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tive of the Crown would be exercised . A man named Carr was committed along with M'Phail and AVoods , but he died suddenly on the morning of trial . On AVednesday morning an artilleryman named Alfred Holclen , stationed at Chatham , sent his wife out on an errand , and immediately killed his infant child , by nearly severing its head from its body . He was shortly taken into custody , and admitted the crime , adding that he had done it to be bung , in order that he might escape

from the tyranny of his sergeant . Two murderers were , on Friday week , executed at Dorchester , while two others were sentenced to death—Levi Taylor , at the Liverpool assizes , and AA illiam Hope , at the Hereford assizes . Taylor , it will be remembered , cut his wife's throat in a beerhouse in Shudehill . He was strongly recommended to mercy by the jury , and after sentence was passed upon him , he was carried from the dock in a state of insensibility .

The Bishop of Oxford has issued a pastoral letter to his clergy , in which he he states that as Bishop Colenso has not consented to " reconsider his views or to resign , " the " great majority " of the prelates of the Church deem it their duty " to guard their dioceses from the ministry of one who is , in their judgment , disqualified for the exercise of any spiritual function in the Church of England . " Dr . Wilberforce , coinciding in

this view , forbids the Bishop of Natal to " minister in the word and sacraments" within tbe limits of his see . A young man named Carter shot his sweetheart , a girl named Hinckley , in Birmingham , on the 4 th of December last . He was tried on Saturday , when the crime was clearly proved . The jury , moved by his youth , and probably also by the pitiable spectacle of remorse and mental and bodily prostration exhibited by the

prisoner in tbe course of the trial , recommended him to mercy . Mr . Justice Willes promised to forward the recommendation to the proper quarter , but warned the prisoner against relying on its effect , and , in the meantime , sentenced him to death . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The French Government has deemed it expedient to make an official or semi-official declaration that M . Fould will not quit the ministry . There seems , however , to be good ground to suppose that M . Fould tendered his resignation , in consequence of an article—said to have been furnished by M . Magne , who was M . Fould's

predecessor in the Ministry of Finance— -which appeared in two of the Paris papers , ancl which by implication censured M . Fould's attempt to limit the imperial expenditure by abolishing the power of opening " extraordinary credits " by a mere decree of the Emperor . Some satisfaction has no doubt been given to the complaints of M . Fould , who is said strongly to desire economy , but who probably has no very great desire to resign the pleasures and profits of office . M . Magnewho was also in

, the Ministry , has resigned , ancl his resignation accepted , his retirement being soothed by a friendly letter from the Emperor and an appointment as member of the Privy Council . The Emperor states that he accepts the resignation because " an incident" has rendered " more apparent the difference of opinion which exists between M . Fould and yourself on financial , questions . " The "incident "

was no doubt the insertion of the communique in the newspapers to which M . Fould took exception . La France says that the place of M . Magne will not be fined up . Greece has at last got a king , unless some unexpected and malignant fate should again interpose . Telegrams received in London , at the Greek Consulate , announce that tbe National Assembly of Athens have agreed to an unanimous vote on Tuesdayproclaiming Prince AVilliam George of Denmark King of

, the Greeks , under the title of George the First . The successors of the Prince , says the telegram , will profess the orthodox religion . Three deputies are to come to Copenhagen for the purpose of offering the crown to the Sovereign elect . This is promptitude indeed . Only the other day the plan was first thought of , and now , if the King of Denmark or envious fate de not unexpectedly interposethe whole affair is settledand

, , the throne of Greece has found an occupant . The Vienna journals announce that , in a conference held by Count Reehberg and the English and French Amdassadors , it has been agreed hat the Austrian , French , and British cabine ts shall simultaeously address to the Russian Government identical notes reommending the establishment of "seasonable reforms" in Poland . Paris and Vienna journals publish despatches affirming that

there have been fresh collisions between the Christian and Mahometans in Syria , that some of the Druses have attacked a detachment of Turkish troops , and that the European consuls have demanded the adoption of precautions against the possible

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occurrence of fresh massacres . It must , however , be observed that the French newspapers are ever inclined to magnify any appearance of disorder in Syria , and that the Syrian Christians themselves , mindful of the Damascus massacres , are naturally filled with alarm by the slightest manifestation of Moslem fanaticism .

AMERICA . —The chief intelligence brought by the Arabia , is the announcement that the Federal squadron on the Lower Mississippi , under Admiral Farragut's command , had sustained a severe repulse at Port Hudson . No Northern accounts of tbe engagement had been received ; but from the report published by the liichmond Whig , it appears that the bombardment of Port Hudson was commenced at two o'c ' ock on the 14 th inst . At midnight the Federal squadron endeavoured to run past the

Confederate batteries under cover of the darkness ; but the attempt was disastrously unsuccessful . The Federal war steamship Mississippi , was burned to the water ' s edge , and thirty-six of her crew were captured by the Confederates . A second vessel was '" ' completely riddled , " a third was " badly crippled , " Admiral Farragut ' s flagship was " disabled , " and the other Federal steamers—with the exception of a single gunboat , which" in a damaged condition" passed the batteries—were

