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The Week.
since the convention become more determined than ever to maintain before the Diet the claims of the Duke of Augustenburg to the sovereignty of the Duchies . At a sitting of the Diet the representatives of Saxe AVeimar , Saxe Coburg , and Saxe Meiniugen protested against the convention , and moved that the settlement of the Schleswig-Holstein question should be submitted to an " austragal" tribunal ;
in other words a court of arbitration chosen by the Federation . The Diet , with its usual promptitude , postponed its decision on the motion for eight weeks . Perhaps the minor German Powers may be inspired with fresh courage by the indications which the Moniteur affords of France ' s dissatisfaction with the Gastein arrangements . The Russian who made a murderous attack some months ago on tho Secretary of the Russian Embassy in Paris was tried on AVednesday before the Assizes of the Seine
, found guilty , and sentenced to penal servitude for life . The Emperor Napoleon loses no opportunity of making known bis good will towards Spain . In an audience which he granted to the new Ambassador from the Court of Madrid on Thursday he expressed the great value which ho attached to the Franco-Spanish alliance . Tho two nations , he said , had no rivalries , and their interests were identical .- Count Walewski has
resigned his place as a Senator , and the resignation has been accepted . This was a matter of course , for the Count has been elected a member -of tho Legislative Chamber in order to qualify himself for the office of President of that Chamber , vacant since the death of the Duke de Morr . y , —¦—The King and Queen of Portugal are about to visit Italy , and the King's fatherDon Fernandois to act as vegent in their absence . It
, , is stated that the determination of the King to travel abroad , and tho nomination of his father as regent , have excited considerable surprise in Portugal . The Portuguese Minister for Foreign Affairs has been at the pains , " of formally denying in the Cortes the report that Prince Amadeus , Victor Emmanuel's son , had come to Lisbon to represent his father at the baptism of the infant prince , in consequence of the Papal Nuncio's
refusal to accept the King of Italy as godfather to tho child . Tho Emperor Napoleon has been requested by the King of Portugal to become godfather to the infant prince , and has given his consent . Such , at least , is the report cm-rent in
Paris . Tho Belgian Government has issued a decree prohibiting the importation of cattle by sea or land into Belgium , in order to prevent the spread of the disease in the Netherlands . Copenhagen telegrams announce the arrival in that city of the great Schleswig deputation ; 2 , 200 Schleswigers are said to have poured in , and they were received with the utmost enthusiasm . They are all to be lodged in the houses of private inhabitants of the city . It is believed in Florence
and also in Rome that the gradual evacuation of this latter city by the French troops will begin immediately . A short time ago the Council General of the Seine and Marne passed a series of resolutions declaring that it was desirable the law should give Councils General tho power of deciding contested departmental elections . It was also suggested that it would beadvisable to give to the Councils General the right of nominating- their
chief officers . AA e now learn by telegram from Paris that an Imperial decree has been issued annulling these resolutions , on the ground that they exceed the limit of the powers given to the Councils General . —•—Joseph Bonaparte , Prince of Musignano , has died at Rome . —r—The express train from Paris to Bourdeaux on Saturday evening ran off the rail near Augouleme . No serious accidenthoweveroccurred . The Foreign Office has
, , received a despatch announcing the release of Mr . Consul Cameron , 'one of the English prisoners in Abyssinia . No details have reached us yet ; only the bare fact is stated . AVe trust it may prove to be true . The King of Prussia is expected in Berlin on Thursday , after having had an interview with her Majesty Queen Alctoria at Darmstadt . Is her Majesty going to say a word for her relativethe Duke of
Angusten-, burg ? The Princess Anna Murat does not seem to have got oil' quite so easily as was first announced from the Neni ' chatel accident . It appears that one of her eyes received some injury , which at one time looked threatening . Now , however , it is believed that the consequences will not be serious or permanent . —— -The Schleswigers , who are visiting Copenhagen , were entertained at a great banquet on Tuesday . No less than 5 , 000
guests were invited . The enthusiasm is reported as very great . During the banquet a congratulatory telegram was received from 1 , 000 inhabitants of Flensburg . The difficulties between Spain and Italy seem to have bec-n all cleared away . The
The Week.
