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London, England, 1868-01-25 00:00:00

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LONDON, SA7URDAY, JAN. 25, 1868

It is some time since the good citizens of She
field have had the opportunity of listening to their
favourite member, and men of all parties must have
been glad to welcome Mr. ROEBUCK to the annual
dinner of the Chamber of Commerce. His address
was, as usual, straightforward and to the point,
and he touched upon the principal events of the
year in his well-known causCic and downright man-
ner. Mr. ROEBUCK'S plain speaking spares neither
friends nor foes, and he is in the habit of telling
more truths than people generally like to hear ; but
we are apt also to hear from him in public what
every one says in private. He does not deal
in platitudes or in political professions, and so
he is always listened to with attention and interest,
even when, as at the banquet of last evening, h
kere
goes over a well-worn subject. Few public speas
by this time would have courage to re-open the
disputes of last session, or to go again over the
ground of Reform ; but Mr. ROEBUCK, who never
lacks for daring, made the attempt, and carried it
through successfully. He began by remarking on
the wide influence of commerce, on everything con-
nected with the happiness and welfare of mankind,
and then ingeniously reversing the figure, he said
that be might, •without any very great strain, bring
almost anything
into the programme of commercial
transactions. Such a year as weehave passed,
through is,
according to Mr. ROEBUCK, an era in a
nation's life.
when the present Government penatr, camethe
For his confessed
when
made one resolution, and that was, thtt, having got
Lord DERBY in power;
out of him a real reform of
that the Whigs could not carry a second Reform
Bill. He said so in 1859, and was, as he reminded
his hearers last evening, hooted at in that very
town of Sheffield for saying. It is all one to Mr.
ROEBUCK, however, whether what he says is re-
ceived with hoots or cheers. They may not be equally
agreeable to listen to, but the consideration does not
certainly affect the expression of his opinions. In
this instance, as in many others, time has proved
that Mr. ROEBUCK was in the right. The Whigs
could not, or would not, carry a Reform Bill'

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(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.
(Per Cuba via Queenstown.)

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25, 1868.

will they have for the future and hence we gladly
welcome all the items of intelligence which show us
that the good cause is prospering and the good in

LATEST INTELL MENCE.

THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION.
ZOULLA, Jan. 14.

King Theodore is between Wadela and Dalanta,
near Magdala, and the rebels are in his front.
Gobazyse is also in the neighbourhood, and an en-
gagement is believed to be imminent. Gobazyse
has sent a friendly message to Sir R. Napier.

NEW YORK, Jan. 14 (Noon.)

The Senate has passed the bill rebistating Mr.
Stanton in the post of Secretary of War by 35
votes to 6.

The Senate has adopted a resolution instructing
the Judiciary Committee to investigate the expe•
diency of providing a law for the suspension of
officials from office pending impeachment and trial.

A bill has been introduced into the House of
Representatives declaring that no valid civil Go-
vernments ezist in the States lately in rebellion,
transferring all powers of removal and appointment
in those States under the Reconstruction Act from
the President to the General Commanding in the
army, and making it a high misdemeanour for the
President to employ the army or navy to enforce
the authority of the present Civil Government in
the rebellious States.

intelligence has since been received per Atlantic
cable that this bill has been passed.

Senator Doolittle has presented the report of the
minority of the Military Committee, strongly de-

fending President Johnson's course in removing
Mr. Stanton.

General Meade has removed the State Treasurer

in Georgia, and has appointed a military successor
to the post. The General has also issued an order
legalising the Convention ordinance staying exe-
cutions to collect debts in Alabama until January,
1869. .

General Hancock has issued an order nullifying
General Sheridan's special instructions for the
registration of bonds.
The Louisiana Convention has passed an ordi-
nance declaring it a misdemeanour to eject any
labourer from the plantation where he is registered
until after the vote upon the New State Constitu-

General Butler addressed the negroes at Rich-
mond yesterday, and was enthusiastically received.
The New York papers publish intelligence from
Havanna, stating that it was reportedVanta Anna
was clandestinely sending recruits to the insurgents'
agents in Yucatan.

SOUTIISMPTON, Jan. 25.

The Hamburg and American Company's steamer
Hammonia, from New York, has arrived here, with
76 passengers for this port, llavre, and Hamburg ;
45 sacks of mails for London, $15,000 for England,
and $BOO for Hamburg.
On the 23d the Hammonia passed a Bremen
steamer bound west, supposed to be the Union.

TIM BOMBAY MAIL.
SOUTHAMPTON, Jan. 25.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Nyanza, carrying the above mails, has arrived here
with 27 passengers, £11,574 in specie, and 1,300
packages of cargo, including 681 bales of silk, value
£50,000. In the Bay of Biscay the Nyanza expe-
rienced a hard gale and heavy beam sea. On the
23d she spoke the steamer Ceylon.
GIBRALTAR, Jan. 20.

Accounts from Tangier and Tetuan state that the
people in the neighbourhood of those towns were
suffering severely through scarcity of food. Thou-
sands of poor, on the brink of starvation, were flock-
ing in from the country to obtain relief at Tangier and
Tetuan. At the British and Spanish Legations in
Tangier bread was daily distributed. A succession
of dry seasons and a deficient harvest led to the
present scarcity throughout Northern Africa.
Accounts from the West Coast report copious
rains, with prospects of an abundant crop this year.
Exchange on London, 49i 8 ; Paris, 522; Madrid,
to 1 dis.