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The Week.
THE WEEK .
THE COURT . —Her Majesty and the other members of the Royal family are quietly spending the Christinas holidays at Osborne . GENERAL HOME NEWS . —The health of London continues at a favourable average . The births have fallen considerably . AVherever the English language is read and understood , tbe
announcement that Mr . Thackeray is dead will be received with deep emotion . Our great novelist died on Thursday morning , the 24 th ult . It seems that he had repeatedly suffered from attacks of a dangerous nature , but that of late he had been congratulating himself upon the non-recurrence of his old complaint , and was working in high spirits at a
novel which unfortunately must for ever remain a fragment . He was committed to the dust at Kensal Green on AVednesday last , surrounded by many whom he loved in life , and these were but representative of the far larger circle of his admirers in general society . In fact , he dies universally lamented as an author , a man , and a
gentleman"Aud the tear that is shed , while in silence it rolls , Shall long keep his memory green in our souls . " The true author is immortal . He being dead yet speaketh . The Hon . and A ery Rev . Dr . Pakenham , Dean of St . Patrick ' s , is dead . He was uncle of the present Earl of Longford , and brother-in-law of the great Duke of AVelllngton . The public will be curious to know who is selected to fill the seat that has
become identified with tlie memory of Swift . Colonel Crawley has been fully and honourably acquitted of the two charges upon which he was tried by court-martial at Aldershot . The charges were—first , that the arrest of Sergeant-Major Lilley was carried out "with unnecessary and undue severity , whereby Lilley and his wife were subjected to great and
grievous hardships and sufferings ; " and , in the next place , that when these " great and grievous hardships and sufferings " were made known during the sittings of the Mhow court-martial , he threw tbe responsibility upon the adjutant , Mr . Fitzsimon , whereas , "in truth and in fact , " he knew that the adjutant had acted in the matter under his " express order and direction . "
At the winter assizes for South Lancashire , among tho eases brought on was the charge against Mr . Standish , of Duxbury Hall , a magistrate of the county , of assaulting two men under
somewhat singular circumstances . The indictment contained three counts . The first and gravest part of the charge was abandoned , and the prisoner pleaded guilty to the other counts . It was urged on his behalf that he committed the offence with vjhich he was charged while suffering from nervous derangement ; and the attention of the Court was called to the circumstance , that while in India during the mutiny he received
a sunstroke . Ho was sentenced to a month's imprisonment , and further ordered to pay a fine of £ 300 . ——On Monday a women named Alice Holt , who had been found guilty of poisoning her mother at tho last Chester Assizes , was executed in front of Chester goal . After her conviction the wrethched woman attempted to throw the crime upon a man with whom
she cohabited ; but her statements on this subject were not quite consistent . Her courage failed her at the place of execution ; and the executioner , probably overcome by his struggles with tho victim of the law , performed his work clumsily . The whole scene is described as inexpressibly fearful . A . horrible murder and attempt at suicide was discovered at St .
Helen's , near Liverpool , on Monday morning . A single woman , a cripple , who kept a dame school , was found in her bed with her throat cut , quite dead ; and in thesame bed , undressed , was lying a married man , named Clithero , with a
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wound in his throat and fast d ying . There is some hope of his recovery , however . He found means to say that they proposed to commit suicide together , but there is some reason to think that he had stolen into her room and murdered her , after which he probably resolved to destroy himself . —•—George A'ictor Townley , whose execution for the murder of Miss Goodwin was fixed to take place for Thursday last has , as wo are
informed by a telegram from Derby , been respited until the further commands of Her Majesty are made known . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —If we may judge from the most recent news from Athens the new King has not been able to appease the jealousies and turbulent disposition of the Greeks . The sittings of the National Assembly aro reported to be of a
very riotous character , and the provinces were getting up an address to the King to dissolve it and to grant a new constitution . Athens is also disturbed by disputes between the police and the National Guard for the right to man the military posts . The situation of the King of Denmark has become one ot extreme difficulty . On the one hand pressed by England and
Russia , and it is even said by Sweden , to withdraw the common constitution , and on the other deserted by his Ministers for his proposed compliance with the demand . If the King refuses to follow the advice of England and Russia , those Powers leave him at the mercy of the German Confederation ; if he bonds to their importunities he alienates the affections of his faithful
Danish subjects . Up to Saturday the efforts to form a new Ministry had not been successful . The Federal civil commissioners have fixed on Altona as their place of business . Duke Frederick has been proclaimed in several towns . It is stated that the Danes will evacuate Rendsborg and Frcderickstadt . A telegram from Copenhagen says it is most probable the present
