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dently taken great pains with the matter, and
sought to render the task as light as possible, but it
remains matter of doubt whether the venture will be
a successful one or no. The discussion in the Senate
on the Army Bill still goes on, and various
opinions are given thereupon, but it seems that
the bill is very unpopular throughout the
country. We do not suppose, however, that
these considerations will weigh very much with the
EMPEROR and his councillors. At any rate, the
Report on the financial affairs of France has been
more satisfactory than was expected, and that is
encouraging in the present depressed state of things.
It must inspire confidence in quarters where doubt
prevailed previously, and render the position of the
French Government more secure. M. MAGNE may
be congratulated upon having got over his awk-
ward task in so successful a style ; and if the expec-
tations he holds out are realised, even partially,
there will be no great reason to fear for the pros-
pects of the future.

Mr. ROEBUCK has been exhibiting his common
sense and downright action under circumstances of
difficulty. He has raised his voice against unfair
combinations and unwarrantable strikes in the hot-
bed of trades unionism ; but we venture to say that
he never delivered a speech during his life which
did him more credit than the address he last night
made to the large audience of working men in Shef-
field. The subject was " Capital and Labour," and
the hon. member proceeded to put before his hearers
the plain truths connected with the subject in his usual
effective manner. He intimated at the commencement
that he was not speaking as a member of the
Trades' Union Commission, but as member for

effield only. He urged upon his hearers the im-
portance of keeping their mind under the dominion
of reason, a piece of sage counsel, but which un-
fortunately was not attended to by many. Various
modes are employed in different countries to keep
down the excess of the demand for labour, and Mr.
ROEBUCK observes that in England the trades
unions perform the ungracious task, add this is not
the least cruel mode that can be employed.
When we study the true nature of this
proceeding, we find that it is " cruel,
selfish, and grossly unjust." It interferes directly
with the privilege of the working man to provide
.for his family according to his ability, and it also
forbids him to use the talent and opportunities be-
stowed upon him by Providence by imposing arbi-
trary restrictions and condemning him to keep within
narrow limits. Nothing is more effectual than an
illustration, and Mr. ROEBUCK did a wise thing
when he put forward an instance of cruelty and op-
pression displayed by the trades 1111iJI1 authorities,
and showed their utter disregard of principle and

recklessness of consequences.
A working man in Sheffield had adopted his
brother's child, an orphan, and as the best means
of providing him with a livelihood he apprenticed
him with his own son to himself to learn his trade.
Forthwith he was waited upon by the authorities
of the union, who objected to his nephew being
bound as an apprentice on account of his being the
son of one who was not a member of their trade.
In vain the man represented that the boy was an
ophan, and could not learn a trade if he were
cast off. They were inexorable, and threatened
all sorts of things unless their demands were
complied with. The result Mr. ROEBUCK has not
yet heard of, but heF pointed out the consequences
of such zonduct, and its foul iniquity in the abstract.
Their hearts were, indeed, " hard as the nether
millstone, and they were not only crud, but pre-
eminently selfish." Such an act as this is, indeed,

an offence against GOD and man, and an outrage
of our laws, human and divine. To cast an help-
less orphan on the world as an outcast is a crime
that cannot be palliated by any sophistry of argu-

men', and this, as it was well described
in the lecture befure us, was done in a

great city in a Christian country by working men
who are for ever appealing to just principles of

liberty and virtue," The hon. member concluded
by cautioning them against any renewal of violence,

and declaring that public opinion had declared

against them, for recont disclosures had deeply
affected men's minds. 'We hope that this impres-

sive language may have due effect, and that the
earnest eloquence and solemn truths here met with
may receive the attention they deserve.

