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The Week.
which the prisoners were put on trial for obtaining money under false pretences . FoEEies- INTELHGE . XCE . —A very favourable impression has been produced in Franco by the closing act in the Empress ' s present term of regency . A decree in the Moniteur nullifies all warnings given to the press during the last two years . The Emperor arrived in Paris at five o ' clock on Saturday evening ,
and was welcomed by crowds of people who thronged the streets and cheered him as he passed along from the railway station . There was a partial illumination of the city at night in honour of his return . The Paris races came off on Sunday , and the Empercr was present . Gladiateur won the great prize , nd won it easily by three lengths . Count Lagrange received
tho Emperor ' s congratulations upon the success of his horse . A decree in the Monituer , signed " Eugenie , " confers upon the talented artist , Rosa Bonheuv , the Cross of the Legion of Honour . Prince Napoleon met witii an accident ou Satin-day , ivhile driving an American phaeton . The horse , taking fright , ran off , when his Imperial Highness was thrown out , and one of
the wheels of the vehicle passed over his leg . It is said that the injuries sustained are fortunately not of a serious character . The Moniteur has published a circular dated the 5 th inst . in which the Minister of Marine announces to his subordinates that France no longer recognises the Americans as belligerents , and that vessels under Confederate colours are no longer to be
admitted into French harbours . A hostile meeting has taken place between two general officers of the French army in Algeria—Lieut . General Deligny and Major General Legrandto decide some affairs of " honour . " The weapons were swords , and General Deligny was mortally wounded . The Tribunal of the Seine has decided against the claims made upon the insurance companies by the children of Madame Puuw , who it will
be remembered was poisoned some time since by La Pommerais . The French papers talk of a wonderful new machine which has been tried at Toulon , and is immediately to be tried again , and which can destroy an enemy ' s fleet in an instant without even requiring actual contact . If this marvellous engine only fulfil half the expectations which are raised it seems likely to render naval warfare an obsolete business . The strongest ironclad is
stated to be as powerless against its flash as the tiniest shallop . An approaching and hostile fleet , in fact , is to disappear instantaneously and altogether at a given signal . ——'The Spanish Government has issued a decree announcing that it ceases to extend belligerent rights to Confederate war vessels . Signor Vegezzi has had two conferences at Rome with Cardinal
Antonelli , and his negotiations with the Papal Government seem likely to terminate successfully . Tiie Pope assembled the Cardinals and informed them that his proposals respecting tbe the Italian episcopacy had been favourably received by King Victor Emmanuel , General Delia Marmora , and Signor Lanza , but were opposed by Signor Natoli . Despatches from Vienna
report that the Anglo-Austrian commercial inquiry is meeting with such strong opposition that it is likely to be adjourned for the present . We do not yet know , however , whether there is sufficient ground for supposing that the delay is anything more than formal and temporary . Undoubtedly the commercial difficulties to be overcome in Austria are still very great .
The Emperor Francis Joseph is said to have been well received by his Hungarian subjects ; and it seems to be that his visit to Pesth will be a prelude to a reconciliation between the Magyars and the imperial government , and to his formal coronation as King of Hungary . The King of Greece opened the National Assembly on Friday , the Sth inst ., in a speech from the throne . Among other matters His Majesty announced that his Government was engaged in any arrangement for the payment of
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the loan of 1832 , guaranteed by the powers . According to a letter from Tiflis , the Russian General Evdokimoff had been defeated with considerable loss by the forces of the Khan of Kokan at a place called Tchimeketti . ——The Paris papers are full of roseate and enthusiastic accounts of the defeat and dispersion of Juarist bonds in Mexico . AMERICA . —The Cuba , from New York , has brought a
confirmation of the intelligence that General Kirby Smith had surrendered bis forces to the Federal General Canby , upon terms similar to those granted to the armies of Generals Johnston and Lee . The surrender included all the Confederate troops to the west of the Mississippi , and the war is now ended . President Johnson had issued a proclamation granting an
amnesty , and restoring rights of property—excepting in slaves . and iu estates which have already been seized under the confiscation laws—to all persons engaged in the " rebellion " who will take an oath to support the Federal Government and all laws and proclamations in reference to emancipation . But from the benefits of this amnesty are to be excluded all . civil and dilomatic officers of the Confederacyall governors of
p , states , all officers of the Confederate army above the rank of lieutenant , all persons educated at West Point or the Naval Academy , all who treated prisoners otherwise than as prisoners of war , all persons whose taxable property exceeds 20 , 000 dollars , all persons " who left the national lines to aid the rebellion , " and all " pirates" and "border raiders . " The excluded persons may make special applications for pardon
to the President , " when such clemency will be liberally extended to them as may bo consistent with the facts of the case and the peace and dignity of the United States . " All persons sentenced by military tribunals to imprisonment ; during the war
