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The Week.

Mary Flower , off the harbour of Boulogne , proves to have been ji catastrophe of a peculiar shocking character . It appears that her master made the mistake of putting out to sea again instead of running into the harbour . The result was that the force of the gale hurled her upon tho siuds , and although gallant efforts were made by Captain Wilsjn of tho Cologne , and several

volunteers , to save the crew , the poor fellows , with one exeeption , perished . -At the Woolwich Police-court , on the 24 th inst ., a charge of fraud was preferred against Lieutenant Francis AV . Bennett , R . N ., formerly in command of H . M . steamship Bloodhound , but now a prisoner for debt in Whiteoross-street . It was alleged that the prisoner had paid an

account which he owed to a local tradesman with a cheque on Messrs . Woodhead and Co ., the navy agents , they not having had auy assets of his since the yeai- 1 R 57 . The prisoner was remanded for a weak . At Windsor , Richard Albert AVatkin Bayly , late ensign of the Sot ' i Regiment , was re-examined on the charge of fraud . The family solicitor of his father ,

Major-General Bayly , appeared to watch the charge . The prosecutor did not wish to press the ease ; but tho prisoner was remanded , and tho court refused to accept bail . "A man following his own coffin to the grave , " is certainly a sensational heading ; but if this narrative be true , that and much more of an equally astonishing character has recently

occurred in London . It appears that a Frenchman , ivbose life was insured for the sum of one hundred thousand francs , wished to realise the amount ; and therefore assuming a false name , ho came to London , concocted a medical certificate of his death , ordered a coffin , and after causing a solemn funeral service to be celebrated in a Roman Catholic chapol , followed it to tho grave in the cemetery at Leytonstone . Suspicion was afterwards excited , and measures having been taken to exhume the body ,

the coffin proved to be empty . In the meanwhile the Frenchman vanished to America , but returning to Antwerp he was arrested by the Belgian authorities and handed over to his own Government . He now awaits his trial on the twofold charge of fraudulent bankruptcy and of attempting to defraud the Paris Insurance Company . Certainly if . this story be true it beats the inventive genius e \ en of Miss Braddou . The

registrations in Mavylebone were begun and ended on the 25 th inst . There were but few claims and no objections . —¦—Another meeting to further the objects of the Industrial Partnership of Clothiers ' Company Avas held on the 25 th inst ., in the Edgeware-road , and was presided over by Mr . Merry , C . E . Judging from the forcible manner in which the advantages of the co-operative

principle were set forth and the support it has already received from the working men , there can be little doubt of the successful establishment of the undertaking . A very interesting and suggestive demonstration has taken place at the Agricultural Hall , Islington . Visitors to the Metropolis and Provincial Exhibition could not have failed to notice the admirably gofc-up

life-boat which has been on view there for some weeks past , and the cost of which , as a bill on the side of the boat may have informed them , has been defrayed by the small , but numerous contributions of the Sunday school-children of the metropolis . A monster gathering at the hall witnessed the formal pres entation of this highly-creditable gift to , perhaps , the most

useful and important organization in existence—the National Lifeboat Institution . Mr . Alderman Lusk , M . P ., presided , and did the honours of tho presentation . A shocking story comes to us from the Marylebone police-court . Mr . Tubbs , the assistant overseer of Marylebone , stated that , acting upon information he had received , he went to a house in Doiehestcrplace , where he found in a back attic a lunatic woman , blind

and deformed and in tho most deplorable state . She weighed no more than a child nine or ten years of ago . The food Avith which she was supplied was of an odious description ; she was almost destitute of clothing , and her arms and other parts of her body were excoriated . The magistrate made an order for her examination by a medical man . It is said that Mr . Gladstone will be shortly invited to a banquet

at Belfast , as a tribute to his successful financial policy . Should ho accept this invitation , another golden opportunity of uniting English and Irish liberals will present itself . The well known Jacob Omnium has written a trenchant reply to Sir Samuel Baker's diatribe on the negro . At a Birmingham meeting , Dr . Under / hill mentioned the important fact that two

months before tho riots at Moraut Bay Mr . Gordon had written to him to say—not that there would be a rising of the peoplebut that if a redress of grievances was withheld they must all emigrate to tho United Sta ' es . Dr . Underbill justly argues that the idea of an appeal to force was not likely to exist in the mind of a man who contemplated the self-expatriation as

the alternative of a failure to obtain necessary reforms . The question of water supply is naturally engaging the attention of the inhabitants of tho eastern districts of the metropolis , who have suffered so severely from cholera . A meeting , which was at once influentially and numerously attended was held in the Town Hal ) , Befchnal Green , on the 20 th inst . Allegations

