The Week.

iii another direction , for the trade between England and Japan has been suspended , notwithstanding the recent treaty obtained by his lordship . And it is observable that the Japan treaty has , for the present , come to nothing , for the same reason that the Chinese might as well be torn up , namely , our determination to force a resident agent upon the government . The treaty with Japan made the same stipulation in this respect

as did the treaty with China , but the Japanese feel this to be a very sore point , involving their dignity , and have therefore sought to confine foreigners to a small island a few miles from their capital , rather than allow them to enter the capital itself . The immediate consequence has been , as we have said , the stoppage of trade ; there has been no bloodshed at Japan on this account . The Bey of Tunis died on the 22 nd inst . In consequence of the energetic measures taken b y Rliaznodar , tranquillity has been maintained . During the interregnumwhich lasted

, thirty-six hours , the presumptive heir , Sidi Sadok , was recognized as successor . He was installed as Bey on the 24 th inst ., and took the oaths to observe the constitution and laivs granted to the country by his predecessor . By the arrival of the Africa we have NOAV York intelligence to the 14 th inst . A fire had occurred at Halifax , Nova Scotia , destroying property to the value of a million dollars . It is asserted that the concentration of such a large portion of the United States fleet in New Granadian ports AA'as purely accidental ; they are merely there for orders

and supplies . A revolution has taken place in Costa Rica ; the president was seized in bed and carried off to Guatemala . AVith regard to Italy , the Moniteur of AVeduesday contains the following manifesto : — " Several foreign papers assert that the solution of the affairs of Italy will be obstructed by the desire ivhich the emperor has to create in Italy a kingdom for a prince of his house . These rumours need not be refuted ; in order to deprive them of every foundation it suffices , without mention , ing the engagements made at Villafcancato remind the public of the

, acts ancl words of the emperor both before and after that epoch . " The second imperial manifesto on the French press has not acted as oil thrown on the troubled waters . It has , according to our Paris correspondent , created a profound sensation , and has roused a spirit of determined opposition which tho French government may soon have occasion to rue . The Presse has a most cutting remark . The " Moniteur manifesto , " it says , " is quite justifiable ; it attacks the

press , which is attacking the empire . Prince Napoleon was to arrive in Paris yesterday ancl the emperor is expected on Monday . Advices have been received from Constantinople to the 21 st inst . Tho journals from Constantinople announce that numerous arrests had taken place , iu consequence of the discovery of a political conspiracy ; but few details of the affair are published , as the journals state they have been forbidden to make comments on the matter until the judicial examinations have been concluded . Private letters state that the

conspiracy was to have broken out on Saturday , but on the previous Thursday it was denounced by Serjeant Ariza . Afgorous measures have been taken by the Government . TAVO frigates have been moored before the Seraglio , and the squadron had arrived the clay tho mail left . Among the principal leaders of the conspiracy w-ere tivo generals of division—Djaffir , of the Artillery , and Hossein , Governor of the Dardanellesseveral colonels and ulemas . Djaffir was drowned in the Bosphrous . No Christians were compromised in the plot . The 2 > lan of the

conspiracy was cleverly organized . The Europeans and the foreign ambassadors were to be protected by the generals of the rebels . The concession of the Bank has beeu made to Messrs . Gladstone and Rodoeanaebi .- The official journal of Darmstadt contains a decree for the renewal of the ordinance of 1 S 50 , which prohibits all subjects of Hesse Darmstadt from becoming members of any political society , established either iu the interior or abroad . The Senate of Fiuukfot'ton-the-Alaine has rejected the appeal made by the National Association against the refusal of the Director of the Police to sanction its statutes . -At Rome on Alonday the Sacred College met , and appointed

seventeen bishops . In the annual allocution of the Pope , his holiness alludes to the National Assembly of Bologna , and refers to the censure expressed by that assembly against the papal government . In conclusion , his holiness expresses a hope that the Romagnese will return to their allegiance to the holy see . HOME NEWS —Cabinet councils at DoAvning-street have , three times this week , necessitated the presence of ministers in toivn , and the premier has at length dismissed them to their rural ease . The Registrar

General ' s return for last Aveek presents a more favourable aspect than of late , and deaths have declined to the point from which they rose in June , being for the week 1058 . There AA-erc only ( il deaths from diarrhoea . The births amounted to 1752 . The week ' s mortality in the Wty Avas much beloiv the average , the number of deaths being 40 , whereas the average number for the corresponding period for the last three years was 50 . A Court of Common Council ivas held on Tuesday , the Lord Mayor presiding . After the transaction of some other

business , the following motion was made by Air . Henry Harris : — ' ¦ ' That this court should not consent to any bill in Parliament having for its ob ject the better regulation of the corporation of London , that does not protect the ri g hts and privileges of liverymen of this City . " To this Proposition Air . Abrahams moved the previous question , whereupon a uiseussion ensued , after which the amendment was negatived , and the original motion carried by 49 to 33 . Deputy AVhite then brought up a wport from the City lands committee touching the Central Criminal " -curt , which , after some discussion , ivas agreed to and sent back for execution , Before the Court rose it agreed to grant , at the request of

the Lord Mayor , the use of the Guildhall to the London Rifle Brigade . ¦ The City Commissioners of Sewers have also met at Guildhall ; Mr . Deputy Christie in the chair . The business was not very important . The revising barrister for the Middlesex : registration has held his sixth court Avithin the polling district of 3 Iile-end . A great number of cases were disposed of , and . the court adjourned till this day . Air . M . 'Christie

also held his court for the City of London lists at the Guildhall . Thomas Stoivell appeared on a summons , before Sir R . AA . Garden , at the Guildhall , on tho 27 th , charged with conspiring to defraud Messrs . Lockhart and Sons , manufacturers , Kirkaldy . ¦ It was alleged that goods hacl been ordered , and when obtained were disposed of at a sum considerably below that of cost price . Tho case was adjourned for additional evidence , and iu default of bail the defendant , who has long followed the profession of common informer , was conveyed to prison .

