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There were 1959 children born during the week , which was 72 above the average . Lord Clyde ' s report on the volunteer review 7 at Brighton has been published . He praises the excellence of the arrangements by which , together with the punctuality and order of the volunteers themselves , a force of 20 , 000 men was brought to tho places of rendezvous and told off for drill and manoeuvre . The marching

past was , he says , on the whole admirably performed . The manoeuvres which followed had no other object than to practise the volunteer brigades and battalions in the changing position , and working together in a large body . He speaks in highly eulogistic terms of the fine spirit of the volunteers , and says the manner in which they were commanded , and "the intelligent ready way in which they obeyed the orders they received , proved how zealously both officers and men had applied

themselves to the patriotic object that all have in view . " In forwarding this report to the commanding officers of the volunteer corps which took part in the review-, tho Secretary of War expresses his gratification thut they should have obtained the approval of Lord Clyde . A number of gentlemen interested in the cotton manufacture , and carrying on business in the city of London , waited upon the Lord Mayor , on Friday , to request His Lordshito receive subscritions for the relief of the

p p distressed operatives of Lancashire . The Lord Mayor , who said " he had heard and read enough on the subject to satisfy his mind that the emergency was such as justly to command public attention and sympathy , " readily assented to the proposal , and the deputation agreed to form themselves into a provisional committee , to correspond with any local committee which might be organized in some central part of the distressed

districts . The unemployed operatives of Manchester held a meeting on Tuesday evening , to take steps for procuring an extension of the relief afforded by the Poor-law authorities . Resolutions were passed to the effect that the relief now given

is totally inadequate , and that the " present mode of applying the labour test is unjust in principle , and cruel in its operation on the labouring classes . A deputation was appointed to wait upon tho Mayor of Manchester and the Poor-law Guardians . Another murder is reported from Ireland . M . Thiebault , a French gentleman who had only recently purchased the Bockwell estate , near Cahir , was shot dead while walking on the high road , near to his house , on Monday afternoon . Three

persons are in custody suspected of being concerned in the assassination . Mary Reed , alias Timney , was put to death on the scaffold at Dumfries , on Tuesday morning , in the presence of 2000 or 3000 spectator . " ? . The wretched woman was convicted of the murder of Ann Hannah , at Carpshead . The final decision in the court-martial on Captain Robertson , of the 4 th Dragoon Guards , has at length been published . One of the three charges brought against him the Court found him

guilty of that one which charged him with having , after having received an insult , " failed to take proper lawful steps to vindicate his honour , " and they therefore sentenced him to be cashiered . " The Duke of Cambridge , however , on the opinion of Mr . Headlem , Judge Advocate General , that this finding could not be sustained , advised her Majesty that the proceedings should not be confirmed ; and Captain Eohertson has therefore

been acquitted , and released from arrest . Dr . Bernard , the refugee who was so intimately concerned in the Orsi ' ni plot , and whose defence formed such a prominent era in the career of Mr . Edwin James , has been confined in the AVandsworth Lunatic Asylum . Dr . Smethurst ' s claim to propound the will of Miss Isabelli Bankes was confirmed by a jury on Saturday . The verdict is stated to have been received " with evident surprise by a crowded court . " The Abbey Mills , West Ham , were totally destroyed by fire on AVednesday morning . Large quantities of grain and flour were consumed . The cause of the fire has not been traced .

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The King of Italy arrived m Naples at half-past four on Monday evening , escorted by three Italian and four French frigates . lie was saluted hy the cannon of the forts and of some English vessels . He passed through the streets in an open carriage , and was everywhere welcomed with the most unmistakable demonstrations of enthusiasm . When he arrived at the Palace he had to appear at the balcony and shew himself several times to the le . A general

illumipeop nation of the city took place in the evening . Bourbonians , however , appear to have been at work ; the discovery in Milan of a conspiracy among the soldiers of the old Neapolitan army is announced . It was found that they had been secretly supplied with poniards , pistols , and other- weapons easily hidden , and

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that their object was to attempt getting up a reactionary movement in Lombardy . About forty of them had been arrested and a millitary commission of inquiry has been appointed . Several priests , who were believed to have supplied them with arms and money , have been also placed under arrest . -A letter from Turin affirms that the Pope has arranged with the cardinals that he should , prior to the approaching convocation in

Kome , name him whom he would desire to be his successor ; and that the choice has fallen upon Cardinal De Angelis , Archbishop of Parma . The negociations between Borne and Eussia for the reception by the latter of a Papal nuncio have failed . The Emperor insisted that the nuncio should maintain his relations with thc Russian clergy through the Minister of Public AVovship . This condition displeased the Pope , and bis Holiness has determined not to send a nuncio to St . Petersburgh .

The Hanoverian Government has declined to accede to the commercial treaty between Prussia and France till Bavaria and AVurtemburg shah have returned an answer . The chief reason assigned is that Hanover would , under no circumstances , adopt any act which might endanger the existence of the Zollverein . The great constitutional principle of ministerial responsibility has been resolved on by the Emperor of Austria , in a

Council of his Ministers . Concurrently with this important step another of great importance in the present state of the Austrian finances has heen taken—the reduction in the army of S 000 cavalry and 20 , 000 infantry . The first iron-cased Austrian frigate has been launched at Trieste , and three others are being built . The new Prussian Ministers have at least partially yielded the very demand which caused their predecessor's resignation ; for they have determined that more detailed estimates of revenue and expenditure shall be laid before the Chamber .

The state of affairs of Greece is becoming more settled . The King and Queen are well received hy the people at Athens , and the Chambers are summoned for the 7 th of May , when it is said several popular measures will be brought forward . The King has ordered the establishment of a national guard on the Belgian principle . A Alenna telegram informs us of another defeat of the Turks by the Montenegro insurgents . The former lost 2000 men and 1000 horses .

AMERICA . —The Niagara , from Boston and Halifax , brings no account of any engagement in front of Yorktown . The Confederates there had received large reinforcements—their troops having , it was said , been withdrawn from Fredericksburg to Richmond and Yorktown—and it was supposed that " the siege and defence would be on an extensive scale . " No further " decisive movements , " we are told , had been , made by the

Merrimac . General Beauregard ' s official report of the second day's engagement at Pittsburg states , that , on the previous day , the Confederates captured 36 guns and 8000 to 10 , 000 prisoners , and that they retired to their intrenehments at Corinth . On the other hand , a " semi-official" Federal despatch narrating the battle asserts that the Confederates were " routed , " that they were pursued " as far as General Grant ' s previous

orders permitted , " and that they were " shut up " in Corinth . The Federal General Mitchell had prosecuted his operations from Huntsville , and had occupied 100 miles of the Charleston and Memphis Railway . Fort Pulaski—the communications between the fort and Savannah having for some time been intercepted—had surrendered unconditionally to the Federal gunboats . The steamer Nashville , once more eluding the vigilance of the Federal blockading squadrons , was reported to have arrived at Charleston .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

LODGE OF HONOR ( NO . 769 ) . —AVe are informed that at the last meeting of this lodge , a vote of condemnation was on the motion ' of the W . M ., passed on the FREEMASONS MAGAZINE and a resolution come to , to decline taking it in future . We have no doubt we shall be able to live without the patronage of such a AA . M ., ( who evidently does not wish to do that which he has sworn he will , improve himself in knowledge , ) and we believe the only effect will be to increase our sale in

AVolverhampton , as we cannot suppose all the brethren of the lodge to be as idiotic as their Master . BRO . THE REV . A . F . A . WOODEORD . —Your letter is unavoidably postponed until next week . BRO . BARKER . —You are correct , '; you shall hear from us forthwith .