The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-16 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Jan. 15.
The Queen and their Royal Highnesses Princess
Louise and Prince Arthur drove out yesterday
afternoon, attended by Colonel Ponsonby upon
horseback ; and her Majesty drove in the grounds
this morning, accompanied by Princess Louise.
Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess
Beatrice walked out.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.
The following gentlemen passed their primary examina-
tions iu anatomy and physiology at a meeting of the Court
of Examiners on the 4th inst., and when elig".ble will be
admitted to the pass-examination : Messrs. R H. Barker,
NV. S. Holroy(1, E. S. Lee, and Edward Walford, students
of St. George's Hospital; J. R. Joseph, Herbert Chabot,
G. S. Doulton, and 11. G. Turner, of Guy's Hospital ; J. C.
Gibson, Win. Sheard, A. A. Kidger, and P. R. Inches, of
King's College; A. J. Hogg, D. H. Goodsall, and Herbert
Goude, St. Bartholomew's Hospital; E. H. Patton, Dun-
can M'Larty, and W. J. Mickle, of Canada ; NV. G. Ran-
ger and F. H. Miller, of St. Thomas's Hospital ; C. K.
Hedge and G. S. Sharp, of Bristol ; John Deane and E. A.
Phillips, of University College; W. ll.lsletherelift, and
T. B. Turner, of Charing-cross Hospital ; J. F. Matthew's,
of the Middlesex Hospital ; and Arthur Hallam, of the
Sheffield School. It is stated that eight candidates out of
the 36 failed to acquit themselves to the satisfaction of the
Court, and were consequently referred to their anatomical
and physiological studies for the period of three months.

GENERAL CrAnura has resigned the post of Italian
Minister to the Court of Austria which had been con-
ferred upon him some months ago.
PRUSSIA AND FRANCE.—The Patrie remarks that " pri-
vate letters from Berlin state that the negotiations carried
on since January 1 between France and Prussia relative to
the recent events in Italy have led to a more intimate un-
derstanding between the two Governments. The Cabinet
of Florence will soon be made acquainted with these con-
versations, and it is hoped that Italy will accept an agree-
ment, the result of which would be a return to the normal
state of the September Convention."
THE SERVIAN QUESTION.--The Patric of iast evening
affirms that France has addressed energetic verbal commu-
nications to Belgrade in consequence of the warlike demon-
strations that have recently taken place in Servia, and
adds :—" Austria has given her support to this step;
England has also addressed a categorical note in the same
sense to the Servian Government ; and, finally, Prussia has
made analogous communications." The Patrie concludes
as follows :—"The step taken by Prussia, in accordance
with the other great Powers, will frustrate any efforts of a
nature to disturb the peace of Europe. The same Powers
have addressed counsels of moderation to Bucharest."
EASTERN AFFAIRS. —A Russian journal, the Northern
Post, in its review of the events of the past year says :
" Russia does not require either enlargement of her terri-
tory or increase of her influence over the populations
of the East. She demands, however, the co-operation
of the European Powers in promoting the welfare
of the Christian subjects of Turkey, by which the
occcurrence of a cataatrope will be averted."—
Le Bulletiri, International says that a confidential "note"
has been addressed by Prussia to Prince Charles of Rou-
mania, suggesting that he should be most prudent in his
relations with Russia, as it is the interest of the Danubian
Principalities to wait for the decision of the Western Powers
on the Eastern question, and take sides according to final
diplomatic decisions.

TEE UNITED STATES. learn by telegram !rota
Washington that the House of Representatives has rejected
the bill passed by the Senate abolishing the tax upon the
cotton crop of 1868.----A Philadelphia correspondent con-
siders that, "on the whole, while the new year dawns
gloomily upon America, the future is regarded as
a Jromising one ; the period of depression is
thought to have passed its lowest point, and
the reassuring condition of the politics of the country will
probably soon re-establish confidence in trade, and bring
the disunited sections together again in friendship."--A
delegation from the South has arrived n Washington to
urge upon Congress the policy of lending the planters in the
cotton States 30,000,000 dols. at 6 per cent, to be secured
by mortgages on their crops, for the purpose of enabling
them to re-stock their devastated plantations. The Presi-
dent is said to favour it, and intends to send a message
to that body describing the impoverished condition
of the South. The recent changes in the Southern
commanders have been received with general satisfaction by
the press of that section. The Southern Conventions aro
doing nothing of any importance, the inability of the
delegates to get any pay for their services seeming to have
paralysed their efforts. All the funds in the Georgia State
Treasury have been removed to New York city to prevent
the Convention from seizing them. In Washington city
prominent lawyers are preparing arguments in a case to be
heard before the Supreme Court testing the constitutionalit
of the reconstruction laws.

