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under the advice of his counsel , Mr . Best , of the Oxford circuit , Mr . Bonwell has resolved to re-enter upon the ministerial duties of his parish upon the assumption that the bishop has abandoned the intention of proceeding further with the case . A murder has just been committed in the neighbourhood of AA'igan , the victim being a farmer , and the immediate cause a wayside squabble . Several men , after cruelly maltreating the poor old nian , buried liim under a rn # und of earth , but whether he died from the violence which was first indicted upon him , or

from suffocation occasioned by his subsequent burial , does not yet appear . Three men are in custody , and a verdict of " wilful murder " has been returned against them by the coroner ' s jury . A somewhat singular trial took place at the Middlesex sessions on Tuesday . A young man , who was stated to be a commissioned officer in the army , was tried on a charge of having stolen a portmanteau , which contained articles of value . Tho portmanteau was stolen from a train on the Great Northern line , in which its owner was a passengerand on the same day the prisonerwith

, , the portmanteau in his 2 iossession , put up at an hotel in Covent-garden . A cabman proved that he drove the prisoner from the railway station on the night of the robbery , he having the portmanteau with him , and a pawnbroker gave evidence that the prisoner had pawned a large portion of its contents ; so that there could he no doubt either of the fact of the robbery or as to who was its guilty perpetrator . The prisoner , howover , delivered a clever speech m his defence , in which he sought to produce tho impression that he had been made the innocent victim of

other parties , whose names he waa bound by some mysterious obligation of honour not to divulge . But , unhappily for him , his lodgings had been discovered , and as a large quantity ol other propei'ty was found in them , the Assistant-Judge deferred the sentence till the next session , in order to enable the police to ascertain whether the prisoner had been concerned in any other railway robberies . An accident occasioned b y the falling of buildings took place in Lombard-street on Saturday . The upjier floor of one of the houses lately in the occupation of the

London and County Bank , gave way beneath the weight of the rubbish which was placed upon it , the result being the immediate death of one man , and the serious injury of several others . The annual ceremony of the admission to degrees , and the presentation of scholarships and prizes , took place at the University of London on AVednesday . Lord Granville delivered an address , and the proceedings were of a very satisfactory character . The proceedings taken against Mr . Liddell in the Appeal Court , Doetors ' -connnons , have fallen to the ground , Dr .

Robertson , the judge , having decided that be possessed no jurisdiction . The trial of tho child , Eugenie Plummer , on a charge of having committed perjury in the evidence which she gave against the Rev . Mr . Hatch , was commenced on Wednesday . The trial excited great interest , the court being densely crowded during the day . Mr . Edwin James opened tho case for the prosecution , and the examination of Mr . and Mrs . Hatch occupied the whole of the day ; the case was resumed on the following day and had not been decided at the time we went to press .

FOREIGN NEWS . —Official information has been received at . Toulon of the impending visit of the French Emperor and Empress on thenintended journey to Nice . The report of two French men-of-war having been sunk by the fire of the Peiho forts is declared by the Paris journals to be utterly devoid of foundation . The rumour of another commercial treaty between England and France , referring to tho abolition of the French differential duties on shipping , is on the eve of conclusion , and seems to have spread consternation among the shipowners of Marseilles ,

who have already held a meeting and drawn up a petition against it . The MonUeur publishes the new regulations , increasing the amount of redemption money from military service , and states , at the same time , the reason why such a measure has become necessary , namely , that the number of young men who availed themselves of the redemption system at the last recruiting , immediately before the Italian war , had been so uncommonly great . From Sicily the most roeent intelligence is to the effect that the insurrection now has spread over the whole

island , and that the king's fm-ces are shut up between it and the sea . A French anil an English squadron have arrived in the waters of Sicily . The Palrie says that General Garibaldi ' s departure for Sicily has been fully confirmed . He left during the ni ght from the 5 th to the 6 th instant . The Piedmontese government had ordered all arms and ammunition which had been deposited at Quarto , near Genoa , to be seized , and had also given orders for the port of Genoa to bo watched . The expeditionary vesselwhich had taken her from Maltahad

, papers , put out to sea two days previously . General Garibaldi joined the vessel immediately afterwards , which , instead of proceeding to Malta , went to Sicily . Tho Piedmontese government made every possible protest against this act of General Garibaldi , which may involve the new Italian state in grave difficulties . Garibaldi , being in connection with the com . mittee in London , undertaking the collection of English subscriptions for Sicily , had , ! in order to replace the arms which he feared would bo seized by the Sardinian governmentreceived other armswhich had

