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Monthly Entelligence.

Foreign News, Domestic Occurrences, and Notes of the Month.

In the absence of anything like complete information as to the state of affairs in America it would be useless to attempt to record in detail one half of the victories claimed by the Federals, particularly as it appears very probable that many of them will eventually turn out to have been drawn battles, if not defeats. It appears that the Confederates made a sortie from Richmond on the 31st of May, when they defeated and almost destroy one wing of the Federal army, captured its artillery, baggage and stores, and held the position that they had taken during the night. On the following day Gen. M'Clellan recovered a portion only of the ground that had been lost, and twelve days later (the date of the last advices) he had made no further progress towards the Confederate capital. This affair was at first claimed as a Federal victory, in which "enormous loss" had been inflicted on the enemy; it has since appeared that the slaughter has been equally reat on the other side. It is estimated that at least 10,000 men have been killed, wounded, or taken in the two armies. Where the Federals have been able to establish their rule, so much animosity to them has been evinced by all classes, that they can only govern by martial law, and one of their generals (Butler, once a lawyer) has issued a proclamation which has been justly denounced as "infamous" by Lord Pa'merston in his place in Parliament. There appears no reason to expect any abatement of the angry feelings of the combat ints, and public opinion, both in England and in France, points to the necessity of some steps being taken to induce them to listen to proposa's for accommodation.

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A difficulty has arisen for France from a very unexpected quarter. For reasons that are as yet but imperfectly known, a joint expedition of England, France, and Spain to compel the Mexican Government to make amends for numerous outrages on their respective subjects was abandoned almost as soon as it was commenced; the Spanish and English forces were withdrawn, and a small French army, under General Lorencez, commenced its march alone on Mexico. This was, on the 5th of May last, met and defeated at Puebla by a body of Mexicans, and has since been obliged to retire to the coast in order to wait reinforcements from France. This retreat, with the uncertainty of all news relating to any part of America, has since been denied; but the defeat, and demand for reinforcements, cannot be explained away, and the

latter, it seems, can hardly be sent at present from fear of the unhealthy

climate of Mexico.

In Italy, things wear a threatening aspect. The Ministry of Baron Ricasoli is engaged in fierce disputes either with Garibaldi or those who use his name for their own revolutionary purposes; and so little concord is there in the new kingdom that it has been deemed expedient to imitate one of the worst steps of an absolute government, namely, that of closing the University of Padua. At Rome the feast of the canonization of the Japanese martyrs was celebrated on Whit Sunday, with a magnificence hardly to be expected from so weak a Power as the Pope is usually represented to be. A single passage from the description furnished by the correspondent of "The Times" will be sufficient:

"Nearly 400 mitres were assembled, a sight which the world has not seen for centuries, and perhaps will never see again. After these and a number of other officers, His Holiness was borne into the church, magnificently attired, having two large fans or flags of feathers at his side, and holding a wax taper in his left hand, while with his right he blessed the multitude. It is impossible to give you an adequate idea of the feeling which his appearance awakened among men who had come from all parts of the world to see the representative of St. Peter, the depository of the Holy Spirit, the half man, half God, as they regarded him, about whom they had read and talked, and for whom they had prayed since they were children no higher than the knee. 'Le Saint Père! Le Saint Père!' exclaimed the French priests; 'Il Santo Padre!' cried the Italians; and Germans, Spaniards, Greeks, Americans, and English all manifested the same zeal, each in his different tongue. Looking over the sea of heads which intervened between me and the procession-a great interval-all were on their knees as Pius IX., the benevolent and the good, for it is only just to say so, was borne up the nave. The singers of the Vatican chanted with their unearthly voices Tu es Petrus,' and the voices, not so much softened as rendered more meagre by the distance, glided like ghosts through the building. At times another body of men chanted Ave Maria Stella,' and it was thus that the Pope was borne through 50,000 worshippers from every country under the sun to the high altar beyond the tomb of the Apostle, where he descended from his seat, and after praying, was again carried forward to the throne at the upper end of the nave. Here the prelates did homage, cardinals kissing the Papal hands, patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops the knee, and mitred abbots and a few others, among whom is named the Archimandrite of Messina, 'if he be there,' adds the directions, the foot."

The occasion was not unnaturally turned to political account, by the delivery of an Allocution, which spoke with severity of "the chiefs and the satellites of the rebellion that would destroy the liberty of the Church." The 400 prelates who were present, made a reply protesting their readiness to "go to prison or to death" with their head, and alleging that "the Christian faithful in every part of the globe" share their sentiments as to the necessity of the temporal sovereignty for the good of the Church and the free government of souls. If such be indeed the case, the Roman Question is as far from a " solution"

as ever.

APPOINTMENTS, PREFERMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS.

