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puted his demand , but the jury gave a verdict for the full amount . The Rev . Mr . Hatch , whose conviction for an assault upon a little girl , ancl subsequent pardon on the conviction ofthe child of perjury , has brought an action against the Alessrs . Lewis , his solicitors , for neglect of duty in not calling witnesses , & c , by reason of which it is alleged he was convicted . The jury gave him a verdict , u tonly with the nominal damages of 40 s . —•—The attempted murder at Islington has again been the subject of inquiry at the Clerkenwell

Police-office . The poor girl is still unable to attend , and another remand was necessitated . An investigation connected ivith a robbery of a somewhat singular character took place at the Mansion House on Alonday . In February last the sum of £ 1360 in notes was posted by a country bank to a house in London , but never reached its destination . On Saturday a young man named Josejih Fulton entered the office of a money changer , ancl asked to have

four £ 5 notes discounted , and these subsequently turned out to be a portion of the notes which had been lost , He was accordingly apprehended , ancl was now charged , before Sir Robert Garden , with the unlawful jiossession . Fulton averred that he had jrarchased the notes of a money dealer in Paris , where he had been a jiolitical prisoner for some time , and different articles ancl documents found on him slightly corroborated this statement . He was remanded . At the Aliddlesex Sessions , Thomas AA illiams , and Jane , his wife , were

indicted for stealing a bed and a blanket from their furnished lodgings . The woman was acquitted and the man sentenced to six months' hard labour . It might bo imagined that a man convicted of stealing a blanket would be of somewhat straitened circumstances , but if figures on jiaper prove anything , this Thomas AAllliams must have been a capitalist of considerable resources . Consequent on his apprehension it transjm-ed that under the distinctive name of " John Smith and Son" the jirisoner made knownby extensive

, , advertising , that he advanced loans to the needy in amounts ranging from £ 50 to £ 5000 . True , it did not appear that the British public had in any instance availed themselves of this liberal offer ; but it was shown that a number of individuals in various parts of the kingdom had expressed their desire to do so , and , in furtherance of their object , had transmitted to " John Smith and Son" — that is , to Air . Williams—certain quantities of postage stamps ,

which seemed to have the strange effect of bringing the correspondence to a close . By the last Calcutta mail a further sum of £ 10 , 000 was remitted to India , ; making a total of £ 85 , 000 in aid of tho sufferers from famine in the North-west Provinces . The subscrijitions received at the Alansion House now amount to £ 90 , 000 . Air . Edwin James , Q . C ., and late ALP . for Alarylebone , has petitioned tho Court of Bankruptcv and obtained his protection . The debts aro stated to amount to " from £ 90 . 000 to £ 100 , 000 .

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The French Government have determined to send a squadron to the Gulf of Alexico , for the protection of French commerce . Another relaxation of the passport system has been made . The inhabitants of Sweden and Norway are now admitted to travel in France without that really " odious document , " the jiassport . The Independance Beige declares itself in a jiosition this time to guarantee the truth ofthe statement that the French troops are to he speedily withdrawn from Rome . The same

journal renews the story ivhich has been more than once circulated of a projected arrangement for the cession of A'enetia to Italy , for a sum of money and a territorial compensation , comprising Bosnia , the Herzegovina , and Turkish Croatia , these three latter jirovinees to be given to Austria by the Ottoman Government in consideration of a payment to be made by the Kingdom of Italy . The Austrian Chamber of Deputies has voted the address in rejily to the speech

from the throne , after a very protracted discussion , during which various amendments were proposed . Baron Schmerling has presented several bills , among . which are a new press measure , and a measure defining the responsibility of speech of the members of the Council of the Empire and the Deputies to the Diets . The Official Gazette of A ieniia announces that if the inhabitants of the communes of Hungary , whose taxes are yet in arrearshould still

re-, fuse to ] iay them after the requisition of the special commissioners , the communes will be placed under military occupation until twothirds of the amount shall have been paid . It appears that the 'death of Count Teleky , alluded to last week as a murder , ivas an act of suicide . The pistol ivas his own- —the ball from which be died fitted the barrel of the pistol , and corresponded jirecisely with that in the barrel of tbe fellow weapon in tho Count ' s secretary—tbo

door of the bed-room ivas locked on the inside . The Count had been long suffering under intense nervous susceptibility , arising from an organic disease . The serious nature of the responsibility lie was about to incur as leader of the party who opposed the address—the possibility of such a course conducting to an open struggle between Hungary and Austria , jirobably weighed more licavily " on his mind than it could bear , and led to the unhapjiy act which deprived Hungary of a patriot whose purity and high purpose were never questioned even by his bitterest political enemy . The Turin

