The great debate upon Abyssinia is fixed for Tuesday, but
Lord Derby and Lord Lyveden, in the Upper House, Mr. Disraeli and Mr. Gladstone, in the Lower, have alluded to the subject, and the general drift of their remarks is this. The Government inserted the word " alone " in the Queen's Speech, to show they mean to retire when the prisoners are liberated, and they do mean, though tbtri think retiring may be a difficult process. Lord Derby was especially explicit in repudiating any idea of remaining, for sani- tary or other purposes. Mr. Disraeli observed, with truth, that Parliament was still entirely unpledged upon the subject, and Mr. Gladstone, while affirming that point in a still stronger manner, hinted also that he should resist any mode of paying for the expe- dition except taxation within the year. It would seem probable that on Tuesday little objection will be raised to the expedition, but a good deal to its magnitude, which, to judge from the Abyssinian correspondent of the Times, grows every day.