The dates are those of the Gazette in which the Appointment or Return

CIVIL, NAVAL, AND MILITARY.

appeared.

May 27. Colonel the Hon. Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps, K.C.B., Receiver-General of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales in respect of his Duchy of Cornwall.

Randal Callander, esq., now H.M.'s Consul at St. Catherine's, to be H.M.'s Consul at Rhodes.

Michael William O'Brien, of Lincoln's Inn, in the county of Middlesex, esq., and Frederick Lowten Spinks, esq., of the Inner Temple, London, to be Serjeants-at-Law.

June 3. Sir Henry Vere Huntley, knt., now H.M.'s Consul and Arbitrator at Loanda, to be H.M.'s Consul at Santos.

Watson Vredenburg, esq., now H.M.'s Consul at Para, to be H.M.'s Consul at Loanda.

Louis François Evenor Dupont, esq., to be Master of the Supreme Court of the Island of Mauritius.

June 6. Admiral Sir Graham Eden Hamond, bart., G.C.B., to be Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Lieutenant of the Admiralty thereof, in the room of Admiral Sir Wm. Hall Gage, G.C.B., promoted to be Admiral of the Fleet.

Admiral Sir Francis William Austen, G.C.B., to be Rear-Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the Admiralty thereof, in the room of Admiral Sir Graham Eden Hamond, promoted.

Watson Vredenburg, esq., to be Arbitrator, on the part of Her Majesty, in the Mixed British and Portuguese Commission established at the city of Loanda, in the province of Angola, under the treaty concluded at Lisbon on July 3, 1842, between Great Britain and Portugal, for the suppression of the slave trade.

June 10. Mr. Alexander Henderson approved of as Consul at Londonderry for the United States of America.

June 13. 31st Regt. of Foot.-Major-Gen. Sir Edward Lugard, K.C.B., to be Col., vice Lieut.-Gen. Craigie, C.B., transferred to the 55th Regt.

51st Regt. of Foot.-Major-General W. H. Elliott, from the 55th Regt., to be Col., vice Gen. Sir Thomas Willshire, bart., G.C.B., deceased.

55th Regt. of Foot.-Lieut.-General P. E. Craigie, C.B., from the 31st foot, to be Col., vice Major-Gen. W. H. Elliott, transferred to the 51st Regt.

The honour of Knighthood of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland granted to John Mellor, esq., one of the Justices of H.M.'s Court of Queen's Bench.

Lieut. William Maturin Wright, R.N., to be Treasurer of the Island of St. Vincent.

June 17. The Hon. Peter Campbell Scarlett, C.B., to be H.M.'s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Greece.

The Hon. Charles Baillie, one of the Lords of Session, to be one of the Lords of Justiciary in Scotland, in the room of James Ivory, esq., resigned.

Charles Wilson Murray, esq., to be a Member of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Hongkong.

Mr. A. C. Gumpert approved of as Consul at Bombay for His Majesty the King of Prussia.

June 20. 90th Regt. of Foot.-Major-Gen. the Hon. George F. Upton, C.B., to be Colonel, vice Lieut. Gen. Alexander F. Macintosh, removed to the 93rd Regt.

93rd Regt. of Foot.-Lieut.-Gen. Alexander F.Macintosh, from the 90th Regt., to be Colonel, rice Lieut.-Gen. W. Sutherland, C. B., deceased.

Rutherford Alcock, esq., C.B., H.M.'s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Japan, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders, of the Most Hon. Order of the Bath.

Claudius Francis Du Pasquier, esq., to be Surgeon-Apothecary to Her Majesty, in the room of John Nussey, esq., deceased.

Peter Barrow, esq., now British Vice-Consul at Rabat, to be H.M.'s Consul at Nantes. MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN PARLIAMENT.

May 30. Borough of Kidderminster.-Luke White, esq., Belgrave-sq., in the county of Middlesex, in the room of Alfred Rhodes Bristow, esq., who has accepted the office of Steward of H.M.'s Chiltern Hundreds.

June 3. Borough of Shrewsbury. Henry Robertson, esq., in the room of Robt. Aglionby Slaney, esq., deceased.

BIRTHS.

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April 25.

At Ootacamund, the wife of Lieut.-Col. Arnold C. Pears, a son.

At Gwalior, the wife of Capt. Henry Seymour Hill, 13th Light Infantry, a dau.

May 2. At Murree, the wife of Lieut.-Col. Alexander Taylor, C.B., Royal Bengal Engineers, a son.

At Belgaum, Bombay Presidency, the wife of Captain Malcolmson, R.A., a son.

May 8. At Secunderabad, Deccan, the wife of Col. J. Thornton Grant, C.B., of H.M.'s 18th Regt. (Royal Irish), a son.

