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reported to the Council at Berne that there is every prospect of tranquility being continued . The Grand Council of Geneva is about to propose that the elections from which these disorders sprung be inquired into . A conspiracy , the objects of which though not mentioned must be patent to everybody , has been discovered

in the Southern Tyrol , and been followed by numerous arrests by the Austrians at Trient , Pergine , Eoveredo , Riva , and other places . It has been decreed by Imperial ukase that another slice of Poland shall be Bussianised and disappear from the map of Europe as a portion of the ancient Polish kingdom . The Palatinate

of Augustowo will henceforward be incorporated with Eussia , though for the present ib will be adminstered by a native governor , in the person of General Zoboloeki . Free-trade principles are afc length extending to Spain , and a liberal modification of the customs' tariff with France is spoken of as about to be proposed to the

Cortes by the Finance Minister . According to advices from Lisbon the Federal frigate Nia . gra is at present lying in the Tagus watching an opportunity to pounce upon a steamer which has been purchased at Liverpool ostensibly as a mail packet to run between Portugal and her colonies , but which is said in reality to

be intended to take service with tho Confederates . The designs of the Federal ship having got wind , however , the steamer in question has been detained , and thus the Yankee is deprived of her hoped-for prize . By advices from Marseilles of Saturday ' s elate we learn that renewed disturbances have broken out in Algeria—the

province of Oran the scene . The movement assumes very serious proportions , the revolted tribes having perpetrated acts of assassination and incendiarism , cut the telegraph wires and pillaged several caravansaries ; but the French troops have succeeded in establishing a military cordon , which it is hoped will prevent any

extension of the insurrection , to what are present the peaceable districts . NEW ZEALAND . —The London Gazette contains a despatch and inclosures from General Cameron , the commander of her Majesty ' s forces in New Zealand . From these it appears that , after abandoning the entrenchment

at Tauranga , where the English troops suffered so severely , the natives retired to two strong pahs in the ranges about ten miles off . Thither , owinf ^ to the advanced season—being the middle of the New Zealand winter—it was not deemed prudent to follow them . The settlement of Whanganui being reported in danger ,

General Cameron transferred his head-quarters to Auckland , and Colonel Warre , with 300 men , was ordered to proceed from New Plymouth to resist the threatened attack , but in the meantime the rebels were met and fortunately defeated by a body of natives friendly to the English rule , and Whanganui was thus placed in

a position of complete safety . Troops were concentrating in Auckland with the view of being despatched to any point where their services might be required . Since the affair at Tanranga there has been only one collision with the troops . That occurred in the neighbourhood of New Plymouth , where tbe rebels attacked a redoubt aud were repulsed with great loss , whilst there was but

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one casualty on our side . Until the commencement of September further military operations are not considered practicable in any part of the island . CAPE OF GOOD HOPE . —By mail we have intelligence to the 13 fch of July . The rumour that the Krehs wereabout to cross the Bashee is proved to have been false .

Throughout the whole coast of the Cauda county the tribes are in a state of great excitement , and hostilities were expected to break out amongst them . AMERICA . —Despatches from New York to the 10 th inst . report that five days previously a Federal flotilla of 17 vessels , under Admiral Farragut , had passed Forfe

Morgan and appeared before the city of Mobile . On their passage a Monitor was sunk by the fire from the fort j but the Confederate ram Tennessee , after a desperate engagement , had surrendered to tho enemy . General Grant had returned to Petersburg , after visiting Washington ( Maryland ) and the Upper Potomac , aud some severe

fighting subsequently took place . Hagerstown has been re-occupied by the Federals ; and the Confederates having withdrawn from Maryland into Virginia , have been attacked and defeated by Averill at Moorfield with the

loss of 600 prisoners and four guns . The capture of General Stoneman is confirmed by Federal advices . A rumour prevailed at New York chat a Confederate raid has been made from Canada into Buffalo with the view of destroying the Erie Canal ; but it is scarcely worthy of credence . Ib is also asserted that Mr . Stanton , the

Secretary for War , has tendered his resignation , and that it has been accepted by President Lincoln . INDIA AND CHINA . —The authorities of Assam had suspended the subsidy hitherto paid to Bhootan , in consequence of the outrages offered to the English Envoy ; and the Dhurm Rajah of Bhootan was said to be raising

troops , with the supposed purpose of enforcing payment . There was also a rumour , for which there does not seem , to have been any certain foundation , that the King of Burmah was preparing for a war -with the English . A dispatch from Shanghae of the 5 th of July states that the Portuguese have failed in their attempt to obtain the

ratification of their treaty with the Pekin Government . The Taepings had made no fresh demonstrations at that date , but the Futae ( tho Imperial commander-in-chief ) had taken possession of two more cities that had been in rebel hands .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

G . S . —A P . M . who discontinues subscribing to a lodge for twelve months , loses his privileges as a P . M . until he again works through the chair , any joining of a lodge , or rejoining his own lodge notwithstanding . JUSTITIA . —Never . S . M . —Will receive all particulars relative to the Eoyal Benevolent Institution for Aged Masons and their

Widows by applying to Bro . Farnfield , Grand Secretary's Office , Great Queen-street . SALEM shall be attended to . ERRATA . —In Bro . Purton Cooper ' s communication , WEAPONS OP WAR , page 28 , line 5 , for " via sometime ago communicated , " read " icere some time ago communicated , " and in last line bub one of the same paragraph for " Grand Master , " read " Provincial Grand Master . "