... I LATEST IEWSEO tX:wSm'5 T=GULnaW-sfl. TH:EE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. Sir S. Northeote has received the following telegram from the Governor of Bombay, dated Dec. 21st;- SirRobertNapipr sailed this evening for Aninesley Bay, in Her Majesty's ship Octavia. FRANCE. PAise, Dec, 2G, Evening. In the sitting of the Corps Legislatif to-day, LI. CalNoT proposed an amendment tending to reduce the time ...

... EXTRACTS FROM PUNCE'S ALMANAOK. A FEW EDUCATIONAL DEFINITIONS. ?? lon a reitinmetie. -Abstraction. Joeok-kerpitcg.-Not returning volumes lent. 1aned ?? the top of Mont Blanc. Elementar)y Drauoincg.-Of babies in perambulators. Ii cc-iand DJrawicy.-Thief abstracting a purse from your pocket. S1corCt Jleedt-Giving two fiegers to shake. Jicadicry aned Llocuthion-Good spoaking in Ilerkshire. Uet of ...

... THE LE, EDS MERCURY. ACCODT NG to a telegram, dated IAlexandria, ' 30th December, it was reported at M0sowuh that the Abyssinian captives had had their chains removed, and there was a ohanoc of their release. The report reads very much like a new version of telegrams already received. About 3,000 mules were still at Suez, waiting the means of transport to Abyssinia. The mule difficulty, ...

... TEE ADVANTAGES AND DI8ADVANTAGES OF AN AUDIT OF RAILWAY ACCOUNTS BY TflE STATE. (rom thie Ecensionist.) Nothing can be more opposed to common English feeling, or to common English habit, than to ask the belp of Government. An Englishman is accustomed to do things for himself-to investigate things for himself -to ask his rulers for little-to be glad to be let alone by them. If VVe could we ...

... EXPECTED RUPTURE BETWEEN FRANCE I AND ITALY. (fsomn the ?? qf the Express.) PAnis, Sunday Evening. I have reason to believe that a diplomatic rup- ture between France and Italy is imminent. General Menabrea, after doing his utmost to preach patience though not rosignation, is so pressed by public opinion that he feels the necessity of doing something. In all probability, whether there shall ...

... BOAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. I SRED WEK THS EALUYEAR. I Total Same Inc. or llslaage, 10AnWA'. 8087. 1880. 4-year. _100._ Dee. 1807 15,15 Bristol and Ezxetec .. 90*2 Ott1o 1108811 ta 12418 Caleflsniafl ?? + - - - -o i 6T014 Cambriain ?? 2031 Osol1O 59050 8 105 [76 139 CaCkerni'th5,8L&POU - 3131 - - - 8] 31 carka Blandon, & Itia. - 435 20 20 Deesid a ?? ?? 17 17 fleblin & flclatdab~c. 10'37 18563 ...

... TEE CONISCILCtCE CLAUSE. The ?? aonueponraaauic bai hm i tO ''Badminton, Cltippenham, 1)- i g Dear Duke ot Msrlhoroogh,-I an -sorry to bih - c; prevenated by gout from hemp, in the House when L .rl a fvusetll's resjiotionis were discti'sed. I will tiot, hwse inflict uplon you. in a lerttr that with which I zliight Lit5 tsoubleo the House if I hiid been present. There i~, how. e ever, Ceo ...

... THE AMERICAN WAR AND THE, COTTON CROP. 15(5 Mr. David A. Wells, the Cosmmissioter of RlRevenue, has made a report ol the subject, in advance of .eh his general report to the Secretary of the Troasury, which :he contasins some very interesting facts as to the offects of the .1re late war on the Auserican and Indiani cotton crops:- -he Evidence exists tending to show that the present tax of he ...

... THE LEEDS MERCURY, TILE Italian Government has succeeded in carrying the Presidents of six out of the nine bureaux a appointed by the Chamber of Deputies. The Speaker, SioNou LAIZt (not Lava, as previously telegraphed,) to also belonged to the moderate party. or TuE recent declarations in the French Chain- ba bers, more especially of MI. Roulran in tho Corps d: Legislatif, that the French ...

... TI-14E IRISH CHURCH. A conference called by the Society for the a Liberation of Religion from State Patronage and Control 'o was held on Wednesday night, at the City Terminus H-otel, Canllon-street, to discuss the question of the Irish Church Establishment. In a circular signed by Mr. William to Edwards, chairman, and Mr. J. Carvell Williams, secrO- t, tary, it is set forth that, ''As the ...

... (FRoa OUR CoIuMsrONMT.) During the last few days a rumour has pre- vasled in Warrington that an attempt would be made by the Fenians to blow up the Gas Works, and although little or no attention was paid to the rumour, it now ap- pears that there was some foundation for it. The rumour arose from the fact that on Wednssday last a lad, about thirteen years of age, went to a houee in Mersey ...

... THE ABYSSINIAN vEXPEDITION. (fl-sm the Specialt Corregpondent of the Times.) - IAYnAY C uDDY, Dee. 4. We left Upper Sooroo at half-past three yester- day afternoon, acd travelled about Oh mites an hour, until hali-past eight, when we halted at a place boasting the possession of a well, but with very little water, and that little not first-class. There is abundance of excellent water in a ...