The Week.

stating that Switzerland will , in case war should break out , defend , ivith all her power , as well her OAAUI integrity and neutrality , as also that of Savoy , the neutrality of AA'hich has also been guaranteed by treaties . Tho military ancl financial departments have been ordered to commence all necessary preliminary works . A letter from Xaples informs us that it is affirmed that the king is suffering from a disease in the articulation of the thigh bone , producing such extreme pain as to render life almost insupportable . This disease arises from an attack which his

majesty had some years back . In addition to this , the king suffers from a nervous fever ivhich induces frequent delirium ; and , altogether , the complication of disorders is so severe that oven medical men do not hesitate to say that the case is incurable . Advices from Constantinople to the ' 2 nd instant state , that the army of observation on the Danube has been increased to oO . OOO men , aud that the Porte claims the right of appointing the hospodars . Sir Henry Bulwer is believed to have advised the Porte to grant concessions to tho Principalities . The French

Ambassador has procured the dismissal of the Governor of Rodosto . tlassib Pacha , has instituted a council for financial affairs , composed of four Turks ancl three Europeans . A letter from Rome says— "There are crowds of foreigners in Rome , and the Carnival has beeu as brilliant as ou any occasion before ISIS . The Prince of AVales has a iviudoAV in the Corso , and is an object of great attraction . His royal highness is living a quiet , unostentatious life , and is pursuing his studies ivit'h great attention , it is reported that the king of Xaples has offered to furnish the Pope

with four battalions of Swiss troops . A letter from Turin , says that the emperor Xapoleon has excited hopes in Italy , which his recent declarations must , it is presumed , completely dissipate . There is but one sentiment respecting the note in the Moniteur . Everywhere the utmost indignation is expressed . People bluntly say that Piedmont has been "betrayed" by Louis Xapoleon . Volunteers continue to arrive every day , and arc at once enrolled in the Piedrnontese ranks . In Paris conjectures are throivn out that Af . do Cavour ivill be unable to stand up against the blow administered to his hopes and his ambition from the Tuileries ;

and , if lie falls , the Avar party in Piedmont ivill bo utterly ancl hopelessly Avorsted . The Calcutta and China mails , ivith dates from Calcutta to February !) , and Hong-Kong to January 29 , arrived at Afalta on the llth . There is no stirring news in the political world , and little change in commercial affairs . The steamer Africa has brought news from Xeiv York to the 2 nd inst . A sad tragedy had occurred in 'Washington . Daniel E . Sickles , a member of Congress , hael shot down in the public street , Air . P . B . Key , tho Attorney for the district of Columbiawho died on the spot . Sickles charged Key with seducing his wife .

, The boilers of the steamer Princess exploded Avhile on a passage to Xeiv Orleans ; -100 passengers wore on board , and it ivas reported that 200 AVCI-O either killed or missing . Xothing had been done in Congress on the tariff question , or for the relief of tho financial embarrassments of the Government . -Japan is IIOAV attracting attention as an opening for foreign trade . There have been eight or ten ships cleared for Xagasaki since the kite treaties AA'ere signed , the Japanese Government admitting them under the Dutch treaty until ratifications are exchanged . Advices from

llayti to the 30 th of January state that the ueiv Government AIMS looked upon witli much favour by the people . All the excitement of the revolution had passed by , and business had revived . John Buchanan , and Archibald Mitchell , engineers of the steamer Bogota , AA'ere charged before the Liverpool magistrates on Tuesday ivith causing the death of a fireman named Launder . Several witnesses saiv the man tied to a ladder Avithin thirty-six inches of the furnaces , and stated that he cried most piteously to be released from his position . Life Avas nearly extinct AA'hen

ha was brought from the stoke-hole , and no subsequent applications caused him to rally . The men saicl they dared not in torfere lest they should be punished . Air . Alansfield remanded the case , but admitted Buchanan to bail . At the Court of Bankruptcy , the certificate ( third class ) of Captain George AYashiugton Chas ^ eaud , who Avas described as a merchant in Cornhill , ivas suspended for three years Avithout protection ; and the commissioner saicl that , if any naturally indignant creditor chose to vindicate public justice by putting the bankrupt into prison , any application AA'ould be disregarded until he had suffered at least six mouths' incarceration . A communication from Fremautle , AVesteru Australia , announces the arrival of