affecting one of the water companies Avere made by some of the speakers , and they were of so extraordinary a charteter that an immediate explanation is imperatively called for . The meeting resulted in the formation of an association , having for its object to secure a pure as well as plentiful supply of water . FoxBlGzr IsTEZtiasscs . —A rumour prevails to the effect

that notes from the French and Russian Governments have been delivered in Berlin and Copenhagen in reference to the Northern Schleswig question . The memorandum Avhich . the Greek Government has addressed to the protecting powers is now published . It reviews the history of Candia during the present century , contending that for thirty-six years the Cretans have lived a life of torture . It expresses its

apprehensions that , unless the Great Powers intervene , the suppression of the present insurrection Avill be marked by those cruelties with which the Turks have unhappily rendered us but too familiar . The Greeks appear content to state the facts , and to leave the protecting Governments to draw their own conclusions . The idea of annexation to the mother country ,

which must be in the mind of every Greek , is never once broached . The British Legation at Athens has denied the correctness of the statement that England had advised Turkey to cede Candia to Greece . The disturbances at Sicily are serious . Numerous bands from the mountains have taken up entrenched positions in various parts of the city of Palermo ,

and could not bo driven out . The Government has acted with great energy . Fourteen battalions of troops have been despatched to Palermo , and the Bourbon emissaries will again learn that they make war cither too soon or too late . While the war Avas going on , a diversion in Sicily might have been useful , if not to the Bourbons , at least to Austria . The triumphal

entry of the troops into Berlin took place on the 20 th inst The greatest enthusiasm is said to have prevailed . The King was presented with laurel wreaths and a congratulatory address ; and he , in his turn , made a speech , in which he gave all the honour to the army , and distributed orders and promotions , and elevated Count Bismarck to the rank of general . It appears that as no remittance has been made to the President

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LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE OF SAINT ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, TARANAKI, NEW ZEALAND. Article 1
OUR MASONIC CHARITIES. Article 2
PROFESSOR ROBERTSON ON FREEMASONRY. Article 2
EARS OF WHEAT FROM A CORNUCOPIA. Article 4
TAKING CARE OF NUMBER ONE. Article 5
FREEMASONRY IN THE UNITED STATES. Article 5
A HISTORY OF THE CRAFT IN CORNWALL. Article 6
THE NEMESIS: A TALE OF THE DAYS OF TRAJAN. Article 8
MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES. Article 11
CORRESPONDENCE. Article 12
Untitled Article 13
MASONIC MEMS. Article 13
METROPOLITAN. Article 13
PROVINCIAL. Article 14
ROYAL ARCH. Article 16
NEW ZEALAND. Article 17
Obituary. Article 17
THE WEEK. Article 17
TO CORRESPONDENTS. Article 20
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The Week.

Mary Flower , off the harbour of Boulogne , proves to have been ji catastrophe of a peculiar shocking character . It appears that her master made the mistake of putting out to sea again instead of running into the harbour . The result was that the force of the gale hurled her upon tho siuds , and although gallant efforts were made by Captain Wilsjn of tho Cologne , and several

volunteers , to save the crew , the poor fellows , with one exeeption , perished . -At the Woolwich Police-court , on the 24 th inst ., a charge of fraud was preferred against Lieutenant Francis AV . Bennett , R . N ., formerly in command of H . M . steamship Bloodhound , but now a prisoner for debt in Whiteoross-street . It was alleged that the prisoner had paid an

account which he owed to a local tradesman with a cheque on Messrs . Woodhead and Co ., the navy agents , they not having had auy assets of his since the yeai- 1 R 57 . The prisoner was remanded for a weak . At Windsor , Richard Albert AVatkin Bayly , late ensign of the Sot ' i Regiment , was re-examined on the charge of fraud . The family solicitor of his father ,

Major-General Bayly , appeared to watch the charge . The prosecutor did not wish to press the ease ; but tho prisoner was remanded , and tho court refused to accept bail . "A man following his own coffin to the grave , " is certainly a sensational heading ; but if this narrative be true , that and much more of an equally astonishing character has recently

occurred in London . It appears that a Frenchman , ivbose life was insured for the sum of one hundred thousand francs , wished to realise the amount ; and therefore assuming a false name , ho came to London , concocted a medical certificate of his death , ordered a coffin , and after causing a solemn funeral service to be celebrated in a Roman Catholic chapol , followed it to tho grave in the cemetery at Leytonstone . Suspicion was afterwards excited , and measures having been taken to exhume the body ,

