The Week.

Somerset House to get one of the stolen stamps allowed for as a spoiled stamp . The commissionaire says thc prisoner and another man accompanied Batt to tho door of the office , and there Leeson took out of his pocket a piece of paper which he gave to Batt , who went with it into the office . The prisoner is remanded to Manchester .

A case in the AA estminster police-court , on the 28 th ult ., gives -us a fresh instance of tbe arbitrary manner ' in which the Commissioners of Police override the law . A recent Order in Council empowers vestries in London to employ an undertaker , whose business shall be to remove the bodies of those who have died of cholera to a place provided for them . A death occurred in

a street in Chelsea , and the undertaker went to the house to remove the body , but was prevented by several men who were there . He applied to the police for assistance , which was refused . Thereupon Mr . Lahee , the clerk to the vesfcr } -, applied to Mr . Selfe , at AA estminster police-court , for an order to ¦ compel the police to give the required help . Mr . Self said he

had no power to order the police , and asked why assistance was refused . Au inspector in court produced an order from the Commissioners of Police prohibiting " thc force" from giving assistance summarily in cholera cases . Mr . Selfe made some very proper remarks on the impropriety of such an order , and finally , under the powers of a recent Act of Parliament ,

gave Mr . Lahee the required authority . The conduct of Sir Richard Mayne in thus arbitrarily overriding the law is all the more reprehensible because , under the recent Public Health Bill , the head of the police in every town is made a chief agent in the carrying out of sanitary measures . If Mr . Adderley does not receive a remonstrance from his Miriisteriifl chiefs , he has their knowledge of his weakness to thank for it . Irritated , as it seems , because Mr . Bright will

not notice him , he has written to the Times a letter which that journal puts into small type . Iu it Mr . Adelerly discovers a mare ' s nest , and shows his want of understanding . He quotes part of what Mr . Bright saiel at Birmingham about Canada and other colonies repudiating the Derby principle of finality , and then goes on to say— " There are distinguished Parliamentary

leaders from the North American Provinces at this moment in London , who could better inform Mr . Bright ' s audience that in these provinces , as also precisely in the other colonies adduced for illustration of the charms of universal suffrage , it happens that it has been tried , condemned , and reverted from , even by Parliaments elected by it . " Now , had Mr . Adderley ordinary

po-wers of perception he would have seen that Mr . Bright never for a moment advocated universal suffrage . The " Derby principle , " which , as he truly saiel , is repudiated by Canada and other great colonies , Mr . Bright carefully described as one by which more than five-sixths of the people are to be persistently excluded from the right of voting for members of Parliament .

Will Mr . Adderley's distinguished Parliamentary leaders from the North American colonies say that the franchise in Canada is as restricted as in this country ? If , as we are certain , they Avill not , where is Mr . Adderley landed ? But he may go further , and inquire whether in Nova Scotia universal suffrage does not obtain , and whether there the

Conservators are not its principal supporters ?——The Lord Chief Justice declines to reappoint Mr . Beales as revising barrister for Middlesex this year , expressly on the ground thafc he has taken so prominent a part in the recent Reform demonstrations . His lordship is careful , however , to say that he is convinced Mr . Beales' political opinions would not prevent him from doing justice in his court ; but he thinks ther people might have a different opinion . Mr . Beales' reply

is manly and dignified . The bribery commissions maintain their interest . Those at Totnes and Lancaster are especially piquant . A fellow named Harris professes to have made a clean breast of it at Totnes , and , as a local paper justly says , if he is not a wholesale and scandalous liar , there are very few electors in the borough who are not wholly corrupt . Four young

lads were drowned at Brighton on the 29 th ulfc . They were scholars in the school of Mr . Taylor , of Brighton , and went under his care to bathe . The tide was low , and they got out some distance to a bar , between which anel the shore the sea . seems to have come up rapidly . An alarm was made that a boy was drowning , and Mr . Taylor went to his rescue , and got him

ashore . This was not one of Mr . Taylor ' s pupils . For the time those who were on the bar were forgotten . AVhen the excitement was over the four lads were not to be seen . In endeavouring to cross the deeper part they had . been drowned . Two bodies were recovered .

FOBEIGS- INTELLIGENCE . —A story is set afloat that the cession of Venetia to Italy is nofc quite so certain as has been thought . According to this statement Austria is willing , but France insists thafc the wishes of the Venetians shall be ascertained by universal suffrage . It is expected that this ' will result in an expression of opinion that Venetia should be

a separate State , and in such case she is to be made into a separate State . The probability is that there is not a word of truth in this . The Emperor of the French has given no indication whatever of a desire to interfere with the unity of Italy . Moreover , we believe that if the votes of the people of Venetia be honestly taken , they will be found to be almost unanimously

for union with Italy . The Austrians ifc seems , are doing their best to strip Venice of her arfc treasures before they leave her . In Prussia there seems every likelihood that the annexations will be effected without any interruption . It is said there is a cabal against Count Bismarck , and that his removal from the Cabinet is sought for . The King is hardly likely to yield to any

such suggestion . He must know far too well that Count Bismarck is just now the surest guarantee of Prussian greatness . The Chamber of Deputies has agreed upon its address to the King . The treaty of peace between Austria anel Prussia was signed at Prague , on the 22 nd ult ., and has been sent to Vienna for

ratification . The fact is gratifying enough ; hut it has lost much of its interest since we know sufficiently the terras upon which peace is concluded . It is not likely that Austria and Italy will have any difficulties . It is saiel that negotiations are progressing favourably , and as soon as Austria can move her " furniture" out of A ' enice , the bride of the Adriatic will be handed over to her Italian wooer . If we may judge by an

extract from a semi-official Berlin paper , the Prussian Court is desirous not to have Italy spoken of too harshly . Some of tbe German papers have not been very cautious in this respect recently . They have abused Italy and its Government roundly . A telegram from Shanghai speaks of some successes of the Nyenfei ; says there is a civil war in Japan , and that two

French bishops and seven priests have been massacred in the Corea . By Atlantic telegraph we learn that President Johnson has abandoned the Fenian prosecutions . The China has arrived with news from New York to the evening of the 16 th instant . M . Vallandiham has withdrawn from the Philadelphia Convention . The delegations from Massachusetts

and South Carolina entered the Convention arm in arm , amidst cheers for President Johnson and the thirty-six loyal States . Several resolutions were passed declaring the Union and the constitution to be restored , and that representation could not be refused to any State by either Congress or