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THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. Sir S. Northcote has received the following ielegram from Sir Robert Napier, dated the 6th of February Major Grant, whom I had deputed to Prince Kassai, has been well received by the prince. My letter and presents were suitably received in an open durbar, attended by two thousand chiefs and people. Owing to the prince being engaged in certain ceremonies, a private interview had not taken place. The people around the prince seem to be well disposed towards us, and the women of Adwa received the mission, on its entry to the town, with a hearty cheer in honour of its arrival. No complications are to be apprehended." This telegram was delayed by an interruption in the line.

MALTA. VALETTA, FEB. 23. A slight shock of earthquake was felt here on the night of the 20th instant. The Lord Clyde ironclad, from Naples, arrived here on the 19th inst.; and the Prussian steam corvette Hertha on the 20th, from Smyrna. The Indian transport Serapis arrived last night from Alexandria, with the 42nd Highlanders, under the command of Colonel Priestly altogether 1,120 men. She has left for Portsmouth and the Himalaya follows on the 25th, with the second battalion of the 8th Regiment, under the command of Colonel Robertson. The Terrible, from Smyrna, is coaling here.

THE INSURRECTION IN CRETE. TRIESTE, Feb. 21. Intelligence has. been received here from Athens, dated Feb. 15. The Athens journals publish the fol- lowing advices from Crete On the night of the 4th inst. a band of insurgents fell upon the Turkish troops, and killed and wounded a considerable number, and captured a quantity of arms. On the following day 3,000 Turkish reinforcements were defeated by the insurgents, and forced to retire. The native Turks are constantly requesting permission to be allowed to leave Crete, as they are undergoing great hardships through the insurrection. Aali Pacha, however, refuses their request." The Greek steamers Union and Crete continue to make voyages between Syra and Candia. Russian vessels are still removing Cretan refugees from the- island.

AMERICA. WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. President Johnson has nominated General M'Clellan, as minister to Great Britain. WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. President Johnson has issued an order removing Mr. Stanton from the post of Secretary for War. Mr. Stan- ton, however, still holds the office, and having referred the President's order to the Senate, that body has passed a resolution declaring that his removal is illegal. Con- gress has referred the matter to the Reconstruction Committee. A resolution for the impeachment of the President has been introduced in the House of Repre- sentatives and referred to the same committee. The Reconstruction Committee have reported the reso- lution for the impeachment of President Johnson, and the House of Representatives have agreed to vote upon it on Monday. President Johnson has appointed Adjutant- General Thomas as Secretary of War, but Mr. Stanton refuses to surrender the office to him. The Indiana Republican Convention has passed reso- lutions in favour of the nomination of General Grant for the Presidency, and the payment of the 5-20 Bonds in currency. The Peterhoff prize case has been finally settled in the United States District Court, and the moneys paid over to thq English claimants' agent. To-day, being Washington's birthday, is observed as fr holiday throughout the States. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. The resolution reported by the Reconstruction Com- mittee for the impeachment of President Johnson passed the House of Representatives to-day by a strict party vote.

