Potter's Electric News

TEN BY. SERMONS -Sermons were preached in the parish church On Sunday, the 24th inst., in tha morning by the Rev E. F. Willi*, and in the evening by the Rev J. H. Poppel- wel, in aid of the fords of the National Society for the education of the poor in the principles of the Church of Enalarid.1 The collections after both services atuouiiijBjd to.eio. POLICE COURT, MAY 23 -^Before the Maror.-Philip Gonial, painter, was charged by P.C. Beynon with being drunk in the public street. Fined 5s and 28 6d costs, or seven days' imprisonment. Money paid—MAY 25th.— Before the Mayor, H. Sanders, Esq, ari(A the itcy 'r. H. Dunn.—Peter Runt, potato dealer.^Pembroke-dock, was charged by H ad-Constable Thomas, Inspector of Weights and Measures, with having in his possession, and using, in tke Market Place, on Saturday last, a false beam and light weights. This being his first offence, he was fined 2s 61, and 7* costs, or seven days' imprison- ment, and ihe scales and weights to bo forfeited. Money paid.—F. Bowers, innkeeper, and Thomas, Griffiths, inn- keeper, were both charged by Mr W. Noot, collector, with non-payment of poor rates. Ordered to pay, toge- ther with costs.

TENBY CORPORATION. At an adjourned Quarterly Meeting, on Monday the 25th inst, present, —The Mayor; Aldermen Wella, Rees, and Mason; Councillors G. White, W. M. Harries, J. Gregory, G. Hughes, J. Giffard, and W. Gibbs, 4. letter was read from W. 0. Hulai, Esq, the Lieu- tenant commanding the 1st Pembrokeshire Artillery Volunteer Corps, stating the desire of the corps to accompany the Corporation to the morning service at the parish church on Whit-Sunday. Resolved,—That the Town Council attend church as usual on Whit-Snnday. Resolved,—That the Harbour of Refuge Committee prepare the memorial for a Harbour of Refuge, and for- ward the same to the Board of Trade. The heads of agreement between the Corporation of Tenby and the Provisional Directors of the Tøniiv Iron Pier Company having been read, it was resolved that the same be adopted, (with the exception of clause 5 in the eaid He.tds of Agreement,) and the Corporation seal be affixed to it. This was accordingly done. The Council then sat as a Bsard of Health. The Surveyor rep. rted that at present about 26,000 gallons of water was supplitd daily to the town from the Ladywell, Holywell, and Knightston springs. Ordereil,-that in future six cabs be allowed to stand in Gate Street. Mr White said that it was important that the walks on the Castle Hill should be nicely kept, and the grass fr quently cut. John Page had off-red to do this for £ 10 a yetlr. A further sum wiuld be required ior gravel and additional seats, but all that he should ask the B ard for was zC5, the balance he would undertake to raise by subs< ripnons. Ordered,—That the sum of X5 a year be paid to John Page for keeping the walks and cutting the grass on the Castle Hill. The met ting then broke up.

M I L F 0 R D. The fine f-bips NorthSpet and Garibaldi, both of Lon- don, have been hauled out of the graving dock of Messrs Watson and YVim*hurst, at Hakin, where they have undergone very extensive repairs and been reclassed. The steam tug Chu-.tcrbox took the Garibaldi round to Cardiff, and the Northfleet will proceed to Liverpool as soon a., she has taken in ballast.

IVe do not. consider i>urselves responsible for the opinions and sentiments of our Correspondents DEAR SIR,—We cannot allow the letter published this week in the Telegraph to pass unnoticed Ours being as every one is aware, the largest estiblishmentin the town, and, of course, employing a great number of young people in and out of doors, the public may naturally suppose the letter in question, rigned I The Song of the Shirt' may apply to our iL m. We therefore consider it only just to our assistants and those in our employ, as weli as ourselves, to state that, although this has been by far the busiest season we have had for some years, our young people in the work-rooms have not com- menced business before nine in the morning, and onlv on two or three occasions have they been later than from holf-past eight to nine o'clock at night; and as a rule an through the season on Saturdays they finish earlier. When there is a great" pressure of business in the mil- linery or dressmaking departments, the first bands have instruotions from us to procure extra assistance, which can always be done. There is another point in the letter that we cannot pass by the hours stated by the Act of Palliameut-and a very wise, gocd Act it is-now allow out door workers to come at niae in the morning, leave at one, return at two, then leave at five, and return at six o'clock, so with our explanation the working hours can be easily calculated. We believe it is nothing but a bad system of management that late hours ate so fre- quently kept by many houses. Furtber:-Any assis- tant or apprentice during the summer season, has only to ask for a few hours or a day, for a little out door re- creation it is always granted. We are, Dear Sir, Yours faithfully, GREENISH & DA-WHINS. Commerce House, 23, 24, 25, & 26; Market Street, Haverfordwest.

