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road , the footpath being propped up hy iron posts , which it was supposed , and probably correctly , were strong enough to bear all ordinary traffic But in the course of Monday a great crowd assembled to watch the attempts of a broker to obtain forcible entrance into a house in the road ; and though there does not appear to have been any riot , yet the mere weight of so many persons congregated on the spot , broke down the prop , and the pavement , with some 20 or 30 persons standing on it , was
precipitated a height of about 40 feet . The cries , screams , and shrieks that arose from the mass were dreadful , ancl on their being rescued it was found that there ivas not one Avho was not more or less injured , and one case has ended fatally . On Wednesday another deplorable accident took place in Hackney . Two of a roAv of houses noiv being erected in Amherst-road suddenly fell in , burying the Avorkmen in the ruins . Three persons were killed on the spot , and others are expected to die , there being ten or twelve seriously iniured .
FOEEIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The French Chamber of Deputies , as was anticipated , on Saturday passed the bill for the conversion of the Four-and-a-Half per Cent . Rentes ; 226 members voted for the bill , and only 19 against it . The chief opponent to its passing was M . Kcenigswarter , a banker , Avho made a most effective speech . The French Senate haA'e since unanimously expressed their approval of the law for the conversion of the Four-and-a-Half per Cent . Rentes . The Moniteur on Saturday
officially contradicted the statement that the French Government was negociating a loan of fonr millions sterling in London , ivhich has since been put an end to , the French Government not approving of the publicity given to the affair here . M . Fould , who has the Post-office under his direction , has liberated the English journals from the Avholesale confiscation to which they have been so long subjected , and has ordered that they are to he delivered in Paris immediately after their arrival instead
of lying at the post-office till translated , examined , and reported on . The French commission appointed , under the presidency of Count Waleivski , to consider the literary and artistic copyright question , has , after three sittings , appointed a sub-committee to prepare a project of law , the basis of which is to be the principle of perpetuity . A productive gold-field has been , it is said , discovered at Cayenne . At present , capital and labour appear to he the chief requisites , but if the report be true , these will soon be forthcoming . The Italian government , which is embarrassed by the "
demonstrations" recently made in several Italian cities , has directed the provincial prefects to " employ their legitimate influence with the citizens , " for the purpose of preventing a repetition of such manifestations of tht popular desire for the acquisition of Rome as the Italian capital . The Madrid Cabinet seems to have desired that General Prim , who commands the Spanish troops in Mexico , should have , or should at least be believed in Spain to havethe supreme control over the allied expedition .
, The Moniteur , however , takes care that the French army and people shall not suppose that a Spanish general has been entrusted with any authority over French troops , and declares that General Prim Avill not take the supreme command , and that " each general will preserve the integrity of his command . " The Madrid Cabinet , though occupied with schemes of intervention and perhaps conquest in Mexico , seems to be devoting
some little attention to the payment of Spanish d ^ hts—a subject with which Castilian chivalry has hitherto seldom deigned to concern itself . France has consented to fix the amount of the Spanish debt of 3823 atthe sum of 20 , 000 , 000 francs . The decree for the settlement of the debt is said to have received the Queen ' s signature . The Minister of Finance is also activel y engaged in the settlement of the redeemable debt . A somewhat severe engagement is reported to have taken place between the Turks and the Montenegrins , in which the loss Avas very heavy on both sides . The Montenegrins are said to have numbered 3000 men .
AMEEICA . —Advices haye been received from New York to the 1 st inst . There v , ere still fears that a European intervention was meditated , hut these happily have no foundation . The New York Times also put an unfavourable construction upon the nonpublication of Mr . Seward ' s first despatch to Mr . Adams . General Beauregard has left for Kentucky with 15 , 000 men , and Jefferson Davis takes the command at Manassas . The army of the Potomac was still in tents . General Burnside ' s expedition was in Pimlico Sound . It intended to cut the railroad communication between Carolina and Virginia , in order to restrict the movements of the Confederates . The Confederates
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had ordered out the North Carolina militia , to be prepared to meet the expedition . The Federals are said to have occupied Key AVest , in Florida . The victory of General Schcepf over General Zollicoffer , in Kentucky , is said to have effectuall y crushed the rebellion in Kentucky , and that the remainder of the campaign will be fought in Tennessee . General Arthur had laid before the Legislature of the State of New York his plan for the defences of New York harbour , for the safety of
which fears had arisen during the late chance of a rupture Avith England . The steamer Mauritius , with British troops on hoard , put into St . John's , Newfoundland , for coal , on the 24 th nit ., having experienced dreadful weather , and heen obliged to throw many horses overboard . The City of Neio York steamer , laden with 200 , 000 dols ., struck on the outer bar , and Avas lost . The New York press are defending the barbarious act of sinking vessels at the bar of harbours . Two divisions of the Federal army are moving on Soringfielcl .
