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The Week.
THE WEEK .
THE Court ! . —The intelligence from Rheinharclshrunn represents her Majesty to he in the enjoyment of excellent health and taking daily exercise in the beautiful country around the Castle . The Prince of Wales and the Princess Alexandra of Denmark and her father left Brussels on Tuesday , for Germany , where they will probablj * remain for some time with her
Majesty . The morning papers of Monday sa \* : —The marriage of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales with the Princess Alexandra of Denmark is now formally arranged . It will gratify the country to be assured , what has from the first been understood , that the union is one founded on mutual affection , and has not the remotest reference to political considerations .
Additional interest is communicated to the approaching nuptials from the circumstance'that the late Prince Consort before his death formed a desire that this union should take place , under a conviction that the Princess would he in every respect a suitable match for his Royal Highness . GEICEEAL HOME NEWS . —The mortality and the birth rate of
London last week were unusually near the ten years average in both cases . If the deaths from cholera in the year 1 S 54 be excepted , the increase is only five , the average being 1133 , and the actual deaths 113 S . The births numbered 1772 ; the average is 1765 . It is announced that the International Exhibition will be kept open until the 1 st of November . It is furthe 1 '
stated , that although the Exhibition has been anything but a success in a pecuniary point of view , the guarantors will be released from all liability , —a result which " will be almost entirely due to the liberality with which the contractors , Messrs . Kelk ancl Lucas , have come forward to cover whatever deficiencies may be found to exist when the final winding up of accounts takes place . "——The Morning Post thinks it necessary to point
out that the laws of England will be rigorously enforced for the prevention as well as the punishment of all conspiracies such as that in which Orsini , Dr . Bernard , ancl others took part a few years ago . The warning is sounded because our contemporary lias been informed that in Mazzinian circles ""language has lately been employed , threats have been used , and plots have been darkly hinted at , akin to the threats and the plots that
foreshadowed and were realised by the conspiracy of Orsini . " The remains of the late Archbishop of Canterbury have been interred in tho Parish Church of Addington , Surrey . The rumour with respect to the Primacy is , that the Archbishop of York , who has already been twice promoted since his first elevation to the episcopate , will receive the appointment ; that he in
turn will he succeeded at York by the Bishop of London , who lias been repeatedly named as the probable successor of Dr . Sumner , and that the Metropalitan See will be entrusted to Archdeacon Sinclair . Some important armour-plate experiments were made at Portsmouth on Thursday week . Tho experiments assumed the character , if we may so speakof a
, match between plates manufactured at the dockyards and those produced by a well-known Sheffield firm . The result showed tlie marked superiority of the latter . Alas for the fickleness of human nature ! A few days ago the Freeman ' s Journal made an appeal for £ 100 , to complete the Clare monument to Daniel 0 Connell ; hut , on Saturday , our contemporary was only able
to announce the receipt of a tithe of the small snm required . In its impression of Monday , the Freemen acknowledges a further contribution of £ 26 , but is obliged to make the humiliatingconfession that of that sum only £ 6 can be placed to the credit of Irish gratitude . She remaining £ 20 was the gift of a French nobleman , and it is difficult to withhold our sympathy when our contemporary " blushes to think that O'Connell ' s statue could
not be erected on the site of his victory without the aid of a foreigner . "—At the Surrey Sessions Agnes Boyd , a young woman who had been a Sunday-school teacher and a governess , was sentenced to twelve months' hard labour for stealing . An inquest has been held on the body of Joseph Robinson , an . engineer , who was driven to insanity by some apparently
groundless fears relative to the religious treatment of his wife , she being a Protestant and having been taken to a Roman Catholic hospital , where she died . A shocking case of suicide took place on Saturday at the Albany-street Barracks , Regent ' s-park . A private soldier of the 2 nd Life Guards , who had been eighteen years in the regiment , and bore an excellent character , borrowed
a percussion cap from one of his comrades , and retiring with it his comrades soon afterwards heard the report of a pistol ; and running to ascertain the cause were horrified to find the unfortunate man ' s brains blown out and his regimental pistol newly
exploded lying by his side . He was married , and was highly respected by his officers . It appears that drunkenness and melancholy at tho absence of his wife were the predisposing causes to the act . Complaints are often made that the superintendence exercised over convicts at large on tickets of leave is merely * nominal . From a case that was brought before
the Bow-street magistrate on Saturday , however , it would seem either that the system is to bo made more stringent , or else that it acts very capriciously . A man named M'Doug-all was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude in 1 S 5 S , but was liberated on a ticket of leave in 1860 . He went home to his family in Edinburgh , and has since conducted himself well , till the other
