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augment the livings of all district churches with a like population to £ 200 a-year . Mr . Maclure's report for January shows that at the close of that month there were 210 , 739 cotton operatives iu Lancashire working full time , 125 , 856 short time , and 158 , 653 entirely out of work— " there being consequently a reduction of 27 , 539 in the number working full time , and , after making allowance for the continued absorption of labour by the

other trades of the district and for a slight migration , an increase of 9 , 615 in those entirely without employment . " Mr . Farnall ' s returns for the week ending the 30 th ult ., show , on the other hand , a decrease of 2 , 918 in the number of persons receiving parochial , relief . The Enterprise—another of Mr . Reed's small armour-plated vessels—was launched at

Deptford on Tuesday last . The Enterprise , which is only 990 tons burthen , was originally intended for a 17-gun sloop , hut Mr . Reed taking her in hand , she was altered into an ironclad , and fitted to carry four 110-pounder rifled guns . A number of Austrian and Prussian vessels are at present lying in the Tyne without hope of e arly employment .

Shippers decline to place their property on board of them , and their captains and owners are naturally alarmed at the prospect of falling in with Danish cruisers if they venture to sea . The long-pending litigation connected with "Essays and Reviews" has been brought to a final close in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council . The Lord Chancellor

delivered judgment , reversing the sentence of the Court below , which it will be remembered was to suspend Dr . Williams and Mr . AVilson for twelve months , and mulcting the prosecutors in the costs of tho appeal . From parts of this judgment it was intimated that the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of York dissented . Whitehead , the " gentleman " from the neighbourhood of Slough , who recently committed a

gross outrage upon a lady in a railway carriage on the Great Western line , has been sentenced , at the Central Criminal Court , to two months' imprisonment , and a fine of £ 25 . He was further ordered , at the expiration of his term of imprisonment , to find security for his future good conduct . A case of breach of promise of marriage has been tried in the Court of Queen ' s Bench , where a lady of 30 sued a medical

gentleman of 67 , who had made the promise , fixed the day , obtained a holiday , and ordered the marriage settlement to be drawn up , though he afterwards refused to sign it , or to complete the marriage . The jury awarded damages to the amount of £ 400 . Seven of the eight men charged with piracy and murder on board the ship , Flowery Land , have been found

guilty at the Central Criminal Court , and sentenced to death . The eighth prisoner , although acquitted on the capital charge , has been convicted of assisting to scuttle the ship , and has been sentenced to ten years' penal servitude . FOBEIGN INTELLIGENCE . —At the close of last week , overcome by the fatigue occasioned by five days' constant duty , the

Danish Army gave way to superior force , and retreated to Duppel . The cavalry thence moved northwards , and the Germans continued the pursuit . During the retreat , it is added , there were " several engagements , " and the Danish losses were " considerable . " The Danes made a gallant resistance to the entry of the Austrians into Flensburg . The inhabitants in the

northern part of the city raised barricades , from behind which they fired on the Austrians , and the total loss of the latter is said to be 1 , 100 in killed and wounded . After evacuating the city the Danish army made towards the coast , and the greater portion succeeded in escaping to Alsen Island . The grief and indignation of the Danes have found some vent in the disgrace of General De Meza , whose conduct the Premier has declared to be inexplicable , and who has been displaced from

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his command , in which he has been succeeded by General Luttichau . A Vienna telegram asserts that at the Council of Ministers called by the Emperor Francis Joseph , on Sunday last , it was resolved that , as hostilities have actually occurred in Schleswig , the treaty of London can no longer be regarded by Austria as a basis for negotiation . In other words , if the statement be correctthe Austrian Cabinet has determined to

, wrest the duchy of Schleswig altogether from Denmark . ¦ There is a rumour in Paris that the Emperor is about to discontinue his expectant policy , aud that an important change is to be made in the Ministry . There is a rumour too that negociations for a Congress will probably be entered on afresh . Meanwhile , the policy of the English Government is commented

on by the Parisians and their press , and the most serious complications are looked for . AMEEIOA . —The most important fact in the news received by the Columbia from New York to the 29 th ult ., is the near approach of General Longstreet ' s army to Knoxville . Skirmishing between his cavalry and the Federal outposts had commenced ,

and the latest accounts state that great anxiety , amounting to a panic , prevailed in the city . The Confederates had made two separate attacks on Athens and Florence , in Alabama , in both of which they are said to have failed . The trade of the Mississippi is still interrupted—indeed , almost suspended—by the Confederate batteries . Dispatches from Chattanooga report that the Confederate General Johnston had fallen back 40 miles south of Dalton . There is no news of the forces in Virginia or from Charleston .

INDIA . —The chief interest in the news brought by the Bombay mail has been anticipated by the telegraph—viz ., the successful close of the campaign against the bill tribes on the Punjaub frontier , and the arrival of the new Alceroy . The intelligence of the appointment of Sir John Lawrence had been received , with universal approbation in India . NEW ZEALAND . —An official despatch brings us the

satisfactory news from New Zealand that General Cameron has succeeded in inflicting a severe defeat on the insurgent Maoris , and in taking many of their leaders . It , appears that , on the evening of the 20 th of November , General Cameron , with 1 , 000 men and three guns , aided by detachments from the Royal Navy under Sir William AA iseman

attacked a " very strongly intrenched" position occupied by the Maoris at Rangiriri , on the bank of the river Waikato . Fighting seems to have lasted during the night , and the result was that the British troops carried the position , and captured 183 prisoners , " including most of the chiefs . " The stubbornness of the resistance offered by the Maoris is attested by the severity of the English loss , which amounted to 15 officers and 117 men killed and wounded .

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TO CORRESPONDENTS .

P . M . —1 . An honorary member has the privilege of voting for or against a candidate for initiation ; but as a matter of good taste he generally abstains from taking an active part in the business of the lodge . 2 . The lodge is not bound to the quarterly Grand Lodge fees for honorary members . 3 . If it does not pay the fees , there i 3 no use in returning the names

of the honorary members , such a distinction not being acknowledged by Grand Lodge or the " Book of Constitutions , " Z . —AVe have not heard . R . R . —Certainly not . YOEK . —The matter shall have our consideration ,