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The Week.
has been taken into custody . The second murder was committed on Saturday evening , at a- place a row miles from Belfast , —tiie victim being a sawyer , who seems to have been struck down by two blows on the head , robbed , and then flung into a river running close by the spot where he was attacked . An old fellow-workman of the deceased is suspected of this crime . Another murder of a fearful character—but whether agrarian or not , it is at
jiresent impossible to say—has been committed in the south of Ireland . Air . Francis Fitzgerald , a landowner in the county of Limerick , was shot on Friday evening in the presence of his wife , and at a shot- ; distance from his own residence . Two meu were engaged in this dreadful affair—one of whom , a returned convict , who was some time ago tried for a murder , was apjirehended on Saturday morning . His accomplice , who is stated to be a stranger , has hitherto contrived to elude the jiolice . There
seems to be a suspicion that this assassination was the result of a conspiracy , in which more persons were concerned than the two ruffians who waylaid Air . Fitzgerald . Early on Saturday morning , a party of watcher .- ; came upon four poachers who were fishing in the Trent , near Nottingham . A struggle took place ; ancl two of the iioachers were captured , while the remaining two jumped into the river , with the view of swimming to the opposite bank . Ono of these is-ascertained to have landed safely , but it is feared that his conn , anion was drowned .
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The Italian government has discovered a design to send an exjiedition across the frontier into the Italian Tyrol , and has taken the most vigorous measures to prevent its execution . Several Garibaldian officers , and among them one of Garibaldi ' s old aides-de-cam ]) , have been arrested , as they are supposed to be the leaders of the conspiracy ; and even Garibaldi ' s own inllucncs has been unsuccessfully exerted to obtain their release . About 100 persons were arrested in
the neighbourhood of Brescia , and an attempt made by the populace to rescue them was defeated by their guards , who were comjielled to cmjiloy force , and killed or wounded several of their assailants . Troops have been despatched to tho frontier ; and the Minister of the Interior , in a circular addressed io the jirovincial Prefects , has declared that he will prevent " any expeditions or manifestations of this kind , " and that in case of need tho Prefects must use military force to
suppress " attemjits whereby the Italian cause is compromised . " Tho Austrian Government havo taken the alarm at tho project , happily frustrated , of the Garibaldians to pass tho frontiers ancl jiromote insurrections it ; the Austrian and Turkish territories . The Austrian troops have been pushed forward , and according to a dispatch from Brescia have occupied the line of the Lago di Garcia . The Turin papers exaggerate these precautionary measures , and ascribe to the Austrians an
intention of marching on Milan , the road to which , an Austrian order of the day is made to say , is now open by the revolution at Bergamo and Brescia . The session of the Prussian Diet was opened on Alondav , but not by the King in
person . Tne Prime Aimister , who represented Ins Sovereign on the occassion , delivered a speech precisely according with the ministeral programme previously made public . He declared that the Prussian government , would take care that tho Hessian constitution of 1831 should be restored jvithont delay , and that , regarding " an incident which occurred in reference to this question , " the ministry will , in any case , understand how to protect the dignity of Prussia .- —•—The Paris
correspondent- of the Morning s ast asserts that the French government ¦ has resolved to recall it .- ; e .: ;> edition from Mexico as soon as possible ; but the tone ofthe inspired journals of Paris , which seem to have been ordered to abuse the English Government for withdrawing from tho intervention , and to express confidence that Genera ! Prim's conduct will bo disapproved by the Spanish C ' abinot , leaves little reason to suj . pose that the French trooiis will very speedily quit -Mexico . Tiie Spanish Governmentin
, defending its conduct on the Mexican question against an attack of a member of Congress , announce its full approval of the conduct of Gen . Prim iu wi til-drawing his troojis from the Alexiean territory . The act of ehxing the churches in AVarsaw is likely to be reneatcd . The archbishop has intimated his intention of resorting to that proceeding if the police continue their persecution of tiie peojile attending the sacred edifices . -Tho
last accounts ofthe war in the Herzegovina are favourable to the insurgents . The cajiture of Niksich by the Afoiiteiiegrins is confirmed , but the citadel still holds out . The Alontenegrins are reported to have made a reconnaissance towards Alostar . The King of Italy has left Naples for Genoa , and Prince Napoleon has departed for Palermo .
