The son of King Theodore of Abyssinia has left England for Paris, where he will spend the rest of the winter. It is stated that he has be come quito Anglicised, having entirely for gotten his native tongue and acouired English instead.
The Royal Engineers nre engaged in survey ing the outskirts of London, with a view to the construction ot LrtificatJons for its defence. No one expects anything from their doings save a large expenditure. That crazy old gentleman, Mr John Hamp den, who has repeatecily got into trouble by his violent advocacy of his belief that the earth is a plane and not a sphere, has been released from the Essex County Gaol, where he had been confined for ten months for libelling Mr A. "R. Wallace in connection with hia mono mofiia. In consideration of the painful circumstances in which the late Uommoaore Goorienough lost his life, wh'le in the execution of his duty, the Lords of tbe Admiralty have bestowed a pen sion of £300 a year upon bis widow. The act has met with universal approbation. Some idea of the seventy of the snow storm which caused the railway accident at Abbotts Riptonmaybo foimed from the fact that at Cheltenham a large iron church wis literally crushed by the heavy weight of the snow upon the roof causing the walls to collapse. The commission to bo paid to the Messrs Rothschild on the Suez Canal purchase money amounts to L 99,414.
