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plete understanding has been come to between the Czar and the Emperor Napoleon on the subject of a Congress , and that Count Stackelberg , the Russian Ambassador at Vienna , is about to leave for Berlin , where all the Ambassadors and Ministers to the different European Courts have been convoked to be present on the arrival of the Emperor of Russia .

A despatch from the British Embassy at Vienna to the Foreign Oflice confirms an announcement that the treaty of peace between Denmark , Prussia , and Austria , was signed on Sunday , and adds that the ratification is to take place in three weeks , and that Jutland is to be evacuated by the German allies . within three weeks from the time of the

ratification . The Danish Rigsraad are summoned to meet on the 7 th November for the ratification . The semiofficial Provincial Correspondent of Berlin asserted that the resignation of Count Rechberg had nothing to do with

any question aftecting the relations between iiustna and Prussia . Count Mensdorff-Pouilly is convinced , according to this journal , in order to further the common interest of Germany , a really close ancl intimate relation of the two Great Powers is necessary . The Austrian Government has therefore hastened to assure the Cabinet of Prussia that the change of Ministers in no way affects the situation of the two Powers .

A despatch from the British Legation at Athens confirms the previous announcement that the Greek Assembly had finally passed the new Constitution , and adds that King George will speedily give his assent to it , and that Greece is tranquil . INDIA AND CHINA . —The Calcutta and China mails have arrived at Suez , whence telegrams announce that the European

squadron had " successfully attacked" the forts which tho Prince of Nagato had erected for the purpose of blocking up the Straits of Semonosaki . The Japanese , who are said to

have made a stout defence , but to have inflicted little loss on their assailants , are reported to have sued for peace , and to be now willing to' open the inland sea to European shipping . The only news from India is the announcement that on the 5 th October Calcutta was visited by a terrible hurricane , which did enormous damage to property . Out of about . 200 European

or American ships which were lying in the Hooghly , scarcely 20 escaped undamaged , and some 15 or 20 were totally wrecked . None ot the Peninsular and Oriental Company ' s steamers were wholly lost , though all were more or less injured ; but five of the Indian Navigation Company ' s steamers were destroyed . Despatches published by the Paris journals state that 12 , 000

persons were drowned , that a great part of the city of Calcutta was flooded , that tho villages on the river banks were under water , and that the total damage was estimated at £ 8 , 000 , 000 .

AMERICA .- —The China has brought us New York journals of the 22 nd ult . There was little or no news from the nei ghbourhood of Richmond , as no fresh operations had been undertaken by either army . In a reconnaissance made by two Federal divisions on the north of the James River , on the 13 th ult ., the Federals had been repulsed , with a loss of some 400 men . Geneva ! Sheridan had reported that on the 15 th ult . his troops

had moved to attack General Longstreet ' s army , which had appeared in the neighbourhood of Strasburg , but that the Confederates withdrew hastily before his vanguard , " without giving the opportunity for any serious conflict . " A brief despatch , dated New York , 21 st October , states that "' General Sheridan defeated Gen . Longstreet near Strasburg , on Oct . 18 , capturing

50 guns , including 20 lost early in the engagement . " The Confederate army under General Hood had undertaken serious operations against General Sherman's line of railway communication ; but the accounts were very obscure . The report that Rome had been taken had been contradicted ; but it appeared

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that the Federal posts at Resaca and Dalton had been captured by the Confederates , and that some fifteen miles of railway north of Resaca had been torn up by them . General Sherman had marched against General Hood ; and official despatches published by the War Department at Washington stated that Hood , after liaving struck the railroad in the

neighbourhoodof Dalton ancl Resaca , had fallen back before Sherman without fighting . General Hood ' s main force was in the neighbourhood of Lafayette on the night of the 16 th inst ., and was said to have marched southwards on the following day . General Sherman ' s troops were at Ship Gapon the 16 th instant , and were ready to follow General

Hood , whom some rumours represented as intending to enter Tennessee . General Slocum's Federal corps occupied Atlanta ,, ancl was officially declared to he " all right , with plenty of provisions and forage . " In Missouri , General Price ' s Confederates bad occupied Lexington and Wavrensburg on the 15 th ultimo ; and , consequently , the Federal authorities in Kansas

entertained apprehensions which had caused them to call out the militia . Several merchants in Baltimore and Washington had been arrested on charges of carrying on a contraband trade with the Confederates . The final result of the Pennsylvania !! elections was yet uncertain . In a long report addressed to the Secretary of War , Judge Holt had asserted that an extensive

conspiracy against the Union , under the presidency of Mr . Vallandighain , had been formed , principally in the northwestern states , and that tho conspirators , who numbered

several hundred thousand men , were mostly armed ancl organised . The Jura has brought intelligence from New York to the evening of the 22 nd ult . The telegram by the last mail announcing the defeat of the Confederates by Sheridan , with the capture of 50 guns , is now confirmed . Sheridan is stated ' to have captured 1 , 000 prisoners . It has proved , however , a

costly victory to the Federals ; for according to the New York Herald their losses are estimated at 5 , 000 men . Price in Missouri had captured Glasgow , and was receiving a vast number of recruits to his army . Curtiss had attacked his advance , but no result is mentioned . Forrest has invaded Western Kentucky . Southern journals assert that Sherman

must of necessity soon evacuate Atlanta . President Lincoln in a speech has disclaimed any purpose of interfering with the operation of tho constitutional law , whatever may be the result of the elections . According to a telegram from Lisbon , the Brazilian mail steamer Magdalena has brought the news that the well-known Confederate steamer Florida has been

captured off Bahia by the Federal cruiser Wisconsin . The Federal steamer Roanoake has been captured by a Confederate lieutenant named Brain . She was taken to Bermuda ; her passengers were landed , and she was burnt . Subsequently Brain was arrested by the British authorities . Twenty-five armed men had made a raid from Canada into St . Albans , Vermont ,

plundered a bank there , and killed two citizens . Thc thieves were , however , were for the most part captured , the Canadian authorities assisting in their arrest .

To Correspo Ndents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

INQUIRER , whose letter appeared last week , is informed that a foreign brother , being a member of an English lodge , cannot wear jewels or badges of the high degrees taken either in England or abroad in a Craft lodge . For the brother to sit in lodge without his apron was equally reprehensible . P . P . —We will make inquiries . T . B . If . ( Hamilton , Canada West . )—The P . O . O . for £ 1 10 .. id . has come to hand quite safe .