May 11. At Montreal, the wife of W. C. de Balinhard, esq., 47th Regt., a dau. May 16. At Plymouth, the wife of Capt. F. R. Glanville, R.A., a son. May 17.

At Finedon, Northamptonshire, the wife of the Rev. G. W. Paul, a dau.

At Lamplugh Rectory, Cumberland, the wife of the Rev. W. Brooksbank, twin daus. May 18. At Bucklebury, Reading, the wife of the Rev. Sands Y. B. Bradshaw, a son. May 19. At Liverpool, the wife of the Rev. Arthur Gore, a son.

May 20. At East Witton, Bedale, Yorkshire, the wife of the Rev. Edmund Green,

a son.

May 21. In Belgrave-sq., the Lady Boston, a dau.

May 22. In New Burlington-st., Regent-st., Lady Hulse, a son.

At Corfu, the wife of Col. Inglis, 9th Regt.,

a son.

At Chichester, the wife of Major R. B. Boyd, 21st Depot Battalion, a son.

At the Bell Hotel, Gloucester, the wife of Capt. James Robinson, Bengal Cavalry, prematurely, a son.

At Manchester, the wife of Capt. Frederick E. Budd, Royal Marines Light Infantry, a son.

At the Coast-guard Station, Swanage, Dorset, the wife of Lieut. Francis Osburn, R.N.,

a son.

At Great Bromley Rectory, the wife of the Rev. A. E. Graham, a son.

May 23. In Grosvenor-sq., the Lady Louisa Mills, a dau.

At Hannington Rectory, the wife of the Rev. R. E. Harrisson, a son.

At St. Paul's Parsonage, Whitechapel, the wife of the Rev. R. H. Baynes, M.A., a dau. At Mollington Parsonage, Oxfordshire, the wife of the Rev. T. Cox, a son.

At the Vicarage, Barton-on-Humber, Lincolnshire, the wife of the Rev. George Hogarth, M.A., a son.

At East Sheen, the wife of O. C. Waterfield, esq., Fellow of King's College, Cambridge,

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At Ocle-court, Hereford, the wife of Major W. W. Stephenson, a son.

At Weeting Rectory, Mrs. Stephen Hanson, a dau.

At Montreal, the wife of Captain Andrew Orr, R.A., a son.

May 26. In Upper Grosvenor-st., the Lady Cecilia Brinckman, a son.

In St. George's-road, South Belgravia, the wife of Major-Gen. Stransham, a dau.

In Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, the wife of the Rev. Francis J. Holland, a dau.

At Shalstone-house, Bucks, the wife of R. Purefoy Fitz Gerald, esq., R.N., a son.

At Dallington Vicarage, Sussex, the wife of the Rev. Ralph Raisbeck Tatham, a dau.

The wife of Major J. E. Saunders, F.G.S., of Granville-park, Blackheath, a dan.

At Arborfield-hall, Berks., the wife of Capt. Hargreaves, a dau.

At Bath, the wife of A. G. Elkington, esq., Scots Fusilier Guards, a son.

At her father's, Bircham Newton Rectory, the wife of the Rev. Richard Dalton, a s n. May 27. In Brook-st., the Lady Gwendaline Petre, a son.

At Montgomery, the wife of the Rev. Maurice Lloyd, a dau.

At Sowerby-hall, near Brigg, the wife of W. H. Underwood, esq., a son.

At Surbiton, the wife of Major James Clarkson, H.M.'s Indian Army, Bengal, a son.

At Meggetland, near Edinburgh, the wife of P. Carnegy, esq., Deputy-Commissioner, Oude, a dau.

At Southampton, (at the residence of her father, Col. Begbie,) the wife of Capt. Arthur G. E. Morley, H.M.'s 39th Foot, a son.

The wife of the Rev. John D'Arcy Cayley, Cowfold, Sussex, a dau.

At Minehead, Somerset, the wife of Lieut.Col. Gaye, 4th Brigade R.H.A., a dau.

May 28. At Woolwich-common, the wife of Capt. Augustus King, R.H.A., a son.

At Southsea, the wife of Commander F. W. Sullivan, R.N., a dau.

May 29. At Stuston Rectory, Scoles, the Hon. Mrs. Edward Paget, a son.

At Cheltenham, the wife of Major-Gen. Con

ran, a son.

At Pangbourne, the wife of Humphry Sandwith, esq., C.B., a dau.

At Boundary-bank, Jedburgh, the wife of Dr. Bell, Inspector-General of Hospitals, a dau.

At West Malling-lodge, the wife of G. F. Busbridge, esq., a son.

May 30. At Lindridge-house, Desford, Leicestershire, the Hon. Mrs. Moreton, a son.

At Frensham Parsonage, near Farnham, the wife of the Rev. William Lewery Blackley,

dau.

