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first sent to the workhouse ,- but a relative offered to pay 16 s . a month for its maintenance , aud the B . av . Mr , Batt , a Roman Catholic clergyman , who had attended the father on his deathbed , made au arraugement with a woman named Roach , the aunt of the child , by which , for the 16 s . a mouth , she was to bring it up . From information which he had received , the

parish officer went the other day to Roach ' s house in Sutherland-street , Pimlico , and there in a back kitchen , from which the light was almost wholly excluded , the unfortunate child was found . The description of his condition and the condition of the room is disgusting beynd measure . Being weighed it was found that , although he was five years old , he did not weigh

more than 241 b . John Roach , the uncle , was brought up at tbe Westminster Police-court , and charged with the cruelty to the unfortunate child . It was , however , objected that not he , but his wife , was to blame for the cruelty . The magistrate seemed to lean to his opinion , and remanded the case . A serious statement affecting the humanity of tbe authorities

of the East London Union appeared iu some of our contemporaries on Tuesday . A deputation of the guardians attended at the Mansion House on Wednesday , and complained that tho story was highly coloured and distorted . They will attend on a future occasion and make a fuller explanation to the Lord Mayor , who did not sit on that day . George Price , the mau

who is charged with having caused the death of his wife by illtreatment , was brought up again at the Clerkenwell Policecourt on Wednesday . Objection was taken to the presence of the solicitor who was conducting the prosecution , on tho ground that he represented a society , and not the friends of the deceased . This objection was overruled on the assurance of the solicitor that he was instructed by an individual avid not by tho society . Some further evidence was then given against

the prisoner , who was again remanded aud bail was refused . FOREIGN Im-ErarcreNCE . —A great , and probably decisive battle , has been fought between tbe allies under Floves and tho Paraguayans , in which the latter were defeated with the loss of seventeen hundred prisoners , their cannon , and flags . This , of course , disposes of the Paraguayan invasion of Brazil , and it is

not improbable that General Lopez will make terms before his army is wholly dispersed . Many will contemplate with anxiety tho prestige which the siaveholding empire of Brazil will acquire by tho great victories which sho has now achieved , both by land and by sea . Some of the Paris papers still insist that the Emperor means immediately to grant new and

important instalments of freedom , and that these are to be announced iu a speech which Louis Napoleon is about to make at Bordeaux . Our correspondent warns us not to put any faith in such rumours . They have unfortunately no foundation . 'It is remarked as singular , that the Duke de Persigny , who is staying at Biarritz , has never been

invited to dine at the Imperial table . Cardinal Andrea ' s letter , professing , as it does , a desire to see Venetia annexed to Italy and the Pope reconciled to Victor Emmanuel , is the subject of indignant comment from the French and Italian clerical journals . That a prince of the Church should utter such sentiments is thought a grievous scandal . The Madrid papers

state that a visit from Prince Alfred , of England , is expected shortly in that city . IF the Prince go there , it may be taken for granted that there will be Spanish quid-nunes found ready to ascribehis visit to a matrimonial design upon the hand of the Iufauta . Several other princes aro being talked of as candidates , or probable candidates , for the affections of this young

lady , who is now approaching what in Spain is considered a marriageable age . The Pope has delivered an allocution in which he denounced secret societies , including

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Fenianism , and with still greater emphasis Fveemasonry . He blamed the Archbishop of Paris for being present at tbe funeral of Marshal Magnan , a leading Freemason ; and he not indirectly alluded in severe terms to the Emperor Napoleon ' s tolei-atiovi of the Masonic system . The Pope , it is said , has sent an emissary to Vienna and Munich iu order to obtain

Austrian and Bavarian volunteers to replace the French troops in Borne . The evacuation is still talked of as likely to begin almost immediately . The Austrian Government is about , according to report , to publish at once a financial statement of the expenditure and revenue of the empire . It is also stated to have despatched a circular to its diplomatic agents

abroad to oppose the idea that the recent manifesto of the Emperor means an abandonment of the principles of the October diploma and a return to absolutism . Tho object of the Emperor is declared to be toestablishdefimtively constitutional ' mstitutions for the whole empire by the common agreement of all tb . eprovinc . es . The Moiiiteur on Tuesday announced that the French coral

fishers on the coasts of Tunis and the Algerians resident in the latter country have lately been subjected to acts of violence which seemed to imply a . responsibility on the part of the local authorities . 'The French Government therefore demanded

satisfaction , and the Bey of funis , recognising , says tho Momfeur , the justice of tho representations ( and , doubtless , also remembering the Dey of Algiers ) , hastened to express his regret , and to make reparation . The Official Gazette of Vienna published on Tuesday the anticipated statement of the revenue and expenditure of tho Austrian empire for the first nine months of the current year , and announced that the final accounts for the

year are expected to show an equilibrium , if not indeed an actual surplus . The Congress of G erman Deputies , summoned to express thegoneral feeling of Germany upon the present position of the Schleswig-tlolstein question , met at Frankfort on Monday . Resolutions were passed strongly condemning the principle just acted upon by Austria and Prussia of arranging

the political system of the Due-hies without consulting the wishes of the inhabitants . A resolution was also passed expressing the desire of tbe country for the convocation of a German Parliament . Tho cholera is declining at Malta . A change in the weather akin to that which is now taking place in England has been pxperienced in that island , and tho result

is that the malady is gradually dying out . The peasants at Zaragoza have had a " tumultuous " meeting , the object of which Avas to refuse payment of that oppressive exaction , the municipal octroi . Tbe authorities , however , promptly restored order .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

* * * All communications to be addressed to 19 , Salisburystreet , Strand , London , AA . C . EMIA ' TOJI . —In the report of the Lodge of Harmony ( No . 220 ) , Lancanshire \ AJest , in our last week's issue , for " A meeting of the Lodge of Harmony , " -id " A meeting of several of the members of the Lodge of Harmony . "

C . D . —1 . Past Grand Officers should wear the regalia of their rank at all times , full or undress as they please . There is no law to prevent their wearing the plain blue . 2 . Is answered with No 1 . Past Grand Officers are entitled to wear the jewel in lodges aud chapters . 3 . Past Masters should always wear collar and jewel . CD . is recommended to study the " Book

of Constitutions j" he will find all these queries answered there , aud ho will observe that when there is no law in tho by-laws of a private lodge , the " Book of Constitutions " provides the rule .