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ing them also . He sot about this in the most equitable manner ; for having purchased an estate in Nortli-. imjitmish . ire j of rather greater value he proposed to the Mercers' Company , the guardians of St . Paul's School , to exchange the one for the other , paying the whole cost of the transaction . The bargain was all but completed—the baron insists that it was actually completed—AA'hen the Mercers' Company drew back , set up the claim that they held these lauds , not as trustees fer the charity ,
but in their OAVU right , and that if they were trustees then they did not think the bargain was a good one for tho charity of whicli they were in trust . The baron , with the formal assistance of the Attorney-General , brought tho resiled from engagement for the decision of the Court , and the A'ice-Chancellor , feeling the importance of the case , reserved his judgment .- A cashier of tiventy-nine years' standing in the London banking-house of Messrs . Barclay and Co ., has been
remanded by tho Lord Mayor , on a charge of stealing a £ 100 note belonging to his employers . The prisoner seems to have borne a high character for integrity , and , so far , it does not appear that he has defrauded Messrs . Barckiy beyond the amount stated in the charge preferred against him . It is asserted that he took the note for tho purpose of covering somo liabilities incurred by one one of his sons , ivho is in business . Another foul murder is reported from Tipperary . A man
named Maguire , who had taken a farm which a person named Kennedy had heen evicted , was shot dead on the high road , at noon on Tuesday , within a mile of Glenboiven . A young man named Charles Pinkstone has been brought up at the Mansionhouse , charged with forging cheques for . 6300 . He had taken the cheques from the book of his masters , Messrs . Loughborough and Barfield , anil having got thorn cashed , proceeded to spend the money in a very reckless manner . He AA-as apprehended at
Exeter , where he was in custody for being drunk and disorderly . The suicide of a young married lady at Dalston , has formed the subject of a coroner's inquisition , and it ivas shown that the unhappy woman AVIIS driven to distraction and temporary insanity by violent neuralgic pains . We to-day report tivo serious railway accidents . On Thursday , the boiler of a locomotive engine attached to a goods train which had just arrived at Harrow , burst with fearful force , killing the driver on
the spot , and seriously injuring the stoker . The second accident occurred on the North British Kaihvay , on Saturday , —a passenger train with the exception of the engine , tender , and guard ' s van , going over an embankment , about fifteen feet in depth . One of the passengers was lei Heel , while about twenty others sustained injuries more or less severe . F ' OREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The King of Holland arrived in Paris on Tuesday evening . The Emperor despatched Prince
Joachim Murat to meet his guest at Compiegne . On his arrival in the capital , the King ivas escorted by the Cent-Gardes to the Palace of the Tulleries , AA-here he AA ' IIS received by the Emperor anil Empress , surrounded by the principal officers of the Crown . The Queen of Holland had gone to Compiegne to meet the King , and returned to Paris ivith him . The results of the Prussian elections , so fast as they yet have become known , show that the party of progress has obtained the most conspicuous triumphs .
