... News of the Abyssinian expedition is brought by telegrams from Alexandria, -which have taken a week to reach London. Advices from Annesley to the 23rd ult. announce a rapid movement of troops to the front. A battery of artillery left on the 20th en route for Senaff ; the 25th Native Infantry on the 1 st; and three companies of the 4th Europeans were to go forvard immediately. The 21 st Bengal ...

... BRIBER Y TIlE first debate on the Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices at Elections Bill -the new name of the measure of last session in its third and latest form-was so unsatisfactory that, but for the magical power which Mr. DISRAELI has already once shown of educing marvellous results from bad beginnings, we should have little hope of effectual legislation against corruption in this ...

... President Johmson has been summoned to appear before the Senate Court on the 13th inst. The Secretary of the Treasury has issued the usual monthly statement of the Public Debt of the United States. The total amount of the debt on the ist of March was 2,648,000,000 dols, against 2,651,000,000 dols. on the 1st of February last, being a decrease of 3,ooo0000 dols. The cash in the Treasury on the ...

... Yesterday one of the morning papers, in a paragraph about the health of Lord Derby, announced that the noble Earl still sees the official papers, which are sent to him in regular course; and they are duly returned, not without having received his personal attention. We are sadly afraid that the Earl's condition does not permit the extension of his reading to the Times, or he would have been ...

... flef DEFENCE OF THE CALEDONIAN DIRECTORS. IN rt ilu atiol of the meeting of shareholders on the 29th the directors and i of the Caledoniail Railway have published a reply to the charges of the liv est;', tion Commnittee. The former ground their defence mainly Upon a lettel c f Sir C. Wood upon Indian railways, which, inapposite as it woald cm at first sight, nevertheless tells conclusively ...

... TILE schemes of national education proposed by'Mr. BRUCE and Tr. FoNsTEv are not calculated to excite any particular clthlusiasm, but we think that each of them-for, as we understand tie matter, they form a sort of alternative proposition-is a moderate and rational step in the right direction, Mr. BRUCE proposes to give particular districts the right of rating themselves if they think proper. ...

... AMERICA. IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRESIDENT. WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (E-vening). - Mr. Thaddeus Stevens and Mr. Xingham, the two members appointed by the House of Representatives for the purpose, formally impeached President Johnson to-day at the bar of the Senate. The Senate ordered the appointment of a Select Committee to consider the subject. NEW YORK, Feb. 25.- 5oo,ooo dollars in specie were shipped ...

... Sal urday, 2 O'ClOck. I clud Obtningld otwd. REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. I SPAIN. MADRID, Feb. 14 (Evening).-It is reported that Senor Bravo Murillo will be appointed governor of the bank, and Senor Salverria vice-governor. It is considered that the triumph of the insurrection in Peru will be favour- able to peace with Spain. HUNGARY. PFSTH, Feb. 14 (Evening).-The trial of M. Bocszoermenyi for ...

... AUSTRIA. VITENNA, 7am. ?? Piese of this morning says that during his recent stay in this capital General Ignatieff took the oppo rtunity of expressing himself to several diplomatists in a peaceful sense as to the policy of Russia in. the Eastern question. The same paper states that the British consul at Belgrade presented 'a note to the Servian Government on the 26th of December recommending ...

... THE law Journal has been calling attention to the need of a imore effective system of registration to check the practice of adoption, of whichl; there has been seine discussion of late. In its issue of January IO it Puts the question whether the regulation of the practice by enactment night not be a more efficacious preventive of its evils than even an improved register. It appears that the ...

... AR. CGLADS TOME' S A DMINISTRA TION IiiT new, Administration is now to all intents and purposcs complete. The additions yet to be made are comparatively unim- portant, and what remains to be known is whether certain men are to lhc confirmed in certain appointments, or to be exchanged into yosts of similar dignity. Our own humble opinion of the new Administration is that it is as well ...

... WE printed the other day a curious extract from M. Guizot's contribution on modern European politics to the last number of the Revue des Deux Mondes, entitled France and Prussia before Europe. It is worth while to recur to the passage, both as suggestive of some serious thought, and also because it illustrates oddly enough the extremely imperfect character of the knowledge which is acquired ...