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The Week.
Monitors Toscano states that the Duke of Modeua has carried away the money bolonging to several public offices , besides S 00 ; 000 f . which were in the treasury at Reggio , being resolved not to leave anything for the French . Tho Prince ai Wales is expected at Lisbon daily , and will remain some fifteen days , a telegraphic message to this effect having been received from the queen by the British minister . A meeting of the chief Lisbon merchants has been called to decide upon the best way of honouring the prince ' s coming , and also to frame the address to be presented to him . Doubtless the King of Portugal will do his best to make the
short stay of the Prince of Wales agreeable , on acccount of the very friendly relations he maintains with the British court . In reply to a direct question the other day , the minister stated in the chamber of peers that , in the existing state of affairs on tho continent , it is the intention of Portugal to maintain a strict neutrality . A proclamation has been addressed to the Neapolitan people by its new king , Francis II ., on his ascent to the throne . The expectations which wore by some connected with this event are not realized by the proclamation . It is a
meaningless document , Signor Antonini has arrived in Paris from Naples for the purpose of notifying to the French government the accession to the throne of Naples by Francis II . It is asserted that he will also go to London and Brussels for the purpose of making a similar announcement at thc courts of those cities . The late king was buried on Friday amid the most perfect tranquillity . The newspaper reports about divisions in the royal family are unfounded . Naples and Sicily are perfectly quiet . News from Constantinople of the 20 th , says that the
Porte is fitting out a small squadron to cruise in tho Adriatic , for observing the Montenegrins . Tho whole north-western angle of the Byzantine peninsula is iu an agitated condition . The insurrection in thc Herzegovina has broken out with renewed fury , and tho Montenegrins are openly supporting it . In Servia the people show their hostile intentions against the Porte as well as Austria , in the most unmistakable way . The American journals received by Monday ' s mail are occupied in discussing the outbreak of war in Europe , aud the " probabilities of America being involved . The failures of Messrs . llargoiis Brothers and Messrs .
Meyer and Stucken are announced . A collision was expected between the United States troops and those , of the Utah militia . General Walker , at the head of 300 men , had landed at Acapulco . The Brazilian legislature was opened on the 10 th of May . Owing to the prevalence of very bad weather the roads had been rendered impassable , from which cause little produce had come to market . Great damage had been done by the heavy rains , and the railway also had suffered from this cause . By the overland mail wc have received advices from Bombay to tho I 2 th ult , The embers of the revolt are fast dying outour troops harassing tho straggling parties
, of the rebels and dispersing them with much loss , wherever overtaken ; but the wiser of them were quickly surrendering . A slight disturbance has broken out in Seinde , in theParkur district . Troops had been sent to suppress it , and the Rami had fled . Some of thc European troops late in the service of the East India Company , chiefly artillery and cavalry , stationed tit Mcerut , have shown mutinous symptoms of dissatisfaction in consequence of their transfer to the Crown . Tho dinner given by the European inhabitants of Bombay to her Majesty ' s 78 th
Hihg landers , on the 28 th ult ., went off with the greatest success . The government of India opened the o ! , per cent , loan on the 1 st ult . it has also announced tho issue of treasury bills bearing interest at 2 ^ pics per diem . There was a fearful pressure ou the Bombay money market . Thc overland mail also brings us advices front Melbourne to tho 16 th , and from Sydney to the 10 th of April . In Melbourne the Registration Act is said to be so imperfect a measure that under it the bulk of the people will be disfranchised . Iu Sydney the assembly had been dissolved . The
new parliament will be chosen under the new colonial electoral act . There was little change in the prospects of tho gold fields or the state of the labour market . A case of defalcation by George Terry , a Leeds tradesman , has occurred . The delinquent was a Grand Master of tho Odd Fellows' Provident Society , and has made away with . £ 1 , 000 . Trust has been extensively abused , and the result is au amount of distress among tho industrial and provident poor , which is deeply to be deplored . The Earl of Shrewsbury has brought au action for tho recoveiy of the estates which were bequeathed by the late Earl to the infant sou of the Duke of
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Week.
