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and others , also spoke fof the loss the country bad sustained . Glasgow turned out on Wednesday to welcome Mr . Gladstone . At noon he bad an address presented to him by the National Reform Union . To that be returned an answer , in which , as might have been expected , he made no definite allusion to Reform . Afterwards the right lion , gentleman bad the

freedom of the city presented to him . In acknowledging the presentation he made a most eloquent speech , in the course of wliich he spoke in the most manful and generous terms of Earl Russell . Moreover be expressed his conviction that the Government would have no difficulty in carrying on the business of the country . He had a most enthusiastic audience . In

the evening he addressed a large meeting of working men in the Scotia Hall . Lord Dudley has set a good example to the landed proprietors of AVorcestershire by granting permission to all his tenants to kill the game on their respective farms . Previously his lordship had reserved tbe right for himself . He makes only one stipulation , which is that the surplus game shall

not be sold , but given to the poor . " Go thou and do likewise , " is what our readers will be tempted to say to every man in Lord Dudley's position . A shocking collision took place in the Mersey on AVednesday morning . A schooner , while dragging her anchor , drove foul of a large vessel , and they both went down together . No less than nine men were drowned . At

the Westminster police-court on Wednesday , Mr . Alfred AVood , proprietor of a beer-house in Queen ' s-road east , Chelsea , was charged with having stolen £ 145 , a gold watch and chain , and a silver watch , the property of Lord Clarence Paget's butler . It would seem that Mr . Wood was a friend of bis lordship ' s butler , and that he asked from him in August last the loan of £ 5 to pay some bill . The butler took from the plate closet in Lord Clarence Paget ' s pantry that sum ; and the same evening

this pantry was broken into and a much larger sum of money , with two watches , was stolen . The prisoner was remanded . FoitElox ISTELXiGEitCE . —The Swiss , like their Republican brethren across tbe Atlantic , are amending their constitution . In one important point ifc was peculiarly defective , inasmuch as while religious liberty was secured to certain sects ifc ivas

virtually denied to others , and the Jews especially were placed in a position unworthy of a free State . The National Council , in revising the constitution , has remedied this injustice , and henceforth absolute religious equality will be established throughout Switzerland . Telegrams from Vienna inform us that the identical note addressed by the Senate of Frankfort

to the two great German Powers rejects with emphasis the arrogant demands made by the latter . The Senate appeals to tbe Federal Constitution , which expressly declares that no member of tbe Confederation shall interfere , unauthorised by the Diet , with the sovereign rights of any other German State . The energetic terms in which the letter is couched have given ,

it is said , great offence to the Austrian Government , and ifc is asserted that Austria and Prussia have already agreed upon certain propositions to be submitted to the Diet on this question . Austria and Prussia appealing to the Federal Diet are like the lion in the fable pretending to solicit the advice of the poor little donkey . A telegram from Madrid gives a piece of

news which will be gladly received in this country . It asserts that tbe Spanish Government has informed the British Government that they intend taking energetic measures to put an end to the slave trade . It was time . Spain has for long been the sole European actual protector of the slave trade . If now she sets her face steadily and honestly against the

iniquitous business it will soon be extirpated . The ministry of Denmark and the lligsraad are in collision . The Rigsraad has agreed upon certain amendments of the constitution different

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from those proposed by the Government . These amendments the ministry refused to accept , and a committee of the Ri gsraad is setting itself to work to endeavour to modify the amendments , so as to render them more in conformity with the Government measure . The Italian elections are proceeding . Garibaldi has , of course , been returned , along with Bixio and others of

similar opinions . A telegram , however , states that many of those returned are moderate liberals . Greece is iu the throes of a ministerial crisis . The ministry has resigned , and there is a strange impediment to the formation of a new one . The King sent for M . Bulgaris , and asked him to form a Cabinet . JI . Bulgaris , however , stipulated that Count Sponueek should

leave Greece . The Count is the mentor who accompanied the youthful monarch from Denmark , and it seems that the Greeks attribute to him evil counsels . The King , however , is not disposed to part with him , and therefore would not yield to M . Bulgaris's request . That individual consequently declines to attempt tbe formation of a Ministry . What will bo done

remains to be seen . The Paraguayans have sustained another reverse . Uruguay has been recaptured by the allies , and its garrison to the number of six thousand men made prisoners . By a telegram from Lisbon , we learn that Uie Daoid Dmilar was wrecked off Las Roccas on tbe 7 th October . Her crew and

passengers were happily rescued by the Brazilian mail steamer Oneida , but not until ten days after tbe disaster . Russia has given in her adhesion to the proposal of Franco for a Sanitary Congress . AMERICA . —The City of Zondo : i brings news from New York to the 21 st October . Mr . Seward had made a speech , in which he said the settlement of national claims would be conducted

without compromising the national dignity and honour . He also made allusion to the influence of America on the international conduct of other States , and said that the country would renew the influence ifc possessed previous to the civil war . He expected to see republican institutions , wherever heretofore established throughout tbe American continent ; , speedily

vindicated , renewed , and rcinvigorated . Afterwards he should look for signs of its working on other continents . The North Carolina Convention had utterly repudiated the Confederate debt . The Fenians had , it was said , agreed on . some secret measure , and subscribed largely for its execution . The number of Federal officers at the Fenian Congress had increased . There has been a great

storm on the American coast . The Circassian , from Bremen for New York , had been run ashore in Rocky Bay , Cape Breton ; her passengers , and cargo had been rescued . The Atlantic , from New Orleans for New York , had been wrecked , and nearly all on board had perished . Gold on the morning of the 21 st was quoted llCJ-. A telegram received in New York states that there bad been a fearful storm in Chinese waters , in which several English and American vessels had been wrecked .

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TO CORRESPONDENTS .

* , / ' AH communications to be addressed to 19 , Salisbury-street , Strand , London , W . C . ERE - ATUM . —In liro . Purton Cooper ' s communication " Pope's Essay on Man , " page 320 , line 10 , for " because his understanding , " read " aud obscure his understanding . " Those words conclude the sentence , and therefore at the beginning of tlle next line , for " the " rend " The " . 1 correctlinformedLodges 722 at

F . C— . You are y . So . Cadiz , and No . ^ 51 at Frankfort arc both ou the Register of the Grand Lodge of England . 2 . The Lisbon lodges which you mention arc under the Grand Lodge of Ireland . ROSE CEOIX . —Wo have given tbe list of Chapters for which you ask under the head oi Notes and Queries m the present number .