A PRECEDE NT. We extract the following letter from The Standard of "Wednesday :— SIR,-A.-The heaviest charge brought against the present Government is that of "continuing to hold office whilst a hostile bill is being carried against them (the Suspension Bill) by the opposition." Br—This is said to be unprecedented. C.-Facts: 1. The Parliament of 1837 was elected under Whig auspices. 2. The Parliament of 186J now existing was also elected under Whig auspices. 3. Yet the Whig Government of 1810-41 continued to bold office, although beaten no less thiin nine times in two months in 1840 by Lord Stanleys Iruh Registration (Votert) Bill being carried against them." The divisions were as follows 1840; March 26, for Lord Stanley's bill, majority 16 May 18, rq » "« I- 1 •J"™1!' » ,,n June 11, FF QO June 20. » "t July 2, „ „ H9 D.—In 1841 the Government bill (Registration) was rejected by majorities of 11 and 21 respectively. E.—In June, 1841, the vote of censure was carried by a majority of 1. The Government did not even then resign, but dissolved. F.—In September the Government were beaten on the Address, still no resignation followed, nor was it till the vote of censure was carried by a majority of 91, that the ministry at last resigned. G.— the two Parliaments here referred to were elected under the auspices of the then existing Government. H.- The present Parliament was elected under the auspices of the opposition.-I am, Sir, your obedient servant, L. E. W. London, May 26.

THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. fHEODORE AND HIS WIVES, Those who saw him next day, wben theVdy had been cleansed from blood, and the f&'e become more com- posed, declare that his personal Itppearancewfls very striking. The face, though in complexion very dark, bad nothing whatever of the ntigto about. The feature* were finely cut, though gfflerahy far more expressive of power and strength of will than of delicacy or refine ment the brow massive and thoughtful, the lips thin and closely drawn, judicative of rare determination. His frame was small and slight, but well-shaped and firmly knit. It was* strangely shrunken and emaciated, as if the constant fatigue and anxiety of the last few years, combined with almost daily dissipation, had told upon it. In his best d=&ys Theodore's whole appearance may have borne out all that his admirers have said in favour of it; but the Siard life he has latterly led had stamped upon the fece-at least when I saw it—an expression of grossness and sensuality which greatly impaired its otherwise striking effect. However, Mr Holmes, a first rate amateur artist, has taken what is declared by those who knew Theodore well to be an admirable like- ness of him, so that all who are curious to know what thejfa'mous or infamous Emperor of Abyssinia looked like will &ave an opportunity of gratifying their curiosity without further description from Eie. Theodore's body was placed at the disposal of his widow, or perhaps 1 ought to say his principal widow-for there are at least two royal ladies, and there is no saying how many semi- royal, who lay a quasi-conjugal claim to him. The Oriental fashion, it seems, holds good in Abyssinia, that any woman upon whom the Imperial eyes have once looked with favour is thenceforth set apart as sacred from the appr( aeb of ordin'ny mortals and as Theodoie was constantly on the march, and his affections —at least latterly—shortlived (in his earlier days he was famous throughout wondering Abfssinia for his devotion to one favourite queen), his horem grew very large. When on the first anxious day of negotiation Lieutenant Prideaux told him that honourable treatment would be given to him and his family if he surrendered himself and Magdala, he brck-e out with an odd mixture, for such a moment, of faaiaoar and indignation, 4 What does your chief mesa by my family ? Is he prepaced for a thousand ?' However, only two widows have been re- cognised. The widow-in-chief is the daughter of R'ls Oubia, of Tigre, and therefore belongs to one of the oldest and most powerful dvnasties in Abyssinia, crushed, with so many others, by Theodore, when he for a time effected the consolidation of the empire. Those who saw her rm the day of the storming of Magdala, when her face was exposed, say that are must in her day have been a very great beauty, cruelly thrown away upon Abyssinia, of the thoroughbred type, the features delicate and well-cut, the hands and feet small and exquisitely shaped. The British s-ldier did not, of course, understand that'' removal of her veil (t" foundest proof of