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iu every pound of the vile , mixture 100 , 000 minute beetles , " closely resembling in appearance aud nature the insect which , hy burrowing into the skin , produces the itch . " It is not surprising that the Guardians have resolved to take proceedings against the contractors . " The Court of Probate has been occupied in inquiring into tho legitimacy of a son of tho Hon . Mr . and Mrs . Upton—a branch of the Templemore family . It appeared the parties were married in Paris by Bishop Luscomho : and hence arose some little difficultin establishing the marriage according to the English form

y , but after hearing evidence , the judge said there could be no doubt on the point , and gave formal judgment in favour of the legitimacy of the child . A shocking accident has occurred at Yarmouth . A professional acrobat went up to the top of Nelson's Pillar there , aud then , getting outside , he clambered up to the helmet which surmounts the figure of Britannia , on the top of the pillar , and there he began out of mere wantonness , as it appeared , to perform some of his gambols , when he lost his balance , fell , and was dashed to pieces at the

foot of the statue . A railway calamity , marked by incidents of a singularly painful character , occurred on the London and Brighton Railway , on Friday evening . A heavy express train , consisting of some sixteen carriages , two of which were occupied bj r two companies of the Grenadier Guards , ran off the line near Streatham , and immediately afterwards the engine boiler exploded . The train at once became one vast wreck . The engine driver , two Guardsmen and a lady were killed ; a large number of Guardsmen and other

passengers were either dangerously or severely wounded . Dr . Cureton , tbe well-known canon of Westminster , and several members of his family are among the injured . It would seem that the train was behind time , and the driver was pressing on at an excessive rate of speed when the accident occurred . A woman , named Ornn , has been remanded by the Chester magistrates , on a charge of attempting to poison her husband . A melancholy case of homicide has occurred at Oldham . On Monday , a young man , named George

AVright , of the firm of George AVright and Brothers , cotton spinners , in that town , had a quarrel with a man named Bates , who struck him . On the following day AVright watched Bates as he was on his way to his work , and struck him a severe blow on the head ivith a bludgeon . Bates died in tbe course of a few hours , and AVright absconded . He has not since been heard of . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —Tho result of the French elections ave nearly all known . They may be briefly and generally stated . In Paris the Opposition had an entire triumph , in the departments it underwent a total defeat . The famous "five" are all re-elected . Thiers , Berryer , Jules Simon , Eugene Pellatan , and other distinguished men have likewise been successful . Montalembert , Odilon

Barrot , Prevost Paradol , St . Mark Giradiu , and other eminent candidates have been defeated . The Imperial victory in the provinces , although of course it materially renders the Opposition triumph in Paris fruitless , cannot in the least diminish the great moral effect which the result of the voting in the capital will produce . The Corsican voting has yet to take place , and some of the French provincial returns have not arrived , while iu a few cases there must be a new ballot , as the requisite absolute majority was not obtained .

But the general character of the elections will not undergo any alteration . A telegram from Kallach reports that a sanguinary engagement between the Polish insurgents and the Russian troops bas taken place near Grocbow , and that up to the time at which the despatch left , the Poles remained Masters of the field . A large number of waggons with wounded Russians bad arrived at Kallscb , and fresh troops were being despatched to the scene of action . The insurgents were stated to have captured two pieces of cannon .

The official Moniteur of Berlin has published a Royal decree empowering the administrative authoritives to prohibit temporarily or altogether , after two warnings , the publication of any newspapers which appear on the whole dangerous to the public welfare . The Ministry is also authorised to prohibit the introduction , into Prussia of any foreign newspaper they may think objectionable . The decree is described as based upon article sixty-three of the Constitution . In St . Pctersburgh , according to the . journal which bears the name

of that city , a general impression prevailed that war with some of the AVestem Powers—France above all—is inevitable . The Russian Emperor , the Journal of St . Petersburg declares , would never listen to any diplomatic proposal for an armistice . But we much doubt whether there is any substantial determination to support all this vapouring , It is reported that two vessels laden with Albanians , who had been hired by Bourbonist agents for employment as brigands in the Neapolitan provinceshave been captured ban Italian frigate

