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cially denied that there had been any Government interference in the matter . Notwithstanding Mr . Seely ' s statement several gentlemen expressed strong opinions that there had been occult influences at work . Finally , it was resolved that a deputation should wait upon the General to ask him to change his resolution and to visit the chief towns in the provinces , as he originally proposed . The deputation had an interview with the General at a late hour of night , when he promised to reconsider

his determination , ancl communicate with Mr . Edmund Beales the following day ( Thursday ) , when he finally decided to return to Caprera without delay . In answer to a deputation from Newcastle he expressed a hope that he should soon revisit England ancl see his friends in the provinces . At an early hour he made a pilgrimage to the tomb of Ugo Foscolo , the Italian poet , in Chiswick Cemetery . He left behind him a touching memento of his reverence for the illustrious dead . On Thursday

weeh . two men and a woman occupied a second class compartment in an express train from London to Oxford ancl Worcester . One of the men—a Mr . Elton , who appears to have previously shown symptoms of insanity—suddenly drew a knife , ancl attempted to stab the woman . The third occupant of the carriage seized Elton ; a violent struggle took place ; and there were loud cries for assistance . Two railway officials , who , fortunately wore riding in an adjoining compartmentheard the

, screams ancl gave the necessary signals , when the train was stopped ancl the madman secured . Elton apparently did not succeed in inflicting a wound upon either of his fellow-travellers . A woman was found dead in a lane near Sevcnoaks on Sunday week , under circumstances which left little doubt that she had been violated ancl murdered . Since then two labourers in the neighbourhood , who admitted they had been in her company

the night before , have been taken into custody , and the magistrates committed them for trial on the charge of murder . -A young woman , who resided near the works of Messrs . Wildsmith ancl Gaunt , artificial manure manufacturers , at Wolverhampton , recently died from inflammation of the lungs , —the disease , in the opinion ot a surgeon , having been " accelerated" by the inhalation of poisonous vapours emitted from the manure works . An inquest was held on the woman's body , ancl tbe result was a verdict of manslaughter against Messrs . Wildsmith and Gaunt .

A man named Bishop gave himself up to the police in Bath on Saturday , stating that he had shot his wife in the streets . His story was true , though fortunately tho wounds are not likely to be fatal . The man is in custody . It is said the woman was of a very violent temper , which compelled a separation after a few months of married life , after which she used to follow him about the streets and annoy him till , goaded beyond endurance , lie committed the crime for which he is now in custody . An

inquest has been held on the bodies of a man named Pearce and his wife , who were found with their throats cut in a house in Leigh-street , Burton-crescent , on Monday , After several witnesses had been called , the jury returned a verdict that the husband murdered his wife and then committed suicide while in an unsound state of mind . The man Clitheroe , who murdered Mary Woods at St . Helens , in December last ,

was executed at Kirkdale on Saturday . Mr . Childers has been appointed Junior Lord of the Admiralty , in the room of Mr . Stansfeld . Mr . Lowe has resigned the office of Vice President of the . Education Committee , in consequence of the adverse vote of Tuesday last , and he is succeeded in the appointment by Mr . Bruce , who has been Under Secretary for the Home Department since November , 1862 . Mr . Chichester . Fortescue has also resigned the Under Secretaryshiof the

p Colonies . FQEEIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The Moniteur officially denies the assertion "that Earl Clarendon , in the name of the British Government , promised , as a concession to the Emperor , that Garibaldi should shorten his stay in England . " "No observation , " adds the journal , " was made to Earl Clarendon by the French Government on the subject of Garibaldi . " Two Paris

journals , the France ancl the Presse , agree in asserting that the Earl of Clarendon's mission has resulted in the establishment of a concert between the French ancl English Cabinets respecting the Danish question . The Presse even adds , " under reserve , " that " the interview between the Emperor aud the Earl of Clarendon was of an essentially re-assuring character for the peace of Europe , and that it is not impossible that

considerable reductions may be made in the naval estimates of both countries . " No sooner was the Mexican loan announced , and the formal treaty with the new Mexican Government published , than the Emperor Napoleon addressed to his Finance Minister