submiesion and humiliation that. an Abyssinian lady can give) was anything out of the way, and hia efforts to console her by slapping her on the back and informing her that nobody should hurt her, but that "Tedros was Arabic word used here to denote anything and everything not good or tf. the purpose—were anything but reassuring, however well meant. Happily, Dr Blanc came up in time to rescue her, and she is now safe scmewhere in our camp, closely muffled up and screened from profane eyes. She did not even affect to feel any grief at her husband's death, and left the British to do what they thought best with his body, which was placed in the outer porch of the wretched cabin in Magdala dignified by the name of church, for as a suicide Theodore could not be given Christian ritea or military honours. THE EXODUS FROM MAGDALA. The Wollo Gallas, Theodore's unrelenting enemies, are among the fiercest warriors and most determined phin derers in th* world. During our heavy bombardment or Magdala they were looking vigorously among the huts close under the walls, until a few rockets, in their im- mediate direction, dispersed them, and they had clam- b: red up by the southern gate, almost as soon as the place was in flames on the last day and our men had begun to retire. They rob, murder, and mutilate every Abyssinian they can pet hold of, and the British force has btid far more difficulty in protecting Theodore's army and huge host of followers than it had in conquering them. The poor wretches have been leaving Magdala for the last two days in thousand", and lining the road between this and the Dalanta plateau for many miles. I have heard them estimated at from 25,000 to 30.000, but any European estimate could &e llitte more than a loose guess, and thv AbyssiT-.ians themselves have as vscuc a notion of num- bers as of distance, Whatever the popu'ahon was, it seempd to cover with swarming multitudinous life not only the Amba, but nearly all the immpdiate neighbour. hood, and presented as strange and motley a collection as it would be easy to find out of a museum—men and women, the young and the old, the infirm and the vigorou*, fathers borne on the shoulders of stalwart sons, weak women tottering under the weight of noisy, animated hundles-sometimes two or three such bundles, the chief, conspicuous in his red-striped shama, striding impatiently and haughtily, a)b it a little crest-fallen, ahead of his overladen Shangalla slaves, negroes, big- limbed and black, to borrow Johnson's simile, as a "Cyclops from the forge;" the lady of rank, on her sleek, gaily caparisoned mule, riding-as ladies in Rotten- row do not tide, and so closely mnfSed up from head to foot as to show nothing morn to the passing eye than a well-shaped, but yellowish torso of nose and by no means exprcsionless black eye. her handmaids making a body guard round her on humbler animals and in coarser clothes, bnt, as a compensation, free from the drawbacks of rank, and thus enjoying the double feailnine pleasure of seeing and being seen; here and there a friendless cripple, unable to drag his palsied limbs further down the steep bill, and piteou-Yy imploring every passer-by for water or the support of a strong arm; and—most startling, though not saddest of all—the corpse of some one fallen from hunger or thirst by the way-side, or a rude litter carrying high above the dense throng theV body of some dead or wounded soldier, a ghastly token of the recent days of blood. It was certainly a most marvellous exodus, and would have been inexpressibly painful if one had thought the people were leaving for ever real homes in which they had lived from childhood, and for whioh they cared. But such sufferers were in a small minority. A few inhabitants may have been loth to leave Magdala; some from age or infirmity were physically unable to leave with comfort, or even at all. A few of these clang to their hurs up to the hist moment, and bad to be hunted from hiding-place to hiding-place. Just before the gate was blown up—:be last act of destruction—a loathsome cripple, covered with sores, was discovered near it by a corporal of the 33rd, whose name, unfortunately, I have not learnt, and carried bv him to a place of safety. A SKiKurezr Y.TTH THil GALLAS. The Herald's correspondent, writing from Antolo, May 1. describes the following adventure• The Gallas have become hold and troublesome, and not a few have fallen in skirmishes with our troops. Soon after we had joined the body of fugitives we heard screams and" cries in front, and riding in Rt n gallop with my friend we came upon a