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The Week.
French government having sent a proposal to London with reference to a general disarmament . Two iron-eased frigates were last week launched , named respectively the Qloire and the Normandie . The semi-official papers are endeavouring to make it appear that a perfect understanding had been re-established between the governments of England and France . The Gazette de Lyon , a clerical organ , mentions a report from Marshal Vaillant , commanding the French troops in Central Italy , to the emperor , stating the startling fact tbat the troops under bis
command had fraternised with the Italians to such a degree that they were not to be relied on , ancl the marshal recommends a change ' of troops , by sending . from France men " uncontaminated with the revolutionary spirit . " General de Montauban , commander of the French army to be sent to China , has published an order of the day , in which he tells his troops that for the second time their flag will unite , with that of England and that union will be a pledge of victory—as that of the two nations is a pledge of peace to the ivhole world . According to rumour the difficulties between France and Austria , raised by the delegation of the regency of Central Italy to M . Buoneompagni , are not yet removed . The Count de Paris ancl tbe Duke do Chartres have embarked on board
the Austrian Lloyds . steamer for Alexandria and Egypt . -The letters of invitation to the congress were despatched to-day to the different powers . The congress will assemble in the early part of January next . The Moniteur of this morning publishes the text of tho treaties signed at Zurich , the stipulations of ivhich are in conformity with those ivhich have already boon made known to tho public . The Piedmontese government has received no communication intimating the opposition of Austria to tho congress , on account of the nomination of
M . de Buoneompagni to the regency of Central Italy . The difficulties made by Tuscany to the delegation of tho regency to M . de Buoneompagni have not yet been settled . Letters received here from Rome confirm the rumour that Cardinal Antonelli will represent the Pope at the congress . The official journal of Rome of tbe 21 th inst . says : — " Certain journals exaggerate the reforms which aro to eome into operation . " Tho Propaganda , has received reports from . Cochin . China that persecutions and ill-treatment of the missionaries have again taken lace . -The
p Picdmontesc Gazette publishes the text of the treaty between France aud Sardinia , and also of the general treaty between Austria , Franco , and Sardinia ; but they contain nothing more than is already known from the circulars lately ' published . General Garibaldi has issued a proclamation to his comrades in Central Italy , in which he tells them he is certain to be soon among tbem , and urges them not to lay clown their arms , but to gather round their chiefs , and preserve the strictest discipline . The proclamation is dated Genoa , November 23 . A Milan
correspondent , speaking of the now organic laws now publishing in Lombardy , says tbat the articles on the press have excited great alarm ; and in answer to tho insinuation tbat the law would not be enforced , the M-iltai Gazette says : — " AA ' e want laws and not toleration—laws that shall not be alternately a cipher and a sword of Damocles . " The . Carriers Mercantile of Genoa gives an enumeration of the troops composing the army of Central Italy , according to which there must bo fifty thousand men under arms . According to a letter from a
correspondent at Pcsth , the Greek Bishop of Munkacs had been spirited away , and as be was well known to bo a devoted Hungarian patriot , and as such obnoxious to the Austrian government , it was thought he had been carried off to be immured in an Austrian dungeon . The Hungarians are stated to bo much dissatisfied with the government . The Faederlaitdet reports that by a letter of the king , dated the 24 th inst ., the councillor Rottwitt has been intrusted with the formation of a now ministry . The Bcrlingsehe Zeitung says M . Von Scheele has refused the office of
chamberlain , which had been offered to him , stating that be does not intend to take any part in the present political movement . The Danish government has made to the federal diet , through the medium of its representative at Frankfort , tbo following proposal for settling the difficulties of tho Holstein question ;— "A committee , one half of tho members of which is to bo appointed by the general council of state of Denmark , and the other half by the diet of tho duchy of Holstein , is to assembled at Copenhagen . This committee is to propose the modifications which are to bo made in the constitution of Holstein . Tho