Queen ot Spain is to receive the Marquis of Tagliacarne in the capacity of Ambassador of Italy immediately , in order that he may officially present Prince Amadeus to her Majesty . A Belgrade telegram states that the report of an attempt on the life of Prince Michel , of Servia is , wholly unfounded . AMERICA . —The Cuba has arrived , bringing news from New York to the morning of the 23 rd of August . Perhaps tho most important item of the news is that the Mississippi State
Convention has passed the Constitutional Amendment for the abolition of slaveiy . This is a most gratifying fact . In New York the financial excitement had subsided , and business was going on as usual . General Wirz , who commanded at Andersonville , tho depot where Federal prisoners were so barbarously used , was brought to trial before a military commission at AVasliington on the 21 st . He was charged with murderand
, with conspiring along with Lee , Winder , Seddon , and otheis to destroy the lives of Federal soldiers . The court adjourned on the 22 nd sine die , and this led to the impression that the charge of conspiracy was about to be abandoned . The prisoner ' s counsel had protested against the jurisdiction of the commission . General Sclienck , in a speech which he made , stated that President Johnson informed him that the present Governments
in the South were intended as experiments to see whether the people were willing to fall into their proper position under the Federal Government . INDIA , CHINA , & C . —A Bombay telegram of the Sth ult , brings good news . The ruler of Bbootan , for tho invasion of which territory , with its natural fortifications iu the form of mountain fastnesses , great preparations have been made by the Indian Government , has made overtures of peace , and the war
is not likely to be resumed . The Cape town papers bring some particulars of the reported invasion of Natal by the Basutos , between whom and the inhabitants of the Orange River Free State the telegram some time since announced the outbreak of hostilities . It turns out , as wc anticipated , that there has been no invasion of Natal , although bodies of Basutos had appeared on the frontier aud horribly frightened tho colonists . Moshcshthe Basuto leaderenergeticallrepudiates
, , y all intent to act aggressively against the English settlers ; but the Natal authorities were active in defensive preparations . From the detailed India news brought by the Calcutta papers it would appear that the overtures of the Rajah of Bbootan for peace , whatever their nature was , have not stopped preparations for the invasion of that State . Tho troops for the purpose have been detailed . An enormous amount
of sickness [ prevails among those unfortunate officers and meu who compose the garrisons of the forts already in our hands . The Bombay papers report the progress of tho Russians in the semi-civilised territories northwest of the peninsula . A telegram from Melbourne , under date July 26 ' , gives a very disheartening account of affairs iu New- Zealand . The Maories under Rewi , it is said , manifest an intention to continue the
struggle . They have seized the crew of the cutter Bomta , and the fate of the unfortunate men was unknown when the despatch left . To these troubles must be added others relating to the government . Efforts were being made to overthrow the Ministry . Mr . Fox had resigned his seat in the Assembly and left for England . As if all this did not make enough ill news , the last paragraph of the telegram tells us that two vessels , the Juno and the steamer liubg , have been lost on Hokitika Bar .
To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
% ® All communications to be addressed to 19 , Salisburystreet , Strand , London , AV . C . R . F . G . —Thanks for your communication . AVe have waited the time you advised and received , on Thursday lust , the particulars of the proceedings , which we have inserted in our present issue . S . S . —Tho principles , privileges , and duties of Freemasonry are best set forth in Preston's " Illustrations" iu How ' s
, "Freemasons' Manual , " and in Oliver's "Symbol of Glory . " The first named has long been the . text book of the fraternity , but it has no reference to anything beyond the symbolic degrees . Bro . How ' s volume comprises not only all that is valuable iu Preston's , but also a full account of the historic degrees , or those connected with the new covenant . Dr Oliver ' s work is an embodiment of the Christian principles that nsrvade tho institution of Freemasnnrv .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Week.