The moderate or consti- tutional party , led by Herr Graboiv , has lost several votes . The Catholic party has likcAvise suffered . The conservative party has certainly not obtained anv addition . Tho Minister of Finance , Van der Heydt , has been rejected by the constituency of Elberfeld , his old electoral district . Count Schiverm is the only one of the former Ministry whose re-election has yet been announced . A on Vinelcc and the late Minister , A on PatoAv , have been elected . So far as
returns have been obtained , it seems clear that the result will be a Chamber even more advanced in liberalism than that justdissolved . It is believed that the new Parliament will meet on the 19 th inst . An important statement has just been made by Count Bech-bcrg in the Lower Chamber of the Austrian Council of Empire , Count Reehberg stated that the Austrian Government has relinquished the principle of intervention in tho affairs of foreign countries ; ancl that the policy of Austria in
regard to Italy is of a strictly defensive and not offensive character . Tho importance of this announcement will be felt the more when it isreniembered that the threatening attitude of Austria , and thcproybabilit ofher intervening in Italian affairs , if the French roops wore withdrawn from Rome , were com- j nionly held up as a reason for the occupation of the Italian capital by the soldiers of the . Emperor Napoleon . King Victor Emmanuel , while thanking a Neapolitan deputation which waited upon him with an address , said : — " Public
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safety is not yet re-established , because Rome is the centre of conspiracies ; but believe me when I say that , much as the Italians wish to recover Rome , the French wish quite as much to terminate their occupation ol it . " He has likcAvise writ-ton a letter thanking the Emperor Napoleon for the courteous despatch ofths French fleet to Naples , and declaring that the order and loyalty of the Neapolitan provinces "triumphantly refute calumnies , " and AA'ill convince the world that " the idea of unit y
rests on a solid basis , anil is thoroughly graven on the hearts of all Italians . " . Acts of violence arc hy no means uncommon at the present moment in the south of Italy , but the telegram communicates ono of a most daring description in the north . A band of six thieves , AVO arc told , armed with pistols ancl daggers , invaded one of the principal banks in Genoa , garrotted tho officials , and carried away in sslcty the sum of 800 , 000 francs . Both France and Spain are resolved on proceeding against
Mexico . Franco continues to dispatch fresh forces to Vera Cruz , and tho Monileur of yesterday publishes a letter from Mexico , commenting upon tho intolerable conduct of tho Mexican CrOA-ernment , and tho probability that the French troops Avill not delay marching on the city of Mexico . A telegram , from Madrid says the knowledge that the Spanish and French troops were about to march on Mexico had been favourably receiA'ed there . »
AMERICA . —The latest accounts from NOAV York states—The Senate had ratified the treaty with England for tho suppression of tho slave trade . Its main point is said to be , that it gives mutual right of search . The Senate hacl also passed a bill recognising and establishing dcplomatie intercourse with Hayti and Liberia . The Federal forces were in strength in the
neighbourhood of Goi'donsvillc , on the road to Richmond . No action had taken place at York . own , but the Federal ii-orks wore being pushed forward . The Southern journals express some anxiety in reference to flic movements of the Federal General Mitchell , in Northern Alabama and AA est Georgia . The Confederates are building gunboats ot Norfolk . Pretty good evidence of the efficiency of the blockade is shown by tho failure of the Nashville to ' gct into Charleston . Tho bombardment of Fort Jackson
, heloiv New Orleans , had been commenced by the Federals ; hut the Confederates assert their ability to hold the place . A desperate plan to stop the land advance of General Pope ' s force had been resorted to by the Southerners . They cut the levee on the Arkansas side of the Mississippi , and flooded the country for forty miles round . The mission of M . Mereier , the French Minister to Richmond still occasioned a good deal of speculation .
Nothing definite however , hail transpired respecting it . INDIA . —The news from India is very encouraging . Lord Elgin had entered on his A'iceroyalty under very auspicious circumstances , and been very favourably received—the Indian finance minister , AI . Laing , has published h S'linancial estimates , which announce a surplus of £ 1 , 500 , 000 , for the coming year . Consequently , the import duties on piece goods ivere to be
lowered to 5 per cent ad valorem , ancl those on yarns to 3 J- per cent ad valorem , —the reduction commencing on tho 22 rd of April . Trade ivas improving , the railways ivere making good progress , and the public health was , on the AA'hole good . There AA-as almost entire peace throughout the country . The advance of a large Persian army on Herat was confimed , and apprehensions AA-ero entertained that wc shall shortly be engaged hi another Persian war .
To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
OMEGA . —In the absence of the immediate P . M ., the senior would act in his place , but having other duties to perforin as Secretary ho should have alloAved a junior P . M . to officiate as the P . M . for the exening , and alloived him to lyear the collar and jewel . It is altogether a matter of courtesy , anil it was not courteous for the W . M . to command the senior P . M . in open lodge to hand over the jeAvel and collar to another . We should have done so ivithout a command .
BRO . J . E . HOLMES will please call at the residence of the Editor , G , Red Lion-square , any morning bctiveen the eleven and tAvelve . J . 11 . S . cannot be serious in putting such a question . How can it be possible for us to knoiv what Grand Officers will attend the Derby in preference to Grand Lodge . AVe do not see , if they wish to do so , ivliy they cannot attend both .