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a letter declaring that " the happy solution of the Mexican affair" made him desire to " see the country profit by the first repayment of the expenses of the war , by diminishing the taxes on landed property . " Therefore , the Minister was ordered to " effect the immediate suppression of the second decline registration fee ; " ancl the Emperor adds that " this measure , together with the hopes of peace , which every day become more certain , will contribute to the development of public prosperity . "

The annual produce of the tax on transfers of reality which the Emperor has thus abolished is estimated at move than £ 1 , 000 , 000 . The Emperor of Austria has adjourned the Vienna International Exhibition which was to have taken place in 1866 . Political affairs , the attitude of Austria towards the Zollverein , and the fact of an International Exhibition being arranged to take place about tho same time in Parisare assigned as the causes of the postponement .

, The Emperor and Empress of Mexico have been visiting in Rome not merely tbe Pope ancl the leading members of tbe Papal Government , but the ex-King of Naples likewise . They are to leave immediately for their new empire . The Swiss Federal Council has passed a resolution putting in force a decree of expulsion against Mazzini . As Mazzini is understood to be at present in this country , we presume this implies that he will

not again be permitted to enter Switzerland . —•—The Saxon Chamber of Deputies has adopted unanimously a protest against any step on the part of the forthcoming Conference which might tend to dispose of the Duchies without consulting the wishes of the inhabitants . The Danish position at Duppel was sue-. cessfully assaulted on Monday morning by the Prussian columns . From the details received , it appears that six redoubts were carried by the Prussians , who likewise stormed the tete-de-pont which defended the bridges across the channel between the mainland and Alsen . One of these bridges was blown up by the Danes ;

but it seems to be uncertain whether the other was destroyed . The fighting on Monday was succeeded by a truce on Tuesday , the Danes having been allowed the whole of that day to evacuate Sonderburg , which was tc be once more bombarded after nightfall by the Prussians , who seem to have been unwilling to incur odium once more by shelling the town while it was probably full of Danish wounded . A Danish twodeckerand a fleet of steamers were seen off Alsen on Tuesday afternoon .

It is now stated in Berlin journals that the occupation of the whole of Jutland has been resolved upon as a pledge for the idemnification of German subjects who have suffered losses by what is called Danish piracy . One of these acts of piracy is reported to have just occured in tho capture of the Hamburg and American Company's mail steamer Bavaria , ivhich left Hamburg for New York on Sunday , the 10 th , ami was taken , it is stated , by the Danes on the 19 th . The Vienna semi-official

journal of Vienna , declares that in the Conference about to be opened in London , tbe German Powers will demand " the inseparability ofSchleswigand Holstein ; their occupying towards Germany the jiosition of protected states ; and finally their adminstrative and political independence . " The Conference , which opened on Wednesday , stands adjourned until Monday next . AJIEEICA . —There is no intelligence of any importance in the

advice brought by the China . Heavy rains had fallen , and neither of the belligerent armies iu Virginia had made any movement ; but General Grant had proceeded from Washington to the Federal head-quarters . The Confederate cavalry was still active in West Tenessee ancl Kentucky . The Federal expedition which ascended the Red river to Alexandria was continuing its advance towards Sbroveport . The Federal House of Representatives had passed resolutions deploring recent events in Mexico .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

J . B . —We have not received the communication . R . S . P . —We have no feeling on the subject ; ancl certainly do not intend to move in it . J . W . —You must exercise not only patiencee but forbearance , or you will never be fit to govern a lodge . S . S . —The Ancient and Accepted Rite . ROSE CEOIX . —We are not aware to what you allude—perhaps you will write again . EBEATA . —In the report of the Lodge Cesaree , page 309 of pressnt volume , line 18 "report , " should be " reprint ; " and line 19 , " funeral , " should be " farewell . "