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which are supposed , iu the opinion of the memorialists , to have an important bearing on the question of the prisoner's guilt ; so the whole that can be said in favour of the prisoner is here embodied , but many of the statements are most contradictory . On Tuesday Mr . and Mrs . Blyth attended at the AVorship-street police-office , and made affidavits , adding little , however , to the

evidence they had previously given . The same may be said of an affidavit made by John Hafl ' a . A person styling himself Baron de Camin makes affidavit to seeing a man with his clothes all bloody , come rolling down the railway embankment near Hackney-wick , on the night of tho murder . And a person in Walworth writes a letter to say that he saw the dog fight at

Camberwell-gate , ivhich Muller says took place at the time he entered the omnibus . The inquest on the boy that was killed by the explosion of a lucifer match manufactory , at Stratford , on Friday week , was brought to a close on Saturday . It appeared that the boy , who was only twelve years of age , was employed about some highly explosive compounds , and that he

had hardly begun when the accident occurred . As it happened the only sufferer was the poor boy himself . The coroner said he had visited the factory , where he saw the most explosive materials handled by boys of an age so tender that he would not have trusted them with a lighted candle . The jury , in returning a verdict of accidental death , censured the practice

of employing children in such dangerous occupations . The inquiry into the explosion at Ei-ith was resumed on Tuesday , and a further adjournment was determined on till Tuesday next . Tuesday was devoted to what may bo called an episode in the main inquiry—a previous witness having stated ( hat the Government magazines were conducted in a

much more careless manner than private ones , the Marquis of llartington sent some workmen to Pui-fleet to disprove that averment . These men stated the mode in which the powder was dealt with , how tho unserviceable powder and the defective

casks were disposed of , apparently to the satisfaction of the jury . The witnesses further stated that the Government often purchased new casks from the Messrs . Hall ' s cooperage , and nothing could be better than the casks obtained from that quarter . Two men were killed by an explosion at a powdermill at Fa . versb . am on Monday . The works belonged to

Messrs . Hall and Son , whose works blew up at Ei-ith some time ago . Au inquest has been held , and the jury ivere so satisfied that every possible precaution had been taken by the proprietors of the works to avoid these calamitous occurrences that they appended a compliment to the Messrs . Hall to their verdict of accidental death . A Dutchman , named Kohl , and

his wife , a young English girl , were brought before a bench of magistrates at Stratford on the charge of being concerned in the murder of the young German , whose headless body was found in tbe Plaistow marshes on Tuesday . It was proved that the murdered man was staying with the prisoners ; and the husband had given an account of his last parting with him , ivhich was contradicted by other evidence . The case ishowever

, , very incomplete . Kohl ivas remanded , but as there was no evidence against the ' wife , she was discharged . It was stated that the head had been found . It was discovered buried about thirty yards from tho trench . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —In diplomatic correspondence just published in Paris , M . Drouyn de Lhuys explains the obligations which , according to the French Cabinet , the recent

Convention regarding Rome imposes upon King A'ictor Emmanuel . The Italian Government is to be restricted from employing , among other ' * violent means , " against the Pope " the manoeuvres of revolutionary agents upon the Pontifical territory , as well as all agitation tending to produce insurrectionary movements ; " and the " moral means" are to " consist solely in the forces of civilisation and progress , " while the other "aspirations" to be considered legitimate by the Comt of Turin are to be "those whose object is the reconciliation of Italy with the

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Papacy . " The transfer of the Roman capital from Turin to Florence is to be " a serious pledge given to France ; " and "to suppress this pledge would bo to destroy the contract . " Finally , '' the event of a revolution breaking out spontaneously at Rome is not foreseen by the Convention ; " and " France reserves her liberty of action for this eventuality , " while the Italian Cabinet is to follow the policy of Count Cavour , who " declared that Rome could only be united to Italy and become the capital with

the consent of France . " The Cardinal Archbishop of Rouen , who has just returned from Rome , describes in a pastoral to his flock the state of feeling entertained by the Pope on the subject of the Convention . The holy father , it would appear , considers himself as being gradually enfolded iu the machinations of his enemies , the circle tightening around him , all thendesigns manifest to his view ; but he himself resolved to yield not a hair ' s breadth . The German Diet ' s Committees appear

to be slowly proceeding to consider the respective claims of the Grand Duke of Oldenburg and of the Prince of Augustenburg to the sovereignty of Schleswig-Holstoin . But the Prussian Cabinet at least has evidently no mind that the Diet shall have any substantial voice in the disposal of the Duchies , even if Prussia cannot succeed in securing them for herself ; and the semi-official journals of Berlin are already declaring that neither Prussia , Austria , nor Holstein - will pay the cost

of maintaining the Federal "troops of execution" now quartered in Holstein , as their presence is needless in a duchy which has been ceded to Prussia and Austria . The Danish Rigsraad was opened at Copenhagen on Saturday . The speech from the Throne deplored the unhappy result of the war , and the hard conditions the German Powers had imposed npon Denmark . The treaty of peace was laid before the house , the ratification of which was agreed to on AA ednesday by 75 against 21 votes . A Madrid journal asserts that the Spanish Cabinet has just despatched to Peru an ultimatum ,

demanding " prompt and full satisfaction" from the Peruvian Government , and threatening that , in tho event of a refusal , the Spanish squadron in the Pacific shall occupy the principal ports of Peru , and shall destroy all tho Peruvian men of war . J 3 y private letters from Mexico received at Paris , it is stated that the Emperor of Mexico has written to his patron , the Emperor Napoleon , on the subject of Mexican finance . He requests to have an experienced financier sent overto try his

, skill in bringing order out of the present chaos . INDIA AND CniNA . —The Bombay mail has arrived , and brings intelligence to the 13 th of October . The Bhootan Field Force was to be ready to move on the 15 th inst ., and was to consist of two brigades , under Brigadier General Mulcaster and Brigadier General Dunsford . The rainfall of the season just over is much below the average , causing apprehensions for

the future . Although full particulars of the fearful tempest at Calcutta had not been received at Bombay , there are some additional details which lead us to fear that the destruction of life and property will prove to be as serious as these despatches , indicate . A telegram received at the Admiralty announces that the passage of the Straits of Simonosaki ivas forced by sixteen European vessels of warafter three days' fihtingand that all

, g , the Japanese batteries have been destroyed . Sixty heavy brass guns were brought away by the assailants , whose loss of life was " small , considering the result" —no officer having been killed . The Straits are now open to navigation , and tho refractory-Japanese have sued for peace . The Gazelle publishes a statement of the trade of Tien-tsin for 1863 , from which we gather thatowing to the scarcity of cottonthe price of Manchester

, , goods had been brought so near the price of the native manufactures , that the Chinese preferred to purchase the products of their own looms , which , " though not so comely , are much bettor adapted for the rough work of the rural population . " It is added , that unless prices fall '• ' very much" below the rates current last year , the native goods must rule the market .

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TO CORRESPONDENTS .

ERRATUM :. —In our first article last week on Freemasonry in Hull , by an accidental transposition of figures , the payments and donations to the widows of deceased Masons , members of the lodge , was printed £ 178 instead of £ 71 S . R . P . —Of the degree tho lodge is opened in . S . S . —In Ireland ; but not in England or Scotland . R . T . J . —We cannot interfere .