... i i ?? I_ (moM OUR OWN COBBESPOirnEN,.) BOSTON, JUN 5. Events crowd upon ius thick and fast. The great struggle in the south-west has culminated in the complete triumph of the Federal arms. The evacua- tion of Corinth was thesurrender of what Beauregard declared to be the great strategic point of the cam- paign. General Halleck had soconstructed hislines of entrenchments and arranged his ...

... DIR, SPENCE'S BLUNDERS AND SOPHISMS. TO THE EDITOR OF TIHE MAILY NEWS. Sia,-Mr. Spence's shriek for interference in America (which even the Times has abandoned) is like calling for ' mustard after dinner. Mr. Spence's Liverpool letter, signed S., in this day's Times, is a string of the most wvoudrous fallacies and blunders from beginning to end. The reason we are to interfere is that ...

... I mTHE DISTRESS IN LANCSHIRE. I On Tuesdaya numerouslyattended aesdhigilyin- flueutial mncetiog, convened by requisition, was held in thf Oak room. of the Mansion-house, Dublin, for the purpose o adopting measures to relieve the distress of the operatives in Lancashire. Amongst those present ?? Grace the Duke of Leinster, Sir Robert Peel, Bart., Lord Clonbrock, Most tev. Dr. Whately, ...

... I ADMIRALTY, OcT. 8.-APPOrNTME-NTS.-Captain C. F. A. Shadhvell, O.B., to the Hastiugs. Lieutenants F. C. R. Baker. to the St. George ;R. B. Lambert. to the Galatea * W. 11. Goold, to the Euryalus - A. Il Turner, to the Seaford ; A. S. Mont;agu, to the Virago; and ?? IC. Mackeuzie, to be tlag lieutenant to Vice. Admiral Hope Johnstone. Chaplain and Naval Instructor thle Rev. J. Cawsbon, to the ...

... |THE FRENCH OCEAN MAIL PACKET SERVICE. I The French government scheme for the subsidisa- tion of ocean mail packets, together with the details of the three French Transatlantic mail packet lines, has been pub- o lished in the shape of a pamphlet. The scheme differs in many a respects from that of the English government. The French Minister of Finance appoints agents in every port the mail ...

... THE ACCIDENT AT MONKWEABMOUTH I COLLIERY.I The following additional particulars of this mne- lancholy accident are from yesterday's A'oerastle C'hrnicile: The well-known Pemberton's Pit-as it was once called-st Monkwvealimouth, Suederland, is now the sceee of another serious calamity, involving, unhappily the sacri- flie of five lives, and the present loss of emlymn to hundreds of Survivors. ...

... TI1jE DIST-REZ'ES INLANCASHIRE. T're e..xecutive coni'ttee of the Manchester Central PRslief Committee assembled at the Town-lhall yes. trday, Sir J. ?? KAY SHUITLEIWORT11, tihe tleputy Chair- liCUjiE, the hon. secretary, read a letter from the Earl of Ellesmero, regretting that lie could not bo preoeut in conselluetco of inldisposition. A letter was also read ironl the yjayor of Liveirool, ...

... n | METBOPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS. M ?? ?? Yesterday the usual weekly meeting of the Board h Iwas held at the offices, Spring-gardens; Mr. JouR TacVAITES l in the chair. frs The estimate for the sums required for the ensuing year Mi was brought up by the finance committee, as follows : Sewerage and DrainRge.-Sams required for works during foi the year 1863, exclusive of main drainage works, and ...

... TilE PROPOSED MEDIATION Iy AMERICA. ?? ?? .. The following despatch, addressed by Earl Rus. sell to Earl Cowley, her Majesty's anibassador at tParis, in reply to that of the Flench government r 'which we published yesterday, appears in last D night's Gazette: I 1 Foreign-office, Nov. 13, 1862. s My Lord,-The Count de Flahault came to the s Foreign-office by appointment on ikIonday, the 10th ...

... GRNJD TRUNK RAILWAY OF CANADA. I - - . . - be The directors of this company have issued a report a to the meeting on Friday next, accompanied by a third t. report from Mr. Watkin, who was requested by the board 0 to proceed to Canada immediately after the meeting of the a 8th August. This latter docunment is of considerable length. 0d The directors are happy to reeognise improved management . ...

... Philharmonie Society. | The Jubilee Concert, announced in the commencement of the year to be given in commemoration of the Society's Fiftieth Season, came off last Monday night at St. James's Hall, in presence of one of the largest audiences ever assembled there. Considering that the price of ?? to the principal parts of the Boom was one guinea, the suceess, in a monetary sense, may be well ...

... I Railway Fassengers' Assurance Company. On Wednesday the Half-yearly General Meeting of Proprietors in this Institution was held at the Company's offices in Cornhill, Mr. J. Clay, M.P., in the chair. The following are the principal paragraphs of the Report, which was read by Mr. W. J. Vian, the Secretary:- The statement of accounts which has been circulated among the Proprietors shows that ...