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The Week.

increase her navy , m spile of the difficulties presented by au almost bankrupt treasury . She is terrified at the chance that the example of successful revolution may be offered to the impatient Italians , aud therefore she hurries to put down the Servians , even at the risk of breaking the faith of treaties with the other great powers parties to the Treaty of Paris . At Milan , additional guns are mounted at the citadel , all pointed against the city ; there is to be no street fight , hut a bombardment on Boniba ' s Messina model . Count Giulay's plan is

to carry the war into the Piedmontese territory at the first outbreak . The dislike entertained for Count Giulay iincreases . He is reported to have said , " I know how to keep Milan quiet ; I will hang a man at the coiner of every street . " When all the reinforcements have reached their destination , the Austro-Italian army will consist of no fewer than 150 , 000 men . Orders have been given for the various fortresses to be completely provisioned .- —Prince Napoleon reached Turin on Sunday afternoon , and was cheered by the people . The official Piedmontese Gazette says ; "The Gazelle of Vienna having announced the

despatch of reinforcements to Italy , the Piedmontese government has thought it its duty to bring the distant garrisons nearer to the frontiers of Lombardy , without however calling out the contingents . " Mr . Gladstone will not remain for any length of time in the Ionian islands . Sir John Young's tenure of power there will almost immediately terminate , and pending the short interval between his departure and the arrival of a successor , Mr . Gladstone will , in a few days , receive the authority requisite for conducting the administration . But the right liongentleman willwe learnbe in London in le time to participate

, , , amp in the leading events of the session . The dispute between Spain and jMexico may be looked upon as nearly terminated . The Mexican government has made the concessions on which Spain chiefly insisted . It is believed in Madrid that after the settlement of the dispute , General de la Concha will be recalled from Cuba , where he had been sent as governor-genera ) , to prepare for the emergency of a war . Troops continue , however , to be forwarded to Cuba . It is said that

General Ttos de Olana will replace General Concha as governor of Cuba , Tho Queen , on Twelfth Night , held a reception of the members of the two chambers and ol tbe great public bodies , at which brief complimentary addresses were delivered . The council of state is engaged in examining a project for the immigration of Chinese labourers into Cuba . On the Sth , the Hereditary Prince of Naples was married , by procuration , at Munich , to the Princess Maria Sophia Amelia of Bavaria . The King has granted a partial political amnesty on this occasion . Sixty-one political prisoners are permitted to breathe the air

upper again in exile . Among the number are Poerio and Settembrini . The name of Nicotera is not mentioned . It is lumoured that the city of Naples is to be placed in a state of siege . A decree has certainly been issued which shows that the King does not consider his government safe . This decree is to the effect that persons taken in the act of conspiracy shall be tried by a counsel of war , and that sentences shall he executed within twenty-four houi-3 of their being passed . The news has just arrived that the military and municipal

authorities of the Papal States having applied to the Pope to know in what manner the Prince of Wales is to be received , his holiness has directed that all honours usually paid to royalty are to bs given , on the arrival of the Prince . The King of Prussia is growing better at Rome . The priests besiege the queen , iu order to re-convert her to the Catholicism she abandoned upon marriage . ——The committee of the government of St . Petersburg !) , alter having terminated its labours , has drawn up a respectful address to the emperor , praying

him , after regulating the condition of the peasants , to occupy himself with a reform of all other classes in Russia , and to convoke the states general of Russia . This unexpected demand has produced a considerable impression at the court . The wish expressed by the committee of St . Petersburga will , letters state , be reproduced by the committees of other provinces . A relic of great value has been discovered at Belgrade * by Omar Pasha , and sent to the Sultan . It is , or given out be , the setshade or carpet on which the second Khalif , Omar , used to pray . 1 } lias been carefully deposited in the place at Pera , where other relics aro kept . According to late accounts , Omar Pasha appears to have re-