COMMUNICATION WITH INDIA.-- Telegraphic intelligence
has arrived from Tiflis that the Persian Government has
joined the Russian and Prussian Governments in establishing
a two-wire telegraph line from the town of Nordeney (which is
the terminus of Reuter's cable between England and Prussia)
to India. Each Government will provide for the portion
of the entire line which lies within its own territory.
The three Governments have also agreed that this
new line is to be exclusively set apart for
Indo-European correspondence ; the existing State line,
from the time of its completion, being confined to local or
non-Indian messages. They have also agreed to intrust the
execution and working of the proposed line to Messrs.
Siemens Brothers, of London, who have branch firms at
Berlin and at St. Petersburg. That firm propose to
carry out the work by means of an English
company, thus securing that telegraphic communication
to India shall no under British control and under
one management. The cost of the line, as far as
Teheran, where the lines of the Government of India com-
mence,i will be £400,000 including a submarine cable n
the Black Sea, which will be laid in order to avoid the
Caucasian mountains, where the existing lines are subject
to frequent interruptions. The co-operation of the Govern•
merit of India has also been promised, on the repro'
sentations of the Prussian and Russian Ministers in
London. The proposed line will establish a powerful
competition to the existing route through France or
South Germany, Austria, Turkey, and Asia Minor, to the
head of the Persian Gulf, with the advantage of being exe•
cuted and worked by an English company, which will ap-
point English telegraph clerks at all the stations. The ex,
isting lines to India have no English telegraph clerks
at any of their stations, and are under various ad-
ministrations until the Persian Gulf is reached.
The three Governments interested in opening IV
the proposed telegraphic route to India have evi4
dently adopted a prudent course in departing from
the principle they have hitherto acted upon of retaining all
telegraphs in the hands of the State, and in committing its
execution and working to English hands. The completion Of
the undertaking is promised within a twelvemonth from its
inception, and it is stated that forty words per minute
will be transmitted between London and Teheran ; the
tariff is also to be reduced to £3 10a for 20 words, and
£2 for 10 words, in the place of the existing tariff of
£5 ls.

THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. —The following telegram
comes from Aden, dated the 4th inst.:—The Bengal Brigade
is now passing this point en route for Annesley Bay-
Steamers from Abyssinia are hurriedly returning to Bombay
to bring up the remainder of the troops destined for the
expedition. From accounts that have been received from
Abyssinia it is believed that it will be absolutely necessary
to employ force to effect the liberation of the captives. An
officer attached to the expedition, writing from Annesley
Bay on the 30th ult., says :—" Water is still the great
difficulty, as there is not a drop within sixteen miles,
so it has to be landed from the ships. At Senafe, about
sixty miles off, where the advanced brigade (consist-
ing of the 3d Cavalry, 10th N. 1., and a Mountain
Battery) is, the climate is splendid, by all accounts just like
an English spring ; here the average is 88 deg. The Scinde
Brigade (33d and 25th N.I. Belooches, and G. 14 R.A) are
waiting for transport before they can start, though a few
companies go every night. The G. 14's march tonight to
the foot of the mountains, sixteen miles, where the first water
is ; but from what one hears they don't seem likely to get
much further at present, as the passes are something awful, just
wide enough for one mule at a time, about the same
gradient as the side of a house, and twisting like
a dozen corkscrews all in one. However, if guns
ever are to be got up, I believe they are the fellows
to do it, a splendid set of men, and beautifully
horsed. The mountain guns that have come out faun
England are most perfect little things. The navy is to be
represented up country by a rocket party, only a hundred
men, and I am sorry to say your most obedient is not one of
them. The country is as full of game as it can hold ; plenty
of deer, bustard, and spur fowl, within a few miles, but the
want of water is a great inconvenience, as you have to take
every drop with you."
ANOTHER SHOCKING INSTANCE OF DESTITUTION was r 0•
vealed at an inquest held last night at the Duke of Wellington
Tavern, North-street, Bethnal-green, touching the death
of Elizabeth Wright, aged forty years. William Wright,
a wretched-looking man, deposed that he was a
weaver, but that for the last eight months he
had worked in the parish stoneyard, as he could
get no other employment. He lived with deceased, his
wife, at No. 7, Scott-street, paying is Od a week rent.
Deceased was ailing : last Saturday be fetched the parish
doctor to her. He afterwards went to the surgery, and 131)0
his return he found her dead. The family income for the
last eight months was as follows :--For the first five months
witness was paid Bd. a day by the parish ; for about two
months they gave him 10d a day, or 5s a week, and for the
last three weeks, by a new order, they allowed him to earn is
a day by breaking six bushels of stones a day. He would
have broken more to get more halfpence, but they would
not let him exceed the six bushels a day. They paid hint
one half in money and the other half in bread and tea. If be
had applied for extra things for his wife they would hoe
stopped it out of what he earned by stone breaking, and then
he could not have paid his rent and lived. The coroner Said
that he was sure the parish authorities would not have acted
as the witness supposed. The witness with great earnestness
said he knew they would. The deceased used sometimes
to earn 6d per week by binding shoes at 4d a dozen. Witnes9
had seven grown up children by his first wife, but they colld
only support themselves. Deceased was very badly clothed;
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they had hardly any bed. They had lain almost on the bare
boards for eight months past. Other witnesses corroborated
the man Wright, and testified to his honesty, sobriety, i
industry. Mr. J. Defries, parish surgeon, said that wb,e,':
called in to the deceased be saw that she did not want rneo_le
tine, but food and comfort. He gave a certificate to
her received into the infirmary, as suffering from bronchT:
and destitution, and she agreed to go, but she died tb
same evening. The jury returned a verdict that deceased
died from bronchitis, and that her death was accclerata
want of food and eznostue.