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our armies for other misfortunes , and other sorrows . As to Poland , he said , " We have suffered deeply by tho events in Poland and Gallicia , but we did not wish to trouble the peace of Europe . We understand that collective steps on the part of the Powers being no longer capable of realisation , Franco should no longer make vain protests at St Petersburg , but should leave to God and to time the care of judging on which side lay the

great iniquity , and on which side legitimate grievances . " In the Corps Legislatif the navy estimates had been agreed to with the greatest alacrity , owing to the generally-experienced desira to have France raised and kept up to tbe rank of a firstrate naval power . The trial of La Pommerais , at Paris , charged with murdering the widow De Pauw , by the

administration of poison , has come to an close . A verdict of guilty was returned by the jury , and tlie prisoner was condemned to death . Dela Pommerais , bis appealed to the Court of Cassation against the sentence , and the jury are said to be favourable to a commutation . The question is now under discussion of the liability of the insurance companies to pay the various amounts insured

for to the heirs of tho murdered woman .- The Rouman Boyards have always been fond of aping French manners and customs ; and their ruler , Prince Couza , has now borrowed from the Emperor Napoleon a hint as to the way of dealing with a refractory and hostile Legislature . As the assevably convoked by him for the special purpose of passing a new electoral law

refused even to talce the measure into consideration , bo has not only dissolved it , but lias also proclaimed his new electoral law , and added an article to the illoldo-Wallachian constitution by his own sole authority . These constitutional changes are to be submitted to the people , for their approval or disapproval , by universal suffrage ; and wo may easily suppose that Prince Oouza lias . e : ii-nnd from his Parisian teachers haw to ensure a

popular verdict in his favour . Meanwhile we are assured by telegrams from Bucharest that "absolute tranquillity" prevails , and that there is no opposition to the measures of the Prince , who is everywhere " enthusiastically cheered by the people . Prince Couza is said to have been summoned , at tho instance of tho French Cabinet , to take part in tbe Conference which has met at Constantinople , for the

purpose of endeavouring to settle the affairs of Moldavia and Wallachia . Although the suspension of hostilities commenced on the 12 th inst ., it is officially announced that on the 14 th the Prussians in Jutland still continued to confiscate goods and horses , and to cany off the wires of the Government tele , graphs . We may consequently expect that remonstrances will

be addressed to the Berlin Cabinet , as it was certainly understood hy the Englisb Government that contributions would cease to be levied in Jutland . Tho Danish ships which defeated the German squadron off Heligoland have arrived at Copenhagen iu au " undamage state . They were immediately visited by King Christian , and their arrival was greeted

with warm cheering by crowds of Copcnhngeners . With the examples of German magnanimity towards Denmark in mind , no surprise will be excited by a statement which has just come from Count Manderstovm . The Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs asserts thatjhis despatches , containing secret instructions to General Wachtmeisfei- in London , wore opened in

their transmission through Germany . Some of the German papers circulated an absurd story , that the defeat of the allied squadron by the Danes off Heligoland was partly attributable to the ambiguous manoeuvres of the British frigate Aurora , which interfered with tbe German plans of action . A contradiction , which was certainly not needed anywhere out of Germany , has been officially given to this story by the Austrian Admiral . Intelligence has been received b y telegraph of the

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spread of the insurrection in St . Domiugo to Hayti . Additional Spanish troops had been despatched from Cuba . It was stated , however , that the insurgents had been beaten by President Geffrard . It is reported in Paris that the Italian Government is about to reduce the army by the large number of 100 , 000 men . The object is to curtail the heavy military expenses . IICDIA . —A telegram from Suez brings us the news that Mr ,

Eden , who had been despatched ou a special mission to Bhootan , had been publicly insulted by the chiefs of that petty state , and had afterwards been imprisoned , and " compelled to sign a treaty ceding British Assam to Bhootan . " So another " little war " must be undertaken by the Indian Government against the mountaineers of Bhootan .

AMEEICA . —No collision had occurred between the hostile armies in Virginia up to the sailing of the Australasian from New York on the 4 th inst . There wove some rumours that General Grant had put his troops in motion , but it was quite uncertain whether there was any foundation for them . The Federals had evacuated ' ' Little" Washington , in North Carolina

and the Confederates were reported to have invested Newbern . General Beauregard was said to have assumed the chief command of the Confederate forces in North Carolina . General Banks had retreated down the Red River as far as Alexandria , where his gunboats and transports with the exception of the . gunboat Fastport , had also arrived . Nothing was known

respecting the position of General Steel ' s corps ; which had advanced from Arkansas in order to co-operate with General Banks in attacking Shreveport . The House of Representatives had passed a bill adding three dollars a month to the pay the soldiers of the Federal army . Admiral Wilkes had been sentenced to be suspended from duty for throe years , and to be reprimanded . There had been great fluctuations in the price of gold at New-York , and , if we may believe telegraphic quotations , the premium was once as high as 94 per cent .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

I . P . —The letter is in type . J . W . —All the members of Grand Lodge ( whether holding office in their respective lodges or not at tho time being ) must be be provided with the collar of their lodge on attending the Grand Lodge meetings . Those brethren who recently attended without it were legally and properly excluded .

Officers in lodges of instruction are allowed to wear collars and other Masonic insignia . iNCltflEER . —The W . M . of a lodge cannot be installed at any lodge other than the next regular lodge immediately follow , ing the election , without a dispensation . By-laws cannot be allowed to overrule the " Book of Constitutions . "

R . M . —The late Earl of Eglinton was a Freemason , hailing from Scotland . F . L . —The fourth proposition in the first Book of Euclid ' s elements of Geometry , has no special reference to the Mark Masters' degree . W . C—The M . C ., or Stewards , have no particular place assigned

them in a private lodge . They are certainly officers and are generally considered by their appointment to be thus put on the roll of preferment . H . Y . J . —A lodge being opened in the third degree may be resumed in the first or second , but cannot be again resumed in the third without re-opening . * * From press of matter , the reports of the Phcenix Lodge and Mount Sinai Chapter unavoidably stand over .