had been discharged . President Johnson had appointed Mr . Holden provisional governor of North Carolina , and had empowered him to convoke a " re-construction convention , " to be chosen by " loyal persons . " General Thomas had superseded General Halleck , who had been appointed to command the Federal troops in the Pacific department ; and it was positivelyasserted that Mr . Stanton was about to be dismissed from the Secretaryship of War . Several persons had been arrested at
San Francisco for alleged complicity in a conspiracy to seize a steamer , and put to sea with her as a Mexican privateer . A frightful calamity , attended with enormous loss of life and property , had occurred at Mobile . The " ordnance depot magazine" had been blown up by some unknown cause ; and the explosion had killed 300 persons , besides an " immense number " injured and buried beneath the ruins . Eight "blocks" of building and 8000 bales of cotton were destroyed ; and the
, total loss of property was estimated at many millions of dollars . The Moravian brings three days' later news from America , that is , to the evening of the 3 rd inst . Notwithstanding the surrender of Kirby Smith , a large expedition had been dispatched by the Washington Government to Texas . Mr . Jefferson Davis had been transferred to the Capitol Prison at Washington , preparatory to his trial for high treason . The passport order had been rescinded . Mr . Wendell Phillipstho well-known
Aboli-, tionist orator , had made a speech vehemently denouncing President Johnson ' s proclamation for the reorganisation of North Carolina , and declaring that a refusal of the suffrage to negroes would be tantamount to a surrender of the results of the war . The Senate of Tennessee had passed a bill declaring that all voters in that state must be ivhite male citizens , twenty-one years old , and excluding from the suffrage all persons more than twenty-one years old who had " aided the rebellion . "
To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
R . R . —We have not heard of the brother alluded to for some time past . We believe ho is in Australia . J . W . —Any Past Master will inform you . S . S x . —Not since the death of the late Duke of Richmond . ROSE CBOIX . —No connection whatever . B . —The Royal Degree is confined to Scotland . There are , however , ' several English members . The ceremony is in quaint old rhyme . JUSTUS . —We ivould , if we could , give you any information on the subject .
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The Week.
which the prisoners were put on trial for obtaining money under false pretences . FoEEies- INTELHGE . XCE . —A very favourable impression has been produced in Franco by the closing act in the Empress ' s present term of regency . A decree in the Moniteur nullifies all warnings given to the press during the last two years . The Emperor arrived in Paris at five o ' clock on Saturday evening ,
and was welcomed by crowds of people who thronged the streets and cheered him as he passed along from the railway station . There was a partial illumination of the city at night in honour of his return . The Paris races came off on Sunday , and the Empercr was present . Gladiateur won the great prize , nd won it easily by three lengths . Count Lagrange received
tho Emperor ' s congratulations upon the success of his horse . A decree in the Monituer , signed " Eugenie , " confers upon the talented artist , Rosa Bonheuv , the Cross of the Legion of Honour . Prince Napoleon met witii an accident ou Satin-day , ivhile driving an American phaeton . The horse , taking fright , ran off , when his Imperial Highness was thrown out , and one of
the wheels of the vehicle passed over his leg . It is said that the injuries sustained are fortunately not of a serious character . The Moniteur has published a circular dated the 5 th inst . in which the Minister of Marine announces to his subordinates that France no longer recognises the Americans as belligerents , and that vessels under Confederate colours are no longer to be
admitted into French harbours . A hostile meeting has taken place between two general officers of the French army in Algeria—Lieut . General Deligny and Major General Legrandto decide some affairs of " honour . " The weapons were swords , and General Deligny was mortally wounded . The Tribunal of the Seine has decided against the claims made upon the insurance companies by the children of Madame Puuw , who it will
be remembered was poisoned some time since by La Pommerais . The French papers talk of a wonderful new machine which has been tried at Toulon , and is immediately to be tried again , and which can destroy an enemy ' s fleet in an instant without even requiring actual contact . If this marvellous engine only fulfil half the expectations which are raised it seems likely to render naval warfare an obsolete business . The strongest ironclad is
stated to be as powerless against its flash as the tiniest shallop . An approaching and hostile fleet , in fact , is to disappear instantaneously and altogether at a given signal . ——'The Spanish Government has issued a decree announcing that it ceases to extend belligerent rights to Confederate war vessels . Signor Vegezzi has had two conferences at Rome with Cardinal
Antonelli , and his negotiations with the Papal Government seem likely to terminate successfully . Tiie Pope assembled the Cardinals and informed them that his proposals respecting tbe the Italian episcopacy had been favourably received by King Victor Emmanuel , General Delia Marmora , and Signor Lanza , but were opposed by Signor Natoli . Despatches from Vienna
report that the Anglo-Austrian commercial inquiry is meeting with such strong opposition that it is likely to be adjourned for the present . We do not yet know , however , whether there is sufficient ground for supposing that the delay is anything more than formal and temporary . Undoubtedly the commercial difficulties to be overcome in Austria are still very great .
