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that the craft was being fitted out in the Mersey , hurried off to Lord Russell and told his story . The Collector of Customs at Liverpool was at once ordered to look after the Japan , but , of course , no Japan was to be found there . On a little further inquiry , Mr . Dudley ' s omission was discovered , and a Foreign Office message was at once despatched to Greenock . But it was too late—the Japan or Virginia had taken her departure . Levi Taylorwho was recently sentenced to death for the
, murder of his wife in Manchester , has had his sentence commuted to penal servitude for life . An extraordinary charge against two young ladies has been investigated by the Dover magistrates ; Miss Eliza Cook and Miss Marian Cook , the daughters of a deceased Wesleyan minister , being charged with robbing au officer in the barracks at that town . The young ladies have been committed for trial , but admitted to bail .
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The health of the King of the Belgians is so far restored that he was able to drive out on Monday , and take part in the promenades of the Longchammi . The Paris Nation affirms that the French , British , and Austrian Cabinets , have severally forwarded to St . Petersburgh , notes "identical in sense . " In these notes , the Nation adds , the three powers have cerelly avoided anything resembling pressureand have left the Emperor Alexander to take " initiative in
, the measures calculated definitely to put an end to the periodical risings so disquieting to Europe and so disastrous for Russia . " A contradiction has been given to the assertion that the Revolutionary Committee of Warsaw had ordered the insurgent Poles to lay down their arms ; and there seems' little or no reason to doubt that tbe statement was unfounded . It is , indeed , affirmed that all Lithuania is in revolt , and that the insurrection
has even spread into Samogitia and Courland . It is added that Colonel Lapinski , with a supply of arms and a number of officer-3 , has landed on the coast of Courland ; but there appears to be good ground for doubting the truth of this latter assertion , as Colonel Lapinski is supposed to have been on board the English steamer Ward Jackson , which left the Thames with a number of Polish officers and a quantity of arms and ammunition , but which has been detained by the Swedish authorities at Malmo .
The Osas of Cracow states that on Sunday a small force of well armed Polish insurgents attacked a detachment of 500 Russians near Olkuez , towards the Gallician frontier , aud forced them to retreat . A Cracow telegram also reiterates the statement that a band of insurgents entered the town of Cadon , Sandomir , took possession of the Government treasury and the dep & t of ammunition , burned the barracks , and then withdrew . Rumours are again in circulation that the Grand Duke Constatine is about to quit Warsaw . His health , it is said , is giving way under the
constant vexations and difficulties of a crisis out of which no man can see a clear way . The nobility of Russia have addressed the Emperor in reference to the Polish insurrection ; stating that " they will not shrink before any effort or sacrifice to defend the territory of tbe empire . " The King of Denmark has issued a proclamation declaring that he has been compelled to relinquish the intention of combining the different portions of his dominions by a joint constitutionbecause the German
, Diet interfered in the internal affairs of the monarchy , and because the Estates of Holstein have declared themselves hostile to any common constitution . He consequently grants the duchy of Holstein an independent army , and will , if it be required , completely separate all the other Holstein establishments from those of the Danish monarchy . He will cause bills for a liberal electoral law , for liberty of the press , and for religious freedom ,
to be lain before the Holstein Estates . Finally , he convokes the Rigsraad of Denmark and Schleswig for tbe 22 nd inst . If we may believe ii Copenhagen journal , the Lagblad , the Danish cabinet is disposed to sanction Prince William's acceptance of the Greek crown upon conditions which will not be accorded . A despatch from Constantinople announces that on Friday afternoon the Sultan sailed from Constantinople to visit his Egyptian
vassal at Alexandria and Cairo . It is added that before the Sultan ' s departure it was resolved that the Porte should adhere to its present policy regarding the Suez Canal , and should forbid forced labour . The Sultan arrived on Tuesday at Alexandria , and was received with all the demonstrations of respect which the Egyptian authorities and population might be expected to pay to so august and unwonted a visitor . The Prince of
Servia has , it is said , intimated to the Porte his desire to maintain amicable relations with his Suzerain , and his readiness to make any concessions that are compatible with Servian interests . The ex-Queen Maria Sophia of Naples is at last returning