At Southsea, the wife of Capt. Robert Coote, R.N., of H.M.S. "Victory," Portsmouth, a

son.

In the Precincts, Rochester, the wife of the Rev. W. E. Martin, Minor Canon of the cathedral, a dau.

May 31. At the residence of her father at Upper Norwood, the wife of the Rev. H. H. Williams, a son.

At Manadon, Devon, the wife of the Rev. J. Hall Parlby, a son.

At Dunsbury Rectory, Bourn, Lincolnshire, the wife of the Rev. G. W. Keightley, a son. At Winkton, Hants., the wife of the Rev. S. Beal, R.N., a dau.

June 1. At Manfield Vicarage, Darlington, the wife of the Rev. C. B. Yeoman, a dau. At Bath, the wife of the Rev. Calvert R. Jones, a dau.

At Bebington, the wife of the Rev. Herbert Harvey, Incumbent of Betley, Staffordshire,

a son.

June 2. In St. George's-road, the Hon. Mrs. Bethell, prematurely, of twins.

At Ashcot, Somerset, the wife of Captain Victor G. Hickley, R.N., a dau.

At Packington-hall, Staffordshire, the wife of Robert Levett, esq., a son.

The wife of the Rev. Horatio Walmisley, Vicar of St. Briavel's, Gloucestershire, a son. At Bayswater, the wife of Wentworth Lascelles Scott, esq., a dau.

At the Vicarage, Brampford Speke, the wife of the Rev. R. C. Kindersley, a dau.

At Seaford, Sussex, the wife of Francis Richard Tothill, esq., J.P., a son.

At More-place, Betchworth, Mrs. James Corbett, a dau.

At Brighton, the wife of Capt. Peyton, 18th Hussars, a son.

GENT. MAG. VOL. CCXIII.

At Stratton Strawless, Norfolk, the wife of Lieut.-Col. Hugh FitzRoy, late of the Grenadier Guards, a son.

At Stirling, the wife of C. E. McMurdo, esq., 79th Highlanders, prematurely, a son.

June 3. At Hulland-hall, Derbyshire, the wife of John K. Fitz Herbert, esq., a son.

At Teversham Rectory, Cambridge, the wife of the Rev. Wm. Wilson, a dau.

At Bitteswell-hall, Leicestersh., Mrs. Robert Fellowes, a dau.

At Ulcombe Rectory, Kent, the wife of the Rev. Pierce Butler, a dau.

At the Rectory, Little Stanmore, Middlesex, the wife of the Rev. Alphonso Matthey, a dau. The wife of Capt. T. W. Gibson, late of the Madras Army, a dau.

June 4. At Southsea, Hants., the wife of Col. Edw. Somerset, C.B., D.Q.M.G. of the South-western District, a dau.

At Luscar-house, Fifeshire, the wife of Lieut.Col. W. Babington, a dau.

In Cleveland-sq., Bayswater, the wife of J. H. I. Alexander, Commander R.N., a son.

In Monmouth-road North, Bayswater, the wife of Frederic Harvey, esq., Staff-Surgeon, R.N., a dau.

At Little Shelford, the wife of the Rev. John Wm. Taylor, Tutor of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, a son.

At Edinburgh, the wife of Henry David Erskine, esq., of Cardross, a son.

At Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, the wife of the Rev. Tufnell S. Barrett, a dau.

June 5. At Castle Semple, Renfrewshire, the Lady Elizabeth Lee Harvey, a dau.

At Cambridge, the wife of the Rev. F. E. Wigram, a son.

At Christ Church Parsonage, Carlisle, the wife of the Rev. G. S. Karney, M.A., a son.

At the residence of her father, North Crayplace, Kent, the wife of Nevile Lubbock, esq.,

a son.

June 6. At Norfolk-house, St. James'-sq., Lady Victoria Hope Scott, of twin daus. The Hon. Mrs. Parnell, a dau.

At Henbury, the wife of Lieut.-Col. Meares,

a son.

At Spalding, Lincolnshire, the wife of the Rev. J. R. Turner, a son.

At Hastings, the wife of Capt. Gough, R.N., Inspecting-Commander Coast Guard, a son. At the residence of her father, (A. Martin, esq., M.D., Rochester,) the wife of Capt. Barry, H.M.'s 29th Regt., a son.

At Yarburgh Rectory, near Louth, the wife of the Rev. Henry Lloyd, a son.

June 7. The Countess of Munster, a son. At Amersham, Bucks., the wife of the Rev. Charles A. Baynes, a son.

At Stade-house, Hythe, the wife of Captain Ernest le Pelley, 1st Batt. 5th Fusiliers,

a son.

At Dublin, the wife of the Rev. W. II. Guillemard, of Armagh, a son.

At the Grammar-school, Kimbolton, Hunts., the wife of the Rev. R. L. Watson, a son.

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