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Emperor is said to have assured M . de Lavaletfce that in the event of Pio Nono ' s death the French troops will not be withdrawn from Rome , ns ifc will be necessary to secure French influence in the conclave that will choose a new Pope . The text of the allocution delivered by the Pope on the approaching ceremony of the canonisation of the Japanese martyrs has been published . His Holiness dwells hut very briefly on the martyrs who are about to be raised to the dignity of saintshut

, expatiates largly on his own griefs . He says it will be a fine spectacle to see the Supreme Pastor surrounded hy other pastors who have supported unanimously the rights of the Holy See , and hy their consoling words alleviated his profound grief . He rebukes those ecclesiastics who had advised him to renounce the temporal power , and declares that the Holy See does not maintain the temporal power as a dogma of faith , hut asserts that that power is necessary and indispensable , so long as the order

established hy Providence shall endure , to sustain theindependence ofthe spiritual power . A Royal decree was read at the sitting of the Spanish Cortes on Monday , increasing by six million reals the yearly redemption of the Passive Debt . Preparations were being made for the evacuation by the Spaniards of Tetuan , as it is stated that the Emperor of Morocco will soon fulfil his engagements with the Court of Madrid . —•—Some thirty thousand Italians haveit is saidsigned an address to the Emperor of the

, , French calling on him to withdraw his troops from Rome . A somewhat similar address , according to the Opinione , has been sent to the House of Commons . The Danish Government have taken objection to the proceedings of the German Diet on the Schleswig question . The Dagbladet says the ambassador refused to accept , as plenipotentiary to the Diet , the resolution which ought to have been communicated to him diplomatically

as ambassador of Denmark ; and , inconsequence , the Diet made its communication to the Danish Government through the Russian ambassador of Copenhagen . The Dagbladet characterises the resolution of the Diet as exceedingly dangerous . The Brussels Independence publishes a Vienna letter , which affirms that Lord Bloomfield , our representative at the Alennese Court , undertook his recent journey to Pesth as the bearer of proposals for a compromise from the Emperor Francis Joseph to the leaders of the Hungarian Constitutional party . The proposals are stated to have been unsuccessful , and the mediator returned

to A ienna without having accomplished anything . The whole of this story must , however , be received with great caution . A arious movements have been attributed fco our Viennese Ambassador in continental journals which afterwards received official contradiction . The insurgents of the Herzegovina are reported to have destroyed several villages in Albania by fire and sword , and massacred the Turkish inhabitants , sparing the lives only of Christian residents . The surrender of Nauplia , is again

contradicted . The citadel , it is affirmed , can hold out four months yet . AMEEICA . — General M'Clellan had issued to the Federal army of the Potomac an address framed upon the model of Napoleon's proclamation to his soldiers . In this address the Federal soldiers are told that they had hitherto been kept inactive in order that they might give a deathblow to rebellion , but that the moment for action has now arrived . Their

General will now bring them face to face with the rebels , and only pray that God may defend the right . His object is to lead them to a decisive battle-field , and he will require of them great and heroic exertion , rapid and long marches , and privations perhaps . Their commander will share all these , and , when this sad war is over , we will all return to our homes , and feel that we could ask no higher honour than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the army of the Potomac

. The Canada brings us ^ he intelligence that the Federal expedition of . General Burnside had gained anew victory on the coast of North Carolina . The town of Newhurn was captured by the Federals , after an engagement wliich lasted four hours and which cost tiie victors 500 men killed and wounded . The Confederates lost 200 prisoners , 46 guns , and 3000 stand of arms ; but the main body of their troops , said to he 10 , 000

strong , escaped by railway to Goldshorough , burning bridges behind them , and setting fire to the town of Newhern , which is said , however , to have sustained but little damage . General Beauregard , on assuming the command of the Confederate army of the Mississippi , had issued an order of the day , saying : — " Our reverses , far from disheartening , must nerve us to new deeds of valour , and , while true to our cause and ourselves , with the protection of the Almi ghty , we must and shall triumph . " Bufc his assumption of the chief command had been attended with fresh disasters ; for the accounts of the evacuation of New