The meetings of the Royal Geographical Society
at Burlington House are always attractive to in-
tellectual and cultivated minds ; but it is no wonder
that last evening the large room 11 as densely
crowded, and the audience fUll of eager interest in
the proceedings. Mr. YOUNG, of the LIVINGSTONE
Search Expedition, read his report to the Society,
and gave a most interesting account of the course
of his journey and of the evidence which induced
him and his colleagues to believe that the illustrious
traveller was still alive and pursuing his arduous
journey. The principal members of the Asso-
ciation fully concurred in Mr. YOUNG'S opi-
nion, and even Sir SAMUEL BAKER, who has
from the first been apprehensive of the
worst tidings, admitted that the intelligence obtained
was most satisfactory. He still feared for the con-
sequences of Dr. LIVINGSTONE'S journey amid so
many great dangers, but it is a great point to know
that the terrible tale of the Johanna men had
actually no foundation in fact. It is to be regretted
that the gifted President of the society, who stoutly
kept up hope when all else were hopeless, was pre-
vented by illness from presiding on an occasion so
interesting to him; but he must have rejoiced to find
that his confidence was so well placed. Mr. YOUNG'S
report states that the people received the expedition
in a most friendly spirit, and were very ready to give
the desired information. At Moponda, where they
arrived on the 28th of September, Mr. YOUNG saw
the mother of the chief of the district. She said
that an Englishman had been there a year before,
had stopped three weeks to rest his party, and then
left. The Johanna men afterwards returned that
way. The Englishman was a great friend with her
son, who ndoitedletthearney,
aonnde moles molest him.
the old lady
laughed e
do thefatßh
the idea
ua
rl dt
y
of LIVINGSTONE having been
killed. " I felt convinced that had he died there,"
said Mr. YOUNG, "we should have heard it from
some of the numbers I questioned on the
subject. There seems, indeed, no reason to doubt
this, since not in this part only, but all along the
route, the,peoplo were ready with their answers."
More than one of the natives on the route had
helped to carry LIVINGSTONE'S baggage, and they
were, as Mr. YOUNG tells us, full of complaints
about their neighbours, and only too ready to
inform against them. Such a remarkable event
as the murder of an Englishman could hardly
have been concealed by so many persons totally
unconnected with each other, and we may there-
fore hope and believe for the best.

FATAL GUN ACCIDENT TO A FARMER.—Mr.
James Shoosmith, a fanner, went to the Red Lion
Magham Down, on Wednesday, to see a friend, and
while in the house stood his loaded gun over the fence
of a little shrubbery in front of the inn. On leaving
he went to take his gun, holding the muzzle towards
him as he took it over the fence. From some cause the
hammer fell, and the contents entered the right side of
the face and head of the unfortunate man. He died im-
mediately.

VORRESPMENOE PROM PARIS.

Cit, OUR- OWN-.CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS. MONDAY, -.Titill/it

M. lklagne's statement bas just appeared. It surpfised
no mid. It had been anticipated that a loan of at least
400,000,0001 r; would be necessary, and public feeling is

somewhat relieved that it is not larger. One grievance at
a thine. The military laii at Piesent absorbs attention,
and leaves room for no other complaints.

I) Trade is slack in Paris and in the provinces, and if you
belieVe tradesmen and market reports, business is as near
as possible at a standstill. Several of our manufacturers
continue to diminish the number of their hands. I fear
that the addition of 440,000,000 francs to the burdens of
the State will not tend to strengthen confidence. The assur-
ance that it is a peace loan deceives nobody. Peace is, no
doubt, what we want, but it is peace upon a different
appui than 1,280,000 bayonets can give. Of course, mili-
tary expenditure when bank coffers are suffering from re-
pletion will give some sort of temporary relief. Orders are
out, it is said, for 1,200,000 pairs of boots for our
army and 800,000 for the Austrian army, which
may help to put the sons of St. Crispin into good
humour, but cannot possibly give more than a fictitious
stimulus to trade. In the midst of this stagnation I take
it as a proof of n sensible administration that the Com-
pagnie du Chemin de fer du Nord has been authorised to
reduce its rates for coal and coke to Paris and Rouen 40
centimes (4d.) per ton. On this point I may notice a state-
ment in the Charleroi iron trade report. The reductions
in the prices of coke and of labour have enabled the
employers to keep their works going, " these circumstances
being to the producer equivalent to a rise in price." At
the present moment, the report adds, English m akers
cannot compete in our markets. I observe that Russia
has just given out a contract for 1,600 tons of iron at
Charleroi.

The Moniteur contains a statement by the manufac-
turers of Elbceuf of the depressed state of their industry—
the woollen trade. They state that they are finding em-
ployment for their hands at a loss to themselves. One-
third of their winter productions they have had to dispose
of at a great sacrifice. They do "not take the liberty of
raising a question of principle," but they " cannot avoid
remarking that, under the protective system, our interests
increased, and its products were made perfect ; and that
since the commercial treaties they have diminished in
value and, generally speaking, lost the qualities that for-
merly distinguished them ; that we have had serious
losses, and that we are now in a state of crisis, the con-
sequences of which are incalculable." It is not unlikely
that an official investigation will be made into these
allegations.

