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The Week.

having been tried several times for sedition in Ireland without ever finding a jury that would agree upon a verdict , came afterwards to sit in the House of Commons , then went out to Australia , where he was a member and a minister in the Legislative Council of A'ictoria , and is at present in England on a visit , The chair was taken by Sir George Bowyer , and the principal persons present were Irish or Australian friends of the guest .

Mr . Duffy made a long speech , which was chiefly devoted to the defence of the system of representation iu the Australian colonies against the recent attack made upon it by ; Mr . Lowe , Mr . Gregory , and others , in the House of Commons . The Board of Trade returns for April , have been issued . The exports during the month amounted in value to £ 12 , 071 , 111 ,

against £ 13 , 225 , 039 in 186 ii and £ 11 , 897 , 177 iu 1863 . For the first four months the value of the exports is £ 17 , 706 , 818 , and £ 19 , 892 , 420 in the corresponding period of 1864 , and £ 39 , 458 , 381 in the first four months of 1863 . With regard to the precious metals , the import in the four months is £ 5 , 949 , 457 , and tbe exports £ 1 , 229 , 215 . The 86 th Derby

was run on Wednesday , and the blue ribbon of the turf was borne off by a French horse . Up to a few yards of the winning post , Mr . Chaplin's Breadaibane kept well in front , and seemed to have secured tbe victory , but just before the finish a rush was made by Gladiateur , Christmas Carol , and Eltham , who auccessively passed to the front , aud the Count de Lagrange ' s

horse came in an easy winner . The crowd is estimated by good judges to have been greater than ever before appeared on the race course . The Prince of Wales occupied a conspicuous place on the Grand Stand . The day did not pass over without one fatal accident . One Wednesdaj- morning three gentlemen set out to Epsom in a dog cart , to witness the race . They had not proceeded far beyond AA estminster Bridge when the horse

became excited , and Mr . Leggatt , who was driving , lost all control . The animal set off at a furious pace , and came in contact with a heavily loaded van , by which all three were thrown out and terribly injured . Mr . Leggatt is since dead , the other two remain at the hospital in a precarious state . It is reported by a telegraphic despatch from Calcutta that the Nemesis , one of the steamers belonging to the Peninsular and

Oriental Steam Company , and running between Calcutta and Suez , went ashore in the Hooghly river soon after leaving Calcutta , and was in a dangerous state . No particulars are given of tbe cause of her stranding , but her captain , Mr . Castles , is well known to be a brave and skilful seaman , tried in former seasons of emergency , and not likely to have been

forgetful of his duty on this occasion . The manufacture of the telegraph cable intended for another attempt to connect this country with America was finished at the factory on Monday . It will be conveyed on board the Great Eastern , with all convenient speed , and the great ship , conveying the whole cable as its cargo , will start on its important mission of laying down the

cable towards the end of the next month . A trial took place in the Common Pleas last week , which curiously illustrates the literary taste of the frequenters of our popular concertrooms and the patrons of public-house amusements . The publisher of a song , called "Jolly Dogs , " prosecuted a rival for taking from it the words "Slap bang , here wo are again !"

which aro put into the mouths of the dancers of a polka . It was stated on the trial that the first song had become so popular that the sale in February last reached 3 , 000 a week . The composer of the song confessed that this did not say much for the taste of the British public . The trial went on for some time , till the jury got tired of it , stopped the case , and returned a verdict for the defendant . A very singular will case has been for three days before the Court of Probate . A

Mr . Ring died in 1850 . With the exception of some legacies , he directed that his property should be allowed to accumulate for twenty-one years , that the whole should then go to the existing heir-at-law . This will was dated in March , 1850 , and has been acted on ever since . But in 1862 a codicil dated in May , 1850 , was sent anonymously to a lady who took a beneficial interest in the first will , and this codicil gave a different

direction to the properly , a clergyman of the name of Barton , among others , coming in for a share of the accumulations , . which were to be divided in twelve years . The witnesses to this codicil , with the solicitor who drew it up , are dead , and the executors believe it to be a forgery . No one appears to know from whom the eodical came . Ib is to test the

genuineness of the document that the present trial is instituted . The principal witness examined against it was Mr . Chabot , and his testimony , going into curiously minute points of resemblance and of difference in handwriting , excited much interest in court . The Judge , without calling on the opponents of the codicil to reply , held that the evidence of Mr . Chabot , the expert , was

decisive of the case . There were no fewer than six points which Mr . Chabot had indicated iu which tho codicil differed from the admittedly genuine writing of the testator ; and anyone of these tbe learned judge said , if it stood alone , would be enough to convict the codicil of being a forged document . He , therefore , pronounced it to be a wicked and clumsy forgery