, , driven back down the stream . According to the latest telegrams from New York , " none of the reported Federal successes or captures in the Yazoo river are yet confirmed ; " and , indeed , a comparison of date shows that there was not any foundation for tbe reports , and at the date of the latest accounts , we are told the Federals were 150 miles from Yazoo city , the place whereas it was allegedthe twenty-six transports ancl 7 , 000

, , prisoners had been captured by the Federals . On the 17 th inst ., the Federals made an unsuccessful attack on the Confederate intrenchments at Franklin , on the Blackwater river j and on the 13 th inst ., the Confederates , under General D . H , Hill , were repulsed in an attempt to take Newbern ; but

nothing is said of the probable losses sustained on either side in either of these engagements . There has been a sharp skirmish between some Federal horse , who had crossed the Rappahannock at Kelly ' s Ford , and a body of Confederate cavalry , under General Fit 7 . bugh Lee ; and the Federals , who captured some twentyfive prisoners , compelled their adversaries to retreat . By the City of Baltimore we have news from New York to

the morning of the 21 st of March . A Federal attack upon St . Helena , twenty-four miles in the rear of Port Hudson , had commenced , and it was supposed that a stimulaenous attack was also made on Port Hudson in front . An unsucessful attack had been made on Galveston . Although the town was set on fire in some places the Federal fleet bad to draw off . General Hunter had made no advance in South Carolina , on the contrary

his postitions were threatened . Great preparations were made to defend Charleston , and the Confederates were said to have a number of gunboats nearly ready . No reliable news bad been received , of the attack on Charleston having commenced . From Alcksburg it was reported that a considerable corps of Grant ' s army had been compelled to re-embark and go up the river , and it was even said that the whole expedition was on the point of

being abandoned , and that , in consequence , Rosecrans ' s position would be much endangered . Some fears were entertained for the safety of . the negro corps which , under white officers , had ascended Mary's River , in Florida ; but reports of their capture , and the probable shooting of the officers , wore discredited by later news which represented the expedition as liaving made considerable captures .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

J . S—The Book of Constitutions is published at the Grand Secretary ' s office . NEMO . —Yes ; in America . P . M . —AVe never heard of the work alluded to . A YOUNG- MASON - should seek the information required from some members of his lodge . P rest assured that not going to interfer e hi qua *"

ETEK may we are rels with which we have no concern . His article has been consigned to its proper receptacle—the waste paper basket . Owing to Good Friday falling in the present week , and the consequent necessity of going to press earlier than usual , several communications are unavoidably omitted .

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The Week.

tive of the Crown would be exercised . A man named Carr was committed along with M'Phail and AVoods , but he died suddenly on the morning of trial . On AVednesday morning an artilleryman named Alfred Holclen , stationed at Chatham , sent his wife out on an errand , and immediately killed his infant child , by nearly severing its head from its body . He was shortly taken into custody , and admitted the crime , adding that he had done it to be bung , in order that he might escape

from the tyranny of his sergeant . Two murderers were , on Friday week , executed at Dorchester , while two others were sentenced to death—Levi Taylor , at the Liverpool assizes , and AA illiam Hope , at the Hereford assizes . Taylor , it will be remembered , cut his wife's throat in a beerhouse in Shudehill . He was strongly recommended to mercy by the jury , and after sentence was passed upon him , he was carried from the dock in a state of insensibility .

The Bishop of Oxford has issued a pastoral letter to his clergy , in which he he states that as Bishop Colenso has not consented to " reconsider his views or to resign , " the " great majority " of the prelates of the Church deem it their duty " to guard their dioceses from the ministry of one who is , in their judgment , disqualified for the exercise of any spiritual function in the Church of England . " Dr . Wilberforce , coinciding in

this view , forbids the Bishop of Natal to " minister in the word and sacraments" within tbe limits of his see . A young man named Carter shot his sweetheart , a girl named Hinckley , in Birmingham , on the 4 th of December last . He was tried on Saturday , when the crime was clearly proved . The jury , moved by his youth , and probably also by the pitiable spectacle of remorse and mental and bodily prostration exhibited by the

prisoner in tbe course of the trial , recommended him to mercy . Mr . Justice Willes promised to forward the recommendation to the proper quarter , but warned the prisoner against relying on its effect , and , in the meantime , sentenced him to death . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The French Government has deemed it expedient to make an official or semi-official declaration that M . Fould will not quit the ministry . There seems , however , to be good ground to suppose that M . Fould tendered his resignation , in consequence of an article—said to have been furnished by M . Magne , who was M . Fould's

predecessor in the Ministry of Finance— -which appeared in two of the Paris papers , ancl which by implication censured M . Fould's attempt to limit the imperial expenditure by abolishing the power of opening " extraordinary credits " by a mere decree of the Emperor . Some satisfaction has no doubt been given to the complaints of M . Fould , who is said strongly to desire economy , but who probably has no very great desire to resign the pleasures and profits of office . M . Magnewho was also in

