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increased from £ 100 to £ 300 , but it is evident that he has the peasantry on his side , and that no efforts which cunning can devise ivill be spared to prevent his apprehension . FOREIGN INTEHHGEK'CE . —The official reports of the engagement at Aspromonte have at length been published , and the substance of these documents is conveyed to us in a telegram from Turin . General Cialdini states that the instructions to Colonel Pallavicini Avere that he should pursue Garibaldi "unremittingly ,

if he sought to fly ;' "' that he should attack him if he offered battle ; and that he should "destroy" the Garibaldian bands . Acting upon these instructions , Colonel Pallavicini states that , having encountered the volunteers at Aspromonte , he attacked their position , Avhich he carried after a brisk fire . The " rebels " were then completely hemmed in , and the Commander of the royal troops sent an officer to Garibaldi , to summon him to surrender . The ex-Dictatorhoiveverdeclared that he would never

, , surrender , and ordered the officer , as well as another envoy sent to him , to be arrested . What followed is already known . Colonel Pallavicini's report confirms the statement that the defeated Chief requested that he might be permitted to seek an asylum under the British flag . The Garibaldian volunteers who ivere captured with their chief in the action at Aspromonte , and conveyed with him to Spezzia , have been removed to Fenestrella . Several bands of insurgents havesubsequent to that

eventsur-, , rendered to the Italian troops , the deserters to Garibaldi , officers and men , being invariably shot without mercy . A bulletin , has been issued at Genoa by the physicians in attendance ou Garibaldi , which states that their patient is progressing satisfactorily . According to one account , Garibaldi and his fellow-prisoners will be tried by a council of war , while it is as positively asserted , on the other hand , that the great leader himselfat all eventswill be arraigned before the Senate .

, , Again , rumours of a general amnesty are still current . Prince Napoleon is to set out upon the loth for Egypt . His journey is to occupy some considerable time . People AVIIO profess to know everything assign as tiie cause of his journey , his disappointment at the turn Italian affairs have taken—especially at the prolonged occupation of Eome . The Queen of Spain has granted an amnesty to the prisoners condemned for complicity iu the insurrection at Loj : i , and also to 100 emigres .

According to accounts from Madrid , the little tiff betAveen France and Spain , arising out of the snubbing AA-hich the Emperor lately' gave the ambassador of Queen Isabella , has been made up , Senor Concha having offered certain " frank explanations " to his Majesty ivhich satisfied him that all divergence of opinion betiveen the tivo Governments had ceased . La France announce *! that President Juarez has refused to ratify the treaty negociated with General Prim , and has taken " A-exatious

measures " against Spain , inasmuch as once more to incline the government of that country towards the policy of France in Mexican affairs . The Pays contains a similar announcement , with the addition that Spain has proposed to send a contingent to support the French army in Mexico , hut that this offer has been declined . The French vessels carrying out the reinforcements have met with some- serious mishaps . The Prince Jerome caught fire in the roads of Gibraltar ancl Avas totalllost .

y The crews , hoAA-ever , and tho troops were saved . The Fleurics , also conveying troops , ran foul of another vessel , and Avas obliged to put into Gibraltar to repair the damages she sustained . A letter from Warsaw affords some particulars of the recently discovered plot in" that city . The discovery of the conspiracy was made through the depositions of Ryll , who made , the attempt on the life of the Marquis Wielopolski . In consequence one Captain Dohroivski Avas apprehended , and at his residence

a correspondence with the emigrants and a plan for an attack on the citadel of Warsaw were seized . Numerous arrests had taken place , ancl fresh discoveries were occurring every clay . ——In Vienna it is asserted that the Constantinople conference on the Servian question has adopted resolutions deciding that the Turks are to remain in possession of the fortresses on the Danube , with tivo exceptions ; that they are to abandon the toAvn of Belgrade , but are still to retain possession of the fortress , the

radius of which is to be extended . The result of these diplomatic deliberations does not appear to satisfy the Servian authorities , and the Prince has resolved not to accept it . Fresh troubles seem already to have broken out , since it is stated in the same despatch that at a toivn called in the telegram Orijitza the Turks had wantonly attacked the Servian authorities , and had subsequently set fire to the Servian quarter . At length there is-a prospect ol the settlement of the Montenegrin difficulty . The Prince of that little state has sued for peace , and