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A : JEEICA . —Tho important intelligence that Yorktown had been evacuated by the Confederates , and that they were liiirsuod by General Al'Clellan's army , has been brought by the Persia . It appears that on the 30 th ult . President Jefferson Davis arrived at Yorktown ; and that , in a council of war , it was resolved—General Magrudov alone dissenting—that the Confederate lines ivould be untenable , and should be evacuated . On the following day , General Joseph Johnston , the Confederate
Commander-in-Chief , issued orders for tho evacuation of the Confederate defences ; and this delicate operation , which was commenced on the 2 nd inst ., was completed during the night of the 3 rd . As soon as the Confederate movements were known , the evacuated works were occupied by General Al'Clellan , who describes them as most formidable , and the Federal army marched in pursuit , while the gunboats proceeded up York River . Oil the afternoon of the 4 ththe Federal vanguard
, overtook the Confederate rent- about two miles from Williamsburg ; Out the want of infantry and the approach of night prevented any engagement . On the following day there was a sharp though partial action , ivhich seems to have been commenced by tho Confederate . ? , whose left was turned by the Federal G-enei-al Hancock ' s division , and who consequently evacuatedduring the nihttheir line of workswhich General
, g , , Al'Clellan describes as " very extensive and exceedingly strong in position . In this action , General Al'Clellan captured 1000 wounded andlOOO unwouuded prisoners ; and the Federal loss , which is not stated , was chiefly sustained by General Booker's division . The intelligence brought by the North American , though three days later than the Persia's advices , is less important than ive had perhaps reason to expect it to be . General Al'Clellan's
army , alter occupying AA'iliiamsburg , had pursued the retreating Confederates as far as the Chiekahominy river , which they crossed , destroying all the bridges ; and their main body was said to have subsequently passed the James River . The Federal corps which , under tho command of General Franklin , had proceeded up the York river , had landed at AVestpoint , where it had a partial engagement with tho Confederates under General Lee , who retreated from the firo of the Federal gunboats .
General Franklin subsequently formed a junction with General Al'Clellan , who reports that his troops are in excellent condition . Respecting the operations of General Halleck ancl his opponent , General Beauregard , in the south-west , wo are merely told that nothing decisive had occurred . The Federal Government hacl at length received official accounts of the capture of New Orleans , and of tiie events which preceded it . From these
accounts it appears that the bombardment of Forts Jackson and Philip lasted during six days without intermission , twentyone mortal- vessels and three gunboats being employed by the Federals . The firo of the forts being at length silenced , fourteen Federal steamers passed up the river to New Orleans , and 4000 troops wero landed above the forts . The consequences were the surrender of New Orleansthe itulation of the
, cap forts upon condition that the garrisons should be released upon their parole not to serve until regularly exchanged , ancl the total destruction of the Confederate gunboats , steam-rams , iron-clad floating batteries , lire rafts , obstructions , ancl chains . The Confederates themselves destroyed cotton and shipping worth 8 , 000 , 000 to 10 , 000 , 000 dollars—the cotton amounting to 11 , 000 bales : and , according to a Louisville despatch , there
was a general bonfire of cotton and other property along the Alississijijii from New Orleans to Memphis , the people on the banks of the Alississippi and its southern tributaries retreating nlaud from the towns .
To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
G . C . —AVe do not know why theie is no Grantl Organist nil-pointed to Grand Chapter , excepting it be that that there is > : o qualified companion , who has not been a member of the j . 'iyal Arch above two or three months , it being apparently considered that the less a Grand Organist knows of Masonry the better . A :. i _ nrioy . —Join lodge 2 i 50 or 54—the latter for choice
, , , and you will bo safe . BAI . _ .: OS » ... —The provinces of Berks and Bucks , Cumberland and NA ' estmorknd , Devon , Somersetshire , and Sussex are all at present without Prov . G . Alasters . AI . A . —AVe have not a complete list of all the clergymen in England who are members of tho Craft . Perhaps M . A . would like to compile it .