The inquest on the bodies of the unfortunate men killed in the recent explosion of the boiler of an agricultural steam-engine at Leives , has been resumed , and several witnesses were examined as to the state of the boiler , their evidence tending to show that the boiler was an old one , and constructed of au inferior material . The inquiry was again adjourned for the production of evidence of a scientific character . TAVO more victims have been added to the list of killed . One of the men conveyed to the Brighton Hospital died on Tuesday . His name was Cox ,

and ho vras an agricultural labourer attending the fair on business ; the unfortunate boy AVoodhall also died on Sunday night from the frightful injuries he received . This makes six in all killed by tho explosion . At the Court of Bankruptcy , yesterday , a first class certificate has been granted to Air . Thomas Skeels Fryer , who had traded as a brickmaker and breAver at Chatteris , iu tho Isle of Ely . He had been in business for forty years , ancl during that period he hacl not only sustained a character of the highest respectability , but had been a magistrate for thirty

years , chairman of the bench of magistrates , deputy lieutenant , and high sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire . The commissioner , iu awarding the certificate , said he felt bound to express a wish that Air . Fryer might be again reinstated in the high position he formerly occupied , and to declare that he left the court Avithout the sli ghtest stain upon his reputation . Avery different kind of ease was that of J . Hayes , a wine merchant , who had carried on business at 55 , Old

Broadstreet , and in Gloucester-street , Pnnlico , and who also applied for a certificate . He had been seven months in prison . The commissioner , in awarding a certificate of tho lowest class , observed that but for tbe imprisonment already suffered , he should have ordered a considerable suspension , in consequence of the bankrupt having permitted a single creditor ( the Union Bank ) to sweep off the whole of his property , leaving not a farthing for the rest . An adjournment was ordered in the case of Cuthbert Anthony Clarke , who hacl traded as a foreign warehouseman

in A'ewgate-strcet , London , and in Slater-street , Liverpool , and who applied for a certificate .- A terrible explosion , attended with great loss of life , took place on Tuesday forenoon on tbe premises of Messrs . Pursall and Phillips , percussion cap manufacturers , AVhittall-street , Birmingham . There were eighty Avomen and girls in the manufactory at the time . The explosion originated in a room where the caps are ' - ' primed" with the detonating powder , and where there were five females at work . As soon as the fire engines had obtained a mastery

over the flames a search ivas made amongst the ruins , and the result was , that ii ]) to seven o ' clock no fewer than seventeen bodies had been recovered . Seventeen , who were more or less injured , were taken to tho general hospital , and one of them died on tho way thither . About onehalf of the jiaticnts were able to leave the hospital last ni ght , but five are in a precarious condition . One result of this catastrophe will be the compulsory removal of all such manufactories outside the town of Birmingham . This is the third explosion which have occurred during the last three months , one of them having six victims . The revising barrister , AA . 31 . Best , Esq ., held his first court at

Keuliingtou ou AVeduesday , for the revision of the East Surrey registration lists . Much interest was excited iu the proceedings , the objections being nearly three thousand in all . An adjournment took place . At the Guildhall Air . At'Christie resumed his revision of the City of London lists , and adjourned till Friday . Air . Shadwell also held his seventh court for the Aliddlesex lists at Bonner ' s-road , Victoria Park . A large number of objections were got through , and an adjournment was agreed to . Hughes , tho absconding bankrupt solicitor , AA'IIO AA ' IIS

brought in custody from Australia , underwent another examination at the Guildhall police court yesterday . The prisoner was again remanded for a iveek to allow- of the evidence of certain witnesses at present in tho country being heard for the completion of the ease . -The four men , Couch , Alerrydew , Baillie , and Simpson , remanded at Clerkenivell police court on a charge of stealing a large number of carts and vans in different parts of the metropolis , hive been fully committed for trial . Alderman Gabriel , of Queenhithe AVard , aud Alderman Phillips , of

Farriiigdon AVard Within , the gentlemen elected to Jill the office of Sheriffs of Loudon , and Sheriff of Aliddlesex , haA'e been sii'iirn in at a Common Hall of the Livery , at the Guildhall , before the Lord Alayor and other civic functionaries . The HCAV Sheriff ' s having subscribed the usual oaths , Alessrs . Eagleton and Gammon also took the ordinary oaths as undersheriffs . At the conclusion ofthe ceremony the Lord Mayor and Aldermen proceeded to the Aldermen ' s Court , where the noiv sheriffs wero formally inducted . The funds yesterday were for a moment firm at 95- -J , but in the later hours they drooped , and the quotation returned to 05 i to J for ro' -- " -y and tho account . Foreign stocks and shares were