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banishment . — ' —The oldest sovereign in Europe , the King of Wurtemburg , who is in the eighty-second year of his age , and the forty-seventh of his reign , is seriously ill , and not expected to live . AMERICA . —The Europa , from Boston and Halifax , brings us the announcement , made officially at Richmond , that General

" Stonewall" Jackson has died from the effects of the wounds lie received at Chancellorsville . General Hooker had issued an order congratulating his troops on their achievements , and declaring that they had added new laurels to their former renown . " We have , " says General Hooker , " made long marches , crossed rivers , surprised the enemy in his intrenchments , and

whenever we have fought we have inflicted heavier blows than those we have received . We have taken from the enemy 5000 prisoners and 15 colours , captured seven pieces of artillery , and placed hors de combat 18 , 000 of our foe ' s chosen troops . We have destroyed his depots filled with vast amounts of stores , damaged his communications , captured prisoners Avithin the

fortifications of his capital , and filled his country with fear and consternation . AVe have no other regret than that caused by the loss of our brave companions . " On the other hand , the Richmond journals state that the Confederates captured 30 guns at Chancellorsville , which they consider the severest battle of the war . They estimate the loss of the Confederates at 8000 to

10 , 000 men , and that of the Federals at 25 , 000 to 30 , 000 men , including 8000 prisoners . It had been asserted in New York that General Hooker was about to make another advance across the Rappahannock , but he had not done so ; and the latest telegrams assert that there were indications of a design of General Lee to pass the river , and attack the Federal army . The Federal Generals Keyes and Peck , with a corps of 12 , 000 men , had occupied West Point , on the York river ; but rumours

were current in New York that they had been attacked and defeated by General Longstreet . General Grant ' s operations in the neighbourhood of Vicksburg had been attended with more or less success . On the 1 st instant , as lie reports , he routed a body of 11 , 000 Confederates at a place four miles south of Port Gibson , and captured several guns and 500 prisoners , while the

Federal loss amounted to 600 killed and wounded . According to the latest New York telegrams , he had subsequently advanced to within ten miles of Jackson , and had there defeated the Confederates once more ; but strong bodies of Confederate troops having been brought from Charleston and Mobile by railway to Jackson , he afterwards fell back to wait

reinforcements . On the other hand , the Southern journals asserted that " the Federals were repulsed on the 4 th instant , upon Big Black river , after four hours bard fighting . " A body of 1600 Federal horse , which had made an irruption into Georgia and Alabama , had been captured by the Confederate General Forrest . General Gragg ' s army " still confronted " Geueral Rosencraz ' s troops at

Mufl ' reesbourg , and General Rosencranz had issued an order declaring that . " the season for active operations has arrived . " The Confederate General Van Dorn bad been shot in some affray arising out of a personal quarrel . Mr . Vallandigham , a well known citizen , had been tried by a military commission at Cincinnati , and it was said that he had been sentenced to two

years' imprisonment at the Tortugas for denouncing the conduct of the Government and the war , but that President Lincoln had " commuted the sentenced to his being sent beyond the Federal lines . " Troops had been sent to Cincinnati , as an outbreak of Mr . Vallandigham ' s partisans was apprehenked ; and the New

Y ' ork were denouncing his arrest , and the military tyranny in the West . General M'Clellan had tendered his resignation of his commission , but it had been declinned by President Lincoln , who declared that the General woule soon be actively employed .

The Week.

By the arrival of the Norwegian we have news from New York to the 16 th of May . It was believed that Lee , who had been , it was said , reinforced by Beauregard , intended to assume offensive operations . It turns out General Stoneman's cavalry did not in their raid destroy the railway bridges over the North Anna and South Anna rivers . The railway communication with Richmond is therefore still complete . Tbe Federals were

entrenching themselves at West Point . All was quiet there . Mosby ' s Confederate cavalry was engaged in a foraging expedition up the Shenandoah Valley . All the reports which have come to hand of General Grant having fought battles are stated to be untrue . He was endeavouring to cut the railroad from Jackson to Vicksburg . A rumour had reached Murfreesboro of

a battle at Vicksburg , but the result was not known . Southern papers state that General Banks bad been defeated and driven back at Washington , by General Smith . The report was considered to be doubtful . Gen . Meagher has resigned the command of the Irish brigade , on the ground that , as a brigade , it no longer exists . In the various fights which have taken place its

numbers have , he says , been reduced below those of a regiment of infantry , and therefore to continue calling it a brigade would be a deception , and tend to bring discredit on a brave race . Ten negro regiments have been raised by the Federals at Memphis , and ten more were to be organised . The funeral of General Jackson took place at Richmond on the 12 th Avith

great demonstrations of sorrow and respect . General Lee has issued a general order on the occasion of the death of General - Jackson , in which he speaks in terms of the highest admiration of the dead soldier . The Federal Government had cashiered

the captain of a New York regiment for having crossed into Canada to arrest a deserter . The deserter himself was dismissed the service . Movements on the one hand in favour of peace , and on the other in favour of a more vigorous procecution of the war are being made in New York . Mr . Vallandigham ' s case was attracting considerable attention , and by

many of the prpers the conduct of General Burnside in tho matter was severely eensured . It would seem that two , if not three , of the vessels recently destroyed by the Confederate cruiser Alabama carried cargoes which were shipped by , and belonged to , British subjects . The ships were undoubtedly owned by Americans ; but , in a letter to the Times , Messrs .

Croshaw and Co ., of Fenchurch-street , ask "Does not his ( Captain Semmes ) unjustifiable interference with the trade of this country and 'her possessions demand the immediate attention of our Government ? " A complaint of this kind was brought before the Foreign Office authorities some time ago , and , if Ave remember rightly , Lord Russell ' s reply was that the

persons aggrieved must seek redress in the Confederate Prize Courts . With regard to one of the vessels referred to by the Messrs , Croshaw , we are informed that her cargo was " fully insured against war risk . " A private letter from Pernnmbueo states that the Alabama and the Florida , which have been committing such havoc of late , have armed two of their prizes , which will serve as tenders .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

MASOKIC RITUALS . —We have received a letter from Bro . Trew W . M ., of a new German lodge , established under authority of the Grand Lodge of Hamburg , at Constantinople , which we regret we cannot publish , owing to allusions to certain publications of which we wish to know nothing ; but we agree with him that it would be most desirable if some arrangement could be arrived at between the Grand Lodges of the world to make the mode of recognition of a brother common to all , so that a foreign brother might- easily work

his way into a lodge irrespective of language , which is not the case at present . We also agree with him in regretting that all the Grand Lodges of the world do not acknowledge the universality of Freemasonry , irrespective of religion .