T O W" 1ST TALK. BY OUR SPECIAL COZRZSPOND]ICWT. -+- Our reader* will understand that we do not hold ourselves respan- siblofor our able Correspondent's opinions. TaE bookmakers-the most medern and flattering term for what were Car.3D- blacklegs, or shortly, legs," in the last generation—are in sad spirits. They have plied their trade with so much activity and success that, like unthoughtful red Indians, they are in danger of starvation during the next season for want of big game. That is their tone. Not that there is much in it, for in a rich country like England the crop of fools, self-sown, is annual. But lately the retirements from the turf, or ruin on the turf of noble and wealthy personages, have been so quick and frequent, that the be ok makers begin to think that, contrary to the proverb, Dog must not eat dog," they must live on each other. Formerly it took half a lifetime to consume a great estate in folly, but now the pace is so hot, and the bets are so heavy, that a young peer may find hv a self perfectly cleaned out before he has grown a Sail crop of whiskers from dowa to hair. At Tattersall's last week there was what would be called on the Continent a feast day—the day of St. Folly, for a vast crowd assembled- Without the least idea of buying -to witness the sale of the racing stud of the young Earl of Jersey. Barely of age, this young nobleman found himself compelled to part with the racehorses he had purchased within about twelve months, under the advice of his guide, philoso- pher, and friend," a trainer, at about one-tenth of their original cost. The title was hereditary. His grand- father had a great name on the turf, won great races, and was never mixed up in any of the robberies of the institution. An uncle was less fortunate, and died abroad, much regretted by his creditors. His colleague, after an astounding career of betting and borrowing, carried confusion, sorrow, and despair into the family of more than one money lender—Christian and Hebrew. Can it be that enterprising financiers of the sixty per cent. tribe, determined to have their revenge of the family, laid traps for the young earl at Eton, and finished him off quickly, with the assistance of trainers and bookmakers, before he had graduated at Oxford? It is to be hoped that the heavy" blow and great discouragement" which has attended the first steps of this young earl's racing career, may send him into a more respectable world, a. wiser if not a sadder man." An earl has one advantage over his humbler brothers in humanity—he has more chances for turning out right than idle apprentices—and, to use a racing phrase, may come again" in a better form." Of the young duke who is selling all the hereditary property at his disposal, and the young marquis who has sold his Scotch estates, and whose fortunes now hang on a filly and the next Derby, a veteran vulture of the betting ring was overheard to say the other day, in answer to some disparaging observations, There's some good picking in 'em yet." The last loss to the turf has been the retirement of the Duke of Beaufort, the most popular duke of the day an eminently handsome representative of the almost extinct high courtly school of the days of the minuet, just hardened up to manliness by the tastes and habits of a foxhunter. All the duke's best friends hope that he will be content with his hounds, which he has never forsaken, and leave the turf, as far as betting is con- cerned, to the Macheaths of this nineteenth century, to whom robbery is a natural profession. It has been the Duke of Beaufort's misfortune to have a horse that was good enough to win the Two Thousand and not good enough to win the Derby or St. Leger. But if this and any other reasons take a great and popular landlord from dens of thieves to real wholesome field sports, every one will gain, except the bookmakers, and the apparent misfortune will be good fortune. THE present Session of Parliament will be very barren as regards bills for public works. Money is plentiful, but confidence is wanting. The board of directors who formerly drew enthusiastic cheers by announcing that they were extending branch lines in every direction, can now only obtain silent support, if not applause, by pledging themselves to go nowhere and do nothing. This is bad news for residents in the metropolis. The City grows daily, and divides friends as completely as if one lived at Bristol, and the other at Birmingham. Indeed, the man who lives in Pitnlico canreally visit a friend at Brighton in less time than if he lived at the opposite end of London. THE Chancellor of the Exchequer, whose official position enables him to see a possible set of friends or enemies in every deputation, has expressed his sympathy with those who wish to see the taxes on locomotion reduced to a nominal sum but independently of other causes of deficiency in the national revenue, the Abyssi- nian pennies make any repeal of taxation for any cause, however good, impossible. In London we are selfish enough to wish that the tax on pepper had been retained, and that on hackney carriages repealed. The Underground Railway is excellent as far as it goes, but money is hard to get and the extensions proceed slowly. Even when the circle round London is complete, with all its spur branches, it will not be a shop-to-shol) conveyance. Under this state of things the idea of street tramways has been revived, and a bill for the purpose introduced into Parliament. They answer in America, and are an immense convenience. They roll smoothly, stop easily, and give luxurious accommodation to passengers. But in no city of America is there anything like the number of private vehicles that roll about the streets of London. Independently of the vast number of pleasure carriages, every topping tradesman has hia spring-cart. Every tramway yet tried has been found a dangerous obstruction to carriages crossing. This is a mechanical difficulty, and it is therefore reasonable to believe that it may be overcome. The difficulties with district boards and district road surveyors are of another kind, to be met best by giving each district an interest in the success of the tramway. If the tramway com- pany ebtains a good mechanical arrangement of its per. manent way, and makes an equitable arrangement with the local leading authorities of the districts traversed, the next step would be to come to an amicable working treaty with its more formidable opponent the General Omnibus Company; then there would be a fair prospect of ample cheap and easy conveyance on wheels for the daily in. creasing street traffic of London. THE. Thames Embankment, which is still delayed by a dispute with the Metropolitan Board of Works, and by a gap in front of the City Gas Works, between the Temple and Blackfriars-bridge, is sufficiently advanced to show what a magnificent improvement it will be when completed. Miserable old barges will be superseded, replaced by floating stages of the best construction, and the rude and dirty "free water- I men," who now regulate the traffic, will be superseded by responsible officers in neat uniforms. Then the river traffic will very much increase, while alongside the river, above, wheeled carriages will have a fine road, and below a railway will afford cheap and swift conveyance. As it is, the short railway from Charing cross to Cannon- street does a large business. Gentlemen going to the City from the western suburbs in the morning find a saving in time by taking the rail at Charing-cross, instead of driving through the closely-packed streets to the Bank. P*

