The Week.

of a merchantman , has been accused at the Thames Police Court of having caused the death of one of his seamen by ill-usuage , and particularly by his having savagely beaten liim with a rope , in September last , while the ship was on the high seas . The charge was preferred by two other seamen , who gave circumstantial details of the beating and of the subsequent death of the victim . Their statement , it must be remembered , is an ex parte one ; and it

rather detracts from the value of ther evidence that there is a dispute between the captain and his crew on the subject of wages . The captain reserved his defence , aud was remanded . A curious case has been before the police magistrate at Southwark . A publican charged a prisoner with having on him forged notes . The prisoner retorted that the prosecutor took them as stolen notes ,

and that he had other stolen property in his possession . The police-constables took the hint , searched the prosecutor's house , and -were rewarded for their pains by finding some silver spoons , which he admitted to have bought from the utterer of the forgeries , and in consequence he was made to succeed the man he had accused in the prisoners' dock . A short time ago , a man , named Seer , gave himself up to the . police as the murderer of a young woman , named Sarah Watts , who , some ten years since , was murdered at

Woodlands , near Frome . At first , it was supposed that the man was insane , and evidence was given which appeared to throw doubt upon the possibility of his having committed the crime . He was , however , kept in . custody , and , on Tuesday , a witness , named Payne , was produced , who declared that immediately after the murder Seer admitted , in the presence of himself , his wife , and a girl , named Staff , that he had violated and then murdered the young woman ,

" because he should never be found out . " Mrs . Payne is dead , and Staff cannot be found ; and Payne alleges , as the reason why he did at once communicate to the police the disclosure which had been made to him , that his wife awed him into silence by telling him that he would place his life in danger if he gave information against the prisoner . Seer was once more remanded , and the police

promise ad & itvaaal evidence of an impovtaat nsvUite . Several of ths men apprehended ou suspicion of having been concerned in the murder of Mr . Basott , at Bilston , have made a statement or " confession , " the exact purport of which has not been allowed to transpire . It is , however , rumoured that one of them , Maddocks , states that Mullighan and Brandrick entered the deceased's house ; that be himself was stationed outside , to give an alarm if anyone approached ; and that the other prisoners had nothing whatever to do with the commission of the crime .

FOEEIGN INTELLIGENCE . —Great fears are entertained in Paris of an impending commercial crisis . Specie is becoming scarce , the rate of discount is increasing , and employment in the chief manufacturing districts is daily falling off . In Lyons alone 40 , 000 men are out of work , and matters are no better at Rouen , Elbceuf , ancl Louviers . The condition of Paris , owing to the present clearness of

provisions and the want of employment , is described as very alarming . On Tuesday the Moniteur declared that , in consequence of the large arrivals of corn from abroad , the rise in the price of breadstuffs will probably not be maintained , but that in any case the price of bread in Paris will not be permitted to exceed its present rate of 50 centimes per kilogramme ( lOd . per quartern ) , as the

Caisse de la Boulangerie will make good the difference to the bakers if there shall not be a fall in prices . To relieve the pressure in Paris , it is arranged that the Bank of France shall draw £ 2 , 000 , 000 of paper at three months' date upon several capitalists in London , including Messrs . Rothschild and Co ., which are to be discounted hy the Bank of England . Through these means a

crisis , it is believed , may be in a great measure avoided . It seems to be considered that at the end of this period things will have , to an extent , righted themselves , or the severity of the food question wiil have been mitigated . The King of Prussia who arrived at Compibgue on Sunday evening , and left on Tuesday forenoon , could not have found or given much opportunity

for serious talk with the Emperor upon political affairs , for both potentates seem to have gone through a rather hard day's work on Monday in the shape of amusement . In the morning shooting in . the private park , during the day a long promenade iu the forest and a visit to a ruined castle , in the evening the play . On Tuesday morning a military review , and away to Dusseldorf at mid-day . This was evidently only a friendly visit , quite of a personal

character , and with no other political significance than such a visit imports . The King of Holland , who is expected at Conipiegne on Saturday , is to stay a week . Great preparations continue to be made for the coronation of the King of Prussia . In Berlin , the excitement is increasing , and almost fabulous prices are being obtained for windows with a view

of the procession Two regiments of infantry are about to embark at Toulon for the purpose of relieving a portion of the French garrison of Rome ; and it may therefore be presumed that there is no present intention of withdrawing , or eveii diminishing , General Goyon ' s forces . The Pope has availed himself of another opportunity of declaring that , come what may , he will consent to

no compromise whatever with the enemies of the Church . In short , he will retain is temporal power until he is forcibly deprived of it . A diplomatic rupture was threatened between Queen Isabella's and King Victor Emmanuel ' s governments , but it has been averted , and the archives of the Neapolitan Consulates in Spain are to be surrendered to the Italian officials . A Turin

telegram states that Garibaldi has left Caprera for some unknown destination . Many of the working men ' s societies in Italy are dissatisfied with the resolutions come to at their last Congress at Florence , " in reference to the introduction of political creeds into

their organisation . It is resolved that another congress shall be held in November . A on Schmerling is proceeding vigorously iff the work of what is termed at Vienna bringing the Hungarians to a sense of moderation . County and municipal assemblies are being dissolved in rapid succession . Every such body as concurs in the protest against the illegal dissolution of the Diet is doomed . Those of Gran , of Arad , and of Bacs have been shut up . The

Assembly of the Comitat of Zalo has declared that it will yield only to force ; ancl force will certainly be applied . In the Vienna Reiehsrath the Prime Minister has introduced a bill on the press , from which he says all preventive provisions are excluded , only repressive measures being proposed . The editor of a paper , published at Lemberg , in Gallicia , has just experimentally learnt

what repressive measures are ; he is sentenced to five years' hard labour , loss of nobility , forfeiture of half his caution money , and deprivatioa of his faculty of exercising the editorial profession . His offence , as alleged , was inciting the people to sedition , A Alenna despatch announces a victory achieved by the Montenegrins over the Turks , the latter having left on the

field upwards of a hundred men killed and wounded . The line of passive resistance against the Russian . Government recommended by the leaders of the national movement in Poland is every now and then exceeded , and overt acts resorted to . A telegram from Thorn states that on the night of the 4 th inst ., an insurrection broke out in the town of Czeladz , in Russian Poland , during which the people tore down the Russian , eagles from the

public buildings , and substituted the Polish eagle . In the tumult it appears that the mayor was killed , but by wbich party we do not hear . An advertisement from the Swiss Government notifies whom it may concern that no more authorisations will be granted to Frenchmen to marry Swiss wives , because in such cases th e French Government persists in refusing letters of legitimisation to

such Frenchmen , ancl even disputes their right to establish themselves in France . AVe learn by telegraph from Alexandria , that he Nile has risen 24 feet , and that this extraordinary occurrence has been attended with the destruction , of three leagues of railway and telegraph , besides a large amount of damage to houses ancl other property . —— -According to a French journal the Queen of Madagascar died on the 18 th of August ; and her son immediately