number of natives in a HMe of great ex- citement, the women Ci*y'?5g and ivnrtjnng their hands. They pointed to a ravine, and illfide us understand that the Gallas were there, Rising up to it we rame to a party of eight or ten men with gpenrs and shields driving off a couple of dozen oxen they had just stolen. Before they could recover from their surptise we were in their midst, and our revolvers soon sent them flying up the hili with two or three of their ntimber wounded. We drove back the cattle, and were received with acclama- tion by the unfortunate but miserably cowardly natives, who could merely with stones have kept their assailants at a distance had they Ule pluck of fo many she;'p. A few hundred yards further on we came upon another party of Gallas actively engaged in looting, and at the sight of us with our rifles and revolvers in hand most of hem fledI; but we capturrd two of the r-.fnans, who saw that the throwing themselves upon their taces was the only chance to cscaps from being shot. We tied their hands behind them, and banded H>cv3 over to the syces, wlio drove them befure them until the end of the day, when we delivered them over to Graves, of the 3rti Cavalry, who was It) command at Dalanta, and had the satisfaction of seeing them get two doz-n lashes each well laid on. After this skirmish, seeing numbers or Gallas hanging about, we constituted ourselves a sort, ot rearguard to the native column, and our double-barrelled rifles soon drove them to a distance, the long range, at which it sent balls into groups waiting for en opportu- nity of attack evidently astonishing them greatly, and causing them to scatter in the greatest haste. | think it a question whether the Gallas or the Abyseinians are the greatest cowards. THE APPEARANCE OF THE CAPTIVE?. The letter in the Post, also dated Antalo, May 1st, speaks in no flattering terms of the rescued captives :— I have hitherto made but slight mention of the pri- soners,' for so I foresee they W^ill always be dubbed should they live to enjoy half a century of freedom. The filet is, no interest whatever attaches to them; as long is they were in Theod ire's hands, and costing us so many thousand pounds a day, they were great 'lions,' but once released they dwindle into very commonplace individuals. As to Messrs Cameron, Rassam, and Co., no one cares a &g for their future proceedings, with the exception, perhaps, of the commissariat, officer, whose duty it is to convey the lot down to Zoulla, and here and there a needy paterfamilias, who will recall the now familiar names as they groan over the call of the unwelcome in- come tax collector*. The proverb of great cry and little wool' appears tome only too applicable to the case of the Abyssinian captives, and had one of the original batch possessed an average amount of pluck and deter- mination, I cannot help thinking that this costly expe- dition would have been unnecessary. The rosy cheeks, 'good case,' and comfortable aspect of all the principal victims' go far to prove that Theodore's tyranny was sonsiderably less galling than represented." THE "LOOT" SOLD BY AUCTION. It is already well known, says the Daily Neivs cor- respondent, that the booty captured at Magdala is not remarkable for variety or value. The "loot" consisted élhirfly of old matchlocks, crooked swords, spears, crosses, shields of tough bullhide, or the still rougher hide of the rhinoceros, and bOJk8 in old Ethiopic character. Trashy .is the collection was, however, the articles fetched fancy prices; one might have supposed from the bidding that the buyers were in league with Madame Tussaud or Barnhum. The shields fetched from £ 10 to £ 15; that ■)f Theodore was knocked down at £ 43 10s; although it was in no way different from the others, being a well- worn hid" ornamented with silver. Suitable presents were made to each of the regiments before Magdala; a valuable collection has, I believe, been made for the British Museum and the b K ks, or the majority of them, will be sent to England for sale, as they will find a better market there, where the connoisseurs are more numerous than they are in Abyssinia. THE EXECUTION OF BARRETT. On Tuesday morning, in the presence of a vast con- ourseof spectators, Michael Barrett, the author of the Clerkenweii Explosion, was hanged in front of Newgate. In its circumstances there was very little to distinguish this from ordinary executions. The crowd was greater, perhaps, and better behaved; still, from thu peculiar atrocity of the crime for which Barrett suffered, and from the fact of its being probably the