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The Week.

Ducde'Grammqnt has loft for Genoa , having been summoned by the Emperor Napoleon . Austria has recognized the neutrality of the States of the Church , but affairs at Ancona are iu an unsettled and precarious state The death of the King of Naples'is announced to have taken place at Naples on Sunday at half-past one p . m A note is said to have been sent by Piedmont , in reply to the circular by which the Neapolitan government proclaims its neutrality . The cabinet of Turin seeks to establish that Naples can no longer enjoy the benefit of neutrality , as that

power has giveu its implicit adhesion to the policy of Austria . Some of the Madrid papers mention that the English are repairing and strengthening the fortificatious at Gibraltar , and arming batteries ; also that troops , heavy guns , and largo stores are being collected there . It has been observed with great satisfaction , in the uorth of Europe , that military works have been commenced by England on the island of Heligoland . Sweden has announced its intention of remaining neutral in the imminent conflict . From AVashiugton we learn that Seuor Maite had an interview with the Secretary of State with reference to Mexican affairs . He

entertains no doubt of the triumphant success of the Liberal party . It is intimated iu the American papers that Air . Cobden , during his late stay at the AVhite-house , availed himself of tho opportunity to sound the President on the subject of a moral interposition of the Unitefl States in the present tangled and menacing affairs of Europe . It is certain , say these journals , that English statesmen are greatly alarmed , and tho wisest are unable to see to what terrible issues the present complications are to load . Utah affairs still occupy the attention of governmentbut the Mormon

, imbroglio bids fair to be speedily and permanently settled . Judge Crabbolbough has not , as reported , been removed , although the probability is that he will be so , From Cincinnati , ive hear that the steamer Jacob Taylor , in attempting to near the ivhavf , struck a pile of pig iron which bad been covered by the late rise in the river , and sank in ten feet of water ; she afterwards took fire , and will probably prove a total loss . The British and French representatives at AA ' ashington have repudiated the conduct of the British and French representatives in Mexico in opposing the Juarez

government . -An attempt to land a smaU filibustering expedition on the shores of Cuba has failed . Tho small boats in ivhich the filibusters sought to reach tho shore were swamped , and all the munitions were lost . The Bombay mail of April 26 th has arrived , and brings particulars of the execution of Tantia Topee , whoso capture only preceded his trial and death by a few days . On . the loth ult ., he was brought to court-martial . The charges upon which he was arraigned were confined to rebellion and opposing tho British government by force of arms . The court did not long deliberate ; and it soon became known that he was to perish on the

scaffold . Ou the evening of the ISth ult . he was hanged . The celebrated mandarin , Yeh , died in Calcutta , on the evening of the 9 th instant , of a sudden collapse . A sad event occurred in the Bay of Biscay on the lflth ; admiral Thornton , one of the directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company , had been out to Alexandria in the Ripon for a trip . The gallant admiral appeared to be in his usual health and spirits , and was pacing the deck on Monday ; suddenly he was missed , and there is little doubt of his having fallen overboard ; tho body was not seen afterwards . Comet A . J . Bouvko Fellowesof the 1 st Dragoon Guardsat

, , Canterbury , was subject to certain unpleasant visits of the sheriff's officer , which he had not the courage to meet ; he took a carbine and shot himself through the head . A dreadful murder was committed at Ledbury , in Herefordshire , last week . The offices of Air . Masefield , solicitor , were broken into and robbed , and the housekeeper , a woman of fifty years of age , was found in the morning dead . It was evident that she had been strangled ; in addition to which her clothes had been sot fire to , and the body and tbe floor of tho room were half consumed . No trace of the guilty persons has been discovered . John Groves wzis charged at

the Mansion House with forging and uttering a letter of advice for £ 1000 , to defraud the National Provincial Bank , Peterborough . The prisoner , who is but a lad of seventeen , was transformed into a person of apparently mature years by the application of a hirsute covering to the face , of which he had been shorn at one fell swoop by the detective who took him into custody . Another minor charge was also brought against him , on which , for want of complete evidence , he was remanded , but committed for trial on the first and principal charge ,

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THE GRAND REGISTRAR AND PARTY TACTICS. Article 1
THE NEW GRAND OFFICERS. Article 6
OUR ARCHITECTURAL CHAPTER. Article 12
THE GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL. Article 17
CORRESPONDENCE. Article 18
THE SWEDISH RITE. Article 19
THE CONSECRATION AT GUILDFORD. Article 20
MASONIC HALLS. Article 21
THE MASONIC MIRROR. Article 22
METROPOLITAN. Article 30
PROVINCIAL. Article 32
OXFORDSHIRE. Article 36
ROYAL ARCH. Article 41
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. Article 42
AMERICA. Article 42
THE WEEK. Article 43
Untitled Article 48
TO CORRESPONDENTS. Article 48
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The Week.