, , not passed through Piedmont . Tho Opinion , Nationale says that the different vessels belonging to Garibaldi ' s expedition will unite off the island of Capraja ; they will then direct their course towards Sicily . General Salzano had demanded a reirforneinoiifc of five thousand men in eonsequ -nco of the G .-irilmldi expedition . From Spain we learn that the Count of Jhmteiiiolin and his brother left Tortosa ou the 7 th May . They were to embark on board the steamer Colon the destination -of which is unknown . A despatch from Rome ,

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dated this day week , says that one thousand Irishmen have left Trieste for Ancona , in order to be enrolled in the pontifical army . Strange stories are abroad concerning the health of the Pope . It is said that lie has been in the habit of taking small doses of strychnine , much prescribed by Italian doctors for producing a salutary degree of mental excitement , requisite for tho endurance of the increasing amount of mental labour he has had to undergo during the last few months . A private letter says that the change in the appearance of Pius IN . is

evident to all . His head is bent , and his eye fixed and dim . In raising his hand to bestow his benediction on the people it was observed to shake as if with palsy . He seems to have lost at least two inches of his height , and walks as if in a dream . Cardinal Antonelli , on the contrary , has grown fat and rosy . They say he smiles beniguantly and with peculiar meaning , whenever , in allusion to the Pope's failing health , the old prophecy is brought forward , and a bint thrown , out that the last of the popes is disappearing from the stage . They say he has a far

different conviction , and that , as if in anticipation of some approaching change , his eminence is wholly bent on converting into money most of the securities he possesses . A letter from Vienna describes the impression produced iu that capital by the nominations to the New Legislative Imperial Council . On the whole , it is not considered unfavourable , particularly as far as the Hungarian nominations are concerned . AAliile the iVcio York Herald is engaged writing upon the now almost forgotten arrest of Heenan as " another British outrage , " the most

knowing politicians of America are occupied at Charleston , South Carolina , in concerting measures for the selection of the democratic candidate for the presidency . If we may plaee reliance upon the latest reports received from the United States , there can be little doubt of tho

success of Mr . Douglass , whose followers are in a large numerical majority . The feeling of the convention towards him was evidenced by the fact that one of his political friends was elected temporary chairman . These straws serve to show which way the wind blows . The news from Sicily is in the highest degree hopeful . The Patrie publishes the following fresh details : — " Independent of the vessel of Garibaldi , two other steamers have left Genoa , having on board 1 , 400 men , consisting principally of the former Chasseurs des Alpes , Romagnols , Lombards , and

several Genoese . A fourth vessel , it is said , left Leghorn for the same destination as the others , aud three vessels have started from different points , all of which would join the division out at sea . AU these vessels , in order to mislead the Piedmontese authorities , had taken their papers for Malta . The expedition is reported to be organized on a very grand scale , being provided with arms , ammunition , provisions , aud materiel lor a campaign ; in fact , with all necessary resources for sustaining a contest of several months . The carrying out of the expedition

requires an expenditure which will exceed several millions . The subscriptions in England and Italy are not enough to cover the expenses . AAlio has completely furnished the necessary supplies of money 1 General Garibaldi ' s expedition has greatly excited the attention of di plomatists . The Opinione Nationale states that General Garibaldi takes with him twenty cannon . The journals publish a letter from General Garibaldiin which he says : — "It is the duty of all to aid

, encourage , , and to augment the number of combatants against oppression . It is not the insurrectionary party in Sicily whom we are assisting , but Sicily herself , where there are enemies to contend with . It was not I who advised an insurrection in Sicily ; but from the moment that our Sicilian brethren threw themselves into the struggle , I considered it my duty to assist them . Our battle cry will be— ' Italy and Victor Emmanuel !' " '

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

THE NEW GRAND OFFICERS . —Our notice of the Masonic oavoor of the new Grand Officers is unavoidably postponed . "A YOUNG MASON . "—Bo not afraid to exercise your privilege and blackball the candidate . There is too little caution exercised in the admission of candidates into Freemasonry . " 11 . R-. "—The person named is a Freemason , but no honour to the

Craft . " T . IC . " —There is no law to prevent tho members of a Lodge electing a brother of notoriously bad moral character as their AA . M ., should they see fit ; but we cannot imagine that any body of gentlemen would do so . "A . M . M . " —AA e do not know the joining fee of Mount Lebanon

Lodge , No . 87 , nor the hour of mooting . AA o believe it to be an efficient Lodge . To tho second question we must reply , "Not yet . " ERRATOM . — -In our number of the 28 th of April , iu the notice of the Prov . Grand Lodge of Mark Masons , at Basingstoke , Bro . AV . M . Emanuel , is given as the name of the Prov . S . G . AV , instead ofBro . II , M . Emanuel . ERRATUM . —In the obituary notice of Bro . AA \ Hands in No . 42 for Earl of Kerry , read Kelly . ( Sic iu the warrant , although more usually spelt Kellie . l