To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
R . A . —A Master is elected to a lodge—but not unanimously He is at the next meeting installed . He passes over senior brethren more conversant than himself with the ritual—from ill-feeling—and places in office brethren one month raised . He had previously stated his intentions in consequence of several senior brethren giving their votes to a man and a
brother deemed more Avorthy as the representative of K . S . is there any appeal against this wilful disregard of the solemn obligations of a Master elect , wherein jealousy , anger , and revenge are especially enjoined to be eschewed ?—[ The only appeal would be to the Board of General Purposes , which would interfere if the Master was proved to have acted
correctly . If he has acted to the best of his judgment , as he would no doubt plead , the board would not interfere . ] J . T . —The address sent is an advertisement , hut we have no objection to announce that tthe Mallet and Chisel Lodge ( No . 5 ) of Mark Masons ( Leigh-Carnarvon Constitution ) is to be re-opened at the Three Tuns , Borough , on the 26 th inst . '
A BEOTHEE . —A Provincial Grand Master cannot legally appoint brethren who are not Masters or Past Masters , AVardens or Past AVardens of private lodges , to the office of D . Prov . G . Master , Prov . G . Wardens , or Prov . G . Deacons . Below these offices there does not appear to be any restriction . C . H . —Is thanked . ' It is impossible to keep the Remembrancer
correct if the Secretarys or members of lodges are too lazy to give us notice of any changes which take place in their times ' of meeting , and it will certainly not suit us to visit every lodge or Lodge of Instruction to see whether the dates and places we give are correct .
J . B . —The question is not lost sight of , you will receive a letter from us by post most probably on Monday . S . T . —We have not abandoned our series of biographies of Masonic Contemporaries , one will probably appear next week . You shall also hear direct from us . A . D . L . —Too late for this wrek .
S . S . —AA e cannot give you any such promise . E . W . S . will hear from us on Monday . We owe him an apology for having neglected earlier to answer his communication . R . E . X . —Your communication of the 20 th January has not heen forgotten .
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The Week,
road , the footpath being propped up hy iron posts , which it was supposed , and probably correctly , were strong enough to bear all ordinary traffic But in the course of Monday a great crowd assembled to watch the attempts of a broker to obtain forcible entrance into a house in the road ; and though there does not appear to have been any riot , yet the mere weight of so many persons congregated on the spot , broke down the prop , and the pavement , with some 20 or 30 persons standing on it , was
precipitated a height of about 40 feet . The cries , screams , and shrieks that arose from the mass were dreadful , ancl on their being rescued it was found that there ivas not one Avho was not more or less injured , and one case has ended fatally . On Wednesday another deplorable accident took place in Hackney . Two of a roAv of houses noiv being erected in Amherst-road suddenly fell in , burying the Avorkmen in the ruins . Three persons were killed on the spot , and others are expected to die , there being ten or twelve seriously iniured .
FOEEIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The French Chamber of Deputies , as was anticipated , on Saturday passed the bill for the conversion of the Four-and-a-Half per Cent . Rentes ; 226 members voted for the bill , and only 19 against it . The chief opponent to its passing was M . Kcenigswarter , a banker , Avho made a most effective speech . The French Senate haA'e since unanimously expressed their approval of the law for the conversion of the Four-and-a-Half per Cent . Rentes . The Moniteur on Saturday
officially contradicted the statement that the French Government was negociating a loan of fonr millions sterling in London , ivhich has since been put an end to , the French Government not approving of the publicity given to the affair here . M . Fould , who has the Post-office under his direction , has liberated the English journals from the Avholesale confiscation to which they have been so long subjected , and has ordered that they are to he delivered in Paris immediately after their arrival instead
of lying at the post-office till translated , examined , and reported on . The French commission appointed , under the presidency of Count Waleivski , to consider the literary and artistic copyright question , has , after three sittings , appointed a sub-committee to prepare a project of law , the basis of which is to be the principle of perpetuity . A productive gold-field has been , it is said , discovered at Cayenne . At present , capital and labour appear to he the chief requisites , but if the report be true , these will soon be forthcoming . The Italian government , which is embarrassed by the "
demonstrations" recently made in several Italian cities , has directed the provincial prefects to " employ their legitimate influence with the citizens , " for the purpose of preventing a repetition of such manifestations of tht popular desire for the acquisition of Rome as the Italian capital . The Madrid Cabinet seems to have desired that General Prim , who commands the Spanish troops in Mexico , should have , or should at least be believed in Spain to havethe supreme control over the allied expedition .
