The Week.

the female accused had become an habitual drunkard , and had induced her son to folloiv his example . Tbe threatening and assault took place at Mr . Thompson ' s City office . The woman was ordered to find surety for her future good behaviour , and the young man was sentenced to twenty-one days' imprisonment with hard labour . We deeply regret to announce the

death of Mr . William Scholeficld , one of the members for Birmingham , which took place very suddenly on tbe Oth instant , Mr . Scholeficld having been in the House of Commons so recently as the previous night . The hon . gentleman ivas highly respected by his constituents , but not more so than by his colleagues at Westminster . He was a true and faithful member of

the Liberal party . The deatli is Minounced of Lord Justice Turner , ivlio had long been in feeble health , but ivho , ivith the characteristic pluck of his profession , performed his judicial duties almost to the last . The Lord Chancellor made a feeling allusion to the mournful occurrence on tho 10 th inst . The contest for the Queen ' s Prize began at Wimbledon on the

10 th inst . There are no less than 2 , 050 entries for this prize . The shooting was very good . Preparations have been made for tiie reception of the Belgians . -At the Central Criminal Court application was made for the postponement of the trials of the tailors charged with intimidation . It will be remembered that these trials will raise the whole question of the legality of what

is called the " picketing system . " For tho prosecution it ivas urged that before the trial wan postponed a pledge should be given on the part of the defendants that the picketing system should be discontinued . This ivas objected to ab first , but

subsequently the pledge was given , and the trial was postponed . The case of the young man Watkin , wiio was charged with stabbing his sweetheart at Buckliurst Hill , came on for trial at the Central Criminal Court on the 10 th inst . The prosecutrix did not appeal-, but a letter was read from her , in wliich she said she was keeping out of the way iu order that Watkin

might not bo injured by her evidence . She hoped they ivould meet again and live together for many years . The jury found the prisoner guilty of wounding the girl with intent to do her grievous bodily barm , and the judge sentenced him to twenty years' penal servitude . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The Moniteur once more

denounces the execution of Maximilian as an act of barbarism , and expresses a hope that the United States will annex Mexico as a punishment . The United States are a good deal wiser than to do any such thing . It is reported that the Emperor is the author of the articles on this subject which have appeared in the Moniteur . It is certain that he is deeply chagrined at the

melancholy business . All sorts of stories are afloat as to what is going to be done . One telegram asserts that an Austri . ni squadron , under Admiral TcgetholV , is going to Mexico to demand the body of the unfortunate Maximilian . Some of the gossips of Paris insist that the Emperor will send another expedition to Mexico to chastise the Juarists . That report will

not find much credence . Meantime it is evident that there is great anxiety in France to throw the blame of the unhappy business oil' the shoulders of the French Government . Some of the papers publish reports the tendency of which is to show that Maximilian would have returned to Europe ivith the French expeditionary force had it not been for the conduct of the

Austrian Government , which at first informed Maximilian that if he came back to Europe he ivould not be reinstated in his position in the Hapsburg family . The French Government , too , ive are told , are going to publish some important documents relating to the affair . The whole question , however , really is , who induced Maximilian to go to Mexico?—The fierce attack

of tho French paper the Moniteur on the Juarists is attracting a good deal of attention . It is indeed a strange contrast to some documents which appeared in the Moniteur in the last months of 1 S 65 . First , there AA-. IS that sangninary decree of Maximilian ' s , condemning to death all who were found with a band of Juarists , unless they could prove that they were forced to serve . Not only that ; any one who sold or gave provisions or aid or counsel to the Juarists was ordered to ho executed

within twenty-four hours after he was captured . Then the Moniteur recorded how this decrease had actually been carried into execution in the case of Juarist chiefs , and finally expressed strong approval of this mode of dealing with the " rebels . " Bearing all this in mind , the present indignation of the French official journal has a superficial look , to say nothing stronger of

it . M . Thiers , on the 9 th inst ., delivered iu the Legislative Body of France his speech on Mexico . This speech has been prepared for some time , and its delivery for various reasons postponed . The last postponement was caused by the announcement of the execution of Maximilian . No doubt that

melancholy event has added a strong clause or two to the speech .. - ——A statement in the nature of the contradiction of an important report is made in the North German Gazette . The report in question was that France had resolved on intervention in the North Schleswig business . The Berlin official journal says nothing was known of such an intervention at Berlin . The contradiction , however , is not very strong ,, and looks not unlike a notice to France not to intervene .

A grand bauquot ivas gii-on at tho Tuilorios on tho 10 th inst . in honour of tho Sultan . Prince Napoleon and tho Princess Clotilde , with tho nowly-man-icd Duko and Duchess of Aosta ( Prince Amadous of Italy and his bride ) kaA-o arrived in England . Somo of tho Danish papers havo recently published au address , signed by over 400 persons , professedly Germans ,

resident in North Solilosivig , aud protesting that no special guarantees are required to ensure thoir liberty under Danish rule . A Bcriiu official paper reproduces tho document , and dissects it ivith a A-ioiv of showing that many of tho professed Germans aro not Germans . Tho same paper also quotes from a Copenhagen journal some attacks on Prussia , and asks ivhether these aro not the best proofs in the world of

the necessity for some guarantee for the security of Germans in North Schleswig being insisted upon by Prussia . According to a Constantinople telegram , Omar Pasha has very nearly extinguished the Cretan insurrection . Everywhere he is successful —everywhere the rebels have fled before him , leaving their arms for him to gather up . Well , we have had stories of a similar kind before , and they have not proved to be true . It may , perhaps , he as well to wait for some corroboration of this latest story before accepting it as literally correct .

To Correspondents.

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