proposed modifications are to be submitted to the direct examination of the diet of Holstein before tho Danish government is to decide definitively on the subject of tho proposals ef tbe committee . The diet of Holstein would , in that ease , have a consultative vote on tho project of the proposed reforms of ifcs constitution . It is said that Prussia is not quite satisfied with this proposal of Denmark , and claims the full acceptance of all the reclamations of Holstein , and also that the diet of Holstein is not to have a consultative but a deliberative and definitive vote . As it is likely that the court of Copenhagen will not agree to this demand of Prussia , it is said that tlie whole question of the German duchies will be submitted to the approaching congress .-
Prussian agents have left for England in order to inspect those places on tbe south coast which might be suitable for bis majesty tho king to reside tit during the winter months , and to make such preparations as are requisite therefore . Besides the Isle of AVight , Dorsetshire is also to be inspected . It is stated that the minister of war , General Bon in , has tendered his resignation , and that the same has been accepted . It is also asserted that fie is to be reinstated by General Herrmann . Tbe Moors in considerable force have attacked Serallo , occupied by the troops of General Ecbaguo . They were repulsed with great loss . They also attacked the outworks ot'G ' euta , ancl were again repulsed . Tbe Spaniards
had seven killed and about a hundred wounded , among whom are three officers . On Sunday , a body of 4000 Moors made an attack for the fourth time on the redoubt before Serallo . They were repulsed and completely routed . The Spanish officers and soldiers conducted themselves with great bravery . Troops are crossing the Straits , and some fresh troops have lauded at Ceuta . The Madrid Gazette publishes the ordinary budget for 1860 . The receipts amount to 1 S 92 millions of reals , and the expenses to 1887 ! millions of reals . Constantinople advices of tho
lflth are to the effeet that all reports current for some time of a change of ministry in Turkey were at least premature . A telegram from Paris states that the first sitting of the congress will take place on tho oth January , but it' is not supposed tbat the congress can meet before the middle of that'month . ——The first resuit of the conclusion of the treaty of peace < is the resumption of diplomatic relations between Austria and Piedmont . Tho representatives at each court are to hold the rank of ministers plenipotentiary . The Memorial des Deux
Sevres has" received a warning for an article the language of which was " calculated to wound the national sentiment . " This is the ninth warning inflicted on the French press since the " amnesty" of August 15 th . GENERAL HOME NEIVS . —On Tuesday a Privy Council was holden afc AVindsor , when [ parliament was ordered to be further prorogued to the 24 th January , on ivhich day it will meet for the despatch of business . A royal proclamation in the Gazette extends the time limited for the
payment of the bounties of £ 6 to able seamen and of £ 3 to ordinary seamen on entering Her Majesty ' s navy to tho 31 st of January next There was again an increase of deaths iu the metropolis last week , which is chiefly attributable to affections of tho respiratory organs ; 198 persons died from bronchitis alone . Tho total number of deaths was 1 , 307 , and of births 1 , 785 . The mortality returns of the City also exhibit an increase in the rate of mortality . An influential meeting of tlie friend and admirers of the . late distinguished engineerMr . Bruneiwas
, , held on Saturday , the Earl of Sbelburne presiding , when resolutions were passed , and a committee constituted to take steps for the erection of a public monument to commemorate the high sense universally entertained of his genius and professional attainments , as exemplified in his great national works and the worth of his private character . Mr .
Charles AVilliam Hick , the City Swordbearer , died on Sunday morning , at | tho advanced age of ninety-four , of pleurisy , at his house at AVest Brixton . He had been an active ancl influential member of the corporation for a number of years before his appointment to the office of swordbearer , and had held that office for half a century . He was highly respected by his fellow citizens . The Lord Mayor , upon receiving intelligence of his death , immediately appointed Mr . H . AV . Sowed , who has performed the duties of the office for several years , jiro tan .
