The Week.

International Exhibition , the returns for the day giving 58 , 000 visitors . The Crystal Palace also came in for a large share of the holiday makers , 37 , 000 ; and Greenwich and Richmond Parks , and Hampton Court , and other favourite resorts in the suburbs of London were alive ancl brilliant with the merry groups scattered over the verdure . The clay was also taken advantage of for the review of Volunteer corps . There was no

such general muster as on Easter Monday , but the Inns of Court invited the two University corps to a review in Hyde-park , in return for an invitation given to the Inns of Court to visit Cambridge last year ; and at Lord Cowper ' s seat , at Panshanger , Herts , there was a gathering of several of the Hertfordshire ancl Metropolitan corps . Other regiments availed themselves of the day for a march into the country . The festivities connected with the installation of the Duke of Devonshire as Chancellor

of the University of Cambridge , were opened on Monday . The most interesting feature of the day , was the conferring of the honorary degree of LL . D . on a number of noblemen and gentlemen , including the Duke of Argyll , Lord Brougham , Lord Stanley , Sir William Armstrong , Mr . William Fairbairn , and M . Michel Chevalier . Lord Brougham and Sir W . Armstrong are stated to have met with the warmest reception at the handsor rather the voicesof the under-graduates .

, , At a Court of Common Council last week , among other business brought before the members , Alderman Salomons moved the freedom of the City to Earl Canning , in a spirited speech , in which he enumerated the services that noblemen had rendered to India and to England , at and after the great rebellion . The motion was seconded by Mr . Rowe , and unanimously agreed to . The Social Science Congress held its first meeting on the oth inst ., when a great number of the members assembled ,

according to previous arrangement , in the Jerusalem Chamber in the course of the afternoon , and from thence proceeded in a body to Westminster Abbey , where a sermon appropriate to the occasion was preached by the Dean of Chichester . In tbe course of the evening the opening meeting was held in Exeter Hall , when the President , Lord Brougham , delivered an eloquent oration , in which he took a survey of the widely extended field the Congress is intended to occupy . The sittings have been continued throughout the week , and various interesting papers

read . The governors of St . Thomas Hospital have at length come to a decision upon the future situation of the hospital . A bargain has been made and the deposit money paid for the Royal Surrey Gardens , in Walworth , whose conversion into the Surrey Music Hall , a few years back , proved so unfortunate for the shareholders . The new situation is central enough , being about a mile and a quarter distant from all the river bridges , and easily accessible to the class from whom the patients mostly

come . Nothing daunted by the reply given by Sir Charles Wood to the memorials recently presented to him on the subject , the operatives of East Lancashire continue the agitation for the total repeal of the duties imposed upon cotton goods and yarns imported into India . A great open-air meeting was held at Blackburn , on Saturday , when the abolition of these duties was demanded in firm but temperate language . Resolutions were passedcondemning the protective tariff of India

, as alike opposed to the principles of free and unrestricted commerce ancl unjust to the great mass of our population , who have a special interest in the cotton trade . It was also determined once more to send a deputation to London to press these views upon the attention of Lord Palmerston and Sir Charles Wood . It will be remembered that some weeks ago the wife of a respectable person at Welshpool was charged with stealing goods out of a draper's shop , and being admitted to bail , both husband

ancl wife were found next morning with their throats cut . Happily life was not extinct , and by dint of medical care and skill both have been recovered , and on Monday they were placed before the magistrates . The account they gave was that they each other ' s throats , as they were unable to survive the wife's disgrace . They were both in custody . A murder of a most deliberate character was committed at Brighton , on Sunday night . It appears that a private of the 18 th Hussars

named Flood , had been a good deal bantered by his comrades , one of whom , John O'Dea , seems to have caused him considerable annoyance . On Sunday night , O'Dea was entering the barracks with tw o or three other soldiers , when Flood , who was sentry at the gates , shot him dead . Flood , after being taken to the guard-house , became very violent , He attempted to draw his sword on the sergeant , and lie is stated to have expressed his regret that he had not been able to murder another ofhis comrades . He was committed for

