The Week.

districts should pass a similar measure with reference to the agricultural districts . There was , he said , far more ignorance in Dorsetshire than in Lancashire . The speech deserves careful perusal . The Wandsworth police magistrate was engaged for some time on the 2 nd instant investigating the charges of cruelty against two keepers of the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum . The patient who is said to have , been assaulted is

named George Tite . For the defence , witnesses were called who deposed that no undue severity had been used with Tite . The magistrates sent the case to the sessions for trial . The Ex-King of Hanover has , it seems , addressed to the Cabinets of Europe a protest against the annexation of his kingdom by Prussia . His deposed Majesty appeals to the

Courts for aid in his restoration , and declares all the acts of Prussia in Hanover to be null and void . Ho has no doubt , he says , that in tho course of time Hanover will be his again . His faith is touching ; but few people will share it with him . Mr . Thomas Hughes , M . P ., and Professor Fawcett , M . F ., delivered interesting speeches on the co-operative movement at

Leeds , on the 23 rd inst . Both gentlemen expressed their strong conviction that with the adoption of the co-operative system , as it was in action in the case of Henry Briggs , and Co ., coal owners , strikes and painful disputes between masters and men must speedily come to a conclusion . Professor Fawcett speciall y pointed out the benefits which must follow from the adoption

of the system in the agricultural districts . Its effects would he to raise the condition ot the agricultural labourer vastl y above its present level . We learn from Brecon that bribery and corruption were practised hy the Tories at the election in thevnost open manner , and there are grounds for a petition . A curious case of mistaken identity , if not something worse , was investigated at the Middlesex Sessions , on the 3 rd inst

A man named Bishop was at a previous sessions convicted of an offence . Five police se-geants and four police constables subsequently swore that Bishop bad been convicted and sentenced to penal servitude in 1 S 60 , at the Central Criminal Court , under the name of Epsworth . He declared this was not true , and stated that in 1860 he was a convict in Bermuda . He was convicted in 1 S 55 , sentenced to penal servitude for six

years , under the name of O'Donohne . He was sent toMillbank Prison , thence to Portland , thence to Bermuda , hack again to Millbank , and discharged thence in 1861 . The case was put back for further inquiry , and came up again . Sergeant Cole was called and swore that the prisoner was convicted , as he asserted , in 1855 , and a witness from Millbank Prison identified

him as having been there about that time . Mr . Payne was sorely troubled with the case ; but the jury , who were charged to decide , speedily gave a verdict to the effect that the prisoner's statement was true , and the nine policemen mistaken . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The French iron-clad squadron was reviewed by the , Emperor on the 26 th ult , at Biarritz . The

floods in France consequent on the long-continued rains are said to be on the increase , and disastrous results are reported . The new Eastern question seems to be gradually developing itself . Advices from Athens state that the Turkish Ambassador in that city had threatened to break off diplomatic relations with Greece , and also that the representations he had

made to the Greek Government had the support of the English and French Ministers . It also appears that the Cretans have had another success , and that the Austrian fleet is shortly expected in Greek waters- A fresh revolt in the Ghiaour-Dagh is reported . Mustnpha pasha has arrived in Candia , and has issued a proclamation inviting the inhabitants to submit to Turkish authority , and promising redress of their

grievances . 1 ranee has shown signs of not being particularly inclined to become entangled iu this Eastern question . In reply to a Greek deputation , who were entrusted with the presentation of an address expressing the thanks of the Greeks for the protection of France , the Marquis De Mousticr is reported to have said that France had the moral and intellectual development of Greece at heart , but that the

general state of political affairs did not permit her to support any revolutionary movement against Turkey . The annexation of the German States to Prussia appears to be almost complete , even in a formal sense . The Royal Patents of possession are said to be ready , and will be promulgated in a few days . The civil administration of the States will be confided to Prussian

official ? , while all business properly belonging to the ministerial department will be conducted at Berlin . The Crown Prince of Hanover professes to have hopes that the annexation of his country to Prussia is not to be permanent . He has , he says , received numerous addresses of congratulation on his birthday from Hanoverians ; and in return assures them thai he is

constantly thinking of them . He exhorts all Hanoverians to wait with unchangeable fidelity to the King , his father , in hopes of better times . Much sounder advice would have been to urge ready acquiscence in the annexation to Prussia . That which most people foresaw as to the insurrection in Candia seems likely soon to bo accomplished . The insurgents ,

after some temporary successes , are now said to be suing in numbers for peace . The Patrie professes to have information that the Porte has announced that a general amnesty will be proclaimed when the insurrection is quelled . Whether this news be true or not , it is certain some such policy must be pursued by Turkey if she is to hold Candia The Princess Dagmar has arrived at St . Petersburg , and has

had an enthusiastic reception . The Empress of Mexico and the Pope have been exchanging visits at Rome . Situated as they are , it is probable their mutual condolences would be numerous and earnest . Garibaldi has left Florence for Caprera . Order is completely restored in Palermo , and the municipality of the place have , in the name of the inhabitants ,

presented an address to the King deploring the late events . From Florence we hear that the decree for the disbanding of the volunteers had actually been issued . Admiral Persano is , as our correspondent some time ago stated , to be tried before the Senate on charges arising out of the defeat at Lissa . The Hungarian Diet is to assemble in the beginning of next

month . Troops are being removed from Vienna to Pesth . This looks very much as if a rising in Hungary were feared . The Patrie is the authority for a statement that Marshal Bazaine will return to France at the end of November . Doubtless , he will be very glad to get home . His present work can scarcely be very acceptable to him . A Paris telegram

mentions a rumour that Lord Lyons is to he the new British Minister in that city . The Marquis de Moustine has arrived in Paris and taken the oaths of office as Foreign Minster , A telegram from Pesth says that the Austrian Government has declared the recommendations of the committee of fifteen of the Hungarian Diet , in reference to the affairs of the kingdom ,

to be inadmissible . A semi-official Prussian paper takes the trouble of stating that the relations between Prussia and Russia are of the most friendly description . There is not much reason for believing anything to the contrary , unless it be that the Prussian papers make such repeated protestations of the friendship between the two Powers . The official Vienna Gazette is anxious that it should be understood that in appointing Count Goluchowsky Governor of Galicin , the Austrian Government displays its perfect confidence in its Polish subjects .