It is reported that the Due de Persigny is about to favour
the public with a second letter, the subject to be the right
of assembly. If he is as much a friend to freedom of
public meeting as he is to the freedom of the press, and
no more, the duke will not add much to his popularity
Apropos of this subject, Reform banquets are being organised
in various towns. The Patriote des Alpes reports a ban.
quet at the small town of Pont-de-Beauvoisin, where the
" Marseillaise " was sting, and, as was to be expected, the
authorities interfered.

The Opinion Nationale is to be prosecuted for an article
headed " The 19th of January." The offence is that it
excited to hatred and contempt of the Government.
The Constitutionnel contradicts the rumours that have
been current of the intention to send M. Benedetti be.
Florence. Had that taken place, it would have bees
accepted here as a proof that the Italian Government have
recovered their position in the favour of the Emperor.
But M. Benedetti remains at Berlin for the present.
The news from Naples is not favourable to the House of
Savoy. The Duke and Duchess of Aosta have been coldly
received, the visit of Victor Emmanuel is deferred, and
the Bourbon demonstrations !grow more lively. Cholera
rages in Calabria, especially at Reggio, and brigandage in
several of the provinces is more audacious than ever. The
Syndic of San Vittorio has been obliged to payr.a ransom
of 59,000 f., besides suffering the loss of one ear. A leader
named Mora is the brigand in chief of the moment.
Some thousands of Poles, who were transported for their
share in the late rebellion, have recently been allowed to
return to Poland, or, as it is now Russiiied, the Vistula
Provinces.

News reaches us from Spain that fresh risings are appre-
hended. Some emphatic declarations have recently been
made by the President of the Council in the Chamber of
Deputies to assure the public of the loyalty of the Queen
and her Ministers to the Constitution. These, it is believed,
were inspired by the bad reports from the provinces with
respect to the projects of the partisans of the grandson of
Don Carlos. The widow of the latter has, it is said, trans-
mitted forty million reals in view of a sozaavement general
of the Carlists. They are probably the most powerful
party in the country, including as they do a very large
proportion of the bishops and clergy, and heaven knows
there are abuses enough to feed the flame of revolution.
A terrible storm broke over Havre two days ago. The
building ,in course of erection for the Maritime Ba'thi.
bition was a good deal injured by the wind.

ACTION FOR SLANDER.--In the Court of Exchequer,
oefore Mr. Baron Bramwell and a common jury, the case
Df Challis v. Woodin came on for hearing. The plaintiff,
Samuel Challis, entered the service of the defendant, who
kept Woodin's Shades, Bishopsgate, as potman, at a
salary, if he gave satisfaction, of £3O a year, with board
and lodging. After a few weeks, the defendant gave him

notice to leave, and when he had gone, a railway porter
called upon the defendant for the plaintiff's character.
On that occasion the defendant was said to have used
language to this effect : " I will not give him a
character ; he is a - scamp, a vagabond, and villain
and the biggest thief that ever stood behind a bar." The
defendant added, according to the testimony of the same

witness, that his barmaid had seen him take some silver
out of the till one morning. In consequence of this
slander, the plaintiff said he had been prevented getting
mother situation. The defendant, on being called,
swore positively that he made no such statements.
He said he became dissatisfied with the plaintiff as he

broke glasses and destroyed measures, and did not seem to
he a boy used to his particular kind of business. They
had no quarrel either before or at the time of his leaving.

