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Shoretlitch , and against whose wife great inhumanity and drunkenness had been alleged , was held on Monday , when , after hearing further evidence , the jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter against Mrs . Doggett . " An inquiry into the death of Mr . Roberts , the baker , at AVoolwich , who hanged himself in consequence of his servant girl charging him with having induced her to put poison in her mistress's supper beer ,

has been held . The widow was examined , and stated that the girl hud confessed to her she had put the poison in the beer , but said nothing about the complicity of her master . Several witnesses deposed to tho depressed spirits of the deceased , ancl the jury returned a verdict of temporary insanity . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The Prussian Chamber of Deputies

have not only adopted the proposition of their committee , but have resolved that an address shall be sent to the Ministers , summoning them to he present at their sittings , in accordance with the 60 th Article of the Constitution . The Ministry has obtained from the Upper House , which seems determined to mark in all things its opposition to the House of Deputies , a vote

thanking the King for the " attitude taken up by the Government on the Polish question . " The Lower House has addressed to the King a remonstrance against tho insolent refusal of Count Bismarck and his fellow ministers to attend the sittings of the House , but the King has replied by approving the conduct of his Ministers ; and there are some rumours that the session immediately afterwards will be closed . The area of the Polish

insurrection is extending to a very serious degree . AA ' ith the exception of two districts the whole of the Ukraine is in a state of insurrection , and a provisional insurgent chief has been proclaimed . In four districts of Podolia the insurrectionary spirit has manifested itself , the peasants , however , remaining quiet ; and in Volhynia the insurrection has broken out at five different points . The amnesty has been spurned on all sides . Advices

from Warsaw represent the National Committee as becoming daily more hold in the isssue of proclamations regulating the government of the country . One of the later proclamations relates to financial operations , and declares all financial acts and ordinances ofthe Russian Government to bo null and void , ancl another forbids the Parisian banker , M . Alexander Laski ,

accepting the presidency of the Warsaw Bank . The Lithuanian Provisional Government has issued a proclamation emancipating the peasants of A olhynia , and assuring to them religious liberty and the partition of all landed property . The Norwegians have seized the occasion of the visit of Prince Czartoriski to Christiana to manifest their sympathy with the

Poles , at the same time according to the Prince a most enthusiastic , reception . The Prussian ambassador at Paris has officially denounced as false the letter published in the Czas , attributed to the Prussian Commander at Ironoclan , arranging with o Russian general the movement of troops on the frontier . The ambassador also points other inventions of the same character , and complains of the practice indulged in of calumniating- thn Prussian Government . —¦—Tt is asserted that the

Sublime Porte has more or less reluctantly yielded to tho pressing instances of the French ambassador , and has consented to despatch to St . Petersburg a note making such representations in favour of tho Poles as have already been urged by France , England , Austria , ami several minor States . Marshal O'Donnell , Duke of Tetuan , has met ivith rather a severe accident . His horse threw himand he received considerable injuries .

, Prince Napoleon has presented Ismail Pasha , A iceroy of Egypt , with the grand cordon ofthe Legion of Honour . -Despatches from A era Cruz , under date of April 22 , announce that the siege operations at Puebla promise favourably for the assaillants . The French had obtained several advantages—which ,

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however , are described in tho very qualified phrase , " partial , " and it is understood that reinforcements are about to bo despatched from France to Mexico . AMERICA . —The advance of General Hooker across tho Rappahannock and towards Richmond , we learn hy the lersia ' s news , was not long before it was checked by a counter movement on the part of General Leo . On the 2 nd inst ., the right

wing of General Hooker had reached Chancellorsville , and was there met by the forces of General Lee , which had made a flank movement from Fredericksburg , and the Federal army was driven back . On the following day ( Sunday ) , the division of General Hooker came to the support of the beaten troops , and the fight was renewed , and after a desperate struggle of several

hours the Federals again retired . They did not , however , recross the Rapklau , and tho fight was , no doubt , renewed on the Monday , and could scarcely fail to be attended with important results , as both armies were in so critical a position that a defeat was sure to be disastrous . As the Federal Government had withheld any report of that day ' s fighting , it is inferred that General Hooker has been defeated . The Federals were still

engaged in a variety of movements against A lcksburg , and it is supposed that Generals Grant aud Sherman will now make a combined attack on that place . The Federal attack on Grand Gulf it is now certain was a failure . The attack on Charleston was to be renewed , and the 4 th was the clay fixed for the ironclads again to cross the bar . General Sedgwick ' s corps , which had previously crossed the Rappahannock , and had on the 3 rd

inst . carried the heights in the rear of Fredericksburg , was fiercely assailed by superior Confederate forces under General Longstreet . A sanguinary engagement ensued , and General Sedgwick ' s troops suffered so severely that they gave way , and and their commander ultimately deemed it necessary to recross the Rappahannock in the night . During the passage of the

stream , which lasted from midnight till two o ' clock in the morning of the 5 th instant , General Sedgwick ' s rear was hotly pressed by the Confederates , and his men suffered from the fire of the Southern artillery , which raked the bridge . But as

soon as he had reached the northern bank of the Rappahannock , General Sedgwick marched towards United States Ford . The Confederates had , it appears , established themselves on the southern hank of the Rappahannock , near United States Ford , and had planted guns , ivhich had shelled the Federal waggon trains assembled on the northern hank , and had caused a panic among the waggoners . The French mail steamer which arrived

on Sunday at Lisbon from Brazil , has brought us some intelligence regarding the depredations of the Confederate steamers Alabama and Florida . Those redoubted vessels had been cruising in the neighbourhood of Pernamhuco , and had captured seven Federal merchantmen , the Kingfisher , Charles Hill , Louisa Hatch , Kate Corey , Lafayette , Henrietta , aud Oneida .

Of these vessels , one was hound from Liverpool to Calcutta , another from Liverpool to Monte A'icleo , and a third—which was laden with a cargo of coals that must have been very useful to her captors—from Cardiff to Ceylon .

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