The Week.

railway travellers in this country are constantly exposed . A powerful fellow got into a carriage which was already occupied by five gentlemen , at King ' s Cross , on Thursday night , the 4 th inst . Soon after the train left the station on its journey northwards , this man , who , it would seem , was suffering from delirium tremens , became greatly excited , and charged his

fellow travellers with robbing him . He became more and more violent , and as it was found impossible to communicate with the guard , it was decided to bind the madman down . This was accomplished after a severe struggle , and the fellow was kept bound hand and foot until the arrival of the train at Peterborough . It is a sad pity , as one of the gentlemen remarked ,

that the party in the carriage did not include a Director of tbe Great Northern Railway Company , as in that case the experience of the journey between London and Peterborough " might have been useful . " Two railway accidents have lately occurred . On Friday , the Sth , a labouring man , who was working on the North-AVestern line , near Sudbury , appears

to have become bewildered by the coming up of three trains on as many lines of rail , and was caught by the buffer of the engine of one of them , and driven up against a carriage with such force that his death was instantaneous . The other accident , which was fortunately not attended with fatal consequences , took place on the old Liverpool and . Manchester lino , near

Trafford . The engine of a passenger train going to Liverpool got off the rails . A luggage train following pulled up in time , but a passenger train , coming from a different lino , ran into the luggage train before it could be stopped , and the shock was severely felt by the passengers . One gentleman was taken out of a carriage insensible . A boiler used afc the Bolton Gasworks in the process of distilling naptha from gas tar , burst , on Tuesday morning , with fearful

force . Tliree of the workmen were killed , several others were seriously injured , and a large amount of property was destroyed or damaged . The explosion appears to have been caused by the stoppage of a conduit pipe by which the crude naptha was conducted from the boiler to tbe stills attached to ifc . An explosion occurred afc a gunpowder manufactory in the neighbourhood of Guildford , killing two men , and destroying

property to a considerable amount . An Italian vessel has arrived in the Victoria Dock considerably damaged . The master reported that he had been in collision with a French vessel off the Norfolk coast , striking the French ship with so much severity that she immediately foundered , carrying seven or eight of her crew with her . The remainder of the French

crew got on board the Italian , and were brought to London , with the exception of au apprentice hoy , who was picked up at sea by a Dutch galliot . The Italian vessel sustained considerable injury . A serious fire was discovered on Tuesday night in St . Peter ' s Church , Southend , near Croydon . The fire was caused by the carelessness of some workmen who were engaged

in the repair of the spire . . Considerable damage was done before the flames were subdued , and the spire was totally destroyed . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The Emperor Napoleon has left Vichy , where he had sought some measure of retirement from business , ancl has returned to St . Cloud . Tlie King of the

Belgians has Ioffc Vichy , for Paris , where he is expected to remain a week . The correctional tribunal of Paris has sentenced MM . Garnier-Pages , Carnot , and eleven other Liberal leaders to a fine of £ 20 each for illegally assembling an electoral meeting of more than twenty persons . A new decree has just been -issued in France , putting an end to the occupation of public mformers in matters referring to State or Church property . At all events , if carried on , the business must he performed

gratuitously , as no portion of any fine or confiscation in such cases is henceforth to go to them . The Constitutionnel , while declaring that the English Cabinet would " willingly have p . issedfrom diplomatic action to militaryacfcion" in favourof Denmark , says that no prospect of territorial aggrandisement was holdout to France . "England , " the Constitutionnel adds , " offered

nothing ; France asked for nothing . Neither the Earl of Clarendon during his journeys to Paris , nor the British Cabinet in its diplomatic despatches , ever hinted at France taking the Rhine frontier . " Preparations on an extensive scale are rnaking at Paris for the fetes in honour of the King of Spain . The 17 th is to be the grand day , when tho entertainments at

Versailles are to be of unprecedented magnificence and splendour . Invitations to the number of 10 , 000 are to be issued for this fete . Letters from Madrid state that ; there are apprehensions of a popular disturbance in that capital , in consequence of which the Government have taken measures to preserve order . Considerable alarm was said to exist . The

preliminary treaty of peace between Germany and Denmark has been published both in Vienna aud Berlin . King Christian cedes Schleswig , Holstein , and Lauenburg to the Emperor o of Austria and King of Prussia , and agrees to recognise any arrangements which they may make regarding those duchies . Denmark and the Duchies are severally to bear their separate

debts ; and the joint debt is to be divided between them in the proportion of their respective populations . Jutland is to be occupied by the allies until the conclusion of the definite treaty of peace , and the corps of occupation is to be maintained by the Jutlanders ; bufc no military contributions are to be levied . In a circular noto to its representatives at foreign Courts , the Austrian Cabinet declares thafc all the questions regarding the future disposal of Schleswig , Holstein , and Lauenburg , will

be arranged by Austria in concert with the Federal Governments , as such questions affect the general interests of Germany . The Danish Rigsdag was opened by King Christian in person on Saturday , in a brief speech , wherein his Majesty , in tones of sadness which will . waken sympathy in most hearts , announces that , notwithstanding the courage and endurance of the army and ' . fleet , and the sacrifices incurred by

the people , the war waged against Denmark by a superior force had compelled him to agree to the most grievous concessions . But all Europe had deserted Denmark , ancl a continuance of the war would only have occasioned- her greater losses and misfortunes , without the prospect of an improved position . To the future he looks with comfort , in full reliance

upon the people , and in tho hope that brighter clays will not fail to heal the deep wounds inflicted upon the country . A meeting of the clergy and gentry of the district of Kiel was held on Monday , at which a petition was submitted for presentation to the Schleswig-Holstein commissioners , demanding a common government for tlie Duchies under the protection of

Prussia . Of the twenty-three persons composing the assembly , five refused to sign the document . An exchange of prisoners has commenced between the Danes and Germans , ancl on Monday 1 , 000 Schleswigers , who had served in the Danish army and been discharged , were landed at Flensburg amidst general rejoicings . The effects of the excessive drought are being

severely felt in Hungary , where , in some of the mountainous districts , the peasants are reduced to such misery as to be obliged to eat the leaves of trees and wild roots . Greece has just passed through a Ministerial crisis and a change of Government . In the new Ministry Admiral Canaris takes tho Presidency of the Council and the Department of the Marine ; the other offices are distributed amongst gentlemen who , whatever reputation they may enjoy iu their own country , aro