The Week.

monts to which his still more unfortunate comrades were subjected . He assured the House that his noble friend the Secretary for Foreign Affairs had taken every moans in his power for the purpose of clearing up the mystery . He believed that the Chinese authorities had accounted for all the prisoners except Captain Brabazon and M . Luc . With respeet to all the rest they had either been sent

back alive or their bodies produced , and if these two had been thrown into a canal , that would account for their bodies not being delivered up after they had been demanded . With reference to the case of Captain Macdonald , he did not think there was one expression too strong to stigmatise the conduct of the Prussian officials . It was not for him , as a minister of the Crown , to bandy vituperation with M . Miiller or anybody else . He could only say tho whole of the proceedings were of the most unfriendly character

, and utterly unworthy of a country in alliance with England . With regard to the nature of the government to be established in Syria , ths arrangements were not yet completed , but were still the subject of discussion between the members of the International Commission and the Turkish Government . On Monday , the debate on the Budget was resumed , and the resolution fixing the income-tax at 9 din the pound passedMrDisraeli

. , . ¦ g iving notice that Mr . Horsfatf , the member for Liverpool , on the question of the tea duties , would take the opinion of the House as to whether they should he reduced , or tho paper-duty repealed . On Tuesday , the Commons failed to make a house . On AA ednesday , the Recovery of Debts Bill was thrown out by 121 to 23 . Mr . Locke King moved the second reading of the Religious AA orship Bill , and stated that its object was to place the clergy of the

Established Church upon the same footing as the ministers of other religious denominations . At present they were not allowed to perform their duties in any place under the parochial system without the sanction of the incumbent . All that he asked was that a clergymen , duly licensed by the bishop of the diocese , should bo allowed to preach or pray in any place . The bill was rejected by 191 to 145 . The motion for the second reading of the Presentment Sessions ( Ireland ) Bill led to a lengthened discussion , in tho course of which Mr . Longfield , moved , as an amendment , that the previous question be put which was carried by 86 to 66 .

GENERAL HOME NEWS . —During last week there was a slight decline in the mortality bills of the metropolis , the number of deaths being 11 S 2 . Of ' births there were 1 S 5 S—930 boys and 92 S girls . The mean height of the barometer at the Royal Observatory was 29 'S 40 inches , and the thermometer showed an average temperature of 41-3 degrees . In April last the Royal College of Physicians resolved to grant licences authorising their holders to compound and supply the medicines prescribed to patients bthemselves .

y An information was consequently filled in the Court of Chancery by the Society' of Apothecaries , seeking to restrain them from issuing such licences , and argument in support were partly beard yesterday beforet ATce-Chancellor Sir AV . Pago . AA'ood . The defendants have demurred to the information On Wednesday the Lord Mayor night entertained Lord Derby ancl the leaders of the Conservative party to a banquet at the Mansion-house . Lord Derby

delivered a strong party speaeh , in which he criticised the policy of the Goverment . A meeting of old Westminster scholars was held on Saturday for the purpose of considering the report of the committee appointed to confer with the Dean and Chapter on the condition of the school . It appeared that these authorities had expressed their . willingness to adopt most of the recommendations made by the committee , but that , on financial and other grounds , it was inexpedient to remove the site of the school . The proceedings

of the meeting were of a very harmonious character , and the speakers apeared to be imbued with the conviction that the Westminster School would long uphold its good name . The vexed question of the liability of A olunteevs to pay toll at turnpike gates came before the judges in the Court of Queen ' s Bench on Saturday . It appeared that the collector of the Kennington-gate had enforced the payment of toll in the case of three members of the 1 st Surrey Rifles who were going home from drill in

a cab . The collector was summoned before the magistrate , hut they gave judgment against the A olunteers . The captain of the regiment then appealed to the Judges , who on Saturday reversed the decision of the magistrates , and remitted the case back to them . From the report of the annual meeting of the Baptist Missionary Society , it appears that tho Spanish Goverment have agreed to pay to the society the sum of 1 , 500 ? . as compensation for the loss

of property which it sustained by its expulsion from Fernando Po . Some interesting information from India was also communicated to the meeting . Mr . Sale , one of the society ' s missionaries , who was one of the commissioners appointed by the Bengal government to inquire into the cultivation of indigo , confirmed the statements which have been made respecting the oppressive treatment of the ryots . Brompton was the scone of a calamitous fire at an early hour on Sunday miming . Some extensive saw mills and other

premises , together with a large quantity of timber , were destroyed , and fifteen of the adjacent houses more or less damaged . There has been another attempt at murder by robbers in Islington . Two fellows succeeded in entering a house for the purpose of robbery , and on being discovered by two policemen , and burglars made a murderous attack upon the officers . The thieves have been

captured , and remanded . Theakston , the clerk who some time ago absconded from the Branch Bank of England at Portsmouth , with a large sum of money , has been apprehended . He made an attempt to commit suicide , and now lies in a dangerous state .

