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Napoleon and the Princess Clotilde have arrived in Lisbon , where they intend , it is stated , to remain for a fortnight . A curious piece of news comes from Augsburgb . It is that tho ex-Queen of Naples has withdrawn from the world and entered the Ursnline Convent in that city . A quarrel with her husband , Francis II ., is said to be tbe cause of Queen Marie taking this
step , but it may be , as suggested by our Paris correspondent , that tbe ex-Queen has merely made a temporary devotional retreat into the convent . Mazzini denies that ho had in any Avay influenced Garibaldi in his recent movements , asserting that the latter is no man ' s instrument . Mazzini also denies that be has over alluded or Avritten a word tending to encourage
attempts against any man ' s life . -The Italian Government has published its estimates of receipts and expenditure for the year 18 G 3 . Tho budget shows a deficit of about £ 12 , 800 , 000 for 1 SG 3 . Tha Upper House of th . Prussian Legislature has set itself in direct opposition to tho Chamber of Deputies . At its sitting ou Saturday it rejected the Budget as amended by
the latter body by a majority of 150 to 17 , and followed up that step by adopting the second part of Herr Von Arnim-Boytzenbin-g's amendment for the adoption of the Budget of the Government by a majority of 114 to 44 . The Ministers voted with the majority on the first , but were absent on the second division . The President opened the meeting of the
Chamber of Deputies on Monday by communicating the vote of tbe Upper House , and then moved that the Chamber adjourn for an hoar to enable the Committee on the Budget to report on the two resolutions which had been proposed declaring the vote to be unconstitutional . The motion was unanimously agreed to , and after the lapse of an hour the committee revjovtecl a resolution declaring the vote of tho Upper House for the acceptance of the Budget brought forward by the
Government to be opposed to tbe plain sense and words of the constitution , and upon that account mill and void ; and that tbe Government would therefore not be justified in basing any risrhts whatever on the vote . AVithout debate this resolution was unanimously adopted by the 237 members present—Herr Yon Bonin-Stolp , with five members of bis party , quitting the bouse and protesting against it . Thus driven to bay , tbe
President of the Council read a royal message declaring his Majesty ' s intention to close the parliamentary session at three o'clock . Accordingly at that hour the Chambers were closed by-Count Bismark-Schoenhausen reading the royal speech , in which the King intimated his intention of carrying out the Budget as it was originally laid before the Lower House . . The King of
Italy has commuted tbe sentence of death passed upon tbe deserters from the Royal army into one of perpetual imprisonment . The health of Garibaldi is greatly improved . A 3 IBEICA . ' —Tbe military news from America is not of much importance . General M'Clellan has been employed in making an estimate of his late losses and in watching the enemy .
M'Clellan bad advanced three miles towards Harper ' s Ferry , cautiously feeling his way . Firing hacl been heard in the direction of Leesburg , and fighting was expected near AVinehester . In an official despatch , General M'Clellan puts the total loss of tbe Federals in the two great battles iu Maryland at 14 , 700 in killed , wounded , and missing . He thinks it may be fairly
estimated that the Confederates lost 30 , 000 of their best troops . In Kentucky the Confederates had burned Augusta , General Buell had marched a large portion of his army towards the interior of the state , and tbe Federals had evacuate ' d Cumberland Gap , first rendering it impassable , and marched in the direction of Ohio to join Buell . Rumours were current that commissioners from tbe Southern Confederacy to make proposals for peace were on their ivay to Washington . Though not confirmed , it seems very
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probable that some proposition will be made , as it has been admitted in the Confederate Congress that the first proposals must corns from the South . President Lincoln ' s emancipation proclamation is opposed by the Baltimore and Louisville press . The Federal states were engaged in the Fall elections , and the Republicans and Democrats were making great efforts to carry
them . Many people bad taken the oath of allegiance at New Orleans , in order to escape the penalties of the Confiscation Act , Avhich General Butler intended to enforce ivith the utmost rigour . The Confederate Congress bad passed an act subjecting to tbe conscription all men between 35 and 45 years of age . There was -a Southern rumour that tbe Confederate steamer
" 290 , " which was baiit at Liverpool , bad beaten off the Federal steamer Santiago de Cuba , after a sharp engagement . The Mayor of Nov . - York had vetoed resolutions by which the Board of Aldermen declared thai emancipation would be injurious to the national welfare . INDIA . —The news from Bombay is very satisfactory . Trade
in general was flourishing , and the demand for cotton A \> as opening a mine of wealth to the western provinces , and the shipments were daily increasing . The weather had been very propitious , and cholera and other diseases which had prevailed had greatly diminished . Lord Elgin returned to Calcutta on the 30 th of August much improved in health . A telegram , it is said , had been received in India announcing an adjustment of
the quarrel between Sir Charles AVood and Mr . Liiing , ancl that the latter is to return to India in November . The notorious Rao Sahib paid the penalty of his crimes at Cawnpore , where he was executed on the 21 st of August . The Ameer , Dpst Mahomed , had suffered great losses at Bayonbaug , but was advancing ou Herat . The latter Mas well guarded , and it is again rumoured , that the Shah of Persia hacl offeree ! troops for its defence . A public meeting had been held iu Bombay for
the purpose of raising money to aid the Lancashire Relief Fund , and a sum of £ 15 , 000 Avas subscribed on tbe spot . Rain hacl fallen plentifully in the Deccan , and the apprehensions of a famine had subsided .