In the Divorce Court , on Saturday , the case of " Lloyd v . Lloyd and Chichester , " partly heard the previous da } -, was concluded . It was a suit for dissolution of marriage on the part of tho husband , and tho evidence was of a veiy extraordinary kind . His lordship , giving judgment , said the evidence of collusion was so gross and palpable that the court felt bound to dismiss the petition . The suit of " Rogers v . Rogers aud Paul , " which came before tbe Divorce Court , presented some extraordinary features . The petitioner , a clergyman , prayed for the
dissolution of his marriage by reason of bis wife ' s adultery with tho corespondent , who put in a counter charge of adultery on the part of tho husband . The petitioner was educated at Trinity College , and took honours , but his father leaving him iu straitened circumstances lie enlisted in the 4 th Dragoons , and became regimental clerk , and with his wife went with the regiment to India . On his return to tliis country , having obtained his discharge , he was ordained , and obtained the situation of chaplain , of AVinchester gaol , ancl in that capacity became acquainted with Paul , who was sentenced to six months imprisonment for obtaining money under false pretences . Ho interested himself to enable Paul to proceed to
Australia , and on his discharge invited him to his house . Paul repaid the petitioner ' s kindness by eloping with his wife , and they were afterwards married at Sfc . Pancras , Mrs . Rogers being married in the name of Rogers as a spinster , thus adding bigamy to her other offence . These facts were fully proved , ancl the counter charge against tbe petitioner disproved , and the court decreed a dissolution of the marriage . A horrible murder was perpetrated on Monday morning in a house in Queeii ' s-head-court , Finsbury-market . From what has transpired , it
seems that tho landlord going iufco tho room of a lodger named Moore , found tlie body of a , woman ( Moore ' s wife ) laid on the floor iu a state of nudity , and without the head , the head itself being placed upright in a Washhand basin . Calmly surveying this frightful spectacle was a child seated on a chair close by . Mooro is in custody on suspicion . It is believed he is insane , having been lately under restraint as a lunatic . The adjourned investigation into tho alleged poisoning by sausages , in reference , to tbe death of William Eaton , was resinned at Kingsland ,
yesterday , by Mr . Humphreys . Some additional evidence was given by the manufacturer of tho sausages , as to the source of the meat from ivhich they were made . It appears that the skins of sausages are sometimes prepared and preserved for a considerable tinio before being used , and the coroner stated tbat lie understood arsenic was employed fortius purpose , as it was found to be the cheapest mode of doing it . In consequence , Dr . Letbeby has received instructions to anal yse some of the skins , and another adjournment till Thursday uexfc was ordered . At tlie Central Criminal Court , Jacob Levi , 58 , Lewis Levi , 28 , and Rosa Levi , 24 , were charged with robbing W . H , AA'ells , of Osfoid , of
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The Week.
French government having sent a proposal to London with reference to a general disarmament . Two iron-eased frigates were last week launched , named respectively the Qloire and the Normandie . The semi-official papers are endeavouring to make it appear that a perfect understanding had been re-established between the governments of England and France . The Gazette de Lyon , a clerical organ , mentions a report from Marshal Vaillant , commanding the French troops in Central Italy , to the emperor , stating the startling fact tbat the troops under bis
command had fraternised with the Italians to such a degree that they were not to be relied on , ancl the marshal recommends a change ' of troops , by sending . from France men " uncontaminated with the revolutionary spirit . " General de Montauban , commander of the French army to be sent to China , has published an order of the day , in which he tells his troops that for the second time their flag will unite , with that of England and that union will be a pledge of victory—as that of the two nations is a pledge of peace to the ivhole world . According to rumour the difficulties between France and Austria , raised by the delegation of the regency of Central Italy to M . Buoneompagni , are not yet removed . The Count de Paris ancl tbe Duke do Chartres have embarked on board
the Austrian Lloyds . steamer for Alexandria and Egypt . -The letters of invitation to the congress were despatched to-day to the different powers . The congress will assemble in the early part of January next . The Moniteur of this morning publishes the text of tho treaties signed at Zurich , the stipulations of ivhich are in conformity with those ivhich have already boon made known to tho public . The Piedmontese government has received no communication intimating the opposition of Austria to tho congress , on account of the nomination of
M . de Buoneompagni to the regency of Central Italy . The difficulties made by Tuscany to the delegation of tho regency to M . de Buoneompagni have not yet been settled . Letters received here from Rome confirm the rumour that Cardinal Antonelli will represent the Pope at the congress . The official journal of Rome of tbe 21 th inst . says : — " Certain journals exaggerate the reforms which aro to eome into operation . " Tho Propaganda , has received reports from . Cochin . China that persecutions and ill-treatment of the missionaries have again taken lace . -The
p Picdmontesc Gazette publishes the text of the treaty between France aud Sardinia , and also of the general treaty between Austria , Franco , and Sardinia ; but they contain nothing more than is already known from the circulars lately ' published . General Garibaldi has issued a proclamation to his comrades in Central Italy , in which he tells them he is certain to be soon among tbem , and urges them not to lay clown their arms , but to gather round their chiefs , and preserve the strictest discipline . The proclamation is dated Genoa , November 23 . A Milan