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DIRECTORS OF CEREMONIES. Article 4
REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS. Article 4
NEW MUSIC. Article 6
Selections Article 7
LOVE BUT ONE. Article 8
A SONG. Article 8
CORRESPONDENCE. Article 9
THE MASONIC MIRROR. Article 11
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PROVINCIAL. Article 28
ROYAL ARCH. Article 38
ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED RITE. Article 38
COLONIAL. Article 40
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THE WEEK. Article 42
Obituary. Article 47
NOTICES. Article 47
TO CORRESPONDENTS. Article 48
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The Week.

increase her navy , m spile of the difficulties presented by au almost bankrupt treasury . She is terrified at the chance that the example of successful revolution may be offered to the impatient Italians , aud therefore she hurries to put down the Servians , even at the risk of breaking the faith of treaties with the other great powers parties to the Treaty of Paris . At Milan , additional guns are mounted at the citadel , all pointed against the city ; there is to be no street fight , hut a bombardment on Boniba ' s Messina model . Count Giulay's plan is

to carry the war into the Piedmontese territory at the first outbreak . The dislike entertained for Count Giulay iincreases . He is reported to have said , " I know how to keep Milan quiet ; I will hang a man at the coiner of every street . " When all the reinforcements have reached their destination , the Austro-Italian army will consist of no fewer than 150 , 000 men . Orders have been given for the various fortresses to be completely provisioned .- —Prince Napoleon reached Turin on Sunday afternoon , and was cheered by the people . The official Piedmontese Gazette says ; "The Gazelle of Vienna having announced the

despatch of reinforcements to Italy , the Piedmontese government has thought it its duty to bring the distant garrisons nearer to the frontiers of Lombardy , without however calling out the contingents . " Mr . Gladstone will not remain for any length of time in the Ionian islands . Sir John Young's tenure of power there will almost immediately terminate , and pending the short interval between his departure and the arrival of a successor , Mr . Gladstone will , in a few days , receive the authority requisite for conducting the administration . But the right liongentleman willwe learnbe in London in le time to participate

, , , amp in the leading events of the session . The dispute between Spain and jMexico may be looked upon as nearly terminated . The Mexican government has made the concessions on which Spain chiefly insisted . It is believed in Madrid that after the settlement of the dispute , General de la Concha will be recalled from Cuba , where he had been sent as governor-genera ) , to prepare for the emergency of a war . Troops continue , however , to be forwarded to Cuba . It is said that

General Ttos de Olana will replace General Concha as governor of Cuba , Tho Queen , on Twelfth Night , held a reception of the members of the two chambers and ol tbe great public bodies , at which brief complimentary addresses were delivered . The council of state is engaged in examining a project for the immigration of Chinese labourers into Cuba . On the Sth , the Hereditary Prince of Naples was married , by procuration , at Munich , to the Princess Maria Sophia Amelia of Bavaria . The King has granted a partial political amnesty on this occasion . Sixty-one political prisoners are permitted to breathe the air

upper again in exile . Among the number are Poerio and Settembrini . The name of Nicotera is not mentioned . It is lumoured that the city of Naples is to be placed in a state of siege . A decree has certainly been issued which shows that the King does not consider his government safe . This decree is to the effect that persons taken in the act of conspiracy shall be tried by a counsel of war , and that sentences shall he executed within twenty-four houi-3 of their being passed . The news has just arrived that the military and municipal

authorities of the Papal States having applied to the Pope to know in what manner the Prince of Wales is to be received , his holiness has directed that all honours usually paid to royalty are to bs given , on the arrival of the Prince . The King of Prussia is growing better at Rome . The priests besiege the queen , iu order to re-convert her to the Catholicism she abandoned upon marriage . ——The committee of the government of St . Petersburg !) , alter having terminated its labours , has drawn up a respectful address to the emperor , praying

him , after regulating the condition of the peasants , to occupy himself with a reform of all other classes in Russia , and to convoke the states general of Russia . This unexpected demand has produced a considerable impression at the court . The wish expressed by the committee of St . Petersburga will , letters state , be reproduced by the committees of other provinces . A relic of great value has been discovered at Belgrade * by Omar Pasha , and sent to the Sultan . It is , or given out be , the setshade or carpet on which the second Khalif , Omar , used to pray . 1 } lias been carefully deposited in the place at Pera , where other relics aro kept . According to late accounts , Omar Pasha appears to have re-

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