, The Moniteur , however , takes care that the French army and people shall not suppose that a Spanish general has been entrusted with any authority over French troops , and declares that General Prim Avill not take the supreme command , and that " each general will preserve the integrity of his command . " The Madrid Cabinet , though occupied with schemes of intervention and perhaps conquest in Mexico , seems to be devoting
some little attention to the payment of Spanish d ^ hts—a subject with which Castilian chivalry has hitherto seldom deigned to concern itself . France has consented to fix the amount of the Spanish debt of 3823 atthe sum of 20 , 000 , 000 francs . The decree for the settlement of the debt is said to have received the Queen ' s signature . The Minister of Finance is also activel y engaged in the settlement of the redeemable debt . A somewhat severe engagement is reported to have taken place between the Turks and the Montenegrins , in which the loss Avas very heavy on both sides . The Montenegrins are said to have numbered 3000 men .
AMEEICA . —Advices haye been received from New York to the 1 st inst . There v , ere still fears that a European intervention was meditated , hut these happily have no foundation . The New York Times also put an unfavourable construction upon the nonpublication of Mr . Seward ' s first despatch to Mr . Adams . General Beauregard has left for Kentucky with 15 , 000 men , and Jefferson Davis takes the command at Manassas . The army of the Potomac was still in tents . General Burnside ' s expedition was in Pimlico Sound . It intended to cut the railroad communication between Carolina and Virginia , in order to restrict the movements of the Confederates . The Confederates
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had ordered out the North Carolina militia , to be prepared to meet the expedition . The Federals are said to have occupied Key AVest , in Florida . The victory of General Schcepf over General Zollicoffer , in Kentucky , is said to have effectuall y crushed the rebellion in Kentucky , and that the remainder of the campaign will be fought in Tennessee . General Arthur had laid before the Legislature of the State of New York his plan for the defences of New York harbour , for the safety of
which fears had arisen during the late chance of a rupture Avith England . The steamer Mauritius , with British troops on hoard , put into St . John's , Newfoundland , for coal , on the 24 th nit ., having experienced dreadful weather , and heen obliged to throw many horses overboard . The City of Neio York steamer , laden with 200 , 000 dols ., struck on the outer bar , and Avas lost . The New York press are defending the barbarious act of sinking vessels at the bar of harbours . Two divisions of the Federal army are moving on Soringfielcl .
To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
R . A . —A Master is elected to a lodge—but not unanimously He is at the next meeting installed . He passes over senior brethren more conversant than himself with the ritual—from ill-feeling—and places in office brethren one month raised . He had previously stated his intentions in consequence of several senior brethren giving their votes to a man and a
brother deemed more Avorthy as the representative of K . S . is there any appeal against this wilful disregard of the solemn obligations of a Master elect , wherein jealousy , anger , and revenge are especially enjoined to be eschewed ?—[ The only appeal would be to the Board of General Purposes , which would interfere if the Master was proved to have acted
correctly . If he has acted to the best of his judgment , as he would no doubt plead , the board would not interfere . ] J . T . —The address sent is an advertisement , hut we have no objection to announce that tthe Mallet and Chisel Lodge ( No . 5 ) of Mark Masons ( Leigh-Carnarvon Constitution ) is to be re-opened at the Three Tuns , Borough , on the 26 th inst . '
A BEOTHEE . —A Provincial Grand Master cannot legally appoint brethren who are not Masters or Past Masters , AVardens or Past AVardens of private lodges , to the office of D . Prov . G . Master , Prov . G . Wardens , or Prov . G . Deacons . Below these offices there does not appear to be any restriction . C . H . —Is thanked . ' It is impossible to keep the Remembrancer
correct if the Secretarys or members of lodges are too lazy to give us notice of any changes which take place in their times ' of meeting , and it will certainly not suit us to visit every lodge or Lodge of Instruction to see whether the dates and places we give are correct .
J . B . —The question is not lost sight of , you will receive a letter from us by post most probably on Monday . S . T . —We have not abandoned our series of biographies of Masonic Contemporaries , one will probably appear next week . You shall also hear direct from us . A . D . L . —Too late for this wrek .
S . S . —AA e cannot give you any such promise . E . W . S . will hear from us on Monday . We owe him an apology for having neglected earlier to answer his communication . R . E . X . —Your communication of the 20 th January has not heen forgotten .