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The Week.

Roman States . The last accounts from St . Petersburg consider as nearly concluded the loan with Messrs . Rothschild which has been under negotiation for some time past . It is to amount to thirty millions of roubles , and tlie basis of the transaction is said to be already agreed on . The riotous conduct of the students at Moscow has no sooner been appeased than news has arrived of similar conduce at Odessa , Avhere the students have hissed the curator of the university for bis martinet treatment of them . It is thought thafc the students

ivill in the end carry their point . Iu Cireassia , Naib has condemned Colonel Ladiensk to be hanged . -In Constantinople it is asserted that the civil list has contracted another loan of thirty millions of piastres . The Sultan is about to marry his daughter , the widow of Gbalib Pasha , to hia favourite , Osman Bey , who would then replace Riza Pasha in the ministry . Mehemet Kybrisli Pasha has refused to replace Djemal Bey as ambassador at Paris . He will probably be appointed grand vizier ; and we are told of the following changes in the

ministry : Fuad Pasha , it is said , will be minister of finance , Djemal Bej or Savfet Effendi , minister of foreign affairs , Mehemet Ali Pasha or Mehemet Rouchdi Pasha , minister of war . The official journal of Constantinople declares the election of A . Conza as hospodar of Moldavia to be contrary to existing treaties . A resolution has been adopted in the United States senate , calling on the secretary of the treasury for information relative to the palm oil trade of the coast of Africa . The house of representatives have

taken action decidedly adverse to the , prosecution of the Pacific Railroad . The purchase of Cuba and the tariff were still under deliberation . Fraser river was irtzen below Foit Langley , and it was feared that great suffering would be experienced by the miners . A successful revolution has been inaugurated in Hayti against the Emperor Soulouque . A republic was publicly proclaimed on the 23 rd of December , and General Jefferd . ivas named provisional preside'it . The insurrection is spreading north and south . All political prisoners had been released , and a decree deprives Soulouque of all nower . Additional advices

from Mexico of tlie 9 th ult . state that Juarez had refused to listen to the commissioners frcni Robles . Zuloaga before his fall had approved the propositions Iroiii France and England for a settlement of the Spanish question , and the Spanish authorities had expressed their satisfaction that there were five French , four Spanish , and three anglish men-of-war vessels atSacriricios . Indian papers and letters by the overland mail reached London on Thursday . The Eurlaru says : — " AVar there is none left , and nothing but a dangerous , fierce and scattered hunt remains . The rebel leaders who succeeded in bursting through our

cordons and in crossing the Gauges were Feroze Shah , Luckur Shah , Peerjee Mossal Ally Khan , Golab Shah ( who passes himself as a European ) , and Fazel Huqq , the Monlavie . This news is derived from government authorities . The Nana was stated to be ivith the fugitive chiefs and to have crossed the Ganges on the ( 1 th of last month , in broad noonday , at some spot between Fnttehghur and Cawnpore . Bufc the telegraph wire was cut by the rebels , and all exactitude of information prevented . The insurrection as an organisation is

over . The duties of a rural constabulary have fallen upon generals , brigadiers , and majors . Lord Clyde himself has become but a chief of police in a disturbed country ; while the more pugnacious chiefs fly hither and thither , and the Ntuu squats in a jungle negotiating terms of safety for his family , and reading the English newspapers . From China we learn that the governor of Macao was said to be about to proceed to Siam to enter into a treaty for Portugal . The state of affairs ac Ningpo is alarming . From Foo-chow-ibo and Anioy

reports are favourable . A rather alarming fire broke out in the centre of Hong-Kong on the oth of December , and only by the most extraordinary exertions were the premises of the Oriental Bank Corporation kept from destruction . One fine ouilding , the residence and godowns of Messrs . Schajffer and Co ., merchants , and the offices of Mr . Tarrant , solicitor , were totally destroyed , together with four other houses . Mr . AVakley and his jury assembled last Tuesday , to conclude the inquiry into the accident at the Polytechnic . The jury found that the death was accidental , and thafc the fall of the staircase was occasioned by cutting the steps for the insertion of the trellis work . A

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ROYAL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. Article 1
OUR ARCHITECTURAL CHAPTER. Article 3
THE BROOK. Article 5
THE HUNTED PIG. Article 6
CORRESPONDENCE. Article 7
THE GRAND LODGE PROPERTY. Article 9
FREEMASONS' HALLS. Article 9
MASONIC IMPOSTORS. Article 9
VISITING LODGES. Article 11
MASONIC CLOTHING. Article 11
THE BEAUTIES OF MASONRY. Article 13
THE MASONIC MIRROR. Article 15
THE ROYAL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. Article 16
METROPOLITAN. Article 20
PROVINCIAL. Article 27
MARK MASONRY. Article 36
ROYAL ARCH. Article 38
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. Article 38
SCOTLAND. Article 39
THE WEEK. Article 40
Obituary. Article 46
NOTICES. Article 47
TO CORRESPONDENTS. Article 48
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The Week.

