The Week.

of his own revenue . The Grand Vizier having met with resistance to these measures among his colleagues , a modification of the ministry will , therefore , take place . It is stated that Ethena Pacha will succeed Fuad Pacha . The chief of the general staff , Riza Pacha , has been banished . The staff of General O'Donnell was to leave Madrid about the 3 rd or oth inst . Preparations are beiug actively made in every branch of the AVar Department for the " expedition against Alorocco . The Moniteur

of Wednesday contains the following : —The Duke of Padua retires from tho post of Minister of the Interior on account of ill health , and the Emperor has named AL Billault as his successor . Their Imperial Atajesties arrived last evening at Compiegne , and were received with much cheering by the people . The Dresden Journal asserts that England will send a representative to the approaching congress without making any condition . The same journal says the congress will in all probability meet at Paris . According to the Espero , of Turin , the Sardinian

Government had resolved on suspending for an indefinite period tho opening of the subscription to the loan . It appears that the people of Lombardy are little satisfied with the way in which they are treated by the Sardinian Government . The letter of the Emperor to Victor Emmanuel has created great dissatisfaction . The Journal du Havre states the French intend establishing a naval station in the Red Sea , in imitation of the English . GENERAL HOME NEWS . —The grand conservative banquet iven to

g the Earl of Derby , Air . Disraeli , and the members of the late ministry , took place at Liverpool on Saturday . The banquet was preceded by the presentation of au address to the Earl of Derby from the conservatives of Liverpool . The scene was a splendid one . The galleries of the banqueting room were filled with ladies , dressed in the colours of the conservative party in the borough , tho ladies of Liverpool being tho genuine " Lancashire witches" so renowned for beauty . The Earl of Derby made a very eloquent addresswhich we recommend to tho

-, pe rusal of our readers . It , as well as those of Mr . Disraeli , Lord Stalinesbury , Lorcl Stanley , Sir J . Pakington , aud others , will bo found fully reported in the various journals . The meeting went off with great spirit , aud will tend to assure the conservatives of the three kingdoms , by the evidence it affords of the union aud cohesion among their leaders , as well as of the patriotism and sincerity by which they are animated . At a meeting of archdeacons of both iiroviuces , hold , on the IStli

instant , a declaration was unanimously adopted in favour of maintaining the law of church rates . The document bears the signatures of sixtyone archdeacons . A petition was also adopted at the same meeting , for a similar object , in the event of a bill being brought into either house of parliament for the abolition of church rates . The low temperature during the past week caused a rise in the mortality of the metropolis . The total number of deaths ivas 1 , 0-18 , being an increase of 126 over the number in the previous week , but yet less by 77 than the average rate .

The number of births was 1 , 6-15 . The Registrar General's quarterly return presents a favourable view of the state of tho country ; it shows that marriages are more frequent , the rate of mortality diminishing , and that the population is increasing at an unusual rate . The City Commissioners of Sewers sat this week at Guildhall when Air . Redman , C . E ., laid before the court a model of an iron wheel-way , to be used where the street traffic was heavy . Air . Redman entered at length into the various advantages that would accrue from the adoption of his plan . After be

had answered a number of questions the matter was referred to tho general purposes committee . On Aionday a commission of lunacy was opened to try the question of tho sanity of the Rov . Stephen Lewis AA oodcock , B . A . The proceedings took place before Air . Barlow , the master in lunacy , and a jury , at the Horns Tavern , Kennington . A great number of witnesses wei-o examined , everyone of whom concurred in opinion that the unfortunate gentleman had long been of unsound mind , and his conduct during the proceedings confirmed their opinion . The inquiry was adjourned on Monday evening , and resumed on

Tuesday , when Air . Huddleston summed up on behalf of the petitioner , calling on tbe jury to find a verdict that Air . Woodcock was in such a state of mind as to be unable to take care of himself or his property ; after which Air . Serjeant Slice ( for Air . AA ' oodcock ) denied in loto that he was of unsound mind , and ascribed his conduct on the previous d . y to his having drank some wine . The jury returned a verdict , however , that he was of unsound mind , and unable to manage his affairs . At the Court of Bankruptcy , the choice of assignees was determined in the case

of Bishop and Farbridge , of Cornhill , East India merchants , whose liabilities are stated at about £ 16 , 000 ; their assets being at present unascertained . —It was announced that a dividend of 5 s . in the pound would shortly be distributed among the creditors of the London and Birmingham Hardware Company , and that the official assignee has sufficient assets in hand to pay a further dividend of 2 s . or 2 s . 6 tf . in the pound . ¦ —The assignees of the estate of Samuel and Thomas Alcock , china and earthenware manufacturers , of Hatton Garden , Middlesex , and Burslem ,

in the county of Stafford , have determined to work up the stock into saleable assortments , and execute orders . —J . Batehelor , a chemist and manure merchant , of Alark Lane , City , passed his final examination upon accounts showing' a total indebtedness of £ 10 , 726 , and liabilities - £ 15 , 840 . It is expected , however , that the latter will not be proved against the estate . The assets are returned at about £ ' 9 , 700 . —The adjourned sitting held for the last examination of Samuel Treacher , licensed victualler , of Fenchurch Street , was again adjourned , the assignees requiring further time for the investigation of the accounts . ~ An adjourned summons in a case connected with the builders '

strike was gone into before Air . Come , at Clerkenwell Police Court , on Monday and Tuesday . The defendant was William Pereham , and the prosecutor Charles Robjolm , in the service of Alessrs . Piper and Sons , builders . From the evidence adduced it would seem that a number of workmen had been sent for and procured from tho country on the part of the Alessrs . Piper ; and , according to the chargethe defendant Pereham hadbintimidation and other means