the coffin proved to be empty . In the meanwhile the Frenchman vanished to America , but returning to Antwerp he was arrested by the Belgian authorities and handed over to his own Government . He now awaits his trial on the twofold charge of fraudulent bankruptcy and of attempting to defraud the Paris Insurance Company . Certainly if . this story be true it beats the inventive genius e \ en of Miss Braddou . The

registrations in Mavylebone were begun and ended on the 25 th inst . There were but few claims and no objections . —¦—Another meeting to further the objects of the Industrial Partnership of Clothiers ' Company Avas held on the 25 th inst ., in the Edgeware-road , and was presided over by Mr . Merry , C . E . Judging from the forcible manner in which the advantages of the co-operative

principle were set forth and the support it has already received from the working men , there can be little doubt of the successful establishment of the undertaking . A very interesting and suggestive demonstration has taken place at the Agricultural Hall , Islington . Visitors to the Metropolis and Provincial Exhibition could not have failed to notice the admirably gofc-up

life-boat which has been on view there for some weeks past , and the cost of which , as a bill on the side of the boat may have informed them , has been defrayed by the small , but numerous contributions of the Sunday school-children of the metropolis . A monster gathering at the hall witnessed the formal pres entation of this highly-creditable gift to , perhaps , the most

useful and important organization in existence—the National Lifeboat Institution . Mr . Alderman Lusk , M . P ., presided , and did the honours of tho presentation . A shocking story comes to us from the Marylebone police-court . Mr . Tubbs , the assistant overseer of Marylebone , stated that , acting upon information he had received , he went to a house in Doiehestcrplace , where he found in a back attic a lunatic woman , blind

and deformed and in tho most deplorable state . She weighed no more than a child nine or ten years of ago . The food Avith which she was supplied was of an odious description ; she was almost destitute of clothing , and her arms and other parts of her body were excoriated . The magistrate made an order for her examination by a medical man . It is said that Mr . Gladstone will be shortly invited to a banquet

at Belfast , as a tribute to his successful financial policy . Should ho accept this invitation , another golden opportunity of uniting English and Irish liberals will present itself . The well known Jacob Omnium has written a trenchant reply to Sir Samuel Baker's diatribe on the negro . At a Birmingham meeting , Dr . Under / hill mentioned the important fact that two

months before tho riots at Moraut Bay Mr . Gordon had written to him to say—not that there would be a rising of the peoplebut that if a redress of grievances was withheld they must all emigrate to tho United Sta ' es . Dr . Underbill justly argues that the idea of an appeal to force was not likely to exist in the mind of a man who contemplated the self-expatriation as

the alternative of a failure to obtain necessary reforms . The question of water supply is naturally engaging the attention of the inhabitants of tho eastern districts of the metropolis , who have suffered so severely from cholera . A meeting , which was at once influentially and numerously attended was held in the Town Hal ) , Befchnal Green , on the 20 th inst . Allegations

affecting one of the water companies Avere made by some of the speakers , and they were of so extraordinary a charteter that an immediate explanation is imperatively called for . The meeting resulted in the formation of an association , having for its object to secure a pure as well as plentiful supply of water . FoxBlGzr IsTEZtiasscs . —A rumour prevails to the effect

that notes from the French and Russian Governments have been delivered in Berlin and Copenhagen in reference to the Northern Schleswig question . The memorandum Avhich . the Greek Government has addressed to the protecting powers is now published . It reviews the history of Candia during the present century , contending that for thirty-six years the Cretans have lived a life of torture . It expresses its

apprehensions that , unless the Great Powers intervene , the suppression of the present insurrection Avill be marked by those cruelties with which the Turks have unhappily rendered us but too familiar . The Greeks appear content to state the facts , and to leave the protecting Governments to draw their own conclusions . The idea of annexation to the mother country ,

which must be in the mind of every Greek , is never once broached . The British Legation at Athens has denied the correctness of the statement that England had advised Turkey to cede Candia to Greece . The disturbances at Sicily are serious . Numerous bands from the mountains have taken up entrenched positions in various parts of the city of Palermo ,

and could not bo driven out . The Government has acted with great energy . Fourteen battalions of troops have been despatched to Palermo , and the Bourbon emissaries will again learn that they make war cither too soon or too late . While the war Avas going on , a diversion in Sicily might have been useful , if not to the Bourbons , at least to Austria . The triumphal

entry of the troops into Berlin took place on the 20 th inst The greatest enthusiasm is said to have prevailed . The King was presented with laurel wreaths and a congratulatory address ; and he , in his turn , made a speech , in which he gave all the honour to the army , and distributed orders and promotions , and elevated Count Bismarck to the rank of general . It appears that as no remittance has been made to the President

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