The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-02-19
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In the House Of Commons on Monday a
motion Was made for the second residing of
the bill fof the suspension of the writ of
habeds corpus. Mr. Fortescue said he
thought the motion proved that the admin.
istration Of affairs In ireland was wrong
and greatly needed reforming. Sir Henry
Borson, the member for Waterford, said
the bill was an outrage upon Catholics,
shut out as they were from their rightful
share of the Government. Q a
Earl Mayo made an explanation inregard
to George Francis Train. He said the
policemaniwh arrested Train had general
instructions to watch persons arriving at
Queenstown from the United States, and
to stop all suspicious parties. When the
trunk of Train was examined copies of his
own speeches in Ireland we're found, and
led to his arrest on suspicion. He was
finally released on giving pledge that he
would make no speech nor do any act in
sympathy with the Fenian cause.
IRELAND.
DUBLIN, February 17-Euening.-In the
case Of Mr.. Sullivan, editor of the Dublin
Nation, on trial here for the production of
seditious libels, the jury to-day brought in
verdict of guilty. z
LONDON, February 17.-Letters from
Paris to English journals re1terate the
statement that changes are contemplated
in the policy and in the Cabinet of the
Emperor. 3Ba
CRETE.
LONDON, February 1.-THE Athens
journals report serious engagement at
Heraclium. in Crete, January 90. The
insurgents, fifteen hundred strong, defeated
the Turks, five thousand in number, who
withdrew into fortress, where they fell
on their insurgent prisoners, killing and
wounding several. The Turks, it is said,
were also defeated in engagements near
Covea. Russian vessels continued to
carry Canadian families to Greece.
ABYssINIA.
SUEz, EGYPT, February II, via MALTA
AND LONDON, February 16.-The special
correspondent of the New York Herald,
attached to the British military expedition
in Abyssinia, forwards advices from the
headquarters post Of the army at Shape,
from which it appears that King Theodo-
rus is at his camp near the palace of Mag
dala, where the English captives are con-
fined.
The Abyssinian monarch is said to be in
bad strait in a military point of view.
An engagement between the two armies
is imminent, and may take place at any
moment.
Very few of the disafected native chiefs
now acknowledge any fealty to Theodorus.
The Chief Kassi, ruler of the Tigre dis
trict, openly courts the favor of Major
General Napier.
General Napier fears that this chief,
whose political character is bad, aims at
making secret attack on him, and conse-
queutly seeks to arrange and perfect a
binding treaty of alliance with him, so as
to hold him answerable for his future acts.
Thirty-fve thousand British troops Of all
classes have been landed at Zula, and the
advance of the Queens army has reached
to within two days march Of Antalo, half
way toward Magdala from the shore line,
where it is very probable the expected
battle will take place.
The Egyptians, with a contingent en-
bracing many Turks, are very near to Mag
dala, but they use no caution, and still
march on in reckless manner, without
the sanction Of the superior officers of the
English army.
The English in the interior number about
10000.
The troops suffered considerably from
the heat of the weather.