Roman States . The last accounts from St . Petersburg consider as nearly concluded the loan with Messrs . Rothschild which has been under negotiation for some time past . It is to amount to thirty millions of roubles , and tlie basis of the transaction is said to be already agreed on . The riotous conduct of the students at Moscow has no sooner been appeased than news has arrived of similar conduce at Odessa , Avhere the students have hissed the curator of the university for bis martinet treatment of them . It is thought thafc the students

ivill in the end carry their point . Iu Cireassia , Naib has condemned Colonel Ladiensk to be hanged . -In Constantinople it is asserted that the civil list has contracted another loan of thirty millions of piastres . The Sultan is about to marry his daughter , the widow of Gbalib Pasha , to hia favourite , Osman Bey , who would then replace Riza Pasha in the ministry . Mehemet Kybrisli Pasha has refused to replace Djemal Bey as ambassador at Paris . He will probably be appointed grand vizier ; and we are told of the following changes in the

ministry : Fuad Pasha , it is said , will be minister of finance , Djemal Bej or Savfet Effendi , minister of foreign affairs , Mehemet Ali Pasha or Mehemet Rouchdi Pasha , minister of war . The official journal of Constantinople declares the election of A . Conza as hospodar of Moldavia to be contrary to existing treaties . A resolution has been adopted in the United States senate , calling on the secretary of the treasury for information relative to the palm oil trade of the coast of Africa . The house of representatives have

taken action decidedly adverse to the , prosecution of the Pacific Railroad . The purchase of Cuba and the tariff were still under deliberation . Fraser river was irtzen below Foit Langley , and it was feared that great suffering would be experienced by the miners . A successful revolution has been inaugurated in Hayti against the Emperor Soulouque . A republic was publicly proclaimed on the 23 rd of December , and General Jefferd . ivas named provisional preside'it . The insurrection is spreading north and south . All political prisoners had been released , and a decree deprives Soulouque of all nower . Additional advices

from Mexico of tlie 9 th ult . state that Juarez had refused to listen to the commissioners frcni Robles . Zuloaga before his fall had approved the propositions Iroiii France and England for a settlement of the Spanish question , and the Spanish authorities had expressed their satisfaction that there were five French , four Spanish , and three anglish men-of-war vessels atSacriricios . Indian papers and letters by the overland mail reached London on Thursday . The Eurlaru says : — " AVar there is none left , and nothing but a dangerous , fierce and scattered hunt remains . The rebel leaders who succeeded in bursting through our

cordons and in crossing the Gauges were Feroze Shah , Luckur Shah , Peerjee Mossal Ally Khan , Golab Shah ( who passes himself as a European ) , and Fazel Huqq , the Monlavie . This news is derived from government authorities . The Nana was stated to be ivith the fugitive chiefs and to have crossed the Ganges on the ( 1 th of last month , in broad noonday , at some spot between Fnttehghur and Cawnpore . Bufc the telegraph wire was cut by the rebels , and all exactitude of information prevented . The insurrection as an organisation is

over . The duties of a rural constabulary have fallen upon generals , brigadiers , and majors . Lord Clyde himself has become but a chief of police in a disturbed country ; while the more pugnacious chiefs fly hither and thither , and the Ntuu squats in a jungle negotiating terms of safety for his family , and reading the English newspapers . From China we learn that the governor of Macao was said to be about to proceed to Siam to enter into a treaty for Portugal . The state of affairs ac Ningpo is alarming . From Foo-chow-ibo and Anioy

reports are favourable . A rather alarming fire broke out in the centre of Hong-Kong on the oth of December , and only by the most extraordinary exertions were the premises of the Oriental Bank Corporation kept from destruction . One fine ouilding , the residence and godowns of Messrs . Schajffer and Co ., merchants , and the offices of Mr . Tarrant , solicitor , were totally destroyed , together with four other houses . Mr . AVakley and his jury assembled last Tuesday , to conclude the inquiry into the accident at the Polytechnic . The jury found that the death was accidental , and thafc the fall of the staircase was occasioned by cutting the steps for the insertion of the trellis work . A

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