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trial . A dreadful scene was witnessed in Birmingham on Saturday . A Mrs . Bullock had been driven from her home to the workhouse by the brutal conduct of her husband . Bullock declared , in the presence of several persons , on Thursday night , that it was his intention to " do for four , " and on the following day he purchased a revolver , On Saturday he said he wished to bring his wife from the workhouseand induced a

, nephew of the poor woman's to drive him to the place . He saw his wife , and after an apparently affectionate greeting drew the revolver with which he had supplied himself , aud pointed it at the nephew . The young man got out of the way , whereupon Bullock fired into his own mouth , causing instantaneous death . There seems to be no doubt that he had made up his mind to carry out the dreadful threat he uttered on Thursday niht .

g Another murder was committed either late on Saturday night or early on Sunday morning . The victim in this case was an old man , named Drew , residing at Langore , near Launceston , and plunder seems to have bean the object of the murderer . A labourer , named Doiclge , is in custody on suspicion . A terrible murder of two children and the suicide of the . wretched criminalthe father of the little girlshas created

, , some excitement in London . It appears that the unfortunate man , whose name was Mockford , held a respectable position at Bankside , and he has been in a desponding state ever since the death of his wife in April . It was supposed that he had left his home on Wednesday on a visit to his friends , instead of which he appears to have poisoned his two children , aged five and seven , and afterwards destroyed himself by stabbing . On

Saturday morning a fearful explosion took place on the premises of Mr . Boor , a manufacturing chemist , in Bishopsgate-street , London , The front of the building was blown out , and the whole place was soon enveloped in flames , which spread to the adjoining houses . A servant and a child were burnt to death , and several other persons were very seriously injured . During the time the firemen were playing upon tbe burning pile an

alarming occurrence took place . The Duke of Sutherland , Captain Shaw , and a number of officers of the brigade were actively engaged , when what remained of the premises occupied by Mr . Boor fell to the ground , the Duke and his fellowlabourers narrowly escaping the dreadful fate of poor

Braidwood . There can be little doubt , from the evidence produced at the inquest , that a cask , containing methylated spirits had leaked , and that a lighted lucifer match carelessly flung down by the under porter , and falling upon the leakage , had caused the explosion . The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental Death , " and earnestly recommended that more care should be used in storing combustible and explosive substances Another alarming accident has occurred on the

LondonChat-, ham , and Dover Railway . On Monday morning , an excursion train , which had stopped at the Chatham station , was backed down the line into the Chatham Hill tunnel , in order to allow a number of additional carriages to be " put on . " A train from Dover was due at this time ; but , owing to some mistake , it was allowed to enter the tunnel , and the result was a serious collision . Some twenty persons in the standing train were more

or leas seriously injured ; but it is hoped that in none of the cases will the injuries prove fatal . Two melancholy boat accidents , involving a loss of seven lives , occurred on Sunday , — one on the Mersey , near Runcorn Gap , and the other at Brighton . - ——An inquiry into the recent riots , arising out of the discoveries made at Wardsend Cemetry , was opened before the Sheffield Magistrateson Saturday . Evidence of an extraordinary and

, painful character was given as to the irregularities alleged to have been practised by the sexton , who did not appear in court . On Monday , the sexton , was apprehended , and brought before the local bench , on the charge of illegally removing the remains of a child , bail being refused . Her Majesty's ship Porcupine is being got ready to take soundings in tbe Atlantic , preparatory to another attempt to lay a telegraphic cable befctveen Ireland

and Newfoundland On Saturday , Mr . Commissioner Fane ordered a call of £ 1 per share , payable on the 7 th of July , to be made upon the unfortunate persons who have been declared contributories in the case of the collapsed District Savings Bank . It appears , from the statement of the accountant who was appointed to assist the official liquidator in examining the position of the concernthat £ 17584 odd had been deposited

, , with the Company , by way of loan . The number of depositors by way of loan , was 4016—3485 of whom were poor people who are described as having thus invested sums varying from Id . to £ 5 . The accountant believes that many of the persons now settled on the list of contributories are unable to meet any call