To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
A PAST MASTEE . —1 . A Master of a Scottish Lodge being appointed a Prov . Grand Master , should not have resigned his Mastership until the usual period for the appointment of bis successor . Such resignation , and tbe consequent elections of Master and Wardens Avere all irregular . 2 . A lodge in Scotland can initiate candidates at IS without dispensation . It is a very recent law . 3 . Should the Master of an English Lodge dieresi or leave the country in which
, gn , such lodge is held , the lodge cannot go to the election of a Master until the usual time . 4 . AVe have no doubt that an English Past Master may instal the Master of a Scottish Lodge . LEX . —We are not aware of any law which forbids a Prov . Grand Officer wearing his circular jewel suspended from the purple collar in a Royal Arch Chapter , together Avith his
Royal Arch clothing , though Ave should think it very unusual . R . E . X . —AA e should hold that the year of office of tbe first Master of a lodge appointed by the warrant expired from the date when the lodge was first constituted under dispensation after the granting of the warrant , and not from the date of the consecration four and five months later . A STAEFOEDSHIEE BEOTHEE will find all tbe accommodation he
requires at Bro . Adams , Union Tavern , corner of Air-street , Regent-street , AV . An excellent Lodge of Instruction , under tbe warrant of the Robert Burns , No . 25 , meets on Friday evening ; and a Chapter of Instruction , under the sanction of No . 19 , on the Saturday , so that a brother may obtain all the comforts of a home and instruction under the same roof . P . P . does not make himself sufficiently understood for ns to
reply to him . ANCIEXT AND ACCENTED RITE . —The report of the proceedings at tbe meeting of the members of this body on Wednesday last are necessarily postponed .
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The Week.
Napoleon and the Princess Clotilde have arrived in Lisbon , where they intend , it is stated , to remain for a fortnight . A curious piece of news comes from Augsburgb . It is that tho ex-Queen of Naples has withdrawn from the world and entered the Ursnline Convent in that city . A quarrel with her husband , Francis II ., is said to be tbe cause of Queen Marie taking this
step , but it may be , as suggested by our Paris correspondent , that tbe ex-Queen has merely made a temporary devotional retreat into the convent . Mazzini denies that ho had in any Avay influenced Garibaldi in his recent movements , asserting that the latter is no man ' s instrument . Mazzini also denies that be has over alluded or Avritten a word tending to encourage
attempts against any man ' s life . -The Italian Government has published its estimates of receipts and expenditure for the year 18 G 3 . Tho budget shows a deficit of about £ 12 , 800 , 000 for 1 SG 3 . Tha Upper House of th . Prussian Legislature has set itself in direct opposition to tho Chamber of Deputies . At its sitting ou Saturday it rejected the Budget as amended by
the latter body by a majority of 150 to 17 , and followed up that step by adopting the second part of Herr Von Arnim-Boytzenbin-g's amendment for the adoption of the Budget of the Government by a majority of 114 to 44 . The Ministers voted with the majority on the first , but were absent on the second division . The President opened the meeting of the
Chamber of Deputies on Monday by communicating the vote of tbe Upper House , and then moved that the Chamber adjourn for an hoar to enable the Committee on the Budget to report on the two resolutions which had been proposed declaring the vote to be unconstitutional . The motion was unanimously agreed to , and after the lapse of an hour the committee revjovtecl a resolution declaring the vote of tho Upper House for the acceptance of the Budget brought forward by the
Government to be opposed to tbe plain sense and words of the constitution , and upon that account mill and void ; and that tbe Government would therefore not be justified in basing any risrhts whatever on the vote . AVithout debate this resolution was unanimously adopted by the 237 members present—Herr Yon Bonin-Stolp , with five members of bis party , quitting the bouse and protesting against it . Thus driven to bay , tbe
President of the Council read a royal message declaring his Majesty ' s intention to close the parliamentary session at three o'clock . Accordingly at that hour the Chambers were closed by-Count Bismark-Schoenhausen reading the royal speech , in which the King intimated his intention of carrying out the Budget as it was originally laid before the Lower House . . The King of
Italy has commuted tbe sentence of death passed upon tbe deserters from the Royal army into one of perpetual imprisonment . The health of Garibaldi is greatly improved . A 3 IBEICA . ' —Tbe military news from America is not of much importance . General M'Clellan has been employed in making an estimate of his late losses and in watching the enemy .
