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The order for the destruction of the cows was granted . A most cruel murder has been committed in a coffeehouse in Red Lion-street , Holborn . On Monday evening a man took three children to the coffeehouse , and asked if they could have a bed . He said they were going to Australia , and wanted accommodation for a night or two . A bed was found for

the children , who next morning were downstairs by six o'clock . At eight o'clock the man returned aud breakfasted with them . At one o ' clock he gave them dinner , and in the evening they had tea . He then offered to put them to bed himself , and that night they went to sleep , the younger children in one room and the eldest in another . About nine o'clock iu the evening the

man returned and asked for a candle to go up and see the children . A candle was given to him and he went upstairs , where he remained for a short time , and then came down and went away . On Wednesday morning , as the children did not come downstairs a chambermaid went to their rooms and found them dead . They had evidently been suffocated . On inquiries

being made their father was found . He aud his wife are separated , and it is supposed that the murderer is the man with whom the wife has been living . On Thursday morning the murderer was apprehended at Ramsgate . Mrs . White and another child are dead . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —Wo have some further details of

the great naval engagement which has been fought between the fleets of Brazil and Paraguay . The action lasted nearly nine hours , and was attended with a frightful destruction of life . Although the Paraguayans appear to have had the superior force , their fleet was all hut annihilated ; but while their naval power is destroyed they are for the present maintaining their military superiority on land . We think very little about the Elban Duchies now , but there has been considerable

ill-will between Prussia and Austria on the subject of their disposal . In fact , a rupture was dreaded ; but it seems that the two Powers , like Peachum and Lockett in Gay ' s play , think they are both iu the wrong , aud are willing to make it up , by sacrificing the people of the Duchies . So the Consli-Inlionnel tells us . The Home Minister of Franco has issued a circular upon the municipal elections . In it can be described

the real nature of the French Government . Nothing can be more impartial than the sound of the words . ' ' With the Government , " says the writer , " there cannot be either vanquished or victors . We receive with the same cordiality the re-elected and newly elected . " But what do they mean ? Obviously that tho Government is independent of public opinion , as

shown at any rate in the municipal elections . In spite of the extremely backward party in Spain—the Retrogressionists —represented hy Sister Patrocinio , the amicable understanding between that Government and the King of Italy is assuming consistence . At Madrid the Marquis Tagliacanift'the Italian Ambassador , has been received by the Spanish Ministers , and is

to he admitted to the presence of Queen Isabella in due course . Some personal movements of the Royal personages who reign over Sweden and Denmark are announced . The King of Sweden has been on a visit to the King of Denmark ,- and the Baltic fleet of Russia has left Cronstadt . The Russian Princes , also , are paying visits of courtesy to the Kings on the

west shores of the Baltic . The report that , the cholera had broken out in the Danubian Principalities is contradicted from Bucharest . On Monday evening the French ironclad sqnailron left Toulon for Brest , so may be shortly expected off our coasts . It is understood that the French ironclads aud our Channel fleet will remain anchored off Spithead for a considerable time , when balls aud festivities will be given on both sides , and all the manifestations of fraternity and good wishes made . The

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authorities of Rome have just discovered in that city three workshops for the manufacture of counterfeit Spanish money , and have succeeded in arresting seventeen persons . Affairs in Spain , since Marshal O'Donnell came into office , aud the recognition of Italy by the Court of Madrid was made , seem to be progressing . In consequence of a meeting between the

Prime Minister , General Prim , and Senor Madoz , the Party of Progress has resolved to give up its policy of abstention from politics . The law lowering the franchise in Spain will add three more to every elector who existed previously . Madrid will have greatly more electors than London , in proportion to its size . Protests against the recognition of Italy continue , hu ' .

only in the ratio of one for every hundred signatures in its favour . French influence is reported to be making way in Cochin China , aud several native chiefs have submitted to it . The French Governor ' s report affirms this influence to be purely moral . '

AMERICA . —The Aorth American steam ship brings news from New l'ork to the evening of the 29 th ult . Brownlow ' s policy in Tennessee appears to he working out the results which might have been anticipated , and he has been obliged to ask for troops to " preserve order" during the approaching elections . Confederate sentiment is said to be spreading in North Carolina ; and it is reported that the hostile feeling between the Federal

soldiers and the French troops along the Mexican frontier is on the increase . It was stated at Cairo that the Mexican Government had ordered accoutrements for 35 , 000 men to be pressed at Matamoras , in consequence of the concentration of Federal troops in and about Brownsville . The Confederate cruiser Shenandoah is still afloat and carrying on her depredations

against Federal shipping , without regard to the fact of the civil war in America being brought to a close , and possibly without yet having received precise information of the termination of the war . We have accounts of her depredations from two different quarters , per a Hanoverian schooner which encountered

her in lat . 4 N . long . 1 G 7 W . and from New York . It appears that she is committing great havoc amongst the Federal whalers in the North Pacific . INDIA , CHINA , & C . —The advices from China and Japan contain nothing novel or particularly interesting , Prince Kung has not been quite reinstated in t the imperial favour , and the

Tycoon had determined to attack his refractory subject , Prince Nagato . The financial collapse which had taken place at Bombay was still occasioning great inconvenience , although it was anticipated that when the crisis was once passed there would be a speedy revival of commercial prosperity . A great battle had been fought between the rulers of Cabul and

Candahar . On the one side the heir apparent of Cabul was killedon tbe other , the brother of the Ameer . The Khan of Khokand is also said to have been killed , not in this battle , but in an attack made upon him . by a tribe of Kirghies . Russia , it appears , has not annexed Khokand , but tho ambitious Khan of Bokhara is making an attempt to absorb that territory into his own .

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