, , y , endeavoured to prevent the men from following their occupation . Air . Roberts , of Manchester , called several witnesses for the defence , tho drift of whose evidence was to show that the men from the country bad been induced to accept of the offers of employment in London through misrepresentation . The case being completed for both sides , aud it having been intimated to the magistrate that an appeal would be made against a conviction , Air . Come ordered the defendant to enter into recognizances for his appearance at the ensuing quarter sessions .

Through recent disclosures connected with the administration of the land tax and income tax departments of Shoreditch and the adjacent ; district it has beeii considered necessary to suspend some of the officials , and to institute a ' strict investigation into the accounts . The irregularities , it is asserted ^ have extended over a number of years . One of the most extraordinary cases of brutality we have ever heard of is , a drunken quarrel terminated by a man pouring boiling water into bis victim's ears , and then scorching the poor fellow at the fire ! The miscreant is in custody .

A diabolical attempt at murder has beeu frustrated . The intended victim was Air . Isaiah Greaves , master brickmaker , whose life was aimed at through an infernal machine planned by some scoundrel . Air . Greaves ' s crime was this— " He had refused to discharge a nonsociety man , and employ a unionist at the request of a brickmakers' society ! " The Middlesex general sessions for November commenced on Tuesday morning at the G uildhall , Westminster , beforo the assistant aud deputy assistant judgesand several magistrates . There were fifty-four prisoners

, for trial . Tho assistant judge having charged the grand jury , the cases were proceeded with . Simeon Drury , a milkman , was indicted for embezzling several sums of money from his master . The prisoner attempted to show that he had duly handed over the money to his master . The prosecutor said , although he knew that the prisoner had been previously convicted of several robberies , he took him into his

service to give him a chance . He was found guilty , aud the judge said he had repaid tho kindness shown to him by theft , base ingratitude , ancl a false statement that he had paid over the money . The sentence of three years' penal servitude was passed upon him . Alfred Swayne was convicted of systematically robbing his employer , George Bubb , bookseller , of money to the amount of £ 100 , ancl was sentenced to twelve months' hard labour . A respectable woman applied to the magistrate at Lambeth police court for his advice . Some time ago she

had been accosted by a gentleman in the street—she know he was a gentleman by his appearance—his English was broken and his voice musical , for he was an Italian and a musician . He wished to settle in England , and ho wished to marry a wife ; his income was good , and his prospects were better . AA ould she have him 1 Preliminaries arrangedthe affair was soon consummated . Shortly after , the recent bridegroom disappears , ancl with him the confiding wife's gold watch ancl chain , several trunks of her clothes , and as much of her money as could be

got hold of . Subsequent inquiry reveals that the successful suitor is not an Italian , but an Englishman—not a musician , but a journeyman tailor—and married . The Bishop of Loudon has nominated a commission , consisting of the venerable Archdeacon Hale , the Rev . Alichael . Gibbs , ALA ., prebendary of St . Paul ' s Cathedral , and vicar of Christ Church , Newgate-street : the Rev . Frederick George Blomfield , ALA ., rector of St . Andrew , Undershaft ; Air . It . AVigram Crawford , ALP . ; ancl Alderman Cubitt , ALP ., to investigate , under the " Union of Contiguous Benefices Act , " ISth and 19 th Viet ., cap . 127 , the propriety of uniting several benefices in the city of London , strong representations having

been made by tho authorities that four or five of these parishes might be formed into one , with one parish church , which would meet all their requirements . The parishes into whose condition the commissioners will proceed to inquire are those of St . Benet , Gracechurch-street , and St . Leonard , Eastcheap , of which the Rev . Charles Alackenzie , prebendary of St . Paul's , is rector ; they are of the annual value of about £ 300 , and In the gift of the Dean and Chapter of St . Paul's , and tbe Dean and Chapter of Canterbury , alternately . The rectories of St .

Margaret Pattens , and St . Gabriel , Fenchurch-street , of whicli the Rev . Henry James Newbury , ALA ., is rector ; the 3 are of the annual value of about £ 250 , and are in the gift of the Lord Chancellor and the corporation of London alternately . The rectory of St . Dionis , Backchurch , of which the Rev . AY . H . Lyall , ALA ., is rector ; it is worth about £ 150 a year , and is in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury . From returns made to tho Bishop of London , it appears that the largest attendance at till these churches combined on any one Sunday

was three hundred ancl sixty-eight , and that only one has a houso fit for the residence of the minister . In some other parishes , relative to whicli a report will shortly be presented to tho bishop , and upon which a bill will probably be founded for presentation to parliament early next session , the largest attendance on any Sunday during the last few years , has been fifty , forty-eight , forty , thirty , twenty-five , ten . In some of these parishes there is scarcely any resident population on Sundays .- A melancholy occurrence took place on Tuesday on the Mersey , which has resulted in the loss of six or seven lives . A flat , while delivering coals alongside the Hungarian ( screw steamer ) was capsized , and out of