The Week.

-JE 1 * . Some time afterwards he discovered his mistake , ancl asked the agent to return the balance , who stated , and to the last persisted in his statement , that he returned him the four sovereigns at the time . Various proceedings were taken , and the agent has been indicted for perjury . The Chief Baron , who tried the case , was obviously in favour of his acquittal , but the jury after some hesitation found him guilty . The

judge sentenced him to four months' imprisonment , but advised him to memorialise the Home Secretary for a remission of tbe sentence . At the Manchester Assizes a druggist , named Hughes , was tried for Manslaughter . The ground of the charge was having sold a quantity of manganese , which had been adulterated by admixture with some other

substance , to Samuel Crowther , a photographer , who was killed by an explosion following the use of the material . The jury returned a verdict of not guilty . —A person named Jenner , formerly a town councillor . and poor-law guardian in the borough of Salford , was sentenced at the Manchester Assizes to eighteen months' imprisonment for perjury . —Edward

Morgan Davis was brought up at the Manchester Assizes to receive sentence , having been convicted of setting ( ire to his premises for tho purpose of defrauding the insurance company . The Judge sentenced him to 15 years penal servitude . A dreadful outrage is reported from the neighbourhood of Sheffield . On Friday , the 24 th ult ., a woman named Elizabeth

Drabble , living at Chepelton , near Sheffield , went in search of her grandson , a young man named Solomon Stenson , whom she found in a public-house . On their way home , in company with a man named Hanson , Stenson attacked his grandmother . Hanson interfered , hut the ruffian returned again and again to the assault , finally killing the poor woman . AVhen taken into custody ho asked to be " hung at once . " A very shocking

affair is reported from llaydon Bridge . A widow named Martin was last Friday night delivered of an illegitimate child . She seems to have cut the newly-born babe up and to have burnt it in her kitchen fire . The discovery was made by some of her neighbours . She is very ill , and of course is in the custocly of the police . The wretched woman Carmichael , the wife of a gasfittor , who murdered her little nephew ,

and then cut her own throat a few weeks ago , died in the German Hospital , at Dalston , where she has been treated ever since she committed the crime . At the inquest held on the body on Saturday , a verdict in accordance with the evidence was returned . A Dr . Pritchard is in custody at Glasgow , on a charge of murdering his wife and her mother .

It is stated that antimony has been found in the liver , spleen , and intestines of the late Mrs . Pritchard . It is also stated that a warrant has been issued for the exhumation ofthe body of Mrs . Taylor—Mrs . Pritchard's mother—who died suddenly while on a visit at Dr . Pritchard ' s house . Stephen Burke , convicted of the murder of his wife at Preston , was hanged on

Saturday at Lancaster . Z oi . EiG _ s IxrE £ MG £ _\ T CE . —M . Rogeard , who wrote a pamphlet satirising Napoleon the Third and his system in the shape of a satire upon the " Histoire de Jules Cesar , " has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment . Luckily for M . Rogeard , however , ho had taken the precaution , immediately after

publishing his clever ancl bitter pamphlet , to put the Belgian frontier between himself ancl the Imperial author whom he satirised . His publisher , who is believed to have offended unwittingly , gets off with a month ' s imprisonment ancl a fine of 500 f . This is indeed encouraging tho critics . The Marquis do Lavalette has been created French Minister of- the Interior in tho place of M . Boudet , who has resigned . M . Boudet has been translated to the dignified ancl well-paid , ease of the Senate .

The Week.

Professor Kiss , the well-known Prussian sculptor is dead . He died suddenly a fow days ago in Berlin . Kiss's statue of the Amazon is a work of art well known in England . It was one of the lions of the Great Exhibition of 1851 . Lately it stood , and we presume still stands , in front of the Museum in Berlin . In AA ednesday's sitting of the Austrian Reichsrath several members of the Lower House severely condemned the policy of alliance with Prussia . Some speakers earnestly advised the

Government to establish friendly relations with Italy . ——If we may believe an Italian paper , the Austrian Cabinet apprehends a new Garibaldiau movement in the Venetian provinces during the present year , and the AA ar Minister has ordered General Benedek to take special precautions for the repression of any outbreak . — - —Some of the Italian papers publish a letter bearing Mazzini's signature , which affirms that there exists a secret protocol to the Franco-Italian convention , providing for

the cession to France of a part of Piedmont if Italy should obtain Rome or A enice . Mazzini ( if the letter be really his ) insists that this story is true . It has , indeed been whispered about for some time in certain political circles in Italy . For ourselves , we believe it a mere canard . It should be stated that General Delhi Marmora , the Italian Prime Minister , ancl Visconti-Venosta , the late Foreign Minister , have , in the most solemn mannerassured the Chamber of

, Deputies that the story has not the slightest foundation . In a Consistory , held in Rome on the 27 th ult ., the Pope approved the nomination of twenty-four bishops . A grand banquet in honour of General M'Clollan was given in Rome by the Russian representative a few clays ago . The Spanish Minister of Finance estimates the deficit for the year 1865-6 at about £ 5 . 000 , 000 , but professes to expect that it will he covered by the sale of the Crown lands . The

Confederate cruiser Stonewall has been to Lisbon . From there she was sent out immediately by the authorities . That very morning the Federal frigates Niagara and Sacramento arrived at Lisbon . They were prohibited from leaving until twenty-four

hours after the Stonewall . They , however , attempted to sail before tho expiration of the time fixed , and they wero fired upon by the Belem fort . The Niagara was struck by a shot and a seaman killed . Thereupon the vessels anchored . An extraordinary sitting of the German Diet was held at Frankfort on Monday . Bavaria and Saxony brought forward a motion calling on the Governments of . Austria ancl Prussia to code tiie Duchy of Holstein to the hereditary Prince of

Augustenburg , ancl to communicate to tho Diet tho arrangements they have made iu reference to the Duchy of Lauenhurg . It was proposed that this motion should be taken into consideration on the 6 th of April next , ancl tho discussion was fixed accordingly by a majority of 9 against 6 votes . The Russian Government has thought it prudent to address a circular to its representatives at foreign courts for the purpose of explaining the object of tho Russian acquisitions of territory in

Central Asia . The circular , penned by Prince Gortschakoff , insists that these acquisitions are necessary for the security of Russia , aud that she seeks nothing in the shape of mere territorial aggrandisement . The Papal States have just been invaded by two formidable bodies of brigands . The ruffians , who are well armed , and clothed in uniform , have carried desolation through two provinces , the inhabitants of which have fled before their invaders . The French and Italian troops

are attempting their destruction . CANADA . —The Lower House of the Canadian Parliament has adopted , by a majority of 91 to 33 votes , the address to the Queen , praying for a Confederation of the British American provinces .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

SIEE . —It is a breach , not only of Masonic law , but all the usages of society , for a member of a "lodge to inform au accepted candidate that a black ball was lodged against him ; but we do not know of any punishment for such an offence . Bno . PUR TON COOPEH , P . Prov . G . M . Kent . —AA e have no communications of the kind by us .

S . S . — 'fiie matter will probably come before the next Grand Lodge . J . AV . —Nonsense .