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adulterating his milk with a vegetable powder , called " annatto . " His object in using this powder was to conceal the presence of water , which , according to the evidence of a chemist , formed 25 per cent , of one sample of the liquid the defendant sold as milk . This enormous proportion of water was stated to be " five per cent , above the average . " The defendant was mulcted in the mitigated penalty of 20 s . and costs A serious fire

broke out early on Saturday morning at the residence of JMr . Carter , the coroner for East Surrey , in tho Blackfriars Road . It is said to have arisen from ono of his sons having been smoking or reading in bed , and thus sot fire to the bed curtains , which soon enveloped the whole house in flames . The son had a narrow escape for his life , and has heen taken to the hospital , and Miss Carter leaped from her bed-room window . Some of the servants were rescued bthe fire escape .

Unfory fortunately , neither house nor furniture were insured . -The case of the woman AVilson , against whom a ivhole series of poisoning cases are alleged , has heen again before the magistrate at the Lambeth Police Court . The evidence adduced related to the accusation of her having poisoned a Mrs . Soames at Islington , and the daughter of the deceased woman was examined , but her statements clid not carry the matter much further . JMr . Norton remanded the prisoner , but intimated

that ivhen the evidence was completed he would commit her for trial . A woman , named Copeland , was murdered at Isleworth , in Middlesex , on Thursday week . Her husband , from whom she had for several years lived apart , and who had frequently been heard to threaten her life , is suspected of having committed the crime . On Saturday evening , a young man , —a farm servant , near Doneaster—fired at a young ivoman employed in his master ' s house , and then committed suicide . The young

woman , who received the shot in the head , lies in a precarious state . Mrs . M'Laughlan , the wife of a Newcastle furniture broker , cut her husband ' s throat while lie lay asleep in bed , and then attempted to put an end to her own existence . Fortunately , she neither succeeded in murdering her husband , with whom she is said to have frequently quarrelled , nor in destroying her own life . The wounds of both are serious , but in neither case is a fatal result apprehended . The man Reynolds , who is charged with having sent threatening letters to the Messrs . Rothschild ,

has been committed for trial at the London Mansion House . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The Emperor arrived at St . Cloud , on Saturday evening at half-past six . Count cle Persigny has resumed his fonctions at the Minsstry of the Interior , and the ad interim direction of M . Rouher is consequently at an end . . The Belgian Chambers are occupied with the discussion of the new commercial treaty with England . In the course of the debate on the subject yesterday , the Foreign Minister hinted

that there was a possibility of some modification being made in favour of the industry of Ghent , with the consent of this country . The Italian Cabinet is reported to have issued a diplomatic circular , delaring its resolution to repress any expeditions ivhieh may be attempted in defiance of the laws and the authorities , hut expatiating on the dangers to which the continued occupation of Rome hy French troops exposes the tranquility of Italand Europe . Garibaldiwho is said to have

y , heen abandoned hy many of his followers as soon as A ictor Emmanuel ' s proclamation became known to them , is announced from Palermo to be inarching with the apparent intention of reaching Messina ; ancl no mention is made of any further encounter between the Garibaldians and the royal troops . According to a French journal , an Italian squadron has been sent to Ancona , for the purpose of watching the coast ofthe Adriatic .

The Paris Patrie has announced that the Marquis Pepoli , one of the Italian Ministry , hacl arrived in the French capital , and was believed to be commissioned to submit to the Emperor a plan for the occupation of Rome by a mixed garrison of French aud Italian troops . The Marquis Pepoli is a relative of the Emperor of the French , and is believed to be in his confidence . The Paris Presse of last evening states that an Italian

squadron has been ordered to assemble at Ancona for the purpose of watching the shores of the Adriatic . The gallant little state of Montenegro , with its 110 , 000 inhabitants , is said to be invested by a force amounting to upwards of 100 , 000 Turks . But it is not the first occasion that the mountaineers have been in similar straits , and passed through a baptism of blood In triumph over their ruthless oppressors . It appears

quite certain that the Austrian Government has recently been making some efforts towards conciliatian and compromise in regard to the Hungarian Diet . These efforts do not appear to have produced any success ;