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SUMMARY OF PASSING EVENTS. I RUMOURED changes in the Cabinet occupied the atten- tion of the British public during the third week of February. Consequent upon the severe illness of Lord Derby, it was suggested that the noble Premier would retire from public life, whilst all parties deplored the necessity, and Whig and Tory, alike with Radical and Conservative, eulogised his individual character apart from politics. The Times even gave a sort of obituary notice in the form of a leading article, and other London papers followed suite, and suggested this or that states- man as the new Premier. The change was not to be so speedya51 was insinuated. Lord Derby, instead of getting worse, improved in health, and day by day as the tele- grams arrived announcing him to be better, the gloom that was cast over us ceased to exist, and now we find that his lordship is enabled to take a part, though slight, in Cabinet affairs, and it is not* improbable that we shall see him take his place in the Lords again very shortly, though not as the Prime Minister. The Parliamentary work of the Session seems to be in- creasing the Scotch Reform Bill, based upon the English one, does not give general satisfaction. By the provisions of this bill the borough franchise is to be extended to all householders rated and paying rates. In the counties the franchise will be extended to X5 freeholders and X12 occupiers; but as no lodger franchise is introduced by the Government, it is contended that the bill does not go far enough. Seven additional members are to be given, two to the Scotch universities, one to each of the coun- ties of Ayr, Lanark, and Aberdeen, one to the borough of Glasgow, and one to a group of small places in and around Ardrossan. These seven members will add so many to the already existing number of the House of Commons, and the Scotchmen say the Government have not been liberal enough, whilst the English and Irish members think that Scotland has been too highly favoured THE Church Rate Abolition Bill, introduced by Mr. Gladstone, has been favourably received by the House, although the Government have not given it their support; but since many of the Conservative members have expressed their approval it is very likely to be carried. The bill is a sort of compromise between these who are desirous of upholding church rates and those who wish them totally abolished. It makes legal a voluntary rate in any parish where the inhabitants in vestry assembled sign their names to a rate; the Dissen- ters who do not affix their names will be exempt, whilst those who guarantee to pay will be bound to carry out their contract. AFTER all, however, the great business of the Session is the Irish question. It is admitted that there are grievances in that country, but the problem how to get rid of them seems as difficult to solve as ever. Of course the Land Tenure and the Irish Church are the chief topics introduced. The Government con- sider that so mighty a change as is proposed in connec- tion with these subjects should be postponed until a new Parliament has been elected under a more extended representation of the people, and that an expiring Par- liament is not one which could attempt to settle so important a matter. We have had Mr. Bright's advice upon the subject, we have had a pamphlet from Mr. Stuart Mill, and a letter from Earl Russell, which are all worth careful consideration. WE hardly know what real service is done by the meeting of Convocation, but whenever Parliament meets, as a matter of course, we have in the Province of Canterbury the spiritual lords meeting in the Upper House, presided over by the archbishop and the repre- sentative clergy in the Lower House. The same thing is done in the Province of York, where the archbishop of that diocese presides over Convocatio n. The power of the clerical authorities is limited to a recommendation to Parliament, which is not always carried out. At the last meeting the Colenso affair was introduced, without the reverend gentlemen arriving at any direct conclusion as to what should be done but with respect to Ritualism they came to a distinct conclusion. It was moved in the Upper House by the Bishop of Win- chester, and carried with but one dissentient voice (the Bishop of Salisbury)—" That the limits of Ritual ob- servance cannot be left to the unrestricted discretion of individual clergymen, and ought, therefore, to be de- fined by rightful authority and that, therefore, means should be provided for enforcing the due observance of the rule laid down at the end of the Rubric concerning the services of the Church, with a view of duly in- terpreti ng diversely taken common rules, and, if necessary, for removing ambiguities in the existing law." ON the European Continent there are fears that peace may be disturbed on the other hand we are told by crowned heads that a good