FOREIGX IXTELLIGEITCE . —The Russian Government protests , through the St . Petersburg Gazette , against the criticisms of the European Press on the late incidents in AVarsaw . It affirms that the people commenced the disturbances by provoking and insulting the troops , and that the institutions promised by the Emperor will be fully carried out . The Lieutenant-Governor of Poland has published an order directing that proceedings shall be taken without any reserveagainst all clergymen wdio excite the le to

, peop disaffection in their sermons . A number of the principal inhabitants of AAfirsaw have been furnished with the amazing order that they are not to receive company at their houses . Meanwhile , the Government have also submitted to certain of the inhabitants of AAfirsaw a project for the organisation of the Council of State , with a request that they would give their opinion on its character . The inhabitants thus appeared to have declinedunder existing circumstances

, , to express any opinion . The Austrian Provincial Diet have met and both Chambers appointed their presidents and vice-presidents Prince Charles A on Auresperg was chosen president of the Upper House , the Archduke Albert having declined the appointment . The Austrian Government have applied to the Federal Council of Switzerland to institute an enquiry in reference to a revolutionary manifesto , lately addressed by a democratic committee established

in Berne , to the German nation , and which demanded an entire revolutionizing of Germany . The Turin Chamber has accepted , with some modification , the principle of Garibaldi ' s project for tho national armament . It is stated that Garibaldi will himself attend the chamber when the discussion of the details of tho measure comes on . The reconciliation between Garibaldi and Cavour is said to have been full aud completeThe two leaders conferred

. for an hour together . Garibaldi afterwards went to tlie house of the Marquis Pallavicini , and there unexpectedly met Cialdini . A reconciliation immediately followed in this instance too . In Naples some slight disturbances , of order have taken place in which some of the national Guard were concerned

Signor Spaventa , who was always rather an unpopular functionary , had issued a circular prohibiting the National Guard from wearing their uniform untoss on duty , and in consequence some few of the body made a kind of demonstration against him . Good order , however , was easily restored , partly by means of a proclamation from Prince Carigmui , and partly by the disavowal of any disorderly proceedings on the part of the whole body of the National Guard . Signor Spaventa remains in office . A grand banquet is about to be

given by the National Guard to the regular army . The Duchess-Regent of Parma has issued a protest against the assumption of the title of King of Italy by ATctor Emmanuel . A \ epresume that this manifesto will not greatly disturb the composure of Count Cavour . According to the Temps ( a new Paris paper ) , Turkey has proposed that 1000 French soldiers should be loft at Beyron ' t until the reforms which have been decided bthe commission

upon y European are completely carried out . Tlie duration of the session of the French Legislative Chamber has been prolonged ( not prorogued ) , by an Imperial decree , to the 4 th of June inclusive . It was found wholly impossible to get through the duties of the session in the time ordinarily occupied . The Patrie of Saturday declares that the rumoured withdrawal of the French troops from Rome is without foundation , and proceeds to state that the object

of French occupation is not merely tho security of tho Pope , but also to ensure peaee to Ital y hertelf , which the departure of the troops would endanger by having Austria and Piedmont direclly face to face with each other . The Patrie of Paris states that the Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands has issued a proclamation , in which he declares that should the disturbances which have broken out at several laces continue

p , the islands will be placed in a state of siege ; and that Corfu is actually in military occupation . Tho representative of Denmark delivered on the 27 th , in the sitting of the Germanic Diet at Frankfort , the final reply of tho Danish Government to the demand addressed to them by the Confederation on the 7 th of February . Tho Danish Government declare that thov have made all the

concessions to the Estates of Holstein which are compatible witii the monarchial principle and tho unity of tho kingdom of Denmark , 'fhe Holstein Estates , it is further declared , went beyond , in their demands , the limits of their powers as an assembly , and attempted to interfere in the affairs of the other parts of the monarchy . The