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Gazette announces that the resignation of Prince Carignan has been accepted , and that Signor De San Alartino was to leave Turin on Thursday to undertake the duties of Lieutenant General of the Neapolitan jirovinees . The system of government of those provinces is to undergo considerable modification . The Opinions of Turin states that the contract for the construction of the Roman railways has been signed in that city . Two serious calamities are recorded . In Perugia there has been an earthquake , ancl several persons were killed ; ancl in Glarus , Switzerland , more than 150 houses have been destroyed by fire .

AMERICA . —The latest intelligence states that the prospects of the Federal Government were brightening , so far as regarded their ability to defend AVashington . Although the Baltimore route from the North continues to bo closed , yet the communication with the Federal capital by way of Annapolis has been maintained without interruption . Jlr . Lincoln was fast surrounding himself with an army , but there was still a great want of the munitions of war and commissariat sujijilies . The blockade of the northern ports is to be

enforced immediately , and 50 vessels with steam transports and 20 , 000 men are ready for this service . North Carolina has virtually seceded ancl is equipping for war ; but Maryland and AVestern A irginia are true to the union . Kentucky is still neutral . It is thought that an aggressive movement on the part of the Federal troojis from AVashington would shortly be made . AA e also learn that an insurrection has broken out in Yucajiatanand that 15

, British officers have been killed . A battle has also taken jilaca between somo Federal troops and some Texans , the former surrendering to the latter . An insurrection moreover has broken out , at Ruatan , among the Indians . The Southern Commissioners from America have arrived in Paris . They have not yet had an interview with the Emjieror .

CHINA AND THE EAST . —From China we hear that the Yang-tse expedition had reached Hankou , and that three trading ports had been selected . The expedition had met with no impediment from the rebels , who had shown themselves anxious to be on good terms with the foreigners . The ice had given way in the Gulf of Pecheli , and the mails had at length reached Tien-tsin . The Chinese Government had issued a decree establishing a board of foreign affairs at Pekin . Japan continued quiet . The accounts from Calcutta

represent the prosjiects of the indigo crop as very bad , no rain having fallen up to the 18 th April . The news from New Zealand is more pacific—an armistice of forty-eight hours had been granted to the natives .

AFRICA . —The intelligence from the A \ esfc Coast of Africa represents trade as generally steady , except at Dahomey , where the sanguinary proceedings of the King had had the effect of nearly putting a stop to trade . A native missionary who witnessed the " grand custom " says that more than 2000 males were slaughtered , and about as many females and young children . Affairs ivere in an unsatisfactory state in the Bight of Benin ; the King of Porto Nuovo had defied Air . Consul Footeand had fired into the Brune

, , when the consul summoned him to come on board . A slight dispute which had arisen betweon the Governor of Cape Coast and the King of Ananiiibore was speedily brought to a conclusion by the governor dispatching 100 men to Anamaboe , when the " King surrendered , and was reprimanded and fined £ 50 .

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TO CORRESPONDENTS .

POOR RICHARD . —AVe are not aware that the Poor Richard of the well-known Almanack was a Alason ; but his maxims are decidedly Alasonic . STELLUS . —No doubt Julius Ciesar would have been a Knight Templar had be not existed a few centuries before the Order was created . R . R . —The Earl of Carnarvon . —AA e regret with you that the

noble Earl does not show himself a little more in his projie place—Craft Masonry . S . D . —A \ e clo not know what you mean . AV . —Comparisons are odious , ancl we are not going to draw them between the two brethren named . BELLA T . —AA e have before stated that we cannot recommend the establishment or adoption of French Freemasonry in England

AA ' e have heard that some such Masonry is carried on in Fleetstreet . BETA is no Alason , and will not obtain any information from us .