correspondent , speaking of the now organic laws now publishing in Lombardy , says tbat the articles on the press have excited great alarm ; and in answer to tho insinuation tbat the law would not be enforced , the M-iltai Gazette says : — " AA ' e want laws and not toleration—laws that shall not be alternately a cipher and a sword of Damocles . " The . Carriers Mercantile of Genoa gives an enumeration of the troops composing the army of Central Italy , according to which there must bo fifty thousand men under arms . According to a letter from a
correspondent at Pcsth , the Greek Bishop of Munkacs had been spirited away , and as be was well known to bo a devoted Hungarian patriot , and as such obnoxious to the Austrian government , it was thought he had been carried off to be immured in an Austrian dungeon . The Hungarians are stated to bo much dissatisfied with the government . The Faederlaitdet reports that by a letter of the king , dated the 24 th inst ., the councillor Rottwitt has been intrusted with the formation of a now ministry . The Bcrlingsehe Zeitung says M . Von Scheele has refused the office of
chamberlain , which had been offered to him , stating that be does not intend to take any part in the present political movement . The Danish government has made to the federal diet , through the medium of its representative at Frankfort , tbo following proposal for settling the difficulties of tho Holstein question ;— "A committee , one half of tho members of which is to bo appointed by the general council of state of Denmark , and the other half by the diet of tho duchy of Holstein , is to assembled at Copenhagen . This committee is to propose the modifications which are to bo made in the constitution of Holstein . Tho
proposed modifications are to be submitted to the direct examination of the diet of Holstein before tho Danish government is to decide definitively on the subject of tho proposals ef tbe committee . The diet of Holstein would , in that ease , have a consultative vote on tho project of the proposed reforms of ifcs constitution . It is said that Prussia is not quite satisfied with this proposal of Denmark , and claims the full acceptance of all the reclamations of Holstein , and also that the diet of Holstein is not to have a consultative but a deliberative and definitive vote . As it is likely that the court of Copenhagen will not agree to this demand of Prussia , it is said that tlie whole question of the German duchies will be submitted to the approaching congress .-
Prussian agents have left for England in order to inspect those places on tbe south coast which might be suitable for bis majesty tho king to reside tit during the winter months , and to make such preparations as are requisite therefore . Besides the Isle of AVight , Dorsetshire is also to be inspected . It is stated that the minister of war , General Bon in , has tendered his resignation , and that the same has been accepted . It is also asserted that fie is to be reinstated by General Herrmann . Tbe Moors in considerable force have attacked Serallo , occupied by the troops of General Ecbaguo . They were repulsed with great loss . They also attacked the outworks ot'G ' euta , ancl were again repulsed . Tbe Spaniards
had seven killed and about a hundred wounded , among whom are three officers . On Sunday , a body of 4000 Moors made an attack for the fourth time on the redoubt before Serallo . They were repulsed and completely routed . The Spanish officers and soldiers conducted themselves with great bravery . Troops are crossing the Straits , and some fresh troops have lauded at Ceuta . The Madrid Gazette publishes the ordinary budget for 1860 . The receipts amount to 1 S 92 millions of reals , and the expenses to 1887 ! millions of reals . Constantinople advices of tho
lflth are to the effeet that all reports current for some time of a change of ministry in Turkey were at least premature . A telegram from Paris states that the first sitting of the congress will take place on tho oth January , but it' is not supposed tbat the congress can meet before the middle of that'month . ——The first resuit of the conclusion of the treaty of peace < is the resumption of diplomatic relations between Austria and Piedmont . Tho representatives at each court are to hold the rank of ministers plenipotentiary . The Memorial des Deux
Sevres has" received a warning for an article the language of which was " calculated to wound the national sentiment . " This is the ninth warning inflicted on the French press since the " amnesty" of August 15 th . GENERAL HOME NEIVS . —On Tuesday a Privy Council was holden afc AVindsor , when [ parliament was ordered to be further prorogued to the 24 th January , on ivhich day it will meet for the despatch of business . A royal proclamation in the Gazette extends the time limited for the
payment of the bounties of £ 6 to able seamen and of £ 3 to ordinary seamen on entering Her Majesty ' s navy to tho 31 st of January next There was again an increase of deaths iu the metropolis last week , which is chiefly attributable to affections of tho respiratory organs ; 198 persons died from bronchitis alone . Tho total number of deaths was 1 , 307 , and of births 1 , 785 . The mortality returns of the City also exhibit an increase in the rate of mortality . An influential meeting of tlie friend and admirers of the . late distinguished engineerMr . Bruneiwas
, , held on Saturday , the Earl of Sbelburne presiding , when resolutions were passed , and a committee constituted to take steps for the erection of a public monument to commemorate the high sense universally entertained of his genius and professional attainments , as exemplified in his great national works and the worth of his private character . Mr .
