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correct . It is said that the legislative session will be deferred to the second week in February , and than the Budget will be immediately submitted to it . Much warm discussion has been excited in Paris by a speech of M . Haussmann , Prefect of the Seine , delivered at a banquet given to the Municipal Commission . The master of the improvements—the pulling down and the upbuilding—performed in Paris wishes to reconcile the

tax-payers to this mode of disposing of their contributions to the public revenue , and to the system hy which control over the expenditure of the money so contributed is denied them . Perversely they refuse to perceive the privilege they enjoy in being relieved from all care or anxiety in the matter of disbursement , and fondly imagine that under a system of accountability a more economical disposition of tbe municipal finances might be

effected . M . Haussmann , on his side , thinks the ratepayers most unreasonable , aud that the beautifying and transforming of their city ought to compensate them sufficiently for any such trifling consideration as the contribution of a little filthy lucre

to an object so grand . ——The " encyclical letter" recently issued by the Pope is stated to contain eighty propositions condemning various errors , religious , philosophical , and political . Among them are the opinions that society should bo governed without making any distinction between tho true faith and heresy ; that liberty of conscience and public worship are essential to well-organised government ; that the will of the

people constitutes a supreme law and a true right ,- that tho Church has not the right of punishing those who violate her laws ; and that there is any hope of the eternal salvation of those who do not belong to the true Church . The Spanish Cortes have been opened . The speech from the Throne was perfectly silent on the late Ministerial crisis and tho San Domingo question . It expressed a hope that the Peruvian

question would soon be adjusted , and denied that Spain had any ambitious projects upon the South American Republics . It also says that " the general condition of the monarchy , considered in all its extent , is not very satisfactory , and to remedy this I shall lay before you a bill of great importance . "

INDIA AND CHINA .--The Calcutta and China mail has arrived , but the details of the advices are not very interesting . The Indian Government had issued a proclamation annexing to the British dominions the lowland territory of Bhootan known as tho Bengal Dooars , and so much of the highlands as may be needful to command the hill passes leading into the new British districts . It was said that great dissensions had broken out

among the Bhootanese chiefs , whose intense quarrels were thought likely to prevent them from offering any vigorous re ' - sistauce to the English . The successful commencement of the actual campaign with the people of Bhootan has been since announced hy a Calcutta telegram received at the India Office . This telegram , which is dated the 12 th inst ., states that the fort of Delamakote , situated in a very strong position , has been

taken by the British troops , with the loss of only two officers and fifty men , of , whom ten were killed by a casual explosion of gunpowder . According to statements published by the Paris journals , the Japanese government has agreed that a sura of £ 720 , 000 shall be paid by the Prince of Nagato to defray the expense of the European expedition which demolished his fortifications at the Straits of Simonosaki , and that a port on the inland sea shall be opened to European trade .

AMERICA . —Important news has been brought by tbe Hansa from New York . The Richmond journals of the 16 th instant stated that on the llth instant General Sherman carried by storm Fort Macallister , a fortification on the Ogeechee river , some fifteen miles south-west of Savannah . The port was onlV

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occupied by a garrison of 150 men , but its occupation enabled General Sherman ' s array to communicate with the Federal fleet , and "necessitated the reinforcement of Savannah . " A Federal steamer which left Charleston Bar on the 14 th instant had brought to New York a report that General Sherman , after eight hours' fighting , had taken the City of Savannah , with 11 , 000 prisoners ; but tbe Richmond Examiner stated that

up to the 13 th inst . the Federal army had made no attack on Savannah , which was defended by a triple line of works . The railway communication between Savannah and Charleston apparently continued to be intercepted by the Federal corps under General Foster ; for the Savannah journals stated that General Foster advanced towards Coosawhatchie on the 5 th inst . and burned a bridge , but was " twice driven back" by the

Confederates . A naval and military expedition , under the command of Admiral Porter and General Butler , sailed from Fort Monroe on the 12 th inst ., and was supposed , rightly or wrongly , to be destined for Wilmington . Official reports from General Thomas , who commands the Federal forces at Nashville , stated that on the 15 th instant he attacked the left of General Hood ' s army , and drove it from the river below the city for a distance of eight miles , capturing 1 , 000 prisoners , 1 G guns , and a quantity of stores . Fighting continued during the whole of the 16 th instant , and General Hood's army was routed .

General Thomas drove tbe Confederates from all their entrenched positions , and captured from 3 , 000 to 5 , 000 prisoners , and from 30 to -10 cannon . The Federal General Stoneman had made a raid in the Confederate General Breckenridge ' s rear , aud , after capturing Bristol , Abingdon , and Glade Springs , in AVestern Virginia , was marching towards Saltville . The discharge of the St . Albans raiders by the Montreal Court was said

to be held wrong by the law advisers of tho Canadian Government , and warrants had been issued for their re-apprehension . Stipendiary magistrates had been appointed by the Canadian Government to take cognisance of breaches of international law on the frontier . Major-General Dix had ordered the Federal commanders on the frontier to shoot any raiders if they could , to pursue them into British territory if

they should venture to take refuge there , to capture them there if possible , and not to surrender them to the British authorities , but to send them for trial by courtmartial at New York . Resolutions denouncing the conduct of tbe Canadians , and " directing the Secretary of State to demand from the British Government payment for all cargoes and ships destroyed by British piratical vessels , " had been introduced into Congress , and referred to the Committee for Foreign Affairs . According to the New York Times , tho Brazilian demand for satisfaction for the seizure of the Florida was

" insolent in tone ; " but Secretary Seward's reply " is firm and conciliatory , does not endorse the seizure , and expresses a desire that the matter should be fairly and satisfactorily adjusted . "

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

J . R . —We have not time at present to attend to your wishes . D . D . —We never heard of the brother named . X . Y' . Z . —The same as those of Grand Officers , without the circle . No . 3 . AVe will give you tho names in our next . E . J . M— The M . C . below the S . D ,, the Stewards anywhere . No . 2 . East , South , AVest .

Iv . S . is thanked . J . H . —AVith our next issue . ^ fiJ ^ S . O ^ W . ; ii find your question answered in No . 262 . ' sK A . —thsc ' iitedly not . f GRAND VjX