The Week.

THE WEEK .

THE COITBT—Her Majesty and family still continue afc Windsor Castle . GENERAL HOME NEWS . —The state of the public health in the metropolis continues to be on the whole satisfactory . The number of deaths last week was 1424 , which is a near approximation to the average number of the corresponding week for the last ten years .

The deaths in the City continue to be considerably below the average . The births for the week were 1791 children , which is ¦ about 100 higher than the ten years' average . A public meeting has been held afc AVillis's Rooms to consider the propriety of erecting a memorial to the late Lord Herbert . The meeting Avas very numerously attended , and men of all ranks and parties shared in

the proceedings . The chair was occupied by his Royal Highness the Commander in Chief ; the first resolution was moved by the Prime Minister , and seconded by General Peel ; the second by the Chancellor of the Exchequer , and seconded by General Sir John urgoyne . The other speakers were of equal influence ; and the resolution to raise a subscription for the purpose

of the memorial was very heartily responded to . —¦—On Monday evening Mr . Bright addressed a very interesting meeting of the AVorking Men ' s Educational Institute at Rochdale . The hon . gentleman , who presented the prizes , delivered an interesting and familiar speech on popular education , pointing out the kind of knowledge which was likely to render fche most substantial

service to tho youth of both sexes , and urging them also to take an interest as citizens in the public affairs of fcheir country . He touched upon the war in America , remarking that the evil results of the stoppage of our supply of cotton afforded an example of fche mischief resulting from a want of forethought ancl instruction . ——

An indication of the near approach of the time when Earl Canning will return to this country is afforded in his recent nomination to the Rangership of Greenwich Park . The office , we need hardly say , is a nominal one , for there are no duties to be discharged ; and the emoluments are confined to a residence on Blackheatb . The Rangership was last held hy the late Earl of Aberdeen , and

Lord Canning has certainly earned this mark of the Royal honour by the way in which he has discharged the unusuall y arduous duties of his Vice-royalty of India . The Attorney General has , declined tho puisne judgeship vacant by the resignation of Mr . Justice Hill . It is understood that the offer Avas made to him but that he declined it . The seat on the bench has been conferred on Mr . Mellor , the

Queen ' s Counsel , Avhich causes a vacancy in the representation of Nottingham . Our brother the Earl of Lincoln is spoken of as a candidate . A serious attempt to defraud the Ordnance Office in Ireland AA'as brought to trial last Aveek in Dublin . A clerk in the office appears to have systematically increased the charges of a contractor , sometimes by altering the figures , sometimes by interpolating

items in his bill of Avork which were nofc originally charged , and which iu fact had nofc been done . The contractor ahvays dreAV for the higher and fraudulent amount . They Avere indicted for conspiracy , of Avhich the clerk was convicted , but the contractor ivas found guilty of fraud only , ancl , farther , recommended to mercy . AVe learn from Plymouth thafc the American ship Lady

Franklin , 1300 tons , has caught fire in that port , and that she has had to be scuttled . Some of the crew are suspected of having set fire to it . A sad calamity occurred near Reigate , on Saturday morning , in the burning doAvn of a private lunatic asylum , where there were seven patients . TAVO of these are missing ; the fate of one is too certain , as his charred remains Avere discovered in the

ruins ; ifc is supposed the other , in the excitement of the scene , made his escane . Inknen , Avho was lately found guilty of murdering the servant girl , at Deptford , by jumping ivitli her into the Surrey Canal , has been respited on the capital punishment . There is HOAV every prospect of Troop Sergeant Major Kennedy , Avho Avas shot by a soldier for turning him out of some private theatricals , recovering from the wound . His cowardly assailant

has been again brought before the magistrates , but as his victim , cannot yet be pronounced completely out of danger , and is nofc able to attend and give evidence , another remand took place . Sheffield continues to distinguish itself in the unenviable character of being the very focus and centre of trades union outrages . Between Saturday night and Sunday morning a milk can , charged

with gunpowder , was thrown into tbe cellar of a manufactory where one non-union man was employed . The explosion did much injury to the building . Some boatmen afc the mouth of the Thames were charged last week ivith wrecking a ship laden with tallow thafc had gone ashore on the Middle Swin Sand . The defence set up was that the ship was abandoned by her crew , and the

cargo therefore became the prize of the first comer . The magistrates fined the prisoners £ 100 each man . The value of the property was about £ 10 , 000 .- Another terrible calamity has occurred on an American ship at sea . The crew of a vessel have been taken into custody at Cardiff , charged with the murder of a mate ancl another- person on board . The prisoners are noiv in

Cardiff gaol , and are to be transferred to the American authorities . An important motion has just been made before Alce-Chancellor Wood , having reference to the marriage of Mr . Windham , the young man against whom proceedings in lunacy are pending . The terms of the motion Avere , thafc Mrs . Windham , formerly Ann Rogers , and Mr . May , a

solicitor , should be adjudged guilty of contempt of the court , for haA'ing abetted the marriage of Mr . Windham and the preparation of his marriage settlements while he AA-as yet a minor , and without having obtained fche sanction either of his guardian or the Court of Chancery . The Vice-Chancellor revieived the facts of

the case at great length , and while declining to accede to the application as it regarded Mr . May , he made some strong observations on that gentleman ' s conduct in the transaction , and left him to pay his own costs . We gather that after this decision tho proceedings against Mr . ' Windham will be dropped . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The French Senate assembled oa Monday , and a draught of a senatus consullum , modifying the

constitution in the manner promised by the Emperor's letter to M ; Fould , was laid upon the table by order of the government . The whole of the Paris press view the insult offered to us as one thafc demands the fullest reparation on the part of the Washington Government . Hardly any other subject is discussed by the journals . The general attitude of the French press may be briefly

characterised as similar to fchat generally taken in England . News of Avar comes from Genoa , —or rather news of a preparedness for war . Garibaldi is taking a more active parfc in affairs , and having visited the Central Italian Committee , of Avhich he is president , he addressed a large croAvd that assembled before his house , concluding with the onimous Avords , " AVith you it must be

deeds , not words . At the moment of battle I shall be Avith you . " A despatch from Rome makes the almost incredible assertion , that the Pope ' s government , not satisfied with lending the aid and countenance of its lay agents to the brigands who infest the Neapolitan provinces , has issued a circular enjoining bishoris to afford the Bourbonists all the assistance in their poiver . The

debate in the Belgian Chamber of Deputies on fche recognition of the kingdom of Italy , terminated by the adoption of an amendto the effect thafc Belgium , faithful to her position as a neutral power , should abstain , as she abvaya had clone , from interfering in the affairs of other nations . The amendment was carried by 62 votes against 47 . The Porte has communicated to the Great PoAvers the

firman which provides for the union of Moldavia and Wallachia during the life of the present Hospodar . —•—A fire has just raged afc Antwerp ivhich appear to have destroyed a vast amount of property . The ships in the basin luckily succeeded in getting out before the flames reached any of them . Unfortunately , however , a considerable loss of life is reported . At least seven or ei ghi persons—some accounts say many more—have perished ha . striving to extinguish the conflagration .