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body of Mrs . Caroline Smidt , who died in a lodging house at Shadwell , and whose death was followed by robbery of the most disgraceful character , not only the room but even the corpse of the poor woman being rifled of all that was of any value . The verdict was "Natural death . " The Lord Chancellor has confirmed a decision of Mr . Commissioner Jemmett , adjourning sine die the last examination of Messrs . Thomas and Henry

Daltou , partners in the bankrupt firm of Daltons and Heap . His lordship denounced the conduct of the bankrupts in the strongest terms , and said , " the only doubt in his mind was , whether he ought to leave the order of the Commissioner granting protection untouched , or send the matter back to the Commissioner , with a view of having the bankrupts punished . "

The proprietor and editor of a weekly paper , which is described as a Presbyterian organ , have been committed for trial for an alleged libel on a barrister who has written a poem called A New Pantomime . It seems that a reviewer in the offending journal cut up the Neio Pantomime terribly , and at the same time poured upon the learned author a copious flood of abuse . The health of London shows a decided improvement ,

according to the weekly returns . The deaths of last week amounted to 1370 , which was 86 below the ten years' average . The children born in the week amounted to 1 S 32 , which was no fewer than 243 below the average . Among the deaths there four persons who were upwards of 90 years of age , aud one had attained to 101 years . Another of our Indian heroes has departed . Letters from Paris announce that Sir James Outram

died there at one o ' clock on Wednesday morning . His health had been iu a wretched state ever since his return from India , and the sad event was , therefore , not wholly unexpected . His career in India was a brilliant one , and his chivalry in allowing Sir Henry Haveloek , though subordinate in rank , to retain his command on the march to Lucknow , during the mutiny , is still

freshly remembered . Two more of the parties concerned in the dastardly and cruel murder of Mr . Fitzgerald , iu Limerick , have been brought to justice . The actual actors in that dreadful deep , Beckham and Walsh , were found guilty and executed some time since ; and last week two of the cowardly instigators , named Denis Dillane and Cook , were found guilty at the Limerick Assizes . The learned judge postponed his sentence on them .

FOREIGN - INTELLIGENCE . —The continental journals now declare , that although England declined to act in positive concord with France respecting the Polish insurrection , the British Cabinet has nevertheless sent "to St . Petersburgh a note , of which the tenour closely resembles that of the . French despatch . Austria , it is said , has refrained from offering any direct

remonstrances to the Russian Cabinet . The Monilenr of Thursday officially contradicts the statement "that troops forming the Camp of Chalons will be assembled between the 20 th and the 31 st March . " The camp is only to be formed at the end of May . Very little reliable news has been received from the seat of the Polish insurrection . In

the government or district of Lublin , to the east , and bordering Volhynia , the movement seems to have been least successful during recent encounters . Iu Sandomir and Eadom , closer to the Gallician frontier , Langiewiecz appears still , despite of Russian official announcements , to hold his own . There can be little doubt that if the rebellion is not assuming larger

proportions in any one place , it has of late broken out in several new and unexpected directions . A rumour states that Mieroslawskl has left Poland in consequence of a request from the Nationa Committee , who feared that the prestige of his name , connected as it is with continental revolution generally , might prove injurious to the Polish cause . The Diritto , democratic organ

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of Turin , contradicts the report that Menotti Garibaldi had passed through Berne on his way to Poland . Garibaldi ' s son is still at Caprera . Paris has been considerably excited durinothe last day or two by the details of a somewhat sino-ulap quarrel between a member of the Legislative Body and the editor of a well-known Parisian journal . The legislator assaulted the editor fiercely , and without the slightest warning . The quarrel arose out of a paragraph iu the newspaper in question .

AMERICA . —The military news is of some importance in one particular . The idea of attacking Vicksburg is given up , and that place is to be invested by regular siege . It is understood that it is badly supplied , and that distress already prevails in the city , and its reduction is therefore considered easy , and may be speedy . The difference between Generals Hunter and Foster , who were associated in command of the expedition at

Port Royal , arose apparently out of the question of employing negroes as soldiers . When Foster left for Washington , Hunter ordered off all that General's staff , and put General Stevenson under arrest for saying he would rather be beaten than cooperate with negro troops . Hunter , it was rumoured , would be removed , and General Stevenson had been already honourably

released by General Townsend , who was sent out to settle the existing differences . There are rumours of Confederate movements in Kentucky , and one account says they were retreating and had been defeated . Generals "Stonewall" Jackson anel Stuart had been making some unimportant movements on the Rappahannock . If we mention that according to a report "in the Tribune 5000 negro soldiers , officered by white men and

supported by white troops , are shortly to make an expedition into the most densely-populated parts of the South to laise the slaves , that General Banks has had a narrow escape of assassination in New Orleans ; and that the French have invaded Sonora , we exhaust the military news by this arrival . The political intelligence is even more important . General Cassius Clay has declared to the President that he would only fight

under an abolition policy , that Halleck is intensely pro-slavery and that General Butler must be appointed to supersede him . The Governor and Legislature of Missouri had denounced the position taken by the Delaware Legislature for a convention to effect an armistice . The House of Representatives at Washington had passed the Conscription Bill by a large majority . It

had also passed a bill authorising loans and issues of Government notes in the aggregate equal to £ 300 , 000 , 000 sterling , —this in addition to the issue of £ 20 , 000 , 000 sterling authorised in January last . A reaction had set in against the Copperhead or Compromise party , and a vigorous prosecution of the war was demanded on all hands ; and there were again statements , from a Southern source , of the blockade at Charleston being quite inefficient .

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TO CORRESPONDENTS .

J . P . S . —Consult the Boole of Constitutions . P . M . —Apply to the Grand Secretary . TnE GRAJJD LODGE PROPERTY . —We have seen the instructions to architects , and probably shall allude to them iu an early number . FINE ARTS . —An Italian brother , an artist of great talent , formerlwith Sir William Rossbut latel officer in the

y , y an Italian army , serving under Garibaldi , has waited upon n $ with some specimens of his abilities , which he wishes to dispose of among the brethren . They are admirably-executed fancy miniatures , and , if the brother is not engaged as he should be , it is mainly owing to miniature painting being out of fashion .