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to Rome . She left Munich on Tuesday , and his travelling by way of Marseilles , in order no doubt to avoid the kingdom of Italy . Accounts from Lisbon informs us that the Cortes has passed a resolution of sympathy with the Poles . The Duke de Louie has also officially stated that the Portuguese Government consider it necessary that the political rights promised to the Poles by the Treaty of Vienna be re-established . The New York journals publish news from Mexico , from which it appears
that the French were only eleven leagues from Mexico , having passed Puebla , leaving 10 , 000 soldiers to keep that garrison in check . Admiral Jurien de la Graviere lias been recalled from Mexico : the reason assigned being that the importance of the French naval forces in the Mexican waters is no longer such as to warrant the presence of an officer of that rank . INDIA AND CHINA . —The news brought by the Bombay mail is not of much interest . The Viceroy was continuing his
progress , and entered Delhi on the 3 rd March , iu great pomp . The cultivation of cotton was being extensively pursued , and large quantities were coming forward to [ market . The rebels in Jynteah were giving way , and the country was becoming peaceful . By telegraph , under date of Shanghae , Feb . 23 rd , we learn that the late General Ward's and the Imperial forces have suffered a severe defeat in the storming of Tailsin , the casualties among the united forces amounting to 200 . The British Legation at Yeddo had been destroyed by gunpowder by the Japanese . No fatal accident , however , resulted .
AMERICA . —We have three arrivals from America—the Australian and Edinburgh , from New York on the Morning of the 2 Sth March , and the Norwegian , from Portland , with news to the evening of the 28 th . So far as the war intelligence is concerned , there is little can be relied upon . Southern journals reported that General Banks had been defeated in his attack on Port Hudson , and had fallen back upon his fortified camp . Two at least of Commodore Farragut ' s ships had past Port
Hudson , and it was said they had re-captured the Indianola , which was being repaired . It was also asserted that Federals had been driven back from . l ? ort Pemberton , and were in full retreat for the Yazoo Pass . Some of Commodore Porter's gunboats had reached the Yazoo River by the way of the Sunflower-River , and met the retiring expedition . It was said that they would return and resume the attack on Fort Pemberton . Iu Kentuckthe Confederates were advancingand a general
y , engagement in the neigbourhood of of Camp Dick Robinson was imminent . The State constitution of Western Virginia had been ratified by the vote of the people . It provides for the speedy emancipation of slaves and for the abollition of slavery . All children born of slaves , after July next are to be free . Slave children under ten years of age are to bo free when they reach the age of twenty-one : and slaves over ten and under
twenty-one are to be free on arriving at the age of twenty-five . No slaves are to be permitted to come into the State for permanent residence . It was reported that President Lincoln was about to visit New York and the principle cities of the Union .
To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
W . M . ( Lancashire ) . —We are aware that Bro . S . B . Wilson and ourselves are at issue on the point as to whether a Warden can perform the ceremonies in the absence of the Master . We have nodoubt upon the subject that he can legally perform the ceremonies ; though , as a rule , it is better for a P . M . to undertake the duty , should one be present , no matter what lodge he may belong ' to . A Master of a lodge being also a R . A . Mason , is eligible to be elected 3 rd Principal of a Chapterif he has previouslserved
the-, y office of Sojourner or Nehemiah . He cannot be elected to the 2 nd or 1 st Principal Chair until he has passed through the 3 rd chair . He may , however , be appointed to either chair in a new chapter , but he must then be installed in all the chairs . P . D . ( Norfolk ) . —The S . W . having resigned , you can appoint another . It is best to advance the J . W . and other officers a step , as the appointing a S . W . over the heads of the other officers is likely to give rise to heart-burnings and discontent , which should always he
avoided . BRO . JOHN OI . VER , P . M . No . 1006 . —We cannot insert beggm ? letters , excepting in our advertising columns . Perhaps some brother of 1003 will inform us privately why they refuse to recommend Bro . Olver to the Lodge of Benevolence . THE GRAND LODGE PROPERTY . —The letter from Bro . Daukes , the G . Supt . of Works , which we published last week , was also addressed to the Editor of the Builder , the Building News , and the Era .