Monitors Toscano states that the Duke of Modeua has carried away the money bolonging to several public offices , besides S 00 ; 000 f . which were in the treasury at Reggio , being resolved not to leave anything for the French . Tho Prince ai Wales is expected at Lisbon daily , and will remain some fifteen days , a telegraphic message to this effect having been received from the queen by the British minister . A meeting of the chief Lisbon merchants has been called to decide upon the best way of honouring the prince ' s coming , and also to frame the address to be presented to him . Doubtless the King of Portugal will do his best to make the
short stay of the Prince of Wales agreeable , on acccount of the very friendly relations he maintains with the British court . In reply to a direct question the other day , the minister stated in the chamber of peers that , in the existing state of affairs on tho continent , it is the intention of Portugal to maintain a strict neutrality . A proclamation has been addressed to the Neapolitan people by its new king , Francis II ., on his ascent to the throne . The expectations which wore by some connected with this event are not realized by the proclamation . It is a
meaningless document , Signor Antonini has arrived in Paris from Naples for the purpose of notifying to the French government the accession to the throne of Naples by Francis II . It is asserted that he will also go to London and Brussels for the purpose of making a similar announcement at thc courts of those cities . The late king was buried on Friday amid the most perfect tranquillity . The newspaper reports about divisions in the royal family are unfounded . Naples and Sicily are perfectly quiet . News from Constantinople of the 20 th , says that the
Porte is fitting out a small squadron to cruise in tho Adriatic , for observing the Montenegrins . Tho whole north-western angle of the Byzantine peninsula is iu an agitated condition . The insurrection in thc Herzegovina has broken out with renewed fury , and tho Montenegrins are openly supporting it . In Servia the people show their hostile intentions against the Porte as well as Austria , in the most unmistakable way . The American journals received by Monday ' s mail are occupied in discussing the outbreak of war in Europe , aud the " probabilities of America being involved . The failures of Messrs . llargoiis Brothers and Messrs .
Meyer and Stucken are announced . A collision was expected between the United States troops and those , of the Utah militia . General Walker , at the head of 300 men , had landed at Acapulco . The Brazilian legislature was opened on the 10 th of May . Owing to the prevalence of very bad weather the roads had been rendered impassable , from which cause little produce had come to market . Great damage had been done by the heavy rains , and the railway also had suffered from this cause . By the overland mail wc have received advices from Bombay to tho I 2 th ult , The embers of the revolt are fast dying outour troops harassing tho straggling parties
, of the rebels and dispersing them with much loss , wherever overtaken ; but the wiser of them were quickly surrendering . A slight disturbance has broken out in Seinde , in theParkur district . Troops had been sent to suppress it , and the Rami had fled . Some of thc European troops late in the service of the East India Company , chiefly artillery and cavalry , stationed tit Mcerut , have shown mutinous symptoms of dissatisfaction in consequence of their transfer to the Crown . Tho dinner given by the European inhabitants of Bombay to her Majesty ' s 78 th
Hihg landers , on the 28 th ult ., went off with the greatest success . The government of India opened the o ! , per cent , loan on the 1 st ult . it has also announced tho issue of treasury bills bearing interest at 2 ^ pics per diem . There was a fearful pressure ou the Bombay money market . Thc overland mail also brings us advices front Melbourne to tho 16 th , and from Sydney to the 10 th of April . In Melbourne the Registration Act is said to be so imperfect a measure that under it the bulk of the people will be disfranchised . Iu Sydney the assembly had been dissolved . The
new parliament will be chosen under the new colonial electoral act . There was little change in the prospects of tho gold fields or the state of the labour market . A case of defalcation by George Terry , a Leeds tradesman , has occurred . The delinquent was a Grand Master of tho Odd Fellows' Provident Society , and has made away with . £ 1 , 000 . Trust has been extensively abused , and the result is au amount of distress among tho industrial and provident poor , which is deeply to be deplored . The Earl of Shrewsbury has brought au action for tho recoveiy of the estates which were bequeathed by the late Earl to the infant sou of the Duke of