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varied as to the facts . In the end the magistrate decided on committing Gregorio , or Mogni , as his surname appears to be , for trial on the charge of wilful murder . On AA ' ednesday , David Roberts , Avho described himself as a weaver , was charged with being one of the burglars who broke open the premises of Mr . AValker , the jeweller , of Cornhill , and plundered that gentleman of property to the value of £ 5 , 000 or

£ 6 , 000 . Some of the stolen property was found on him . After some witnesses had been examined , he was remanded . The police of Manchester have in custody seven persons who are charged with having hecn concerned in the recent robbery of jewellery in that city . None of the stolen property has been recovered , as at present the only evidence against the prisoners

is supplied by the housebreaking implements seized at the house where the first capture was made . It is alleged that a part of a broken drill has been recovered which corresponds in a remarkable manner with a portion of an implement left by the thieves in Mr . Howard's shop . Six of the prisoners were on Tuesday brought before tho City Magistrates , and remanded

after a formal statement of the case against them . Tho seventh prisoner , a woman named Barker , has given birth to a child since her apprehension , and is now at tho AA oi-kliouse . Victor Townley , who , ifc will be remembered , murdered Miss Goodwin , and afterwards escaped hanging by a singular quirk in the then existing state of the law , committed suicide in

prison on Sunday morning . He was returning from chapel , when he leaped over the staircase and fell a considerable height , receiving a concussion on the brain . He lingered insensible till eight o ' clock in the evening , when he died . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The Emperor of the French opened the Chambers at one o ' clock on AVednesday- in a speech which referred more to domestic affairs and less to foreign policy than

most of its predecessors . It alluded of course to the Italian Convention , to Mexico , and to Algeria , but said nothing beyond that which might have been expected as a matter of course . No allusion whatever was made to the American struggle . Au indirect and very mild rebuke was administered to the contumacious bishops anel clergy . The speech promised many important domestic reforms , particularly in tho

decentralisation of administrative power , tho endowment of municipal bodies with something like real self-government , and the release of labour from injurious restrictions . The Emperor referred in terms of great gratification to the increase in the foreign commerce of France , which has resulted thus far from the liberal policy he has followed . The tone of the speech is entirely

Pacific . On Saturday the Court of Cassation at Paris dismissed the appeal of the Thirteen . The sentence passed on them will therefore be now enforced . Some of the Paris journals report that the King of tho Belgians is seriously ill . A grancl ball was given by Prince Napoleon on Saturday evening , to which invitations to members of the Paris press

were numerous , the representatives of several foreign journals being included in the list of guests . Tho gathering was honoured by the presence of the Emperor and the Empress . One item of expenditure in connection with the feteflowers for decoration—is set down at £ 100 . ——The Spanish Government has approved of the publication of the

Encyclical , excepting those portions which are contrary to the Royal prerogative—an exception which extends to a largo portion of the document . A decree issued by King Victor Emmanuel authorises the publication of the Pope's " encyclical " throughout the kingdom of Italy , but reserves the rights of tho State and Italy , anel declines to admit the validity of those passages which are opposed to the institutions and laws of Italy . Iu a rescript addressed to the nobility of Moscow , the Em-

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peror Alexander says that the reforms already proposed or effected are a sufficient proof of his desire for improvement . But no subject has a right to anticipate his resolutions , and no class is entitled to speak in the name of others . Such a breach of the law can only retard his plans ; anel he expects that such obstacles will never again be offered by his faithful nobles . ¦ "

Instructions for tho re-organisation of the kingdom of Poland " have been issued by the Russian Cabinet , and their execution will be tantamount to the complete incorporation of the kingdom with tlie Russian empire . The office of Governor-General of Poland is to be abolished ; and the different branches of the administration are to be departments of the ministries afc Sfc . Petersburg .

AMERICA . —The Canada , from New York , brought advices to the 3 rd inst ., which state that Vice-President Stevens , Judge Campbell , and Mr . Hunter , of Virginia , had arrived at Fortress Monroe , and asked permission to visit Washington . Their mission was to discuss peace unofficially . Mr . Seward had gone to meet them , and President Lincoln had also leffc .

for Fortress Monroe , it is said , in consequence of a telegram from Mr . Seward . Tho Hibernian , arrived from Portland , brings a clay ' s later news from New York . The most important part of it is that the peace negociations have failed . President Lincoln anel Mr . Seward had returned to Washington , aud the Confederate Commissioners to Richmond . The press , both North and South , speculate on what took place . '

The Richmond journals profess to bo especially anxious for the war to go on . The Republican party in the Federal Congress is represented as being opposed to the peace negociations . Fernando Wood had made a strong war speech . The amendment of the constitution abolishing slavery had passed Congress . The Maryland , Pennsylvania , anel Massachusetts

Legislatures , and the New York Assembly had ratified the constitutional amendment as to slavery . In tho Senate Mr . Sumner had introduced resolutions declaring the consent of the rebel States to the measures to he unnecessary Avhile they are in rebellion . The war news is nofc important . Sherman was marching into South Carolina . At Wilmington there was

no change . INDIA , CHINA , AND AUSTBALIA— Tho papers to hand from India , China , and Australia , contain little besides some details of the news already received through the telegraph . The decapitation of two men as accomplices in tbe assassination of Major Baldwin and Lieutenant Bird is considered as a sign of

a elesire on the part of the Japanese Government to conform to the usages of civilised life . The two French sailors who were killed at Yokohama are said to have been drunk and riotousnevertheless , the act betrays the ill-will the lower orders of the Japanese bear towards . foreigners . Tranquillity was completely restored in China , and little or nothing is heard of the remains of the rebels .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

SEC . —The advertiser is either an impostor or a perjurer . It is nofc more than three years since a well-known Masonic jeweller ( now deceased ) was reprimanded by the Board of General Purposes for selling so-called rituals . The circular you have forwarded us shall be laid before the Board in clue course . It . S . T . —We will inquire .

JUDEX . —Is ifc fair to take the opinion of the G . Sec . on any given subject , and then to ask for ours ? You have not given us the G . Seo . 's reply ; but we have , under the circumstances , a rig hfc fco suppose ifc does nofc agree with your own view . We shall not , iu this instance , join issue with the G . Secretary .