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United States to the 11 th instant . A numerous body of Afr . Sickles constituents had signed an address calling on that gentleman to resign his seat in congress . An incendiary fire at Alemphis had destroyed property to the value of 150 , 000 dollars . From Mexico we bear that Juarez declines signing a treaty without the approval of the congress . A conspiracy was discovered in the capital on the 11 th , for the purpose of assassinating the governor and taking possession of the government . The gold fever was raging on account of the discovery of gold in the

'Indian cemeteries of New Grenada , and of new discoveries ou the Colorado . The crops in America are now safe , ancl a most abundant harvest has been reaped .- The Moniteur states that the Minister of AVar has given orders for a number of soldiers to return to their homes , and has granted furloughs to several others . The King of Sardinia has delivered a speech on the affairs of Italy , characterized by the accustomed vagueness of royal speeches . The plainest passage is the following : — " The unionperfect orderand wisdom whieh the people of Tuscany

, , , the Duchies , and tbe Romagna now display are admirable . Have faith in me , gentlemen , and be assured that now , as well as in future , I shall do everything in my power to promote the welfare of Italy . " A novel step has been taken with regard to the press in Russia . The Invalide Jlusse has received a " warning" for its freedom in commenting ou several questions of European policy , and particularly for its insertion of an article on the necessity of assembling a congress to regulate the affairs of Italy and those of Turkey . A letter from Jassy , in the

Wanderer , of Vienna , says that the Chamber of Deputies sitting at Bucharest hacl agreed that a loan of 80 , 000 , 000 of piastres should be negotiated abroad , and that a discount and mortgage bank should be established .

INDIA . —By the Overland Aiail we have received advices aud papers from Bombay to the 21 st of July . The most important news relates to the very large number of the Company's forces who have availed themselves of the permission to have their discharge . Some of the regiments are reduced to mere skeletons , and a free passage home will have to be provided for several hundred men . There is very little to report from the seat of war , a few skirmishes taking place here and there with small bodies of insurgents who are reduced to a state of despair . Further

telegrams in advance of the mail of August 6 th , state that the European discharge question still engages attention . The British ship Nathalie was wrecked off Bombay ou the 23 rd ult . ; the mate ancl two seamen were drowned . The Bombay money market continues easy . Bombay harbour was crowded .

GENEKAL HOME NEWS . —The ministers have all left town for their respective country scats , and London is now entirely bereft of the advantages of fashionable society . AA'hile the aristocracy are flying from the metropolis ancl the odours of Thames and Serpentine , it is satisfactory to find that the report . of the Registrar General shows that the health of London is improving above iho average . The deaths during tbe last two weeks have decreased from IGOii to USS , hut they still exceed by nearly 200 the weekly deaths in June . Last week there were registered

in Loudon the births of 917 boys and 86-1 girls , in all I 7 S 1 children . There were two election contests on Saturday—for Hull , between Afr . Somes , Conservative , and Air . Lewis , Liberal , tbe former being returned by a majority of -18 !); and for Berwick , between Air . Hodgson , Conservative , and Air . Ala jori banks , the latter gaining the seat by a majority of ' one . Afr . Osborne was returned for Liskearcl without opposition . Earl Grosvenor , AI . P ., and Alderman Sir Peter Laurie have joined the council of the London Rifle Brigade . Lord Elcho and

Captain George Atoutagu Hicks ( lieutenant-colonel elect ) had an interview , on Tuesday , with the Right Hon . Sidney Herbert , AI . P ., at tbe War Office , on various subjects connected with the brigade . At the Court of Bankruptcy adjudication of bankruptcy has been made against John Edward Buller , a solicitor and scrivener , carrying on business at 56 , Lincoln's-hm-fields , and residing at Enfield . His liabilities are stated at about £ 100 , 000 , of which it appears that about . £ 50 , 000 are

in respect of breaches of trust , but this , it is suppossd , is only a portion of the bankrupt ' s delinquencies . The assets are at present unascertained . A warrant has been granted for his apprehension . A guard on the train between Liverpool and Alanchester met a shocking death last week . Having been missed at one of the stations search was made , when tlie poor fellow was found dead on the top of a carriage . His head had evidently come into contact with the arch of a bridge . AA e have to record the death of Afr . Beunetwho was injured by the accident that

, occurred on AVednesday evening , on tho Tilbury and Southend railway . Air . Lewis , the coroner for South Essex , opened an inquest on Saturday , at Tilbury Fort , which was adjourned , in order to take measures to secure the fullest investigation into the cause of the lamentable accident . A serious explosion of gas , causing injury both to person and property , occurred at lirompton ; and , as is too often the case in that description of casualty , it appears to have been the result of incautiously bringing a "

light into the room where au escape of gas ivas taking place . In the present instance the roof was blown from the house , and a lamplighter ancl several of the servants were seriously hurt . . One of the most extraordinary cases of fraud in the history of trade is about to be exposed before tbe Scotch Court of Session , Disclosures are now made which show , or at least allege , that for a long series of years the managing partners of the Carron Iron Company have been guilty of frauds upon their brother shareholders which , for daring aud extent , throw into the gbade the ve-vfilatiow- wbicb started tbe commercial world a year

