The Week.

ceived everywhere . Tbe foundation stone of the Thames Embankment on the south side was laid on the 28 th ult . Mr . Mr . Tite , M . P ., laid the stone in the presence of Lord John Manners and a large number of gentlemen . The embankment will he a great improvement to the river when it is completed . A good deal of progrees has already been made in the works . The Atlantic cable is working well . The communication ,

however , between Newfoundland and the mainland is not yet complete , and therefore we have not perfect telegraphic connection as yet between London and New York . The part wanting is , however , being now supplied , and a few days at furthest will see the great work complete . Messages from London are being sent in great numbers . The Queen has

transmitted through the Atlantic cable a congratulatory message to the President of the United States . Her Majesty ' s letter is brief , but to the point ; and when sho hopes tbat the undertaking " may serve as an additional bond of union between the United States and England" she gives expression to the unanimous feeling of the nation . After several adjournments the

inquest on the bodies of two persons who were burnt to death at a fire which occurred some time ago in the house of a Mr-Fuggles , of Hoxton , was concluded . The jury found an open verdict—the deceased had been burnt to death , but how the fire originated there was no evidence to show . Jane Revill , who at the last Nottingh am assizes was found guilty of the

murder of her child and sentenced to death , had been respited . Erom Dr . Letboby we have the gratifying report that the health of the City of London is not unfavourable . There were last week fewer cases of fever and diarrhoea than in the corresponding week last year . Dr . Letheby , however , very wisely urges that every sanitary precaution should be taken , and that measures should be adopted by which any outbreak of cholera

could be promptly met . A case of cholera in the Thames Police-court was reported on the 31 st nit . Ellen Pridham , who had been a nurse of cholera patients iu the Poplar AVorkhouse was charged with being drunk and disorderly in the infirmary of that institution . Tlie magistrate sentenced her to twentyone day ' s imprisonment , and she was removed to a cell . About two hours afterwards it was found she was suffering

from cholera , and the magistrate ordered a medical man to be sent for . There was some difficulty iu getting one , however , and the woman was thereupon put into a cab and sent back to the workhonse . -A man named James Peters was brought up at Bow-street , charged with a breach of the Foreign Enlistment Act . It was shown that be had induced

seamen to ship on board the Greatham Hall , for service with the Chillians against the Spaniards . He was remanded . The Lord Mayor gave the usual banquet to her Majesty's Minister , on the 1 st inst . Lord Derby and twelve other members of the Government were present . Tbe speeches were of the usual complimentary character . Lord Derby spoke at

some length , but said nothing of much interest . The Chancellor of the Exchequer was not much more explicit . The whole of tbe proceedings were of a pleasant , genial character . The annual meeting of the A olunteer Artillery Association is in full swing at Shoeburyness . It began on the 31 st ult ., with a competition for the Lords' and Commons' prize .

The contest was only completed on the 1 st inst ., the prize being carried off by the 3 rd Sussex ( Eastbourne ) , who made 28 points . The Duke of Cambridge's prize was won by the Aberdeenshire detachment , who made 22 points . In the Court of Chancery , on the 1 st inst ., Vice-Chancellor Kindersley delivered an elaborate judgment on the motion made on behalf of a shareholder in the Credit Foncier Company against

Mr . Albert Grant , the managing director of the company The motion was refused . FOEEIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The great belligerents are waiting in front of each other while the diplomatists are endeavouring to make arrangements by which any resumption of the war may be avoided . Italy has occupied the Val Sugana , and

actually beleagm-eil A enice , where much alarm exists among the inhabitants . But Prussia has made no truce with Bavaria or the Federal army . General Manteuffel is pressing the latter hard . There is no doubt whatever that the Prussians are endeavouring to levy heavy contributions on Frankfort . The merchants and bankers there are taking defensive measures , and

the whole affair is likely to produce great ill-feeling against Prussia . The Berlin Official Gazette justifies the levying of the contribution on several grounds , the chief of which is that the Government of Frankfort has always been hostile to Prussia . Considering that Frankfort was one of the few members of the Federal Diet voting against Austria in the decisive vote , and in

favour of Prussia , this reason has a very suspicious look . It is stated that Bavaria is inclined to refuse to join any Confederation in which there would be but one great Power . What Bavaria is inclined to do will probably have very little influence indeed upon the result of present actions . There is every prospect of the negotiations for peace

progressing . The truce between Austria and Prussia ivhich was to expire on the 27 th ult . has been prolonged to the 2 nd of August , and a four weeks' armistice commencing from that date is concluded . Count Karolyi has arrived at Vienna with the preliminaries of peace agreed upon between himself and Count Bismarck . They are to be ratified by the Emperor of Austria . One of the conditions of the armistice is that Prussia shall continue to occupy Bohemia and Moravia . Prussia ,

however , continues her campaign against Bavaria . On the 27 th ult . there was a battle near AVurzburg , which the Berlin account says ended unfavourably for the Bavarians . This is rather a mild expression , and means probably that the Prussians had tough work . King William has postponed the opening of the Prussian Chambers to some time next week . He wishes

—he says , to open them in person , and he cannot get to Berlin in time for the 30 th , when the opening was to have taken place . An armistice for four months has been signed between Austria and Prussia . It seems , too , that Italy is satisfied . The question of the Tyrol is settled , and the Italian accounts say that the Roman question is not to be raised in any Congress

The Conslilulionnel gives rather full details of the preliminaries . According to that paper , Austria is to lose no territory save A enetia . Saxony also is to be kept intact . A confederation of the Northern German States is to be formed under the exclusive direction of Prussia . The Southern German States will remain independent , and be free to group

themselves as they think proper . Austria will pay Prussia an indemnity of seventy-five million francs . These are hard terms for Austria . A notice on the Paris Bourse asserts that an armistice has been signed by the Bavarian Minister on behalf of the Southern German States . Although both Prussia and Italy have concluded au armistice

ivith Austria , the former power continues warlike operations against Bavaria . The Grand Duke of Meeklenhurgh has taken possession of Upper Franconia in the name of the King of Prussia . On the 29 th ult ., the Prussian vanguard near Hof dispersed a battalion of Bavarian Life Guards , taking several of them prisoners . ——The sovereigns of Baden , D armstadt , and Saxe-Meiningen are preferring requests for an armistice direct to the King of Prussia .