M'Clellan bad advanced three miles towards Harper ' s Ferry , cautiously feeling his way . Firing hacl been heard in the direction of Leesburg , and fighting was expected near AVinehester . In an official despatch , General M'Clellan puts the total loss of tbe Federals in the two great battles iu Maryland at 14 , 700 in killed , wounded , and missing . He thinks it may be fairly
estimated that the Confederates lost 30 , 000 of their best troops . In Kentucky the Confederates had burned Augusta , General Buell had marched a large portion of his army towards the interior of the state , and tbe Federals had evacuate ' d Cumberland Gap , first rendering it impassable , and marched in the direction of Ohio to join Buell . Rumours were current that commissioners from tbe Southern Confederacy to make proposals for peace were on their ivay to Washington . Though not confirmed , it seems very
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probable that some proposition will be made , as it has been admitted in the Confederate Congress that the first proposals must corns from the South . President Lincoln ' s emancipation proclamation is opposed by the Baltimore and Louisville press . The Federal states were engaged in the Fall elections , and the Republicans and Democrats were making great efforts to carry
them . Many people bad taken the oath of allegiance at New Orleans , in order to escape the penalties of the Confiscation Act , Avhich General Butler intended to enforce ivith the utmost rigour . The Confederate Congress bad passed an act subjecting to tbe conscription all men between 35 and 45 years of age . There was -a Southern rumour that tbe Confederate steamer
" 290 , " which was baiit at Liverpool , bad beaten off the Federal steamer Santiago de Cuba , after a sharp engagement . The Mayor of Nov . - York had vetoed resolutions by which the Board of Aldermen declared thai emancipation would be injurious to the national welfare . INDIA . —The news from Bombay is very satisfactory . Trade
in general was flourishing , and the demand for cotton A \> as opening a mine of wealth to the western provinces , and the shipments were daily increasing . The weather had been very propitious , and cholera and other diseases which had prevailed had greatly diminished . Lord Elgin returned to Calcutta on the 30 th of August much improved in health . A telegram , it is said , had been received in India announcing an adjustment of
the quarrel between Sir Charles AVood and Mr . Liiing , ancl that the latter is to return to India in November . The notorious Rao Sahib paid the penalty of his crimes at Cawnpore , where he was executed on the 21 st of August . The Ameer , Dpst Mahomed , had suffered great losses at Bayonbaug , but was advancing ou Herat . The latter Mas well guarded , and it is again rumoured , that the Shah of Persia hacl offeree ! troops for its defence . A public meeting had been held iu Bombay for
the purpose of raising money to aid the Lancashire Relief Fund , and a sum of £ 15 , 000 Avas subscribed on tbe spot . Rain hacl fallen plentifully in the Deccan , and the apprehensions of a famine had subsided .
To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
A PAST MASTEE . —1 . A Master of a Scottish Lodge being appointed a Prov . Grand Master , should not have resigned his Mastership until the usual period for the appointment of bis successor . Such resignation , and tbe consequent elections of Master and Wardens Avere all irregular . 2 . A lodge in Scotland can initiate candidates at IS without dispensation . It is a very recent law . 3 . Should the Master of an English Lodge dieresi or leave the country in which
, gn , such lodge is held , the lodge cannot go to the election of a Master until the usual time . 4 . AVe have no doubt that an English Past Master may instal the Master of a Scottish Lodge . LEX . —We are not aware of any law which forbids a Prov . Grand Officer wearing his circular jewel suspended from the purple collar in a Royal Arch Chapter , together Avith his
Royal Arch clothing , though Ave should think it very unusual . R . E . X . —AA e should hold that the year of office of tbe first Master of a lodge appointed by the warrant expired from the date when the lodge was first constituted under dispensation after the granting of the warrant , and not from the date of the consecration four and five months later . A STAEFOEDSHIEE BEOTHEE will find all tbe accommodation he
requires at Bro . Adams , Union Tavern , corner of Air-street , Regent-street , AV . An excellent Lodge of Instruction , under tbe warrant of the Robert Burns , No . 25 , meets on Friday evening ; and a Chapter of Instruction , under the sanction of No . 19 , on the Saturday , so that a brother may obtain all the comforts of a home and instruction under the same roof . P . P . does not make himself sufficiently understood for ns to
reply to him . ANCIEXT AND ACCENTED RITE . —The report of the proceedings at tbe meeting of the members of this body on Wednesday last are necessarily postponed .