The Week.

of their being employed for mercantile purposes only ; and the liberated vessels quitted Mogadino directly , with freight and passengers . The little frontier difficulty betiveen the Spanish and Portuguese Governments is likely to be amicably settled . The vine disease was making its reappearance , and some heavy rains had done great injury to the com . The Prince of AVales is reported to have won golden opinions from the Portuguese . The Madrid , Gazelle of the 28 th ult . mentions the deathat Sevilleof M . Zea de Berniudezwho held several

, , , diplomatic and government offices during his political career . It is difficult to get any reliable news from the Spanish journals , but we learn that there have been some democratic outbreaks in that countrv , probably of a more serious character than the Madrid journals would lead us to believe . Ifc is stated that tho proposals made by Prussia in the extraordinary sitting of the Federal Diet on the 4 th instant , wero the following : 1 . The junction of the 9 th and 10 th corps d ' armCe to

the Prussian army . 2 . The appointment to the command in chief of the four non-Prussian and non-Austrian Federal corps d ' armce . 3 . The placing of all reserve contingents in readiness to march . Accounts from Vienna state that the Emperor of Austria had arrived at Laxcnburgli early on the 28 th . A arious conjectures had been formed as to the cause of this unexpected visit . Baron Hess has taken command ofthe Austrian army in Italy , to which the third corps , under the Archduke Albert , was proceeding by forced marches . The recruitment was going ou so i ' ast that 150 , 000 men would be clothed and equipped before the end of August . Advices have also been received from Rome to the 2 nd instant . The Giornale di Roma protests against the reports

published of the massacre afc Perugia , and promises a detailed account of what has really happened there . An official contradiction has been published of the reported liberation of criminals at Rome . A circular publication on the temporal power of the Pope , and an address by his Holiness to the cardinals on the Legations , have been issued , both expressing confidence in the Emperor of the French . Advices have been received from Naples to the 2 nd instant . Prince Ollojano has been despatched to tho Court of StJamesThe screw liner Marl

. . - borough , four sailing ships of the line , and one aviso steamer , originally bound for Athens , on receipt of important despatches last week , took another direction . The frigate Euryalus , having on board Prince Alfred , has also been ordered to proceed on its way with , all speed . Advices have been received from Constantinople to the 29 th ult . The Divan has decided that reasons of State require the presence of the Sultan in Egypt , and he will therefore leave for that country

immediately , after the fetes of the Bairam . Great and magnificent preparations are being made for his journey . It is said that the Sultan will subsequently visit Candia , where the popular agitation has rendered fresh reinforcements necessary . According to letters from Persia , 00 , 000 Russians have been sent against Khiva , via , the Caspian Sea . Persia has given her assent to the expedition , the object of which is to reduce the Turcomans to submission . The African has arrived at Liverpool with advices from New York to the 22 nd ult . It was said that General Cass was preparing a circular on the subject of neutral rights , and that he does not acquiesce in the British views with regard to articles contraband of war .

INDIA AND COLONIES—The overland mail has brought both the Bombay ancl Calcutta and China mails , by which we have dates from Calcutta to May 17 th , Bombay , June 4 th , and Hong-Kong , May 5 tb . The news from India is unimportant . The operations for the final suppression of yet existing disturbers seems confined to the usual encounters of parties of our troops with small bodies of flying rebels ou tlie frontiers of Oude and Nepaul , ending invariably in considerable slaughter among the latter . Many of these rebels continue to in

come and surrender themselves to be admitted to the benefits ofthe amnesty . The dissatisfaction among the English soldiery of the late East India Company was subsiding . The Peninsular ancl Oriental Steam Navigation Company have favoured us with the following communication : — " The L'llora , having on board the Calcutta and China and the Bomb ' ay inails , arrived at Marseilles at noon yesterday . Tbe Alma grounded on Jlooshedgerahnear the Harnish Islandsin the Red Seaat " three

, , , , A . M ., June 12 th ; heeled over immediately , and the starboard ancl stern ports being put under water , she filled rapidly from above . The mails , crew , and passengers , all saved ; and it was confidentl y believed that the ' vessel ' s bottom was not injured , and that she may be got off . Twentysix ofthe Alma ' s passengers came on iu the Ellora . The remainder are on board the Peru , which left Malta on the 30 th June , and may be expected at Southampton on the Oth inst . "

HOME NEWS . —A cabinet council was held on Saturday afternoon afc Lord Palmerston ' s officiai residence , all the members of the cabinet wero present , including Mr . Milner Gibson . Another council was held on AVednesday at the officiai residence of Lord Palmerston .- A painful termination has been made to the excursion of au Historic Societ y to Bolton . A wheel eauie off a vehicle , and the result was that four gentlemen were thrown violently to the ground , and the horse theu breaking oil * into a gallopothers subsequentlthrownNo fata

