The Week.

tance , but it was sufficient to justify a remand , the same bail as before being accepted for the appearance of the prisoners . A soldier named Greenwood was on Wednesday charged at Clerkenwell with a grievous assault , almost amounting to an attempt to murder . The prosecutrix is a most abandoned woman , and seems to hove been robbing the soldier , when he took his revenge by beating her with his belt . He was committed for trial .- Mr . Arthur Bootle AA'ilbraham , an officer

in the Coldstreams , was charged , on Wednesday , at the Marlborough-street Police-court , with obtaining on false pretences large quantities of valuable jewellery from two of the leading AA ' est-end firms . When a great deal of evidence had been given , the magistrate said if the accused had not become a bankrupt these proceedings would never have been hoard of ; but it was a case of such importance that he must send it to a jury . The evidence respecting the property of one of the jewellers

was postponed till next week , the defendant being committed on the other charge , and bail accepted for his re-appearance . A pork-pie maker , named Johnstone , at Islington , was summoned before the magistrate at Clerkenwell for using putrid meat in the manufacture of his wares . The evidence was perfectly conclusive ; and although the defence was urged with some vigour , Mr . Barker convicted tho defendant iu the full penalty of ; G 20 or three months' imprisonment . Tho

defen-, dant will probably find that cheap poisonous meat is a very dear commodity in the long run . On Friday morning the decapitated corpse of a man was found on the lino of the Great Eastern Railway , near Tottenham . The body was found lying on the six-foot way , and the head , which had been cut off by a passing train , was a few yards distant . The dress of the man was of a superior description , showing that he had occupied a

respectable position in society . An inquest was held on Friday on two men who were killed a short time ago while working in the St . Katharine's Docks . The evidence showed that the catastrophe was wholly accidental , and the jury returned a verdict accordingly . The Coroner for tho City on Monday held an inquest on the body of a young woman , who had died from burning , as was alleged in consequence of an attempt by her master , a tailor , named Withers , to commit upon her a criminal assault . The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against Withers ,

who was committed to Newgate for trial . ——The Great Western , which has been detained in the Mersey for several days on suspicion of having on board a number of recruits for tho Federal army , has been released yesterday in pursuance of instructions from the Home Office . The memorial of Sir G . C . Lewis , erected at New Radnor , was , on Wednesday , inaugurated in the presence of a large concourse of people . Lord Clarendon and the Bishop of St . Davids were

present , and delivered addresses , in which they did just homage to the genius and public services of the lamented statesman and scholar . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —His Majesty of France is said to be remarkably busy in his study at present , spending all his mornings in retirement ; but whether the matter under consideration bo an amendment of the French Constitution , the

programme of a European league , or other less or more weighty subject , gossip saith not . There was a hope entertained that amicable relations were about to bo established between Austria and Italy ; but it is now asserted that the negociations for the furtherance of that object have been broken off . M . Guizot is in Paris , superintending the publication of the seventh volume of his "Memoirs . " It is believed in

Paris that the recent interviews between Mr . Seward and the French Minister have reference to a demand for compensation for Federal outrages committed on the French flag . Complaints have heen made for some time past that the crews of French ships had been kidnapped in New York harbour by recruiting agents . No redress , it appears , can be had by the aggrieved captains on representing their case to the

Washington Government ; and the French Consul is only able to advise them to " shoot down the marauders like dogs" when they come on board their vessels . ——Messrs . Slidell , Mason , and Dudley Mann , the commissioners of the Confederate States , have presented to all the Cabinets of Europe—that of Constantinople excepted—a ropy of the manifesto issued some time ago by the Confederate Congress . The manifesto is accompanied

by a note , in which tho representatives of the South state that since the document was prepared , " the war has continued to be waged by our enemies with even increased ferocity , a more signal disregard of all the rules of civilised warfare , " and more wanton violation of the obligations of international law . " ——

The Week.

The draft of the address which the Lower House of the Austrian Reichsrath is about to discuss asks that the naval and military expenditure of the empire may be diminished , and declares that ministerial responsibility "is urgently needed to complete the Austrian Constitution . " According to a Berlin journal , the Prussian Cabinet has not awaited the concurrence of the Austrian Government , but has summoned Hanover aud Saxony to withdraw their troops at

once from Holstein , and leave that duchy to the disposal of its Prussian and Austrian conquerors . The Russian Government has summarily suppressed 114 Catholic monasteries and convents in Poland , on the ground that they had fewer than eight members , or had abetted the late insurrection . The remaining communities of monks and nuns have also been forbidden to maintain any communication with the heads of their respective orders at Rome . Earl Russell has written a letters to Messrs .

Mason and Slidell , in reply to a copy of the Confederate manifesto . He contents himself with reiterating the determination of our Government to maintain a strict and impartial neutrality between the two contending parties . AMERICA . —The Persia brought intelligence from New York to the 16 th nit . The Confederates wore said to have made an unsuccessful attempt to pierce Grant ' s lines , but no particulars are given . As the Dutch Gap Canal was completed it was

thought that Grant would shortly again attack the Confederate capital . General Sheridan ' s army was encamped near Winchester , watched narrowly by the Confederates under Early . The position of General Sherman was the subject of much speculation . His movements were unknown , and no despatches had been received from him , or at least were not made public in New York . General M'Clellan's resignation had been accepted . Butler had left New York and returned to the James River . The Tallahassee had managed to elude the Federal vessels by which she was pursued off the North Carolina coast . New York despatches to the evening of the

19 th inst . have been brought by the NoHh American . It was rumoured that President Lincoln was about to send Commissioners to Richmond , for the purpose of proffering to the South peace upon , it was supposed , the conditions that a general amnesty be granted , that the Southern States return to the Union with all their rights and privileges , arid that slavery be abolished . There was still no certain intelligence respecting Gen . Sherman ' s movements ; but it was positively affirmed that

the Federals had evacuated Atlanta , after destroying all the fortifications , public buildings , railways , & c , and the Richmond journals said that tho evacuation took place on the 12 th ult . It was reported in the North that General Sherman , with 50 , 000 men , was moving towards Macon and Augusta ; but according to the Richmond newspapers , one column of his army was marching on Selma , in Alabama . It was said that the

Confederate General Hood had concentrated his forces at Florence , in Alabama , but the rumour was as uncertain as the accounts of General Sherman ' s movements ; and it was also asserted that a large body of Confederates , under General Beauregard , was advancing from Corinth towards . Memphis . The Confederate General Breckinbridge had defeated the Federal General GUlem at Bull's Gapin East Tennesseeand had taken six guns

, , and 400 prisoners . A rumour that the Confederates had captured Morganzia , in Louisiana , with 1 , 900 prisoners , had been transmitted from Jlobilo to Richmond . It was asserted that General Early was retiring up the Shenandoah Valley , and that tho Federals , under General Sheridan , were following him . There had not heen any fresh lighting in the neighbourhood of Richmond or Petersburg . There had been violent

fluctuations in the price of gold at New York , in consequence of the Treasury payment of 9 , 000 , 000 dollars in gold in advance of the interest on the gold-bearing debt , and also of rumours that General Sherman had obtained considerable successes ; but the latest quotation on the 19 th inst . was 121 per cent , premium .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

S . IV . —It is neither objectionable or unconstitutional for the AV . M . to depute his Senior Warden to deliver the charge after the initiation of a member , even though tho Immediate P . M . is present . D . P . —Bro . Hart was right in his interpretation of the law . CAHALAE-ONO ! . —Your address was unfortunately destroyed in opening the envelope .