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Madrid by the Confederates state that many guns and stores worth more than 1 , 000 , 000 dollars had been abandoned by them and that their troops had escaped in a demoralised state to the opposite bank of the river . It was reported that Island No . 10 , in t ' -e Mississippi , had likewise been deserted by the Confederates , and had fallen into the hands of the Federal troops . The latest telegrams from New York , however state that the report was " premature" and that fighting still

, continued at "Island No . 10 . " Commodore Foote was there with a mortar flotilla , and was busied in shelling the Confederate works ; and it was thought that some Confederate steamers and gunboats would probably fall into Federal hands . There was likewise a rumour , which yet needed confirmation , that the Federals had obtained a fresh success in Arkansas . By the arrival of the City of Washington we diave received two days ' later from decisive results had been

news AVashington . No arrived at in the Mississippi . The Federals have silenced all the guns in the upper battery , but the Confederates are strongl y fortified on the island , and some time would probably elapse before the place was reduced . In Virginia the Confederates are again shifting their line of defence , and are concentrating large bodies of troops on Norfolk . A ship , arrived at Liverpool , from Bombaybrings intelligence of the capture of a Northern

, merchant vessel hy a Confederate privateer , called the S . C . Evans . The capture was made on the 4 th inst . in lat . 26 N . long . 39 AV . but , instead of following the example of Captain Pegrim and firing the prize , the Southern commander appears to have sent a body of his own men on board , with the view of carrying the vessel into some convenient port . MEXICO . —Mexico advices , transmitted by way . of Havana and New York , state that President Juarez had approved the

provisional agreement with the Allied Commissioners , and that the expedition would probably terminate satisfactorily , without bloodshed . Some of the „ Spanish troops were returning to Cuba , the British marines were about to re-embark , and the French reinforcements were not to he landed . AVEST INDIA . —The news from the AVest Indies is of no political importance . The health of the islands was [ good , £ but there was great distress in trade . From the South Pacific there

are the usual accounts of revolutionary changes , and amongst others the attempt of certain parties in Lima to prepare public opinion to annex Peru again to Spain . As may be supposed , the clergy are the principal actors in the movement . INDIA AND CHINA . —The news by the India mail states the financial position of India is very encouraging . The cash balances in the Treasury were nearly three millions greater than at the same period ( February ) last year , and the revenue

estimates had increased above three millions in two years . Mi-. Laing , in speaking of the abolition of the licence tax , had declared that the import duties on Manchester goods would , " if possible , " be abolished at the end of the financial year . The Sylhet disturbances , it was expected , would be suppressed on the arrival of the reinforcements . The natives at Calcutta had voted an address and a statue to Lord Canning . The general communitintended to pass a separate address . A fresh

y rumourrespectingNanaSahib—probably as unfounded asits many predecessors—asserted that he had been discovered in Nepaul , and that the British Government was expected to demand his surrender by Jung Bahadoor . From Canton we learn that the celebrated missionary , Mr . Roberts , had quitted the rebel camp , as his life was in danger . Mr . Alcock , it is reported , will soon leave Japan for England . A large fire iu Jeddo had consumed three streets , including the palace of one of the princes .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

AV . M . —It is now the custom to allow E . A . ' s or F . C . ' s to propose or second candidates for initiation . No . 17 ( Quebec . )—There ought not to be no doubt about your centenary . We do not know what system of arithmetic is adopted by the Grand Secretary , hut we should think one of the principle rules laid down in ifc is " give everybody as much trouble as possible before you admit any proposition , however clear . "

AV . J . M . shall he attended to . . . G . —On again referring to our report of the last meeting of Grand Lodge , yon will find near the close of the second column , page 190 , the following words " various grants of money from the Fund of Benevolence were then made , as set forth in the Agenda paper , which appeared in our number last week . "