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make to the burthens of the people , have " produced a vary good impression" in Turin . The Eussian authorities continue to exercise the merciless severities by which they hope to cow the Polish population , and their measures of repression are now as vigorous in Yolhynia as in the kingdom of Poland . The parish priests and conventual abbots are made responsible for the closing of the churches in AVarsaw ; and in one instance a church has been forcibly opened by soldiers , who

lighted the tapers , and at the point of the bayonet compelled the priests to say mass . Many arrests continue to be made , and some forty students of the University of Kieff have been summarily transported to Siberia . From Mexico we learn that the Government there have resolved , doubtless for very good reasons , to offer no resistance to the occupation of their principal ports by the allied fleets , but that they will resist all operations inland . AMERICA . —The steam ship Canada has arrived ivith direct

intelligence from New York to the 10 th , and telegraphic news to the 12 th . Some further correspondence with foreign governments had been published , from which we learn that Earl Eussell had officially avowed that there was a mutual understanding between England and France on American affairs ; and we also learn that Mr . Seward , having ascertained on examining certain despatches that they took cognisance of both parties as belligerents , assuming thereby that the United States were not one sovereign power

, would not allow the despatches to be communicated to the Federal Government . The report of the Secretary of the Treasury had been presented to Congress . It shows a great falling off in the customs' revenue , ancl recommends an increase of duties on sugar , green tea , and coffee , and an increase in the direct taxes of twenty million dollars , and also various miscellaneous duties calculated to

produce twenty million dollars . The estimated expenditure for the financial year ending July , 1862 , is 540 million dollars , of which only 329 have been received , leaving 240 millions to be provided . This is proposed to be accomplished by substituting a Federal currency for the present hank currency , which , it is calculated , will produce 150 millions , a loan of 50 millions , and the remaining 140 millions to be provided in various ways . Should the war be continued beyond Midsummer , the amount required for the fiscal

year 1863 will be 379 million dollars , and in July , 1862 , the public debt will be 900 millions . In face of this statement it seems almost incredible that the Northern states should madly rush into a war with this country . The steamer Hudson , which left Southampton on the 28 th ult ., arrived at New York on the 12 th inst ., and the news she carried out , of the way in which the Trent outrage had been received here was not considered so unfavourable as was expected . There had been no military movements of importance

by either belligerent ; and doubts were beginning to be entertained whether the alleged defeat of the Confederates hy Union men in East Tennessee was not altogether fabulous . From Southern accounts it appears that the firing had ceased at Pensacola and that neither side had achieved any considerable results though it is still alleged that several of the Federal war steamers had been seriously damaged . The text of an important official dispatch addressee ! bthe French

Governy ment to their Minister at AVashington has been published . M . Thouvenel , in brief lucid terms , reviews the whole case , ancl discusses it on the two grounds of the prisoners being belligerents , and of their being rebels . In the former case , he shows that they do not come under any of the cases which have hitherto been held to justify capture , and that if America persists in this wrong , she will commit an act far beyond any of those aggressions which both

France ancl America in former times used to protest against and even to go to war for . In the second case of their being rebels , the case he holds to be concluded , for it is an axiom admitted on all sides , first , that no Government can seize its rebels on neutral soil , and , second , that the deck of a neutral ship is an integral portion of the soil of the country to which she belongs He concludes by urging the American Government to make concessions , as France would see with regret a war between England and

America , with both of which countries she is on intimate terms of alliance , and in a cause in whicli America is clearly in the wrong . This highly important circular is dated Paris , Dec . 3 , and we can only hope that it may reach Washington before the irrevocable decision is made . It is affirmed that Count Bechberg , Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs , has addressed a letter to the Washington Cabinet , through the Austrian representative in that city , expressing views upon the San Jacinto affair corresponding with those

enunciated by M . Thouvenel , and recommending the Federal Government not to embarras and endanger their position by refusing to accede to the claims of Great Britain . INDIA . —The Bombay mail brings several items of news of average importance . Sir C . Tvevelyan and Sir B . Frere are named , as probable successors to Sir G-. Clark . Nipal Sing , a notoriorfsj rebel , who has long escaped , has been apprehended , and is to / jfo ' hanged . The estimates for 1861-2 show a surplus of upwarcKutf

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a million and a half sterling . Cholera still lingers in Bombay . The seat of government , it is said , is to be removed from Calcutta to some hill station . From Calcutta we learn that the markets are dull , that freights are high , but that the news of the prospects ofthe cotton crops is very encouraging .

Special Notice.

SPECIAL NOTICE .

With the MAGAZINE , of Nov . 2 , a beautiful Steel Engraving of the Bight Hon . the Earl of Dalhousie , K . G ., P . D . G . M ., in full Masonic costume , was presented gratuitously to every subscriber to the FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . The Engraving has been executed in the highest style of art , by Posselwliite , from a photograph by Mayall . A few copies for framing ( suitable for lodge and other presents )

may be had as follows ;—India Proofs , before letters ( which must be ordered immediately ) 7 6 India Proofs ( after letters ) 5 0 Large Plate Paper 3 0 A few proof impressions of the Big ht Hon . Earl of Zetland , Gr Master , may still be had : India paper , 5 s . ; large plate paper , 3 s .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

To SUBSCRIBERS AIID OTHERS . —All remittances by cheque , post office orders , & c , are to be made payable to the Proprietor , Mr . AVILLIAM SMITH , C . E ., 19 , Salisbury-street , Strand . COMMUNICATIONS for the EDIIOB , to he addressed to H . G . WAKREN Esq ., 19 , Salisbury-street , Strand . ALL ORDERS or Communications with respect to the publishing department to be addressed to the Publisher , 19 , Salisbury-street ,

Strand . M . A . Cambridge and a Past Grand Officer , calls in question our statement that Bro . T . H . Hall is the first Prov . Grand Master of Cambridgeshire , and adds , " Allow me , in justice to the memory of a deceased brother , to correct this error , and to remind you that Bro . George Adam Browne , Senior Fellow of Trinity College , Cambridge , of no little Masonic celebrity , who was the

frequent adviser and companion of the late M . W . G . M . the Duke of Sussex , was the Prov . Grand Master for Cambridgeshire when I had the honour of initiation into Freemasonry ; and I believe that he had held the high dignity for . many years previously . " It is true that Bro . Browne acted as Prov . Grand Master representing the Duke of Sussex in the province , but he never received any direct appointment to that office under patent , as is usual with Prov . Grand Masters ; and Bro . Hall is the first brother

who has regularly received the appointment for Cambridgeshire under the United Grand Lodge of England . If we have called Bro . Hallowes P . D . Prov . Grand Master of Kent , in error , it is because he is so described by one of our Kentish correspondents , who we had a right to believe was sufficiently acquainted with the local rank of the brother alluded to . A . F . ( Dumfries ) . —The difference is to be seen by a comparison of the Boole of Constitutions with the Ahiman Rezon . PROV . G . S . B . —If it is customary in your province .

J . A . H . —AA ' rite again . AVe will endeavour to ascertain m the meantime . PINK . —The E-. A . ribbon is red and blue , not pink . LODGE NO . . —If the brethren choose the J . AV . instead of the S . AA * . for the next AV . M ., there is no appeal ; they exercise their constitutional right . t | . —No ; not till next year .

L . —AVe cannot undertake to do anything of the kind . Apply to the G . Sec , either personally or by letter . - ST ^* £ LLIAMS . —The Earl of Durham you allude to was D . G . M . iSr ^ iQwMp another lodge . Qj }^^ e irawv of no law against your decorating your pedestals with _ ChristniS . \ eveT S - - ° D Q H in IDh . _ / I