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Grey River Argus, Volume V, Issue 355, 23 April 1868, Page 3

(By Atlantic Telegraph. ) London, March 10, Mr Charles Gilpin, member fop Northampton, gave notice of a bill to abolish capital punishment. Burke, Casey, and Shaw are confined in Newgate, and will be tried in April. C. W. Hunt, the new Cabinet Minister, has been elected for Northamptonshire, An investigation in the case of the vessel Lizzie Line, seized at Chesapeake, has been ordered. W, Johnson, the Grand Secretary of Orangemen, imprisoned in County Down, has been released, The prisoners captured at Dungaroon were offered pardon on condition that they would leave the country. They refused. Fitzgerald, Dohuny, and Macarthy have been discharged from custody. The Marquis Bepoli, French Minister to Russia, has been appointed in same capacity to Great Britain. . The Fenians who were captured at Merthyr-Ty.lvil, in Wales, have been indicted for treason. The Grand Jury of Cork presented an indictment against Captain Mackay for murder, and against Manix and Walsh as accessories- to the crime An arrangement has been effected butween the Anglo-American and Atlantic Telegraph Companies, that will remove all the differences which have hampered tho management of Atlantic Cable affairs. A change has taken place in the Turkish Cabinet. All the Ministers resigned except Grand. Vizier Mahomed Mir. Ali Pasha, and others have been appointed to succeed them. Paeis, March 10. The forthcoming Ministerial budget will press for payment of the principal and interest of the Franco-Mexican bonds. The bulliou in the vaults of the Bank of France has increased since lart statement by an amount of four million francs. The EJmperor Napoleon will pay a visit to St. Petersburg in June. In the Corps Legislatif the law for regulation of the Press was under consideration. A clause forbidding private allusion was adopted. The Ministerial budget for the ensuing financial year ending in 1869 was laid before the Corps Legislatif. The following are totals of receipts and expenditure as estimated by the Minister of Finance : — The receipts from ordinary sources, 1,699,000,000 francs ; receipts from extraordinary sources, 93,000,000 francs. Total estimated receipts, 1,920,000,000 frs. Expenditure ordinary, 1,627,000,000 frs ; expenditure extraordinary, 184,000,000 francs. Total estimated expenditure, 1,811,000,000 francs. St Petersburg, March 10. Russia has been strongly urging upon the Western Powers a scheme for the independent union of the Danubian Principalities. The Nicolay Railroad is to be disposed of to a newly formed Russian Company. The terms of sale have been settled, and the property rights of Americans in material and rolling-stock of the road are protected by the provisions of sale. Berlin, March 10. A Bill for ratifying the treaty just concluded between the representatives of the United States and North Germany has bi&a introduced in Council. A Commercial Treaty between the Zollvsrin and the Austrian Government has been concluded and signed. Vienna, March 10, The Imperial Minister of Foreign Affairs ia reply to a Magyr delegation which waited upon him with an address, said he realised the importance of preserving friendly relations with all European Powers, and especially with the King of itJy.