What he said to the railway porter was this— that he could

not give the plaintiff a character as he was so careless in
his doings, and that his barmaid had said that on two oc-

ea ions she had missed money from behind the counter in
the morning. Ti. e railway porter observed, " Then, I
suppose, you call him a— thief ?" and he replied that he
could only say he was a careless fellow.—Upon this evi-
dence the jury found a verdict for the defendant.
ALLEGED INFRINGEMENT OF PATENT.—At the Sittings

in Banco, in the Court of Exchequer, before the Lord
Chief Baron and Barone Martin and Channel', the court

gave judgment in the case of Platt and others v. Higgins
and others. It has been repeatedly before the public. It
was an action for the infringement of a patent for certain

improvement 3 in the machinery used in carding wool,
and at the trial before Mr. Baron Martin inMiddlesex the
jury found a verdict for the plaintiffs. Subsequently a rule
was obtained for a new trial, and it was argued at con-
siderable length on both sides. Their lordships were of

opinion that no good grounds had been shown for a new

rial, and discharged the rule.
STEALING COATS FROM THE GENERAL POST OFFICE.-

Henry Brown, 40, Lagle-street, Red Lion-square, mail-
cart driver, was brought up before Sir Robert W. Carden,
at the Guildhall, charged with stealing coats from the pas-