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or two back . A suit , it seems , has been instituted in the Court of Session by Lieutenant Colonel Henry Dundas AI'Lean against the company , charging the managers wifch systematically , and over a loug series of years , falsifying their balance-sheets , to tbe end that their profits might appear to be much less than they really were ; in consequence of which the said Colonel AI'Lean sold certain Carron shares belonging to him to the company at a price greatly below their real value . A young man was fined 5 ? . on AAr ednesday , at the Southwark police-court ,

for sending lucifer matches by railway without intimation . Fortunately the combustible package took fire as it was aboufc to be placed in tho luggage van , and so prevented probably a great deal ot mischief . An old man named Panmier , and described as a clerk ancl schoolmaster , was committed for trial at Alarlborough-streot , on a charge of forgery . The document alleged to be forged was a cheque for it . 16 s . Sd . on the London and AVcstminster Bank , taken from the vestry-room of St . Ann ' sSoho . The circumstances connected with the murder of Air .

, Broughtou , near Leeds , are being narrowly inquired into , and two men convicted of burglary elsewhere are suspected of being the murderers . A man named AValter Bcardon has been arrested on suspicion of having beeu concerned in this murder as principal or accessory . He was brought before the magistrates , ancl identified as one of two seen in tbe field about the time of the murder ; ancl , which is of much more importance , it is shown that he pawned the watch of the murdered man shortly after the crime hacl been committed . The funds yesterday

were scarcely so well supported , but the transactions were pretty numerous , and the closing quotation of Consols was 95 i for money , and 95 li , buyers , for the account . There were no bullion operations at the Bank , but the demand for export to the continent continues , the dealers taking all available parcels for export . The inquiry for money was steady at former current rates , and the disposition to place paper was not much manifested . The New Russian Loan did not improve , being still quoted -i discount to par , ancl the New Five per Cent . Indian Loan showed steadiness at about OS .

CoiniEitciAL AND PUBLIC COMPANIES . —The business of the port of Loudon during the past week has shown rather less activity . The number of vessels announced afc the Custom House as having arrived from foreign ports , amounted to two hundred ancl fourteen . There were nine from Ireland and one hundred ancl four colliers . The entries outwards were one hundred and nine , and those cleared one hundred , besides twenty-three in ballast . At the half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Great Northern Railway Companya dividend was

de-, clared at the rate of , £ 3 7 s . ( id . per annum on the original stock , yielding ; £ 3 per cent , for the half-year to the "B , " and 7 s . Gd . per cent , to the "A" shareholders . 'The meeting went off more quietly than has lately been the case with tbe meetings of this company . At the meeting of the shareholders ofthe Great Eastern steam ship , a resolution was agreed to , authorizing the directors to issue 30 , 000 new shares of £ 1 each , they being offered in the first instance to the present proprietors in the

proportion of ono to ten of their present holding . A proposal to accept the offer of Air . Lever of .- £ 20 , 000 for chartering the shi p for her first voyage was not acceded to . ——The report ancl accounts presented at the meeting of the London District Telegraph Company this week were received aud adopted . It was explained that the undertaking was making satisfactory progress , and that the public hacl taken the shares as a medium of investment . Strict economy would , it was asserted , be exercised in carrying out

the works , which promise to be of great utility . The employment of female labour in the telegraph department would , it was affirmed , be attended with advantage . ——From Birmingham it is announced that business has become bettor , and that the orders forward exhibit an increase . At Bradford aucl Huddersfield greater activity lias been apparent ; the position of affairs at Leeds indicating a steady revival Afoderately good reports have been received from Bradford ancl Halifax , the export trade continuing to exhibit symptoms of progress . Less activity has been exhibited in Alanchester , through the partial cessation ofthe demand for India .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

Bro . C . EiUN is thanked ; but , owing to his having- directed his communication to a former , instead of the present , publisher of the Freemasons' Magazine , it arrived too late for our present issue . Jfc shall appear next week . ERRATUM . —In alluding to the Prov . Grand Lodgo of Dorsetshire last week , we inadvertently stated that the new Prov . G . AL , Bro . Guncirv , installed b

was y Bro . Cosens , whereas the ceremony was performed by Bro . the Rev . Thos . Pearce , D . Prov . G . AI . Tin : BALLOT . —A candidate is balloted for in a Lod ge under Ireland ( where one black ball excludes ) , and rejected from private feeling of some member against him . At the next regular meeting , upon motion made and carried , the ballot was reconsidered the ballot box

; way passed round , aud the candidate was unanimousl y elected . AA ' as the reconsideration of the ballot proper ] I f 0 ,. got to add that the candidate was reported favourably of by the investi gating committee . —P . JI ,-[ AVill some brother under the Irish constitution answer this?—EpJ Bno . II . ¥ ,, AVfflis is thanked for bis valuable communication '