since the convention become more determined than ever to maintain before the Diet the claims of the Duke of Augustenburg to the sovereignty of the Duchies . At a sitting of the Diet the representatives of Saxe AVeimar , Saxe Coburg , and Saxe Meiniugen protested against the convention , and moved that the settlement of the Schleswig-Holstein question should be submitted to an " austragal" tribunal ;
in other words a court of arbitration chosen by the Federation . The Diet , with its usual promptitude , postponed its decision on the motion for eight weeks . Perhaps the minor German Powers may be inspired with fresh courage by the indications which the Moniteur affords of France ' s dissatisfaction with the Gastein arrangements . The Russian who made a murderous attack some months ago on tho Secretary of the Russian Embassy in Paris was tried on AVednesday before the Assizes of the Seine
, found guilty , and sentenced to penal servitude for life . The Emperor Napoleon loses no opportunity of making known bis good will towards Spain . In an audience which he granted to the new Ambassador from the Court of Madrid on Thursday he expressed the great value which ho attached to the Franco-Spanish alliance . Tho two nations , he said , had no rivalries , and their interests were identical .- Count Walewski has
resigned his place as a Senator , and the resignation has been accepted . This was a matter of course , for the Count has been elected a member -of tho Legislative Chamber in order to qualify himself for the office of President of that Chamber , vacant since the death of the Duke de Morr . y , —¦—The King and Queen of Portugal are about to visit Italy , and the King's fatherDon Fernandois to act as vegent in their absence . It
, , is stated that the determination of the King to travel abroad , and tho nomination of his father as regent , have excited considerable surprise in Portugal . The Portuguese Minister for Foreign Affairs has been at the pains , " of formally denying in the Cortes the report that Prince Amadeus , Victor Emmanuel's son , had come to Lisbon to represent his father at the baptism of the infant prince , in consequence of the Papal Nuncio's
refusal to accept the King of Italy as godfather to tho child . Tho Emperor Napoleon has been requested by the King of Portugal to become godfather to the infant prince , and has given his consent . Such , at least , is the report cm-rent in
Paris . Tho Belgian Government has issued a decree prohibiting the importation of cattle by sea or land into Belgium , in order to prevent the spread of the disease in the Netherlands . Copenhagen telegrams announce the arrival in that city of the great Schleswig deputation ; 2 , 200 Schleswigers are said to have poured in , and they were received with the utmost enthusiasm . They are all to be lodged in the houses of private inhabitants of the city . It is believed in Florence
and also in Rome that the gradual evacuation of this latter city by the French troops will begin immediately . A short time ago the Council General of the Seine and Marne passed a series of resolutions declaring that it was desirable the law should give Councils General tho power of deciding contested departmental elections . It was also suggested that it would beadvisable to give to the Councils General the right of nominating- their
chief officers . AA e now learn by telegram from Paris that an Imperial decree has been issued annulling these resolutions , on the ground that they exceed the limit of the powers given to the Councils General . —•—Joseph Bonaparte , Prince of Musignano , has died at Rome . —r—The express train from Paris to Bourdeaux on Saturday evening ran off the rail near Augouleme . No serious accidenthoweveroccurred . The Foreign Office has
, , received a despatch announcing the release of Mr . Consul Cameron , 'one of the English prisoners in Abyssinia . No details have reached us yet ; only the bare fact is stated . AVe trust it may prove to be true . The King of Prussia is expected in Berlin on Thursday , after having had an interview with her Majesty Queen Alctoria at Darmstadt . Is her Majesty going to say a word for her relativethe Duke of
Angusten-, burg ? The Princess Anna Murat does not seem to have got oil' quite so easily as was first announced from the Neni ' chatel accident . It appears that one of her eyes received some injury , which at one time looked threatening . Now , however , it is believed that the consequences will not be serious or permanent . —— -The Schleswigers , who are visiting Copenhagen , were entertained at a great banquet on Tuesday . No less than 5 , 000
guests were invited . The enthusiasm is reported as very great . During the banquet a congratulatory telegram was received from 1 , 000 inhabitants of Flensburg . The difficulties between Spain and Italy seem to have bec-n all cleared away . The
The Week.