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The Week.
ing them also . He sot about this in the most equitable manner ; for having purchased an estate in Nortli-. imjitmish . ire j of rather greater value he proposed to the Mercers' Company , the guardians of St . Paul's School , to exchange the one for the other , paying the whole cost of the transaction . The bargain was all but completed—the baron insists that it was actually completed—AA'hen the Mercers' Company drew back , set up the claim that they held these lauds , not as trustees fer the charity ,
but in their OAVU right , and that if they were trustees then they did not think the bargain was a good one for tho charity of whicli they were in trust . The baron , with the formal assistance of the Attorney-General , brought tho resiled from engagement for the decision of the Court , and the A'ice-Chancellor , feeling the importance of the case , reserved his judgment .- A cashier of tiventy-nine years' standing in the London banking-house of Messrs . Barclay and Co ., has been
remanded by tho Lord Mayor , on a charge of stealing a £ 100 note belonging to his employers . The prisoner seems to have borne a high character for integrity , and , so far , it does not appear that he has defrauded Messrs . Barckiy beyond the amount stated in the charge preferred against him . It is asserted that he took the note for tho purpose of covering somo liabilities incurred by one one of his sons , ivho is in business . Another foul murder is reported from Tipperary . A man
named Maguire , who had taken a farm which a person named Kennedy had heen evicted , was shot dead on the high road , at noon on Tuesday , within a mile of Glenboiven . A young man named Charles Pinkstone has been brought up at the Mansionhouse , charged with forging cheques for . 6300 . He had taken the cheques from the book of his masters , Messrs . Loughborough and Barfield , anil having got thorn cashed , proceeded to spend the money in a very reckless manner . He AA-as apprehended at
Exeter , where he was in custody for being drunk and disorderly . The suicide of a young married lady at Dalston , has formed the subject of a coroner's inquisition , and it ivas shown that the unhappy woman AVIIS driven to distraction and temporary insanity by violent neuralgic pains . We to-day report tivo serious railway accidents . On Thursday , the boiler of a locomotive engine attached to a goods train which had just arrived at Harrow , burst with fearful force , killing the driver on
the spot , and seriously injuring the stoker . The second accident occurred on the North British Kaihvay , on Saturday , —a passenger train with the exception of the engine , tender , and guard ' s van , going over an embankment , about fifteen feet in depth . One of the passengers was lei Heel , while about twenty others sustained injuries more or less severe . F ' OREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The King of Holland arrived in Paris on Tuesday evening . The Emperor despatched Prince
Joachim Murat to meet his guest at Compiegne . On his arrival in the capital , the King ivas escorted by the Cent-Gardes to the Palace of the Tulleries , AA-here he AA ' IIS received by the Emperor anil Empress , surrounded by the principal officers of the Crown . The Queen of Holland had gone to Compiegne to meet the King , and returned to Paris ivith him . The results of the Prussian elections , so fast as they yet have become known , show that the party of progress has obtained the most conspicuous triumphs .
