The Portland daily press., 1867-12-03

fHUNNICUTTS WRATH.--Jhe editor Of the
New Nation" having been arrested and held
to answer for an incendiary speech which he
never made, INDUCES in burst of indigna-
ton in comparison with which that of Achil-
les was tame. He says: M .-. +...
Why do not the Richmond editors cause bon
HfeS, tin pans, and old coffee-pots, and baby
drums to be kinded and beaten all over the
city y?-Come, gentlemen, the great day of the
editors wrath is approaching when YOU may
expect-m,llstones and hailstones, aud brim
stone, commingled with thunder loud and long
and terrible, yea, terrible to the editors of reb-
ell and Copperhead newspapers and great
s,uces OF lightning as big as tobacco hogsheads,
all to come rumbIi g, tumbling, rolling, falling
cracking, elashjng and smashing up rebel edi-
ltors and all things that offend in Charles
City County, Richmond, and IN all other plas
e5. This is but The beginning OF the end, gem
tlemen, look out for storms and earthquakes.
FOREIGN ITEMs.-By Steamer HISTORIAN we
have Liverpool papers to the 2lst ult AT that
date the leading topic of discussion was the
execution of Fenans at Manchester. 1t is
conceded chat the person who actually killed
policeman Brett is still at large, and that Ma
| guire, VIII, was one of the five who were CON
victed and condemned to be hung but was af-
forwards pardoned, was not Fenian and had
nothing whatever to do with the riot Some
violent demonstrations were made by Fenian
sympathizers in England previous to the exc
cuton A deputation waited upon Mr.. Har
dy, the English Home Secretary, at Clelxen-
well, to make a last effort to obtain the execu :
tive pardon; being denied admission, they fore
ed an entrance and held an indi ignation meet
ing ia one of the Offices of the Department.
The wife of Mr. Disraeli, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, is seriously ill., Owing to this
fact Mr.. Disraeli was treated with great con-
sideratioD by the opposition in their comments
upon the Queens speech. Mr.. Gladstone, in
particular, expressed much sympathy for his
great rival, and took so much care to avoid
giving him pain that he completely emasculat-
ed his own speech, and made it one of the
worst he ever delivered.
The returns OF the Poor-law Board relating
to'pauperism in England and Wales in Sep
tember show that the numbers relieved were.
in the fourth week of that month, 872,6IO or a
decrease Of IL, 200 at MichaeImas as compared
with Midsummer. The paupers in 1867, as
compared with those ia 1866, have increased
30 760; but, compared with 1866, the increase
was 81 per cent. In September, 1867, the in
crease in tie paupers III the metropolis, as
comp ared with those in 1866, was 12,022, and
on a comparison with 1865 there was an in
crease of 295 per cent.
The London Times speaks OF the Abyssinian
expedition us that nrtoward event"
4 remarkaeie appearance was witnessed on
the nineteenth ult, shortly alter fen o'clock. at
Douglass, Isle of Man. 4 portion Of the skv
opened and omitted light that iIlun,;natad
the heavens as brightly as the iull ,nonm f.,
the open space appeared gigantic fiaura 1;ia
that of ma.l, which waved its arms sjoaH,, ,rHu
for a short time. Then the open space eloSaaa
up, and the heavens were afterwards mucI,
darker than they We're before this extraordina
ry phenomenon. The weather became very
stormy few hours subsequently.
A letter. addressed by Garibaldian to the
independents of Bologna, says: Count Pietro
Carletti d'Orvela Ia nephew of Plus Ky was
the first to enter Va!!ecorsa, holding alolt the
italian flag, shouting Italy foreverp Long
live Garibald" Being wounded in the arm,
and seeing himself surrounded by the Papali-
nj he blew his brains out with a revolver, in
order not to fall living into the hands of these
men who would have massacred him in the
name of his uncle" ..