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the Porte has sent the conditions on which it is prepared to receive his submission , -and accede to his rec-west to the Tvukish Commander , Omer Pacha . IXDIA ASD CniSA . —By the arrival of the Bombay mail , with later dates from Calcutta , Ave learn , amongst other items of intelligence , that Pandoo Eao ( better known as Eao Sahib ) has been tried for his share in the massacre of Cawnpore , has been convicted , and sentenced to be hanged ; that some of the Bheels

in the Feccan have risen in rebellion , and are committing serious depredations in the West and South ; that the rains in the north-west of the Punjaub have been very heavy , and that cholera was raging in Delhi . From the Calcutta Weekly Mail we learn that the Imperialists and the rebels are still waging internecine war , and that the latter wo closing round Shanghae , and the leading inhabitants were arranging for additional barrack accommodation . The allied troops , in conjunction with

the Imperialists , had had several brushes with the rebels , and . hod dislodged them from their positions . AMERICA . —Important intelligence has been brought by the Anglo-Saxon , which arrived at Liverpool on Tuesday , with New York advices to the evening of the 30 th of August . Fighting on an extensive scale , and at points of great strategetical importance , had taken place between the' Federal and Confederate forces . Previous advices left the rival armies face to face on the

Rappahannock , General Pope occupying the north , and the Confederate Commander the south hank of the river . It now appears that , on the 23 rd of August , the struggle AA'as renewed by the Confederates , who forced General Pope to abandon his position ancl retire to Warren ton Junction , ten miles in the rear . We lose sight of the combatants for tAvo days ; but , on the 26 th , Ave are told , a body of Confederates , variously estimated at from 2000 to 7000 strong , suddenly appeared in the rear of General Pope ' s army , ancl drove out the Federal force occupying Manassas Junction . The Confederates liaving here captured a battery of nine guns , destroyed all the valuable property within

their reach , and cut off the railway and telegraphic communication between General Pope ancl Washington , pushed on to Bull Run Bridge , and drove a body of Federal troops from that point . Their cavalry , it is stated , advanced even ns far as Fairfax . This had , of course , the effect of ' rousing the Federal General to a sense of the danger with which he was threatened . He at once broke up his camp at Warrenton Junction , and , dividing his army into three columns , marched rapidly back , on

the 23 th , toivards Manassas Junction . He arrived there , according to his oivn account , too late , " General Jackson having evacuated the position three hours previously . " The Confederate General was , hoAvever , met on his Avay back by the corps under the command of M'DOAVCH and Siegel , who offered him battle . " A general right then ensued , Avhich Avas terminated by darkness . The enemy Avas driven hack at all points . " General Pope further reports that on the 29 th a " terrific battle" was fought

at Grovetoivn , " ivhich lasted from daylight until after dark , by ivhich time the enemy was driven from the field , which we now occupy . " His oivn troops , however , were " too much exhausted to push matters , " although he expected to be able to renew the attack on the arrival of momentarily . expected reinforcements . The enemy was " still in his front , badly used up , " but just as the General ivas about to send off his despatch , the news reached him that the Confederates were " retreating toivards the

mountains . " " We have lost , " he says , " not less than 8000 men killed and wounded , ancl , from the appearance of the field , the enemy have lost two to our one . " He also made " great captures , " but he does not state particulars . There are disjointed statements to the effect that IAVO Federal regiments had been captured at Centreville , and that a large Confederate force was at Leesburg . Among the other items of intelligence brought by the Anglo-Saxon , is the announcement that " affairs in

Kentucky are in a critical condition . " Baton Rouge , it is also stated , has been evacuated by the Federal troops . " War meetings " continue to bo held in the North , but arms , as well as men , are now , it is asserted , becoming scarce .

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R . E . X . —discontinued . It Avas a dead loss . S . E . G . —If a brother regularly returned from a lodge he could not be called upon to pay up arrears , as a condition of readmission . As a rule brethren not belonging to a regular lodge are not admitted as members of lodges of Instruction ,