The Emperor Francis Joseph is said to have been well received by his Hungarian subjects ; and it seems to be that his visit to Pesth will be a prelude to a reconciliation between the Magyars and the imperial government , and to his formal coronation as King of Hungary . The King of Greece opened the National Assembly on Friday , the Sth inst ., in a speech from the throne . Among other matters His Majesty announced that his Government was engaged in any arrangement for the payment of
The Week.
the loan of 1832 , guaranteed by the powers . According to a letter from Tiflis , the Russian General Evdokimoff had been defeated with considerable loss by the forces of the Khan of Kokan at a place called Tchimeketti . ——The Paris papers are full of roseate and enthusiastic accounts of the defeat and dispersion of Juarist bonds in Mexico . AMERICA . —The Cuba , from New York , has brought a
confirmation of the intelligence that General Kirby Smith had surrendered bis forces to the Federal General Canby , upon terms similar to those granted to the armies of Generals Johnston and Lee . The surrender included all the Confederate troops to the west of the Mississippi , and the war is now ended . President Johnson had issued a proclamation granting an
amnesty , and restoring rights of property—excepting in slaves . and iu estates which have already been seized under the confiscation laws—to all persons engaged in the " rebellion " who will take an oath to support the Federal Government and all laws and proclamations in reference to emancipation . But from the benefits of this amnesty are to be excluded all . civil and dilomatic officers of the Confederacyall governors of
p , states , all officers of the Confederate army above the rank of lieutenant , all persons educated at West Point or the Naval Academy , all who treated prisoners otherwise than as prisoners of war , all persons whose taxable property exceeds 20 , 000 dollars , all persons " who left the national lines to aid the rebellion , " and all " pirates" and "border raiders . " The excluded persons may make special applications for pardon
to the President , " when such clemency will be liberally extended to them as may bo consistent with the facts of the case and the peace and dignity of the United States . " All persons sentenced by military tribunals to imprisonment ; during the war
had been discharged . President Johnson had appointed Mr . Holden provisional governor of North Carolina , and had empowered him to convoke a " re-construction convention , " to be chosen by " loyal persons . " General Thomas had superseded General Halleck , who had been appointed to command the Federal troops in the Pacific department ; and it was positivelyasserted that Mr . Stanton was about to be dismissed from the Secretaryship of War . Several persons had been arrested at
San Francisco for alleged complicity in a conspiracy to seize a steamer , and put to sea with her as a Mexican privateer . A frightful calamity , attended with enormous loss of life and property , had occurred at Mobile . The " ordnance depot magazine" had been blown up by some unknown cause ; and the explosion had killed 300 persons , besides an " immense number " injured and buried beneath the ruins . Eight "blocks" of building and 8000 bales of cotton were destroyed ; and the
, total loss of property was estimated at many millions of dollars . The Moravian brings three days' later news from America , that is , to the evening of the 3 rd inst . Notwithstanding the surrender of Kirby Smith , a large expedition had been dispatched by the Washington Government to Texas . Mr . Jefferson Davis had been transferred to the Capitol Prison at Washington , preparatory to his trial for high treason . The passport order had been rescinded . Mr . Wendell Phillipstho well-known
Aboli-, tionist orator , had made a speech vehemently denouncing President Johnson ' s proclamation for the reorganisation of North Carolina , and declaring that a refusal of the suffrage to negroes would be tantamount to a surrender of the results of the war . The Senate of Tennessee had passed a bill declaring that all voters in that state must be ivhite male citizens , twenty-one years old , and excluding from the suffrage all persons more than twenty-one years old who had " aided the rebellion . "
To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
R . R . —We have not heard of the brother alluded to for some time past . We believe ho is in Australia . J . W . —Any Past Master will inform you . S . S x . —Not since the death of the late Duke of Richmond . ROSE CBOIX . —No connection whatever . B . —The Royal Degree is confined to Scotland . There are , however , ' several English members . The ceremony is in quaint old rhyme . JUSTUS . —We ivould , if we could , give you any information on the subject .