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The Week.
has been taken into custody . The second murder was committed on Saturday evening , at a- place a row miles from Belfast , —tiie victim being a sawyer , who seems to have been struck down by two blows on the head , robbed , and then flung into a river running close by the spot where he was attacked . An old fellow-workman of the deceased is suspected of this crime . Another murder of a fearful character—but whether agrarian or not , it is at
jiresent impossible to say—has been committed in the south of Ireland . Air . Francis Fitzgerald , a landowner in the county of Limerick , was shot on Friday evening in the presence of his wife , and at a shot- ; distance from his own residence . Two meu were engaged in this dreadful affair—one of whom , a returned convict , who was some time ago tried for a murder , was apjirehended on Saturday morning . His accomplice , who is stated to be a stranger , has hitherto contrived to elude the jiolice . There
seems to be a suspicion that this assassination was the result of a conspiracy , in which more persons were concerned than the two ruffians who waylaid Air . Fitzgerald . Early on Saturday morning , a party of watcher .- ; came upon four poachers who were fishing in the Trent , near Nottingham . A struggle took place ; ancl two of the iioachers were captured , while the remaining two jumped into the river , with the view of swimming to the opposite bank . Ono of these is-ascertained to have landed safely , but it is feared that his conn , anion was drowned .
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The Italian government has discovered a design to send an exjiedition across the frontier into the Italian Tyrol , and has taken the most vigorous measures to prevent its execution . Several Garibaldian officers , and among them one of Garibaldi ' s old aides-de-cam ]) , have been arrested , as they are supposed to be the leaders of the conspiracy ; and even Garibaldi ' s own inllucncs has been unsuccessfully exerted to obtain their release . About 100 persons were arrested in
the neighbourhood of Brescia , and an attempt made by the populace to rescue them was defeated by their guards , who were comjielled to cmjiloy force , and killed or wounded several of their assailants . Troops have been despatched to tho frontier ; and the Minister of the Interior , in a circular addressed io the jirovincial Prefects , has declared that he will prevent " any expeditions or manifestations of this kind , " and that in case of need tho Prefects must use military force to
suppress " attemjits whereby the Italian cause is compromised . " Tho Austrian Government havo taken the alarm at tho project , happily frustrated , of the Garibaldians to pass tho frontiers ancl jiromote insurrections it ; the Austrian and Turkish territories . The Austrian troops have been pushed forward , and according to a dispatch from Brescia have occupied the line of the Lago di Garcia . The Turin papers exaggerate these precautionary measures , and ascribe to the Austrians an
intention of marching on Milan , the road to which , an Austrian order of the day is made to say , is now open by the revolution at Bergamo and Brescia . The session of the Prussian Diet was opened on Alondav , but not by the King in
person . Tne Prime Aimister , who represented Ins Sovereign on the occassion , delivered a speech precisely according with the ministeral programme previously made public . He declared that the Prussian government , would take care that tho Hessian constitution of 1831 should be restored jvithont delay , and that , regarding " an incident which occurred in reference to this question , " the ministry will , in any case , understand how to protect the dignity of Prussia .- —•—The Paris
correspondent- of the Morning s ast asserts that the French government ¦ has resolved to recall it .- ; e .: ;> edition from Mexico as soon as possible ; but the tone ofthe inspired journals of Paris , which seem to have been ordered to abuse the English Government for withdrawing from tho intervention , and to express confidence that Genera ! Prim's conduct will bo disapproved by the Spanish C ' abinot , leaves little reason to suj . pose that the French trooiis will very speedily quit -Mexico . Tiie Spanish Governmentin
, defending its conduct on the Mexican question against an attack of a member of Congress , announce its full approval of the conduct of Gen . Prim iu wi til-drawing his troojis from the Alexiean territory . The act of ehxing the churches in AVarsaw is likely to be reneatcd . The archbishop has intimated his intention of resorting to that proceeding if the police continue their persecution of tiie peojile attending the sacred edifices . -Tho
last accounts ofthe war in the Herzegovina are favourable to the insurgents . The cajiture of Niksich by the Afoiiteiiegrins is confirmed , but the citadel still holds out . The Alontenegrins are reported to have made a reconnaissance towards Alostar . The King of Italy has left Naples for Genoa , and Prince Napoleon has departed for Palermo .
