Both men were severely i punished. They were evenly matched, [ and fought till they could scarcely stand. j Longen was fearfully beaten about the i face, and at length became so exhausted that he was unable to respond to the call of "Time." His supporter acknowledged his defeat in the usual fashion, and Taylor was accordingly declared the win ner. I In the House of Commons the Solici tor-General likened the Irish Land Lea guers to an octopus, and Lord Hartington ! declared that the Irish land miscreants ' | trifled with the feelings of the Irish peo- } i pie. The Home Rule members cheered j when reference was made during the de ; bate on the Address-in-Reply to unde } iected agrarian crimes in Ireland. I The Irish Land League is financially in | a flourishing condition. Its weekly re ceipts are L4OOO. General Grant is using his utmost exer tions to prevent the construction of the Panama canal as projected by M. De Lesseps. The ex-President delivered an address denouncing the whole scheme, and recommending the cutting of a canal through t Nicaragua, taking advantage of Lake Nicaragua instead of working asross the isthmus. January 11. TliB flying columns of troops recently organised in Ireland have stai'ted through the disaffected portions of the country. A plot has been discovered at Kolapoor, one of the Native States in India, having for its object the deposition of the Rajah, one of the old Mahratta chiefs, and the massacre of the European inhabitants in the Province. It has been ascertained that- 3000 persons are implicated in the plot, and 26 have been arrested, including a number of Brahmins. Although the Fenians were unsuccess ful in their attempt to destroy the Salford Military Barracks by means of dynamite, a butcher's store was blown to atoms. The trial of 26 conspirators, arrested at Kolapool, on a charge of being concerned in the plot to depose the Rajah of the district, and massacre the European popu lation resident there, is being proceeded with. Mr Gladstone, receiving a deputation which waited upon him in reference to the present state of affairs in Ireland, assured them. of his belief that the measures which the Government pi*oposed to submit to Parliament for the pacifica tion of Ireland, and for the improvement of the condition of the people j would be found effective. 