Charles AVilliam Hick , the City Swordbearer , died on Sunday morning , at | tho advanced age of ninety-four , of pleurisy , at his house at AVest Brixton . He had been an active ancl influential member of the corporation for a number of years before his appointment to the office of swordbearer , and had held that office for half a century . He was highly respected by his fellow citizens . The Lord Mayor , upon receiving intelligence of his death , immediately appointed Mr . H . AV . Sowed , who has performed the duties of the office for several years , jiro tan .
In the Divorce Court , on Saturday , the case of " Lloyd v . Lloyd and Chichester , " partly heard the previous da } -, was concluded . It was a suit for dissolution of marriage on the part of tho husband , and tho evidence was of a veiy extraordinary kind . His lordship , giving judgment , said the evidence of collusion was so gross and palpable that the court felt bound to dismiss the petition . The suit of " Rogers v . Rogers aud Paul , " which came before tbe Divorce Court , presented some extraordinary features . The petitioner , a clergyman , prayed for the
dissolution of his marriage by reason of bis wife ' s adultery with tho corespondent , who put in a counter charge of adultery on the part of tho husband . The petitioner was educated at Trinity College , and took honours , but his father leaving him iu straitened circumstances lie enlisted in the 4 th Dragoons , and became regimental clerk , and with his wife went with the regiment to India . On his return to tliis country , having obtained his discharge , he was ordained , and obtained the situation of chaplain , of AVinchester gaol , ancl in that capacity became acquainted with Paul , who was sentenced to six months imprisonment for obtaining money under false pretences . Ho interested himself to enable Paul to proceed to
Australia , and on his discharge invited him to his house . Paul repaid the petitioner ' s kindness by eloping with his wife , and they were afterwards married at Sfc . Pancras , Mrs . Rogers being married in the name of Rogers as a spinster , thus adding bigamy to her other offence . These facts were fully proved , ancl the counter charge against tbe petitioner disproved , and the court decreed a dissolution of the marriage . A horrible murder was perpetrated on Monday morning in a house in Queeii ' s-head-court , Finsbury-market . From what has transpired , it
seems that tho landlord going iufco tho room of a lodger named Moore , found tlie body of a , woman ( Moore ' s wife ) laid on the floor iu a state of nudity , and without the head , the head itself being placed upright in a Washhand basin . Calmly surveying this frightful spectacle was a child seated on a chair close by . Mooro is in custody on suspicion . It is believed he is insane , having been lately under restraint as a lunatic . The adjourned investigation into tho alleged poisoning by sausages , in reference , to tbe death of William Eaton , was resinned at Kingsland ,
yesterday , by Mr . Humphreys . Some additional evidence was given by the manufacturer of tho sausages , as to the source of the meat from ivhich they were made . It appears that the skins of sausages are sometimes prepared and preserved for a considerable tinio before being used , and the coroner stated tbat lie understood arsenic was employed fortius purpose , as it was found to be the cheapest mode of doing it . In consequence , Dr . Letbeby has received instructions to anal yse some of the skins , and another adjournment till Thursday uexfc was ordered . At tlie Central Criminal Court , Jacob Levi , 58 , Lewis Levi , 28 , and Rosa Levi , 24 , were charged with robbing W . H , AA'ells , of Osfoid , of