... BAD NEWS FOR BRITISH I ~TAXPAYERS. The revenue of the financial year, whbc elolid on Tueeday, amounted to £69,600,219. Mr. Dis. raeli's estlmate on the 4th Aprl, 1867 was £69,340,000; to which £840,000 must be aded on aocount ot theadditlonald. inoomtax (according to Mr. Hunt's estimath in November), and from which £210,000 must be subtracted oun ?? Of therepealedmarineiunsranestamps. ...

... SKIRMISH WITH ABY8SINIAN I PLUNDERERS. A letter, dated Beonfe Feb. 27, reslved from Lieutenant Arthur G. ihorne, 13th B al Infantry, and now of the Tra6port T= Abyssinia, gives partionla of oa encounter with Abyslnian freebooters. He Says - After I had left Raray Guddy about six miles. anda riding along abont one mile o more ahead cf my convoy, a vdoi oalled out ' Sahp, ?? so I 6topped and ...

... Iov MD Tl I GOTA1MU ND- TaEs TELRGBAPU IME. The bill eabling the ?? to purobhse the wholo of the tdgrapba in the United Kingdom, to be worked ?? lforml 5'tOm by the post-office AbJlihmejt,, has bean printed and placed In the hands of membes of Psklla. moet, and we ae now abla' to f0nV aoS dcmte Idea se to the advantages to be derived from the plan. The preamble of the et sufficielltly poInt. ...

... THE FENIAN TRIALB IN I ~LONDON.I A special session of the Central Criminal Court lo illl b held this mornlng, at ten. o'clock, for tho 5d purpose of disposing of the ease of the six persons o cbarged with the crime of wilful murder arising out of the desperate attempt to blow down the 3n wall of the house of detention at Olerkenwell, asd lc the charge of treason-felony against the three l ...

... Great ignorance prevails in many quarters on the subject of the Irish Church and its revenues, Of coarse the Liberation Society has been diligently spreading exaggerated statements as to its property and income, and as we find that even the Right Hon. Robert Lowe ba8 unintentionally in the House of Commons given expression to the com- mon belief when he stated that it possessed one- tenth of ...

... IMPERIAL; PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS-FRIDAY. There was a morning sitting,-at which the Mutiny Bill and Marine Mutiny Bill were read a third time. In the evening another sitting was held, at which the royal assent was given to those bills.-A discussion took place relative to the part taken by England in reference to the Cretan insurrection. The conduct of Lord Stanley was eulogized by Earl ...

... WYEDNESBU1TRY. LoC('Al. ]OAi:) 01 HiE.\LTJI--O)u MOldlona' night, thle first ordhiary foltliglitly Imceting of the new Board wats lheld at thie oflices, Holyhead Road. Mr. S. Lloyd sVets re-clected elelirniall, andl there was a fair attentllane of mlelimbels. -'Plle Surveyor's expensea were set duwn as £35. ills. for tse past fortnight-The Inspector of NlYuisanllces' report clntainild nothing ...

... NOTICES TiO CORE'SPONDENTS. .A f1 etters& intend~edI for pshdeu~ytiost moatt he tteeOtan eiited ft the 'noosle anld address of the wrifte, siol iesa't for y-,ilieatitiel, bilt for thle ?llutfrltat ion(if thle Beditur. Corre'sposdentsc who set ally opeitfiI value 'upon their coin- 55'ttltbicaftiontil moot keepo coft?5 Of thelm, att w~e Cannot alider- taet to reflow 145 unuted eoiti~ibitfiols. ...

... MEETING LAST NIGHT, IN WOLVElRiIAMPTO'N, Last night, a public meeting was field in the Exclange Room, Wiolvorhallsiton, in defence of the Irish Church, and int opposition to Mr. Gladstone's resolutions. The mecting had been called by placards of various sizes, and contini=ng such phrases as the following:- Protestauts attend and petition. tighiteousiteas exalteth a nation, Another step ...

... CIIUPC:i OPINIONo sO TGr1A IRISH CHURCH. fProm Ladtftfiylt's U mln'iuan.] It is of incalCidable inipostaincc, ill respoct of all the highest interests of the Church and of the Enipiro, that the Irish Church question should be doliberately and cau- tiously trvatedl. The iSgovetiiuent of former days has codtleniied the Chlirch of Ireladil to ia fallsepositioll ; and now that Church and we ...

... THlE REV. }R. CRAUIJFURD'S SERMION. -- .. -' S.- T.. 1 [Frost tie Daily Jffajrnyh.] What east be said of such a sermon and such a Dman? The poor old geltiacmiull has been, it appears, thirty-two years in the parish, and has not eve!' now arrived at years of discretion. There is a kind of disease called *' clergy- noan's sore throat. Is there any special mental eccen- tricity developed by ...

... E HE FOLI'AL SITUATITN. r A (Jabinct Council was oppointed to hebeld yester. ' day afternoon. The gutmmongeH were not issued till lo late on Monday evening. ha The Daily News announoes that every one of Mr. ri Gladitous's reholution awill be eubmitted to the House ce of Commons, and in a leading article remarks that a, if the second and third resolutions were in the be e gi'ning needful ...