last execution in K''g'aud, it deserves more than usual notice. It -vould • n st impertinent now to review the evidence on ■A inch Barrett was condemned. Probahlv III the history of erhuinal trials there is none which affords such proof of patient investigation, of long, anxious, and deliberate searchirg after truth. In fact, Barrett may be said to have had two trials if we include the supplementary one since his conviction to ascertain if there was a p ssiuiiity af doubt about the verdict, or there was IIr,y evidence which Icoul strengthen his plea of an alibi. On both trials he was found guilty. The defence of an alibi is, of course, the best or the wor-t in the world. It established, it is final, but, on the other band, It is fatal if the person accused tries to prove that he was absent from the spot where he is charged with the crime, and it is found on examination that he Was in the very place and at the very time on the scer.e from which he strives to show that he was absent. This was the defence of Barrett, and it failed most signally. It is rare in the history of our srimir.al jiiiispiudouce that Government allows a 83rt of special commission to inquire into the validity of the Jury's verdict and the Judge's approval. Still, in this sase there were what may he called special circumstances, ror it was urged that the truth of the alibi, it inquired into at Glasgow, could be more easily ascertained than in London. With a life at stake, of course no room was left for doubt. A most, searching inquiry was made, and the result proved to conviction that Barrett was in London at the time he tried to prove he was in Glasgow, and that Barrett was the man who fired the barrel. He was brought from Glasgow to do the job.' He sought to prove that he was in Glasgow at the time, and the evidence which the Government Commission elicited shows beyond a doubt that be was in London and at iiii the places where he was identified. It seems rather a failure of justice that only one man should suffer for a crime in which so many were concerned, and which brought such a territile destruction of life and property But the same jury which acquitted the others convicted Barrett, and we need say nothing more to show the leniency which governed their decisions, and the scruples with which they admitted even possible doubts. Michael Barrett was left to die, and none who know anything of the private history, if we may so term it, of this plot can doubt that he deserved his fate. The Sheriffs (Mr Alderman Stone ard Mr Macarthnr), with the Under Sheriff^ (Mr Septimus Davidson and Mr Roche), arrived at the prison shortly after seven o'clock, and, according to custom, spent. the interval until eight o'clock in their official apartment connected with the Court-house, There they were joined by the Governor of Newgate (Mr Jonas,) the prison Surgeon, (Mr Gibson), and the Ordinary (the Rev F. Ll.)yd Jones) A few representatives of the Press to whom tickets of admission bad been given were also present. The convict Barrett had retir- d to rest about 10 on the previous evening, and, having spent a somewhat restless night, rose at six in the morning, dressed himself, and engaged in prayer. Shortly afterwards he was joined in his cell by the Hev James HuSKey, attached to the Roman Catholic chapel in Moorfields, who had attended him regularly since his conviction, and who remained with hiui to the last. It is understood that he received the Sacrament one day last week, and again Tuesday morning. Towards eight o'clock the Shl rilfs paid him a visit, accompanied by the Governor, and then retired to a part of the prison leading to the scaffold, where the rest of the authorities and the public representatives had assembled. By a pro deter- mined arrangement, and contiary to the ueuaLpractice, the convict was not pinioned in the press-room, as it is called, but in his own cell, and, this process over, he was conducted to the drop by a private way, accompanied hy his priest and attended by the executioner and three or four warders, the prison bell and that of St Sepulchre's Church, hard by, toiling the white. The Sheriff-i and Under-Sheriffs, who, with others, stood in a group in a gloomy corridor behind the scaffold, just caught a giimpse of the doomed man as he emerged with his attendants from a dark and narrow passag". and turned a corner leading to the gallows. He was dressed in the short claret-coloured coat and the gray striped '.rouses, both well worn, hy which he had become familiar to all who were present during his protracted trial. His face had h-st