Ministryremain in onice . INDIA AND JAPAN . —Advices from Bombay to the 14 th inst . state that there had been no more fighting on the north-west frontier . The wound ' received by General Chamberlain , who commanded the troops despatched to quell the revolt , seems to have been sufficiently serious to oblige the gallant officer to withdraw from the field , and to hand over the direction of the expedition to General Garvoch . Sir AVilliam Densionthe
, governor of Madras , has temporarily assumed the functions of Viceroy . AMERICA . —The New York intelligence brought by the Columbia may be very briefly summarised . General Longstreet , who does not appear to havo been retreating with any hot haste from Knoxville , turned upon the pursuing Federals on the 14 thand drove them back some distance with considerable
, loss . New York advices of the ISth state that the fighting in that quarter was still progressing ; and it is added that Union citizens were leaving Knos . vllle—a puzzling statement of which no explanation is vouchsafed . The Federals are said to have abandoned Look-out Mountain , Missionary Ridge , and other points , from which General Grant recently drove tlie Confederates . On the 15 th the bombardment of Charleston was
still in progress , but the Federal shells had caused trifling damage . The House of Representatives at AVashington had , by a majority of 93 to 04 , passed a resolution in favour of prosecuting the war , so long as the rebels are found in arms . The Chesapeake , which was seized by a number of Confederate passengers while on a voyage from New York to Portland , had been re-captured .
To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
JUSTICE . —A . brother is not justified on the night of election of the W . M . to canvass for votes in a room adjoining the lod"o by delivering the brethren a card with the name of his favoured candidate written upon it . The conduct of the brother should be brought before the lodge , the members of which must themselves decide upon the course to be pursued with regard to him . They can suspend him from his
membership , leaving him to appeal to the Board of General Purposes if he thinks fit ; or they can at once lay a complaint , against the brother before the board just named .
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The Week.
THE WEEK .
THE COURT . —Her Majesty and the other members of the Royal family are quietly spending the Christinas holidays at Osborne . GENERAL HOME NEWS . —The health of London continues at a favourable average . The births have fallen considerably . AVherever the English language is read and understood , tbe
announcement that Mr . Thackeray is dead will be received with deep emotion . Our great novelist died on Thursday morning , the 24 th ult . It seems that he had repeatedly suffered from attacks of a dangerous nature , but that of late he had been congratulating himself upon the non-recurrence of his old complaint , and was working in high spirits at a
novel which unfortunately must for ever remain a fragment . He was committed to the dust at Kensal Green on AVednesday last , surrounded by many whom he loved in life , and these were but representative of the far larger circle of his admirers in general society . In fact , he dies universally lamented as an author , a man , and a
gentleman"Aud the tear that is shed , while in silence it rolls , Shall long keep his memory green in our souls . " The true author is immortal . He being dead yet speaketh . The Hon . and A ery Rev . Dr . Pakenham , Dean of St . Patrick ' s , is dead . He was uncle of the present Earl of Longford , and brother-in-law of the great Duke of AVelllngton . The public will be curious to know who is selected to fill the seat that has
become identified with tlie memory of Swift . Colonel Crawley has been fully and honourably acquitted of the two charges upon which he was tried by court-martial at Aldershot . The charges were—first , that the arrest of Sergeant-Major Lilley was carried out "with unnecessary and undue severity , whereby Lilley and his wife were subjected to great and
grievous hardships and sufferings ; " and , in the next place , that when these " great and grievous hardships and sufferings " were made known during the sittings of the Mhow court-martial , he threw tbe responsibility upon the adjutant , Mr . Fitzsimon , whereas , "in truth and in fact , " he knew that the adjutant had acted in the matter under his " express order and direction . "
At the winter assizes for South Lancashire , among tho eases brought on was the charge against Mr . Standish , of Duxbury Hall , a magistrate of the county , of assaulting two men under
somewhat singular circumstances . The indictment contained three counts . The first and gravest part of the charge was abandoned , and the prisoner pleaded guilty to the other counts . It was urged on his behalf that he committed the offence with vjhich he was charged while suffering from nervous derangement ; and the attention of the Court was called to the circumstance , that while in India during the mutiny he received
a sunstroke . Ho was sentenced to a month's imprisonment , and further ordered to pay a fine of £ 300 . ——On Monday a women named Alice Holt , who had been found guilty of poisoning her mother at tho last Chester Assizes , was executed in front of Chester goal . After her conviction the wrethched woman attempted to throw the crime upon a man with whom
she cohabited ; but her statements on this subject were not quite consistent . Her courage failed her at the place of execution ; and the executioner , probably overcome by his struggles with tho victim of the law , performed his work clumsily . The whole scene is described as inexpressibly fearful . A . horrible murder and attempt at suicide was discovered at St .
