should extend protection to
British subjects in America, or refuse it ; and we
were all agreed that it could not be demanded as a
matter of right by a subject of Great Britain, who had
by his own acts incorporated himself in America by
domicile, by the purchase of land, or by the establish-
ment of a manufactory ; or had exercised the privilege
of voting, or taken the steps necessary to make himself
a citizen of the United States. We thought we had a
right to say that he had made his option, and never would
have called upon us for assistance if circumstances did not
make it convenient for him to do so, meaning all the time
to remain in America when the war was over, and only
desiring to evade the duties of a citizen of the country to
which he belonged. The American Government seemed
to acquiesce in that opinion, and declared that every
British subject who had entered the American States,
but had not formally become a citizen, should have the
option to remain or not remain in the country. With
regard to the competence of a country to punish for a
crime committed against it in another country, I am in-
clined to agree with Mr. Harcourt. It is a monstrous
thing that any technical rule of venue should prevent jus-
tice being done and criminals being properly tried for an
offence, committed in this country perhaps, but the execu-
tion of which was concocted in another ;.but I am not pre-
pared to say if the criminal, being a foreigner, was accused
of a crime against a third State, that this country ought
to administer criminal justice in regard to him. That,
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for instance, in Naples, because the action is civil and not!
English subject abroad should ;lot be tried in this country,
if the criminal be in this country. Where a conspiracy is
formed abroad against thiecountry, the conspirator, if a,
British subject, ought to tie tried here findd if he be a
foreigner, I don't see why he should refuge in the
State he tried to injure. It would be stretching the law of
hospitality very far to say that he should not be punished
in this
mhe isIA WM then Adjourned to Monday, the 27t.
discus
instant;

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The intelligence received from Abyssinia is most
encouraging. We have two separate telegrams,
both happily of a satisfactory character. The one
has been received by the Secretary of State from
Colonel STANTON at Cairo, the other has just
arrived from Suez by the Malta and Alexandria
Telegraph. The latter, which is dated Suez, Jan. 13,
says that the Chief of the Tigre, about whose inten-
tions there existed, it will be remembered, con-
siderable doub,, has declared himself to be friendly
to the expeditionary force. Mere words or pro-
fessions might not be very reliable, but he has
given substantial proofs of his good disposi-
tion. Ile has offered to victual the troops, and
and has already sent 2,000 bullocks for their use.
This is most valuable help, better, indeed, than as
many men would be, since our expeditionary force
is amply sufficient, and the only cause for anxiety
has been the uncertainty as to the means of victual-
ling the troops. The supply of water at Annesley,
according to the same telegram, is abundant, so
that we may consider the worst evils that were
ap-
prehended to have disappeared. The message sent
by Cololltl STANTON to the Indian Secretary con-
tains the substance of a communication which he
had received from Col. MEREWETHER, dated Senafe,
Dec. 28. Col INIEREWETIIER reports that he has visited
Attegerat, at a distance of 30 miles from Senafe,
and had ascertained that the road thi,her could
easily be made available for camels and mules. A
large market, it seems, is held at Attegerat every
Monday, the water and grass is abundant, and the
population had received him favourably. The epi-
demic among the horses had disappeared. No
further letters had been received from the captives,
but very probably that was.owing to the disturbed
state of the country. The latest reports which had
reached Colonel MEREWETHER state that THEO-
DORE had approached Lasta ; the WAGSHUM had
advanced to meet him, and that they were close
to one another. In this case it is possible that the
work may be taken out of our hands, and that
THEODORE may meet his inevitable defeat from
other adversaries. There are, Col. MEREWETHER
tells us, many reports afloat, though none trust-
worthy.
We heard yesterday, by the telegram from An-
nesley, dated Jan. 4, that Sir ROBERT NAriEn had
arrived, and had forthwith proceeded to the front,
so that we may consider that everything is in good
trim for an immediate advance. So far as matters
have yet gone we have every reason to be hopeful of
the result, since the worst and most deadly enemies
with which we were threatened, fever and famine,
have as yet given us no reason to apprehend their
attacks.

The Government at Vienna, according to the
Frondenbladt, arc about to make some alterations
of a peculiar kind, for the Minkter of War is said
to be reducing the army, or thinking how to do so,
and the post of Commander-in-Chief is to be sup-
pressed in a short time. Whether this be true or
not is as yet doubtful ; but, as any rate, its report
shows that as yet there is no likelihood of war en-
tertained. It seems an unwise thing to do
just at the present time when the attitude of
France and Prussia are so uncertain ; and
no doubt if these changes arc in contemplation, and
actually carried out, the EMPEROR and his advisers
will regret them before long. The Prussian Rail-
way Loan excites a good deal of anxiety just now,
but to judge by recent reports we may conclude
that all will be arranged satisfactorily in a short