, wore y . - lity occurred , but some of the injuries are of a very serious character . On Monday , Samuel Adams , the murderer , was hanged at Newgate . A suicide occurred at Cork on Friday evening under more than usually horrifying circumstances . A young married woman , in a fit of grief for the loss of a child , threw herself out of a window forty foet from the ground . Her mother , who had followed , succeeded ill seizin"

her by the hair , when , as sho was thus suspended , a man from a window below caught her by the feet . At the same moment the mother had to leave her hold ; the body swung over , and also fell from the grasp of the person below , descending to a railing underneath , where the wretched woman was impaled , meeting instantaneous death . In the Court of Exchequer , afc Guildhall , the ease of Swinfen v . Lord Chelmsford , has been tried . The question is whether Lord Chelmsford , then Sir F . Thesigerhad wronglcompromised an issue tried at Stafford in

, y reference to a will in which the plaintiff was interested . Several witnesses were examined , when Sir F . Kelly asked if there was any evidence to goto the jury ? The Lord Chief Baron said there was not a particle of evidence upon the second count . The learned counsel then made a most powerful address on behalf of his client . Lord Chelmsford , Mr . Justice Cresswell , ancl Lord Chief Justice Cockburn , ivere then examined , and the jury found a verdict for tho defendant without a moment

' s hesitation . At the Central Criminal Court , AVilliam Abraham Moore was charged with the wilful murder of his wife , Sophia , The trial occupied a very long time on account of the number of witnesses examined . The jury found the prisoner guilty of manslaughter only , and the ro . irt sentenced him to penal servitude for life . Alee-Chancellor AVood has given judgment in the celebrated case , Gye r . Graziani , and after examining the evidence and going through the facts , made the following decree : Injunction to issue in tho same terms as the injunction originally made ' ; all costs to bo paid by the two defendants , Signor Graziani , and Mr . E . T . Smith ; inquiry in chambers

as to damages . A commission agent , named Lyon Goldsmith , of Finsbury-pavement , who was on Thursday last made a bankrupt , and immediately thereafter given into custody , underwent examination at Guildhall , on a charge of being guilty of certain fraudulent transactions connected with his bankruptcy . After hearing some preliminary evidence an adjournment was ordered . The contest for the representation of the borough of Marylebone terminated on AVednesday in favour of Lord Fermoy . The close of the poll showed for the successful

candidate a majority of 1 , 930 over Major Lyon , and 3 . 1 GJ over Colonel Dickson ; the numbers being—Fermoy , 4 , 238 ; Lyon , ' 2 , 308 ; Dickson , 1 , 074 . As usual at this period of the year , the return of the Registrar General shows an' increase in the rate of mortality in the metropolis . Last week the deaths were 1 , 024 , having been 913 and 970 in the two previous weeks . Diarrhoea is making progress , but at present is principally confined to children . The number of births for the week was 1790

; . ——On the 4 th of July , tho members of tho American Association in London celebrated the eighty-third return of the anniversary of the American declaration of independence . General 11 . B . Campbell , the United States consul in England , presided , and Mr . Dallas , the American minister , was present . " Tho health of her Majesty" was given after that of the President . " Young America and Old England " was also given with much display of fraternal union . The navv estimates havo been issued . The total estimate for 1859-00 is £ 12 , 082 , 055 ;; the amount already voted on account , is £ 0 , 311 . 723 , leavi'i " £ 0 , 370 , 332 to be voted .

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT . —In the HOUSE of LORDS on Monday tho Duke of Marlborough moved the appointment of a select committee to inquire into the present operation of the law and practice respecting the assessment and levy of church rates . After some observations favourable to the appointment of a committee upon tho subject from Lord Teynham , the Archbishop of Canterbury , Lord Portman , and the Bishop of London , Earl Granville , on tho part of the Government , assented to the appointment of the committee . —On TuesdayLord Lyndhursfc ( in a most

, powerful speech ) called attention to the state of the national defences . He said that the introduction of steam rendered the country more open to invasion than formerly , and that there was an absolute necessity to maintain the navy in such a state of efficiency that it might be ablo to cope with the joint navies of any two powers . Lord Stratford de Redclitfo said though fearless of invasion , ho ivas an advocate for a powerful armament on sea and land . Earl Granville deprecated such discussion , as tending to the

endanger preservation of peace . So far from invasion being at the present moment probable it ivas not even possible , for Russia was unprepared for war , and Franco was engaged in a costly and bloody struggleto which all her energies were devoted . On tho part of fche Government , however , he repeated that they would omit no means to place tho defences of the country in a stato of the utmost strength and efficiency . In the HOUSE of COMMONS , on Monday , tho Chancellor of the Exchequer said as soon as some estimates ivhich were pressing should be

disposed of , he would bring forward his financial statement . Lord C . Paget , in reply to Sir J . Pakington , said it was the intention of the Government to bring in a bill during the present session to carry out the recommendations of fche Royal commissioners for maiming the navy . Lord Palmerston stated that , owing to the late period of tho session ifc was not bis intention to bring in a Reform Bill . Sir S . M . Peto moved for leave to bring in a bill for the prevention of noxious effluvia from tho River Thames within the After

metropolis . a short discussion the motion for leave to bring in the bill was negatived without a division . On Tuesday , Mr . Collier moved for leave to bring in a bill limiting tha power of imprisonment for small debts exercised by the county court judges . His object , he said , was that no count y court judge should have power to imprison for mere non-appearance , unless there should have been fraud in the contracting of the debt , or that he was satisfied that the . debtor had the means of paying , and would not . He also nro-