, the Ministry , has resigned , ancl his resignation accepted , his retirement being soothed by a friendly letter from the Emperor and an appointment as member of the Privy Council . The Emperor states that he accepts the resignation because " an incident" has rendered " more apparent the difference of opinion which exists between M . Fould and yourself on financial , questions . " The "incident "

was no doubt the insertion of the communique in the newspapers to which M . Fould took exception . La France says that the place of M . Magne will not be fined up . Greece has at last got a king , unless some unexpected and malignant fate should again interpose . Telegrams received in London , at the Greek Consulate , announce that tbe National Assembly of Athens have agreed to an unanimous vote on Tuesdayproclaiming Prince AVilliam George of Denmark King of

, the Greeks , under the title of George the First . The successors of the Prince , says the telegram , will profess the orthodox religion . Three deputies are to come to Copenhagen for the purpose of offering the crown to the Sovereign elect . This is promptitude indeed . Only the other day the plan was first thought of , and now , if the King of Denmark or envious fate de not unexpectedly interposethe whole affair is settledand

, , the throne of Greece has found an occupant . The Vienna journals announce that , in a conference held by Count Reehberg and the English and French Amdassadors , it has been agreed hat the Austrian , French , and British cabine ts shall simultaeously address to the Russian Government identical notes reommending the establishment of "seasonable reforms" in Poland . Paris and Vienna journals publish despatches affirming that

there have been fresh collisions between the Christian and Mahometans in Syria , that some of the Druses have attacked a detachment of Turkish troops , and that the European consuls have demanded the adoption of precautions against the possible

The Week.

occurrence of fresh massacres . It must , however , be observed that the French newspapers are ever inclined to magnify any appearance of disorder in Syria , and that the Syrian Christians themselves , mindful of the Damascus massacres , are naturally filled with alarm by the slightest manifestation of Moslem fanaticism .

AMERICA . —The chief intelligence brought by the Arabia , is the announcement that the Federal squadron on the Lower Mississippi , under Admiral Farragut's command , had sustained a severe repulse at Port Hudson . No Northern accounts of tbe engagement had been received ; but from the report published by the liichmond Whig , it appears that the bombardment of Port Hudson was commenced at two o'c ' ock on the 14 th inst . At midnight the Federal squadron endeavoured to run past the

Confederate batteries under cover of the darkness ; but the attempt was disastrously unsuccessful . The Federal war steamship Mississippi , was burned to the water ' s edge , and thirty-six of her crew were captured by the Confederates . A second vessel was '" ' completely riddled , " a third was " badly crippled , " Admiral Farragut ' s flagship was " disabled , " and the other Federal steamers—with the exception of a single gunboat , which" in a damaged condition" passed the batteries—were

, , driven back down the stream . According to the latest telegrams from New York , " none of the reported Federal successes or captures in the Yazoo river are yet confirmed ; " and , indeed , a comparison of date shows that there was not any foundation for tbe reports , and at the date of the latest accounts , we are told the Federals were 150 miles from Yazoo city , the place whereas it was allegedthe twenty-six transports ancl 7 , 000

, , prisoners had been captured by the Federals . On the 17 th inst ., the Federals made an unsuccessful attack on the Confederate intrenchments at Franklin , on the Blackwater river j and on the 13 th inst ., the Confederates , under General D . H , Hill , were repulsed in an attempt to take Newbern ; but

nothing is said of the probable losses sustained on either side in either of these engagements . There has been a sharp skirmish between some Federal horse , who had crossed the Rappahannock at Kelly ' s Ford , and a body of Confederate cavalry , under General Fit 7 . bugh Lee ; and the Federals , who captured some twentyfive prisoners , compelled their adversaries to retreat . By the City of Baltimore we have news from New York to

the morning of the 21 st of March . A Federal attack upon St . Helena , twenty-four miles in the rear of Port Hudson , had commenced , and it was supposed that a stimulaenous attack was also made on Port Hudson in front . An unsucessful attack had been made on Galveston . Although the town was set on fire in some places the Federal fleet bad to draw off . General Hunter had made no advance in South Carolina , on the contrary

his postitions were threatened . Great preparations were made to defend Charleston , and the Confederates were said to have a number of gunboats nearly ready . No reliable news bad been received , of the attack on Charleston having commenced . From Alcksburg it was reported that a considerable corps of Grant ' s army had been compelled to re-embark and go up the river , and it was even said that the whole expedition was on the point of

being abandoned , and that , in consequence , Rosecrans ' s position would be much endangered . Some fears were entertained for the safety of . the negro corps which , under white officers , had ascended Mary's River , in Florida ; but reports of their capture , and the probable shooting of the officers , wore discredited by later news which represented the expedition as liaving made considerable captures .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

J . S—The Book of Constitutions is published at the Grand Secretary ' s office . NEMO . —Yes ; in America . P . M . —AVe never heard of the work alluded to . A YOUNG- MASON - should seek the information required from some members of his lodge . P rest assured that not going to interfer e hi qua *"

ETEK may we are rels with which we have no concern . His article has been consigned to its proper receptacle—the waste paper basket . Owing to Good Friday falling in the present week , and the consequent necessity of going to press earlier than usual , several communications are unavoidably omitted .

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