Helen's , near Liverpool , on Monday morning . A single woman , a cripple , who kept a dame school , was found in her bed with her throat cut , quite dead ; and in thesame bed , undressed , was lying a married man , named Clithero , with a
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wound in his throat and fast d ying . There is some hope of his recovery , however . He found means to say that they proposed to commit suicide together , but there is some reason to think that he had stolen into her room and murdered her , after which he probably resolved to destroy himself . —•—George A'ictor Townley , whose execution for the murder of Miss Goodwin was fixed to take place for Thursday last has , as wo are
informed by a telegram from Derby , been respited until the further commands of Her Majesty are made known . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —If we may judge from the most recent news from Athens the new King has not been able to appease the jealousies and turbulent disposition of the Greeks . The sittings of the National Assembly aro reported to be of a
very riotous character , and the provinces were getting up an address to the King to dissolve it and to grant a new constitution . Athens is also disturbed by disputes between the police and the National Guard for the right to man the military posts . The situation of the King of Denmark has become one ot extreme difficulty . On the one hand pressed by England and
Russia , and it is even said by Sweden , to withdraw the common constitution , and on the other deserted by his Ministers for his proposed compliance with the demand . If the King refuses to follow the advice of England and Russia , those Powers leave him at the mercy of the German Confederation ; if he bonds to their importunities he alienates the affections of his faithful
Danish subjects . Up to Saturday the efforts to form a new Ministry had not been successful . The Federal civil commissioners have fixed on Altona as their place of business . Duke Frederick has been proclaimed in several towns . It is stated that the Danes will evacuate Rendsborg and Frcderickstadt . A telegram from Copenhagen says it is most probable the present
Ministryremain in onice . INDIA AND JAPAN . —Advices from Bombay to the 14 th inst . state that there had been no more fighting on the north-west frontier . The wound ' received by General Chamberlain , who commanded the troops despatched to quell the revolt , seems to have been sufficiently serious to oblige the gallant officer to withdraw from the field , and to hand over the direction of the expedition to General Garvoch . Sir AVilliam Densionthe
, governor of Madras , has temporarily assumed the functions of Viceroy . AMERICA . —The New York intelligence brought by the Columbia may be very briefly summarised . General Longstreet , who does not appear to havo been retreating with any hot haste from Knoxville , turned upon the pursuing Federals on the 14 thand drove them back some distance with considerable
, loss . New York advices of the ISth state that the fighting in that quarter was still progressing ; and it is added that Union citizens were leaving Knos . vllle—a puzzling statement of which no explanation is vouchsafed . The Federals are said to have abandoned Look-out Mountain , Missionary Ridge , and other points , from which General Grant recently drove tlie Confederates . On the 15 th the bombardment of Charleston was
still in progress , but the Federal shells had caused trifling damage . The House of Representatives at AVashington had , by a majority of 93 to 04 , passed a resolution in favour of prosecuting the war , so long as the rebels are found in arms . The Chesapeake , which was seized by a number of Confederate passengers while on a voyage from New York to Portland , had been re-captured .
To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
JUSTICE . —A . brother is not justified on the night of election of the W . M . to canvass for votes in a room adjoining the lod"o by delivering the brethren a card with the name of his favoured candidate written upon it . The conduct of the brother should be brought before the lodge , the members of which must themselves decide upon the course to be pursued with regard to him . They can suspend him from his
membership , leaving him to appeal to the Board of General Purposes if he thinks fit ; or they can at once lay a complaint , against the brother before the board just named .