understanding exists amongst them. It is certain, however, that the conscription which is taking place in France is causing alarm in the minds of her neighbours. She is carrying on mi litary operations with extraordinary activity, and rumour, per. haps, exaggerates these preparations; but she is cer- tainly provisioning her arsenals and filling the clothing stores of the army and these are put forward as unmis- takable signs of a coming struggle for supremacy. Public confidence in the openness and candour of the French Government is not so perfect as to render it possible that Europe should view without misgiving the spectacle of France in armour. It is difficult to believe that she is only playing at soldiers," and the spring is thought to have porten tous events in store. FENIANISM is fast dying out in this country. The friends of the cause who have turned informers have been like the last feather of the burden of the came], which broke his back. The protracted inquiry before the Middlesex coroner as to the deaths of two of the per. sons killed by the Fenian explosion at Cler kenwell, has been brought to a close by a verdict of wilful murder against the seven prisoners and others not in custody. The first instance of failure in the Crown prosecutions against the Fenian agitators occurred the other day in Dublin. The jury empanneled for the trial of Messrs. Martin, Sullivan, and others, on the charges of taking part in the illegal procession in Dublin-viz., that in honour of the men ex ecuted at Manchester-were unable to agree on a verdict, and were therefore discharged. Ten of the jury are said to have been in favour of a verdict of guilt y, and two for acquittal. The trials of Mr. Pigott, the proprietor of the Irishman, and Mr. Sul- livan. of the Weekly News, for issuing treasonable articles in these papers, have been concluded, and both defendants found guilty. Sullivan was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and Pigott to twelve months, both being required, at the expiration of their sentence, to give security for their future good behaviour. CO-OPERATIVE associations are all the rage just now in regard to the supply of food, and Government clerks, more especially those connec ted with the Civil Service, have united themselves into a body so as to obtain grocery, butcher's meat, and other necessary household matters at wholesale prices. The tradesmen are be- ginning to complain, and say that if this practice 1te- comes general, their occupation," like Othello's, will be gone and who then are to pay their rates and taxes ? Mr. Gladstone, in a recent reply to a letter from a Lon- don firm who complain of the unfavourable effect of the various co-operative movements amongst small retailers, recommends that tradesmen should combine in a vigorous effort to do away with the long-credit system, encourag- ing ready-money dealings and prompt payments, thus enabling them to allow a proportionate discount in those cases. He thinks that with minimum profits and cash payments the shopkeepers may still compete in some measure with their now formidable rivals. CO-OPERATION, it would seem, may be put to doubtful purposes. At Halton, in Yorkshire, a club was estab- lished for the purpose of paying fines for drunkenness, and whenever P-y of their members were so fined by the magistrate they subscribed a sufficient sum amongst themselves to get their friends out of the difficulty. Very recently a collier belonging to this society was brought up at Leeds charged with being drunk and disorderly, and having been previously convicted of a similar offence, he was fined 40s., or in default to be im- prisoned for fourteen days. This sum, however, exceeded the amount allowed by the association rules, so the man had to go to prison. EVERY one must have heard of Mr. Peabody and his munificent gift for the building of dwellings for the London poor. The first gift of LIOO,,000, according to a recent report, has provided comfortable homes for more than 1,500 poor people in the City of London. His second gift of X100,000 will be applied to West- minster during the course of next year, and will pro- vide for the same number of persons. The report shows that the funds have been wisely and judiciously administered, so much so that the first sum has been increased, by rents and interest, by upwards ef £ 20,000. The buildings at present in existence have been fully occu- pied, and there is an increased demand in anticipation of vacancies. The sanitary condition of the people occupy- ing these dwellings has been far above the average, and the money expended is absolutely paying a good interest, whilst it is adding to the comforts of the working classes. Let us remind the rich how much good they may do in our crowded cities without even loss of capital, by looking after the homes of the poor. Let us hope there are many more Peabodys, and that by their acts we shall know them.