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that the craft was being fitted out in the Mersey , hurried off to Lord Russell and told his story . The Collector of Customs at Liverpool was at once ordered to look after the Japan , but , of course , no Japan was to be found there . On a little further inquiry , Mr . Dudley ' s omission was discovered , and a Foreign Office message was at once despatched to Greenock . But it was too late—the Japan or Virginia had taken her departure . Levi Taylorwho was recently sentenced to death for the
, murder of his wife in Manchester , has had his sentence commuted to penal servitude for life . An extraordinary charge against two young ladies has been investigated by the Dover magistrates ; Miss Eliza Cook and Miss Marian Cook , the daughters of a deceased Wesleyan minister , being charged with robbing au officer in the barracks at that town . The young ladies have been committed for trial , but admitted to bail .
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The health of the King of the Belgians is so far restored that he was able to drive out on Monday , and take part in the promenades of the Longchammi . The Paris Nation affirms that the French , British , and Austrian Cabinets , have severally forwarded to St . Petersburgh , notes "identical in sense . " In these notes , the Nation adds , the three powers have cerelly avoided anything resembling pressureand have left the Emperor Alexander to take " initiative in
, the measures calculated definitely to put an end to the periodical risings so disquieting to Europe and so disastrous for Russia . " A contradiction has been given to the assertion that the Revolutionary Committee of Warsaw had ordered the insurgent Poles to lay down their arms ; and there seems' little or no reason to doubt that tbe statement was unfounded . It is , indeed , affirmed that all Lithuania is in revolt , and that the insurrection
has even spread into Samogitia and Courland . It is added that Colonel Lapinski , with a supply of arms and a number of officer-3 , has landed on the coast of Courland ; but there appears to be good ground for doubting the truth of this latter assertion , as Colonel Lapinski is supposed to have been on board the English steamer Ward Jackson , which left the Thames with a number of Polish officers and a quantity of arms and ammunition , but which has been detained by the Swedish authorities at Malmo .
The Osas of Cracow states that on Sunday a small force of well armed Polish insurgents attacked a detachment of 500 Russians near Olkuez , towards the Gallician frontier , aud forced them to retreat . A Cracow telegram also reiterates the statement that a band of insurgents entered the town of Cadon , Sandomir , took possession of the Government treasury and the dep & t of ammunition , burned the barracks , and then withdrew . Rumours are again in circulation that the Grand Duke Constatine is about to quit Warsaw . His health , it is said , is giving way under the
constant vexations and difficulties of a crisis out of which no man can see a clear way . The nobility of Russia have addressed the Emperor in reference to the Polish insurrection ; stating that " they will not shrink before any effort or sacrifice to defend the territory of tbe empire . " The King of Denmark has issued a proclamation declaring that he has been compelled to relinquish the intention of combining the different portions of his dominions by a joint constitutionbecause the German
, Diet interfered in the internal affairs of the monarchy , and because the Estates of Holstein have declared themselves hostile to any common constitution . He consequently grants the duchy of Holstein an independent army , and will , if it be required , completely separate all the other Holstein establishments from those of the Danish monarchy . He will cause bills for a liberal electoral law , for liberty of the press , and for religious freedom ,
to be lain before the Holstein Estates . Finally , he convokes the Rigsraad of Denmark and Schleswig for tbe 22 nd inst . If we may believe ii Copenhagen journal , the Lagblad , the Danish cabinet is disposed to sanction Prince William's acceptance of the Greek crown upon conditions which will not be accorded . A despatch from Constantinople announces that on Friday afternoon the Sultan sailed from Constantinople to visit his Egyptian
vassal at Alexandria and Cairo . It is added that before the Sultan ' s departure it was resolved that the Porte should adhere to its present policy regarding the Suez Canal , and should forbid forced labour . The Sultan arrived on Tuesday at Alexandria , and was received with all the demonstrations of respect which the Egyptian authorities and population might be expected to pay to so august and unwonted a visitor . The Prince of
Servia has , it is said , intimated to the Porte his desire to maintain amicable relations with his Suzerain , and his readiness to make any concessions that are compatible with Servian interests . The ex-Queen Maria Sophia of Naples is at last returning