The moderate or consti- tutional party , led by Herr Graboiv , has lost several votes . The Catholic party has likcAvise suffered . The conservative party has certainly not obtained anv addition . Tho Minister of Finance , Van der Heydt , has been rejected by the constituency of Elberfeld , his old electoral district . Count Schiverm is the only one of the former Ministry whose re-election has yet been announced . A on Vinelcc and the late Minister , A on PatoAv , have been elected . So far as
returns have been obtained , it seems clear that the result will be a Chamber even more advanced in liberalism than that justdissolved . It is believed that the new Parliament will meet on the 19 th inst . An important statement has just been made by Count Bech-bcrg in the Lower Chamber of the Austrian Council of Empire , Count Reehberg stated that the Austrian Government has relinquished the principle of intervention in tho affairs of foreign countries ; ancl that the policy of Austria in
regard to Italy is of a strictly defensive and not offensive character . Tho importance of this announcement will be felt the more when it isreniembered that the threatening attitude of Austria , and thcproybabilit ofher intervening in Italian affairs , if the French roops wore withdrawn from Rome , were com- j nionly held up as a reason for the occupation of the Italian capital by the soldiers of the . Emperor Napoleon . King Victor Emmanuel , while thanking a Neapolitan deputation which waited upon him with an address , said : — " Public
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safety is not yet re-established , because Rome is the centre of conspiracies ; but believe me when I say that , much as the Italians wish to recover Rome , the French wish quite as much to terminate their occupation ol it . " He has likcAvise writ-ton a letter thanking the Emperor Napoleon for the courteous despatch ofths French fleet to Naples , and declaring that the order and loyalty of the Neapolitan provinces "triumphantly refute calumnies , " and AA'ill convince the world that " the idea of unit y
rests on a solid basis , anil is thoroughly graven on the hearts of all Italians . " . Acts of violence arc hy no means uncommon at the present moment in the south of Italy , but the telegram communicates ono of a most daring description in the north . A band of six thieves , AVO arc told , armed with pistols ancl daggers , invaded one of the principal banks in Genoa , garrotted tho officials , and carried away in sslcty the sum of 800 , 000 francs . Both France and Spain are resolved on proceeding against
Mexico . Franco continues to dispatch fresh forces to Vera Cruz , and tho Monileur of yesterday publishes a letter from Mexico , commenting upon tho intolerable conduct of tho Mexican CrOA-ernment , and tho probability that the French troops Avill not delay marching on the city of Mexico . A telegram , from Madrid says the knowledge that the Spanish and French troops were about to march on Mexico had been favourably receiA'ed there . »
AMERICA . —The latest accounts from NOAV York states—The Senate had ratified the treaty with England for tho suppression of tho slave trade . Its main point is said to be , that it gives mutual right of search . The Senate hacl also passed a bill recognising and establishing dcplomatie intercourse with Hayti and Liberia . The Federal forces were in strength in the
neighbourhood of Goi'donsvillc , on the road to Richmond . No action had taken place at York . own , but the Federal ii-orks wore being pushed forward . The Southern journals express some anxiety in reference to flic movements of the Federal General Mitchell , in Northern Alabama and AA est Georgia . The Confederates are building gunboats ot Norfolk . Pretty good evidence of the efficiency of the blockade is shown by tho failure of the Nashville to ' gct into Charleston . Tho bombardment of Fort Jackson
, heloiv New Orleans , had been commenced by the Federals ; hut the Confederates assert their ability to hold the place . A desperate plan to stop the land advance of General Pope ' s force had been resorted to by the Southerners . They cut the levee on the Arkansas side of the Mississippi , and flooded the country for forty miles round . The mission of M . Mereier , the French Minister to Richmond still occasioned a good deal of speculation .
Nothing definite however , hail transpired respecting it . INDIA . —The news from India is very encouraging . Lord Elgin had entered on his A'iceroyalty under very auspicious circumstances , and been very favourably received—the Indian finance minister , AI . Laing , has published h S'linancial estimates , which announce a surplus of £ 1 , 500 , 000 , for the coming year . Consequently , the import duties on piece goods ivere to be
lowered to 5 per cent ad valorem , ancl those on yarns to 3 J- per cent ad valorem , —the reduction commencing on tho 22 rd of April . Trade ivas improving , the railways ivere making good progress , and the public health was , on the AA'hole good . There AA-as almost entire peace throughout the country . The advance of a large Persian army on Herat was confimed , and apprehensions AA-ero entertained that wc shall shortly be engaged hi another Persian war .
To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
OMEGA . —In the absence of the immediate P . M ., the senior would act in his place , but having other duties to perforin as Secretary ho should have alloAved a junior P . M . to officiate as the P . M . for the exening , and alloived him to lyear the collar and jewel . It is altogether a matter of courtesy , anil it was not courteous for the W . M . to command the senior P . M . in open lodge to hand over the jeAvel and collar to another . We should have done so ivithout a command .
BRO . J . E . HOLMES will please call at the residence of the Editor , G , Red Lion-square , any morning bctiveen the eleven and tAvelve . J . 11 . S . cannot be serious in putting such a question . How can it be possible for us to knoiv what Grand Officers will attend the Derby in preference to Grand Lodge . AVe do not see , if they wish to do so , ivliy they cannot attend both .