The Week.

visitors to the Exhibition has been 6 , 110 , 610 , or 77 , 145 more than visited tlie Hyde Park Palace in 1 S 51 ; but , had the supp lementary season just brought to a close nofc heen resorted to , fcbere would have heen a difference of upwards of 700 , 000 in favour of the original World ' s Fair . A meeting was held on Saturday night , at the rooms of the Social Science Association ,

in AA aterloo-place , to bid " God speed " to Miss Rye , a lady well known for her exertions to provide employment for women , ancl wdio is now about to proceed to Australia , in charge of 100 women , of whom 8 are governesses , 32 factory operatives , ancl 62 domestic servants . Miss Rye proposes to establish an organisation for the emigration of women of an educated class ;

and it is to make the arrangements at the other end of the voyage she now proceeds in charge of the present number . An animated discussion took place on the lady ' s plans , in which Mr . Kinnaird ( the chairman ) , Mr . Monckton Milnes , Mr . Chadwick , and others , took part , ancl a resolution was agreed to fully approving Miss Rye ' s plans . The Duke of Somerset ( First

Lord of the Admiralty ) was among tho speakers at a county meeting held at Exeter , on Friday , for the purpose of devising measures for the relief of the operatives of Lancashire ancl Cheshire . The noble duke , in the course of his speech , remarked that next year they might hope for a larger supply of cotton from India than was deemed probable a few months ago . He

p laced little faith in the substitutes brought forward by inventors , observing that "if there were any substitutes for cotton , the manufacturers were the people most likely to find them . " On the subject of the American war he spoke with official prudence . The Government would be but too happy to proffer its advice ancl assistance in bringing about a settlement of the dispute , if they could see their way clear to do so ; bufc fche whole case was surrounded with difficulties , and an offer

of mediation might be received only with , resentment . In his usual annual letter to Lord Radnor , Lord Brougham expressed a strong hope that the Federal government will abstain from exciting a servile insurrection , " the only aggravation whereof the deplorable contest is capable . " Such a calamity , he says , is more to be dreaded by the friend of the negroes than by those of their masters , " for the chief sufferings would be theirs .

The noble lord looks anxiously to the future , when this war shall have ceased . " Armed men in hundreds of thousands will remain , inured to slaughter , incapable of subordination , impatient of peace ; their own government will be less secure than ever , and all colonies will have a bad neighbour . " Mr . Farnell reports that on the 25 th ult . 208 , 021 persons were receiving

parochial relief in the twenty-four unions affected by fche present crisis . The average per centage of pauperism on population in these districts is 10-8 , but , while 10 'S is the average per centage , the per centage in the union of Ashton-under-Lyne is 20-7 ; in that of Preston , 17 " 8 ; in that of Blackburn , 17-1 ; in Manchester , 15-6 ; in Glossop , 14--3 ; in Haslingden , 13-1 ; iu

Todmorden , 12-S ; in Stockport , 11 * 5 ; in Rochdale , 11-2 ; aud in Burnley , 11 * 1 . The Preston and Blackburn Guardians have resolved to take advantage of the act passed last session , which enables them , under certain conditions , to laise loans on the security of the rates ; but the Stockport board has gone a point further , ancl is making arrangements for applying for a

parliamentary grant . Increased local efforts are being made in various districts in Lancashire to meet the distress which is darkening clown upon the district . In this respect AA'igan sets a good example to the neighbouring towns , and Lord Lindsay has announced , on the part of his father , tlie Earl of Crawford , whose property ancl residence adjoin the town , that he will give £ 100 a week for the next five months , to be

distributed in food and clothing to the unemployed , and to subscribe at once £ 500 to the fund for redeeming the property the poor people may have pawned , ancl providing them with clothing and bedding and the means of paying their rent . Lord Russell in reply to the resolution adopted at the late City Garibaldi meeting , requesting him to use allthe means within his power to obtain the withdrawal of the French troops from Romeobserves that the onlthing he can do is to

, y make friendly representations on the subject to the French government . Tins has been already done , and " similar representations will be made whenever it may seem necessary or expedient' to make them . " A body of the colonists of British Columbia have sent a petition to her Majesty , praying for a resident governor who shall be unconnected either with Vancouver Island or the Hudson ' s Bay Company , and for a system

of responsible government similar to that whicli exists in Canada . They make serious complaints against the present Governor , and protest against the incorporation of A ancouver Island with British Columbia , —" a measure they feel confident would , only find remedy in final separation . " -At a meeting of the Canterbury Diocesan Education Society , held at Canterbury , Mr . Gatborne Harey , M . P ., made a speech on the subject of education . Incidently noticingin order to condemnthe

, , misty ancl metaphysical views on religion whicli were put forward by certain clergymen , and Church dignitaries , he proceeded to contend for definite religious teaching in our schools , and in that respect expressed his dissent from the opinion favourable to secular education which Sir J . Pakington put forward ai Edinburgh . An interesting match has taken place , in the nighbourhood of Shorncliffe , between four brass muzzle-loading AVhitworth

12-pounders and two of Sir AA . Armstrong ' s breech-loading iron , guns of the same nominal calibre . The result appears to have settled the superiority of Mr . Whitworfch ' s pieces , both as to accuracy oi' shooting and rapidity of fire . Ifc was also observed , in a test of 100 consecutive rounds , that while "the Armstrongs were fired with lubricating wads , ancl were washed out , and changed their breech pieces as often as they became disabled by being overheated , the Whitworths all completed their 100 rounds without being washed out at al ] , and without using any lubricating wads . " - Monday being the first clay of Michaelmas

term , the Lord Chancellor received the judges—not at his private residence , as was heretofore the custom , but at Middle Temple Hall . The Lord Mayor elect was presented to the Lord Chancellor . That extraordinary affair , the Yelverton marriage case—the Penelope ' s web of the legal tribunals—has commenced a new career in the Edinburgh Court of Session In the Court of Queen ' s Bench , in the case of Thomas v . Shirley ( breach of promise of marriage ) a rule for a new trial was refused . Afc

, tbe Central Criminal Court , Samuel Gardener was put on his trial for the murder of his wife , in Northumberland-alley , in the city . It will be recollected that the coroner ' s jury returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against both the prisoner aud a younowoman who lived in the house as a servant , wifch whom Gardener carried on an adulterous intercourse . The magistrates , however , thought there was no evidence against the woman , and at the

trial she was admitted as a witness , and of course denied that she knew any ' - ' ing of the murder till she went into her mistress's room i- , the morning , ancl found she was stepping in her blood . Mr . Kibton addressed the jury for the prisoner . He put two points before them—first , whether ifc was clear beyond doubt that the deceased woman had not committed suicide ; and nextif they were convinced she was murderedwhether it was

, , not more probable on the evidence that the murder was committed by the servant Humbler than by the prisoner . The jury deliberated for an hour and a half on their verdict , and returned into court finding the prisoner Guilty , bufc recommended him . to mercy , on the ground of a belief they entertained—of which , however , there was no evidence—that there had been a quarrel between the prisoner ancl his wife on the night previous to the

murder , and that be had committed the crime in passion . The Chief Baron , in passing sentence , held out to the prisoner no hope of mercy . At the Central Criminal Court on Saturday two Germans , named Braiui and Korfcoske , were convicted o fraudulent bankruptcy . The case lasted over parts of three days , and involved a good deal of technicality ; but in substance it was that after conducting business respectably for

some years , they in 1881 increased their dealings , and obtained goods from their creditors to the extent- of £ 51 , 000 , nearly the whole of which was lost . The sentence pronounced was ira prisoiiment—Brauu to two months , and Kortoske for one year .