the florid hue it then wore, and in other respects he was an altered mau. With the first sound of the bells came a great hungry roar from the crowd outside, and a loud, conlinued shout of Hats off,' till the dense, bareheaded mass stood white and ghastly looking in the morning sun, and the pressure on the barriers increased so that the girls and women in the front racks began to scream and struggle to get free. Amid such a scene as this, and before such a dense crowd of white faces, Barrett was executed. His clergyman came nrst. Barrett mounted the ateps with the most perfect firmness. This may seem a stereo- typed phrase, but it. really means more than is generally imagined. To ascend a ladder with one's arms and hands closely pinioned would be at all times difficult, but to climb a ladder to go to certain death might try the nerves of the boldest. Barrett walked up coolly and boldly. His fsce was as white as ntarble, but still he bore him. self with firmness, and his demeanour was as far removed from bravado as from fear. We would not dwell on these details, but from the singular reception he met as be came out upon the scaffold. There was a partial burst of cheers, which was instantly accompanied hy loud hisses, and so it remained for some seconds, till as the last moment approached the roars dwindled down to a dead silence. To neither cheers nor hisses did the culprit make the slightest recognition. He seemed only attentive to what the priest was saying to him, and to be engaged in fervent prayer. The hangman instantly out the cap over his face and the rope round His neck. rhen Birrett turning spoke through his cap and asked for the rope to be altered, which the hangman did. In another moment Barrett was a dead man. After the bolt was drawn and the drop fell with the loud boom which always echoes from it, Barrett never moved. He died without a struggle. It is worthy of remark that a great cry rose from the crowd as the culprit fell-a cry which was neither an exclamation nor a scream, but it partook in its sound of both. With the fall of the dtl the crowd began to disperse, but an immense ilia 9 waited till the time for cutting down came, and w'5eI1,1 o'clock struck there were loud calls of Come on, jw snatcher Take away the man you've killed The hangman appeared and cut down the body such a storm of yells and execrations as has seldom b# heard even from such a crowd. There was nothing then to bo Been, so the concourse broke up with its USD* concomitants of assault and robbery. The body on being taken down was placed in. a 6^eH and removed to an adjoining building in the presence0 the Sheriffs and Uoder-Sheriffs, the Governor, the surgeon, and the Ordinary. There the rope having removed from the neck, and the leathern straps V which tbe legs and arms had been pinioned, the Eur^M certified that life was extinct. The expression 0 face was marvellously serene and placid, and the composed to a degree irreconcilable at first sight the notion of a violent death, though tbe lips and of the forehead were unusually livid. Towards ventol the body was buried in the accustomed place precincts of the prison, in a grove upwards of flve deep, in the presence of the Governor and other offic{, of the gaol. Barrett was an Irishman by birth, 27 years of age, of a thick-set, muscular figure, below the average height, and with a countenance. He was unmarried, and by trade a dore. Neither before nor after his conviction did w relative call at the gaol to see him, and after sente" he was only, or chiefly, visited by the Rev Mr who was with him a considerable time daily, and by counsel and occasionally by one or other of the Stoefl'Ij His behaviour in prison was uniformly b?coming> he bore himself to the last with great fortitude, sttbtf? ting himself at the same time with affectionate dooiilw to the exhortations of bis priest, and gratefully rece^™ the consolations of religion. He was never t)8" I buoyed up by the efforts made out of *djors to reT3.Lj his sentence, but rather welcomed the repeated Te>V\y) as affording him further time to prepare himself worst, should it ome to that. He died without j any confession of the crime of which he was con*'°'y so far as any of the authorities are informed. lvbs. may have said to his priest, if anything, in rerercncelflJ the murden may never be divulged. All that is kno is that he gave him «immense satisfaction,' to u3* „{ gentleman's own expression, by bis humble and peB!