^fWi>r in "1;' THE FENIAN PRISONERS BURKE CASEY, AND SHAW. The calendar of the Warwick Spring Assizes contains the names of 55 prisoners for trial. The prisoner Burke is indicted as follows Richard Bnrke, alias George Berry, alias Edward C. Winslow, alias Wallace, 40, no occupation, having at Birmingham, on the 22nd December, 1865, and on divers other days, conspired, combined, confederated, and agreed with one Joseph Theobald Casey and Harry Mullady, and with divers other persons, to deprive and depose our most Gracious Lady the Queen from the style, honour, and Royal name of the imperial crown of the United Kingdom, and to levy war against her Majesty within a certain part of the United Kingdom (to wit), Ireland." Henry Mullady, alias Henry Shaw, 26, carpenter, and Joseph Theobald Casey, 23, shipping clerk, are indicted in the same terms. The degree of education of Casey is read and write well; Mullady, read and write im- perfectly and Burke, "superior education." The cause list is expected to be unusually heavy.

DISCOVERY OF THE REV. MR. SPEKE. X On Monday evening the following letter was received from the Chief Commissioner of Police Sir Richard Mayne presents his compliments, and requests it be made publicly known that information was received this morning of the Rev. Mr. Speke's safety. Mr. Charles T. Murdoch, on receiving the intelli- gence, communicated it immediately to Sir Richard Mayne, in order that the public mind might be relieved as early as possible from the painful state of suspense that the case has produced. He was found at Padstow, Cornwall. *» i • -$. 1"4, Whitehall-place, Feb. 24, 1868." It is believed that the information relative to his whereabouts came from the rev. gentleman himself. The communication was received by Mr. Murdoch, whose name has been so prominently before the public in con- nexion with the affair; and immediately on its receipt lie informed Sir Richard Mayne of the fact, and left town for Cornwall in order to see Mr. Speke, and to place beyond doubt the solution of the mystery. Padstow is a small seaport market town on the coast of Cornwall, about 11 miles from Bodmin and 29 from Falmouth. t The following statement is from the Western Morning News of Monday morning :— A man dressed as a bullock drover was arrested on Friday, at Padstow, with a large sum of money in his possession, and was remanded three days on suspicion of being a man named Ayre, who lately absconded from Hull. He was proved, however, [not to be Ayre. Among his luggage various disguises were found. Being a man of superior deportment, further suspicion was aroused, and it was thought that his description corresponded with that of the Rev. Mr. Speke. After great hesitation he admitted he was that gentleman. He is now in custody of the police at Bod- min. His conversation was perfectly rational. MR. SPEKE'S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF. The Rev. B. Speke gives the following account of his proceedings since leaving London. On the night of his disappearance he went to Basingstoke, and the next day walked on to Winchester, a distance of 18 miles. Thence he proceeded to Bishopstoke, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth. He remained at Portsmouth until the 20th January, visiting during the time various places in the neighbourhood. He then proceeded by steamboat to Plymouth, where he arrived on the 30th January, making that place his head-quarters till the 16th of February. Whilst there he visited among others the following places :-E,,g-B ackland, Tamerton, Roborough, Ivy-bridge, Cote-Hele, Saltash, and St. Germans. In the latter place he attended church on Sunday, Feb. 16. He proceeded next day to Fowey, a little port on the south coast of Cornwall, where he remained one night, and walked on to Lostwithiel, six miles, the next day. On the 20th he walked another six miles to Bodmin, the county town. There he put up at the Queen's Head, a small second-rate inn, intimating his intention of re- maining there for some time. On the following day he went on to Padstow, a distance of 15 miles on the north coast, where he was arrested. He left his luggage, con- sisting of one large bag, in which, however, it afterwards appeared were several smaller bags, at the Queen's Head. Two hundred pounds in bank notes and gold were found upon him. When brought to Bodmin he was a little excited, but talked rationally with the chief con- stable. He appears, however, to hold peculiar religious p views. His great object in leaving home was, it seems from his own statement, to get to a country where no- body knew anything about him, that he might labour for his living and preach the Gospel to his fellow work- ing men. He had, he states, obtained a greater insight into the spirit of the Bible by lonely study on the rocks by the sea shore, and he felt his responsibility. On being asked why he did not go abroad at once instead of wandering about England, he replied that it would have been of no use to attempt to do so, as he knew the telegraph would be at work and the detectives watching to stop him. He hoped by moving from place to place to tire out all search, and then, after a time, he should be able to get away from a seaport with- out molestation. He had laid out a plan for future action when arrested. He intended to return to Bodmin and attend church there on Sunday, the 23rd, then to visit various points of interest on the Cornish coast, and afterwards proceed to Ilfracombe, and cross over by steamboat to Swansea. He had already ascertained the times of sailing of the steamers for Swansea, and proposed to walk through Wales to Liverpool, and there embark for America. He had read the newspapers daily, but the public excitement consequent on his disappearance had no effect in changing his resolution. He admitted to his brother, however, that he was now ashamed of what he had done, and cried when told of the anguish felt by his friends as to his fate. He was calm and composed when he left Bodmin, but appeared much dejected. ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. A special edition of the Western Morning News of Tuesday says The Rev. Mr. Speke left Bodmin this morning in charge of his relatives for London to see a physician. Mr. Speke's diary shows that he visited the celebrated places around Southampton, Ply- mouth, and in Cornwall. He visited Portsmouth thrice. He assumed the dress of a drover at Bodmin, and went to Padstow to inquire for a steamer to Liverpool, for -the purpose of proceeding thence to America. He expresses deep regret for the anxiety he has caused his friends and the public. His friends attribute the freak to his unwillingness to mawy. He is perfectly sane. The Cornish police have the reward promised by his friends for his discovery."

THE NUMBER OF VISITORS to the South Ken- sington Museum during the week ending Feb. 22,1868, were On Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday (free), from ten a.m. to ten p.m., 10,383 on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday (admission 6d ), from ten a.m. till four p.m., 1,457; total, 11,840. Average of corresponding week in former years, 10,884. Total from the opening of the museum, 7,209,539. In consequence of the Reduction in Duty, Homiman't TVasare supplied by the Agents EIOHTPENCE per lb. cheaper. Genuint Paokets are signed "Horniman & Co., London."