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and wo now learn that some individual members of the Council of Empire are endeavouring » to arrive at a more satisfactory result . The semi-official journal of Munich announces that tho Bavarian Government has notified to the Prussian Cabinet its refusal to assent to the treaty of commerce concluded by Prussia with France : The French troops now embarking at Toulon and

Cherbourg for Mexico , number more than 16 , 000 men , and others are to be shipped from Algeria . Tiie total force of the Mexican expedition , v . lien all the reinforcements shall have arrived , will , apparently , not fall short of 30 , 000 men ; and the expenses will , no douuht , much exceed the £ 600 , 000 for which M . Fould has obtained a credit . It is said , too , that a flotilla of gunboats is preparing in the French dockyards for

despatch to tho Gulf of Mexico . AMERICA . —The news from America is to the 1 st inst . It is stated that the Confederates are preparing for an attack either upon M'Clellan or General Pope . General M'Clellan's position is said to be a good defensive one , but not favourable for offensive purposes or for a retreat . A retreat , so long as the James River is open to him , ivould seem to he easy enough ; but it

ap pears that this way out of the peninsula is endangered b y the presence on the river of two iron-clad rams . These monsters had come clown the river as far as Turkey Bend , hut declined battle with the Federal gunboats there drawn up . Moreover , the Confederates are said to have erected batteries on the south ofthe James Elver , below the Federal position , ancl troops were being brought there fast . These batteries opened fire on the

Federal mail boats and shipping on the 31 st July ,, ancl clid some injury , but they were silenced by the Federal batteries . General Pope had advanced to beyond AVavrenton . He was in great force , ancl as the Confederates were also reported , strong in the neighbourhood of Gordonsville , a collision may have taken place in that neighbourhood . It was reported at Cairo that the blockade of Mobile had been broken by a fleet of ten iron gunboats which had heen purchased bthe Confederates in England .

y This story was not believed , but it caused considerable excitement . Great sickness was said to prevail in the Federal fleet at A'icksburg . In Kentucky the Governor had convened the State Legislature to consider the military situation . It appears that the appeal of the President to his countrymen to fill up the vacancies in the ranks , is answered-but slowly and reluctantly . His Excellency demanded 300000 men immediatel

, y after the affair before Richmond , hut up to the date of the latest advices , 10 , 000 only had responded to tbe call . Great complaints also are raised with regard to the men who are absent on furlough , and who are said to number between 20 , 000 ancl 30 , 000 . AA'e further learn that the Mississippi militia having been called out by the governor of that state , a large number of Irish residents declined to serveupon the plea that they ivere British

, subjects , ancl have claimed the protection of the English consul at St . Louis . According to the New York Journal of Commerce , an official report shows that the total grants made by Congress for the year beginning on the 1 st July last , amount to the prodigious sum of 1 , 176 , 000 , 000 dollars , or about £ 235 , 000 , 000 sterling .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

AN OLD P . M ., GRAVESEND . —Your letter arrived too late , as though dated the Oth we clid not receive it until the 13 th . The letter did not state either the name of the lecturer or the subject of the lecture . S . AV . —Should have sent his name , without which his statement cannot appear . MULTUIL—Is altogether misinformed . The person alluded to

never was connected with our MAGAZINE in any capacity whatever . J . S . R . —The second Prestonian Lecture will probably be delivered about November . It would be useless to deliver it at this period of the year . JANITOR . — Where practicable it is always advisable , for this office , to be held by a Past Principal , in the same manner

as it is always desirable to have a Past Master for Tyler . K . T . —The Knight Templars is sometimes called the 30 th degree , hut it is very different from thai degree as practised under the Ancient ancl Accepted Eite .