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into the water . Of this number it is believed that 40 were drowned . The difficulty in which the Belgian Chamber of Deputies was fixed in consequence of all the members of the Ultramontane party absenting themselves , and thus preventing a quorum being formed , has been solved by the closing of the legislative session . A conflict between the Crown and the Danish Ministry , apparently on the question of peace or Avar ,

terminated in the resignation of Bishop Monracl and his colleagues . The king has deputed Count Charles Molte Nutcb . au to form a a new Cabinet . The Count has succeeded in the task confided to him . M . de Bluhme is the President of the Council , who also undertakes the duties of the portfolio of Foreign Affairs . Count Moltke Nutchau is a minister without a portfolio ; so

also is M . de Quaade . The latter , who was the representative of Denmark at the late Conference , is about to proceed to Berlin . His visit is generally believed to have for its object the termination of the Avar and arranging the terms of a permanent peace . We learn from Copenhagen that dispatches have been forwarded by the Danish Go \ ernment to the Courts

of Vienna and Berlin proposing a suspension of hostilities . It is generally believed in Copenhagen that peace will be shortly concluded . Another indication of the cessation of hostilities in the Baltic is the fact announced by the Morgenblad that the whole of the Norwegian army intended for active service has been disembodied and a portion of the fleet recalled . The

Prussian troops under General Falkenstein , have effected the passage of the Lymfiord without loss . The head-quarters of the army are to be removed to Attrupgaard . From Stockholm Ave learn that three Swedish ships of war have put to sea , with orders to cruise between Gothenburg and Falsterbo , on the south-west coast of Sweden . . The Wurtemburg Estates have been opened hy the new King . His Majesty

expressed a hope that the Schleswig-Holstein question might be settled in accordance with national rights . The Payz contains a somewhat remarkable article on the recent meetings of the Sovereigns of Russia , Austria , and Prussia . The writer ranges these potentates on one side , and England and'France on the other , and maintains that the two Great Powers of the West—the representatives of " Young Europe" —are able , even

without recourse to arms , to thwart " the dark conspiracies of Old Europe . " La France has an article written in the same strain . An official despatch received in Paris announces the entry of the Emperor Maximilian , on tbe 12 th June , into the capital of his dominions , amidst ., lively demonstrations of popular enthusiasm . The people , according to this authority ,

did not forget to express their gratitude to the Emperor of the French and to France . CHINA AND AUSTRALIA . —The China papers by the Overland Mail confirm the telegraphic report of the capture of Changchow-foo by Colonel Gordon and the Imperialists , and afford some details of the assault . Tangyaug fell a few clays after , and

Nankin is now the pnly stronghold of the rebels . Colonel Gordon has determined on retiring from the Imperial cause . There is not much interest in the news from Australia . The session"ot the Sydney Parliament had been closed , and the Melbourne Parliament was on the eve of being dissolved . The repulse of our troops by the New Zealand rebels at Tauranga is confirmed by

the papers , Avhich have some particulars of the disaster . INDIA . —The news from India contains nothing of striking importance . The resignation of the chief command of the army by Sir Hugh Rose , and the appointment in his stead of Sir W . Mansfield , was supposed to be near at hand . Ameer Shore Ali Khan , the chief of Affganistan , has completely defeated his brother Mahomed Amiz Khan , who attempted to seize the reins of government . Measures had been adopted by the Indian

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Government towards the rebellious and troublesome Bhootans that will soon bring them to submission . There Avas no abatement of the speculation mania in Bombay . Two more banks had been started . AFRICA . —The intelligence received hy the mail from the West Coast of Africa represents nearly the whole country to be in a very unhealthy state . As for our troops on the Ashantee frontier ,

their condition is most pitiable ; they were so diseased that only four men out of ten were fit for duty . AMERICA . —The Scotia brings advices to the 29 th of June . General Grant had been frustrated in his designs against Petersburg and the Weldon Railway . The extension of his line towards his left had been met by a corresponding movement on

the part of the Confederates , and we are told that he had abandoned his operations against the railway , and was about to commence a regular siege of Petersburg . In the engagement of the 22 nd , the Federal accounts admit that Grant's loss was greater than was ac first reported , while the Confedrates claim to have driven him two miles from the Weldon Railroad . The armies of Grant ancl Butler are reported to be

suffering from scarcity of water and the intense heat . General Hunter's retreat is attributed to want of ammunition and supplies , ancl the General reports himself victorious in every engagement with the enemy . The Southern journals , however , tell a different story , and affirm that he was obliged to make his way into AVe 3 tern Virginia with a loss of thirteen guns , in addition to a heavy list of casualties in killed , wounded , and missing-. The Federal cavalry leader General Sheridan , had crossed to the south side of the James River , but not until he had had a severe encounter with the Confederates ,

in which he is said to have lost about 1 , 000 men . General Sherman , according to the present advices , had got into what the Americans would call a " tight place . " An attack upon the Confederate position in the Kenesaw mountains was repulsed with heavy loss , and the Confederate General Pillow Avas acting " heavily " upon the rear of the Federal army . One account statesthatPillowwasrepulsedinanassaultupon "FortLafayetteJ ' while , according to another he had captured the town of Lafayette .

Advices from New York to the afternoon of the 29 th ult . state that General Sherman , finding himself short of supplies , was retreating , and that the damage clone to the railways around Petersburg by the Federals was being speedily repaired . ——The steamship St . George , which left St . John's , Newfoundland , on the 30 th ult ., brings a rumour , since confirmed , that Mr . Chase , the Federal Secretary to the Treasury , had resigned . Accounts to the 2 nd Julfrom New York state that Wilson ' s

y cavalry have destroyed twenty miles of the Danville Railroad . On their return on the 27 th ult . they were intercepted by the Confederates on the Weldon and Petersburg Railroad . Wilson fought all night and the following morning , but was unable to push his way through . Meade sent the 6 th corps with a division of the 2 nd corps to the assistance of Wilson . On Tuesday , the Confederates were moving in the direction of the rear of Grant's left . The General Lee—a Confederate war steamer of great

strength , it is said—is expected daily in the Channel , ancl it seems that this is the ship for which the Niagara and the Sacramento are now on the look-out . A terrible accident occurred on the Grand Trunk Railway , near St . Hilaire , Canada East , on the 29 th of June . An " emigrant traiu" ran over a bridge , and between thirty ancl forty of the passengers were killed , while 350 were injured .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

INQ . UIE . EE . —When several candidates are balloted for on the same evening , the W . M . is bound to declare the result of each ballot as it takes place . MELTON must appeal to the Prov . Grand Master . S . S . —We have no such recollection of the subject to which you allude . P . M . —The expenses of a Grand Steward during his year of office are generally from £ 15 to £ 20 ; but they have been nearly double that amount . X . Y . Z . —Certainly ; whenever you think fit .