, y on the Calabrian coast . The King of Denmark will receive the Greek deputation formally on Saturday in a " solemn audience , " and will announce to them the acceptance of tbe crown by Prince AVilliam . A grand State banquet will subsequently take place . In opening the session of the Brazilian Chambers , the Emperor said that the solution of the dispute with England depended on the King of the Belgians ; and the address in reply to the imperial speech declared that " all Brazilians are readto make the sacrifices to maintain

y necessary the honour of Brazil . " The Calcutta and China mail has arrived ; but it brings no political intelligence of much importance . The British Envoy at Pekin bad delared that Chinese inhabiting the "foreign concessions" at Shanghai were not exempt from Chinese authority , and that the British Government never claimed nor desired

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to exercise a protectorate over them . Admiral Duper had arrived with his squadron at Yokohama , and had opened communications with the Japanese government : but the nature and probable result of these communications had not . been made known . A dispatc h anticipating the advices brought hy the Bombay mail informs us that the Indian budget has been published , and that it showed a satisfactory surplus of not much less than £ 1 , 440 , 064 for this and next years . Sir Charles Trevelyan proposed to lower the import duties oil

iron , beer and wine , and to diminish the rate of the income tax by one per cent . AMERICA . —The City of New Fori ; and the Bohemian have brought us important news from the A alley of tin * Mississippi . It appears from an official report of the Confederate General Johnston , that on the 16 th ult . a portion of the army of General Grant—who is asserted to have destroyed the town of Jackson on the 14 th ult . —attacked the Confederate General Pemberton near Edward's Depot , on the A

icksburg and Jackson Railway ; and after an engagement , which lasted nine hours , General Pemberton was compelled to retire behind the Big Black river . In this engagement the Southern journals admit that the Confederate loss amounted to 3000 men , but assert that the Federal loss was much greater . Sundry contradictory rumours respecting the subsequent movements of the two armies bad reached New York ; but tbe latest telegram brought to us by the Bohemian states that official reports to the 20 th ult . had been received iu Washington from General Grant ' s army . These reports stated that General Grant had taken the Confederate works at Haines Bluff , which barred the ascent of the Yazoo River , and likewise all the

Confederate defences at Vicksaurg , witn a great number of prisoners and 57 pieces of artillery . They added that "the battle was still raging , with a prospect of capturing tne entire Confederate force in A icksburg , " and that General Grant occupied Jackson , the Big Black River bridge , aud Vicksburg . The Federal mortar flotilla was reported to have again bombarded Port Hudson , though without material reult ; but , was nevertheless supposed in New Orleans that the Confederates would evacuate the place , as General Banks and Admiral Porter we ' re about to attack the works from below and

Admiral Farragut from above . AVhile these important events were occurring m the A alley of the Mississippi , it was reported that " General Hooker ' s army would retire from the line of the Rappahannock to the Potomac , as there were indications that the Confederate commanders contemplated an invasion of Maryland by way of the Upper Potomac . President Lincoln had changed Mr . Warren to one of transportation beyond the Federal lines . But his arrest and trial had caused a- fierce excitement , especially in tbe

AVestem States . A great meeting has been held at Indianopolis for the purpose of protesting against Mr . Vallandigham ' s arrest , and the policy of the Government ; and it was deemed necessary to employ a military force to watch the meeting and arrest a number of persons who cheered for Mr . Jefferson Davis . Some men afterwards fired on the soldiers while they were leaving Indianopolis by the evening trains ; but they were subsequently arrested when the trains reached their destinations , and some 500 revolvers were taken from the passengers . The newspapers in all the AVestern cities were under military supervision , and in Indiana , free prees discussion was entirely suppressed by General Hascall .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

ARCH MASON will find the names of the Officers of Grand Chapter by referring to the report of Grand Chapter in our number of May 9 th . J . R . —Mark Masonry is not acknowledged by the Supreme Grand Lodge of England—nor is it likely to be . There is a Grand Lodge of Murk Masters , of which the Earl of Carnarvon is Grand Master . A JERSEY BROTHER . —No AV . M . has the power of allowing the

obligation to be taken otherwise than on the A . S . L . Auy Master doing so would subject himself to severe censure aud the deprivation of his Masonic rights . 2 . A Brother refusing to sign the byelaws of a lodge , after they have been legally approved ceases to be a member of the lodge . Q . IN THE CORNER . —AA c do not understand your question . You appear to have made a stralige confusion between tbe Royal Arch ,

the Templar , and the Royal Order of Scotland . AVe should think you went through all the orders , if you have gone through them at all , in about 48 hours , and nevertook the trouble to consider tbe import of auy one of your obligations . The reports of the De Tabley Lodge , Chester , the Lodge of ( Economy , AVinchester , and others , we are compelled to hold over for want of snar-p .