and condemned Mr . Barton , who propounded it , to pay the costs of the suit . It ought to be added that no one seemed to know who had sent the codicil to the executors , nor was it insinuated that Mr . Barton was connected with it further than as a legatee under its provisions . A case of revolting cruelty to a child was inquired into at the Thames Police-court on AVednesday . A married woman , named Ann Ross , was

charged with grossly ill-treating her own son , a boy eight years of age . Prom the evidence ifc seemed that for trifling offences the boy had been severely beaten , his hand burnt with a red-hot poker , and his face with a red-hot skewer . The last infliction was said , in defence , to have been done by accident . The magistrates committed the woman for trial . Some time ago the Master of the Rolls made an order

that a child of three years old , the daughter of a Roman Catholic gentleman named Austin , but whose widow was a Protestant , should not be taken from the custody of the mother and given up to her Roman Catholic relatives . This order was appealed against , but the Lord Chancellor on Saturday gave judgment , confirming the order of the Master of

the Rolls , and ordering that the child should remain under her mother ' s care at least till she was seven years old . The appellants to pay the costs . The Rev . Mr . Wagner was assaulted on Sunday night as he was leaving his church , and knocked down . The ruffian assailants were chimney-sweeps who had just been released from militia drill . They were

immediately taken into custody , and having been examined before the magistrates were sentenced to two months' imprisonment , with hard labour . The inquest on Captain Newberry , who was killed by tbe falling of a wall at the Paddington station , was resumed and concluded on Monday . Ifc was proved that the dangerous state of the wall , pressed

outward by the weight of the coal stored up behind it , had been observed for some time before the accident occurred ; and the jury , while they returned a verdict of accidental death , appended a censure both upon the Lilleshall Company , the pressure of whose coals caused the accident , and the Great Western Railway Company , for their negligence in the matter . A great fire broke out at Nottingham about ten o ' clock on Thursday week , in a warehouse belonging to one of the leading

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HISTORICAL SKETCH OF MASONIC EVENTS DURING 1864. Article 1
CONCERNING STAINED GLASS. Article 2
MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES. Article 4
CORRESPONDENCE. Article 7
THE MASONIC MIRROR. Article 8
ROYAL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION FOR AGED MASONS AND THEIR WIDOWS. Article 10
PROVINCIAL. Article 11
Untitled Article 16
Obituary. Article 16
REVIEWS. Article 17
IRELAND. Article 17
THE WEEK. Article 17
TO CORRESPONDENTS. Article 20
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The Week.

having been tried several times for sedition in Ireland without ever finding a jury that would agree upon a verdict , came afterwards to sit in the House of Commons , then went out to Australia , where he was a member and a minister in the Legislative Council of A'ictoria , and is at present in England on a visit , The chair was taken by Sir George Bowyer , and the principal persons present were Irish or Australian friends of the guest .

Mr . Duffy made a long speech , which was chiefly devoted to the defence of the system of representation iu the Australian colonies against the recent attack made upon it by ; Mr . Lowe , Mr . Gregory , and others , in the House of Commons . The Board of Trade returns for April , have been issued . The exports during the month amounted in value to £ 12 , 071 , 111 ,

against £ 13 , 225 , 039 in 186 ii and £ 11 , 897 , 177 iu 1863 . For the first four months the value of the exports is £ 17 , 706 , 818 , and £ 19 , 892 , 420 in the corresponding period of 1864 , and £ 39 , 458 , 381 in the first four months of 1863 . With regard to the precious metals , the import in the four months is £ 5 , 949 , 457 , and tbe exports £ 1 , 229 , 215 . The 86 th Derby

was run on Wednesday , and the blue ribbon of the turf was borne off by a French horse . Up to a few yards of the winning post , Mr . Chaplin's Breadaibane kept well in front , and seemed to have secured tbe victory , but just before the finish a rush was made by Gladiateur , Christmas Carol , and Eltham , who auccessively passed to the front , aud the Count de Lagrange ' s

horse came in an easy winner . The crowd is estimated by good judges to have been greater than ever before appeared on the race course . The Prince of Wales occupied a conspicuous place on the Grand Stand . The day did not pass over without one fatal accident . One Wednesdaj- morning three gentlemen set out to Epsom in a dog cart , to witness the race . They had not proceeded far beyond AA estminster Bridge when the horse

became excited , and Mr . Leggatt , who was driving , lost all control . The animal set off at a furious pace , and came in contact with a heavily loaded van , by which all three were thrown out and terribly injured . Mr . Leggatt is since dead , the other two remain at the hospital in a precarious state . It is reported by a telegraphic despatch from Calcutta that the Nemesis , one of the steamers belonging to the Peninsular and