The Week.
A : JEEICA . —Tho important intelligence that Yorktown had been evacuated by the Confederates , and that they were liiirsuod by General Al'Clellan's army , has been brought by the Persia . It appears that on the 30 th ult . President Jefferson Davis arrived at Yorktown ; and that , in a council of war , it was resolved—General Magrudov alone dissenting—that the Confederate lines ivould be untenable , and should be evacuated . On the following day , General Joseph Johnston , the Confederate
Commander-in-Chief , issued orders for tho evacuation of the Confederate defences ; and this delicate operation , which was commenced on the 2 nd inst ., was completed during the night of the 3 rd . As soon as the Confederate movements were known , the evacuated works were occupied by General Al'Clellan , who describes them as most formidable , and the Federal army marched in pursuit , while the gunboats proceeded up York River . Oil the afternoon of the 4 ththe Federal vanguard
, overtook the Confederate rent- about two miles from Williamsburg ; Out the want of infantry and the approach of night prevented any engagement . On the following day there was a sharp though partial action , ivhich seems to have been commenced by tho Confederate . ? , whose left was turned by the Federal G-enei-al Hancock ' s division , and who consequently evacuatedduring the nihttheir line of workswhich General
, g , , Al'Clellan describes as " very extensive and exceedingly strong in position . In this action , General Al'Clellan captured 1000 wounded andlOOO unwouuded prisoners ; and the Federal loss , which is not stated , was chiefly sustained by General Booker's division . The intelligence brought by the North American , though three days later than the Persia's advices , is less important than ive had perhaps reason to expect it to be . General Al'Clellan's
army , alter occupying AA'iliiamsburg , had pursued the retreating Confederates as far as the Chiekahominy river , which they crossed , destroying all the bridges ; and their main body was said to have subsequently passed the James River . The Federal corps which , under tho command of General Franklin , had proceeded up the York river , had landed at AVestpoint , where it had a partial engagement with tho Confederates under General Lee , who retreated from the firo of the Federal gunboats .
General Franklin subsequently formed a junction with General Al'Clellan , who reports that his troops are in excellent condition . Respecting the operations of General Halleck ancl his opponent , General Beauregard , in the south-west , wo are merely told that nothing decisive had occurred . The Federal Government hacl at length received official accounts of the capture of New Orleans , and of tiie events which preceded it . From these
accounts it appears that the bombardment of Forts Jackson and Philip lasted during six days without intermission , twentyone mortal- vessels and three gunboats being employed by the Federals . The firo of the forts being at length silenced , fourteen Federal steamers passed up the river to New Orleans , and 4000 troops wero landed above the forts . The consequences were the surrender of New Orleansthe itulation of the
, cap forts upon condition that the garrisons should be released upon their parole not to serve until regularly exchanged , ancl the total destruction of the Confederate gunboats , steam-rams , iron-clad floating batteries , lire rafts , obstructions , ancl chains . The Confederates themselves destroyed cotton and shipping worth 8 , 000 , 000 to 10 , 000 , 000 dollars—the cotton amounting to 11 , 000 bales : and , according to a Louisville despatch , there
was a general bonfire of cotton and other property along the Alississijijii from New Orleans to Memphis , the people on the banks of the Alississippi and its southern tributaries retreating nlaud from the towns .
To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
G . C . —AVe do not know why theie is no Grantl Organist nil-pointed to Grand Chapter , excepting it be that that there is > : o qualified companion , who has not been a member of the j . 'iyal Arch above two or three months , it being apparently considered that the less a Grand Organist knows of Masonry the better . A :. i _ nrioy . —Join lodge 2 i 50 or 54—the latter for choice
, , , and you will bo safe . BAI . _ .: OS » ... —The provinces of Berks and Bucks , Cumberland and NA ' estmorknd , Devon , Somersetshire , and Sussex are all at present without Prov . G . Alasters . AI . A . —AVe have not a complete list of all the clergymen in England who are members of tho Craft . Perhaps M . A . would like to compile it .