Ducde'Grammqnt has loft for Genoa , having been summoned by the Emperor Napoleon . Austria has recognized the neutrality of the States of the Church , but affairs at Ancona are iu an unsettled and precarious state The death of the King of Naples'is announced to have taken place at Naples on Sunday at half-past one p . m A note is said to have been sent by Piedmont , in reply to the circular by which the Neapolitan government proclaims its neutrality . The cabinet of Turin seeks to establish that Naples can no longer enjoy the benefit of neutrality , as that

power has giveu its implicit adhesion to the policy of Austria . Some of the Madrid papers mention that the English are repairing and strengthening the fortificatious at Gibraltar , and arming batteries ; also that troops , heavy guns , and largo stores are being collected there . It has been observed with great satisfaction , in the uorth of Europe , that military works have been commenced by England on the island of Heligoland . Sweden has announced its intention of remaining neutral in the imminent conflict . From AVashiugton we learn that Seuor Maite had an interview with the Secretary of State with reference to Mexican affairs . He

entertains no doubt of the triumphant success of the Liberal party . It is intimated iu the American papers that Air . Cobden , during his late stay at the AVhite-house , availed himself of tho opportunity to sound the President on the subject of a moral interposition of the Unitefl States in the present tangled and menacing affairs of Europe . It is certain , say these journals , that English statesmen are greatly alarmed , and tho wisest are unable to see to what terrible issues the present complications are to load . Utah affairs still occupy the attention of governmentbut the Mormon

, imbroglio bids fair to be speedily and permanently settled . Judge Crabbolbough has not , as reported , been removed , although the probability is that he will be so , From Cincinnati , ive hear that the steamer Jacob Taylor , in attempting to near the ivhavf , struck a pile of pig iron which bad been covered by the late rise in the river , and sank in ten feet of water ; she afterwards took fire , and will probably prove a total loss . The British and French representatives at AA ' ashington have repudiated the conduct of the British and French representatives in Mexico in opposing the Juarez

government . -An attempt to land a smaU filibustering expedition on the shores of Cuba has failed . Tho small boats in ivhich the filibusters sought to reach tho shore were swamped , and all the munitions were lost . The Bombay mail of April 26 th has arrived , and brings particulars of the execution of Tantia Topee , whoso capture only preceded his trial and death by a few days . On . the loth ult ., he was brought to court-martial . The charges upon which he was arraigned were confined to rebellion and opposing tho British government by force of arms . The court did not long deliberate ; and it soon became known that he was to perish on the

scaffold . Ou the evening of the ISth ult . he was hanged . The celebrated mandarin , Yeh , died in Calcutta , on the evening of the 9 th instant , of a sudden collapse . A sad event occurred in the Bay of Biscay on the lflth ; admiral Thornton , one of the directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company , had been out to Alexandria in the Ripon for a trip . The gallant admiral appeared to be in his usual health and spirits , and was pacing the deck on Monday ; suddenly he was missed , and there is little doubt of his having fallen overboard ; tho body was not seen afterwards . Comet A . J . Bouvko Fellowesof the 1 st Dragoon Guardsat

, , Canterbury , was subject to certain unpleasant visits of the sheriff's officer , which he had not the courage to meet ; he took a carbine and shot himself through the head . A dreadful murder was committed at Ledbury , in Herefordshire , last week . The offices of Air . Masefield , solicitor , were broken into and robbed , and the housekeeper , a woman of fifty years of age , was found in the morning dead . It was evident that she had been strangled ; in addition to which her clothes had been sot fire to , and the body and tbe floor of tho room were half consumed . No trace of the guilty persons has been discovered . John Groves wzis charged at

the Mansion House with forging and uttering a letter of advice for £ 1000 , to defraud the National Provincial Bank , Peterborough . The prisoner , who is but a lad of seventeen , was transformed into a person of apparently mature years by the application of a hirsute covering to the face , of which he had been shorn at one fell swoop by the detective who took him into custody . Another minor charge was also brought against him , on which , for want of complete evidence , he was remanded , but committed for trial on the first and principal charge ,

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