THE FENIAN OUTRAGE AT CLERKEN- WELL. The adjourned inquiry relative to the death of two of the victims of the explosion at the House of Detention was resumed on Friday by Dr. Lankester and a St. Pancras jury at the Vestry-hall, St. Pancras. The coroner, in opening the proceedings, read a letter, which he addressed to the Home Secretary, at the re- quest of the jury, for the production of Patrick Mullany, whose evidence was considered most important in con- nection with the cause of the said deaths, and to which he said he had as yet received no reply. William Browning was then examined. He said I reside at 41, B@wling-green-lane. I felt the explosion which took place at the House of Detention on the 13th of December. I saw three men, including the prisoner, Timothy Desmond, walking down Robert's-place, in Bowling-green-lane. On that day, one of my men, call- ing my attention to the three parties, remarked, "Go- vernor, there goes three Fenians." We then lost sight of them, and shortly after the explosion took place. I saw Barrett in Bowling-green-lane about half- past one on the Tuesday before the explosion. I have seen Desmond in Millbank prison, and identified him, I have also iden- tified Barrett. Inspector Brennan examined I know nothing of the explosion except what I have seen in the newspapers. The coroner Do you know Jeremiah Allen ? Witness I do. The Coroner I find that Allen when asked what he was doing at the House of Detention on Friday, the 13th of December, said he was sent there. Did you send him ? Witness: No, sir. Coroner: Do you suspect who sent him ? Witness I do not, sir. Allen came to me on the 4th of December, and said it was contemplated to make an attack on the prison van on the following Saturday, while on its way from the House of Detention to Bow- street with the prisoners Burke and Casey. He received directions from Superintendent Durkin and myself to go to public-houses near the House of Detention on Satur- day morning, and if he saw any suspicious persons loitering about, to take a cab at once, and communicate with us. I saw him on the 7th and on the 9th, and he then suggested that it would be a good plan to watch those of the friends of the prisoners Burke and Casey who visited the prison. I made no reply to that suggestion. On the following Wednesday he told me he was going to the East-end to mix up with them," meaning the Fenians. On the Thursday he came to Bow-street, and I was very angry with him, as some one who knew him might have seen him come there. I parted with him in a hurry, on the understanding that I was to meet him at Bow-street Police-court on Saturday. The explosion occurred on the Friday. I saw nothing more of Allen until I saw him in custody in the House of Detention. The Coroner Do you consider Allen was at the House of Detention on Friday in your interest ? Witness Well, sir, that is only a matter of opinion. The Coroner Have you any reason to believe that he was playing with you ? Witness I have reason to believe that he was not, from matters not connected with this case. The Coroner: You do not suspect that he was in complicity with Mullany and Justice ? Witness: No, sir. Mullany's evidence proves the contrary. By the Foreman: I have no doubt Allen belonged to the Fenian brotherhood. The Foreman: Do you think he was a real member of the brotherhood, or that he joined them to betray them? Witness: He came to me voluntarily to betray them. The Foreman: You don't think that when he spoke about the contemplated attack on the van that he meant it as a decoy to conceal the real motive ? Witness: No, sir. He said his sister had told him of the attempt on the van, and added that I must take it for what it was worth. He also said that a meeting was to be held in a public-house to arrange the plot. I told him to try and find the public-house. A Juror Why hadn't we all this with regard to Allen before now ? Witness I was ill and confined to my bed. I was in communication with my brother officers. A Juror: How long was Superintendent Durkin in pos- session of these facts ? Witness He only saw Allen once. Foreman: Supposing your illness had terminated fatally, would this evidence have been given ? Witness There is not the slightest doubt that it would from a statement made while I was ill. Henry Morris, Mullany's apprentice, was then examined and repeated the evidence given by him at Bow-street. The informer Vaughan was produced. He said he had been at Millbank, when he had identified Barrett as having been twice in company with English. The evidence being concluded, the coroner summed up. He said the evidence pointed to Barrett as having fired the barrel, and that Allen, Justice, and Timothy Desmond had been implicated, but that there was no positive evidence to show that Burke had been in com- munication with them in reference to the outrage which had caused so much destruction to life and property. The conduct of the man Allen immediately after the explosion was not inconsistent with the possibility that he was there for the purpose of betraying the others. It was a question for the jury to decide whether or not there was such a-deficiency in management and arrange- ment on the part of the police as would justify them in coming to a resolution expressive of their feeling on the point. The jury, after an hour and a quarter's deliberation, returned a verdict of wilful murder against Michael Barrett, Timothy Desmond, Wm. Desmond, Nicholas English, John O'Keefe, Patrick Mullany, Anne Justice, and other persons not in custody. They also presented a resolution expressive of their opinion that sufficient precautions had not been taken by the police at head- quarters to prevent the explosion. The foreman said the jury entertained a divided opinion respecting Allen, and they could not therefore include him in the verdict. The coroner having premised to send a copy of the resolution to the Home Secretary, the witnesses were formally bound over to appear at the trial, and the pro- ceedings terminated. COMMITTAL OF THE PRISONERS. William Desmond, Timothy Desmond, Michael Bar- rett (alias Jackson), Nicholas English, James O'Neill, and Anne Justice, were again placed before Sir Thomas Henry, at Bow-street, on Tuesday, for further examina- tion. As upon previous occasions, Mr. Giffard, Q.C., and Mr. Poland were present for the Crown Mr. E. Lewis defended O'Keefe and Anne Justice and Mr. Harper re- presented the other prisoners. Upon Sir Thomas Henry taking his seat, the prisoners were ordered into the dock. Mr. Giffard said: The case for the Crown, Sir Thomas, is closed. Mr. Lewis then said he should reserve the defence on behalf of the prisoners O'Keefe, Barrett, and Justice, but the case of O'Neill was vastly different. Upon a former occasion his worship was kind enough, with the consent of the learned counsel for the Crown, to post- pone the committal of the prisoners in order to give him (Mr. Lewis) an epportunity of calling evidence on behalf of'O'Neill, and this he had intended to do; but as all the witnesses would have to be brought from Scotland at an expense his client could not afford, he was com- pelled to abandon the idea. He (Mr. Lewis) would state that O'Neill was quite innocent of the crime with which he was charged, and he trusted that, seeing there had not been a particle of evidence against him, his Worship would discharge him. Sir Thomas Henry said he could not do that. He should send the prisoner before a jury. Mr. Lewis Then, Sir Thomas, I hope you will take bail ? Sir Thomas Henry Certainly not. Mr. Harper said he should also reserve the defence of his clients. The witnesses were then formally bound over to pro- secute, and the prisoners were all committed to take their trial for murder.

+ THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL has conferred upon Mr. Motteram, of the Oxford Circuit, the appointment of standing counsel for the Mint prosecutions at the Staffordshire Sessions, and also for the borough of Walsall. ADVICE TO MOTHERS.—Are you broken of your rest by a rick child suffering the pain of cutting teeth ? Go at once to a chemist, and get a bottle of Mrs. Winslow'a Soothing Syrup." It will relieve the poor sufferer immediately; it is perfectly harmless, it produces aatoral, quiet sleep, by relieving the child from pain, and the little cherub awakes u as bright as a button." It has long been in use to America, and is highly recommended by medical mea it m very pleasant to take; it soothes the child; it softens the gams; allays all pain, relieves wind, and regulates the bowels, and is the best known remedy for dysentery and diarrhoea, whether arising from teething or other causes. Sold by all chemists, at 1.. I id. per bottle.

GENERAL fM'CLELLAN AND THE INDIAN PRIZE MONEY. General M'Clellan, says a correspondent in the Pall- mall Gazette, has a claim ta a share in the Banda and Kirwee prize-money. He has proved himself to be the nearest of kin, and, consequently, heir to Miss Alicia Campbell, who inherited from her brother, the late Lord Clyde, a portion of the Banda and Kirwee prize-money. General M'Clellan's father was cousin-german to the late Lord Clyde. These circumstances ought to give ad- ditional weight to the reasons for the gallant General's appointment to this country. On the general question of claims, he would speak with all the feeling the Americans now seem to wish to throw into Alabama discussion. If he would lump his claim on the British Government with his nation's claim, he would earn the gratitude of many long-suffering Englishmen. There is a fair prospect of the settlement of the Alabama question within the next fifty years we cannot put that off for ever by minutes and memorandums, though written on the best Government paper but when will all the Indian prize-money be paid, while the claimants have no better support than is to be found in the conscience of successive Administrations ?

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF BIGAMY. At the Central Criminal Court, on Tuesday, Susan Daley, 24, a good-looking young woman, having a baby in her arms, pleaded guilty to a charge of feloniously intermarrying with James Peck, her husband, Richard Kenny, being alive. It appeared that the parties were originally married at a very early age, and the first husband seemed to have treated the prisoner very unkindly, and they fre- quently quarrelled. It was urged in the prisoner's behalf that about two years ago a quarrel took place between the prisoner and her husband. The latter struck her, and she struck him again. The prisoner then seemed to have asked her husband to give her some money, and he replied that he should not give her any more money, and that if she wanted any she must go on the streets. The prisoner after this left her husband's house, and became ac- quainted with the second husband, Peck, and they were eventually married. It was proved that after the second marriage had taken place the first husband used to go out with her and her husband, and he represented himself ta be her brother-in-law, and the owners of the house where the prisoner and Peck were lodging were quite astonished when he made his appearance shortly afterwards and gave the prisoner into custody upon the present charge. The above facts were proved by several witnesses, and it was also proved that when the first husband was told that his wife was living with another man he said that he was quite welcome to her, and that he had another young woman in view to whom he was about to be married. The Common Serjeant said it was quite clear that this was not a case that called for substantial punishment, and he ordered the prisoner to be confined in Newgate for one month.

LOVE AND MURDER: A FEARFUL TRAGEDY. Some seven months ago, says a San Francisco paper,. a family named Cuyas transferred their residence from Monte Video to Rio, and with them came a man of 33 years of age named Heitor Monetta, who, having become enamoured of the eldest daughter, Genoveva, deter- mined to cast his lot with them, and was betrothed to the object of his affections soon-after his arrival here. According to his tale, upon the strength of these intimate relations existing between them, the father of the Cuyas family borrowed at various times what money he pos- sessed, and from that time he says a coldness was mani- fested to him by the parents, which finally induced him to leave his residence in their house and remove to an hotel. Becoming more and more annoyed at the increasing coolness of their connection, he at last determined to bring the matter to a crisis, and he wrote a note to the young lady, asking her to come to see him in a neighbour's house, the answer to which was that she could not, and did not wish to see him. He waited half an hour, and then departed, leaving a note for the girl. Apparently, however, his anxiety overpowered him, and he went to the Cuyas' house. There, in the kitchen, he found the mother, and on demanding whether the marriage was or was not to take place, he asserts that she began to abuse him. He then appealed to the girl, who was sitting in the parleur, but she remained silent, and the mother, still more angry at the appeal, gave him a slap in the face. Furious at his reception he hurried to his hotel, and, taking a revolver from his trunk, returned to the Cuyas' house, where finding the mother reposing on a sofa he beat her upon the face with his fists and then shot her in the shoulder. At her cries Genoveva rushed in, and was received with two shots which laid her dying. He then proceeded towards the stairs, but returning, shot a younger sister in the lungs and another in the stomach, and ran into the street. Pursued by the public hue and cry, he directed his course to Rio Direita, but as he still carried the revolver in his hand no one ventured to stay him, and he was lost in the nightfall. For several days no trace of him could be obtained, but at length an intercepted letter revealed that he was staying at the Hotel d'ltalia at the Botanic Gardens. On the afternoon of the 10th a party of police, disguised as excursionists, drove to the hotel and managed to examine the house and grounds without being suspected, but without finding Monetta. Seventy more men were sent on from Rio during the night, and by three a. m. the grounds and house were surrounded. At three the house was entered, and, after searching the rooms in vain, he was discovered on the roof, from which, after being summoned, he came down and surrendered quietly, and was taken to the city. Of the victims to his fury, Genoveva died oil the day succeeding the catas- trophe, but the other three, although severely injured, it is believed will recover. Another daughter, who was fortunately out of the house at the fatal hour, thus es. caped but the father, who was likewise absent, was so overcome by the shock of the misfortune which had fallen on him that he died during the night of the 8th from an attack of cerebral congestion.