clay ho got into a drunken brawl in the street . He was brought up before the magistrte ancl fined , and a report of the case was made to the Home Office , from which an order was sent down to revoke his ticket , and bring him up to London to undergo the full period of his penalty * . The man was in wretched health , and appears to be dying . The case seems a hard one ; but if all convicts areunder tho same circumstancesto be as strictl
, , y dealt with , the public will have no reason to complain . A singular case was tried at the Middlesex Sessions . A young man , stated to be of high position in society , and who hacl been in the army , was charged with stealing a pair of ear-rings from a woman of the town . Her statement was the singular one
that he took them out of her ears without her knowledge , while they were driving about in a brougham . His defence was that she had given them to him to raise money so that they might both obtain supper . It was proved in evidence that he did pledge them at a night house for supper , for himself and a woman , but that woman was not the prosecutrix . The jury found him guilty ; ancl the Court sentenced him to six months ' imprisonment with hard labour . The now notorious case of
Miss Thomas and General Shirley has reached another stage . It will bo recollected that the lady failed iu her action against the general for breach of promise of marriage , and that another action for goods alleged to have been ordered by her while in in his house , was referred to arbitration . The arbitrator has just given his award , finding that General Shirley is bound to repay to Miss Thomas the goods which she had obtained under his express order-: and no more ; and that each partis to pay *
, y their own costs in the suit , the General bearing the cost of the award . Taylor , the murderer of Mr . Mellor , of Manchester , and Ward , one of the two men condemned for the murder of . Police-constable Jump , of Ashton-uiider-Lyne , were executed in front of Kirkdale Gaol , on Saturday * . The unusual spectacle of a double execution , coupled with the fearful notoriety acquired by both the criminals , attracted an immense concourse of people to Liverpool . Taylor before his death gave no explanation as to
the manner in which his three children were deprived of life , and perhaps , on the whole , it is well that the dreadful secret i buried with him . Burke , the accomplice of Ward , was reprieved . The execution of the two murderers of Mr . Fitzgerald does not appear to have produced much effect upon the wild spirits of Kilmallock ancl its neighbourhood . Two persons , living at or near that place , whose great crime appears to be that they are the owners of threshing machines , have received notices warning them that instant death will be the result of
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The Week.
THE WEEK .
THE Court ! . —The intelligence from Rheinharclshrunn represents her Majesty to he in the enjoyment of excellent health and taking daily exercise in the beautiful country around the Castle . The Prince of Wales and the Princess Alexandra of Denmark and her father left Brussels on Tuesday , for Germany , where they will probablj * remain for some time with her
Majesty . The morning papers of Monday sa \* : —The marriage of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales with the Princess Alexandra of Denmark is now formally arranged . It will gratify the country to be assured , what has from the first been understood , that the union is one founded on mutual affection , and has not the remotest reference to political considerations .
Additional interest is communicated to the approaching nuptials from the circumstance'that the late Prince Consort before his death formed a desire that this union should take place , under a conviction that the Princess would he in every respect a suitable match for his Royal Highness . GEICEEAL HOME NEWS . —The mortality and the birth rate of
London last week were unusually near the ten years average in both cases . If the deaths from cholera in the year 1 S 54 be excepted , the increase is only five , the average being 1133 , and the actual deaths 113 S . The births numbered 1772 ; the average is 1765 . It is announced that the International Exhibition will be kept open until the 1 st of November . It is furthe 1 '
stated , that although the Exhibition has been anything but a success in a pecuniary point of view , the guarantors will be released from all liability , —a result which " will be almost entirely due to the liberality with which the contractors , Messrs . Kelk ancl Lucas , have come forward to cover whatever deficiencies may be found to exist when the final winding up of accounts takes place . "——The Morning Post thinks it necessary to point
out that the laws of England will be rigorously enforced for the prevention as well as the punishment of all conspiracies such as that in which Orsini , Dr . Bernard , ancl others took part a few years ago . The warning is sounded because our contemporary lias been informed that in Mazzinian circles ""language has lately been employed , threats have been used , and plots have been darkly hinted at , akin to the threats and the plots that
foreshadowed and were realised by the conspiracy of Orsini . " The remains of the late Archbishop of Canterbury have been interred in tho Parish Church of Addington , Surrey . The rumour with respect to the Primacy is , that the Archbishop of York , who has already been twice promoted since his first elevation to the episcopate , will receive the appointment ; that he in