Queen ot Spain is to receive the Marquis of Tagliacarne in the capacity of Ambassador of Italy immediately , in order that he may officially present Prince Amadeus to her Majesty . A Belgrade telegram states that the report of an attempt on the life of Prince Michel , of Servia is , wholly unfounded . AMERICA . —The Cuba has arrived , bringing news from New York to the morning of the 23 rd of August . Perhaps tho most important item of the news is that the Mississippi State
Convention has passed the Constitutional Amendment for the abolition of slaveiy . This is a most gratifying fact . In New York the financial excitement had subsided , and business was going on as usual . General Wirz , who commanded at Andersonville , tho depot where Federal prisoners were so barbarously used , was brought to trial before a military commission at AVasliington on the 21 st . He was charged with murderand
, with conspiring along with Lee , Winder , Seddon , and otheis to destroy the lives of Federal soldiers . The court adjourned on the 22 nd sine die , and this led to the impression that the charge of conspiracy was about to be abandoned . The prisoner ' s counsel had protested against the jurisdiction of the commission . General Sclienck , in a speech which he made , stated that President Johnson informed him that the present Governments
in the South were intended as experiments to see whether the people were willing to fall into their proper position under the Federal Government . INDIA , CHINA , & C . —A Bombay telegram of the Sth ult , brings good news . The ruler of Bbootan , for tho invasion of which territory , with its natural fortifications iu the form of mountain fastnesses , great preparations have been made by the Indian Government , has made overtures of peace , and the war
is not likely to be resumed . The Cape town papers bring some particulars of the reported invasion of Natal by the Basutos , between whom and the inhabitants of the Orange River Free State the telegram some time since announced the outbreak of hostilities . It turns out , as wc anticipated , that there has been no invasion of Natal , although bodies of Basutos had appeared on the frontier aud horribly frightened tho colonists . Moshcshthe Basuto leaderenergeticallrepudiates
, , y all intent to act aggressively against the English settlers ; but the Natal authorities were active in defensive preparations . From the detailed India news brought by the Calcutta papers it would appear that the overtures of the Rajah of Bbootan for peace , whatever their nature was , have not stopped preparations for the invasion of that State . Tho troops for the purpose have been detailed . An enormous amount
of sickness [ prevails among those unfortunate officers and meu who compose the garrisons of the forts already in our hands . The Bombay papers report the progress of tho Russians in the semi-civilised territories northwest of the peninsula . A telegram from Melbourne , under date July 26 ' , gives a very disheartening account of affairs iu New- Zealand . The Maories under Rewi , it is said , manifest an intention to continue the
struggle . They have seized the crew of the cutter Bomta , and the fate of the unfortunate men was unknown when the despatch left . To these troubles must be added others relating to the government . Efforts were being made to overthrow the Ministry . Mr . Fox had resigned his seat in the Assembly and left for England . As if all this did not make enough ill news , the last paragraph of the telegram tells us that two vessels , the Juno and the steamer liubg , have been lost on Hokitika Bar .
To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
% ® All communications to be addressed to 19 , Salisburystreet , Strand , London , AV . C . R . F . G . —Thanks for your communication . AVe have waited the time you advised and received , on Thursday lust , the particulars of the proceedings , which we have inserted in our present issue . S . S . —Tho principles , privileges , and duties of Freemasonry are best set forth in Preston's " Illustrations" iu How ' s
, "Freemasons' Manual , " and in Oliver's "Symbol of Glory . " The first named has long been the . text book of the fraternity , but it has no reference to anything beyond the symbolic degrees . Bro . How ' s volume comprises not only all that is valuable iu Preston's , but also a full account of the historic degrees , or those connected with the new covenant . Dr Oliver ' s work is an embodiment of the Christian principles that nsrvade tho institution of Freemasnnrv .