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The Week
reassembled on Friday , when Mr . Washington Wilks , the proprietor of the Cddislenxaminer , was committed for a breach of privilege , in having asserted that Mr . Olive , the member for Hereford , was actuated by personal motives in giving a decision , as chairman of a railway committee , in favour of a project of the Caledonian against the North British Railway Company . The House afterwards went into a committee of supply . —The accounts from India are to the 9 th of
May , and are more satisfactory than was anticipated . General Walpole had effected a junction with the commander-in-chief , and Bareilly was expected to be invested on the 10 th . Gen . Walpole ' s division met with a reverse on the 15 th April , but was enabled , by the retirement of the enemy , to move forward on the following day . Sir H . Rose left Jhansi on the 27 th April , and expected to be joined by Gen . Whitelock ' s force , when he would attack "the Ranee ' s army , 12 , 000 strong . Several minor engagements had taken place , all to the disadvantage of the
natives . Matters appear to be progressing satisfactorily in Ouae . A number of principal talookdars have made their submission to the chief commissioner ^ either personally or by their representatives , and the settlement of the country around Lueknow is being rapidly made . The most melancholy part of the intelligence is the death of Sir William Peel _ , which occurred at Cawnpore , from small pox .- The Paris conference had a meeting on Wednesday , and again on Saturday , A
special diplomatic commission is to assemble at Constantinople on the 1 st of June , for the settlement of the Montenegro difficulty , which still continues in full force . It is statedfrom Yienna , of the 22 nd , that the latest news from Constantinople is to the effect that in the affair of Montenegro the Porte is willing to accept the status quooi 1856 .- — - A letter from Berlin says that the king of Naples declares himself ready to accept the arbitration of Prussia on the Cagliari question as soon as the Neapolitan court of appeal shall have given its decision thereon .
-From Madrid of the 22 nd we learn that the postal treaty with England had been signed . In the sitting of the Piedmontese chamber of deputies at Turin , on the 20 th , the Count de Cavour , in the continued debate on the bill for raising a loan of 4 . 0 , 000 , OOOf , said the government intended to observe the strictest economy . -In the court of Queen ' s Bench Mr . Justice Coleridge , on Friday , in addressing the grand jury , said it was the last time he should have that honour , as he was about to retire into private life . Mr . If . Hill , Q . C ., we hear , is to be his successor . A man of independent means , and formerly a captain in the
merchant service , has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour , by Mr . Seeker , for stealing an opera-glass ; his defence being that he was led to commit the act by an irresistible impulse .- On Wednesday , a number of the patrons of the prize ring assembled at Stoneness , opposite Greenhithe , to witness a fight which , to their disappointment , did not come off . In compensation , however , they determined to improvise one , and two of the party , James Morris , alias " The Brighton Pet , " and Philip Redwood , a young man from Westminster , undertook the performance . After about an hour ' s fight , Redwood fell senseless to the ground , and expired shortly after .
PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS
A " wet and wretched" evening , such as that with which last Whit-Monday came to a close , though far from being relished by that section of the holidaymakers who have by train or steamboat sought " fresh scenes and pastures new / 3 is always peculiarly agreeable to the metropolitan theatrical managers , who find the thermometer of their treaaury rising in the same proportion that the
thermometer out of doors declines . The places of out-door recreation , therefore , suffered to the advantage of the theatres . Later in the week the weather has been a little more genial , but the harvest-time of the " gardens" has evidently not yet arrived , and the proprietors thereof must " wait a little longer" before the period comes when they can turn the extensive preparations they have made for the comfort and convenience of their summer visitors to account , In the mean-
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The Week
reassembled on Friday , when Mr . Washington Wilks , the proprietor of the Cddislenxaminer , was committed for a breach of privilege , in having asserted that Mr . Olive , the member for Hereford , was actuated by personal motives in giving a decision , as chairman of a railway committee , in favour of a project of the Caledonian against the North British Railway Company . The House afterwards went into a committee of supply . —The accounts from India are to the 9 th of
May , and are more satisfactory than was anticipated . General Walpole had effected a junction with the commander-in-chief , and Bareilly was expected to be invested on the 10 th . Gen . Walpole ' s division met with a reverse on the 15 th April , but was enabled , by the retirement of the enemy , to move forward on the following day . Sir H . Rose left Jhansi on the 27 th April , and expected to be joined by Gen . Whitelock ' s force , when he would attack "the Ranee ' s army , 12 , 000 strong . Several minor engagements had taken place , all to the disadvantage of the
natives . Matters appear to be progressing satisfactorily in Ouae . A number of principal talookdars have made their submission to the chief commissioner ^ either personally or by their representatives , and the settlement of the country around Lueknow is being rapidly made . The most melancholy part of the intelligence is the death of Sir William Peel _ , which occurred at Cawnpore , from small pox .- The Paris conference had a meeting on Wednesday , and again on Saturday , A
special diplomatic commission is to assemble at Constantinople on the 1 st of June , for the settlement of the Montenegro difficulty , which still continues in full force . It is statedfrom Yienna , of the 22 nd , that the latest news from Constantinople is to the effect that in the affair of Montenegro the Porte is willing to accept the status quooi 1856 .- — - A letter from Berlin says that the king of Naples declares himself ready to accept the arbitration of Prussia on the Cagliari question as soon as the Neapolitan court of appeal shall have given its decision thereon .
-From Madrid of the 22 nd we learn that the postal treaty with England had been signed . In the sitting of the Piedmontese chamber of deputies at Turin , on the 20 th , the Count de Cavour , in the continued debate on the bill for raising a loan of 4 . 0 , 000 , OOOf , said the government intended to observe the strictest economy . -In the court of Queen ' s Bench Mr . Justice Coleridge , on Friday , in addressing the grand jury , said it was the last time he should have that honour , as he was about to retire into private life . Mr . If . Hill , Q . C ., we hear , is to be his successor . A man of independent means , and formerly a captain in the
merchant service , has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour , by Mr . Seeker , for stealing an opera-glass ; his defence being that he was led to commit the act by an irresistible impulse .- On Wednesday , a number of the patrons of the prize ring assembled at Stoneness , opposite Greenhithe , to witness a fight which , to their disappointment , did not come off . In compensation , however , they determined to improvise one , and two of the party , James Morris , alias " The Brighton Pet , " and Philip Redwood , a young man from Westminster , undertook the performance . After about an hour ' s fight , Redwood fell senseless to the ground , and expired shortly after .
PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS
A " wet and wretched" evening , such as that with which last Whit-Monday came to a close , though far from being relished by that section of the holidaymakers who have by train or steamboat sought " fresh scenes and pastures new / 3 is always peculiarly agreeable to the metropolitan theatrical managers , who find the thermometer of their treaaury rising in the same proportion that the
thermometer out of doors declines . The places of out-door recreation , therefore , suffered to the advantage of the theatres . Later in the week the weather has been a little more genial , but the harvest-time of the " gardens" has evidently not yet arrived , and the proprietors thereof must " wait a little longer" before the period comes when they can turn the extensive preparations they have made for the comfort and convenience of their summer visitors to account , In the mean-