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Sehleswig , Holstein , and Lauenhurg , will he settled by the Austrian and Prussian Cabinets without much deference to the wishes of the minor States and the German Diet . The terms of peace just concluded between Denmark and Germany have created much dissatisfaction in the public mind at Copenhagen , and the Fadreland , a journal of the highest influence as

an exponent of the popular sentiment , attacks the Danish Ministry with great bitterness . It complains of the secresy with which the negotiations were conducted , and that an arrangement of the preliminaries had been come to without asking the consent of Parliament , and charges the Ministry of Marine with incapacity , the AVar Department with carelessness ,

and the generals with ignorance of military affairs . A war so badly conducted , it declares , could only terminate in a disgraceful peace . A line of telegraph is contemplated over the Holstein territory to this country , and a conference has recently been held between the Federal Commissioners for Holstein and Lauenhurg and the Senate of Hamburgh on the subject .

A letter received from Marseilles announces that , upon the united representations of the American and English ministers , the Porte has agreed to a further concession in favour of the Christian missions in Turkey , by allowing religious controversy in Protestant books , upon condition , however , that no insult is offered the . Koran . The native chiefs

who had become converts are to be removed to Karpouth , whore it is to be presumed they will be under the protection of the British consul . Mexican advices by way of New York , state that the Emperor Maximilian had accepted the surrender of Uragua . The northern provinces of Chili at the last advices were suffering severely from small-pox . In anticipation of any fresh instructions from Spain to the naval force at Peru , the Government of Peru were preparing for an emergency . The

insurrection in St . Domingo was believed to bo now nearl y suppressed . AMERICA . — -The announcement that General Grant had sustained a very severe repulse at Petersburg has heen brought to us by the Europa , with advices to the 6 th inst . AA e are informed that at daylight on the morning of the 30 th ult . the

Federals sprang a mine charged with six tons of gunpowder beneath a Confederate earthwork in front of General Burnside's corps . The work , which was armed with six guns , was blown up ; and 250 Confederates who occupied it were buried in the ruins . The Federal artillery immediately began firing along the whole line , and a grand assault was made by General

Burnside ' s corps . The ruined earthwork and part of the first lino of intrenchments were occupied by the Federals , then attacked , the second line of tho Confederates , but encountered a dreadful fire of artillery and musketry , and were driven back . Another assault was made , and was likewise repelled by the Confederates , who then charged the Federals and

drove them to the entrenchments which they had held before the day ' s operations began . This defeat was officially admitted to have cost the Federals 5 , 640 men , including General Burnsido himself slightly wounded , and General Bartlett taken prisoner . The negro troops , we are told , behaved very badly ; and either the white soldiers or some of the principal officers

apparently misconducted themselves ; for a court of inquiry had been ordered to investigate the cause of the repulse . On the 2 nd inst , the Federal dead were buried , a short truce having been made for that purpose . On the 31 st ult . President Lincoln went to Fort Munroe , and there had an interview with General Grant . The precise purpose and result of that interview were

of course unknown ; but it was rumoured in New York on the 4 th , 5 th , and 6 th inst . —although Petersburgh advices of the 3 rd , stated that "occasional shelling" was going on

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between the hostile armies—that General Grant was withdrawing his forces , and moving on Washington . It was , moreover , reported that the Confederates were preparing to attack the Federal capital , or undertake an invasion of Pennsylvania and Maryland , on a great scale . They had re-entered Maryland " in force , " and had occupied Hagerstown . A small body of their cavalry had burned the greater part of the town of Chambersburg , in Pennsylvania , because a required

contribution was not paid , but had afterwards retreated ; and they were likewise asserted to he " marching upon Cumber ., land and Pittsburg . " It was " non-officially reported from AA ' ashington" that General Hood had again attacked , General Sherman's position at Atlanta on the 27 th ult . and had been repulsed with considerable loss ; but there were also rumours unfavourable to the Federals , and a New York telegram of the 5 th inst that " there is nothing

. says official from General Sherman lately . " Advices ' from New Orleans asserted " non-officially" that Admiral Farragut " sue * cessfully attacked" the defences of Mobile on the 27 th ult . j but the contest was said to have continued on the 30 th ult . Both the City of Manchester and the Africa , in which were the detectives sent after Muller , had arrived out . There is no intimation , however , of the arrival of the Victoria , iu which

he was a passenger . INDIA , CHINA , AND AUSTRALIA . —The Overland Mail brings despatches from Calcutta to the 8 th of July , Hong-Kong to the 29 th June , and from Australia to the 25 th of June . The Calcutta news possesses little general interest . Indigo prospect are poor , heavy and continued rains having done considerable damage to the crops in Bengal . In the North-West the demand for land is still increasing . There is an outcry for dock accommodation on the part of the mercantile community in Calcutta , and a report by Messrs . Brereton and Purdon , engineers , has been addressed to the provisional directors of the

company formed for its construction upon the subject . The neighbourhood of Garden Reach is spoken of as the proposed site . It appears that the insults offered by the Khan of Bhootan to the British envoy at his court are not likely to pass unnoticed hy the Indian Government . Active preparations are said to be going on in the arsenal , and an English officer has heen despatched to the frontier to gather information respecting the country , the roads and the passes

into Bhootan , and the sources from which the necessary supplies may be obtained for troops in certain contingencies . This looks as if we were about to have another little war on our hands in India . Worthy of note , as indicating the sentiments of the-Ameer of Cabul towards our Indian rule , is the fact that some of the Sittana Hindoostanee fanatics who were lately engaged in bearding our power in the North-Western territory havingapplied to his Highness for employment in his service , they

were met with a peremptory refusal , and ordered to quit the country without delay . in China and Japan political matters remained pretty much on the same footing . Apprehending , however , that the Taepings might recover their lost ground , and threaten the safety of Shanghae , General Brown , the Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in China , had left head-quarters at Hong-Kong for that port . The principal places held by the rebels are Wooehow and Nanking , but

both are closely invested by the Imperialists . In Japan the question of opening up the inland sea is still in suspense . A reinforcement of a battalion of English marines has arrived at Yokohama by her Majesty ' s ship Conqueror , and it is understood that Sir Rutherford Alccck is determined , when backed by a sufficient force , to re-open the inland sea to foreign shipping . In the Australian colonies there was nothing of importance going on ; the country was suffering , as we are ourselves , for want of rain . Operations in the mining districts were pretty successful . In New Zealand , although there was a suspension of arms , it was believed to be only temporary .

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TO CORRESPONDENTS .

ROSE CROIX . —The J . W . ' s pillar is not elevated durmg the working of the lodge . F . AV . —Your communication arrived too late for our last number , and it is now a day behind the fair . ELIAS . —We have nothing to do with the party named , neither do we wish to have . Z . Z . —We have seen the trash , and estimate it at its true value .