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to Rome . She left Munich on Tuesday , and his travelling by way of Marseilles , in order no doubt to avoid the kingdom of Italy . Accounts from Lisbon informs us that the Cortes has passed a resolution of sympathy with the Poles . The Duke de Louie has also officially stated that the Portuguese Government consider it necessary that the political rights promised to the Poles by the Treaty of Vienna be re-established . The New York journals publish news from Mexico , from which it appears
that the French were only eleven leagues from Mexico , having passed Puebla , leaving 10 , 000 soldiers to keep that garrison in check . Admiral Jurien de la Graviere lias been recalled from Mexico : the reason assigned being that the importance of the French naval forces in the Mexican waters is no longer such as to warrant the presence of an officer of that rank . INDIA AND CHINA . —The news brought by the Bombay mail is not of much interest . The Viceroy was continuing his
progress , and entered Delhi on the 3 rd March , iu great pomp . The cultivation of cotton was being extensively pursued , and large quantities were coming forward to [ market . The rebels in Jynteah were giving way , and the country was becoming peaceful . By telegraph , under date of Shanghae , Feb . 23 rd , we learn that the late General Ward's and the Imperial forces have suffered a severe defeat in the storming of Tailsin , the casualties among the united forces amounting to 200 . The British Legation at Yeddo had been destroyed by gunpowder by the Japanese . No fatal accident , however , resulted .
AMERICA . —We have three arrivals from America—the Australian and Edinburgh , from New York on the Morning of the 2 Sth March , and the Norwegian , from Portland , with news to the evening of the 28 th . So far as the war intelligence is concerned , there is little can be relied upon . Southern journals reported that General Banks had been defeated in his attack on Port Hudson , and had fallen back upon his fortified camp . Two at least of Commodore Farragut ' s ships had past Port
Hudson , and it was said they had re-captured the Indianola , which was being repaired . It was also asserted that Federals had been driven back from . l ? ort Pemberton , and were in full retreat for the Yazoo Pass . Some of Commodore Porter's gunboats had reached the Yazoo River by the way of the Sunflower-River , and met the retiring expedition . It was said that they would return and resume the attack on Fort Pemberton . Iu Kentuckthe Confederates were advancingand a general
y , engagement in the neigbourhood of of Camp Dick Robinson was imminent . The State constitution of Western Virginia had been ratified by the vote of the people . It provides for the speedy emancipation of slaves and for the abollition of slavery . All children born of slaves , after July next are to be free . Slave children under ten years of age are to bo free when they reach the age of twenty-one : and slaves over ten and under
twenty-one are to be free on arriving at the age of twenty-five . No slaves are to be permitted to come into the State for permanent residence . It was reported that President Lincoln was about to visit New York and the principle cities of the Union .
To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
W . M . ( Lancashire ) . —We are aware that Bro . S . B . Wilson and ourselves are at issue on the point as to whether a Warden can perform the ceremonies in the absence of the Master . We have nodoubt upon the subject that he can legally perform the ceremonies ; though , as a rule , it is better for a P . M . to undertake the duty , should one be present , no matter what lodge he may belong ' to . A Master of a lodge being also a R . A . Mason , is eligible to be elected 3 rd Principal of a Chapterif he has previouslserved
the-, y office of Sojourner or Nehemiah . He cannot be elected to the 2 nd or 1 st Principal Chair until he has passed through the 3 rd chair . He may , however , be appointed to either chair in a new chapter , but he must then be installed in all the chairs . P . D . ( Norfolk ) . —The S . W . having resigned , you can appoint another . It is best to advance the J . W . and other officers a step , as the appointing a S . W . over the heads of the other officers is likely to give rise to heart-burnings and discontent , which should always he
avoided . BRO . JOHN OI . VER , P . M . No . 1006 . —We cannot insert beggm ? letters , excepting in our advertising columns . Perhaps some brother of 1003 will inform us privately why they refuse to recommend Bro . Olver to the Lodge of Benevolence . THE GRAND LODGE PROPERTY . —The letter from Bro . Daukes , the G . Supt . of Works , which we published last week , was also addressed to the Editor of the Builder , the Building News , and the Era .