The Week.

proclamations inside , stating that at the smallest symptom of insurrection the city will be subjected to Are ancl sword , and that anybody ringing church bells , waving a flag , or making a signal of any kind , will be shot , without the formality of a trial " The excitement is an excellent thing for a sluggish liver ; ifc beats calomel . "— - ' From Naples we have a telegram , dated Sunday , by which we learn that a decree had been , issued permitting the return of one hundred aud seventy-throe Sicilian refugeesand granting a like indulgence to others demanding it promise of

, , on obedience to the laws . Tho Suez canal , the works of which hacl been commenced by M . Lesseps , has been peremptorily stopped by order of the Egyptian government . The city of Perugia , in the Papal States , obeying the impulse given m Northern Italy , declared openl y for Italian unity , established a kind of provisional municipal government , and offered to place itself under the dictatorship of the King of Sardinia . The King of Sardinia , under the guidance of the Emperor of tho French , declined the offer . The Papal government despatched Swiss which attacked

some regiments , Perugia on the 20 th inst . Great resistance was made , notwithstanding that the defenders were few . After three hours ' fighting outside tbe town , tbe Swiss entered , and the c 02 nb . 1 t continued for two hours in the streets . The Swiss trampled down and killed even women and inoffensive peraons . The next day the outrages , arrests , and firing on the people recommenced - — The New York papers are full of tho discovery of the body of a handsome young woman known in theatrical circles as . Fanny Denne . on the beach at Fort Hamili She the wife of named

, on . was an Englishman Halsey , of highly respectable connexions . Her husband ' s explanation was to fche effect , that he had detected her in a criminal intrigue , and that fearing the consequences , she committed suicide The relatives of the deceased , however , deny that the deceased was inconstant and accuse her husband of having neglected her . Halsey is said to have held a commission m the British army . A Washington telegram says : — " There is reason to believe that our minister to Madrid has been instructed to avail himself of the earliest opportunity to assure the S panish government of the

earnestness of the United States to purchase Cuba , and that the money will be promptly paid . " Information has reached Washington of active movements in Louisiana of certain Mexican reactionists in favour of Sanfcp Anna- - An attempted murder has taken place at Chatham , the intended victim being a private soldier . Jealousy appears to have prompted the would-be murderer to the commission of the crime . At Southampton , on Thursday , six marines went for a day s cruise down the river in a wherry . When about four miles clown and close to her Majest ' shiArrogantfrom

ys p , some cause , the boat capsized and three men were drowned . Another examination of William Moore , who murdered his Avife in Walworth , by stabbing her with a knife , took place at Lambeth Policecourt on Monday . Mr . Elliott committed the prisoner for trial on the charge of wilful murder . The Court of Queen ' s Bench was occupied in trym » the indictment against T . R . Marshall , E . H . Mortimer , and H . Septimus Eicke , afc the instance of the Duke of Cambridge , for the alleged sale of commissions in the armv iucke and Mortimer leaded Marshall not

p guilty , guilty . At the close of the plaintiff ' s case the trial was adjourned . The Bury magistrates were occupied on Saturday with investigating an accusation brought against sundry persons friends [ of Mr i . Peel , _ the sitting member , of having helcl in durance a voter belonging to the opposition party , and preventing him from going to the poll the abducted voter was a stonemason , and he charged the accused men with having seized him as he was leaving his houso ancl thrust him into a cab where he held down under circumstances of cruelt

was great y . The examination and crossexamination were conducted at great length , ancl the ease was adjourned Charles Duval , the boy who fired a pistol at a poor woman in Jermyn-street inflicting a serious ivouud , ton days ago , has been again brought up for examination afc Marlborough-streefc . A plea of insanit y ivas urged by the prisoner ' s solicitor . Mr . beadon , however , determined on sending the case for trial , and refused bail — lhe inquest on the body of a young woman unknown , found in a canal atlrnices-encl , South Staffordshire , was brought to a close on Saturday evenintr Upon the evidence being all laid before the jury , they returned a verdict of wilful murder against Allen , TVatkms , Acton , and Fcreday , now in custody —