... THE FINANCE OF THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. The Tivi esa allows that under the circumstances there is not inuich in the Ministerial proposals as to taxation for the expenses of the Abyssinian expedition that can be seriously contested. At the sane time it is necessary to understand that we are preparing a deficiency of a million this year. We cannot flatter ourselves that the uncol- lected ...

... C2E SARISM IN FRANCE. To tihe EDITOR of dhe PALL MALL GAZETTE. SuIR,-I always read with attention, and I may add with great profit, the comnments which English newspapers make on the speeches of Napoleon III., whenever one of those enigmatical utterances takes place. Although the construction put upon them on your side of the Channel is generally considered too favourable by French Liberals ...

... I The prospects of the Conference on the Roman question are less bright this morning. There is nothing fromn Paris on the subject, or from Florence, and last night's Nerr Prussia't (Cross) Gagete says ?? With the exception of Austria, none of the Great Powers have given in their adhesion to the Confererce. England and Russia maintain their previous attitude. Prussia reserves her decision, ...

... Lord Mayo's reply, on Thursday night, to the interrogation of Sir F. Ileygate on the subject of the dietary of the Irish gaols was satisfactory. The commissioners appointed to inquire into the matter have already made considerable progress in their inquiry, and have received replies in the great majority of cases to the elaborate queries addressed by them to the medical officers of the various ...

... Or the two debates which took place last night on the special subject for which Parliament has been called together at such an inconvenient season the second was much the most interesting. Upon the financial question there was very little to be said, and hardly any difference of opinion. We are to have an extra penny of income tax which will raise say i,450,000, we are to spend a surplus of ...

... THE NEW TWOPENCE IN THE INCOME TAX. The 1.Zezmomist obse rves that the addition to the income tax is in theory a penny, but in reality, and upon what we have to pay during the rest of the financial year, it is twopence. No doubt the whole charge of our minor wars ought to be borne by us who make them, and if the provision of the Government is at fault, it is in not carrying out this principle ...

... TIIE DFIPLOMACY OF THE ROMAN QUESTIOIV I ALT HI-OUGH the probability that a Conference of the Powers on the Roman question will assemble appears to be oa the increase, rothing has occurred to justify the expectation that a Conference can do more for the solution of this irritating and dangerous problem than the Emperor of the FRENCH could do of his own accord if so disposed. Whatever else may ...

... Friday, 2 OzOk. CiTid ObenitTa'd Oitbjd. REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. CALCUTTA AND CHINA (HEAVY) MAILS. GIDPrALTAR, Yvow. 28,-The SumatIra leaves at i P.Mi. to-day. She may be expected at Southampton early on the 3rd of December. FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION AT LIVERPOOL. Our Liverpool correspondent telegraphs :-'This morning at six o'clock the Greek Government steamer Bouboulina, outward bound for the Pireus, ...

... TTHE NVE ROYAL AMPHITHEAT RE. FEATS of horsemanship had long been a source of pleasure to the English public before Mr. Sergeant-Major Philip Astley, having obtained hisodis charge from General Elliott's Light Horse (commonly called the Tailors' Regiment), commenced his career as an equestrian performer in an Open field near Glover's Halfpenny Hatch at Lambeth, his charger, given himi by ...

... PARLIAMENTAR Y INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF COMMONS. ONLY one House of Parliament-the House of Commons-sat last night. The questioning of Ministers elicited that the Government had come to no decision as to the appointment of an architect for the new law courts, but the Treasury had in the meanwhile resolved to consult the Commis- sioners, as the judges adhered to their opinion that two architects ...

... After the close struggle between Kelley and Sadler on Wednesday for dhe chlampionship of the Thames, such a fiasco as the renewed race of AcsteiaCi) occasioned general surprise and disappointment. It will be ,cmel bhed that the umpire had pronounced both men to blame in the ' foul ' (it the Soap W17orks, and ordered them to row again yesterday ifteincou. At the appointed hour each man appeared ...

... THE PROPOSED CONFERENCE. The Daily Newels remarks that the persistent rumours of an approaching Conference which are so industriously circulated by the French telegraphic agencies and se.ai-official journals would leave little room for doubt if we could forget tu i;t the Congress of Paris, which never took place, was announced with equal pertinacity and confidence. So long as it was a mere ...