% demeanour, his extraordinary fortitude, and earnestness with which he strove to prepare hinis€»' his end. Yet there was this peculiarity about hidl,bil observed more than once hy one of the authorities10 w visits to him after sentence—that he never abs"!u^ denied his guilt. On those occasions, whenever be ferred to the crime, he always said he had been CO Of on insufficient evidence, and that he was not murder. Since the execution the polioe who have guard^ i prison of Newgate for months past have been rell?fCe, They were a body of picked men from the City J( and they patrolled the outer walls day and nig^' was a duty in the last degree monotonous and but their incessant vigilance was never in the ge, laxed. The polico arrangements on Tuesday at cutinn were simple and effective, and fully equal to necessities of the occasion. A considerable nufflb0 gj, special constables had been enrolled in the parish 0 jj Sepulchre, and were prepared to aid the regular 'orc required, but haprily the necessity did not arise. f THE AUCKLAND ISLANDS.—On the arrival survivors of the ship General Grant, who tbo number of months had been cast away on j Auckland Islands, the brig Amherst wasdesp3 < from Bluff Harbour to ascertain whether the ship's company were not on other parts islands, or on other groups of Islands iii t latitude. The brig has returned, arrive", out Bluff on the 31st of March. On her vog"0 an<J she experienced light winds to the SnaV'eS'v.e6, reached the m on tbe 28th of January. She se»TL, Qj but found no castaways. There are t'houS»nj? mutton birds on the islands. The captain °\ o!l Amherst had a large pole, 15 feet long, erecte > which were placed bottles containing rfl} Matches, fish-hooks, knives, &c., wsre left- Amherst reached Port Ross on the 1st of FeY'cgi>' nnd formed depot No Ion Enderby Island, ^cSf taining clothing, blankets, compasses, m3' tools, &c. It was placed in a good poSi^1l^ on it vvas written,—4 The curse of the wi' j\e^ the fatherless light upon the man who open this box while he has a ship at hIs esrcb Plenty of goats, &c, are on the islands. A of lip was made round the coast, but no trace 0 cave was discovered. Traces of wreck were near two rocks which jutted out like bnttfÜepol A landing was made at Darntey's Harbour. oto No 2 .vas made near Musgrave's hut. flirt were left at the principal island and goats were landed. Plenty of pigs, birds, sea^i ft j rabbits were found on most of the island8. rbe traces whatever were found of castaway9*, pt* depots on Auckland and Campbell's have been made with care, and their p.0^ 0* distinctly defiued. The latitude and longi* all the islands were taken, nnd it was .i^t5 the Aucklands are placed on the chart 35 n1' ^ofi the south of their true position. This glaring .fj' says the official report, is sufficient to ace"11 tbe number of wrecks. The Amherst saw of the steamer Southland. The islands for penal settlements.—Otogo Times, April4' THE ABYSSINIAN WOUNDED.— VVe have beentl>t« nisned with some account ofthe number and of the wounds sustained by the troops ccWP0 .ti the British part of the iorce in .t\byssÍuit1.&¡\p details of the injuries among the men of tbe and Belooch regiments have yet been receiveJe^ these are known to have been uninportant. before, probably, have such results been with so insignificant a numerical loss to On the two occasions—viz, the fight of 0 r, li and the final assault of M.tgdala on April—there were only 13 men and t«° nSt${ wounded. The gunshot injuries were clusively of the extremities, and generally lower. On the 10th six men of the 4th A were wounded, five of them being by g»nS. M sergeant and private appear to have saSt"}jsl, b*1 most severe wounds—tlTe former a r' fracture o^ the left leg, the latter a ,5iX left humerus. Captain Roberts' wound *aSf,e by a rifle ball perforating the left elboW- doing well by the latest accounts. At the on the 13th seven men were wounded— neK rifle bullets, one from a spear, and rle e £ lSf(» otherwise injured hy splinters, &c. Of in the 33rd Regiment four were injures jyjfj lower and one of the upper extremity* ,e rjgl) Pritchards' was a slight splinter wound of arm and shoulder, accompanied by much of the parts. It will be seen with great tion that among the 15 cases there was no i tb? of perforating gunshot injuries of the trU" ef} f9, body. When any internal organs have a versed by a rifle ball, it necessarily gravest consequences may be feared, whic confidently anticipate will not be tbe present occasion. — Lancet. "ii i'rinteci and Published by the Proprietors. LLKWELLIN and THOMAS WHICHEB DAVIB9' Office in High-street, in the Parish of ^a! in the County of tbe Town of H«verfoidffe Wednesday, June 3, 1868,