turn will he succeeded at York by the Bishop of London , who lias been repeatedly named as the probable successor of Dr . Sumner , and that the Metropalitan See will be entrusted to Archdeacon Sinclair . Some important armour-plate experiments were made at Portsmouth on Thursday week . Tho experiments assumed the character , if we may so speakof a
, match between plates manufactured at the dockyards and those produced by a well-known Sheffield firm . The result showed tlie marked superiority of the latter . Alas for the fickleness of human nature ! A few days ago the Freeman ' s Journal made an appeal for £ 100 , to complete the Clare monument to Daniel 0 Connell ; hut , on Saturday , our contemporary was only able
to announce the receipt of a tithe of the small snm required . In its impression of Monday , the Freemen acknowledges a further contribution of £ 26 , but is obliged to make the humiliatingconfession that of that sum only £ 6 can be placed to the credit of Irish gratitude . She remaining £ 20 was the gift of a French nobleman , and it is difficult to withhold our sympathy when our contemporary " blushes to think that O'Connell ' s statue could
not be erected on the site of his victory without the aid of a foreigner . "—At the Surrey Sessions Agnes Boyd , a young woman who had been a Sunday-school teacher and a governess , was sentenced to twelve months' hard labour for stealing . An inquest has been held on the body of Joseph Robinson , an . engineer , who was driven to insanity by some apparently
groundless fears relative to the religious treatment of his wife , she being a Protestant and having been taken to a Roman Catholic hospital , where she died . A shocking case of suicide took place on Saturday at the Albany-street Barracks , Regent ' s-park . A private soldier of the 2 nd Life Guards , who had been eighteen years in the regiment , and bore an excellent character , borrowed
a percussion cap from one of his comrades , and retiring with it his comrades soon afterwards heard the report of a pistol ; and running to ascertain the cause were horrified to find the unfortunate man ' s brains blown out and his regimental pistol newly
exploded lying by his side . He was married , and was highly respected by his officers . It appears that drunkenness and melancholy at tho absence of his wife were the predisposing causes to the act . Complaints are often made that the superintendence exercised over convicts at large on tickets of leave is merely * nominal . From a case that was brought before
the Bow-street magistrate on Saturday , however , it would seem either that the system is to bo made more stringent , or else that it acts very capriciously . A man named M'Doug-all was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude in 1 S 5 S , but was liberated on a ticket of leave in 1860 . He went home to his family in Edinburgh , and has since conducted himself well , till the other
clay ho got into a drunken brawl in the street . He was brought up before the magistrte ancl fined , and a report of the case was made to the Home Office , from which an order was sent down to revoke his ticket , and bring him up to London to undergo the full period of his penalty * . The man was in wretched health , and appears to be dying . The case seems a hard one ; but if all convicts areunder tho same circumstancesto be as strictl
, , y dealt with , the public will have no reason to complain . A singular case was tried at the Middlesex Sessions . A young man , stated to be of high position in society , and who hacl been in the army , was charged with stealing a pair of ear-rings from a woman of the town . Her statement was the singular one
that he took them out of her ears without her knowledge , while they were driving about in a brougham . His defence was that she had given them to him to raise money so that they might both obtain supper . It was proved in evidence that he did pledge them at a night house for supper , for himself and a woman , but that woman was not the prosecutrix . The jury found him guilty ; ancl the Court sentenced him to six months ' imprisonment with hard labour . The now notorious case of
Miss Thomas and General Shirley has reached another stage . It will bo recollected that the lady failed iu her action against the general for breach of promise of marriage , and that another action for goods alleged to have been ordered by her while in in his house , was referred to arbitration . The arbitrator has just given his award , finding that General Shirley is bound to repay to Miss Thomas the goods which she had obtained under his express order-: and no more ; and that each partis to pay *
, y their own costs in the suit , the General bearing the cost of the award . Taylor , the murderer of Mr . Mellor , of Manchester , and Ward , one of the two men condemned for the murder of . Police-constable Jump , of Ashton-uiider-Lyne , were executed in front of Kirkdale Gaol , on Saturday * . The unusual spectacle of a double execution , coupled with the fearful notoriety acquired by both the criminals , attracted an immense concourse of people to Liverpool . Taylor before his death gave no explanation as to
the manner in which his three children were deprived of life , and perhaps , on the whole , it is well that the dreadful secret i buried with him . Burke , the accomplice of Ward , was reprieved . The execution of the two murderers of Mr . Fitzgerald does not appear to have produced much effect upon the wild spirits of Kilmallock ancl its neighbourhood . Two persons , living at or near that place , whose great crime appears to be that they are the owners of threshing machines , have received notices warning them that instant death will be the result of