Oriental Steam Company , and running between Calcutta and Suez , went ashore in the Hooghly river soon after leaving Calcutta , and was in a dangerous state . No particulars are given of tbe cause of her stranding , but her captain , Mr . Castles , is well known to be a brave and skilful seaman , tried in former seasons of emergency , and not likely to have been

forgetful of his duty on this occasion . The manufacture of the telegraph cable intended for another attempt to connect this country with America was finished at the factory on Monday . It will be conveyed on board the Great Eastern , with all convenient speed , and the great ship , conveying the whole cable as its cargo , will start on its important mission of laying down the

cable towards the end of the next month . A trial took place in the Common Pleas last week , which curiously illustrates the literary taste of the frequenters of our popular concertrooms and the patrons of public-house amusements . The publisher of a song , called "Jolly Dogs , " prosecuted a rival for taking from it the words "Slap bang , here wo are again !"

which aro put into the mouths of the dancers of a polka . It was stated on the trial that the first song had become so popular that the sale in February last reached 3 , 000 a week . The composer of the song confessed that this did not say much for the taste of the British public . The trial went on for some time , till the jury got tired of it , stopped the case , and returned a verdict for the defendant . A very singular will case has been for three days before the Court of Probate . A

Mr . Ring died in 1850 . With the exception of some legacies , he directed that his property should be allowed to accumulate for twenty-one years , that the whole should then go to the existing heir-at-law . This will was dated in March , 1850 , and has been acted on ever since . But in 1862 a codicil dated in May , 1850 , was sent anonymously to a lady who took a beneficial interest in the first will , and this codicil gave a different

direction to the properly , a clergyman of the name of Barton , among others , coming in for a share of the accumulations , . which were to be divided in twelve years . The witnesses to this codicil , with the solicitor who drew it up , are dead , and the executors believe it to be a forgery . No one appears to know from whom the eodical came . Ib is to test the

genuineness of the document that the present trial is instituted . The principal witness examined against it was Mr . Chabot , and his testimony , going into curiously minute points of resemblance and of difference in handwriting , excited much interest in court . The Judge , without calling on the opponents of the codicil to reply , held that the evidence of Mr . Chabot , the expert , was

decisive of the case . There were no fewer than six points which Mr . Chabot had indicated iu which tho codicil differed from the admittedly genuine writing of the testator ; and anyone of these tbe learned judge said , if it stood alone , would be enough to convict the codicil of being a forged document . He , therefore , pronounced it to be a wicked and clumsy forgery

and condemned Mr . Barton , who propounded it , to pay the costs of the suit . It ought to be added that no one seemed to know who had sent the codicil to the executors , nor was it insinuated that Mr . Barton was connected with it further than as a legatee under its provisions . A case of revolting cruelty to a child was inquired into at the Thames Police-court on AVednesday . A married woman , named Ann Ross , was

charged with grossly ill-treating her own son , a boy eight years of age . Prom the evidence ifc seemed that for trifling offences the boy had been severely beaten , his hand burnt with a red-hot poker , and his face with a red-hot skewer . The last infliction was said , in defence , to have been done by accident . The magistrates committed the woman for trial . Some time ago the Master of the Rolls made an order

that a child of three years old , the daughter of a Roman Catholic gentleman named Austin , but whose widow was a Protestant , should not be taken from the custody of the mother and given up to her Roman Catholic relatives . This order was appealed against , but the Lord Chancellor on Saturday gave judgment , confirming the order of the Master of

the Rolls , and ordering that the child should remain under her mother ' s care at least till she was seven years old . The appellants to pay the costs . The Rev . Mr . Wagner was assaulted on Sunday night as he was leaving his church , and knocked down . The ruffian assailants were chimney-sweeps who had just been released from militia drill . They were

immediately taken into custody , and having been examined before the magistrates were sentenced to two months' imprisonment , with hard labour . The inquest on Captain Newberry , who was killed by tbe falling of a wall at the Paddington station , was resumed and concluded on Monday . Ifc was proved that the dangerous state of the wall , pressed

outward by the weight of the coal stored up behind it , had been observed for some time before the accident occurred ; and the jury , while they returned a verdict of accidental death , appended a censure both upon the Lilleshall Company , the pressure of whose coals caused the accident , and the Great Western Railway Company , for their negligence in the matter . A great fire broke out at Nottingham about ten o ' clock on Thursday week , in a warehouse belonging to one of the leading

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