SPEECH OF THE EX-KING OF HANOVER. VIENNA, Feb. 19 The Vienna papers publish an account of the dinner given by the King of Hanover yesterday in celebration of the 25th anniversary of his marriage. They state that in the toast his Majesty proposed he returned thanks to those who had come from a distance to be present at this family meeting, held to show the inti- mate connection of the house of Guelph and the Hano- verian people. He entertained the conviction that he should return to Hanover as a free king. His ancestors had been compelled to leave the country, but found upon their return a larger Guelphic kingdom. Provi- dence justified him in the belief that he too would go back to the country as a froo and independent sovereign. His Majesty concluded with drinking prosperity to Hanover, and a speedy reunion in the land of the Guelphs. The dinner was attended exclusively by Hanoverians,

JUDGMENT AT THE CAPE IN FAVOUR OF BISHOP COLENSO. NATAL, Jan. 13. Judgment has been declared in the suit of Bishop Colenso against Dean Green. The Supreme Court has set aside the judgment of the Privy Council, and declares that Natal was a Crown Colony when the plaintiff's patent was issued, that Dr. Colenso is, therefore, trustee of all the buildings, and has ecclesiastical jurisdiction. The judgment further ejects Dean Green from the deanery, and prohibits him from officiating in any of Dr. Colenso's churches. The friends of the dean have since held a meeting, at which it was resolved not to appeal against the judg- ment, but to erect or hire temporary churches, and that Dean Green should at once proceed to England.

OPENING OF THE JAPANESE PORTS. HONG KONG, Jan, 15. A Japanese vessel, arrived here from Hiogo, has re- ported the due opening of that port and of Osaca on the 1st ef January, without any difficulty. Twelve British, six American, and one French war vessels were present. Much adverse discussion continues in China regarding Mr. Burlinghame's appointment as envoy from the Chinese Government to the various European courts and the United States. An earthquake has occurred in Formosa, which lasted 32 minutes much damage was done.

A BOOK THAT IS A BOOK. The fourth monthly part of Cassell's New Papular Educator" brings us to page 272 of a work which answers truly to its title. The two hundred and seventy-two quarto pages comprised in the four monthly parts now issued, which can be purchased at 7d. each, contain an amount of instruction which, on being detailed, sounds fabulous. So com- prehensive, indeed, is the aim of this work that, if we had not before us the undeniable fact that in its original form it made good its programme, we should be led to raise the question, whether the new edition had not set itself a task beyond its power. It would certainly strike those who are not acquainted with the Popular Educator that a work which pro- fessed to instruct the people in the numberless subjects which it embraces, must be either a great failure or a marvellous success. Taking the subjects alpha betically, we read the following list :-Algebra; Architecture Arithmetic Astronomy Book-keep- ing Botany; Chemistry; Civil Service Papers; Comparative Physiology Conic Sections Drawing Electricity; English English Composition; English Grammar; English Literature; Essays on Life and Duty; Ethnology; Euclid; French; French Pronuncia- tion French Readings Geography Geology Geome- try; German; German Pronunciation; German Readings; Gree Gymnastics; History; Italian; Land Sur- veying; Latin; Logarithms; Mathematical Instru- ments Mechanics; Moral Science Music; Natural Histery; Natural Philosophy; Navigation; Painting in Water Colour; Penmanship; Perspective; Physics; Physical Education; Physiology of Man; Reading and Elocution; Shorthand; Sketching from Nature; Spanish; Theory and Practice of Teaching; Trigo- nometry Papers on the Universities and on the University Middle-class Examinations. Such a list as this certainly looks presumptuous, and what would seem to enhance its presumptuousness is the confident way in which it is announced that any one of ordinary intelligence, who is able to read and write, can, without the assistance of a master, instruct himself is the numerous branches of learning which the Popular Educator combines. The testimony, however, of those who have availed themselves of this work is too unani- mous and weighty to justify a doubt of its being intrin- sically what it professes to be, and we do not hesitate to pronounce it to be the most remarkable production in the shape of a comprehensive educational work that has ever been placed within the reach of the public.