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tinguished by her crew . The other Austrian frigate , the Fadetsley , had 25 men killed and wounded ; and tbe total loss onboard the German squadron is said to have amounted to 170 men ; but we are told that the Prussian ships —apparently the three gunboats which formed the rest of tho allied squadron— "have not sustained much injury . " The defeated squadron was lying at

anchor in Heligoland Roads , within English jurisdiction , at nine o ' clock on Monday night ; but it subsequently sailed , and arrived at Cuxhaven on Tuesday morning . The victorious Danish ships , which are stated or rather conjectured , to have " also suffered severely , " were proceeding iu a northerly direction on Monday evening . The Danish Ministers of Justice and of the

Interior , have resigned their posts in consequence of the suspension of the blockade , ivhich they regard as an unjustifiable concession . Telegrams from Copenhagen state that two thousand inhabitants of the environs of Kolding and Fredericia , have been compelled by the invading troops to assist in demolishing the fortifications of the latter place . The Crown

Princess of Prussia has been invited by her husband to visit Flensburg , and was to have started a few nights since . The Prince and Princess are expected to return to Berlin in a few days . The French Corps Legislatif is now engaged in a debate on the . Budge '; . It was commenced on Friday by a brilliant speech from M . Thiers , who held the Chamber for three hours under

the spell of his oratory . The Court of Cassation has quashed the sentence of the Court of Assize of Aix , which condemned M . Arminul to ' . ' pay 20 , 000 f . damages to his servant Slam-ice Rous . On Wednesday , M . Piouher , President of the Council of State , delivered an eminently pacific speech . He declared that peace was iu the hands of France , who would not disturb it

unless her own honour was attacked ; and he expressed his belief that a peaceful solution of the Danish difficulty would now be effected . As M . Eoulier is a man who is believed to mean all he says , and to say nothing without some reason for it , his pacific assurances aro by no means unimportant . The Duke do Persigny has been making one of the oddest of speeches at

an Agricultural Exhibition in the department of the Loire . He sustains the theory that all political enlightenment is found in the rural districts , and that only folly , ignorance , and passion reign in the towns ; and , most marvellous of' examples , he takes England as his principal illustration of this amazing proposition . England has grown great , he contends , in spite of her manufacturing towns , and hy means of the political enenlihtenment of her rural population The revolted Arab

g . tribes in the regency of Turn ' s have chosen a new Bey , who is saidtohave assembled 40 , 000 mon within thirty milesof the city of Tunis . It is now said that the insurgents show no hostility to Europeans , and there is little ground for supposing that the mob of Tunis will attack the Christians , who will besides be protected by tbe presence of many English , French , and Italian men of war . An important step is about to be taken bthe Court

y of Rome—nothing less than to place the kingdom of Italy under interdiction , on account of the arrest of Cardinal Nolichini . A few centuries ago such an announcement would have been received with dismay by the population of the doomed country ; but now it is regarded as of little moment . Cardinal Morichini , who was arrested some days ago at Ancona on a charge of treasonable practices , has been acquitted by the tribunal

before ivhich he was tried . He was accordingly set at liberty without delay . The remaining troops of the English garrison will , as it has been officially announced in the Ionian Islands , bo withdrawn from Corfu on the 3 rd of June ; and from that date tho Ionians will fully enjoy nil the advantages ivhich they may be able to obtain from that union with Greece which they have sought . Intelligence has been received of the defeat of that atrocious African potentatethe King of Dahomey . His

, troops in an engagement with the Egbas have sustained a loss of 2 , 000 in killed and wounded . AMERICA . —By the steamer Asia we have intelligence from New York to the 2 Sth ult . The Confederates had assaulted and captured Plymouth in North Carolina , and were moving on Little Washington and Newborn . The detailed reports of the late fighting on the Red River confirm the defeat of General

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Banks by the Confederates . The defeat was a most decided one , and though the attack on Banks's retreating army on the following day was only partially successful , the Federals had great difficulty in reaching Natchitooches and Grand Ecore . Having reorganised his army , it is reported that Banks had again advanced on Shreveport . The Confederate General Forrest was said to bo moving towards Alabama , and Bishop Poll was marching to join him . The movements of the armies

on the Potomac were kept very secret . A battle , however , was considered as imminent . Longstreet was said to have taken up a position on the left of Lee ' s army . New York advices of a days' later date have been brought by the City of Baltimore , but they possess very little interest . Excepting a reconnaissance made by a body of Federal cavalry under General Davis , there had been no movement by either of the hostile armies in Virginia . It was supposed that General Grant would not for

several days undertake any operation , and it was reported that the Confederates were drawing troops from all quarters to reinforce General Lee . The defeat sustained by the Eed River expedition was admitted to have been more disastrous than the first accounts represented it to be ; for it was stated that General Banks had lost 4 , 000 prisoners , 30 guns , a gunboat , ancl 1 , 000 , 000 dollars in " greenbacks . " The Confederates wore reported to be inarching upon General Ecore , where his troops were strongly intrenched . The Federal Senate had passed a bill increasing the rates of customs duties 50 per cent ., for 60

days . A draft of 8 , S 50 men had been ordered to take place on tbe 3 rd May , in the state of New Jersey . INDIA . —Among the items of intelligence brought by the Bombay mail we learn that tho Persian Gulf telegraph has been completed , although a serious accident had for a time delayed its working ; that the Bheels are very troublesome in Indoro ; that on the Peshwar frontier the Hill tribes are said to be intriguing and plotting ; that an American ambassador has been

murdered in the Punjaub ; and that the Budget was occupying the public mind in India . The attention of the importing merchants of Bombay was engrossed by the changes proposed by Sir Charles Trevelyan in the Indian tariff ; and those changes were regarded hy them with extreme disapproval . NEW ZEALAND . —A despatch from General Cameron , transmitted by telegraph from Alexandria to the War Office , conveys satisfactory intelligence from New Zealand . During the night

of the 20 th February , a body of troops under General Cameron ' s personal command made a flank march , and turned the stronghold which the Maoris had constructed with so much pains . These works were immediately abandoned by the natives , who fell back to a strong place called Rangiawuhia . That position was assaulted and taken on tho 22 nd February by the 50 th Regiment—the English loss amounting to three oflicers and

28 men killed or wounded . The official despatch says nothing of tbe loss sustained by the natives ; but one of Mr . Reuter ' s telegrams states that 50 Maoris wore killed or wounded , and that 150 laid down their arms .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

E . A . —The questions weie answered some time since . If a charter for a Royal Arch Chapter is granted to a colony in which no chapter has previously existed , and tbe First Principal who is dull- qualified dies or leaves the colony before the charter is received or the chapter is opened , tho charter will lapse until the consent of the Grand Chapter can be obtained for the substitution of another name ; and should there be no qualified ' companion within the colony for the

office , however hard tho case may be , the chapter cannot he opened . The Craft lodge only gives its consent to a chapter being attached to it—the companions nominate their own Principals . THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW . —In reply to the enquiry of " Studens" in the FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MIRROR , of April 23 rd , as to where he can obtain the early

numbers of the above , if ho will call on Bro . Gilchrist , 15 , Kirby-street , Hatton Garden , Holborn , E . G ., Bro . Gilchrist has the " Quarterly Review , " from April 1 st , 1834 , to Dec . 1 st , 1844 , inclusive . J . W . P . —The usual P . M . ' s jewel to be worn attached to the collars must ho of silver . The complimentary P . M . 's jewels worn on the breast are not regulated by any law , and may therefore be of gold .