sage leading to the letter-carriers' kitchen in the General
Pest Office.—James Pinch, a sorter in the Gene-
ral Post Office, said that on Saturday he received
a coat from Smee, and he hung it up in
a passage leading to the letter-carriers' kitchen.—
William Smee, a constable attached to the Post Office,
said he gave the coat produced to the last witness to hang
up in the passage, which he did about five o'clock, and
about twenty minutes to six o'clock he met the prisoner at
the foot of the stairs, leaving. He was then putting the
coat on. He said to the prisoner " Is that yourcoat you aro
putting on?" and he looked up frightened, and said " No,sir."
Witness took the prisoner into his private room, and left
him there in charge while he went and searched a cart
which prisoner said he drove, and found another coat that
had been taken from one of their sorters about a month
ago.—W. T. Chamberlain, a sorter, identified that coat as
his, which he had lost about a month ago. He gave
nobody authority to take it away.—Stephen Hirgs, a mail-
cart driver, in the employ of Mr. Bolton, a contractor for
the Post Office, produced a coat which had been stolen
from John Hall, a sorter, and which he (witness) had pur-
chased from the prisoner for 2s.—The prisoner was fully
committed for trial.
ROBBERY OF PLATE.--At the Central Criminal Court,
Henry Sturges, silversmith, pleaded guilty to an indict-
ment which charged him with stealing a quantity of spoons
and other goods, the property of Henry Holland and an-
other, his masters. The prisoner was a finisher of plate,
and had been for three years in the employment of the pro-
secutors, who carried on the business of manufacturing sil-
versmiths, at No. 16, Jewin-crescent. On the 7th January,
Mr. Holland attended a sale at Messrs.Debenham and Storr's
and purchased eighteen silver spoons, which he found to
bear his own marks, and which had passed through the hands
of the prisoner. It was afterwards discovered that the
spoons had been pledged with a pawnbroker in Sloane_
street for £3 75., in June 1866, and not being redeemed
were sent f, r sale. Duplicates for other property were also
found at the prisoner's house, and the property was
identified as having belonged to the prosecutors, from
whose premises it had been removed without their know-
ledge.— He was sentenced to nine months' hard labour.
ATTEMPT TO DROWN A THAMES POLICE INSPECTOR.—
At the Thames Police-court, Michael Lannon, a well-
known pugilist, was charged on a warrant with having
attempted to drown Daniel Taylor, an inspector of the
Thames division of police. A few days ago a prize-fight
took place in Long Marsh, which was attended by many
members of the ring. The party started from the Temple
Pier. Upon the arrival of the steamer at Tunnel Pier,
Wapping, Inspector Taylor, accompanied by other officers
of the Thames police, rushed on board and warned the
captain that lee had prize-fighters andthieves on board, and
that he was assisting in an illegal act. Inspector Taylor was
in official uniform. A cry was raised by several of the
fancy of " Drown the ; throw them overboard," and
Taylor was surrounded by the prisoner and others, who
actually made an attempt to throw him into deep water
some distance from the pier, and while a large
steamer was going up the stream, head against
tide. The captain and a prize-fighter interfered
when Inspector Taylor was partially over the rail and
his legs in the air. The steamer was backed astern, and
the inspector and his men forced out of the steamer. In
answer to Mr. Benson, the inspector said he was literally
thrown out of the steamer after the:attempt made tothrow
him overboard. The steamer was going ahead when he
was hanging over the rail, and if he had fallen into the
river he would have been cut to pieces by the
paddles. Other evidence was given, from which
it appeared that Sir Richard Mayne had given instruc-
tions to stop the fight if possible, and that Inspector
Taylor had received instructions at the last moment to go
on board the steamer and proceed to the place of meeting.
Last night Inspector Silverton, of the C division, went to
the Old Friar, Friar-street, where there was a dog-show,
and captured the prisoner among 160 of the fancy. Mr,
Benson remanded the prisoner for a week.
EX.TRAORDINARY VOISONING UASE.—A very strange
case of poisoning is reported from North Shields.
An old sailor, named Reed, got a bottle of medicine
from the Dispensary, and having taken three table-
spoonfuls of it, was seized with an attack of rigidity,
and shortly afterwards died. Medical evidence given
at the inquest showed that the man had been poisoned.
It was stated by the surgeon at the Dispensary that
deceased had been given a bottle containing four
ounces of chlorody ne in eight ounces of water. The
-
contents of the bottle are to be analysed, and in the
meanwhile the inquest stands adjourned.
ALLEGED EXTENSIVE DEFALCATIONS.—Yesterday,
at the Warrington Borough Court, George Parry,
who, for some years past, has been managing clerk in
the goods department of the Great Western Railway
at Bank Quay Station, was charged with embezzle-
ment. The prisoner absconded about a fort-
night ago, and the audit clerk of the Com-
pany, in subsequently examining his books, found
defalcations to a considerable amount. Infor-
mation was given to the police, and the prisoner
was arrested in London on Friday, and brought back
to Warrington on Saturday evening. He was re-
manded until this morning, bail to the amount of
£4OO being accepted for his re-appearance.
'TIE MURPHY RIOTS AT ASHTON AND STALY-
BRIDGE. —Mr. Murphy's lectures in Ashton and Staly-
bridge have caused much bad feeling between the
English and Irish populations, and apart from the
riots which have already been reported many persons
have been assaulted or threatened. In Stalybridge
a large number of special , constables have been
sworn in. At the Stalybridge Police-court, yestFr
day, Police-constable Grundy was charged with
wounding a lad named John M'Carty. It appeared
that the police were attracted to Back Castle-street
by a noise soon after twelve o'clock on the morning
of the 19th inst. When they got to the place they
found a large number of Irishmen and Irishwomen
assembled. The crowd had all armed themselves,
and said they had met to resist a mob of the
Murphyites, who were coming to destroy the
iron,
a in that neighbourhood. A bar of
a yard and a httlf long, and a brush handle, on which
a steel spike had been fastened, were taken by Grundy
from some one in the crowd. A number of witnesses
deposed that the defendant struck WCarty, and
though none could swear with what, some of them
believed he used the bar of iron. Several police-
officers swore positively that Grundy had not struck
the lad. The charge was dismissed.
ANOTHER FORTUNE-TELLING SWINDLE. —At the
Chesterfield Police-court yesterday, two gipsy women
were charged with fraudulently obtaining money
and goods from Mary Baker, a domestic servant, at
Moorgate, Rotherham. The prisoners gave their
names as Selina Smart and Rachel Lockett. One day
last week, Baker met the prisoner Smart, who said
she should like to tell her fortune. Baker asked what
the fee was, and Smart said Gd if told by the hand,
and is by the cards. Baker forthwith paid a shilling,
and she was then told there was mach happiness in
store for her. On Sunday she would meet a young
man, whose complexion was described, but Smart could
not say whether or not she would be married until she
" made the charm." A day or two afterwards, Smart
said she could not make the charm without some
other articles, and she thus obtained a dress, shawl,
skirt, and a pair of boots. On Sunday Lockett re-
turned with the boots, and said her companion could
not complete the charm, as the clothes were not good
enough. Baker then gave her another dress and
cloak, altogether clothing of the value of £2 10s, and
3s 8d in money. These facts having come to the
knowledge of her employer, Baker was required to
give the two women into custody. They were
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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Jan. 27.
The Queen walked in the grounds this morning,
attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe.
The other members of the Royal Family walked
in the grounds.

LATEST INTELL ME GE.

(R EUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION.

SUEZ, Jan. 27.

On the 18th the advanced ports were pushed for-
ward and occupied Goom Gooma, 12 miles. beyond
Senafe. It is probable that Sir Robert Napier will
in a few days advance with the leading troops to-
wards Antalo..